linux-stable.git/mm/memory.c, branch v4.2.1

mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping

2015-07-09T18:12:48+00:00

Reading page fault handler code I've noticed that under right
circumstances kernel would map anonymous pages into file mappings: if
the VMA doesn't have vm_ops->fault() and the VMA wasn't fully populated
on ->mmap(), kernel would handle page fault to not populated pte with
do_anonymous_page().

Let's change page fault handler to use do_anonymous_page() only on
anonymous VMA (->vm_ops == NULL) and make sure that the VMA is not
shared.

For file mappings without vm_ops->fault() or shred VMA without vm_ops,
page fault on pte_none() entry would lead to SIGBUS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Willy Tarreau 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2015-07-05T02:36:06+00:00

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
  that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
  stuff).  UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle).  9P fixes.
  fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"

[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups".  The
  file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
  fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge.   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
  9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
  p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
  9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
  dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
  block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
  dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
  dax: Add block size note to documentation
  fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
  fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
  fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
  vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
  namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
  make simple_positive() public
  ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
  pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
  remove the pointless include of lglock.h
  fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
  xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
  fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
  fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
  ...

mm, memcg: Try charging a page before setting page up to date

2015-06-25T00:49:43+00:00

Historically memcg overhead was high even if memcg was unused.  This has
improved a lot but it still showed up in a profile summary as being a
problem.

/usr/src/linux-4.0-vanilla/mm/memcontrol.c                           6.6441   395842
  mem_cgroup_try_charge                                                        2.950%   175781
  __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event                                                  1.431%    85239
  mem_cgroup_page_lruvec                                                       0.456%    27156
  mem_cgroup_commit_charge                                                     0.392%    23342
  uncharge_list                                                                0.323%    19256
  mem_cgroup_update_lru_size                                                   0.278%    16538
  memcg_check_events                                                           0.216%    12858
  mem_cgroup_charge_statistics.isra.22                                         0.188%    11172
  try_charge                                                                   0.150%     8928
  commit_charge                                                                0.141%     8388
  get_mem_cgroup_from_mm                                                       0.121%     7184

That is showing that 6.64% of system CPU cycles were in memcontrol.c and
dominated by mem_cgroup_try_charge.  The annotation shows that the bulk
of the cost was checking PageSwapCache which is expected to be cache hot
but is very expensive.  The problem appears to be that __SetPageUptodate
is called just before the check which is a write barrier.  It is
required to make sure struct page and page data is written before the
PTE is updated and the data visible to userspace.  memcg charging does
not require or need the barrier but gets unfairly hit with the cost so
this patch attempts the charging before the barrier.  Aside from the
accidental cost to memcg there is the added benefit that the barrier is
avoided if the page cannot be charged.  When applied the relevant
profile summary is as follows.

/usr/src/linux-4.0-chargefirst-v2r1/mm/memcontrol.c                  3.7907   223277
  __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event                                                  1.143%    67312
  mem_cgroup_page_lruvec                                                       0.465%    27403
  mem_cgroup_commit_charge                                                     0.381%    22452
  uncharge_list                                                                0.332%    19543
  mem_cgroup_update_lru_size                                                   0.284%    16704
  get_mem_cgroup_from_mm                                                       0.271%    15952
  mem_cgroup_try_charge                                                        0.237%    13982
  memcg_check_events                                                           0.222%    13058
  mem_cgroup_charge_statistics.isra.22                                         0.185%    10920
  commit_charge                                                                0.140%     8235
  try_charge                                                                   0.131%     7716

That brings the overhead down to 3.79% and leaves the memcg fault
accounting to the root cgroup but it's an improvement.  The difference
in headline performance of the page fault microbench is marginal as
memcg is such a small component of it.

pft faults
                                       4.0.0                  4.0.0
                                     vanilla            chargefirst
Hmean    faults/cpu-1 1443258.1051 (  0.00%) 1509075.7561 (  4.56%)
Hmean    faults/cpu-3 1340385.9270 (  0.00%) 1339160.7113 ( -0.09%)
Hmean    faults/cpu-5  875599.0222 (  0.00%)  874174.1255 ( -0.16%)
Hmean    faults/cpu-7  601146.6726 (  0.00%)  601370.9977 (  0.04%)
Hmean    faults/cpu-8  510728.2754 (  0.00%)  510598.8214 ( -0.03%)
Hmean    faults/sec-1 1432084.7845 (  0.00%) 1497935.5274 (  4.60%)
Hmean    faults/sec-3 3943818.1437 (  0.00%) 3941920.1520 ( -0.05%)
Hmean    faults/sec-5 3877573.5867 (  0.00%) 3869385.7553 ( -0.21%)
Hmean    faults/sec-7 3991832.0418 (  0.00%) 3992181.4189 (  0.01%)
Hmean    faults/sec-8 3987189.8167 (  0.00%) 3986452.2204 ( -0.02%)

It's only visible at single threaded. The overhead is there for higher
threads but other factors dominate.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: add file_path() helper

2015-06-23T22:00:05+00:00

Turn
	d_path(&file->f_path, ...);
into
	file_path(file, ...);

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sched/preempt, mm/fault: Trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() with disabled pagefaults

2015-05-19T06:39:14+00:00

Commit 662bbcb2747c ("mm, sched: Allow uaccess in atomic with
pagefault_disable()") removed might_sleep() checks for all user access
code (that uses might_fault()).

The reason was to disable wrong "sleep in atomic" warnings in the
following scenario:

    pagefault_disable()
    rc = copy_to_user(...)
    pagefault_enable()

Which is valid, as pagefault_disable() increments the preempt counter
and therefore disables the pagefault handler. copy_to_user() will not
sleep and return an error code if a page is not available.

However, as all might_sleep() checks are removed,
CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP would no longer detect the following scenario:

    spin_lock(&lock);
    rc = copy_to_user(...)
    spin_unlock(&lock)

If the kernel is compiled with preemption turned on, preempt_disable()
will make in_atomic() detect disabled preemption. The fault handler would
correctly never sleep on user access.
However, with preemption turned off, preempt_disable() is usually a NOP
(with !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT), therefore in_atomic() will not be able to
detect disabled preemption nor disabled pagefaults. The fault handler
could sleep.
We really want to enable CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP checks for user access
functions again, otherwise we can end up with horrible deadlocks.

Root of all evil is that pagefault_disable() acts almost as
preempt_disable(), depending on preemption being turned on/off.

As we now have pagefault_disabled(), we can use it to distinguish
whether user acces functions might sleep.

Convert might_fault() into a makro that calls __might_fault(), to
allow proper file + line messages in case of a might_sleep() warning.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-3-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: new pfn_mkwrite same as page_mkwrite for VM_PFNMAP

2015-04-15T23:35:20+00:00

This will allow FS that uses VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP (no page structs) to
get notified when access is a write to a read-only PFN.

This can happen if we mmap() a file then first mmap-read from it to
page-in a read-only PFN, than we mmap-write to the same page.

We need this functionality to fix a DAX bug, where in the scenario above
we fail to set ctime/mtime though we modified the file.  An xfstest is
attached to this patchset that shows the failure and the fix.  (A DAX
patch will follow)

This functionality is extra important for us, because upon dirtying of a
pmem page we also want to RDMA the page to a remote cluster node.

We define a new pfn_mkwrite and do not reuse page_mkwrite because
  1 - The name ;-)
  2 - But mainly because it would take a very long and tedious
      audit of all page_mkwrite functions of VM_MIXEDMAP/VM_PFNMAP
      users. To make sure they do not now CRASH. For example current
      DAX code (which this is for) would crash.
      If we would want to reuse page_mkwrite, We will need to first
      patch all users, so to not-crash-on-no-page. Then enable this
      patch. But even if I did that I would not sleep so well at night.
      Adding a new vector is the safest thing to do, and is not that
      expensive. an extra pointer at a static function vector per driver.
      Also the new vector is better for performance, because else we
      Will call all current Kernel vectors, so to:
        check-ha-no-page-do-nothing and return.

No need to call it from do_shared_fault because do_wp_page is called to
change pte permissions anyway.

Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman 
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory: also print a_ops->readpage in print_bad_pte()

2015-04-15T23:35:20+00:00

A lot of filesystems use generic_file_mmap() and filemap_fault(),
f_op->mmap and vm_ops->fault aren't enough to identify filesystem.

This prints file name, vm_ops->fault, f_op->mmap and a_ops->readpage
(which is almost always implemented and filesystem-specific).

Example:

[   23.676410] BUG: Bad page map in process sh  pte:1b7e6025 pmd:19bbd067
[   23.676887] page:ffffea00006df980 count:4 mapcount:1 mapping:ffff8800196426c0 index:0x97
[   23.677481] flags: 0x10000000000000c(referenced|uptodate)
[   23.677896] page dumped because: bad pte
[   23.678205] addr:00007f52fcb17000 vm_flags:00000075 anon_vma:          (null) mapping:ffff8800196426c0 index:97
[   23.678922] file:libc-2.19.so fault:filemap_fault mmap:generic_file_readonly_mmap readpage:v9fs_vfs_readpage

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use pr_alert, per Kirill]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Sasha Levin 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove rest of ACCESS_ONCE() usages

2015-04-15T23:35:18+00:00

We converted some of the usages of ACCESS_ONCE to READ_ONCE in the mm/
tree since it doesn't work reliably on non-scalar types.

This patch removes the rest of the usages of ACCESS_ONCE, and use the new
READ_ONCE API for the read accesses.  This makes things cleaner, instead
of using separate/multiple sets of APIs.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: refactor do_wp_page handling of shared vma into a function

2015-04-14T23:49:03+00:00

The do_wp_page function is extremely long.  Extract the logic for
handling a page belonging to a shared vma into a function of its own.

This helps the readability of the code, without doing any functional
change in it.

Signed-off-by: Shachar Raindel 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Haggai Eran 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Peter Feiner 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: refactor do_wp_page, extract the page copy flow

2015-04-14T23:49:03+00:00

In some cases, do_wp_page had to copy the page suffering a write fault
to a new location.  If the function logic decided that to do this, it
was done by jumping with a "goto" operation to the relevant code block.
This made the code really hard to understand.  It is also against the
kernel coding style guidelines.

This patch extracts the page copy and page table update logic to a
separate function.  It also clean up the naming, from "gotten" to
"wp_page_copy", and adds few comments.

Signed-off-by: Shachar Raindel 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Haggai Eran 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Peter Feiner 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds