linux-stable.git/mm, branch v3.2.20

slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()

2012-06-10T13:41:48+00:00

commit 02d7633fa567be7bf55a993b79d2a31b95ce2227 upstream.

In the case which is below,

1. acquire slab for cpu partial list
2. free object to it by remote cpu
3. page->freelist = t

then memory leak is occurred.

Change acquire_slab() not to zap freelist when it works for cpu partial list.
I think it is a sufficient solution for fixing a memory leak.

Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256'
when './perf stat -r 30 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done.

***Vanilla***
Sizes (bytes)     Slabs              Debug                Memory
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Object :     256  Total  :     468   Sanity Checks : Off  Total: 3833856
SlabObj:     256  Full   :     111   Redzoning     : Off  Used : 2004992
SlabSiz:    8192  Partial:     302   Poisoning     : Off  Loss : 1828864
Loss   :       0  CpuSlab:      55   Tracking      : Off  Lalig:       0
Align  :       8  Objects:      32   Tracing       : Off  Lpadd:       0

***Patched***
Sizes (bytes)     Slabs              Debug                Memory
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Object :     256  Total  :     300   Sanity Checks : Off  Total: 2457600
SlabObj:     256  Full   :     204   Redzoning     : Off  Used : 2348800
SlabSiz:    8192  Partial:      33   Poisoning     : Off  Loss :  108800
Loss   :       0  CpuSlab:      63   Tracking      : Off  Lalig:       0
Align  :       8  Objects:      32   Tracing       : Off  Lpadd:       0

Total and loss number is the impact of this patch.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: fix vma_resv_map() NULL pointer

2012-06-10T13:41:47+00:00

commit 4523e1458566a0e8ecfaff90f380dd23acc44d27 upstream.

hugetlb_reserve_pages() can be used for either normal file-backed
hugetlbfs mappings, or MAP_HUGETLB.  In the MAP_HUGETLB, semi-anonymous
mode, there is not a VMA around.  The new call to resv_map_put() assumed
that there was, and resulted in a NULL pointer dereference:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030
  IP: vma_resv_map+0x9/0x30
  PGD 141453067 PUD 1421e1067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  ...
  Pid: 14006, comm: trinity-child6 Not tainted 3.4.0+ #36
  RIP: vma_resv_map+0x9/0x30
  ...
  Process trinity-child6 (pid: 14006, threadinfo ffff8801414e0000, task ffff8801414f26b0)
  Call Trace:
    resv_map_put+0xe/0x40
    hugetlb_reserve_pages+0xa6/0x1d0
    hugetlb_file_setup+0x102/0x2c0
    newseg+0x115/0x360
    ipcget+0x1ce/0x310
    sys_shmget+0x5a/0x60
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This was reported by Dave Jones, but was reproducible with the
libhugetlbfs test cases, so shame on me for not running them in the
first place.

With this, the oops is gone, and the output of libhugetlbfs's
run_tests.py is identical to plain 3.4 again.

[ Marked for stable, since this was introduced by commit c50ac050811d
  ("hugetlb: fix resv_map leak in error path") which was also marked for
  stable ]

Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: fix faulty initialization in vmalloc_init()

2012-06-10T13:41:46+00:00

commit dbda591d920b4c7692725b13e3f68ecb251e9080 upstream.

The transfer of ->flags causes some of the static mapping virtual
addresses to be prematurely freed (before the mapping is removed) because
VM_LAZY_FREE gets "set" if tmp->flags has VM_IOREMAP set.  This might
cause subsequent vmalloc/ioremap calls to fail because it might allocate
one of the freed virtual address ranges that aren't unmapped.

va->flags has different types of flags from tmp->flags.  If a region with
VM_IOREMAP set is registered with vm_area_add_early(), it will be removed
by __purge_vmap_area_lazy().

Fix vmalloc_init() to correctly initialize vmap_area for the given
vm_struct.

Also initialise va->vm.  If it is not set, find_vm_area() for the early
vm regions will always fail.

Signed-off-by: KyongHo Cho 
Cc: "Olav Haugan" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm/vmalloc.c: change void* into explict vm_struct*

2012-06-10T13:41:46+00:00

commit db1aecafef58b5dda39c4228debe2c845e4a27ab upstream.

vmap_area->private is void* but we don't use the field for various purpose
but use only for vm_struct.  So change it to a vm_struct* with naming to
improve for readability and type checking.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

hugetlb: fix resv_map leak in error path

2012-06-10T13:41:45+00:00

commit c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89 upstream.

When called for anonymous (non-shared) mappings, hugetlb_reserve_pages()
does a resv_map_alloc().  It depends on code in hugetlbfs's
vm_ops->close() to release that allocation.

However, in the mmap() failure path, we do a plain unmap_region() without
the remove_vma() which actually calls vm_ops->close().

This is a decent fix.  This leak could get reintroduced if new code (say,
after hugetlb_reserve_pages() in hugetlbfs_file_mmap()) decides to return
an error.  But, I think it would have to unroll the reservation anyway.

Christoph's test case:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=133728900729735

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
[Christoph Lameter: I have rediffed the patch against 2.6.32 and 3.2.0.]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: consider all swapped back pages in used-once logic

2012-06-10T13:41:45+00:00

commit e48982734ea0500d1eba4f9d96195acc5406cad6 upstream.

Commit 645747462435 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once")
made mapped pages have another round in inactive list because they might
be just short lived and so we could consider them again next time.  This
heuristic helps to reduce pressure on the active list with a streaming
IO worklods.

This patch fixes a regression introduced by this commit for heavy shmem
based workloads because unlike Anon pages, which are excluded from this
heuristic because they are usually long lived, shmem pages are handled
as a regular page cache.

This doesn't work quite well, unfortunately, if the workload is mostly
backed by shmem (in memory database sitting on 80% of memory) with a
streaming IO in the background (backup - up to 20% of memory).  Anon
inactive list is full of (dirty) shmem pages when watermarks are hit.
Shmem pages are kept in the inactive list (they are referenced) in the
first round and it is hard to reclaim anything else so we reach lower
scanning priorities very quickly which leads to an excessive swap out.

Let's fix this by excluding all swap backed pages (they tend to be long
lived wrt.  the regular page cache anyway) from used-once heuristic and
rather activate them if they are referenced.

The customer's workload is shmem backed database (80% of RAM) and they
are measuring transactions/s with an IO in the background (20%).
Transactions touch more or less random rows in the table.  The
transaction rate fell by a factor of 3 (in the worst case) because of
commit 64574746.  This patch restores the previous numbers.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak

2012-05-30T23:43:51+00:00

commit 8c7577637ca31385e92769a77e2ab5b428e8b99c upstream.

When the last event is unregistered, there is no need to keep the spare
array anymore.  So free it to avoid memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

swap: don't do discard if no discard option added

2012-05-30T23:43:47+00:00

commit 052b1987faca3606109d88d96bce124851f7c4c2 upstream.

When swapon() was not passed the SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD option, sys_swapon()
will still perform a discard operation.  This can cause problems if
discard is slow or buggy.

Reverse the order of the check so that a discard operation is performed
only if the sys_swapon() caller is attempting to enable discard.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Reported-by: Holger Kiehl 
Tested-by: Holger Kiehl 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: nobootmem: fix sign extend problem in __free_pages_memory()

2012-05-20T21:56:33+00:00

commit 6bc2e853c6b46a6041980d58200ad9b0a73a60ff upstream.

Systems with 8 TBytes of memory or greater can hit a problem where only
the the first 8 TB of memory shows up.  This is due to "int i" being
smaller than "unsigned long start_aligned", causing the high bits to be
dropped.

The fix is to change `i' to unsigned long to match start_aligned
and end_aligned.

Thanks to Jack Steiner for assistance tracking this down.

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson 
Cc: Jack Steiner 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Gavin Shan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()

2012-05-20T21:56:32+00:00

commit 4998a6c0edce7fae9c0a5463f6ec3fa585258ee7 upstream.

Commit 66aebce747eaf ("hugetlb: fix race condition in hugetlb_fault()")
added code to avoid a race condition by elevating the page refcount in
hugetlb_fault() while calling hugetlb_cow().

However, one code path in hugetlb_cow() includes an assertion that the
page count is 1, whereas it may now also have the value 2 in this path.

The consensus is that this BUG_ON has served its purpose, so rather than
extending it to cover both cases, we just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings