- 07 Mar, 2012 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
Several users of "find_vma_prev()" were not in fact interested in the previous vma if there was no primary vma to be found either. And in those cases, we're much better off just using the regular "find_vma()", and then "prev" can be looked up by just checking vma->vm_prev. The find_vma_prev() semantics are fairly subtle (see Mikulas' recent commit 83cd904d : "mm: fix find_vma_prev"), and the whole "return prev by reference" means that it generates worse code too. Thus this "let's avoid using this inconvenient and clearly too subtle interface when we don't really have to" patch. Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 01 Nov, 2011 2 commits
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Hugh Dickins authored
A process spent 30 minutes exiting, just munlocking the pages of a large anonymous area that had been alternately mprotected into page-sized vmas: for every single page there's an anon_vma walk through all the other little vmas to find the right one. A general fix to that would be a lot more complicated (use prio_tree on anon_vma?), but there's one very simple thing we can do to speed up the common case: if a page to be munlocked is mapped only once, then it is our vma that it is mapped into, and there's no need whatever to walk through all the others. Okay, there is a very remote race in munlock_vma_pages_range(), if between its follow_page() and lock_page(), another process were to munlock the same page, then page reclaim remove it from our vma, then another process mlock it again. We would find it with page_mapcount 1, yet it's still mlocked in another process. But never mind, that's much less likely than the down_read_trylock() failure which munlocking already tolerates (in try_to_unmap_one()): in due course page reclaim will discover and move the page to unevictable instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
MCL_FUTURE does not move pages between lru list and draining the LRU per cpu pagevecs is a nasty activity. Avoid doing it unecessarily. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 31 Oct, 2011 1 commit
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Paul Gortmaker authored
The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL macro variants. They are not using core modular infrastructure and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header. Signed-off-by:Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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- 26 May, 2011 1 commit
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
The type of vma->vm_flags is 'unsigned long'. Neither 'int' nor 'unsigned int'. This patch fixes such misuse. Signed-off-by:
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- 05 May, 2011 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
The logic in __get_user_pages() used to skip the stack guard page lookup whenever the caller wasn't interested in seeing what the actual page was. But Michel Lespinasse points out that there are cases where we don't care about the physical page itself (so 'pages' may be NULL), but do want to make sure a page is mapped into the virtual address space. So using the existence of the "pages" array as an indication of whether to look up the guard page or not isn't actually so great, and we really should just use the FOLL_MLOCK bit. But because that bit was only set for the VM_LOCKED case (and not all vma's necessarily have it, even for mlock()), we couldn't do that originally. Fix that by moving the VM_LOCKED check deeper into the call-chain, which actually simplifies many things. Now mlock() gets simpler, and we can also check for FOLL_MLOCK in __get_user_pages() and the code ends up much more straightforward. Reported-and-reviewed-by:
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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- 12 Apr, 2011 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 53a7706d ("mlock: do not hold mmap_sem for extended periods of time") changed mlock() to care about the exact number of pages that __get_user_pages() had brought it. Before, it would only care about errors. And that doesn't work, because we also handled one page specially in __mlock_vma_pages_range(), namely the stack guard page. So when that case was handled, the number of pages that the function returned was off by one. In particular, it could be zero, and then the caller would end up not making any progress at all. Rather than try to fix up that off-by-one error for the mlock case specially, this just moves the logic to handle the stack guard page into__get_user_pages() itself, thus making all the counts come out right automatically. Reported-by:
Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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- 23 Mar, 2011 1 commit
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Stephen Wilson authored
Morally, the presence of a gate vma is more an attribute of a particular mm than a particular task. Moreover, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help make both existing and future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 01 Feb, 2011 1 commit
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Michel Lespinasse authored
As Tao Ma noticed, change 5ecfda04 breaks blktrace. This is because blktrace mmaps a file with PROT_WRITE permissions but without PROT_READ, so my attempt to not unnecessarity break COW during mlock ended up causing mlock to fail with a permission problem. I am proposing to let mlock ignore vma protection in all cases except PROT_NONE. In particular, mlock should not fail for PROT_WRITE regions (as in the blktrace case, which broke at 5ecfda04 ) or for PROT_EXEC regions (which seem to me like they were always broken). Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 14 Jan, 2011 5 commits
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Michel Lespinasse authored
__get_user_pages gets a new 'nonblocking' parameter to signal that the caller is prepared to re-acquire mmap_sem and retry the operation if needed. This is used to split off long operations if they are going to block on a disk transfer, or when we detect contention on the mmap_sem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove ref to rwsem_is_contended()] Signed-off-by:
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Michel Lespinasse authored
Use a single code path for faulting in pages during mlock. The reason to have it in this patch series is that I did not want to update both code paths in a later change that releases mmap_sem when blocking on disk. Signed-off-by:
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Michel Lespinasse authored
Move the code to mlock pages from __mlock_vma_pages_range() to follow_page(). This allows __mlock_vma_pages_range() to not have to break down work into 16-page batches. An additional motivation for doing this within the present patch series is that it'll make it easier for a later chagne to drop mmap_sem when blocking on disk (we'd like to be able to resume at the page that was read from disk instead of at the start of a 16-page batch). Signed-off-by:
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Michel Lespinasse authored
Currently mlock() holds mmap_sem in exclusive mode while the pages get faulted in. In the case of a large mlock, this can potentially take a very long time, during which various commands such as 'ps auxw' will block. This makes sysadmins unhappy: real 14m36.232s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.015s (output from 'time ps auxw' while a 20GB file was being mlocked without being previously preloaded into page cache) I propose that mlock() could release mmap_sem after the VM_LOCKED bits have been set in all appropriate VMAs. Then a second pass could be done to actually mlock the pages, in small batches, releasing mmap_sem when we block on disk access or when we detect some contention. This patch: Before this change, mlock() holds mmap_sem in exclusive mode while the pages get faulted in. In the case of a large mlock, this can potentially take a very long time. Various things will block while mmap_sem is held, including 'ps auxw'. This can make sysadmins angry. I propose that mlock() could release mmap_sem after the VM_LOCKED bits have been set in all appropriate VMAs. Then a second pass could be done to actually mlock the pages with mmap_sem held for reads only. We need to recheck the vma flags after we re-acquire mmap_sem, but this is easy. In the case where a vma has been munlocked before mlock completes, pages that were already marked as PageMlocked() are handled by the munlock() call, and mlock() is careful to not mark new page batches as PageMlocked() after the munlock() call has cleared the VM_LOCKED vma flags. So, the end result will be identical to what'd happen if munlock() had executed after the mlock() call. In a later change, I will allow the second pass to release mmap_sem when blocking on disk accesses or when it is otherwise contended, so that it won't be held for long periods of time even in shared mode. Signed-off-by:
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michel Lespinasse authored
When faulting in pages for mlock(), we want to break COW for anonymous or file pages within VM_WRITABLE, non-VM_SHARED vmas. However, there is no need to write-fault into VM_SHARED vmas since shared file pages can be mlocked first and dirtied later, when/if they actually get written to. Skipping the write fault is desirable, as we don't want to unnecessarily cause these pages to be dirtied and queued for writeback. Signed-off-by:
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- 09 Sep, 2010 1 commit
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Stefan Bader authored
So it can be used by all that need to check for that. Signed-off-by:
Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 21 Aug, 2010 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
If we've split the stack vma, only the lowest one has the guard page. Now that we have a doubly linked list of vma's, checking this is trivial. Tested-by:
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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- 15 Aug, 2010 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
This commit makes the stack guard page somewhat less visible to user space. It does this by: - not showing the guard page in /proc/<pid>/maps It looks like lvm-tools will actually read /proc/self/maps to figure out where all its mappings are, and effectively do a specialized "mlockall()" in user space. By not showing the guard page as part of the mapping (by just adding PAGE_SIZE to the start for grows-up pages), lvm-tools ends up not being aware of it. - by also teaching the _real_ mlock() functionality not to try to lock the guard page. That would just expand the mapping down to create a new guard page, so there really is no point in trying to lock it in place. It would perhaps be nice to show the guard page specially in /proc/<pid>/maps (or at least mark grow-down segments some way), but let's not open ourselves up to more breakage by user space from programs that depends on the exact deails of the 'maps' file. Special thanks to Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for diving into lvm-tools source code to see what was going on with the whole new warning. Reported-and-tested-by: François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be Reported-by:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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- 26 Mar, 2010 1 commit
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 Mar, 2010 1 commit
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Jiri Slaby authored
Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. E.g. fetching them twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented. I.e. either use rlimit helpers added in 3e10e716 ("resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable. Signed-off-by:
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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- 15 Dec, 2009 3 commits
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
Cleanup stale comments on munlock_vma_page(). Signed-off-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
When KSM merges an mlocked page, it has been forgetting to munlock it: that's been left to free_page_mlock(), which reports it in /proc/vmstat as unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed instead of unevictable_pgs_munlocked (and whinges "Page flag mlocked set for process" in mmotm, whereas mainline is silently forgiving). Call munlock_vma_page() to fix that. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
There's contorted mlock/munlock handling in try_to_unmap_anon() and try_to_unmap_file(), which we'd prefer not to repeat for KSM swapping. Simplify it by moving it all down into try_to_unmap_one(). One thing is then lost, try_to_munlock()'s distinction between when no vma holds the page mlocked, and when a vma does mlock it, but we could not get mmap_sem to set the page flag. But its only caller takes no interest in that distinction (and is better testing SWAP_MLOCK anyway), so let's keep the code simple and return SWAP_AGAIN for both cases. try_to_unmap_file()'s TTU_MUNLOCK nonlinear handling was particularly amusing: once unravelled, it turns out to have been choosing between two different ways of doing the same nothing. Ah, no, one way was actually returning SWAP_FAIL when it meant to return SWAP_SUCCESS. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: comment adding to mlocking in try_to_unmap_one] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove test of MLOCK_PAGES] Signed-off-by:
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- 22 Sep, 2009 3 commits
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Hugh Dickins authored
I'm still reluctant to clutter __get_user_pages() with another flag, just to avoid touching ZERO_PAGE count in mlock(); though we can add that later if it shows up as an issue in practice. But when mlocking, we can test page->mapping slightly earlier, to avoid the potentially bouncy rescheduling of lock_page on ZERO_PAGE - mlock didn't lock_page in olden ZERO_PAGE days, so we might have regressed. And when munlocking, it turns out that FOLL_DUMP coincidentally does what's needed to avoid all updates to ZERO_PAGE, so use that here also. Plus add comment suggested by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
__get_user_pages() has been taking its own GUP flags, then processing them into FOLL flags for follow_page(). Though oddly named, the FOLL flags are more widely used, so pass them to __get_user_pages() now. Sorry, VM flags, VM_FAULT flags and FAULT_FLAGs are still distinct. (The patch to __get_user_pages() looks peculiar, with both gup_flags and foll_flags: the gup_flags remain constant; but as before there's an exceptional case, out of scope of the patch, in which foll_flags per page have FOLL_WRITE masked off.) Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Hiroaki Wakabayashi points out that when mlock() has been interrupted by SIGKILL, the subsequent munlock() takes unnecessarily long because its use of __get_user_pages() insists on faulting in all the pages which mlock() never reached. It's worse than slowness if mlock() is terminated by Out Of Memory kill: the munlock_vma_pages_all() in exit_mmap() insists on faulting in all the pages which mlock() could not find memory for; so innocent bystanders are killed too, and perhaps the system hangs. __get_user_pages() does a lot that's silly for munlock(): so remove the munlock option from __mlock_vma_pages_range(), and use a simple loop of follow_page()s in munlock_vma_pages_range() instead; ignoring absent pages, and not marking present pages as accessed or dirty. (Change munlock() to only go so far as mlock() reached? That does not work out, given the convention that mlock() claims complete success even when it has to give up early - in part so that an underlying file can be extended later, and those pages locked which earlier would give SIGBUS.) Signed-off-by:
Hiroaki Wakabayashi <primulaelatior@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 17 Jun, 2009 1 commit
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Currently, nobody wants to turn UNEVICTABLE_LRU off. Thus this configurability is unnecessary. Signed-off-by:
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- 24 Apr, 2009 1 commit
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Markus Metzger authored
The current mm interface is asymetric. One function allocates a locked buffer, another function only refunds the memory. Change this to have two functions for accounting and refunding locked memory, respectively; and do the actual buffer allocation in ptrace. [ Impact: refactor BTS buffer allocation code ] Signed-off-by:
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Acked-by:
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- 08 Apr, 2009 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
Remove the unused free_locked_buffer() API. Signed-off-by:
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- 07 Apr, 2009 1 commit
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Markus Metzger authored
When a ptraced task is unlinked, we need to stop branch tracing for that task. Since the unlink is called with interrupts disabled, and we need interrupts enabled to stop branch tracing, we defer the work. Collect all branch tracing related stuff in a branch tracing context. Reviewed-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 11 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Markus Metzger authored
Ptrace_detach() races with __ptrace_unlink() if the traced task is reaped while detaching. This might cause a double-free of the BTS buffer. Change the ptrace_detach() path to only do the memory accounting in ptrace_bts_detach() and leave the buffer free to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called from __ptrace_unlink(). The fix follows a proposal from Oleg Nesterov. Reported-by:
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- 08 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Hugh Dickins authored
Commit 27421e21 , Manually revert "mlock: downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions", has introduced its own regression: __mlock_vma_pages_range() may report an error (for example, -EFAULT from trying to lock down pages from beyond EOF), but mlock_vma_pages_range() must hide that from its callers as before. Reported-by:
Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi> Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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- 01 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
This essentially reverts commit 8edb08ca . It downgraded our mmap semaphore to a read-lock while mlocking pages, in order to allow other threads (and external accesses like "ps" et al) to walk the vma lists and take page faults etc. Which is a nice idea, but the implementation does not work. Because we cannot upgrade the lock back to a write lock without releasing the mmap semaphore, the code had to release the lock entirely and then re-take it as a writelock. However, that meant that the caller possibly lost the vma chain that it was following, since now another thread could come in and mmap/munmap the range. The code tried to work around that by just looking up the vma again and erroring out if that happened, but quite frankly, that was just a buggy hack that doesn't actually protect against anything (the other thread could just have replaced the vma with another one instead of totally unmapping it). The only way to downgrade to a read map _reliably_ is to do it at the end, which is likely the right thing to do: do all the 'vma' operations with the write-lock held, then downgrade to a read after completing them all, and then do the "populate the newly mlocked regions" while holding just the read lock. And then just drop the read-lock and return to user space. The (perhaps somewhat simpler) alternative is to just make all the callers of mlock_vma_pages_range() know that the mmap lock got dropped, and just re-grab the mmap semaphore if it needs to mlock more than one vma region. So we can do this "downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions" thing right, but the way it was done here was absolutely not correct. Thus the revert, in the expectation that we will do it all correctly some day. Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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- 14 Jan, 2009 2 commits
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Heiko Carstens authored
Signed-off-by:Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens authored
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- 06 Jan, 2009 1 commit
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Ying Han authored
The initial implementation of checking TIF_MEMDIE covers the cases of OOM killing. If the process has been OOM killed, the TIF_MEMDIE is set and it return immediately. This patch includes: 1. add the case that the SIGKILL is sent by user processes. The process can try to get_user_pages() unlimited memory even if a user process has sent a SIGKILL to it(maybe a monitor find the process exceed its memory limit and try to kill it). In the old implementation, the SIGKILL won't be handled until the get_user_pages() returns. 2. change the return value to be ERESTARTSYS. It makes no sense to return ENOMEM if the get_user_pages returned by getting a SIGKILL signal. Considering the general convention for a system call interrupted by a signal is ERESTARTNOSYS, so the current return value is consistant to that. Lee: An unfortunate side effect of "make-get_user_pages-interruptible" is that it prevents a SIGKILL'd task from munlock-ing pages that it had mlocked, resulting in freeing of mlocked pages. Freeing of mlocked pages, in itself, is not so bad. We just count them now--altho' I had hoped to remove this stat and add PG_MLOCKED to the free pages flags check. However, consider pages in shared libraries mapped by more than one task that a task mlocked--e.g., via mlockall(). If the task that mlocked the pages exits via SIGKILL, these pages would be left mlocked and unevictable. Proposed fix: Add another GUP flag to ignore sigkill when calling get_user_pages from munlock()--similar to Kosaki Motohiro's 'IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS flag for the same purpose. We are not actually allocating memory in this case, which "make-get_user_pages-interruptible" intends to avoid. We're just munlocking pages that are already resident and mapped, and we're reusing get_user_pages() to access those pages. ?? Maybe we should combine 'IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS and '_IGNORE_SIGKILL into a single flag: GUP_FLAGS_MUNLOCK ??? [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: ignore sigkill in get_user_pages during munlock] Signed-off-by:
Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 20 Dec, 2008 1 commit
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: move the BTS buffer accounting to the mlock bucket Add alloc_locked_buffer() and free_locked_buffer() functions to mm/mlock.c to kalloc a buffer and account the locked memory to current. Account the memory for the BTS buffer to the tracer. Signed-off-by:
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- 16 Nov, 2008 1 commit
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Helge Deller authored
Fix an unitialized return value when compiling on parisc (with CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU=y): mm/mlock.c: In function `__mlock_vma_pages_range': mm/mlock.c:165: warning: `ret' might be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by:
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> [ It isn't ever really used uninitialized, since no caller should ever call this function with an empty range. But the compiler is correct that from a local analysis standpoint that is impossible to see, and fixing the warning is appropriate. ] Signed-off-by:
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- 13 Nov, 2008 1 commit
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
lockdep warns about following message at boot time on one of my test machine. Then, schedule_on_each_cpu() sholdn't be called when the task have mmap_sem. Actually, lru_add_drain_all() exist to prevent the unevictalble pages stay on reclaimable lru list. but currenct unevictable code can rescue unevictable pages although it stay on reclaimable list. So removing is better. In addition, this patch add lru_add_drain_all() to sys_mlock() and sys_mlockall(). it isn't must. but it reduce the failure of moving to unevictable list. its failure can rescue in vmscan later. but reducing is better. Note, if above rescuing happend, the Mlocked and the Unevictable field mismatching happend in /proc/meminfo. but it doesn't cause any real trouble. ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.28-rc2-mm1 #2 ------------------------------------------------------- lvm/1103 is trying to acquire lock: (&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}, at: [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 but task is already holding lock: (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<c01878ae>] sys_mlockall+0x4e/0xb0 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #3 (&mm->mmap_sem){----}: [<c0153da2>] check_noncircular+0x82/0x110 [<c0185e6a>] might_fault+0x4a/0xa0 [<c0156161>] validate_chain+0xb11/0x1070 [<c0185e6a>] might_fault+0x4a/0xa0 [<c0156923>] __lock_acquire+0x263/0xa10 [<c015714c>] lock_acquire+0x7c/0xb0 (*) grab mmap_sem [<c0185e6a>] might_fault+0x4a/0xa0 [<c0185e9b>] might_fault+0x7b/0xa0 [<c0185e6a>] might_fault+0x4a/0xa0 [<c0294dd0>] copy_to_user+0x30/0x60 [<c01ae3ec>] filldir+0x7c/0xd0 [<c01e3a6a>] sysfs_readdir+0x11a/0x1f0 (*) grab sysfs_mutex [<c01ae370>] filldir+0x0/0xd0 [<c01ae370>] filldir+0x0/0xd0 [<c01ae4c6>] vfs_readdir+0x86/0xa0 (*) grab i_mutex [<c01ae75b>] sys_getdents+0x6b/0xc0 [<c010355a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff -> #2 (sysfs_mutex){--..}: [<c0153da2>] check_noncircular+0x82/0x110 [<c01e3d2c>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x2c/0xc0 [<c0156161>] validate_chain+0xb11/0x1070 [<c01e3d2c>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x2c/0xc0 [<c0156923>] __lock_acquire+0x263/0xa10 [<c015714c>] lock_acquire+0x7c/0xb0 (*) grab sysfs_mutex [<c01e3d2c>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x2c/0xc0 [<c04f8b55>] mutex_lock_nested+0xa5/0x2f0 [<c01e3d2c>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x2c/0xc0 [<c01e3d2c>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x2c/0xc0 [<c01e3d2c>] sysfs_addrm_start+0x2c/0xc0 [<c01e422f>] create_dir+0x3f/0x90 [<c01e42a9>] sysfs_create_dir+0x29/0x50 [<c04faaf5>] _spin_unlock+0x25/0x40 [<c028f21d>] kobject_add_internal+0xcd/0x1a0 [<c028f37a>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x3a/0x50 [<c028f41d>] kobject_init_and_add+0x2d/0x40 [<c019d4d2>] sysfs_slab_add+0xd2/0x180 [<c019d580>] sysfs_add_func+0x0/0x70 [<c019d5dc>] sysfs_add_func+0x5c/0x70 (*) grab slub_lock [<c01400f2>] run_workqueue+0x172/0x200 [<c014008f>] run_workqueue+0x10f/0x200 [<c0140bd0>] worker_thread+0x0/0xf0 [<c0140c6c>] worker_thread+0x9c/0xf0 [<c0143c80>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50 [<c0140bd0>] worker_thread+0x0/0xf0 [<c0143972>] kthread+0x42/0x70 [<c0143930>] kthread+0x0/0x70 [<c01042db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff -> #1 (slub_lock){----}: [<c0153d2d>] check_noncircular+0xd/0x110 [<c04f650f>] slab_cpuup_callback+0x11f/0x1d0 [<c0156161>] validate_chain+0xb11/0x1070 [<c04f650f>] slab_cpuup_callback+0x11f/0x1d0 [<c015433d>] mark_lock+0x35d/0xd00 [<c0156923>] __lock_acquire+0x263/0xa10 [<c015714c>] lock_acquire+0x7c/0xb0 [<c04f650f>] slab_cpuup_callback+0x11f/0x1d0 [<c04f93a3>] down_read+0x43/0x80 [<c04f650f>] slab_cpuup_callback+0x11f/0x1d0 (*) grab slub_lock [<c04f650f>] slab_cpuup_callback+0x11f/0x1d0 [<c04fd9ac>] notifier_call_chain+0x3c/0x70 [<c04f5454>] _cpu_up+0x84/0x110 [<c04f552b>] cpu_up+0x4b/0x70 (*) grab cpu_hotplug.lock [<c06d1530>] kernel_init+0x0/0x170 [<c06d15e5>] kernel_init+0xb5/0x170 [<c06d1530>] kernel_init+0x0/0x170 [<c01042db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff -> #0 (&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}: [<c0155bff>] validate_chain+0x5af/0x1070 [<c040f7e0>] dev_status+0x0/0x50 [<c0156923>] __lock_acquire+0x263/0xa10 [<c015714c>] lock_acquire+0x7c/0xb0 [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 [<c04f8b55>] mutex_lock_nested+0xa5/0x2f0 [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 [<c017bc30>] lru_add_drain_per_cpu+0x0/0x10 [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 (*) grab cpu_hotplug.lock [<c0140cf2>] schedule_on_each_cpu+0x32/0xe0 [<c0187095>] __mlock_vma_pages_range+0x85/0x2c0 [<c0156945>] __lock_acquire+0x285/0xa10 [<c0188f09>] vma_merge+0xa9/0x1d0 [<c0187450>] mlock_fixup+0x180/0x200 [<c0187548>] do_mlockall+0x78/0x90 (*) grab mmap_sem [<c01878e1>] sys_mlockall+0x81/0xb0 [<c010355a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by lvm/1103: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<c01878ae>] sys_mlockall+0x4e/0xb0 stack backtrace: Pid: 1103, comm: lvm Not tainted 2.6.28-rc2-mm1 #2 Call Trace: [<c01555fc>] print_circular_bug_tail+0x7c/0xd0 [<c0155bff>] validate_chain+0x5af/0x1070 [<c040f7e0>] dev_status+0x0/0x50 [<c0156923>] __lock_acquire+0x263/0xa10 [<c015714c>] lock_acquire+0x7c/0xb0 [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 [<c04f8b55>] mutex_lock_nested+0xa5/0x2f0 [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 [<c017bc30>] lru_add_drain_per_cpu+0x0/0x10 [<c0130789>] get_online_cpus+0x29/0x50 [<c0140cf2>] schedule_on_each_cpu+0x32/0xe0 [<c0187095>] __mlock_vma_pages_range+0x85/0x2c0 [<c0156945>] __lock_acquire+0x285/0xa10 [<c0188f09>] vma_merge+0xa9/0x1d0 [<c0187450>] mlock_fixup+0x180/0x200 [<c0187548>] do_mlockall+0x78/0x90 [<c01878e1>] sys_mlockall+0x81/0xb0 [<c010355a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Signed-off-by:Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
Rework Posix error return for mlock(). Posix requires error code for mlock*() system calls for some conditions that differ from what kernel low level functions, such as get_user_pages(), return for those conditions. For more info, see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121750892930775&w=2 This patch provides the same translation of get_user_pages() error codes to posix specified error codes in the context of the mlock rework for unevictable lru. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Add NR_MLOCK zone page state, which provides a (conservative) count of mlocked pages (actually, the number of mlocked pages moved off the LRU). Reworked by lts to fit in with the modified mlock page support in the Reclaim Scalability series. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix incorrect Mlocked field of /proc/meminfo] [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: mlocked-pages: add event counting with statistics] Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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