The commit ad09fc9d21 didn't cover the
case for Intel and Nvidia HDMIs, where hdmi_pcm_open() is called.
Put the hw_constraint there, too.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In hdmi_pcm_open(), the evaluated PCM hw parameters are stored in
hinfo, but these aren't properly set back to the current runtime
record since these have been set beforehand in azx_pcm_open().
This patch fixes the behavior.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Since commit
6d803ba (ARM: 6483/1: arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c)
platforms need to select CLKDEV_LOOKUP instead of COMMON_CLKDEV and need
to include <linux/clkdev.h>.
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Cc: Lothar Waßmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
This depends on !XIP_KERNEL and not !XIP.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Commit d30e45e (ARM: pgtable: switch order of Linux vs hardware page tables)
introduced a pre-increment addressing offset which is out of range for
Thumb-2. Thumb-2 only permits offsets <256. So split the intruction in
two for Thumb-2.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Commit 2fd6b7f5 ("fs: dcache scale subdirs") forgot to annotate a dentry
lock, which caused a lockdep warning.
Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
J. R. Okajima noticed that ->put_link is being attempted on the
wrong inode, and suggested the way to fix it. I changed it a bit
according to Al's suggestion to keep an explicit link path around.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
It looks like that HDMI codecs don't support the odd number of channels
although HD-audio spec doesn't have the restriction. Add the
hw_constraint to limit to only the even number of channels.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This patch enables the existing S3C64XX series SPI driver for S5P64X0
and removed dependency on EXPERIMENTAL because we don't need it now.
v3: Changed dependency of S3C64XX_DMA
v2: Removed dependency on EXPERIMENTAL
Signed-off-by: Abhilash Kesavan <a.kesavan@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Jassi Brar <jassi.brar@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
If a queue is preempted before it gets slice assigned, the queue doesn't get
compensation, which looks unfair. For such queue, we compensate it for a whole
slice.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
I got this:
fio-874 [007] 2157.724514: 8,32 m N cfq874 preempt
fio-874 [007] 2157.724519: 8,32 m N cfq830 slice expired t=1
fio-874 [007] 2157.724520: 8,32 m N cfq830 sl_used=1 disp=0 charge=1 iops=0 sect=0
fio-874 [007] 2157.724521: 8,32 m N cfq830 set_active wl_prio:0 wl_type:0
fio-874 [007] 2157.724522: 8,32 m N cfq830 Not idling. st->count:1
cfq830 is an async queue, and preempted by a sync queue cfq874. But since we
have cfqg->saved_workload_slice mechanism, the preempt is a nop.
Looks currently our preempt is totally broken if the two queues are not from
the same workload type.
Below patch fixes it. This will might make async queue starvation, but it's
what our old code does before cgroup is added.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Explicitly include err.h, of_address.h and of_irq.h.
Make use of machine_is() conditional on PPC.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
The firmware agent is not available during resume. Loading the firmware
during open() (see eee3a96c63) is not
enough.
close() is run during resume through rtl8169_reset_task(), whence the
mildly natural release of firmware in the driver removal method instead.
It will help with http://bugs.debian.org/609538. It will not avoid
the 60 seconds delay when:
- there is no firmware
- the driver is loaded and the device is not up before a suspend/resume
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Tested-by: Jarek Kamiński <jarek@vilo.eu.org>
Cc: Hayes <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use is_unicast_ether_addr from linux/etherdevice.h instead of custom
macros.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From a check for !is_multicast_ether_addr it is not always obvious that
we're checking for a unicast address. So add this helper function to
make those code paths easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is completely untested as I don't have an ARM build environment.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some ethtool operations can only be implemented for the WAN port, and
not all such operations are allowed to return an error code such as
-EOPNOTSUPP. Therefore, define two separate ethtool_ops structures
for WAN and non-WAN ports; simplify and rename the WAN-only functions.
This is completely untested as I don't have an ARM build environment.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
skb_clone() dynamically allocates memory and may fail. If it does it
returns NULL. This means we'll dereference a NULL pointer in
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c::cdc_ncm_rx_fixup().
As far as I can tell, the proper way to deal with this is simply to goto
the error label.
Furthermore gcc complains that 'skb' may be used uninitialized:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c: In function ‘cdc_ncm_rx_fixup’:
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c:922:18: warning: ‘skb’ may be used uninitialized in this function
and I believe it is right. On the line where we
pr_debug("invalid frame detected (ignored)" ...
we are using the local variable 'skb' but nothing has ever been assigned
to that variable yet. I believe the correct fix for that is to use
'skb_in' instead.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Regardless of whether the firmware update being performed by
vxge_fw_upgrade() is a success or not we must still remember to always
release_firmware() before returning.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Ram Vepa <ram.vepa@exar.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
icv_truncbits is set to 256 for sha512, so update
MAX_AH_AUTH_LEN to 64.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After recent changes, (percpu stats on vlan/tunnels...), we dont need
anymore per struct netdev_queue tx_bytes/tx_packets/tx_dropped counters.
Only remaining users are ixgbe, sch_teql, gianfar & macvlan :
1) ixgbe can be converted to use existing tx_ring counters.
2) macvlan incremented txq->tx_dropped, it can use the
dev->stats.tx_dropped counter.
3) sch_teql : almost revert ab35cd4b8f (Use net_device internal stats)
Now we have ndo_get_stats64(), use it, even for "unsigned long"
fields (No need to bring back a struct net_device_stats)
4) gianfar adds a stats structure per tx queue to hold
tx_bytes/tx_packets
This removes a lockdep warning (and possible lockup) in rndis gadget,
calling dev_get_stats() from hard IRQ context.
Ref: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg149202.html
Reported-by: Neil Jones <neiljay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
CC: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
CC: Sandeep Gopalpet <sandeep.kumar@freescale.com>
CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (59 commits)
ACPI / PM: Fix build problems for !CONFIG_ACPI related to NVS rework
ACPI: fix resource check message
ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume
ACPI: Drop device flag wake_capable
ACPI: Always check if _PRW is present before trying to evaluate it
ACPI / PM: Check status of power resources under mutexes
ACPI / PM: Rename acpi_power_off_device()
ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_power_nocheck
ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_bus_get_power()
Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power()
ACPI / Fan: Rework the handling of power resources
ACPI / PM: Register power resource devices as soon as they are needed
ACPI / PM: Register acpi_power_driver early
ACPI / PM: Add function for updating device power state consistently
ACPI / PM: Add function for device power state initialization
ACPI / PM: Introduce __acpi_bus_get_power()
ACPI / PM: Introduce function for refcounting device power resources
ACPI / PM: Add functions for manipulating lists of power resources
ACPI / PM: Prevent acpi_power_get_inferred_state() from making changes
ACPICA: Update version to 20101209
...
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
cpuidle/x86/perf: fix power:cpu_idle double end events and throw cpu_idle events from the cpuidle layer
intel_idle: open broadcast clock event
cpuidle: CPUIDLE_FLAG_CHECK_BM is omap3_idle specific
cpuidle: CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED is specific to intel_idle
cpuidle: delete unused CPUIDLE_FLAG_SHALLOW, BALANCED, DEEP definitions
SH, cpuidle: delete use of NOP CPUIDLE_FLAGS_SHALLOW
cpuidle: delete NOP CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLL
ACPI: processor_idle: delete use of NOP CPUIDLE_FLAGs
cpuidle: Rename X86 specific idle poll state[0] from C0 to POLL
ACPI, intel_idle: Cleanup idle= internal variables
cpuidle: Make cpuidle_enable_device() call poll_idle_init()
intel_idle: update Sandy Bridge core C-state residency targets
* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin:
fs: fix do_last error case when need_reval_dot
nfs: add missing rcu-walk check
fs: hlist UP debug fixup
fs: fix dropping of rcu-walk from force_reval_path
fs: force_reval_path drop rcu-walk before d_invalidate
fs: small rcu-walk documentation fixes
Fixed up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/porting
When open(2) without O_DIRECTORY opens an existing dir, it should return
EISDIR. In do_last(), the variable 'error' is initialized EISDIR, but it
is changed by d_revalidate() which returns any positive to represent
'the target dir is valid.'
Should we keep and return the initialized 'error' in this case.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* 'stable/gntdev' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/p2m: Fix module linking error.
xen p2m: clear the old pte when adding a page to m2p_override
xen gntdev: use gnttab_map_refs and gnttab_unmap_refs
xen: introduce gnttab_map_refs and gnttab_unmap_refs
xen p2m: transparently change the p2m mappings in the m2p override
xen/gntdev: Fix circular locking dependency
xen/gntdev: stop using "token" argument
xen: gntdev: move use of GNTMAP_contains_pte next to the map_op
xen: add m2p override mechanism
xen: move p2m handling to separate file
xen/gntdev: add VM_PFNMAP to vma
xen/gntdev: allow usermode to map granted pages
xen: define gnttab_set_map_op/unmap_op
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/xen/Kconfig
* 'stable/platform-pci-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen-platform: Fix compile errors if CONFIG_PCI is not enabled.
xen: rename platform-pci module to xen-platform-pci.
xen-platform: use PCI interfaces to request IO and MEM resources.
Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@gmail.com> noticed that hlist_bl_set_first could
crash on a UP system when LIST_BL_LOCKMASK is 0, because
LIST_BL_BUG_ON(!((unsigned long)h->first & LIST_BL_LOCKMASK));
always evaulates to true.
Fix the expression, and also avoid a dependency between bit spinlock
implementation and list bl code (list code shouldn't know anything
except that bit 0 is set when adding and removing elements). Eventually
if a good use case comes up, we might use this list to store 1 or more
arbitrary bits of data, so it really shouldn't be tied to locking either,
but for now they are helpful for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
As J. R. Okajima noted, force_reval_path passes in the same dentry to
d_revalidate as the one in the nameidata structure (other callers pass in a
child), so the locking breaks. This can oops with a chrooted nfs mount, for
example. Similarly there can be other problems with revalidating a dentry
which is already in nameidata of the path walk.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
d_revalidate can return in rcu-walk mode even when it returns 0. We can't just
call any old dcache function on rcu-walk dentry (the dentry is unstable, so
even through d_lock can safely be taken, the result may no longer be what we
expect -- careful re-checks would be required). So just drop rcu in this case.
(I missed this conversion when switching to the rcu-walk convention that Linus
suggested)
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
We've long had these pointless #ifdef MSNFS's sprinkled throughout the
code--pointless because MSNFS is always defined (and we give no config
option to make that easy to change). So we could just remove the
ifdef's and compile the resulting code unconditionally.
But as long as we're there: why not just rip out this code entirely?
The only purpose is to implement the "msnfs" export option which turns
on Windows-like behavior in some cases, and:
- the export option isn't documented anywhere;
- the userland utilities (which would need to be able to parse
"msnfs" in an export file) don't support it;
- I don't know how to maintain this, as I don't know what the
proper behavior is; and
- google shows no evidence that anyone has ever used this.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Otherwise a callback that is aborted before it runs will result in a
list_del on an uninitialized list head.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
In the current implementation mem_cgroup_end_migration() decides whether
the page migration has succeeded or not by checking "oldpage->mapping".
But if we are tring to migrate a shmem swapcache, the page->mapping of it
is NULL from the begining, so the check would be invalid. As a result,
mem_cgroup_end_migration() assumes the migration has succeeded even if
it's not, so "newpage" would be freed while it's not uncharged.
This patch fixes it by passing mem_cgroup_end_migration() the result of
the page migration.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In mem_cgroup_alloc() we currently do either kmalloc() or vmalloc() then
followed by memset() to zero the memory. This can be more efficiently
achieved by using kzalloc() and vzalloc(). There's also one situation
where we can use kzalloc_node() - this is what's new in this version of
the patch.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit b1dd693e ("memcg: avoid deadlock between move charge and
try_charge()") can cause another deadlock about mmap_sem on task migration
if cpuset and memcg are mounted onto the same mount point.
After the commit, cgroup_attach_task() has sequence like:
cgroup_attach_task()
ss->can_attach()
cpuset_can_attach()
mem_cgroup_can_attach()
down_read(&mmap_sem) (1)
ss->attach()
cpuset_attach()
mpol_rebind_mm()
down_write(&mmap_sem) (2)
up_write(&mmap_sem)
cpuset_migrate_mm()
do_migrate_pages()
down_read(&mmap_sem)
up_read(&mmap_sem)
mem_cgroup_move_task()
mem_cgroup_clear_mc()
up_read(&mmap_sem)
We can cause deadlock at (2) because we've already aquire the mmap_sem at (1).
But the commit itself is necessary to fix deadlocks which have existed
before the commit like:
Ex.1)
move charge | try charge
--------------------------------------+------------------------------
mem_cgroup_can_attach() | down_write(&mmap_sem)
mc.moving_task = current | ..
mem_cgroup_precharge_mc() | __mem_cgroup_try_charge()
mem_cgroup_count_precharge() | prepare_to_wait()
down_read(&mmap_sem) | if (mc.moving_task)
-> cannot aquire the lock | -> true
| schedule()
| -> move charge should wake it up
Ex.2)
move charge | try charge
--------------------------------------+------------------------------
mem_cgroup_can_attach() |
mc.moving_task = current |
mem_cgroup_precharge_mc() |
mem_cgroup_count_precharge() |
down_read(&mmap_sem) |
.. |
up_read(&mmap_sem) |
| down_write(&mmap_sem)
mem_cgroup_move_task() | ..
mem_cgroup_move_charge() | __mem_cgroup_try_charge()
down_read(&mmap_sem) | prepare_to_wait()
-> cannot aquire the lock | if (mc.moving_task)
| -> true
| schedule()
| -> move charge should wake it up
This patch fixes all of these problems by:
1. revert the commit.
2. To fix the Ex.1, we set mc.moving_task after mem_cgroup_count_precharge()
has released the mmap_sem.
3. To fix the Ex.2, we use down_read_trylock() instead of down_read() in
mem_cgroup_move_charge() and, if it has failed to aquire the lock, cancel
all extra charges, wake up all waiters, and retry trylock.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reported-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adding the number of swap pages to the byte limit of a memory control
group makes no sense. Convert the pages to bytes before adding them.
The only user of this code is the OOM killer, and the way it is used means
that the error results in a higher OOM badness value. Since the cgroup
limit is the same for all tasks in the cgroup, the error should have no
practical impact at the moment.
But let's not wait for future or changing users to trip over it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce a new bit spin lock, PCG_MOVE_LOCK, to synchronize the page
accounting and migration code. This reworks the locking scheme of
_update_stat() and _move_account() by adding new lock bit PCG_MOVE_LOCK,
which is always taken under IRQ disable.
1. If pages are being migrated from a memcg, then updates to that
memcg page statistics are protected by grabbing PCG_MOVE_LOCK using
move_lock_page_cgroup(). In an upcoming commit, memcg dirty page
accounting will be updating memcg page accounting (specifically: num
writeback pages) from IRQ context (softirq). Avoid a deadlocking
nested spin lock attempt by disabling irq on the local processor when
grabbing the PCG_MOVE_LOCK.
2. lock for update_page_stat is used only for avoiding race with
move_account(). So, IRQ awareness of lock_page_cgroup() itself is not
a problem. The problem is between mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() and
mem_cgroup_move_account_page().
Trade-off:
* Changing lock_page_cgroup() to always disable IRQ (or
local_bh) has some impacts on performance and I think
it's bad to disable IRQ when it's not necessary.
* adding a new lock makes move_account() slower. Score is
here.
Performance Impact: moving a 8G anon process.
Before:
real 0m0.792s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.780s
After:
real 0m0.854s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.842s
This score is bad but planned patches for optimization can reduce
this impact.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace usage of the mem_cgroup_update_file_mapped() memcg
statistic update routine with two new routines:
* mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat()
* mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat()
As before, only the file_mapped statistic is managed. However, these more
general interfaces allow for new statistics to be more easily added. New
statistics are added with memcg dirty page accounting.
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset provides the ability for each cgroup to have independent
dirty page limits.
Limiting dirty memory is like fixing the max amount of dirty (hard to
reclaim) page cache used by a cgroup. So, in case of multiple cgroup
writers, they will not be able to consume more than their designated share
of dirty pages and will be forced to perform write-out if they cross that
limit.
The patches are based on a series proposed by Andrea Righi in Mar 2010.
Overview:
- Add page_cgroup flags to record when pages are dirty, in writeback, or nfs
unstable.
- Extend mem_cgroup to record the total number of pages in each of the
interesting dirty states (dirty, writeback, unstable_nfs).
- Add dirty parameters similar to the system-wide /proc/sys/vm/dirty_*
limits to mem_cgroup. The mem_cgroup dirty parameters are accessible
via cgroupfs control files.
- Consider both system and per-memcg dirty limits in page writeback when
deciding to queue background writeback or block for foreground writeback.
Known shortcomings:
- When a cgroup dirty limit is exceeded, then bdi writeback is employed to
writeback dirty inodes. Bdi writeback considers inodes from any cgroup, not
just inodes contributing dirty pages to the cgroup exceeding its limit.
- When memory.use_hierarchy is set, then dirty limits are disabled. This is a
implementation detail. An enhanced implementation is needed to check the
chain of parents to ensure that no dirty limit is exceeded.
Performance data:
- A page fault microbenchmark workload was used to measure performance, which
can be called in read or write mode:
f = open(foo. $cpu)
truncate(f, 4096)
alarm(60)
while (1) {
p = mmap(f, 4096)
if (write)
*p = 1
else
x = *p
munmap(p)
}
- The workload was called for several points in the patch series in different
modes:
- s_read is a single threaded reader
- s_write is a single threaded writer
- p_read is a 16 thread reader, each operating on a different file
- p_write is a 16 thread writer, each operating on a different file
- Measurements were collected on a 16 core non-numa system using "perf stat
--repeat 3". The -a option was used for parallel (p_*) runs.
- All numbers are page fault rate (M/sec). Higher is better.
- To compare the performance of a kernel without non-memcg compare the first and
last rows, neither has memcg configured. The first row does not include any
of these memcg patches.
- To compare the performance of using memcg dirty limits, compare the baseline
(2nd row titled "w/ memcg") with the the code and memcg enabled (2nd to last
row titled "all patches").
root_cgroup child_cgroup
s_read s_write p_read p_write s_read s_write p_read p_write
mmotm w/o memcg 0.428 0.390 0.429 0.388
mmotm w/ memcg 0.411 0.378 0.391 0.362 0.412 0.377 0.385 0.363
all patches 0.384 0.360 0.370 0.348 0.381 0.363 0.368 0.347
all patches 0.431 0.402 0.427 0.395
w/o memcg
This patch:
Add additional flags to page_cgroup to track dirty pages within a
mem_cgroup.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Takashi Iwai