linux.git/mm, branch v3.13-rc3

Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux

2013-11-22T16:10:34+00:00

Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "The patches from Joonsoo Kim switch mm/slab.c to use 'struct page' for
  slab internals similar to mm/slub.c.  This reduces memory usage and
  improves performance:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/155

  Rest of the changes are bug fixes from various people"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (21 commits)
  mm, slub: fix the typo in mm/slub.c
  mm, slub: fix the typo in include/linux/slub_def.h
  slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags
  slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *'
  slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning
  slub: proper kmemleak tracking if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG disabled
  slab: rename slab_bufctl to slab_freelist
  slab: remove useless statement for checking pfmemalloc
  slab: use struct page for slab management
  slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active
  slab: remove SLAB_LIMIT
  slab: remove kmem_bufctl_t
  slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab
  slab: use __GFP_COMP flag for allocating slab pages
  slab: use well-defined macro, virt_to_slab()
  slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free
  slab: remove cachep in struct slab_rcu
  slab: remove nodeid in struct slab
  slab: remove colouroff in struct slab
  slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to struct page
  ...

mm, mempolicy: silence gcc warning

2013-11-22T00:42:27+00:00

Fengguang Wu reports that compiling mm/mempolicy.c results in a warning:

  mm/mempolicy.c: In function 'mpol_to_str':
  mm/mempolicy.c:2878:2: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments

Kees says this is because he is using -Wformat-security.

Silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Suggested-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: hugetlbfs: fix hugetlbfs optimization

2013-11-22T00:42:27+00:00

Commit 7cb2ef56e6a8 ("mm: fix aio performance regression for database
caused by THP") can cause dereference of a dangling pointer if
split_huge_page runs during PageHuge() if there are updates to the
tail_page->private field.

Also it is repeating compound_head twice for hugetlbfs and it is running
compound_head+compound_trans_head for THP when a single one is needed in
both cases.

The new code within the PageSlab() check doesn't need to verify that the
THP page size is never bigger than the smallest hugetlbfs page size, to
avoid memory corruption.

A longstanding theoretical race condition was found while fixing the
above (see the change right after the skip_unlock label, that is
relevant for the compound_lock path too).

By re-establishing the _mapcount tail refcounting for all compound
pages, this also fixes the below problem:

  echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages

  BUG: Bad page state in process bash  pfn:59a01
  page:ffffea000139b038 count:0 mapcount:10 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
  page flags: 0x1c00000000008000(tail)
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 6 PID: 2018 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.12.0+ #25
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x55/0x76
    bad_page+0xd5/0x130
    free_pages_prepare+0x213/0x280
    __free_pages+0x36/0x80
    update_and_free_page+0xc1/0xd0
    free_pool_huge_page+0xc2/0xe0
    set_max_huge_pages.part.58+0x14c/0x220
    nr_hugepages_store_common.isra.60+0xd0/0xf0
    nr_hugepages_store+0x13/0x20
    kobj_attr_store+0xf/0x20
    sysfs_write_file+0x189/0x1e0
    vfs_write+0xc5/0x1f0
    SyS_write+0x55/0xb0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz 
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Tested-by: Khalid Aziz 
Cc: Pravin Shelar 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: thp: give transparent hugepage code a separate copy_page

2013-11-22T00:42:27+00:00

Right now, the migration code in migrate_page_copy() uses copy_huge_page()
for hugetlbfs and thp pages:

       if (PageHuge(page) || PageTransHuge(page))
                copy_huge_page(newpage, page);

So, yay for code reuse.  But:

  void copy_huge_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src)
  {
        struct hstate *h = page_hstate(src);

and a non-hugetlbfs page has no page_hstate().  This works 99% of the
time because page_hstate() determines the hstate from the page order
alone.  Since the page order of a THP page matches the default hugetlbfs
page order, it works.

But, if you change the default huge page size on the boot command-line
(say default_hugepagesz=1G), then we might not even *have* a 2MB hstate
so page_hstate() returns null and copy_huge_page() oopses pretty fast
since copy_huge_page() dereferences the hstate:

  void copy_huge_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src)
  {
        struct hstate *h = page_hstate(src);
        if (unlikely(pages_per_huge_page(h) > MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES)) {
  ...

Mel noticed that the migration code is really the only user of these
functions.  This moves all the copy code over to migrate.c and makes
copy_huge_page() work for THP by checking for it explicitly.

I believe the bug was introduced in commit b32967ff101a ("mm: numa: Add
THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case")

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix coding-style and comment text, per Naoya Horiguchi]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Tested-by: Dave Jiang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation"

2013-11-20T22:41:47+00:00

This reverts commit ea1e7ed33708c7a760419ff9ded0a6cb90586a50.

Al points out that while the commit *does* actually create a separate
slab for the page->ptl allocation, that slab is never actually used, and
the code continues to use kmalloc/kfree.

Damien Wyart points out that the original patch did have the conversion
to use kmem_cache_alloc/free, so it got lost somewhere on its way to me.

Revert the half-arsed attempt that didn't do anything.  If we really do
want the special slab (remember: this is all relevant just for debug
builds, so it's not necessarily all that critical) we might as well redo
the patch fully.

Reported-by: Al Viro 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Kirill A Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-11-16T00:47:22+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from
  trivial.git"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
  doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt
  doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX
  timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text
  mm: update 00-INDEX
  doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo
  DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half'
  Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers'
  doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures
  treewide: fix "usefull" typo
  treewide: fix "distingush" typo
  mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/
  kexec: Typo s/the/then/
  Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi
  treewide: Fix common typo in "identify"
  __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment
  Correct some typos for word frequency
  clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo
  ...

kfifo API type safety

2013-11-15T00:32:23+00:00

This patch enhances the type safety for the kfifo API.  It is now safe
to put const data into a non const FIFO and the API will now generate a
compiler warning when reading from the fifo where the destination
address is pointing to a const variable.

As a side effect the kfifo_put() does now expect the value of an element
instead a pointer to the element.  This was suggested Russell King.  It
make the handling of the kfifo_put easier since there is no need to
create a helper variable for getting the address of a pointer or to pass
integers of different sizes.

IMHO the API break is okay, since there are currently only six users of
kfifo_put().

The code is also cleaner by kicking out the "if (0)" expressions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation

2013-11-15T00:32:20+00:00

If DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC are enabled spinlock_t on x86_64
is 72 bytes.  For page->ptl they will be allocated from kmalloc-96 slab,
so we loose 24 on each.  An average system can easily allocate few tens
thousands of page->ptl and overhead is significant.

Let's create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation to solve this.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: properly separate the bloated ptl from the regular case

2013-11-15T00:32:20+00:00

Use kernel/bounds.c to convert build-time spinlock_t size check into a
preprocessor symbol and apply that to properly separate the page::ptl
situation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page

2013-11-15T00:32:20+00:00

If split page table lock is in use, we embed the lock into struct page
of table's page.  We have to disable split lock, if spinlock_t is too
big be to be embedded, like when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
enabled.

This patch add support for dynamic allocation of split page table lock
if we can't embed it to struct page.

page->ptl is unsigned long now and we use it as spinlock_t if
sizeof(spinlock_t) <= sizeof(long), otherwise it's pointer to spinlock_t.

The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_page_ctor() for PTE table and in
pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() for PMD table.  All other helpers converted to
support dynamically allocated page->ptl.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds