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2016-05-20raxix-tree: introduce CONFIG_RADIX_TREE_MULTIORDERMatthew Wilcox
I've been receiving increasingly concerned notes from 0day about how much my recent changes have been bloating the radix tree. Make it happier by only including multiorder support if CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES is set. This is an independent Kconfig option, so other radix tree users can also set it if they have a need. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20z3fold: the 3-fold allocator for compressed pagesVitaly Wool
This patch introduces z3fold, a special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical page. It is a ZBUD derivative which allows for higher compression ratio keeping the simplicity and determinism of its predecessor. This patch comes as a follow-up to the discussions at the Embedded Linux Conference in San-Diego related to the talk [1]. The outcome of these discussions was that it would be good to have a compressed page allocator as stable and deterministic as zbud with with higher compression ratio. To keep the determinism and simplicity, z3fold, just like zbud, always stores an integral number of compressed pages per page, but it can store up to 3 pages unlike zbud which can store at most 2. Therefore the compression ratio goes to around 2.6x while zbud's one is around 1.7x. The patch is based on the latest linux.git tree. This version has been updated after testing on various simulators (e.g. ARM Versatile Express, MIPS Malta, x86_64/Haswell) and basing on comments from Dan Streetman [3]. [1] https://openiotelc2016.sched.org/event/6DAC/swapping-and-embedded-compression-relieves-the-pressure-vitaly-wool-softprise-consulting-ou [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/21/799 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/4/852 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160509151753.ec3f9fda3c9898d31ff52a32@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19memory_hotplug: introduce CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINEVitaly Kuznetsov
This patchset continues the work I started with commit 31bc3858ea3e ("memory-hotplug: add automatic onlining policy for the newly added memory"). Initially I was going to stop there and bring the policy setting logic to userspace. I met two issues on this way: 1) It is possible to have memory hotplugged at boot (e.g. with QEMU). These blocks stay offlined if we turn the onlining policy on by userspace. 2) My attempt to bring this policy setting to systemd failed, systemd maintainers suggest to change the default in kernel or ... to use tmpfiles.d to alter the policy (which looks like a hack to me): https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2938 Here I suggest to add a config option to set the default value for the policy and a kernel command line parameter to make the override. This patch (of 2): Introduce config option to set the default value for memory hotplug onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks). The reason one would want to turn this option on are to have early onlining for hotpluggable memory available at boot and to not require any userspace actions to make memory hotplug work. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak Kconfig text] Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA_FLAGYang Shi
Now we have IS_ENABLED helper to check if a Kconfig option is enabled or not, so ZONE_DMA_FLAG sounds no longer useful. And, the use of ZONE_DMA_FLAG in slab looks pointless according to the comment [1] from Johannes Weiner, so remove them and ORing passed in flags with the cache gfp flags has been done in kmem_getpages(). [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/25/553 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462381297-11009-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-20Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar: "This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys). There's a background article at LWN.net: https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/ The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of user-controllable permission masks in the pte. So instead of having a fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of) protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected virtual memory range. This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions. It also allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that below). This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys - if a user-space application calls: mmap(..., PROT_EXEC); or mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC); (note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice this special case, and will set a special protection key on this memory range. It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable and unwritable. So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true' PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies PROT_READ as well. Unreadable executable mappings have security advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either. We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion. There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this pull request. Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature (CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled (like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment. If there's any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or flip the default" * 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits) x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey() mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits() x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error() mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling ...
2016-03-17mm: ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAPDan Williams
The primary use case for devm_memremap_pages() is to allocate an memmap array from persistent memory. That capabilty requires vmem_altmap which requires SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. Also, without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the addition of ZONE_DEVICE expands ZONES_WIDTH and triggers the: "Unfortunate NUMA and NUMA Balancing config, growing page-frame for last_cpupid." ...warning in mm/memory.c. SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n && ZONE_DEVICE=y is not a configuration we should worry about supporting. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> 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>
2016-03-17mm: exclude ZONE_DEVICE from GFP_ZONE_TABLEDan Williams
ZONE_DEVICE (merged in 4.3) and ZONE_CMA (proposed) are examples of new mm zones that are bumping up against the current maximum limit of 4 zones, i.e. 2 bits in page->flags for the GFP_ZONE_TABLE. The GFP_ZONE_TABLE poses an interesting constraint since include/linux/gfp.h gets included by the 32-bit portion of a 64-bit build. We need to be careful to only build the table for zones that have a corresponding gfp_t flag. GFP_ZONES_SHIFT is introduced for this purpose. This patch does not attempt to solve the problem of adding a new zone that also has a corresponding GFP_ flag. Vlastimil points out that ZONE_DEVICE, by depending on x86_64 and SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP implies that SECTIONS_WIDTH is zero. In other words even though ZONE_DEVICE does not fit in GFP_ZONE_TABLE it is free to consume another bit in page->flags (expand ZONES_WIDTH) with room to spare. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110931 Fixes: 033fbae988fc ("mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reported-by: Mark <markk@clara.co.uk> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17mm/Kconfig: remove redundant arch depend for memory hotplugYang Shi
MEMORY_HOTPLUG already depends on ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG which is selected by the supported architectures, so the following arch depend is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-18mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey()Dave Hansen
The syscall-level code is passed a protection key and need to return an appropriate error code if the protection key is bogus. We will be using this in subsequent patches. Note that this also begins a series of arch-specific calls that we need to expose in otherwise arch-independent code. We create a linux/pkeys.h header where we will put *all* the stubs for these functions. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210232.774EEAAB@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-18mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Store protection bits in high VMA flagsDave Hansen
vma->vm_flags is an 'unsigned long', so has space for 32 flags on 32-bit architectures. The high 32 bits are unused on 64-bit platforms. We've steered away from using the unused high VMA bits for things because we would have difficulty supporting it on 32-bit. Protection Keys are not available in 32-bit mode, so there is no concern about supporting this feature in 32-bit mode or on 32-bit CPUs. This patch carves out 4 bits from the high half of vma->vm_flags and allows architectures to set config option to make them available. Sparse complains about these constants unless we explicitly call them "UL". Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210208.81AF00D5@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-05mm/Kconfig: correct description of DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INITVlastimil Babka
The description mentions kswapd threads, while the deferred struct page initialization is actually done by one-off "pgdatinitX" threads. Fix the description so that potentially users are not confused about pgdatinit threads using CPU after boot instead of kswapd. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06mm: make compound_head() robustKirill A. Shutemov
Hugh has pointed that compound_head() call can be unsafe in some context. There's one example: CPU0 CPU1 isolate_migratepages_block() page_count() compound_head() !!PageTail() == true put_page() tail->first_page = NULL head = tail->first_page alloc_pages(__GFP_COMP) prep_compound_page() tail->first_page = head __SetPageTail(p); !!PageTail() == true <head == NULL dereferencing> The race is pure theoretical. I don't it's possible to trigger it in practice. But who knows. We can fix the race by changing how encode PageTail() and compound_head() within struct page to be able to update them in one shot. The patch introduces page->compound_head into third double word block in front of compound_dtor and compound_order. Bit 0 encodes PageTail() and the rest bits are pointer to head page if bit zero is set. The patch moves page->pmd_huge_pte out of word, just in case if an architecture defines pgtable_t into something what can have the bit 0 set. hugetlb_cgroup uses page->lru.next in the second tail page to store pointer struct hugetlb_cgroup. The patch switch it to use page->private in the second tail page instead. The space is free since ->first_page is removed from the union. The patch also opens possibility to remove HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER limitation, since there's now space in first tail page to store struct hugetlb_cgroup pointer. But that's out of scope of the patch. That means page->compound_head shares storage space with: - page->lru.next; - page->next; - page->rcu_head.next; That's too long list to be absolutely sure, but looks like nobody uses bit 0 of the word. page->rcu_head.next guaranteed[1] to have bit 0 clean as long as we use call_rcu(), call_rcu_bh(), call_rcu_sched(), or call_srcu(). But future call_rcu_lazy() is not allowed as it makes use of the bit and we can get false positive PageTail(). [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150827163634.GD4029@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-11Merge tag 'media/v4.3-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: "A series of patches that move part of the code used to allocate memory from the media subsystem to the mm subsystem" [ The mm parts have been acked by VM people, and the series was apparently in -mm for a while - Linus ] * tag 'media/v4.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: [media] drm/exynos: Convert g2d_userptr_get_dma_addr() to use get_vaddr_frames() [media] media: vb2: Remove unused functions [media] media: vb2: Convert vb2_dc_get_userptr() to use frame vector [media] media: vb2: Convert vb2_vmalloc_get_userptr() to use frame vector [media] media: vb2: Convert vb2_dma_sg_get_userptr() to use frame vector [media] vb2: Provide helpers for mapping virtual addresses [media] media: omap_vout: Convert omap_vout_uservirt_to_phys() to use get_vaddr_pfns() [media] mm: Provide new get_vaddr_frames() helper [media] vb2: Push mmap_sem down to memops
2015-09-10mm: introduce idle page trackingVladimir Davydov
Knowing the portion of memory that is not used by a certain application or memory cgroup (idle memory) can be useful for partitioning the system efficiently, e.g. by setting memory cgroup limits appropriately. Currently, the only means to estimate the amount of idle memory provided by the kernel is /proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps}: the user can clear the access bit for all pages mapped to a particular process by writing 1 to clear_refs, wait for some time, and then count smaps:Referenced. However, this method has two serious shortcomings: - it does not count unmapped file pages - it affects the reclaimer logic To overcome these drawbacks, this patch introduces two new page flags, Idle and Young, and a new sysfs file, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap. A page's Idle flag can only be set from userspace by setting bit in /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap at the offset corresponding to the page, and it is cleared whenever the page is accessed either through page tables (it is cleared in page_referenced() in this case) or using the read(2) system call (mark_page_accessed()). Thus by setting the Idle flag for pages of a particular workload, which can be found e.g. by reading /proc/PID/pagemap, waiting for some time to let the workload access its working set, and then reading the bitmap file, one can estimate the amount of pages that are not used by the workload. The Young page flag is used to avoid interference with the memory reclaimer. A page's Young flag is set whenever the Access bit of a page table entry pointing to the page is cleared by writing to the bitmap file. If page_referenced() is called on a Young page, it will add 1 to its return value, therefore concealing the fact that the Access bit was cleared. Note, since there is no room for extra page flags on 32 bit, this feature uses extended page flags when compiled on 32 bit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: kpageidle requires an MMU] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: decouple from page-flags rework] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-08Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has appeared in a linux-next release. The changes outside of the typical drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages(). Summary: - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the kernel's direct map. This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page() operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in 'struct block_device_operations'). For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes from "System RAM". Support for allocating the memmap from device memory will arrive in a later kernel. - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and ioremap_wt(). memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects. The replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3. Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4. - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping. - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as cacheable to improve performance. - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal 'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor fixes" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits) libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB add devm_memremap_pages mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory" mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h dax: drop size parameter to ->direct_access() nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree() pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem() pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem() pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option pmem: switch to devm_ allocations devres: add devm_memremap libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid ...
2015-08-27mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"Dan Williams
While pmem is usable as a block device or via DAX mappings to userspace there are several usage scenarios that can not target pmem due to its lack of struct page coverage. In preparation for "hot plugging" pmem into the vmemmap add ZONE_DEVICE as a new zone to tag these pages separately from the ones that are subject to standard page allocations. Importantly "device memory" can be removed at will by userspace unbinding the driver of the device. Having a separate zone prevents allocation and otherwise marks these pages that are distinct from typical uniform memory. Device memory has different lifetime and performance characteristics than RAM. However, since we have run out of ZONES_SHIFT bits this functionality currently depends on sacrificing ZONE_DMA. Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com> [hch: various simplifications in the arch interface] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-08-16[media] mm: Provide new get_vaddr_frames() helperJan Kara
Provide new function get_vaddr_frames(). This function maps virtual addresses from given start and fills given array with page frame numbers of the corresponding pages. If given start belongs to a normal vma, the function grabs reference to each of the pages to pin them in memory. If start belongs to VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP vma, we don't touch page structures. Caller must make sure pfns aren't reused for anything else while he is using them. This function is created for various drivers to simplify handling of their buffers. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
2015-07-23mm/Kconfig: NEED_BOUNCE_POOL: clean-up conditionValentin Rothberg
commit 106542e7987c ("fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver") removed ext3 and JBD, hence remove the superfluous condition. Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
2015-06-30mm: meminit: initialise a subset of struct pages if ↵Mel Gorman
CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set This patch initalises all low memory struct pages and 2G of the highest zone on each node during memory initialisation if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set. That config option cannot be set but will be available in a later patch. Parallel initialisation of struct page depends on some features from memory hotplug and it is necessary to alter alter section annotations. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Tested-by: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Tested-by: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com> Cc: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24tracing: add trace event for memory-failureXie XiuQi
RAS user space tools like rasdaemon which base on trace event, could receive mce error event, but no memory recovery result event. So, I want to add this event to make this scenario complete. This patch add a event at ras group for memory-failure. The output like below: # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2 #P:24 # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | mce-inject-13150 [001] .... 277.019359: memory_failure_event: pfn 0x19869: recovery action for free buddy page: Delayed [xiexiuqi@huawei.com: fix build error] Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14mm: cma: debugfs interfaceSasha Levin
I've noticed that there is no interfaces exposed by CMA which would let me fuzz what's going on in there. This small patchset exposes some information out to userspace, plus adds the ability to trigger allocation and freeing from userspace. This patch (of 3): Implement a simple debugfs interface to expose information about CMA areas in the system. Useful for testing/sanity checks for CMA since it was impossible to previously retrieve this information in userspace. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-19Merge branch 'kconfig' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek: "Yann E Morin was supposed to take over kconfig maintainership, but this hasn't happened. So I'm sending a few kconfig patches that I collected: - Fix for missing va_end in kconfig - merge_config.sh displays used if given too few arguments - s/boolean/bool/ in Kconfig files for consistency, with the plan to only support bool in the future" * 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: kconfig: use va_end to match corresponding va_start merge_config.sh: Display usage if given too few arguments kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes
2015-02-12mm/zsmalloc: add statistics supportGanesh Mahendran
Keeping fragmentation of zsmalloc in a low level is our target. But now we still need to add the debug code in zsmalloc to get the quantitative data. This patch adds a new configuration CONFIG_ZSMALLOC_STAT to enable the statistics collection for developers. Currently only the objects statatitics in each class are collected. User can get the information via debugfs. cat /sys/kernel/debug/zsmalloc/zram0/... For example: After I copied "jdk-8u25-linux-x64.tar.gz" to zram with ext4 filesystem: class size obj_allocated obj_used pages_used 0 32 0 0 0 1 48 256 12 3 2 64 64 14 1 3 80 51 7 1 4 96 128 5 3 5 112 73 5 2 6 128 32 4 1 7 144 0 0 0 8 160 0 0 0 9 176 0 0 0 10 192 0 0 0 11 208 0 0 0 12 224 0 0 0 13 240 0 0 0 14 256 16 1 1 15 272 15 9 1 16 288 0 0 0 17 304 0 0 0 18 320 0 0 0 19 336 0 0 0 20 352 0 0 0 21 368 0 0 0 22 384 0 0 0 23 400 0 0 0 24 416 0 0 0 25 432 0 0 0 26 448 0 0 0 27 464 0 0 0 28 480 0 0 0 29 496 33 1 4 30 512 0 0 0 31 528 0 0 0 32 544 0 0 0 33 560 0 0 0 34 576 0 0 0 35 592 0 0 0 36 608 0 0 0 37 624 0 0 0 38 640 0 0 0 40 672 0 0 0 42 704 0 0 0 43 720 17 1 3 44 736 0 0 0 46 768 0 0 0 49 816 0 0 0 51 848 0 0 0 52 864 14 1 3 54 896 0 0 0 57 944 13 1 3 58 960 0 0 0 62 1024 4 1 1 66 1088 15 2 4 67 1104 0 0 0 71 1168 0 0 0 74 1216 0 0 0 76 1248 0 0 0 83 1360 3 1 1 91 1488 11 1 4 94 1536 0 0 0 100 1632 5 1 2 107 1744 0 0 0 111 1808 9 1 4 126 2048 4 4 2 144 2336 7 3 4 151 2448 0 0 0 168 2720 15 15 10 190 3072 28 27 21 202 3264 0 0 0 254 4096 36209 36209 36209 Total 37022 36326 36288 We can calculate the overall fragentation by the last line: Total 37022 36326 36288 (37022 - 36326) / 37022 = 1.87% Also by analysing objects alocated in every class we know why we got so low fragmentation: Most of the allocated objects is in <class 254>. And there is only 1 page in class 254 zspage. So, No fragmentation will be introduced by allocating objs in class 254. And in future, we can collect other zsmalloc statistics as we need and analyse them. Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-07kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributesChristoph Jaeger
Support for keyword 'boolean' will be dropped later on. No functional change. Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.com Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <cj@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-01-06rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCUPranith Kumar
SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable. The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making use of SRCU are selected. If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all. text data bss dec hex filename 2007 0 0 2007 7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from text data bss dec hex filename 831552 64180 23944 919676 e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before 829504 64180 23952 917636 e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after so the savings are about ~2000 bytes. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]
2014-10-09mm/balloon_compaction: add vmstat counters and kpageflags bitKonstantin Khlebnikov
Always mark pages with PageBalloon even if balloon compaction is disabled and expose this mark in /proc/kpageflags as KPF_BALLOON. Also this patch adds three counters into /proc/vmstat: "balloon_inflate", "balloon_deflate" and "balloon_migrate". They accumulate balloon activity. Current size of balloon is (balloon_inflate - balloon_deflate) pages. All generic balloon code now gathered under option CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON. It should be selected by ballooning driver which wants use this feature. Currently virtio-balloon is the only user. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@samsung.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-09mm: introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast()Steve Capper
This series implements general forms of get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast in core code and activates them for arm and arm64. These are required for Transparent HugePages to function correctly, as a futex on a THP tail will otherwise result in an infinite loop (due to the core implementation of __get_user_pages_fast always returning 0). Unfortunately, a futex on THP tail can be quite common for certain workloads; thus THP is unreliable without a __get_user_pages_fast implementation. This series may also be beneficial for direct-IO heavy workloads and certain KVM workloads. This patch (of 6): get_user_pages_fast() attempts to pin user pages by walking the page tables directly and avoids taking locks. Thus the walker needs to be protected from page table pages being freed from under it, and needs to block any THP splits. One way to achieve this is to have the walker disable interrupts, and rely on IPIs from the TLB flushing code blocking before the page table pages are freed. On some platforms we have hardware broadcast of TLB invalidations, thus the TLB flushing code doesn't necessarily need to broadcast IPIs; and spuriously broadcasting IPIs can hurt system performance if done too often. This problem has been solved on PowerPC and Sparc by batching up page table pages belonging to more than one mm_user, then scheduling an rcu_sched callback to free the pages. This RCU page table free logic has been promoted to core code and is activated when one enables HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE. Unfortunately, these architectures implement their own get_user_pages_fast routines. The RCU page table free logic coupled with an IPI broadcast on THP split (which is a rare event), allows one to protect a page table walker by merely disabling the interrupts during the walk. This patch provides a general RCU implementation of get_user_pages_fast that can be used by architectures that perform hardware broadcast of TLB invalidations. It is based heavily on the PowerPC implementation by Nick Piggin. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various comment fixes] Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06mm/zpool: update zswap to use zpoolDan Streetman
Change zswap to use the zpool api instead of directly using zbud. Add a boot-time param to allow selecting which zpool implementation to use, with zbud as the default. Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Tested-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06mm/zpool: implement common zpool api to zbud/zsmallocDan Streetman
Add zpool api. zpool provides an interface for memory storage, typically of compressed memory. Users can select what backend to use; currently the only implementations are zbud, a low density implementation with up to two compressed pages per storage page, and zsmalloc, a higher density implementation with multiple compressed pages per storage page. Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Tested-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06CMA: generalize CMA reserved area management functionalityJoonsoo Kim
Currently, there are two users on CMA functionality, one is the DMA subsystem and the other is the KVM on powerpc. They have their own code to manage CMA reserved area even if they looks really similar. From my guess, it is caused by some needs on bitmap management. KVM side wants to maintain bitmap not for 1 page, but for more size. Eventually it use bitmap where one bit represents 64 pages. When I implement CMA related patches, I should change those two places to apply my change and it seem to be painful to me. I want to change this situation and reduce future code management overhead through this patch. This change could also help developer who want to use CMA in their new feature development, since they can use CMA easily without copying & pasting this reserved area management code. In previous patches, we have prepared some features to generalize CMA reserved area management and now it's time to do it. This patch moves core functions to mm/cma.c and change DMA APIs to use these functions. There is no functional change in DMA APIs. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Acked-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mm/zsmalloc: make zsmalloc module-buildableMinchan Kim
Now, we can build zsmalloc as module because unmap_kernel_range was exported. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mm/process_vm_access: move config option into init/KconfigKonstantin Khlebnikov
CONFIG_CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH adds couple syscalls: process_vm_readv and process_vm_writev, it's a kind of IPC for copying data between processes. Currently this option is placed inside "Processor type and features". This patch moves it into "General setup" (where all other arch-independed syscalls and ipc features are placed) and changes prompt string to less cryptic. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64Naoya Horiguchi
Currently hugepage migration is available for all archs which support pmd-level hugepage, but testing is done only for x86_64 and there're bugs for other archs. So to avoid breaking such archs, this patch limits the availability strictly to x86_64 until developers of other archs get interested in enabling this feature. Simply disabling hugepage migration on non-x86_64 archs is not enough to fix the reported problem where sys_move_pages() hits the BUG_ON() in follow_page(FOLL_GET), so let's fix this by checking if hugepage migration is supported in vma_migratable(). Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.12+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-05-20mm/memblock: add physical memory listPhilipp Hachtmann
Add the physmem list to the memblock structure. This list only exists if HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP is selected and contains the unmodified list of physically available memory. It differs from the memblock memory list as it always contains all memory ranges even if the memory has been restricted, e.g. by use of the mem= kernel parameter. Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2014-05-15parisc,metag: Do not hardcode maximum userspace stack sizeHelge Deller
This patch affects only architectures where the stack grows upwards (currently parisc and metag only). On those do not hardcode the maximum initial stack size to 1GB for 32-bit processes, but make it configurable via a config option. The main problem with the hardcoded stack size is, that we have two memory regions which grow upwards: stack and heap. To keep most of the memory available for heap in a flexmap memory layout, it makes no sense to hard allocate up to 1GB of the memory for stack which can't be used as heap then. This patch makes the stack size for 32-bit processes configurable and uses 80MB as default value which has been in use during the last few years on parisc and which hasn't showed any problems yet. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
2014-04-07mm: create generic early_ioremap() supportMark Salter
This patch creates a generic implementation of early_ioremap() support based on the existing x86 implementation. early_ioremp() is useful for early boot code which needs to temporarily map I/O or memory regions before normal mapping functions such as ioremap() are available. Some architectures have optional MMU. In the no-MMU case, the remap functions simply return the passed in physical address and the unmap functions do nothing. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07mm: disable split page table lock for !MMUKirill A. Shutemov
There's no reason to enable split page table lock if don't have page tables. It also triggers build error at least on ARM since we don't define pmd_page() for !MMU. In file included from arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:0: include/linux/mm.h: In function 'pte_lockptr': include/linux/mm.h:1392:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'pmd_page' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] include/linux/mm.h:1392:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'ptlock_ptr' makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default] include/linux/mm.h:1384:27: note: expected 'struct page *' but argument is of type 'int' Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-10mm/Kconfig: fix URL for zsmalloc benchmarkBen Hutchings
The help text for CONFIG_PGTABLE_MAPPING has an incorrect URL. While we're at it, remove the unnecessary footnote notation. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30zsmalloc: move it under mmMinchan Kim
This patch moves zsmalloc under mm directory. Before that, description will explain why we have needed custom allocator. Zsmalloc is a new slab-based memory allocator for storing compressed pages. It is designed for low fragmentation and high allocation success rate on large object, but <= PAGE_SIZE allocations. zsmalloc differs from the kernel slab allocator in two primary ways to achieve these design goals. zsmalloc never requires high order page allocations to back slabs, or "size classes" in zsmalloc terms. Instead it allows multiple single-order pages to be stitched together into a "zspage" which backs the slab. This allows for higher allocation success rate under memory pressure. Also, zsmalloc allows objects to span page boundaries within the zspage. This allows for lower fragmentation than could be had with the kernel slab allocator for objects between PAGE_SIZE/2 and PAGE_SIZE. With the kernel slab allocator, if a page compresses to 60% of it original size, the memory savings gained through compression is lost in fragmentation because another object of the same size can't be stored in the leftover space. This ability to span pages results in zsmalloc allocations not being directly addressable by the user. The user is given an non-dereferencable handle in response to an allocation request. That handle must be mapped, using zs_map_object(), which returns a pointer to the mapped region that can be used. The mapping is necessary since the object data may reside in two different noncontigious pages. The zsmalloc fulfills the allocation needs for zram perfectly [sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: borrow Seth's quote] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-12-18mm: add missing dependency in KconfigSima Baymani
Eliminate the following (rand)config warning by adding missing PROC_FS dependency: warning: (HWPOISON_INJECT && MEM_SOFT_DIRTY) selects PROC_PAGE_MONITOR which has unmet direct dependencies (PROC_FS && MMU) Signed-off-by: Sima Baymani <sima.baymani@gmail.com> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
2013-11-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text mm: update 00-INDEX doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half' Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers' doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures treewide: fix "usefull" typo treewide: fix "distingush" typo mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/ kexec: Typo s/the/then/ Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi treewide: Fix common typo in "identify" __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment Correct some typos for word frequency clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo ...
2013-11-15mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct pageKirill A. Shutemov
If split page table lock is in use, we embed the lock into struct page of table's page. We have to disable split lock, if spinlock_t is too big be to be embedded, like when DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC enabled. This patch add support for dynamic allocation of split page table lock if we can't embed it to struct page. page->ptl is unsigned long now and we use it as spinlock_t if sizeof(spinlock_t) <= sizeof(long), otherwise it's pointer to spinlock_t. The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_page_ctor() for PTE table and in pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() for PMD table. All other helpers converted to support dynamically allocated page->ptl. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15mm: implement split page table lock for PMD levelKirill A. Shutemov
The basic idea is the same as with PTE level: the lock is embedded into struct page of table's page. We can't use mm->pmd_huge_pte to store pgtables for THP, since we don't take mm->page_table_lock anymore. Let's reuse page->lru of table's page for that. pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() returns true, if initialization is successful and false otherwise. Current implementation never fails, but assumption that constructor can fail will help to port it to -rt where spinlock_t is rather huge and cannot be embedded into struct page -- dynamic allocation is required. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15mm: avoid increase sizeof(struct page) due to split page table lockKirill A. Shutemov
Alex Thorlton noticed that some massively threaded workloads work poorly, if THP enabled. This patchset fixes this by introducing split page table lock for PMD tables. hugetlbfs is not covered yet. This patchset is based on work by Naoya Horiguchi. : akpm result summary: : : THP off, v3.12-rc2: 18.059261877 seconds time elapsed : THP off, patched: 16.768027318 seconds time elapsed : : THP on, v3.12-rc2: 42.162306788 seconds time elapsed : THP on, patched: 8.397885779 seconds time elapsed : : HUGETLB, v3.12-rc2: 47.574936948 seconds time elapsed : HUGETLB, patched: 19.447481153 seconds time elapsed THP off, v3.12-rc2: ------------------- Performance counter stats for './thp_memscale -c 80 -b 512m' (5 runs): 1037072.835207 task-clock # 57.426 CPUs utilized ( +- 3.59% ) 95,093 context-switches # 0.092 K/sec ( +- 3.93% ) 140 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 5.28% ) 10,000,550 page-faults # 0.010 M/sec ( +- 0.00% ) 2,455,210,400,261 cycles # 2.367 GHz ( +- 3.62% ) [83.33%] 2,429,281,882,056 stalled-cycles-frontend # 98.94% frontend cycles idle ( +- 3.67% ) [83.33%] 1,975,960,019,659 stalled-cycles-backend # 80.48% backend cycles idle ( +- 3.88% ) [66.68%] 46,503,296,013 instructions # 0.02 insns per cycle # 52.24 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 3.21% ) [83.34%] 9,278,997,542 branches # 8.947 M/sec ( +- 4.00% ) [83.34%] 89,881,640 branch-misses # 0.97% of all branches ( +- 1.17% ) [83.33%] 18.059261877 seconds time elapsed ( +- 2.65% ) THP on, v3.12-rc2: ------------------ Performance counter stats for './thp_memscale -c 80 -b 512m' (5 runs): 3114745.395974 task-clock # 73.875 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.84% ) 267,356 context-switches # 0.086 K/sec ( +- 1.84% ) 99 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 1.40% ) 58,313 page-faults # 0.019 K/sec ( +- 0.28% ) 7,416,635,817,510 cycles # 2.381 GHz ( +- 1.83% ) [83.33%] 7,342,619,196,993 stalled-cycles-frontend # 99.00% frontend cycles idle ( +- 1.88% ) [83.33%] 6,267,671,641,967 stalled-cycles-backend # 84.51% backend cycles idle ( +- 2.03% ) [66.67%] 117,819,935,165 instructions # 0.02 insns per cycle # 62.32 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 4.39% ) [83.34%] 28,899,314,777 branches # 9.278 M/sec ( +- 4.48% ) [83.34%] 71,787,032 branch-misses # 0.25% of all branches ( +- 1.03% ) [83.33%] 42.162306788 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.73% ) HUGETLB, v3.12-rc2: ------------------- Performance counter stats for './thp_memscale_hugetlbfs -c 80 -b 512M' (5 runs): 2588052.787264 task-clock # 54.400 CPUs utilized ( +- 3.69% ) 246,831 context-switches # 0.095 K/sec ( +- 4.15% ) 138 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 5.30% ) 21,027 page-faults # 0.008 K/sec ( +- 0.01% ) 6,166,666,307,263 cycles # 2.383 GHz ( +- 3.68% ) [83.33%] 6,086,008,929,407 stalled-cycles-frontend # 98.69% frontend cycles idle ( +- 3.77% ) [83.33%] 5,087,874,435,481 stalled-cycles-backend # 82.51% backend cycles idle ( +- 4.41% ) [66.67%] 133,782,831,249 instructions # 0.02 insns per cycle # 45.49 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 4.30% ) [83.34%] 34,026,870,541 branches # 13.148 M/sec ( +- 4.24% ) [83.34%] 68,670,942 branch-misses # 0.20% of all branches ( +- 3.26% ) [83.33%] 47.574936948 seconds time elapsed ( +- 2.09% ) THP off, patched: ----------------- Performance counter stats for './thp_memscale -c 80 -b 512m' (5 runs): 943301.957892 task-clock # 56.256 CPUs utilized ( +- 3.01% ) 86,218 context-switches # 0.091 K/sec ( +- 3.17% ) 121 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 6.64% ) 10,000,551 page-faults # 0.011 M/sec ( +- 0.00% ) 2,230,462,457,654 cycles # 2.365 GHz ( +- 3.04% ) [83.32%] 2,204,616,385,805 stalled-cycles-frontend # 98.84% frontend cycles idle ( +- 3.09% ) [83.32%] 1,778,640,046,926 stalled-cycles-backend # 79.74% backend cycles idle ( +- 3.47% ) [66.69%] 45,995,472,617 instructions # 0.02 insns per cycle # 47.93 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 2.51% ) [83.34%] 9,179,700,174 branches # 9.731 M/sec ( +- 3.04% ) [83.35%] 89,166,529 branch-misses # 0.97% of all branches ( +- 1.45% ) [83.33%] 16.768027318 seconds time elapsed ( +- 2.47% ) THP on, patched: ---------------- Performance counter stats for './thp_memscale -c 80 -b 512m' (5 runs): 458793.837905 task-clock # 54.632 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.79% ) 41,831 context-switches # 0.091 K/sec ( +- 0.97% ) 98 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 1.66% ) 57,829 page-faults # 0.126 K/sec ( +- 0.62% ) 1,077,543,336,716 cycles # 2.349 GHz ( +- 0.81% ) [83.33%] 1,067,403,802,964 stalled-cycles-frontend # 99.06% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.87% ) [83.33%] 864,764,616,143 stalled-cycles-backend # 80.25% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.73% ) [66.68%] 16,129,177,440 instructions # 0.01 insns per cycle # 66.18 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 7.94% ) [83.35%] 3,618,938,569 branches # 7.888 M/sec ( +- 8.46% ) [83.36%] 33,242,032 branch-misses # 0.92% of all branches ( +- 2.02% ) [83.32%] 8.397885779 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.18% ) HUGETLB, patched: ----------------- Performance counter stats for './thp_memscale_hugetlbfs -c 80 -b 512M' (5 runs): 395353.076837 task-clock # 20.329 CPUs utilized ( +- 8.16% ) 55,730 context-switches # 0.141 K/sec ( +- 5.31% ) 138 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 4.24% ) 21,027 page-faults # 0.053 K/sec ( +- 0.00% ) 930,219,717,244 cycles # 2.353 GHz ( +- 8.21% ) [83.32%] 914,295,694,103 stalled-cycles-frontend # 98.29% frontend cycles idle ( +- 8.35% ) [83.33%] 704,137,950,187 stalled-cycles-backend # 75.70% backend cycles idle ( +- 9.16% ) [66.69%] 30,541,538,385 instructions # 0.03 insns per cycle # 29.94 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 3.98% ) [83.35%] 8,415,376,631 branches # 21.286 M/sec ( +- 3.61% ) [83.36%] 32,645,478 branch-misses # 0.39% of all branches ( +- 3.41% ) [83.32%] 19.447481153 seconds time elapsed ( +- 2.00% ) This patch (of 11): CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK increases sizeof(spinlock_t) to 8 bytes. It leads to increase sizeof(struct page) by 4 bytes on 32-bit system if split page table lock is in use, since page->ptl shares space in union with longs and pointers. Let's disable split page table lock on 32-bit systems with GENERIC_LOCKBREAK enabled. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13mem-hotplug: introduce movable_node boot optionTang Chen
The hot-Pluggable field in SRAT specifies which memory is hotpluggable. As we mentioned before, if hotpluggable memory is used by the kernel, it cannot be hot-removed. So memory hotplug users may want to set all hotpluggable memory in ZONE_MOVABLE so that the kernel won't use it. Memory hotplug users may also set a node as movable node, which has ZONE_MOVABLE only, so that the whole node can be hot-removed. But the kernel cannot use memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. By doing this, the kernel cannot use memory in movable nodes. This will cause NUMA performance down. And other users may be unhappy. So we need a way to allow users to enable and disable this functionality. In this patch, we introduce movable_node boot option to allow users to choose to not to consume hotpluggable memory at early boot time and later we can set it as ZONE_MOVABLE. To achieve this, the movable_node boot option will control the memblock allocation direction. That said, after memblock is ready, before SRAT is parsed, we should allocate memory near the kernel image as we explained in the previous patches. So if movable_node boot option is set, the kernel does the following: 1. After memblock is ready, make memblock allocate memory bottom up. 2. After SRAT is parsed, make memblock behave as default, allocate memory top down. Users can specify "movable_node" in kernel commandline to enable this functionality. For those who don't use memory hotplug or who don't want to lose their NUMA performance, just don't specify anything. The kernel will work as before. Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Suggested-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-14mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-10-03powerpc: Fix memory hotplug with sparse vmemmapNathan Fontenot
Previous commit 46723bfa540... introduced a new config option HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE that ended up breaking memory hot-remove for ppc when sparse vmemmap is not defined. This patch defines HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE for ppc and adds the call to register_page_bootmem_info_node. Without this we get a BUG_ON for memory hot remove in put_page_bootmem(). This also adds a stub for register_page_bootmem_memmap to allow ppc to build with sparse vmemmap defined. Leaving this as a stub is fine since the same vmemmap addresses are also handled in vmemmap_populate and as such are properly mapped. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.9+]
2013-09-12mm/Kconfig: add MMU dependency for MIGRATION.Chen Gang
MIGRATION must depend on MMU, or allmodconfig for the nommu sh architecture fails to build: CC mm/migrate.o mm/migrate.c: In function 'remove_migration_pte': mm/migrate.c:134:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'pmd_trans_huge' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) ^ mm/migrate.c:149:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'is_swap_pte' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] if (!is_swap_pte(pte)) ^ ... Also let CMA depend on MMU, or when NOMMU, if we select CMA, it will select MIGRATION by force. Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.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>
2013-08-29Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/next' into kvm-ppc-nextAlexander Graf
Conflicts: mm/Kconfig CMA DMA split and ZSWAP introduction were conflicting, fix up manually.
2013-07-10zswap: add to mm/Seth Jennings
zswap is a thin backend for frontswap that takes pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to compress them and store them in a RAM-based memory pool. This can result in a significant I/O reduction on the swap device and, in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than reading from the swap device, can also improve workload performance. It also has support for evicting swap pages that are currently compressed in zswap to the swap device on an LRU(ish) basis. This functionality makes zswap a true cache in that, once the cache is full, the oldest pages can be moved out of zswap to the swap device so newer pages can be compressed and stored in zswap. This patch adds the zswap driver to mm/ Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jenifer Hopper <jhopper@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>