linux.git/mm/memory-failure.c, branch v4.12

mm/memory-failure.c: use compound_head() flags for huge pages

2017-06-16T21:37:05+00:00

memory_failure() chooses a recovery action function based on the page
flags.  For huge pages it uses the tail page flags which don't have
anything interesting set, resulting in:

> Memory failure: 0x9be3b4: Unknown page state
> Memory failure: 0x9be3b4: recovery action for unknown page: Failed

Instead, save a copy of the head page's flags if this is a huge page,
this means if there are no relevant flags for this tail page, we use the
head pages flags instead.  This results in the me_huge_page() recovery
action being called:

> Memory failure: 0x9b7969: recovery action for huge page: Delayed

For hugepages that have not yet been allocated, this allows the hugepage
to be dequeued.

Fixes: 524fca1e7356 ("HWPOISON: fix misjudgement of page_action() for errors on mlocked pages")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524130204.21845-1-james.morse@arm.com
Signed-off-by: James Morse 
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal 
Acked-by: Punit Agrawal 
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/migrate: fix refcount handling when !hugepage_migration_supported()

2017-06-02T22:07:38+00:00

On failing to migrate a page, soft_offline_huge_page() performs the
necessary update to the hugepage ref-count.

But when !hugepage_migration_supported() , unmap_and_move_hugepage()
also decrements the page ref-count for the hugepage.  The combined
behaviour leaves the ref-count in an inconsistent state.

This leads to soft lockups when running the overcommitted hugepage test
from mce-tests suite.

  Soft offlining pfn 0x83ed600 at process virtual address 0x400000000000
  soft offline: 0x83ed600: migration failed 1, type 1fffc00000008008 (uptodate|head)
  INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
   Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-7): P2715
    (detected by 7, t=5254 jiffies, g=963, c=962, q=321)
    thugetlb_overco R  running task        0  2715   2685 0x00000008
    Call trace:
      dump_backtrace+0x0/0x268
      show_stack+0x24/0x30
      sched_show_task+0x134/0x180
      rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp+0x54/0x7c
      rcu_check_callbacks+0xa74/0xb08
      update_process_times+0x34/0x60
      tick_sched_handle.isra.7+0x38/0x70
      tick_sched_timer+0x4c/0x98
      __hrtimer_run_queues+0xc0/0x300
      hrtimer_interrupt+0xac/0x228
      arch_timer_handler_phys+0x3c/0x50
      handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x290
      generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50
      __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0
      gic_handle_irq+0x5c/0xb0

Address this by changing the putback_active_hugepage() in
soft_offline_huge_page() to putback_movable_pages().

This only triggers on systems that enable memory failure handling
(ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE) but not hugepage migration
(!ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION).

I imagine this wasn't triggered as there aren't many systems running
this configuration.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove dead comment, per Naoya]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525135146.32011-1-punit.agrawal@arm.com
Reported-by: Manoj Iyer 
Tested-by: Manoj Iyer 
Suggested-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Wanpeng Li 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: 	[3.14+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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: hwpoison: call shake_page() after try_to_unmap() for mlocked page

2017-05-03T22:52:12+00:00

Memory error handler calls try_to_unmap() for error pages in various
states.  If the error page is a mlocked page, error handling could fail
with "still referenced by 1 users" message.  This is because the page is
linked to and stays in lru cache after the following call chain.

  try_to_unmap_one
    page_remove_rmap
      clear_page_mlock
        putback_lru_page
          lru_cache_add

memory_failure() calls shake_page() to hanlde the similar issue, but
current code doesn't cover because shake_page() is called only before
try_to_unmap().  So this patches adds shake_page().

Fixes: 23a003bfd23ea9ea0b7756b920e51f64b284b468 ("mm/madvise: pass return code of memory_failure() to userspace")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170417055948.GM31394@yexl-desktop
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493197841-23986-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Cc: Xiaolong Ye 
Cc: Chen Gong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() unconditionally

2017-05-03T22:52:12+00:00

shake_page() is called before going into core error handling code in
order to ensure that the error page is flushed from lru_cache lists
where pages stay during transferring among LRU lists.

But currently it's not fully functional because when the page is linked
to lru_cache by calling activate_page(), its PageLRU flag is set and
shake_page() is skipped.  The result is to fail error handling with
"still referenced by 1 users" message.

When the page is linked to lru_cache by isolate_lru_page(), its PageLRU
is clear, so that's fine.

This patch makes shake_page() unconditionally called to avoild the
failure.

Fixes: 23a003bfd23ea9ea0b7756b920e51f64b284b468 ("mm/madvise: pass return code of memory_failure() to userspace")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170417055948.GM31394@yexl-desktop
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493197841-23986-2-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Cc: Xiaolong Ye 
Cc: Chen Gong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory-failure.c: add page flag description in error paths

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

It helps to provide page flag description along with the raw value in
error paths during soft offline process.  From sample experiments

Before the patch:

  soft offline: 0x6100: migration failed 1, type 3ffff800008018
  soft offline: 0x7400: migration failed 1, type 3ffff800008018

After the patch:

  soft offline: 0x5900: migration failed 1, type 3ffff800008018 (uptodate|dirty|head)
  soft offline: 0x6c00: migration failed 1, type 3ffff800008018 (uptodate|dirty|head)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170409023829.10788-1-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make ttu's return boolean

2017-05-03T22:52:10+00:00

try_to_unmap() returns SWAP_SUCCESS or SWAP_FAIL so it's suitable for
boolean return.  This patch changes it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489555493-14659-8-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Anshuman Khandual 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: delete unnecessary TTU_* flags

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

Patch series "mm: fix some MADV_FREE issues", v5.

We are trying to use MADV_FREE in jemalloc.  Several issues are found.
Without solving the issues, jemalloc can't use the MADV_FREE feature.

 - Doesn't support system without swap enabled. Because if swap is off,
   we can't or can't efficiently age anonymous pages. And since
   MADV_FREE pages are mixed with other anonymous pages, we can't
   reclaim MADV_FREE pages. In current implementation, MADV_FREE will
   fallback to MADV_DONTNEED without swap enabled. But in our
   environment, a lot of machines don't enable swap. This will prevent
   our setup using MADV_FREE.

 - Increases memory pressure. page reclaim bias file pages reclaim
   against anonymous pages. This doesn't make sense for MADV_FREE pages,
   because those pages could be freed easily and refilled with very
   slight penality. Even page reclaim doesn't bias file pages, there is
   still an issue, because MADV_FREE pages and other anonymous pages are
   mixed together. To reclaim a MADV_FREE page, we probably must scan a
   lot of other anonymous pages, which is inefficient. In our test, we
   usually see oom with MADV_FREE enabled and nothing without it.

 - Accounting. There are two accounting problems. We don't have a global
   accounting. If the system is abnormal, we don't know if it's a
   problem from MADV_FREE side. The other problem is RSS accounting.
   MADV_FREE pages are accounted as normal anon pages and reclaimed
   lazily, so application's RSS becomes bigger. This confuses our
   workloads. We have monitoring daemon running and if it finds
   applications' RSS becomes abnormal, the daemon will kill the
   applications even kernel can reclaim the memory easily.

To address the first the two issues, we can either put MADV_FREE pages
into a separate LRU list (Minchan's previous patches and V1 patches), or
put them into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list (suggested by Johannes).  The
patchset use the second idea.  The reason is LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list is
tiny nowadays and should be full of used once file pages.  So we can
still efficiently reclaim MADV_FREE pages there without interference
with other anon and active file pages.  Putting the pages into inactive
file list also has an advantage which allows page reclaim to prioritize
MADV_FREE pages and used once file pages.  MADV_FREE pages are put into
the lru list and clear SwapBacked flag, so PageAnon(page) &&
!PageSwapBacked(page) will indicate a MADV_FREE pages.  These pages will
directly freed without pageout if they are clean, otherwise normal swap
will reclaim them.

For the third issue, the previous post adds global accounting and a
separate RSS count for MADV_FREE pages.  The problem is we never get
accurate accounting for MADV_FREE pages.  The pages are mapped to
userspace, can be dirtied without notice from kernel side.  To get
accurate accounting, we could write protect the page, but then there is
extra page fault overhead, which people don't want to pay.  Jemalloc
guys have concerns about the inaccurate accounting, so this post drops
the accounting patches temporarily.  The info exported to
/proc/pid/smaps for MADV_FREE pages are kept, which is the only place we
can get accurate accounting right now.

This patch (of 6):

Johannes pointed out TTU_LZFREE is unnecessary.  It's true because we
always have the flag set if we want to do an unmap.  For cases we don't
do an unmap, the TTU_LZFREE part of code should never run.

Also the TTU_UNMAP is unnecessary.  If no other flags set (for example,
TTU_MIGRATION), an unmap is implied.

The patch includes Johannes's cleanup and dead TTU_ACTION macro removal
code

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4be3ea1bc56b26fd98a54d0a6f70bec63f6d8980.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2017-03-02T07:42:35+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

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