linux-stable.git/mm/memory-failure.c, branch linux-3.8.y

Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma

2012-12-16T23:18:08+00:00

Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
 "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
  (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
  autonuma which is in aa.git.

  In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
  its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
  scheduling.  In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
  desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
  scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.

  The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are

    mel:    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
    mingo:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
    tglx:   https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
    srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397

  The results are a mixed bag.  In my own tests, balancenuma does
  reasonably well.  It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
  mainline.  On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
  incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
  but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts.  Thomas'
  results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
  numacore or autonuma.  Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
  large machine with imbalanced node sizes.

  My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
  dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
  We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
  migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
  There are also cases where it regresses.  Of interest is that for
  specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
  warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
  the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports.  Recently I
  reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
  NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
  this problem is.  Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
  handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case.  It's possible
  numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.

  These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
  with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
  not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."

* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
  mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
  mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
  mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
  mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
  mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
  mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
  mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
  mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
  mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
  mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
  sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
  mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
  mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
  mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
  mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
  mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
  ...

mm: hwpoison: fix action_result() to print out dirty/clean

2012-12-12T01:22:24+00:00

action_result() fails to print out "dirty" even if an error occurred on
a dirty pagecache, because when we check PageDirty in action_result() it
was cleared after page isolation even if it's dirty before error
handling.  This can break some applications that monitor this message,
so should be fixed.

There are several callers of action_result() except page_action(), but
either of them are not for LRU pages but for free pages or kernel pages,
so we don't have to consider dirty or not for them.

Note that PG_dirty can be set outside page locks as described in commit
6746aff74da2 ("HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked
page"), so this patch does not completely closes the race window, but
just narrows it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: "Jun'ichi Nomura" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory-hotplug: skip HWPoisoned page when offlining pages

2012-12-12T01:22:22+00:00

hwpoisoned may be set when we offline a page by the sysfs interface
/sys/devices/system/memory/soft_offline_page or
/sys/devices/system/memory/hard_offline_page. If we don't clear
this flag when onlining pages, this page can't be freed, and will
not in free list. So we can't offline these pages again. So we
should skip such page when offlining pages.

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable

2012-12-11T14:43:00+00:00

rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() appears to be too
careful about locking the anon vma: while it needs protection
against anon vma list modifications, it does not need exclusive
access to the list itself.

Transforming this exclusive lock to a read-locked rwsem removes
a global lock from the hot path of page-migration intense
threaded workloads which can cause pathological performance like
this:

    96.43%        process 0  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] perf_trace_sched_switch
                  |
                  --- perf_trace_sched_switch
                      __schedule
                      schedule
                      schedule_preempt_disabled
                      __mutex_lock_common.isra.6
                      __mutex_lock_slowpath
                      mutex_lock
                     |
                     |--50.61%-- rmap_walk
                     |          move_to_new_page
                     |          migrate_pages
                     |          migrate_misplaced_page
                     |          __do_numa_page.isra.69
                     |          handle_pte_fault
                     |          handle_mm_fault
                     |          __do_page_fault
                     |          do_page_fault
                     |          page_fault
                     |          __memset_sse2
                     |          |
                     |           --100.00%-- worker_thread
                     |                     |
                     |                      --100.00%-- start_thread
                     |
                      --49.39%-- page_lock_anon_vma
                                try_to_unmap_anon
                                try_to_unmap
                                migrate_pages
                                migrate_misplaced_page
                                __do_numa_page.isra.69
                                handle_pte_fault
                                handle_mm_fault
                                __do_page_fault
                                do_page_fault
                                page_fault
                                __memset_sse2
                                |
                                 --100.00%-- worker_thread
                                           start_thread

With this change applied the profile is now nicely flat
and there's no anon-vma related scheduling/blocking.

Rename anon_vma_[un]lock() => anon_vma_[un]lock_write(),
to make it clearer that it's an exclusive write-lock in
that case - suggested by Rik van Riel.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman

mm: migrate: Add a tracepoint for migrate_pages

2012-12-11T14:28:35+00:00

The pgmigrate_success and pgmigrate_fail vmstat counters tells the user
about migration activity but not the type or the reason. This patch adds
a tracepoint to identify the type of page migration and why the page is
being migrated.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel

mm: soft offline: split thp at the beginning of soft_offline_page()

2012-11-30T16:51:18+00:00

When we try to soft-offline a thp tail page, put_page() is called on the
tail page unthinkingly and VM_BUG_ON is triggered in put_compound_page().

This patch splits thp before going into the main body of soft-offlining.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm anon rmap: replace same_anon_vma linked list with an interval tree.

2012-10-09T07:22:41+00:00

When a large VMA (anon or private file mapping) is first touched, which
will populate its anon_vma field, and then split into many regions through
the use of mprotect(), the original anon_vma ends up linking all of the
vmas on a linked list.  This can cause rmap to become inefficient, as we
have to walk potentially thousands of irrelevent vmas before finding the
one a given anon page might fall into.

By replacing the same_anon_vma linked list with an interval tree (where
each avc's interval is determined by its vma's start and last pgoffs), we
can make rmap efficient for this use case again.

While the change is large, all of its pieces are fairly simple.

Most places that were walking the same_anon_vma list were looking for a
known pgoff, so they can just use the anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach()
interval tree iterator instead.  The exception here is ksm, where the
page's index is not known.  It would probably be possible to rework ksm so
that the index would be known, but for now I have decided to keep things
simple and just walk the entirety of the interval tree there.

When updating vma's that already have an anon_vma assigned, we must take
care to re-index the corresponding avc's on their interval tree.  This is
done through the use of anon_vma_interval_tree_pre_update_vma() and
anon_vma_interval_tree_post_update_vma(), which remove the avc's from
their interval tree before the update and re-insert them after the update.
 The anon_vma stays locked during the update, so there is no chance that
rmap would miss the vmas that are being updated.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Daniel Santos 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree

2012-10-09T07:22:39+00:00

Implement an interval tree as a replacement for the VMA prio_tree.  The
algorithms are similar to lib/interval_tree.c; however that code can't be
directly reused as the interval endpoints are not explicitly stored in the
VMA.  So instead, the common algorithm is moved into a template and the
details (node type, how to get interval endpoints from the node, etc) are
filled in using the C preprocessor.

Once the interval tree functions are available, using them as a
replacement to the VMA prio tree is a relatively simple, mechanical job.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: rename config variables

2012-08-01T01:42:43+00:00

Sanity:

CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR -> CONFIG_MEMCG
CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP
CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM -> CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM

[mhocko@suse.cz: fix missed bits]
Cc: Glauber Costa 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugetlb: simplify migrate_huge_page()

2012-08-01T01:42:40+00:00

Since we migrate only one hugepage, don't use linked list for passing the
page around.  Directly pass the page that need to be migrated as argument.
This also removes the usage of page->lru in the migrate path.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds