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2016-01-15Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - A few hotfixes which missed 4.4 becasue I was asleep. cc'ed to -stable - A few misc fixes - OCFS2 updates - Part of MM. Including pretty large changes to page-flags handling and to thp management which have been buffered up for 2-3 cycles now. I have a lot of MM material this time. [ It turns out the THP part wasn't quite ready, so that got dropped from this series - Linus ] * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (117 commits) zsmalloc: reorganize struct size_class to pack 4 bytes hole mm/zbud.c: use list_last_entry() instead of list_tail_entry() zram/zcomp: do not zero out zcomp private pages zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() zram/zcomp: use GFP_NOIO to allocate streams mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages drivers/base/memory.c: fix kernel warning during memory hotplug on ppc64 mm/page_isolation: use macro to judge the alignment mm: fix noisy sparse warning in LIBCFS_ALLOC_PRE() mm: rework virtual memory accounting include/linux/memblock.h: fix ordering of 'flags' argument in comments mm: move lru_to_page to mm_inline.h Documentation/filesystems: describe the shared memory usage/accounting memory-hotplug: don't BUG() in register_memory_resource() hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly non-modular mm/swapfile.c: use list_for_each_entry_safe in free_swap_count_continuations mm: /proc/pid/clear_refs: no need to clear VM_SOFTDIRTY in clear_soft_dirty_pmd() mm: make sure isolate_lru_page() is never called for tail page vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle ...
2016-01-15zsmalloc: reorganize struct size_class to pack 4 bytes holeWeijie Yang
Reoder the pages_per_zspage field in struct size_class which can eliminate the 4 bytes hole between it and stats field. Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15mm/zbud.c: use list_last_entry() instead of list_tail_entry()Geliang Tang
list_last_entry*( has been defined in list.h, so replace list_tail_entry() with it. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs fix from Al Viro: "Don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: Make sure that highmem pages are not added to symlink page cache
2016-01-14mm: add tracepoint for scanning pagesEbru Akagunduz
This patch series makes swapin readahead up to a certain number to gain more thp performance and adds tracepoint for khugepaged_scan_pmd, collapse_huge_page, __collapse_huge_page_isolate. This patch series was written to deal with programs that access most, but not all, of their memory after they get swapped out. Currently these programs do not get their memory collapsed into THPs after the system swapped their memory out, while they would get THPs before swapping happened. This patch series was tested with a test program, it allocates 400MB of memory, writes to it, and then sleeps. I force the system to swap out all. Afterwards, the test program touches the area by writing and leaves a piece of it without writing. This shows how much swap in readahead made by the patch. Test results: After swapped out ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Anonymous | AnonHugePages | Swap | Fraction | ------------------------------------------------------------------- With patch | 90076 kB | 88064 kB | 309928 kB | %99 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- Without patch | 194068 kB | 192512 kB | 205936 kB | %99 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- After swapped in ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Anonymous | AnonHugePages | Swap | Fraction | ------------------------------------------------------------------- With patch | 201408 kB | 198656 kB | 198596 kB | %98 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- Without patch | 292624 kB | 192512 kB | 107380 kB | %65 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- This patch (of 3): Using static tracepoints, data of functions is recorded. It is good to automatize debugging without doing a lot of changes in the source code. This patch adds tracepoint for khugepaged_scan_pmd, collapse_huge_page and __collapse_huge_page_isolate. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: add a missing tab] Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/page_isolation: use macro to judge the alignmentNaoya Horiguchi
Signed-off-by: Wang Xiaoqiang <wangxq10@lzu.edu.cn> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: rework virtual memory accountingKonstantin Khlebnikov
When inspecting a vague code inside prctl(PR_SET_MM_MEM) call (which testing the RLIMIT_DATA value to figure out if we're allowed to assign new @start_brk, @brk, @start_data, @end_data from mm_struct) it's been commited that RLIMIT_DATA in a form it's implemented now doesn't do anything useful because most of user-space libraries use mmap() syscall for dynamic memory allocations. Linus suggested to convert RLIMIT_DATA rlimit into something suitable for anonymous memory accounting. But in this patch we go further, and the changes are bundled together as: * keep vma counting if CONFIG_PROC_FS=n, will be used for limits * replace mm->shared_vm with better defined mm->data_vm * account anonymous executable areas as executable * account file-backed growsdown/up areas as stack * drop struct file* argument from vm_stat_account * enforce RLIMIT_DATA for size of data areas This way code looks cleaner: now code/stack/data classification depends only on vm_flags state: VM_EXEC & ~VM_WRITE -> code (VmExe + VmLib in proc) VM_GROWSUP | VM_GROWSDOWN -> stack (VmStk) VM_WRITE & ~VM_SHARED & !stack -> data (VmData) The rest (VmSize - VmData - VmStk - VmExe - VmLib) could be called "shared", but that might be strange beast like readonly-private or VM_IO area. - RLIMIT_AS limits whole address space "VmSize" - RLIMIT_STACK limits stack "VmStk" (but each vma individually) - RLIMIT_DATA now limits "VmData" Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: move lru_to_page to mm_inline.hGeliang Tang
Move lru_to_page() from internal.h to mm_inline.h. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14memory-hotplug: don't BUG() in register_memory_resource()Vitaly Kuznetsov
Out of memory condition is not a bug and while we can't add new memory in such case crashing the system seems wrong. Propagating the return value from register_memory_resource() requires interface change. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@huawei.com> Cc: Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly non-modularPaul Gortmaker
The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: config HUGETLBFS bool "HugeTLB file system support" ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone. Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only. Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular case, the init ordering gets moved to earlier levels when we use the more appropriate initcalls here. Originally I had the fs part and the mm part as separate commits, just by happenstance of the nature of how I detected these non-modular use cases. But that can possibly introduce regressions if the patch merge ordering puts the fs part 1st -- as the 0-day testing reported a splat at mount time. Investigating with "initcall_debug" showed that the delta was init_hugetlbfs_fs being called _before_ hugetlb_init instead of after. So both the fs change and the mm change are here together. In addition, it worked before due to luck of link order, since they were both in the same initcall category. So we now have the fs part using fs_initcall, and the mm part using subsys_initcall, which puts it one bucket earlier. It now passes the basic sanity test that failed in earlier 0-day testing. We delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag and capture that information at the top of the file alongside author comments, etc. We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that. Also note that MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/swapfile.c: use list_for_each_entry_safe in free_swap_count_continuationsGeliang Tang
Use list_for_each_entry_safe() instead of list_for_each_safe() to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: make sure isolate_lru_page() is never called for tail pageKirill A. Shutemov
The VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() would catch such cases if any still exists. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idleChristoph Lameter
Currently the vmstat updater is not deferrable as a result of commit ba4877b9ca51 ("vmstat: do not use deferrable delayed work for vmstat_update"). This in turn can cause multiple interruptions of the applications because the vmstat updater may run at Make vmstate_update deferrable again and provide a function that folds the differentials when the processor is going to idle mode thus addressing the issue of the above commit in a clean way. Note that the shepherd thread will continue scanning the differentials from another processor and will reenable the vmstat workers if it detects any changes. Fixes: ba4877b9ca51 ("vmstat: do not use deferrable delayed work for vmstat_update") Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14memcg: avoid vmpressure oops when memcg disabledHugh Dickins
A CONFIG_MEMCG=y kernel booted with "cgroup_disable=memory" crashes on a NULL memcg (but non-NULL root_mem_cgroup) when vmpressure kicks in. Here's the patch I use to avoid that, but you might prefer a test on mem_cgroup_disabled() somewhere. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: switch to the updated jump-label APIJohannes Weiner
According to <linux/jump_label.h> the direct use of struct static_key is deprecated. Update the socket and slab accounting code accordingly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reported-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressureJohannes Weiner
Let the networking stack know when a memcg is under reclaim pressure so that it can clamp its transmit windows accordingly. Whenever the reclaim efficiency of a cgroup's LRU lists drops low enough for a MEDIUM or HIGH vmpressure event to occur, assert a pressure state in the socket and tcp memory code that tells it to curb consumption growth from sockets associated with said control group. Traditionally, vmpressure reports for the entire subtree of a memcg under pressure, which drops useful information on the individual groups reclaimed. However, it's too late to change the userinterface, so add a second reporting mode that reports on the level of reclaim instead of at the level of pressure, and use that report for sockets. vmpressure events are naturally edge triggered, so for hysteresis assert socket pressure for a second to allow for subsequent vmpressure events to occur before letting the socket code return to normal. This will likely need finetuning for a wider variety of workloads, but for now stick to the vmpressure presets and keep hysteresis simple. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: account socket memory in unified hierarchy memory controllerJohannes Weiner
Socket memory can be a significant share of overall memory consumed by common workloads. In order to provide reasonable resource isolation in the unified hierarchy, this type of memory needs to be included in the tracking/accounting of a cgroup under active memory resource control. Overhead is only incurred when a non-root control group is created AND the memory controller is instructed to track and account the memory footprint of that group. cgroup.memory=nosocket can be specified on the boot commandline to override any runtime configuration and forcibly exclude socket memory from active memory resource control. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: move socket code for unified hierarchy accountingJohannes Weiner
The unified hierarchy memory controller will account socket memory. Move the infrastructure functions accordingly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: do not account memory+swap on unified hierarchyJohannes Weiner
The unified hierarchy memory controller doesn't expose the memory+swap counter to userspace, but its accounting is hardcoded in all charge paths right now, including the per-cpu charge cache ("the stock"). To avoid adding yet more pointless memory+swap accounting with the socket memory support in unified hierarchy, disable the counter altogether when in unified hierarchy mode. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: generalize the socket accounting jump labelJohannes Weiner
The unified hierarchy memory controller is going to use this jump label as well to control the networking callbacks. Move it to the memory controller code and give it a more generic name. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14net: tcp_memcontrol: simplify linkage between socket and page counterJohannes Weiner
There won't be any separate counters for socket memory consumed by protocols other than TCP in the future. Remove the indirection and link sockets directly to their owning memory cgroup. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14net: tcp_memcontrol: sanitize tcp memory accounting callbacksJohannes Weiner
There won't be a tcp control soft limit, so integrating the memcg code into the global skmem limiting scheme complicates things unnecessarily. Replace this with simple and clear charge and uncharge calls--hidden behind a jump label--to account skb memory. Note that this is not purely aesthetic: as a result of shoehorning the per-memcg code into the same memory accounting functions that handle the global level, the old code would compare the per-memcg consumption against the smaller of the per-memcg limit and the global limit. This allowed the total consumption of multiple sockets to exceed the global limit, as long as the individual sockets stayed within bounds. After this change, the code will always compare the per-memcg consumption to the per-memcg limit, and the global consumption to the global limit, and thus close this loophole. Without a soft limit, the per-memcg memory pressure state in sockets is generally questionable. However, we did it until now, so we continue to enter it when the hard limit is hit, and packets are dropped, to let other sockets in the cgroup know that they shouldn't grow their transmit windows, either. However, keep it simple in the new callback model and leave memory pressure lazily when the next packet is accepted (as opposed to doing it synchroneously when packets are processed). When packets are dropped, network performance will already be in the toilet, so that should be a reasonable trade-off. As described above, consumption is now checked on the per-memcg level and the global level separately. Likewise, memory pressure states are maintained on both the per-memcg level and the global level, and a socket is considered under pressure when either level asserts as much. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14net: tcp_memcontrol: protect all tcp_memcontrol calls by jump-labelJohannes Weiner
Move the jump-label from sock_update_memcg() and sock_release_memcg() to the callsite, and so eliminate those function calls when socket accounting is not enabled. This also eliminates the need for dummy functions because the calls will be optimized away if the Kconfig options are not enabled. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: export root_mem_cgroupJohannes Weiner
A later patch will need this symbol in files other than memcontrol.c, so export it now and replace mem_cgroup_root_css at the same time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/ksm.c: use list_for_each_entry_safeGeliang Tang
Use list_for_each_entry_safe() instead of list_for_each_safe() to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/readahead.c, mm/vmscan.c: use lru_to_page instead of list_to_pageGeliang Tang
list_to_page() in readahead.c is the same as lru_to_page() in vmscan.c. So I move lru_to_page to internal.h and drop list_to_page(). Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/compaction.c: __compact_pgdat() code cleanuupJoonsoo Kim
This patch uses is_via_compact_memory() to distinguish compaction from sysfs or sysctl. And, this patch also reduces indentation on compaction_defer_reset() by filtering these cases first before checking watermark. There is no functional change. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/swapfile.c: use list_{next,first}_entryGeliang Tang
To make the intention clearer, use list_{next,first}_entry instead of list_entry(). Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/memblock: introduce for_each_memblock_type()Alexander Kuleshov
We already have the for_each_memblock() macro in <linux/memblock.h> which provides ability to iterate over memblock regions of a known type. The for_each_memblock() macro allows us to pass the pointer to the struct memblock_type, instead we need to pass name of the type. This patch introduces a new macro for_each_memblock_type() which allows us iterate over memblock regions with the given type when the type is unknown. Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/memblock: remove rgnbase and rgnsize variablesAlexander Kuleshov
Remove rgnbase and rgnsize variables from memblock_overlaps_region(). We use these variables only for passing to the memblock_addrs_overlap() function and that's all. Let's remove them. Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm, oom: give __GFP_NOFAIL allocations access to memory reservesMichal Hocko
__GFP_NOFAIL is a big hammer used to ensure that the allocation request can never fail. This is a strong requirement and as such it also deserves a special treatment when the system is OOM. The primary problem here is that the allocation request might have come with some locks held and the oom victim might be blocked on the same locks. This is basically an OOM deadlock situation. This patch tries to reduce the risk of such a deadlocks by giving __GFP_NOFAIL allocations a special treatment and let them dive into memory reserves after oom killer invocation. This should help them to make a progress and release resources they are holding. The OOM victim should compensate for the reserves consumption. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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>
2016-01-14mm/page_alloc.c: use list_for_each_entry in mark_free_pages()Geliang Tang
Use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each + list_entry to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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>
2016-01-14mm/page_alloc.c: use list_{first,last}_entry instead of list_entryGeliang Tang
To make the intention clearer, use list_{first,last}_entry instead of list_entry. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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>
2016-01-14mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary parameter from __rmqueueMel Gorman
Commit 0aaa29a56e4f ("mm, page_alloc: reserve pageblocks for high-order atomic allocations on demand") added an unnecessary and unused parameter to __rmqueue. It was a parameter that was used in an earlier version of the patch and then left behind. This patch cleans it up. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: page_alloc: generalize the dirty balance reserveJohannes Weiner
The dirty balance reserve that dirty throttling has to consider is merely memory not available to userspace allocations. There is nothing writeback-specific about it. Generalize the name so that it's reusable outside of that context. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: allow GFP_{FS,IO} for page_cache_read page cache allocationMichal Hocko
page_cache_read has been historically using page_cache_alloc_cold to allocate a new page. This means that mapping_gfp_mask is used as the base for the gfp_mask. Many filesystems are setting this mask to GFP_NOFS to prevent from fs recursion issues. page_cache_read is called from the vm_operations_struct::fault() context during the page fault. This context doesn't need the reclaim protection normally. ceph and ocfs2 which call filemap_fault from their fault handlers seem to be OK because they are not taking any fs lock before invoking generic implementation. xfs which takes XFS_MMAPLOCK_SHARED is safe from the reclaim recursion POV because this lock serializes truncate and punch hole with the page faults and it doesn't get involved in the reclaim. There is simply no reason to deliberately use a weaker allocation context when a __GFP_FS | __GFP_IO can be used. The GFP_NOFS protection might be even harmful. There is a push to fail GFP_NOFS allocations rather than loop within allocator indefinitely with a very limited reclaim ability. Once we start failing those requests the OOM killer might be triggered prematurely because the page cache allocation failure is propagated up the page fault path and end up in pagefault_out_of_memory. We cannot play with mapping_gfp_mask directly because that would be racy wrt. parallel page faults and it might interfere with other users who really rely on NOFS semantic from the stored gfp_mask. The mask is also inode proper so it would even be a layering violation. What we can do instead is to push the gfp_mask into struct vm_fault and allow fs layer to overwrite it should the callback need to be called with a different allocation context. Initialize the default to (mapping_gfp_mask | __GFP_FS | __GFP_IO) because this should be safe from the page fault path normally. Why do we care about mapping_gfp_mask at all then? Because this doesn't hold only reclaim protection flags but it also might contain zone and movability restrictions (GFP_DMA32, __GFP_MOVABLE and others) so we have to respect those. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/compaction: improve comment for compact_memory tunable knob handlerYaowei Bai
sysctl_compaction_handler() is the handler function for compact_memory tunable knob under /proc/sys/vm, add the missing knob name to make this more accurate in comment. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: mmap: add new /proc tunable for mmap_base ASLRDaniel Cashman
Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) provides a barrier to exploitation of user-space processes in the presence of security vulnerabilities by making it more difficult to find desired code/data which could help an attack. This is done by adding a random offset to the location of regions in the process address space, with a greater range of potential offset values corresponding to better protection/a larger search-space for brute force, but also to greater potential for fragmentation. The offset added to the mmap_base address, which provides the basis for the majority of the mappings for a process, is set once on process exec in arch_pick_mmap_layout() and is done via hard-coded per-arch values, which reflect, hopefully, the best compromise for all systems. The trade-off between increased entropy in the offset value generation and the corresponding increased variability in address space fragmentation is not absolute, however, and some platforms may tolerate higher amounts of entropy. This patch introduces both new Kconfig values and a sysctl interface which may be used to change the amount of entropy used for offset generation on a system. The direct motivation for this change was in response to the libstagefright vulnerabilities that affected Android, specifically to information provided by Google's project zero at: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/09/stagefrightened.html The attack presented therein, by Google's project zero, specifically targeted the limited randomness used to generate the offset added to the mmap_base address in order to craft a brute-force-based attack. Concretely, the attack was against the mediaserver process, which was limited to respawning every 5 seconds, on an arm device. The hard-coded 8 bits used resulted in an average expected success rate of defeating the mmap ASLR after just over 10 minutes (128 tries at 5 seconds a piece). With this patch, and an accompanying increase in the entropy value to 16 bits, the same attack would take an average expected time of over 45 hours (32768 tries), which makes it both less feasible and more likely to be noticed. The introduced Kconfig and sysctl options are limited by per-arch minimum and maximum values, the minimum of which was chosen to match the current hard-coded value and the maximum of which was chosen so as to give the greatest flexibility without generating an invalid mmap_base address, generally a 3-4 bits less than the number of bits in the user-space accessible virtual address space. When decided whether or not to change the default value, a system developer should consider that mmap_base address could be placed anywhere up to 2^(value) bits away from the non-randomized location, which would introduce variable-sized areas above and below the mmap_base address such that the maximum vm_area_struct size may be reduced, preventing very large allocations. This patch (of 4): ASLR only uses as few as 8 bits to generate the random offset for the mmap base address on 32 bit architectures. This value was chosen to prevent a poorly chosen value from dividing the address space in such a way as to prevent large allocations. This may not be an issue on all platforms. Allow the specification of a minimum number of bits so that platforms desiring greater ASLR protection may determine where to place the trade-off. Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@google.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com> Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/mmap.c: remove incorrect MAP_FIXED flag comparison from mmap_regionPiotr Kwapulinski
The following flag comparison in mmap_region makes no sense: if (!(vm_flags & MAP_FIXED)) return -ENOMEM; The condition is always false and thus the above "return -ENOMEM" is never executed. The vm_flags must not be compared with MAP_FIXED flag. The vm_flags may only be compared with VM_* flags. MAP_FIXED has the same value as VM_MAYREAD. Hitting the rlimit is a slow path and find_vma_intersection should realize that there is no overlapping VMA for !MAP_FIXED case pretty quickly. Signed-off-by: Piotr Kwapulinski <kwapulinski.piotr@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm, vmscan: consider isolated pages in zone_reclaimable_pagesMichal Hocko
zone_reclaimable_pages counts how many pages are reclaimable in the given zone. This currently includes all pages on file lrus and anon lrus if there is an available swap storage. We do not consider NR_ISOLATED_{ANON,FILE} counters though which is not correct because these counters reflect temporarily isolated pages which are still reclaimable because they either get back to their LRU or get freed either by the page reclaim or page migration. The number of these pages might be sufficiently high to confuse users of zone_reclaimable_pages (e.g. mbind can migrate large ranges of memory at once). Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14memcg: do not allow to disable tcp accounting after limit is setVladimir Davydov
There are two bits defined for cg_proto->flags - MEMCG_SOCK_ACTIVATED and MEMCG_SOCK_ACTIVE - both are set in tcp_update_limit, but the former is never cleared while the latter can be cleared by unsetting the limit. This allows to disable tcp socket accounting for new sockets after it was enabled by writing -1 to memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes while still guaranteeing that memcg_socket_limit_enabled static key will be decremented on memcg destruction. This functionality looks dubious, because it is not clear what a use case would be. By enabling tcp accounting a user accepts the price. If they then find the performance degradation unacceptable, they can always restart their workload with tcp accounting disabled. It does not seem there is any need to flip it while the workload is running. Besides, it contradicts to how kmem accounting API works: writing whatever to memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes enables kmem accounting for the cgroup in question, after which it cannot be disabled. Therefore one might expect that writing -1 to memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes just enables socket accounting w/o limiting it, which might be useful by itself, but it isn't true. Since this API peculiarity is not documented anywhere, I propose to drop it. This will allow to simplify the code by dropping cg_proto->flags. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14vmscan: do not force-scan file lru if its absolute size is smallVladimir Davydov
We assume there is enough inactive page cache if the size of inactive file lru is greater than the size of active file lru, in which case we force-scan file lru ignoring anonymous pages. While this logic works fine when there are plenty of page cache pages, it fails if the size of file lru is small (several MB): in this case (lru_size >> prio) will be 0 for normal scan priorities, as a result, if inactive file lru happens to be larger than active file lru, anonymous pages of a cgroup will never get evicted unless the system experiences severe memory pressure, even if there are gigabytes of unused anonymous memory there, which is unfair in respect to other cgroups, whose workloads might be page cache oriented. This patch attempts to fix this by elaborating the "enough inactive page cache" check: it makes it not only check that inactive lru size > active lru size, but also that we will scan something from the cgroup at the current scan priority. If these conditions do not hold, we proceed to SCAN_FRACT as usual. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm, vmalloc: remove VM_VPAGESDavid Rientjes
VM_VPAGES is unnecessary, it's easier to check is_vmalloc_addr() when reading /proc/vmallocinfo. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove VM_VPAGES reference via kvfree()] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm, thp: use list_first_entry_or_null()Geliang Tang
Simplify the code with list_first_entry_or_null(). Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm, shmem: add internal shmem resident memory accountingJerome Marchand
Currently looking at /proc/<pid>/status or statm, there is no way to distinguish shmem pages from pages mapped to a regular file (shmem pages are mapped to /dev/zero), even though their implication in actual memory use is quite different. The internal accounting currently counts shmem pages together with regular files. As a preparation to extend the userspace interfaces, this patch adds MM_SHMEMPAGES counter to mm_rss_stat to account for shmem pages separately from MM_FILEPAGES. The next patch will expose it to userspace - this patch doesn't change the exported values yet, by adding up MM_SHMEMPAGES to MM_FILEPAGES at places where MM_FILEPAGES was used before. The only user-visible change after this patch is the OOM killer message that separates the reported "shmem-rss" from "file-rss". [vbabka@suse.cz: forward-porting, tweak changelog] Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm, proc: reduce cost of /proc/pid/smaps for unpopulated shmem mappingsVlastimil Babka
Following the previous patch, further reduction of /proc/pid/smaps cost is possible for private writable shmem mappings with unpopulated areas where the page walk invokes the .pte_hole function. We can use radix tree iterator for each such area instead of calling find_get_entry() in a loop. This is possible at the extra maintenance cost of introducing another shmem function shmem_partial_swap_usage(). To demonstrate the diference, I have measured this on a process that creates a private writable 2GB mapping of a partially swapped out /dev/shm/file (which cannot employ the optimizations from the prvious patch) and doesn't populate it at all. I time how long does it take to cat /proc/pid/smaps of this process 100 times. Before this patch: real 0m3.831s user 0m0.180s sys 0m3.212s After this patch: real 0m1.176s user 0m0.180s sys 0m0.684s The time is similar to the case where a radix tree iterator is employed on the whole mapping. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm, proc: reduce cost of /proc/pid/smaps for shmem mappingsVlastimil Babka
The previous patch has improved swap accounting for shmem mapping, which however made /proc/pid/smaps more expensive for shmem mappings, as we consult the radix tree for each pte_none entry, so the overal complexity is O(n*log(n)). We can reduce this significantly for mappings that cannot contain COWed pages, because then we can either use the statistics tha shmem object itself tracks (if the mapping contains the whole object, or the swap usage of the whole object is zero), or use the radix tree iterator, which is much more effective than repeated find_get_entry() calls. This patch therefore introduces a function shmem_swap_usage(vma) and makes /proc/pid/smaps use it when possible. Only for writable private mappings of shmem objects (i.e. tmpfs files) with the shmem object itself (partially) swapped outwe have to resort to the find_get_entry() approach. Hopefully such mappings are relatively uncommon. To demonstrate the diference, I have measured this on a process that creates a 2GB mapping and dirties single pages with a stride of 2MB, and time how long does it take to cat /proc/pid/smaps of this process 100 times. Private writable mapping of a /dev/shm/file (the most complex case): real 0m3.831s user 0m0.180s sys 0m3.212s Shared mapping of an almost full mapping of a partially swapped /dev/shm/file (which needs to employ the radix tree iterator). real 0m1.351s user 0m0.096s sys 0m0.768s Same, but with /dev/shm/file not swapped (so no radix tree walk needed) real 0m0.935s user 0m0.128s sys 0m0.344s Private anonymous mapping: real 0m0.949s user 0m0.116s sys 0m0.348s The cost is now much closer to the private anonymous mapping case, unless the shmem mapping is private and writable. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/mmzone.c: memmap_valid_within() can be booleanYaowei Bai
Make memmap_valid_within return bool due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its return value. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/vmalloc.c: use list_{next,first}_entryGeliang Tang
To make the intention clearer, use list_{next,first}_entry instead of list_entry. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm/page_alloc.c: do not loop over ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS without triggering reclaimMichal Hocko
__alloc_pages_slowpath is looping over ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS requests if __GFP_NOFAIL is requested. This is fragile because we are basically relying on somebody else to make the reclaim (be it the direct reclaim or OOM killer) for us. The caller might be holding resources (e.g. locks) which block other other reclaimers from making any progress for example. Remove the retry loop and rely on __alloc_pages_slowpath to invoke all allowed reclaim steps and retry logic. We have to be careful about __GFP_NOFAIL allocations from the PF_MEMALLOC context even though this is a very bad idea to begin with because no progress can be gurateed at all. We shouldn't break the __GFP_NOFAIL semantic here though. It could be argued that this is essentially GFP_NOWAIT context which we do not support but PF_MEMALLOC is much harder to check for existing users because they might happen deep down the code path performed much later after setting the flag so we cannot really rule out there is no kernel path triggering this combination. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>