linux-stable.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v2.6.30

nommu: fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch

2009-04-03T02:04:48+00:00

Fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch:

 (1) Make mmap_pages_allocated an atomic_long_t, just in case this is used on
     a NOMMU system with more than 2G pages.  Makes no difference on a 32-bit
     system.

 (2) Report vma->vm_pgoff * PAGE_SIZE as a 64-bit value, not a 32-bit value,
     lest it overflow.

 (3) Move the allocation of the vm_area_struct slab back for fork.c.

 (4) Use KMEM_CACHE() for both vm_area_struct and vm_region slabs.

 (5) Use BUG_ON() rather than if () BUG().

 (6) Make the default validate_nommu_regions() a static inline rather than a
     #define.

 (7) Make free_page_series()'s objection to pages with a refcount != 1 more
     informative.

 (8) Adjust the __put_nommu_region() banner comment to indicate that the
     semaphore must be held for writing.

 (9) Limit the number of warnings about munmaps of non-mmapped regions.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault

2009-04-01T15:59:14+00:00

Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags.  There should be no functional change.

This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg.  virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).

This is required for a subsequent fix.  And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Cc: Felix Blyakher 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: add/use account_page_dirtied()

2009-04-01T15:59:12+00:00

Add a helper function account_page_dirtied().  Use that from two
callsites.  reiser4 adds a function which adds a third callsite.

Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VM, x86, PAT: add a new vm flag to track full pfnmap at mmap

2009-03-14T08:47:44+00:00

Impact: cleanup

Add a new vm flag VM_PFN_AT_MMAP to identify a PFNMAP that is
fully mapped with remap_pfn_range. Patch removes the overloading
of VM_INSERTPAGE from the earlier patch.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi 
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha 
Acked-by: Nick Piggin 
LKML-Reference: <20090313233543.GA19909@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

VM, x86, PAT: Change is_linear_pfn_mapping to not use vm_pgoff

2009-03-13T03:28:50+00:00

Impact: fix false positive PAT warnings - also fix VirtalBox hang

Use of vma->vm_pgoff to identify the pfnmaps that are fully
mapped at mmap time is broken. vm_pgoff is set by generic mmap
code even for cases where drivers are setting up the mappings
at the fault time.

The problem was originally reported here:

 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123383810628583&w=2

Change is_linear_pfn_mapping logic to overload VM_INSERTPAGE
flag along with VM_PFNMAP to mean full PFNMAP setup at mmap
time.

Problem also tracked at:

 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12800

Reported-by: Thomas Hellstrom 
Tested-by: Frans Pop 
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi 
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha @intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: "ebiederm@xmission.com" 
Cc:  # only for 2.6.29.1, not .28
LKML-Reference: <20090313004527.GA7176@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: clean up for early_pfn_to_nid()

2009-02-18T23:37:55+00:00

What's happening is that the assertion in mm/page_alloc.c:move_freepages()
is triggering:

	BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page));

Once I knew this is what was happening, I added some annotations:

	if (unlikely(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page))) {
		printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: Bogus zones: "
		       "start_page[%p] end_page[%p] zone[%p]\n",
		       start_page, end_page, zone);
		printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
		       "start_zone[%p] end_zone[%p]\n",
		       page_zone(start_page), page_zone(end_page));
		printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
		       "start_pfn[0x%lx] end_pfn[0x%lx]\n",
		       page_to_pfn(start_page), page_to_pfn(end_page));
		printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
		       "start_nid[%d] end_nid[%d]\n",
		       page_to_nid(start_page), page_to_nid(end_page));
 ...

And here's what I got:

	move_freepages: Bogus zones: start_page[2207d0000] end_page[2207dffc0] zone[fffff8103effcb00]
	move_freepages: start_zone[fffff8103effcb00] end_zone[fffff8003fffeb00]
	move_freepages: start_pfn[0x81f600] end_pfn[0x81f7ff]
	move_freepages: start_nid[1] end_nid[0]

My memory layout on this box is:

[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x0081ff5d
[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] early_node_map[8] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00020000
[    0.000000]     1: 0x00800000 -> 0x0081f7ff
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081f800 -> 0x0081fe50
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081fed1 -> 0x0081fed8
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081feda -> 0x0081fedb
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081fedd -> 0x0081fee5
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081fee7 -> 0x0081ff51
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081ff59 -> 0x0081ff5d

So it's a block move in that 0x81f600-->0x81f7ff region which triggers
the problem.

This patch:

Declaration of early_pfn_to_nid() is scattered over per-arch include
files, and it seems it's complicated to know when the declaration is used.
 I think it makes fix-for-memmap-init not easy.

This patch moves all declaration to include/linux/mm.h

After this,
  if !CONFIG_NODES_POPULATES_NODE_MAP && !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
     -> Use static definition in include/linux/mm.h
  else if !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
     -> Use generic definition in mm/page_alloc.c
  else
     -> per-arch back end function will be called.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reported-by: David Miller 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: 		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: task dirty accounting fix

2009-02-18T23:37:54+00:00

YAMAMOTO-san noticed that task_dirty_inc doesn't seem to be called properly for
cases where set_page_dirty is not used to dirty a page (eg. mark_buffer_dirty).

Additionally, there is some inconsistency about when task_dirty_inc is
called.  It is used for dirty balancing, however it even gets called for
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback.

So rather than increment it in a set_page_dirty wrapper, move it down to
exactly where the dirty page accounting stats are incremented.

Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi 
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-02-17T22:27:39+00:00

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, vm86: fix preemption bug
  x86, olpc: fix model detection without OFW
  x86, hpet: fix for LS21 + HPET = boot hang
  x86: CPA avoid repeated lazy mmu flush
  x86: warn if arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu is called in preemptible context
  x86/paravirt: make arch_flush_lazy_mmu/cpu disable preemption
  x86, pat: fix warn_on_once() while mapping 0-1MB range with /dev/mem
  x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode
  x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race

x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race

2009-02-11T14:44:20+00:00

Ptrace_detach() races with __ptrace_unlink() if the traced task is
reaped while detaching. This might cause a double-free of the BTS
buffer.

Change the ptrace_detach() path to only do the memory accounting in
ptrace_bts_detach() and leave the buffer free to ptrace_bts_untrace()
which will be called from __ptrace_unlink().

The fix follows a proposal from Oleg Nesterov.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT

2009-02-10T18:48:42+00:00

When overcommit is disabled, the core VM accounts for pages used by anonymous
shared, private mappings and special mappings. It keeps track of VMAs that
should be accounted for with VM_ACCOUNT and VMAs that never had a reserve
with VM_NORESERVE.

Overcommit for hugetlbfs is much riskier than overcommit for base pages
due to contiguity requirements. It avoids overcommiting on both shared and
private mappings using reservation counters that are checked and updated
during mmap(). This ensures (within limits) that hugepages exist in the
future when faults occurs or it is too easy to applications to be SIGKILLed.

As hugetlbfs makes its own reservations of a different unit to the base page
size, VM_ACCOUNT should never be set. Even if the units were correct, we would
double account for the usage in the core VM and hugetlbfs. VM_NORESERVE may
be set because an application can request no reserves be made for hugetlbfs
at the risk of getting killed later.

With commit fc8744adc870a8d4366908221508bb113d8b72ee, VM_NORESERVE and
VM_ACCOUNT are getting unconditionally set for hugetlbfs-backed mappings. This
breaks the accounting for both the core VM and hugetlbfs, can trigger an
OOM storm when hugepage pools are too small lockups and corrupted counters
otherwise are used. This patch brings hugetlbfs more in line with how the
core VM treats VM_NORESERVE but prevents VM_ACCOUNT being set.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds