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David Rientjes 51cd8e6ff2 mm, slab: lock the correct nodelist after reenabling irqs
cache_grow() can reenable irqs so the cpu (and node) can change, so ensure
that we take list_lock on the correct nodelist.

This fixes an issue with commit 072bb0aa5e ("mm: sl[au]b: add
knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages") where list_lock for the wrong
node was taken after growing the cache.

Reported-and-tested-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-08-29 11:32:21 -07:00
Tejun Heo 203b42f731 workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
Initalizers for deferrable delayed_work are confused.

* __DEFERRED_WORK_INITIALIZER()
* DECLARE_DEFERRED_WORK()
* INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE()

Rename them to

* __DEFERRABLE_WORK_INITIALIZER()
* DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK()
* INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK()

This patch doesn't cause any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-08-21 13:18:23 -07:00
David Rientjes 5b74beb425 mm, slab: remove page_get_cache
page_get_cache() isn't called from anything, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-08-17 15:35:44 +03:00
Michel Lespinasse 48f2474144 slab: do not call compound_head() in page_get_cache()
page_get_cache() does not need to call compound_head(), as its unique
caller virt_to_slab() already makes sure to return a head page.

Additionally, removing the compound_head() call makes page_get_cache()
consistent with page_get_slab().

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-08-16 09:32:19 +03:00
Mel Gorman 381760eadc mm: micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call
Getting and putting objects in SLAB currently requires a function call but
the bulk of the work is related to PFMEMALLOC reserves which are only
consumed when network-backed storage is critical.  Use an inline function
to determine if the function call is required.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
Mel Gorman b37f1dd0f5 mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves
__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, much
like PF_MEMALLOC.  It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in
object related allocation flags as opposed to task related flags, such as
sk->sk_allocation.  This removes the need for ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC as callers
using __GFP_MEMALLOC can get the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK flag which is now
enough to identify allocations related to page reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
Mel Gorman 072bb0aa5e mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages
When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they
create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it
with swapon.  Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless
systems.  The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part
of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the
use of disks and thin clients.

The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block
Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download
There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at
places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The
nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap.  Despite this, the fact
is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap
is used intensively.  This patch series addresses the problem.

The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like
normal block devices do.  As the host cannot control where they receive
packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory
they might need.  Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of
patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is
carrying within their kernels.  This patch series borrows very heavily
from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to
supporting swap-over-NFS.  The bulk of the complexity is concerned with
preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use
by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS.

Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to
	preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations
	to callers that are freeing memory.

Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks

Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC
	reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC.

Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves
	for later use by network packet processing.

Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required

Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set.

Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when
	the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If
	packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under
	low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets
	are dropped.

	Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking
	folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate
	pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a
	strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being
	that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should
	not fail.

Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the
	common case.

Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use
	PFMEMALLOC if necessary.

Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve
	to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on
	a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted.  It is
	expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running
	will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and
	the throttled processes are woken up.

Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled

Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on
loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and
sysbench.  Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators
reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance
variances.

For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a
swapfile backed by NBD.  8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create
anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop.  The total
size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under
memory pressure.

Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes
and runs to completion with them applied.  With SLAB, the story is
different as an unpatched kernel run to completion.  However, the patched
kernel completed the test 45% faster.

MICRO
                                         3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2
					 vanilla     swapnbd
Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write
MMTests Statistics: duration
Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             197.80    173.07
User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        206.96    182.03
Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               3240.70   1762.09

This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages

Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine
hanging due to a lack of memory.  To prevent this, only callers who have
PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are
allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS.  Once they are allocated to
a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects
within those slabs.  This patch limits access to slab pages that were
alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves.

When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark
are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to
determine how the page should be protected.  SLAB restricts access to any
page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to
access the PFMEMALLOC reserve.  If one is not available, an attempt is
made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve.  SLUB is a bit more
relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated
from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does
not have the necessary GFP or process flags.  This was found to be
sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining
smaller lists than SLAB.

In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail
a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are
being preserved for callers that are freeing pages.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation]
[sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 20cea9683e mm, sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache_create mutex handling to common code
Move the mutex handling into the common kmem_cache_create()
function.

Then we can also move more checks out of SLAB's kmem_cache_create()
into the common code.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:42 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 18004c5d40 mm, sl[aou]b: Use a common mutex definition
Use the mutex definition from SLAB and make it the common way to take a sleeping lock.

This has the effect of using a mutex instead of a rw semaphore for SLUB.

SLOB gains the use of a mutex for kmem_cache_create serialization.
Not needed now but SLOB may acquire some more features later (like slabinfo
/ sysfs support) through the expansion of the common code that will
need this.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:41 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 97d0660915 mm, sl[aou]b: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators
All allocators have some sort of support for the bootstrap status.

Setup a common definition for the boot states and make all slab
allocators use that definition.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 039363f38b mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common code for kmem_cache_create()
Kmem_cache_create() does a variety of sanity checks but those
vary depending on the allocator. Use the strictest tests and put them into
a slab_common file. Make the tests conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

This patch has the effect of adding sanity checks for SLUB and SLOB
under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and removes the checks in SLAB for !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:30 +03:00
Glauber Costa a164f89628 slab: move FULL state transition to an initcall
During kmem_cache_init_late(), we transition to the LATE state,
and after some more work, to the FULL state, its last state

This is quite different from slub, that will only transition to
its last state (previously SYSFS), in a (late)initcall, after a lot
more of the kernel is ready.

This means that in slab, we have no way to taking actions dependent
on the initialization of other pieces of the kernel that are supposed
to start way after kmem_init_late(), such as cgroups initialization.

To achieve more consistency in this behavior, that patch only
transitions to the UP state in kmem_init_late. In my analysis,
setup_cpu_cache() should be happy to test for >= UP, instead of
== FULL. It also has passed some tests I've made.

We then only mark FULL state after the reap timers are in place,
meaning that no further setup is expected.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:56:59 +03:00
Feng Tang d97d476b1b slab: Fix a typo in commit 8c138b "slab: Get rid of obj_size macro"
Commit  8c138b only sits in Pekka's and linux-next tree now, which tries
to replace obj_size(cachep) with cachep->object_size, but has a typo in
kmem_cache_free() by using "size" instead of "object_size", which casues
some regressions.

Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:45:52 +03:00
Thierry Reding 0672aa7c23 mm, slab: Build fix for recent kmem_cache changes
Commit 3b0efdf ("mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct
kmem_cache") renamed the kmem_cache structure's "next" field to "list"
but forgot to update one instance in leaks_show().

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:42:18 +03:00
Glauber Costa a618e89f1e slab: rename gfpflags to allocflags
A consistent name with slub saves us an acessor function.
In both caches, this field represents the same thing. We would
like to use it from the mem_cgroup code.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-02 13:40:06 +03:00
Andi Kleen e7b691b085 slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interrupt context
slab_node() could access current->mempolicy from interrupt context.
However there's a race condition during exit where the mempolicy
is first freed and then the pointer zeroed.

Using this from interrupts seems bogus anyways. The interrupt
will interrupt a random process and therefore get a random
mempolicy. Many times, this will be idle's, which noone can change.

Just disable this here and always use local for slab
from interrupts. I also cleaned up the callers of slab_node a bit
which always passed the same argument.

I believe the original mempolicy code did that in fact,
so it's likely a regression.

v2: send version with correct logic
v3: simplify. fix typo.
Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org
Cc: cl@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[tdmackey@twitter.com: Rework control flow based on feedback from
cl@linux.com, fix logic, and cleanup current task_struct reference]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-20 10:01:04 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 8c138bc009 slab: Get rid of obj_size macro
The size of the slab object is frequently needed. Since we now
have a size field directly in the kmem_cache structure there is no
need anymore of the obj_size macro/function.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:20:19 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 3b0efdfa1e mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache
Define a struct that describes common fields used in all slab allocators.
A slab allocator either uses the common definition (like SLOB) or is
required to provide members of kmem_cache with the definition given.

After that it will be possible to share code that
only operates on those fields of kmem_cache.

The patch basically takes the slob definition of kmem cache and
uses the field namees for the other allocators.

It also standardizes the names used for basic object lengths in
allocators:

object_size	Struct size specified at kmem_cache_create. Basically
		the payload expected to be used by the subsystem.

size		The size of memory allocator for each object. This size
		is larger than object_size and includes padding, alignment
		and extra metadata for each object (f.e. for debugging
		and rcu).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:20:16 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 350260889b slab: Remove some accessors
Those are rather trivial now and its better to see inline what is
really going on.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:20:05 +03:00
Christoph Lameter e571b0ad34 slab: Use page struct fields instead of casting
Add fields to the page struct so that it is properly documented that
slab overlays the lru fields.

This cleans up some casts in slab.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 09:19:56 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 0c9aac0826 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "There's the new kmalloc_array() API, minor fixes and performance
  improvements, but quite honestly, nothing terribly exciting."

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  mm: SLAB Out-of-memory diagnostics
  slab: introduce kmalloc_array()
  slub: per cpu partial statistics change
  slub: include include for prefetch
  slub: Do not hold slub_lock when calling sysfs_slab_add()
  slub: prefetch next freelist pointer in slab_alloc()
  slab, cleanup: remove unneeded return
2012-03-28 15:04:26 -07:00
Mel Gorman cc9a6c8776 cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3
Commit c0ff7453bb ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when
changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of
memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit.

[get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory
barriers inserted into a number of hot paths.  This was detected while
investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time
after 2.6.32.  The largest portion of this overhead was shown by
oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page
allocator hot path.

For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an
implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex.

This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write
sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path
side.  This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86.  The
main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a
manner that can cause a false failure.

While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure
is a risk.  If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel
allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place.

In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from
__alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%.  The
actual results were

                             3.3.0-rc3          3.3.0-rc3
                             rc3-vanilla        nobarrier-v2r1
    Clients   1 UserTime       0.07 (  0.00%)   0.08 (-14.19%)
    Clients   2 UserTime       0.07 (  0.00%)   0.07 (  2.72%)
    Clients   4 UserTime       0.08 (  0.00%)   0.07 (  3.29%)
    Clients   1 SysTime        0.70 (  0.00%)   0.65 (  6.65%)
    Clients   2 SysTime        0.85 (  0.00%)   0.82 (  3.65%)
    Clients   4 SysTime        1.41 (  0.00%)   1.41 (  0.32%)
    Clients   1 WallTime       0.77 (  0.00%)   0.74 (  4.19%)
    Clients   2 WallTime       0.47 (  0.00%)   0.45 (  3.73%)
    Clients   4 WallTime       0.38 (  0.00%)   0.37 (  1.58%)
    Clients   1 Flt/sec/cpu  497620.28 (  0.00%) 520294.53 (  4.56%)
    Clients   2 Flt/sec/cpu  414639.05 (  0.00%) 429882.01 (  3.68%)
    Clients   4 Flt/sec/cpu  257959.16 (  0.00%) 258761.48 (  0.31%)
    Clients   1 Flt/sec      495161.39 (  0.00%) 517292.87 (  4.47%)
    Clients   2 Flt/sec      820325.95 (  0.00%) 850289.77 (  3.65%)
    Clients   4 Flt/sec      1020068.93 (  0.00%) 1022674.06 (  0.26%)
    MMTests Statistics: duration
    Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             135.68    132.17
    User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)         164.2    160.13
    Total Elapsed Time (seconds)                123.46    120.87

The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much
improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these
performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected).  The
actual number of page faults is noticeably improved.

For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but
the system CPU time is slightly reduced.

To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals.  The
first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that
faulted 100M of anonymous data.  In a second window, the nodemask of the
cpuset was continually randomised in a loop.

Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually
within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine.
With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be
functionally equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
Rafael Aquini 8bdec192b4 mm: SLAB Out-of-memory diagnostics
Following the example at mm/slub.c, add out-of-memory diagnostics to the
SLAB allocator to help on debugging certain OOM conditions.

An example print out looks like this:

  <snip page allocator out-of-memory message>
  SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node 0 (gfp=0x11200)
    cache: bio-0, object size: 192, order: 0
    node 0: slabs: 3/3, objs: 60/60, free: 0

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-03-10 10:45:17 +02:00
Zhao Jin 42c8c99cd8 slab, cleanup: remove unneeded return
The procedure ends right after the if-statement, so remove ``return''.
Also move the last common statement outside.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Jin <cronozhj@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-01-23 15:32:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6296e5d3c0 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  slub: disallow changing cpu_partial from userspace for debug caches
  slub: add missed accounting
  slub: Extract get_freelist from __slab_alloc
  slub: Switch per cpu partial page support off for debugging
  slub: fix a possible memleak in __slab_alloc()
  slub: fix slub_max_order Documentation
  slub: add missed accounting
  slab: add taint flag outputting to debug paths.
  slub: add taint flag outputting to debug paths
  slab: introduce slab_max_order kernel parameter
  slab: rename slab_break_gfp_order to slab_max_order
2012-01-11 18:52:23 -08:00
Pekka Enberg 5878cf431c Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/for-linus 2012-01-11 21:11:29 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 4dee6b64ee tracing/mm: Move include of trace/events/kmem.h out of header into slab.c
Including trace/events/*.h TRACE_EVENT() macro headers in other headers
can cause strange side effects if another trace/event/*.h header
includes that header.  Having trace/events/kmem.h inside slab_def.h
caused a compile error in sparc64 when changes were done to some header
files.  Moving the kmem.h trace header out of slab.h and into slab.c
fixes the problem.

Note, both slub.c and slob.c already include the trace/events/kmem.h
file. Only slab.c had it missing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120105190405.1e3191fb5a43b2a0f1655e1f@canb.auug.org.au

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-09 14:19:33 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra 52cef18916 slab, lockdep: Fix silly bug
Commit 30765b92 ("slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using
them") moves the init_lock_keys() call from after g_cpucache_up =
FULL, to before it. And overlooks the fact that init_node_lock_keys()
tests for it and ignores everything !FULL.

Introduce a LATE stage and change the lockdep test to be <LATE.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 09:44:00 +01:00
Dave Jones face37f5e6 slab: add taint flag outputting to debug paths.
When we get corruption reports, it's useful to see if the kernel was
tainted, to rule out problems we can't do anything about.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-16 21:14:44 +02:00
David Rientjes 3df1cccdfb slab: introduce slab_max_order kernel parameter
Introduce new slab_max_order kernel parameter which is the equivalent of
slub_max_order.

For immediate purposes, allows users to override the heuristic that sets
the max order to 1 by default if they have more than 32MB of RAM.  This
may result in page allocation failures if there is substantial
fragmentation.

Another usecase would be to increase the max order for better
performance.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-10 21:25:30 +02:00
David Rientjes 543585cc5b slab: rename slab_break_gfp_order to slab_max_order
slab_break_gfp_order is more appropriately named slab_max_order since it
enforces the maximum order size of slabs as long as a single object will
still fit.

Also rename BREAK_GFP_ORDER_{LO,HI} accordingly.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-10 21:25:30 +02:00
Vasiliy Kulikov ab067e99d2 mm: restrict access to slab files under procfs and sysfs
Historically /proc/slabinfo and files under /sys/kernel/slab/* have
world read permissions and are accessible to the world.  slabinfo
contains rather private information related both to the kernel and
userspace tasks.  Depending on the situation, it might reveal either
private information per se or information useful to make another
targeted attack.  Some examples of what can be learned by
reading/watching for /proc/slabinfo entries:

1) dentry (and different *inode*) number might reveal other processes fs
activity.  The number of dentry "active objects" doesn't strictly show
file count opened/touched by a process, however, there is a good
correlation between them.  The patch "proc: force dcache drop on
unauthorized access" relies on the privacy of dentry count.

2) different inode entries might reveal the same information as (1), but
these are more fine granted counters.  If a filesystem is mounted in a
private mount point (or even a private namespace) and fs type differs from
other mounted fs types, fs activity in this mount point/namespace is
revealed.  If there is a single ecryptfs mount point, the whole fs
activity of a single user is revealed.  Number of files in ecryptfs
mount point is a private information per se.

3) fuse_* reveals number of files / fs activity of a user in a user
private mount point.  It is approx. the same severity as ecryptfs
infoleak in (2).

4) sysfs_dir_cache similar to (2) reveals devices' addition/removal,
which can be otherwise hidden by "chmod 0700 /sys/".  With 0444 slabinfo
the precise number of sysfs files is known to the world.

5) buffer_head might reveal some kernel activity.  With other
information leaks an attacker might identify what specific kernel
routines generate buffer_head activity.

6) *kmalloc* infoleaks are very situational.  Attacker should watch for
the specific kmalloc size entry and filter the noise related to the unrelated
kernel activity.  If an attacker has relatively silent victim system, he
might get rather precise counters.

Additional information sources might significantly increase the slabinfo
infoleak benefits.  E.g. if an attacker knows that the processes
activity on the system is very low (only core daemons like syslog and
cron), he may run setxid binaries / trigger local daemon activity /
trigger network services activity / await sporadic cron jobs activity
/ etc. and get rather precise counters for fs and network activity of
these privileged tasks, which is unknown otherwise.

Also hiding slabinfo and /sys/kernel/slab/* is a one step to complicate
exploitation of kernel heap overflows (and possibly, other bugs).  The
related discussion:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1108378

To keep compatibility with old permission model where non-root
monitoring daemon could watch for kernel memleaks though slabinfo one
should do:

    groupadd slabinfo
    usermod -a -G slabinfo $MONITOR_USER

And add the following commands to init scripts (to mountall.conf in
Ubuntu's upstart case):

    chmod g+r /proc/slabinfo /sys/kernel/slab/*/*
    chgrp slabinfo /proc/slabinfo /sys/kernel/slab/*/*

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-09-27 22:59:27 +03:00
Pekka Enberg d20bbfab01 Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/next 2011-09-19 17:46:07 +03:00
Peter Zijlstra 30765b92ad slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them
Fernando found we hit the regular OFF_SLAB 'recursion' before we
annotate the locks, cure this.

The relevant portion of the stack-trace:

> [    0.000000]  [<c085e24f>] rt_spin_lock+0x50/0x56
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fb406>] __cache_free+0x43/0xc3
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fb23f>] kmem_cache_free+0x6c/0xdc
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fb2fe>] slab_destroy+0x4f/0x53
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fb396>] free_block+0x94/0xc1
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fc551>] do_tune_cpucache+0x10b/0x2bb
> [    0.000000]  [<c04fc8dc>] enable_cpucache+0x7b/0xa7
> [    0.000000]  [<c0bd9d3c>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x1f/0x61
> [    0.000000]  [<c0bba687>] start_kernel+0x24c/0x363
> [    0.000000]  [<c0bba0ba>] i386_start_kernel+0xa9/0xaf

Reported-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311888176.2617.379.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04 10:18:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 83835b3d9a slab, lockdep: Annotate slab -> rcu -> debug_object -> slab
Lockdep thinks there's lock recursion through:

	kmem_cache_free()
	  cache_flusharray()
	    spin_lock(&l3->list_lock)  <----------------.
	    free_block()                                |
	      slab_destroy()                            |
		call_rcu()                              |
		  debug_object_activate()               |
		    debug_object_init()                 |
		      __debug_object_init()             |
			kmem_cache_alloc()              |
			  cache_alloc_refill()          |
			    spin_lock(&l3->list_lock) --'

Now debug objects doesn't use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and hence there is no
actual possibility of recursing. Luckily debug objects marks it slab
with SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS so we can identify the thing.

Mark all SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS (all one!) slab caches with a special
lockdep key so that lockdep sees its a different cachep.

Also add a WARN on trying to create a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU |
SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS cache, to avoid possible future trouble.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
[ fixes to the initial patch ]
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311341165.27400.58.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-04 10:17:54 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior fdde6abb3e slab: use print_hex_dump
Less code and the advantage of ascii dump.

before:
| Slab corruption: names_cache start=c5788000, len=4096
| 000: 6b 6b 01 00 00 00 56 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 2a 00
| 010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
| 020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff
| 030: ff ff ff ff e2 b4 17 18 c7 e4 08 06 00 01 08 00
| 040: 06 04 00 01 e2 b4 17 18 c7 e4 0a 00 00 01 00 00
| 050: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 02 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b

after:
| Slab corruption: size-4096 start=c38a9000, len=4096
| 000: 6b 6b 01 00 00 00 56 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 2a 00  kk....V...$...*.
| 010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
| 020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff  ................
| 030: ff ff ff ff d2 56 5f aa db 9c 08 06 00 01 08 00  .....V_.........
| 040: 06 04 00 01 d2 56 5f aa db 9c 0a 00 00 01 00 00  .....V_.........
| 050: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 02 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  ........kkkkkkkk

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-31 19:16:33 +03:00
Andrew Morton eacbbae385 slab: use NUMA_NO_NODE
Use the nice enumerated constant.

Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-31 18:14:21 +03:00
Eric Dumazet acfe7d7448 slab: remove one NR_CPUS dependency
Reduce high order allocations in do_tune_cpucache() for some setups.
(NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-28 13:40:08 +03:00
Linus Torvalds f99b7880cb Merge branch 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB warning
  slab: shrink sizeof(struct kmem_cache)
  slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build
  SLUB: Fix missing <linux/stacktrace.h> include
  slub: reduce overhead of slub_debug
  slub: Add method to verify memory is not freed
  slub: Enable backtrace for create/delete points
  slab allocators: Provide generic description of alignment defines
  slab, slub, slob: Unify alignment definition
  slob/lockdep: Fix gfp flags passed to lockdep
2011-07-22 12:44:30 -07:00
Tetsuo Handa 7ea466f225 slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB warning
In commit c225150b "slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build",
"if ((unsigned long)objp & (ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN-1))" is always true if
ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN == 0. Do not print warning if ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN == 0.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-22 11:01:03 +03:00
Eric Dumazet b56efcf0a4 slab: shrink sizeof(struct kmem_cache)
Reduce high order allocations for some setups.
(NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB per kmem_cache struct)

We now allocate exact needed size (using nr_cpu_ids and nr_node_ids)

This also makes code a bit smaller on x86_64, since some field offsets
are less than the 127 limit :

Before patch :
# size mm/slab.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  22605  361665      32  384302   5dd2e mm/slab.o

After patch :
# size mm/slab.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  22349	 353473	   8224	 384046	  5dc2e	mm/slab.o

CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-20 20:27:56 +03:00
Hugh Dickins c225150b86 slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build
Fix CONFIG_SLAB=y CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y build error and warnings.

Now that ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN defaults to __alignof__(unsigned long long),
it is always defined (when slab.h included), but cannot be used in #if:
mm/slab.c: In function `cache_alloc_debugcheck_after':
mm/slab.c:3156:5: warning: "__alignof__" is not defined
mm/slab.c:3156:5: error: missing binary operator before token "("
make[1]: *** [mm/slab.o] Error 1

So just remove the #if and #endif lines, but then 64-bit build warns:
mm/slab.c: In function `cache_alloc_debugcheck_after':
mm/slab.c:3156:6: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
mm/slab.c:3158:10: warning: format `%d' expects type `int', but argument
                            3 has type `long unsigned int'
Fix those with casts, whatever the actual type of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-18 15:20:49 +03:00
Suleiman Souhlal a947eb95ea SLAB: Record actual last user of freed objects.
Currently, when using CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, we put in kfree() or
kmem_cache_free() as the last user of free objects, which is not
very useful, so change it to the caller of those functions instead.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-06-03 19:33:50 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 268bb0ce3e sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage
Commit e66eed651f ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.

So this fixes things up a bit, using

   grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
   grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')

to guide us in finding files that either need <linux/prefetch.h>
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.

There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Prarit Bhargava 5fda1bd5b8 mm: notifier_from_errno() cleanup
While looking at some other notifier callbacks I noticed this code could
use a simple cleanup.

notifier_from_errno() no longer needs the if (ret)/else conditional.  That
same conditional is now done in notifier_from_errno().

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 865d794d1f Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/next 2011-03-11 18:11:19 +02:00
Pekka Enberg c914955675 Merge branch 'slab/rcu' into slab/next
Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
2011-03-11 18:10:45 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan 5bfe53a77e slab,rcu: don't assume the size of struct rcu_head
The size of struct rcu_head may be changed. When it becomes larger,
it may pollute the data after struct slab.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-03-11 18:06:35 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 3ff84a7f36 Revert "slab: Fix missing DEBUG_SLAB last user"
This reverts commit 5c5e3b33b7.

The commit breaks ARM thusly:

| Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
| slab error in verify_redzone_free(): cache `idr_layer_cache': memory outside object was overwritten
| Backtrace:
| [<c0227088>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0431afc>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
| [<c0431ae4>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c0293304>] (__slab_error+0x28/0x30)
| [<c02932dc>] (__slab_error+0x0/0x30) from [<c0293a74>] (cache_free_debugcheck+0x1c0/0x2b8)
| [<c02938b4>] (cache_free_debugcheck+0x0/0x2b8) from [<c0293f78>] (kmem_cache_free+0x3c/0xc0)
| [<c0293f3c>] (kmem_cache_free+0x0/0xc0) from [<c032b1c8>] (ida_get_new_above+0x19c/0x1c0)
| [<c032b02c>] (ida_get_new_above+0x0/0x1c0) from [<c02af7ec>] (alloc_vfsmnt+0x54/0x144)
| [<c02af798>] (alloc_vfsmnt+0x0/0x144) from [<c0299830>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x30/0xec)
| [<c0299800>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x0/0xec) from [<c0299908>] (kern_mount_data+0x1c/0x20)
| [<c02998ec>] (kern_mount_data+0x0/0x20) from [<c02146c4>] (sysfs_init+0x68/0xc8)
| [<c021465c>] (sysfs_init+0x0/0xc8) from [<c02137d4>] (mnt_init+0x90/0x1b0)
| [<c0213744>] (mnt_init+0x0/0x1b0) from [<c0213388>] (vfs_caches_init+0x100/0x140)
| [<c0213288>] (vfs_caches_init+0x0/0x140) from [<c0208c0c>] (start_kernel+0x2e8/0x368)
| [<c0208924>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x368) from [<c0208034>] (__enable_mmu+0x0/0x2c)
| c0113268: redzone 1:0xd84156c5c032b3ac, redzone 2:0xd84156c5635688c0.
| slab error in cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(): cache `idr_layer_cache': double free, or memory outside object was overwritten
| ...
| c011307c: redzone 1:0x9f91102ffffffff, redzone 2:0x9f911029d74e35b
| slab: Internal list corruption detected in cache 'idr_layer_cache'(24), slabp c0113000(16). Hexdump:
|
| 000: 20 4f 10 c0 20 4f 10 c0 7c 00 00 00 7c 30 11 c0
| 010: 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 c9 17 fe ff ff ff
| 020: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff
| 030: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff
| 040: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff
| 050: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff 11 00 00 00
| 060: 12 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 15 00 00 00
| 070: 16 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 c0 88 56 63
| kernel BUG at /home/rmk/git/linux-2.6-rmk/mm/slab.c:2928!

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/238
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.35.y and later
Reported-and-analyzed-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-02-14 17:46:21 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 63310467a3 mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name()
The last user was ext4 and Eric Sandeen removed the call in a recent patch. See
the following URL for the discussion:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=129546975702198&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-01-23 21:00:05 +02:00
H Hartley Sweeten 68a1b19559 mm/slab.c: make local symbols static
Local symbols should be static.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-01-15 13:28:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds a1e8fad590 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
  tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline code
  slub: Fix slub_lock down/up imbalance
  slub: Fix build breakage in Documentation/vm
  slub tracing: move trace calls out of always inlined functions to reduce kernel code size
  slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c
2011-01-10 08:38:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 72eb6a7914 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits)
  gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup
  x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation
  x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter
  x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops
  x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code
  vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable
  irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics
  cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics
  x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations
  percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support
  percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends
  connector: Use this_cpu operations
  xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return
  taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops
  random: Use this_cpu_inc_return
  fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c
  highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations
  vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics
  x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
  percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
  ...

Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c}
as per Tejun.
2011-01-07 17:02:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 23d69b09b7 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (33 commits)
  usb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  speedtch: don't abuse struct delayed_work
  media/video: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  media/video: explicitly flush request_module work
  ioc4: use static work_struct for ioc4_load_modules()
  init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls()
  s390: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  rtc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  mmc: update workqueue usages
  mfd: update workqueue usages
  dvb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  leds-wm8350: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  mISDN: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  macintosh/ams: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  vmwgfx: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  tpm: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  sonypi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  hvsi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  xen: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  gdrom: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-input.c
as per Tejun.
2011-01-07 16:58:04 -08:00
Nick Piggin ccd35fb9f4 kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful
This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
Christoph Lameter 909ea96468 core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.
__get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a
single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the
correct per cpu instance.

However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read()
cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through
segment prefixes).  Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var
where the address of the variable is not used.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-17 15:07:19 +01:00
Tejun Heo afe2c511fb workqueue: convert cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]() users to cancel_delayed_work_sync()
cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]() has been superceded by
cancel_delayed_work_sync() quite some time ago.  Convert all the
in-kernel users.  The conversions are completely equivalent and
trivial.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
2010-12-15 10:56:11 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 85beb5869a tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline code
The tracepoint for kmalloc is in the slab inlined code which causes
every instance of kmalloc to have the tracepoint.

This patch moves the tracepoint out of the inline code to the
slab C file, which removes a large number of inlined trace
points.

  objdump -dr vmlinux.slab| grep 'jmpq.*<trace_kmalloc' |wc -l
213
  objdump -dr vmlinux.slab.patched| grep 'jmpq.*<trace_kmalloc' |wc -l
1

This also has a nice impact on size.

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
7023060	2121564	2482432	11627056	 b16a30	vmlinux.slab
6970579	2109772	2482432	11562783	 b06f1f	vmlinux.slab.patched

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-11-28 21:16:28 +02:00
Hagen Paul Pfeifer 732eacc054 replace nested max/min macros with {max,min}3 macro
Use the new {max,min}3 macros to save some cycles and bytes on the stack.
This patch substitutes trivial nested macros with their counterpart.

Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bc584c5107 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slab: fix object alignment
  slub: add missing __percpu markup in mm/slub_def.h
2010-08-22 10:08:52 -07:00
Andi Kleen 4e60c86bd9 gcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings
No real bugs, just some dead code and some fixups.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
Carsten Otte 1ab335d8f8 slab: fix object alignment
This patch fixes alignment of slab objects in case CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is
active.
Before this spot in kmem_cache_create, we have this situation:
- align contains the required alignment of the object
- cachep->obj_offset is 0 or equals align in case of CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
- size equals the size of the object, or object plus trailing redzone in case
  of CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB

This spot tries to fill one page per object if the object is in certain size
limits, however setting obj_offset to PAGE_SIZE - size does break the object
alignment since size may not be aligned with the required alignment.
This patch simply adds an ALIGN(size, align) to the equation and fixes the
object size detection accordingly.

This code in drivers/s390/cio/qdio_setup_init has lead to incorrectly aligned
slab objects (sizeof(struct qdio_q) equals 1792):
	qdio_q_cache = kmem_cache_create("qdio_q", sizeof(struct qdio_q),
					 256, 0, NULL);

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-08-09 18:48:07 +03:00
Linus Torvalds b57bdda58c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
  Revert "slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot"
  slub numa: Fix rare allocation from unexpected node
  slab: use deferable timers for its periodic housekeeping
  slub: Use kmem_cache flags to detect if slab is in debugging mode.
  slub: Allow removal of slab caches during boot
  slub: Check kasprintf results in kmem_cache_init()
  SLUB: Constants need UL
  slub: Use a constant for a unspecified node.
  SLOB: Free objects to their own list
  slab: fix caller tracking on !CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB && CONFIG_TRACING
2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven 78b435368f slab: use deferable timers for its periodic housekeeping
slab has a "once every 2 second" timer for its housekeeping.
As the number of logical processors is growing, its more and more
common that this 2 second timer becomes the primary wakeup source.

This patch turns this housekeeping timer into a deferable timer,
which means that the timer does not interrupt idle, but just runs
at the next event that wakes the cpu up.

The impact is that the timer likely runs a bit later, but during the
delay no code is running so there's not all that much reason for
a difference in housekeeping to occur because of this delay.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-07-20 10:03:23 +03:00
Li Zefan 039ca4e74a tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin
We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
and perf-kmem, so we remove it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-09 17:31:22 +02:00
Lee Schermerhorn 7d6e6d09de numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node
Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()":

The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes
well.  Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never
succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and
for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to
numa_node_id().  This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache
allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier
kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized].

This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return
the "effective local memory node" for the calling context.  This is the
first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node
that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use.  This lets slab cache
these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation.

N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could
change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent
changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this.  E.g., flush
all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the
"machine" is held in the stopped state.

Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200"

2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609		no-patch	this-patch
ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]:     11.713       11.637  ~0.65 diff
ia64 cpus all on memless nodes  [10]:    228.259       26.484  ~8.6x speedup

The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when
configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from
a single node's mm pagepool.  The cache lines of the single node are
distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but
the zone lock, list heads, ...  of the single node with memory still each
live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors.

x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]:		2.883	   2.845

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
Akinobu Mita eac4068013 slab: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value
By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate
errno value.  This converts the cpu notifiers for slab.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:48 -07:00
Jack Steiner 6adef3ebe5 cpusets: new round-robin rotor for SLAB allocations
We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where
memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system.  There are
numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in
cpuset_mem_spread_node().

For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate
pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ...  Odd nodes are skipped.  (Sometimes it
allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes).

An example is shown below.  The program "lfile" writes a file consisting
of 10 pages.  The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(...,
MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated.
The output is shown below:

	# ./lfile
	 allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2

There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab
pages.  Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page
(buffer_head).  This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page
allocated.

A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven
allocation:

	# echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab
	# ./lfile
	 allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5

This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:44 -07:00
Miao Xie c0ff7453bb cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems
Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and
mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all
old unallowed bits later.  But in the way, the allocator may find that
there is no node to alloc memory.

The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the
nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example:

(mpol: mempolicy)
	task1			task1's mpol	task2
	alloc page		1
	  alloc on node0? NO	1
				1		change mems from 1 to 0
				1		rebind task1's mpol
				0-1		  set new bits
				0	  	  clear disallowed bits
	  alloc on node1? NO	0
	  ...
	can't alloc page
	  goto oom

This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly
allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits).  So we
use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading
nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after
read-side task ends the current memory allocation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
Pekka Enberg bb4f6b0cd7 Merge branches 'slab/align', 'slab/cleanups', 'slab/fixes', 'slab/memhotadd' and 'slub/fixes' into slab-for-linus 2010-05-22 10:57:52 +03:00
David Woodhouse 1f0ce8b3dd mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to <linux/slab_def.h>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-05-19 22:03:13 +03:00
Shiyong Li 5c5e3b33b7 slab: Fix missing DEBUG_SLAB last user
Even with SLAB_RED_ZONE and SLAB_STORE_USER enabled, kernel would NOT store
redzone and last user data around allocated memory space if "arch cache line >
sizeof(unsigned long long)". As a result, last user information is unexpectedly
MISSED while dumping slab corruption log.

This fix makes sure that redzone and last user tags get stored unless the
required alignment breaks redzone's.

Signed-off-by: Shiyong Li <shi-yong.li@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-04-14 20:52:45 +03:00
Pekka Enberg fc1c183353 slab: Generify kernel pointer validation
As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some
sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer.  This is a
preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate().

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-09 10:09:50 -07:00
David Rientjes 8f9f8d9e80 slab: add memory hotplug support
Slab lacks any memory hotplug support for nodes that are hotplugged
without cpus being hotplugged.  This is possible at least on x86
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE kernels where SRAT entries are marked
ACPI_SRAT_MEM_HOT_PLUGGABLE and the regions of RAM represent a seperate
node.  It can also be done manually by writing the start address to
/sys/devices/system/memory/probe for kernels that have
CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE set, which is how this patch was tested, and
then onlining the new memory region.

When a node is hotadded, a nodelist for that node is allocated and
initialized for each slab cache.  If this isn't completed due to a lack
of memory, the hotadd is aborted: we have a reasonable expectation that
kmalloc_node(nid) will work for all caches if nid is online and memory is
available.

Since nodelists must be allocated and initialized prior to the new node's
memory actually being online, the struct kmem_list3 is allocated off-node
due to kmalloc_node()'s fallback.

When an entire node would be offlined, its nodelists are subsequently
drained.  If slab objects still exist and cannot be freed, the offline is
aborted.  It is possible that objects will be allocated between this
drain and page isolation, so it's still possible that the offline will
still fail, however.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-04-07 19:28:31 +03:00
Joe Perches e92dd4fd1a slab: Fix continuation lines
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-03-28 20:08:16 +03:00
Pekka Enberg e2b093f3e9 Merge branches 'slab/cleanups', 'slab/failslab', 'slab/fixes' and 'slub/percpu' into slab-for-linus 2010-03-04 12:07:50 +02:00
Dmitry Monakhov 4c13dd3b48 failslab: add ability to filter slab caches
This patch allow to inject faults only for specific slabs.
In order to preserve default behavior cache filter is off by
default (all caches are faulty).

One may define specific set of slabs like this:
# mark skbuff_head_cache as faulty
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_head_cache/failslab
# Turn on cache filter (off by default)
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/cache-filter
# Turn on fault injection
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/times
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/probability

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-02-26 19:19:39 +02:00
Nick Piggin 44b57f1cc7 slab: fix regression in touched logic
When factoring common code into transfer_objects in commit 3ded175 ("slab: add
transfer_objects() function"), the 'touched' logic got a bit broken. When
refilling from the shared array (taking objects from the shared array), we are
making use of the shared array so it should be marked as touched.

Subsequently pulling an element from the cpu array and allocating it should
also touch the cpu array, but that is taken care of after the alloc_done label.
(So yes, the cpu array was getting touched = 1 twice).

So revert this logic to how it worked in earlier kernels.

This also affects the behaviour in __drain_alien_cache, which would previously
'touch' the shared array and now does not. I think it is more logical not to
touch there, because we are pushing objects into the shared array rather than
pulling them off. So there is no good reason to postpone reaping them -- if the
shared array is getting utilized, then it will get 'touched' in the alloc path
(where this patch now restores the touch).

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-01-30 15:02:39 +02:00
Haicheng Li f3186a9c51 slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL at alloc_alien_cache().
Comparing with existing code, it's a simpler way to use kzalloc_node()
to ensure that each unused alien cache entry is NULL.

CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-01-11 18:56:07 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 00afa75806 SLAB: Fix lockdep annotation breakage
Commit ce79ddc8e2 ("SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations
for CPU hotplug") broke init_node_lock_keys() off-slab logic which causes
lockdep false positives.

Fix that up by reverting the logic back to original while keeping CPU hotplug
fixes intact.

Reported-and-tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-12-28 20:57:27 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 55db493b65 Merge branch 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  cpumask: rename tsk_cpumask to tsk_cpus_allowed
  cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
  cpumask: avoid dereferencing struct cpumask
  cpumask: convert drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: use modern cpumask style in drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
  cpumask: avoid deprecated function in mm/slab.c
  cpumask: use cpu_online in kernel/perf_event.c
2009-12-17 17:00:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds dcc7cd0112 Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error
  kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects
  kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object
  kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object()
  kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules
  kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
  kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE
2009-12-17 16:00:19 -08:00
Rusty Russell 58463c1fe2 cpumask: avoid deprecated function in mm/slab.c
These days we use cpumask_empty() which takes a pointer.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17 11:43:13 +10:30
Linus Torvalds 2205afa7d1 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf sched: Fix build failure on sparc
  perf bench: Add "all" pseudo subsystem and "all" pseudo suite
  perf tools: Introduce perf_session class
  perf symbols: Ditch dso->find_symbol
  perf symbols: Allow lookups by symbol name too
  perf symbols: Add missing "Variables" entry to map_type__name
  perf symbols: Add support for 'variable' symtabs
  perf symbols: Introduce ELF counterparts to symbol_type__is_a
  perf symbols: Introduce symbol_type__is_a
  perf symbols: Rename kthreads to kmaps, using another abstraction for it
  perf tools: Allow building for ARM
  hw-breakpoints: Handle bad modify_user_hw_breakpoint off-case return value
  perf tools: Allow cross compiling
  tracing, slab: Fix no callsite ifndef CONFIG_KMEMTRACE
  tracing, slab: Define kmem_cache_alloc_notrace ifdef CONFIG_TRACING

Trivial conflict due to different fixes to modify_user_hw_breakpoint()
in include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d0316554d3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
Pekka Enberg 355d79c87a Merge branches 'slab/fixes', 'slab/kmemleak', 'slub/perf' and 'slub/stats' into for-linus 2009-12-12 10:12:19 +02:00
Li Zefan 0bb38a5cde tracing, slab: Fix no callsite ifndef CONFIG_KMEMTRACE
For slab, if CONFIG_KMEMTRACE and CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB are not set,
__do_kmalloc() will not track callers:

 # ./perf record -f -a -R -e kmem:kmalloc
 ^C
 # ./perf trace
 ...
          perf-2204  [000]   147.376774: kmalloc: call_site=c0529d2d ...
          perf-2204  [000]   147.400997: kmalloc: call_site=c0529d2d ...
          Xorg-1461  [001]   147.405413: kmalloc: call_site=0 ...
          Xorg-1461  [001]   147.405609: kmalloc: call_site=0 ...
       konsole-1776  [001]   147.405786: kmalloc: call_site=0 ...

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
LKML-Reference: <4B21F8AE.6020804@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-11 09:17:03 +01:00
Li Zefan 0f24f1287a tracing, slab: Define kmem_cache_alloc_notrace ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
Define kmem_trace_alloc_{,node}_notrace() if CONFIG_TRACING is
enabled, otherwise perf-kmem will show wrong stats ifndef
CONFIG_KMEM_TRACE, because a kmalloc() memory allocation may
be traced by both trace_kmalloc() and trace_kmem_cache_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
LKML-Reference: <4B21F89A.7000801@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-11 09:17:02 +01:00
J. R. Okajima ddbf2e8366 slab, kmemleak: pass the correct pointer to kmemleak_erase()
In ____cache_alloc(), the variable 'ac' may be changed after
cache_alloc_refill() and the following kmemleak_erase() may get an incorrect
pointer. Update 'ac' after cache_alloc_refill() unconditionally.

See the following URL for the discussion of this patch:

 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125873373124187&w=2

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-12-06 10:24:03 +02:00
J. R. Okajima f3d8b53a3a slab, kmemleak: stop calling kmemleak_erase() unconditionally
When the gotten object is NULL (probably due to ENOMEM), kmemleak_erase() is
unnecessary here, It just sets NULL to where already is NULL.  Add a condition.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-12-06 10:23:05 +02:00
Tim Blechmann 8e15b79cf4 SLAB: Fix unlikely() annotation in __cache_alloc_node()
Branch profiling on my nehalem machine showed 99% incorrect branch hints:

   28459  7678524  99 __cache_alloc_node             slab.c               3551

Discussion on lkml [1] led to the solution to remove this hint.

[1] http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/63517/

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-12-06 10:21:21 +02:00
Pekka Enberg ce79ddc8e2 SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations for CPU hotplug
As reported by Paul McKenney:

  I am seeing some lockdep complaints in rcutorture runs that include
  frequent CPU-hotplug operations.  The tests are otherwise successful.
  My first thought was to send a patch that gave each array_cache
  structure's ->lock field its own struct lock_class_key, but you already
  have a init_lock_keys() that seems to be intended to deal with this.

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  =============================================
  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  2.6.32-rc4-autokern1 #1
  ---------------------------------------------
  syslogd/2908 is trying to acquire lock:
   (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001407f4>] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4

  but task is already holding lock:
   (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324

  other info that might help us debug this:
  3 locks held by syslogd/2908:
   #0:  (&u->readlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0000000004556f8>] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x70/0x338
   #1:  (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324
   #2:  (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<c000000000140f64>] .__drain_alien_cache+0x50/0xb8

  stack backtrace:
  Call Trace:
  [c0000000e8ccafc0] [c0000000000101e4] .show_stack+0x70/0x184 (unreliable)
  [c0000000e8ccb070] [c0000000000afebc] .validate_chain+0x6ec/0xf58
  [c0000000e8ccb180] [c0000000000b0ff0] .__lock_acquire+0x8c8/0x974
  [c0000000e8ccb280] [c0000000000b2290] .lock_acquire+0x140/0x18c
  [c0000000e8ccb350] [c000000000468df0] ._spin_lock+0x48/0x70
  [c0000000e8ccb3e0] [c0000000001407f4] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4
  [c0000000e8ccb4a0] [c000000000140b90] .free_block+0x130/0x1a8
  [c0000000e8ccb540] [c000000000140f94] .__drain_alien_cache+0x80/0xb8
  [c0000000e8ccb5e0] [c0000000001411e0] .kfree+0x214/0x324
  [c0000000e8ccb6a0] [c0000000003ca860] .skb_release_data+0xe8/0x104
  [c0000000e8ccb730] [c0000000003ca2ec] .__kfree_skb+0x20/0xd4
  [c0000000e8ccb7b0] [c0000000003cf2c8] .skb_free_datagram+0x1c/0x5c
  [c0000000e8ccb830] [c00000000045597c] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x2f4/0x338
  [c0000000e8ccb920] [c0000000003c0f14] .sock_recvmsg+0xf4/0x13c
  [c0000000e8ccbb30] [c0000000003c28ec] .SyS_recvfrom+0xb4/0x130
  [c0000000e8ccbcb0] [c0000000003bfb78] .sys_recv+0x18/0x2c
  [c0000000e8ccbd20] [c0000000003ed388] .compat_sys_recv+0x14/0x28
  [c0000000e8ccbd90] [c0000000003ee1bc] .compat_sys_socketcall+0x178/0x220
  [c0000000e8ccbe30] [c0000000000085d4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

This patch fixes the issue by setting up lockdep annotations during CPU
hotplug.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-30 19:16:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo 1871e52c76 percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
This patch updates percpu related symbols under kernel/ and mm/ such
that percpu symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols.
This serves two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global
percpu symbol collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from
percpu symbols.

* kernel/lockdep.c: s/lock_stats/cpu_lock_stats/

* kernel/sched.c: s/init_rq_rt/init_rt_rq_var/	(any better idea?)
  		  s/sched_group_cpus/sched_groups/

* kernel/softirq.c: s/ksoftirqd/run_ksoftirqd/a

* kernel/softlockup.c: s/(*)_timestamp/softlockup_\1_ts/
  		       s/watchdog_task/softlockup_watchdog/
		       s/timestamp/ts/ for local variables

* kernel/time/timer_stats: s/lookup_lock/tstats_lookup_lock/

* mm/slab.c: s/reap_work/slab_reap_work/
  	     s/reap_node/slab_reap_node/

* mm/vmstat.c: local variable changed to avoid collision with vmstat_work

Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars
which cause name clashes" patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: (slab/vmstat) Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2009-10-29 22:34:13 +09:00
Catalin Marinas c017b4be3e kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype
This function was taking non-necessary arguments which can be determined
by kmemleak. The patch also modifies the calling sites.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-10-28 15:11:00 +00:00
Catalin Marinas e7cb55b946 kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE
With the slab allocator, if off-slab management is enabled for the
kmem_caches used by kmemleak, it leads to recursive calls into
kmemleak_alloc(). Off-slab management can be triggered by other config
options increasing the slab size, e.g. DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-10-28 13:33:08 +00:00
Jan Beulich 4481374ce8 mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount
of) non-RAM pages.  The amount of what actually is usable as storage
should instead be used as a basis here.

Some of the calculations (i.e.  those not intending to use high memory)
should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
Pekka Enberg ec5a36f94e SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations
Commit 8429db5... ("slab: setup cpu caches later on when interrupts are
enabled") broke mm/slab.c lockdep annotations:

  [   11.554715] =============================================
  [   11.555249] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  [   11.555560] 2.6.31-rc1 #896
  [   11.555861] ---------------------------------------------
  [   11.556127] udevd/1899 is trying to acquire lock:
  [   11.556436]  (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c337f>] kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b
  [   11.557101]
  [   11.557102] but task is already holding lock:
  [   11.557706]  (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c3cd0>] kfree+0x137/0x292
  [   11.558109]
  [   11.558109] other info that might help us debug this:
  [   11.558720] 2 locks held by udevd/1899:
  [   11.558983]  #0:  (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c3cd0>] kfree+0x137/0x292
  [   11.559734]  #1:  (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c36c7>] __drain_alien_cache+0x3b/0xbd
  [   11.560442]
  [   11.560443] stack backtrace:
  [   11.561009] Pid: 1899, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1 #896
  [   11.561276] Call Trace:
  [   11.561632]  [<ffffffff81065ed6>] __lock_acquire+0x15ec/0x168f
  [   11.561901]  [<ffffffff81065f60>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1676/0x168f
  [   11.562171]  [<ffffffff81063c52>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x113/0x13e
  [   11.562490]  [<ffffffff8150c337>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
  [   11.562807]  [<ffffffff8106603a>] lock_acquire+0xc1/0xe5
  [   11.563073]  [<ffffffff810c337f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b
  [   11.563385]  [<ffffffff8150c8fc>] _spin_lock+0x31/0x66
  [   11.563696]  [<ffffffff810c337f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b
  [   11.563964]  [<ffffffff810c337f>] kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b
  [   11.564235]  [<ffffffff8109bf8c>] ? __free_pages+0x1b/0x24
  [   11.564551]  [<ffffffff810c3564>] slab_destroy+0x57/0x5c
  [   11.564860]  [<ffffffff810c3641>] free_block+0xd8/0x123
  [   11.565126]  [<ffffffff810c372e>] __drain_alien_cache+0xa2/0xbd
  [   11.565441]  [<ffffffff810c3ce5>] kfree+0x14c/0x292
  [   11.565752]  [<ffffffff8144a007>] skb_release_data+0xc6/0xcb
  [   11.566020]  [<ffffffff81449cf0>] __kfree_skb+0x19/0x86
  [   11.566286]  [<ffffffff81449d88>] consume_skb+0x2b/0x2d
  [   11.566631]  [<ffffffff8144cbe0>] skb_free_datagram+0x14/0x3a
  [   11.566901]  [<ffffffff81462eef>] netlink_recvmsg+0x164/0x258
  [   11.567170]  [<ffffffff81443461>] sock_recvmsg+0xe5/0xfe
  [   11.567486]  [<ffffffff810ab063>] ? might_fault+0xaf/0xb1
  [   11.567802]  [<ffffffff81053a78>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38
  [   11.568073]  [<ffffffff810d84ca>] ? core_sys_select+0x3d/0x2b4
  [   11.568378]  [<ffffffff81065f60>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1676/0x168f
  [   11.568693]  [<ffffffff81442dc1>] ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x1b/0x54
  [   11.568961]  [<ffffffff81444416>] sys_recvfrom+0xa3/0xf8
  [   11.569228]  [<ffffffff81063c8a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
  [   11.569546]  [<ffffffff8100af2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b#

Fix that up.

Closes-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13654
Tested-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-29 09:57:10 +03:00
Paul E. McKenney 7ed9f7e5db fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]b
Jesper noted that kmem_cache_destroy() invokes synchronize_rcu() rather than
rcu_barrier() in the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU case, which could result in RCU
callbacks accessing a kmem_cache after it had been destroyed.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-26 12:10:47 +03:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt dcce284a25 mm: Extend gfp masking to the page allocator
The page allocator also needs the masking of gfp flags during boot,
so this moves it out of slab/slub and uses it with the page allocator
as well.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:12:57 -07:00
Pekka Enberg e03ab9d415 Merge branches 'slab/documentation', 'slab/fixes', 'slob/cleanups' and 'slub/fixes' into for-linus 2009-06-17 08:30:15 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 517d08699b Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm: (182 commits)
  fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
  fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
  fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
  fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
  fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
  fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
  tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
  fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
  intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
  fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
  radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
  s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
  s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
  carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
  acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
  mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
  Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
  atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
  offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
Mel Gorman b6e68bc1ba page allocator: slab: use nr_online_nodes to check for a NUMA platform
SLAB currently avoids checking a bitmap repeatedly by checking once and
storing a flag.  When the addition of nr_online_nodes as a cheaper version
of num_online_nodes(), this check can be replaced by nr_online_nodes.

(Christoph did a patch that this is lifted almost verbatim from)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:35 -07:00
Mel Gorman 6484eb3e2a page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid
Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean
"allocate from the current node".  However, a number of the callers in
fast paths know for a fact their node is valid.  To avoid a comparison and
branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid
with VM_BUG_ON().  Callers that know their node is valid are then
converted.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>	[for the SLOB NUMA bits]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:32 -07:00
Vegard Nossum 722f2a6c87 Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEAD
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:50:49 +02:00
Vegard Nossum b1eeab6768 kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator
This adds support for tracking the initializedness of memory that
was allocated with the page allocator. Highmem requests are not
tracked.

Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[build fix for !CONFIG_KMEMCHECK]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:48:33 +02:00
Pekka Enberg c175eea466 slab: add hooks for kmemcheck
We now have SLAB support for kmemcheck! This means that it doesn't matter
whether one chooses SLAB or SLUB, or indeed whether Linus chooses to chuck
SLAB or SLUB.. ;-)

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 12:40:08 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 8eae985f08 slab: move struct kmem_cache to headers
Move the SLAB struct kmem_cache definition to <linux/slab_def.h> like
with SLUB so kmemcheck can access ->ctor and ->flags.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-13 08:58:43 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 8429db5c63 slab: setup cpu caches later on when interrupts are enabled
Fixes the following boot-time warning:

  [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [    0.000000] WARNING: at kernel/smp.c:369 smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc()
  [    0.000000] Hardware name:
  [    0.000000] Modules linked in:
  [    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30 #492
  [    0.000000] Call Trace:
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8149e021>] ? _spin_unlock+0x4f/0x5c
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8108f11b>] ? smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81061764>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0xa9
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810617a5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x16
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8108f11b>] smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8108f2be>] smp_call_function+0x3d/0x68
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81066fd8>] on_each_cpu+0x31/0x7c
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810f64f5>] do_tune_cpucache+0x119/0x454
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81087080>] ? lockdep_init_map+0x94/0x10b
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff818133b0>] ? kmem_cache_init+0x421/0x593
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810f69cf>] enable_cpucache+0x68/0xad
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff818133c3>] kmem_cache_init+0x434/0x593
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8180987c>] ? mem_init+0x156/0x161
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff817f8aae>] start_kernel+0x1cc/0x3b9
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff817f829a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xaa/0xae
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff817f837f>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe1/0xe8
  [    0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 18:53:58 +03:00
Pekka Enberg 7e85ee0c1d slab,slub: don't enable interrupts during early boot
As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

  Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing
  a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to
  grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and
  even then you'll be missing some.

  For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the
  early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form
  mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code
  using that to do the test.

Therefore, mask out __GFP_WAIT, __GFP_IO, and __GFP_FS in the slab allocators
in early boot code to avoid enabling interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 18:53:33 +03:00
Pekka Enberg eb91f1d0a5 slab: fix gfp flag in setup_cpu_cache()
Fixes the following warning during bootup when compiling with CONFIG_SLAB:

  [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [    0.000000] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2282 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x91/0xb9()
  [    0.000000] Hardware name:
  [    0.000000] Modules linked in:
  [    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30 #491
  [    0.000000] Call Trace:
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81087d84>] ? lockdep_trace_alloc+0x91/0xb9
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81061764>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0xa9
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810617a5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x16
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81087d84>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0x91/0xb9
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810f5b03>] kmem_cache_alloc_node_notrace+0x26/0xdf
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81487f4e>] ? setup_cpu_cache+0x7e/0x210
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81487fe3>] setup_cpu_cache+0x113/0x210
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff810f73ff>] kmem_cache_create+0x409/0x486
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff818131c1>] kmem_cache_init+0x232/0x593
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8180987c>] ? mem_init+0x156/0x161
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff817f8aae>] start_kernel+0x1cc/0x3b9
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff817f829a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xaa/0xae
  [    0.000000]  [<ffffffff817f837f>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe1/0xe8
  [    0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 18:34:32 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 512626a04e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
  kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
  kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
  kmemleak: Add modules support
  kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
  kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Add the base support

Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
	drivers/char/vt.c
	init/main.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-06-11 14:15:57 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 83b519e8b9 slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence
This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get
rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to
kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some
changes to allocator boostrap code.

Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps
before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar:

  We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code:

  [    0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000
  [    0.000000]      EDI 00000188  ESI 00000ac7  EBP c17eaf9c  ESP c17eaf8c
  [    0.000000]      EBX 000014e0  EDX 0000000e  ECX 01856067  EAX 00000001
  [    0.000000]      err 00000003  EIP c10135b1   CS 00000060  flg 00010002
  [    0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc
  [    0.000000]        00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0
  [    0.000000]        c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003
  [    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203
  [    0.000000] Call Trace:
  [    0.000000]  [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16
  [    0.000000]  [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23
  [    0.000000]  [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64
  [    0.000000]  [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8
  [    0.000000]  [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7
  [    0.000000]  [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c
  [    0.000000]  [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11 19:15:56 +03:00
Catalin Marinas d5cff63529 kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from
the slab allocator. The patch also adds the SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE flag to
avoid recursive calls to kmemleak when it allocates its own data
structures.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11 17:03:29 +01:00
Ron Lee 6746136520 slab: fix generic PAGE_POISONING conflict with SLAB_RED_ZONE
A generic page poisoning mechanism was added with commit:
 6a11f75b6a
which destructively poisons full pages with a bitpattern.

On arches where PAGE_POISONING is used, this conflicts with the slab
redzone checking enabled by DEBUG_SLAB, scribbling bits all over its
magic words and making it complain about that quite emphatically.

On x86 (and I presume at present all the other arches which set
ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC too), the kernel_map_pages() operation
is non destructive so it can coexist with the other DEBUG_SLAB
mechanisms just fine.

This patch favours the expensive full page destruction test for
cases where there is a collision and it is explicitly selected.

Signed-off-by: Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-05-22 11:01:12 +03:00
Zhaolei 02af61bb50 tracing, kmemtrace: Separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h to kmemtrace part and tracepoint part
Impact: refactor code for future changes

Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
tracepoints definition.

Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
definition of tracepoint.

We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:

  include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
  include/trace/kmem.h:      definition of kmem tracepoints

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 15:22:55 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 12fe32e4f9 Merge branch 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects
  kmemtrace: small cleanups
  kmemtrace: restore original tracing data binary format, improve ABI
  kmemtrace: kmemtrace_alloc() must fill type_id
  kmemtrace: use tracepoints
  kmemtrace, rcu: don't include unnecessary headers, allow kmemtrace w/ tracepoints
  kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcupreempt.c data structure dependencies
  kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcu_tree_trace.c data structure dependencies
  kmemtrace, rcu: fix linux/rcutree.h and linux/rcuclassic.h dependencies
  kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c
  kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_unlzma.c
  kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_bunzip2.c
  kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_inflate.c
  kmemtrace, squashfs: fix slab.h dependency problem in squasfs
  kmemtrace, befs: fix slab.h dependency problem
  kmemtrace, security: fix linux/key.h header file dependencies
  kmemtrace, fs: fix linux/fdtable.h header file dependencies
  kmemtrace, fs: uninline simple_transaction_set()
  kmemtrace, fs, security: move alloc_secdata() and free_secdata() to linux/security.h
2009-04-06 13:30:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 714f83d5d9 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c
2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 90975ef712 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask: (36 commits)
  cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix
  numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h, fix
  cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance
  x86: cpumask: x86 mmio-mod.c use cpumask_var_t for downed_cpus
  x86: cpumask: update 32-bit APM not to mug current->cpus_allowed
  x86: microcode: cleanup
  x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
  cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash
  numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h
  cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: remove x86 cpumask_t uses.
  cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in uv_flush_tlb_others.
  cpumask: remove cpumask_t assignment from vector_allocation_domain()
  cpumask: make Xen use the new operators.
  cpumask: clean up summit's send_IPI functions
  cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86
  x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask
  cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
  x86: unify 32 and 64-bit node_to_cpumask_map
  ...
2009-04-05 10:33:07 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 2121db74ba kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects
Impact: also output kfree(NULL) entries

This patch moves the trace_kfree() calls before the ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR
check so that we can trace call-sites that call kfree() with NULL many
times which might be an indication of a bug.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
LKML-Reference: <1237971957.30175.18.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03 12:23:10 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu ca2b84cb3c kmemtrace: use tracepoints
kmemtrace now uses tracepoints instead of markers. We no longer need to
use format specifiers to pass arguments.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
[ folded: Use the new TP_PROTO and TP_ARGS to fix the build.     ]
[ folded: fix build when CONFIG_KMEMTRACE is disabled.           ]
[ folded: define tracepoints when CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <ae61c0f37156db8ec8dc0d5778018edde60a92e3.1237813499.git.eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03 12:23:06 +02:00
Jean Delvare bf6aede712 workqueue: add to_delayed_work() helper function
It is a fairly common operation to have a pointer to a work and to need a
pointer to the delayed work it is contained in.  In particular, all
delayed works which want to rearm themselves will have to do that.  So it
would seem fair to offer a helper function for this operation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:50 -07:00
Rusty Russell 558f6ab910 Merge branch 'cpumask-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
	drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
(Both cases: changed in Linus' tree, removed in Ingo's).
2009-03-31 13:33:50 +10:30
Linus Torvalds c4e1aa67ed Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (33 commits)
  lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc
  lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix SLOB
  lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix
  lockdep: build fix for !PROVE_LOCKING
  lockstat: warn about disabled lock debugging
  lockdep: use stringify.h
  lockdep: simplify check_prev_add_irq()
  lockdep: get_user_chars() redo
  lockdep: simplify get_user_chars()
  lockdep: add comments to mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: remove macro usage from mark_held_locks()
  lockdep: fully reduce mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: merge the !_READ mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: merge the _READ mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers #3
  lockdep: further simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: simplify the mark_lock_irq() helpers
  lockdep: split up mark_lock_irq()
  lockdep: generate usage strings
  lockdep: generate the state bit definitions
  ...
2009-03-30 17:17:35 -07:00
Rusty Russell a70f730282 cpumask: replace node_to_cpumask with cpumask_of_node.
Impact: cleanup

node_to_cpumask (and the blecherous node_to_cpumask_ptr which
contained a declaration) are replaced now everyone implements
cpumask_of_node.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-13 14:49:46 +10:30
Ingo Molnar 28b1bd1cbc Merge branch 'core/locking' into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-04 18:49:19 +01:00
Nick Piggin cf40bd16fd lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS)
Here is another version, with the incremental patch rolled up, and
added reclaim context annotation to kswapd, and allocation tracing
to slab allocators (which may only ever reach the page allocator
in rare cases, so it is good to put annotations here too).

Haven't tested this version as such, but it should be getting closer
to merge worthy ;)

--
After noticing some code in mm/filemap.c accidentally perform a __GFP_FS
allocation when it should not have been, I thought it might be a good idea to
try to catch this kind of thing with lockdep.

I coded up a little idea that seems to work. Unfortunately the system has to
actually be in __GFP_FS page reclaim, then take the lock, before it will mark
it. But at least that might still be some orders of magnitude more common
(and more debuggable) than an actual deadlock condition, so we have some
improvement I hope (the concept is no less complete than discovery of a lock's
interrupt contexts).

I guess we could even do the same thing with __GFP_IO (normal reclaim), and
even GFP_NOIO locks too... but filesystems will have the most locks and fiddly
code paths, so let's start there and see how it goes.

It *seems* to work. I did a quick test.

=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26
---------------------------------
inconsistent {in-reclaim-W} -> {ov-reclaim-W} usage.
modprobe/8526 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
 (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd]
{in-reclaim-W} state was registered at:
  [<ffffffff80267bdb>] __lock_acquire+0x75b/0x1a60
  [<ffffffff80268f71>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xc0
  [<ffffffff8070f0e1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x310
  [<ffffffffa002002b>] brd_init+0x2b/0x216 [brd]
  [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170
  [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0
  [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
irq event stamp: 3929
hardirqs last  enabled at (3929): [<ffffffff8070f2b5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x285/0x310
hardirqs last disabled at (3928): [<ffffffff8070f089>] mutex_lock_nested+0x59/0x310
softirqs last  enabled at (3732): [<ffffffff8061f623>] sk_filter+0x83/0xe0
softirqs last disabled at (3730): [<ffffffff8061f5b6>] sk_filter+0x16/0xe0

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by modprobe/8526:
 #0:  (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd]

stack backtrace:
Pid: 8526, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80265483>] print_usage_bug+0x193/0x1d0
 [<ffffffff80266530>] mark_lock+0xaf0/0xca0
 [<ffffffff80266735>] mark_held_locks+0x55/0xc0
 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
 [<ffffffff802667ca>] trace_reclaim_fs+0x2a/0x60
 [<ffffffff80285005>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x475/0x580
 [<ffffffff8070f29e>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x26e/0x310
 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
 [<ffffffffa002006a>] brd_init+0x6a/0x216 [brd]
 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd]
 [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170
 [<ffffffff8070f8b9>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0x10
 [<ffffffff8070f83d>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10d/0x180
 [<ffffffff802669ec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12c/0x190
 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0
 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-14 23:27:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 1c511f740f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/sysprof', 'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-13 10:25:18 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov b1aabecd55 mm: Export symbol ksize()
Commit 7b2cd92adc ("crypto: api - Fix
zeroing on free") added modular user of ksize(). Export that to fix
crypto.ko compilation.

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-12 17:50:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3d7a96f5a4 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/kmemtrace2 2009-01-06 09:53:05 +01:00
Rusty Russell 174596a0b9 cpumask: convert mm/
Impact: Use new API

Convert kernel mm functions to use struct cpumask.

We skip include/linux/percpu.h and mm/allocpercpu.c, which are in flux.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
Ingo Molnar f09eac9034 tracing/kmemtrace: fix typo
Impact: build fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-31 09:43:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 818fa7f390 Merge branch 'tracing/kmemtrace' into tracing/kmemtrace2 2008-12-31 08:19:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 5fdf7e5975 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/kmemtrace
Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
2008-12-31 08:14:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3fd4bc015e tracing/kmemtrace: export kmemtrace_mark_alloc_node() / kmemtrace_mark_free()
Impact: build fix

Also fix up Kconfig dependencies and include files.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 16:06:00 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 2a38b1c4f1 kmemtrace: move #include lines
Impact: avoid conflicts with kmemcheck

kmemcheck modifies the same area of slab.c and slub.c - move the
include lines up a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 06:56:21 +01:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 36555751c6 kmemtrace: SLAB hooks.
This adds hooks for the SLAB allocator, to allow tracing with kmemtrace.

We also convert some inline functions to __always_inline to make sure
_RET_IP_, which expands to __builtin_return_address(0), always works
as expected.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 15:34:04 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 35995a4d81 SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.
This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a
previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and
they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read
code.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer]
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 15:33:59 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 3c506efd7e Merge branch 'topic/failslab' into for-linus
Conflicts:

	mm/slub.c

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:47:05 +02:00
Pekka Enberg fd37617e69 Merge branches 'topic/fixes', 'topic/cleanups' and 'topic/documentation' into for-linus 2008-12-29 11:45:47 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 8759ec50a6 slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt()
Commit 6cb062296f ("Categorize GFP flags")
left one call-site in alloc_slabmgmt() to clear GFP_THISNODE instead of
GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK. Unfortunately, that ends up clearing __GFP_NOWARN
and __GFP_NORETRY as well which is not what we want. As the only caller
of alloc_slabmgmt() already clears GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK before passing
local_flags to it, we can just remove the clearing of GFP_THISNODE.

This patch should fix spurious page allocation failure warnings on the
mempool_alloc() path. See the following URL for the original discussion
of the bug:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/27/100

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:40:53 +02:00
Akinobu Mita 773ff60e84 SLUB: failslab support
Currently fault-injection capability for SLAB allocator is only
available to SLAB. This patch makes it available to SLUB, too.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: unify slab and slub implementations]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 11:27:46 +02:00
Catalin Marinas 249da16658 slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameter
kmem_cache implementations like slub are allowed to merge multiple
caches but only the initial name is preserved. Therefore,
kmem_cache_name() is not guaranteed to return the same pointer passed to
the former function. This patch updates the documentation to make this
clearer.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26 16:48:47 +02:00
roel kluin 249b9f331e slab: unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0
unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26 16:47:26 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu ce71e27c6f SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.
This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a
previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and
they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read
code.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer]
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26 16:47:25 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan 7b3c3a50a3 proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
Lose dummy ->write hook in case of SLUB, it's possible now.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-10-23 15:20:06 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan a0ec95a8e6 proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-10-23 15:17:27 +04:00
Adrian Bunk 231367fd9b mm: unexport ksize
This patch removes the obsolete and no longer used exports of ksize.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-29 23:44:26 +03:00
Alexey Dobriyan 51cc50685a SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 1a781a777b Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/s390/kernel/time.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
	arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
	arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/smp.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
Rabin Vincent e79aec291d slab: rename slab_destroy_objs
With the removal of destructors, slab_destroy_objs no longer actually
destroys any objects, making the kernel doc incorrect and the function
name misleading.

In keeping with the other debug functions, rename it to
slab_destroy_debugcheck and drop the kernel doc.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-15 20:36:02 +03:00
Jens Axboe 15c8b6c1aa on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:38 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 481c5346d0 Slab: Fix memory leak in fallback_alloc()
The zonelist patches caused the loop that checks for available
objects in permitted zones to not terminate immediately. One object
per zone per allocation may be allocated and then abandoned.

Break the loop when we have successfully allocated one object.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-21 16:51:02 -07:00
Harvey Harrison d40cee245f mm: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 3ac7fe5a4a infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:

1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects

Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore.  One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.

While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause.  This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.

The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.

Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.

The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash.  Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.

Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.

The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.

The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list

Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation.  When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.

The list of operations can be extended if the need arises.  For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).

The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets.  The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree.  Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.

The debug code can be compiled in without being active.  The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives.  A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.

Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 1b27d05b6e mm: move cache_line_size() to <linux/cache.h>
Not all architectures define cache_line_size() so as suggested by Andrew move
the private implementations in mm/slab.c and mm/slob.c to <linux/cache.h>.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
Mel Gorman dd1a239f6f mm: have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx
Filtering zonelists requires very frequent use of zone_idx().  This is costly
as it involves a lookup of another structure and a substraction operation.  As
the zone_idx is often required, it should be quickly accessible.  The node idx
could also be stored here if it was found that accessing zone->node is
significant which may be the case on workloads where nodemasks are heavily
used.

This patch introduces a struct zoneref to store a zone pointer and a zone
index.  The zonelist then consists of an array of these struct zonerefs which
are looked up as necessary.  Helpers are given for accessing the zone index as
well as the node index.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Suggested struct zoneref instead of embedding information in pointers]
[hugh@veritas.com: mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms]
[hugh@veritas.com: just return do_try_to_free_pages]
[hugh@veritas.com: do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
Mel Gorman 54a6eb5c47 mm: use two zonelist that are filtered by GFP mask
Currently a node has two sets of zonelists, one for each zone type in the
system and a second set for GFP_THISNODE allocations.  Based on the zones
allowed by a gfp mask, one of these zonelists is selected.  All of these
zonelists consume memory and occupy cache lines.

This patch replaces the multiple zonelists per-node with two zonelists.  The
first contains all populated zones in the system, ordered by distance, for
fallback allocations when the target/preferred node has no free pages.  The
second contains all populated zones in the node suitable for GFP_THISNODE
allocations.

An iterator macro is introduced called for_each_zone_zonelist() that interates
through each zone allowed by the GFP flags in the selected zonelist.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
Mel Gorman 0e88460da6 mm: introduce node_zonelist() for accessing the zonelist for a GFP mask
Introduce a node_zonelist() helper function.  It is used to lookup the
appropriate zonelist given a node and a GFP mask.  The patch on its own is a
cleanup but it helps clarify parts of the two-zonelist-per-node patchset.  If
necessary, it can be merged with the next patch in this set without problems.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
Mike Travis c5f59f0833 nodemask: use new node_to_cpumask_ptr function
* Use new node_to_cpumask_ptr.  This creates a pointer to the
    cpumask for a given node.  This definition is in mm patch:

	asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch

  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function.

Depends on:
	[mm-patch]: asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function
	[x86/latest]: x86: add cpus_scnprintf function

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
Daniel Yeisley ec1f5eeeb5 slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()
Commit 556a169dab ("slab: fix bootstrap on
memoryless node") introduced bootstrap-time cache_cache list3s for all nodes
but forgot that initkmem_list3 needs to be accessed by [somevalue + node]. This
patch fixes list_add() corruption in mm/slab.c seen on the ES7000.

Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-26 10:44:17 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 7682486b3e mm: fix various kernel-doc comments
Fix various kernel-doc notation in mm/:

filemap.c: add function short description; convert 2 to kernel-doc
fremap.c: change parameter 'prot' to @prot
pagewalk.c: change "-" in function parameters to ":"
slab.c: fix short description of kmem_ptr_validate()
swap.c: fix description & parameters of put_pages_list()
swap_state.c: fix function parameters
vmalloc.c: change "@returns" to "Returns:" since that is not a parameter

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
Joe Korty 6d2144d355 slab: NUMA slab allocator migration bugfix
NUMA slab allocator cpu migration bugfix

The NUMA slab allocator (specifically, cache_alloc_refill)
is not refreshing its local copies of what cpu and what
numa node it is on, when it drops and reacquires the irq
block that it inherited from its caller.  As a result
those values become invalid if an attempt to migrate the
process to another numa node occured while the irq block
had been dropped.

The solution is to make cache_alloc_refill reload these
variables whenever it drops and reacquires the irq block.

The error is very difficult to hit.  When it does occur,
one gets the following oops + stack traceback bits in
check_spinlock_acquired:

	kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2417
	cache_alloc_refill+0xe6
	kmem_cache_alloc+0xd0
	...

This patch was developed against 2.6.23, ported to and
compiled-tested only against 2.6.25-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-06 16:21:50 -08:00
Joe Perches 1c61fc40fc slab - use angle brackets for include of kmalloc_sizes.h
Make them all use angle brackets and the directory name.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-06 16:21:49 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 9ac33b2b74 slab numa fallback logic: Do not pass unfiltered flags to page allocator
The NUMA fallback logic should be passing local_flags to kmem_get_pages() and not simply the
flags passed in.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-06 16:21:49 -08:00
Marcin Slusarz e51bfd0ad1 slab: avoid double initialization & do initialization in 1 place
- alloc_slabmgmt: initialize all slab fields in 1 place
- slab->nodeid was initialized twice: in alloc_slabmgmt
  and immediately after it in cache_grow

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-02-14 15:30:01 -08:00
Gautham R Shenoy 95402b3829 cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus()
This patch converts the known per-subsystem mutexes to get_online_cpus
put_online_cpus. It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and
CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug notification events.

Signed-off-by: Gautham  R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Pekka Enberg 556a169dab slab: fix bootstrap on memoryless node
If the node we're booting on doesn't have memory, bootstrapping kmalloc()
caches resorts to fallback_alloc() which requires ->nodelists set for all
nodes.  Fix that by calling set_up_list3s() for CACHE_CACHE in
kmem_cache_init().

As kmem_getpages() is called with GFP_THISNODE set, this used to work before
because of breakage in 2.6.22 and before with GFP_THISNODE returning pages from
the wrong node if a node had no memory. So it may have worked accidentally and
in an unsafe manner because the pages would have been associated with the wrong
node which could trigger bug ons and locking troubles.

Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
[ With additional one-liner by Olaf Hering  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-25 08:30:36 -08:00
Mel Gorman 9c09a95cf4 slab: partially revert list3 changes
Partial revert the changes made by 04231b3002
to the kmem_list3 management. On a machine with a memoryless node, this
BUG_ON was triggering

	static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid)
	{
		struct list_head *entry;
		struct slab *slabp;
		struct kmem_list3 *l3;
		void *obj;
		int x;

		l3 = cachep->nodelists[nodeid];
		BUG_ON(!l3);

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-24 08:07:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 158a962422 Unify /proc/slabinfo configuration
Both SLUB and SLAB really did almost exactly the same thing for
/proc/slabinfo setup, using duplicate code and per-allocator #ifdef's.

This just creates a common CONFIG_SLABINFO that is enabled by both SLUB
and SLAB, and shares all the setup code.  Maybe SLOB will want this some
day too.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-02 13:04:48 -08:00
Tetsuo Handa f8fcc93319 Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
mm/slub.c exports ksize(), but mm/slob.c and mm/slab.c don't.

It's used by binfmt_flat, which can be built as a module.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:18 -08:00
Matthew Wilcox 80cbd911ca Fix kmem_cache_free performance regression in slab
The database performance group have found that half the cycles spent
in kmem_cache_free are spent in this one call to BUG_ON.  Moving it
into the CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG-only function cache_free_debugcheck() is a
performance win of almost 0.5% on their particular benchmark.

The call was added as part of commit ddc2e812d5
with the comment that "overhead should be minimal".  It may have been
minimal at the time, but it isn't now.

[ Quoth Pekka Enberg: "I don't think the BUG_ON per se caused the
  performance regression but rather the virt_to_head_page() changes to
  virt_to_cache() that were added later." ]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-30 08:08:05 -08:00
Akinobu Mita cc550defe9 slab: fix typo in allocation failure handling
This patch fixes wrong array index in allocation failure handling.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:36 -08:00
Simon Arlott 183ff22bb6 spelling fixes: mm/
Spelling fixes in mm/.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
Akinobu Mita 12d00f6a12 cpu hotplug: slab: fix memory leak in cpu hotplug error path
This patch fixes memory leak in error path.

In reality, we don't need to call cpuup_canceled(cpu) for now.  But upcoming
cpu hotplug error handling change needs this.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:21 -07:00
Akinobu Mita fbf1e473bd cpu hotplug: slab: cleanup cpuup_callback()
cpuup_callback() is too long.  This patch factors out CPU_UP_CANCELLED and
CPU_UP_PREPARE handlings from cpuup_callback().

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:21 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day bda5b655fe Delete gcc-2.95 compatible structure definition.
Since nothing earlier than gcc-3.2 is supported for kernel
compilation, that 2.95 hack can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 4ba9b9d0ba Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters
Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used.  And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions.  The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

        ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

        ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
Mel Gorman e12ba74d8f Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as
network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations.  When something
like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to
be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation.

This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
new MIGRATE_TYPE.  The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be
reclaimed on demand, but not moved.  i.e.  they can be migrated by deleting
them and re-reading the information from elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:00 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 6cb062296f Categorize GFP flags
The function of GFP_LEVEL_MASK seems to be unclear.  In order to clear up
the mystery we get rid of it and replace GFP_LEVEL_MASK with 3 sets of GFP
flags:

GFP_RECLAIM_MASK	Flags used to control page allocator reclaim behavior.

GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK	Flags used to limit where allocations can occur.

GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK	Flags that the slab allocator BUG()s on.

These replace the uses of GFP_LEVEL mask in the slab allocators and in
vmalloc.c.

The use of the flags not included in these sets may occur as a result of a
slab allocation standing in for a page allocation when constructing scatter
gather lists.  Extraneous flags are cleared and not passed through to the
page allocator.  __GFP_MOVABLE/RECLAIMABLE, __GFP_COLD and __GFP_COMP will
now be ignored if passed to a slab allocator.

Change the allocation of allocator meta data in SLAB and vmalloc to not
pass through flags listed in GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK.  SLAB already removes the
__GFP_THISNODE flag for such allocations.  Generalize that to also cover
vmalloc.  The use of GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK also includes __GFP_HARDWALL.

The impact of allocator metadata placement on access latency to the
cachelines of the object itself is minimal since metadata is only
referenced on alloc and free.  The attempt is still made to place the meta
data optimally but we consistently allow fallback both in SLAB and vmalloc
(SLUB does not need to allocate metadata like that).

Allocator metadata may serve multiple in kernel users and thus should not
be subject to the limitations arising from a single allocation context.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallback_alloc()]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:59 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 04231b3002 Memoryless nodes: Slab support
Slab should not allocate control structures for nodes without memory.  This
may seem to work right now but its unreliable since not all allocations can
fall back due to the use of GFP_THISNODE.

Switching a few for_each_online_node's to N_NORMAL_MEMORY will allow us to
only allocate for nodes that have regular memory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:58 -07:00
Christoph Lameter ef8b4520bd Slab allocators: fail if ksize is called with a NULL parameter
A NULL pointer means that the object was not allocated.  One cannot
determine the size of an object that has not been allocated.  Currently we
return 0 but we really should BUG() on attempts to determine the size of
something nonexistent.

krealloc() interprets NULL to mean a zero sized object.  Handle that
separately in krealloc().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:53 -07:00
Siddha, Suresh B 1807a1aaf5 slab: skip calling cache_free_alien() when the platform is not numa capable
Skip calling cache_free_alien() when the platform is not numa capable.
This will avoid cache misses that happen while accessing slabp (which is
per page memory reference) to get nodeid.  Instead use a global variable to
skip the call, which is mostly likely to be present in the cache.

This gives a 0.8% performance boost with the database oltp workload on a
quad-core SMP platform and by any means the number is not small :)

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-22 19:52:46 -07:00
Andrew Morton b8c1c5da15 slab: correctly handle __GFP_ZERO
Use the correct local variable when calling into the page allocator.  Local
`flags' can have __GFP_ZERO set, which causes us to pass __GFP_ZERO into the
page allocator, possibly from illegal contexts.  The page allocator will later
do prep_zero_page()->kmap_atomic(..., KM_USER0) from irq contexts and will
then go BUG.

Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-24 12:24:59 -07:00
Paul Mundt 20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Linus Torvalds a5c96d8a1c Fix up non-NUMA SLAB configuration for zero-sized allocations
I suspect Christoph tested his code only in the NUMA configuration, for
the combination of SLAB+non-NUMA the zero-sized kmalloc's would not work.

Of course, this would only trigger in configurations where those zero-
sized allocations happen (not very common), so that may explain why it
wasn't more widely noticed.

Seen by by Andi Kleen under qemu, and there seems to be a report by
Michael Tsirkin on it too.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 13:17:15 -07:00
David Howells ea02e3dde3 FRV: work around a possible compiler bug
Work around a possible bug in the FRV compiler.

What appears to be happening is that gcc resolves the
__builtin_constant_p() in kmalloc() to true, but then fails to reduce the
therefore constant conditions in the if-statements it guards to constant
results.

When compiling with -O2 or -Os, one single spurious error crops up in
cpuup_callback() in mm/slab.c.  This can be avoided by making the memsize
variable const.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
Tejun Heo 9281acea6a kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0'
KSYM_NAME_LEN is peculiar in that it does not include the space for the
trailing '\0', forcing all users to use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 when allocating
buffer.  This is nonsense and error-prone.  Moreover, when the caller
forgets that it's very likely to subtly bite back by corrupting the stack
because the last position of the buffer is always cleared to zero.

This patch increments KSYM_NAME_LEN by one and updates code accordingly.

* off-by-one bug in asm-powerpc/kprobes.h::kprobe_lookup_name() macro
  is fixed.

* Where MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN were used together,
  MODULE_NAME_LEN was treated as if it didn't include space for the
  trailing '\0'.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.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>
2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 81cda66261 Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations
It becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline
functions in slab.h.  Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of
kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing
functions from the slab allocators and util.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Christoph Lameter d07dbea464 Slab allocators: support __GFP_ZERO in all allocators
A kernel convention for many allocators is that if __GFP_ZERO is passed to an
allocator then the allocated memory should be zeroed.

This is currently not supported by the slab allocators.  The inconsistency
makes it difficult to implement in derived allocators such as in the uncached
allocator and the pool allocators.

In addition the support zeroed allocations in the slab allocators does not
have a consistent API.  There are no zeroing allocator functions for NUMA node
placement (kmalloc_node, kmem_cache_alloc_node).  The zeroing allocations are
only provided for default allocs (kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc_node).
__GFP_ZERO will make zeroing universally available and does not require any
addititional functions.

So add the necessary logic to all slab allocators to support __GFP_ZERO.

The code is added to the hot path.  The gfp flags are on the stack and so the
cacheline is readily available for checking if we want a zeroed object.

Zeroing while allocating is now a frequent operation and we seem to be
gradually approaching a 1-1 parity between zeroing and not zeroing allocs.
The current tree has 3476 uses of kmalloc vs 2731 uses of kzalloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 6cb8f91320 Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics
Define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks from the
allocators.  Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h.

Make ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the
WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0) that is still remaining in SLAB.

Make slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large memory segment
is requested via __kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Christoph Lameter ef2ad80c7d Slab allocators: consolidate code for krealloc in mm/util.c
The size of a kmalloc object is readily available via ksize().  ksize is
provided by all allocators and thus we can implement krealloc in a generic
way.

Implement krealloc in mm/util.c and drop slab specific implementations of
krealloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 897e679b17 mm/slab.c: start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinit
start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinit (which also matches what it's
callers are).

__devinit didn't cause problems, it simply wasted a few bytes of memory
for the common CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n case.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov b92151bab9 Make /proc/slabinfo use seq_list_xxx helpers
This entry prints a header in .start callback.  This is OK, but the more
elegant solution would be to move this into the .show callback and use
seq_list_start_head() in .start one.

I have left it as is in order to make the patch just switch to new API and
noting more.

[adobriyan@sw.ru: Wrong pointer was used as kmem_cache pointer]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
David Woodhouse 87a927c715 Fix slab redzone alignment
Commit b46b8f19c9 fixed a couple of bugs
by switching the redzone to 64 bits. Unfortunately, it neglected to
ensure that the _second_ redzone, after the slab object, is aligned
correctly. This caused illegal instruction faults on sparc32, which for
some reason not entirely clear to me are not trapped and fixed up.

Two things need to be done to fix this:
  - increase the object size, rounding up to alignof(long long) so
    that the second redzone can be aligned correctly.
  - If SLAB_STORE_USER is set but alignof(long long)==8, allow a
    full 64 bits of space for the user word at the end of the buffer,
    even though we may not _use_ the whole 64 bits.

This patch should be a no-op on any 64-bit architecture or any 32-bit
architecture where alignof(long long) == 4. Of the others, it's tested
on ppc32 by myself and a very similar patch was tested on sparc32 by
Mark Fortescue, who reported the new problem.

Also, fix the conditions for FORCED_DEBUG, which hadn't been adjusted to
the new sizes. Again noticed by Mark.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-05 15:54:13 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 17022220dd SLAB: remove WARN_ON_ONCE for zero sized objects for 2.6.22 release
We agreed to remove the WARN_ON_ONCE before 2.6.22 is released.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-01 12:29:43 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 3cdc0ed0ce slab: fix alien cache handling
cache_free_alien must be called regardless if we use alien caches or not.
cache_free_alien() will do the right thing if there are no alien caches
available.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg 38bdc32af4 mm/slab: fix section mismatch warning
Use the new __init_refok marker to avoid the
section mismatch warning from slab.c

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-19 09:11:58 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 0aa817f078 Slab allocators: define common size limitations
Currently we have a maze of configuration variables that determine the
maximum slab size.  Worst of all it seems to vary between SLAB and SLUB.

So define a common maximum size for kmalloc.  For conveniences sake we use
the maximum size ever supported which is 32 MB.  We limit the maximum size
to a lower limit if MAX_ORDER does not allow such large allocations.

For many architectures this patch will have the effect of adding large
kmalloc sizes.  x86_64 adds 5 new kmalloc sizes.  So a small amount of
memory will be needed for these caches (contemporary SLAB has dynamically
sizeable node and cpu structure so the waste is less than in the past)

Most architectures will then be able to allocate object with sizes up to
MAX_ORDER.  We have had repeated breakage (in fact whenever we doubled the
number of supported processors) on IA64 because one or the other struct
grew beyond what the slab allocators supported.  This will avoid future
issues and f.e.  avoid fixes for 2k and 4k cpu support.

CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS is no longer necessary so drop it.

It fixes sparc64 with SLAB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter a35afb830f Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR
SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 0b44f7a5b5 slab: warn on zero-length allocations
slub warns on this, and we're working on making kmalloc(0) return NULL.
Let's make slab warn as well so our testers detect such callers more
rapidly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:03 -07:00
Christoph Lameter c59def9f22 Slab allocators: Drop support for destructors
There is no user of destructors left.  There is no reason why we should keep
checking for destructors calls in the slab allocators.

The RFC for this patch was discussed at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117882364330705&w=2

Destructors were mainly used for list management which required them to take a
spinlock.  Taking a spinlock in a destructor is a bit risky since the slab
allocators may run the destructors anytime they decide a slab is no longer
needed.

Patch drops destructor support.  Any attempt to use a destructor will BUG().

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:03 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 4037d45220 Move remote node draining out of slab allocators
Currently the slab allocators contain callbacks into the page allocator to
perform the draining of pagesets on remote nodes.  This requires SLUB to have
a whole subsystem in order to be compatible with SLAB.  Moving node draining
out of the slab allocators avoids a section of code in SLUB.

Move the node draining so that is is done when the vm statistics are updated.
At that point we are already touching all the cachelines with the pagesets of
a processor.

Add a expire counter there.  If we have to update per zone or global vm
statistics then assume that the pageset will require subsequent draining.

The expire counter will be decremented on each vm stats update pass until it
reaches zero.  Then we will drain one batch from the pageset.  The draining
will cause vm counter updates which will then cause another expiration until
the pcp is empty.  So we will drain a batch every 3 seconds.

Note that remote node draining is a somewhat esoteric feature that is required
on large NUMA systems because otherwise significant portions of system memory
can become trapped in pcp queues.  The number of pcp is determined by the
number of processors and nodes in a system.  A system with 4 processors and 2
nodes has 8 pcps which is okay.  But a system with 1024 processors and 512
nodes has 512k pcps with a high potential for large amount of memory being
caught in them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Christoph Lameter d1187ed210 vmstat: use our own timer events
vmstat is currently using the cache reaper to periodically bring the
statistics up to date.  The cache reaper does only exists in SLUB as a way to
provide compatibility with SLAB.  This patch removes the vmstat calls from the
slab allocators and provides its own handling.

The advantage is also that we can use a different frequency for the updates.
Refreshing vm stats is a pretty fast job so we can run this every second and
stagger this by only one tick.  This will lead to some overlap in large
systems.  F.e a system running at 250 HZ with 1024 processors will have 4 vm
updates occurring at once.

However, the vm stats update only accesses per node information.  It is only
necessary to stagger the vm statistics updates per processor in each node.  Vm
counter updates occurring on distant nodes will not cause cacheline
contention.

We could implement an alternate approach that runs the first processor on each
node at the second and then each of the other processor on a node on a
subsequent tick.  That may be useful to keep a large amount of the second free
of timer activity.  Maybe the timer folks will have some feedback on this one?

[jirislaby@gmail.com: add missing break]
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 8bb7844286 Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 5830c59021 slab: shut down cache_reaper when cpu goes down
Shutdown the cache_reaper if the cpu is brought down and set the
cache_reap.func to NULL.  Otherwise hotplug shuts down the reaper for good.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:53 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 38c3bd96a0 slab: use CPU_LOCK_[ACQUIRE|RELEASE]
Looks like this was forgotten when CPU_LOCK_[ACQUIRE|RELEASE] was
introduced.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:51 -07:00
Pekka J Enberg 7ae439ce0c krealloc: fix kerneldoc comments
No "blank" (or "*") line is allowed between the function name and lines for
it parameter(s).

Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:46 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan a5c43dae7a Fix race between cat /proc/slab_allocators and rmmod
Same story as with cat /proc/*/wchan race vs rmmod race, only
/proc/slab_allocators want more info than just symbol name.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:08 -07:00
David Woodhouse b46b8f19c9 Increase slab redzone to 64bits
There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation.

Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit
integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter
modules to fail to load because of the misalignment.  (In particular, the
first check in
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks())

On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8.

With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects
aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t.

By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable
redzone checks on those architectures.  By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that
loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it.

When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a
32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set
aside for the redzone.  Which means that the four bytes immediately before
or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE
machines, respectively.  Which is probably not the most useful choice of
poison value.

One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit
redzones in all cases.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:14:57 -07:00
Christoph Lameter cfce66047f Slab allocators: remove useless __GFP_NO_GROW flag
There is no user remaining and I have never seen any use of that flag.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 4f10493459 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_CTOR_ATOMIC
SLAB_CTOR atomic is never used which is no surprise since I cannot imagine
that one would want to do something serious in a constructor or destructor.
 In particular given that the slab allocators run with interrupts disabled.
 Actions in constructors and destructors are by their nature very limited
and usually do not go beyond initializing variables and list operations.

(The i386 pgd ctor and dtors do take a spinlock in constructor and
destructor.....  I think that is the furthest we go at this point.)

There is no flag passed to the destructor so removing SLAB_CTOR_ATOMIC also
establishes a certain symmetry.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 50953fe9e0 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 824ebef122 fault injection: fix failslab with CONFIG_NUMA
Currently failslab injects failures into ____cache_alloc().  But with enabling
CONFIG_NUMA it's not enough to let actual slab allocator functions (kmalloc,
kmem_cache_alloc, ...) return NULL.

This patch moves fault injection hook inside of __cache_alloc() and
__cache_alloc_node().  These are lower call path than ____cache_alloc() and
enable to inject faulures to slab allocators with CONFIG_NUMA.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 5af6083990 slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN
This patch was recently posted to lkml and acked by Pekka.

The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is

1. Never checked by SLAB at all.

2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB

3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB.

The only remaining use is in sparc64 and ppc64 and their use there
reflects some earlier role that the slab flag once may have had. If
its specified then SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is also specified.

The flag is confusing, inconsistent and has no purpose.

Remove it.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
matze b4169525bc include KERN_* constant in printk() calls in mm/slab.c
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
Christoph Lameter b49af68ff9 Add virt_to_head_page and consolidate code in slab and slub
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
Christoph Lameter d85f33855c Make page->private usable in compound pages
If we add a new flag so that we can distinguish between the first page and the
tail pages then we can avoid to use page->private in the first page.
page->private == page for the first page, so there is no real information in
there.

Freeing up page->private makes the use of compound pages more transparent.
They become more usable like real pages.  Right now we have to be careful f.e.
 if we are going beyond PAGE_SIZE allocations in the slab on i386 because we
can then no longer use the private field.  This is one of the issues that
cause us not to support debugging for page size slabs in SLAB.

Having page->private available for SLUB would allow more meta information in
the page struct.  I can probably avoid the 16 bit ints that I have in there
right now.

Also if page->private is available then a compound page may be equipped with
buffer heads.  This may free up the way for filesystems to support larger
blocks than page size.

We add PageTail as an alias of PageReclaim.  Compound pages cannot currently
be reclaimed.  Because of the alias one needs to check PageCompound first.

The RFC for the this approach was discussed at
http://marc.info/?t=117574302800001&r=1&w=2

[nacc@us.ibm.com: fix hugetlbfs]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Andrew Morton a3a02be791 slab: mark set_up_list3s() __init
It is only ever used prior to free_initmem().

(It will cause a warning when we run the section checking, but that's a
false-positive and it simply changes the source of an existing warning, which
is also a false-positive)

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 8da3430d8a slab: NUMA kmem_cache diet
Some NUMA machines have a big MAX_NUMNODES (possibly 1024), but fewer
possible nodes.  This patch dynamically sizes the 'struct kmem_cache' to
allocate only needed space.

I moved nodelists[] field at the end of struct kmem_cache, and use the
following computation in kmem_cache_init()

cache_cache.buffer_size = offsetof(struct kmem_cache, nodelists) +
                                 nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct kmem_list3 *);

On my two nodes x86_64 machine, kmem_cache.obj_size is now 192 instead of 704
(This is because on x86_64, MAX_NUMNODES is 64)

On bigger NUMA setups, this might reduce the gfporder of "cache_cache"

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 6310984694 SLAB: don't allocate empty shared caches
We can avoid allocating empty shared caches and avoid unecessary check of
cache->limit.  We save some memory.  We avoid bringing into CPU cache
unecessary cache lines.

All accesses to l3->shared are already checking NULL pointers so this patch is
safe.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 364fbb29a0 SLAB: use num_possible_cpus() in enable_cpucache()
The existing comment in mm/slab.c is *perfect*, so I reproduce it :

         /*
          * CPU bound tasks (e.g. network routing) can exhibit cpu bound
          * allocation behaviour: Most allocs on one cpu, most free operations
          * on another cpu. For these cases, an efficient object passing between
          * cpus is necessary. This is provided by a shared array. The array
          * replaces Bonwick's magazine layer.
          * On uniprocessor, it's functionally equivalent (but less efficient)
          * to a larger limit. Thus disabled by default.
          */

As most shiped linux kernels are now compiled with CONFIG_SMP, there is no way
a preprocessor #if can detect if the machine is UP or SMP. Better to use
num_possible_cpus().

This means on UP we allocate a 'size=0 shared array', to be more efficient.

Another patch can later avoid the allocations of 'empty shared arrays', to
save some memory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 714b8171af slab: ensure cache_alloc_refill terminates
If slab->inuse is corrupted, cache_alloc_refill can enter an infinite
loop as detailed by Michael Richardson in the following post:
<http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/292>. This adds a BUG_ON to catch
those cases.

Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
Pekka Enberg fd76bab2fa slab: introduce krealloc
This introduce krealloc() that reallocates memory while keeping the contents
unchanged.  The allocator avoids reallocation if the new size fits the
currently used cache.  I also added a simple non-optimized version for
mm/slob.c for compatibility.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Acked-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:50 -07:00
Siddha, Suresh B 62918a0361 [PATCH] x86-64: skip cache_free_alien() on non NUMA
Set use_alien_caches to 0 on non NUMA platforms.  And avoid calling the
cache_free_alien() when use_alien_caches is not set.  This will avoid the
cache miss that happens while dereferencing slabp to get nodeid.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:18 +02:00
David Howells e94a40c508 [PATCH] SLAB: Mention slab name when listing corrupt objects
Mention the slab name when listing corrupt objects.  Although the function
that released the memory is mentioned, that is frequently ambiguous as such
functions often release several pieces of memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-04 08:51:52 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 05fb6bf0b2 [PATCH] kernel-doc fixes for 2.6.20-git15 (non-drivers)
Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-git15 (lib/, mm/, kernel/, include/).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 8ef8286689 [PATCH] slab: reduce size of alien cache to cover only possible nodes
The alien cache is a per cpu per node array allocated for every slab on the
system.  Currently we size this array for all nodes that the kernel does
support.  For IA64 this is 1024 nodes.  So we allocate an array with 1024
objects even if we only boot a system with 4 nodes.

This patch uses "nr_node_ids" to determine the number of possible nodes
supported by a hardware configuration and only allocates an alien cache
sized for possible nodes.

The initialization of nr_node_ids occurred too late relative to the bootstrap
of the slab allocator and so I moved the setup_nr_node_ids() into
free_area_init_nodes().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20 17:10:13 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day 72fd4a35a8 [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.
A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in
source files, including:

  * make multi-line initial descriptions single line
  * denote some function names, constants and structs as such
  * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places
  * reword some text for clarity

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 898552c9d8 [PATCH] lockdep: also check for freed locks in kmem_cache_free()
kmem_cache_free() was missing the check for freeing held locks.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 4b51d66989 [PATCH] optional ZONE_DMA: optional ZONE_DMA in the VM
Make ZONE_DMA optional in core code.

- ifdef all code for ZONE_DMA and related definitions following the example
  for ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_HIGHMEM.

- Without ZONE_DMA, ZONE_HIGHMEM and ZONE_DMA32 we get to a ZONES_SHIFT of
  0.

- Modify the VM statistics to work correctly without a DMA zone.

- Modify slab to not create DMA slabs if there is no ZONE_DMA.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
[jdike@addtoit.com: build fix]
[apw@shadowen.org: Simplify calculation of the number of bits we need for ZONES_SHIFT]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:18 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 7c5cae368a [PATCH] slab: use parameter passed to cache_reap to determine pointer to work structure
Use the pointer passed to cache_reap to determine the work pointer and
consolidate exit paths.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:17 -08:00
Pekka Enberg 8c8cc2c10c [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups
Clean up __cache_alloc and __cache_alloc_node functions a bit.  We no
longer need to do NUMA_BUILD tricks and the UMA allocation path is much
simpler.  No functional changes in this patch.

Note: saves few kernel text bytes on x86 NUMA build due to using gotos in
__cache_alloc_node() and moving __GFP_THISNODE check in to
fallback_alloc().

Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:16 -08:00
Pekka Enberg 6e40e73097 [PATCH] slab: remove broken PageSlab check from kfree_debugcheck
The PageSlab debug check in kfree_debugcheck() is broken for compound
pages.  It is also redundant as we already do BUG_ON for non-slab pages in
page_get_cache() and page_get_slab() which are always called before we free
any actual objects.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:16 -08:00
Hugh Dickins b6a6045181 [PATCH] fix BUG_ON(!PageSlab) from fallback_alloc
pdflush hit the BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page)) in kmem_freepages called from
fallback_alloc: cache_grow already freed those pages when alloc_slabmgmt
failed.  But it wouldn't have freed them if __GFP_NO_GROW, so make sure
fallback_alloc doesn't waste its time on that case.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05 23:55:23 -08:00
Randy Dunlap af9997e426 [PATCH] fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1
Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22 08:55:47 -08:00
Christoph Lameter b7f869a284 [PATCH] slab: fix kmem_ptr_validate definition
The declaration of kmem_ptr_validate in slab.h does not match the
one in slab.c. Remove the fastcall attribute (this is the only use in
slab.c).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22 08:55:47 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 6a2d7a955d [PATCH] SLAB: use a multiply instead of a divide in obj_to_index()
When some objects are allocated by one CPU but freed by another CPU we can
consume lot of cycles doing divides in obj_to_index().

(Typical load on a dual processor machine where network interrupts are
handled by one particular CPU (allocating skbufs), and the other CPU is
running the application (consuming and freeing skbufs))

Here on one production server (dual-core AMD Opteron 285), I noticed this
divide took 1.20 % of CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events in kernel.  But Opteron are
quite modern cpus and the divide is much more expensive on oldest
architectures :

On a 200 MHz sparcv9 machine, the division takes 64 cycles instead of 1
cycle for a multiply.

Doing some math, we can use a reciprocal multiplication instead of a divide.

If we want to compute V = (A / B)  (A and B being u32 quantities)
we can instead use :

V = ((u64)A * RECIPROCAL(B)) >> 32 ;

where RECIPROCAL(B) is precalculated to ((1LL << 32) + (B - 1)) / B

Note :

I wrote pure C code for clarity. gcc output for i386 is not optimal but
acceptable :

mull   0x14(%ebx)
mov    %edx,%eax // part of the >> 32
xor     %edx,%edx // useless
mov    %eax,(%esp) // could be avoided
mov    %edx,0x4(%esp) // useless
mov    (%esp),%ebx

[akpm@osdl.org: small cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00
Paul Jackson 02a0e53d82 [PATCH] cpuset: rework cpuset_zone_allowed api
Elaborate the API for calling cpuset_zone_allowed(), so that users have to
explicitly choose between the two variants:

  cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall()
  cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall()

Until now, whether or not you got the hardwall flavor depended solely on
whether or not you or'd in the __GFP_HARDWALL gfp flag to the gfp_mask
argument.

If you didn't specify __GFP_HARDWALL, you implicitly got the softwall
version.

Unfortunately, this meant that users would end up with the softwall version
without thinking about it.  Since only the softwall version might sleep,
this led to bugs with possible sleeping in interrupt context on more than
one occassion.

The hardwall version requires that the current tasks mems_allowed allows
the node of the specified zone (or that you're in interrupt or that
__GFP_THISNODE is set or that you're on a one cpuset system.)

The softwall version, depending on the gfp_mask, might allow a node if it
was allowed in the nearest enclusing cpuset marked mem_exclusive (which
requires taking the cpuset lock 'callback_mutex' to evaluate.)

This patch removes the cpuset_zone_allowed() call, and forces the caller to
explicitly choose between the hardwall and the softwall case.

If the caller wants the gfp_mask to determine this choice, they should (1)
be sure they can sleep or that __GFP_HARDWALL is set, and (2) invoke the
cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() routine.

This adds another 100 or 200 bytes to the kernel text space, due to the few
lines of nearly duplicate code at the top of both cpuset_zone_allowed_*
routines.  It should save a few instructions executed for the calls that
turned into calls of cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall, thanks to not having to
set (before the call) then check (within the call) the __GFP_HARDWALL flag.

For the most critical call, from get_page_from_freelist(), the same
instructions are executed as before -- the old cpuset_zone_allowed()
routine it used to call is the same code as the
cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() routine that it calls now.

Not a perfect win, but seems worth it, to reduce this chance of hitting a
sleeping with irq off complaint again.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 55935a34a4 [PATCH] More slab.h cleanups
More cleanups for slab.h

1. Remove tabs from weird locations as suggested by Pekka

2. Drop the check for NUMA and SLAB_DEBUG from the fallback section
   as suggested by Pekka.

3. Uses static inline for the fallback defs as also suggested by Pekka.

4. Make kmem_ptr_valid take a const * argument.

5. Separate the NUMA fallback definitions from the kmalloc_track fallback
   definitions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00
Christoph Lameter dd47ea7556 [PATCH] slab: fix sleeping in atomic bug
Fallback_alloc() does not do the check for GFP_WAIT as done in
cache_grow().  Thus interrupts are disabled when we call kmem_getpages()
which results in the failure.

Duplicate the handling of GFP_WAIT in cache_grow().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:48 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 2b2842146c [PATCH] user of the jiffies rounding patch: Slab
This patch introduces users of the round_jiffies() function in the slab code.

The slab code has a few "run every second" timers for background work; these
are obviously not timing critical as long as they happen roughly at the right
frequency.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 09:57:22 -08:00
Don Mullis 6b1b60f41e [PATCH] fault-injection: defaults likely to please a new user
Assign defaults most likely to please a new user:
 1) generate some logging output
    (verbose=2)
 2) avoid injecting failures likely to lock up UI
    (ignore_gfp_wait=1, ignore_gfp_highmem=1)

Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:29:03 -08:00
Akinobu Mita 8a8b6502fb [PATCH] fault-injection capability for kmalloc
This patch provides fault-injection capability for kmalloc.

Boot option:

failslab=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>

	<interval> -- specifies the interval of failures.

	<probability> -- specifies how often it should fail in percent.

	<space> -- specifies the size of free space where memory can be
		   allocated safely in bytes.

	<times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most.

Debugfs:

/debug/failslab/interval
/debug/failslab/probability
/debug/failslab/specifies
/debug/failslab/times
/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-highmem
/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait

Example:

	failslab=10,100,0,-1

slab allocation (kmalloc(), kmem_cache_alloc(),..) fails once per 10 times.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:29:02 -08:00
Paul Jackson b8b50b6519 [PATCH] mm: fallback_alloc cpuset_zone_allowed irq fix
fallback_alloc() could end up calling cpuset_zone_allowed() with interrupts
disabled (by code in kmem_cache_alloc_node()), but without __GFP_HARDWALL
set, leading to a possible call of a sleeping function with interrupts
disabled.

This results in the BUG report:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cpuset.c:1520
in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1

Thanks to Paul Menage for catching this one.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:37 -08:00
Helge Deller 15ad7cdcfd [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification
- move some file_operations structs into the .rodata section

 - move static strings from policy_types[] array into the .rodata section

 - fix generic seq_operations usages, so that those structs may be defined
   as "const" as well

[akpm@osdl.org: couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
Andrew Morton 138ae6631a [PATCH] slab: use probe_kernel_address()
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:34 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 3c517a6132 [PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior
Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using
GFP_THISNODE.  However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at
all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted).  If we truly run out of
memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although
memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim.

This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the
per node queues for available slabs.  If we find any then we allocate from
those.  This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial
allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory.

If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend
a slab.  We now call into the page allocator without specifying
GFP_THISNODE.  The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in
the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not
a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for
a new slab.

We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the
pages into the corresponding per node structure.  In order to do so we need
to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab.
kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be
able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node.  GFP_THISNODE
needs to be specified when calling cache_grow().

One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new
memory is removed from slab fallback processing.  The patch allows to go
back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 5bcd234d88 [PATCH] slab: fix two issues in kmalloc_node / __cache_alloc_node
This addresses two issues:

1. Kmalloc_node() may intermittently return NULL if we are allocating
   from the current node and are unable to obtain memory for the current
   node from the page allocator.  This is because we call ___cache_alloc()
   if nodeid == numa_node_id() and ____cache_alloc is not able to fallback
   to other nodes.

   This was introduced in the 2.6.19 development cycle.  <= 2.6.18 in
   that case does not do a restricted allocation and blindly trusts the
   page allocator to have given us memory from the indicated node.  It
   inserts the page regardless of the node it came from into the queues for
   the current node.

2. If kmalloc_node() is used on a node that has not been bootstrapped
   yet then we may try to pass an invalid node number to
   ____cache_alloc_node() triggering a BUG().

   Change the function to call fallback_alloc() instead.  Only call
   fallback_alloc() if we are allowed to fallback at all.  The need to
   handle a node not bootstrapped yet also first surfaced in the 2.6.19
   cycle.

Update the comments since they were still describing the old kmalloc_node
from 2.6.12.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 441e143e95 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_DMA
SLAB_DMA is an alias of GFP_DMA. This is the last one so we
remove the leftover comment too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00