linux.git/mm/memcontrol.c, branch v4.12

hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages

2017-05-12T22:57:15+00:00

Laurent Dufour has noticed that hwpoinsoned pages are kept charged.  In
his particular case he has hit a bad_page("page still charged to
cgroup") when onlining a hwpoison page.  While this looks like something
that shouldn't happen in the first place because onlining hwpages and
returning them to the page allocator makes only little sense it shows a
real problem.

hwpoison pages do not get freed usually so we do not uncharge them (at
least not since commit 0a31bc97c80c ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge
API")).  Each charge pins memcg (since e8ea14cc6ead ("mm: memcontrol:
take a css reference for each charged page")) as well and so the
mem_cgroup and the associated state will never go away.  Fix this leak
by forcibly uncharging a LRU hwpoisoned page in delete_from_lru_cache().
We also have to tweak uncharge_list because it cannot rely on zero ref
count for these pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Fixes: 0a31bc97c80c ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170502185507.GB19165@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Laurent Dufour 
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour 
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcg

2017-05-03T22:52:11+00:00

The memory controllers stat function names are awkwardly long and
arbitrarily different from the zone and node stat functions.

The current interface is named:

  mem_cgroup_read_stat()
  mem_cgroup_update_stat()
  mem_cgroup_inc_stat()
  mem_cgroup_dec_stat()
  mem_cgroup_update_page_stat()
  mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat()
  mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat()

This patch renames it to match the corresponding node stat functions:

  memcg_page_state()		[node_page_state()]
  mod_memcg_state()		[mod_node_state()]
  inc_memcg_state()		[inc_node_state()]
  dec_memcg_state()		[dec_node_state()]
  mod_memcg_page_state()	[mod_node_page_state()]
  inc_memcg_page_state()	[inc_node_page_state()]
  dec_memcg_page_state()	[dec_node_page_state()]

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: re-use node VM page state enum

2017-05-03T22:52:11+00:00

The current duplication is a high-maintenance mess, and it's painful to
add new items or query memcg state from the rest of the VM.

This increases the size of the stat array marginally, but we should aim
to track all these stats on a per-cgroup level anyway.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: re-use global VM event enum

2017-05-03T22:52:11+00:00

The current duplication is a high-maintenance mess, and it's painful to
add new items.

This increases the size of the event array, but we'll eventually want
most of the VM events tracked on a per-cgroup basis anyway.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: clean up memory.events counting function

2017-05-03T22:52:11+00:00

We only ever count single events, drop the @nr parameter.  Rename the
function accordingly.  Remove low-information kerneldoc.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220148.28338-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmscan: fix IO/refault regression in cache workingset transition

2017-05-03T22:52:11+00:00

Since commit 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file
list") we noticed bigger IO spikes during changes in cache access
patterns.

The patch in question shrunk the inactive list size to leave more room
for the current workingset in the presence of streaming IO.  However,
workingset transitions that previously happened on the inactive list are
now pushed out of memory and incur more refaults to complete.

This patch disables active list protection when refaults are being
observed.  This accelerates workingset transitions, and allows more of
the new set to establish itself from memory, without eating into the
ability to protect the established workingset during stable periods.

The workloads that were measurably affected for us were hit pretty bad
by it, with refault/majfault rates doubling and tripling during cache
transitions, and the machines sustaining half-hour periods of 100% IO
utilization, where they'd previously have sub-minute peaks at 60-90%.

Stateful services that handle user data tend to be more conservative
with kernel upgrades.  As a result we hit most page cache issues with
some delay, as was the case here.

The severity seemed to warrant a stable tag.

Fixes: 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220052.27593-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: 	[4.7+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: provide shmem statistics

2017-05-03T22:52:08+00:00

Cgroups currently don't report how much shmem they use, which can be
useful data to have, in particular since shmem is included in the
cache/file item while being reclaimed like anonymous memory.

Add a counter to track shmem pages during charging and uncharging.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170221164343.32252-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reported-by: Chris Down 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: do not call mem_cgroup_free() from within mem_cgroup_alloc()

2017-03-10T01:01:10+00:00

mem_cgroup_free() indirectly calls wb_domain_exit() which is not
prepared to deal with a struct wb_domain object that hasn't executed
wb_domain_init().  For instance, the following warning message is
printed by lockdep if alloc_percpu() fails in mem_cgroup_alloc():

  INFO: trying to register non-static key.
  the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
  turning off the locking correctness validator.
  CPU: 1 PID: 1950 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 4.10.0+ #151
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x67/0x99
   register_lock_class+0x36d/0x540
   __lock_acquire+0x7f/0x1a30
   lock_acquire+0xcc/0x200
   del_timer_sync+0x3c/0xc0
   wb_domain_exit+0x14/0x20
   mem_cgroup_free+0x14/0x40
   mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0x3f9/0x620
   cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x190/0x390
   cgroup_mkdir+0x290/0x3d0
   kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x58/0x80
   vfs_mkdir+0x10e/0x1a0
   SyS_mkdirat+0xa8/0xd0
   SyS_mkdir+0x14/0x20
   entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

Add __mem_cgroup_free() which skips wb_domain_exit().  This is used by
both mem_cgroup_free() and mem_cgroup_alloc() clean up.

Fixes: 0b8f73e104285 ("mm: memcontrol: clean up alloc, online, offline, free functions")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306192122.24262-1-tahsin@google.com
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/cgroup: avoid panic when init with low memory

2017-03-10T01:01:10+00:00

The system may panic when initialisation is done when almost all the
memory is assigned to the huge pages using the kernel command line
parameter hugepage=xxxx.  Panic may occur like this:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000302b88
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  SMP NR_CPUS=2048 [    0.082424] NUMA
  pSeries
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu
  task: c00000021ed01600 task.stack: c00000010d108000
  NIP: c000000000302b88 LR: c000000000270e04 CTR: c00000000016cfd0
  REGS: c00000010d10b2c0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted (4.9.0-15-generic)
  MSR: 8000000002009033 [ 0.082770]   CR: 28424422  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c0000000003d28b8 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 1
  GPR00: c000000000270e04 c00000010d10b540 c00000000141a300 c00000010fff6300
  GPR04: 0000000000000000 00000000026012c0 c00000010d10b630 0000000487ab0000
  GPR08: 000000010ee90000 c000000001454fd8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000000fb80000 00000000026012c0 00000000026012c0
  GPR16: 00000000026012c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000002
  GPR20: 000000000000000c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000024200c0
  GPR24: c0000000016eef48 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 00000000026012c0
  GPR28: 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 c00000010fff6300 c00000010d10b6d0
  NIP mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim+0xf8/0x4f0
  LR do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450
  Call Trace:
    do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450
    try_to_free_pages+0xf8/0x270
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7a8/0xff0
    new_slab+0x104/0x8e0
    ___slab_alloc+0x620/0x700
    __slab_alloc+0x34/0x60
    kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x310
    mem_cgroup_init+0x158/0x1c8
    do_one_initcall+0x68/0x1d0
    kernel_init_freeable+0x278/0x360
    kernel_init+0x24/0x170
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74
  Instruction dump:
  eb81ffe0 eba1ffe8 ebc1fff0 ebe1fff8 4e800020 3d230001 e9499a42 3d220004
  3929acd8 794a1f24 7d295214 eac90100  2fa90000 419eff74 3b200000
  ---[ end trace 342f5208b00d01b6 ]---

This is a chicken and egg issue where the kernel try to get free memory
when allocating per node data in mem_cgroup_init(), but in that path
mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is called which assumes that these data
are allocated.

As mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is best effort, it should return when
these data are not yet allocated.

This patch also fixes potential null pointer access in
mem_cgroup_remove_from_trees() and mem_cgroup_update_tree().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487856999-16581-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2017-03-02T07:42:28+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.

The APIs that are going to be moved first are:

   mm_alloc()
   __mmdrop()
   mmdrop()
   mmdrop_async_fn()
   mmdrop_async()
   mmget_not_zero()
   mmput()
   mmput_async()
   get_task_mm()
   mm_access()
   mm_release()

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