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  1. Apr 08, 2014
  2. Jan 24, 2014
    • Paul Gortmaker's avatar
      fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code · abaf3787
      Paul Gortmaker authored
      
      PROC_FS is a bool, so this code is either present or absent.  It will
      never be modular, so using module_init as an alias for __initcall is
      rather misleading.
      
      Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from init.h into
      module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd have to add module.h to
      obviously non-modular code, and that would be ugly at best.
      
      Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs.  one of the
      priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets mapped onto
      device_initcall, our use of fs_initcall (which makes sense for fs code)
      will thus change these registrations from level 6-device to level 5-fs
      (i.e.  slightly earlier).  However no observable impact of that small
      difference has been observed during testing, or is expected.
      
      Also note that this change uncovers a missing semicolon bug in the
      registration of vmcore_init as an initcall.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      abaf3787
  3. Jan 22, 2014
    • Rik van Riel's avatar
      /proc/meminfo: provide estimated available memory · 34e431b0
      Rik van Riel authored
      
      Many load balancing and workload placing programs check /proc/meminfo to
      estimate how much free memory is available.  They generally do this by
      adding up "free" and "cached", which was fine ten years ago, but is
      pretty much guaranteed to be wrong today.
      
      It is wrong because Cached includes memory that is not freeable as page
      cache, for example shared memory segments, tmpfs, and ramfs, and it does
      not include reclaimable slab memory, which can take up a large fraction
      of system memory on mostly idle systems with lots of files.
      
      Currently, the amount of memory that is available for a new workload,
      without pushing the system into swap, can be estimated from MemFree,
      Active(file), Inactive(file), and SReclaimable, as well as the "low"
      watermarks from /proc/zoneinfo.
      
      However, this may change in the future, and user space really should not
      be expected to know kernel internals to come up with an estimate for the
      amount of free memory.
      
      It is more convenient to provide such an estimate in /proc/meminfo.  If
      things change in the future, we only have to change it in one place.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarErik Mouw <erik.mouw_2@nxp.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      34e431b0
  4. Nov 15, 2013
    • Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar
      mm, hugetlb: convert hugetlbfs to use split pmd lock · cb900f41
      Kirill A. Shutemov authored
      
      Hugetlb supports multiple page sizes. We use split lock only for PMD
      level, but not for PUD.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarAlex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
      Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
      Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cb900f41
  5. Nov 13, 2013
  6. Sep 13, 2013
  7. Apr 30, 2013
    • Joonsoo Kim's avatar
      mm, vmalloc: move get_vmalloc_info() to vmalloc.c · db3808c1
      Joonsoo Kim authored
      
      Now get_vmalloc_info() is in fs/proc/mmu.c.  There is no reason that this
      code must be here and it's implementation needs vmlist_lock and it iterate
      a vmlist which may be internal data structure for vmalloc.
      
      It is preferable that vmlist_lock and vmlist is only used in vmalloc.c
      for maintainability. So move the code to vmalloc.c
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      db3808c1
  8. Feb 24, 2013
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  12. Oct 29, 2009
  13. Oct 19, 2009
  14. Sep 22, 2009
  15. Sep 16, 2009
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7 · 6a46079c
      Andi Kleen authored
      
      Add the high level memory handler that poisons pages
      that got corrupted by hardware (typically by a two bit flip in a DIMM
      or a cache) on the Linux level. The goal is to prevent everyone
      from accessing these pages in the future.
      
      This done at the VM level by marking a page hwpoisoned
      and doing the appropriate action based on the type of page
      it is.
      
      The code that does this is portable and lives in mm/memory-failure.c
      
      To quote the overview comment:
      
      High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the
      hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
      failure.
      
      This focuses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
      When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
      running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
      that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to
      just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead
      when that happens another machine check will happen.
      
      Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part
      here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM
      users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere,
      possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code
      has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking
      rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the
      error handling takes potentially a long time.
      
      Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non
      linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not
      been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case
      for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected
      to be rare we hope we can get away with this.
      
      There are in principle two strategies to kill processes on poison:
      - just unmap the data and wait for an actual reference before
      killing
      - kill as soon as corruption is detected.
      Both have advantages and disadvantages and should be used
      in different situations. Right now both are implemented and can
      be switched with a new sysctl vm.memory_failure_early_kill
      The default is early kill.
      
      The patch does some rmap data structure walking on its own to collect
      processes to kill. This is unusual because normally all rmap data structure
      knowledge is in rmap.c only. I put it here for now to keep
      everything together and rmap knowledge has been seeping out anyways
      
      Includes contributions from Johannes Weiner, Chris Mason, Fengguang Wu,
      Nick Piggin (who did a lot of great work) and others.
      
      Cc: npiggin@suse.de
      Cc: riel@redhat.com
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
      6a46079c
  16. Jun 17, 2009
  17. May 03, 2009
    • KOSAKI Motohiro's avatar
      mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment · 00a62ce9
      KOSAKI Motohiro authored
      
      The Committed_AS field can underflow in certain situations:
      
      >         # while true; do cat /proc/meminfo  | grep _AS; sleep 1; done | uniq -c
      >               1 Committed_AS: 18446744073709323392 kB
      >              11 Committed_AS: 18446744073709455488 kB
      >               6 Committed_AS:    35136 kB
      >               5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454400 kB
      >               7 Committed_AS:    35904 kB
      >               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB
      >               2 Committed_AS:    34752 kB
      >               9 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB
      >               8 Committed_AS:    34752 kB
      >               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
      >               7 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB
      >               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
      >               5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB
      >               6 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
      
      Because NR_CPUS can be greater than 1000 and meminfo_proc_show() does
      not check for underflow.
      
      But NR_CPUS proportional isn't good calculation.  In general,
      possibility of lock contention is proportional to the number of online
      cpus, not theorical maximum cpus (NR_CPUS).
      
      The current kernel has generic percpu-counter stuff.  using it is right
      way.  it makes code simplify and percpu_counter_read_positive() don't
      make underflow issue.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[All kernel versions]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      00a62ce9
  18. Apr 03, 2009
    • David Howells's avatar
      nommu: fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch · 33e5d769
      David Howells authored
      
      Fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch:
      
       (1) Make mmap_pages_allocated an atomic_long_t, just in case this is used on
           a NOMMU system with more than 2G pages.  Makes no difference on a 32-bit
           system.
      
       (2) Report vma->vm_pgoff * PAGE_SIZE as a 64-bit value, not a 32-bit value,
           lest it overflow.
      
       (3) Move the allocation of the vm_area_struct slab back for fork.c.
      
       (4) Use KMEM_CACHE() for both vm_area_struct and vm_region slabs.
      
       (5) Use BUG_ON() rather than if () BUG().
      
       (6) Make the default validate_nommu_regions() a static inline rather than a
           #define.
      
       (7) Make free_page_series()'s objection to pages with a refcount != 1 more
           informative.
      
       (8) Adjust the __put_nommu_region() banner comment to indicate that the
           semaphore must be held for writing.
      
       (9) Limit the number of warnings about munmaps of non-mmapped regions.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      33e5d769
  19. Jan 08, 2009
    • David Howells's avatar
      NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux · 8feae131
      David Howells authored
      
      Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux.  This solves two problems:
      
       (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
           shmat's (and forks) done.
      
       (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
           exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
           that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
           process or a dead process.
      
      A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
      the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
      is discarded as it's no longer required.
      
      This patch makes the following additional changes:
      
       (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
           with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite.  Instead,
           each page has a reference on it held by the region.  Anything else that is
           interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
           When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
           put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.
      
       (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
           made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.
      
       (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists.  As an MM may
           end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
           appended to the sort key.
      
       (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.
      
       (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
           the backing region.  The VMA and region structs will be split if
           necessary.
      
       (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
           segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss.  Multiple
           shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
           virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.
      
       (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.
      
       (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
           that aren't actually mapped anywhere.
      
       (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
           of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
           mapped directly.  These are copies of the backing device or file if not
           anonymous.
      
      These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode.  The downside is that
      NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
      patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      8feae131
  20. Oct 23, 2008
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