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<title>slab: fix nodeid bounds check for non-contiguous node IDs</title>
<updated>2014-12-16T17:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
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<published>2014-12-02T23:59:48+00:00</published>
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commit 7c3fbbdd04a681a1992ad6a3d7a36a63ff668753 upstream.

The bounds check for nodeid in ____cache_alloc_node gives false
positives on machines where the node IDs are not contiguous, leading to
a panic at boot time.  For example, on a POWER8 machine the node IDs are
typically 0, 1, 16 and 17.  This means that num_online_nodes() returns
4, so when ____cache_alloc_node is called with nodeid = 16 the VM_BUG_ON
triggers, like this:

  kernel BUG at /home/paulus/kernel/kvm/mm/slab.c:3079!
  Call Trace:
    .____cache_alloc_node+0x5c/0x270 (unreliable)
    .kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x360
    .init_list+0x3c/0x128
    .kmem_cache_init+0x1dc/0x258
    .start_kernel+0x2a0/0x568
    start_here_common+0x20/0xa8

To fix this, we instead compare the nodeid with MAX_NUMNODES, and
additionally make sure it isn't negative (since nodeid is an int).  The
check is there mainly to protect the array dereference in the get_node()
call in the next line, and the array being dereferenced is of size
MAX_NUMNODES.  If the nodeid is in range but invalid (for example if the
node is off-line), the BUG_ON in the next line will catch that.

Fixes: 14e50c6a9bc2 ("mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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 7c3fbbdd04a681a1992ad6a3d7a36a63ff668753 upstream.

The bounds check for nodeid in ____cache_alloc_node gives false
positives on machines where the node IDs are not contiguous, leading to
a panic at boot time.  For example, on a POWER8 machine the node IDs are
typically 0, 1, 16 and 17.  This means that num_online_nodes() returns
4, so when ____cache_alloc_node is called with nodeid = 16 the VM_BUG_ON
triggers, like this:

  kernel BUG at /home/paulus/kernel/kvm/mm/slab.c:3079!
  Call Trace:
    .____cache_alloc_node+0x5c/0x270 (unreliable)
    .kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x360
    .init_list+0x3c/0x128
    .kmem_cache_init+0x1dc/0x258
    .start_kernel+0x2a0/0x568
    start_here_common+0x20/0xa8

To fix this, we instead compare the nodeid with MAX_NUMNODES, and
additionally make sure it isn't negative (since nodeid is an int).  The
check is there mainly to protect the array dereference in the get_node()
call in the next line, and the array being dereferenced is of size
MAX_NUMNODES.  If the nodeid is in range but invalid (for example if the
node is off-line), the BUG_ON in the next line will catch that.

Fixes: 14e50c6a9bc2 ("mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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>
<title>mm: fix anon_vma_clone() error treatment</title>
<updated>2014-12-16T17:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Forrest</name>
<email>dan.forrest@ssec.wisc.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-02T23:59:42+00:00</published>
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commit c4ea95d7cd08d9ffd7fa75e6c5e0332d596dd11e upstream.

Andrew Morton noticed that the error return from anon_vma_clone() was
being dropped and replaced with -ENOMEM (which is not itself a bug
because the only error return value from anon_vma_clone() is -ENOMEM).

I did an audit of callers of anon_vma_clone() and discovered an actual
bug where the error return was being lost.  In __split_vma(), between
Linux 3.11 and 3.12 the code was changed so the err variable is used
before the call to anon_vma_clone() and the default initial value of
-ENOMEM is overwritten.  So a failure of anon_vma_clone() will return
success since err at this point is now zero.

Below is a patch which fixes this bug and also propagates the error
return value from anon_vma_clone() in all cases.

Fixes: ef0855d334e1 ("mm: mempolicy: turn vma_set_policy() into vma_dup_policy()")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Forrest &lt;dan.forrest@ssec.wisc.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Hartrick &lt;tim@edgecast.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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 c4ea95d7cd08d9ffd7fa75e6c5e0332d596dd11e upstream.

Andrew Morton noticed that the error return from anon_vma_clone() was
being dropped and replaced with -ENOMEM (which is not itself a bug
because the only error return value from anon_vma_clone() is -ENOMEM).

I did an audit of callers of anon_vma_clone() and discovered an actual
bug where the error return was being lost.  In __split_vma(), between
Linux 3.11 and 3.12 the code was changed so the err variable is used
before the call to anon_vma_clone() and the default initial value of
-ENOMEM is overwritten.  So a failure of anon_vma_clone() will return
success since err at this point is now zero.

Below is a patch which fixes this bug and also propagates the error
return value from anon_vma_clone() in all cases.

Fixes: ef0855d334e1 ("mm: mempolicy: turn vma_set_policy() into vma_dup_policy()")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Forrest &lt;dan.forrest@ssec.wisc.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Hartrick &lt;tim@edgecast.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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>
<title>mm: fix swapoff hang after page migration and fork</title>
<updated>2014-12-16T17:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-02T23:59:39+00:00</published>
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commit 2022b4d18a491a578218ce7a4eca8666db895a73 upstream.

I've been seeing swapoff hangs in recent testing: it's cycling around
trying unsuccessfully to find an mm for some remaining pages of swap.

I have been exercising swap and page migration more heavily recently,
and now notice a long-standing error in copy_one_pte(): it's trying to
add dst_mm to swapoff's mmlist when it finds a swap entry, but is doing
so even when it's a migration entry or an hwpoison entry.

Which wouldn't matter much, except it adds dst_mm next to src_mm,
assuming src_mm is already on the mmlist: which may not be so.  Then if
pages are later swapped out from dst_mm, swapoff won't be able to find
where to replace them.

There's already a !non_swap_entry() test for stats: move that up before
the swap_duplicate() and the addition to mmlist.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kelley Nielsen &lt;kelleynnn@gmail.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 2022b4d18a491a578218ce7a4eca8666db895a73 upstream.

I've been seeing swapoff hangs in recent testing: it's cycling around
trying unsuccessfully to find an mm for some remaining pages of swap.

I have been exercising swap and page migration more heavily recently,
and now notice a long-standing error in copy_one_pte(): it's trying to
add dst_mm to swapoff's mmlist when it finds a swap entry, but is doing
so even when it's a migration entry or an hwpoison entry.

Which wouldn't matter much, except it adds dst_mm next to src_mm,
assuming src_mm is already on the mmlist: which may not be so.  Then if
pages are later swapped out from dst_mm, swapoff won't be able to find
where to replace them.

There's already a !non_swap_entry() test for stats: move that up before
the swap_duplicate() and the addition to mmlist.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kelley Nielsen &lt;kelleynnn@gmail.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>
<title>mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()</title>
<updated>2014-12-16T17:37:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-02T23:59:28+00:00</published>
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commit 91b57191cfd152c02ded0745250167d0263084f8 upstream.

In some android devices, there will be a "divide by zero" exception.
vmpr-&gt;scanned could be zero before spin_lock(&amp;vmpr-&gt;sr_lock).

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88051

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: neaten]
Reported-by: ji_ang &lt;ji_ang@163.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton.vorontsov@linaro.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 91b57191cfd152c02ded0745250167d0263084f8 upstream.

In some android devices, there will be a "divide by zero" exception.
vmpr-&gt;scanned could be zero before spin_lock(&amp;vmpr-&gt;sr_lock).

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88051

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: neaten]
Reported-by: ji_ang &lt;ji_ang@163.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton.vorontsov@linaro.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure</title>
<updated>2014-12-16T17:37:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Weijie Yang</name>
<email>weijie.yang@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-02T23:59:25+00:00</published>
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commit fb993fa1a2f669215fa03a09eed7848f2663e336 upstream.

If a frontswap dup-store failed, it should invalidate the expired page
in the backend, or it could trigger some data corruption issue.
Such as:
 1. use zswap as the frontswap backend with writeback feature
 2. store a swap page(version_1) to entry A, success
 3. dup-store a newer page(version_2) to the same entry A, fail
 4. use __swap_writepage() write version_2 page to swapfile, success
 5. zswap do shrink, writeback version_1 page to swapfile
 6. version_2 page is overwrited by version_1, data corrupt.

This patch fixes this issue by invalidating expired data immediately
when meet a dup-store failure.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang &lt;weijie.yang@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjennings@variantweb.net&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fb993fa1a2f669215fa03a09eed7848f2663e336 upstream.

If a frontswap dup-store failed, it should invalidate the expired page
in the backend, or it could trigger some data corruption issue.
Such as:
 1. use zswap as the frontswap backend with writeback feature
 2. store a swap page(version_1) to entry A, success
 3. dup-store a newer page(version_2) to the same entry A, fail
 4. use __swap_writepage() write version_2 page to swapfile, success
 5. zswap do shrink, writeback version_1 page to swapfile
 6. version_2 page is overwrited by version_1, data corrupt.

This patch fixes this issue by invalidating expired data immediately
when meet a dup-store failure.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang &lt;weijie.yang@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjennings@variantweb.net&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm, thp: fix collapsing of hugepages on madvise</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:23:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-29T21:50:31+00:00</published>
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commit 6d50e60cd2edb5a57154db5a6f64eef5aa59b751 upstream.

If an anonymous mapping is not allowed to fault thp memory and then
madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) is used after fault, khugepaged will never
collapse this memory into thp memory.

This occurs because the madvise(2) handler for thp, hugepage_madvise(),
clears VM_NOHUGEPAGE on the stack and it isn't stored in vma-&gt;vm_flags
until the final action of madvise_behavior().  This causes the
khugepaged_enter_vma_merge() to be a no-op in hugepage_madvise() when
the vma had previously had VM_NOHUGEPAGE set.

Fix this by passing the correct vma flags to the khugepaged mm slot
handler.  There's no chance khugepaged can run on this vma until after
madvise_behavior() returns since we hold mm-&gt;mmap_sem.

It would be possible to clear VM_NOHUGEPAGE directly from vma-&gt;vm_flags
in hugepage_advise(), but I didn't want to introduce special case
behavior into madvise_behavior().  I think it's best to just let it
always set vma-&gt;vm_flags itself.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6d50e60cd2edb5a57154db5a6f64eef5aa59b751 upstream.

If an anonymous mapping is not allowed to fault thp memory and then
madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) is used after fault, khugepaged will never
collapse this memory into thp memory.

This occurs because the madvise(2) handler for thp, hugepage_madvise(),
clears VM_NOHUGEPAGE on the stack and it isn't stored in vma-&gt;vm_flags
until the final action of madvise_behavior().  This causes the
khugepaged_enter_vma_merge() to be a no-op in hugepage_madvise() when
the vma had previously had VM_NOHUGEPAGE set.

Fix this by passing the correct vma flags to the khugepaged mm slot
handler.  There's no chance khugepaged can run on this vma until after
madvise_behavior() returns since we hold mm-&gt;mmap_sem.

It would be possible to clear VM_NOHUGEPAGE directly from vma-&gt;vm_flags
in hugepage_advise(), but I didn't want to introduce special case
behavior into madvise_behavior().  I think it's best to just let it
always set vma-&gt;vm_flags itself.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Fix thinko in iov_iter_single_seg_count</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:23:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-13T09:15:23+00:00</published>
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commit ad0eab9293485d1c06237e9249f6d4dfa3d93d4d upstream.

The branches of the if (i-&gt;type &amp; ITER_BVEC) statement in
iov_iter_single_seg_count() are the wrong way around; if ITER_BVEC is
clear then we use i-&gt;bvec, when we should be using i-&gt;iov.  This fixes
it.

In my case, the symptom that this caused was that a KVM guest doing
filesystem operations on a virtual disk would result in one of qemu's
threads on the host going into an infinite loop in
generic_perform_write().  The loop would hit the copied == 0 case and
call iov_iter_single_seg_count() to reduce the number of bytes to try
to process, but because of the error, iov_iter_single_seg_count()
would just return i-&gt;count and the loop made no progress and continued
forever.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ad0eab9293485d1c06237e9249f6d4dfa3d93d4d upstream.

The branches of the if (i-&gt;type &amp; ITER_BVEC) statement in
iov_iter_single_seg_count() are the wrong way around; if ITER_BVEC is
clear then we use i-&gt;bvec, when we should be using i-&gt;iov.  This fixes
it.

In my case, the symptom that this caused was that a KVM guest doing
filesystem operations on a virtual disk would result in one of qemu's
threads on the host going into an infinite loop in
generic_perform_write().  The loop would hit the copied == 0 case and
call iov_iter_single_seg_count() to reduce the number of bytes to try
to process, but because of the error, iov_iter_single_seg_count()
would just return i-&gt;count and the loop made no progress and continued
forever.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mem-hotplug: reset node present pages when hot-adding a new pgdat</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:23:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Chen</name>
<email>tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-13T23:19:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bed56c3e51507d68b031c360e338a13ab378111d'/>
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commit 0bd854200873894a76f32603ff2c4c988ad6b5b5 upstream.

When memory is hot-added, all the memory is in offline state.  So clear
all zones' present_pages because they will be updated in online_pages()
and offline_pages().  Otherwise, /proc/zoneinfo will corrupt:

When the memory of node2 is offline:

  # cat /proc/zoneinfo
  ......
  Node 2, zone   Movable
  ......
        spanned  8388608
        present  8388608
        managed  0

When we online memory on node2:

  # cat /proc/zoneinfo
  ......
  Node 2, zone   Movable
  ......
        spanned  8388608
        present  16777216
        managed  8388608

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0bd854200873894a76f32603ff2c4c988ad6b5b5 upstream.

When memory is hot-added, all the memory is in offline state.  So clear
all zones' present_pages because they will be updated in online_pages()
and offline_pages().  Otherwise, /proc/zoneinfo will corrupt:

When the memory of node2 is offline:

  # cat /proc/zoneinfo
  ......
  Node 2, zone   Movable
  ......
        spanned  8388608
        present  8388608
        managed  0

When we online memory on node2:

  # cat /proc/zoneinfo
  ......
  Node 2, zone   Movable
  ......
        spanned  8388608
        present  16777216
        managed  8388608

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mem-hotplug: reset node managed pages when hot-adding a new pgdat</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:23:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Chen</name>
<email>tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-13T23:19:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6bfed69cf01d1ef7aa98a178ed234037a460fcbc'/>
<id>6bfed69cf01d1ef7aa98a178ed234037a460fcbc</id>
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commit f784a3f19613901ca4539a5b0eed3bdc700e6ee7 upstream.

In free_area_init_core(), zone-&gt;managed_pages is set to an approximate
value for lowmem, and will be adjusted when the bootmem allocator frees
pages into the buddy system.

But free_area_init_core() is also called by hotadd_new_pgdat() when
hot-adding memory.  As a result, zone-&gt;managed_pages of the newly added
node's pgdat is set to an approximate value in the very beginning.

Even if the memory on that node has node been onlined,
/sys/device/system/node/nodeXXX/meminfo has wrong value:

  hot-add node2 (memory not onlined)
  cat /sys/device/system/node/node2/meminfo
  Node 2 MemTotal:       33554432 kB
  Node 2 MemFree:               0 kB
  Node 2 MemUsed:        33554432 kB
  Node 2 Active:                0 kB

This patch fixes this problem by reset node managed pages to 0 after
hot-adding a new node.

1. Move reset_managed_pages_done from reset_node_managed_pages() to
   reset_all_zones_managed_pages()
2. Make reset_node_managed_pages() non-static
3. Call reset_node_managed_pages() in hotadd_new_pgdat() after pgdat
   is initialized

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f784a3f19613901ca4539a5b0eed3bdc700e6ee7 upstream.

In free_area_init_core(), zone-&gt;managed_pages is set to an approximate
value for lowmem, and will be adjusted when the bootmem allocator frees
pages into the buddy system.

But free_area_init_core() is also called by hotadd_new_pgdat() when
hot-adding memory.  As a result, zone-&gt;managed_pages of the newly added
node's pgdat is set to an approximate value in the very beginning.

Even if the memory on that node has node been onlined,
/sys/device/system/node/nodeXXX/meminfo has wrong value:

  hot-add node2 (memory not onlined)
  cat /sys/device/system/node/node2/meminfo
  Node 2 MemTotal:       33554432 kB
  Node 2 MemFree:               0 kB
  Node 2 MemUsed:        33554432 kB
  Node 2 Active:                0 kB

This patch fixes this problem by reset node managed pages to 0 after
hot-adding a new node.

1. Move reset_managed_pages_done from reset_node_managed_pages() to
   reset_all_zones_managed_pages()
2. Make reset_node_managed_pages() non-static
3. Call reset_node_managed_pages() in hotadd_new_pgdat() after pgdat
   is initialized

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:23:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-13T23:19:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=80d4ecfcfbce8046da51f58822d9ac5a5f958260'/>
<id>80d4ecfcfbce8046da51f58822d9ac5a5f958260</id>
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commit 3c605096d3158216ba9326a16266f6ba128c2c8d upstream.

Current pageblock isolation logic could isolate each pageblock
individually.  This causes freepage accounting problem if freepage with
pageblock order on isolate pageblock is merged with other freepage on
normal pageblock.  We can prevent merging by restricting max order of
merging to pageblock order if freepage is on isolate pageblock.

A side-effect of this change is that there could be non-merged buddy
freepage even if finishing pageblock isolation, because undoing
pageblock isolation is just to move freepage from isolate buddy list to
normal buddy list rather than to consider merging.  So, the patch also
makes undoing pageblock isolation consider freepage merge.  When
un-isolation, freepage with more than pageblock order and it's buddy are
checked.  If they are on normal pageblock, instead of just moving, we
isolate the freepage and free it in order to get merged.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Yanfei &lt;zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Wen Congyang &lt;wency@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Heesub Shin &lt;heesub.shin@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ritesh Harjani &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Gioh Kim &lt;gioh.kim@lge.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 3c605096d3158216ba9326a16266f6ba128c2c8d upstream.

Current pageblock isolation logic could isolate each pageblock
individually.  This causes freepage accounting problem if freepage with
pageblock order on isolate pageblock is merged with other freepage on
normal pageblock.  We can prevent merging by restricting max order of
merging to pageblock order if freepage is on isolate pageblock.

A side-effect of this change is that there could be non-merged buddy
freepage even if finishing pageblock isolation, because undoing
pageblock isolation is just to move freepage from isolate buddy list to
normal buddy list rather than to consider merging.  So, the patch also
makes undoing pageblock isolation consider freepage merge.  When
un-isolation, freepage with more than pageblock order and it's buddy are
checked.  If they are on normal pageblock, instead of just moving, we
isolate the freepage and free it in order to get merged.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Yanfei &lt;zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Wen Congyang &lt;wency@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Heesub Shin &lt;heesub.shin@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ritesh Harjani &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Gioh Kim &lt;gioh.kim@lge.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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