- Reword sentence to clarify meaning with multiple options
- Add support for using GB prefixes for the page size
- Add extra printk to delayed > MAX_ORDER allocation code
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make some infrastructure changes to allow boot-time allocation of
different hugepage page sizes.

- move all basic hstate initialisation into hugetlb_add_hstate
- create a new function hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages() to do the
  actual initial page allocations. Call this function early in
  order to allocate giant pages from bootmem.
- Check for multiple hugepages= parameters
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NAndrew Hastings <abh@cray.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is needed on x86-64 to handle GB pages in hugetlbfs, because it is
not practical to enlarge MAX_ORDER to 1GB.

Instead the 1GB pages are only allocated at boot using the bootmem
allocator using the hugepages=...  option.

These 1G bootmem pages are never freed.  In theory it would be possible to
implement that with some complications, but since it would be a one-way
street (>= MAX_ORDER pages cannot be allocated later) I decided not to
currently.

The >= MAX_ORDER code is not ifdef'ed per architecture.  It is not very
big and the ifdef uglyness seemed not be worth it.

Known problems: /proc/meminfo and "free" do not display the memory
allocated for gb pages in "Total".  This is a little confusing for the
user.
Acked-by: NAndrew Hastings <abh@cray.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Need this as a separate function for a future patch.

No behaviour change.
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Provide new hugepages user APIs that are more suited to multiple hstates
in sysfs.  There is a new directory, /sys/kernel/hugepages.  Underneath
that directory there will be a directory per-supported hugepage size,
e.g.:

/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64kB
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB

corresponding to 64k, 16m and 16g respectively.  Within each
hugepages-size directory there are a number of files, corresponding to the
tracked counters in the hstate, e.g.:

/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_hugepages
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_overcommit_hugepages
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/free_hugepages
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/resv_hugepages
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/surplus_hugepages

Of these files, the first two are read-write and the latter three are
read-only.  The size of the hugepage being manipulated is trivially
deducible from the enclosing directory and is always expressed in kB (to
match meminfo).

[dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix build]
[nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: hang off of /sys/kernel/mm rather than /sys/kernel]
[nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: remove CONFIG_SYSFS dependency]
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add the ability to configure the hugetlb hstate used on a per mount basis.

- Add a new pagesize= option to the hugetlbfs mount that allows setting
  the page size
- This option causes the mount code to find the hstate corresponding to the
  specified size, and sets up a pointer to the hstate in the mount's
  superblock.
- Change the hstate accessors to use this information rather than the
  global_hstate they were using (requires a slight change in mm/memory.c
  so we don't NULL deref in the error-unmap path -- see comments).

[np: take hstate out of hugetlbfs inode and vma->vm_private_data]
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add basic support for more than one hstate in hugetlbfs.  This is the key
to supporting multiple hugetlbfs page sizes at once.

- Rather than a single hstate, we now have an array, with an iterator
- default_hstate continues to be the struct hstate which we use by default
- Add functions for architectures to register new hstates

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes.  This
is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which
encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg.  huge page
size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc).

The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these
fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they
are operating on.

This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it
(default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the
hstate.

Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different
hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Needed to avoid code duplication in follow up patches.
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Hugh adds: vma_pagecache_offset() has a dangerously misleading name, since
it's using hugepage units: rename it to vma_hugecache_offset().

[apw@shadowen.org: restack onto fixed MAP_PRIVATE reservations]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vma_split conversion]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When a hugetlb mapping with a reservation is split, a new VMA is cloned
from the original.  This new VMA is a direct copy of the original
including the reservation count.  When this pair of VMAs are unmapped we
will incorrect double account the unused reservation and the overall
reservation count will be incorrect, in extreme cases it will wrap.

The problem occurs when we split an existing VMA say to unmap a page in
the middle.  split_vma() will create a new VMA copying all fields from the
original.  As we are storing our reservation count in vm_private_data this
is also copies, endowing the new VMA with a duplicate of the original
VMA's reservation.  Neither of the new VMAs can exhaust these reservations
as they are too small, but when we unmap and close these VMAs we will
incorrect credit the remainder twice and resv_huge_pages will become out
of sync.  This can lead to allocation failures on mappings with
reservations and even to resv_huge_pages wrapping which prevents all
subsequent hugepage allocations.

The simple fix would be to correctly apportion the remaining reservation
count when the split is made.  However the only hook we have vm_ops->open
only has the new VMA we do not know the identity of the preceeding VMA.
Also even if we did have that VMA to hand we do not know how much of the
reservation was consumed each side of the split.

This patch therefore takes a different tack.  We know that the whole of
any private mapping (which has a reservation) has a reservation over its
whole size.  Any present pages represent consumed reservation.  Therefore
if we track the instantiated pages we can calculate the remaining
reservation.

This patch reuses the existing regions code to track the regions for which
we have consumed reservation (ie.  the instantiated pages), as each page
is faulted in we record the consumption of reservation for the new page.
When we need to return unused reservations at unmap time we simply count
the consumed reservation region subtracting that from the whole of the
map.  During a VMA split the newly opened VMA will point to the same
region map, as this map is offset oriented it remains valid for both of
the split VMAs.  This map is referenced counted so that it is removed when
all VMAs which are part of the mmap are gone.

Thanks to Adam Litke and Mel Gorman for their review feedback.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

By default all shared mappings and most private mappings now have
reservations associated with them.  This improves semantics by providing
allocation guarentees to the mapper.  However a small number of
applications may attempt to make very large sparse mappings, with these
strict reservations the system will never be able to honour the mapping.

This patch set brings MAP_NORESERVE support to hugetlb files.  This allows
new mappings to be made to hugetlbfs files without an associated
reservation, for both shared and private mappings.  This allows
applications which want to create very sparse mappings to opt-out of the
reservation system.  Obviously as there is no reservation they are liable
to fault at runtime if the huge page pool becomes exhausted; buyer beware.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The following patch will require use of the reservation regions support.
Move this earlier in the file.  No changes have been made to this code.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Create some new accessors for vma private data to cut down on and contain
the casts.  Encapsulates the huge and small page offset calculations.
Also adds a couple of VM_BUG_ONs for consistency.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make things static]
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

hugetlb: guarantee that COW faults for a process that called mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on hugetlbfs will succeed

After patch 2 in this series, a process that successfully calls mmap() for
a MAP_PRIVATE mapping will be guaranteed to successfully fault until a
process calls fork().  At that point, the next write fault from the parent
could fail due to COW if the child still has a reference.

We only reserve pages for the parent but a copy must be made to avoid
leaking data from the parent to the child after fork().  Reserves could be
taken for both parent and child at fork time to guarantee faults but if
the mapping is large it is highly likely we will not have sufficient pages
for the reservation, and it is common to fork only to exec() immediatly
after.  A failure here would be very undesirable.

Note that the current behaviour of mainline with MAP_PRIVATE pages is
pretty bad.  The following situation is allowed to occur today.

1. Process calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE)
2. Process calls mlock() to fault all pages and makes sure it succeeds
3. Process forks()
4. Process writes to MAP_PRIVATE mapping while child still exists
5. If the COW fails at this point, the process gets SIGKILLed even though it
   had taken care to ensure the pages existed

This patch improves the situation by guaranteeing the reliability of the
process that successfully calls mmap().  When the parent performs COW, it
will try to satisfy the allocation without using reserves.  If that fails
the parent will steal the page leaving any children without a page.
Faults from the child after that point will result in failure.  If the
child COW happens first, an attempt will be made to allocate the page
without reserves and the child will get SIGKILLed on failure.

To summarise the new behaviour:

1. If the original mapper performs COW on a private mapping with multiple
   references, it will attempt to allocate a hugepage from the pool or
   the buddy allocator without using the existing reserves. On fail, VMAs
   mapping the same area are traversed and the page being COW'd is unmapped
   where found. It will then steal the original page as the last mapper in
   the normal way.

2. The VMAs the pages were unmapped from are flagged to note that pages
   with data no longer exist. Future no-page faults on those VMAs will
   terminate the process as otherwise it would appear that data was corrupted.
   A warning is printed to the console that this situation occured.

2. If the child performs COW first, it will attempt to satisfy the COW
   from the pool if there are enough pages or via the buddy allocator if
   overcommit is allowed and the buddy allocator can satisfy the request. If
   it fails, the child will be killed.

If the pool is large enough, existing applications will not notice that
the reserves were a factor.  Existing applications depending on the
no-reserves been set are unlikely to exist as for much of the history of
hugetlbfs, pages were prefaulted at mmap(), allocating the pages at that
point or failing the mmap().

[npiggin@suse.de: fix CONFIG_HUGETLB=n build]
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch reserves huge pages at mmap() time for MAP_PRIVATE mappings in
a similar manner to the reservations taken for MAP_SHARED mappings.  The
reserve count is accounted both globally and on a per-VMA basis for
private mappings.  This guarantees that a process that successfully calls
mmap() will successfully fault all pages in the future unless fork() is
called.

The characteristics of private mappings of hugetlbfs files behaviour after
this patch are;

1. The process calling mmap() is guaranteed to succeed all future faults until
   it forks().
2. On fork(), the parent may die due to SIGKILL on writes to the private
   mapping if enough pages are not available for the COW. For reasonably
   reliable behaviour in the face of a small huge page pool, children of
   hugepage-aware processes should not reference the mappings; such as
   might occur when fork()ing to exec().
3. On fork(), the child VMAs inherit no reserves. Reads on pages already
   faulted by the parent will succeed. Successful writes will depend on enough
   huge pages being free in the pool.
4. Quotas of the hugetlbfs mount are checked at reserve time for the mapper
   and at fault time otherwise.

Before this patch, all reads or writes in the child potentially needs page
allocations that can later lead to the death of the parent.  This applies
to reads and writes of uninstantiated pages as well as COW.  After the
patch it is only a write to an instantiated page that causes problems.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is a patchset to give reliable behaviour to a process that
successfully calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on a hugetlbfs file.  Currently, it
is possible for the process to be killed due to a small hugepage pool size
even if it calls mlock().

MAP_SHARED mappings on hugetlbfs reserve huge pages at mmap() time.  This
guarantees all future faults against the mapping will succeed.  This
allows local allocations at first use improving NUMA locality whilst
retaining reliability.

MAP_PRIVATE mappings do not reserve pages.  This can result in an
application being SIGKILLed later if a huge page is not available at fault
time.  This makes huge pages usage very ill-advised in some cases as the
unexpected application failure cannot be detected and handled as it is
immediately fatal.  Although an application may force instantiation of the
pages using mlock(), this may lead to poor memory placement and the
process may still be killed when performing COW.

This patchset introduces a reliability guarantee for the process which
creates a private mapping, i.e.  the process that calls mmap() on a
hugetlbfs file successfully.  The first patch of the set is purely
mechanical code move to make later diffs easier to read.  The second patch
will guarantee faults up until the process calls fork().  After patch two,
as long as the child keeps the mappings, the parent is no longer
guaranteed to be reliable.  Patch 3 guarantees that the parent will always
successfully COW by unmapping the pages from the child in the event there
are insufficient pages in the hugepage pool in allocate a new page, be it
via a static or dynamic pool.

Existing hugepage-aware applications are unlikely to be affected by this
change.  For much of hugetlbfs's history, pages were pre-faulted at mmap()
time or mmap() failed which acts in a reserve-like manner.  If the pool is
sized correctly already so that parent and child can fault reliably, the
application will not even notice the reserves.  It's only when the pool is
too small for the application to function perfectly reliably that the
reserves come into play.

Credit goes to Andy Whitcroft for cleaning up a number of mistakes during
review before the patches were released.

This patch:

A later patch in this set needs to call hugetlb_acct_memory() before it is
defined.  This patch moves the function without modification.  This makes
later diffs easier to read.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It's confusing that set_max_huge_pages() contained two different
variables named "ret", and although the code works correctly this should
be fixed.

The inner of the two variables can simply be removed.

Spotted by sparse.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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>

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.26-rc4 #30
---------------------------------------------
heap-overflow/2250 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&mm->page_table_lock){--..}, at: [<c0000000000cf2e8>] .copy_hugetlb_page_range+0x108/0x280

but task is already holding lock:
 (&mm->page_table_lock){--..}, at: [<c0000000000cf2dc>] .copy_hugetlb_page_range+0xfc/0x280

other info that might help us debug this:
3 locks held by heap-overflow/2250:
 #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<c000000000050e44>] .dup_mm+0x134/0x410
 #1:  (&mm->mmap_sem/1){--..}, at: [<c000000000050e54>] .dup_mm+0x144/0x410
 #2:  (&mm->page_table_lock){--..}, at: [<c0000000000cf2dc>] .copy_hugetlb_page_range+0xfc/0x280

stack backtrace:
Call Trace:
[c00000003b2774e0] [c000000000010ce4] .show_stack+0x74/0x1f0 (unreliable)
[c00000003b2775a0] [c0000000003f10e0] .dump_stack+0x20/0x34
[c00000003b277620] [c0000000000889bc] .__lock_acquire+0xaac/0x1080
[c00000003b277740] [c000000000089000] .lock_acquire+0x70/0xb0
[c00000003b2777d0] [c0000000003ee15c] ._spin_lock+0x4c/0x80
[c00000003b277870] [c0000000000cf2e8] .copy_hugetlb_page_range+0x108/0x280
[c00000003b277950] [c0000000000bcaa8] .copy_page_range+0x558/0x790
[c00000003b277ac0] [c000000000050fe0] .dup_mm+0x2d0/0x410
[c00000003b277ba0] [c000000000051d24] .copy_process+0xb94/0x1020
[c00000003b277ca0] [c000000000052244] .do_fork+0x94/0x310
[c00000003b277db0] [c000000000011240] .sys_clone+0x60/0x80
[c00000003b277e30] [c0000000000078c4] .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc

Fix is the same way that mm/memory.c copy_page_range does the
lockdep annotation.
Acked-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add __GFP_REPEAT to hugepage allocations.  Do so to not necessitate userspace
putting pressure on the VM by repeated echo's into /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
to grow the pool.  With the previous patch to allow for large-order
__GFP_REPEAT attempts to loop for a bit (as opposed to indefinitely), this
increases the likelihood of getting hugepages when the system experiences (or
recently experienced) load.

Mel tested the patchset on an x86_32 laptop.  With the patches, it was easier
to use the proc interface to grow the hugepage pool.  The following is the
output of a script that grows the pool as much as possible running on
2.6.25-rc9.

Allocating hugepages test
-------------------------
Disabling OOM Killer for current test process
Starting page count: 0
Attempt 1: 57 pages Progress made with 57 pages
Attempt 2: 73 pages Progress made with 16 pages
Attempt 3: 74 pages Progress made with 1 pages
Attempt 4: 75 pages Progress made with 1 pages
Attempt 5: 77 pages Progress made with 2 pages

77 pages was the most it allocated but it took 5 attempts from userspace
to get it. With the 3 patches in this series applied,

Allocating hugepages test
-------------------------
Disabling OOM Killer for current test process
Starting page count: 0
Attempt 1: 75 pages Progress made with 75 pages
Attempt 2: 76 pages Progress made with 1 pages
Attempt 3: 79 pages Progress made with 3 pages

And 79 pages was the most it got. Your patches were able to allocate the
bulk of possible pages on the first attempt.
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Tested-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

mm/hugetlb.c:207:11: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Huge ptes have a special type on s390 and cannot be handled with the standard
pte functions in certain cases, e.g.  because of a different location of the
invalid bit.  This patch adds some new architecture- specific functions to
hugetlb common code, as a prerequisite for the s390 large page support.

This won't affect other architectures in functionality, but I need to add some
new dummy inline functions to the headers.
Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A cow break on a hugetlbfs page with page_count > 1 will set a new pte with
set_huge_pte_at(), w/o any tlb flush operation.  The old pte will remain in
the tlb and subsequent write access to the page will result in a page fault
loop, for as long as it may take until the tlb is flushed from somewhere else.
 This patch introduces an architecture-specific huge_ptep_clear_flush()
function, which is called before the the set_huge_pte_at() in hugetlb_cow().

ATTENTION: This is just a nop on all architectures for now, the s390
implementation will come with our large page patch later.  Other architectures
should define their own huge_ptep_clear_flush() if needed.
Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

After further discussion with Christoph Lameter, it has become clear that my
earlier attempts to clean up the mempolicy reference counting were a bit of
overkill in some areas, resulting in superflous ref/unref in what are usually
fast paths.  In other areas, further inspection reveals that I botched the
unref for interleave policies.

A separate patch, suitable for upstream/stable trees, fixes up the known
errors in the previous attempt to fix reference counting.

This patch reworks the memory policy referencing counting and, one hopes,
simplifies the code.  Maybe I'll get it right this time.

See the update to the numa_memory_policy.txt document for a discussion of
memory policy reference counting that motivates this patch.

Summary:

Lookup of mempolicy, based on (vma, address) need only add a reference for
shared policy, and we need only unref the policy when finished for shared
policies.  So, this patch backs out all of the unneeded extra reference
counting added by my previous attempt.  It then unrefs only shared policies
when we're finished with them, using the mpol_cond_put() [conditional put]
helper function introduced by this patch.

Note that shmem_swapin() calls read_swap_cache_async() with a dummy vma
containing just the policy.  read_swap_cache_async() can call alloc_page_vma()
multiple times, so we can't let alloc_page_vma() unref the shared policy in
this case.  To avoid this, we make a copy of any non-null shared policy and
remove the MPOL_F_SHARED flag from the copy.  This copy occurs before reading
a page [or multiple pages] from swap, so the overhead should not be an issue
here.

I introduced a new static inline function "mpol_cond_copy()" to copy the
shared policy to an on-stack policy and remove the flags that would require a
conditional free.  The current implementation of mpol_cond_copy() assumes that
the struct mempolicy contains no pointers to dynamically allocated structures
that must be duplicated or reference counted during copy.
Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is a change that was requested some time ago by Mel Gorman.  Makes sense
to me, so here it is.

Note: I retain the name "mpol_free_shared_policy()" because it actually does
free the shared_policy, which is NOT a reference counted object.  However, ...

The mempolicy object[s] referenced by the shared_policy are reference counted,
so mpol_put() is used to release the reference held by the shared_policy.  The
mempolicy might not be freed at this time, because some task attached to the
shared object associated with the shared policy may be in the process of
allocating a page based on the mempolicy.  In that case, the task performing
the allocation will hold a reference on the mempolicy, obtained via
mpol_shared_policy_lookup().  The mempolicy will be freed when all tasks
holding such a reference have called mpol_put() for the mempolicy.
Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Allocating huge pages directly from the buddy allocator is not guaranteed to
succeed.  Success depends on several factors (such as the amount of physical
memory available and the level of fragmentation).  With the addition of
dynamic hugetlb pool resizing, allocations can occur much more frequently.
For these reasons it is desirable to keep track of huge page allocation
successes and failures.

Add two new vmstat entries to track huge page allocations that succeed and
fail.  The presence of the two entries is contingent upon CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
being enabled.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduced ifdeffery]
Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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>

To reduce hugetlb_lock acquisitions and releases when freeing excess surplus
pages, scan the page list in two parts.  First, transfer the needed pages to
the hugetlb pool.  Then drop the lock and free the remaining pages back to the
buddy allocator.

In the common case there are zero excess pages and no lock operations are
required.

Thanks Mel Gorman for this improvement.
Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations
controlled by that mempolicy.  As the per-node zonelist is already being
filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that
takes a nodemask for further filtering.  This eliminates the need for
MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist.

A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the
local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered
zonelist.  I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with
available memory.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework]
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Filtering zonelists requires very frequent use of zone_idx().  This is costly
as it involves a lookup of another structure and a substraction operation.  As
the zone_idx is often required, it should be quickly accessible.  The node idx
could also be stored here if it was found that accessing zone->node is
significant which may be the case on workloads where nodemasks are heavily
used.

This patch introduces a struct zoneref to store a zone pointer and a zone
index.  The zonelist then consists of an array of these struct zonerefs which
are looked up as necessary.  Helpers are given for accessing the zone index as
well as the node index.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Suggested struct zoneref instead of embedding information in pointers]
[hugh@veritas.com: mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms]
[hugh@veritas.com: just return do_try_to_free_pages]
[hugh@veritas.com: do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant]
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently a node has two sets of zonelists, one for each zone type in the
system and a second set for GFP_THISNODE allocations.  Based on the zones
allowed by a gfp mask, one of these zonelists is selected.  All of these
zonelists consume memory and occupy cache lines.

This patch replaces the multiple zonelists per-node with two zonelists.  The
first contains all populated zones in the system, ordered by distance, for
fallback allocations when the target/preferred node has no free pages.  The
second contains all populated zones in the node suitable for GFP_THISNODE
allocations.

An iterator macro is introduced called for_each_zone_zonelist() that interates
through each zone allowed by the GFP flags in the selected zonelist.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Running the counters testcase from libhugetlbfs results in on 2.6.25-rc5
and 2.6.25-rc5-mm1:

    BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! [counters:10531]
    NIP: c0000000000d1f3c LR: c0000000000d1f2c CTR: c0000000001b5088
    REGS: c000005db12cb360 TRAP: 0901   Not tainted  (2.6.25-rc5-autokern1)
    MSR: 8000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 48008448  XER: 20000000
    TASK = c000005dbf3d6000[10531] 'counters' THREAD: c000005db12c8000 CPU: 3
    GPR00: 0000000000000004 c000005db12cb5e0 c000000000879228 0000000000000004
    GPR04: 0000000000000010 0000000000000000 0000000000200200 0000000000100100
    GPR08: c0000000008aba10 000000000000ffff 0000000000000004 0000000000000000
    GPR12: 0000000028000442 c000000000770080
    NIP [c0000000000d1f3c] .return_unused_surplus_pages+0x84/0x18c
    LR [c0000000000d1f2c] .return_unused_surplus_pages+0x74/0x18c
    Call Trace:
    [c000005db12cb5e0] [c000005db12cb670] 0xc000005db12cb670 (unreliable)
    [c000005db12cb670] [c0000000000d24c4] .hugetlb_acct_memory+0x2e0/0x354
    [c000005db12cb740] [c0000000001b5048] .truncate_hugepages+0x1d4/0x214
    [c000005db12cb890] [c0000000001b50a4] .hugetlbfs_delete_inode+0x1c/0x3c
    [c000005db12cb920] [c000000000103fd8] .generic_delete_inode+0xf8/0x1c0
    [c000005db12cb9b0] [c0000000001b5100] .hugetlbfs_drop_inode+0x3c/0x24c
    [c000005db12cba50] [c00000000010287c] .iput+0xdc/0xf8
    [c000005db12cbad0] [c0000000000fee54] .dentry_iput+0x12c/0x194
    [c000005db12cbb60] [c0000000000ff050] .d_kill+0x6c/0xa4
    [c000005db12cbbf0] [c0000000000ffb74] .dput+0x18c/0x1b0
    [c000005db12cbc70] [c0000000000e9e98] .__fput+0x1a4/0x1e8
    [c000005db12cbd10] [c0000000000e61ec] .filp_close+0xb8/0xe0
    [c000005db12cbda0] [c0000000000e62d0] .sys_close+0xbc/0x134
    [c000005db12cbe30] [c00000000000872c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
    Instruction dump:
    ebbe8038 38800010 e8bf0002 3bbd0008 7fa3eb78 38a50001 7ca507b4 4818df25
    60000000 38800010 38a00000 7c601b78 <7fa3eb78> 2f800010 409d0008 38000010

This was tracked down to a potential livelock in
return_unused_surplus_hugepages().  In the case where we have surplus
pages on some node, but no free pages on the same node, we may never
break out of the loop. To avoid this livelock, terminate the search if
we iterate a number of times equal to the number of online nodes without
freeing a page.

Thanks to Andy Whitcroft and Adam Litke for helping with debugging and
the patch.
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently we show the surplus hugetlb pool state in /proc/meminfo, but
not in the per-node meminfo files, even though we track the information
on a per-node basis. Printing it there can help track down dynamic pool
bugs including the one in the follow-on patch.
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Free pages in the hugetlb pool are free and as such have a reference count of
zero.  Regular allocations into the pool from the buddy are "freed" into the
pool which results in their page_count dropping to zero.  However, surplus
pages can be directly utilized by the caller without first being freed to the
pool.  Therefore, a call to put_page_testzero() is in order so that such a
page will be handed to the caller with a correct count.

This has not affected end users because the bad page count is reset before the
page is handed off.  However, under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM this triggers a BUG when
the page count is validated.

Thanks go to Mel for first spotting this issue and providing an initial fix.
Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Adam Litke noticed that currently we grow the hugepage pool independent of any
cpuset the running process may be in, but when shrinking the pool, the cpuset
is checked.  This leads to inconsistency when shrinking the pool in a
restricted cpuset -- an administrator may have been able to grow the pool on a
node restricted by a containing cpuset, but they cannot shrink it there.

There are two options: either prevent growing of the pool outside of the
cpuset or allow shrinking outside of the cpuset.  >From previous discussions
on linux-mm, /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages is an administrative interface that
should not be restricted by cpusets.  So allow shrinking the pool by removing
pages from nodes outside of current's cpuset.
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhonr@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A hugetlb reservation may be inadequately backed in the event of racing
allocations and frees when utilizing surplus huge pages.  Consider the
following series of events in processes A and B:

 A) Allocates some surplus pages to satisfy a reservation
 B) Frees some huge pages
 A) A notices the extra free pages and drops hugetlb_lock to free some of
    its surplus pages back to the buddy allocator.
 B) Allocates some huge pages
 A) Reacquires hugetlb_lock and returns from gather_surplus_huge_pages()

Avoid this by commiting the reservation after pages have been allocated but
before dropping the lock to free excess pages.  For parity, release the
reservation in return_unused_surplus_pages().

This patch also corrects the cpuset_mems_nr() error path in
hugetlb_acct_memory().  If the cpuset check fails, uncommit the
reservation, but also be sure to return any surplus huge pages that may
have been allocated to back the failed reservation.

Thanks to Andy Whitcroft for discovering this.
Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When we free a page via free_huge_page and we detect that we are in surplus
the page will be returned to the buddy.  After this we no longer own the page.

However at the end free_huge_page we clear out our mapping pointer from
page private.  Even where the page is not a surplus we free the page to
the hugepage pool, drop the pool locks and then clear page private.  In
either case the page may have been reallocated.  BAD.

Make sure we clear out page private before we free the page.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we can't
hold hugetlb_lock over the call.  Use a dummy variable to store the sysctl
result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to update
nr_overcommit_huge_pages.
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: NMiles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When I replaced hugetlb_dynamic_pool with nr_overcommit_hugepages I used
proc_doulongvec_minmax() directly.  However, hugetlb.c's locking rules
require that all counter modifications occur under the hugetlb_lock.  Add a
callback into the hugetlb code similar to the one for nr_hugepages.  Grab
the lock around the manipulation of nr_overcommit_hugepages in
proc_doulongvec_minmax().
Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

After running SetPageUptodate, preceeding stores to the page contents to
actually bring it uptodate may not be ordered with the store to set the
page uptodate.

Therefore, another CPU which checks PageUptodate is true, then reads the
page contents can get stale data.

Fix this by having an smp_wmb before SetPageUptodate, and smp_rmb after
PageUptodate.

Many places that test PageUptodate, do so with the page locked, and this
would be enough to ensure memory ordering in those places if
SetPageUptodate were only called while the page is locked.  Unfortunately
that is not always the case for some filesystems, but it could be an idea
for the future.

Also bring the handling of anonymous page uptodateness in line with that of
file backed page management, by marking anon pages as uptodate when they
_are_ uptodate, rather than when our implementation requires that they be
marked as such.  Doing allows us to get rid of the smp_wmb's in the page
copying functions, which were especially added for anonymous pages for an
analogous memory ordering problem.  Both file and anonymous pages are
handled with the same barriers.

FAQ:
Q. Why not do this in flush_dcache_page?
A. Firstly, flush_dcache_page handles only one side (the smb side) of the
ordering protocol; we'd still need smp_rmb somewhere. Secondly, hiding away
memory barriers in a completely unrelated function is nasty; at least in the
PageUptodate macros, they are located together with (half) the operations
involved in the ordering. Thirdly, the smp_wmb is only required when first
bringing the page uptodate, wheras flush_dcache_page should be called each time
it is written to through the kernel mapping. It is logically the wrong place to
put it.

Q. Why does this increase my text size / reduce my performance / etc.
A. Because it is adding the necessary instructions to eliminate the data-race.

Q. Can it be improved?
A. Yes, eg. if you were to create a rule that all SetPageUptodate operations
run under the page lock, we could avoid the smp_rmb places where PageUptodate
is queried under the page lock. Requires audit of all filesystems and at least
some would need reworking. That's great you're interested, I'm eagerly awaiting
your patches.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The shared page table code for hugetlb memory on x86 and x86_64
is causing a leak.  When a user of hugepages exits using this code
the system leaks some of the hugepages.

-------------------------------------------------------
Part of /proc/meminfo just before database startup:
HugePages_Total:  5500
HugePages_Free:   5500
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

Just before shutdown:
HugePages_Total:  5500
HugePages_Free:   4475
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

After shutdown:
HugePages_Total:  5500
HugePages_Free:   4988
HugePages_Rsvd:
0 Hugepagesize:     2048 kB
----------------------------------------------------------

The problem occurs durring a fork, in copy_hugetlb_page_range().  It
locates the dst_pte using huge_pte_alloc().  Since huge_pte_alloc() calls
huge_pmd_share() it will share the pmd page if can, yet the main loop in
copy_hugetlb_page_range() does a get_page() on every hugepage.  This is a
violation of the shared hugepmd pagetable protocol and creates additional
referenced to the hugepages causing a leak when the unmap of the VMA
occurs.  We can skip the entire replication of the ptes when the hugepage
pagetables are shared.  The attached patch skips copying the ptes and the
get_page() calls if the hugetlbpage pagetable is shared.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Signed-off-by: NLarry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>