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2012-12-17tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leakMel Gorman
commit 18a2f371f5edf41810f6469cb9be39931ef9deb9 upstream. This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable. Commit 00442ad04a5e ("mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()") changed get_vma_policy() to raise the refcount on a shmem shared mempolicy; whereas shmem_alloc_page() went on expecting alloc_page_vma() to drop the refcount it had acquired. This deserves a rework: but for now fix the leak in shmem_alloc_page(). Hugh: shmem_swapin() did not need a fix, but surely it's clearer to use the same refcounting there as in shmem_alloc_page(), delete its onstack mempolicy, and the strange mpol_cond_copy() and __mpol_cond_copy() - those were invented to let swapin_readahead() make an unknown number of calls to alloc_pages_vma() with one mempolicy; but since 00442ad04a5e, alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem. Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-13mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()Mel Gorman
commit 00442ad04a5eac08a98255697c510e708f6082e2 upstream. Commit cc9a6c877661 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3") introduced a potential memory corruption. shmem_alloc_page() uses a pseudo vma and it has one significant unique combination, vma->vm_ops=NULL and vma->policy->flags & MPOL_F_SHARED. get_vma_policy() does NOT increase a policy ref when vma->vm_ops=NULL and mpol_cond_put() DOES decrease a policy ref when a policy has MPOL_F_SHARED. Therefore, when a cpuset update race occurs, alloc_pages_vma() falls in 'goto retry_cpuset' path, decrements the reference count and frees the policy prematurely. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-13mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()KOSAKI Motohiro
commit 63f74ca21f1fad36d075e063f06dcc6d39fe86b2 upstream. When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy(). The problem is that shared mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where it is easy to make a mistake. This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2). [mgorman@suse.de: Editted changelog] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-13mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()Mel Gorman
commit b22d127a39ddd10d93deee3d96e643657ad53a49 upstream. shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe. 1) sp_node cannot be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next spin_lock. The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2. Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is reacquired. I was not keen on this approach because it partially duplicates sp_alloc(). As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can sleep when calling sp_alloc(). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-13mempolicy: remove mempolicy sharingKOSAKI Motohiro
commit 869833f2c5c6e4dd09a5378cfc665ffb4615e5d2 upstream. Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the following bug error with slab debugging enabled ============================================================================= BUG numa_policy (Not tainted): Poison overwritten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO: 0xffff880146498250-0xffff880146498250. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b INFO: Allocated in mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 age=46310 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_alloc+0x3d3/0x445 kmem_cache_alloc+0x29d/0x2b0 mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 sys_mbind+0x142/0x620 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 age=46268 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_free+0x2e/0x1de kmem_cache_free+0x25a/0x260 __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 remove_vma+0x68/0x90 exit_mmap+0x118/0x140 mmput+0x73/0x110 exit_mm+0x108/0x130 do_exit+0x162/0xb90 do_group_exit+0x4f/0xc0 sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Slab 0xffffea0005192600 objects=27 used=27 fp=0x (null) flags=0x20000000004080 INFO: Object 0xffff880146498250 @offset=592 fp=0xffff88014649b9d0 The problem is that the structure is being prematurely freed due to a reference count imbalance. In the following case mbind(addr, len) should replace the memory policies of both vma1 and vma2 and thus they will become to share the same mempolicy and the new mempolicy will have the MPOL_F_SHARED flag. +-------------------+-------------------+ | vma1 | vma2(shmem) | +-------------------+-------------------+ | | addr addr+len alloc_pages_vma() uses get_vma_policy() and mpol_cond_put() pair for maintaining the mempolicy reference count. The current rule is that get_vma_policy() only increments refcount for shmem VMA and mpol_conf_put() only decrements refcount if the policy has MPOL_F_SHARED. In above case, vma1 is not shmem vma and vma->policy has MPOL_F_SHARED! The reference count will be decreased even though was not increased whenever alloc_page_vma() is called. This has been broken since commit [52cd3b07: mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting] in 2008. There is another serious bug with the sharing of memory policies. Currently, mempolicy rebind logic (it is called from cpuset rebinding) ignores a refcount of mempolicy and override it forcibly. Thus, any mempolicy sharing may cause mempolicy corruption. The bug was introduced by commit [68860ec1: cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy rebinding]. Ideally, the shared policy handling would be rewritten to either properly handle COW of the policy structures or at least reference count MPOL_F_SHARED based exclusively on information within the policy. However, this patch takes the easier approach of disabling any policy sharing between VMAs. Each new range allocated with sp_alloc will allocate a new policy, set the reference count to 1 and drop the reference count of the old policy. This increases the memory footprint but is not expected to be a major problem as mbind() is unlikely to be used for fine-grained ranges. It is also inefficient because it means we allocate a new policy even in cases where mbind_range() could use the new_policy passed to it. However, it is more straight-forward and the change should be invisible to the user. [mgorman@suse.de: Edited changelog] Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-13revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy ↵KOSAKI Motohiro
linkages" commit 8d34694c1abf29df1f3c7317936b7e3e2e308d9b upstream. Commit 05f144a0d5c2 ("mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages") removed vma->vm_policy updates code but it is the purpose of mbind_range(). Now, mbind_range() is virtually a no-op and while it does not allow memory corruption it is not the right fix. This patch is a revert. [mgorman@suse.de: Edited changelog] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-14Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_strDave Jones
commit 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a upstream. Trivially triggerable, found by trinity: kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546! Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670) Call Trace: show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450 show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20 traverse+0xf2/0x230 seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0 vfs_read+0xac/0x180 sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0 system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360 Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-01mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkagesMel Gorman
commit 05f144a0d5c2207a0349348127f996e104ad7404 upstream. Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the following bug error with slab debugging enabled ============================================================================= BUG numa_policy (Not tainted): Poison overwritten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO: 0xffff880146498250-0xffff880146498250. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b INFO: Allocated in mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 age=46310 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_alloc+0x3d3/0x445 kmem_cache_alloc+0x29d/0x2b0 mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 sys_mbind+0x142/0x620 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 age=46268 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_free+0x2e/0x1de kmem_cache_free+0x25a/0x260 __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 remove_vma+0x68/0x90 exit_mmap+0x118/0x140 mmput+0x73/0x110 exit_mm+0x108/0x130 do_exit+0x162/0xb90 do_group_exit+0x4f/0xc0 sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Slab 0xffffea0005192600 objects=27 used=27 fp=0x (null) flags=0x20000000004080 INFO: Object 0xffff880146498250 @offset=592 fp=0xffff88014649b9d0 This implied a reference counting bug and the problem happened during mbind(). mbind() applies a new memory policy to a range and uses mbind_range() to merge existing VMAs or split them as necessary. In the event of splits, mpol_dup() will allocate a new struct mempolicy and maintain existing reference counts whose rules are documented in Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt . The problem occurs with shared memory policies. The vm_op->set_policy increments the reference count if necessary and split_vma() and vma_merge() have already handled the existing reference counts. However, policy_vma() screws it up by replacing an existing vma->vm_policy with one that potentially has the wrong reference count leading to a premature free. This patch removes the damage caused by policy_vma(). With this patch applied Dave's trinity tool runs an mbind test for 5 minutes without error. /proc/slabinfo reported that there are no numa_policy or shared_policy_node objects allocated after the test completed and the shared memory region was deleted. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-25mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in migrate_pagesSasha Levin
Commit 3268c63 ("mm: fix move/migrate_pages() race on task struct") has added an odd construct where 'mm' is checked for being NULL, and if it is, it would get dereferenced anyways by mput()ing it. This would lead to the following NULL ptr deref and BUG() when calling migrate_pages() with a pid that has no mm struct: [25904.193704] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050 [25904.194235] IP: [<ffffffff810b0de7>] mmput+0x27/0xf0 [25904.194235] PGD 773e6067 PUD 77da0067 PMD 0 [25904.194235] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [25904.194235] CPU 2 [25904.194235] Pid: 31608, comm: trinity Tainted: G W 3.4.0-rc2-next-20120412-sasha #69 [25904.194235] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b0de7>] [<ffffffff810b0de7>] mmput+0x27/0xf0 [25904.194235] RSP: 0018:ffff880077d49e08 EFLAGS: 00010202 [25904.194235] RAX: 0000000000000286 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] RDX: ffff880075ef8000 RSI: 000000000000023d RDI: 0000000000000286 [25904.194235] RBP: ffff880077d49e18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 [25904.194235] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] R13: 00000000ffffffea R14: ffff880034287740 R15: ffff8800218d3010 [25904.194235] FS: 00007fc8b244c700(0000) GS:ffff880029800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [25904.194235] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [25904.194235] CR2: 0000000000000050 CR3: 00000000767c6000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 [25904.194235] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [25904.194235] Process trinity (pid: 31608, threadinfo ffff880077d48000, task ffff880075ef8000) [25904.194235] Stack: [25904.194235] ffff8800342876c0 0000000000000000 ffff880077d49f78 ffffffff811b8020 [25904.194235] ffffffff811b7d91 ffff880075ef8000 ffff88002256d200 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] 00000000000003ff 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] Call Trace: [25904.194235] [<ffffffff811b8020>] sys_migrate_pages+0x340/0x3a0 [25904.194235] [<ffffffff811b7d91>] ? sys_migrate_pages+0xb1/0x3a0 [25904.194235] [<ffffffff8266cbb9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [25904.194235] Code: c9 c3 66 90 55 31 d2 48 89 e5 be 3d 02 00 00 48 83 ec 10 48 89 1c 24 4c 89 64 24 08 48 89 fb 48 c7 c7 cf 0e e1 82 e8 69 18 03 00 <f0> ff 4b 50 0f 94 c0 84 c0 0f 84 aa 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 72 f1 [25904.194235] RIP [<ffffffff810b0de7>] mmput+0x27/0xf0 [25904.194235] RSP <ffff880077d49e08> [25904.194235] CR2: 0000000000000050 [25904.348999] ---[ end trace a307b3ed40206b4b ]--- Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3Mel Gorman
Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21mm: fix move/migrate_pages() race on task structChristoph Lameter
Migration functions perform the rcu_read_unlock too early. As a result the task pointed to may change from under us. This can result in an oops, as reported by Dave Hansen in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/23/302. The following patch extend the period of the rcu_read_lock until after the permissions checks are done. We also take a refcount so that the task reference is stable when calling security check functions and performing cpuset node validation (which takes a mutex). The refcount is dropped before actual page migration occurs so there is no change to the refcounts held during page migration. Also move the determination of the mm of the task struct to immediately before the do_migrate*() calls so that it is clear that we switch from handling the task during permission checks to the mm for the actual migration. Since the determination is only done once and we then no longer use the task_struct we can be sure that we operate on a specific address space that will not change from under us. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read modeAndrea Arcangeli
In some cases it may happen that pmd_none_or_clear_bad() is called with the mmap_sem hold in read mode. In those cases the huge page faults can allocate hugepmds under pmd_none_or_clear_bad() and that can trigger a false positive from pmd_bad() that will not like to see a pmd materializing as trans huge. It's not khugepaged causing the problem, khugepaged holds the mmap_sem in write mode (and all those sites must hold the mmap_sem in read mode to prevent pagetables to go away from under them, during code review it seems vm86 mode on 32bit kernels requires that too unless it's restricted to 1 thread per process or UP builds). The race is only with the huge pagefaults that can convert a pmd_none() into a pmd_trans_huge(). Effectively all these pmd_none_or_clear_bad() sites running with mmap_sem in read mode are somewhat speculative with the page faults, and the result is always undefined when they run simultaneously. This is probably why it wasn't common to run into this. For example if the madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) runs zap_page_range() shortly before the page fault, the hugepage will not be zapped, if the page fault runs first it will be zapped. Altering pmd_bad() not to error out if it finds hugepmds won't be enough to fix this, because zap_pmd_range would then proceed to call zap_pte_range (which would be incorrect if the pmd become a pmd_trans_huge()). The simplest way to fix this is to read the pmd in the local stack (regardless of what we read, no need of actual CPU barriers, only compiler barrier needed), and be sure it is not changing under the code that computes its value. Even if the real pmd is changing under the value we hold on the stack, we don't care. If we actually end up in zap_pte_range it means the pmd was not none already and it was not huge, and it can't become huge from under us (khugepaged locking explained above). All we need is to enforce that there is no way anymore that in a code path like below, pmd_trans_huge can be false, but pmd_none_or_clear_bad can run into a hugepmd. The overhead of a barrier() is just a compiler tweak and should not be measurable (I only added it for THP builds). I don't exclude different compiler versions may have prevented the race too by caching the value of *pmd on the stack (that hasn't been verified, but it wouldn't be impossible considering pmd_none_or_clear_bad, pmd_bad, pmd_trans_huge, pmd_none are all inlines and there's no external function called in between pmd_trans_huge and pmd_none_or_clear_bad). if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { if (next-addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) { VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem)); split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, pmd); } else if (zap_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr)) continue; /* fall through */ } if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) Because this race condition could be exercised without special privileges this was reported in CVE-2012-1179. The race was identified and fully explained by Ulrich who debugged it. I'm quoting his accurate explanation below, for reference. ====== start quote ======= mapcount 0 page_mapcount 1 kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1384! At some point prior to the panic, a "bad pmd ..." message similar to the following is logged on the console: mm/memory.c:145: bad pmd ffff8800376e1f98(80000000314000e7). The "bad pmd ..." message is logged by pmd_clear_bad() before it clears the page's PMD table entry. 143 void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *pmd) 144 { -> 145 pmd_ERROR(*pmd); 146 pmd_clear(pmd); 147 } After the PMD table entry has been cleared, there is an inconsistency between the actual number of PMD table entries that are mapping the page and the page's map count (_mapcount field in struct page). When the page is subsequently reclaimed, __split_huge_page() detects this inconsistency. 1381 if (mapcount != page_mapcount(page)) 1382 printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d page_mapcount %d\n", 1383 mapcount, page_mapcount(page)); -> 1384 BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page)); The root cause of the problem is a race of two threads in a multithreaded process. Thread B incurs a page fault on a virtual address that has never been accessed (PMD entry is zero) while Thread A is executing an madvise() system call on a virtual address within the same 2 MB (huge page) range. virtual address space .---------------------. | | | | .-|---------------------| | | | | | |<-- B(fault) | | | 2 MB | |/////////////////////|-. huge < |/////////////////////| > A(range) page | |/////////////////////|-' | | | | | | '-|---------------------| | | | | '---------------------' - Thread A is executing an madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) system call on the virtual address range "A(range)" shown in the picture. sys_madvise // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode. down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem) ... madvise_vma switch (behavior) case MADV_DONTNEED: madvise_dontneed zap_page_range unmap_vmas unmap_page_range zap_pud_range zap_pmd_range // // Assume that this huge page has never been accessed. // I.e. content of the PMD entry is zero (not mapped). // if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { // We don't get here due to the above assumption. } // // Assume that Thread B incurred a page fault and .---------> // sneaks in here as shown below. | // | if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) | { | if (unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd))) | pmd_clear_bad | { | pmd_ERROR | // Log "bad pmd ..." message here. | pmd_clear | // Clear the page's PMD entry. | // Thread B incremented the map count | // in page_add_new_anon_rmap(), but | // now the page is no longer mapped | // by a PMD entry (-> inconsistency). | } | } | v - Thread B is handling a page fault on virtual address "B(fault)" shown in the picture. ... do_page_fault __do_page_fault // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode. down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem) ... handle_mm_fault if (pmd_none(*pmd) && transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma)) // We get here due to the above assumption (PMD entry is zero). do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page alloc_hugepage_vma // Allocate a new transparent huge page here. ... __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page ... spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock) ... page_add_new_anon_rmap // Here we increment the page's map count (starts at -1). atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, 0) set_pmd_at // Here we set the page's PMD entry which will be cleared // when Thread A calls pmd_clear_bad(). ... spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock) The mmap_sem does not prevent the race because both threads are acquiring it in shared mode (down_read). Thread B holds the page_table_lock while the page's map count and PMD table entry are updated. However, Thread A does not synchronize on that lock. ====== end quote ======= [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.38+] Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-06vm: avoid using find_vma_prev() unnecessarilyLinus Torvalds
Several users of "find_vma_prev()" were not in fact interested in the previous vma if there was no primary vma to be found either. And in those cases, we're much better off just using the regular "find_vma()", and then "prev" can be looked up by just checking vma->vm_prev. The find_vma_prev() semantics are fairly subtle (see Mikulas' recent commit 83cd904d271b: "mm: fix find_vma_prev"), and the whole "return prev by reference" means that it generates worse code too. Thus this "let's avoid using this inconvenient and clearly too subtle interface when we don't really have to" patch. Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compactionMel Gorman
This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used. This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time, particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support ->writepages. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10mm/mempolicy.c: mpol_equal(): use boolKOSAKI Motohiro
mpol_equal() logically returns a boolean. Use a bool type to slightly improve readability. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-29mm/mempolicy.c: refix mbind_range() vma issueKOSAKI Motohiro
commit 8aacc9f550 ("mm/mempolicy.c: fix pgoff in mbind vma merge") is the slightly incorrect fix. Why? Think following case. 1. map 4 pages of a file at offset 0 [0123] 2. map 2 pages just after the first mapping of the same file but with page offset 2 [0123][23] 3. mbind() 2 pages from the first mapping at offset 2. mbind_range() should treat new vma is, [0123][23] |23| mbind vma but it does [0123][23] |01| mbind vma Oops. then, it makes wrong vma merge and splitting ([01][0123] or similar). This patch fixes it. [testcase] test result - before the patch case4: 126: test failed. expect '2,4', actual '2,2,2' case5: passed case6: passed case7: passed case8: passed case_n: 246: test failed. expect '4,2', actual '1,4' ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:135! invalid opcode: 0000 [#4] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC (snip long bug on messages) test result - after the patch case4: passed case5: passed case6: passed case7: passed case8: passed case_n: passed source: mbind_vma_test.c ============================================================ #include <numaif.h> #include <numa.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> static unsigned long pagesize; void* mmap_addr; struct bitmask *nmask; char buf[1024]; FILE *file; char retbuf[10240] = ""; int mapped_fd; char *rubysrc = "ruby -e '\ pid = %d; \ vstart = 0x%llx; \ vend = 0x%llx; \ s = `pmap -q #{pid}`; \ rary = []; \ s.each_line {|line|; \ ary=line.split(\" \"); \ addr = ary[0].to_i(16); \ if(vstart <= addr && addr < vend) then \ rary.push(ary[1].to_i()/4); \ end; \ }; \ print rary.join(\",\"); \ '"; void init(void) { void* addr; char buf[128]; nmask = numa_allocate_nodemask(); numa_bitmask_setbit(nmask, 0); pagesize = getpagesize(); sprintf(buf, "%s", "mbind_vma_XXXXXX"); mapped_fd = mkstemp(buf); if (mapped_fd == -1) perror("mkstemp "), exit(1); unlink(buf); if (lseek(mapped_fd, pagesize*8, SEEK_SET) < 0) perror("lseek "), exit(1); if (write(mapped_fd, "\0", 1) < 0) perror("write "), exit(1); addr = mmap(NULL, pagesize*8, PROT_NONE, MAP_SHARED, mapped_fd, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) perror("mmap "), exit(1); if (mprotect(addr+pagesize, pagesize*6, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) < 0) perror("mprotect "), exit(1); mmap_addr = addr + pagesize; /* make page populate */ memset(mmap_addr, 0, pagesize*6); } void fin(void) { void* addr = mmap_addr - pagesize; munmap(addr, pagesize*8); memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf)); memset(retbuf, 0, sizeof(retbuf)); } void mem_bind(int index, int len) { int err; err = mbind(mmap_addr+pagesize*index, pagesize*len, MPOL_BIND, nmask->maskp, nmask->size, 0); if (err) perror("mbind "), exit(err); } void mem_interleave(int index, int len) { int err; err = mbind(mmap_addr+pagesize*index, pagesize*len, MPOL_INTERLEAVE, nmask->maskp, nmask->size, 0); if (err) perror("mbind "), exit(err); } void mem_unbind(int index, int len) { int err; err = mbind(mmap_addr+pagesize*index, pagesize*len, MPOL_DEFAULT, NULL, 0, 0); if (err) perror("mbind "), exit(err); } void Assert(char *expected, char *value, char *name, int line) { if (strcmp(expected, value) == 0) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: passed\n", name); return; } else { fprintf(stderr, "%s: %d: test failed. expect '%s', actual '%s'\n", name, line, expected, value); // exit(1); } } /* AAAA PPPPPPNNNNNN might become PPNNNNNNNNNN case 4 below */ void case4(void) { init(); sprintf(buf, rubysrc, getpid(), mmap_addr, mmap_addr+pagesize*6); mem_bind(0, 4); mem_unbind(2, 2); file = popen(buf, "r"); fread(retbuf, sizeof(retbuf), 1, file); Assert("2,4", retbuf, "case4", __LINE__); fin(); } /* AAAA PPPPPPNNNNNN might become PPPPPPPPPPNN case 5 below */ void case5(void) { init(); sprintf(buf, rubysrc, getpid(), mmap_addr, mmap_addr+pagesize*6); mem_bind(0, 2); mem_bind(2, 2); file = popen(buf, "r"); fread(retbuf, sizeof(retbuf), 1, file); Assert("4,2", retbuf, "case5", __LINE__); fin(); } /* AAAA PPPPNNNNXXXX might become PPPPPPPPPPPP 6 */ void case6(void) { init(); sprintf(buf, rubysrc, getpid(), mmap_addr, mmap_addr+pagesize*6); mem_bind(0, 2); mem_bind(4, 2); mem_bind(2, 2); file = popen(buf, "r"); fread(retbuf, sizeof(retbuf), 1, file); Assert("6", retbuf, "case6", __LINE__); fin(); } /* AAAA PPPPNNNNXXXX might become PPPPPPPPXXXX 7 */ void case7(void) { init(); sprintf(buf, rubysrc, getpid(), mmap_addr, mmap_addr+pagesize*6); mem_bind(0, 2); mem_interleave(4, 2); mem_bind(2, 2); file = popen(buf, "r"); fread(retbuf, sizeof(retbuf), 1, file); Assert("4,2", retbuf, "case7", __LINE__); fin(); } /* AAAA PPPPNNNNXXXX might become PPPPNNNNNNNN 8 */ void case8(void) { init(); sprintf(buf, rubysrc, getpid(), mmap_addr, mmap_addr+pagesize*6); mem_bind(0, 2); mem_interleave(4, 2); mem_interleave(2, 2); file = popen(buf, "r"); fread(retbuf, sizeof(retbuf), 1, file); Assert("2,4", retbuf, "case8", __LINE__); fin(); } void case_n(void) { init(); sprintf(buf, rubysrc, getpid(), mmap_addr, mmap_addr+pagesize*6); /* make redundunt mappings [0][1234][34][7] */ mmap(mmap_addr + pagesize*4, pagesize*2, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_FIXED|MAP_SHARED, mapped_fd, pagesize*3); /* Expect to do nothing. */ mem_unbind(2, 2); file = popen(buf, "r"); fread(retbuf, sizeof(retbuf), 1, file); Assert("4,2", retbuf, "case_n", __LINE__); fin(); } int main(int argc, char** argv) { case4(); case5(); case6(); case7(); case8(); case_n(); return 0; } ============================================================= Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Caspar Zhang <caspar@casparzhang.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.1.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-06Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux * 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits) Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h" irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules. bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h> acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h> net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h> net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h> ... Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c} - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-10-31mm/mempolicy.c: quiet sparse noiseH Hartley Sweeten
Quiet the spares noise: warning: symbol 'default_policy' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker
The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL macro variants. They are not using core modular infrastructure and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-09-14mm/mempolicy.c: make copy_from_user() provably correctKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
When compiling mm/mempolicy.c with struct user copy checks the following warning is shown: In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:572, from include/linux/uaccess.h:5, from include/linux/highmem.h:7, from include/linux/pagemap.h:10, from include/linux/mempolicy.h:70, from mm/mempolicy.c:68: In function `copy_from_user', inlined from `compat_sys_get_mempolicy' at mm/mempolicy.c:1415: arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:64: warning: call to `copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct LD mm/built-in.o Fix this by passing correct buffer size value. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-14mm/mempolicy.c: fix pgoff in mbind vma mergeCaspar Zhang
commit 9d8cebd4bcd7 ("mm: fix mbind vma merge problem") didn't really fix the mbind vma merge problem due to wrong pgoff value passing to vma_merge(), which made vma_merge() always return NULL. Before the patch applied, we are getting a result like: addr = 0x7fa58f00c000 [snip] 7fa58f00c000-7fa58f00d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fa58f00d000-7fa58f00e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fa58f00e000-7fa58f00f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 here 7fa58f00c000->7fa58f00f000 we get 3 VMAs which are expected to be merged described as described in commit 9d8cebd. Re-testing the patched kernel with the reproducer provided in commit 9d8cebd, we get the correct result: addr = 0x7ffa5aaa2000 [snip] 7ffa5aaa2000-7ffa5aaa6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fffd556f000-7fffd5584000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] Signed-off-by: Caspar Zhang <caspar@casparzhang.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()Michal Hocko
[ This patch has already been accepted as commit 0ac0c0d0f837 but later reverted (commit 35926ff5fba8) because it itroduced arch specific __node_random which was defined only for x86 code so it broke other archs. This is a followup without any arch specific code. Other than that there are no functional changes.] Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems). Part of the reason is that the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at node 0 for newly created tasks. This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of the cpuset. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration] [mhocko@suse.cz: Make it arch independent] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y, MAX_NUMNODES>1 build] Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: proc: move show_numa_map() to fs/proc/task_mmu.cStephen Wilson
Moving show_numa_map() from mempolicy.c to task_mmu.c solves several issues. - Having the show() operation "miles away" from the corresponding seq_file iteration operations is a maintenance burden. - The need to export ad hoc info like struct proc_maps_private is eliminated. - The implementation of show_numa_map() can be improved in a simple manner by cooperating with the other seq_file operations (start, stop, etc) -- something that would be messy to do without this change. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: remove check_huge_range()Stephen Wilson
This function has been superseded by gather_hugetbl_stats() and is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: make gather_stats() type-safe and remove forward declarationStephen Wilson
Improve the prototype of gather_stats() to take a struct numa_maps as argument instead of a generic void *. Update all callers to make the required type explicit. Since gather_stats() is not needed before its definition and is scheduled to be moved out of mempolicy.c the declaration is removed as well. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: remove MPOL_MF_STATSStephen Wilson
Mapping statistics in a NUMA environment is now computed using the generic walk_page_range() logic. Remove the old/equivalent functionality. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: use walk_page_range() instead of custom page table walking codeStephen Wilson
Converting show_numa_map() to use the generic routine decouples the function from mempolicy.c, allowing it to be moved out of the mm subsystem and into fs/proc. Also, include KSM pages in /proc/pid/numa_maps statistics. The pagewalk logic implemented by check_pte_range() failed to account for such pages as they were not applicable to the page migration case. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: export get_vma_policy()Stephen Wilson
In commit 48fce3429d ("mempolicies: unexport get_vma_policy()") get_vma_policy() was marked static as all clients were local to mempolicy.c. However, the decision to generate /proc/pid/numa_maps in the numa memory policy code and outside the procfs subsystem introduces an artificial interdependency between the two systems. Exporting get_vma_policy() once again is the first step to clean up this interdependency. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22mempolicy: remove redundant check in __mpol_equal()Namhyung Kim
The 'flags' field is already checked, no need to do it again. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (47 commits) doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore Update cpuset info & webiste for cgroups dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected arch/arm/Kconfig: remove one to many l's in the word. asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment drm: fix printk typo 'sracth' Remove one to many n's in a word Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs drivers:scsi Change printk typo initate -> initiate serial, pch uart: Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/pci.h header fs/eventpoll.c: fix spelling mm: Fix out-of-date comments which refers non-existent functions drm: Fix printk typo 'failled' coh901318.c: Change initate to initiate. mbox-db5500.c Change initate to initiate. edac: correct i82975x error-info reported edac: correct i82975x mci initialisation edac: correct commented info fs: update comments to point correct document target: remove duplicate include of target/target_core_device.h from drivers/target/target_core_hba.c ... Trivial conflict in fs/eventpoll.c (spelling vs addition)
2011-03-04mm: use correct numa policy node for transparent hugepagesAndi Kleen
Pass down the correct node for a transparent hugepage allocation. Most callers continue to use the current node, however the hugepaged daemon now uses the previous node of the first to be collapsed page instead. This ensures that khugepaged does not mess up local memory for an existing process which uses local policy. The choice of node is somewhat primitive currently: it just uses the node of the first page in the pmd range. An alternative would be to look at multiple pages and use the most popular node. I used the simplest variant for now which should work well enough for the case of all pages being on the same node. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-04mm: change alloc_pages_vma to pass down the policy node for local policyAndi Kleen
Currently alloc_pages_vma() always uses the local node as policy node for the LOCAL policy. Pass this node down as an argument instead. No behaviour change from this patch, but will be needed for followons. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-01Remove one to many n's in a wordJustin P. Mattock
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-02-25thp: fix interleaving for transparent hugepagesAndi Kleen
The THP code didn't pass the correct interleaving shift to the memory policy code. Fix this here by adjusting for the order. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13thp: add numa awareness to hugepage allocationsAndrea Arcangeli
It's mostly a matter of replacing alloc_pages with alloc_pages_vma after introducing alloc_pages_vma. khugepaged needs special handling as the allocation has to happen inside collapse_huge_page where the vma is known and an error has to be returned to the outer loop to sleep alloc_sleep_millisecs in case of failure. But it retains the more efficient logic of handling allocation failures in khugepaged in case of CONFIG_NUMA=n. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13thp: split_huge_page_mm/vmaAndrea Arcangeli
split_huge_page_pmd compat code. Each one of those would need to be expanded to hundred of lines of complex code without a fully reliable split_huge_page_pmd design. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13mempolicy: remove tasklist_lock from migrate_pagesKOSAKI Motohiro
Today, tasklist_lock in migrate_pages doesn't protect anything. rcu_read_lock() provide enough protection from pid hash walk. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13mm: migration: cleanup migrate_pages API by matching types for offlining and ↵Mel Gorman
sync With the introduction of the boolean sync parameter, the API looks a little inconsistent as offlining is still an int. Convert offlining to a bool for the sake of being tidy. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13mm: migration: allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid ↵Mel Gorman
synchronous compaction in the faster path Migration synchronously waits for writeback if the initial passes fails. Callers of memory compaction do not necessarily want this behaviour if the caller is latency sensitive or expects that synchronous migration is not going to have a significantly better success rate. This patch adds a sync parameter to migrate_pages() allowing the caller to indicate if wait_on_page_writeback() is allowed within migration or not. For reclaim/compaction, try_to_compact_pages() is first called asynchronously, direct reclaim runs and then try_to_compact_pages() is called synchronously as there is a greater expectation that it'll succeed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build/merge fix] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02mm/mempolicy.c: add rcu read lock to protect pid structureZeng Zhaoming
find_task_by_vpid() should be protected by rcu_read_lock(), to prevent free_pid() reclaiming pid. Signed-off-by: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-28numa: fix slab_node(MPOL_BIND)Eric Dumazet
When a node contains only HighMem memory, slab_node(MPOL_BIND) dereferences a NULL pointer. [ This code seems to go back all the way to commit 19770b32609b: "mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask". Which was back in April 2008, and it got merged into 2.6.26. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm/mempolicy.c: check return code of check_rangeVasiliy Kulikov
Function check_range may return ERR_PTR(...). Check for it. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED countingMinchan Kim
Presently update_nr_listpages() doesn't have a role. That's because lists passed is always empty just after calling migrate_pages. The migrate_pages cleans up page list which have failed to migrate before returning by aaa994b3. [PATCH] page migration: handle freeing of pages in migrate_pages() Do not leave pages on the lists passed to migrate_pages(). Seems that we will not need any postprocessing of pages. This will simplify the handling of pages by the callers of migrate_pages(). At that time, we thought we don't need any postprocessing of pages. But the situation is changed. The compaction need to know the number of failed to migrate for COMPACTPAGEFAILED stat This patch makes new rule for caller of migrate_pages to call putback_lru_pages. So caller need to clean up the lists so it has a chance to postprocess the pages. [suggested by Christoph Lameter] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09mempolicy: reduce stack size of migrate_pages()KOSAKI Motohiro
migrate_pages() is using >500 bytes stack. Reduce it. mm/mempolicy.c: In function 'sys_migrate_pages': mm/mempolicy.c:1344: warning: the frame size of 528 bytes is larger than 512 bytes [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't play with a might-be-NULL pointer] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09oom: select task from tasklist for mempolicy oomsDavid Rientjes
The oom killer presently kills current whenever there is no more memory free or reclaimable on its mempolicy's nodes. There is no guarantee that current is a memory-hogging task or that killing it will free any substantial amount of memory, however. In such situations, it is better to scan the tasklist for nodes that are allowed to allocate on current's set of nodes and kill the task with the highest badness() score. This ensures that the most memory-hogging task, or the one configured by the user with /proc/pid/oom_adj, is always selected in such scenarios. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29mempolicy: fix dangling reference to tmpfs superblock mpolLee Schermerhorn
My patch to "Factor out duplicate put/frees in mpol_shared_policy_init() to a common return path"; and Dan Carpenter's fix thereto both left a dangling reference to the incoming tmpfs superblock mempolicy structure. A similar leak was introduced earlier when the nodemask was moved offstack to the scratch area despite the note in the comment block regarding the incoming ref. Move the remaining 'put of the incoming "mpol" to the common exit path to drop the reference. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26mempolicy: ERR_PTR dereference in mpol_shared_policy_init()Dan Carpenter
The original code called mpol_put(new) while "new" was an ERR_PTR. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25mm: consider the entire user address space during node migrationGreg Thelen
Use mm->task_size instead of TASK_SIZE to ensure that the entire user address space is migrated. mm->task_size is independent of the calling task context. TASK SIZE may be dependant on the address space size of the calling process. Usage of TASK_SIZE can lead to partial address space migration if the calling process was 32 bit and the migrating process was 64 bit. Here is the test script used on 64 system with a 32 bit echo process: mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -o cpuset cd /cgroup mkdir 0 echo 1 > 0/cpuset.cpus echo 0 > 0/cpuset.mems echo 1 > 0/cpuset.memory_migrate mkdir 1 echo 1 > 1/cpuset.cpus echo 1 > 1/cpuset.mems echo 1 > 1/cpuset.memory_migrate echo $$ > 0/tasks 64_bit_process & pid=$! echo $pid > 1/tasks # This does not migrate all process pages without # this patch. If 64 bit echo is used or this patch is # applied, then the full address space of $pid is # migrated. To check memory migration, I watched: grep MemUsed /sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's memsMiao Xie
Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all old unallowed bits later. But in the way, the allocator may find that there is no node to alloc memory. The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example: (mpol: mempolicy) task1 task1's mpol task2 alloc page 1 alloc on node0? NO 1 1 change mems from 1 to 0 1 rebind task1's mpol 0-1 set new bits 0 clear disallowed bits alloc on node1? NO 0 ... can't alloc page goto oom This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits). So we use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after read-side task ends the current memory allocation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello] Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25mempolicy: restructure rebinding-mempolicy functionsMiao Xie
Nick Piggin reported that the allocator may see an empty nodemask when changing cpuset's mems[1]. It happens only on the kernel that do not do atomic nodemask_t stores. (MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG) But I found that there is also a problem on the kernel that can do atomic nodemask_t stores. The problem is that the allocator can't find a node to alloc page when changing cpuset's mems though there is a lot of free memory. The reason is like this: (mpol: mempolicy) task1 task1's mpol task2 alloc page 1 alloc on node0? NO 1 1 change mems from 1 to 0 1 rebind task1's mpol 0-1 set new bits 0 clear disallowed bits alloc on node1? NO 0 ... can't alloc page goto oom I can use the attached program reproduce it by the following step: # mkdir /dev/cpuset # mount -t cpuset cpuset /dev/cpuset # mkdir /dev/cpuset/1 # echo `cat /dev/cpuset/cpus` > /dev/cpuset/1/cpus # echo `cat /dev/cpuset/mems` > /dev/cpuset/1/mems # echo $$ > /dev/cpuset/1/tasks # numactl --membind=`cat /dev/cpuset/mems` ./cpuset_mem_hog <nr_tasks> & <nr_tasks> = max(nr_cpus - 1, 1) # killall -s SIGUSR1 cpuset_mem_hog # ./change_mems.sh several hours later, oom will happen though there is a lot of free memory. This patchset fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits). So we use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after read-side task ends the current memory allocation. This patch: In order to fix no node to alloc memory, when we want to update mempolicy and mems_allowed, we expand the set of nodes first (set all the newly nodes) and shrink the set of nodes lazily(clean disallowed nodes), But the mempolicy's rebind functions may breaks the expanding. So we restructure the mempolicy's rebind functions and split the rebind work to two steps, just like the update of cpuset's mems: The 1st step: expand the set of the mempolicy's nodes. The 2nd step: shrink the set of the mempolicy's nodes. It is used when there is no real lock to protect the mempolicy in the read-side. Otherwise we can do rebind work at once. In order to implement it, we define enum mpol_rebind_step { MPOL_REBIND_ONCE, MPOL_REBIND_STEP1, MPOL_REBIND_STEP2, MPOL_REBIND_NSTEP, }; If the mempolicy needn't be updated by two steps, we can pass MPOL_REBIND_ONCE to the rebind functions. Or we can pass MPOL_REBIND_STEP1 to do the first step of the rebind work and pass MPOL_REBIND_STEP2 to do the second step work. Besides that, it maybe long time between these two step and we have to release the lock that protects mempolicy and mems_allowed. If we hold the lock once again, we must check whether the current mempolicy is under the rebinding (the first step has been done) or not, because the task may alloc a new mempolicy when we don't hold the lock. So we defined the following flag to identify it: #define MPOL_F_REBINDING (1 << 2) The new functions will be used in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>