linux.git/mm/page_alloc.c, branch v4.7-rc4

mm, page_alloc: recalculate the preferred zoneref if the context can ignore memory policies

2016-06-03T23:02:57+00:00

The optimistic fast path may use cpuset_current_mems_allowed instead of
of a NULL nodemask supplied by the caller for cpuset allocations.  The
preferred zone is calculated on this basis for statistic purposes and as
a starting point in the zonelist iterator.

However, if the context can ignore memory policies due to being atomic
or being able to ignore watermarks then the starting point in the
zonelist iterator is no longer correct.  This patch resets the zonelist
iterator in the allocator slowpath if the context can ignore memory
policies.  This will alter the zone used for statistics but only after
it is known that it makes sense for that context.  Resetting it before
entering the slowpath would potentially allow an ALLOC_CPUSET allocation
to be accounted for against the wrong zone.  Note that while nodemask is
not explicitly set to the original nodemask, it would only have been
overwritten if cpuset_enabled() and it was reset before the slowpath was
entered.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160602103936.GU2527@techsingularity.net
Fixes: c33d6c06f60f710 ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: reset zonelist iterator after resetting fair zone allocation policy

2016-06-03T23:02:56+00:00

Geert Uytterhoeven reported the following problem that bisected to
commit c33d6c06f60f ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone
in a zonelist twice") on m68k/ARAnyM

    BUG: scheduling while atomic: cron/668/0x10c9a0c0
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 668 Comm: cron Not tainted 4.6.0-atari-05133-gc33d6c06f60f710f #364
    Call Trace: [<0003d7d0>] __schedule_bug+0x40/0x54
      __schedule+0x312/0x388
      __schedule+0x0/0x388
      prepare_to_wait+0x0/0x52
      schedule+0x64/0x82
      schedule_timeout+0xda/0x104
      set_next_entity+0x18/0x40
      pick_next_task_fair+0x78/0xda
      io_schedule_timeout+0x36/0x4a
      bit_wait_io+0x0/0x40
      bit_wait_io+0x12/0x40
      __wait_on_bit+0x46/0x76
      wait_on_page_bit_killable+0x64/0x6c
      bit_wait_io+0x0/0x40
      wake_bit_function+0x0/0x4e
      __lock_page_or_retry+0xde/0x124
      do_scan_async+0x114/0x17c
      lookup_swap_cache+0x24/0x4e
      handle_mm_fault+0x626/0x7de
      find_vma+0x0/0x66
      down_read+0x0/0xe
      wait_on_page_bit_killable_timeout+0x77/0x7c
      find_vma+0x16/0x66
      do_page_fault+0xe6/0x23a
      res_func+0xa3c/0x141a
      buserr_c+0x190/0x6d4
      res_func+0xa3c/0x141a
      buserr+0x20/0x28
      res_func+0xa3c/0x141a
      buserr+0x20/0x28

The relationship is not obvious but it's due to a failure to rescan the
full zonelist after the fair zone allocation policy exhausts the batch
count.  While this is a functional problem, it's also a performance
issue.  A page allocator microbenchmark showed the following

                                   4.7.0-rc1                  4.7.0-rc1
                                     vanilla                 reset-v1r2
  Min      alloc-odr0-1     327.00 (  0.00%)           326.00 (  0.31%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2     235.00 (  0.00%)           235.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4     198.00 (  0.00%)           198.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8     170.00 (  0.00%)           170.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16    156.00 (  0.00%)           156.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-32    150.00 (  0.00%)           150.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-64    146.00 (  0.00%)           146.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-128   145.00 (  0.00%)           145.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-256   155.00 (  0.00%)           155.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-512   168.00 (  0.00%)           165.00 (  1.79%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-1024  175.00 (  0.00%)           174.00 (  0.57%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2048  180.00 (  0.00%)           180.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4096  187.00 (  0.00%)           186.00 (  0.53%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8192  190.00 (  0.00%)           190.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16384 191.00 (  0.00%)           191.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-1     736.00 (  0.00%)           445.00 ( 39.54%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-2     343.00 (  0.00%)           335.00 (  2.33%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-4     277.00 (  0.00%)           270.00 (  2.53%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-8     238.00 (  0.00%)           233.00 (  2.10%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-16    224.00 (  0.00%)           218.00 (  2.68%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-32    210.00 (  0.00%)           208.00 (  0.95%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-64    207.00 (  0.00%)           203.00 (  1.93%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-128   276.00 (  0.00%)           202.00 ( 26.81%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-256   206.00 (  0.00%)           202.00 (  1.94%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-512   207.00 (  0.00%)           202.00 (  2.42%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-1024  208.00 (  0.00%)           205.00 (  1.44%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-2048  213.00 (  0.00%)           212.00 (  0.47%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-4096  218.00 (  0.00%)           216.00 (  0.92%)
  Min      alloc-odr1-8192  341.00 (  0.00%)           219.00 ( 35.78%)

Note that order-0 allocations are unaffected but higher orders get a
small boost from this patch and a large reduction in system CPU usage
overall as can be seen here:

             4.7.0-rc1   4.7.0-rc1
               vanilla  reset-v1r2
  User           85.32       86.31
  System       2221.39     2053.36
  Elapsed      2368.89     2202.47

Fixes: c33d6c06f60f ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160531100848.GR2527@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: prevent infinite loop in buffered_rmqueue()

2016-06-03T23:02:56+00:00

In DEBUG_VM kernel, we can hit infinite loop for order == 0 in
buffered_rmqueue() when check_new_pcp() returns 1, because the bad page
is never removed from the pcp list.  Fix this by removing the page
before retrying.  Also we don't need to check if page is non-NULL,
because we simply grab it from the list which was just tested for being
non-empty.

Fixes: 479f854a207c ("mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160530090154.GM2527@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reported-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: check the return value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites

2016-06-03T22:06:22+00:00

Per the discussion with Joonsoo Kim [1], we need check the return value
of lookup_page_ext() for all call sites since it might return NULL in
some cases, although it is unlikely, i.e.  memory hotplug.

Tested with ltp with "page_owner=0".

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160519002809.GA10245@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build-breaking typos]
[arnd@arndb.de: fix build problems from lookup_page_ext]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6285269.2CksypHdYp@wuerfel
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464023768-31025-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: check_new_page_bad() directly returns in __PG_HWPOISON case

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Currently we check page->flags twice for "HWPoisoned" case of
check_new_page_bad(), which can cause a race with unpoisoning.

This race unnecessarily taints kernel with "BUG: Bad page state".
check_new_page_bad() is the only caller of bad_page() which is
interested in __PG_HWPOISON, so let's move the hwpoison related code in
bad_page() to it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160518100949.GA17299@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, kasan: fix to call kasan_free_pages() after poisoning page

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

When CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and CONFIG_KASAN is enabled,
free_pages_prepare()'s codeflow is below.

  1)kmemcheck_free_shadow()
  2)kasan_free_pages()
    - set shadow byte of page is freed
  3)kernel_poison_pages()
  3.1) check access to page is valid or not using kasan
    ---> error occur, kasan think it is invalid access
  3.2) poison page
  4)kernel_map_pages()

So kasan_free_pages() should be called after poisoning the page.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463220405-7455-1-git-send-email-iamyooon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use phys_addr_t for reserve_bootmem_region() arguments

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Since commit 92923ca3aace ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the
memblock region") the reserved bit is set on reserved memblock regions.
However start and end address are passed as unsigned long.  This is only
32bit on i386, so it can end up marking the wrong pages reserved for
ranges at 4GB and above.

This was observed on a 32bit Xen dom0 which was booted with initial
memory set to a value below 4G but allowing to balloon in memory
(dom0_mem=1024M for example).  This would define a reserved bootmem
region for the additional memory (for example on a 8GB system there was
a reverved region covering the 4GB-8GB range).  But since the addresses
were passed on as unsigned long, this was actually marking all pages
from 0 to 4GB as reserved.

Fixes: 92923ca3aacef63 ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463491221-10573-1-git-send-email-stefan.bader@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader 
Cc: 	[4.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use existing helper to convert "on"/"off" to boolean

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

It's more convenient to use existing function helper to convert string
"on/off" to boolean.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461908824-16129-1-git-send-email-mnghuan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: protect !costly allocations some more for !CONFIG_COMPACTION

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Joonsoo has reported that he is able to trigger OOM for !costly high
order requests (heavy fork() workload close the OOM) with the new oom
detection rework.  This is because we rely only on should_reclaim_retry
when the compaction is disabled and it only checks watermarks for the
requested order and so we might trigger OOM when there is a lot of free
memory.

It is not very clear what are the usual workloads when the compaction is
disabled.  Relying on high order allocations heavily without any
mechanism to create those orders except for unbound amount of reclaim is
certainly not a good idea.

To prevent from potential regressions let's help this configuration
some.  We have to sacrifice the determinsm though because there simply
is none here possible.  should_compact_retry implementation for
!CONFIG_COMPACTION, which was empty so far, will do watermark check for
order-0 on all eligible zones.  This will cause retrying until either
the reclaim cannot make any further progress or all the zones are
depleted even for order-0 pages.  This means that the number of retries
is basically unbounded for !costly orders but that was the case before
the rework as well so this shouldn't regress.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463051677-29418-3-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom, compaction: prevent from should_compact_retry looping for ever for costly orders

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

"mm: consider compaction feedback also for costly allocation" has
removed the upper bound for the reclaim/compaction retries based on the
number of reclaimed pages for costly orders.  While this is desirable
the patch did miss a mis interaction between reclaim, compaction and the
retry logic.  The direct reclaim tries to get zones over min watermark
while compaction backs off and returns COMPACT_SKIPPED when all zones
are below low watermark + 1<
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds