linux.git/mm, branch v2.6.39

memcg: fix zone congestion

2011-05-18T09:55:23+00:00

ZONE_CONGESTED should be a state of global memory reclaim.  If not, a busy
memcg sets this and give unnecessary throttoling in wait_iff_congested()
against memory recalim in other contexts.  This makes system performance
bad.

I'll think about "memcg is congested!" flag is required or not, later.
But this fix is required first.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura 
Acked-by: Ying Han 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix kernel-doc warning in page_alloc.c

2011-05-17T01:34:30+00:00

Fix new kernel-doc warning in mm/page_alloc.c:

  Warning(mm/page_alloc.c:2370): No description found for parameter 'nid'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tmpfs: fix race between swapoff and writepage

2011-05-14T19:18:55+00:00

Shame on me!  Commit b1dea800ac39 "tmpfs: fix race between umount and
writepage" fixed the advertized race, but introduced another: as even
its comment makes clear, we cannot safely rely on a peek at list_empty()
while holding no lock - until info->swapped is set, shmem_unuse_inode()
may delete any formerly-swapped inode from the shmem_swaplist, which
in this case would leave a swap area impossible to swapoff.

Although I don't relish taking the mutex every time, I don't care much
for the alternatives either; and at least the peek at list_empty() in
shmem_evict_inode() (a hotter path since most inodes would never have
been swapped) remains safe, because we already truncated the whole file.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tmpfs: fix spurious ENOSPC when racing with unswap

2011-05-12T01:50:45+00:00

Testing the shmem_swaplist replacements for igrab() revealed another bug:
writes to /dev/loop0 on a tmpfs file which fills its filesystem were
sometimes failing with "Buffer I/O error"s.

These came from ENOSPC failures of shmem_getpage(), when racing with
swapoff: the same could happen when racing with another shmem_getpage(),
pulling the page in from swap in between our find_lock_page() and our
taking the info->lock (though not in the single-threaded loop case).

This is unacceptable, and surprising that I've not noticed it before:
it dates back many years, but (presumably) was made a lot easier to
reproduce in 2.6.36, which sited a page preallocation in the race window.

Fix it by rechecking the page cache before settling on an ENOSPC error.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tmpfs: fix race between umount and swapoff

2011-05-12T01:50:45+00:00

The use of igrab() in swapoff's shmem_unuse_inode() is just as vulnerable
to umount as that in shmem_writepage().

Fix this instance by extending the protection of shmem_swaplist_mutex
right across shmem_unuse_inode(): while it's on the list, the inode cannot
be evicted (and the filesystem cannot be unmounted) without
shmem_evict_inode() taking that mutex to remove it from the list.

But since shmem_writepage() might take that mutex, we should avoid making
memory allocations or memcg charges while holding it: prepare them at the
outer level in shmem_unuse().  When mem_cgroup_cache_charge() was
originally placed, we didn't know until that point that the page from swap
was actually a shmem page; but nowadays it's noted in the swap_map, so
we're safe to charge upfront.  For the radix_tree, do as is done in
shmem_getpage(): preload upfront, but don't pin to the cpu; so we make a
habit of refreshing the node pool, but might dip into GFP_NOWAIT reserves
on occasion if subsequently preempted.

With the allocation and charge moved out from shmem_unuse_inode(),
we can also hold index map and info->lock over from finding the entry.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tmpfs: fix race between umount and writepage

2011-05-12T01:50:45+00:00

Konstanin Khlebnikov reports that a dangerous race between umount and
shmem_writepage can be reproduced by this script:

  for i in {1..300} ; do
	mkdir $i
	while true ; do
		mount -t tmpfs none $i
		dd if=/dev/zero of=$i/test bs=1M count=$(($RANDOM % 100))
		umount $i
	done &
  done

on a 6xCPU node with 8Gb RAM: kernel very unstable after this accident. =)

Kernel log:

  VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs.
                 Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...

  WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98()
  list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff880222fdaac8, but was (null)
  Pid: 11222, comm: mount.tmpfs Not tainted 2.6.39-rc2+ #4
  Call Trace:
   warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0x98
   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
   __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98
   evict+0x50/0x113
   iput+0x138/0x141
  ...
  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff
  IP: shmem_free_blocks+0x18/0x4c
  Pid: 10422, comm: dd Tainted: G        W   2.6.39-rc2+ #4
  Call Trace:
   shmem_recalc_inode+0x61/0x66
   shmem_writepage+0xba/0x1dc
   pageout+0x13c/0x24c
   shrink_page_list+0x28e/0x4be
   shrink_inactive_list+0x21f/0x382
  ...

shmem_writepage() calls igrab() on the inode for the page which came from
page reclaim, to add it later into shmem_swaplist for swapoff operation.

This igrab() can race with super-block deactivating process:

  shrink_inactive_list()          deactivate_super()
  pageout()                       tmpfs_fs_type->kill_sb()
  shmem_writepage()               kill_litter_super()
                                  generic_shutdown_super()
                                   evict_inodes()
   igrab()
                                    atomic_read(&inode->i_count)
                                     skip-inode
   iput()
                                   if (!list_empty(&sb->s_inodes))
                                          printk("VFS: Busy inodes after...

This igrap-iput pair was added in commit 1b1b32f2c6f6 "tmpfs: fix
shmem_swaplist races" based on incorrect assumptions: igrab() protects the
inode from concurrent eviction by deletion, but it does nothing to protect
it from concurrent unmounting, which goes ahead despite the raised
i_count.

So this use of igrab() was wrong all along, but the race made much worse
in 2.6.37 when commit 63997e98a3be "split invalidate_inodes()" replaced
two attempts at invalidate_inodes() by a single evict_inodes().

Konstantin posted a plausible patch, raising sb->s_active too: I'm unsure
whether it was correct or not; but burnt once by igrab(), I am sure that
we don't want to rely more deeply upon externals here.

Fix it by adding the inode to shmem_swaplist earlier, while the page lock
on page in page cache still secures the inode against eviction, without
artifically raising i_count.  It was originally added later because
shmem_unuse_inode() is liable to remove an inode from the list while it's
unswapped; but we can guard against that by taking spinlock before
dropping mutex.

Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Tested-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: allocate memory cgroup structures in local nodes

2011-05-12T01:50:45+00:00

Commit dde79e005a769 ("page_cgroup: reduce allocation overhead for
page_cgroup array for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM") added a regression that the
memory cgroup data structures all end up in node 0 because the first
attempt at allocating them would not pass in a node hint.  Since the
initialization runs on CPU #0 it would all end up node 0.  This is a
problem on large memory systems, where node 0 would lose a lot of
memory.

Change the alloc_pages_exact() to alloc_pages_exact_nid().  This will
still fall back to other nodes if not enough memory is available.

 [ RED-PEN: right now it would fall back first before trying
   vmalloc_node.  Probably not the best strategy ...  But I left it like
   that for now. ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Reported-by: Doug Nelson
Cc: David Rientjes 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Balbir Singh 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: add alloc_pages_exact_nid()

2011-05-12T01:50:45+00:00

Add a alloc_pages_exact_nid() that allocates on a specific node.

The naming is quite broken, but fixing that would need a larger renaming
action.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() on really needed path

2011-05-12T01:50:44+00:00

Stefan found nobootmem does not work on his system that has only 8M of
RAM.  This causes an early panic:

  BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
   BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
   BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000840000 (usable)
  bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled
  Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU or disabled in BIOS!
  DMI not present or invalid.
  last_pfn = 0x840 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
  init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000000840000
  8MB LOWMEM available.
    mapped low ram: 0 - 00840000
    low ram: 0 - 00840000
  Zone PFN ranges:
    DMA      0x00000001 -> 0x00001000
    Normal   empty
  Movable zone start PFN for each node
  early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
      0: 0x00000001 -> 0x0000009f
      0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00000840
  BUG: Int 6: CR2 (null)
       EDI c034663c  ESI (null)  EBP c0329f38  ESP c0329ef4
       EBX c0346380  EDX 00000006  ECX ffffffff  EAX fffffff4
       err (null)  EIP c0353191   CS c0320060  flg 00010082
  Stack: (null) c030c533 000007cd (null) c030c533 00000001 (null) (null)
         00000003 0000083f 00000018 00000002 00000002 c0329f6c c03534d6 (null)
         (null) 00000100 00000840 (null) c0329f64 00000001 00001000 (null)
  Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36 #5
  Call Trace:
   [] ? 0xc02e3707
   [] 0xc035e6e5
   [] ? 0xc0353191
   [] 0xc03534d6
   [] 0xc034f1cd
   [] 0xc034a824
   [] ? 0xc03513cb
   [] 0xc0349432
   [] 0xc0349066

It turns out that we should ignore the low limit of 16M.

Use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() in this case.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: less mess]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU 
Reported-by: Stefan Hellermann 
Tested-by: Stefan Hellermann 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: 		[2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: check PageUnevictable in lru_deactivate_fn()

2011-05-12T01:50:44+00:00

The lru_deactivate_fn should not move page which in on unevictable lru
into inactive list.  Otherwise, we can meet BUG when we use
isolate_lru_pages as __isolate_lru_page could return -EINVAL.

Reported-by: Ying Han 
Tested-by: Ying Han 
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds