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<title>mm: numa: return the number of base pages altered by protection changes</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T23:08:32+00:00</published>
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commit 72403b4a0fbdf433c1fe0127e49864658f6f6468 upstream.

Commit 0255d4918480 ("mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one
PTE update") was added to account for the number of PTE updates when
marking pages prot_numa.  task_numa_work was using the old return value
to track how much address space had been updated.  Altering the return
value causes the scanner to do more work than it is configured or
documented to in a single unit of work.

This patch reverts that commit and accounts for the number of THP
updates separately in vmstat.  It is up to the administrator to
interpret the pair of values correctly.  This is a straight-forward
operation and likely to only be of interest when actively debugging NUMA
balancing problems.

The impact of this patch is that the NUMA PTE scanner will scan slower
when THP is enabled and workloads may converge slower as a result.  On
the flip size system CPU usage should be lower than recent tests
reported.  This is an illustrative example of a short single JVM specjbb
test

specjbb
                       3.12.0                3.12.0
                      vanilla      acctupdates
TPut 1      26143.00 (  0.00%)     25747.00 ( -1.51%)
TPut 7     185257.00 (  0.00%)    183202.00 ( -1.11%)
TPut 13    329760.00 (  0.00%)    346577.00 (  5.10%)
TPut 19    442502.00 (  0.00%)    460146.00 (  3.99%)
TPut 25    540634.00 (  0.00%)    549053.00 (  1.56%)
TPut 31    512098.00 (  0.00%)    519611.00 (  1.47%)
TPut 37    461276.00 (  0.00%)    474973.00 (  2.97%)
TPut 43    403089.00 (  0.00%)    414172.00 (  2.75%)

              3.12.0      3.12.0
             vanillaacctupdates
User         5169.64     5184.14
System        100.45       80.02
Elapsed       252.75      251.85

Performance is similar but note the reduction in system CPU time.  While
this showed a performance gain, it will not be universal but at least
it'll be behaving as documented.  The vmstats are obviously different but
here is an obvious interpretation of them from mmtests.

                                3.12.0      3.12.0
                               vanillaacctupdates
NUMA page range updates        1408326    11043064
NUMA huge PMD updates                0       21040
NUMA PTE updates               1408326      291624

"NUMA page range updates" == nr_pte_updates and is the value returned to
the NUMA pte scanner.  NUMA huge PMD updates were the number of THP
updates which in combination can be used to calculate how many ptes were
updated from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 72403b4a0fbdf433c1fe0127e49864658f6f6468 upstream.

Commit 0255d4918480 ("mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one
PTE update") was added to account for the number of PTE updates when
marking pages prot_numa.  task_numa_work was using the old return value
to track how much address space had been updated.  Altering the return
value causes the scanner to do more work than it is configured or
documented to in a single unit of work.

This patch reverts that commit and accounts for the number of THP
updates separately in vmstat.  It is up to the administrator to
interpret the pair of values correctly.  This is a straight-forward
operation and likely to only be of interest when actively debugging NUMA
balancing problems.

The impact of this patch is that the NUMA PTE scanner will scan slower
when THP is enabled and workloads may converge slower as a result.  On
the flip size system CPU usage should be lower than recent tests
reported.  This is an illustrative example of a short single JVM specjbb
test

specjbb
                       3.12.0                3.12.0
                      vanilla      acctupdates
TPut 1      26143.00 (  0.00%)     25747.00 ( -1.51%)
TPut 7     185257.00 (  0.00%)    183202.00 ( -1.11%)
TPut 13    329760.00 (  0.00%)    346577.00 (  5.10%)
TPut 19    442502.00 (  0.00%)    460146.00 (  3.99%)
TPut 25    540634.00 (  0.00%)    549053.00 (  1.56%)
TPut 31    512098.00 (  0.00%)    519611.00 (  1.47%)
TPut 37    461276.00 (  0.00%)    474973.00 (  2.97%)
TPut 43    403089.00 (  0.00%)    414172.00 (  2.75%)

              3.12.0      3.12.0
             vanillaacctupdates
User         5169.64     5184.14
System        100.45       80.02
Elapsed       252.75      251.85

Performance is similar but note the reduction in system CPU time.  While
this showed a performance gain, it will not be universal but at least
it'll be behaving as documented.  The vmstats are obviously different but
here is an obvious interpretation of them from mmtests.

                                3.12.0      3.12.0
                               vanillaacctupdates
NUMA page range updates        1408326    11043064
NUMA huge PMD updates                0       21040
NUMA PTE updates               1408326      291624

"NUMA page range updates" == nr_pte_updates and is the value returned to
the NUMA pte scanner.  NUMA huge PMD updates were the number of THP
updates which in combination can be used to calculate how many ptes were
updated from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: ensure get_unmapped_area() returns higher address than mmap_min_addr</title>
<updated>2013-12-04T18:56:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akira Takeuchi</name>
<email>takeuchi.akr@jp.panasonic.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T23:08:21+00:00</published>
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commit 2afc745f3e3079ab16c826be4860da2529054dd2 upstream.

This patch fixes the problem that get_unmapped_area() can return illegal
address and result in failing mmap(2) etc.

In case that the address higher than PAGE_SIZE is set to
/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr, the address lower than mmap_min_addr can be
returned by get_unmapped_area(), even if you do not pass any virtual
address hint (i.e.  the second argument).

This is because the current get_unmapped_area() code does not take into
account mmap_min_addr.

This leads to two actual problems as follows:

1. mmap(2) can fail with EPERM on the process without CAP_SYS_RAWIO,
   although any illegal parameter is not passed.

2. The bottom-up search path after the top-down search might not work in
   arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown().

Note: The first and third chunk of my patch, which changes "len" check,
are for more precise check using mmap_min_addr, and not for solving the
above problem.

[How to reproduce]

	--- test.c -------------------------------------------------
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/errno.h&gt;

	int main(int argc, char *argv[])
	{
		void *ret = NULL, *last_map;
		size_t pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);

		do {
			last_map = ret;
			ret = mmap(0, pagesize, PROT_NONE,
				MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
	//		printf("ret=%p\n", ret);
		} while (ret != MAP_FAILED);

		if (errno != ENOMEM) {
			printf("ERR: unexpected errno: %d (last map=%p)\n",
			errno, last_map);
		}

		return 0;
	}
	---------------------------------------------------------------

	$ gcc -m32 -o test test.c
	$ sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=65536
	vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536
	$ ./test  (run as non-priviledge user)
	ERR: unexpected errno: 1 (last map=0x10000)

Signed-off-by: Akira Takeuchi &lt;takeuchi.akr@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Owada &lt;owada.kiyoshi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2afc745f3e3079ab16c826be4860da2529054dd2 upstream.

This patch fixes the problem that get_unmapped_area() can return illegal
address and result in failing mmap(2) etc.

In case that the address higher than PAGE_SIZE is set to
/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr, the address lower than mmap_min_addr can be
returned by get_unmapped_area(), even if you do not pass any virtual
address hint (i.e.  the second argument).

This is because the current get_unmapped_area() code does not take into
account mmap_min_addr.

This leads to two actual problems as follows:

1. mmap(2) can fail with EPERM on the process without CAP_SYS_RAWIO,
   although any illegal parameter is not passed.

2. The bottom-up search path after the top-down search might not work in
   arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown().

Note: The first and third chunk of my patch, which changes "len" check,
are for more precise check using mmap_min_addr, and not for solving the
above problem.

[How to reproduce]

	--- test.c -------------------------------------------------
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/errno.h&gt;

	int main(int argc, char *argv[])
	{
		void *ret = NULL, *last_map;
		size_t pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);

		do {
			last_map = ret;
			ret = mmap(0, pagesize, PROT_NONE,
				MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
	//		printf("ret=%p\n", ret);
		} while (ret != MAP_FAILED);

		if (errno != ENOMEM) {
			printf("ERR: unexpected errno: %d (last map=%p)\n",
			errno, last_map);
		}

		return 0;
	}
	---------------------------------------------------------------

	$ gcc -m32 -o test test.c
	$ sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=65536
	vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536
	$ ./test  (run as non-priviledge user)
	ERR: unexpected errno: 1 (last map=0x10000)

Signed-off-by: Akira Takeuchi &lt;takeuchi.akr@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Owada &lt;owada.kiyoshi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags</title>
<updated>2013-11-29T19:11:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-07T16:29:15+00:00</published>
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commit c6f58d9b362b45c52afebe4342c9137d0dabe47f upstream.

Andreas Herrmann writes:

  When I've used slub_debug kernel option (e.g.
  "slub_debug=,skbuff_fclone_cache" or similar) on a debug session I've
  seen a panic like:

    Highbank #setenv bootargs console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/sda2 kgdboc.kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 slub_debug=,kmalloc-4096 earlyprintk=ttyAMA0
    ...
    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
    pgd = c0004000
    [00000000] *pgd=00000000
    Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W    3.12.0-00048-gbe408cd #314
    task: c0898360 ti: c088a000 task.ti: c088a000
    PC is at strncmp+0x1c/0x84
    LR is at kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60
    pc : [&lt;c02c6da0&gt;]    lr : [&lt;c0110a3c&gt;]    psr: 200001d3
    sp : c088bea8  ip : c088beb8  fp : c088beb4
    r10: 00000000  r9 : 413fc090  r8 : 00000001
    r7 : 00000000  r6 : c2984a08  r5 : c0966e78  r4 : 00000000
    r3 : 0000006b  r2 : 0000000c  r1 : 00000000  r0 : c2984a08
    Flags: nzCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
    Control: 10c5387d  Table: 0000404a  DAC: 00000015
    Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc088a248)
    Stack: (0xc088bea8 to 0xc088c000)
    bea0:                   c088bed4 c088beb8 c0110a3c c02c6d90 c0966e78 00000040
    bec0: ef001f00 00000040 c088bf14 c088bed8 c0112070 c0110a04 00000005 c010fac8
    bee0: c088bf5c c088bef0 c010fac8 ef001f00 00000040 00000000 00000040 00000001
    bf00: 413fc090 00000000 c088bf34 c088bf18 c0839190 c0112040 00000000 ef001f00
    bf20: 00000000 00000000 c088bf54 c088bf38 c0839200 c083914c 00000006 c0961c4c
    bf40: c0961c28 00000000 c088bf7c c088bf58 c08392ac c08391c0 c08a2ed8 c0966e78
    bf60: c086b874 c08a3f50 c0961c28 00000001 c088bfb4 c088bf80 c083b258 c0839248
    bf80: 2f800000 0f000000 c08935b4 ffffffff c08cd400 ffffffff c08cd400 c0868408
    bfa0: c29849c0 00000000 c088bff4 c088bfb8 c0824974 c083b1e4 ffffffff ffffffff
    bfc0: c08245c0 00000000 00000000 c0868408 00000000 10c5387d c0892bcc c0868404
    bfe0: c0899440 0000406a 00000000 c088bff8 00008074 c0824824 00000000 00000000
    [&lt;c02c6da0&gt;] (strncmp+0x1c/0x84) from [&lt;c0110a3c&gt;] (kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60)
    [&lt;c0110a3c&gt;] (kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60) from [&lt;c0112070&gt;] (__kmem_cache_create+0x3c/0x410)
    [&lt;c0112070&gt;] (__kmem_cache_create+0x3c/0x410) from [&lt;c0839190&gt;] (create_boot_cache+0x50/0x74)
    [&lt;c0839190&gt;] (create_boot_cache+0x50/0x74) from [&lt;c0839200&gt;] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x4c/0x88)
    [&lt;c0839200&gt;] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x4c/0x88) from [&lt;c08392ac&gt;] (create_kmalloc_caches+0x70/0x114)
    [&lt;c08392ac&gt;] (create_kmalloc_caches+0x70/0x114) from [&lt;c083b258&gt;] (kmem_cache_init+0x80/0xe0)
    [&lt;c083b258&gt;] (kmem_cache_init+0x80/0xe0) from [&lt;c0824974&gt;] (start_kernel+0x15c/0x318)
    [&lt;c0824974&gt;] (start_kernel+0x15c/0x318) from [&lt;00008074&gt;] (0x8074)
    Code: e3520000 01a00002 089da800 e5d03000 (e5d1c000)
    ---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1d ]---
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

  Problem is that slub_debug option is not parsed before
  create_boot_cache is called. Solve this by changing slub_debug to
  early_param.

  Kernels 3.11, 3.10 are also affected.  I am not sure about older
  kernels.

Christoph Lameter explains:

  kmem_cache_flags may be called with NULL parameter during early boot.
  Skip the test in that case.

Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann &lt;andreas.herrmann@calxeda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c6f58d9b362b45c52afebe4342c9137d0dabe47f upstream.

Andreas Herrmann writes:

  When I've used slub_debug kernel option (e.g.
  "slub_debug=,skbuff_fclone_cache" or similar) on a debug session I've
  seen a panic like:

    Highbank #setenv bootargs console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/sda2 kgdboc.kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 slub_debug=,kmalloc-4096 earlyprintk=ttyAMA0
    ...
    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
    pgd = c0004000
    [00000000] *pgd=00000000
    Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W    3.12.0-00048-gbe408cd #314
    task: c0898360 ti: c088a000 task.ti: c088a000
    PC is at strncmp+0x1c/0x84
    LR is at kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60
    pc : [&lt;c02c6da0&gt;]    lr : [&lt;c0110a3c&gt;]    psr: 200001d3
    sp : c088bea8  ip : c088beb8  fp : c088beb4
    r10: 00000000  r9 : 413fc090  r8 : 00000001
    r7 : 00000000  r6 : c2984a08  r5 : c0966e78  r4 : 00000000
    r3 : 0000006b  r2 : 0000000c  r1 : 00000000  r0 : c2984a08
    Flags: nzCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
    Control: 10c5387d  Table: 0000404a  DAC: 00000015
    Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc088a248)
    Stack: (0xc088bea8 to 0xc088c000)
    bea0:                   c088bed4 c088beb8 c0110a3c c02c6d90 c0966e78 00000040
    bec0: ef001f00 00000040 c088bf14 c088bed8 c0112070 c0110a04 00000005 c010fac8
    bee0: c088bf5c c088bef0 c010fac8 ef001f00 00000040 00000000 00000040 00000001
    bf00: 413fc090 00000000 c088bf34 c088bf18 c0839190 c0112040 00000000 ef001f00
    bf20: 00000000 00000000 c088bf54 c088bf38 c0839200 c083914c 00000006 c0961c4c
    bf40: c0961c28 00000000 c088bf7c c088bf58 c08392ac c08391c0 c08a2ed8 c0966e78
    bf60: c086b874 c08a3f50 c0961c28 00000001 c088bfb4 c088bf80 c083b258 c0839248
    bf80: 2f800000 0f000000 c08935b4 ffffffff c08cd400 ffffffff c08cd400 c0868408
    bfa0: c29849c0 00000000 c088bff4 c088bfb8 c0824974 c083b1e4 ffffffff ffffffff
    bfc0: c08245c0 00000000 00000000 c0868408 00000000 10c5387d c0892bcc c0868404
    bfe0: c0899440 0000406a 00000000 c088bff8 00008074 c0824824 00000000 00000000
    [&lt;c02c6da0&gt;] (strncmp+0x1c/0x84) from [&lt;c0110a3c&gt;] (kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60)
    [&lt;c0110a3c&gt;] (kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60) from [&lt;c0112070&gt;] (__kmem_cache_create+0x3c/0x410)
    [&lt;c0112070&gt;] (__kmem_cache_create+0x3c/0x410) from [&lt;c0839190&gt;] (create_boot_cache+0x50/0x74)
    [&lt;c0839190&gt;] (create_boot_cache+0x50/0x74) from [&lt;c0839200&gt;] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x4c/0x88)
    [&lt;c0839200&gt;] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x4c/0x88) from [&lt;c08392ac&gt;] (create_kmalloc_caches+0x70/0x114)
    [&lt;c08392ac&gt;] (create_kmalloc_caches+0x70/0x114) from [&lt;c083b258&gt;] (kmem_cache_init+0x80/0xe0)
    [&lt;c083b258&gt;] (kmem_cache_init+0x80/0xe0) from [&lt;c0824974&gt;] (start_kernel+0x15c/0x318)
    [&lt;c0824974&gt;] (start_kernel+0x15c/0x318) from [&lt;00008074&gt;] (0x8074)
    Code: e3520000 01a00002 089da800 e5d03000 (e5d1c000)
    ---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1d ]---
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

  Problem is that slub_debug option is not parsed before
  create_boot_cache is called. Solve this by changing slub_debug to
  early_param.

  Kernels 3.11, 3.10 are also affected.  I am not sure about older
  kernels.

Christoph Lameter explains:

  kmem_cache_flags may be called with NULL parameter during early boot.
  Skip the test in that case.

Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann &lt;andreas.herrmann@calxeda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/vmalloc.c: fix an overflow bug in alloc_vmap_area()</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yanfei</name>
<email>zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-08T23:00:19+00:00</published>
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commit bcb615a81b1765864c71c50afb56631e7a1e5283 upstream.

When searching a vmap area in the vmalloc space, we use (addr + size -
1) to check if the value is less than addr, which is an overflow.  But
we assign (addr + size) to vmap_area-&gt;va_end.

So if we come across the below case:

  (addr + size - 1) : not overflow
  (addr + size)     : overflow

we will assign an overflow value (e.g 0) to vmap_area-&gt;va_end, And this
will trigger BUG in __insert_vmap_area, causing system panic.

So using (addr + size) to check the overflow should be the correct
behaviour, not (addr + size - 1).

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei &lt;zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ghennadi Procopciuc &lt;unix140@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Baluta &lt;dbaluta@ixiacom.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Anatoly Muliarski &lt;x86ever@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bcb615a81b1765864c71c50afb56631e7a1e5283 upstream.

When searching a vmap area in the vmalloc space, we use (addr + size -
1) to check if the value is less than addr, which is an overflow.  But
we assign (addr + size) to vmap_area-&gt;va_end.

So if we come across the below case:

  (addr + size - 1) : not overflow
  (addr + size)     : overflow

we will assign an overflow value (e.g 0) to vmap_area-&gt;va_end, And this
will trigger BUG in __insert_vmap_area, causing system panic.

So using (addr + size) to check the overflow should be the correct
behaviour, not (addr + size - 1).

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei &lt;zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ghennadi Procopciuc &lt;unix140@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Baluta &lt;dbaluta@ixiacom.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Anatoly Muliarski &lt;x86ever@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/pagewalk.c: fix walk_page_range() access of wrong PTEs</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen LinX</name>
<email>linx.z.chen@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-30T20:56:18+00:00</published>
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commit 3017f079efd6af199b0852b5c425364513db460e upstream.

When walk_page_range walk a memory map's page tables, it'll skip
VM_PFNMAP area, then variable 'next' will to assign to vma-&gt;vm_end, it
maybe larger than 'end'.  In next loop, 'addr' will be larger than
'next'.  Then in /proc/XXXX/pagemap file reading procedure, the 'addr'
will growing forever in pagemap_pte_range, pte_to_pagemap_entry will
access the wrong pte.

  BUG: Bad page map in process procrank  pte:8437526f pmd:785de067
  addr:9108d000 vm_flags:00200073 anon_vma:f0d99020 mapping:  (null) index:9108d
  CPU: 1 PID: 4974 Comm: procrank Tainted: G    B   W  O 3.10.1+ #1
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x16/0x18
    print_bad_pte+0x114/0x1b0
    vm_normal_page+0x56/0x60
    pagemap_pte_range+0x17a/0x1d0
    walk_page_range+0x19e/0x2c0
    pagemap_read+0x16e/0x200
    vfs_read+0x84/0x150
    SyS_read+0x4a/0x80
    syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Signed-off-by: Liu ShuoX &lt;shuox.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen LinX &lt;linx.z.chen@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3017f079efd6af199b0852b5c425364513db460e upstream.

When walk_page_range walk a memory map's page tables, it'll skip
VM_PFNMAP area, then variable 'next' will to assign to vma-&gt;vm_end, it
maybe larger than 'end'.  In next loop, 'addr' will be larger than
'next'.  Then in /proc/XXXX/pagemap file reading procedure, the 'addr'
will growing forever in pagemap_pte_range, pte_to_pagemap_entry will
access the wrong pte.

  BUG: Bad page map in process procrank  pte:8437526f pmd:785de067
  addr:9108d000 vm_flags:00200073 anon_vma:f0d99020 mapping:  (null) index:9108d
  CPU: 1 PID: 4974 Comm: procrank Tainted: G    B   W  O 3.10.1+ #1
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x16/0x18
    print_bad_pte+0x114/0x1b0
    vm_normal_page+0x56/0x60
    pagemap_pte_range+0x17a/0x1d0
    walk_page_range+0x19e/0x2c0
    pagemap_read+0x16e/0x200
    vfs_read+0x84/0x150
    SyS_read+0x4a/0x80
    syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Signed-off-by: Liu ShuoX &lt;shuox.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen LinX &lt;linx.z.chen@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one PTE update</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:47+00:00</published>
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commit 0255d491848032f6c601b6410c3b8ebded3a37b1 upstream.

A THP PMD update is accounted for as 512 pages updated in vmstat.  This is
large difference when estimating the cost of automatic NUMA balancing and
can be misleading when comparing results that had collapsed versus split
THP. This patch addresses the accounting issue.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0255d491848032f6c601b6410c3b8ebded3a37b1 upstream.

A THP PMD update is accounted for as 512 pages updated in vmstat.  This is
large difference when estimating the cost of automatic NUMA balancing and
can be misleading when comparing results that had collapsed versus split
THP. This patch addresses the accounting issue.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:46+00:00</published>
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commit 3f926ab945b60a5824369d21add7710622a2eac0 upstream.

THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations
but there are cases like this still open

  Task A					Task B
  ---------------------				---------------------
  do_huge_pmd_numa_page				do_huge_pmd_numa_page
  lock_page
  mpol_misplaced == -1
  unlock_page
  goto clear_pmdnuma
						lock_page
						mpol_misplaced == 2
						migrate_misplaced_transhuge
  pmd = pmd_mknonnuma
  set_pmd_at

During hours of testing, one crashed with weird errors and while I have
no direct evidence, I suspect something like the race above happened.
This patch extends the page lock to being held until the pmd_numa is
cleared to prevent migration starting in parallel while the pmd_numa is
being cleared. It also flushes the old pmd entry and orders pagetable
insertion before rmap insertion.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-9-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3f926ab945b60a5824369d21add7710622a2eac0 upstream.

THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations
but there are cases like this still open

  Task A					Task B
  ---------------------				---------------------
  do_huge_pmd_numa_page				do_huge_pmd_numa_page
  lock_page
  mpol_misplaced == -1
  unlock_page
  goto clear_pmdnuma
						lock_page
						mpol_misplaced == 2
						migrate_misplaced_transhuge
  pmd = pmd_mknonnuma
  set_pmd_at

During hours of testing, one crashed with weird errors and while I have
no direct evidence, I suspect something like the race above happened.
This patch extends the page lock to being held until the pmd_numa is
cleared to prevent migration starting in parallel while the pmd_numa is
being cleared. It also flushes the old pmd entry and orders pagetable
insertion before rmap insertion.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-9-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:45+00:00</published>
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commit c61109e34f60f6e85bb43c5a1cd51c0e3db40847 upstream.

There are three callers of task_numa_fault():

 - do_huge_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts not at all when the page isn't migrated, otherwise
     accounts against the node we migrated towards.

This seems wrong to me; all three sites should have the same
sementaics, furthermore we should accounts against where the page
really is, we already know where the task is.

So modify all three sites to always account; we did after all receive
the fault; and always account to where the page is after migration,
regardless of success.

They all still differ on when they clear the PTE/PMD; ideally that
would get sorted too.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c61109e34f60f6e85bb43c5a1cd51c0e3db40847 upstream.

There are three callers of task_numa_fault():

 - do_huge_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts not at all when the page isn't migrated, otherwise
     accounts against the node we migrated towards.

This seems wrong to me; all three sites should have the same
sementaics, furthermore we should accounts against where the page
really is, we already know where the task is.

So modify all three sites to always account; we did after all receive
the fault; and always account to where the page is after migration,
regardless of success.

They all still differ on when they clear the PTE/PMD; ideally that
would get sorted too.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=299723f2297726ca4c0a9d8ef3548ece5466431d'/>
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commit 587fe586f44a48f9691001ba6c45b86c8e4ba21f upstream.

THP migrations are serialised by the page lock but on its own that does
not prevent THP splits. If the page is split during THP migration then
the pmd_same checks will prevent page table corruption but the unlock page
and other fix-ups potentially will cause corruption. This patch takes the
anon_vma lock to prevent parallel splits during migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 587fe586f44a48f9691001ba6c45b86c8e4ba21f upstream.

THP migrations are serialised by the page lock but on its own that does
not prevent THP splits. If the page is split during THP migration then
the pmd_same checks will prevent page table corruption but the unlock page
and other fix-ups potentially will cause corruption. This patch takes the
anon_vma lock to prevent parallel splits during migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Wait for THP migrations to complete during NUMA hinting faults</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:05:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:43+00:00</published>
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commit 42836f5f8baa33085f547098b74aa98991ee9216 upstream.

The locking for migrating THP is unusual. While normal page migration
prevents parallel accesses using a migration PTE, THP migration relies on
a combination of the page_table_lock, the page lock and the existance of
the NUMA hinting PTE to guarantee safety but there is a bug in the scheme.

If a THP page is currently being migrated and another thread traps a
fault on the same page it checks if the page is misplaced. If it is not,
then pmd_numa is cleared. The problem is that it checks if the page is
misplaced without holding the page lock meaning that the racing thread
can be migrating the THP when the second thread clears the NUMA bit
and faults a stale page.

This patch checks if the page is potentially being migrated and stalls
using the lock_page if it is potentially being migrated before checking
if the page is misplaced or not.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-6-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 42836f5f8baa33085f547098b74aa98991ee9216 upstream.

The locking for migrating THP is unusual. While normal page migration
prevents parallel accesses using a migration PTE, THP migration relies on
a combination of the page_table_lock, the page lock and the existance of
the NUMA hinting PTE to guarantee safety but there is a bug in the scheme.

If a THP page is currently being migrated and another thread traps a
fault on the same page it checks if the page is misplaced. If it is not,
then pmd_numa is cleared. The problem is that it checks if the page is
misplaced without holding the page lock meaning that the racing thread
can be migrating the THP when the second thread clears the NUMA bit
and faults a stale page.

This patch checks if the page is potentially being migrated and stalls
using the lock_page if it is potentially being migrated before checking
if the page is misplaced or not.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-6-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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