linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v4.20-rc2

Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-11-04T01:25:17+00:00

Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A number of fixes and some late updates:

   - make in_compat_syscall() behavior on x86-32 similar to other
     platforms, this touches a number of generic files but is not
     intended to impact non-x86 platforms.

   - objtool fixes

   - PAT preemption fix

   - paravirt fixes/cleanups

   - cpufeatures updates for new instructions

   - earlyprintk quirk

   - make microcode version in sysfs world-readable (it is already
     world-readable in procfs)

   - minor cleanups and fixes"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  compat: Cleanup in_compat_syscall() callers
  x86/compat: Adjust in_compat_syscall() to generic code under !COMPAT
  objtool: Support GCC 9 cold subfunction naming scheme
  x86/numa_emulation: Fix uniform-split numa emulation
  x86/paravirt: Remove unused _paravirt_ident_32
  x86/mm/pat: Disable preemption around __flush_tlb_all()
  x86/paravirt: Remove GPL from pv_ops export
  x86/traps: Use format string with panic() call
  x86: Clean up 'sizeof x' => 'sizeof(x)'
  x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate MOVDIR64B instruction
  x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate MOVDIRI instruction
  x86/earlyprintk: Add a force option for pciserial device
  objtool: Support per-function rodata sections
  x86/microcode: Make revision and processor flags world-readable

Merge branch 'core/urgent' into x86/urgent, to pick up objtool fix

2018-11-03T22:42:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'for-linus-20181102' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2018-11-02T18:25:48+00:00

Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "The biggest part of this pull request is the revert of the blkcg
  cleanup series. It had one fix earlier for a stacked device issue, but
  another one was reported. Rather than play whack-a-mole with this,
  revert the entire series and try again for the next kernel release.

  Apart from that, only small fixes/changes.

  Summary:

   - Indentation fixup for mtip32xx (Colin Ian King)

   - The blkcg cleanup series revert (Dennis Zhou)

   - Two NVMe fixes. One fixing a regression in the nvme request
     initialization in this merge window, causing nvme-fc to not work.
     The other is a suspend/resume p2p resource issue (James, Keith)

   - Fix sg discard merge, allowing us to merge in cases where we didn't
     before (Jianchao Wang)

   - Call rq_qos_exit() after the queue is frozen, preventing a hang
     (Ming)

   - Fix brd queue setup, fixing an oops if we fail setting up all
     devices (Ming)"

* tag 'for-linus-20181102' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvme-pci: fix conflicting p2p resource adds
  nvme-fc: fix request private initialization
  blkcg: revert blkcg cleanups series
  block: brd: associate with queue until adding disk
  block: call rq_qos_exit() after queue is frozen
  mtip32xx: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous tabs
  block: fix the DISCARD request merge

blkcg: revert blkcg cleanups series

2018-11-02T01:59:53+00:00

This reverts a series committed earlier due to null pointer exception
bug report in [1]. It seems there are edge case interactions that I did
not consider and will need some time to understand what causes the
adverse interactions.

The original series can be found in [2] with a follow up series in [3].

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg20719.html
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180911184137.35897-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181020185612.51587-1-dennis@kernel.org/

This reverts the following commits:
d459d853c2ed, b2c3fa546705, 101246ec02b5, b3b9f24f5fcc, e2b0989954ae,
f0fcb3ec89f3, c839e7a03f92, bdc2491708c4, 74b7c02a9bc1, 5bf9a1f3b4ef,
a7b39b4e961c, 07b05bcc3213, 49f4c2dc2b50, 27e6fa996c53

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

memory-hotplug.rst: add some details about locking internals

2018-10-31T15:54:17+00:00

Let's document the magic a bit, especially why device_hotplug_lock is
required when adding/removing memory and how it all play together with
requests to online/offline memory from user space.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925091457.28651-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Reviewed-by: Rashmica Gupta 
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Haiyang Zhang 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: John Allen 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Kate Stewart 
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michael Neuling 
Cc: Nathan Fontenot 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: YASUAKI ISHIMATSU 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branches 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/microcode' and 'core/objtool' into x86/urgent, to pick up simple topic branches

2018-10-29T06:13:09+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-10-27T02:33:41+00:00

Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - ocfs2 updates

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (132 commits)
  hugetlbfs: dirty pages as they are added to pagecache
  mm: export add_swap_extent()
  mm: split SWP_FILE into SWP_ACTIVATED and SWP_FS
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_fixed_noreplace.c: add test for MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE
  mm: thp: relocate flush_cache_range() in migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()
  mm: thp: fix mmu_notifier in migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()
  mm: thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page race condition
  mm/kasan/quarantine.c: make quarantine_lock a raw_spinlock_t
  mm/gup: cache dev_pagemap while pinning pages
  Revert "x86/e820: put !E820_TYPE_RAM regions into memblock.reserved"
  mm: return zero_resv_unavail optimization
  mm: zero remaining unavailable struct pages
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c: add MAP_HUGETLB option
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c: add MAP_SHARED option
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c: allow user specified file
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c: fix 'write' flag usage
  mm/gup_benchmark.c: add additional pinning methods
  mm/gup_benchmark.c: time put_page()
  mm: don't raise MEMCG_OOM event due to failed high-order allocation
  mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock
  ...

mm: don't raise MEMCG_OOM event due to failed high-order allocation

2018-10-26T23:38:14+00:00

It was reported that on some of our machines containers were restarted
with OOM symptoms without an obvious reason.  Despite there were almost no
memory pressure and plenty of page cache, MEMCG_OOM event was raised
occasionally, causing the container management software to think, that OOM
has happened.  However, no tasks have been killed.

The following investigation showed that the problem is caused by a failing
attempt to charge a high-order page.  In such case, the OOM killer is
never invoked.  As shown below, it can happen under conditions, which are
very far from a real OOM: e.g.  there is plenty of clean page cache and no
memory pressure.

There is no sense in raising an OOM event in this case, as it might
confuse a user and lead to wrong and excessive actions (e.g.  restart the
workload, as in my case).

Let's look at the charging path in try_charge().  If the memory usage is
about memory.max, which is absolutely natural for most memory cgroups, we
try to reclaim some pages.  Even if we were able to reclaim enough memory
for the allocation, the following check can fail due to a race with
another concurrent allocation:

    if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= nr_pages)
        goto retry;

For regular pages the following condition will save us from triggering
the OOM:

   if (nr_reclaimed && nr_pages <= (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
       goto retry;

But for high-order allocation this condition will intentionally fail.  The
reason behind is that we'll likely fall to regular pages anyway, so it's
ok and even preferred to return ENOMEM.

In this case the idea of raising MEMCG_OOM looks dubious.

Fix this by moving MEMCG_OOM raising to mem_cgroup_oom() after allocation
order check, so that the event won't be raised for high order allocations.
This change doesn't affect regular pages allocation and charging.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181004214050.7417-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: provide kernel parameter to allow disabling page init poisoning

2018-10-26T23:26:34+00:00

Patch series "Address issues slowing persistent memory initialization", v5.

The main thing this patch set achieves is that it allows us to initialize
each node worth of persistent memory independently.  As a result we reduce
page init time by about 2 minutes because instead of taking 30 to 40
seconds per node and going through each node one at a time, we process all
4 nodes in parallel in the case of a 12TB persistent memory setup spread
evenly over 4 nodes.

This patch (of 3):

On systems with a large amount of memory it can take a significant amount
of time to initialize all of the page structs with the PAGE_POISON_PATTERN
value.  I have seen it take over 2 minutes to initialize a system with
over 12TB of RAM.

In order to work around the issue I had to disable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and
then the boot time returned to something much more reasonable as the
arch_add_memory call completed in milliseconds versus seconds.  However in
doing that I had to disable all of the other VM debugging on the system.

In order to work around a kernel that might have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled
on a system that has a large amount of memory I have added a new kernel
parameter named "vm_debug" that can be set to "-" in order to disable it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925201921.3576.84239.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

psi: cgroup support

2018-10-26T23:26:32+00:00

On a system that executes multiple cgrouped jobs and independent
workloads, we don't just care about the health of the overall system, but
also that of individual jobs, so that we can ensure individual job health,
fairness between jobs, or prioritize some jobs over others.

This patch implements pressure stall tracking for cgroups.  In kernels
with CONFIG_PSI=y, cgroup2 groups will have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure,
and io.pressure files that track aggregate pressure stall times for only
the tasks inside the cgroup.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-10-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Daniel Drake 
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Christopher Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Enderborg 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Shakeel Butt 
Cc: Vinayak Menon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds