linux.git/mm, branch v3.7-rc5

mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()

2012-11-09T05:41:47+00:00

In kswapd(), set current->reclaim_state to NULL before returning, as
current->reclaim_state holds reference to variable on kswapd()'s stack.

In rare cases, while returning from kswapd() during memory offlining,
__free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of
current->reclaim_state.

Signed-off-by: Takamori Yamaguchi 
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2012-10-26T16:35:46+00:00

Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This fixes a couple of nasty page table initialization bugs which were
  causing kdump regressions.  A clean rearchitecturing of the code is in
  the works - meanwhile these are reverts that restore the
  best-known-working state of the kernel.

  There's also EFI fixes and other small fixes."

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, mm: Undo incorrect revert in arch/x86/mm/init.c
  x86: efi: Turn off efi_enabled after setup on mixed fw/kernel
  x86, mm: Find_early_table_space based on ranges that are actually being mapped
  x86, mm: Use memblock memory loop instead of e820_RAM
  x86, mm: Trim memory in memblock to be page aligned
  x86/irq/ioapic: Check for valid irq_cfg pointer in smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt
  x86/efi: Fix oops caused by incorrect set_memory_uc() usage
  x86-64: Fix page table accounting
  Revert "x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables"
  MAINTAINERS: Add EFI git repository location

mm, numa: avoid setting zone_reclaim_mode unless a node is sufficiently distant

2012-10-25T21:37:53+00:00

Commit 957f822a0ab9 ("mm, numa: reclaim from all nodes within reclaim
distance") caused zone_reclaim_mode to be set for all systems where two
nodes are within RECLAIM_DISTANCE of each other.  This is the opposite
of what we actually want: zone_reclaim_mode should be set if two nodes
are sufficiently distant.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Reported-by: Julian Wollrath 
Tested-by: Julian Wollrath 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Patrik Kullman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance

2012-10-25T21:37:53+00:00

While allocating mmu_notifier with parameter GFP_KERNEL, swap would start
to work in case of tight available memory.  Eventually, that would lead to
a deadlock while the swap deamon swaps anonymous pages.  It was caused by
commit e0f3c3f78da29b ("mm/mmu_notifier: init notifier if necessary").

  =================================
  [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
  3.7.0-rc1+ #518 Not tainted
  ---------------------------------
  inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage.
  kswapd0/35 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
   (&mapping->i_mmap_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: page_referenced+0x9c/0x2e0
  {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
     mark_held_locks+0x86/0x150
     lockdep_trace_alloc+0x67/0xc0
     kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x33/0x230
     do_mmu_notifier_register+0x87/0x180
     mmu_notifier_register+0x13/0x20
     kvm_dev_ioctl+0x428/0x510
     do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x570
     sys_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  irq event stamp: 825
  hardirqs last  enabled at (825): _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60
  hardirqs last disabled at (824): _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x19/0x80
  softirqs last  enabled at (0): copy_process+0x630/0x17c0
  softirqs last disabled at (0): (null)
  ...

Simply back out the above commit, which was a small performance
optimization.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan 
Reported-by: Andrea Righi 
Tested-by: Andrea Righi 
Cc: Wanpeng Li 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: Xiao Guangrong 
Cc: Sagi Grimberg 
Cc: Haggai Eran 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc.c:alloc_contig_range(): return early for err path

2012-10-25T21:37:52+00:00

If start_isolate_page_range() failed, unset_migratetype_isolate() has been
done inside it.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu 
Cc: Ni zhan Chen 
Cc: Marek Szyprowski 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390

2012-10-25T21:37:52+00:00

On s390 any write to a page (even from kernel itself) sets architecture
specific page dirty bit.  Thus when a page is written to via buffered
write, HW dirty bit gets set and when we later map and unmap the page,
page_remove_rmap() finds the dirty bit and calls set_page_dirty().

Dirtying of a page which shouldn't be dirty can cause all sorts of
problems to filesystems.  The bug we observed in practice is that
buffers from the page get freed, so when the page gets later marked as
dirty and writeback writes it, XFS crashes due to an assertion
BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)) in page_buffers() called from
xfs_count_page_state().

Similar problem can also happen when zero_user_segment() call from
xfs_vm_writepage() (or block_write_full_page() for that matter) set the
hardware dirty bit during writeback, later buffers get freed, and then
page unmapped.

Fix the issue by ignoring s390 HW dirty bit for page cache pages of
mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty().  This is safe because for
such mappings when a page gets marked as writeable in PTE it is also
marked dirty in do_wp_page() or do_page_fault().  When the dirty bit is
cleared by clear_page_dirty_for_io(), the page gets writeprotected in
page_mkclean().  So pagecache page is writeable if and only if it is
dirty.

Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing out mapping has to have
mapping_cap_account_dirty() for things to work and proposing a cleaned
up variant of the patch.

The patch has survived about two hours of running fsx-linux on tmpfs
while heavily swapping and several days of running on out build machines
where the original problem was triggered.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: 		[3.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86, mm: Trim memory in memblock to be page aligned

2012-10-24T18:52:21+00:00

We will not map partial pages, so need to make sure memblock
allocation will not allocate those bytes out.

Also we will use for_each_mem_pfn_range() to loop to map memory
range to keep them consistent.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAE9FiQVZirvaBMFYRfXMmWEcHbKSicQEHz4VAwUv0xFCk51ZNw@mail.gmail.com
Acked-by: Jacob Shin 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc:

Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

2012-10-20T00:32:37+00:00

Pull ARM soc fixes from Olof Johansson:
 "A set of fixes and some minor cleanups for -rc2:

   - A series from Arnd that fixes warnings in drivers and other code
     included by ARM defconfigs.  Most have been acked by corresponding
     maintainers (and seem quite hard to argue not picking up anyway in
     the few exception cases).
   - A few misc patches from the list for integrator/vt8500/i.MX
   - A batch of fixes to OMAP platforms, fixing:
     - boot problems on beaglebone,
     - regression fixes for local timers
     - clockdomain locking fixes
     - a few boot/sparse warnings
   - For Tegra:
     - Clock rate calculation overflow fix
     - Revert a change that removed timer clocks and a fix for symbol
       name clashes
   - For Renesas:
     - IO accessor / annotation cleanups to remove warnings
   - For Kirkwood/Dove/mvebu:
     - Fixes for device trees for Dove (some minor cleanups, some fixes)
     - Fixes for the mvebu gpio driver
     - Fix build problem for Feroceon due to missing ifdefs
     - Fix lsxl DTS files"

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (31 commits)
  ARM: kirkwood: fix buttons on lsxl boards
  ARM: kirkwood: fix LEDs names for lsxl boards
  ARM: Kirkwood: fix disabling CACHE_FEROCEON_L2
  gpio: mvebu: Add missing breaks in mvebu_gpio_irq_set_type
  ARM: dove: Add crypto engine to DT
  ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT
  ARM: dove: Restructure SoC device tree descriptor
  ARM: dove: Fix clock names of sata and gbe
  ARM: dove: Fix tauros2 device tree init
  ARM: dove: Add pcie clock support
  ARM: OMAP2+: Allow kernel to boot even if GPMC fails to reserve memory
  ARM: OMAP: clockdomain: Fix locking on _clkdm_clk_hwmod_enable / disable
  ARM: s3c: mark s3c2440_clk_add as __init_refok
  spi/s3c64xx: use correct dma_transfer_direction type
  ARM: OMAP4: devices: fixup OMAP4 DMIC platform device error message
  ARM: OMAP2+: clock data: Add dev-id for the omap-gpmc dummy fck
  ARM: OMAP: resolve sparse warning concerning debug_card_init()
  ARM: OMAP4: Fix twd_local_timer_register regression
  ARM: tegra: add tegra_timer clock
  ARM: tegra: rename tegra system timer
  ...

Merge branch 'testing/driver-warnings' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc into fixes

2012-10-19T22:40:18+00:00

A collection of warning fixes on non-ARM code from Arnd Bergmann:

* 'testing/driver-warnings' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
  ARM: s3c: mark s3c2440_clk_add as __init_refok
  spi/s3c64xx: use correct dma_transfer_direction type
  pcmcia: sharpsl: don't discard sharpsl_pcmcia_ops
  USB: EHCI: mark ehci_orion_conf_mbus_windows __devinit
  mm/slob: use min_t() to compare ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
  SCSI: ARM: make fas216_dumpinfo function conditional
  SCSI: ARM: ncr5380/oak uses no interrupts

Merge branch 'akpm' (Fixes from Andrew)

2012-10-19T21:07:55+00:00

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "Seven fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (7 patches)
  lib/dma-debug.c: fix __hash_bucket_find()
  mm: compaction: correct the nr_strict va isolated check for CMA
  firmware/memmap: avoid type conflicts with the generic memmap_init()
  pidns: remove recursion from free_pid_ns()
  drivers/video/backlight/lm3639_bl.c: return proper error in lm3639_bled_mode_store() error paths
  kernel/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26
  linux/coredump.h needs asm/siginfo.h