GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8f ("Group short-lived
and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. It's
primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is
short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close
together and prevent long term fragmentation. As much as this sounds
like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the
highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag. How long is temporary? Can the
context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is
no good answer for those questions.
The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of
the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory. So
this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits.
I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag
with a specific justification. I suspect most of them just copied from
other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to
use without any measuring. This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just
motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning.
I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially
those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from
confusion and abuse. Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and
replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL. Please note that
SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and
so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention.
I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm
allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and
only then add users with proper justification.
This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it
turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic. It
seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not
all) its current users. The follow up discussion has revealed that
opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between
developers. So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a
semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag
and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term
allocations.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we pass a string argument to show_kernel_fault_diag() which
describes the reason for the fault. This is not being used so just
add a pr_info() which outputs the fault information.
With this change we get from:
|
| Path: /bin/busybox
| CPU: 0 PID: 92 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 4.12.0-rc6 #30
| task: 9a254780 task.stack: 9a212000
|
| [ECR ]: 0x00200400 => Other Fatal Err
|
to:
|
| Unhandled Machine Check Exception
| Path: /bin/busybox
| CPU: 0 PID: 92 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 4.12.0-rc6 #37
| task: 9a240780 task.stack: 9a226000
|
|[ECR ]: 0x00200400 => Machine Check (Other Fatal Err)
|
Which can help debugging.
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
We are going to split <linux/sched/debug.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/debug.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/mm.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/mm.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
The APIs that are going to be moved first are:
mm_alloc()
__mmdrop()
mmdrop()
mmdrop_async_fn()
mmdrop_async()
mmget_not_zero()
mmput()
mmput_async()
get_task_mm()
mm_access()
mm_release()
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes.
fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"
[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The
file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ]
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
dax: Add block size note to documentation
fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
make simple_positive() public
ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
remove the pointless include of lglock.h
fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
...
print_task_path_n_nm() is local to this file, its only user being
show_regs(). Mark the function static and avoid the EXPORT_SYMBOL.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synoipsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Performing vma lookups without taking the mm->mmap_sem is asking for
trouble. While doing the search, the vma in question can be modified or
even removed before returning to the caller. Take the lock (shared) in
order to avoid races while iterating through the vmacache and/or rbtree.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: CSE current->active_mm, per Vineet]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Highlights of changes:
-Continuation of ARC MM changes from 3.10 including
zero page optimization;
Setting pagecache pages dirty by default;
Non executable stack by default;
Reducing dcache flushes for aliasing VIPT config
-Long overdue rework of pt_regs machinery - removing the unused word gutters
and adding ECR register to baseline (helps cleanup lot of low level code)
-Support for ARC gcc 4.8
-Few other preventive fixes, cosmetics, usage of Kconfig helper..
The diffstat is larger than normal primarily because of arcregs.h header split
as well as beautification of macros in entry.h
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Merge tag 'arc-v3.11-rc1-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull first batch of ARC changes from Vineet Gupta:
"There's a second bunch to follow next week - which depends on commits
on other trees (irq/net). I'd have preferred the accompanying ARC
change via respective trees, but it didn't workout somehow.
Highlights of changes:
- Continuation of ARC MM changes from 3.10 including
zero page optimization
Setting pagecache pages dirty by default
Non executable stack by default
Reducing dcache flushes for aliasing VIPT config
- Long overdue rework of pt_regs machinery - removing the unused word
gutters and adding ECR register to baseline (helps cleanup lot of
low level code)
- Support for ARC gcc 4.8
- Few other preventive fixes, cosmetics, usage of Kconfig helper..
The diffstat is larger than normal primarily because of arcregs.h
header split as well as beautification of macros in entry.h"
* tag 'arc-v3.11-rc1-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (32 commits)
ARC: warn on improper stack unwind FDE entries
arc: delete __cpuinit usage from all arc files
ARC: [tlb-miss] Fix bug with CONFIG_ARC_DBG_TLB_MISS_COUNT
ARC: [tlb-miss] Extraneous PTE bit testing/setting
ARC: Adjustments for gcc 4.8
ARC: Setup Vector Table Base in early boot
ARC: Remove explicit passing around of ECR
ARC: pt_regs update #5: Use real ECR for pt_regs->event vs. synth values
ARC: stop using pt_regs->orig_r8
ARC: pt_regs update #4: r25 saved/restored unconditionally
ARC: K/U SP saved from one location in stack switching macro
ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Simplify branch for in-kernel preemption
ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Avoid hardcoded LIMMS for ECR values
ARC: Increase readability of entry handlers
ARC: pt_regs update #3: Remove unused gutter at start of callee_regs
ARC: pt_regs update #2: Remove unused gutter at start of pt_regs
ARC: pt_regs update #1: Align pt_regs end with end of kernel stack page
ARC: pt_regs update #0: remove kernel stack canary
ARC: [mm] Remove @write argument to do_page_fault()
ARC: [mm] Make stack/heap Non-executable by default
...
With ECR now part of pt_regs
* No need to propagate from lowest asm handlers as arg
* No need to save it in tsk->thread.cause_code
* Avoid bit chopping to access the bit-fields
More code consolidation, cleanup
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
pt_regs->event was set with artificial values to identify the low level
system event (syscall trap / breakpoint trap / exceptions / interrupts)
With r8 saving out of the way, the full word can be used to save real
ECR (Exception Cause Register) which helps idenify the event naturally,
including additional info such as cause code, param.
Only for Interrupts, where ECR is not applicable, do we resort to
synthetic non ECR values.
SAVE_ALL_TRAP/EXCEPTIONS can now be merged as they both use ECR with
different runtime values.
The ptrace helpers now use the sub-fields of ECR to distinguish the
events (e.g. vector 0x25 is trap, param 0 is syscall...)
The following benefits will follow:
(1) This centralizes the location of where ECR is saved and will allow
the cleanup of task->thread.cause_code ECR placeholder which is set
in non-uniform way. Then ARC VM code can safely rely on it being
there for purpose of finer grained VM_EXEC dcache flush (based on
exec fault: I-TLB Miss)
(2) Further, ECR being passed around from low level handlers as arg can
be eliminated as it is part of standard reg-file in pt_regs
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
* Support for two new platforms based on ARC700
- Abilis TB10x SoC [Chritisian/Pierrick]
- Simulator only System-C Model [Mischa]
* ARC specific MM improvements
- Avoid full TLB flush (ASID increment) on munmap (even single page)
- VIPT Cache Flushing improvements
+ Delayed dcache flush for non-aliasing dcache (big performance boost)
+ icache flush aliasing agnostic (no need to kill all possible aliases)
* Others
- Avoid needless rebuild of DTB files for every kernel build
- Remove builtin cmdline as that is already provided by DeviceTree/bootargs
- Fixing unaligned access emulation corner case
- checkpatch fixes [Sachin]
- Various fixlets [Noam]
- Minor build failures/cleanups
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Merge tag 'arc-v3.10-rc1-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull ARC port updates from Vineet Gupta:
"Support for two new platforms based on ARC700:
- Abilis TB10x SoC [Chritisian/Pierrick]
- Simulator only System-C Model [Mischa]
ARC specific MM improvements:
- Avoid full TLB flush (ASID increment) on munmap (even single page)
- VIPT Cache Flushing improvements
+ Delayed dcache flush for non-aliasing dcache (big performance boost)
+ icache flush aliasing agnostic (no need to kill all possible aliases)
Others:
- Avoid needless rebuild of DTB files for every kernel build
- Remove builtin cmdline as that is already provided by DeviceTree/bootargs
- Fixing unaligned access emulation corner case
- checkpatch fixes [Sachin]
- Various fixlets [Noam]
- Minor build failures/cleanups"
* tag 'arc-v3.10-rc1-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (35 commits)
ARC: [mm] Lazy D-cache flush (non aliasing VIPT)
ARC: [mm] micro-optimize page size icache invalidate
ARC: [mm] remove the pessimistic all-alias-invalidate icache helpers
ARC: [mm] consolidate icache/dcache sync code
ARC: [mm] optimise icache flush for kernel mappings
ARC: [mm] optimise icache flush for user mappings
ARC: [mm] optimize needless full mm TLB flush on munmap
ARC: Add support for nSIM OSCI System C model
ARC: [TB10x] Adapt device tree to new compatible string
ARC: [TB10x] Add support for TB10x platform
ARC: [TB10x] Device tree of TB100 and TB101 Development Kits
ARC: Prepare interrupt code for external controllers
ARC: Allow embedded arc-intc to be properly placed in DT intc hierarchy
ARC: [cmdline] Don't overwrite u-boot provided bootargs
ARC: [cmdline] Remove CONFIG_CMDLINE
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig update
ARC: unaligned access emulation broken if callee-reg dest of LD/ST
ARC: unaligned access emulation error handling consolidation
ARC: Debug/crash-printing Improvements
ARC: fix typo with clock speed
...
* Remove the line-break between scratch/callee-regs (sneaked in when we
converted from printk to pr_*
* Use %pS to print the symbol names of faulting PC (ret pseudo register)
and BLINK (call return register)
* Don't print user-vma for a kernel crash (only do it for
print-fatal-signals based regfile dump)
* Verbose print the Interrupt/Exception Enable/Active state
* for main executable link address is 0x10000 based (vs. 0) thus offset
of faulting PC needs to be adjusted
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
show_regs() is inherently arch-dependent but it does make sense to print
generic debug information and some archs already do albeit in slightly
different forms. This patch introduces a generic function to print debug
information from show_regs() so that different archs print out the same
information and it's much easier to modify what's printed.
show_regs_print_info() prints out the same debug info as dump_stack()
does plus task and thread_info pointers.
* Archs which didn't print debug info now do.
alpha, arc, blackfin, c6x, cris, frv, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m32r,
metag, microblaze, mn10300, openrisc, parisc, score, sh64, sparc,
um, xtensa
* Already prints debug info. Replaced with show_regs_print_info().
The printed information is superset of what used to be there.
arm, arm64, avr32, mips, powerpc, sh32, tile, unicore32, x86
* s390 is special in that it used to print arch-specific information
along with generic debug info. Heiko and Martin think that the
arch-specific extra isn't worth keeping s390 specfic implementation.
Converted to use the generic version.
Note that now all archs print the debug info before actual register
dumps.
An example BUG() dump follows.
kernel BUG at /work/os/work/kernel/workqueue.c:4841!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #7
Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007
task: ffff88007c85e040 ti: ffff88007c860000 task.ti: ffff88007c860000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8234a07e>] [<ffffffff8234a07e>] init_workqueues+0x4/0x6
RSP: 0000:ffff88007c861ec8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff88007c861fd8 RBX: ffffffff824466a8 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff8234a07a
RBP: ffff88007c861ec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8234a07a
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffff88015f7ff000 CR3: 00000000021f1000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
ffff88007c861ef8 ffffffff81000312 ffffffff824466a8 ffff88007c85e650
0000000000000003 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861f38 ffffffff82335e5d
ffff88007c862080 ffffffff8223d8c0 ffff88007c862080 ffffffff81c47760
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81000312>] do_one_initcall+0x122/0x170
[<ffffffff82335e5d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x9b/0x1c8
[<ffffffff81c47760>] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
[<ffffffff81c4776e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
[<ffffffff81c6be9c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff81c47760>] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
...
v2: Typo fix in x86-32.
v3: CPU number dropped from show_regs_print_info() as
dump_stack_print_info() has been updated to print it. s390
specific implementation dropped as requested by s390 maintainers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [tile bits]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> [hexagon bits]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This was part of port buildup strategy from Arnd to have a minimal kernel
at first and then add optional features (stacktracing, ptrace, smp,
kprobes, oprofile....)
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Michal Hocko