linux-stable.git/mm, branch v3.14.44

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

2015-06-06T15:19:38+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: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2015-05-17T16:53:49+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: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2015-05-17T16:53:49+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: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2015-05-17T16:53:49+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: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vm: make stack guard page errors return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV rather than SIGBUS

2015-04-29T08:31:55+00:00

commit 9c145c56d0c8a0b62e48c8d71e055ad0fb2012ba upstream.

The stack guard page error case has long incorrectly caused a SIGBUS
rather than a SIGSEGV, but nobody actually noticed until commit
fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for guard
page") because that error case was never actually triggered in any
normal situations.

Now that we actually report the error, people noticed the wrong signal
that resulted.  So far, only the test suite of libsigsegv seems to have
actually cared, but there are real applications that use libsigsegv, so
let's not wait for any of those to break.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai 
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

2015-04-29T08:31:55+00:00

commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai 
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[shengyong: Backport to 3.14
 - adjust context
 - ignore modification for arch nios2, because 3.14 does not support it
 - add SIGSEGV handling to powerpc/cell spu_fault.c, because 3.14 does not
   separate it to copro_fault.c
 - add SIGSEGV handling to mm/memory.c, because 3.14 does not separate it
   to gup.c
]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: hwpoison: drop lru_add_drain_all() in __soft_offline_page()

2015-04-29T08:31:53+00:00

commit 9ab3b598d2dfbdb0153ffa7e4b1456bbff59a25d upstream.

A race condition starts to be visible in recent mmotm, where a PG_hwpoison
flag is set on a migration source page *before* it's back in buddy page
poo= l.

This is problematic because no page flag is supposed to be set when
freeing (see __free_one_page().) So the user-visible effect of this race
is that it could trigger the BUG_ON() when soft-offlining is called.

The root cause is that we call lru_add_drain_all() to make sure that the
page is in buddy, but that doesn't work because this function just
schedule= s a work item and doesn't wait its completion.
drain_all_pages() does drainin= g directly, so simply dropping
lru_add_drain_all() solves this problem.

[n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com: resolve conflict to apply on v3.11.10]
Fixes: f15bdfa802bf ("mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak in successful soft offlining")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Chen Gong 
Cc: 	[3.11+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth calculation

2015-04-19T08:11:07+00:00

commit c72efb658f7c8b27ca3d0efb5cfd5ded9fcac89e upstream.

From 1ebf33901ecc75d9496862dceb1ef0377980587c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo 
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:08:19 -0400

2f800fbd777b ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty")
introduced account_page_redirty() which reverts stat updates for a
redirtied page, making BDI_DIRTIED no longer monotonically increasing.

bdi_update_write_bandwidth() uses the delta in BDI_DIRTIED as the
basis for bandwidth calculation.  While unlikely, since the above
patch, the newer value may be lower than the recorded past value and
underflow the bandwidth calculation leading to a wild result.

Fix it by subtracing min of the old and new values when calculating
delta.  AFAIK, there hasn't been any report of it happening but the
resulting erratic behavior would be non-critical and temporary, so
it's possible that the issue is happening without being reported.  The
risk of the fix is very low, so tagged for -stable.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Fixes: 2f800fbd777b ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()

2015-04-19T08:11:06+00:00

commit 7d70e15480c0450d2bfafaad338a32e884fc215e upstream.

global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the
timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to
INITIALIZE_JIFFIES.

This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on
32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit.  This
isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be
updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines,
especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role -
protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it
does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior.  Fix it.

Fixes: c42843f2f0bb ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat

2015-04-19T08:11:06+00:00

commit b0dc3a342af36f95a68fe229b8f0f73552c5ca08 upstream.

Qiu Xishi reported the following BUG when testing hot-add/hot-remove node under
stress condition:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000025f60
  IP: next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  ACPI: Device does not support D3cold
  Modules linked in: fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod coretemp mperf crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel ablk_helper cryptd lrw gf128mul glue_helper aes_x86_64 pcspkr microcode igb dca i2c_algo_bit ipv6 megaraid_sas iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_vendor_support tg3 sg hwmon ptp lpc_ich pps_core mfd_core acpi_pad rtc_cmos button ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh ahci libahci libata scsi_mod [last unloaded: rasf]
  CPU: 23 PID: 238 Comm: kworker/23:1 Tainted: G           O 3.10.15-5885-euler0302 #1
  Hardware name: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. Huawei N1/Huawei N1, BIOS V100R001 03/02/2015
  Workqueue: events vmstat_update
  task: ffffa800d32c0000 ti: ffffa800d32ae000 task.ti: ffffa800d32ae000
  RIP: 0010: next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50
  RSP: 0018:ffffa800d32afce8  EFLAGS: 00010286
  RAX: 0000000000001440 RBX: ffffffff81da53b8 RCX: 0000000000000082
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000000
  RBP: ffffa800d32afd28 R08: ffffffff81c93bfc R09: ffffffff81cbdc96
  R10: 00000000000040ec R11: 00000000000000a0 R12: ffffa800fffb3440
  R13: ffffa800d32afd38 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffa800e6616800
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa800e6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000025f60 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
    refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0xd0/0x140
    vmstat_update+0x11/0x50
    process_one_work+0x194/0x3d0
    worker_thread+0x12b/0x410
    kthread+0xc6/0xd0
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

The cause is the "memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat))" at the end of
try_offline_node, which will reset all the content of pgdat to 0, as the
pgdat is accessed lock-free, so that the users still using the pgdat
will panic, such as the vmstat_update routine.

process A:				offline node XX:

vmstat_updat()
   refresh_cpu_vm_stats()
     for_each_populated_zone()
       find online node XX
     cond_resched()
					offline cpu and memory, then try_offline_node()
					node_set_offline(nid), and memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat))
       zone = next_zone(zone)
         pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;  // here pgdat is NULL now
           next_online_pgdat(pgdat)
             next_online_node(pgdat->node_id);  // NULL pointer access

So the solution here is postponing the reset of obsolete pgdat from
try_offline_node() to hotadd_new_pgdat(), and just resetting
pgdat->nr_zones and pgdat->classzone_idx to be 0 rather than the memset
0 to avoid breaking pointer information in pgdat.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng 
Reported-by: Xishi Qiu 
Suggested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Cc: Taku Izumi 
Cc: Tang Chen 
Cc: Xie XiuQi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman