Mikulas Patocka reported that commit 1c30844d2dfe ("mm: reclaim small
amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs") "broke"
memory management on parisc.
The machine is not NUMA but the DISCONTIG model creates three pgdats
even though it's a UMA machine for the following ranges
0) Start 0x0000000000000000 End 0x000000003fffffff Size 1024 MB
1) Start 0x0000000100000000 End 0x00000001bfdfffff Size 3070 MB
2) Start 0x0000004040000000 End 0x00000040ffffffff Size 3072 MB
Mikulas reported:
With the patch 1c30844d2, the kernel will incorrectly reclaim the
first zone when it fills up, ignoring the fact that there are two
completely free zones. Basiscally, it limits cache size to 1GiB.
For example, if I run:
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=2048
- with the proper kernel, there should be "Buffers - 2GiB"
when this command finishes. With the patch 1c30844d2, buffers
will consume just 1GiB or slightly more, because the kernel was
incorrectly reclaiming them.
The page allocator and reclaim makes assumptions that pgdats really
represent NUMA nodes and zones represent ranges and makes decisions on
that basis. Watermark boosting for small pgdats leads to unexpected
results even though this would have behaved reasonably on SPARSEMEM.
DISCONTIG is essentially deprecated and even parisc plans to move to
SPARSEMEM so there is no need to be fancy, this patch simply disables
watermark boosting by default on DISCONTIGMEM.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419094335.GJ18914@techsingularity.net
Fixes: 1c30844d2dfe ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES adjustments from Thomas" * tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files Docs: Correct /proc/stat path scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches' perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is" ...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- refcount conversions
- Solve the rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list can of worms for real.
- improve power-aware scheduling
- add sysctl knob for Energy Aware Scheduling
- documentation updates
- misc other changes"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE
kthread: Convert worker lock to raw spinlock
sched/fair: Use non-atomic cpumask_{set,clear}_cpu()
sched/fair: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from select_idle_smt()
sched/wait: Use freezable_schedule() when possible
sched/fair: Prune, fix and simplify the nohz_balancer_kick() comment block
sched/fair: Explain LLC nohz kick condition
sched/fair: Simplify nohz_balancer_kick()
sched/topology: Fix percpu data types in struct sd_data & struct s_data
sched/fair: Simplify post_init_entity_util_avg() by calling it with a task_struct pointer argument
sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in the load balancing path
sched/fair: Optimize update_blocked_averages()
sched/fair: Fix insertion in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list
sched/fair: Add tmp_alone_branch assertion
sched/core: Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() in move_queued_task()/task_rq_lock()
sched/debug: Initialize sd_sysctl_cpus if !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
sched/pelt: Skip updating util_est when utilization is higher than CPU's capacity
sched/fair: Update scale invariance of PELT
sched/fair: Move the rq_of() helper function
sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t
...
The netfilter conflicts were rather simple overlapping changes. However, the cls_tcindex.c stuff was a bit more complex. On the 'net' side, Cong is fixing several races and memory leaks. Whilst on the 'net-next' side we have Vlad adding the rtnl-ness support. What I've decided to do, in order to resolve this, is revert the conversion over to using a workqueue that Cong did, bringing us back to pure RCU. I did it this way because I believe that either Cong's races don't apply with have Vlad did things, or Cong will have to implement the race fix slightly differently. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix a grammatical error in the dentry-state text and clarify the usage
of negative dentries.
Fixes: af0c9af1b3f66 ("fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
An ipvlan bug fix in 'net' conflicted with the abstraction away of the IPV6 specific support in 'net-next'. Similarly, a bug fix for mlx5 in 'net' conflicted with the flow action conversion in 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Update Documentation/networking/filter.txt and Documentation/sysctl/net.txt to mention RISC-V. Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
The current dentry number tracking code doesn't distinguish between positive & negative dentries. It just reports the total number of dentries in the LRU lists. As excessive number of negative dentries can have an impact on system performance, it will be wise to track the number of positive and negative dentries separately. This patch adds tracking for the total number of negative dentries in the system LRU lists and reports it in the 5th field in the /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state file. The number, however, does not include negative dentries that are in flight but not in the LRU yet as well as those in the shrinker lists which are on the way out anyway. The number of positive dentries in the LRU lists can be roughly found by subtracting the number of negative dentries from the unused count. Matthew Wilcox had confirmed that since the introduction of the dentry_stat structure in 2.1.60, the dummy array was there, probably for future extension. They were not replacements of pre-existing fields. So no sane applications that read the value of /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state will do dummy thing if the last 2 fields of the sysctl parameter are not zero. IOW, it will be safe to use one of the dummy array entry for negative dentry count. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In its current state, Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) starts automatically on asymmetric platforms having an Energy Model (EM). However, there are users who want to have an EM (for thermal management for example), but don't want EAS with it. In order to let users disable EAS explicitly, introduce a new sysctl called 'sched_energy_aware'. It is enabled by default so that EAS can start automatically on platforms where it makes sense. Flipping it to 0 rebuilds the scheduling domains and disables EAS. Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: adharmap@codeaurora.org Cc: chris.redpath@arm.com Cc: currojerez@riseup.net Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: edubezval@gmail.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: javi.merino@kernel.org Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com Cc: pkondeti@codeaurora.org Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: skannan@codeaurora.org Cc: smuckle@google.com Cc: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com Cc: thara.gopinath@linaro.org Cc: tkjos@google.com Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203095628.11858-11-quentin.perret@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>