linux.git/mm, branch v4.3-rc6

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-10-16T18:42:37+00:00

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "6 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton :
  sh: add copy_user_page() alias for __copy_user()
  lib/Kconfig: ZLIB_DEFLATE must select BITREVERSE
  mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks
  memcg: convert threshold to bytes
  builddeb: remove debian/files before build
  mm, fs: obey gfp_mapping for add_to_page_cache()

mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks

2015-10-16T18:42:28+00:00

The following two locking commits in the DAX code:

commit 843172978bb9 ("dax: fix race between simultaneous faults")
commit 46c043ede471 ("mm: take i_mmap_lock in unmap_mapping_range() for DAX")

introduced a number of deadlocks and other issues which need to be fixed
for the v4.3 kernel.  The list of issues in DAX after these commits
(some newly introduced by the commits, some preexisting) can be found
here:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/25/602 (Subject: "Re: [PATCH] dax: fix deadlock in __dax_fault").

This undoes most of the changes introduced by those two commits,
essentially returning us to the DAX locking scheme that was used in
v4.2.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Tested-by: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: convert threshold to bytes

2015-10-16T18:42:28+00:00

page_counter_memparse() returns pages for the threshold, while
mem_cgroup_usage() returns bytes for memory usage.  Convert the
threshold to bytes.

Fixes: 3e32cb2e0a12b6915 ("memcg: rename cgroup_event to mem_cgroup_event").
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, fs: obey gfp_mapping for add_to_page_cache()

2015-10-16T18:42:28+00:00

Commit 6afdb859b710 ("mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache
allocation paths") has caught some users of hardcoded GFP_KERNEL used in
the page cache allocation paths.  This, however, wasn't complete and
there were others which went unnoticed.

Dave Chinner has reported the following deadlock for xfs on loop device:
: With the recent merge of the loop device changes, I'm now seeing
: XFS deadlock on my single CPU, 1GB RAM VM running xfs/073.
:
: The deadlocked is as follows:
:
: kloopd1: loop_queue_read_work
:       xfs_file_iter_read
:       lock XFS inode XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED (on image file)
:       page cache read (GFP_KERNEL)
:       radix tree alloc
:       memory reclaim
:       reclaim XFS inodes
:       log force to unpin inodes
:       
:
: xfs-cil/loop1: 
:       xlog_cil_push
:       xlog_write
:       
:               xlog_state_get_iclog_space()
:               
:               
:
: kloopd1: loop_queue_write_work
:       xfs_file_write_iter
:       lock XFS inode XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL (on image file)
:       
:
: i.e. the kloopd, with it's split read and write work queues, has
: introduced a dependency through memory reclaim. i.e. that writes
: need to be able to progress for reads make progress.
:
: The problem, fundamentally, is that mpage_readpages() does a
: GFP_KERNEL allocation, rather than paying attention to the inode's
: mapping gfp mask, which is set to GFP_NOFS.
:
: The didn't used to happen, because the loop device used to issue
: reads through the splice path and that does:
:
:       error = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index,
:                       GFP_KERNEL & mapping_gfp_mask(mapping));

This has changed by commit aa4d86163e4 ("block: loop: switch to VFS
ITER_BVEC").

This patch changes mpage_readpage{s} to follow gfp mask set for the
mapping.  There are, however, other places which are doing basically the
same.

lustre:ll_dir_filler is doing GFP_KERNEL from the function which
apparently uses GFP_NOFS for other allocations so let's make this
consistent.

cifs:readpages_get_pages is called from cifs_readpages and
__cifs_readpages_from_fscache called from the same path obeys mapping
gfp.

ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping is hardcoding GFP_KERNEL as well
regardless it uses mapping_gfp_mask for the page allocation.

ext4_mpage_readpages is the called from the page cache allocation path
same as read_pages and read_cache_pages

As I've noticed in my previous post I cannot say I would be happy about
sprinkling mapping_gfp_mask all over the place and it sounds like we
should drop gfp_mask argument altogether and use it internally in
__add_to_page_cache_locked that would require all the filesystems to use
mapping gfp consistently which I am not sure is the case here.  From a
quick glance it seems that some file system use it all the time while
others are selective.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Dave Chinner 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Ming Lei 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Oleg Drokin 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmstat: explicitly schedule per-cpu work on the CPU we need it to run on

2015-10-15T20:01:50+00:00

The vmstat code uses "schedule_delayed_work_on()" to do the initial
startup of the delayed work on the right CPU, but then once it was
started it would use the non-cpu-specific "schedule_delayed_work()" to
re-schedule it on that CPU.

That just happened to schedule it on the same CPU historically (well, in
almost all situations), but the code _requires_ this work to be per-cpu,
and should say so explicitly rather than depend on the non-cpu-specific
scheduling to schedule on the current CPU.

The timer code is being changed to not be as single-minded in always
running things on the calling CPU.

See also commit 874bbfe600a6 ("workqueue: make sure delayed work run in
local cpu") that for now maintains the local CPU guarantees just in case
there are other broken users that depended on the accidental behavior.

Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "fs: do not prefault sys_write() user buffer pages"

2015-10-07T07:32:38+00:00

This reverts commit 998ef75ddb5709bbea0bf1506cd2717348a3c647.

The commit itself does not appear to be buggy per se, but it is exposing
a bug in ext4 (and Ted thinks ext3 too, but we solved that by getting
rid of it).  It's too late in the release cycle to really worry about
this, even if Dave Hansen has a patch that may actually fix the
underlying ext4 problem.  We can (and should) revisit this for the next
release.

The problem is that moving the prefaulting later now exposes a special
case with partially successful writes that isn't handled correctly.  And
the prefaulting likely isn't normally even that much of a performance
issue - it looks like at least one reason Dave saw this in his
performance tests is that he also ran them on Skylake that now supports
the new SMAP code, which makes the normally very cheap user space
prefaulting noticeably more expensive.

Bisected-and-acked-by: Ted Ts'o 
Analyzed-and-acked-by: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dmapool: fix overflow condition in pool_find_page()

2015-10-02T01:42:35+00:00

If a DMA pool lies at the very top of the dma_addr_t range (as may
happen with an IOMMU involved), the calculated end address of the pool
wraps around to zero, and page lookup always fails.

Tweak the relevant calculation to be overflow-proof.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Marek Szyprowski 
Cc: Sumit Semwal 
Cc: Sakari Ailus 
Cc: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: remove pcp_counter_lock

2015-10-02T01:42:35+00:00

Commit 733a572e66d2 ("memcg: make mem_cgroup_read_{stat|event}() iterate
possible cpus instead of online") removed the last use of the per memcg
pcp_counter_lock but forgot to remove the variable.

Kill the vestigial variable.

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: make mem_cgroup_read_stat() unsigned

2015-10-02T01:42:35+00:00

mem_cgroup_read_stat() returns a page count by summing per cpu page
counters.  The summing is racy wrt.  updates, so a transient negative
sum is possible.  Callers don't want negative values:

 - mem_cgroup_wb_stats() doesn't want negative nr_dirty or nr_writeback.
   This could confuse dirty throttling.

 - oom reports and memory.stat shouldn't show confusing negative usage.

 - tree_usage() already avoids negatives.

Avoid returning negative page counts from mem_cgroup_read_stat() and
convert it to unsigned.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix old typo while we're in there]
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: 	[4.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: fix dirty page migration

2015-10-02T01:42:35+00:00

The problem starts with a file backed dirty page which is charged to a
memcg.  Then page migration is used to move oldpage to newpage.

Migration:
 - copies the oldpage's data to newpage
 - clears oldpage.PG_dirty
 - sets newpage.PG_dirty
 - uncharges oldpage from memcg
 - charges newpage to memcg

Clearing oldpage.PG_dirty decrements the charged memcg's dirty page
count.

However, because newpage is not yet charged, setting newpage.PG_dirty
does not increment the memcg's dirty page count.  After migration
completes newpage.PG_dirty is eventually cleared, often in
account_page_cleaned().  At this time newpage is charged to a memcg so
the memcg's dirty page count is decremented which causes underflow
because the count was not previously incremented by migration.  This
underflow causes balance_dirty_pages() to see a very large unsigned
number of dirty memcg pages which leads to aggressive throttling of
buffered writes by processes in non root memcg.

This issue:
 - can harm performance of non root memcg buffered writes.
 - can report too small (even negative) values in
   memory.stat[(total_)dirty] counters of all memcg, including the root.

To avoid polluting migrate.c with #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG checks, introduce
page_memcg() and set_page_memcg() helpers.

Test:
    0) setup and enter limited memcg
    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
    echo 1G > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
    echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs

    1) buffered writes baseline
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1k
    sync
    grep ^dirty /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat

    2) buffered writes with compaction antagonist to induce migration
    yes 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory &
    rm -rf /data/tmp/foo
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1k
    kill %
    sync
    grep ^dirty /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat

    3) buffered writes without antagonist, should match baseline
    rm -rf /data/tmp/foo
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1k
    sync
    grep ^dirty /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat

                       (speed, dirty residue)
             unpatched                       patched
    1) 841 MB/s 0 dirty pages          886 MB/s 0 dirty pages
    2) 611 MB/s -33427456 dirty pages  793 MB/s 0 dirty pages
    3) 114 MB/s -33427456 dirty pages  891 MB/s 0 dirty pages

    Notice that unpatched baseline performance (1) fell after
    migration (3): 841 -> 114 MB/s.  In the patched kernel, post
    migration performance matches baseline.

Fixes: c4843a7593a9 ("memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accounting")
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen 
Reported-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: 	[4.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds