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  1. Sep 09, 2017
  3. Aug 18, 2017
    • zhong jiang's avatar
      mm/mempolicy: fix use after free when calling get_mempolicy · 73223e4e
      zhong jiang authored 
      I hit a use after free issue when executing trinity and repoduced it
with KASAN enabled.  The related call trace is as follows.

  BUG: KASan: use after free in SyS_get_mempolicy+0x3c8/0x960 at addr ffff8801f582d766
  Read of size 2 by task syz-executor1/798

  INFO: Allocated in mpol_new.part.2+0x74/0x160 age=3 cpu=1 pid=799
     __slab_alloc+0x768/0x970
     kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e7/0x450
     mpol_new.part.2+0x74/0x160
     mpol_new+0x66/0x80
     SyS_mbind+0x267/0x9f0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x2b/0x40 age=4 cpu=1 pid=799
     __slab_free+0x495/0x8e0
     kmem_cache_free+0x2f3/0x4c0
     __mpol_put+0x2b/0x40
     SyS_mbind+0x383/0x9f0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  INFO: Slab 0xffffea0009cb8dc0 objects=23 used=8 fp=0xffff8801f582de40 flags=0x200000000004080
  INFO: Object 0xffff8801f582d760 @offset=5984 fp=0xffff8801f582d600

  Bytes b4 ffff8801f582d750: ae 01 ff ff 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a  ........ZZZZZZZZ
  Object ffff8801f582d760: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
  Object ffff8801f582d770: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5                          kkkkkkk.
  Redzone ffff8801f582d778: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                          ........
  Padding ffff8801f582d8b8: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                          ZZZZZZZZ
  Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff8801f582d600: fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  ffff8801f582d680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  >ffff8801f582d700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fc

!shared memory policy is not protected against parallel removal by other
thread which is normally protected by the mmap_sem.  do_get_mempolicy,
however, drops the lock midway while we can still access it later.

Early premature up_read is a historical artifact from times when
put_user was called in this path see https://lwn.net/Articles/124754/
but that is gone since 8bccd85f ("[PATCH] Implement sys_* do_*
layering in the memory policy layer.").  but when we have the the
current mempolicy ref count model.  The issue was introduced
accordingly.

Fix the issue by removing the premature release.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502950924-27521-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarzhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[2.6+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      73223e4e
  5. Jul 12, 2017
  7. Jul 06, 2017
    • Vlastimil Babka's avatar
      mm, mempolicy: don't check cpuset seqlock where it doesn't matter · e0dd7d53
      Vlastimil Babka authored 
      Two wrappers of __alloc_pages_nodemask() are checking
task->mems_allowed_seq themselves to retry allocation that has raced
with a cpuset update.

This has been shown to be ineffective in preventing premature OOM's
which can happen in __alloc_pages_slowpath() long before it returns back
to the wrappers to detect the race at that level.

Previous patches have made __alloc_pages_slowpath() more robust, so we
can now simply remove the seqlock checking in the wrappers to prevent
further wrong impression that it can actually help.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-7-vbabka@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e0dd7d53
    • Vlastimil Babka's avatar
      mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets · 213980c0
      Vlastimil Babka authored 
      Commit c0ff7453 ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when
changing cpuset's mems") has introduced a two-step protocol when
rebinding task's mempolicy due to cpuset update, in order to avoid a
parallel allocation seeing an empty effective nodemask and failing.

Later, commit cc9a6c87 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory
barrier related damage v3") introduced a seqlock protection and removed
the synchronization point between the two update steps.  At that point
(or perhaps later), the two-step rebinding became unnecessary.

Currently it only makes sure that the update first adds new nodes in
step 1 and then removes nodes in step 2.  Without memory barriers the
effects are questionable, and even then this cannot prevent a parallel
zonelist iteration checking the nodemask at each step to observe all
nodes as unusable for allocation.  We now fully rely on the seqlock to
prevent premature OOMs and allocation failures.

We can thus remove the two-step update parts and simplify the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-5-vbabka@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      213980c0
    • Vlastimil Babka's avatar
      mm, page_alloc: pass preferred nid instead of zonelist to allocator · 04ec6264
      Vlastimil Babka authored 
      The main allocator function __alloc_pages_nodemask() takes a zonelist
pointer as one of its parameters.  All of its callers directly or
indirectly obtain the zonelist via node_zonelist() using a preferred
node id and gfp_mask.  We can make the code a bit simpler by doing the
zonelist lookup in __alloc_pages_nodemask(), passing it a preferred node
id instead (gfp_mask is already another parameter).

There are some code size benefits thanks to removal of inlined
node_zonelist():

  bloat-o-meter add/remove: 2/2 grow/shrink: 4/36 up/down: 399/-1351 (-952)

This will also make things simpler if we proceed with converting cpusets
to zonelists.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-4-vbabka@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      04ec6264
    • Vlastimil Babka's avatar
      mm, mempolicy: stop adjusting current->il_next in mpol_rebind_nodemask() · 45816682
      Vlastimil Babka authored 
      The task->il_next variable stores the next allocation node id for task's
MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy.  mpol_rebind_nodemask() updates interleave and
bind mempolicies due to changing cpuset mems.  Currently it also tries
to make sure that current->il_next is valid within the updated nodemask.
This is bogus, because 1) we are updating potentially any task's
mempolicy, not just current, and 2) we might be updating a per-vma
mempolicy, not task one.

The interleave_nodes() function that uses il_next can cope fine with the
value not being within the currently allowed nodes, so this hasn't
manifested as an actual issue.

We can remove the need for updating il_next completely by changing it to
il_prev and store the node id of the previous interleave allocation
instead of the next id.  Then interleave_nodes() can calculate the next
id using the current nodemask and also store it as il_prev, except when
querying the next node via do_get_mempolicy().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-3-vbabka@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      45816682
  9. Apr 08, 2017
  11. Mar 02, 2017
  13. Jan 25, 2017
  15. Dec 24, 2016
  17. Dec 13, 2016
  19. Oct 19, 2016
  21. Oct 08, 2016
  23. Sep 02, 2016
  25. Jul 28, 2016
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node · 599d0c95
      Mel Gorman authored 
      This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such
as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking.

Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is
necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node
logic.  Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry
logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and
active sizes.  It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a
per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache
lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks.

Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note
that it introduces a number of anomalies.  For example, the scans are
per-zone but using per-node counters.  We also mark a node as congested
when a zone is congested.  This causes weird problems that are fixed
later but is easier to review.

In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to
the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions

1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem

   When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU
   list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same
   highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem
   keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages
   arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially
   could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list.

   That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that
   highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages.

2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails

   This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during
   memory pressure than skipping LRU pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      599d0c95
  27. Jul 26, 2016
  29. May 20, 2016
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice · c33d6c06
      Mel Gorman authored 
      
The allocator fast path looks up the first usable zone in a zonelist and
then get_page_from_freelist does the same job in the zonelist iterator.
This patch preserves the necessary information.

                                             4.6.0-rc2                  4.6.0-rc2
                                        fastmark-v1r20             initonce-v1r20
  Min      alloc-odr0-1               364.00 (  0.00%)           359.00 (  1.37%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2               262.00 (  0.00%)           260.00 (  0.76%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4               214.00 (  0.00%)           214.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8               186.00 (  0.00%)           186.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16              173.00 (  0.00%)           173.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-32              165.00 (  0.00%)           165.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-64              161.00 (  0.00%)           162.00 ( -0.62%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-128             159.00 (  0.00%)           161.00 ( -1.26%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-256             168.00 (  0.00%)           170.00 ( -1.19%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-512             180.00 (  0.00%)           181.00 ( -0.56%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-1024            190.00 (  0.00%)           190.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2048            196.00 (  0.00%)           196.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4096            202.00 (  0.00%)           202.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8192            206.00 (  0.00%)           205.00 (  0.49%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16384           206.00 (  0.00%)           205.00 (  0.49%)

The benefit is negligible and the results are within the noise but each
cycle counts.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c33d6c06
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      mm/mempolicy.c:offset_il_node() document and clarify · fee83b3a
      Andrew Morton authored 
      
This code was pretty obscure and was relying upon obscure side-effects
of next_node(-1, ...) and was relying upon NUMA_NO_NODE being equal to
-1.

Clean that all up and document the function's intent.

Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fee83b3a
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      include/linux/nodemask.h: create next_node_in() helper · 0edaf86c
      Andrew Morton authored 
      
Lots of code does

	node = next_node(node, XXX);
	if (node == MAX_NUMNODES)
		node = first_node(XXX);

so create next_node_in() to do this and use it in various places.

[mhocko@suse.com: use next_node_in() helper]
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xiaomi.com>
Cc: Wang Xiaoqiang <wangxq10@lzu.edu.cn>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0edaf86c
  31. Mar 17, 2016
  33. Mar 15, 2016
  35. Mar 09, 2016
  37. Feb 16, 2016
    • Dave Hansen's avatar
      mm/gup: Switch all callers of get_user_pages() to not pass tsk/mm · d4edcf0d
      Dave Hansen authored 
      
We will soon modify the vanilla get_user_pages() so it can no
longer be used on mm/tasks other than 'current/current->mm',
which is by far the most common way it is called.  For now,
we allow the old-style calls, but warn when they are used.
(implemented in previous patch)

This patch switches all callers of:

	get_user_pages()
	get_user_pages_unlocked()
	get_user_pages_locked()

to stop passing tsk/mm so they will no longer see the warnings.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: jack@suse.cz
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210156.113E9407@viggo.jf.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      d4edcf0d
  39. Feb 06, 2016
    • Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar
      mempolicy: do not try to queue pages from !vma_migratable() · 77bf45e7
      Kirill A. Shutemov authored 
      
Maybe I miss some point, but I don't see a reason why we try to queue
pages from non migratable VMAs.

This testcase steps on VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() in isolate_lru_page():

    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/mman.h>
    #include <numaif.h>

    #define SIZE 0x2000

    int foo;

    int main()
    {
        int fd;
        char *p;
        unsigned long mask = 2;

        fd = open("/dev/sg0", O_RDWR);
        p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
        /* Faultin pages */
        foo = p[0] + p[0x1000];
        mbind(p, SIZE, MPOL_BIND, &mask, 4, MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_STRICT);
        return 0;
    }

The only case when we can queue pages from such VMA is MPOL_MF_STRICT
plus MPOL_MF_MOVE or MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL for VMA which has pages on LRU,
but gfp mask is not sutable for migaration (see mapping_gfp_mask() check
in vma_migratable()).  That's looks like a bug to me.

Let's filter out non-migratable vma at start of queue_pages_test_walk()
and go to queue_pages_pte_range() only if MPOL_MF_MOVE or
MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL flag is set.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      77bf45e7
  41. Jan 16, 2016
  43. Jan 15, 2016
    • Nathan Zimmer's avatar
      mm/mempolicy.c: convert the shared_policy lock to a rwlock · 4a8c7bb5
      Nathan Zimmer authored 
      
When running the SPECint_rate gcc on some very large boxes it was
noticed that the system was spending lots of time in
mpol_shared_policy_lookup().  The gamess benchmark can also show it and
is what I mostly used to chase down the issue since the setup for that I
found to be easier.

To be clear the binaries were on tmpfs because of disk I/O requirements.
We then used text replication to avoid icache misses and having all the
copies banging on the memory where the instruction code resides.  This
results in us hitting a bottleneck in mpol_shared_policy_lookup() since
lookup is serialised by the shared_policy lock.

I have only reproduced this on very large (3k+ cores) boxes.  The
problem starts showing up at just a few hundred ranks getting worse
until it threatens to livelock once it gets large enough.  For example
on the gamess benchmark at 128 ranks this area consumes only ~1% of
time, at 512 ranks it consumes nearly 13%, and at 2k ranks it is over
90%.

To alleviate the contention in this area I converted the spinlock to an
rwlock.  This allows a large number of lookups to happen simultaneously.
The results were quite good reducing this consumtion at max ranks to
around 2%.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up code comments]
Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4a8c7bb5
  45. Sep 08, 2015
    • Vlastimil Babka's avatar
      mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() · 96db800f
      Vlastimil Babka authored 
      
alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e ("page
allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is
valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't
fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE.  Unfortunately the
name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is
restricted to the given node and fails otherwise.  In truth, the node is
only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags.

The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example
commits 5265047a ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage
allocation to local node") and b360edb4 ("mm, mempolicy:
migrate_to_node should only migrate to node").

Another issue with the name is that there's a family of
alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead
of page order), which leads to more confusion.

To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames
alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that
it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general
usage.  Both functions get described in comments.

It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for
allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that
__GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't
duplicate the API needlessly.  The number of users would be small
anyway.

Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to
call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent()
which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use
alloc_pages_node() instead.  This means it no longer performs some
VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in
alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid < 0' comparison (which includes
NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously
exposed.

Both differences will be rectified by the next patch.

To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily
hiding potentially buggy callers.  Restricting the checks in
alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose
more existing buggy callers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRobin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cliff Whickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      96db800f
    • Aristeu Rozanski's avatar
      mm/mempolicy.c: get rid of duplicated check for vma(VM_PFNMAP) in queue_pages_range() · acda0c33
      Aristeu Rozanski authored 
      
This check was introduced as part of
   6f4576e3 ("mempolicy: apply page table walker on queue_pages_range()")

which got duplicated by
   48684a65 ("mm: pagewalk: fix misbehavior of walk_page_range for vma(VM_PFNMAP)")

by reintroducing it earlier on queue_page_test_walk()

Signed-off-by: default avatarAristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      acda0c33
  47. Sep 04, 2015