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author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2014-06-23 13:22:04 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-07-09 11:18:26 -0700 |
commit | 1f8e5d4325ab2b4b328ca4eabcd2a687103d0565 (patch) | |
tree | a492713c4da48a1c30882a1adb9d8fc0c6df0cb5 | |
parent | 1725aa78848dd382a9705146131d0b10164650ba (diff) | |
download | lwn-1f8e5d4325ab2b4b328ca4eabcd2a687103d0565.tar.gz lwn-1f8e5d4325ab2b4b328ca4eabcd2a687103d0565.zip |
mm, pcp: allow restoring percpu_pagelist_fraction default
commit 7cd2b0a34ab8e4db971920eef8982f985441adfb upstream.
Oleg reports a division by zero error on zero-length write() to the
percpu_pagelist_fraction sysctl:
divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
CPU: 1 PID: 9142 Comm: badarea_io Not tainted 3.15.0-rc2-vm-nfs+ #19
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
task: ffff8800d5aeb6e0 ti: ffff8800d87a2000 task.ti: ffff8800d87a2000
RIP: 0010: percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler+0x84/0x120
RSP: 0018:ffff8800d87a3e78 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000f89 RBX: ffff88011f7fd000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000010
RBP: ffff8800d87a3e98 R08: ffffffff81d002c8 R09: ffff8800d87a3f50
R10: 000000000000000b R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000060
R13: ffffffff81c3c3e0 R14: ffffffff81cfddf8 R15: ffff8801193b0800
FS: 00007f614f1e9740(0000) GS:ffff88011f440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00007f614f1fa000 CR3: 00000000d9291000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
proc_sys_call_handler+0xb3/0xc0
proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20
vfs_write+0xba/0x1e0
SyS_write+0x46/0xb0
tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
However, if the percpu_pagelist_fraction sysctl is set by the user, it
is also impossible to restore it to the kernel default since the user
cannot write 0 to the sysctl.
This patch allows the user to write 0 to restore the default behavior.
It still requires a fraction equal to or larger than 8, however, as
stated by the documentation for sanity. If a value in the range [1, 7]
is written, the sysctl will return EINVAL.
This successfully solves the divide by zero issue at the same time.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 40 |
3 files changed, 31 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index d614a9b6a280..b602784b289f 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -681,7 +681,8 @@ The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result. It is set to pcp->high/4. The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8) The initial value is zero. Kernel does not use this value at boot time to set -the high water marks for each per cpu page list. +the high water marks for each per cpu page list. If the user writes '0' to this +sysctl, it will revert to this default behavior. ============================================================== diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index aae21e842918..c1b26e176aa6 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ static unsigned long dirty_bytes_min = 2 * PAGE_SIZE; /* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */ static int maxolduid = 65535; static int minolduid; -static int min_percpu_pagelist_fract = 8; static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX; static const int cap_last_cap = CAP_LAST_CAP; @@ -1324,7 +1323,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(percpu_pagelist_fraction), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler, - .extra1 = &min_percpu_pagelist_fract, + .extra1 = &zero, }, #ifdef CONFIG_MMU { diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 4b5d4f6360d2..b09bb6138d36 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ /* prevent >1 _updater_ of zone percpu pageset ->high and ->batch fields */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcp_batch_high_lock); +#define MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_FRACTION (8) #ifdef CONFIG_USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, numa_node); @@ -4106,7 +4107,7 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone) memmap_init_zone((size), (nid), (zone), (start_pfn), MEMMAP_EARLY) #endif -static int __meminit zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone) +static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone) { #ifdef CONFIG_MMU int batch; @@ -4222,8 +4223,8 @@ static void pageset_set_high(struct per_cpu_pageset *p, pageset_update(&p->pcp, high, batch); } -static void __meminit pageset_set_high_and_batch(struct zone *zone, - struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp) +static void pageset_set_high_and_batch(struct zone *zone, + struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp) { if (percpu_pagelist_fraction) pageset_set_high(pcp, @@ -5848,23 +5849,38 @@ int percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { struct zone *zone; - unsigned int cpu; + int old_percpu_pagelist_fraction; int ret; + mutex_lock(&pcp_batch_high_lock); + old_percpu_pagelist_fraction = percpu_pagelist_fraction; + ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); - if (!write || (ret < 0)) - return ret; + if (!write || ret < 0) + goto out; + + /* Sanity checking to avoid pcp imbalance */ + if (percpu_pagelist_fraction && + percpu_pagelist_fraction < MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_FRACTION) { + percpu_pagelist_fraction = old_percpu_pagelist_fraction; + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + + /* No change? */ + if (percpu_pagelist_fraction == old_percpu_pagelist_fraction) + goto out; - mutex_lock(&pcp_batch_high_lock); for_each_populated_zone(zone) { - unsigned long high; - high = zone->managed_pages / percpu_pagelist_fraction; + unsigned int cpu; + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) - pageset_set_high(per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu), - high); + pageset_set_high_and_batch(zone, + per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)); } +out: mutex_unlock(&pcp_batch_high_lock); - return 0; + return ret; } int hashdist = HASHDIST_DEFAULT; |