...and fix up the callers. For do_file_open_root, just declare a
struct filename on the stack and fill out the .name field. For
do_filp_open, make it also take a struct filename pointer, and fix up its
callers to call it appropriately.

For filp_open, add a variant that takes a struct filename pointer and turn
filp_open into a wrapper around it.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Currently, if we call getname() on a userland string more than once,
we'll get multiple copies of the string and multiple audit_names
records.

Add a function that will allow the audit_names code to satisfy getname
requests using info from the audit_names list, avoiding a new allocation
and audit_names records.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a
kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would
however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to
the string.

For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the
amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled,
we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not
need to recopy it from userspace.

This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return
a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the
string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it.

Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes
convenient.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

First, it's incorrect to call putname() after __getname_gfp() since the
bare __getname_gfp() call skips the auditing code, while putname()
doesn't.

mount_block_root allocates a PATH_MAX buffer via __getname_gfp, and then
calls get_fs_names to fill the buffer. That function can call
get_filesystem_list which assumes that that buffer is a full page in
size. On arches where PAGE_SIZE != 4k, then this could potentially
overrun.

In practice, it's hard to imagine the list of filesystem names even
approaching 4k, but it's best to be safe. Just allocate a page for this
purpose instead.

With this, we can also remove the __getname_gfp() definition since there
are no more callers.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

In order to accomodate retrying path-based syscalls, we need to add a
new "type" argument to audit_inode_child. This will tell us whether
we're looking for a child entry that represents a create or a delete.

If we find a parent, don't automatically assume that we need to create a
new entry. Instead, use the information we have to try to find an
existing entry first. Update it if one is found and create a new one if
not.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Currently, this gets set mostly by happenstance when we call into
audit_inode_child. While that might be a little more efficient, it seems
wrong. If the syscall ends up failing before audit_inode_child ever gets
called, then you'll have an audit_names record that shows the full path
but has the parent inode info attached.

Fix this by passing in a parent flag when we call audit_inode that gets
set to the value of LOOKUP_PARENT. We can then fix up the pathname for
the audit entry correctly from the get-go.

While we're at it, clean up the no-op macro for audit_inode in the
!CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL case.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

For now, we just have two possibilities:

UNKNOWN: for a new audit_names record that we don't know anything about yet
NORMAL: for everything else

In later patches, we'll add other types so we can distinguish and update
records created under different circumstances.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Most of the callers get called with an inode and dentry in the reverse
order. The compiler then has to reshuffle the arg registers and/or
stack in order to pass them on to audit_inode_child.

Reverse those arguments for a micro-optimization.
Reported-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__attribute__((error(msg))) was introduced in gcc 4.3 (not 4.4) and as I
was unable to find any gcc bugs pertaining to it, I'm presuming that it
has functioned as advertised since 4.3.0.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Commit e1aab161 ("socket: initial cgroup code.") causes a build
error when CONFIG_INET is disabled in Linus' tree:

  net/built-in.o: In function `sk_update_clone':
  net/core/sock.c:1336: undefined reference to `sock_update_memcg'

sock_update_memcg() is only defined when CONFIG_INET is enabled, so fix
it by defining the dummy function without this option.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The resource index for the mailboxes was incorrect.
Signed-off-by: NChad Reese <kreese@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: NAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Address comments provided by Andrew Morton:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/550

 - Keeps consistent kerneldoc compatible comments style for new static
   functions.
 - Removes unnecessary complexity from destination ID allocation
   routine.
 - Uses kcalloc() for code clarity.
Signed-off-by: NAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

{get,clear,set}_pageblock_skip() use incorrect bit ranges (please compare
to bit ranges used by {get,set}_pageblock_flags() used for migration
types) and can overwrite pageblock migratetype of the next pageblock in
the bitmap.
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NKyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: NThierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Acked-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When the lglock doesn't need to be exported we can use
DEFINE_STATIC_LGLOCK().
Signed-off-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

The per_cpu locks are not used outside the file which contains the
DEFINE_LGLOCK(), so we can make these symbols static.
Signed-off-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

struct lglocks use their own lock_key/lock_dep_map which are defined in
struct lglock.  DEFINE_LGLOCK_LOCKDEP() is unused, so remove it and save a
small piece of memory.
Signed-off-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Removed s_lock from super_block and removed lock/unlock super.
Signed-off-by: NMarco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

It really should return a boolean for match/no match.  And since it takes
a memcg, not a cgroup, fix that parameter name as well.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mm_match_cgroup() is not a macro]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When a transparent hugepage is mapped and it is included in an mlock()
range, follow_page() incorrectly avoids setting the page's mlock bit and
moving it to the unevictable lru.

This is evident if you try to mlock(), munlock(), and then mlock() a
range again.  Currently:

	#define MAP_SIZE	(4 << 30)	/* 4GB */

	void *ptr = mmap(NULL, MAP_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
			 MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
	mlock(ptr, MAP_SIZE);

		$ grep -E "Unevictable|Inactive\(anon" /proc/meminfo
		Inactive(anon):     6304 kB
		Unevictable:     4213924 kB

	munlock(ptr, MAP_SIZE);

		Inactive(anon):  4186252 kB
		Unevictable:       19652 kB

	mlock(ptr, MAP_SIZE);

		Inactive(anon):  4198556 kB
		Unevictable:       21684 kB

Notice that less than 2MB was added to the unevictable list; this is
because these pages in the range are not transparent hugepages since the
4GB range was allocated with mmap() and has no specific alignment.  If
posix_memalign() were used instead, unevictable would not have grown at
all on the second mlock().

The fix is to call mlock_vma_page() so that the mlock bit is set and the
page is added to the unevictable list.  With this patch:

	mlock(ptr, MAP_SIZE);

		Inactive(anon):     4056 kB
		Unevictable:     4213940 kB

	munlock(ptr, MAP_SIZE);

		Inactive(anon):  4198268 kB
		Unevictable:       19636 kB

	mlock(ptr, MAP_SIZE);

		Inactive(anon):     4008 kB
		Unevictable:     4213940 kB
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

remove_memory() will be called when hot removing a memory device.  But
even if offlining memory, we cannot notice it.  So the patch updates the
memory block's state and sends notification to userspace.

Additionally, the memory device may contain more than one memory block.
If the memory block has been offlined, __offline_pages() will fail.  So we
should try to offline one memory block at a time.

Thus remove_memory() also check each memory block's state.  So there is no
need to check the memory block's state before calling remove_memory().
Signed-off-by: NWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NYasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

remove_memory() is called in two cases:
1. echo offline >/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXX/state
2. hot remove a memory device

In the 1st case, the memory block's state is changed and the notification
that memory block's state changed is sent to userland after calling
remove_memory().  So user can notice memory block is changed.

But in the 2nd case, the memory block's state is not changed and the
notification is not also sent to userspcae even if calling
remove_memory().  So user cannot notice memory block is changed.

For adding the notification at memory hot remove, the patch just prepare
as follows:
1st case uses offline_pages() for offlining memory.
2nd case uses remove_memory() for offlining memory and changing memory block's
    state and notifing the information.

The patch does not implement notification to remove_memory().
Signed-off-by: NWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NYasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There was a general sentiment in a recent discussion (See
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/18/258) that the __GFP flags should be
defined unconditionally.  Currently, the only offender is GFP_NOTRACK,
which is conditional to KMEMCHECK.
Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Presently CMA cannot migrate mlocked pages so it ends up failing to allocate
contiguous memory space.

This patch makes mlocked pages be migrated out.  Of course, it can affect
realtime processes but in CMA usecase, contiguous memory allocation failing
is far worse than access latency to an mlocked page being variable while
CMA is running.  If someone wants to make the system realtime, he shouldn't
enable CMA because stalls can still happen at random times.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, per Mel]
Signed-off-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Simply remove UNEVICTABLE_MLOCKFREED and unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed line
from /proc/vmstat: Johannes and Mel point out that it was very unlikely to
have been used by any tool, and of course we can restore it easily enough
if that turns out to be wrong.
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

During memory-hotplug, I found NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE] are increasing,
causing the kernel to hang.  When the system doesn't have enough free
pages, it enters reclaim but never reclaim any pages due to
too_many_isolated()==true and loops forever.

The cause is that when we do memory-hotadd after memory-remove,
__zone_pcp_update() clears a zone's ZONE_STAT_ITEMS in setup_pageset()
although the vm_stat_diff of all CPUs still have values.

In addtion, when we offline all pages of the zone, we reset them in
zone_pcp_reset without draining so we loss some zone stat item.
Reviewed-by: NWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In order to allow sleeping during mmu notifier calls, we need to avoid
invoking them under the page table spinlock.  This patch solves the
problem by calling invalidate_page notification after releasing the lock
(but before freeing the page itself), or by wrapping the page invalidation
with calls to invalidate_range_begin and invalidate_range_end.

To prevent accidental changes to the invalidate_range_end arguments after
the call to invalidate_range_begin, the patch introduces a convention of
saving the arguments in consistently named locals:

	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */
	unsigned long mmun_end;	/* For mmu_notifiers */

	...

	mmun_start = ...
	mmun_end = ...
	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);

	...

	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);

The patch changes code to use this convention for all calls to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end, except those where the calls are
close enough so that anyone who glances at the code can see the values
aren't changing.

This patchset is a preliminary step towards on-demand paging design to be
added to the RDMA stack.

Why do we want on-demand paging for Infiniband?

  Applications register memory with an RDMA adapter using system calls,
  and subsequently post IO operations that refer to the corresponding
  virtual addresses directly to HW.  Until now, this was achieved by
  pinning the memory during the registration calls.  The goal of on demand
  paging is to avoid pinning the pages of registered memory regions (MRs).
   This will allow users the same flexibility they get when swapping any
  other part of their processes address spaces.  Instead of requiring the
  entire MR to fit in physical memory, we can allow the MR to be larger,
  and only fit the current working set in physical memory.

Why should anyone care?  What problems are users currently experiencing?

  This can make programming with RDMA much simpler.  Today, developers
  that are working with more data than their RAM can hold need either to
  deregister and reregister memory regions throughout their process's
  life, or keep a single memory region and copy the data to it.  On demand
  paging will allow these developers to register a single MR at the
  beginning of their process's life, and let the operating system manage
  which pages needs to be fetched at a given time.  In the future, we
  might be able to provide a single memory access key for each process
  that would provide the entire process's address as one large memory
  region, and the developers wouldn't need to register memory regions at
  all.

Is there any prospect that any other subsystems will utilise these
infrastructural changes?  If so, which and how, etc?

  As for other subsystems, I understand that XPMEM wanted to sleep in
  MMU notifiers, as Christoph Lameter wrote at
  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.1/0460.html and
  perhaps Andrea knows about other use cases.

  Scheduling in mmu notifications is required since we need to sync the
  hardware with the secondary page tables change.  A TLB flush of an IO
  device is inherently slower than a CPU TLB flush, so our design works by
  sending the invalidation request to the device, and waiting for an
  interrupt before exiting the mmu notifier handler.

Avi said:

  kvm may be a buyer.  kvm::mmu_lock, which serializes guest page
  faults, also protects long operations such as destroying large ranges.
  It would be good to convert it into a spinlock, but as it is used inside
  mmu notifiers, this cannot be done.

  (there are alternatives, such as keeping the spinlock and using a
  generation counter to do the teardown in O(1), which is what the "may"
  is doing up there).

[akpm@linux-foundation.orgpossible speed tweak in hugetlb_cow(), cleanups]
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: NSagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: NHaggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Cc: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com>
Cc: Liran Liss <liranl@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.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>

RECLAIM_DISTANCE represents the distance between nodes at which it is
deemed too costly to allocate from; it's preferred to try to reclaim from
a local zone before falling back to allocating on a remote node with such
a distance.

To do this, zone_reclaim_mode is set if the distance between any two
nodes on the system is greather than this distance.  This, however, ends
up causing the page allocator to reclaim from every zone regardless of
its affinity.

What we really want is to reclaim only from zones that are closer than
RECLAIM_DISTANCE.  This patch adds a nodemask to each node that
represents the set of nodes that are within this distance.  During the
zone iteration, if the bit for a zone's node is set for the local node,
then reclaim is attempted; otherwise, the zone is skipped.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build]
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>