linux-stable.git/mm, branch v3.12.44

mm, numa: really disable NUMA balancing by default on single node machines

2015-06-03T09:33:13+00:00

commit b0dc2b9bb4ab782115b964310518ee0b17784277 upstream.

NUMA balancing is meant to be disabled by default on UMA machines but
the check is using nr_node_ids (highest node) instead of
num_online_nodes (online nodes).

The consequences are that a UMA machine with a node ID of 1 or higher
will enable NUMA balancing.  This will incur useless overhead due to
minor faults with the impact depending on the workload.  These are the
impact on the stats when running a kernel build on a single node machine
whose node ID happened to be 1:

  			       vanilla     patched
  NUMA base PTE updates          5113158           0
  NUMA huge PMD updates              643           0
  NUMA page range updates        5442374           0
  NUMA hint faults               2109622           0
  NUMA hint local faults         2109622           0
  NUMA hint local percent            100         100
  NUMA pages migrated                  0           0

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mm: numa: initialise numa balancing after jump label initialisation

2015-06-03T09:16:19+00:00

commit c297663c0b3930491a3cb2aba4b6e5a7159c3503 upstream.

The command line parsing takes place before jump labels are initialised
which generates a warning if numa_balancing= is specified and
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL is set.

On older kernels before commit c4b2c0c5f647 ("static_key: WARN on usage
before jump_label_init was called") the kernel would have crashed.  This
patch enables automatic numa balancing later in the initialisation
process if numa_balancing= is specified.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mm: soft-offline: fix num_poisoned_pages counting on concurrent events

2015-05-16T07:12:44+00:00

commit 602498f9aa43d4951eece3fd6ad95a6d0a78d537 upstream.

If multiple soft offline events hit one free page/hugepage concurrently,
soft_offline_page() can handle the free page/hugepage multiple times,
which makes num_poisoned_pages counter increased more than once.  This
patch fixes this wrong counting by checking TestSetPageHWPoison for normal
papes and by checking the return value of dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page()
for hugepages.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Acked-by: Dean Nelson 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero

2015-05-16T07:12:44+00:00

commit 464d1387acb94dc43ba772b35242345e3d2ead1b upstream.

mm/page-writeback.c has several places where 1 is added to the divisor
to prevent division by zero exceptions; however, if the original
divisor is equivalent to -1, adding 1 leads to division by zero.

There are three places where +1 is used for this purpose - one in
pos_ratio_polynom() and two in bdi_position_ratio().  The second one
in bdi_position_ratio() actually triggered div-by-zero oops on a
machine running a 3.10 kernel.  The divisor is

  x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1 == span + 1

span is confirmed to be (u32)-1.  It isn't clear how it ended up that
but it could be from write bandwidth calculation underflow fixed by
c72efb658f7c ("writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth
calculation").

At any rate, +1 isn't a proper protection against div-by-zero.  This
patch converts all +1 protections to |1.  Note that
bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit() was already using |1 before this patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mm/memory-failure: call shake_page() when error hits thp tail page

2015-05-16T07:12:43+00:00

commit 09789e5de18e4e442870b2d700831f5cb802eb05 upstream.

Currently memory_failure() calls shake_page() to sweep pages out from
pcplists only when the victim page is 4kB LRU page or thp head page.
But we should do this for a thp tail page too.

Consider that a memory error hits a thp tail page whose head page is on
a pcplist when memory_failure() runs.  Then, the current kernel skips
shake_pages() part, so hwpoison_user_mappings() returns without calling
split_huge_page() nor try_to_unmap() because PageLRU of the thp head is
still cleared due to the skip of shake_page().

As a result, me_huge_page() runs for the thp, which is broken behavior.

One effect is a leak of the thp.  And another is to fail to isolate the
memory error, so later access to the error address causes another MCE,
which kills the processes which used the thp.

This patch fixes this problem by calling shake_page() for thp tail case.

Fixes: 385de35722c9 ("thp: allow a hwpoisoned head page to be put back to LRU")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Dean Nelson 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto 
Cc: Jin Dongming 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mm: fix anon_vma->degree underflow in anon_vma endless growing prevention

2015-05-15T07:10:59+00:00

commit 3fe89b3e2a7bbf3e97657104b9b33a9d81b950b3 upstream.

I have constantly stumbled upon "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!" after
upgrading to 3.19 and had no luck with 4.0-rc1 neither.

So, after looking into new logic introduced by commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm:
prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy"), I found chances are that
unlink_anon_vmas() is called without incrementing dst->anon_vma->degree
in anon_vma_clone() due to allocation failure.  If dst->anon_vma is not
NULL in error path, its degree will be incorrectly decremented in
unlink_anon_vmas() and eventually underflow when exiting as a result of
another call to unlink_anon_vmas().  That's how "kernel BUG at
mm/rmap.c:399!" is triggered for me.

This patch fixes the underflow by dropping dst->anon_vma when allocation
fails.  It's safe to do so regardless of original value of dst->anon_vma
because dst->anon_vma doesn't have valid meaning if anon_vma_clone()
fails.  Besides, callers don't care dst->anon_vma in such case neither.

Also suggested by Michal Hocko, we can clean up vma_adjust() a bit as
anon_vma_clone() now does the work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Fixes: 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Signed-off-by: Leon Yu 
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mm: fix corner case in anon_vma endless growing prevention

2015-05-15T07:10:58+00:00

commit b800c91a0517071156e772d4fb329ad33590da62 upstream.

Fix for BUG_ON(anon_vma->degree) splashes in unlink_anon_vmas() ("kernel
BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!") caused by commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent
endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")

Anon_vma_clone() is usually called for a copy of source vma in
destination argument.  If source vma has anon_vma it should be already
in dst->anon_vma.  NULL in dst->anon_vma is used as a sign that it's
called from anon_vma_fork().  In this case anon_vma_clone() finds
anon_vma for reusing.

Vma_adjust() calls it differently and this breaks anon_vma reusing
logic: anon_vma_clone() links vma to old anon_vma and updates degree
counters but vma_adjust() overrides vma->anon_vma right after that.  As
a result final unlink_anon_vmas() decrements degree for wrong anon_vma.

This patch assigns ->anon_vma before calling anon_vma_clone().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Clayton 
Reported-and-tested-by: Oded Gabbay 
Reported-and-tested-by: Chih-Wei Huang 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Daniel Forrest 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # to match back-porting of 7a3ef208e662
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy

2015-05-15T07:10:58+00:00

commit 7a3ef208e662f4b63d43a23f61a64a129c525bbc upstream.

Constantly forking task causes unlimited grow of anon_vma chain.  Each
next child allocates new level of anon_vmas and links vma to all
previous levels because pages might be inherited from any level.

This patch adds heuristic which decides to reuse existing anon_vma
instead of forking new one.  It adds counter anon_vma->degree which
counts linked vmas and directly descending anon_vmas and reuses anon_vma
if counter is lower than two.  As a result each anon_vma has either vma
or at least two descending anon_vmas.  In such trees half of nodes are
leafs with alive vmas, thus count of anon_vmas is no more than two times
bigger than count of vmas.

This heuristic reuses anon_vmas as few as possible because each reuse
adds false aliasing among vmas and rmap walker ought to scan more ptes
when it searches where page is might be mapped.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120816024610.GA5350@evergreen.ssec.wisc.edu
Fixes: 5beb49305251 ("mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue")
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Rik]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Reported-by: Daniel Forrest 
Tested-by: Michal Hocko 
Tested-by: Jerome Marchand 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: 	[2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mm/hugetlb: use pmd_page() in follow_huge_pmd()

2015-04-30T12:26:21+00:00

commit 97534127012f0e396eddea4691f4c9b170aed74b upstream.

Commit 61f77eda9bbf ("mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code around
follow_huge_*") broke follow_huge_pmd() on s390, where pmd and pte
layout differ and using pte_page() on a huge pmd will return wrong
results.  Using pmd_page() instead fixes this.

All architectures that were touched by that commit have pmd_page()
defined, so this should not break anything on other architectures.

Fixes: 61f77eda "mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code around follow_huge_*"
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer 
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Michal Hocko , Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

nick kvfree() from apparmor

2015-04-27T17:59:54+00:00

commit 39f1f78d53b9bcbca91967380c5f0f2305a5c55f upstream.

too many places open-code it

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby