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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<updated>2013-05-11T20:53:51Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>hugetlbfs: fix mmap failure in unaligned size request</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T20:53:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
</author>
<published>2013-05-07T23:18:13Z</published>
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commit af73e4d9506d3b797509f3c030e7dcd554f7d9c4 upstream.

The current kernel returns -EINVAL unless a given mmap length is
"almost" hugepage aligned.  This is because in sys_mmap_pgoff() the
given length is passed to vm_mmap_pgoff() as it is without being aligned
with hugepage boundary.

This is a regression introduced in commit 40716e29243d ("hugetlbfs: fix
alignment of huge page requests"), where alignment code is pushed into
hugetlb_file_setup() and the variable len in caller side is not changed.

To fix this, this patch partially reverts that commit, and adds
alignment code in caller side.  And it also introduces hstate_sizelog()
in order to get proper hstate to specified hugepage size.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56881

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: &lt;iceman_dvd@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Truelove &lt;steven.truelove@utoronto.ca&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: allow arch code to control the user page table ceiling</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T03:08:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
</author>
<published>2013-04-29T22:07:44Z</published>
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commit 6ee8630e02be6dd89926ca0fbc21af68b23dc087 upstream.

On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel
(e.g.  ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0.
This patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can
override.  It is the responsibility of the arch code setting the ceiling
to ensure the complete freeing of the page tables (usually in
pgd_free()).

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: prevent mmap_cache race in find_vma()</title>
<updated>2013-04-12T16:52:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Stancek</name>
</author>
<published>2013-04-04T18:35:10Z</published>
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commit b6a9b7f6b1f21735a7456d534dc0e68e61359d2c upstream.

find_vma() can be called by multiple threads with read lock
held on mm-&gt;mmap_sem and any of them can update mm-&gt;mmap_cache.
Prevent compiler from re-fetching mm-&gt;mmap_cache, because other
readers could update it in the meantime:

               thread 1                             thread 2
                                        |
  find_vma()                            |  find_vma()
    struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;  |
    vma = mm-&gt;mmap_cache;               |
    if (!(vma &amp;&amp; vma-&gt;vm_end &gt; addr     |
        &amp;&amp; vma-&gt;vm_start &lt;= addr)) {    |
                                        |    mm-&gt;mmap_cache = vma;
    return vma;                         |
     ^^ compiler may optimize this      |
        local variable out and re-read  |
        mm-&gt;mmap_cache                  |

This issue can be reproduced with gcc-4.8.0-1 on s390x by running
mallocstress testcase from LTP, which triggers:

  kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1088!
    Call Trace:
     ([&lt;000003d100c57000&gt;] 0x3d100c57000)
      [&lt;000000000023a1c0&gt;] do_wp_page+0x2fc/0xa88
      [&lt;000000000023baae&gt;] handle_pte_fault+0x41a/0xac8
      [&lt;000000000023d832&gt;] handle_mm_fault+0x17a/0x268
      [&lt;000000000060507a&gt;] do_protection_exception+0x1e2/0x394
      [&lt;0000000000603a04&gt;] pgm_check_handler+0x138/0x13c
      [&lt;000003fffcf1f07a&gt;] 0x3fffcf1f07a
    Last Breaking-Event-Address:
      [&lt;000000000024755e&gt;] page_add_new_anon_rmap+0xc2/0x168

Thanks to Jakub Jelinek for his insight on gcc and helping to
track this down.

Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: do not grow the stack vma just because of an overrun on preceding vma</title>
<updated>2013-03-03T22:03:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2013-02-27T16:36:04Z</published>
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commit 09884964335e85e897876d17783c2ad33cf8a2e0 upstream.

The stack vma is designed to grow automatically (marked with VM_GROWSUP
or VM_GROWSDOWN depending on architecture) when an access is made beyond
the existing boundary.  However, particularly if you have not limited
your stack at all ("ulimit -s unlimited"), this can cause the stack to
grow even if the access was really just one past *another* segment.

And that's wrong, especially since we first grow the segment, but then
immediately later enforce the stack guard page on the last page of the
segment.  So _despite_ first growing the stack segment as a result of
the access, the kernel will then make the access cause a SIGSEGV anyway!

So do the same logic as the guard page check does, and consider an
access to within one page of the next segment to be a bad access, rather
than growing the stack to abut the next segment.

Reported-and-tested-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix wrong comments about anon_vma lock</title>
<updated>2013-02-05T09:38:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuanhan Liu</name>
</author>
<published>2013-02-04T22:28:48Z</published>
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We use rwsem since commit 5a505085f043 ("mm/rmap: Convert the struct
anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem").  And most of comments are converted to
the new rwsem lock; while just 2 more missed from:

	 $ git grep 'anon_vma-&gt;mutex'

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: mmap: annotate vm_lock_anon_vma locking properly for lockdep</title>
<updated>2013-01-11T22:54:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
</author>
<published>2013-01-11T22:31:59Z</published>
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Commit 5a505085f043 ("mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an
rwsem") turned anon_vma mutex to rwsem.

However, the properly annotated nested locking in mm_take_all_locks()
has been converted from

	mutex_lock_nest_lock(&amp;anon_vma-&gt;root-&gt;mutex, &amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

to

	down_write(&amp;anon_vma-&gt;root-&gt;rwsem);

which is incomplete, and causes the false positive report from lockdep
below.

Annotate the fact that mmap_sem is used as an outter lock to serialize
taking of all the anon_vma rwsems at once no matter the order, using the
down_write_nest_lock() primitive.

This patch fixes this lockdep report:

 =============================================
 [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
 3.8.0-rc2-00036-g5f73896 #171 Not tainted
 ---------------------------------------------
 qemu-kvm/2315 is trying to acquire lock:
  (&amp;anon_vma-&gt;rwsem){+.+...}, at: mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0

 but task is already holding lock:
  (&amp;anon_vma-&gt;rwsem){+.+...}, at: mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0

 other info that might help us debug this:
  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0
        ----
   lock(&amp;anon_vma-&gt;rwsem);
   lock(&amp;anon_vma-&gt;rwsem);

  *** DEADLOCK ***

  May be due to missing lock nesting notation

 4 locks held by qemu-kvm/2315:
  #0:  (&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem){++++++}, at: do_mmu_notifier_register+0xfc/0x170
  #1:  (mm_all_locks_mutex){+.+...}, at: mm_take_all_locks+0x36/0x1b0
  #2:  (&amp;mapping-&gt;i_mmap_mutex){+.+...}, at: mm_take_all_locks+0xc9/0x1b0
  #3:  (&amp;anon_vma-&gt;rwsem){+.+...}, at: mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0

 stack backtrace:
 Pid: 2315, comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted 3.8.0-rc2-00036-g5f73896 #171
 Call Trace:
   print_deadlock_bug+0xf2/0x100
   validate_chain+0x4f6/0x720
   __lock_acquire+0x359/0x580
   lock_acquire+0x121/0x190
   down_write+0x3f/0x70
   mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0
   do_mmu_notifier_register+0x68/0x170
   mmu_notifier_register+0xe/0x10
   kvm_create_vm+0x22b/0x330 [kvm]
   kvm_dev_ioctl+0xf8/0x1a0 [kvm]
   do_vfs_ioctl+0x9d/0x350
   sys_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
   system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma</title>
<updated>2012-12-16T23:18:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2012-12-16T22:33:25Z</published>
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Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
 "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
  (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
  autonuma which is in aa.git.

  In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
  its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
  scheduling.  In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
  desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
  scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.

  The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are

    mel:    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
    mingo:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
    tglx:   https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
    srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397

  The results are a mixed bag.  In my own tests, balancenuma does
  reasonably well.  It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
  mainline.  On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
  incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
  but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts.  Thomas'
  results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
  numacore or autonuma.  Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
  large machine with imbalanced node sizes.

  My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
  dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
  We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
  migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
  There are also cases where it regresses.  Of interest is that for
  specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
  warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
  the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports.  Recently I
  reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
  NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
  this problem is.  Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
  handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case.  It's possible
  numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.

  These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
  with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
  not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."

* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
  mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
  mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
  mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
  mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
  mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
  mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
  mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
  mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
  mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task&lt;-&gt;node relationships
  mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
  mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
  mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
  sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
  mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
  mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
  mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
  mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
  mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: protect against concurrent vma expansion</title>
<updated>2012-12-13T01:38:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michel Lespinasse</name>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T21:52:25Z</published>
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expand_stack() runs with a shared mmap_sem lock.  Because of this, there
could be multiple concurrent stack expansions in the same mm, which may
cause problems in the vma gap update code.

I propose to solve this by taking the mm-&gt;page_table_lock around such vma
expansions, in order to avoid the concurrency issue.  We only have to
worry about concurrent expand_stack() calls here, since we hold a shared
mmap_sem lock and all vma modificaitons other than expand_stack() are done
under an exclusive mmap_sem lock.

I previously tried to achieve the same effect by making sure all growable
vmas in a given mm would share the same anon_vma, which we already lock
here.  However this turned out to be difficult - all of the schemes I
tried for refcounting the growable anon_vma and clearing turned out ugly.
So, I'm now proposing only the minimal fix.

The overhead of taking the page table lock during stack expansion is
expected to be small: glibc doesn't use expandable stacks for the threads
it creates, so having multiple growable stacks is actually uncommon and we
don't expect the page table lock to get bounced between threads.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: WARN_ON_ONCE if f_op-&gt;mmap() change vma's start address</title>
<updated>2012-12-13T01:38:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T21:51:53Z</published>
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During reviewing the source code, I found a comment which mention that
after f_op-&gt;mmap(), vma's start address can be changed.  I didn't verify
that it is really possible, because there are so many f_op-&gt;mmap()
implementation.  But if there are some mmap() which change vma's start
address, it is possible error situation, because we already prepare prev
vma, rb_link and rb_parent and these are related to original address.

So add WARN_ON_ONCE for finding that this situtation really happens.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;js1304@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patchbomb)</title>
<updated>2012-12-12T02:05:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T02:05:37Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "About half of most of MM.  Going very early this time due to
  uncertainty over the coreautounifiednumasched things.  I'll send the
  other half of most of MM tomorrow.  The rest of MM awaits a slab merge
  from Pekka."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton: (71 commits)
  memory_hotplug: ensure every online node has NORMAL memory
  memory_hotplug: handle empty zone when online_movable/online_kernel
  mm, memory-hotplug: dynamic configure movable memory and portion memory
  drivers/base/node.c: cleanup node_state_attr[]
  bootmem: fix wrong call parameter for free_bootmem()
  avr32, kconfig: remove HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
  mm: cma: remove watermark hacks
  mm: cma: skip watermarks check for already isolated blocks in split_free_page()
  mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin
  mm, oom: change type of oom_score_adj to short
  mm: cleanup register_node()
  mm, mempolicy: remove duplicate code
  mm/vmscan.c: try_to_freeze() returns boolean
  mm: introduce putback_movable_pages()
  virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages
  mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages
  mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
  mm: redefine address_space.assoc_mapping
  mm: adjust address_space_operations.migratepage() return code
  arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c: s/COLOUR/COLOR/
  ...
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