linux.git/mm, branch v4.20-rc2

memory_hotplug: cond_resched in __remove_pages

2018-11-03T17:09:38+00:00

We have received a bug report that unbinding a large pmem (>1TB) can
result in a soft lockup:

  NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 23s! [ndctl:4365]
  [...]
  Supported: Yes
  CPU: 9 PID: 4365 Comm: ndctl Not tainted 4.12.14-94.40-default #1 SLE12-SP4
  Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFD/S2600WFD, BIOS SE5C620.86B.01.00.0833.051120182255 05/11/2018
  task: ffff9cce7d4410c0 task.stack: ffffbe9eb1bc4000
  RIP: 0010:__put_page+0x62/0x80
  Call Trace:
   devm_memremap_pages_release+0x152/0x260
   release_nodes+0x18d/0x1d0
   device_release_driver_internal+0x160/0x210
   unbind_store+0xb3/0xe0
   kernfs_fop_write+0x102/0x180
   __vfs_write+0x26/0x150
   vfs_write+0xad/0x1a0
   SyS_write+0x42/0x90
   do_syscall_64+0x74/0x150
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
  RIP: 0033:0x7fd13166b3d0

It has been reported on an older (4.12) kernel but the current upstream
code doesn't cond_resched in the hot remove code at all and the given
range to remove might be really large.  Fix the issue by calling
cond_resched once per memory section.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181031125840.23982-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask

2018-11-03T17:09:37+00:00

THP allocation mode is quite complex and it depends on the defrag mode.
This complexity is hidden in alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask from a large
part currently. The NUMA special casing (namely __GFP_THISNODE) is
however independent and placed in alloc_pages_vma currently. This both
adds an unnecessary branch to all vma based page allocation requests and
it makes the code more complex unnecessarily as well. Not to mention
that e.g. shmem THP used to do the node reclaiming unconditionally
regardless of the defrag mode until recently. This was not only
unexpected behavior but it was also hardly a good default behavior and I
strongly suspect it was just a side effect of the code sharing more than
a deliberate decision which suggests that such a layering is wrong.

Get rid of the thp special casing from alloc_pages_vma and move the
logic to alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask. __GFP_THISNODE is applied to the
resulting gfp mask only when the direct reclaim is not requested and
when there is no explicit numa binding to preserve the current logic.

Please note that there's also a slight difference wrt MPOL_BIND now. The
previous code would avoid using __GFP_THISNODE if the local node was
outside of policy_nodemask(). After this patch __GFP_THISNODE is avoided
for all MPOL_BIND policies. So there's a difference that if local node
is actually allowed by the bind policy's nodemask, previously
__GFP_THISNODE would be added, but now it won't be. From the behavior
POV this is still correct because the policy nodemask is used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925120326.24392-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Alex Williamson 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE mappings

2018-11-03T17:09:37+00:00

THP allocation might be really disruptive when allocated on NUMA system
with the local node full or hard to reclaim.  Stefan has posted an
allocation stall report on 4.12 based SLES kernel which suggests the
same issue:

  kvm: page allocation stalls for 194572ms, order:9, mode:0x4740ca(__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_THISNODE|__GFP_MOVABLE|__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM), nodemask=(null)
  kvm cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0-1
  CPU: 10 PID: 84752 Comm: kvm Tainted: G        W 4.12.0+98-ph 0000001 SLE15 (unreleased)
  Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-1029P-WTRT/X11DDW-NT, BIOS 2.0 12/05/2017
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x5c/0x84
   warn_alloc+0xe0/0x180
   __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x820/0xc90
   __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1cc/0x210
   alloc_pages_vma+0x1e5/0x280
   do_huge_pmd_wp_page+0x83f/0xf00
   __handle_mm_fault+0x93d/0x1060
   handle_mm_fault+0xc6/0x1b0
   __do_page_fault+0x230/0x430
   do_page_fault+0x2a/0x70
   page_fault+0x7b/0x80
   [...]
  Mem-Info:
  active_anon:126315487 inactive_anon:1612476 isolated_anon:5
   active_file:60183 inactive_file:245285 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:15657 dirty:286 writeback:1 unstable:0
   slab_reclaimable:75543 slab_unreclaimable:2509111
   mapped:81814 shmem:31764 pagetables:370616 bounce:0
   free:32294031 free_pcp:6233 free_cma:0
  Node 0 active_anon:254680388kB inactive_anon:1112760kB active_file:240648kB inactive_file:981168kB unevictable:13368kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:280240kB dirty:1144kB writeback:0kB shmem:95832kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 81225728kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? no
  Node 1 active_anon:250583072kB inactive_anon:5337144kB active_file:84kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:49260kB isolated(anon):20kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:47016kB dirty:0kB writeback:4kB shmem:31224kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 31897600kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? no

The defrag mode is "madvise" and from the above report it is clear that
the THP has been allocated for MADV_HUGEPAGA vma.

Andrea has identified that the main source of the problem is
__GFP_THISNODE usage:

: The problem is that direct compaction combined with the NUMA
: __GFP_THISNODE logic in mempolicy.c is telling reclaim to swap very
: hard the local node, instead of failing the allocation if there's no
: THP available in the local node.
:
: Such logic was ok until __GFP_THISNODE was added to the THP allocation
: path even with MPOL_DEFAULT.
:
: The idea behind the __GFP_THISNODE addition, is that it is better to
: provide local memory in PAGE_SIZE units than to use remote NUMA THP
: backed memory. That largely depends on the remote latency though, on
: threadrippers for example the overhead is relatively low in my
: experience.
:
: The combination of __GFP_THISNODE and __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM results in
: extremely slow qemu startup with vfio, if the VM is larger than the
: size of one host NUMA node. This is because it will try very hard to
: unsuccessfully swapout get_user_pages pinned pages as result of the
: __GFP_THISNODE being set, instead of falling back to PAGE_SIZE
: allocations and instead of trying to allocate THP on other nodes (it
: would be even worse without vfio type1 GUP pins of course, except it'd
: be swapping heavily instead).

Fix this by removing __GFP_THISNODE for THP requests which are
requesting the direct reclaim.  This effectivelly reverts 5265047ac301
on the grounds that the zone/node reclaim was known to be disruptive due
to premature reclaim when there was memory free.  While it made sense at
the time for HPC workloads without NUMA awareness on rare machines, it
was ultimately harmful in the majority of cases.  The existing behaviour
is similar, if not as widespare as it applies to a corner case but
crucially, it cannot be tuned around like zone_reclaim_mode can.  The
default behaviour should always be to cause the least harm for the
common case.

If there are specialised use cases out there that want zone_reclaim_mode
in specific cases, then it can be built on top.  Longterm we should
consider a memory policy which allows for the node reclaim like behavior
for the specific memory ranges which would allow a

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180820032204.9591-1-aarcange@redhat.com

Mel said:

: Both patches look correct to me but I'm responding to this one because
: it's the fix.  The change makes sense and moves further away from the
: severe stalling behaviour we used to see with both THP and zone reclaim
: mode.
:
: I put together a basic experiment with usemem configured to reference a
: buffer multiple times that is 80% the size of main memory on a 2-socket
: box with symmetric node sizes and defrag set to "always".  The defrag
: setting is not the default but it would be functionally similar to
: accessing a buffer with madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE).  Usemem is configured to
: reference the buffer multiple times and while it's not an interesting
: workload, it would be expected to complete reasonably quickly as it fits
: within memory.  The results were;
:
: usemem
:                                   vanilla           noreclaim-v1
: Amean     Elapsd-1       42.78 (   0.00%)       26.87 (  37.18%)
: Amean     Elapsd-3       27.55 (   0.00%)        7.44 (  73.00%)
: Amean     Elapsd-4        5.72 (   0.00%)        5.69 (   0.45%)
:
: This shows the elapsed time in seconds for 1 thread, 3 threads and 4
: threads referencing buffers 80% the size of memory.  With the patches
: applied, it's 37.18% faster for the single thread and 73% faster with two
: threads.  Note that 4 threads showing little difference does not indicate
: the problem is related to thread counts.  It's simply the case that 4
: threads gets spread so their workload mostly fits in one node.
:
: The overall view from /proc/vmstats is more startling
:
:                          4.19.0-rc1  4.19.0-rc1
:                             vanillanoreclaim-v1r1
: Minor Faults               35593425      708164
: Major Faults                 484088          36
: Swap Ins                    3772837           0
: Swap Outs                   3932295           0
:
: Massive amounts of swap in/out without the patch
:
: Direct pages scanned        6013214           0
: Kswapd pages scanned              0           0
: Kswapd pages reclaimed            0           0
: Direct pages reclaimed      4033009           0
:
: Lots of reclaim activity without the patch
:
: Kswapd efficiency              100%        100%
: Kswapd velocity               0.000       0.000
: Direct efficiency               67%        100%
: Direct velocity           11191.956       0.000
:
: Mostly from direct reclaim context as you'd expect without the patch.
:
: Page writes by reclaim  3932314.000       0.000
: Page writes file                 19           0
: Page writes anon            3932295           0
: Page reclaim immediate        42336           0
:
: Writes from reclaim context is never good but the patch eliminates it.
:
: We should never have default behaviour to thrash the system for such a
: basic workload.  If zone reclaim mode behaviour is ever desired but on a
: single task instead of a global basis then the sensible option is to build
: a mempolicy that enforces that behaviour.

This was a severe regression compared to previous kernels that made
important workloads unusable and it starts when __GFP_THISNODE was
added to THP allocations under MADV_HUGEPAGE.  It is not a significant
risk to go to the previous behavior before __GFP_THISNODE was added, it
worked like that for years.

This was simply an optimization to some lucky workloads that can fit in
a single node, but it ended up breaking the VM for others that can't
possibly fit in a single node, so going back is safe.

[mhocko@suse.com: rewrote the changelog based on the one from Andrea]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925120326.24392-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: 5265047ac301 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Stefan Priebe 
Debugged-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Reported-by: Alex Williamson 
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman 
Tested-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: 	[4.1+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: handle no memcg case in memcg_kmem_charge() properly

2018-11-03T17:09:37+00:00

Mike Galbraith reported a regression caused by the commit 9b6f7e163cd0
("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting") on a system with
"cgroup_disable=memory" boot option: the system panics with the following
stack trace:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000f8
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.19.0-preempt+ #410
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20180531_142017-buildhw-08.phx2.fed4
  RIP: 0010:page_counter_try_charge+0x22/0xc0
  Code: 41 5d c3 c3 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 85 ff 0f 84 a7 00 00 00 41 56 48 89 f8 49 89 fe 49
  Call Trace:
   try_charge+0xcb/0x780
   memcg_kmem_charge_memcg+0x28/0x80
   memcg_kmem_charge+0x8b/0x1d0
   copy_process.part.41+0x1ca/0x2070
   _do_fork+0xd7/0x3d0
   do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x180
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

The problem occurs because get_mem_cgroup_from_current() returns the NULL
pointer if memory controller is disabled.  Let's check if this is a case
at the beginning of memcg_kmem_charge() and just return 0 if
mem_cgroup_disabled() returns true.  This is how we handle this case in
many other places in the memory controller code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181029215123.17830-1-guro@fb.com
Fixes: 9b6f7e163cd0 ("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Shakeel Butt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-linus-20181102' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2018-11-02T18:25:48+00:00

Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "The biggest part of this pull request is the revert of the blkcg
  cleanup series. It had one fix earlier for a stacked device issue, but
  another one was reported. Rather than play whack-a-mole with this,
  revert the entire series and try again for the next kernel release.

  Apart from that, only small fixes/changes.

  Summary:

   - Indentation fixup for mtip32xx (Colin Ian King)

   - The blkcg cleanup series revert (Dennis Zhou)

   - Two NVMe fixes. One fixing a regression in the nvme request
     initialization in this merge window, causing nvme-fc to not work.
     The other is a suspend/resume p2p resource issue (James, Keith)

   - Fix sg discard merge, allowing us to merge in cases where we didn't
     before (Jianchao Wang)

   - Call rq_qos_exit() after the queue is frozen, preventing a hang
     (Ming)

   - Fix brd queue setup, fixing an oops if we fail setting up all
     devices (Ming)"

* tag 'for-linus-20181102' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvme-pci: fix conflicting p2p resource adds
  nvme-fc: fix request private initialization
  blkcg: revert blkcg cleanups series
  block: brd: associate with queue until adding disk
  block: call rq_qos_exit() after queue is frozen
  mtip32xx: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous tabs
  block: fix the DISCARD request merge

Merge tag 'xfs-4.20-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

2018-11-02T16:33:08+00:00

Pull vfs dedup fixes from Dave Chinner:
 "This reworks the vfs data cloning infrastructure.

  We discovered many issues with these interfaces late in the 4.19 cycle
  - the worst of them (data corruption, setuid stripping) were fixed for
  XFS in 4.19-rc8, but a larger rework of the infrastructure fixing all
  the problems was needed. That rework is the contents of this pull
  request.

  Rework the vfs_clone_file_range and vfs_dedupe_file_range
  infrastructure to use a common .remap_file_range method and supply
  generic bounds and sanity checking functions that are shared with the
  data write path. The current VFS infrastructure has problems with
  rlimit, LFS file sizes, file time stamps, maximum filesystem file
  sizes, stripping setuid bits, etc and so they are addressed in these
  commits.

  We also introduce the ability for the ->remap_file_range methods to
  return short clones so that clones for vfs_copy_file_range() don't get
  rejected if the entire range can't be cloned. It also allows
  filesystems to sliently skip deduplication of partial EOF blocks if
  they are not capable of doing so without requiring errors to be thrown
  to userspace.

  Existing filesystems are converted to user the new remap_file_range
  method, and both XFS and ocfs2 are modified to make use of the new
  generic checking infrastructure"

* tag 'xfs-4.20-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (28 commits)
  xfs: remove [cm]time update from reflink calls
  xfs: remove xfs_reflink_remap_range
  xfs: remove redundant remap partial EOF block checks
  xfs: support returning partial reflink results
  xfs: clean up xfs_reflink_remap_blocks call site
  xfs: fix pagecache truncation prior to reflink
  ocfs2: remove ocfs2_reflink_remap_range
  ocfs2: support partial clone range and dedupe range
  ocfs2: fix pagecache truncation prior to reflink
  ocfs2: truncate page cache for clone destination file before remapping
  vfs: clean up generic_remap_file_range_prep return value
  vfs: hide file range comparison function
  vfs: enable remap callers that can handle short operations
  vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs dedupe functions
  vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs clone functions
  vfs: make remap_file_range functions take and return bytes completed
  vfs: remap helper should update destination inode metadata
  vfs: pass remap flags to generic_remap_checks
  vfs: pass remap flags to generic_remap_file_range_prep
  vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_range
  ...

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

2018-11-02T02:58:52+00:00

Pull AFS updates from Al Viro:
 "AFS series, with some iov_iter bits included"

* 'work.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits)
  missing bits of "iov_iter: Separate type from direction and use accessor functions"
  afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously
  afs: Fix callback handling
  afs: Eliminate the address pointer from the address list cursor
  afs: Allow dumping of server cursor on operation failure
  afs: Implement YFS support in the fs client
  afs: Expand data structure fields to support YFS
  afs: Get the target vnode in afs_rmdir() and get a callback on it
  afs: Calc callback expiry in op reply delivery
  afs: Fix FS.FetchStatus delivery from updating wrong vnode
  afs: Implement the YFS cache manager service
  afs: Remove callback details from afs_callback_break struct
  afs: Commit the status on a new file/dir/symlink
  afs: Increase to 64-bit volume ID and 96-bit vnode ID for YFS
  afs: Don't invoke the server to read data beyond EOF
  afs: Add a couple of tracepoints to log I/O errors
  afs: Handle EIO from delivery function
  afs: Fix TTL on VL server and address lists
  afs: Implement VL server rotation
  afs: Improve FS server rotation error handling
  ...

blkcg: revert blkcg cleanups series

2018-11-02T01:59:53+00:00

This reverts a series committed earlier due to null pointer exception
bug report in [1]. It seems there are edge case interactions that I did
not consider and will need some time to understand what causes the
adverse interactions.

The original series can be found in [2] with a follow up series in [3].

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg20719.html
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180911184137.35897-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181020185612.51587-1-dennis@kernel.org/

This reverts the following commits:
d459d853c2ed, b2c3fa546705, 101246ec02b5, b3b9f24f5fcc, e2b0989954ae,
f0fcb3ec89f3, c839e7a03f92, bdc2491708c4, 74b7c02a9bc1, 5bf9a1f3b4ef,
a7b39b4e961c, 07b05bcc3213, 49f4c2dc2b50, 27e6fa996c53

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

2018-11-01T21:42:49+00:00

Pull virtio/vhost updates from Michael Tsirkin:
 "Fixes and tweaks:

   - virtio balloon page hinting support

   - vhost scsi control queue

   - misc fixes"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  MAINTAINERS: remove reference to bogus vsock file
  vhost/scsi: Use common handling code in request queue handler
  vhost/scsi: Extract common handling code from control queue handler
  vhost/scsi: Respond to control queue operations
  vhost/scsi: truncate T10 PI iov_iter to prot_bytes
  virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON
  mm/page_poison: expose page_poisoning_enabled to kernel modules
  virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT
  kvm_config: add CONFIG_VIRTIO_MENU

Merge branch 'for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu

2018-11-01T16:27:57+00:00

Pull percpu fixes from Dennis Zhou:
 "Two small things for v4.20.

  The first fixes a clang uninitialized variable warning for arm64 in
  the default path calls BUILD_BUG(). The second removes an unnecessary
  unlikely() in a WARN_ON() use"

* 'for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu:
  arm64: percpu: Initialize ret in the default case
  mm: percpu: remove unnecessary unlikely()