linux/mm/memory.c, branch v3.12

mm: numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites

2013-10-29T10:37:52Z

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 Cc: 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

mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully

2013-10-17T04:35:53Z

Commit 3812c8c8f395 ("mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM") assumed that only a few places that can trigger a memcg OOM situation do not return VM_FAULT_OOM, like optional page cache readahead. But there are many more and it's impractical to annotate them all. First of all, we don't want to invoke the OOM killer when the failed allocation is gracefully handled, so defer the actual kill to the end of the fault handling as well. This simplifies the code quite a bit for added bonus. Second, since a failed allocation might not be the abrupt end of the fault, the memcg OOM handler needs to be re-entrant until the fault finishes for subsequent allocation attempts. If an allocation is attempted after the task already OOMed, allow it to bypass the limit so that it can quickly finish the fault and invoke the OOM killer. Reported-by: azurIt Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: migration: do not lose soft dirty bit if page is in migration state

2013-10-17T04:35:52Z

If page migration is turned on in config and the page is migrating, we may lose the soft dirty bit. If fork and mprotect are called on migrating pages (once migration is complete) pages do not obtain the soft dirty bit in the correspond pte entries. Fix it adding an appropriate test on swap entries. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: consolidate code between handle_mm_fault() and do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page()

2013-09-12T22:38:03Z

do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() has copy-pasted piece of handle_mm_fault() to handle fallback path. Let's consolidate code back by introducing VM_FAULT_FALLBACK return code. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Hillf Danton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Al Viro Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM

2013-09-12T22:38:02Z

The memcg OOM handling is incredibly fragile and can deadlock. When a task fails to charge memory, it invokes the OOM killer and loops right there in the charge code until it succeeds. Comparably, any other task that enters the charge path at this point will go to a waitqueue right then and there and sleep until the OOM situation is resolved. The problem is that these tasks may hold filesystem locks and the mmap_sem; locks that the selected OOM victim may need to exit. For example, in one reported case, the task invoking the OOM killer was about to charge a page cache page during a write(), which holds the i_mutex. The OOM killer selected a task that was just entering truncate() and trying to acquire the i_mutex: OOM invoking task: mem_cgroup_handle_oom+0x241/0x3b0 mem_cgroup_cache_charge+0xbe/0xe0 add_to_page_cache_locked+0x4c/0x140 add_to_page_cache_lru+0x22/0x50 grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x8b/0xe0 ext3_write_begin+0x88/0x270 generic_file_buffered_write+0x116/0x290 __generic_file_aio_write+0x27c/0x480 generic_file_aio_write+0x76/0xf0 # takes ->i_mutex do_sync_write+0xea/0x130 vfs_write+0xf3/0x1f0 sys_write+0x51/0x90 system_call_fastpath+0x18/0x1d OOM kill victim: do_truncate+0x58/0xa0 # takes i_mutex do_last+0x250/0xa30 path_openat+0xd7/0x440 do_filp_open+0x49/0xa0 do_sys_open+0x106/0x240 sys_open+0x20/0x30 system_call_fastpath+0x18/0x1d The OOM handling task will retry the charge indefinitely while the OOM killed task is not releasing any resources. A similar scenario can happen when the kernel OOM killer for a memcg is disabled and a userspace task is in charge of resolving OOM situations. In this case, ALL tasks that enter the OOM path will be made to sleep on the OOM waitqueue and wait for userspace to free resources or increase the group's limit. But a userspace OOM handler is prone to deadlock itself on the locks held by the waiting tasks. For example one of the sleeping tasks may be stuck in a brk() call with the mmap_sem held for writing but the userspace handler, in order to pick an optimal victim, may need to read files from /proc/, which tries to acquire the same mmap_sem for reading and deadlocks. This patch changes the way tasks behave after detecting a memcg OOM and makes sure nobody loops or sleeps with locks held: 1. When OOMing in a user fault, invoke the OOM killer and restart the fault instead of looping on the charge attempt. This way, the OOM victim can not get stuck on locks the looping task may hold. 2. When OOMing in a user fault but somebody else is handling it (either the kernel OOM killer or a userspace handler), don't go to sleep in the charge context. Instead, remember the OOMing memcg in the task struct and then fully unwind the page fault stack with -ENOMEM. pagefault_out_of_memory() will then call back into the memcg code to check if the -ENOMEM came from the memcg, and then either put the task to sleep on the memcg's OOM waitqueue or just restart the fault. The OOM victim can no longer get stuck on any lock a sleeping task may hold. Debugged by Michal Hocko. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: azurIt Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults

2013-09-12T22:38:01Z

System calls and kernel faults (uaccess, gup) can handle an out of memory situation gracefully and just return -ENOMEM. Enable the memcg OOM killer only for user faults, where it's really the only option available. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: azurIt Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: migrate: add hugepage migration code to move_pages()

2013-09-11T22:57:48Z

Extend move_pages() to handle vma with VM_HUGETLB set. We will be able to migrate hugepage with move_pages(2) after applying the enablement patch which comes later in this series. We avoid getting refcount on tail pages of hugepage, because unlike thp, hugepage is not split and we need not care about races with splitting. And migration of larger (1GB for x86_64) hugepage are not enabled. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Acked-by: Andi Kleen Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move pgtable related functions to right place

2013-09-11T22:57:30Z

pgtable related functions are mostly in pgtable-generic.c. So move remaining functions from memory.c to pgtable-generic.c. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge 3.11-rc6 into char-misc-next

2013-08-19T03:40:33Z

We want these fixes in this tree. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix TLB gather virtual address range invalidation corner cases

2013-08-16T15:52:46Z

Ben Tebulin reported: "Since v3.7.2 on two independent machines a very specific Git repository fails in 9/10 cases on git-fsck due to an SHA1/memory failures. This only occurs on a very specific repository and can be reproduced stably on two independent laptops. Git mailing list ran out of ideas and for me this looks like some very exotic kernel issue" and bisected the failure to the backport of commit 53a59fc67f97 ("mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT"). That commit itself is not actually buggy, but what it does is to make it much more likely to hit the partial TLB invalidation case, since it introduces a new case in tlb_next_batch() that previously only ever happened when running out of memory. The real bug is that the TLB gather virtual memory range setup is subtly buggered. It was introduced in commit 597e1c3580b7 ("mm/mmu_gather: enable tlb flush range in generic mmu_gather"), and the range handling was already fixed at least once in commit e6c495a96ce0 ("mm: fix the TLB range flushed when __tlb_remove_page() runs out of slots"), but that fix was not complete. The problem with the TLB gather virtual address range is that it isn't set up by the initial tlb_gather_mmu() initialization (which didn't get the TLB range information), but it is set up ad-hoc later by the functions that actually flush the TLB. And so any such case that forgot to update the TLB range entries would potentially miss TLB invalidates. Rather than try to figure out exactly which particular ad-hoc range setup was missing (I personally suspect it's the hugetlb case in zap_huge_pmd(), which didn't have the same logic as zap_pte_range() did), this patch just gets rid of the problem at the source: make the TLB range information available to tlb_gather_mmu(), and initialize it when initializing all the other tlb gather fields. This makes the patch larger, but conceptually much simpler. And the end result is much more understandable; even if you want to play games with partial ranges when invalidating the TLB contents in chunks, now the range information is always there, and anybody who doesn't want to bother with it won't introduce subtle bugs. Ben verified that this fixes his problem. Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Ben Tebulin Build-testing-by: Stephen Rothwell Build-testing-by: Richard Weinberger Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds