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<title>mm/hwpoison: fix fail isolate hugetlbfs page w/ refcount held</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T16:07:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpeng.li@hotmail.com</email>
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<published>2015-08-14T22:34:59+00:00</published>
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commit 036138080a4376e5f3e5d0cca8ac99084c5cf06e upstream.

Hugetlbfs pages will get a refcount in get_any_page() or
madvise_hwpoison() if soft offlining through madvise.  The refcount which
is held by the soft offline path should be released if we fail to isolate
hugetlbfs pages.

Fix it by reducing the refcount for both isolation success and failure.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Acked-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 036138080a4376e5f3e5d0cca8ac99084c5cf06e upstream.

Hugetlbfs pages will get a refcount in get_any_page() or
madvise_hwpoison() if soft offlining through madvise.  The refcount which
is held by the soft offline path should be released if we fail to isolate
hugetlbfs pages.

Fix it by reducing the refcount for both isolation success and failure.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Acked-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>
<title>mm/hwpoison: fix page refcount of unknown non LRU page</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T16:07:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpeng.li@hotmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T22:34:56+00:00</published>
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commit 4f32be677b124a49459e2603321c7a5605ceb9f8 upstream.

After trying to drain pages from pagevec/pageset, we try to get reference
count of the page again, however, the reference count of the page is not
reduced if the page is still not on LRU list.

Fix it by adding the put_page() to drop the page reference which is from
__get_any_page().

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Acked-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 4f32be677b124a49459e2603321c7a5605ceb9f8 upstream.

After trying to drain pages from pagevec/pageset, we try to get reference
count of the page again, however, the reference count of the page is not
reduced if the page is still not on LRU list.

Fix it by adding the put_page() to drop the page reference which is from
__get_any_page().

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Acked-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>
<title>mm, vmscan: Do not wait for page writeback for GFP_NOFS allocations</title>
<updated>2015-08-17T03:52:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-04T21:36:58+00:00</published>
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commit ecf5fc6e9654cd7a268c782a523f072b2f1959f9 upstream.

Nikolay has reported a hang when a memcg reclaim got stuck with the
following backtrace:

PID: 18308  TASK: ffff883d7c9b0a30  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "rsync"
  #0 __schedule at ffffffff815ab152
  #1 schedule at ffffffff815ab76e
  #2 schedule_timeout at ffffffff815ae5e5
  #3 io_schedule_timeout at ffffffff815aad6a
  #4 bit_wait_io at ffffffff815abfc6
  #5 __wait_on_bit at ffffffff815abda5
  #6 wait_on_page_bit at ffffffff8111fd4f
  #7 shrink_page_list at ffffffff81135445
  #8 shrink_inactive_list at ffffffff81135845
  #9 shrink_lruvec at ffffffff81135ead
 #10 shrink_zone at ffffffff811360c3
 #11 shrink_zones at ffffffff81136eff
 #12 do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff8113712f
 #13 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages at ffffffff811372be
 #14 try_charge at ffffffff81189423
 #15 mem_cgroup_try_charge at ffffffff8118c6f5
 #16 __add_to_page_cache_locked at ffffffff8112137d
 #17 add_to_page_cache_lru at ffffffff81121618
 #18 pagecache_get_page at ffffffff8112170b
 #19 grow_dev_page at ffffffff811c8297
 #20 __getblk_slow at ffffffff811c91d6
 #21 __getblk_gfp at ffffffff811c92c1
 #22 ext4_ext_grow_indepth at ffffffff8124565c
 #23 ext4_ext_create_new_leaf at ffffffff81246ca8
 #24 ext4_ext_insert_extent at ffffffff81246f09
 #25 ext4_ext_map_blocks at ffffffff8124a848
 #26 ext4_map_blocks at ffffffff8121a5b7
 #27 mpage_map_one_extent at ffffffff8121b1fa
 #28 mpage_map_and_submit_extent at ffffffff8121f07b
 #29 ext4_writepages at ffffffff8121f6d5
 #30 do_writepages at ffffffff8112c490
 #31 __filemap_fdatawrite_range at ffffffff81120199
 #32 filemap_flush at ffffffff8112041c
 #33 ext4_alloc_da_blocks at ffffffff81219da1
 #34 ext4_rename at ffffffff81229b91
 #35 ext4_rename2 at ffffffff81229e32
 #36 vfs_rename at ffffffff811a08a5
 #37 SYSC_renameat2 at ffffffff811a3ffc
 #38 sys_renameat2 at ffffffff811a408e
 #39 sys_rename at ffffffff8119e51e
 #40 system_call_fastpath at ffffffff815afa89

Dave Chinner has properly pointed out that this is a deadlock in the
reclaim code because ext4 doesn't submit pages which are marked by
PG_writeback right away.

The heuristic was introduced by commit e62e384e9da8 ("memcg: prevent OOM
with too many dirty pages") and it was applied only when may_enter_fs
was specified.  The code has been changed by c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg:
further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages") which has removed the
__GFP_FS restriction with a reasoning that we do not get into the fs
code.  But this is not sufficient apparently because the fs doesn't
necessarily submit pages marked PG_writeback for IO right away.

ext4_bio_write_page calls io_submit_add_bh but that doesn't necessarily
submit the bio.  Instead it tries to map more pages into the bio and
mpage_map_one_extent might trigger memcg charge which might end up
waiting on a page which is marked PG_writeback but hasn't been submitted
yet so we would end up waiting for something that never finishes.

Fix this issue by replacing __GFP_IO by may_enter_fs check (for case 2)
before we go to wait on the writeback.  The page fault path, which is
the only path that triggers memcg oom killer since 3.12, shouldn't
require GFP_NOFS and so we shouldn't reintroduce the premature OOM
killer issue which was originally addressed by the heuristic.

As per David Chinner the xfs is doing similar thing since 2.6.15 already
so ext4 is not the only affected filesystem.  Moreover he notes:

: For example: IO completion might require unwritten extent conversion
: which executes filesystem transactions and GFP_NOFS allocations. The
: writeback flag on the pages can not be cleared until unwritten
: extent conversion completes. Hence memory reclaim cannot wait on
: page writeback to complete in GFP_NOFS context because it is not
: safe to do so, memcg reclaim or otherwise.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9+
[tytso@mit.edu: corrected the control flow]
Fixes: c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages")
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;kernel@kyup.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&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 ecf5fc6e9654cd7a268c782a523f072b2f1959f9 upstream.

Nikolay has reported a hang when a memcg reclaim got stuck with the
following backtrace:

PID: 18308  TASK: ffff883d7c9b0a30  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "rsync"
  #0 __schedule at ffffffff815ab152
  #1 schedule at ffffffff815ab76e
  #2 schedule_timeout at ffffffff815ae5e5
  #3 io_schedule_timeout at ffffffff815aad6a
  #4 bit_wait_io at ffffffff815abfc6
  #5 __wait_on_bit at ffffffff815abda5
  #6 wait_on_page_bit at ffffffff8111fd4f
  #7 shrink_page_list at ffffffff81135445
  #8 shrink_inactive_list at ffffffff81135845
  #9 shrink_lruvec at ffffffff81135ead
 #10 shrink_zone at ffffffff811360c3
 #11 shrink_zones at ffffffff81136eff
 #12 do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff8113712f
 #13 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages at ffffffff811372be
 #14 try_charge at ffffffff81189423
 #15 mem_cgroup_try_charge at ffffffff8118c6f5
 #16 __add_to_page_cache_locked at ffffffff8112137d
 #17 add_to_page_cache_lru at ffffffff81121618
 #18 pagecache_get_page at ffffffff8112170b
 #19 grow_dev_page at ffffffff811c8297
 #20 __getblk_slow at ffffffff811c91d6
 #21 __getblk_gfp at ffffffff811c92c1
 #22 ext4_ext_grow_indepth at ffffffff8124565c
 #23 ext4_ext_create_new_leaf at ffffffff81246ca8
 #24 ext4_ext_insert_extent at ffffffff81246f09
 #25 ext4_ext_map_blocks at ffffffff8124a848
 #26 ext4_map_blocks at ffffffff8121a5b7
 #27 mpage_map_one_extent at ffffffff8121b1fa
 #28 mpage_map_and_submit_extent at ffffffff8121f07b
 #29 ext4_writepages at ffffffff8121f6d5
 #30 do_writepages at ffffffff8112c490
 #31 __filemap_fdatawrite_range at ffffffff81120199
 #32 filemap_flush at ffffffff8112041c
 #33 ext4_alloc_da_blocks at ffffffff81219da1
 #34 ext4_rename at ffffffff81229b91
 #35 ext4_rename2 at ffffffff81229e32
 #36 vfs_rename at ffffffff811a08a5
 #37 SYSC_renameat2 at ffffffff811a3ffc
 #38 sys_renameat2 at ffffffff811a408e
 #39 sys_rename at ffffffff8119e51e
 #40 system_call_fastpath at ffffffff815afa89

Dave Chinner has properly pointed out that this is a deadlock in the
reclaim code because ext4 doesn't submit pages which are marked by
PG_writeback right away.

The heuristic was introduced by commit e62e384e9da8 ("memcg: prevent OOM
with too many dirty pages") and it was applied only when may_enter_fs
was specified.  The code has been changed by c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg:
further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages") which has removed the
__GFP_FS restriction with a reasoning that we do not get into the fs
code.  But this is not sufficient apparently because the fs doesn't
necessarily submit pages marked PG_writeback for IO right away.

ext4_bio_write_page calls io_submit_add_bh but that doesn't necessarily
submit the bio.  Instead it tries to map more pages into the bio and
mpage_map_one_extent might trigger memcg charge which might end up
waiting on a page which is marked PG_writeback but hasn't been submitted
yet so we would end up waiting for something that never finishes.

Fix this issue by replacing __GFP_IO by may_enter_fs check (for case 2)
before we go to wait on the writeback.  The page fault path, which is
the only path that triggers memcg oom killer since 3.12, shouldn't
require GFP_NOFS and so we shouldn't reintroduce the premature OOM
killer issue which was originally addressed by the heuristic.

As per David Chinner the xfs is doing similar thing since 2.6.15 already
so ext4 is not the only affected filesystem.  Moreover he notes:

: For example: IO completion might require unwritten extent conversion
: which executes filesystem transactions and GFP_NOFS allocations. The
: writeback flag on the pages can not be cleared until unwritten
: extent conversion completes. Hence memory reclaim cannot wait on
: page writeback to complete in GFP_NOFS context because it is not
: safe to do so, memcg reclaim or otherwise.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9+
[tytso@mit.edu: corrected the control flow]
Fixes: c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages")
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;kernel@kyup.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&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: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping</title>
<updated>2015-08-03T16:29:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-06T20:18:37+00:00</published>
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commit 6b7339f4c31ad69c8e9c0b2859276e22cf72176d upstream.

Reading page fault handler code I've noticed that under right
circumstances kernel would map anonymous pages into file mappings: if
the VMA doesn't have vm_ops-&gt;fault() and the VMA wasn't fully populated
on -&gt;mmap(), kernel would handle page fault to not populated pte with
do_anonymous_page().

Let's change page fault handler to use do_anonymous_page() only on
anonymous VMA (-&gt;vm_ops == NULL) and make sure that the VMA is not
shared.

For file mappings without vm_ops-&gt;fault() or shred VMA without vm_ops,
page fault on pte_none() entry would lead to SIGBUS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&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 6b7339f4c31ad69c8e9c0b2859276e22cf72176d upstream.

Reading page fault handler code I've noticed that under right
circumstances kernel would map anonymous pages into file mappings: if
the VMA doesn't have vm_ops-&gt;fault() and the VMA wasn't fully populated
on -&gt;mmap(), kernel would handle page fault to not populated pte with
do_anonymous_page().

Let's change page fault handler to use do_anonymous_page() only on
anonymous VMA (-&gt;vm_ops == NULL) and make sure that the VMA is not
shared.

For file mappings without vm_ops-&gt;fault() or shred VMA without vm_ops,
page fault on pte_none() entry would lead to SIGBUS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&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/hugetlb: introduce minimum hugepage order</title>
<updated>2015-08-03T16:29:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:56:59+00:00</published>
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commit 641844f5616d7c6597309f560838f996466d7aac upstream.

Currently the initial value of order in dissolve_free_huge_page is 64 or
32, which leads to the following warning in static checker:

  mm/hugetlb.c:1203 dissolve_free_huge_pages()
  warn: potential right shift more than type allows '9,18,64'

This is a potential risk of infinite loop, because 1 &lt;&lt; order (== 0) is used
in for-loop like this:

  for (pfn =3D start_pfn; pfn &lt; end_pfn; pfn +=3D 1 &lt;&lt; order)
      ...

So this patch fixes it by using global minimum_order calculated at boot time.

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   28313     469   84236  113018   1b97a mm/hugetlb.o
   28256     473   84236  112965   1b945 mm/hugetlb.o (patched)

Fixes: c8721bbbdd36 ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-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 641844f5616d7c6597309f560838f996466d7aac upstream.

Currently the initial value of order in dissolve_free_huge_page is 64 or
32, which leads to the following warning in static checker:

  mm/hugetlb.c:1203 dissolve_free_huge_pages()
  warn: potential right shift more than type allows '9,18,64'

This is a potential risk of infinite loop, because 1 &lt;&lt; order (== 0) is used
in for-loop like this:

  for (pfn =3D start_pfn; pfn &lt; end_pfn; pfn +=3D 1 &lt;&lt; order)
      ...

So this patch fixes it by using global minimum_order calculated at boot time.

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   28313     469   84236  113018   1b97a mm/hugetlb.o
   28256     473   84236  112965   1b945 mm/hugetlb.o (patched)

Fixes: c8721bbbdd36 ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-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>
<title>mm, thp: respect MPOL_PREFERRED policy with non-local node</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T17:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:58:48+00:00</published>
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commit 0867a57c4f80a566dda1bac975b42fcd857cb489 upstream.

Since commit 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on
local node"), we handle THP allocations on page fault in a special way -
for non-interleave memory policies, the allocation is only attempted on
the node local to the current CPU, if the policy's nodemask allows the
node.

This is motivated by the assumption that THP benefits cannot offset the
cost of remote accesses, so it's better to fallback to base pages on the
local node (which might still be available, while huge pages are not due
to fragmentation) than to allocate huge pages on a remote node.

The nodemask check prevents us from violating e.g.  MPOL_BIND policies
where the local node is not among the allowed nodes.  However, the
current implementation can still give surprising results for the
MPOL_PREFERRED policy when the preferred node is different than the
current CPU's local node.

In such case we should honor the preferred node and not use the local
node, which is what this patch does.  If hugepage allocation on the
preferred node fails, we fall back to base pages and don't try other
nodes, with the same motivation as is done for the local node hugepage
allocations.  The patch also moves the MPOL_INTERLEAVE check around to
simplify the hugepage specific test.

The difference can be demonstrated using in-tree transhuge-stress test
on the following 2-node machine where half memory on one node was
occupied to show the difference.

&gt; numactl --hardware
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
node 0 size: 7878 MB
node 0 free: 3623 MB
node 1 cpus: 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
node 1 size: 8045 MB
node 1 free: 7818 MB
node distances:
node   0   1
  0:  10  21
  1:  21  10

Before the patch:
&gt; numactl -p0 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.197 s/loop, 0.276 ms/page,   7249.168 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1786 different pages

&gt; numactl -p0 -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.962 s/loop, 0.372 ms/page,   5376.172 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3873 different pages

Number of successful THP allocations corresponds to free memory on node 0 in
the first case and node 1 in the second case, i.e. -p parameter is ignored and
cpu binding "wins".

After the patch:
&gt; numactl -p0 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.183 s/loop, 0.274 ms/page,   7295.516 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1760 different pages

&gt; numactl -p0 -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.878 s/loop, 0.361 ms/page,   5533.638 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1750 different pages

&gt; numactl -p1 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 4.628 s/loop, 0.581 ms/page,   3440.893 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3918 different pages

The -p parameter is respected regardless of cpu binding.

&gt; numactl -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.202 s/loop, 0.277 ms/page,   7230.003 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1750 different pages

&gt; numactl -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 3.020 s/loop, 0.379 ms/page,   5273.324 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3916 different pages

Without -p parameter, hugepage restriction to CPU-local node works as before.

Fixes: 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local node")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@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 0867a57c4f80a566dda1bac975b42fcd857cb489 upstream.

Since commit 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on
local node"), we handle THP allocations on page fault in a special way -
for non-interleave memory policies, the allocation is only attempted on
the node local to the current CPU, if the policy's nodemask allows the
node.

This is motivated by the assumption that THP benefits cannot offset the
cost of remote accesses, so it's better to fallback to base pages on the
local node (which might still be available, while huge pages are not due
to fragmentation) than to allocate huge pages on a remote node.

The nodemask check prevents us from violating e.g.  MPOL_BIND policies
where the local node is not among the allowed nodes.  However, the
current implementation can still give surprising results for the
MPOL_PREFERRED policy when the preferred node is different than the
current CPU's local node.

In such case we should honor the preferred node and not use the local
node, which is what this patch does.  If hugepage allocation on the
preferred node fails, we fall back to base pages and don't try other
nodes, with the same motivation as is done for the local node hugepage
allocations.  The patch also moves the MPOL_INTERLEAVE check around to
simplify the hugepage specific test.

The difference can be demonstrated using in-tree transhuge-stress test
on the following 2-node machine where half memory on one node was
occupied to show the difference.

&gt; numactl --hardware
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
node 0 size: 7878 MB
node 0 free: 3623 MB
node 1 cpus: 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
node 1 size: 8045 MB
node 1 free: 7818 MB
node distances:
node   0   1
  0:  10  21
  1:  21  10

Before the patch:
&gt; numactl -p0 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.197 s/loop, 0.276 ms/page,   7249.168 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1786 different pages

&gt; numactl -p0 -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.962 s/loop, 0.372 ms/page,   5376.172 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3873 different pages

Number of successful THP allocations corresponds to free memory on node 0 in
the first case and node 1 in the second case, i.e. -p parameter is ignored and
cpu binding "wins".

After the patch:
&gt; numactl -p0 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.183 s/loop, 0.274 ms/page,   7295.516 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1760 different pages

&gt; numactl -p0 -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.878 s/loop, 0.361 ms/page,   5533.638 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1750 different pages

&gt; numactl -p1 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 4.628 s/loop, 0.581 ms/page,   3440.893 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3918 different pages

The -p parameter is respected regardless of cpu binding.

&gt; numactl -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.202 s/loop, 0.277 ms/page,   7230.003 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1750 different pages

&gt; numactl -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 3.020 s/loop, 0.379 ms/page,   5273.324 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3916 different pages

Without -p parameter, hugepage restriction to CPU-local node works as before.

Fixes: 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local node")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@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: kmemleak_alloc_percpu() should follow the gfp from per_alloc()</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T17:10:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Larry Finger</name>
<email>Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:58:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=03445a4c2324f4adddd6b6c9b92879c1c754238a'/>
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commit 8a8c35fadfaf55629a37ef1a8ead1b8fb32581d2 upstream.

Beginning at commit d52d3997f843 ("ipv6: Create percpu rt6_info"), the
following INFO splat is logged:

  ===============================
  [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
  4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  kernel/sched/core.c:7318 Illegal context switch in RCU-bh read-side critical section!
  other info that might help us debug this:
  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
   3 locks held by systemd/1:
   #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff815f0c8f&gt;] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1f/0x40
   #1:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [&lt;ffffffff816a34e2&gt;] ipv6_add_addr+0x62/0x540
   #2:  (addrconf_hash_lock){+...+.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff816a3604&gt;] ipv6_add_addr+0x184/0x540
  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1
  Hardware name: TOSHIBA TECRA A50-A/TECRA A50-A, BIOS Version 4.20   04/17/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
    lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
    ___might_sleep+0x1d5/0x1f0
    __might_sleep+0x4d/0x90
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x47/0x250
    create_object+0x39/0x2e0
    kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0x61/0xe0
    pcpu_alloc+0x370/0x630

Additional backtrace lines are truncated.  In addition, the above splat
is followed by several "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
context at mm/slub.c:1268" outputs.  As suggested by Martin KaFai Lau,
these are the clue to the fix.  Routine kmemleak_alloc_percpu() always
uses GFP_KERNEL for its allocations, whereas it should follow the gfp
from its callers.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.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 8a8c35fadfaf55629a37ef1a8ead1b8fb32581d2 upstream.

Beginning at commit d52d3997f843 ("ipv6: Create percpu rt6_info"), the
following INFO splat is logged:

  ===============================
  [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
  4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  kernel/sched/core.c:7318 Illegal context switch in RCU-bh read-side critical section!
  other info that might help us debug this:
  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
   3 locks held by systemd/1:
   #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff815f0c8f&gt;] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1f/0x40
   #1:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [&lt;ffffffff816a34e2&gt;] ipv6_add_addr+0x62/0x540
   #2:  (addrconf_hash_lock){+...+.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff816a3604&gt;] ipv6_add_addr+0x184/0x540
  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1
  Hardware name: TOSHIBA TECRA A50-A/TECRA A50-A, BIOS Version 4.20   04/17/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
    lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
    ___might_sleep+0x1d5/0x1f0
    __might_sleep+0x4d/0x90
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x47/0x250
    create_object+0x39/0x2e0
    kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0x61/0xe0
    pcpu_alloc+0x370/0x630

Additional backtrace lines are truncated.  In addition, the above splat
is followed by several "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
context at mm/slub.c:1268" outputs.  As suggested by Martin KaFai Lau,
these are the clue to the fix.  Routine kmemleak_alloc_percpu() always
uses GFP_KERNEL for its allocations, whereas it should follow the gfp
from its callers.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.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: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T17:10:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:58:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3baf726f001b69454f3eb18a589c508992622be9'/>
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commit c5f3b1a51a591c18c8b33983908e7fdda6ae417e upstream.

The kmemleak scanning thread can run for minutes.  Callbacks like
kmemleak_free() are allowed during this time, the race being taken care
of by the object-&gt;lock spinlock.  Such lock also prevents a memory block
from being freed or unmapped while it is being scanned by blocking the
kmemleak_free() -&gt; ...  -&gt; __delete_object() function until the lock is
released in scan_object().

When a kmemleak error occurs (e.g.  it fails to allocate its metadata),
kmemleak_enabled is set and __delete_object() is no longer called on
freed objects.  If kmemleak_scan is running at the same time,
kmemleak_free() no longer waits for the object scanning to complete,
allowing the corresponding memory block to be freed or unmapped (in the
case of vfree()).  This leads to kmemleak_scan potentially triggering a
page fault.

This patch separates the kmemleak_free() enabling/disabling from the
overall kmemleak_enabled nob so that we can defer the disabling of the
object freeing tracking until the scanning thread completed.  The
kmemleak_free_part() is deliberately ignored by this patch since this is
only called during boot before the scanning thread started.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan &lt;vigneshr@codeaurora.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan &lt;vigneshr@codeaurora.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 c5f3b1a51a591c18c8b33983908e7fdda6ae417e upstream.

The kmemleak scanning thread can run for minutes.  Callbacks like
kmemleak_free() are allowed during this time, the race being taken care
of by the object-&gt;lock spinlock.  Such lock also prevents a memory block
from being freed or unmapped while it is being scanned by blocking the
kmemleak_free() -&gt; ...  -&gt; __delete_object() function until the lock is
released in scan_object().

When a kmemleak error occurs (e.g.  it fails to allocate its metadata),
kmemleak_enabled is set and __delete_object() is no longer called on
freed objects.  If kmemleak_scan is running at the same time,
kmemleak_free() no longer waits for the object scanning to complete,
allowing the corresponding memory block to be freed or unmapped (in the
case of vfree()).  This leads to kmemleak_scan potentially triggering a
page fault.

This patch separates the kmemleak_free() enabling/disabling from the
overall kmemleak_enabled nob so that we can defer the disabling of the
object freeing tracking until the scanning thread completed.  The
kmemleak_free_part() is deliberately ignored by this patch since this is
only called during boot before the scanning thread started.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan &lt;vigneshr@codeaurora.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan &lt;vigneshr@codeaurora.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: shmem_zero_setup skip security check and lockdep conflict with XFS</title>
<updated>2015-06-18T06:40:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-14T16:48:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=66fc13039422ba7df2d01a8ee0873e4ef965b50b'/>
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It appears that, at some point last year, XFS made directory handling
changes which bring it into lockdep conflict with shmem_zero_setup():
it is surprising that mmap() can clone an inode while holding mmap_sem,
but that has been so for many years.

Since those few lockdep traces that I've seen all implicated selinux,
I'm hoping that we can use the __shmem_file_setup(,,,S_PRIVATE) which
v3.13's commit c7277090927a ("security: shmem: implement kernel private
shmem inodes") introduced to avoid LSM checks on kernel-internal inodes:
the mmap("/dev/zero") cloned inode is indeed a kernel-internal detail.

This also covers the !CONFIG_SHMEM use of ramfs to support /dev/zero
(and MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS).  I thought there were also drivers
which cloned inode in mmap(), but if so, I cannot locate them now.

Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;wagi@monom.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Morten Stevens &lt;mstevens@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It appears that, at some point last year, XFS made directory handling
changes which bring it into lockdep conflict with shmem_zero_setup():
it is surprising that mmap() can clone an inode while holding mmap_sem,
but that has been so for many years.

Since those few lockdep traces that I've seen all implicated selinux,
I'm hoping that we can use the __shmem_file_setup(,,,S_PRIVATE) which
v3.13's commit c7277090927a ("security: shmem: implement kernel private
shmem inodes") introduced to avoid LSM checks on kernel-internal inodes:
the mmap("/dev/zero") cloned inode is indeed a kernel-internal detail.

This also covers the !CONFIG_SHMEM use of ramfs to support /dev/zero
(and MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS).  I thought there were also drivers
which cloned inode in mmap(), but if so, I cannot locate them now.

Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;wagi@monom.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Morten Stevens &lt;mstevens@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zsmalloc: fix a null pointer dereference in destroy_handle_cache()</title>
<updated>2015-06-10T23:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T18:14:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=02f7b4145da113683ad64c74bf64605e16b71789'/>
<id>02f7b4145da113683ad64c74bf64605e16b71789</id>
<content type='text'>
If zs_create_pool()-&gt;create_handle_cache()-&gt;kmem_cache_create() or
pool-&gt;name allocation fails, zs_create_pool()-&gt;destroy_handle_cache()
will dereference the NULL pool-&gt;handle_cachep.

Modify destroy_handle_cache() to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@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;
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If zs_create_pool()-&gt;create_handle_cache()-&gt;kmem_cache_create() or
pool-&gt;name allocation fails, zs_create_pool()-&gt;destroy_handle_cache()
will dereference the NULL pool-&gt;handle_cachep.

Modify destroy_handle_cache() to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@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;
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