linux/mm, branch v5.1

mm/page_alloc.c: fix never set ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT flag

2019-04-26T16:18:05Z

Commit 0a79cdad5eb2 ("mm: use alloc_flags to record if kswapd can wake") removed setting of the ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT flag. Bring it back. The runtime effect is that ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT behaviour is restored so that allocations are spread across local zones to avoid fragmentation due to mixing pageblocks as long as possible. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423120806.3503-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Fixes: 0a79cdad5eb2 ("mm: use alloc_flags to record if kswapd can wake") Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc.c: avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

2019-04-26T16:18:05Z

ac.preferred_zoneref->zone passed to alloc_flags_nofragment() can be NULL. 'zone' pointer unconditionally derefernced in alloc_flags_nofragment(). Bail out on NULL zone to avoid potential crash. Currently we don't see any crashes only because alloc_flags_nofragment() has another bug which allows compiler to optimize away all accesses to 'zone'. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423120806.3503-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Fixes: 6bb154504f8b ("mm, page_alloc: spread allocations across zones before introducing fragmentation") Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: always use a captured page regardless of compaction result

2019-04-26T16:18:05Z

During the development of commit 5e1f0f098b46 ("mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction"), a paranoid check was added to ensure that if a captured page was available after compaction that it was consistent with the final state of compaction. The intent was to catch serious programming bugs such as using a stale page pointer and causing corruption problems. However, it is possible to get a captured page even if compaction was unsuccessful if an interrupt triggered and happened to free pages in interrupt context that got merged into a suitable high-order page. It's highly unlikely but Li Wang did report the following warning on s390 occuring when testing OOM handling. Note that the warning is slightly edited for clarity. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9783 at mm/page_alloc.c:3777 __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x182/0x190 Modules linked in: rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache sunrpc pkey ghash_s390 prng xts aes_s390 des_s390 des_generic sha512_s390 zcrypt_cex4 zcrypt vmur binfmt_misc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c dasd_fba_mod qeth_l2 dasd_eckd_mod dasd_mod qeth qdio lcs ctcm ccwgroup fsm dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU: 0 PID: 9783 Comm: copy.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.1.0-rc 5 #1 This patch simply removes the check entirely instead of trying to be clever about pages freed from interrupt context. If a serious programming error was introduced, it is highly likely to be caught by prep_new_page() instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419085133.GH18914@techsingularity.net Fixes: 5e1f0f098b46 ("mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction") Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Li Wang Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: do not boost watermarks to avoid fragmentation for the DISCONTIG memory model

2019-04-26T16:18:05Z

Mikulas Patocka reported that commit 1c30844d2dfe ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs") "broke" memory management on parisc. The machine is not NUMA but the DISCONTIG model creates three pgdats even though it's a UMA machine for the following ranges 0) Start 0x0000000000000000 End 0x000000003fffffff Size 1024 MB 1) Start 0x0000000100000000 End 0x00000001bfdfffff Size 3070 MB 2) Start 0x0000004040000000 End 0x00000040ffffffff Size 3072 MB Mikulas reported: With the patch 1c30844d2, the kernel will incorrectly reclaim the first zone when it fills up, ignoring the fact that there are two completely free zones. Basiscally, it limits cache size to 1GiB. For example, if I run: # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=2048 - with the proper kernel, there should be "Buffers - 2GiB" when this command finishes. With the patch 1c30844d2, buffers will consume just 1GiB or slightly more, because the kernel was incorrectly reclaiming them. The page allocator and reclaim makes assumptions that pgdats really represent NUMA nodes and zones represent ranges and makes decisions on that basis. Watermark boosting for small pgdats leads to unexpected results even though this would have behaved reasonably on SPARSEMEM. DISCONTIG is essentially deprecated and even parisc plans to move to SPARSEMEM so there is no need to be fancy, this patch simply disables watermark boosting by default on DISCONTIGMEM. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419094335.GJ18914@techsingularity.net Fixes: 1c30844d2dfe ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs") Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka Tested-by: Mikulas Patocka Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory_hotplug.c: drop memory device reference after find_memory_block()

2019-04-26T16:18:04Z

Right now we are using find_memory_block() to get the node id for the pfn range to online. We are missing to drop a reference to the memory block device. While the device still gets unregistered via device_unregister(), resulting in no user visible problem, the device is never released via device_release(), resulting in a memory leak. Fix that by properly using a put_device(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190411110955.1430-1-david@redhat.com Fixes: d0dc12e86b31 ("mm/memory_hotplug: optimize memory hotplug") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Qian Cai Cc: Arun KS Cc: Mathieu Malaterre Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-5.1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu

2019-04-19T22:37:22Z

Pull percpu fixlet from Dennis Zhou: "This stops printing the base address of percpu memory on initialization" * 'for-5.1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu: percpu: stop printing kernel addresses

coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping

2019-04-19T16:46:05Z

The core dumping code has always run without holding the mmap_sem for writing, despite that is the only way to ensure that the entire vma layout will not change from under it. Only using some signal serialization on the processes belonging to the mm is not nearly enough. This was pointed out earlier. For example in Hugh's post from Jul 2017: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1707191716030.2055@eggly.anvils "Not strictly relevant here, but a related note: I was very surprised to discover, only quite recently, how handle_mm_fault() may be called without down_read(mmap_sem) - when core dumping. That seems a misguided optimization to me, which would also be nice to correct" In particular because the growsdown and growsup can move the vm_start/vm_end the various loops the core dump does around the vma will not be consistent if page faults can happen concurrently. Pretty much all users calling mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and then taking the mmap_sem had the potential to introduce unexpected side effects in the core dumping code. Adding mmap_sem for writing around the ->core_dump invocation is a viable long term fix, but it requires removing all copy user and page faults and to replace them with get_dump_page() for all binary formats which is not suitable as a short term fix. For the time being this solution manually covers the places that can confuse the core dump either by altering the vma layout or the vma flags while it runs. Once ->core_dump runs under mmap_sem for writing the function mmget_still_valid() can be dropped. Allowing mmap_sem protected sections to run in parallel with the coredump provides some minor parallelism advantage to the swapoff code (which seems to be safe enough by never mangling any vma field and can keep doing swapins in parallel to the core dumping) and to some other corner case. In order to facilitate the backporting I added "Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6" however the side effect of this same race condition in /proc/pid/mem should be reproducible since before 2.6.12-rc2 so I couldn't add any other "Fixes:" because there's no hash beyond the git genesis commit. Because find_extend_vma() is the only location outside of the process context that could modify the "mm" structures under mmap_sem for reading, by adding the mmget_still_valid() check to it, all other cases that take the mmap_sem for reading don't need the new check after mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm(). The expand_stack() in page fault context also doesn't need the new check, because all tasks under core dumping are frozen. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325224949.11068-1-aarcange@redhat.com Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization") Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reported-by: Jann Horn Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Peter Xu Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/kmemleak.c: fix unused-function warning

2019-04-19T16:46:05Z

The only references outside of the #ifdef have been removed, so now we get a warning in non-SMP configurations: mm/kmemleak.c:1404:13: error: unused function 'scan_large_block' [-Werror,-Wunused-function] Add a new #ifdef around it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190416123148.3502045-1-arnd@arndb.de Fixes: 298a32b13208 ("kmemleak: powerpc: skip scanning holes in the .bss section") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Vincent Whitchurch Cc: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix inactive list balancing between NUMA nodes and cgroups

2019-04-19T16:46:05Z

During !CONFIG_CGROUP reclaim, we expand the inactive list size if it's thrashing on the node that is about to be reclaimed. But when cgroups are enabled, we suddenly ignore the node scope and use the cgroup scope only. The result is that pressure bleeds between NUMA nodes depending on whether cgroups are merely compiled into Linux. This behavioral difference is unexpected and undesirable. When the refault adaptivity of the inactive list was first introduced, there were no statistics at the lruvec level - the intersection of node and memcg - so it was better than nothing. But now that we have that infrastructure, use lruvec_page_state() to make the list balancing decision always NUMA aware. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix bisection hole] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417155241.GB23013@cmpxchg.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190412144438.2645-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: 2a2e48854d70 ("mm: vmscan: fix IO/refault regression in cache workingset transition") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/hotplug: treat CMA pages as unmovable

2019-04-19T16:46:05Z

has_unmovable_pages() is used by allocating CMA and gigantic pages as well as the memory hotplug. The later doesn't know how to offline CMA pool properly now, but if an unused (free) CMA page is encountered, then has_unmovable_pages() happily considers it as a free memory and propagates this up the call chain. Memory offlining code then frees the page without a proper CMA tear down which leads to an accounting issues. Moreover if the same memory range is onlined again then the memory never gets back to the CMA pool. State after memory offline: # grep cma /proc/vmstat nr_free_cma 205824 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/cma/cma-kvm_cma/count 209920 Also, kmemleak still think those memory address are reserved below but have already been used by the buddy allocator after onlining. This patch fixes the situation by treating CMA pageblocks as unmovable except when has_unmovable_pages() is called as part of CMA allocation. Offlined Pages 4096 kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xc000201f7d040008 into the object search tree (overlaps existing) Call Trace: dump_stack+0xb0/0xf4 (unreliable) create_object+0x344/0x380 __kmalloc_node+0x3ec/0x860 kvmalloc_node+0x58/0x110 seq_read+0x41c/0x620 __vfs_read+0x3c/0x70 vfs_read+0xbc/0x1a0 ksys_read+0x7c/0x140 system_call+0x5c/0x70 kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled kmemleak: Object 0xc000201cc8000000 (size 13757317120): kmemleak: comm "swapper/0", pid 0, jiffies 4294937297 kmemleak: min_count = -1 kmemleak: count = 0 kmemleak: flags = 0x5 kmemleak: checksum = 0 kmemleak: backtrace: cma_declare_contiguous+0x2a4/0x3b0 kvm_cma_reserve+0x11c/0x134 setup_arch+0x300/0x3f8 start_kernel+0x9c/0x6e8 start_here_common+0x1c/0x4b0 kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread ended [cai@lca.pw: use is_migrate_cma_page() and update commit log] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190416170510.20048-1-cai@lca.pw Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190413002623.8967-1-cai@lca.pw Signed-off-by: Qian Cai Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds