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Kamezawa Hiroyuki 59b8e85c26 memcg: remove check for signal_pending() during rmdir()
After bf544fdc241da8 "memcg: move charges to root cgroup if
use_hierarchy=0 in mem_cgroup_move_hugetlb_parent()", no memory reclaim
will occur when removing a memory cgroup.  If -EINTR is returned here,
cgroup will show a warning.

We don't need to handle any user interruption signal.  Remove this.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:42 -07:00
Andrew Morton fd07383b6b mm/memblock.c:memblock_double_array(): cosmetic cleanups
This function is an 80-column eyesore, quite unnecessarily.  Clean that
up, and use standard comment layout style.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Greg Pearson <greg.pearson@hp.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
David Rientjes 4f774b912d mm, oom: do not schedule if current has been killed
The oom killer currently schedules away from current in an uninterruptible
sleep if it does not have access to memory reserves.  It's possible that
current was killed because it shares memory with the oom killed thread or
because it was killed by the user in the interim, however.

This patch only schedules away from current if it does not have a pending
kill, i.e.  if it does not share memory with the oom killed thread.  It's
possible that it will immediately retry its memory allocation and fail,
but it will immediately be given access to memory reserves if it calls the
oom killer again.

This prevents the delay of memory freeing when threads that share memory
with the oom killed thread get unnecessarily scheduled.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 75754681fe hugetlb/cgroup: remove exclude and wakeup rmdir calls from migrate
We already hold the hugetlb_lock.  That should prevent a parallel cgroup
rmdir from touching page's hugetlb cgroup.  So remove the exclude and
wakeup calls.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 94ae8ba717 hugetlb/cgroup: assign the page hugetlb cgroup when we move the page to active list.
A page's hugetlb cgroup assignment and movement to the active list should
occur with hugetlb_lock held.  Otherwise when we remove the hugetlb cgroup
we will iterate the active list and find pages with NULL hugetlb cgroup
values.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 79dbb2368a hugetlb: move all the in use pages to active list
When we fail to allocate pages from the reserve pool, hugetlb tries to
allocate huge pages using alloc_buddy_huge_page.  Add these to the active
list.  We also need to add the huge page we allocate when we soft offline
the oldpage to active list.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 585e27ea6d hugetlb/cgroup: add HugeTLB controller documentation
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 8e6ac7fab3 hugetlb/cgroup: migrate hugetlb cgroup info from oldpage to new page during migration
With HugeTLB pages, hugetlb cgroup is uncharged in compound page
destructor.  Since we are holding a hugepage reference, we can be sure
that old page won't get uncharged till the last put_page().

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V abb8206cb0 hugetlb/cgroup: add hugetlb cgroup control files
Add the control files for hugetlb controller

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB_RES_CTLR/CONFIG_MEMCG_HUGETLB/g]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_MEMCG_HUGETLB/CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB/]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V da1def5591 hugetlb/cgroup: add support for cgroup removal
Add support for cgroup removal.  If we don't have parent cgroup, the
charges are moved to root cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 6d76dcf404 hugetlb/cgroup: add charge/uncharge routines for hugetlb cgroup
Add the charge and uncharge routines for hugetlb cgroup.  We do cgroup
charging in page alloc and uncharge in compound page destructor.
Assigning page's hugetlb cgroup is protected by hugetlb_lock.

[liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com: add huge_page_order check to avoid incorrect uncharge]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 9dd540e231 hugetlb/cgroup: add the cgroup pointer to page lru
Add the hugetlb cgroup pointer to 3rd page lru.next.  This limit the usage
to hugetlb cgroup to only hugepages with 3 or more normal pages.  I guess
that is an acceptable limitation.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 2bc64a2046 mm/hugetlb: add new HugeTLB cgroup
Implement a new controller that allows us to control HugeTLB allocations.
The extension allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and
enforces the controller limit during page fault.  Since HugeTLB doesn't
support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that,
the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages
beyond its limit.  This requires the application to know beforehand how
much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use.

The charge/uncharge calls will be added to HugeTLB code in later patch.
Support for cgroup removal will be added in later patches.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB_RES_CTLR/CONFIG_MEMCG_HUGETLB/g]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_MEMCG_HUGETLB/CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB/g]
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V c3f38a3871 hugetlb: make some static variables global
We will use them later in hugetlb_cgroup.c

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 0edaecfab2 hugetlb: add a list for tracking in-use HugeTLB pages
hugepage_activelist will be used to track currently used HugeTLB pages.
We need to find the in-use HugeTLB pages to support HugeTLB cgroup removal.
On cgroup removal we update the page's HugeTLB cgroup to point to parent
cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 189ebff289 hugetlb: simplify migrate_huge_page()
Since we migrate only one hugepage, don't use linked list for passing the
page around.  Directly pass the page that need to be migrated as argument.
This also removes the usage of page->lru in the migrate path.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 24669e5847 hugetlb: use mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating pages
Use a mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating pages
when we unmap a hugepage range

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 972dc4de13 hugetlb: add an inline helper for finding hstate index
Add an inline helper and use it in the code.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 76dcee75c1 hugetlb: don't use ERR_PTR with VM_FAULT* values
The current use of VM_FAULT_* codes with ERR_PTR requires us to ensure
VM_FAULT_* values will not exceed MAX_ERRNO value.  Decouple the
VM_FAULT_* values from MAX_ERRNO.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 47d38344ab hugetlb: rename max_hstate to hugetlb_max_hstate
This patchset implements a cgroup resource controller for HugeTLB pages.
The controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and
enforces the controller limit during page fault.  Since HugeTLB doesn't
support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that,
the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages
beyond its limit.  This requires the application to know beforehand how
much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use.

The goal is to control how many HugeTLB pages a group of task can
allocate.  It can be looked at as an extension of the existing quota
interface which limits the number of HugeTLB pages per hugetlbfs
superblock.  HPC job scheduler requires jobs to specify their resource
requirements in the job file.  Once their requirements can be met, job
schedulers like (SLURM) will schedule the job.  We need to make sure that
the jobs won't consume more resources than requested.  If they do we
should either error out or kill the application.

This patch:

Rename max_hstate to hugetlb_max_hstate.  We will be using this from other
subsystems like hugetlb controller in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Wanpeng Li 3965c9ae47 mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads
Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush
mechanism is not used any more.  But the old interface exported through
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless.

For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify
the users that the interface is removed.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Gavin Shan deaf386ee5 mm/buddy: cleanup on should_fail_alloc_page
Currently, function should_fail() has "bool" for its return value, so it's
reasonable to change the return value of function should_fail_alloc_page()
into "bool" as well.

The patch does cleanup on function should_fail_alloc_page() to have "bool"
for its return value.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Huang Shijie 44de9d0cad mm: account the total_vm in the vm_stat_account()
vm_stat_account() accounts the shared_vm, stack_vm and reserved_vm now.
But we can also account for total_vm in the vm_stat_account() which makes
the code tidy.

Even for mprotect_fixup(), we can get the right result in the end.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Christian Ehrhardt df858fa827 documentation: update how page-cluster affects swap I/O
Fix of the documentation of /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster to match the
behavior of the code and add some comments about what the tunable will
change in that behavior.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Christian Ehrhardt 3fb5c298b0 swap: allow swap readahead to be merged
Swap readahead works fine, but the I/O to disk is almost always done in
page size requests, despite the fact that readahead submits
1<<page-cluster pages at a time.

On older kernels the old per device plugging behavior might have captured
this and merged the requests, but currently all comes down to much more
I/Os than required.

On a single device this might not be an issue, but as soon as a server
runs on shared san resources savin I/Os not only improves swapin
throughput but also provides a lower resource utilization.

With a load running KVM in a lot of memory overcommitment (the hot memory
is 1.5 times the host memory) swapping throughput improves significantly
and the lead feels more responsive as well as achieves more throughput.

In a test setup with 16 swap disks running blocktrace on one of those disks
shows the improved merging:
Prior:
Reads Queued:     560,888,    2,243MiB  Writes Queued:     226,242,  904,968KiB
Read Dispatches:  544,701,    2,243MiB  Write Dispatches:  159,318,  904,968KiB
Reads Requeued:         0               Writes Requeued:         0
Reads Completed:  544,716,    2,243MiB  Writes Completed:  159,321,  904,980KiB
Read Merges:       16,187,   64,748KiB  Write Merges:       61,744,  246,976KiB
IO unplugs:       149,614               Timer unplugs:       2,940

With the patch:
Reads Queued:     734,315,    2,937MiB  Writes Queued:     300,188,    1,200MiB
Read Dispatches:  214,972,    2,937MiB  Write Dispatches:  215,176,    1,200MiB
Reads Requeued:         0               Writes Requeued:         0
Reads Completed:  214,971,    2,937MiB  Writes Completed:  215,177,    1,200MiB
Read Merges:      519,343,    2,077MiB  Write Merges:       73,325,  293,300KiB
IO unplugs:       337,130               Timer unplugs:      11,184

I got ~10% to ~40% more throughput in my cases and at the same time much
lower cpu consumption when broken down per transferred kilobyte (the
majority of that due to saved interrupts and better cache handling).  In a
shared SAN others might get an additional benefit as well, because this
now causes less protocol overhead.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Kamezawa Hiroyuki a7d6f529fe memcg: remove MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_FORCE
There are no users since commit b24028572f ("memcg: remove PCG_CACHE").

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Kamezawa Hiroyuki 41326c17fc memcg: rename MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_MAPPED as MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_ANON
Now, in memcg, 2 "MAPPED" enum/macro are found
 MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_MAPPED
 MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED

Thier names looks similar to each other but the former is used for
accounting anonymous memory. rename it as TYPE_ANON.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Kamezawa Hiroyuki bff6bb83f3 memcg: rename MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT as MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT represents the usage of swap rather than
the number of swap-out events. Rename it to be MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Jan Kara aa91c4d898 mm: make vb_alloc() more foolproof
If someone calls vb_alloc() (or vm_map_ram() for that matter) to allocate
0 bytes (0 pages), get_order() returns BITS_PER_LONG - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
and interesting stuff happens.  So make debugging such problems easier and
warn about 0-size allocation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use WARN_ON-return-value feature]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Hong zhi guo 92ca922f0a vmalloc: walk vmap_areas by sorted list instead of rb_next()
There's a walk by repeating rb_next to find a suitable hole.  Could be
simply replaced by walk on the sorted vmap_area_list.  More simpler and
efficient.

Mutation of the list and tree only happens in pair within
__insert_vmap_area and __free_vmap_area, under protection of
vmap_area_lock.  The patch code is also under vmap_area_lock, so the list
walk is safe, and consistent with the tree walk.

Tested on SMP by repeating batch of vmalloc anf vfree for random sizes and
rounds for hours.

Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Andrew Morton c2cddf9919 drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c: fix build
Fix zillions of these:

drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: error: unknown field 'func' specified in initializer
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: warning: missing braces around initializer
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: warning: (near initialization for 'v4l2_ioctls[0].<anonymous>')
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: error: initializer element is not computable at load time
drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c:1848: error: (near initialization for 'v4l2_ioctls[0].<anonymous>.offset')

Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Fengguang Wu c66af41118 xtensa: select generic atomic64_t support
This will fix build errors:

block/blk-cgroup.c:609:2: error: unknown type name 'atomic64_t'
block/blk-cgroup.c:609:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'ATOMIC64_INIT' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
Akinobu Mita d6b09e754c fault-injection: fix failcmd.sh warning
"fault-injection: add tool to run command with failslab or
fail_page_alloc" added tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh to make it
easier to inject slab/page allocation failures by fault injection.

failcmd.sh prints the following warning when running with arguments
for command.

	# ./failcmd.sh echo aaa
	failcmd.sh: line 209: [: echo: binary operator expected
	aaa

This warning is caused by an improper check whether at least one
parameter is left after parsing command options.

Fix it by testing the length of $1 instead of $@

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4b24ff7110 The tag contains just a few battery-related changes for v3.6. It's is
all pretty straightforward, except one thing.
 
 One of our patches added thermal support for power supply class, but
 thermal/ subsystem changed under our feet. We (well, Stephen, that is)
 caught the issue and it was decided[1] that I'd just delay the battery
 pull request, and then will fix it up by merging upstream back into
 battery tree at the specific commit.
 
 That's not all though: another[2] small fixup for thermal subsystem was
 needed to get rid of a warning in power supply subsystem (the warning
 was not drivers/power's "fault", the thermal registration function just
 needed a proper const annotation, which is also done by a small commit
 on top of the merge.
 
 So, to sum this up:
 - The 'master' branch of the battery tree was in the -next tree for
   weeks, was never rebased, altered etc. It should be all OK;
 - Although, for-v3.6 tag contains the 'master' branch + merge + the
   warning fix.
 
 [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/19/23
 [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/18/28
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Merge tag 'for-v3.6' of git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6

Pull battery updates from Anton Vorontsov:
 "The tag contains just a few battery-related changes for v3.6.  It's is
  all pretty straightforward, except one thing.

  One of our patches added thermal support for power supply class, but
  thermal/ subsystem changed under our feet.  We (well, Stephen, that
  is) caught the issue and it was decided[1] that I'd just delay the
  battery pull request, and then will fix it up by merging upstream back
  into battery tree at the specific commit.

  That's not all though: another[2] small fixup for thermal subsystem
  was needed to get rid of a warning in power supply subsystem (the
  warning was not drivers/power's "fault", the thermal registration
  function just needed a proper const annotation, which is also done by
  a small commit on top of the merge.

  So, to sum this up:
   - The 'master' branch of the battery tree was in the -next tree for
     weeks, was never rebased, altered etc.  It should be all OK;
   - Although, for-v3.6 tag contains the 'master' branch + merge + the
     warning fix.

  [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/19/23
  [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/18/28"

* tag 'for-v3.6' of git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6: (23 commits)
  thermal: Constify 'type' argument for the registration routine
  olpc-battery: update CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN property for BYD LiFe batteries
  olpc-battery: Add VOLTAGE_MAX_DESIGN property
  charger-manager: Fix build break related to EXTCON
  lp8727_charger: Move header file into platform_data directory
  power_supply: Add min/max alert properties for CAPACITY, TEMP, TEMP_AMBIENT
  bq27x00_battery: Add support for BQ27425 chip
  charger-manager: Set current limit of regulator for over current protection
  charger-manager: Use EXTCON Subsystem to detect charger cables for charging
  test_power: Add VOLTAGE_NOW and BATTERY_TEMP properties
  test_power: Add support for USB AC source
  gpio-charger: Use cansleep version of gpio_set_value
  bq27x00_battery: Add support for power average and health properties
  sbs-battery: Don't trigger false supply_changed event
  twl4030_charger: Allow charger to control the regulator that feeds it
  twl4030_charger: Add backup-battery charging
  twl4030_charger: Fix some typos
  max17042_battery: Support CHARGE_COUNTER power supply attribute
  smb347-charger: Add constant charge and current properties
  power_supply: Add constant charge_current and charge_voltage properties
  ...
2012-07-31 18:08:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bca1a5c0ea Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes are Intel Nehalem-EX PMU uncore support, uprobes
  updates/cleanups/fixes from Oleg and diverse tooling updates (mostly
  fixes) now that Arnaldo is back from vacation."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  uprobes: __replace_page() needs munlock_vma_page()
  uprobes: Rename vma_address() and make it return "unsigned long"
  uprobes: Fix register_for_each_vma()->vma_address() check
  uprobes: Introduce vaddr_to_offset(vma, vaddr)
  uprobes: Teach build_probe_list() to consider the range
  uprobes: Remove insert_vm_struct()->uprobe_mmap()
  uprobes: Remove copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap()
  uprobes: Fix overflow in vma_address()/find_active_uprobe()
  uprobes: Suppress uprobe_munmap() from mmput()
  uprobes: Uprobe_mmap/munmap needs list_for_each_entry_safe()
  uprobes: Clean up and document write_opcode()->lock_page(old_page)
  uprobes: Kill write_opcode()->lock_page(new_page)
  uprobes: __replace_page() should not use page_address_in_vma()
  uprobes: Don't recheck vma/f_mapping in write_opcode()
  perf/x86: Fix missing struct before structure name
  perf/x86: Fix format definition of SNB-EP uncore QPI box
  perf/x86: Make bitfield unsigned
  perf/x86: Fix LLC-* and node-* events on Intel SandyBridge
  perf/x86: Add Intel Nehalem-EX uncore support
  perf/x86: Fix typo in format definition of uncore PCU filter
  ...
2012-07-31 15:34:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ec7a19bfec Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Kumar sent me a handful of Freescale related fixes and I added another
  regression fix to the pile.

  PS.  I -will- eventually learn about that signed tag business :-)"

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/kvm/book3s_32: Fix MTMSR_EERI macro
  powerpc/85xx: p1022ds: fix DIU/LBC switching with NAND enabled
  powerpc/85xx: p1022ds: disable the NAND flash node if video is enabled
  powerpc/85xx: Fix sram_offset parameter type
  powerpc/85xx: P3041DS - change espi input-clock from 40MHz to 35MHz
  powerpc/85xx: Fix pci base address error for p2020rdb-pc in dts
2012-07-31 15:33:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 26847fa6eb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "This it the second batch of s390 patches for the 3.6 merge window.
  Included is enablement for two common code changes, killable page
  faults and sorted exception tables.  And the regular set of cleanup
  and bug fix patches."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390: make use of user_mode() macro where possible
  s390/mm: rename user_mode variable to addressing_mode
  s390/mm: fix fault handling for page table walk case
  s390/mm: make page faults killable
  s390: update defconfig
  s390/mm: downgrade page table after fork of a 31 bit process
  s390/ipl: Use diagnose 8 command separation
  s390/linker script: use RO_DATA_SECTION
  s390/exceptions: sort exception table at build time
  s390/debug: remove module_exit function / move EXPORT_SYMBOLs
2012-07-31 15:32:05 -07:00
David S. Miller caacf05e5a ipv4: Properly purge netdev references on uncached routes.
When a device is unregistered, we have to purge all of the
references to it that may exist in the entire system.

If a route is uncached, we currently have no way of accomplishing
this.

So create a global list that is scanned when a network device goes
down.  This mirrors the logic in net/core/dst.c's dst_ifdown().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-31 15:06:50 -07:00
David S. Miller c5038a8327 ipv4: Cache routes in nexthop exception entries.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-31 15:02:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 08843b79fb Merge branch 'nfsd-next' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
Pull nfsd changes from J. Bruce Fields:
 "This has been an unusually quiet cycle--mostly bugfixes and cleanup.
  The one large piece is Stanislav's work to containerize the server's
  grace period--but that in itself is just one more step in a
  not-yet-complete project to allow fully containerized nfs service.

  There are a number of outstanding delegation, container, v4 state, and
  gss patches that aren't quite ready yet; 3.7 may be wilder."

* 'nfsd-next' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (35 commits)
  NFSd: make boot_time variable per network namespace
  NFSd: make grace end flag per network namespace
  Lockd: move grace period management from lockd() to per-net functions
  LockD: pass actual network namespace to grace period management functions
  LockD: manage grace list per network namespace
  SUNRPC: service request network namespace helper introduced
  NFSd: make nfsd4_manager allocated per network namespace context.
  LockD: make lockd manager allocated per network namespace
  LockD: manage grace period per network namespace
  Lockd: add more debug to host shutdown functions
  Lockd: host complaining function introduced
  LockD: manage used host count per networks namespace
  LockD: manage garbage collection timeout per networks namespace
  LockD: make garbage collector network namespace aware.
  LockD: mark host per network namespace on garbage collect
  nfsd4: fix missing fault_inject.h include
  locks: move lease-specific code out of locks_delete_lock
  locks: prevent side-effects of locks_release_private before file_lock is initialized
  NFSd: set nfsd_serv to NULL after service destruction
  NFSd: introduce nfsd_destroy() helper
  ...
2012-07-31 14:42:28 -07:00
Eric Dumazet d26b3a7c4b ipv4: percpu nh_rth_output cache
Input path is mostly run under RCU and doesnt touch dst refcnt

But output path on forwarding or UDP workloads hits
badly dst refcount, and we have lot of false sharing, for example
in ipv4_mtu() when reading rt->rt_pmtu

Using a percpu cache for nh_rth_output gives a nice performance
increase at a small cost.

24 udpflood test on my 24 cpu machine (dummy0 output device)
(each process sends 1.000.000 udp frames, 24 processes are started)

before : 5.24 s
after : 2.06 s
For reference, time on linux-3.5 : 6.60 s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-31 14:41:39 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 54764bb647 ipv4: Restore old dst_free() behavior.
commit 404e0a8b6a (net: ipv4: fix RCU races on dst refcounts) tried
to solve a race but added a problem at device/fib dismantle time :

We really want to call dst_free() as soon as possible, even if sockets
still have dst in their cache.
dst_release() calls in free_fib_info_rcu() are not welcomed.

Root of the problem was that now we also cache output routes (in
nh_rth_output), we must use call_rcu() instead of call_rcu_bh() in
rt_free(), because output route lookups are done in process context.

Based on feedback and initial patch from David Miller (adding another
call_rcu_bh() call in fib, but it appears it was not the right fix)

I left the inet_sk_rx_dst_set() helper and added __rcu attributes
to nh_rth_output and nh_rth_input to better document what is going on in
this code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-31 14:41:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds cc8362b1f6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client
Pull Ceph changes from Sage Weil:
 "Lots of stuff this time around:

   - lots of cleanup and refactoring in the libceph messenger code, and
     many hard to hit races and bugs closed as a result.
   - lots of cleanup and refactoring in the rbd code from Alex Elder,
     mostly in preparation for the layering functionality that will be
     coming in 3.7.
   - some misc rbd cleanups from Josh Durgin that are finally going
     upstream
   - support for CRUSH tunables (used by newer clusters to improve the
     data placement)
   - some cleanup in our use of d_parent that Al brought up a while back
   - a random collection of fixes across the tree

  There is another patch coming that fixes up our ->atomic_open()
  behavior, but I'm going to hammer on it a bit more before sending it."

Fix up conflicts due to commits that were already committed earlier in
drivers/block/rbd.c, net/ceph/{messenger.c, osd_client.c}

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (132 commits)
  rbd: create rbd_refresh_helper()
  rbd: return obj version in __rbd_refresh_header()
  rbd: fixes in rbd_header_from_disk()
  rbd: always pass ops array to rbd_req_sync_op()
  rbd: pass null version pointer in add_snap()
  rbd: make rbd_create_rw_ops() return a pointer
  rbd: have __rbd_add_snap_dev() return a pointer
  libceph: recheck con state after allocating incoming message
  libceph: change ceph_con_in_msg_alloc convention to be less weird
  libceph: avoid dropping con mutex before fault
  libceph: verify state after retaking con lock after dispatch
  libceph: revoke mon_client messages on session restart
  libceph: fix handling of immediate socket connect failure
  ceph: update MAINTAINERS file
  libceph: be less chatty about stray replies
  libceph: clear all flags on con_close
  libceph: clean up con flags
  libceph: replace connection state bits with states
  libceph: drop unnecessary CLOSED check in socket state change callback
  libceph: close socket directly from ceph_con_close()
  ...
2012-07-31 14:35:28 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab adfe1560de [media] radio-tea5777: use library for 64bits div
drivers/built-in.o: In function `radio_tea5777_set_freq':
radio-tea5777.c:(.text+0x4d8704): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2012-07-31 18:24:44 -03:00
Jeff Layton ad0fcd4eb6 nfs: explicitly reject LOCK_MAND flock() requests
We have no mechanism to emulate LOCK_MAND locks on NFSv4, so explicitly
return -EINVAL if someone requests it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-07-31 14:42:20 -04:00
NeilBrown b042414feb nfs: increase number of permitted callback connections.
By default a sunrpc service is limited to (N+3)*20 connections
where N is the number of threads.  This is 80 when N==1.
If this number is exceeded a warning is printed suggesting that
the number of threads be increased.  However with services which
run a single thread, this is impossible.

For such services there is a ->sv_maxconn setting that can be
used to forcibly increase the limit, and silence the message.
This is used by lockd.

The nfs client uses a sunrpc service to handle callbacks and
it too is single-threaded, so to avoid the useless messages,
and to allow a reasonable number of concurrent connections,
we need to set ->sv_maxconn.  1024 seems like a good number.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-07-31 12:33:29 -04:00
Alex Williamson 89e1f7d4c6 vfio: Add PCI device driver
Add PCI device support for VFIO.  PCI devices expose regions
for accessing config space, I/O port space, and MMIO areas
of the device.  PCI config access is virtualized in the kernel,
allowing us to ensure the integrity of the system, by preventing
various accesses while reducing duplicate support across various
userspace drivers.  I/O port supports read/write access while
MMIO also supports mmap of sufficiently sized regions.  Support
for INTx, MSI, and MSI-X interrupts are provided using eventfds to
userspace.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-07-31 08:16:24 -06:00
Alex Williamson 73fa0d10d0 vfio: Type1 IOMMU implementation
This VFIO IOMMU backend is designed primarily for AMD-Vi and Intel
VT-d hardware, but is potentially usable by anything supporting
similar mapping functionality.  We arbitrarily call this a Type1
backend for lack of a better name.  This backend has no IOVA
or host memory mapping restrictions for the user and is optimized
for relatively static mappings.  Mapped areas are pinned into system
memory.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-07-31 08:16:23 -06:00
Alex Williamson 4a5b2a20ec vfio: Add documentation
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-07-31 08:16:23 -06:00
Alex Williamson cba3345cc4 vfio: VFIO core
VFIO is a secure user level driver for use with both virtual machines
and user level drivers.  VFIO makes use of IOMMU groups to ensure the
isolation of devices in use, allowing unprivileged user access.  It's
intended that VFIO will replace KVM device assignment and UIO drivers
(in cases where the target platform includes a sufficiently capable
IOMMU).

New in this version of VFIO is support for IOMMU groups managed
through the IOMMU core as well as a rework of the API, removing the
group merge interface.  We now go back to a model more similar to
original VFIO with UIOMMU support where the file descriptor obtained
from /dev/vfio/vfio allows access to the IOMMU, but only after a
group is added, avoiding the previous privilege issues with this type
of model.  IOMMU support is also now fully modular as IOMMUs have
vastly different interface requirements on different platforms.  VFIO
users are able to query and initialize the IOMMU model of their
choice.

Please see the follow-on Documentation commit for further description
and usage example.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-07-31 08:16:22 -06:00