lwn.git/mm, branch v4.15-rc1

block/laptop_mode: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

2017-11-21T23:46:44+00:00

In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer() to pass the timer pointer explicitly. Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Jeff Layton Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

mm: add infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking

2017-11-18T00:10:04+00:00

Performance of get_user_pages_fast() is critical for some workloads, but it's tricky to test it directly. This patch provides /sys/kernel/debug/gup_benchmark that helps with testing performance of it. See tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c for userspace counterpart. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170908215603.9189-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Huang Ying Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: remove unneeded pageblock_skip_persistent() checks

2017-11-18T00:10:00+00:00

Commit f3c931633a59 ("mm, compaction: persistently skip hugetlbfs pageblocks") has introduced pageblock_skip_persistent() checks into migration and free scanners, to make sure pageblocks that should be persistently skipped are marked as such, regardless of the ignore_skip_hint flag. Since the previous patch introduced a new no_set_skip_hint flag, the ignore flag no longer prevents marking pageblocks as skipped. Therefore we can remove the special cases. The relevant pageblocks will be marked as skipped by the common logic which marks each pageblock where no page could be isolated. This makes the code simpler. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102121706.21504-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: split off flag for not updating skip hints

2017-11-18T00:10:00+00:00

Pageblock skip hints were added as a heuristic for compaction, which shares core code with CMA. Since CMA reliability would suffer from the heuristics, compact_control flag ignore_skip_hint was added for the CMA use case. Since 6815bf3f233e ("mm/compaction: respect ignore_skip_hint in update_pageblock_skip") the flag also means that CMA won't *update* the skip hints in addition to ignoring them. Today, direct compaction can also ignore the skip hints in the last resort attempt, but there's no reason not to set them when isolation fails in such case. Thus, this patch splits off a new no_set_skip_hint flag to avoid the updating, which only CMA sets. This should improve the heuristics a bit, and allow us to simplify the persistent skip bit handling as the next step. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102121706.21504-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: extend pageblock_skip_persistent() to all compound pages

2017-11-18T00:10:00+00:00

pageblock_skip_persistent() checks for HugeTLB pages of pageblock order. When clearing pageblock skip bits for compaction, the bits are not cleared for such pageblocks, because they cannot contain base pages suitable for migration, nor free pages to use as migration targets. This optimization can be simply extended to all compound pages of order equal or larger than pageblock order, because migrating such pages (if they support it) cannot help sub-pageblock fragmentation. This includes THP's and also gigantic HugeTLB pages, which the current implementation doesn't persistently skip due to a strict pageblock_order equality check and not recognizing tail pages. While THP pages are generally less "persistent" than HugeTLB, we can still expect that if a THP exists at the point of __reset_isolation_suitable(), it will exist also during the subsequent compaction run. The time difference here could be actually smaller than between a compaction run that sets a (non-persistent) skip bit on a THP, and the next compaction run that observes it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171102121706.21504-1-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: persistently skip hugetlbfs pageblocks

2017-11-18T00:10:00+00:00

It is pointless to migrate hugetlb memory as part of memory compaction if the hugetlb size is equal to the pageblock order. No defragmentation is occurring in this condition. It is also pointless to for the freeing scanner to scan a pageblock where a hugetlb page is pinned. Unconditionally skip these pageblocks, and do so peristently so that they are not rescanned until it is observed that these hugepages are no longer pinned. It would also be possible to do this by involving the hugetlb subsystem in marking pageblocks to no longer be skipped when they hugetlb pages are freed. This is a simple solution that doesn't involve any additional subsystems in pageblock skip manipulation. [rientjes@google.com: fix build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1708201734390.117182@chino.kir.corp.google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1708151639130.106658@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Tested-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: kcompactd should not ignore pageblock skip

2017-11-18T00:10:00+00:00

Kcompactd is needlessly ignoring pageblock skip information. It is doing MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT compaction, which is no more powerful than MIGRATE_SYNC compaction. If compaction recently failed to isolate memory from a set of pageblocks, there is nothing to indicate that kcompactd will be able to do so, or that it is beneficial from attempting to isolate memory. Use the pageblock skip hint to avoid rescanning pageblocks needlessly until that information is reset. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1708151638550.106658@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: shmem: remove unused info variable

2017-11-18T00:10:00+00:00

Fix the following warning by removing the unused variable: mm/shmem.c:3205:27: warning: variable 'info' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510774029-30652-1-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/z3fold.c: use kref to prevent page free/compact race

2017-11-18T00:10:00+00:00

There is a race in the current z3fold implementation between do_compact() called in a work queue context and the page release procedure when page's kref goes to 0. do_compact() may be waiting for page lock, which is released by release_z3fold_page_locked right before putting the page onto the "stale" list, and then the page may be freed as do_compact() modifies its contents. The mechanism currently implemented to handle that (checking the PAGE_STALE flag) is not reliable enough. Instead, we'll use page's kref counter to guarantee that the page is not released if its compaction is scheduled. It then becomes compaction function's responsibility to decrease the counter and quit immediately if the page was actually freed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171117092032.00ea56f42affbed19f4fcc6c@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool Cc: Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00

Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams: "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a build success notification. The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged. - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable 'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk") before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler. Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag is validated as supported by the filesystem's ->mmap() file operation. - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods. This enables interoperability with environments that only implement the standardized methods. - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods. - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection, and SMART alarm threshold control. - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only. - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support dynamic unlock of the label area. - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands. Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next: - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"): Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and 7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()") Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong " * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits) acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush() brd: remove dax support dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported() fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault() ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault() dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault() dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault() ...