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<title>linux-stable.git/mm/migrate.c, branch linux-4.0.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mm: convert p[te|md]_mknonnuma and remaining page table manipulations</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:58:28+00:00</published>
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With PROT_NONE, the traditional page table manipulation functions are
sufficient.

[andre.przywara@arm.com: fix compiler warning in pmdp_invalidate()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
With PROT_NONE, the traditional page table manipulation functions are
sufficient.

[andre.przywara@arm.com: fix compiler warning in pmdp_invalidate()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: numa: do not dereference pmd outside of the lock during NUMA hinting fault</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:58:16+00:00</published>
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Automatic NUMA balancing depends on being able to protect PTEs to trap a
fault and gather reference locality information.  Very broadly speaking
it would mark PTEs as not present and use another bit to distinguish
between NUMA hinting faults and other types of faults.  It was
universally loved by everybody and caused no problems whatsoever.  That
last sentence might be a lie.

This series is very heavily based on patches from Linus and Aneesh to
replace the existing PTE/PMD NUMA helper functions with normal change
protections.  I did alter and add parts of it but I consider them
relatively minor contributions.  At their suggestion, acked-bys are in
there but I've no problem converting them to Signed-off-by if requested.

AFAIK, this has received no testing on ppc64 and I'm depending on Aneesh
for that.  I tested trinity under kvm-tool and passed and ran a few
other basic tests.  At the time of writing, only the short-lived tests
have completed but testing of V2 indicated that long-term testing had no
surprises.  In most cases I'm leaving out detail as it's not that
interesting.

specjbb single JVM: There was negligible performance difference in the
	benchmark itself for short runs. However, system activity is
	higher and interrupts are much higher over time -- possibly TLB
	flushes. Migrations are also higher. Overall, this is more overhead
	but considering the problems faced with the old approach I think
	we just have to suck it up and find another way of reducing the
	overhead.

specjbb multi JVM: Negligible performance difference to the actual benchmark
	but like the single JVM case, the system overhead is noticeably
	higher.  Again, interrupts are a major factor.

autonumabench: This was all over the place and about all that can be
	reasonably concluded is that it's different but not necessarily
	better or worse.

autonumabench
                                     3.18.0-rc5            3.18.0-rc5
                                 mmotm-20141119         protnone-v3r3
User    NUMA01               32380.24 (  0.00%)    21642.92 ( 33.16%)
User    NUMA01_THEADLOCAL    22481.02 (  0.00%)    22283.22 (  0.88%)
User    NUMA02                3137.00 (  0.00%)     3116.54 (  0.65%)
User    NUMA02_SMT            1614.03 (  0.00%)     1543.53 (  4.37%)
System  NUMA01                 322.97 (  0.00%)     1465.89 (-353.88%)
System  NUMA01_THEADLOCAL       91.87 (  0.00%)       49.32 ( 46.32%)
System  NUMA02                  37.83 (  0.00%)       14.61 ( 61.38%)
System  NUMA02_SMT               7.36 (  0.00%)        7.45 ( -1.22%)
Elapsed NUMA01                 716.63 (  0.00%)      599.29 ( 16.37%)
Elapsed NUMA01_THEADLOCAL      553.98 (  0.00%)      539.94 (  2.53%)
Elapsed NUMA02                  83.85 (  0.00%)       83.04 (  0.97%)
Elapsed NUMA02_SMT              86.57 (  0.00%)       79.15 (  8.57%)
CPU     NUMA01                4563.00 (  0.00%)     3855.00 ( 15.52%)
CPU     NUMA01_THEADLOCAL     4074.00 (  0.00%)     4136.00 ( -1.52%)
CPU     NUMA02                3785.00 (  0.00%)     3770.00 (  0.40%)
CPU     NUMA02_SMT            1872.00 (  0.00%)     1959.00 ( -4.65%)

System CPU usage of NUMA01 is worse but it's an adverse workload on this
machine so I'm reluctant to conclude that it's a problem that matters.  On
the other workloads that are sensible on this machine, system CPU usage is
great.  Overall time to complete the benchmark is comparable

          3.18.0-rc5  3.18.0-rc5
        mmotm-20141119protnone-v3r3
User        59612.50    48586.44
System        460.22     1537.45
Elapsed      1442.20     1304.29

NUMA alloc hit                 5075182     5743353
NUMA alloc miss                      0           0
NUMA interleave hit                  0           0
NUMA alloc local               5075174     5743339
NUMA base PTE updates        637061448   443106883
NUMA huge PMD updates          1243434      864747
NUMA page range updates     1273699656   885857347
NUMA hint faults               1658116     1214277
NUMA hint local faults          959487      754113
NUMA hint local percent             57          62
NUMA pages migrated            5467056    61676398

The NUMA pages migrated look terrible but when I looked at a graph of the
activity over time I see that the massive spike in migration activity was
during NUMA01.  This correlates with high system CPU usage and could be
simply down to bad luck but any modifications that affect that workload
would be related to scan rates and migrations, not the protection
mechanism.  For all other workloads, migration activity was comparable.

Overall, headline performance figures are comparable but the overhead is
higher, mostly in interrupts.  To some extent, higher overhead from this
approach was anticipated but not to this degree.  It's going to be
necessary to reduce this again with a separate series in the future.  It's
still worth going ahead with this series though as it's likely to avoid
constant headaches with Xen and is probably easier to maintain.

This patch (of 10):

A transhuge NUMA hinting fault may find the page is migrating and should
wait until migration completes.  The check is race-prone because the pmd
is deferenced outside of the page lock and while the race is tiny, it'll
be larger if the PMD is cleared while marking PMDs for hinting fault.
This patch closes the race.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Automatic NUMA balancing depends on being able to protect PTEs to trap a
fault and gather reference locality information.  Very broadly speaking
it would mark PTEs as not present and use another bit to distinguish
between NUMA hinting faults and other types of faults.  It was
universally loved by everybody and caused no problems whatsoever.  That
last sentence might be a lie.

This series is very heavily based on patches from Linus and Aneesh to
replace the existing PTE/PMD NUMA helper functions with normal change
protections.  I did alter and add parts of it but I consider them
relatively minor contributions.  At their suggestion, acked-bys are in
there but I've no problem converting them to Signed-off-by if requested.

AFAIK, this has received no testing on ppc64 and I'm depending on Aneesh
for that.  I tested trinity under kvm-tool and passed and ran a few
other basic tests.  At the time of writing, only the short-lived tests
have completed but testing of V2 indicated that long-term testing had no
surprises.  In most cases I'm leaving out detail as it's not that
interesting.

specjbb single JVM: There was negligible performance difference in the
	benchmark itself for short runs. However, system activity is
	higher and interrupts are much higher over time -- possibly TLB
	flushes. Migrations are also higher. Overall, this is more overhead
	but considering the problems faced with the old approach I think
	we just have to suck it up and find another way of reducing the
	overhead.

specjbb multi JVM: Negligible performance difference to the actual benchmark
	but like the single JVM case, the system overhead is noticeably
	higher.  Again, interrupts are a major factor.

autonumabench: This was all over the place and about all that can be
	reasonably concluded is that it's different but not necessarily
	better or worse.

autonumabench
                                     3.18.0-rc5            3.18.0-rc5
                                 mmotm-20141119         protnone-v3r3
User    NUMA01               32380.24 (  0.00%)    21642.92 ( 33.16%)
User    NUMA01_THEADLOCAL    22481.02 (  0.00%)    22283.22 (  0.88%)
User    NUMA02                3137.00 (  0.00%)     3116.54 (  0.65%)
User    NUMA02_SMT            1614.03 (  0.00%)     1543.53 (  4.37%)
System  NUMA01                 322.97 (  0.00%)     1465.89 (-353.88%)
System  NUMA01_THEADLOCAL       91.87 (  0.00%)       49.32 ( 46.32%)
System  NUMA02                  37.83 (  0.00%)       14.61 ( 61.38%)
System  NUMA02_SMT               7.36 (  0.00%)        7.45 ( -1.22%)
Elapsed NUMA01                 716.63 (  0.00%)      599.29 ( 16.37%)
Elapsed NUMA01_THEADLOCAL      553.98 (  0.00%)      539.94 (  2.53%)
Elapsed NUMA02                  83.85 (  0.00%)       83.04 (  0.97%)
Elapsed NUMA02_SMT              86.57 (  0.00%)       79.15 (  8.57%)
CPU     NUMA01                4563.00 (  0.00%)     3855.00 ( 15.52%)
CPU     NUMA01_THEADLOCAL     4074.00 (  0.00%)     4136.00 ( -1.52%)
CPU     NUMA02                3785.00 (  0.00%)     3770.00 (  0.40%)
CPU     NUMA02_SMT            1872.00 (  0.00%)     1959.00 ( -4.65%)

System CPU usage of NUMA01 is worse but it's an adverse workload on this
machine so I'm reluctant to conclude that it's a problem that matters.  On
the other workloads that are sensible on this machine, system CPU usage is
great.  Overall time to complete the benchmark is comparable

          3.18.0-rc5  3.18.0-rc5
        mmotm-20141119protnone-v3r3
User        59612.50    48586.44
System        460.22     1537.45
Elapsed      1442.20     1304.29

NUMA alloc hit                 5075182     5743353
NUMA alloc miss                      0           0
NUMA interleave hit                  0           0
NUMA alloc local               5075174     5743339
NUMA base PTE updates        637061448   443106883
NUMA huge PMD updates          1243434      864747
NUMA page range updates     1273699656   885857347
NUMA hint faults               1658116     1214277
NUMA hint local faults          959487      754113
NUMA hint local percent             57          62
NUMA pages migrated            5467056    61676398

The NUMA pages migrated look terrible but when I looked at a graph of the
activity over time I see that the massive spike in migration activity was
during NUMA01.  This correlates with high system CPU usage and could be
simply down to bad luck but any modifications that affect that workload
would be related to scan rates and migrations, not the protection
mechanism.  For all other workloads, migration activity was comparable.

Overall, headline performance figures are comparable but the overhead is
higher, mostly in interrupts.  To some extent, higher overhead from this
approach was anticipated but not to this degree.  It's going to be
necessary to reduce this again with a separate series in the future.  It's
still worth going ahead with this series though as it's likely to avoid
constant headaches with Xen and is probably easier to maintain.

This patch (of 10):

A transhuge NUMA hinting fault may find the page is migrating and should
wait until migration completes.  The check is race-prone because the pmd
is deferenced outside of the page lock and while the race is tiny, it'll
be larger if the PMD is cleared while marking PMDs for hinting fault.
This patch closes the race.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: take page table lock in follow_huge_pmd()</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:25:22+00:00</published>
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We have a race condition between move_pages() and freeing hugepages, where
move_pages() calls follow_page(FOLL_GET) for hugepages internally and
tries to get its refcount without preventing concurrent freeing.  This
race crashes the kernel, so this patch fixes it by moving FOLL_GET code
for hugepages into follow_huge_pmd() with taking the page table lock.

This patch intentionally removes page==NULL check after pte_page.
This is justified because pte_page() never returns NULL for any
architectures or configurations.

This patch changes the behavior of follow_huge_pmd() for tail pages and
then tail pages can be pinned/returned.  So the caller must be changed to
properly handle the returned tail pages.

We could have a choice to add the similar locking to
follow_huge_(addr|pud) for consistency, but it's not necessary because
currently these functions don't support FOLL_GET flag, so let's leave it
for future development.

Here is the reproducer:

  $ cat movepages.c
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;numaif.h&gt;

  #define ADDR_INPUT      0x700000000000UL
  #define HPS             0x200000
  #define PS              0x1000

  int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
          int i;
          int nr_hp = strtol(argv[1], NULL, 0);
          int nr_p  = nr_hp * HPS / PS;
          int ret;
          void **addrs;
          int *status;
          int *nodes;
          pid_t pid;

          pid = strtol(argv[2], NULL, 0);
          addrs  = malloc(sizeof(char *) * nr_p + 1);
          status = malloc(sizeof(char *) * nr_p + 1);
          nodes  = malloc(sizeof(char *) * nr_p + 1);

          while (1) {
                  for (i = 0; i &lt; nr_p; i++) {
                          addrs[i] = (void *)ADDR_INPUT + i * PS;
                          nodes[i] = 1;
                          status[i] = 0;
                  }
                  ret = numa_move_pages(pid, nr_p, addrs, nodes, status,
                                        MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
                  if (ret == -1)
                          err("move_pages");

                  for (i = 0; i &lt; nr_p; i++) {
                          addrs[i] = (void *)ADDR_INPUT + i * PS;
                          nodes[i] = 0;
                          status[i] = 0;
                  }
                  ret = numa_move_pages(pid, nr_p, addrs, nodes, status,
                                        MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
                  if (ret == -1)
                          err("move_pages");
          }
          return 0;
  }

  $ cat hugepage.c
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;

  #define ADDR_INPUT      0x700000000000UL
  #define HPS             0x200000

  int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
          int nr_hp = strtol(argv[1], NULL, 0);
          char *p;

          while (1) {
                  p = mmap((void *)ADDR_INPUT, nr_hp * HPS, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                           MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB, -1, 0);
                  if (p != (void *)ADDR_INPUT) {
                          perror("mmap");
                          break;
                  }
                  memset(p, 0, nr_hp * HPS);
                  munmap(p, nr_hp * HPS);
          }
  }

  $ sysctl vm.nr_hugepages=40
  $ ./hugepage 10 &amp;
  $ ./movepages 10 $(pgrep -f hugepage)

Fixes: e632a938d914 ("mm: migrate: add hugepage migration code to move_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
We have a race condition between move_pages() and freeing hugepages, where
move_pages() calls follow_page(FOLL_GET) for hugepages internally and
tries to get its refcount without preventing concurrent freeing.  This
race crashes the kernel, so this patch fixes it by moving FOLL_GET code
for hugepages into follow_huge_pmd() with taking the page table lock.

This patch intentionally removes page==NULL check after pte_page.
This is justified because pte_page() never returns NULL for any
architectures or configurations.

This patch changes the behavior of follow_huge_pmd() for tail pages and
then tail pages can be pinned/returned.  So the caller must be changed to
properly handle the returned tail pages.

We could have a choice to add the similar locking to
follow_huge_(addr|pud) for consistency, but it's not necessary because
currently these functions don't support FOLL_GET flag, so let's leave it
for future development.

Here is the reproducer:

  $ cat movepages.c
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;numaif.h&gt;

  #define ADDR_INPUT      0x700000000000UL
  #define HPS             0x200000
  #define PS              0x1000

  int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
          int i;
          int nr_hp = strtol(argv[1], NULL, 0);
          int nr_p  = nr_hp * HPS / PS;
          int ret;
          void **addrs;
          int *status;
          int *nodes;
          pid_t pid;

          pid = strtol(argv[2], NULL, 0);
          addrs  = malloc(sizeof(char *) * nr_p + 1);
          status = malloc(sizeof(char *) * nr_p + 1);
          nodes  = malloc(sizeof(char *) * nr_p + 1);

          while (1) {
                  for (i = 0; i &lt; nr_p; i++) {
                          addrs[i] = (void *)ADDR_INPUT + i * PS;
                          nodes[i] = 1;
                          status[i] = 0;
                  }
                  ret = numa_move_pages(pid, nr_p, addrs, nodes, status,
                                        MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
                  if (ret == -1)
                          err("move_pages");

                  for (i = 0; i &lt; nr_p; i++) {
                          addrs[i] = (void *)ADDR_INPUT + i * PS;
                          nodes[i] = 0;
                          status[i] = 0;
                  }
                  ret = numa_move_pages(pid, nr_p, addrs, nodes, status,
                                        MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
                  if (ret == -1)
                          err("move_pages");
          }
          return 0;
  }

  $ cat hugepage.c
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;

  #define ADDR_INPUT      0x700000000000UL
  #define HPS             0x200000

  int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
          int nr_hp = strtol(argv[1], NULL, 0);
          char *p;

          while (1) {
                  p = mmap((void *)ADDR_INPUT, nr_hp * HPS, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                           MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB, -1, 0);
                  if (p != (void *)ADDR_INPUT) {
                          perror("mmap");
                          break;
                  }
                  memset(p, 0, nr_hp * HPS);
                  munmap(p, nr_hp * HPS);
          }
  }

  $ sysctl vm.nr_hugepages=40
  $ ./hugepage 10 &amp;
  $ ./movepages 10 $(pgrep -f hugepage)

Fixes: e632a938d914 ("mm: migrate: add hugepage migration code to move_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rmap: drop support of non-linear mappings</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T22:30:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T22:09:59+00:00</published>
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We don't create non-linear mappings anymore.  Let's drop code which
handles them in rmap.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We don't create non-linear mappings anymore.  Let's drop code which
handles them in rmap.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vm_area_operations: kill -&gt;migrate()</title>
<updated>2014-12-17T13:26:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-15T09:06:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=50062175ffc844b8ff9664024c6416a37ad63c77'/>
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the only instance this method has ever grown was one in kernfs -
one that call -&gt;migrate() of another vm_ops if it exists.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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the only instance this method has ever grown was one in kernfs -
one that call -&gt;migrate() of another vm_ops if it exists.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-15T23:52:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-15T23:52:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=988adfdffdd43cfd841df734664727993076d7cb'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "Highlights:

   - AMD KFD driver merge

     This is the AMD HSA interface for exposing a lowlevel interface for
     GPGPU use.  They have an open source userspace built on top of this
     interface, and the code looks as good as it was going to get out of
     tree.

   - Initial atomic modesetting work

     The need for an atomic modesetting interface to allow userspace to
     try and send a complete set of modesetting state to the driver has
     arisen, and been suffering from neglect this past year.  No more,
     the start of the common code and changes for msm driver to use it
     are in this tree.  Ongoing work to get the userspace ioctl finished
     and the code clean will probably wait until next kernel.

   - DisplayID 1.3 and tiled monitor exposed to userspace.

     Tiled monitor property is now exposed for userspace to make use of.

   - Rockchip drm driver merged.

   - imx gpu driver moved out of staging

  Other stuff:

   - core:
        panel - MIPI DSI + new panels.
        expose suggested x/y properties for virtual GPUs

   - i915:
        Initial Skylake (SKL) support
        gen3/4 reset work
        start of dri1/ums removal
        infoframe tracking
        fixes for lots of things.

   - nouveau:
        tegra k1 voltage support
        GM204 modesetting support
        GT21x memory reclocking work

   - radeon:
        CI dpm fixes
        GPUVM improvements
        Initial DPM fan control

   - rcar-du:
        HDMI support added
        removed some support for old boards
        slave encoder driver for Analog Devices adv7511

   - exynos:
        Exynos4415 SoC support

   - msm:
        a4xx gpu support
        atomic helper conversion

   - tegra:
        iommu support
        universal plane support
        ganged-mode DSI support

   - sti:
        HDMI i2c improvements

   - vmwgfx:
        some late fixes.

   - qxl:
        use suggested x/y properties"

* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (969 commits)
  drm: sti: fix module compilation issue
  drm/i915: save/restore GMBUS freq across suspend/resume on gen4
  drm: sti: correctly cleanup CRTC and planes
  drm: sti: add HQVDP plane
  drm: sti: add cursor plane
  drm: sti: enable auxiliary CRTC
  drm: sti: fix delay in VTG programming
  drm: sti: prepare sti_tvout to support auxiliary crtc
  drm: sti: use drm_crtc_vblank_{on/off} instead of drm_vblank_{on/off}
  drm: sti: fix hdmi avi infoframe
  drm: sti: remove event lock while disabling vblank
  drm: sti: simplify gdp code
  drm: sti: clear all mixer control
  drm: sti: remove gpio for HDMI hot plug detection
  drm: sti: allow to change hdmi ddc i2c adapter
  drm/doc: Document drm_add_modes_noedid() usage
  drm/i915: Remove '&amp; 0xffff' from the mask given to WA_REG()
  drm/i915: Invert the mask and val arguments in wa_add() and WA_REG()
  drm: Zero out DRM object memory upon cleanup
  drm/i915/bdw: Fix the write setting up the WIZ hashing mode
  ...
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<pre>
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "Highlights:

   - AMD KFD driver merge

     This is the AMD HSA interface for exposing a lowlevel interface for
     GPGPU use.  They have an open source userspace built on top of this
     interface, and the code looks as good as it was going to get out of
     tree.

   - Initial atomic modesetting work

     The need for an atomic modesetting interface to allow userspace to
     try and send a complete set of modesetting state to the driver has
     arisen, and been suffering from neglect this past year.  No more,
     the start of the common code and changes for msm driver to use it
     are in this tree.  Ongoing work to get the userspace ioctl finished
     and the code clean will probably wait until next kernel.

   - DisplayID 1.3 and tiled monitor exposed to userspace.

     Tiled monitor property is now exposed for userspace to make use of.

   - Rockchip drm driver merged.

   - imx gpu driver moved out of staging

  Other stuff:

   - core:
        panel - MIPI DSI + new panels.
        expose suggested x/y properties for virtual GPUs

   - i915:
        Initial Skylake (SKL) support
        gen3/4 reset work
        start of dri1/ums removal
        infoframe tracking
        fixes for lots of things.

   - nouveau:
        tegra k1 voltage support
        GM204 modesetting support
        GT21x memory reclocking work

   - radeon:
        CI dpm fixes
        GPUVM improvements
        Initial DPM fan control

   - rcar-du:
        HDMI support added
        removed some support for old boards
        slave encoder driver for Analog Devices adv7511

   - exynos:
        Exynos4415 SoC support

   - msm:
        a4xx gpu support
        atomic helper conversion

   - tegra:
        iommu support
        universal plane support
        ganged-mode DSI support

   - sti:
        HDMI i2c improvements

   - vmwgfx:
        some late fixes.

   - qxl:
        use suggested x/y properties"

* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (969 commits)
  drm: sti: fix module compilation issue
  drm/i915: save/restore GMBUS freq across suspend/resume on gen4
  drm: sti: correctly cleanup CRTC and planes
  drm: sti: add HQVDP plane
  drm: sti: add cursor plane
  drm: sti: enable auxiliary CRTC
  drm: sti: fix delay in VTG programming
  drm: sti: prepare sti_tvout to support auxiliary crtc
  drm: sti: use drm_crtc_vblank_{on/off} instead of drm_vblank_{on/off}
  drm: sti: fix hdmi avi infoframe
  drm: sti: remove event lock while disabling vblank
  drm: sti: simplify gdp code
  drm: sti: clear all mixer control
  drm: sti: remove gpio for HDMI hot plug detection
  drm: sti: allow to change hdmi ddc i2c adapter
  drm/doc: Document drm_add_modes_noedid() usage
  drm/i915: Remove '&amp; 0xffff' from the mask given to WA_REG()
  drm/i915: Invert the mask and val arguments in wa_add() and WA_REG()
  drm: Zero out DRM object memory upon cleanup
  drm/i915/bdw: Fix the write setting up the WIZ hashing mode
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: unmapped page migration avoid unmap+remap overhead</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T20:42:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:56:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2ebba6b7e1d98724d266ae048d8af4f7ca95cafd'/>
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Page migration's __unmap_and_move(), and rmap's try_to_unmap(), were
created for use on pages almost certainly mapped into userspace.  But
nowadays compaction often applies them to unmapped page cache pages: which
may exacerbate contention on i_mmap_rwsem quite unnecessarily, since
try_to_unmap_file() makes no preliminary page_mapped() check.

Now check page_mapped() in __unmap_and_move(); and avoid repeating the
same overhead in rmap_walk_file() - don't remove_migration_ptes() when we
never inserted any.

(The PageAnon(page) comment blocks now look even sillier than before, but
clean that up on some other occasion.  And note in passing that
try_to_unmap_one() does not use a migration entry when PageSwapCache, so
remove_migration_ptes() will then not update that swap entry to newpage
pte: not a big deal, but something else to clean up later.)

Davidlohr remarked in "mm,fs: introduce helpers around the i_mmap_mutex"
conversion to i_mmap_rwsem, that "The biggest winner of these changes is
migration": a part of the reason might be all of that unnecessary taking
of i_mmap_mutex in page migration; and it's rather a shame that I didn't
get around to sending this patch in before his - this one is much less
useful after Davidlohr's conversion to rwsem, but still good.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Page migration's __unmap_and_move(), and rmap's try_to_unmap(), were
created for use on pages almost certainly mapped into userspace.  But
nowadays compaction often applies them to unmapped page cache pages: which
may exacerbate contention on i_mmap_rwsem quite unnecessarily, since
try_to_unmap_file() makes no preliminary page_mapped() check.

Now check page_mapped() in __unmap_and_move(); and avoid repeating the
same overhead in rmap_walk_file() - don't remove_migration_ptes() when we
never inserted any.

(The PageAnon(page) comment blocks now look even sillier than before, but
clean that up on some other occasion.  And note in passing that
try_to_unmap_one() does not use a migration entry when PageSwapCache, so
remove_migration_ptes() will then not update that swap entry to newpage
pte: not a big deal, but something else to clean up later.)

Davidlohr remarked in "mm,fs: introduce helpers around the i_mmap_mutex"
conversion to i_mmap_rwsem, that "The biggest winner of these changes is
migration": a part of the reason might be all of that unnecessary taking
of i_mmap_mutex in page migration; and it's rather a shame that I didn't
get around to sending this patch in before his - this one is much less
useful after Davidlohr's conversion to rwsem, but still good.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>k.khlebnikov@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:29:27+00:00</published>
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Sasha Levin reported KASAN splash inside isolate_migratepages_range().
Problem is in the function __is_movable_balloon_page() which tests
AS_BALLOON_MAP in page-&gt;mapping-&gt;flags.  This function has no protection
against anonymous pages.  As result it tried to check address space flags
inside struct anon_vma.

Further investigation shows more problems in current implementation:

* Special branch in __unmap_and_move() never works:
  balloon_page_movable() checks page flags and page_count.  In
  __unmap_and_move() page is locked, reference counter is elevated, thus
  balloon_page_movable() always fails.  As a result execution goes to the
  normal migration path.  virtballoon_migratepage() returns
  MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS instead of MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS,
  move_to_new_page() thinks this is an error code and assigns
  newpage-&gt;mapping to NULL.  Newly migrated page lose connectivity with
  balloon an all ability for further migration.

* lru_lock erroneously required in isolate_migratepages_range() for
  isolation ballooned page.  This function releases lru_lock periodically,
  this makes migration mostly impossible for some pages.

* balloon_page_dequeue have a tight race with balloon_page_isolate:
  balloon_page_isolate could be executed in parallel with dequeue between
  picking page from list and locking page_lock.  Race is rare because they
  use trylock_page() for locking.

This patch fixes all of them.

Instead of fake mapping with special flag this patch uses special state of
page-&gt;_mapcount: PAGE_BALLOON_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -256.  Buddy allocator uses
PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -128 for similar purpose.  Storing mark
directly in struct page makes everything safer and easier.

PagePrivate is used to mark pages present in page list (i.e.  not
isolated, like PageLRU for normal pages).  It replaces special rules for
reference counter and makes balloon migration similar to migration of
normal pages.  This flag is protected by page_lock together with link to
the balloon device.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;k.khlebnikov@samsung.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/53E6CEAA.9020105@oracle.com
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Sasha Levin reported KASAN splash inside isolate_migratepages_range().
Problem is in the function __is_movable_balloon_page() which tests
AS_BALLOON_MAP in page-&gt;mapping-&gt;flags.  This function has no protection
against anonymous pages.  As result it tried to check address space flags
inside struct anon_vma.

Further investigation shows more problems in current implementation:

* Special branch in __unmap_and_move() never works:
  balloon_page_movable() checks page flags and page_count.  In
  __unmap_and_move() page is locked, reference counter is elevated, thus
  balloon_page_movable() always fails.  As a result execution goes to the
  normal migration path.  virtballoon_migratepage() returns
  MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS instead of MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS,
  move_to_new_page() thinks this is an error code and assigns
  newpage-&gt;mapping to NULL.  Newly migrated page lose connectivity with
  balloon an all ability for further migration.

* lru_lock erroneously required in isolate_migratepages_range() for
  isolation ballooned page.  This function releases lru_lock periodically,
  this makes migration mostly impossible for some pages.

* balloon_page_dequeue have a tight race with balloon_page_isolate:
  balloon_page_isolate could be executed in parallel with dequeue between
  picking page from list and locking page_lock.  Race is rare because they
  use trylock_page() for locking.

This patch fixes all of them.

Instead of fake mapping with special flag this patch uses special state of
page-&gt;_mapcount: PAGE_BALLOON_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -256.  Buddy allocator uses
PAGE_BUDDY_MAPCOUNT_VALUE = -128 for similar purpose.  Storing mark
directly in struct page makes everything safer and easier.

PagePrivate is used to mark pages present in page list (i.e.  not
isolated, like PageLRU for normal pages).  It replaces special rules for
reference counter and makes balloon migration similar to migration of
normal pages.  This flag is protected by page_lock together with link to
the balloon device.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;k.khlebnikov@samsung.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/53E6CEAA.9020105@oracle.com
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect</title>
<updated>2014-10-02T18:57:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-02T18:47:41+00:00</published>
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A migration entry is marked as write if pte_write was true at the time the
entry was created. The VMA protections are not double checked when migration
entries are being removed as mprotect marks write-migration-entries as
read. It means that potentially we take a spurious fault to mark PTEs write
again but it's straight-forward. However, there is a race between write
migrations being marked read and migrations finishing. This potentially
allows a PTE to be write that should have been read. Close this race by
double checking the VMA permissions using maybe_mkwrite when migration
completes.

[torvalds@linux-foundation.org: use maybe_mkwrite]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A migration entry is marked as write if pte_write was true at the time the
entry was created. The VMA protections are not double checked when migration
entries are being removed as mprotect marks write-migration-entries as
read. It means that potentially we take a spurious fault to mark PTEs write
again but it's straight-forward. However, there is a race between write
migrations being marked read and migrations finishing. This potentially
allows a PTE to be write that should have been read. Close this race by
double checking the VMA permissions using maybe_mkwrite when migration
completes.

[torvalds@linux-foundation.org: use maybe_mkwrite]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API</title>
<updated>2014-08-08T22:57:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T21:19:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0a31bc97c80c3fa87b32c091d9a930ac19cd0c40'/>
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<content type='text'>
The memcg uncharging code that is involved towards the end of a page's
lifetime - truncation, reclaim, swapout, migration - is impressively
complicated and fragile.

Because anonymous and file pages were always charged before they had their
page-&gt;mapping established, uncharges had to happen when the page type
could still be known from the context; as in unmap for anonymous, page
cache removal for file and shmem pages, and swap cache truncation for swap
pages.  However, these operations happen well before the page is actually
freed, and so a lot of synchronization is necessary:

- Charging, uncharging, page migration, and charge migration all need
  to take a per-page bit spinlock as they could race with uncharging.

- Swap cache truncation happens during both swap-in and swap-out, and
  possibly repeatedly before the page is actually freed.  This means
  that the memcg swapout code is called from many contexts that make
  no sense and it has to figure out the direction from page state to
  make sure memory and memory+swap are always correctly charged.

- On page migration, the old page might be unmapped but then reused,
  so memcg code has to prevent untimely uncharging in that case.
  Because this code - which should be a simple charge transfer - is so
  special-cased, it is not reusable for replace_page_cache().

But now that charged pages always have a page-&gt;mapping, introduce
mem_cgroup_uncharge(), which is called after the final put_page(), when we
know for sure that nobody is looking at the page anymore.

For page migration, introduce mem_cgroup_migrate(), which is called after
the migration is successful and the new page is fully rmapped.  Because
the old page is no longer uncharged after migration, prevent double
charges by decoupling the page's memcg association (PCG_USED and
pc-&gt;mem_cgroup) from the page holding an actual charge.  The new bits
PCG_MEM and PCG_MEMSW represent the respective charges and are transferred
to the new page during migration.

mem_cgroup_migrate() is suitable for replace_page_cache() as well,
which gets rid of mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache().  However, care
needs to be taken because both the source and the target page can
already be charged and on the LRU when fuse is splicing: grab the page
lock on the charge moving side to prevent changing pc-&gt;mem_cgroup of a
page under migration.  Also, the lruvecs of both pages change as we
uncharge the old and charge the new during migration, and putback may
race with us, so grab the lru lock and isolate the pages iff on LRU to
prevent races and ensure the pages are on the right lruvec afterward.

Swap accounting is massively simplified: because the page is no longer
uncharged as early as swap cache deletion, a new mem_cgroup_swapout() can
transfer the page's memory+swap charge (PCG_MEMSW) to the swap entry
before the final put_page() in page reclaim.

Finally, page_cgroup changes are now protected by whatever protection the
page itself offers: anonymous pages are charged under the page table lock,
whereas page cache insertions, swapin, and migration hold the page lock.
Uncharging happens under full exclusion with no outstanding references.
Charging and uncharging also ensure that the page is off-LRU, which
serializes against charge migration.  Remove the very costly page_cgroup
lock and set pc-&gt;flags non-atomically.

[mhocko@suse.cz: mem_cgroup_charge_statistics needs preempt_disable]
[vdavydov@parallels.com: fix flags definition]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jet Chen &lt;jet.chen@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The memcg uncharging code that is involved towards the end of a page's
lifetime - truncation, reclaim, swapout, migration - is impressively
complicated and fragile.

Because anonymous and file pages were always charged before they had their
page-&gt;mapping established, uncharges had to happen when the page type
could still be known from the context; as in unmap for anonymous, page
cache removal for file and shmem pages, and swap cache truncation for swap
pages.  However, these operations happen well before the page is actually
freed, and so a lot of synchronization is necessary:

- Charging, uncharging, page migration, and charge migration all need
  to take a per-page bit spinlock as they could race with uncharging.

- Swap cache truncation happens during both swap-in and swap-out, and
  possibly repeatedly before the page is actually freed.  This means
  that the memcg swapout code is called from many contexts that make
  no sense and it has to figure out the direction from page state to
  make sure memory and memory+swap are always correctly charged.

- On page migration, the old page might be unmapped but then reused,
  so memcg code has to prevent untimely uncharging in that case.
  Because this code - which should be a simple charge transfer - is so
  special-cased, it is not reusable for replace_page_cache().

But now that charged pages always have a page-&gt;mapping, introduce
mem_cgroup_uncharge(), which is called after the final put_page(), when we
know for sure that nobody is looking at the page anymore.

For page migration, introduce mem_cgroup_migrate(), which is called after
the migration is successful and the new page is fully rmapped.  Because
the old page is no longer uncharged after migration, prevent double
charges by decoupling the page's memcg association (PCG_USED and
pc-&gt;mem_cgroup) from the page holding an actual charge.  The new bits
PCG_MEM and PCG_MEMSW represent the respective charges and are transferred
to the new page during migration.

mem_cgroup_migrate() is suitable for replace_page_cache() as well,
which gets rid of mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache().  However, care
needs to be taken because both the source and the target page can
already be charged and on the LRU when fuse is splicing: grab the page
lock on the charge moving side to prevent changing pc-&gt;mem_cgroup of a
page under migration.  Also, the lruvecs of both pages change as we
uncharge the old and charge the new during migration, and putback may
race with us, so grab the lru lock and isolate the pages iff on LRU to
prevent races and ensure the pages are on the right lruvec afterward.

Swap accounting is massively simplified: because the page is no longer
uncharged as early as swap cache deletion, a new mem_cgroup_swapout() can
transfer the page's memory+swap charge (PCG_MEMSW) to the swap entry
before the final put_page() in page reclaim.

Finally, page_cgroup changes are now protected by whatever protection the
page itself offers: anonymous pages are charged under the page table lock,
whereas page cache insertions, swapin, and migration hold the page lock.
Uncharging happens under full exclusion with no outstanding references.
Charging and uncharging also ensure that the page is off-LRU, which
serializes against charge migration.  Remove the very costly page_cgroup
lock and set pc-&gt;flags non-atomically.

[mhocko@suse.cz: mem_cgroup_charge_statistics needs preempt_disable]
[vdavydov@parallels.com: fix flags definition]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jet Chen &lt;jet.chen@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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