linux.git/mm, branch v3.14-rc2

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

2014-02-10T02:12:07+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "A couple of fixes, both -stable fodder.  The O_SYNC bug is fairly
  old..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix a kmap leak in virtio_console
  fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write()

fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write()

2014-02-09T20:18:09+00:00

It actually goes back to 2004 ([PATCH] Concurrent O_SYNC write support)
when sync_page_range() had been introduced; generic_file_write{,v}() correctly
synced
	pos_after_write - written .. pos_after_write - 1
but generic_file_aio_write() synced
	pos_before_write .. pos_before_write + written - 1
instead.  Which is not the same thing with O_APPEND, obviously.
A couple of years later correct variant had been killed off when
everything switched to use of generic_file_aio_write().

All users of generic_file_aio_write() are affected, and the same bug
has been copied into other instances of ->aio_write().

The fix is trivial; the only subtle point is that generic_write_sync()
ought to be inlined to avoid calculations useless for the majority of
calls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-02-08T19:54:43+00:00

Pull x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "Quite a varied little collection of fixes.  Most of them are
  relatively small or isolated; the biggest one is Mel Gorman's fixes
  for TLB range flushing.

  A couple of AMD-related fixes (including not crashing when given an
  invalid microcode image) and fix a crash when compiled with gcov"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, microcode, AMD: Unify valid container checks
  x86, hweight: Fix BUG when booting with CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y
  x86/efi: Allow mapping BGRT on x86-32
  x86: Fix the initialization of physnode_map
  x86, cpu hotplug: Fix stack frame warning in check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable()
  x86/intel/mid: Fix X86_INTEL_MID dependencies
  arch/x86/mm/srat: Skip NUMA_NO_NODE while parsing SLIT
  mm, x86: Revisit tlb_flushall_shift tuning for page flushes except on IvyBridge
  x86: mm: change tlb_flushall_shift for IvyBridge
  x86/mm: Eliminate redundant page table walk during TLB range flushing
  x86/mm: Clean up inconsistencies when flushing TLB ranges
  mm, x86: Account for TLB flushes only when debugging
  x86/AMD/NB: Fix amd_set_subcaches() parameter type
  x86/quirks: Add workaround for AMD F16h Erratum792
  x86, doc, kconfig: Fix dud URL for Microcode data

Merge tag 'efi-urgent' into x86/urgent

2014-02-07T19:27:30+00:00

 * Avoid WARN_ON() when mapping BGRT on Baytrail (EFI 32-bit).

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

mm: __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() uses spin_lock_irqsave() instead of spin_lock_irq()

2014-02-06T21:48:51+00:00

During aio stress test, we observed the following lockdep warning.  This
mean AIO+numa_balancing is currently deadlockable.

The problem is, aio_migratepage disable interrupt, but
__set_page_dirty_nobuffers unintentionally enable it again.

Generally, all helper function should use spin_lock_irqsave() instead of
spin_lock_irq() because they don't know caller at all.

   other info that might help us debug this:
    Possible unsafe locking scenario:

          CPU0
          ----
     lock(&(&ctx->completion_lock)->rlock);
     
       lock(&(&ctx->completion_lock)->rlock);

    *** DEADLOCK ***

      dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
      print_usage_bug+0x1f7/0x208
      mark_lock+0x21d/0x2a0
      mark_held_locks+0xb9/0x140
      trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x105/0x1d0
      trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
      _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x50
      __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0x8c/0xf0
      migrate_page_copy+0x434/0x540
      aio_migratepage+0xb1/0x140
      move_to_new_page+0x7d/0x230
      migrate_pages+0x5e5/0x700
      migrate_misplaced_page+0xbc/0xf0
      do_numa_page+0x102/0x190
      handle_pte_fault+0x241/0x970
      handle_mm_fault+0x265/0x370
      __do_page_fault+0x172/0x5a0
      do_page_fault+0x1a/0x70
      page_fault+0x28/0x30

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Larry Woodman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon

2014-02-06T21:48:51+00:00

swapoff clear swap_info's SWP_USED flag prematurely and free its
resources after that.  A concurrent swapon will reuse this swap_info
while its previous resources are not cleared completely.

These late freed resources are:
 - p->percpu_cluster
 - swap_cgroup_ctrl[type]
 - block_device setting
 - inode->i_flags &= ~S_SWAPFILE

This patch clears the SWP_USED flag after all its resources are freed,
so that swapon can reuse this swap_info by alloc_swap_info() safely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up code comment]
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin readahead

2014-02-06T21:48:51+00:00

This is a patch to improve swap readahead algorithm.  It's from Hugh and
I slightly changed it.

Hugh's original changelog:

swapin readahead does a blind readahead, whether or not the swapin is
sequential.  This may be ok on harddisk, because large reads have
relatively small costs, and if the readahead pages are unneeded they can
be reclaimed easily - though, what if their allocation forced reclaim of
useful pages? But on SSD devices large reads are more expensive than
small ones: if the readahead pages are unneeded, reading them in caused
significant overhead.

This patch adds very simplistic random read detection.  Stealing the
PageReadahead technique from Konstantin Khlebnikov's patch, avoiding the
vma/anon_vma sophistications of Shaohua Li's patch, swapin_nr_pages()
simply looks at readahead's current success rate, and narrows or widens
its readahead window accordingly.  There is little science to its
heuristic: it's about as stupid as can be whilst remaining effective.

The table below shows elapsed times (in centiseconds) when running a
single repetitive swapping load across a 1000MB mapping in 900MB ram
with 1GB swap (the harddisk tests had taken painfully too long when I
used mem=500M, but SSD shows similar results for that).

Vanilla is the 3.6-rc7 kernel on which I started; Shaohua denotes his
Sep 3 patch in mmotm and linux-next; HughOld denotes my Oct 1 patch
which Shaohua showed to be defective; HughNew this Nov 14 patch, with
page_cluster as usual at default of 3 (8-page reads); HughPC4 this same
patch with page_cluster 4 (16-page reads); HughPC0 with page_cluster 0
(1-page reads: no readahead).

HDD for swapping to harddisk, SSD for swapping to VertexII SSD.  Seq for
sequential access to the mapping, cycling five times around; Rand for
the same number of random touches.  Anon for a MAP_PRIVATE anon mapping;
Shmem for a MAP_SHARED anon mapping, equivalent to tmpfs.

One weakness of Shaohua's vma/anon_vma approach was that it did not
optimize Shmem: seen below.  Konstantin's approach was perhaps mistuned,
50% slower on Seq: did not compete and is not shown below.

HDD        Vanilla Shaohua HughOld HughNew HughPC4 HughPC0
Seq Anon     73921   76210   75611   76904   78191  121542
Seq Shmem    73601   73176   73855   72947   74543  118322
Rand Anon   895392  831243  871569  845197  846496  841680
Rand Shmem 1058375 1053486  827935  764955  764376  756489

SSD        Vanilla Shaohua HughOld HughNew HughPC4 HughPC0
Seq Anon     24634   24198   24673   25107   21614   70018
Seq Shmem    24959   24932   25052   25703   22030   69678
Rand Anon    43014   26146   28075   25989   26935   25901
Rand Shmem   45349   45215   28249   24268   24138   24332

These tests are, of course, two extremes of a very simple case: under
heavier mixed loads I've not yet observed any consistent improvement or
degradation, and wider testing would be welcome.

Shaohua Li:

Test shows Vanilla is slightly better in sequential workload than Hugh's
patch.  I observed with Hugh's patch sometimes the readahead size is
shrinked too fast (from 8 to 1 immediately) in sequential workload if
there is no hit.  And in such case, continuing doing readahead is good
actually.

I don't prepare a sophisticated algorithm for the sequential workload
because so far we can't guarantee sequential accessed pages are swap out
sequentially.  So I slightly change Hugh's heuristic - don't shrink
readahead size too fast.

Here is my test result (unit second, 3 runs average):
	Vanilla		Hugh		New
Seq	356		370		360
Random	4525		2447		2444

Attached graph is the swapin/swapout throughput I collected with 'vmstat
2'.  The first part is running a random workload (till around 1200 of
the x-axis) and the second part is running a sequential workload.
swapin and swapout throughput are almost identical in steady state in
both workloads.  These are expected behavior.  while in Vanilla, swapin
is much bigger than swapout especially in random workload (because wrong
readahead).

Original patches by: Shaohua Li and Konstantin Khlebnikov.

[fengguang.wu@intel.com: swapin_nr_pages() can be static]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2014-02-02T19:30:08+00:00

Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "Random bug fixes that have accumulated in my inbox over the past few
  months"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  mm: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by slab.c
  mm: slub: work around unneeded lockdep warning
  mm: sl[uo]b: fix misleading comments
  slub: Fix possible format string bug.
  slub: use lockdep_assert_held
  slub: Fix calculation of cpu slabs
  slab.h: remove duplicate kmalloc declaration and fix kernel-doc warnings

mm: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by slab.c

2014-01-31T11:52:25+00:00

This patch fixed following errors while make htmldocs
Warning(/mm/slab.c:1956): No description found for parameter 'page'
Warning(/mm/slab.c:1956): Excess function parameter 'slabp' description in 'slab_destroy'

Incorrect function parameter "slabp" was set instead of "page"

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

mm: slub: work around unneeded lockdep warning

2014-01-31T11:41:26+00:00

The slub code does some setup during early boot in
early_kmem_cache_node_alloc() with some local data.  There is no
possible way that another CPU can see this data, so the slub code
doesn't unnecessarily lock it.  However, some new lockdep asserts
check to make sure that add_partial() _always_ has the list_lock
held.

Just add the locking, even though it is technically unnecessary.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg