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2016-07-26mm: introduce fault_envKirill A. Shutemov
The idea borrowed from Peter's patch from patchset on speculative page faults[1]: Instead of passing around the endless list of function arguments, replace the lot with a single structure so we can change context without endless function signature changes. The changes are mostly mechanical with exception of faultaround code: filemap_map_pages() got reworked a bit. This patch is preparation for the next one. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141020222841.302891540@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-9-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-24Revert "mm: make faultaround produce old ptes"Kirill A. Shutemov
This reverts commit 5c0a85fad949212b3e059692deecdeed74ae7ec7. The commit causes ~6% regression in unixbench. Let's revert it for now and consider other solution for reclaim problem later. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465893750-44080-2-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-26Merge tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm Pull DAX locking updates from Ross Zwisler: "Filesystem DAX locking for 4.7 - We use a bit in an exceptional radix tree entry as a lock bit and use it similarly to how page lock is used for normal faults. This fixes races between hole instantiation and read faults of the same index. - Filesystem DAX PMD faults are disabled, and will be re-enabled when PMD locking is implemented" * tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: dax: Remove i_mmap_lock protection dax: Use radix tree entry lock to protect cow faults dax: New fault locking dax: Allow DAX code to replace exceptional entries dax: Define DAX lock bit for radix tree exceptional entry dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN dax: Fix condition for filling of PMD holes
2016-05-20radix-tree: introduce radix_tree_replace_clear_tags()Matthew Wilcox
In addition to replacing the entry, we also clear all associated tags. This is really a one-off special for page_cache_tree_delete() which had far too much detailed knowledge about how the radix tree works. For efficiency, factor node_tag_clear() out of radix_tree_tag_clear() It can be used by radix_tree_delete_item() as well as radix_tree_replace_clear_tags(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@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> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20mm: make faultaround produce old ptesKirill A. Shutemov
Currently, faultaround code produces young pte. This can screw up vmscan behaviour[1], as it makes vmscan think that these pages are hot and not push them out on first round. During sparse file access faultaround gets more pages mapped and all of them are young. Under memory pressure, this makes vmscan swap out anon pages instead, or to drop other page cache pages which otherwise stay resident. Modify faultaround to produce old ptes, so they can easily be reclaimed under memory pressure. This can to some extend defeat the purpose of faultaround on machines without hardware accessed bit as it will not help us with reducing the number of minor page faults. We may want to disable faultaround on such machines altogether, but that's subject for separate patchset. Minchan: "I tested 512M mmap sequential word read test on non-HW access bit system (i.e., ARM) and confirmed it doesn't increase minor fault any more. old: 4096 fault_around minor fault: 131291 elapsed time: 6747645 usec new: 65536 fault_around minor fault: 131291 elapsed time: 6709263 usec 0.56% benefit" [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460992636-711-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463488366-47723-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20mm: filemap: only do access activations on readsJohannes Weiner
Andres observed that his database workload is struggling with the transaction journal creating pressure on frequently read pages. Access patterns like transaction journals frequently write the same pages over and over, but in the majority of cases those pages are never read back. There are no caching benefits to be had for those pages, so activating them and having them put pressure on pages that do benefit from caching is a bad choice. Leave page activations to read accesses and don't promote pages based on writes alone. It could be said that partially written pages do contain cache-worthy data, because even if *userspace* does not access the unwritten part, the kernel still has to read it from the filesystem for correctness. However, a counter argument is that these pages enjoy at least *some* protection over other inactive file pages through the writeback cache, in the sense that dirty pages are written back with a delay and cache reclaim leaves them alone until they have been written back to disk. Should that turn out to be insufficient and we see increased read IO from partial writes under memory pressure, we can always go back and update grab_cache_page_write_begin() to take (pos, len) so that it can tell partial writes from pages that don't need partial reads. But for now, keep it simple. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20mm: workingset: only do workingset activations on readsRik van Riel
This is a follow-up to http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg101739.html where Andres reported his database workingset being pushed out by the minimum size enforcement of the inactive file list - currently 50% of cache - as well as repeatedly written file pages that are never actually read. Two changes fell out of the discussions. The first change observes that pages that are only ever written don't benefit from caching beyond what the writeback cache does for partial page writes, and so we shouldn't promote them to the active file list where they compete with pages whose cached data is actually accessed repeatedly. This change comes in two patches - one for in-cache write accesses and one for refaults triggered by writes, neither of which should promote a cache page. Second, with the refault detection we don't need to set 50% of the cache aside for used-once cache anymore since we can detect frequently used pages even when they are evicted between accesses. We can allow the active list to be bigger and thus protect a bigger workingset that isn't challenged by streamers. Depending on the access patterns, this can increase major faults during workingset transitions for better performance during stable phases. This patch (of 3): When rewriting a page, the data in that page is replaced with new data. This means that evicting something else from the active file list, in order to cache data that will be replaced by something else, is likely to be a waste of memory. It is better to save the active list for frequently read pages, because reads actually use the data that is in the page. This patch ignores partial writes, because it is unclear whether the complexity of identifying those is worth any potential performance gain obtained from better caching pages that see repeated partial writes at large enough intervals to not get caught by the use-twice promotion code used for the inactive file list. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19mm/page_ref: use page_ref helper instead of direct modification of _countJoonsoo Kim
page_reference manipulation functions are introduced to track down reference count change of the page. Use it instead of direct modification of _count. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19dax: New fault lockingJan Kara
Currently DAX page fault locking is racy. CPU0 (write fault) CPU1 (read fault) __dax_fault() __dax_fault() get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped if (!buffer_mapped(&bh)) if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) get_block(inode, block, &bh, 1) -> allocates blocks if (page) -> no if (!buffer_mapped(&bh)) if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) { } else { dax_load_hole(); } dax_insert_mapping() And we are in a situation where we fail in dax_radix_entry() with -EIO. Another problem with the current DAX page fault locking is that there is no race-free way to clear dirty tag in the radix tree. We can always end up with clean radix tree and dirty data in CPU cache. We fix the first problem by introducing locking of exceptional radix tree entries in DAX mappings acting very similarly to page lock and thus synchronizing properly faults against the same mapping index. The same lock can later be used to avoid races when clearing radix tree dirty tag. Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
2016-05-19dax: Allow DAX code to replace exceptional entriesJan Kara
Currently we forbid page_cache_tree_insert() to replace exceptional radix tree entries for DAX inodes. However to make DAX faults race free we will lock radix tree entries and when hole is created, we need to replace such locked radix tree entry with a hole page. So modify page_cache_tree_insert() to allow that. Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
2016-05-01fs: simplify the generic_write_sync prototypeChristoph Hellwig
The kiocb already has the new position, so use that. The only interesting case is AIO, where we currently don't bother updating ki_pos. We're about to free the kiocb after we're done, so we might as well update it to make everyone's life simpler. While we're at it also return the bytes written argument passed in if we were successful so that the boilerplate error switch code in the callers can go away. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-01fs: add IOCB_SYNC and IOCB_DSYNCChristoph Hellwig
This will allow us to do per-I/O sync file writes, as required by a lot of fileservers or storage targets. XXX: Will need a few additional audits for O_DSYNC Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-01direct-io: eliminate the offset argument to ->direct_IOChristoph Hellwig
Including blkdev_direct_IO and dax_do_io. It has to be ki_pos to actually work, so eliminate the superflous argument. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-01filemap: remove the pos argument to generic_file_direct_writeChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-01filemap: remove pos variables in generic_file_read_iterChristoph Hellwig
Just use ki_pos directly to make everyones life easier. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-04-04mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macrosKirill A. Shutemov
PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE. This promise never materialized. And unlikely will. We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case, especially on the border between fs and mm. Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much breakage to be doable. Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are not. The changes are pretty straight-forward: - <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>; - <foo> >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>; - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN}; - page_cache_get() -> get_page(); - page_cache_release() -> put_page(); This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using script below. For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files. I've called spatch for them manually. The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later. There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach. I'll fix them manually in a separate patch. Comments and documentation also will be addressed with the separate patch. virtual patch @@ expression E; @@ - E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) + E @@ expression E; @@ - E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) + E @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT + PAGE_SHIFT @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_SIZE + PAGE_SIZE @@ @@ - PAGE_CACHE_MASK + PAGE_MASK @@ expression E; @@ - PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E) + PAGE_ALIGN(E) @@ expression E; @@ - page_cache_get(E) + get_page(E) @@ expression E; @@ - page_cache_release(E) + put_page(E) Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-25mm/filemap: generic_file_read_iter(): check for zero reads unconditionallyNicolai Stange
If - generic_file_read_iter() gets called with a zero read length, - the read offset is at a page boundary, - IOCB_DIRECT is not set - and the page in question hasn't made it into the page cache yet, then do_generic_file_read() will trigger a readahead with a req_size hint of zero. Since roundup_pow_of_two(0) is undefined, UBSAN reports UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in include/linux/log2.h:63:13 shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int' CPU: 3 PID: 1017 Comm: sa1 Tainted: G L 4.5.0-next-20160318+ #14 [...] Call Trace: [...] [<ffffffff813ef61a>] ondemand_readahead+0x3aa/0x3d0 [<ffffffff813ef61a>] ? ondemand_readahead+0x3aa/0x3d0 [<ffffffff813c73bd>] ? find_get_entry+0x2d/0x210 [<ffffffff813ef9c3>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x63/0xa0 [<ffffffff813cc04d>] do_generic_file_read+0x80d/0xf90 [<ffffffff813cc955>] generic_file_read_iter+0x185/0x420 [...] [<ffffffff81510b06>] __vfs_read+0x256/0x3d0 [...] when get_init_ra_size() gets called from ondemand_readahead(). The net effect is that the initial readahead size is arch dependent for requested read lengths of zero: for example, since 1UL << (sizeof(unsigned long) * 8) evaluates to 1 on x86 while its result is 0 on ARMv7, the initial readahead size becomes 4 on the former and 0 on the latter. What's more, whether or not the file access timestamp is updated for zero length reads is decided differently for the two cases of IOCB_DIRECT being set or cleared: in the first case, generic_file_read_iter() explicitly skips updating that timestamp while in the latter case, it is always updated through the call to do_generic_file_read(). According to POSIX, zero length reads "do not modify the last data access timestamp" and thus, the IOCB_DIRECT behaviour is POSIXly correct. Let generic_file_read_iter() unconditionally check the requested read length at its entry and return immediately with success if it is zero. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17mm: use radix_tree_iter_retry()Matthew Wilcox
Instead of a 'goto restart', we can now use radix_tree_iter_retry() to restart from our current position. This will make a difference when there are more ways to happen across an indirect pointer. And it eliminates some confusing gotos. [vbabka@suse.cz: remove now-obsolete-and-misleading comment] Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17radix_tree: add support for multi-order entriesMatthew Wilcox
With huge pages, it is convenient to have the radix tree be able to return an entry that covers multiple indices. Previous attempts to deal with the problem have involved inserting N duplicate entries, which is a waste of memory and leads to problems trying to handle aliased tags, or probing the tree multiple times to find alternative entries which might cover the requested index. This approach inserts one canonical entry into the tree for a given range of indices, and may also insert other entries in order to ensure that lookups find the canonical entry. This solution only tolerates inserting powers of two that are greater than the fanout of the tree. If we wish to expand the radix tree's abilities to support large-ish pages that is less than the fanout at the penultimate level of the tree, then we would need to add one more step in lookup to ensure that any sibling nodes in the final level of the tree are dereferenced and we return the canonical entry that they reference. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.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>
2016-03-15mm: remove unnecessary uses of lock_page_memcg()Johannes Weiner
There are several users that nest lock_page_memcg() inside lock_page() to prevent page->mem_cgroup from changing. But the page lock prevents pages from moving between cgroups, so that is unnecessary overhead. Remove lock_page_memcg() in contexts with locked contexts and fix the debug code in the page stat functions to be okay with the page lock. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15mm: simplify lock_page_memcg()Johannes Weiner
Now that migration doesn't clear page->mem_cgroup of live pages anymore, it's safe to make lock_page_memcg() and the memcg stat functions take pages, and spare the callers from memcg objects. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15mm: migrate: do not touch page->mem_cgroup of live pagesJohannes Weiner
Changing a page's memcg association complicates dealing with the page, so we want to limit this as much as possible. Page migration e.g. does not have to do that. Just like page cache replacement, it can forcibly charge a replacement page, and then uncharge the old page when it gets freed. Temporarily overcharging the cgroup by a single page is not an issue in practice, and charging is so cheap nowadays that this is much preferrable to the headache of messing with live pages. The only place that still changes the page->mem_cgroup binding of live pages is when pages move along with a task to another cgroup. But that path isolates the page from the LRU, takes the page lock, and the move lock (lock_page_memcg()). That means page->mem_cgroup is always stable in callers that have the page isolated from the LRU or locked. Lighter unlocked paths, like writeback accounting, can use lock_page_memcg(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [vdavydov@virtuozzo.com: fix lockdep splat] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.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>
2016-03-15mm: memcontrol: generalize locking for the page->mem_cgroup bindingJohannes Weiner
These patches tag the page cache radix tree eviction entries with the memcg an evicted page belonged to, thus making per-cgroup LRU reclaim work properly and be as adaptive to new cache workingsets as global reclaim already is. This should have been part of the original thrash detection patch series, but was deferred due to the complexity of those patches. This patch (of 5): So far the only sites that needed to exclude charge migration to stabilize page->mem_cgroup have been per-cgroup page statistics, hence the name mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(). But per-cgroup thrash detection will add another site that needs to ensure page->mem_cgroup lifetime. Rename these locking functions to the more generic lock_page_memcg() and unlock_page_memcg(). Since charge migration is a cgroup1 feature only, we might be able to delete it at some point, and these now easy to identify locking sites along with it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15mm: filemap: avoid unnecessary calls to lock_page when waiting for IO to ↵Mel Gorman
complete during a read In the generic read paths the kernel looks up a page in the page cache and if it's up to date, it is used. If not, the page lock is acquired to wait for IO to complete and then check the page. If multiple processes are waiting on IO, they all serialise against the lock and duplicate the checks. This is unnecessary. The page lock in itself does not give any guarantees to the callers about the page state as it can be immediately truncated or reclaimed after the page is unlocked. It's sufficient to wait_on_page_locked and then continue if the page is up to date on wakeup. It is possible that a truncated but up-to-date page is returned but the reference taken during read prevents it disappearing underneath the caller and the data is still valid if PageUptodate. The overall impact is small as even if processes serialise on the lock, the lock section is tiny once the IO is complete. Profiles indicated that unlock_page and friends are generally a tiny portion of a read-intensive workload. An artificial test was created that had instances of dd access a cache-cold file on an ext4 filesystem and measure how long the read took. paralleldd 4.4.0 4.4.0 vanilla avoidlock Amean Elapsd-1 5.28 ( 0.00%) 5.15 ( 2.50%) Amean Elapsd-4 5.29 ( 0.00%) 5.17 ( 2.12%) Amean Elapsd-7 5.28 ( 0.00%) 5.18 ( 1.78%) Amean Elapsd-12 5.20 ( 0.00%) 5.33 ( -2.50%) Amean Elapsd-21 5.14 ( 0.00%) 5.21 ( -1.41%) Amean Elapsd-30 5.30 ( 0.00%) 5.12 ( 3.38%) Amean Elapsd-48 5.78 ( 0.00%) 5.42 ( 6.21%) Amean Elapsd-79 6.78 ( 0.00%) 6.62 ( 2.46%) Amean Elapsd-110 9.09 ( 0.00%) 8.99 ( 1.15%) Amean Elapsd-128 10.60 ( 0.00%) 10.43 ( 1.66%) The impact is small but intuitively, it makes sense to avoid unnecessary calls to lock_page. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@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>
2016-03-15mm: filemap: remove redundant code in do_read_cache_pageMel Gorman
do_read_cache_page and __read_cache_page duplicate page filler code when filling the page for the first time. This patch simply removes the duplicate logic. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@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>
2016-03-09mm: __delete_from_page_cache show Bad page if mappedHugh Dickins
Commit e1534ae95004 ("mm: differentiate page_mapped() from page_mapcount() for compound pages") changed the famous BUG_ON(page_mapped(page)) in __delete_from_page_cache() to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapped(page)): which gives us more info when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y, but nothing at all when not. Although it has not usually been very helpul, being hit long after the error in question, we do need to know if it actually happens on users' systems; but reinstating a crash there is likely to be opposed :) In the non-debug case, pr_alert("BUG: Bad page cache") plus dump_page(), dump_stack(), add_taint() - I don't really believe LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE, but that seems to be the standard procedure now. Move that, or the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(), up before the deletion from tree: so that the unNULLified page->mapping gives a little more information. If the inode is being evicted (rather than truncated), it won't have any vmas left, so it's safe(ish) to assume that the raised mapcount is erroneous, and we can discount it from page_count to avoid leaking the page (I'm less worried by leaking the occasional 4kB, than losing a potential 2MB page with each 4kB page leaked). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-27dax: move writeback calls into the filesystemsRoss Zwisler
Previously calls to dax_writeback_mapping_range() for all DAX filesystems (ext2, ext4 & xfs) were centralized in filemap_write_and_wait_range(). dax_writeback_mapping_range() needs a struct block_device, and it used to get that from inode->i_sb->s_bdev. This is correct for normal inodes mounted on ext2, ext4 and XFS filesystems, but is incorrect for DAX raw block devices and for XFS real-time files. Instead, call dax_writeback_mapping_range() directly from the filesystem ->writepages function so that it can supply us with a valid block device. This also fixes DAX code to properly flush caches in response to sync(2). Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-11mm: fix filemap.c kernel doc warningRandy Dunlap
Add missing kernel-doc notation for function parameter 'gfp_mask' to fix kernel-doc warning. mm/filemap.c:1898: warning: No description found for parameter 'gfp_mask' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull final vfs updates from Al Viro: - The ->i_mutex wrappers (with small prereq in lustre) - a fix for too early freeing of symlink bodies on shmem (they need to be RCU-delayed) (-stable fodder) - followup to dedupe stuff merged this cycle * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: vfs: abort dedupe loop if fatal signals are pending make sure that freeing shmem fast symlinks is RCU-delayed wrappers for ->i_mutex access lustre: remove unused declaration
2016-01-22dax: add support for fsync/syncRoss Zwisler
To properly handle fsync/msync in an efficient way DAX needs to track dirty pages so it is able to flush them durably to media on demand. The tracking of dirty pages is done via the radix tree in struct address_space. This radix tree is already used by the page writeback infrastructure for tracking dirty pages associated with an open file, and it already has support for exceptional (non struct page*) entries. We build upon these features to add exceptional entries to the radix tree for DAX dirty PMD or PTE pages at fault time. [dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix dax_pmd_dbg build warning] Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-22mm: add find_get_entries_tag()Ross Zwisler
Add find_get_entries_tag() to the family of functions that include find_get_entries(), find_get_pages() and find_get_pages_tag(). This is needed for DAX dirty page handling because we need a list of both page offsets and radix tree entries ('indices' and 'entries' in this function) that are marked with the PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE tag. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-22dax: support dirty DAX entries in radix treeRoss Zwisler
Add support for tracking dirty DAX entries in the struct address_space radix tree. This tree is already used for dirty page writeback, and it already supports the use of exceptional (non struct page*) entries. In order to properly track dirty DAX pages we will insert new exceptional entries into the radix tree that represent dirty DAX PTE or PMD pages. These exceptional entries will also contain the writeback addresses for the PTE or PMD faults that we can use at fsync/msync time. There are currently two types of exceptional entries (shmem and shadow) that can be placed into the radix tree, and this adds a third. We rely on the fact that only one type of exceptional entry can be found in a given radix tree based on its usage. This happens for free with DAX vs shmem but we explicitly prevent shadow entries from being added to radix trees for DAX mappings. The only shadow entries that would be generated for DAX radix trees would be to track zero page mappings that were created for holes. These pages would receive minimal benefit from having shadow entries, and the choice to have only one type of exceptional entry in a given radix tree makes the logic simpler both in clear_exceptional_entry() and in the rest of DAX. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.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>
2016-01-22wrappers for ->i_mutex accessAl Viro
parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested}, inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex). Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle ->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held only shared. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-01-15mm: differentiate page_mapped() from page_mapcount() for compound pagesKirill A. Shutemov
Let's define page_mapped() to be true for compound pages if any sub-pages of the compound page is mapped (with PMD or PTE). On other hand page_mapcount() return mapcount for this particular small page. This will make cases like page_get_anon_vma() behave correctly once we allow huge pages to be mapped with PTE. Most users outside core-mm should use page_mapcount() instead of page_mapped(). Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15memcg: adjust to support new THP refcountingKirill A. Shutemov
As with rmap, with new refcounting we cannot rely on PageTransHuge() to check if we need to charge size of huge page form the cgroup. We need to get information from caller to know whether it was mapped with PMD or PTE. We do uncharge when last reference on the page gone. At that point if we see PageTransHuge() it means we need to unchange whole huge page. The tricky part is partial unmap -- when we try to unmap part of huge page. We don't do a special handing of this situation, meaning we don't uncharge the part of huge page unless last user is gone or split_huge_page() is triggered. In case of cgroup memory pressure happens the partial unmapped page will be split through shrinker. This should be good enough. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15page-flags: define PG_locked behavior on compound pagesKirill A. Shutemov
lock_page() must operate on the whole compound page. It doesn't make much sense to lock part of compound page. Change code to use head page's PG_locked, if tail page is passed. This patch also gets rid of custom helper functions -- __set_page_locked() and __clear_page_locked(). They are replaced with helpers generated by __SETPAGEFLAG/__CLEARPAGEFLAG. Tail pages to these helper would trigger VM_BUG_ON(). SLUB uses PG_locked as a bit spin locked. IIUC, tail pages should never appear there. VM_BUG_ON() is added to make sure that this assumption is correct. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/cifs/file.c] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.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>
2015-11-06mm, fs: introduce mapping_gfp_constraint()Michal Hocko
There are many places which use mapping_gfp_mask to restrict a more generic gfp mask which would be used for allocations which are not directly related to the page cache but they are performed in the same context. Let's introduce a helper function which makes the restriction explicit and easier to track. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIMMel Gorman
__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing __GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the wrong flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing them prevents it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05mm: rename mem_cgroup_migrate to mem_cgroup_replace_pageHugh Dickins
After v4.3's commit 0610c25daa3e ("memcg: fix dirty page migration") mem_cgroup_migrate() doesn't have much to offer in page migration: convert migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() to set_page_memcg() instead. Then rename mem_cgroup_migrate() to mem_cgroup_replace_page(), since its remaining callers are replace_page_cache_page() and shmem_replace_page(): both of whom passed lrucare true, so just eliminate that argument. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05mm/filemap.c: make global sync not clear error status of individual inodesJunichi Nomura
filemap_fdatawait() is a function to wait for on-going writeback to complete but also consume and clear error status of the mapping set during writeback. The latter functionality is critical for applications to detect writeback error with system calls like fsync(2)/fdatasync(2). However filemap_fdatawait() is also used by sync(2) or FIFREEZE ioctl, which don't check error status of individual mappings. As a result, fsync() may not be able to detect writeback error if events happen in the following order: Application System admin ---------------------------------------------------------- write data on page cache Run sync command writeback completes with error filemap_fdatawait() clears error fsync returns success (but the data is not on disk) This patch adds filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors() for call sites where writeback error is not handled so that they don't clear error status. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05mm: use only per-device readahead limitRoman Gushchin
Maximal readahead size is limited now by two values: 1) by global 2Mb constant (MAX_READAHEAD in max_sane_readahead()) 2) by configurable per-device value* (bdi->ra_pages) There are devices, which require custom readahead limit. For instance, for RAIDs it's calculated as number of devices multiplied by chunk size times 2. Readahead size can never be larger than bdi->ra_pages * 2 value (POSIX_FADV_SEQUNTIAL doubles readahead size). If so, why do we need two limits? I suggest to completely remove this max_sane_readahead() stuff and use per-device readahead limit everywhere. Also, using right readahead size for RAID disks can significantly increase i/o performance: before: dd if=/dev/md2 of=/dev/null bs=100M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 12.9741 s, 808 MB/s after: $ dd if=/dev/md2 of=/dev/null bs=100M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 8.91317 s, 1.2 GB/s (It's an 8-disks RAID5 storage). This patch doesn't change sys_readahead and madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) behavior introduced by 6d2be915e589b58 ("mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages"). Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: onstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-10-23mm: make sendfile(2) killableJan Kara
Currently a simple program below issues a sendfile(2) system call which takes about 62 days to complete in my test KVM instance. int fd; off_t off = 0; fd = open("file", O_RDWR | O_TRUNC | O_SYNC | O_CREAT, 0644); ftruncate(fd, 2); lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END); sendfile(fd, fd, &off, 0xfffffff); Now you should not ask kernel to do a stupid stuff like copying 256MB in 2-byte chunks and call fsync(2) after each chunk but if you do, sysadmin should have a way to stop you. We actually do have a check for fatal_signal_pending() in generic_perform_write() which triggers in this path however because we always succeed in writing something before the check is done, we return value > 0 from generic_perform_write() and thus the information about signal gets lost. Fix the problem by doing the signal check before writing anything. That way generic_perform_write() returns -EINTR, the error gets propagated up and the sendfile loop terminates early. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-10-07Revert "fs: do not prefault sys_write() user buffer pages"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 998ef75ddb5709bbea0bf1506cd2717348a3c647. The commit itself does not appear to be buggy per se, but it is exposing a bug in ext4 (and Ted thinks ext3 too, but we solved that by getting rid of it). It's too late in the release cycle to really worry about this, even if Dave Hansen has a patch that may actually fix the underlying ext4 problem. We can (and should) revisit this for the next release. The problem is that moving the prefaulting later now exposes a special case with partially successful writes that isn't handled correctly. And the prefaulting likely isn't normally even that much of a performance issue - it looks like at least one reason Dave saw this in his performance tests is that he also ran them on Skylake that now supports the new SMAP code, which makes the normally very cheap user space prefaulting noticeably more expensive. Bisected-and-acked-by: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Analyzed-and-acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-08mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node()Vlastimil Babka
alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a81 ("page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE. Unfortunately the name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is restricted to the given node and fails otherwise. In truth, the node is only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags. The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example commits 5265047ac301 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node") and b360edb43f8e ("mm, mempolicy: migrate_to_node should only migrate to node"). Another issue with the name is that there's a family of alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead of page order), which leads to more confusion. To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general usage. Both functions get described in comments. It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that __GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't duplicate the API needlessly. The number of users would be small anyway. Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent() which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use alloc_pages_node() instead. This means it no longer performs some VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid < 0' comparison (which includes NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously exposed. Both differences will be rectified by the next patch. To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily hiding potentially buggy callers. Restricting the checks in alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose more existing buggy callers. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Cliff Whickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-08fs: do not prefault sys_write() user buffer pagesDave Hansen
=== Short summary ==== iov_iter_fault_in_readable() works around a really rare case and we can avoid the deadlock it addresses in another way: disable page faults and work around copy failures by faulting after the copy in a slow path instead of before in a hot one. I have a little microbenchmark that does repeated, small writes to tmpfs. This patch speeds that micro up by 6.2%. === Long version === When doing a sys_write() we have a source buffer in userspace and then a target file page. If both of those are the same physical page, there is a potential deadlock that we avoid. It would happen something like this: 1. We start the write to the file 2. Allocate page cache page and set it !Uptodate 3. Touch the userspace buffer to copy in the user data 4. Page fault (since source of the write not yet mapped) 5. Page fault code tries to lock the page and deadlocks (more details on this below) To avoid this, we prefault the page to guarantee that this fault does not occur. But, this prefault comes at a cost. It is one of the most expensive things that we do in a hot write() path (especially if we compare it to the read path). It is working around a pretty rare case. To fix this, it's pretty simple. We move the "prefault" code to run after we attempt the copy. We explicitly disable page faults _during_ the copy, detect the copy failure, then execute the "prefault" ouside of where the page lock needs to be held. iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic() actually already has an implicit pagefault_disable() inside of it (at least on x86), but we add an explicit one. I don't think we can depend on every kmap_atomic() implementation to pagefault_disable() for eternity. =================================================== The stack trace when this happens looks like this: wait_on_page_bit_killable+0xc0/0xd0 __lock_page_or_retry+0x84/0xa0 filemap_fault+0x1ed/0x3d0 __do_fault+0x41/0xc0 handle_mm_fault+0x9bb/0x1210 __do_page_fault+0x17f/0x3d0 do_page_fault+0xc/0x10 page_fault+0x22/0x30 generic_perform_write+0xca/0x1a0 __generic_file_write_iter+0x190/0x1f0 ext4_file_write_iter+0xe9/0x460 __vfs_write+0xaa/0xe0 vfs_write+0xa6/0x1a0 SyS_write+0x46/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a 0xffffffffffffffff (Note, this does *NOT* happen in practice today because the kmap_atomic() does a pagefault_disable(). The trace above was obtained by taking out the pagefault_disable().) You can trigger the deadlock with this little code snippet: fd = open("foo", O_RDWR); fdmap = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); write(fd, &fdmap[0], 1); Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Paul Cassella <cassella@cray.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-07-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes. fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work" [ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ] * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits) 9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write} p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req() 9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache dax: Add block size note to documentation fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install() fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino namei: make set_root_rcu() return void make simple_positive() public ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages() pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there remove the pointless include of lglock.h fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything ...
2015-06-25Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe: "This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support. This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too. This is one of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it. Also see last weeks writeup on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/" * 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits) writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init() bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create() buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb() writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested() writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb() mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes writeback: implement memcg wb_domain writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations ...
2015-06-24mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache allocation pathsMichal Hocko
page_cache_read, do_generic_file_read, __generic_file_splice_read and __ntfs_grab_cache_pages currently ignore mapping_gfp_mask when calling add_to_page_cache_lru which might cause recursion into fs down in the direct reclaim path if the mapping really relies on GFP_NOFS semantic. This doesn't seem to be the case now because page_cache_read (page fault path) doesn't seem to suffer from the reclaim recursion issues and do_generic_file_read and __generic_file_splice_read also shouldn't be called under fs locks which would deadlock in the reclaim path. Anyway it is better to obey mapping gfp mask and prevent from later breakage. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24hugetlb: do not account hugetlb pages as NR_FILE_PAGESMichal Hocko
hugetlb pages uses add_to_page_cache to track shared mappings. This is OK from the data structure point of view but it is less so from the NR_FILE_PAGES accounting: - huge pages are accounted as 4k which is clearly wrong - this counter is used as the amount of the reclaimable page cache which is incorrect as well because hugetlb pages are special and not reclaimable - the counter is then exported to userspace via /proc/meminfo (in Cached:), /proc/vmstat and /proc/zoneinfo as nr_file_pages which is confusing at least: Cached: 8883504 kB HugePages_Free: 8348 ... Cached: 8916048 kB HugePages_Free: 156 ... thats 8192 huge pages allocated which is ~16G accounted as 32M There are usually not that many huge pages in the system for this to make any visible difference e.g. by fooling __vm_enough_memory or zone_pagecache_reclaimable. Fix this by special casing huge pages in both __delete_from_page_cache and __add_to_page_cache_locked. replace_page_cache_page is currently only used by fuse and that shouldn't touch hugetlb pages AFAICS but it is more robust to check for special casing there as well. Hugetlb pages shouldn't get to any other paths where we do accounting: - migration - we have a special handling via hugetlbfs_migrate_page - shmem - doesn't handle hugetlb pages directly even for SHM_HUGETLB resp. MAP_HUGETLB - swapcache - hugetlb is not swapable This has a user visible effect but I believe it is reasonable because the previously exported number is simply bogus. An alternative would be to account hugetlb pages with their real size and treat them similar to shmem. But this has some drawbacks. First we would have to special case in kernel users of NR_FILE_PAGES and considering how hugetlb is special we would have to do it everywhere. We do not want Cached exported by /proc/meminfo to include it because the value would be even more misleading. __vm_enough_memory and zone_pagecache_reclaimable would have to do the same thing because those pages are simply not reclaimable. The correction is even not trivial because we would have to consider all active hugetlb page sizes properly. Users of the counter outside of the kernel would have to do the same. So the question is why to account something that needs to be basically excluded for each reasonable usage. This doesn't make much sense to me. It seems that this has been broken since hugetlb was introduced but I haven't checked the whole history. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Tested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 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>