kernel.git/mm/huge_memory.c, branch linux-3.11.y

mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing

2013-11-13T03:08:11Z

commit 3f926ab945b60a5824369d21add7710622a2eac0 upstream. THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations but there are cases like this still open Task A Task B --------------------- --------------------- do_huge_pmd_numa_page do_huge_pmd_numa_page lock_page mpol_misplaced == -1 unlock_page goto clear_pmdnuma lock_page mpol_misplaced == 2 migrate_misplaced_transhuge pmd = pmd_mknonnuma set_pmd_at During hours of testing, one crashed with weird errors and while I have no direct evidence, I suspect something like the race above happened. This patch extends the page lock to being held until the pmd_numa is cleared to prevent migration starting in parallel while the pmd_numa is being cleared. It also flushes the old pmd entry and orders pagetable insertion before rmap insertion. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-9-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites

2013-11-13T03:08:11Z

commit c61109e34f60f6e85bb43c5a1cd51c0e3db40847 upstream. There are three callers of task_numa_fault(): - do_huge_pmd_numa_page(): Accounts against the current node, not the node where the page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts against the node we migrated to. - do_numa_page(): Accounts against the current node, not the node where the page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts against the node we migrated to. - do_pmd_numa_page(): Accounts not at all when the page isn't migrated, otherwise accounts against the node we migrated towards. This seems wrong to me; all three sites should have the same sementaics, furthermore we should accounts against where the page really is, we already know where the task is. So modify all three sites to always account; we did after all receive the fault; and always account to where the page is after migration, regardless of success. They all still differ on when they clear the PTE/PMD; ideally that would get sorted too. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration

2013-11-13T03:08:10Z

commit 587fe586f44a48f9691001ba6c45b86c8e4ba21f upstream. THP migrations are serialised by the page lock but on its own that does not prevent THP splits. If the page is split during THP migration then the pmd_same checks will prevent page table corruption but the unlock page and other fix-ups potentially will cause corruption. This patch takes the anon_vma lock to prevent parallel splits during migration. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: Wait for THP migrations to complete during NUMA hinting faults

2013-11-13T03:08:10Z

commit 42836f5f8baa33085f547098b74aa98991ee9216 upstream. The locking for migrating THP is unusual. While normal page migration prevents parallel accesses using a migration PTE, THP migration relies on a combination of the page_table_lock, the page lock and the existance of the NUMA hinting PTE to guarantee safety but there is a bug in the scheme. If a THP page is currently being migrated and another thread traps a fault on the same page it checks if the page is misplaced. If it is not, then pmd_numa is cleared. The problem is that it checks if the page is misplaced without holding the page lock meaning that the racing thread can be migrating the THP when the second thread clears the NUMA bit and faults a stale page. This patch checks if the page is potentially being migrated and stalls using the lock_page if it is potentially being migrated before checking if the page is misplaced or not. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-6-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: numa: Do not account for a hinting fault if we raced

2013-11-13T03:08:10Z

commit 1dd49bfa3465756b3ce72214b58a33e4afb67aa3 upstream. If another task handled a hinting fault in parallel then do not double account for it. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-5-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd

2013-11-04T12:35:20Z

commit 750e8165f5e87b6a142be953640eabb13a9d350a upstream. Occasionally we hit the BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) at the end of __split_huge_page_pmd(): seen when doing madvise(,,MADV_DONTNEED). It's invalid: we don't always have down_write of mmap_sem there: a racing do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another huge page before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock. Forget the BUG_ON, just go back and try again if this happens. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

2013-09-27T00:21:57Z

commit a8f531ebc33052642b4bd7b812eedf397108ce64 upstream. In collapse_huge_page() there is a race window between releasing the mmap_sem read lock and taking the mmap_sem write lock, so find_vma() may return NULL. So check the return value to avoid NULL pointer dereference. collapse_huge_page khugepaged_alloc_page up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) vma = find_vma(mm, address) Signed-off-by: Libin Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

thp, mm: avoid PageUnevictable on active/inactive lru lists

2013-07-31T21:41:03Z

active/inactive lru lists can contain unevicable pages (i.e. ramfs pages that have been placed on the LRU lists when first allocated), but these pages must not have PageUnevictable set - otherwise shrink_[in]active_list goes crazy: kernel BUG at /home/space/kas/git/public/linux-next/mm/vmscan.c:1122! 1090 static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan, 1091 struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *dst, 1092 unsigned long *nr_scanned, struct scan_control *sc, 1093 isolate_mode_t mode, enum lru_list lru) 1094 { ... 1108 switch (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode)) { 1109 case 0: ... 1116 case -EBUSY: ... 1121 default: 1122 BUG(); 1123 } 1124 } ... 1130 } __isolate_lru_page() returns EINVAL for PageUnevictable(page). For lru_add_page_tail(), it means we should not set PageUnevictable() for tail pages unless we're sure that it will go to LRU_UNEVICTABLE. Let's just copy PG_active and PG_unevictable from head page in __split_huge_page_refcount(), it will simplify lru_add_page_tail(). This will fix one more bug in lru_add_page_tail(): if page_evictable(page_tail) is false and PageLRU(page) is true, page_tail will go to the same lru as page, but nobody cares to sync page_tail active/inactive state with page. So we can end up with inactive page on active lru. The patch will fix it as well since we copy PG_active from head page. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2013-07-04T17:29:23Z

Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt: "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window. In addition to the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are: - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit server processors. This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size. - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling and recovery) infrastructure. It is no longer specific to pseries but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no hypervisor) by Gavin Shan. - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded processors). - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael Ellerman. This facility allows what is basically "userspace interrupts" for performance monitor events. - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs. Signals bug fixes and HW breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling. And more ... I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight something that somebody deemed worth it." * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits) pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object powerpc/mpic: add global timer support powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events ...

mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking

2013-07-03T23:07:26Z

The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task writes to. In order to do this tracking one should 1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs) 2. Wait some time. 3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries) To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the soft-dirty bit is. Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE. Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed fast. This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory, and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE. Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies the virtual memory at mremap's new address. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Glauber Costa Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds