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* Use pgoff_t instead of unsigned longJan Kara2008-02-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Convert variables containing page indexes to pgoff_t. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mem-controller gfp-mask fixBadari Pulavarty2008-02-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | Need to strip __GFP_HIGHMEM flag while passing to mem_container_cache_charge(). Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memory controller BUG_ON()Balbir Singh2008-02-071-7/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move mem_controller_cache_charge() above radix_tree_preload(). radix_tree_preload() disables preemption, even though the gfp_mask passed contains __GFP_WAIT, we cannot really do __GFP_WAIT allocations, thus we hit a BUG_ON() in kmem_cache_alloc(). This patch moves mem_controller_cache_charge() to above radix_tree_preload() for cache charging. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memory controller: make charging gfp mask awareBalbir Singh2008-02-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nick Piggin pointed out that swap cache and page cache addition routines could be called from non GFP_KERNEL contexts. This patch makes the charging routine aware of the gfp context. Charging might fail if the cgroup is over it's limit, in which case a suitable error is returned. This patch was tested on a Powerpc box. I am still looking at being able to test the path, through which allocations happen in non GFP_KERNEL contexts. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: problem with ZONE_MOVABLE] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memory controller: add switch to control what type of pages to limitBalbir Singh2008-02-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Choose if we want cached pages to be accounted or not. By default both are accounted for. A new set of tunables are added. echo -n 1 > mem_control_type switches the accounting to account for only mapped pages echo -n 3 > mem_control_type switches the behaviour back [bunk@kernel.org: mm/memcontrol.c: clenups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc32 build] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memory controller: memory accountingBalbir Singh2008-02-071-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the accounting hooks. The accounting is carried out for RSS and Page Cache (unmapped) pages. There is now a common limit and accounting for both. The RSS accounting is accounted at page_add_*_rmap() and page_remove_rmap() time. Page cache is accounted at add_to_page_cache(), __delete_from_page_cache(). Swap cache is also accounted for. Each page's page_cgroup is protected with the last bit of the page_cgroup pointer, this makes handling of race conditions involving simultaneous mappings of a page easier. A reference count is kept in the page_cgroup to deal with cases where a page might be unmapped from the RSS of all tasks, but still lives in the page cache. Credits go to Vaidyanathan Srinivasan for helping with reference counting work of the page cgroup. Almost all of the page cache accounting code has help from Vaidyanathan Srinivasan. [hugh@veritas.com: fix swapoff breakage] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix locking] Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> 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>
* mm: remove fastcall from mm/Harvey Harrison2008-02-051-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | fastcall is always defined to be empty, remove it [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] 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>
* radix-tree: avoid atomic allocations for preloaded insertionsNick Piggin2008-02-051-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most pagecache (and some other) radix tree insertions have the great opportunity to preallocate a few nodes with relaxed gfp flags. But the preallocation is squandered when it comes time to allocate a node, we default to first attempting a GFP_ATOMIC allocation -- that doesn't normally fail, but it can eat into atomic memory reserves that we don't need to be using. Another upshot of this is that it removes the sometimes highly contended zone->lock from underneath tree_lock. Pagecache insertions are always performed with a radix tree preload, and after this change, such a situation will never fall back to kmem_cache_alloc within radix_tree_node_alloc. David Miller reports seeing this allocation fail on a highly threaded sparc64 system: [527319.459981] dd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 [527319.460403] Call Trace: [527319.460568] [00000000004b71e0] __slab_alloc+0x1b0/0x6a8 [527319.460636] [00000000004b7bbc] kmem_cache_alloc+0x4c/0xa8 [527319.460698] [000000000055309c] radix_tree_node_alloc+0x20/0x90 [527319.460763] [0000000000553238] radix_tree_insert+0x12c/0x260 [527319.460830] [0000000000495cd0] add_to_page_cache+0x38/0xb0 [527319.460893] [00000000004e4794] mpage_readpages+0x6c/0x134 [527319.460955] [000000000049c7fc] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x170/0x280 [527319.461028] [000000000049cc88] ondemand_readahead+0x208/0x214 [527319.461094] [0000000000496018] do_generic_mapping_read+0xe8/0x428 [527319.461152] [0000000000497948] generic_file_aio_read+0x108/0x170 [527319.461217] [00000000004badac] do_sync_read+0x88/0xd0 [527319.461292] [00000000004bb5cc] vfs_read+0x78/0x10c [527319.461361] [00000000004bb920] sys_read+0x34/0x60 [527319.461424] [0000000000406294] linux_sparc_syscall32+0x3c/0x40 The calltrace is significant: __do_page_cache_readahead allocates a number of pages with GFP_KERNEL, and hence it should have reclaimed sufficient memory to satisfy GFP_ATOMIC allocations. However after the list of pages goes to mpage_readpages, there can be significant intervals (including disk IO) before all the pages are inserted into the radix-tree. So the reserves can easily be depleted at that point. The patch is confirmed to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> 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>
* fix writev regression: pan hanging unkillable and un-straceableNick Piggin2008-02-031-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Frederik Himpe reported an unkillable and un-straceable pan process. Zero length iovecs can go into an infinite loop in writev, because the iovec iterator does not always advance over them. The sequence required to trigger this is not trivial. I think it requires that a zero-length iovec be followed by a non-zero-length iovec which causes a pagefault in the atomic usercopy. This causes the writev code to drop back into single-segment copy mode, which then tries to copy the 0 bytes of the zero-length iovec; a zero length copy looks like a failure though, so it loops. Put a test into iov_iter_advance to catch zero-length iovecs. We could just put the test in the fallback path, but I feel it is more robust to skip over zero-length iovecs throughout the code (iovec iterator may be used in filesystems too, so it should be robust). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'task_killable' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-02-011-4/+21
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc * 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits) Remove commented-out code copied from NFS NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE Add wait_for_completion_killable Add wait_event_killable Add schedule_timeout_killable Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir Add mutex_lock_killable Use lock_page_killable Add lock_page_killable Add fatal_signal_pending Add TASK_WAKEKILL exit: Use task_is_* signal: Use task_is_* sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL ptrace: Use task_is_* power: Use task_is_* wait: Use TASK_NORMAL proc/base.c: Use task_is_* proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT perfmon: Use task_is_* ... Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
| * Use lock_page_killableMatthew Wilcox2007-12-061-4/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replacing lock_page with lock_page_killable in do_generic_mapping_read() allows us to kill `cat' of a file on an NFS-mounted filesystem Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
| * Add lock_page_killableMatthew Wilcox2007-12-061-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | This routine is like lock_page, but can be interrupted by a fatal signal Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* | Do dirty page accounting when removing a page from the page cacheLinus Torvalds2007-12-191-0/+12
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Krzysztof Oledzki noticed a dirty page accounting leak on some of his machines, causing the machine to eventually lock up when the kernel decided that there was too much dirty data, but nobody could actually write anything out to fix it. The culprit turns out to be filesystems (cough ext3 with data=journal cough) that re-dirty the page when the "->invalidatepage()" callback is called. Fix it up by doing a final dirty page accounting check when we actually remove the page from the page cache. This fixes bugzilla entry 9182: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182 Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove broken ptrace() special-case code from file mappingLinus Torvalds2007-10-311-11/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel has for random historical reasons allowed ptrace() accesses to access (and insert) pages into the page cache above the size of the file. However, Nick broke that by mistake when doing the new fault handling in commit 54cb8821de07f2ffcd28c380ce9b93d5784b40d7 ("mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)". The breakage caused a hang with gdb when trying to access the invalid page. The ptrace "feature" really isn't worth resurrecting, since it really is wrong both from a portability _and_ from an internal page cache validity standpoint. So this removes those old broken remnants, and fixes the ptrace() hang in the process. Noticed and bisected by Duane Griffin, who also supplied a test-case (quoth Nick: "Well that's probably the best bug report I've ever had, thanks Duane!"). Cc: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* dio: fix cache invalidation after sync writesZach Brown2007-10-301-10/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit commit 65b8291c4000e5f38fc94fb2ca0cb7e8683c8a1b ("dio: invalidate clean pages before dio write") introduced a bug which stopped dio from ever invalidating the page cache after writes. It still invalidated it before writes so most users were fine. Karl Schendel reported ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/26/481 ) hitting this bug when he had a buffered reader immediately reading file data after an O_DIRECT wirter had written the data. The kernel issued read-ahead beyond the position of the reader which overlapped with the O_DIRECT writer. The failure to invalidate after writes caused the reader to see stale data from the read-ahead. The following patch is originally from Karl. The following commentary is his: The below 3rd try takes on your suggestion of just invalidating no matter what the retval from the direct_IO call. I ran it thru the test-case several times and it has worked every time. The post-invalidate is probably still too early for async-directio, but I don't have a testcase for that; just sync. And, this won't be any worse in the async case. I added a test to the aio-dio-regress repository which mimics Karl's IO pattern. It verifed the bad behaviour and that the patch fixed it. I agree with Karl, this still doesn't help the case where a buffered reader follows an AIO O_DIRECT writer. That will require a bit more work. This gives up on the idea of returning EIO to indicate to userspace that stale data remains if the invalidation failed. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Karl Schendel <kschendel@datallegro.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Leonid Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@linux.intel.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix a build error when BLOCK=nEmil Medve2007-10-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mm/filemap.c: In function '__filemap_fdatawrite_range': mm/filemap.c:200: error: implicit declaration of function 'mapping_cap_writeback_dirty' This happens when we don't use/have any block devices and a NFS root filesystem is used. mapping_cap_writeback_dirty() is defined in linux/backing-dev.h which used to be provided in mm/filemap.c by linux/blkdev.h until commit f5ff8422bbdd59f8c1f699df248e1b7a11073027 (Fix warnings with !CONFIG_BLOCK). Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* kernel-api docbook: fix content problemsRandy Dunlap2007-10-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-api docbook contents problems. docproc: linux-2.6.23-git13/include/asm-x86/unaligned_32.h: No such file or directory Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//include/linux/list.h:482): bad line: of list entry Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//mm/filemap.c:864): No description found for parameter 'ra' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//block/ll_rw_blk.c:3760): No description found for parameter 'req' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//include/linux/input.h:1077): No description found for parameter 'private' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git13//include/linux/input.h:1077): No description found for parameter 'cdev' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Include <linux/backing-dev.h> in mm/filemap.cLinus Torvalds2007-10-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | It gets it indirectly from blkdev.h when CONFIG_BLOCK is enabled, but it needs it unconditionally for the definition of mapping_cap_writeback_dirty. Noticed and bisected down to 4af3c9cc4fad54c3627e9afebf905aafde5690ed ("Drop some headers from mm.h") by Avuton Olrich. Cc: Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Implement file posix capabilitiesSerge E. Hallyn2007-10-171-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement file posix capabilities. This allows programs to be given a subset of root's powers regardless of who runs them, without having to use setuid and giving the binary all of root's powers. This version works with Kaigai Kohei's userspace tools, found at http://www.kaigai.gr.jp/index.php. For more information on how to use this patch, Chris Friedhoff has posted a nice page at http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html. Changelog: Nov 27: Incorporate fixes from Andrew Morton (security-introduce-file-caps-tweaks and security-introduce-file-caps-warning-fix) Fix Kconfig dependency. Fix change signaling behavior when file caps are not compiled in. Nov 13: Integrate comments from Alexey: Remove CONFIG_ ifdef from capability.h, and use %zd for printing a size_t. Nov 13: Fix endianness warnings by sparse as suggested by Alexey Dobriyan. Nov 09: Address warnings of unused variables at cap_bprm_set_security when file capabilities are disabled, and simultaneously clean up the code a little, by pulling the new code into a helper function. Nov 08: For pointers to required userspace tools and how to use them, see http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html. Nov 07: Fix the calculation of the highest bit checked in check_cap_sanity(). Nov 07: Allow file caps to be enabled without CONFIG_SECURITY, since capabilities are the default. Hook cap_task_setscheduler when !CONFIG_SECURITY. Move capable(TASK_KILL) to end of cap_task_kill to reduce audit messages. Nov 05: Add secondary calls in selinux/hooks.c to task_setioprio and task_setscheduler so that selinux and capabilities with file cap support can be stacked. Sep 05: As Seth Arnold points out, uid checks are out of place for capability code. Sep 01: Define task_setscheduler, task_setioprio, cap_task_kill, and task_setnice to make sure a user cannot affect a process in which they called a program with some fscaps. One remaining question is the note under task_setscheduler: are we ok with CAP_SYS_NICE being sufficient to confine a process to a cpuset? It is a semantic change, as without fsccaps, attach_task doesn't allow CAP_SYS_NICE to override the uid equivalence check. But since it uses security_task_setscheduler, which elsewhere is used where CAP_SYS_NICE can be used to override the uid equivalence check, fixing it might be tough. task_setscheduler note: this also controls cpuset:attach_task. Are we ok with CAP_SYS_NICE being used to confine to a cpuset? task_setioprio task_setnice sys_setpriority uses this (through set_one_prio) for another process. Need same checks as setrlimit Aug 21: Updated secureexec implementation to reflect the fact that euid and uid might be the same and nonzero, but the process might still have elevated caps. Aug 15: Handle endianness of xattrs. Enforce capability version match between kernel and disk. Enforce that no bits beyond the known max capability are set, else return -EPERM. With this extra processing, it may be worth reconsidering doing all the work at bprm_set_security rather than d_instantiate. Aug 10: Always call getxattr at bprm_set_security, rather than caching it at d_instantiate. [morgan@kernel.org: file-caps clean up for linux/capability.h] [bunk@kernel.org: unexport cap_inode_killpriv] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: document tree_lock->zone.lock lockorderNick Piggin2007-10-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | zone->lock is quite an "inner" lock and mostly constrained to page alloc as well, so like slab locks, it probably isn't something that is critically important to document here. However unlike slab locks, zone lock could be used more widely in future, and page_alloc.c might possibly have more business to do tricky things with pagecache than does slab. So... I don't think it hurts to document it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs: remove some AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGENick Piggin2007-10-161-12/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | prepare/commit_write no longer returns AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE since OCFS2 and GFS2 were converted to the new aops, so we can make some simplifications for that. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs: new cont helpersNick Piggin2007-10-161-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rework the generic block "cont" routines to handle the new aops. Supporting cont_prepare_write would take quite a lot of code to support, so remove it instead (and we later convert all filesystems to use it). write_begin gets passed AOP_FLAG_CONT_EXPAND when called from generic_cont_expand, so filesystems can avoid the old hacks they used. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: restore KERNEL_DS optimisationsNick Piggin2007-10-161-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | Restore the KERNEL_DS optimisation, especially helpful to the 2copy write path. This may be a pretty questionable gain in most cases, especially after the legacy 2copy write path is removed, but it doesn't cost much. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aopsNick Piggin2007-10-161-27/+223
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do). [mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] [dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: buffered write iteratorNick Piggin2007-10-161-27/+117
| | | | | | | | | | Add an iterator data structure to operate over an iovec. Add usercopy operators needed by generic_file_buffered_write, and convert that function over. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fix pagecache write deadlocksNick Piggin2007-10-161-19/+103
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Modify the core write() code so that it won't take a pagefault while holding a lock on the pagecache page. There are a number of different deadlocks possible if we try to do such a thing: 1. generic_buffered_write 2. lock_page 3. prepare_write 4. unlock_page+vmtruncate 5. copy_from_user 6. mmap_sem(r) 7. handle_mm_fault 8. lock_page (filemap_nopage) 9. commit_write 10. unlock_page a. sys_munmap / sys_mlock / others b. mmap_sem(w) c. make_pages_present d. get_user_pages e. handle_mm_fault f. lock_page (filemap_nopage) 2,8 - recursive deadlock if page is same 2,8;2,8 - ABBA deadlock is page is different 2,6;b,f - ABBA deadlock if page is same The solution is as follows: 1. If we find the destination page is uptodate, continue as normal, but use atomic usercopies which do not take pagefaults and do not zero the uncopied tail of the destination. The destination is already uptodate, so we can commit_write the full length even if there was a partial copy: it does not matter that the tail was not modified, because if it is dirtied and written back to disk it will not cause any problems (uptodate *means* that the destination page is as new or newer than the copy on disk). 1a. The above requires that fault_in_pages_readable correctly returns access information, because atomic usercopies cannot distinguish between non-present pages in a readable mapping, from lack of a readable mapping. 2. If we find the destination page is non uptodate, unlock it (this could be made slightly more optimal), then allocate a temporary page to copy the source data into. Relock the destination page and continue with the copy. However, instead of a usercopy (which might take a fault), copy the data from the pinned temporary page via the kernel address space. (also, rename maxlen to seglen, because it was confusing) This increases the CPU/memory copy cost by almost 50% on the affected workloads. That will be solved by introducing a new set of pagecache write aops in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: write iovec cleanupNick Piggin2007-10-161-26/+10
| | | | | | | | | | Hide some of the open-coded nr_segs tests into the iovec helpers. This is all to simplify generic_file_buffered_write, because that gets more complex in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: buffered write cleanupNick Piggin2007-10-161-88/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Quite a bit of code is used in maintaining these "cached pages" that are probably pretty unlikely to get used. It would require a narrow race where the page is inserted concurrently while this process is allocating a page in order to create the spare page. Then a multi-page write into an uncached part of the file, to make use of it. Next, the buffered write path (and others) uses its own LRU pagevec when it should be just using the per-CPU LRU pagevec (which will cut down on both data and code size cacheline footprint). Also, these private LRU pagevecs are emptied after just a very short time, in contrast with the per-CPU pagevecs that are persistent. Net result: 7.3 times fewer lru_lock acquisitions required to add the pages to pagecache for a bulk write (in 4K chunks). [this gets rid of some cond_resched() calls in readahead.c and mpage.c due to clashes in -mm. What put them there, and why? ] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: trim more holesNick Piggin2007-10-161-40/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | If prepare_write fails with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, or if commit_write fails, then we may have failed the write operation despite prepare_write having instantiated blocks past i_size. Fix this, and consolidate the trimming into one place. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: debug write deadlocksNick Piggin2007-10-161-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Allow CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to switch off the prefaulting logic, to simulate the Makes the race much easier to hit. This is useful for demonstration and testing purposes, but is removed in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: clean up buffered write codeAndrew Morton2007-10-161-17/+18
| | | | | | | | | Rename some variables and fix some types. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Revert "[PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write"Andrew Morton2007-10-161-11/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83, which fixed the following bug: When prefaulting in the pages in generic_file_buffered_write(), we only faulted in the pages for the firts segment of the iovec. If the second of successive segment described a mmapping of the page into which we're write()ing, and that page is not up-to-date, the fault handler tries to lock the already-locked page (to bring it up to date) and deadlocks. An exploit for this bug is in writev-deadlock-demo.c, in http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz. (These demos assume blocksize < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE). The problem with this fix is that it takes the kernel back to doing a single prepare_write()/commit_write() per iovec segment. So in the worst case we'll run prepare_write+commit_write 1024 times where we previously would have run it once. The other problem with the fix is that it fix all the locking problems. <insert numbers obtained via ext3-tools's writev-speed.c here> And apparently this change killed NFS overwrite performance, because, I suppose, it talks to the server for each prepare_write+commit_write. So just back that patch out - we'll be fixing the deadlock by other means. Nick says: also it only ever actually papered over the bug, because after faulting in the pages, they might be unmapped or reclaimed. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Revert "[PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero-length iovec ↵Andrew Morton2007-10-161-8/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | segments" This reverts commit 81b0c8713385ce1b1b9058e916edcf9561ad76d6, which was a bugfix against 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83 ("[PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write"), which we also revert. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: revert KERNEL_DS buffered write optimisationNick Piggin2007-10-161-19/+13
| | | | | | | | | Revert the patch from Neil Brown to optimise NFSD writev handling. Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: improve find_lock_pageNick Piggin2007-10-161-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | find_lock_page does not need to recheck ->index because if the page is in the right mapping then the index must be the same. Also, tree_lock does not need to be retaken after the page is locked in order to test that ->mapping has not changed, because holding the page lock pins its mapping. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* filemap: convert some unsigned long to pgoff_tFengguang Wu2007-10-161-16/+16
| | | | | | | | | Convert some 'unsigned long' to pgoff_t. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* filemap: trivial code cleanupsFengguang Wu2007-10-161-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | - remove unused local next_index in do_generic_mapping_read() - remove a redudant page_cache_read() declaration Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* readahead: remove the local copy of ra in do_generic_mapping_read()Fengguang Wu2007-10-161-11/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The local copy of ra in do_generic_mapping_read() can now go away. It predates readanead(req_size). In a time when the readahead code was called on *every* single page. Hence a local has to be made to reduce the chance of the readahead state being overwritten by a concurrent reader. More details in: Linux: Random File I/O Regressions In 2.6 <http://kerneltrap.org/node/3039> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* readahead: combine file_ra_state.prev_index/prev_offset into prev_posFengguang Wu2007-10-161-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Combine the file_ra_state members unsigned long prev_index unsigned int prev_offset into loff_t prev_pos It is more consistent and better supports huge files. Thanks to Peter for the nice proposal! [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shift overflow] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* readahead: mmap read-around simplificationFengguang Wu2007-10-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Fold file_ra_state.mmap_hit into file_ra_state.mmap_miss and make it an int. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fix page release issue in filemap_faultYan Zheng2007-10-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | find_lock_page increases page's usage count, we should decrease it before return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng<yanzheng@21cn.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>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2007-08-111-20/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: BLOCK: Hide the contents of linux/bio.h if CONFIG_BLOCK=n sysace: HDIO_GETGEO has it's own method for ages drivers/block/cpqarray.c: better error handling and kmalloc + memset conversion to k[cz]alloc drivers/block/cciss.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc Clean up duplicate includes in drivers/block/ Fix remap handling by blktrace [PATCH] remove mm/filemap.c:file_send_actor()
| * [PATCH] remove mm/filemap.c:file_send_actor()Adrian Bunk2007-08-111-20/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the no longer used file_send_actor(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | readahead: docbook fixStephen Hemminger2007-08-111-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | Minor docbook error since argument name in comment doesn't match function Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fix filemap.c kernel-docRandy Dunlap2007-07-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warning: Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1//mm/filemap.c:864): No description found for parameter 'ra' 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>
* readahead: split ondemand readahead interface into two functionsRusty Russell2007-07-191-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Split ondemand readahead interface into two functions. I think this makes it a little clearer for non-readahead experts (like Rusty). Internally they both call ondemand_readahead(), but the page argument is changed to an obvious boolean flag. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* readahead: convert filemap invocationsFengguang Wu2007-07-191-20/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert filemap reads to use on-demand readahead. The new call scheme is to - call readahead on non-cached page - call readahead on look-ahead page - update prev_index when finished with the read request Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fault feedback #2Nick Piggin2007-07-191-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch completes Linus's wish that the fault return codes be made into bit flags, which I agree makes everything nicer. This requires requires all handle_mm_fault callers to be modified (possibly the modifications should go further and do things like fault accounting in handle_mm_fault -- however that would be for another patch). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s390 build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Still apparently needs some ARM and PPC loving - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fault feedback #1Nick Piggin2007-07-191-224/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change ->fault prototype. We now return an int, which contains VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte. FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been locked, and potentially other things. This is not quite the way he wanted it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to arch code). This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were going to do that anyway. struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use without really good reason. The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)Nick Piggin2007-07-191-36/+58
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings. ->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping. The hitch here is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie. pgoff). But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation). Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing to be doing. This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and ->populate and (later) ->nopfn. Most of the old mechanism is still in place so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if everyone switches over. The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two. After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in pagecache. Seems like a fringe functionality anyway. NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with ->fault, and no users have hit mainline yet. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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