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2011-01-07fs: icache RCU free inodesNick Piggin
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow: - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must. - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking. - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the page lock to follow page->mapping. The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts kicking over, this increases to about 20%. In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller. The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking, so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I doubt it will be a problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2010-10-29convert get_sb_nodev() usersAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inodeChristoph Hellwig
Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it. For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed, but that's left for later patches. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25new helper: ihold()Al Viro
Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25new helper: inode_unhashed()Al Viro
note: for race-free uses you inode_lock held Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-17shmem: put_super must percpu_counter_destroyHugh Dickins
list_add() corruption messages reported from shmem_fill_super()'s recently introduced percpu_counter_init(): shmem_put_super() needs to remember to percpu_counter_destroy(). And also check error from percpu_counter_init(). Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-09shmem: reduce pagefault lock contentionShaohua Li
I'm running a shmem pagefault test case (see attached file) under a 64 CPU system. Profile shows shmem_inode_info->lock is heavily contented and 100% CPUs time are trying to get the lock. In the pagefault (no swap) case, shmem_getpage gets the lock twice, the last one is avoidable if we prealloc a page so we could reduce one time of locking. This is what below patch does. The result of the test case: 2.6.35-rc3: ~20s 2.6.35-rc3 + patch: ~12s so this is 40% improvement. One might argue if we could have better locking for shmem. But even shmem is lockless, the pagefault will soon have pagecache lock heavily contented because shmem must add new page to pagecache. So before we have better locking for pagecache, improving shmem locking doesn't have too much improvement. I did a similar pagefault test against a ramfs file, the test result is ~10.5s. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, clean up code layout, elimintate code duplication] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09tmpfs: make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter for used blocksTim Chen
The current implementation of tmpfs is not scalable. We found that stat_lock is contended by multiple threads when we need to get a new page, leading to useless spinning inside this spin lock. This patch makes use of the percpu_counter library to maintain local count of used blocks to speed up getting and returning of pages. So the acquisition of stat_lock is unnecessary for getting and returning blocks, improving the performance of tmpfs on system with large number of cpus. On a 4 socket 32 core NHM-EX system, we saw improvement of 270%. The implementation below has a slight chance of race between threads causing a slight overshoot of the maximum configured blocks. However, any overshoot is small, and is bounded by the number of cpus. This happens when the number of used blocks is slightly below the maximum configured blocks when a thread checks the used block count, and another thread allocates the last block before the current thread does. This should not be a problem for tmpfs, as the overshoot is most likely to be a few blocks and bounded. If a strict limit is really desired, then configured the max blocks to be the limit less the number of cpus in system. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09switch shmem.c to ->evice_inode()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_okChristoph Hellwig
Make sure we check the truncate constraints early on in ->setattr by adding those checks to inode_change_ok. Also clean up and document inode_change_ok to make this obvious. As a fallout we don't have to call inode_newsize_ok from simple_setsize and simplify it down to a truncate_setsize which doesn't return an error. This simplifies a lot of setattr implementations and means we use truncate_setsize almost everywhere. Get rid of fat_setsize now that it's trivial and mark ext2_setsize static to make the calling convention obvious. Keep the inode_newsize_ok in vmtruncate for now as all callers need an audit for its removal anyway. Note: setattr code in ecryptfs doesn't call inode_change_ok at all and needs a deeper audit, but that is left for later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09always call inode_change_ok early in ->setattrChristoph Hellwig
Make sure we call inode_change_ok before doing any changes in ->setattr, and make sure to call it even if our fs wants to ignore normal UNIX permissions, but use the ATTR_FORCE to skip those. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09rename generic_setattrChristoph Hellwig
Despite its name it's now a generic implementation of ->setattr, but rather a helper to copy attributes from a struct iattr to the inode. Rename it to setattr_copy to reflect this fact. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-04fix truncate inode time modification breakageNick Piggin
mtime and ctime should be changed only if the file size has actually changed. Patches changing ext2 and tmpfs from vmtruncate to new truncate sequence has caused regressions where they always update timestamps. There is some strange cases in POSIX where truncate(2) must not update times unless the size has acutally changed, see 6e656be89. This area is all still rather buggy in different ways in a lot of filesystems and needs a cleanup and audit (ideally the vfs will provide a simple attribute or call to direct all filesystems exactly which attributes to change). But coming up with the best solution will take a while and is not appropriate for rc anyway. So fix recent regression for now. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27tmpfs: convert to use the new truncate conventionnpiggin@suse.de
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27rename the generic fsync implementationsChristoph Hellwig
We don't name our generic fsync implementations very well currently. The no-op implementation for in-memory filesystems currently is called simple_sync_file which doesn't make too much sense to start with, the the generic one for simple filesystems is called simple_fsync which can lead to some confusion. This patch renames the generic file fsync method to generic_file_fsync to match the other generic_file_* routines it is supposed to be used with, and the no-op implementation to noop_fsync to make it obvious what to expect. In addition add some documentation for both methods. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27memcg: move charge of file pagesDaisuke Nishimura
This patch adds support for moving charge of file pages, which include normal file, tmpfs file and swaps of tmpfs file. It's enabled by setting bit 1 of <target cgroup>/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate. Unlike the case of anonymous pages, file pages(and swaps) in the range mmapped by the task will be moved even if the task hasn't done page fault, i.e. they might not be the task's "RSS", but other task's "RSS" that maps the same file. And mapcount of the page is ignored(the page can be moved even if page_mapcount(page) > 1). So, conditions that the page/swap should be met to be moved is that it must be in the range mmapped by the target task and it must be charged to the old cgroup. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25shmem: remove redundant codeHuang Shijie
prep_new_page() will call set_page_private(page, 0) to initialise the page, so the code is redundant. Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-21ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper functionDmitry Monakhov
- seems what ramfs_get_inode is only locally, make it static. [AV: the hell it is; it's used by shmem, so shmem needed conversion too and no, that function can't be made static] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21fs: xattr_handler table should be constStephen Hemminger
The entries in xattr handler table should be immutable (ie const) like other operation tables. Later patches convert common filesystems. Uncoverted filesystems will still work, but will generate a compiler warning. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16Fix breakage in shmem.cAl Viro
Replacing error = 0; if (error) op with nothing is not quite an equivalent transformation ;-) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16make generic_acl slightly more genericChristoph Hellwig
Now that we cache the ACL pointers in the generic inode all the generic_acl cruft can go away and generic_acl.c can directly implement xattr handlers dealing with the full Posix ACL semantics for in-memory filesystems. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16sanitize xattr handler prototypesChristoph Hellwig
Add a flags argument to struct xattr_handler and pass it to all xattr handler methods. This allows using the same methods for multiple handlers, e.g. for the ACL methods which perform exactly the same action for the access and default ACLs, just using a different underlying attribute. With a little more groundwork it'll also allow sharing the methods for the regular user/trusted/secure handlers in extN, ocfs2 and jffs2 like it's already done for xfs in this patch. Also change the inode argument to the handlers to a dentry to allow using the handlers mechnism for filesystems that require it later, e.g. cifs. [with GFS2 bits updated by Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16Untangling ima mess, part 1: alloc_file()Al Viro
There are 2 groups of alloc_file() callers: * ones that are followed by ima_counts_get * ones giving non-regular files So let's pull that ima_counts_get() into alloc_file(); it's a no-op in case of non-regular files. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16switch alloc_file() to passing struct pathAl Viro
... and have the caller grab both mnt and dentry; kill leak in infiniband, while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16switch shmem_file_setup() to alloc_file()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-15swap_info: note SWAP_MAP_SHMEMHugh Dickins
While we're fiddling with the swap_map values, let's assign a particular value to shmem/tmpfs swap pages: their swap counts are never incremented, and it helps swapoff's try_to_unuse() a little if it can immediately distinguish those pages from process pages. Since we've no use for SWAP_MAP_BAD | COUNT_CONTINUED, we might as well use that 0xbf value for SWAP_MAP_SHMEM. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-27const: mark struct vm_struct_operationsAlexey Dobriyan
* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const * mark vm_ops in AGP code But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops being used. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-25Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: writeback: writeback_inodes_sb() should use bdi_start_writeback() writeback: don't delay inodes redirtied by a fast dirtier writeback: make the super_block pinning more efficient writeback: don't resort for a single super_block in move_expired_inodes() writeback: move inodes from one super_block together writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in comments writeback: improve readability of the wb_writeback() continue/break logic writeback: cleanup writeback_single_inode() writeback: kupdate writeback shall not stop when more io is possible writeback: stop background writeback when below background threshold writeback: balance_dirty_pages() shall write more than dirtied pages fs: Fix busyloop in wb_writeback()
2009-09-25writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in commentsJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits) HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4 HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7 HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2 HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2 HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3 HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2 HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world ...
2009-09-22shmem: initialize struct shmem_sb_info to zeroPekka Enberg
Fixes the following kmemcheck false positive (the compiler is using a 32-bit mov to load the 16-bit sbinfo->mode in shmem_fill_super): [ 0.337000] Total of 1 processors activated (3088.38 BogoMIPS). [ 0.352000] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. [ 0.360000] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (9f8020fc) [ 0.361000] a44240820000000041f6998100000000000000000000000000000000ff030000 [ 0.368000] i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i u u [ 0.375000] ^ [ 0.376000] [ 0.377000] Pid: 9, comm: khelper Not tainted (2.6.31-tip #206) P4DC6 [ 0.378000] EIP: 0060:[<810a3a95>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 [ 0.379000] EIP is at shmem_fill_super+0xb5/0x120 [ 0.380000] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 9f845400 ECX: 824042a4 EDX: 8199f641 [ 0.381000] ESI: 9f8020c0 EDI: 9f845400 EBP: 9f81af68 ESP: 81cd6eec [ 0.382000] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [ 0.383000] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 9f806200 CR3: 01ccd000 CR4: 000006d0 [ 0.384000] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 0.385000] DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 [ 0.386000] [<810c25fc>] get_sb_nodev+0x3c/0x80 [ 0.388000] [<810a3514>] shmem_get_sb+0x14/0x20 [ 0.390000] [<810c207f>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x120 [ 0.392000] [<81b2849e>] init_tmpfs+0x7e/0xb0 [ 0.394000] [<81b11597>] do_basic_setup+0x17/0x30 [ 0.396000] [<81b11907>] kernel_init+0x57/0xa0 [ 0.398000] [<810039b7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [ 0.400000] [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff [ 0.402000] khelper used greatest stack depth: 2820 bytes left [ 0.407000] calling init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 @ 1 [ 0.408000] initcall init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 usecs Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Analysed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22tmpfs: depend on shmemHugh Dickins
CONFIG_SHMEM off gives you (ramfs masquerading as) tmpfs, even when CONFIG_TMPFS is off: that's a little anomalous, and I'd intended to make more sense of it by removing CONFIG_TMPFS altogether, always enabling its code when CONFIG_SHMEM; but so many defconfigs have CONFIG_SHMEM on CONFIG_TMPFS off that we'd better leave that as is. But there is no point in asking for CONFIG_TMPFS if CONFIG_SHMEM is off: make TMPFS depend on SHMEM, which also prevents TMPFS_POSIX_ACL shmem_acl.o being pointlessly built into the kernel when SHMEM is off. And a selfish change, to prevent the world from being rebuilt when I switch between CONFIG_SHMEM on and off: the only CONFIG_SHMEM in the header files is mm.h shmem_lock() - give that a shmem.c stub instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22mm: includecheck fix for mm/shmem.cJaswinder Singh Rajput
Fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: mm/shmem.c: linux/vfs.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22mm: add_to_swap_cache() does not return -EEXISTDaisuke Nishimura
After commit 355cfa73 ("mm: modify swap_map and add SWAP_HAS_CACHE flag"), only the context which have set SWAP_HAS_CACHE flag by swapcache_prepare() or get_swap_page() would call add_to_swap_cache(). So add_to_swap_cache() doesn't return -EEXIST any more. Even though it doesn't return -EEXIST, it's not good behavior conceptually to call swapcache_prepare() in the -EEXIST case, because it means clearing SWAP_HAS_CACHE flag while the entry is on swap cache. This patch removes redundant codes and comments from callers of it, and adds VM_BUG_ON() in error path of add_to_swap_cache() and some comments. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-16HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systemsAndi Kleen
Enable removing of corrupted pages through truncation for a bunch of file systems: ext*, xfs, gfs2, ocfs2, ntfs These should cover most server needs. I chose the set of migration aware file systems for this for now, assuming they have been especially audited. But in general it should be safe for all file systems on the data area that support read/write and truncate. Caveat: the hardware error handler does not take i_mutex for now before calling the truncate function. Is that ok? Cc: tytso@mit.edu Cc: hch@infradead.org Cc: mfasheh@suse.com Cc: aia21@cantab.net Cc: hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk Cc: swhiteho@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked pageWu Fengguang
The dirtying of page and set_page_dirty() can be moved into the page lock. - In shmem_write_end(), the page was dirtied while the page lock was held, but it's being marked dirty just after dropping the page lock. - In shmem_symlink(), both dirtying and marking can be moved into page lock. It's valuable for the hwpoison code to know whether one bad page can be dropped without losing data. It mainly judges by testing the PG_dirty bit after taking the page lock. So it becomes important that the dirtying of page and the marking of dirtiness are both done inside the page lock. Which is a common practice, but sadly not a rule. The noticeable exceptions are - mapped pages - pages with buffer_heads The above pages could go dirty at any time. Fortunately the hwpoison will unmap the page and release the buffer_heads beforehand anyway. Many other types of pages (eg. metadata pages) can also be dirtied at will by their owners, the hwpoison code cannot do meaningful things to them anyway. Only the dirtiness of pagecache pages owned by regular files are interested. v2: AK: Add comment about set_page_dirty rules (suggested by Peter Zijlstra) Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-15Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /devKay Sievers
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a device node in devtmpfs. Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time, and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs. Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it. The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still needs to be applied by userspace. If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node when the device goes away. If the device node was created by userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it will no longer be removed by devtmpfs. If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel. With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices. It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust, by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide a working /dev. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-08shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission'Linus Torvalds
shmfs wants purely standard POSIX ACL semantics, so we can use the new generic VFS layer POSIX ACL checking rather than cooking our own 'permission()' function. Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-24Get "no acls for this inode" right, fix shmem breakageAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24switch shmem to inode->i_aclAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-16mm cleanup: shmem_file_setup: 'char *' -> 'const char *' for name argumentSergei Trofimovich
As function shmem_file_setup does not modify/allocate/free/pass given filename - mark it as const. Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@inbox.ru> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16mm: add swap cache interface for swap referenceKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
In a following patch, the usage of swap cache is recorded into swap_map. This patch is for necessary interface changes to do that. 2 interfaces: - swapcache_prepare() - swapcache_free() are added for allocating/freeing refcnt from swap-cache to existing swap entries. But implementation itself is not changed under this patch. At adding swapcache_free(), memcg's hook code is moved under swapcache_free(). This is better than using scattered hooks. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-22integrity: move ima_counts_getMimi Zohar
Based on discussion on lkml (Andrew Morton and Eric Paris), move ima_counts_get down a layer into shmem/hugetlb__file_setup(). Resolves drm shmem_file_setup() usage case as well. HD comment: I still think you're doing this at the wrong level, but recognize that you probably won't be persuaded until a few more users of alloc_file() emerge, all wanting your ima_counts_get(). Resolving GEM's shmem_file_setup() is an improvement, so I'll say Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22integrity: path_check updateMimi Zohar
- Add support in ima_path_check() for integrity checking without incrementing the counts. (Required for nfsd.) - rename and export opencount_get to ima_counts_get - replace ima_shm_check calls with ima_counts_get - export ima_path_check Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-02memcg: fix mem_cgroup_shrink_usage()Daisuke Nishimura
Current mem_cgroup_shrink_usage() has two problems. 1. It doesn't call mem_cgroup_out_of_memory and doesn't update last_oom_jiffies, so pagefault_out_of_memory invokes global OOM. 2. Considering hierarchy, shrinking has to be done from the mem_over_limit, not from the memcg which the page would be charged to. mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin() does all of these things properly, so we use it and call cancel_charge_swapin when it succeeded. The name of "shrink_usage" is not appropriate for this behavior, so we change it too. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.cn> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13shmem: respect MAX_LFS_FILESIZEHugh Dickins
SHMEM_MAX_BYTES was derived from the maximum size of its triple-indirect swap vector, forgetting to take the MAX_LFS_FILESIZE limit into account. Never mind 256kB pages, even 8kB pages on 32-bit kernels allowed files to grow slightly bigger than that supposed maximum. Fix this by using the min of both (at build time not run time). And it happens that this calculation is good as far as 8MB pages on 32-bit or 16MB pages on 64-bit: though SHMSWP_MAX_INDEX gets truncated before that, it's truncated to such large numbers that we don't need to care. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: it needs pagemap.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 min() warnings] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13shmem: fix division by zeroYuri Tikhonov
Fix a division by zero which we have in shmem_truncate_range() and shmem_unuse_inode() when using big PAGE_SIZE values (e.g. 256kB on ppc44x). With 256kB PAGE_SIZE, the ENTRIES_PER_PAGEPAGE constant becomes too large (0x1.0000.0000) on a 32-bit kernel, so this patch just changes its type from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned long long'. Hugh: reverted its unsigned long longs in shmem_truncate_range() and shmem_getpage(): the pagecache index cannot be more than an unsigned long, so the divisions by zero occurred in unreached code. It's a pity we need any ULL arithmetic here, but I found no pretty way to avoid it. Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01shmem: writepage directly to swapHugh Dickins
Synopsis: if shmem_writepage calls swap_writepage directly, most shmem swap loads benefit, and a catastrophic interaction between SLUB and some flash storage is avoided. shmem_writepage() has always been peculiar in making no attempt to write: it has just transferred a shmem page from file cache to swap cache, then let that page make its way around the LRU again before being written and freed. The idea was that people use tmpfs because they want those pages to stay in RAM; so although we give it an overflow to swap, we should resist writing too soon, giving those pages a second chance before they can be reclaimed. That was always questionable, and I've toyed with this patch for years; but never had a clear justification to depart from the original design. It became more questionable in 2.6.28, when the split LRU patches classed shmem and tmpfs pages as SwapBacked rather than as file_cache: that in itself gives them more resistance to reclaim than normal file pages. I prepared this patch for 2.6.29, but the merge window arrived before I'd completed gathering statistics to justify sending it in. Then while comparing SLQB against SLUB, running SLUB on a laptop I'd habitually used with SLAB, I found SLUB to run my tmpfs kbuild swapping tests five times slower than SLAB or SLQB - other machines slower too, but nowhere near so bad. Simpler "cp -a" swapping tests showed the same. slub_max_order=0 brings sanity to all, but heavy swapping is too far from normal to justify such a tuning. The crucial factor on that laptop turns out to be that I'm using an SD card for swap. What happens is this: By default, SLUB uses order-2 pages for shmem_inode_cache (and many other fs inodes), so creating tmpfs files under memory pressure brings lumpy reclaim into play. One subpage of the order is chosen from the bottom of the LRU as usual, then the other three picked out from their random positions on the LRUs. In a tmpfs load, many of these pages will be ones which already passed through shmem_writepage, so already have swap allocated. And though their offsets on swap were probably allocated sequentially, now that the pages are picked off at random, their swap offsets are scattered. But the flash storage on the SD card is very sensitive to having its writes merged: once swap is written at scattered offsets, performance falls apart. Rotating disk seeks increase too, but less disastrously. So: stop giving shmem/tmpfs pages a second pass around the LRU, write them out to swap as soon as their swap has been allocated. It's surely possible to devise an artificial load which runs faster the old way, one whose sizing is such that the tmpfs pages on their second pass are the ones that are wanted again, and other pages not. But I've not yet found such a load: on all machines, under the loads I've tried, immediate swap_writepage speeds up shmem swapping: especially when using the SLUB allocator (and more effectively than slub_max_order=0), but also with the others; and it also reduces the variance between runs. How much faster varies widely: a factor of five is rare, 5% is common. One load which might have suffered: imagine a swapping shmem load in a limited mem_cgroup on a machine with plenty of memory. Before 2.6.29 the swapcache was not charged, and such a load would have run quickest with the shmem swapcache never written to swap. But now swapcache is charged, so even this load benefits from shmem_writepage directly to swap. Apologies for the #ifndef CONFIG_SWAP swap_writepage() stub in swap.h: it's silly because that will never get called; but refactoring shmem.c sensibly according to CONFIG_SWAP will be a separate task. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-24Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris