linux.git/mm/util.c, branch v3.13

mm: fix crash when using XFS on loopback

2014-01-15T07:19:42+00:00

Commit 8456a648cf44 ("slab: use struct page for slab management") causes
a crash in the LVM2 testsuite on PA-RISC (the crashing test is
fsadm.sh).  The testsuite doesn't crash on 3.12, crashes on 3.13-rc1 and
later.

 Bad Address (null pointer deref?): Code=15 regs=000000413edd89a0 (Addr=000006202224647d)
 CPU: 3 PID: 24008 Comm: loop0 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc6 #5
 task: 00000001bf3c0048 ti: 000000413edd8000 task.ti: 000000413edd8000

      YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
 PSW: 00001000000001101111100100001110 Not tainted
 r00-03  000000ff0806f90e 00000000405c8de0 000000004013e6c0 000000413edd83f0
 r04-07  00000000405a95e0 0000000000000200 00000001414735f0 00000001bf349e40
 r08-11  0000000010fe3d10 0000000000000001 00000040829c7778 000000413efd9000
 r12-15  0000000000000000 000000004060d800 0000000010fe3000 0000000010fe3000
 r16-19  000000413edd82a0 00000041078ddbc0 0000000000000010 0000000000000001
 r20-23  0008f3d0d83a8000 0000000000000000 00000040829c7778 0000000000000080
 r24-27  00000001bf349e40 00000001bf349e40 202d66202224640d 00000000405a95e0
 r28-31  202d662022246465 000000413edd88f0 000000413edd89a0 0000000000000001
 sr00-03  000000000532c000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000532c000
 sr04-07  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

 IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000401fe42c 00000000401fe430
  IIR: 539c0030    ISR: 00000000202d6000  IOR: 000006202224647d
  CPU:        3   CR30: 000000413edd8000 CR31: 0000000000000000
  ORIG_R28: 00000000405a95e0
  IAOQ[0]: vma_interval_tree_iter_first+0x14/0x48
  IAOQ[1]: vma_interval_tree_iter_first+0x18/0x48
  RP(r2): flush_dcache_page+0x128/0x388
 Backtrace:
   flush_dcache_page+0x128/0x388
   lo_splice_actor+0x90/0x148 [loop]
   splice_from_pipe_feed+0xc0/0x1d0
   __splice_from_pipe+0xac/0xc0
   lo_direct_splice_actor+0x1c/0x70 [loop]
   splice_direct_to_actor+0xec/0x228
   lo_receive+0xe4/0x298 [loop]
   loop_thread+0x478/0x640 [loop]
   kthread+0x134/0x168
   end_fault_vector+0x20/0x28
   xfs_setsize_buftarg+0x0/0x90 [xfs]

 Kernel panic - not syncing: Bad Address (null pointer deref?)

Commit 8456a648cf44 changes the page structure so that the slab
subsystem reuses the page->mapping field.

The crash happens in the following way:
 * XFS allocates some memory from slab and issues a bio to read data
   into it.
 * the bio is sent to the loopback device.
 * lo_receive creates an actor and calls splice_direct_to_actor.
 * lo_splice_actor copies data to the target page.
 * lo_splice_actor calls flush_dcache_page because the page may be
   mapped by userspace.  In that case we need to flush the kernel cache.
 * flush_dcache_page asks for the list of userspace mappings, however
   that page->mapping field is reused by the slab subsystem for a
   different purpose.  This causes the crash.

Note that other architectures without coherent caches (sparc, arm, mips)
also call page_mapping from flush_dcache_page, so they may crash in the
same way.

This patch fixes this bug by testing if the page is a slab page in
page_mapping and returning NULL if it is.

The patch also fixes VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab(page)) that could happen in
earlier kernels in the same scenario on architectures without cache
coherence when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled - so it should be backported
to stable kernels.

In the old kernels, the function page_mapping is placed in
include/linux/mm.h, so you should modify the patch accordingly when
backporting it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Cc: John David Anglin ]
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: factor commit limit calculation

2013-11-13T03:09:11+00:00

The same calculation is currently done in three differents places.
Factor that code so future changes has to be made at only one place.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: uninline vm_commit_limit()]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap: clean-up #ifdef in page_mapping()

2013-09-11T22:57:31+00:00

PageSwapCache() is always false when !CONFIG_SWAP, so compiler
properly discard related code. Therefore, we don't need #ifdef explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove free_area_cache

2013-07-11T01:11:34+00:00

Since all architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(),
there is no remaining use for the free_area_cache.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap: make each swap partition have one address_space

2013-02-24T01:50:17+00:00

When I use several fast SSD to do swap, swapper_space.tree_lock is
heavily contended.  This makes each swap partition have one
address_space to reduce the lock contention.  There is an array of
address_space for swap.  The swap entry type is the index to the array.

In my test with 3 SSD, this increases the swapout throughput 20%.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert unneeded change to  __add_to_swap_cache]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: don't inline page_mapping()

2013-02-24T01:50:17+00:00

According to akpm, this saves 1/2k text and makes things simple for the
next patch.

Numbers from Minchan:

add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 6/22 up/down: 92/-516 (-424)
function                                     old     new   delta
page_mapping                                   -      48     +48
do_task_stat                                2292    2308     +16
page_remove_rmap                             240     248      +8
load_elf_binary                             4500    4508      +8
update_queue                                 532     536      +4
scsi_probe_and_add_lun                      2892    2896      +4
lookup_fast                                  644     648      +4
vcs_read                                    1040    1036      -4
__ip_route_output_key                       1904    1900      -4
ip_route_input_noref                        2508    2500      -8
shmem_file_aio_read                          784     772     -12
__isolate_lru_page                           272     256     -16
shmem_replace_page                           708     688     -20
mark_buffer_dirty                            228     208     -20
__set_page_dirty_buffers                     240     220     -20
__remove_mapping                             276     256     -20
update_mmu_cache                             500     476     -24
set_page_dirty_balance                        92      68     -24
set_page_dirty                               172     148     -24
page_evictable                                88      64     -24
page_cache_pipe_buf_steal                    248     224     -24
clear_page_dirty_for_io                      340     316     -24
test_set_page_writeback                      400     372     -28
test_clear_page_writeback                    516     488     -28
invalidate_inode_page                        156     128     -28
page_mkclean                                 432     400     -32
flush_dcache_page                            360     328     -32
__set_page_dirty_nobuffers                   324     280     -44
shrink_page_list                            2412    2356     -56

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make do_mmap_pgoff return populate as a size in bytes, not as a bool

2013-02-24T01:50:11+00:00

do_mmap_pgoff() rounds up the desired size to the next PAGE_SIZE
multiple, however there was no equivalent code in mm_populate(), which
caused issues.

This could be fixed by introduced the same rounding in mm_populate(),
however I think it's preferable to make do_mmap_pgoff() return populate
as a size rather than as a boolean, so we don't have to duplicate the
size rounding logic in mm_populate().

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce mm_populate() for populating new vmas

2013-02-24T01:50:10+00:00

When creating new mappings using the MAP_POPULATE / MAP_LOCKED flags (or
with MCL_FUTURE in effect), we want to populate the pages within the
newly created vmas.  This may take a while as we may have to read pages
from disk, so ideally we want to do this outside of the write-locked
mmap_sem region.

This change introduces mm_populate(), which is used to defer populating
such mappings until after the mmap_sem write lock has been released.
This is implemented as a generalization of the former do_mlock_pages(),
which accomplished the same task but was using during mlock() /
mlockall().

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'master' into for-next

2012-10-28T18:29:19+00:00

Sync up with Linus' tree to be able to apply Cesar's patch
against newer version of the code.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

krealloc: Fix kernel-doc comment

2012-10-15T20:43:02+00:00

It should say "@new_size" and not "@size". Correct that.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina