linux.git/mm, branch v2.6.30

memcg: fix build warning and avoid checking for mem != null again and again

2009-05-29T15:40:03+00:00

Fix build warning, "mem_cgroup_is_obsolete defined but not used" when
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is not set.  Also avoid checking for !mem again and again.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: account for MAP_SHARED mappings using VM_MAYSHARE and not VM_SHARED in hugetlbfs

2009-05-29T15:40:03+00:00

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302

hugetlbfs reserves huge pages but does not fault them at mmap() time to
ensure that future faults succeed.  The reservation behaviour differs
depending on whether the mapping was mapped MAP_SHARED or MAP_PRIVATE.
For MAP_SHARED mappings, hugepages are reserved when mmap() is first
called and are tracked based on information associated with the inode.
Other processes mapping MAP_SHARED use the same reservation.  MAP_PRIVATE
track the reservations based on the VMA created as part of the mmap()
operation.  Each process mapping MAP_PRIVATE must make its own
reservation.

hugetlbfs currently checks if a VMA is MAP_SHARED with the VM_SHARED flag
and not VM_MAYSHARE.  For file-backed mappings, such as hugetlbfs,
VM_SHARED is set only if the mapping is MAP_SHARED and the file was opened
read-write.  If a shared memory mapping was mapped shared-read-write for
populating of data and mapped shared-read-only by other processes, then
hugetlbfs would account for the mapping as if it was MAP_PRIVATE.  This
causes processes to fail to map the file MAP_SHARED even though it should
succeed as the reservation is there.

This patch alters mm/hugetlb.c and replaces VM_SHARED with VM_MAYSHARE
when the intent of the code was to check whether the VMA was mapped
MAP_SHARED or MAP_PRIVATE.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: 
Cc: Eric B Munson 
Cc: Adam Litke 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: fix deadlock between lock_page_cgroup and mapping tree_lock

2009-05-29T15:40:02+00:00

mapping->tree_lock can be acquired from interrupt context.  Then,
following dead lock can occur.

Assume "A" as a page.

 CPU0:
       lock_page_cgroup(A)
		interrupted
			-> take mapping->tree_lock.
 CPU1:
       take mapping->tree_lock
		-> lock_page_cgroup(A)

This patch tries to fix above deadlock by moving memcg's hook to out of
mapping->tree_lock.  charge/uncharge of pagecache/swapcache is protected
by page lock, not tree_lock.

After this patch, lock_page_cgroup() is not called under mapping->tree_lock.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oom: fix possible oom_dump_tasks NULL pointer

2009-05-29T15:40:01+00:00

When /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks is enabled, it is possible to get a NULL
pointer for tasks that have detached mm's since task_lock() is not held
during the tasklist scan.  Add the task_lock().

Acked-by: Nick Piggin 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugh: update email address

2009-05-21T20:14:32+00:00

My old address will shut down in a few days time: remove it from the tree,
and add a tmpfs (shmem filesystem) maintainer entry with the new address.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm

2009-05-20T23:30:36+00:00

* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (25 commits)
  [ARM] 5519/1: amba probe: pass "struct amba_id *" instead of void *
  [ARM] 5517/1: integrator: don't put clock lookups in __initdata
  [ARM] 5518/1: versatile: don't put clock lookups in __initdata
  [ARM] mach-l7200: fix spelling of SYS_CLOCK_OFF
  [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2
  [ARM] realview: fix broadcast tick support
  [ARM] realview: remove useless smp_cross_call_done()
  [ARM] smp: fix cpumask usage in ARM SMP code
  [ARM] 5513/1: Eurotech VIPER SBC: fix compilation error
  [ARM] 5509/1: ep93xx: clkdev enable UARTS
  ARM: OMAP2/3: Change omapfb to use clkdev for dispc and rfbi, v2
  ARM: OMAP3: Fix HW SAVEANDRESTORE shift define
  ARM: OMAP3: Fix number of GPIO lines for 34xx
  [ARM] S3C: Do not set clk->owner field if unset
  [ARM] S3C2410: mach-bast.c registering i2c data too early
  [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix unused code warning in arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/dma.c
  [ARM] S3C64XX: fix GPIO debug
  [ARM] S3C64XX: GPIO include cleanup
  [ARM] nwfpe: fix 'floatx80_is_nan' sparse warning
  [ARM] nwfpe: Add decleration for ExtendedCPDO
  ...

[ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2

2009-05-18T10:22:24+00:00

pfn_valid() is meant to be able to tell if a given PFN has valid memmap
associated with it or not. In FLATMEM, it is expected that holes always
have valid memmap as long as there is valid PFNs either side of the hole.
In SPARSEMEM, it is assumed that a valid section has a memmap for the
entire section.

However, ARM and maybe other embedded architectures in the future free
memmap backing holes to save memory on the assumption the memmap is never
used. The page_zone linkages are then broken even though pfn_valid()
returns true. A walker of the full memmap must then do this additional
check to ensure the memmap they are looking at is sane by making sure the
zone and PFN linkages are still valid. This is expensive, but walkers of
the full memmap are extremely rare.

This was caught before for FLATMEM and hacked around but it hits again for
SPARSEMEM because the page_zone linkages can look ok where the PFN linkages
are totally screwed. This looks like a hatchet job but the reality is that
any clean solution would end up consumning all the memory saved by punching
these unexpected holes in the memmap. For example, we tried marking the
memmap within the section invalid but the section size exceeds the size of
the hole in most cases so pfn_valid() starts returning false where valid
memmap exists. Shrinking the size of the section would increase memory
consumption offsetting the gains.

This patch identifies when an architecture is punching unexpected holes
in the memmap that the memory model cannot automatically detect and sets
ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL. At the moment, this is restricted to EP93xx
which is the model sub-architecture this has been reported on but may expand
later. When set, walkers of the full memmap must call memmap_valid_within()
for each PFN and passing in what it expects the page and zone to be for
that PFN. If it finds the linkages to be broken, it assumes the memmap is
invalid for that PFN.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

page-writeback: fix the calculation of the oldest_jif in wb_kupdate()

2009-05-17T23:36:11+00:00

wb_kupdate() function has a bug on linux-2.6.30-rc5.  This bug causes
generic_sync_sb_inodes() to start to write inodes back much earlier than
our expectations because it miscalculates oldest_jif in wb_kupdate().

This bug was introduced in 704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f
('mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"').

Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6

2009-05-17T18:44:19+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  mm: SLOB fix reclaim_state
  mm: SLUB fix reclaim_state
  slub: add Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
  slub: enforce MAX_ORDER

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2009-05-15T15:05:37+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"
  viocd: needs to depend on BLOCK
  block: fix the bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test