linux-stable.git/mm/debug.c, branch v3.18.136 Linux kernel stable tree mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely 2018-09-26T06:33:55+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2018-09-13T09:57:48+00:00 2b8f74c8f0a4aab0a20b9e77fdc3d17e8f2405dd commit 7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2 upstream. Jann Horn points out that the vmacache_flush_all() function is not only potentially expensive, it's buggy too. It also happens to be entirely unnecessary, because the sequence number overflow case can be avoided by simply making the sequence number be 64-bit. That doesn't even grow the data structures in question, because the other adjacent fields are already 64-bit. So simplify the whole thing by just making the sequence number overflow case go away entirely, which gets rid of all the complications and makes the code faster too. Win-win. [ Oleg Nesterov points out that the VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES statistics also just goes away entirely with this ] Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2 upstream.

Jann Horn points out that the vmacache_flush_all() function is not only
potentially expensive, it's buggy too.  It also happens to be entirely
unnecessary, because the sequence number overflow case can be avoided by
simply making the sequence number be 64-bit.  That doesn't even grow the
data structures in question, because the other adjacent fields are
already 64-bit.

So simplify the whole thing by just making the sequence number overflow
case go away entirely, which gets rid of all the complications and makes
the code faster too.  Win-win.

[ Oleg Nesterov points out that the VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES statistics
  also just goes away entirely with this ]

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/debug.c: use pr_emerg() 2014-10-10T02:25:59+00:00 Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org 2014-10-09T22:28:41+00:00 7a82ca0d6437261d0727ce472ae4f3a05a9ce5f7 - s/KERN_ALERT/pr_emerg/: we're going BUG so let's maximize the changes of getting the message out. - convert debug.c to pr_foo() Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
- s/KERN_ALERT/pr_emerg/: we're going BUG so let's maximize the changes
  of getting the message out.

- convert debug.c to pr_foo()

Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: introduce VM_BUG_ON_MM 2014-10-10T02:25:58+00:00 Sasha Levin sasha.levin@oracle.com 2014-10-09T22:28:37+00:00 31c9afa6db122a5c7a7843278aaf77dd08ea6e98 Very similar to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE and VM_BUG_ON_VMA, dump struct_mm when the bug is hit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [mhocko@suse.cz: fix build] [mhocko@suse.cz: fix build some more] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: do strange things to avoid doing strange things for the comma separators] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Very similar to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE and VM_BUG_ON_VMA, dump struct_mm when the
bug is hit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[mhocko@suse.cz: fix build]
[mhocko@suse.cz: fix build some more]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: do strange things to avoid doing strange things for the comma separators]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: move debug code out of page_alloc.c 2014-10-10T02:25:58+00:00 Sasha Levin sasha.levin@oracle.com 2014-10-09T22:28:34+00:00 82742a3a5152195edd69528c0c9a1a6fb9caa293 dump_page() and dump_vma() are not specific to page_alloc.c, move them out so page_alloc.c won't turn into the unofficial debug repository. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
dump_page() and dump_vma() are not specific to page_alloc.c, move them out
so page_alloc.c won't turn into the unofficial debug repository.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>