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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>mm: thp: avoid false positive VM_BUG_ON_PAGE in page_move_anon_rmap()</title>
<updated>2016-06-08T01:23:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-27T21:27:38+00:00</published>
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commit 0798d3c022dc63eb0ec02b511e1f76ca8411ef8e upstream.

If page_move_anon_rmap() is refiling a pmd-splitted THP mapped in a tail
page from a pte, the "address" must be THP aligned in order for the
page-&gt;index bugcheck to pass in the CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464253620-106404-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Fixes: 6d0a07edd17c ("mm: thp: calculate the mapcount correctly for THP pages during WP faults")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.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 0798d3c022dc63eb0ec02b511e1f76ca8411ef8e upstream.

If page_move_anon_rmap() is refiling a pmd-splitted THP mapped in a tail
page from a pte, the "address" must be THP aligned in order for the
page-&gt;index bugcheck to pass in the CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464253620-106404-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Fixes: 6d0a07edd17c ("mm: thp: calculate the mapcount correctly for THP pages during WP faults")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.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>
<entry>
<title>mm/compaction.c: fix zoneindex in kcompactd()</title>
<updated>2016-06-08T01:23:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Feng</name>
<email>puck.chen@hisilicon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T23:59:02+00:00</published>
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commit 6cd9dc3e75078ef646076fa63adfb9b85ced0b66 upstream.

While testing the kcompactd in my platform 3G MEM only DMA ZONE.  I
found the kcompactd never wakeup.  It seems the zoneindex has already
minus 1 before.  So the traverse here should be &lt;=.

It fixes a regression where kswapd could previously compact, but
kcompactd not.  Not a crash fix though.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kcompactd_do_work() as well, per Hugh]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463659121-84124-1-git-send-email-puck.chen@hisilicon.com
Fixes: accf62422b3a ("mm, kswapd: replace kswapd compaction with waking up kcompactd")
Signed-off-by: Chen Feng &lt;puck.chen@hisilicon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Zhuangluan Su &lt;suzhuangluan@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: Yiping Xu &lt;xuyiping@hisilicon.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 6cd9dc3e75078ef646076fa63adfb9b85ced0b66 upstream.

While testing the kcompactd in my platform 3G MEM only DMA ZONE.  I
found the kcompactd never wakeup.  It seems the zoneindex has already
minus 1 before.  So the traverse here should be &lt;=.

It fixes a regression where kswapd could previously compact, but
kcompactd not.  Not a crash fix though.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kcompactd_do_work() as well, per Hugh]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463659121-84124-1-git-send-email-puck.chen@hisilicon.com
Fixes: accf62422b3a ("mm, kswapd: replace kswapd compaction with waking up kcompactd")
Signed-off-by: Chen Feng &lt;puck.chen@hisilicon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Zhuangluan Su &lt;suzhuangluan@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: Yiping Xu &lt;xuyiping@hisilicon.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>
<entry>
<title>mm: use phys_addr_t for reserve_bootmem_region() arguments</title>
<updated>2016-06-08T01:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Bader</name>
<email>stefan.bader@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T23:58:38+00:00</published>
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commit 4b50bcc7eda4d3cc9e3f2a0aa60e590fedf728c5 upstream.

Since commit 92923ca3aace ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the
memblock region") the reserved bit is set on reserved memblock regions.
However start and end address are passed as unsigned long.  This is only
32bit on i386, so it can end up marking the wrong pages reserved for
ranges at 4GB and above.

This was observed on a 32bit Xen dom0 which was booted with initial
memory set to a value below 4G but allowing to balloon in memory
(dom0_mem=1024M for example).  This would define a reserved bootmem
region for the additional memory (for example on a 8GB system there was
a reverved region covering the 4GB-8GB range).  But since the addresses
were passed on as unsigned long, this was actually marking all pages
from 0 to 4GB as reserved.

Fixes: 92923ca3aacef63 ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463491221-10573-1-git-send-email-stefan.bader@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.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 4b50bcc7eda4d3cc9e3f2a0aa60e590fedf728c5 upstream.

Since commit 92923ca3aace ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the
memblock region") the reserved bit is set on reserved memblock regions.
However start and end address are passed as unsigned long.  This is only
32bit on i386, so it can end up marking the wrong pages reserved for
ranges at 4GB and above.

This was observed on a 32bit Xen dom0 which was booted with initial
memory set to a value below 4G but allowing to balloon in memory
(dom0_mem=1024M for example).  This would define a reserved bootmem
region for the additional memory (for example on a 8GB system there was
a reverved region covering the 4GB-8GB range).  But since the addresses
were passed on as unsigned long, this was actually marking all pages
from 0 to 4GB as reserved.

Fixes: 92923ca3aacef63 ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463491221-10573-1-git-send-email-stefan.bader@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader &lt;stefan.bader@canonical.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>
<entry>
<title>mm: thp: calculate the mapcount correctly for THP pages during WP faults</title>
<updated>2016-05-12T22:52:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-12T22:42:25+00:00</published>
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This will provide fully accuracy to the mapcount calculation in the
write protect faults, so page pinning will not get broken by false
positive copy-on-writes.

total_mapcount() isn't the right calculation needed in
reuse_swap_page(), so this introduces a page_trans_huge_mapcount()
that is effectively the full accurate return value for page_mapcount()
if dealing with Transparent Hugepages, however we only use the
page_trans_huge_mapcount() during COW faults where it strictly needed,
due to its higher runtime cost.

This also provide at practical zero cost the total_mapcount
information which is needed to know if we can still relocate the page
anon_vma to the local vma. If page_trans_huge_mapcount() returns 1 we
can reuse the page no matter if it's a pte or a pmd_trans_huge
triggering the fault, but we can only relocate the page anon_vma to
the local vma-&gt;anon_vma if we're sure it's only this "vma" mapping the
whole THP physical range.

Kirill A. Shutemov discovered the problem with moving the page
anon_vma to the local vma-&gt;anon_vma in a previous version of this
patch and another problem in the way page_move_anon_rmap() was called.

Andrew Morton discovered that CONFIG_SWAP=n wouldn't build in a
previous version, because reuse_swap_page must be a macro to call
page_trans_huge_mapcount from swap.h, so this uses a macro again
instead of an inline function. With this change at least it's a less
dangerous usage than it was before, because "page" is used only once
now, while with the previous code reuse_swap_page(page++) would have
called page_mapcount on page+1 and it would have increased page twice
instead of just once.

Dean Luick noticed an uninitialized variable that could result in a
rmap inefficiency for the non-THP case in a previous version.

Mike Marciniszyn said:

: Our RDMA tests are seeing an issue with memory locking that bisects to
: commit 61f5d698cc97 ("mm: re-enable THP")
:
: The test program registers two rather large MRs (512M) and RDMA
: writes data to a passive peer using the first and RDMA reads it back
: into the second MR and compares that data.  The sizes are chosen randomly
: between 0 and 1024 bytes.
:
: The test will get through a few (&lt;= 4 iterations) and then gets a
: compare error.
:
: Tracing indicates the kernel logical addresses associated with the individual
: pages at registration ARE correct , the data in the "RDMA read response only"
: packets ARE correct.
:
: The "corruption" occurs when the packet crosse two pages that are not physically
: contiguous.   The second page reads back as zero in the program.
:
: It looks like the user VA at the point of the compare error no longer points to
: the same physical address as was registered.
:
: This patch totally resolves the issue!

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462547040-1737-2-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dean Luick &lt;dean.luick@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Marciniszyn &lt;mike.marciniszyn@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Josh Collier &lt;josh.d.collier@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Haber &lt;mh+linux-kernel@zugschlus.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.5]
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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This will provide fully accuracy to the mapcount calculation in the
write protect faults, so page pinning will not get broken by false
positive copy-on-writes.

total_mapcount() isn't the right calculation needed in
reuse_swap_page(), so this introduces a page_trans_huge_mapcount()
that is effectively the full accurate return value for page_mapcount()
if dealing with Transparent Hugepages, however we only use the
page_trans_huge_mapcount() during COW faults where it strictly needed,
due to its higher runtime cost.

This also provide at practical zero cost the total_mapcount
information which is needed to know if we can still relocate the page
anon_vma to the local vma. If page_trans_huge_mapcount() returns 1 we
can reuse the page no matter if it's a pte or a pmd_trans_huge
triggering the fault, but we can only relocate the page anon_vma to
the local vma-&gt;anon_vma if we're sure it's only this "vma" mapping the
whole THP physical range.

Kirill A. Shutemov discovered the problem with moving the page
anon_vma to the local vma-&gt;anon_vma in a previous version of this
patch and another problem in the way page_move_anon_rmap() was called.

Andrew Morton discovered that CONFIG_SWAP=n wouldn't build in a
previous version, because reuse_swap_page must be a macro to call
page_trans_huge_mapcount from swap.h, so this uses a macro again
instead of an inline function. With this change at least it's a less
dangerous usage than it was before, because "page" is used only once
now, while with the previous code reuse_swap_page(page++) would have
called page_mapcount on page+1 and it would have increased page twice
instead of just once.

Dean Luick noticed an uninitialized variable that could result in a
rmap inefficiency for the non-THP case in a previous version.

Mike Marciniszyn said:

: Our RDMA tests are seeing an issue with memory locking that bisects to
: commit 61f5d698cc97 ("mm: re-enable THP")
:
: The test program registers two rather large MRs (512M) and RDMA
: writes data to a passive peer using the first and RDMA reads it back
: into the second MR and compares that data.  The sizes are chosen randomly
: between 0 and 1024 bytes.
:
: The test will get through a few (&lt;= 4 iterations) and then gets a
: compare error.
:
: Tracing indicates the kernel logical addresses associated with the individual
: pages at registration ARE correct , the data in the "RDMA read response only"
: packets ARE correct.
:
: The "corruption" occurs when the packet crosse two pages that are not physically
: contiguous.   The second page reads back as zero in the program.
:
: It looks like the user VA at the point of the compare error no longer points to
: the same physical address as was registered.
:
: This patch totally resolves the issue!

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462547040-1737-2-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dean Luick &lt;dean.luick@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Marciniszyn &lt;mike.marciniszyn@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Josh Collier &lt;josh.d.collier@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Haber &lt;mh+linux-kernel@zugschlus.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.5]
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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ksm: fix conflict between mmput and scan_get_next_rmap_item</title>
<updated>2016-05-12T22:52:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhou Chengming</name>
<email>zhouchengming1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-12T22:42:21+00:00</published>
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A concurrency issue about KSM in the function scan_get_next_rmap_item.

task A (ksmd):				|task B (the mm's task):
					|
mm = slot-&gt;mm;				|
down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);		|
					|
...					|
					|
spin_lock(&amp;ksm_mmlist_lock);		|
					|
ksm_scan.mm_slot go to the next slot;	|
					|
spin_unlock(&amp;ksm_mmlist_lock);		|
					|mmput() -&gt;
					|	ksm_exit():
					|
					|spin_lock(&amp;ksm_mmlist_lock);
					|if (mm_slot &amp;&amp; ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) {
					|	if (!mm_slot-&gt;rmap_list) {
					|		easy_to_free = 1;
					|		...
					|
					|if (easy_to_free) {
					|	mmdrop(mm);
					|	...
					|
					|So this mm_struct may be freed in the mmput().
					|
up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);			|

As we can see above, the ksmd thread may access a mm_struct that already
been freed to the kmem_cache.  Suppose a fork will get this mm_struct from
the kmem_cache, the ksmd thread then call up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem), will
cause mmap_sem.count to become -1.

As suggested by Andrea Arcangeli, unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items has
the same SMP race condition, so fix it too.  My prev fix in function
scan_get_next_rmap_item will introduce a different SMP race condition, so
just invert the up_read/spin_unlock order as Andrea Arcangeli said.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462708815-31301-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming &lt;zhouchengming1@huawei.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@163.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Li Bin &lt;huawei.libin@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&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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A concurrency issue about KSM in the function scan_get_next_rmap_item.

task A (ksmd):				|task B (the mm's task):
					|
mm = slot-&gt;mm;				|
down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);		|
					|
...					|
					|
spin_lock(&amp;ksm_mmlist_lock);		|
					|
ksm_scan.mm_slot go to the next slot;	|
					|
spin_unlock(&amp;ksm_mmlist_lock);		|
					|mmput() -&gt;
					|	ksm_exit():
					|
					|spin_lock(&amp;ksm_mmlist_lock);
					|if (mm_slot &amp;&amp; ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) {
					|	if (!mm_slot-&gt;rmap_list) {
					|		easy_to_free = 1;
					|		...
					|
					|if (easy_to_free) {
					|	mmdrop(mm);
					|	...
					|
					|So this mm_struct may be freed in the mmput().
					|
up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);			|

As we can see above, the ksmd thread may access a mm_struct that already
been freed to the kmem_cache.  Suppose a fork will get this mm_struct from
the kmem_cache, the ksmd thread then call up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem), will
cause mmap_sem.count to become -1.

As suggested by Andrea Arcangeli, unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items has
the same SMP race condition, so fix it too.  My prev fix in function
scan_get_next_rmap_item will introduce a different SMP race condition, so
just invert the up_read/spin_unlock order as Andrea Arcangeli said.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462708815-31301-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming &lt;zhouchengming1@huawei.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@163.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ding Tianhong &lt;dingtianhong@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Li Bin &lt;huawei.libin@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zsmalloc: fix zs_can_compact() integer overflow</title>
<updated>2016-05-10T00:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-09T23:28:49+00:00</published>
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zs_can_compact() has two race conditions in its core calculation:

unsigned long obj_wasted = zs_stat_get(class, OBJ_ALLOCATED) -
				zs_stat_get(class, OBJ_USED);

1) classes are not locked, so the numbers of allocated and used
   objects can change by the concurrent ops happening on other CPUs
2) shrinker invokes it from preemptible context

Depending on the circumstances, thus, OBJ_ALLOCATED can become
less than OBJ_USED, which can result in either very high or
negative `total_scan' value calculated later in do_shrink_slab().

do_shrink_slab() has some logic to prevent those cases:

 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-64
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62

However, due to the way `total_scan' is calculated, not every
shrinker-&gt;count_objects() overflow can be spotted and handled.
To demonstrate the latter, I added some debugging code to do_shrink_slab()
(x86_64) and the results were:

 vmscan: OVERFLOW: shrinker-&gt;count_objects() == -1 [18446744073709551615]
 vmscan: but total_scan &gt; 0: 92679974445502
 vmscan: resulting total_scan: 92679974445502
[..]
 vmscan: OVERFLOW: shrinker-&gt;count_objects() == -1 [18446744073709551615]
 vmscan: but total_scan &gt; 0: 22634041808232578
 vmscan: resulting total_scan: 22634041808232578

Even though shrinker-&gt;count_objects() has returned an overflowed value,
the resulting `total_scan' is positive, and, what is more worrisome, it
is insanely huge. This value is getting used later on in
shrinker-&gt;scan_objects() loop:

        while (total_scan &gt;= batch_size ||
               total_scan &gt;= freeable) {
                unsigned long ret;
                unsigned long nr_to_scan = min(batch_size, total_scan);

                shrinkctl-&gt;nr_to_scan = nr_to_scan;
                ret = shrinker-&gt;scan_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl);
                if (ret == SHRINK_STOP)
                        break;
                freed += ret;

                count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, nr_to_scan);
                total_scan -= nr_to_scan;

                cond_resched();
        }

`total_scan &gt;= batch_size' is true for a very-very long time and
'total_scan &gt;= freeable' is also true for quite some time, because
`freeable &lt; 0' and `total_scan' is large enough, for example,
22634041808232578. The only break condition, in the given scheme of
things, is shrinker-&gt;scan_objects() == SHRINK_STOP test, which is a
bit too weak to rely on, especially in heavy zsmalloc-usage scenarios.

To fix the issue, take a pool stat snapshot and use it instead of
racy zs_stat_get() calls.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160509140052.3389-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;        [4.3+]
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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zs_can_compact() has two race conditions in its core calculation:

unsigned long obj_wasted = zs_stat_get(class, OBJ_ALLOCATED) -
				zs_stat_get(class, OBJ_USED);

1) classes are not locked, so the numbers of allocated and used
   objects can change by the concurrent ops happening on other CPUs
2) shrinker invokes it from preemptible context

Depending on the circumstances, thus, OBJ_ALLOCATED can become
less than OBJ_USED, which can result in either very high or
negative `total_scan' value calculated later in do_shrink_slab().

do_shrink_slab() has some logic to prevent those cases:

 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-64
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62
 vmscan: shrink_slab: zs_shrinker_scan+0x0/0x28 [zsmalloc] negative objects to delete nr=-62

However, due to the way `total_scan' is calculated, not every
shrinker-&gt;count_objects() overflow can be spotted and handled.
To demonstrate the latter, I added some debugging code to do_shrink_slab()
(x86_64) and the results were:

 vmscan: OVERFLOW: shrinker-&gt;count_objects() == -1 [18446744073709551615]
 vmscan: but total_scan &gt; 0: 92679974445502
 vmscan: resulting total_scan: 92679974445502
[..]
 vmscan: OVERFLOW: shrinker-&gt;count_objects() == -1 [18446744073709551615]
 vmscan: but total_scan &gt; 0: 22634041808232578
 vmscan: resulting total_scan: 22634041808232578

Even though shrinker-&gt;count_objects() has returned an overflowed value,
the resulting `total_scan' is positive, and, what is more worrisome, it
is insanely huge. This value is getting used later on in
shrinker-&gt;scan_objects() loop:

        while (total_scan &gt;= batch_size ||
               total_scan &gt;= freeable) {
                unsigned long ret;
                unsigned long nr_to_scan = min(batch_size, total_scan);

                shrinkctl-&gt;nr_to_scan = nr_to_scan;
                ret = shrinker-&gt;scan_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl);
                if (ret == SHRINK_STOP)
                        break;
                freed += ret;

                count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, nr_to_scan);
                total_scan -= nr_to_scan;

                cond_resched();
        }

`total_scan &gt;= batch_size' is true for a very-very long time and
'total_scan &gt;= freeable' is also true for quite some time, because
`freeable &lt; 0' and `total_scan' is large enough, for example,
22634041808232578. The only break condition, in the given scheme of
things, is shrinker-&gt;scan_objects() == SHRINK_STOP test, which is a
bit too weak to rely on, especially in heavy zsmalloc-usage scenarios.

To fix the issue, take a pool stat snapshot and use it instead of
racy zs_stat_get() calls.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160509140052.3389-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;        [4.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T20:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-06T20:08:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=07837831047fb72856d1f61a726a4094397facd8'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull writeback fix from Jens Axboe:
 "Just a single fix for domain aware writeback, fixing a regression that
  can cause balance_dirty_pages() to keep looping while not getting any
  work done"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  writeback: Fix performance regression in wb_over_bg_thresh()
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<pre>
Pull writeback fix from Jens Axboe:
 "Just a single fix for domain aware writeback, fixing a regression that
  can cause balance_dirty_pages() to keep looping while not getting any
  work done"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  writeback: Fix performance regression in wb_over_bg_thresh()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix kcompactd hang during memory offlining</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T00:38:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-05T23:22:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=172400c69cb0d0d684b7cd75ac75872b3d7c61a1'/>
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Assume memory47 is the last online block left in node1.  This will hang:

  # echo offline &gt; /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory47/state

After a couple of minutes, the following pops up in dmesg:

  INFO: task bash:957 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
         Not tainted 4.6.0-rc6+ #6
  "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  bash            D ffff8800b7adbaf8     0   957    951 0x00000000
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x35/0x80
    schedule_timeout+0x1ac/0x270
    wait_for_completion+0xe1/0x120
    kthread_stop+0x4f/0x110
    kcompactd_stop+0x26/0x40
    __offline_pages.constprop.28+0x7e6/0x840
    offline_pages+0x11/0x20
    memory_block_action+0x73/0x1d0
    memory_subsys_offline+0x47/0x60
    device_offline+0x86/0xb0
    store_mem_state+0xda/0xf0
    dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
    sysfs_kf_write+0x37/0x40
    kernfs_fop_write+0x11d/0x170
    __vfs_write+0x37/0x120
    vfs_write+0xa9/0x1a0
    SyS_write+0x55/0xc0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4

kcompactd is waiting for kcompactd_max_order &gt; 0 when it's woken up to
actually exit.  Check kthread_should_stop() to break out of the wait.

Fixes: 698b1b306 ("mm, compaction: introduce kcompactd").
Reported-by: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&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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Assume memory47 is the last online block left in node1.  This will hang:

  # echo offline &gt; /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory47/state

After a couple of minutes, the following pops up in dmesg:

  INFO: task bash:957 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
         Not tainted 4.6.0-rc6+ #6
  "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  bash            D ffff8800b7adbaf8     0   957    951 0x00000000
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x35/0x80
    schedule_timeout+0x1ac/0x270
    wait_for_completion+0xe1/0x120
    kthread_stop+0x4f/0x110
    kcompactd_stop+0x26/0x40
    __offline_pages.constprop.28+0x7e6/0x840
    offline_pages+0x11/0x20
    memory_block_action+0x73/0x1d0
    memory_subsys_offline+0x47/0x60
    device_offline+0x86/0xb0
    store_mem_state+0xda/0xf0
    dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
    sysfs_kf_write+0x37/0x40
    kernfs_fop_write+0x11d/0x170
    __vfs_write+0x37/0x120
    vfs_write+0xa9/0x1a0
    SyS_write+0x55/0xc0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4

kcompactd is waiting for kcompactd_max_order &gt; 0 when it's woken up to
actually exit.  Check kthread_should_stop() to break out of the wait.

Fixes: 698b1b306 ("mm, compaction: introduce kcompactd").
Reported-by: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&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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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/zswap: provide unique zpool name</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T00:38:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Streetman</name>
<email>ddstreet@ieee.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-05T23:22:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=32a4e169039927bfb6ee9f0ccbbe3a8aaf13a4bc'/>
<id>32a4e169039927bfb6ee9f0ccbbe3a8aaf13a4bc</id>
<content type='text'>
Instead of using "zswap" as the name for all zpools created, add an
atomic counter and use "zswap%x" with the counter number for each zpool
created, to provide a unique name for each new zpool.

As zsmalloc, one of the zpool implementations, requires/expects a unique
name for each pool created, zswap should provide a unique name.  The
zsmalloc pool creation does not fail if a new pool with a conflicting
name is created, unless CONFIG_ZSMALLOC_STAT is enabled; in that case,
zsmalloc pool creation fails with -ENOMEM.  Then zswap will be unable to
change its compressor parameter if its zpool is zsmalloc; it also will
be unable to change its zpool parameter back to zsmalloc, if it has any
existing old zpool using zsmalloc with page(s) in it.  Attempts to
change the parameters will result in failure to create the zpool.  This
changes zswap to provide a unique name for each zpool creation.

Fixes: f1c54846ee45 ("zswap: dynamic pool creation")
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;dan.streetman@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&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;
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Instead of using "zswap" as the name for all zpools created, add an
atomic counter and use "zswap%x" with the counter number for each zpool
created, to provide a unique name for each new zpool.

As zsmalloc, one of the zpool implementations, requires/expects a unique
name for each pool created, zswap should provide a unique name.  The
zsmalloc pool creation does not fail if a new pool with a conflicting
name is created, unless CONFIG_ZSMALLOC_STAT is enabled; in that case,
zsmalloc pool creation fails with -ENOMEM.  Then zswap will be unable to
change its compressor parameter if its zpool is zsmalloc; it also will
be unable to change its zpool parameter back to zsmalloc, if it has any
existing old zpool using zsmalloc with page(s) in it.  Attempts to
change the parameters will result in failure to create the zpool.  This
changes zswap to provide a unique name for each zpool creation.

Fixes: f1c54846ee45 ("zswap: dynamic pool creation")
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;dan.streetman@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, cma: prevent nr_isolated_* counters from going negative</title>
<updated>2016-05-06T00:38:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-05T23:22:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=14af4a5e9b26ad251f81c174e8a43f3e179434a5'/>
<id>14af4a5e9b26ad251f81c174e8a43f3e179434a5</id>
<content type='text'>
/proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh warns nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file go
increasingly negative under compaction: which would add delay when
should be none, or no delay when should delay.  The bug in compaction
was due to a recent mmotm patch, but much older instance of the bug was
also noticed in isolate_migratepages_range() which is used for CMA and
gigantic hugepage allocations.

The bug is caused by putback_movable_pages() in an error path
decrementing the isolated counters without them being previously
incremented by acct_isolated().  Fix isolate_migratepages_range() by
removing the error-path putback, thus reaching acct_isolated() with
migratepages still isolated, and leaving putback to caller like most
other places do.

Fixes: edc2ca612496 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()")
[vbabka@suse.cz: expanded the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&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;
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/proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh warns nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file go
increasingly negative under compaction: which would add delay when
should be none, or no delay when should delay.  The bug in compaction
was due to a recent mmotm patch, but much older instance of the bug was
also noticed in isolate_migratepages_range() which is used for CMA and
gigantic hugepage allocations.

The bug is caused by putback_movable_pages() in an error path
decrementing the isolated counters without them being previously
incremented by acct_isolated().  Fix isolate_migratepages_range() by
removing the error-path putback, thus reaching acct_isolated() with
migratepages still isolated, and leaving putback to caller like most
other places do.

Fixes: edc2ca612496 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()")
[vbabka@suse.cz: expanded the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&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;
</pre>
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