linux.git/fs/file.c, branch v4.13

fs/file.c: replace alloc_fdmem() with kvmalloc() alternative

2017-07-06T23:24:30+00:00

There is no real reason to duplicate kvmalloc* helpers so drop
alloc_fdmem and replace it with the appropriate library function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170531155145.17111-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly

2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00

__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation.  This API is quite popular

  $ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
  77

The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space.  About half of users don't
use this flag, though.  This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.

This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space.  Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
are simplified and drop the flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Cristopher Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:29+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

fs/file: more unsigned file descriptors

2016-09-27T22:47:38+00:00

Propagate unsignedness for grand total of 149 bytes:

	$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000 ../obj/vmlinux
	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/10 up/down: 0/-149 (-149)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	set_close_on_exec                             99      98      -1
	put_files_struct                             201     200      -1
	get_close_on_exec                             59      58      -1
	do_prlimit                                   498     497      -1
	do_execveat_common.isra                     1662    1661      -1
	__close_fd                                   178     173      -5
	do_dup2                                      219     204     -15
	seq_show                                     685     660     -25
	__alloc_fd                                   384     357     -27
	dup_fd                                       718     646     -72

It mostly comes from converting "unsigned int" to "long" for bit operations.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

give readdir(2)/getdents(2)/etc. uniform exclusion with lseek()

2016-05-02T23:49:28+00:00

same as read() on regular files has, and for the same reason.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg

2016-01-15T00:00:49+00:00

Mark those kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from
userspace as __GFP_ACCOUNT/SLAB_ACCOUNT, which makes them accounted to
memcg.  For the list, see below:

 - threadinfo
 - task_struct
 - task_delay_info
 - pid
 - cred
 - mm_struct
 - vm_area_struct and vm_region (nommu)
 - anon_vma and anon_vma_chain
 - signal_struct
 - sighand_struct
 - fs_struct
 - files_struct
 - fdtable and fdtable->full_fds_bits
 - dentry and external_name
 - inode for all filesystems. This is the most tedious part, because
   most filesystems overwrite the alloc_inode method.

The list is far from complete, so feel free to add more objects.
Nevertheless, it should be close to "account everything" approach and
keep most workloads within bounds.  Malevolent users will be able to
breach the limit, but this was possible even with the former "account
everything" approach (simply because it did not account everything in
fact).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/file.c: __const_max is actually __const_min :-)

2015-12-07T02:17:11+00:00

7f4b36f9bb930 "get rid of files_defer_init()" inexplicably changed a
min() to a __const_max() - but the __const_max macro actually gives
the minimum... So no functional change, just less confusing naming.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: clear remainder of 'full_fds_bits' in dup_fd()

2015-11-06T07:05:32+00:00

This fixes a bug from commit f3f86e33dc3d ("vfs: Fix pathological
performance case for __alloc_fd()").

v2: refactor to share fd bitmap copying code
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: conditionally clear close-on-exec flag

2015-10-31T23:14:51+00:00

We clear the close-on-exec flag when opening and closing files, and the
bit was almost always already clear before.  Avoid dirtying the
cacheline if the clearning isn't necessary.  That avoids unnecessary
cacheline dirtying and bouncing in multi-socket environments.

Eric Dumazet has a file descriptor benchmark that goes 4% faster from
this on his two-socket machine.  It's probably partly superlinear
improvement due to getting slightly less spinlock contention on the
file_lock spinlock due to less work in the critical section.

Tested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: Fix pathological performance case for __alloc_fd()

2015-10-31T23:12:10+00:00

Al Viro points out that:
> >     * [Linux-specific aside] our __alloc_fd() can degrade quite badly
> > with some use patterns.  The cacheline pingpong in the bitmap is probably
> > inevitable, unless we accept considerably heavier memory footprint,
> > but we also have a case when alloc_fd() takes O(n) and it's _not_ hard
> > to trigger - close(3);open(...); will have the next open() after that
> > scanning the entire in-use bitmap.

And Eric Dumazet has a somewhat realistic multithreaded microbenchmark
that opens and closes a lot of sockets with minimal work per socket.

This patch largely fixes it.  We keep a 2nd-level bitmap of the open
file bitmaps, showing which words are already full.  So then we can
traverse that second-level bitmap to efficiently skip already allocated
file descriptors.

On his benchmark, this improves performance by up to an order of
magnitude, by avoiding the excessive open file bitmap scanning.

Tested-and-acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds