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Yinghai Lu
c2b91e2eec x86_64/mm: check and print vmemmap allocation continuous
On big systems with lots of memory, don't print out too much during
bootup, and make it easy to find if it is continuous.

on 256G 8 sockets system will get
 [ffffe20000000000-ffffe20002bfffff] PMD -> [ffff810001400000-ffff810003ffffff] on node 0
[ffffe2001c700000-ffffe2001c7fffff] potential offnode page_structs
 [ffffe20002c00000-ffffe2001c7fffff] PMD -> [ffff81000c000000-ffff8100255fffff] on node 0
[ffffe20038700000-ffffe200387fffff] potential offnode page_structs
 [ffffe2001c800000-ffffe200387fffff] PMD -> [ffff810820200000-ffff81083c1fffff] on node 1
 [ffffe20040000000-ffffe2007fffffff] PUD ->ffff811027a00000 on node 2
 [ffffe20038800000-ffffe2003fffffff] PMD -> [ffff811020200000-ffff8110279fffff] on node 2
[ffffe20054700000-ffffe200547fffff] potential offnode page_structs
 [ffffe20040000000-ffffe200547fffff] PMD -> [ffff811027c00000-ffff81103c3fffff] on node 2
[ffffe20070700000-ffffe200707fffff] potential offnode page_structs
 [ffffe20054800000-ffffe200707fffff] PMD -> [ffff811820200000-ffff81183c1fffff] on node 3
 [ffffe20080000000-ffffe200bfffffff] PUD ->ffff81202fa00000 on node 4
 [ffffe20070800000-ffffe2007fffffff] PMD -> [ffff812020200000-ffff81202f9fffff] on node 4
[ffffe2008c700000-ffffe2008c7fffff] potential offnode page_structs
 [ffffe20080000000-ffffe2008c7fffff] PMD -> [ffff81202fc00000-ffff81203c3fffff] on node 4
[ffffe200a8700000-ffffe200a87fffff] potential offnode page_structs
 [ffffe2008c800000-ffffe200a87fffff] PMD -> [ffff812820200000-ffff81283c1fffff] on node 5
 [ffffe200c0000000-ffffe200ffffffff] PUD ->ffff813037a00000 on node 6
 [ffffe200a8800000-ffffe200bfffffff] PMD -> [ffff813020200000-ffff8130379fffff] on node 6
[ffffe200c4700000-ffffe200c47fffff] potential offnode page_structs
 [ffffe200c0000000-ffffe200c47fffff] PMD -> [ffff813037c00000-ffff81303c3fffff] on node 6
 [ffffe200c4800000-ffffe200e07fffff] PMD -> [ffff813820200000-ffff81383c1fffff] on node 7

instead of a very long print out...

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-26 22:51:09 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
a5645a61b3 mm: allow reserve_bootmem() cross nodes
split reserve_bootmem_core() into two functions, one which checks
conflicts, and one which sets the bits.

and make reserve_bootmem to loop bdata_list to cross the nodes.

user could be crashkernel and ramdisk..., in case the range provided
by those externalities crosses the nodes.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 22:51:08 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
9a2dc04cf0 mm: offset align in alloc_bootmem()
need offset alignment when node_boot_start's alignment is less than
the alignment required.

use local node_boot_start to match alignment - so don't add extra operation
in search loop.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 22:51:08 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
ad09315cad mm: fix alloc_bootmem_core to use fast searching for all nodes
Make the nodes other than node 0 use bdata->last_success for fast
search too.

We need to use __alloc_bootmem_core() for vmemmap allocation for other
nodes when numa and sparsemem/vmemmap are enabled.

Also, make fail_block path increase i with incr only after ALIGN
to avoid extra increase when size is larger than align.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 22:51:07 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
e123dd3f0e mm: make mem_map allocation continuous
vmemmap allocation currently has this layout:

 [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200001fffff] PMD ->ffff810001400000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000200000-ffffe200003fffff] PMD ->ffff810001800000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000400000-ffffe200005fffff] PMD ->ffff810001c00000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000600000-ffffe200007fffff] PMD ->ffff810002000000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000800000-ffffe200009fffff] PMD ->ffff810002400000 on node 0
...

note that there is a 2M hole between them - not optimal.

the root cause is that usemap (24 bytes) will be allocated after every 2M
mem_map, and it will push next vmemmap (2M) to the next (2M) alignment.

solution: try to allocate the mem_map continously.

after the patch, we get:

 [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200001fffff] PMD ->ffff810001400000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000200000-ffffe200003fffff] PMD ->ffff810001600000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000400000-ffffe200005fffff] PMD ->ffff810001800000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000600000-ffffe200007fffff] PMD ->ffff810001a00000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000800000-ffffe200009fffff] PMD ->ffff810001c00000 on node 0
...

which is the ideal layout.

and usemap will share a page because of they are allocated continuously too:

sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00000 size = 24
sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00080 size = 24
sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00100 size = 24
sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00180 size = 24
...

so we make the bootmem allocation more compact and use less memory
for usemap => mission accomplished ;-)

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-26 22:51:07 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
3dc5063786 slab_err: Pass parameters correctly to slab_bug
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-23 12:47:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e9b62693ae Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial: (24 commits)
  DOC:  A couple corrections and clarifications in USB doc.
  Generate a slightly more informative error msg for bad HZ
  fix typo "is" -> "if" in Makefile
  ext*: spelling fix prefered -> preferred
  DOCUMENTATION:  Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
  KEYS:  Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h.
  RAID: remove trailing space from printk line
  DMA engine: typo fixes
  Remove unused MAX_NODES_SHIFT
  MAINTAINERS: Clarify access to OCFS2 development mailing list.
  V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier (sn9c102)
  V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  sonypi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  intel_menlow: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  DVB: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  arm: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  ALSA: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  acpi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style
  MAINTAINERS: Add ati_remote2 driver
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts in firmware_sample_driver.c
2008-04-21 16:36:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e80ab411e5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits)
  SCSI: convert struct class_device to struct device
  DRM: remove unused dev_class
  IB: rename "dev" to "srp_dev" in srp_host structure
  IB: convert struct class_device to struct device
  memstick: convert struct class_device to struct device
  driver core: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
  sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0
  PM: Remove destroy_suspended_device()
  Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support
  PM: Remove legacy PM (fix)
  Kobject: Replace list_for_each() with list_for_each_entry().
  SYSFS: Explicitly include required header file slab.h.
  Driver core: make device_is_registered() work for class devices
  PM: Convert wakeup flag accessors to inline functions
  PM: Make wakeup flags available whenever CONFIG_PM is set
  PM: Fix misuse of wakeup flag accessors in serial core
  Driver core: Call device_pm_add() after bus_add_device() in device_add()
  PM: Handle device registrations during suspend/resume
  block: send disk "change" event for rescan_partitions()
  sysdev: detect multiple driver registrations
  ...

Fixed trivial conflict in include/linux/memory.h due to semaphore header
file change (made irrelevant by the change to mutex).
2008-04-21 15:49:58 -07:00
Pavel Machek
f5264481c8 trivial: small cleanups
These are small cleanups all over the tree.

Trivial style and comment changes to
  fs/select.c, kernel/signal.c, kernel/stop_machine.c & mm/pdflush.c

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2008-04-21 22:15:06 +00:00
Daniel Walker
da19cbcf71 driver core: memory: semaphore to mutex
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:19 -07:00
Mike Travis
c5f59f0833 nodemask: use new node_to_cpumask_ptr function
* Use new node_to_cpumask_ptr.  This creates a pointer to the
    cpumask for a given node.  This definition is in mm patch:

	asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch

  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function.

Depends on:
	[mm-patch]: asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function
	[x86/latest]: x86: add cpus_scnprintf function

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Mike Travis
f9a86fcbbb cpuset: modify cpuset_set_cpus_allowed to use cpumask pointer
* Modify cpuset_cpus_allowed to return the currently allowed cpuset
    via a pointer argument instead of as the function return value.

  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function.

  * Cleanup CPU_MASK_ALL and NODE_MASK_ALL uses.

Depends on:
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
Mike Travis
d366f8cbc1 cpumask: Cleanup more uses of CPU_MASK and NODE_MASK
*  Replace usages of CPU_MASK_NONE, CPU_MASK_ALL, NODE_MASK_NONE,
    NODE_MASK_ALL to reduce stack requirements for large NR_CPUS
    and MAXNODES counts.

 *  In some cases, the cpumask variable was initialized but then overwritten
    with another value.  This is the case for changes like this:

    -       cpumask_t oldmask = CPU_MASK_ALL;
    +       cpumask_t oldmask;

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9732b61123 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb:
  kgdb: always use icache flush for sw breakpoints
  kgdb: fix SMP NMI kgdb_handle_exception exit race
  kgdb: documentation fixes
  kgdb: allow static kgdbts boot configuration
  kgdb: add documentation
  kgdb: Kconfig fix
  kgdb: add kgdb internal test suite
  kgdb: fix several kgdb regressions
  kgdb: kgdboc pl011 I/O module
  kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_*
  kgdb: add x86 HW breakpoints
  kgdb: print breakpoint removed on exception
  kgdb: clocksource watchdog
  kgdb: fix NMI hangs
  kgdb: fix kgdboc dynamic module configuration
  kgdb: document parameters
  x86: kgdb support
  consoles: polling support, kgdboc
  kgdb: core
  uaccess: add probe_kernel_write()
2008-04-18 08:37:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7d939fbdfe Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: No need for per node slab counters if !SLUB_DEBUG
  slub: Move map/flag clearing to __free_slab
  slub: Fixes to per cpu stat output in sysfs
  slub: Deal with config variable dependencies
  slub: Reduce #ifdef ZONE_DMA by moving kmalloc_caches_dma near dma logic
  slub: Initialize per-cpu stats
2008-04-18 08:19:00 -07:00
Jason Wessel
b4b8ac524d kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_*
Fix two regressions dealing with the kgdb core.

1) kgdb_skipexception and kgdb_post_primary_code are optional
functions that are only required on archs that need special exception
fixups.

2) The kernel address space scope must be set on any probe_kernel_*
function or archs such as ARCH=arm will not allow access to the kernel
memory space.  As an example, it is required to allow the full kernel
address space is when you the kernel debugger to inspect a system
call.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c33fa9f560 uaccess: add probe_kernel_write()
add probe_kernel_read() and probe_kernel_write().

Uninlined and restricted to kernel range memory only, as suggested
by Linus.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 20:05:36 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
91446b064c add "Isolate" migratetype name to /proc/pagetypeinfo
In a5d76b54a3 (memory unplug: page isolation by
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki), "isolate" migratetype added.  but unfortunately, it
doesn't treat /proc/pagetypeinfo display logic.

this patch add "Isolate" to pagetype name field.

/proc/pagetype
before:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Free pages count per migrate type at order       0      1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9     10
Node    0, zone      DMA, type    Unmovable      1      2      2      2      1      2      2      1      1      0      0
Node    0, zone      DMA, type  Reclaimable      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone      DMA, type      Movable      2      3      3      1      3      3      2      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone      DMA, type      Reserve      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      1
Node    0, zone      DMA, type       <NULL>      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone   Normal, type    Unmovable      1      9      7      4      1      1      1      1      0      0      0
Node    0, zone   Normal, type  Reclaimable      5      2      0      0      1      1      0      0      0      1      0
Node    0, zone   Normal, type      Movable      0      1      1      0      0      0      1      0      0      1     60
Node    0, zone   Normal, type      Reserve      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      1
Node    0, zone   Normal, type       <NULL>      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type    Unmovable      0      0      1      1      1      0      1      1      2      2      0
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type  Reclaimable      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type      Movable    236     62      6      2      2      1      1      0      1      1     16
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type      Reserve      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      1
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type       <NULL>      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0

Number of blocks type     Unmovable  Reclaimable      Movable      Reserve       <NULL>
Node 0, zone      DMA            1            0            2       1            0
Node 0, zone   Normal           10           40          169       1            0
Node 0, zone  HighMem            2            0          283       1            0

after:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Free pages count per migrate type at order       0      1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9     10
Node    0, zone      DMA, type    Unmovable      1      2      2      2      1      2      2      1      1      0      0
Node    0, zone      DMA, type  Reclaimable      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone      DMA, type      Movable      2      3      3      1      3      3      2      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone      DMA, type      Reserve      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      1
Node    0, zone      DMA, type      Isolate      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone   Normal, type    Unmovable      0      2      1      1      0      1      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone   Normal, type  Reclaimable      1      1      1      1      1      0      1      1      1      0      0
Node    0, zone   Normal, type      Movable      0      1      1      1      0      1      0      1      0      0    196
Node    0, zone   Normal, type      Reserve      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      1
Node    0, zone   Normal, type      Isolate      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type    Unmovable      0      1      0      0      0      1      1      1      2      2      0
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type  Reclaimable      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type      Movable      1      0      1      1      0      0      0      0      1      0    200
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type      Reserve      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      1
Node    0, zone  HighMem, type      Isolate      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0

Number of blocks type     Unmovable  Reclaimable      Movable      Reserve      Isolate
Node 0, zone      DMA            1            0            2       1            0
Node 0, zone   Normal            8            4          207       1            0
Node 0, zone  HighMem            2            0          283       1            0

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
Li Zefan
e115f2d892 memcg: fix oops in oom handling
When I used a test program to fork mass processes and immediately move them to
a cgroup where the memory limit is low enough to trigger oom kill, I got oops:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000808
IP: [<ffffffff8045c47f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x8/0x18
PGD 4c95f067 PUD 4406c067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [1] SMP
CPU 2
Modules linked in:

Pid: 11973, comm: a.out Not tainted 2.6.25-rc7 #5
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8045c47f>]  [<ffffffff8045c47f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x8/0x18
RSP: 0018:ffff8100448c7c30  EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 0000000000000202 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: 000000000001c9f3
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000808
RBP: ffff81007e444080 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8100448c7900
R10: ffff81000105f480 R11: 00000100ffffffff R12: ffff810067c84140
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff8100441d0018 R15: ffff81007da56200
FS:  00007f70eb1856f0(0000) GS:ffff81007fbad3c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000808 CR3: 000000004498a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process a.out (pid: 11973, threadinfo ffff8100448c6000, task ffff81007da533e0)
Stack:  ffffffff8023ef5a 00000000000000d0 ffffffff80548dc0 00000000000000d0
 ffff810067c84140 ffff81007e444080 ffffffff8026cef9 00000000000000d0
 ffff8100441d0000 00000000000000d0 ffff8100441d0000 ffff8100505445c0
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8023ef5a>] ? force_sig_info+0x25/0xb9
 [<ffffffff8026cef9>] ? oom_kill_task+0x77/0xe2
 [<ffffffff8026d696>] ? mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0x55/0x67
 [<ffffffff802910ad>] ? mem_cgroup_charge_common+0xec/0x202
 [<ffffffff8027997b>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x24e/0x77f
 [<ffffffff8022c4af>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
 [<ffffffff8027a17a>] ? get_user_pages+0x2ce/0x3af
 [<ffffffff80290fee>] ? mem_cgroup_charge_common+0x2d/0x202
 [<ffffffff8027a441>] ? make_pages_present+0x8e/0xa4
 [<ffffffff8027d1ab>] ? mmap_region+0x373/0x429
 [<ffffffff8027d7eb>] ? do_mmap_pgoff+0x2ff/0x364
 [<ffffffff80210471>] ? sys_mmap+0xe5/0x111
 [<ffffffff8020bfc9>] ? tracesys+0xdc/0xe1

Code: 00 00 01 48 8b 3c 24 e9 46 d4 dd ff f0 ff 07 48 8b 3c 24 e9 3a d4 dd ff fe 07 48 8b 3c 24 e9 2f d4 dd ff 9c 58 fa ba 00 01 00 00 <f0> 66 0f c1 17 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 8a 17 eb f6 c3 fa b8 00 01 00
RIP  [<ffffffff8045c47f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x8/0x18
 RSP <ffff8100448c7c30>
CR2: 0000000000000808
---[ end trace c3702fa668021ea4 ]---

It's reproducable in a x86_64 box, but doesn't happen in x86_32.

This is because tsk->sighand is not guarded by RCU, so we have to
hold tasklist_lock, just as what out_of_memory() does.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
bead9a3abd mm: sparsemem memory_present() fix
Fix memory corruption and crash on 32-bit x86 systems.

If a !PAE x86 kernel is booted on a 32-bit system with more than 4GB of
RAM, then we call memory_present() with a start/end that goes outside
the scope of MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.

That causes this loop to happily walk over the limit of the sparse
memory section map:

    for (pfn = start; pfn < end; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
                unsigned long section = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn);
                struct mem_section *ms;

                sparse_index_init(section, nid);
                set_section_nid(section, nid);

                ms = __nr_to_section(section);
                if (!ms->section_mem_map)
                        ms->section_mem_map = sparse_encode_early_nid(nid) |
			                                SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT;

'ms' will be out of bounds and we'll corrupt a small amount of memory by
encoding the node ID and writing SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT (==0x1) over it.

The corruption might happen when encoding a non-zero node ID, or due to
the SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT which is 0x1:

	mmzone.h:#define	SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT	(1UL<<0)

The fix is to sanity check anything the architecture passes to
sparsemem.

This bug seems to be rather old (as old as sparsemem support itself),
but the exact incarnation depended on random details like configs, which
made this bug more prominent in v2.6.25-to-be.

An additional enhancement might be to print a warning about ignored or
trimmed memory ranges.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@sun.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-15 19:30:19 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
0f389ec630 slub: No need for per node slab counters if !SLUB_DEBUG
The per node counters are used mainly for showing data through the sysfs API.
If that API is not compiled in then there is no point in keeping track of this
data. Disable counters for the number of slabs and the number of total slabs
if !SLUB_DEBUG. Incrementing the per node counters is also accessing a
potentially contended cacheline so this could actually be a performance
benefit to embedded systems.

SLABINFO support is also affected. It now must depends on SLUB_DEBUG (which
is on by default).

Patch also avoids a check for a NULL kmem_cache_node pointer in new_slab()
if the system is not compiled with NUMA support.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix oops and move ->nr_slabs into CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-04-14 18:53:02 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
49bd5221ce slub: Move map/flag clearing to __free_slab
__free_slab does some diagnostics. The resetting of mapcount etc
in discard_slab() can interfere with debug processing. So move
the reset immediately before the page is freed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-04-14 18:52:18 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
50ef37b96c slub: Fixes to per cpu stat output in sysfs
Only output per cpu stats if the kernel is build for SMP.

Use a capital "C" as a leading character for the processor number
(same as the numa statistics that also use a capital letter "N").

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-04-14 18:52:05 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
5b06c853ad slub: Deal with config variable dependencies
count_partial() is used by both slabinfo and the sysfs proc support. Move
the function directly before the beginning of the sysfs code so that it can
be easily found. Rework the preprocessor conditional to take into account
that slub sysfs support depends on CONFIG_SYSFS *and* CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG.

Make CONFIG_SLUB_STATS depend on CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and CONFIG_SYSFS. There
is no point of keeping statistics if no one can restrive them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-04-14 18:51:34 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
4097d60175 slub: Reduce #ifdef ZONE_DMA by moving kmalloc_caches_dma near dma logic
Move the definition of kmalloc_caches_dma() into a later #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA.
This saves one #ifdef and leaves us with a total of two #ifdefs for dma slab support.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-04-14 18:51:18 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
62f75532b5 slub: Initialize per-cpu stats
As spotted by kmemcheck, we need to initialize the per-CPU ->stat array before
using it.

[kmem_cache_cpu structures are usually allocated from arrays defined via
DEFINE_PER_CPU that are zeroed so we have not noticed this so far --cl].

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-04-14 18:50:44 +03:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
41e3355de0 memcg: fix node_state handling
This should be N_NORMAL_MEMORY.

N_NORMAL_MEMORY is "true" if a node has memory for the kernel.  N_HIGH_MEMORY
is "true" if a node has memory for HIGHMEM.  (If CONFIG_HIGHMEM=n, always
"true")

This check is used for testing whether we can use kmalloc_node() on a node.
Then, if there is a node which only contains HIGHMEM, the system will call
kmalloc_node() which doesn't contain memory for the kernel.  If it happens
under SLUB, the kernel will panic.  I think this only happens on x86_32-numa.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-08 18:25:53 -07:00
Balbir Singh
4077960e2a memory controller: make memory resource control aware of boot options
A boot option for the memory controller was discussed on lkml.  It is a good
idea to add it, since it saves memory for people who want to turn off the
memory controller.

By default the option is on for the following two reasons:

1. It provides compatibility with the current scheme where the memory
   controller turns on if the config option is enabled
2. It allows for wider testing of the memory controller, once the config
   option is enabled

We still allow the create, destroy callbacks to succeed, since they are not
aware of boot options.  We do not populate the directory will memory resource
controller specific files.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-04 14:46:26 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
00460dd5f4 Fix undefined count_partial if !CONFIG_SLABINFO
Small typo in the patch recently merged to avoid the unused symbol
message for count_partial(). Discussion thread with confirmation of fix at
http://marc.info/?t=120696854400001&r=1&w=2

Typo in the check if we need the count_partial function that was
introduced by 53625b4204

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-01 12:44:06 -07:00
Al Viro
9dce07f1a4 NULL noise: fs/*, mm/*, kernel/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e72e9c23ee Revert "SLUB: remove useless masking of GFP_ZERO"
This reverts commit 3811dbf671.

The masking was not at all useless, and it was sensible.  We handle
GFP_ZERO in the caller, and passing it down to any page allocator logic
is buggy and wrong.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-27 20:56:33 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
11320d17ce hugetlb: fix potential livelock in return_unused_surplus_hugepages()
Running the counters testcase from libhugetlbfs results in on 2.6.25-rc5
and 2.6.25-rc5-mm1:

    BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! [counters:10531]
    NIP: c0000000000d1f3c LR: c0000000000d1f2c CTR: c0000000001b5088
    REGS: c000005db12cb360 TRAP: 0901   Not tainted  (2.6.25-rc5-autokern1)
    MSR: 8000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 48008448  XER: 20000000
    TASK = c000005dbf3d6000[10531] 'counters' THREAD: c000005db12c8000 CPU: 3
    GPR00: 0000000000000004 c000005db12cb5e0 c000000000879228 0000000000000004
    GPR04: 0000000000000010 0000000000000000 0000000000200200 0000000000100100
    GPR08: c0000000008aba10 000000000000ffff 0000000000000004 0000000000000000
    GPR12: 0000000028000442 c000000000770080
    NIP [c0000000000d1f3c] .return_unused_surplus_pages+0x84/0x18c
    LR [c0000000000d1f2c] .return_unused_surplus_pages+0x74/0x18c
    Call Trace:
    [c000005db12cb5e0] [c000005db12cb670] 0xc000005db12cb670 (unreliable)
    [c000005db12cb670] [c0000000000d24c4] .hugetlb_acct_memory+0x2e0/0x354
    [c000005db12cb740] [c0000000001b5048] .truncate_hugepages+0x1d4/0x214
    [c000005db12cb890] [c0000000001b50a4] .hugetlbfs_delete_inode+0x1c/0x3c
    [c000005db12cb920] [c000000000103fd8] .generic_delete_inode+0xf8/0x1c0
    [c000005db12cb9b0] [c0000000001b5100] .hugetlbfs_drop_inode+0x3c/0x24c
    [c000005db12cba50] [c00000000010287c] .iput+0xdc/0xf8
    [c000005db12cbad0] [c0000000000fee54] .dentry_iput+0x12c/0x194
    [c000005db12cbb60] [c0000000000ff050] .d_kill+0x6c/0xa4
    [c000005db12cbbf0] [c0000000000ffb74] .dput+0x18c/0x1b0
    [c000005db12cbc70] [c0000000000e9e98] .__fput+0x1a4/0x1e8
    [c000005db12cbd10] [c0000000000e61ec] .filp_close+0xb8/0xe0
    [c000005db12cbda0] [c0000000000e62d0] .sys_close+0xbc/0x134
    [c000005db12cbe30] [c00000000000872c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
    Instruction dump:
    ebbe8038 38800010 e8bf0002 3bbd0008 7fa3eb78 38a50001 7ca507b4 4818df25
    60000000 38800010 38a00000 7c601b78 <7fa3eb78> 2f800010 409d0008 38000010

This was tracked down to a potential livelock in
return_unused_surplus_hugepages().  In the case where we have surplus
pages on some node, but no free pages on the same node, we may never
break out of the loop. To avoid this livelock, terminate the search if
we iterate a number of times equal to the number of online nodes without
freeing a page.

Thanks to Andy Whitcroft and Adam Litke for helping with debugging and
the patch.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-26 15:01:33 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
a1de09195b hugetlb: indicate surplus huge page counts in per-node meminfo
Currently we show the surplus hugetlb pool state in /proc/meminfo, but
not in the per-node meminfo files, even though we track the information
on a per-node basis. Printing it there can help track down dynamic pool
bugs including the one in the follow-on patch.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-26 15:01:33 -07:00
Daniel Yeisley
ec1f5eeeb5 slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()
Commit 556a169dab ("slab: fix bootstrap on
memoryless node") introduced bootstrap-time cache_cache list3s for all nodes
but forgot that initkmem_list3 needs to be accessed by [somevalue + node]. This
patch fixes list_add() corruption in mm/slab.c seen on the ES7000.

Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-26 10:44:17 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
53625b4204 count_partial() is not used if !SLUB_DEBUG and !CONFIG_SLABINFO
Avoid warnings about unused functions if neither SLUB_DEBUG nor CONFIG_SLABINFO
is defined. This patch will be reversed when slab defrag is merged since slab
defrag requires count_partial() to determine the fragmentation status of
slab caches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-26 10:42:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7ed7fe5e82 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  [PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity
  [PATCH] double iput() on failure exit in hugetlb
  [PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmem
  [PATCH] fix up new filp allocators
  [PATCH] check for null vfsmount in dentry_open()
  [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr
  [PATCH] sanitize hppfs
  hppfs pass vfsmount to dentry_open()
  [PATCH] restore export of do_kern_mount()
2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
Andrew Morton
4dd4b92021 revert "kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO"
Revert commit f1a9ee758d:

  Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu Feb 7 00:14:08 2008 -0800

    kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO

    The current kswapd (and try_to_free_pages) code has an oddity where the
    code will wait on IO, even if there is no IO in flight.  This problem is
    notable especially when the system scans through many unfreeable pages,
    causing unnecessary stalls in the VM.

    Additionally, tasks without __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO in the direct reclaim path
    will sleep if a significant number of pages are encountered that should be
    written out.  This gives kswapd a chance to write out those pages, while
    the direct reclaim task sleeps.

    Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Because of large latencies and interactivity problems reported by Carlos,
here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/22/211

Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Carlos R.  Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
5a982cbc7b mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core
With numa enabled, some callers could have a range of memory on one node
but try to free that on other node.  This can cause some pages to be
freed wrongly.

For example: when we try to allocate 128g boot ram early for
gart/swiotlb, and free that range later so gart/swiotlb can get some
range afterwards.

With this patch, we don't need to care which node holds the range, just
loop to call free_bootmem_node for all online nodes.

This patch makes free_bootmem_core() more robust by trimming the sidx
and eidx according the ram range that the node has.

And make the free_bootmem_core handle this out of range case.  We could
use bdata_list to make sure the range can be freed for sure.  So next
time, we don't need to loop online nodes and could use free_bootmem
directly.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
f7850d932f mm/readahead: fix kernel-doc notation
Fix kernel-doc notation in mm/readahead.c.

Change ":" to ";" so that it doesn't get treated as a doc section heading.
Move the comment block ending "*/" to a line by itself so that the text on
that last line is not lost (dropped).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:37 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
52ea27eb4c memcgroup: fix check for thread being a group leader in memcgroup
The check t->pid == t->pid is not the blessed way to check whether a task is a
group leader.

This is not about the code beautifulness only, but about pid namespaces fixes
- both the tgid and the pid fields on the task_struct are (slowly :( )
becoming deprecated.

Besides, the thread_group_leader() macro makes only one dereference :)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
43d8eac44f mm: rmap kernel-doc fixes
Correct kernel-doc function names and parameters in rmap.c.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
77f6078aa8 mm: highmem kernel-doc additions
Add kernel-doc comments to highmem.c.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
1b578df022 mm/oom_kill: fix kernel-doc
Fix kernel-doc notation in oom_kill.c.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
4671181020 mm/shmem and tiny-shmem: fix some kernel-doc
Convert tiny-shmem.c function comments to kernel-doc.  Add parameters and
convert/fix other kernel-doc in shmem.c.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
7682486b3e mm: fix various kernel-doc comments
Fix various kernel-doc notation in mm/:

filemap.c: add function short description; convert 2 to kernel-doc
fremap.c: change parameter 'prot' to @prot
pagewalk.c: change "-" in function parameters to ":"
slab.c: fix short description of kmem_ptr_validate()
swap.c: fix description & parameters of put_pages_list()
swap_state.c: fix function parameters
vmalloc.c: change "@returns" to "Returns:" since that is not a parameter

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
Al Viro
8a03feab32 [PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmem
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-19 06:54:36 -04:00
Christoph Lameter
caeab084de slub page alloc fallback: Enable interrupts for GFP_WAIT.
The fallback path needs to enable interrupts like done for
the other page allocator calls. This was not necessary with
the alternate fast path since we handled irq enable/disable in
the slow path. The regular fastpath handles irq enable/disable
around calls to the slow path so we need to restore the proper
status before calling the page allocator from the slowpath.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-17 11:14:17 -07:00
Nick Piggin
f7009264c5 iov_iter_advance() fix
iov_iter_advance() skips over zero-length iovecs, however it does not properly
terminate at the end of the iovec array.  Fix this by checking against
i->count before we skip a zero-length iov.

The bug was reproduced with a test program that continually randomly creates
iovs to writev.  The fix was also verified with the same program and also it
could verify that the correct data was contained in the file after each
writev.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tested-by: "Kevin Coffman" <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10 18:01:20 -07:00
Adam Litke
2668db9111 hugetlb: correct page count for surplus huge pages
Free pages in the hugetlb pool are free and as such have a reference count of
zero.  Regular allocations into the pool from the buddy are "freed" into the
pool which results in their page_count dropping to zero.  However, surplus
pages can be directly utilized by the caller without first being freed to the
pool.  Therefore, a call to put_page_testzero() is in order so that such a
page will be handed to the caller with a correct count.

This has not affected end users because the bad page count is reset before the
page is handed off.  However, under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM this triggers a BUG when
the page count is validated.

Thanks go to Mel for first spotting this issue and providing an initial fix.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10 18:01:19 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
69682d852f mempolicy: fix reference counting bugs
Address 3 known bugs in the current memory policy reference counting method.
I have a series of patches to rework the reference counting to reduce overhead
in the allocation path.  However, that series will require testing in -mm once
I repost it.

1) alloc_page_vma() does not release the extra reference taken for
   vma/shared mempolicy when the mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE.  This can result in
   leaking mempolicy structures.  This is probably occurring, but not being
   noticed.

   Fix:  add the conditional release of the reference.

2) hugezonelist unconditionally releases a reference on the mempolicy when
   mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE.  This can result in decrementing the reference
   count for system default policy [should have no ill effect] or premature
   freeing of task policy.  If this occurred, the next allocation using task
   mempolicy would use the freed structure and probably BUG out.

   Fix:  add the necessary check to the release.

3) The current reference counting method assumes that vma 'get_policy()'
   methods automatically add an extra reference a non-NULL returned mempolicy.
    This is true for shmem_get_policy() used by tmpfs mappings, including
   regular page shm segments.  However, SHM_HUGETLB shm's, backed by
   hugetlbfs, just use the vma policy without the extra reference.  This
   results in freeing of the vma policy on the first allocation, with reuse of
   the freed mempolicy structure on subsequent allocations.

   Fix: Rather than add another condition to the conditional reference
   release, which occur in the allocation path, just add a reference when
   returning the vma policy in shm_get_policy() to match the assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10 18:01:19 -07:00