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<title>mm: thp: broken page count after commit aa88b68c3b1d</title>
<updated>2016-06-24T17:22:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerald Schaefer</name>
<email>gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-08T22:33:50+00:00</published>
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commit 770a5370226cb207461bbad902543381c1fad521 upstream.

Christian Borntraeger reported a kernel panic after corrupt page counts,
and it turned out to be a regression introduced with commit aa88b68c3b1d
("thp: keep huge zero page pinned until tlb flush"), at least on s390.

put_huge_zero_page() was moved over from zap_huge_pmd() to
release_pages(), and it was replaced by tlb_remove_page().  However,
release_pages() might not always be triggered by (the arch-specific)
tlb_remove_page().

On s390 we call free_page_and_swap_cache() from tlb_remove_page(), and
not tlb_flush_mmu() -&gt; free_pages_and_swap_cache() like the generic
version, because we don't use the MMU-gather logic.  Although both
functions have very similar names, they are doing very unsimilar things,
in particular free_page_xxx is just doing a put_page(), while
free_pages_xxx calls release_pages().

This of course results in very harmful put_page()s on the huge zero
page, on architectures where tlb_remove_page() is implemented in this
way.  It seems to affect only s390 and sh, but sh doesn't have THP
support, so the problem (currently) probably only exists on s390.

The following quick hack fixed the issue:

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160602172141.75c006a9@thinkpad
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.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 770a5370226cb207461bbad902543381c1fad521 upstream.

Christian Borntraeger reported a kernel panic after corrupt page counts,
and it turned out to be a regression introduced with commit aa88b68c3b1d
("thp: keep huge zero page pinned until tlb flush"), at least on s390.

put_huge_zero_page() was moved over from zap_huge_pmd() to
release_pages(), and it was replaced by tlb_remove_page().  However,
release_pages() might not always be triggered by (the arch-specific)
tlb_remove_page().

On s390 we call free_page_and_swap_cache() from tlb_remove_page(), and
not tlb_flush_mmu() -&gt; free_pages_and_swap_cache() like the generic
version, because we don't use the MMU-gather logic.  Although both
functions have very similar names, they are doing very unsimilar things,
in particular free_page_xxx is just doing a put_page(), while
free_pages_xxx calls release_pages().

This of course results in very harmful put_page()s on the huge zero
page, on architectures where tlb_remove_page() is implemented in this
way.  It seems to affect only s390 and sh, but sh doesn't have THP
support, so the problem (currently) probably only exists on s390.

The following quick hack fixed the issue:

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160602172141.75c006a9@thinkpad
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.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>memcg: add RCU locking around css_for_each_descendant_pre() in memcg_offline_kmem()</title>
<updated>2016-06-24T17:22:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-03T21:55:44+00:00</published>
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commit 3a06bb78ceeceacc86a1e31133a7944013f9775b upstream.

memcg_offline_kmem() may be called from memcg_free_kmem() after a css
init failure.  memcg_free_kmem() is a -&gt;css_free callback which is
called without cgroup_mutex and memcg_offline_kmem() ends up using
css_for_each_descendant_pre() without any locking.  Fix it by adding rcu
read locking around it.

    mkdir: cannot create directory `65530': No space left on device
    ===============================
    [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
    4.6.0-work+ #321 Not tainted
    -------------------------------
    kernel/cgroup.c:4008 cgroup_mutex or RCU read lock required!
     [  527.243970] other info that might help us debug this:
     [  527.244715]
    rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
    2 locks held by kworker/0:5/1664:
     #0:  ("cgroup_destroy"){.+.+..}, at: [&lt;ffffffff81060ab5&gt;] process_one_work+0x165/0x4a0
     #1:  ((&amp;css-&gt;destroy_work)#3){+.+...}, at: [&lt;ffffffff81060ab5&gt;] process_one_work+0x165/0x4a0
     [  527.248098] stack backtrace:
    CPU: 0 PID: 1664 Comm: kworker/0:5 Not tainted 4.6.0-work+ #321
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.1-1.fc24 04/01/2014
    Workqueue: cgroup_destroy css_free_work_fn
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x68/0xa1
      lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xd7/0x110
      css_next_descendant_pre+0x7d/0xb0
      memcg_offline_kmem.part.44+0x4a/0xc0
      mem_cgroup_css_free+0x1ec/0x200
      css_free_work_fn+0x49/0x5e0
      process_one_work+0x1c5/0x4a0
      worker_thread+0x49/0x490
      kthread+0xea/0x100
      ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160526203018.GG23194@mtj.duckdns.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@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 3a06bb78ceeceacc86a1e31133a7944013f9775b upstream.

memcg_offline_kmem() may be called from memcg_free_kmem() after a css
init failure.  memcg_free_kmem() is a -&gt;css_free callback which is
called without cgroup_mutex and memcg_offline_kmem() ends up using
css_for_each_descendant_pre() without any locking.  Fix it by adding rcu
read locking around it.

    mkdir: cannot create directory `65530': No space left on device
    ===============================
    [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
    4.6.0-work+ #321 Not tainted
    -------------------------------
    kernel/cgroup.c:4008 cgroup_mutex or RCU read lock required!
     [  527.243970] other info that might help us debug this:
     [  527.244715]
    rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
    2 locks held by kworker/0:5/1664:
     #0:  ("cgroup_destroy"){.+.+..}, at: [&lt;ffffffff81060ab5&gt;] process_one_work+0x165/0x4a0
     #1:  ((&amp;css-&gt;destroy_work)#3){+.+...}, at: [&lt;ffffffff81060ab5&gt;] process_one_work+0x165/0x4a0
     [  527.248098] stack backtrace:
    CPU: 0 PID: 1664 Comm: kworker/0:5 Not tainted 4.6.0-work+ #321
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.1-1.fc24 04/01/2014
    Workqueue: cgroup_destroy css_free_work_fn
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x68/0xa1
      lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xd7/0x110
      css_next_descendant_pre+0x7d/0xb0
      memcg_offline_kmem.part.44+0x4a/0xc0
      mem_cgroup_css_free+0x1ec/0x200
      css_free_work_fn+0x49/0x5e0
      process_one_work+0x1c5/0x4a0
      worker_thread+0x49/0x490
      kthread+0xea/0x100
      ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160526203018.GG23194@mtj.duckdns.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@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>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;
</pre>
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</content>
</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>
</div>
</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>
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<content type='text'>
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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