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  1. 16 2月, 2016 1 次提交
    • D
      mm/gup: Overload get_user_pages() functions · cde70140
      由 Dave Hansen 提交于 
      The concept here was a suggestion from Ingo.  The implementation
horrors are all mine.

This allows get_user_pages(), get_user_pages_unlocked(), and
get_user_pages_locked() to be called with or without the
leading tsk/mm arguments.  We will give a compile-time warning
about the old style being __deprecated and we will also
WARN_ON() if the non-remote version is used for a remote-style
access.

Doing this, folks will get nice warnings and will not break the
build.  This should be nice for -next and will hopefully let
developers fix up their own code instead of maintainers needing
to do it at merge time.

The way we do this is hideous.  It uses the __VA_ARGS__ macro
functionality to call different functions based on the number
of arguments passed to the macro.

There's an additional hack to ensure that our EXPORT_SYMBOL()
of the deprecated symbols doesn't trigger a warning.

We should be able to remove this mess as soon as -rc1 hits in
the release after this is merged.
Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@leon.nu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210155.73222EE1@viggo.jf.intel.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      cde70140
  3. 15 1月, 2016 1 次提交
    • V
      kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg · 5d097056
      由 Vladimir Davydov 提交于 
      Mark those kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from
userspace as __GFP_ACCOUNT/SLAB_ACCOUNT, which makes them accounted to
memcg.  For the list, see below:

 - threadinfo
 - task_struct
 - task_delay_info
 - pid
 - cred
 - mm_struct
 - vm_area_struct and vm_region (nommu)
 - anon_vma and anon_vma_chain
 - signal_struct
 - sighand_struct
 - fs_struct
 - files_struct
 - fdtable and fdtable->full_fds_bits
 - dentry and external_name
 - inode for all filesystems. This is the most tedious part, because
   most filesystems overwrite the alloc_inode method.

The list is far from complete, so feel free to add more objects.
Nevertheless, it should be close to "account everything" approach and
keep most workloads within bounds.  Malevolent users will be able to
breach the limit, but this was possible even with the former "account
everything" approach (simply because it did not account everything in
fact).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5d097056
  5. 06 11月, 2015 2 次提交
  7. 11 9月, 2015 1 次提交
  9. 07 8月, 2015 1 次提交
  11. 10 7月, 2015 1 次提交
    • E
      vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. · 90f8572b
      由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于 
      Today proc and sysfs do not contain any executable files.  Several
applications today mount proc or sysfs without noexec and nosuid and
then depend on there being no exectuables files on proc or sysfs.
Having any executable files show on proc or sysfs would cause
a user space visible regression, and most likely security problems.

Therefore commit to never allowing executables on proc and sysfs by
adding a new flag to mark them as filesystems without executables and
enforce that flag.

Test the flag where MNT_NOEXEC is tested today, so that the only user
visible effect will be that exectuables will be treated as if the
execute bit is cleared.

The filesystems proc and sysfs do not currently incoporate any
executable files so this does not result in any user visible effects.

This makes it unnecessary to vet changes to proc and sysfs tightly for
adding exectuable files or changes to chattr that would modify
existing files, as no matter what the individual file say they will
not be treated as exectuable files by the vfs.

Not having to vet changes to closely is important as without this we
are only one proc_create call (or another goof up in the
implementation of notify_change) from having problematic executables
on proc.  Those mistakes are all too easy to make and would create
a situation where there are security issues or the assumptions of
some program having to be broken (and cause userspace regressions).
Signed-off-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      90f8572b
  13. 25 6月, 2015 1 次提交
  15. 17 6月, 2015 1 次提交
    • P
      mm: replace module_init usages with subsys_initcall in nommu.c · a4bc6fc7
      由 Paul Gortmaker 提交于 
      Compiling some arm/m68k configs with "# CONFIG_MMU is not set" reveals
two more instances of module_init being used for code that can't
possibly be modular, as CONFIG_MMU is either on or off.

We replace them with subsys_initcall as per what was done in other
mmu-enabled code.

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 subsys_initcall (which makes sense for these
files) will thus change this registration from level 6-device to level
4-subsys (i.e.  slightly earlier).

One might think that core_initcall (l2) or postcore_initcall (l3) would
be more appropriate for anything in mm/ but if we look at the actual init
functions themselves, we see they are just sysctl setup stuff, and
hence the choice of subsys_initcall (l4) seems reasonable.  At the same
time it minimizes the risk of changing the priority too drastically all
at once.  We can adjust further in the future.

Also, a couple instances of missing ";" at EOL are fixed.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      a4bc6fc7
  17. 12 4月, 2015 1 次提交
  19. 13 3月, 2015 1 次提交
  21. 01 3月, 2015 1 次提交
    • J
      mm/nommu: fix memory leak · da616534
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Maxime reported the following memory leak regression due to commit
dbc8358c ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own
implementation").

On v3.19, I am facing a memory leak.  Each time I run a command one page
is lost.  Here an example with busybox's free command:

  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1972       5956          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1480       6448
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1976       5952          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1484       6444
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1980       5948          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1488       6440
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1984       5944          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1492       6436
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1988       5940          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1496       6432

At some point, the system fails to sastisfy 256KB allocations:

  free: page allocation failure: order:6, mode:0xd0
  CPU: 0 PID: 67 Comm: free Not tainted 3.19.0-05389-gacf2cf1-dirty #64
  Hardware name: STM32 (Device Tree Support)
    show_stack+0xb/0xc
    warn_alloc_failed+0x97/0xbc
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x295/0x35c
    __get_free_pages+0xb/0x24
    alloc_pages_exact+0x19/0x24
    do_mmap_pgoff+0x423/0x658
    vm_mmap_pgoff+0x3f/0x4e
    load_flat_file+0x20d/0x4f8
    load_flat_binary+0x3f/0x26c
    search_binary_handler+0x51/0xe4
    do_execveat_common+0x271/0x35c
    do_execve+0x19/0x1c
    ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x4a
  Mem-info:
  Normal per-cpu:
  CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
  active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
   mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
   free_cma:0
  Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
  Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
  123 total pagecache pages
  2048 pages of RAM
  1538 free pages
  66 reserved pages
  109 slab pages
  -46 pages shared
  0 pages swap cached
  nommu: Allocation of length 221184 from process 67 (free) failed
  Normal per-cpu:
  CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
  active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
   mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
   free_cma:0
  Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
  Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
  123 total pagecache pages
  Unable to allocate RAM for process text/data, errno 12 SEGV

This problem happens because we allocate ordered page through
__get_free_pages() in do_mmap_private() in some cases and we try to free
individual pages rather than ordered page in free_page_series().  In
this case, freeing pages whose refcount is not 0 won't be freed to the
page allocator so memory leak happens.

To fix the problem, this patch changes __get_free_pages() to
alloc_pages_exact() since alloc_pages_exact() returns
physically-contiguous pages but each pages are refcounted.

Fixes: dbc8358c ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own implementation").
Reported-by: NMaxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NMaxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.19]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      da616534
  23. 12 2月, 2015 3 次提交
    • R
      mm/nommu.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory() · 8138a67a
      由 Roman Gushchin 提交于 
      I noticed that "allowed" can easily overflow by falling below 0, because
(total_vm / 32) can be larger than "allowed".  The problem occurs in
OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode.

In this case, a huge allocation can success and overcommit the system
(despite OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode).  All subsequent allocations will fall
(system-wide), so system become unusable.

The problem was masked out by commit c9b1d098
("mm: limit growth of 3% hardcoded other user reserve"),
but it's easy to reproduce it on older kernels:
1) set overcommit_memory sysctl to 2
2) mmap() large file multiple times (with VM_SHARED flag)
3) try to malloc() large amount of memory

It also can be reproduced on newer kernels, but miss-configured
sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes is required.

Fix this issue by switching to signed arithmetic here.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8138a67a
    • A
      mm: gup: add __get_user_pages_unlocked to customize gup_flags · 0fd71a56
      由 Andrea Arcangeli 提交于 
      Some callers (like KVM) may want to set the gup_flags like FOLL_HWPOSION
to get a proper -EHWPOSION retval instead of -EFAULT to take a more
appropriate action if get_user_pages runs into a memory failure.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0fd71a56
    • A
      mm: gup: add get_user_pages_locked and get_user_pages_unlocked · f0818f47
      由 Andrea Arcangeli 提交于 
      FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY allows the page fault to drop the mmap_sem for
reading to reduce the mmap_sem contention (for writing), like while
waiting for I/O completion.  The problem is that right now practically no
get_user_pages call uses FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY, so we're not leveraging
that nifty feature.

Andres fixed it for the KVM page fault.  However get_user_pages_fast
remains uncovered, and 99% of other get_user_pages aren't using it either
(the only exception being FOLL_NOWAIT in KVM which is really nonblocking
and in fact it doesn't even release the mmap_sem).

So this patchsets extends the optimization Andres did in the KVM page
fault to the whole kernel.  It makes most important places (including
gup_fast) to use FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY to reduce the mmap_sem hold times
during I/O.

The only few places that remains uncovered are drivers like v4l and other
exceptions that tends to work on their own memory and they're not working
on random user memory (for example like O_DIRECT that uses gup_fast and is
fully covered by this patch).

A follow up patch should probably also add a printk_once warning to
get_user_pages that should go obsolete and be phased out eventually.  The
"vmas" parameter of get_user_pages makes it fundamentally incompatible
with FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY (vmas array becomes meaningless the moment the
mmap_sem is released).

While this is just an optimization, this becomes an absolute requirement
for the userfaultfd feature http://lwn.net/Articles/615086/ .

The userfaultfd allows to block the page fault, and in order to do so I
need to drop the mmap_sem first.  So this patch also ensures that all
memory where userfaultfd could be registered by KVM, the very first fault
(no matter if it is a regular page fault, or a get_user_pages) always has
FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY set.  Then the userfaultfd blocks and it is waken
only when the pagetable is already mapped.  The second fault attempt after
the wakeup doesn't need FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY, so it's ok to retry
without it.

This patch (of 5):

We can leverage the VM_FAULT_RETRY functionality in the page fault paths
better by using either get_user_pages_locked or get_user_pages_unlocked.

The former allows conversion of get_user_pages invocations that will have
to pass a "&locked" parameter to know if the mmap_sem was dropped during
the call.  Example from:

    down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
    do_something()
    get_user_pages(tsk, mm, ..., pages, NULL);
    up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

to:

    int locked = 1;
    down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
    do_something()
    get_user_pages_locked(tsk, mm, ..., pages, &locked);
    if (locked)
        up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

The latter is suitable only as a drop in replacement of the form:

    down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
    get_user_pages(tsk, mm, ..., pages, NULL);
    up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

into:

    get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, ..., pages);

Where tsk, mm, the intermediate "..." paramters and "pages" can be any
value as before.  Just the last parameter of get_user_pages (vmas) must be
NULL for get_user_pages_locked|unlocked to be usable (the latter original
form wouldn't have been safe anyway if vmas wasn't null, for the former we
just make it explicit by dropping the parameter).

If vmas is not NULL these two methods cannot be used.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NPeter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0818f47
  25. 11 2月, 2015 1 次提交
    • K
      mm: replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation · c8d78c18
      由 Kirill A. Shutemov 提交于 
      remap_file_pages(2) was invented to be able efficiently map parts of
huge file into limited 32-bit virtual address space such as in database
workloads.

Nonlinear mappings are pain to support and it seems there's no
legitimate use-cases nowadays since 64-bit systems are widely available.

Let's drop it and get rid of all these special-cased code.

The patch replaces the syscall with emulation which creates new VMA on
each remap_file_pages(), unless they it can be merged with an adjacent
one.

I didn't find *any* real code that uses remap_file_pages(2) to test
emulation impact on.  I've checked Debian code search and source of all
packages in ALT Linux.  No real users: libc wrappers, mentions in
strace, gdb, valgrind and this kind of stuff.

There are few basic tests in LTP for the syscall.  They work just fine
with emulation.

To test performance impact, I've written small test case which
demonstrate pretty much worst case scenario: map 4G shmfs file, write to
begin of every page pgoff of the page, remap pages in reverse order,
read every page.

The test creates 1 million of VMAs if emulation is in use, so I had to
set vm.max_map_count to 1100000 to avoid -ENOMEM.

Before:		23.3 ( +-  4.31% ) seconds
After:		43.9 ( +-  0.85% ) seconds
Slowdown:	1.88x

I believe we can live with that.

Test case:

        #define _GNU_SOURCE
        #include <assert.h>
        #include <stdlib.h>
        #include <stdio.h>
        #include <sys/mman.h>

        #define MB	(1024UL * 1024)
        #define SIZE	(4096 * MB)

        int main(int argc, char **argv)
        {
                unsigned long *p;
                long i, pass;

                for (pass = 0; pass < 10; pass++) {
                        p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
                                        MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
                        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                                perror("mmap");
                                return -1;
                        }

                        for (i = 0; i < SIZE / 4096; i++)
                                p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] = i;

                        for (i = 0; i < SIZE / 4096; i++) {
                                if (remap_file_pages(p + i * 4096 / sizeof(*p), 4096,
                                                0, (SIZE - 4096 * (i + 1)) >> 12, 0)) {
                                        perror("remap_file_pages");
                                        return -1;
                                }
                        }

                        for (i = SIZE / 4096 - 1; i >= 0; i--)
                                assert(p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] == SIZE / 4096 - i - 1);

                        munmap(p, SIZE);
                }

                return 0;
        }

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: initialize populate before usage]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: grab file ref to prevent race while mmaping]
Signed-off-by: N"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>
Signed-off-by: NSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c8d78c18
  27. 06 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  29. 21 1月, 2015 1 次提交
  31. 14 12月, 2014 3 次提交
  33. 08 9月, 2014 1 次提交
    • T
      percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init() · 908c7f19
      由 Tejun Heo 提交于 
      Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask.  Add @gfp to
percpu_counter_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
with percpu_counters too.

We could have left percpu_counter_init() alone and added
percpu_counter_init_gfp(); however, the number of users isn't that
high and introducing _gfp variants to all percpu data structures would
be quite ugly, so let's just do the conversion.  This is the one with
the most users.  Other percpu data structures are a lot easier to
convert.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: N"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      908c7f19
  35. 09 8月, 2014 1 次提交
    • A
      arm64,ia64,ppc,s390,sh,tile,um,x86,mm: remove default gate area · a6c19dfe
      由 Andy Lutomirski 提交于 
      The core mm code will provide a default gate area based on
FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END if
!defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) && defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR).

This default is only useful for ia64.  arm64, ppc, s390, sh, tile, 64-bit
UML, and x86_32 have their own code just to disable it.  arm, 32-bit UML,
and x86_64 have gate areas, but they have their own implementations.

This gets rid of the default and moves the code into ia64.

This should save some code on architectures without a gate area: it's now
possible to inline the gate_area functions in the default case.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: NNathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [in principle]
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [for um]
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> [for arm64]
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <Nathan_Lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a6c19dfe
  37. 24 6月, 2014 1 次提交
    • S
      mm: nommu: per-thread vma cache fix · e020d5bd
      由 Steven Miao 提交于 
      mm could be removed from current task struct, using previous vma->vm_mm

It will crash on blackfin after updated to Linux 3.15.  The commit "mm:
per-thread vma caching" caused the crash.  mm could be removed from
current task struct before

  mmput()->
    exit_mmap()->
      delete_vma_from_mm()

the detailed fault information:

    NULL pointer access
    Kernel OOPS in progress
    Deferred Exception context
    CURRENT PROCESS:
    COMM=modprobe PID=278  CPU=0
    invalid mm
    return address: [0x000531de]; contents of:
    0x000531b0:  c727  acea  0c42  181d  0000  0000  0000  a0a8
    0x000531c0:  b090  acaa  0c42  1806  0000  0000  0000  a0e8
    0x000531d0:  b0d0  e801  0000  05b3  0010  e522  0046 [a090]
    0x000531e0:  6408  b090  0c00  17cc  3042  e3ff  f37b  2fc8

    CPU: 0 PID: 278 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.15.0-ADI-2014R1-pre-00345-gea9f446 #25
    task: 0572b720 ti: 0569e000 task.ti: 0569e000
    Compiled for cpu family 0x27fe (Rev 0), but running on:0x0000 (Rev 0)
    ADSP-BF609-0.0 500(MHz CCLK) 125(MHz SCLK) (mpu off)
    Linux version 3.15.0-ADI-2014R1-pre-00345-gea9f446 (steven@steven-OptiPlex-390) (gcc version 4.3.5 (ADI-trunk/svn-5962) ) #25 Tue Jun 10 17:47:46 CST 2014

    SEQUENCER STATUS:		Not tainted
     SEQSTAT: 00000027  IPEND: 8008  IMASK: ffff  SYSCFG: 2806
      EXCAUSE   : 0x27
      physical IVG3 asserted : <0xffa00744> { _trap + 0x0 }
      physical IVG15 asserted : <0xffa00d68> { _evt_system_call + 0x0 }
      logical irq   6 mapped  : <0xffa003bc> { _bfin_coretmr_interrupt + 0x0 }
      logical irq   7 mapped  : <0x00008828> { _bfin_fault_routine + 0x0 }
      logical irq  11 mapped  : <0x00007724> { _l2_ecc_err + 0x0 }
      logical irq  13 mapped  : <0x00008828> { _bfin_fault_routine + 0x0 }
      logical irq  39 mapped  : <0x00150788> { _bfin_twi_interrupt_entry + 0x0 }
      logical irq  40 mapped  : <0x00150788> { _bfin_twi_interrupt_entry + 0x0 }
     RETE: <0x00000000> /* Maybe null pointer? */
     RETN: <0x0569fe50> /* kernel dynamic memory (maybe user-space) */
     RETX: <0x00000480> /* Maybe fixed code section */
     RETS: <0x00053384> { _exit_mmap + 0x28 }
     PC  : <0x000531de> { _delete_vma_from_mm + 0x92 }
    DCPLB_FAULT_ADDR: <0x00000008> /* Maybe null pointer? */
    ICPLB_FAULT_ADDR: <0x000531de> { _delete_vma_from_mm + 0x92 }
    PROCESSOR STATE:
     R0 : 00000004    R1 : 0569e000    R2 : 00bf3db4    R3 : 00000000
     R4 : 057f9800    R5 : 00000001    R6 : 0569ddd0    R7 : 0572b720
     P0 : 0572b854    P1 : 00000004    P2 : 00000000    P3 : 0569dda0
     P4 : 0572b720    P5 : 0566c368    FP : 0569fe5c    SP : 0569fd74
     LB0: 057f523f    LT0: 057f523e    LC0: 00000000
     LB1: 0005317c    LT1: 00053172    LC1: 00000002
     B0 : 00000000    L0 : 00000000    M0 : 0566f5bc    I0 : 00000000
     B1 : 00000000    L1 : 00000000    M1 : 00000000    I1 : ffffffff
     B2 : 00000001    L2 : 00000000    M2 : 00000000    I2 : 00000000
     B3 : 00000000    L3 : 00000000    M3 : 00000000    I3 : 057f8000
    A0.w: 00000000   A0.x: 00000000   A1.w: 00000000   A1.x: 00000000
    USP : 056ffcf8  ASTAT: 02003024

    Hardware Trace:
       0 Target : <0x00003fb8> { _trap_c + 0x0 }
         Source : <0xffa006d8> { _exception_to_level5 + 0xa0 } JUMP.L
       1 Target : <0xffa00638> { _exception_to_level5 + 0x0 }
         Source : <0xffa004f2> { _bfin_return_from_exception + 0x6 } RTX
       2 Target : <0xffa004ec> { _bfin_return_from_exception + 0x0 }
         Source : <0xffa00590> { _ex_trap_c + 0x70 } JUMP.S
       3 Target : <0xffa00520> { _ex_trap_c + 0x0 }
         Source : <0xffa0076e> { _trap + 0x2a } JUMP (P4)
       4 Target : <0xffa00744> { _trap + 0x0 }
          FAULT : <0x000531de> { _delete_vma_from_mm + 0x92 } P0 = W[P2 + 2]
         Source : <0x000531da> { _delete_vma_from_mm + 0x8e } P2 = [P4 + 0x18]
       5 Target : <0x000531da> { _delete_vma_from_mm + 0x8e }
         Source : <0x00053176> { _delete_vma_from_mm + 0x2a } IF CC JUMP pcrel
       6 Target : <0x0005314c> { _delete_vma_from_mm + 0x0 }
         Source : <0x00053380> { _exit_mmap + 0x24 } JUMP.L
       7 Target : <0x00053378> { _exit_mmap + 0x1c }
         Source : <0x00053394> { _exit_mmap + 0x38 } IF !CC JUMP pcrel (BP)
       8 Target : <0x00053390> { _exit_mmap + 0x34 }
         Source : <0xffa020e0> { __cond_resched + 0x20 } RTS
       9 Target : <0xffa020c0> { __cond_resched + 0x0 }
         Source : <0x0005338c> { _exit_mmap + 0x30 } JUMP.L
      10 Target : <0x0005338c> { _exit_mmap + 0x30 }
         Source : <0x0005333a> { _delete_vma + 0xb2 } RTS
      11 Target : <0x00053334> { _delete_vma + 0xac }
         Source : <0x0005507a> { _kmem_cache_free + 0xba } RTS
      12 Target : <0x00055068> { _kmem_cache_free + 0xa8 }
         Source : <0x0005505e> { _kmem_cache_free + 0x9e } IF !CC JUMP pcrel (BP)
      13 Target : <0x00055052> { _kmem_cache_free + 0x92 }
         Source : <0x0005501a> { _kmem_cache_free + 0x5a } IF CC JUMP pcrel
      14 Target : <0x00054ff4> { _kmem_cache_free + 0x34 }
         Source : <0x00054fce> { _kmem_cache_free + 0xe } IF CC JUMP pcrel (BP)
      15 Target : <0x00054fc0> { _kmem_cache_free + 0x0 }
         Source : <0x00053330> { _delete_vma + 0xa8 } JUMP.L
    Kernel Stack
    Stack info:
     SP: [0x0569ff24] <0x0569ff24> /* kernel dynamic memory (maybe user-space) */
     Memory from 0x0569ff20 to 056a0000
    0569ff20: 00000001 [04e8da5a] 00008000  00000000  00000000  056a0000  04e8da5a  04e8da5a
    0569ff40: 04eb9eea  ffa00dce  02003025  04ea09c5  057f523f  04ea09c4  057f523e  00000000
    0569ff60: 00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000001  00000000
    0569ff80: 00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000
    0569ffa0: 0566f5bc  057f8000  057f8000  00000001  04ec0170  056ffcf8  056ffd04  057f9800
    0569ffc0: 04d1d498  057f9800  057f8fe4  057f8ef0  00000001  057f928c  00000001  00000001
    0569ffe0: 057f9800  00000000  00000008  00000007  00000001  00000001  00000001 <00002806>
    Return addresses in stack:
        address : <0x00002806> { _show_cpuinfo + 0x2d2 }
    Modules linked in:
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel exception
    [ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel exception
Signed-off-by: NSteven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.15.x]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e020d5bd
  39. 07 6月, 2014 1 次提交
  41. 08 4月, 2014 4 次提交
    • C
      mm: fix 'ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL' and coding style · ac714904
      由 Choi Gi-yong 提交于 
      Signed-off-by: NChoi Gi-yong <yong@gnoy.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ac714904
    • G
      mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) · 3b32123d
      由 Gideon Israel Dsouza 提交于 
      To increase compiler portability there is <linux/compiler.h> which
provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs.  Eg: __weak for
__attribute__((weak)).  I've replaced all instances of gcc attributes with
the right macro in the memory management (/mm) subsystem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: while-we're-there consistency tweaks]
Signed-off-by: NGideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3b32123d
    • D
      mm: per-thread vma caching · 615d6e87
      由 Davidlohr Bueso 提交于 
      This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(),
avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults.
The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the
largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random,
thus further comparison with other approaches were needed.  There are
two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and
the latency of find_vma().  Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily
translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy
caching schemes can be too high to consider.

We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which
provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by
up to 250%, for workloads with good locality.  On the other hand, this
simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality.
Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are
running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations
below 1%.

The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread
cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost.
Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence
number.  The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq
number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are
flushed.  Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the
page number that contains the virtual address in question.  Concretely,
the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box:

1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread
   scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to
   the cache.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 50.61%   | 19.90            |
| patched        | 73.45%   | 13.58            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current
   approach as we're dealing with good locality.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 75.28%   | 11.03            |
| patched        | 88.09%   | 9.31             |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 70.66%   | 17.14            |
| patched        | 91.15%   | 12.57            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this
   approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just
   about non-existent.  The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between
   anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach
   reduces it considerably.  For instance, with 80 threads:

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 1.06%    | 91.54            |
| patched        | 99.97%   | 14.18            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON]
[hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments]
Signed-off-by: NDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: NMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      615d6e87
    • K
      mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache · f1820361
      由 Kirill A. Shutemov 提交于 
      filemap_map_pages() is generic implementation of ->map_pages() for
filesystems who uses page cache.

It should be safe to use filemap_map_pages() for ->map_pages() if
filesystem use filemap_fault() for ->fault().
Signed-off-by: NKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ning Qu <quning@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f1820361
  43. 31 3月, 2014 1 次提交
  45. 22 1月, 2014 1 次提交
    • J
      mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable · 49f0ce5f
      由 Jerome Marchand 提交于 
      Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the
availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the
maximum usage of memory without swapping.  With growing memory, the
1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse
for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB).

This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a
much finer grain.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
Signed-off-by: NJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      49f0ce5f
  47. 13 11月, 2013 1 次提交
  49. 25 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  51. 11 7月, 2013 1 次提交
  53. 04 7月, 2013 2 次提交
  55. 30 4月, 2013 3 次提交
    • A
      mm: replace hardcoded 3% with admin_reserve_pages knob · 4eeab4f5
      由 Andrew Shewmaker 提交于 
      Add an admin_reserve_kbytes knob to allow admins to change the hardcoded
memory reserve to something other than 3%, which may be multiple
gigabytes on large memory systems.  Only about 8MB is necessary to
enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred MB are
required even when overcommit is disabled.

This affects OVERCOMMIT_GUESS and OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.

admin_reserve_kbytes is initialized to min(3% free pages, 8MB)

I arrived at 8MB by summing the RSS of sshd or login, bash, and top.

Please see first patch in this series for full background, motivation,
testing, and full changelog.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_admin_reserve() static]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4eeab4f5
    • A
      mm: limit growth of 3% hardcoded other user reserve · c9b1d098
      由 Andrew Shewmaker 提交于 
      Add user_reserve_kbytes knob.

Limit the growth of the memory reserved for other user processes to
min(3% current process size, user_reserve_pages).  Only about 8MB is
necessary to enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred
MB are required even when overcommit is disabled.

user_reserve_pages defaults to min(3% free pages, 128MB)

I arrived at 128MB by taking the max VSZ of sshd, login, bash, and top ...
then adding the RSS of each.

This only affects OVERCOMMIT_NEVER mode.

Background

1. user reserve

__vm_enough_memory reserves a hardcoded 3% of the current process size for
other applications when overcommit is disabled.  This was done so that a
user could recover if they launched a memory hogging process.  Without the
reserve, a user would easily run into a message such as:

bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory

2. admin reserve

Additionally, a hardcoded 3% of free memory is reserved for root in both
overcommit 'guess' and 'never' modes.  This was intended to prevent a
scenario where root-cant-log-in and perform recovery operations.

Note that this reserve shrinks, and doesn't guarantee a useful reserve.

Motivation

The two hardcoded memory reserves should be updated to account for current
memory sizes.

Also, the admin reserve would be more useful if it didn't shrink too much.

When the current code was originally written, 1GB was considered
"enterprise".  Now the 3% reserve can grow to multiple GB on large memory
systems, and it only needs to be a few hundred MB at most to enable a user
or admin to recover a system with an unwanted memory hogging process.

I've found that reducing these reserves is especially beneficial for a
specific type of application load:

 * single application system
 * one or few processes (e.g. one per core)
 * allocating all available memory
 * not initializing every page immediately
 * long running

I've run scientific clusters with this sort of load.  A long running job
sometimes failed many hours (weeks of CPU time) into a calculation.  They
weren't initializing all of their memory immediately, and they weren't
using calloc, so I put systems into overcommit 'never' mode.  These
clusters run diskless and have no swap.

However, with the current reserves, a user wishing to allocate as much
memory as possible to one process may be prevented from using, for
example, almost 2GB out of 32GB.

The effect is less, but still significant when a user starts a job with
one process per core.  I have repeatedly seen a set of processes
requesting the same amount of memory fail because one of them could not
allocate the amount of memory a user would expect to be able to allocate.
For example, Message Passing Interfce (MPI) processes, one per core.  And
it is similar for other parallel programming frameworks.

Changing this reserve code will make the overcommit never mode more useful
by allowing applications to allocate nearly all of the available memory.

Also, the new admin_reserve_kbytes will be safer than the current behavior
since the hardcoded 3% of available memory reserve can shrink to something
useless in the case where applications have grabbed all available memory.

Risks

* "bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory"

  The downside of the first patch-- which creates a tunable user reserve
  that is only used in overcommit 'never' mode--is that an admin can set
  it so low that a user may not be able to kill their process, even if
  they already have a shell prompt.

  Of course, a user can get in the same predicament with the current 3%
  reserve--they just have to launch processes until 3% becomes negligible.

* root-cant-log-in problem

  The second patch, adding the tunable rootuser_reserve_pages, allows
  the admin to shoot themselves in the foot by setting it too small.  They
  can easily get the system into a state where root-can't-log-in.

  However, the new admin_reserve_kbytes will be safer than the current
  behavior since the hardcoded 3% of available memory reserve can shrink
  to something useless in the case where applications have grabbed all
  available memory.

Alternatives

 * Memory cgroups provide a more flexible way to limit application memory.

   Not everyone wants to set up cgroups or deal with their overhead.

 * We could create a fourth overcommit mode which provides smaller reserves.

   The size of useful reserves may be drastically different depending
   on the whether the system is embedded or enterprise.

 * Force users to initialize all of their memory or use calloc.

   Some users don't want/expect the system to overcommit when they malloc.
   Overcommit 'never' mode is for this scenario, and it should work well.

The new user and admin reserve tunables are simple to use, with low
overhead compared to cgroups.  The patches preserve current behavior where
3% of memory is less than 128MB, except that the admin reserve doesn't
shrink to an unusable size under pressure.  The code allows admins to tune
for embedded and enterprise usage.

FAQ

 * How is the root-cant-login problem addressed?
   What happens if admin_reserve_pages is set to 0?

   Root is free to shoot themselves in the foot by setting
   admin_reserve_kbytes too low.

   On x86_64, the minimum useful reserve is:
     8MB for overcommit 'guess'
   128MB for overcommit 'never'

   admin_reserve_pages defaults to min(3% free memory, 8MB)

   So, anyone switching to 'never' mode needs to adjust
   admin_reserve_pages.

 * How do you calculate a minimum useful reserve?

   A user or the admin needs enough memory to login and perform
   recovery operations, which includes, at a minimum:

   sshd or login + bash (or some other shell) + top (or ps, kill, etc.)

   For overcommit 'guess', we can sum resident set sizes (RSS)
   because we only need enough memory to handle what the recovery
   programs will typically use. On x86_64 this is about 8MB.

   For overcommit 'never', we can take the max of their virtual sizes (VSZ)
   and add the sum of their RSS. We use VSZ instead of RSS because mode
   forces us to ensure we can fulfill all of the requested memory allocations--
   even if the programs only use a fraction of what they ask for.
   On x86_64 this is about 128MB.

   When swap is enabled, reserves are useful even when they are as
   small as 10MB, regardless of overcommit mode.

   When both swap and overcommit are disabled, then the admin should
   tune the reserves higher to be absolutley safe. Over 230MB each
   was safest in my testing.

 * What happens if user_reserve_pages is set to 0?

   Note, this only affects overcomitt 'never' mode.

   Then a user will be able to allocate all available memory minus
   admin_reserve_kbytes.

   However, they will easily see a message such as:

   "bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory"

   And they won't be able to recover/kill their application.
   The admin should be able to recover the system if
   admin_reserve_kbytes is set appropriately.

 * What's the difference between overcommit 'guess' and 'never'?

   "Guess" allows an allocation if there are enough free + reclaimable
   pages. It has a hardcoded 3% of free pages reserved for root.

   "Never" allows an allocation if there is enough swap + a configurable
   percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM. It has a hardcoded 3% of
   free pages reserved for root, like "Guess" mode. It also has a
   hardcoded 3% of the current process size reserved for additional
   applications.

 * Why is overcommit 'guess' not suitable even when an app eventually
   writes to every page? It takes free pages, file pages, available
   swap pages, reclaimable slab pages into consideration. In other words,
   these are all pages available, then why isn't overcommit suitable?

   Because it only looks at the present state of the system. It
   does not take into account the memory that other applications have
   malloced, but haven't initialized yet. It overcommits the system.

Test Summary

There was little change in behavior in the default overcommit 'guess'
mode with swap enabled before and after the patch. This was expected.

Systems run most predictably (i.e. no oom kills) in overcommit 'never'
mode with swap enabled. This also allowed the most memory to be allocated
to a user application.

Overcommit 'guess' mode without swap is a bad idea. It is easy to
crash the system. None of the other tested combinations crashed.
This matches my experience on the Roadrunner supercomputer.

Without the tunable user reserve, a system in overcommit 'never' mode
and without swap does not allow the admin to recover, although the
admin can.

With the new tunable reserves, a system in overcommit 'never' mode
and without swap can be configured to:

1. maximize user-allocatable memory, running close to the edge of
recoverability

2. maximize recoverability, sacrificing allocatable memory to
ensure that a user cannot take down a system

Test Description

Fedora 18 VM - 4 x86_64 cores, 5725MB RAM, 4GB Swap

System is booted into multiuser console mode, with unnecessary services
turned off. Caches were dropped before each test.

Hogs are user memtester processes that attempt to allocate all free memory
as reported by /proc/meminfo

In overcommit 'never' mode, memory_ratio=100

Test Results

3.9.0-rc1-mm1

Overcommit | Swap | Hogs | MB Got/Wanted | OOMs | User Recovery | Admin Recovery
----------   ----   ----   -------------   ----   -------------   --------------
guess        yes    1      5432/5432       no     yes             yes
guess        yes    4      5444/5444       1      yes             yes
guess        no     1      5302/5449       no     yes             yes
guess        no     4      -               crash  no              no

never        yes    1      5460/5460       1      yes             yes
never        yes    4      5460/5460       1      yes             yes
never        no     1      5218/5432       no     no              yes
never        no     4      5203/5448       no     no              yes

3.9.0-rc1-mm1-tunablereserves

User and Admin Recovery show their respective reserves, if applicable.

Overcommit | Swap | Hogs | MB Got/Wanted | OOMs | User Recovery | Admin Recovery
----------   ----   ----   -------------   ----   -------------   --------------
guess        yes    1      5419/5419       no     - yes           8MB yes
guess        yes    4      5436/5436       1      - yes           8MB yes
guess        no     1      5440/5440       *      - yes           8MB yes
guess        no     4      -               crash  - no            8MB no

* process would successfully mlock, then the oom killer would pick it

never        yes    1      5446/5446       no     10MB yes        20MB yes
never        yes    4      5456/5456       no     10MB yes        20MB yes
never        no     1      5387/5429       no     128MB no        8MB barely
never        no     1      5323/5428       no     226MB barely    8MB barely
never        no     1      5323/5428       no     226MB barely    8MB barely

never        no     1      5359/5448       no     10MB no         10MB barely

never        no     1      5323/5428       no     0MB no          10MB barely
never        no     1      5332/5428       no     0MB no          50MB yes
never        no     1      5293/5429       no     0MB no          90MB yes

never        no     1      5001/5427       no     230MB yes       338MB yes
never        no     4*     4998/5424       no     230MB yes       338MB yes

* more memtesters were launched, able to allocate approximately another 100MB

Future Work

 - Test larger memory systems.

 - Test an embedded image.

 - Test other architectures.

 - Time malloc microbenchmarks.

 - Would it be useful to be able to set overcommit policy for
   each memory cgroup?

 - Some lines are slightly above 80 chars.
   Perhaps define a macro to convert between pages and kb?
   Other places in the kernel do this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_user_reserve() static]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c9b1d098
    • J
      mm, vmalloc: export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist · f1c4069e
      由 Joonsoo Kim 提交于 
      Although our intention is to unexport internal structure entirely, but
there is one exception for kexec.  kexec dumps address of vmlist and
makedumpfile uses this information.

We are about to remove vmlist, then another way to retrieve information
of vmalloc layer is needed for makedumpfile.  For this purpose, we
export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist.
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f1c4069e
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      vm: add no-mmu vm_iomap_memory() stub · 3c0b9de6
      由 Linus Torvalds 提交于 
      I think we could just move the full vm_iomap_memory() function into
util.h or similar, but I didn't get any reply from anybody actually
using nommu even to this trivial patch, so I'm not going to touch it any
more than required.

Here's the fairly minimal stub to make the nommu case at least
potentially work.  It doesn't seem like anybody cares, though.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3c0b9de6