linux.git/mm, branch v4.13-rc2

Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2017-07-15T19:00:42+00:00

Pull ->s_options removal from Al Viro:
 "Preparations for fsmount/fsopen stuff (coming next cycle). Everything
  gets moved to explicit ->show_options(), killing ->s_options off +
  some cosmetic bits around fs/namespace.c and friends. Basically, the
  stuff needed to work with fsmount series with minimum of conflicts
  with other work.

  It's not strictly required for this merge window, but it would reduce
  the PITA during the coming cycle, so it would be nice to have those
  bits and pieces out of the way"

* 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  isofs: Fix isofs_show_options()
  VFS: Kill off s_options and helpers
  orangefs: Implement show_options
  9p: Implement show_options
  isofs: Implement show_options
  afs: Implement show_options
  affs: Implement show_options
  befs: Implement show_options
  spufs: Implement show_options
  bpf: Implement show_options
  ramfs: Implement show_options
  pstore: Implement show_options
  omfs: Implement show_options
  hugetlbfs: Implement show_options
  VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options if not using generic_show_options
  VFS: Provide empty name qstr
  VFS: Make get_filesystem() return the affected filesystem
  VFS: Clean up whitespace in fs/namespace.c and fs/super.c
  Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data

mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards()

2017-07-14T22:05:12+00:00

JÃ¶rn Engel noticed that the expand_upwards() function might not return
-ENOMEM in case the requested address is (unsigned long)-PAGE_SIZE and
if the architecture didn't defined TASK_SIZE as multiple of PAGE_SIZE.

Affected architectures are arm, frv, m68k, blackfin, h8300 and xtensa
which all define TASK_SIZE as 0xffffffff, but since none of those have
an upwards-growing stack we currently have no actual issue.

Nevertheless let's fix this just in case any of the architectures with
an upward-growing stack (currently parisc, metag and partly ia64) define
TASK_SIZE similar.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170702192452.GA11868@p100.box
Fixes: bd726c90b6b8 ("Allow stack to grow up to address space limit")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Reported-by: Jörn Engel 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions

2017-07-12T23:26:05+00:00

Currently the writeback statistics code uses a percpu counters to hold
various statistics.  Furthermore we have 2 families of functions - those
which disable local irq and those which doesn't and whose names begin
with double underscore.  However, they both end up calling
__add_wb_stats which in turn calls percpu_counter_add_batch which is
already irq-safe.

Exploiting this fact allows to eliminated the __wb_* functions since
they don't add any further protection than we already have.
Furthermore, refactor the wb_* function to call __add_wb_stat directly
without the irq-disabling dance.  This will likely result in better
runtime of code which deals with modifying the stat counters.

While at it also document why percpu_counter_add_batch is in fact
preempt and irq-safe since at least 3 people got confused.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498029937-27293-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, migration: do not trigger OOM killer when migrating memory

2017-07-12T23:26:04+00:00

Page migration (for memory hotplug, soft_offline_page or mbind) needs to
allocate a new memory.  This can trigger an oom killer if the target
memory is depleated.  Although quite unlikely, still possible,
especially for the memory hotplug (offlining of memoery).

Up to now we didn't really have reasonable means to back off.
__GFP_NORETRY can fail just too easily and __GFP_THISNODE sticks to a
single node and that is not suitable for all callers.

But now that we have __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL we should use it.  It is
preferable to fail the migration than disrupt the system by killing some
processes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-7-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Alex Belits 
Cc: Chris Wilson 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: David Daney 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: kvmalloc support __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL for all sizes

2017-07-12T23:26:03+00:00

Now that __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL has a reasonable semantic regardless of the
request size we can drop the hackish implementation for !costly orders.
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL retries as long as the reclaim makes a forward
progress and backs of when we are out of memory for the requested size.
Therefore we do not need to enforce__GFP_NORETRY for !costly orders just
to silent the oom killer anymore.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Alex Belits 
Cc: Chris Wilson 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: David Daney 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic

2017-07-12T23:26:03+00:00

__GFP_REPEAT was designed to allow retry-but-eventually-fail semantic to
the page allocator.  This has been true but only for allocations
requests larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.  It has been always
ignored for smaller sizes.  This is a bit unfortunate because there is
no way to express the same semantic for those requests and they are
considered too important to fail so they might end up looping in the
page allocator for ever, similarly to GFP_NOFAIL requests.

Now that the whole tree has been cleaned up and accidental or misled
usage of __GFP_REPEAT flag has been removed for !costly requests we can
give the original flag a better name and more importantly a more useful
semantic.  Let's rename it to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL which tells the user
that the allocator would try really hard but there is no promise of a
success.  This will work independent of the order and overrides the
default allocator behavior.  Page allocator users have several levels of
guarantee vs.  cost options (take GFP_KERNEL as an example)

 - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_RECLAIM - optimistic allocation without _any_
   attempt to free memory at all. The most light weight mode which even
   doesn't kick the background reclaim. Should be used carefully because
   it might deplete the memory and the next user might hit the more
   aggressive reclaim

 - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (or GFP_NOWAIT)- optimistic
   allocation without any attempt to free memory from the current
   context but can wake kswapd to reclaim memory if the zone is below
   the low watermark. Can be used from either atomic contexts or when
   the request is a performance optimization and there is another
   fallback for a slow path.

 - (GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGH) & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (aka GFP_ATOMIC) -
   non sleeping allocation with an expensive fallback so it can access
   some portion of memory reserves. Usually used from interrupt/bh
   context with an expensive slow path fallback.

 - GFP_KERNEL - both background and direct reclaim are allowed and the
   _default_ page allocator behavior is used. That means that !costly
   allocation requests are basically nofail but there is no guarantee of
   that behavior so failures have to be checked properly by callers
   (e.g. OOM killer victim is allowed to fail currently).

 - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY - overrides the default allocator behavior
   and all allocation requests fail early rather than cause disruptive
   reclaim (one round of reclaim in this implementation). The OOM killer
   is not invoked.

 - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - overrides the default allocator
   behavior and all allocation requests try really hard. The request
   will fail if the reclaim cannot make any progress. The OOM killer
   won't be triggered.

 - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior
   and all allocation requests will loop endlessly until they succeed.
   This might be really dangerous especially for larger orders.

Existing users of __GFP_REPEAT are changed to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
because they already had their semantic.  No new users are added.
__alloc_pages_slowpath is changed to bail out for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL if
there is no progress and we have already passed the OOM point.

This means that all the reclaim opportunities have been exhausted except
the most disruptive one (the OOM killer) and a user defined fallback
behavior is more sensible than keep retrying in the page allocator.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c]
[mhocko@suse.com: semantic fix]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626123847.GM11534@dhcp22.suse.cz
[mhocko@kernel.org: address other thing spotted by Vlastimil]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626124233.GN11534@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Alex Belits 
Cc: Chris Wilson 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: David Daney 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory.c: mark create_huge_pmd() inline to prevent build failure

2017-07-12T23:25:59+00:00

With gcc 4.1.2:

    mm/memory.o: In function `create_huge_pmd':
    memory.c:(.text+0x93e): undefined reference to `do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page'

Interestingly, create_huge_pmd() is emitted in the assembler output, but
never called.

Converting transparent_hugepage_enabled() from a macro to a static
inline function reduced the ability of the compiler to remove unused
code.

Fix this by marking create_huge_pmd() inline.

Fixes: 16981d763501c0e0 ("mm: improve readability of transparent_hugepage_enabled()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499842660-10665-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kasan: make get_wild_bug_type() static

2017-07-10T23:32:33+00:00

The helper function get_wild_bug_type() does not need to be in global
scope, so make it static.

Cleans up sparse warning:

  "symbol 'get_wild_bug_type' was not declared. Should it be static?"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170622090049.10658-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King 
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/kasan/kasan.c: rename XXX_is_zero to XXX_is_nonzero

2017-07-10T23:32:33+00:00

They return positive value, that is, true, if non-zero value is found.
Rename them to reduce confusion.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516012350.GA16015@js1304-desktop
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/kasan: add support for memory hotplug

2017-07-10T23:32:33+00:00

KASAN doesn't happen work with memory hotplug because hotplugged memory
doesn't have any shadow memory.  So any access to hotplugged memory
would cause a crash on shadow check.

Use memory hotplug notifier to allocate and map shadow memory when the
hotplugged memory is going online and free shadow after the memory
offlined.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170601162338.23540-4-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds