kernel/linux.git/mm/failslab.c, branch v6.6.131

mm: fix unexpected changes to {failslab|fail_page_alloc}.attr

2022-11-23T02:50:44+00:00

When we specify __GFP_NOWARN, we only expect that no warnings will be issued for current caller. But in the __should_failslab() and __should_fail_alloc_page(), the local GFP flags alter the global {failslab|fail_page_alloc}.attr, which is persistent and shared by all tasks. This is not what we expected, let's fix it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: unexport should_fail_ex()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221118100011.2634-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Fixes: 3f913fc5f974 ("mm: fix missing handler for __GFP_NOWARN") Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Akinobu Mita Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: fix missing handler for __GFP_NOWARN

2022-05-19T21:08:55+00:00

We expect no warnings to be issued when we specify __GFP_NOWARN, but currently in paths like alloc_pages() and kmalloc(), there are still some warnings printed, fix it. But for some warnings that report usage problems, we don't deal with them. If such warnings are printed, then we should fix the usage problems. Such as the following case: WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1)); [zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com: v2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220511061951.1114-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510113809.80626-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Akinobu Mita Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/failslab.c: by default, do not fail allocations with direct reclaim only

2019-07-12T18:05:43+00:00

When failslab was originally written, the intention of the "ignore-gfp-wait" flag default value ("N") was to fail GFP_ATOMIC allocations. Those were defined as (__GFP_HIGH), and the code would test for __GFP_WAIT (0x10u). However, since then, __GFP_WAIT was replaced by __GFP_RECLAIM (___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM|___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM), and GFP_ATOMIC is now defined as (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM). This means that when the flag is false, almost no allocation ever fails (as even GFP_ATOMIC allocations contain ___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM). Restore the original intent of the code, by ignoring calls that directly reclaim only (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM), and thus, failing GFP_ATOMIC calls again by default. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520214514.81360-1-drinkcat@chromium.org Fixes: 71baba4b92dc1fa1 ("mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

2019-03-06T05:07:17+00:00

When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the return value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should never do something different based on this. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190122152151.16139-14-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Laura Abbott Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use octal not symbolic permissions

2018-06-14T22:55:25+00:00

mm/*.c files use symbolic and octal styles for permissions. Using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more readable. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945 Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions. Done using $ scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace mm/*.c and some typing. Before: $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l 44 After: $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l 86 Miscellanea: o Whitespace neatening around these conversions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e032ef111eebcd4c5952bae86763b541d373469.1522102887.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make should_failslab always available for fault injection

2018-04-06T04:36:26+00:00

should_failslab() is a convenient function to hook into for directed error injection into kmalloc(). However, it is only available if a config flag is set. The following BCC script, for example, fails kmalloc() calls after a btrfs umount: from bcc import BPF prog = r""" BPF_HASH(flag); #include int kprobe__btrfs_close_devices(void *ctx) { u64 key = 1; flag.update(&key, &key); return 0; } int kprobe__should_failslab(struct pt_regs *ctx) { u64 key = 1; u64 *res; res = flag.lookup(&key); if (res != 0) { bpf_override_return(ctx, -ENOMEM); } return 0; } """ b = BPF(text=prog) while 1: b.kprobe_poll() This patch refactors the should_failslab implementation so that the function is always available for error injection, independent of flags. This change would be similar in nature to commit f5490d3ec921 ("block: Add should_fail_bio() for bpf error injection"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222020320.6944-1-hmclauchlan@fb.com Signed-off-by: Howard McLauchlan Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Akinobu Mita Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Josef Bacik Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fault-inject take over bootstrap kmem_cache check

2016-03-15T23:55:16+00:00

Remove the SLAB specific function slab_should_failslab(), by moving the check against fault-injection for the bootstrap slab, into the shared function should_failslab() (used by both SLAB and SLUB). This is a step towards sharing alloc_hook's between SLUB and SLAB. This bootstrap slab "kmem_cache" is used for allocating struct kmem_cache objects to the allocator itself. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing __GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the wrong flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing them prevents it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool()

2015-10-04T10:36:07+00:00

Its a bit odd that debugfs_create_bool() takes 'u32 *' as an argument, when all it needs is a boolean pointer. It would be better to update this API to make it accept 'bool *' instead, as that will make it more consistent and often more convenient. Over that bool takes just a byte. That required updates to all user sites as well, in the same commit updating the API. regmap core was also using debugfs_{read|write}_file_bool(), directly and variable types were updated for that to be bool as well. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Acked-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Charles Keepax Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman