kernel/git/stable/linux.git/mm/page_alloc.c, branch linux-4.17.y

mm: Allow non-direct-map arguments to free_reserved_area()

2018-08-24T11:07:15+00:00

commit 0d83432811f26871295a9bc24d3c387924da6071 upstream. free_reserved_area() takes pointers as arguments to show which addresses should be freed. However, it does this in a somewhat ambiguous way. If it gets a kernel direct map address, it always works. However, if it gets an address that is part of the kernel image alias mapping, it can fail. It fails if all of the following happen: * The specified address is part of the kernel image alias * Poisoning is requested (forcing a memset()) * The address is in a read-only portion of the kernel image The memset() fails on the read-only mapping, of course. free_reserved_area() *is* called both on the direct map and on kernel image alias addresses. We've just lucked out thus far that the kernel image alias areas it gets used on are read-write. I'm fairly sure this has been just a happy accident. It is quite easy to make free_reserved_area() work for all cases: just convert the address to a direct map address before doing the memset(), and do this unconditionally. There is little chance of a regression here because we previously did a virt_to_page() on the address for the memset, so we know these are not highmem pages for which virt_to_page() would fail. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: aarcange@redhat.com Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andi Kleen Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802225826.1287AE3E@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: don't do zero_resv_unavail if memmap is not allocated

2018-07-18T05:56:38+00:00

commit d1b47a7c9efcf3c3384b70f6e3c8f1423b44d8c7 upstream. Moving zero_resv_unavail before memmap_init_zone(), caused a regression on x86-32. The cause is that we access struct pages before they are allocated when CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP is used. free_area_init_nodes() zero_resv_unavail() mm_zero_struct_page(pfn_to_page(pfn)); <- struct page is not alloced free_area_init_node() if CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP alloc_node_mem_map() memblock_virt_alloc_node_nopanic() <- struct page alloced here On the other hand memblock_virt_alloc_node_nopanic() zeroes all the memory that it returns, so we do not need to do zero_resv_unavail() here. Fixes: e181ae0c5db9 ("mm: zero unavailable pages before memmap init") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Tested-by: Matt Hart Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: zero unavailable pages before memmap init

2018-07-17T09:48:28+00:00

commit e181ae0c5db9544de9c53239eb22bc012ce75033 upstream. We must zero struct pages for memory that is not backed by physical memory, or kernel does not have access to. Recently, there was a change which zeroed all memmap for all holes in e820. Unfortunately, it introduced a bug that is discussed here: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg156764.html Linus, also saw this bug on his machine, and confirmed that reverting commit 124049decbb1 ("x86/e820: put !E820_TYPE_RAM regions into memblock.reserved") fixes the issue. The problem is that we incorrectly zero some struct pages after they were setup. The fix is to zero unavailable struct pages prior to initializing of struct pages. A more detailed fix should come later that would avoid double zeroing cases: one in __init_single_page(), the other one in zero_resv_unavail(). Fixes: 124049decbb1 ("x86/e820: put !E820_TYPE_RAM regions into memblock.reserved") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, page_alloc: do not break __GFP_THISNODE by zonelist reset

2018-06-25T23:51:32+00:00

commit 7810e6781e0fcbca78b91cf65053f895bf59e85f upstream. In __alloc_pages_slowpath() we reset zonelist and preferred_zoneref for allocations that can ignore memory policies. The zonelist is obtained from current CPU's node. This is a problem for __GFP_THISNODE allocations that want to allocate on a different node, e.g. because the allocating thread has been migrated to a different CPU. This has been observed to break SLAB in our 4.4-based kernel, because there it relies on __GFP_THISNODE working as intended. If a slab page is put on wrong node's list, then further list manipulations may corrupt the list because page_to_nid() is used to determine which node's list_lock should be locked and thus we may take a wrong lock and race. Current SLAB implementation seems to be immune by luck thanks to commit 511e3a058812 ("mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page allocated on arbitrary node") but there may be others assuming that __GFP_THISNODE works as promised. We can fix it by simply removing the zonelist reset completely. There is actually no reason to reset it, because memory policies and cpusets don't affect the zonelist choice in the first place. This was different when commit 183f6371aac2 ("mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK") introduced the code, as mempolicies provided their own restricted zonelists. We might consider this for 4.17 although I don't know if there's anything currently broken. SLAB is currently not affected, but in kernels older than 4.7 that don't yet have 511e3a058812 ("mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page allocated on arbitrary node") it is. That's at least 4.4 LTS. Older ones I'll have to check. So stable backports should be more important, but will have to be reviewed carefully, as the code went through many changes. BTW I think that also the ac->preferred_zoneref reset is currently useless if we don't also reset ac->nodemask from a mempolicy to NULL first (which we probably should for the OOM victims etc?), but I would leave that for a separate patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180525130853.13915-1-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Fixes: 183f6371aac2 ("mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK") Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, memory_hotplug: make has_unmovable_pages more robust

2018-05-26T01:12:11+00:00

Oscar has reported: : Due to an unfortunate setting with movablecore, memblocks containing bootmem : memory (pages marked by get_page_bootmem()) ended up marked in zone_movable. : So while trying to remove that memory, the system failed in do_migrate_range : and __offline_pages never returned. : : This can be reproduced by running : qemu-system-x86_64 -m 6G,slots=8,maxmem=8G -numa node,mem=4096M -numa node,mem=2048M : and movablecore=4G kernel command line : : linux kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: : linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009fbff] usable : linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved : linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000f0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved : linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000bffdffff] usable : linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000bffe0000-0x00000000bfffffff] reserved : linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000feffc000-0x00000000feffffff] reserved : linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fffc0000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved : linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x00000001bfffffff] usable : linux kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active : linux kernel: SMBIOS 2.8 present. : linux kernel: DMI: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org : linux kernel: Hypervisor detected: KVM : linux kernel: e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved : linux kernel: e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable : linux kernel: last_pfn = 0x1c0000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000 : : linux kernel: SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0x00 -> Node 0 : linux kernel: SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 0x01 -> Node 1 : linux kernel: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x0009ffff] : linux kernel: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x00100000-0xbfffffff] : linux kernel: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0x13fffffff] : linux kernel: ACPI: SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 [mem 0x140000000-0x1bfffffff] : linux kernel: ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x1c0000000-0x43fffffff] hotplug : linux kernel: NUMA: Node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x0009ffff] + [mem 0x00100000-0xbfffffff] -> [mem 0x0 : linux kernel: NUMA: Node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0xbfffffff] + [mem 0x100000000-0x13fffffff] -> [mem 0 : linux kernel: NODE_DATA(0) allocated [mem 0x13ffd6000-0x13fffffff] : linux kernel: NODE_DATA(1) allocated [mem 0x1bffd3000-0x1bfffcfff] : : zoneinfo shows that the zone movable is placed into both numa nodes: : Node 0, zone Movable : pages free 160140 : min 1823 : low 2278 : high 2733 : spanned 262144 : present 262144 : managed 245670 : Node 1, zone Movable : pages free 448427 : min 3827 : low 4783 : high 5739 : spanned 524288 : present 524288 : managed 515766 Note how only Node 0 has a hutplugable memory region which would rule it out from the early memblock allocations (most likely memmap). Node1 will surely contain memmaps on the same node and those would prevent offlining to succeed. So this is arguably a configuration issue. Although one could argue that we should be more clever and rule early allocations from the zone movable. This would be correct but probably not worth the effort considering what a hack movablecore is. Anyway, We could do better for those cases though. We rely on start_isolate_page_range resp. has_unmovable_pages to do their job. The first one isolates the whole range to be offlined so that we do not allocate from it anymore and the later makes sure we are not stumbling over non-migrateable pages. has_unmovable_pages is overly optimistic, however. It doesn't check all the pages if we are withing zone_movable because we rely that those pages will be always migrateable. As it turns out we are still not perfect there. While bootmem pages in zonemovable sound like a clear bug which should be fixed let's remove the optimization for now and warn if we encounter unmovable pages in zone_movable in the meantime. That should help for now at least. Btw. this wasn't a real problem until commit 72b39cfc4d75 ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not fail offlining too early") because we used to have a small number of retries and then failed. This turned out to be too fragile though. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180523125555.30039-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reported-by: Oscar Salvador Tested-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Reza Arbab Cc: Igor Mammedov Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov Cc: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE"

2018-05-24T17:07:50+00:00

This reverts the following commits that change CMA design in MM. 3d2054ad8c2d ("ARM: CMA: avoid double mapping to the CMA area if CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y") 1d47a3ec09b5 ("mm/cma: remove ALLOC_CMA") bad8c6c0b114 ("mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE") Ville reported a following error on i386. Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x4, date = 2013-06-28 Initializing CPU#0 Initializing HighMem for node 0 (000377fe:00118000) Initializing Movable for node 0 (00000001:00118000) BUG: Bad page state in process swapper pfn:377fe page:f53effc0 count:0 mapcount:-127 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 flags: 0x80000000() raw: 80000000 00000000 00000000 ffffff80 00000000 00000100 00000200 00000001 page dumped because: nonzero mapcount Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.17.0-rc5-elk+ #145 Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E5410/03VXMC, BIOS A15 07/11/2013 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x60/0x96 bad_page+0x9a/0x100 free_pages_check_bad+0x3f/0x60 free_pcppages_bulk+0x29d/0x5b0 free_unref_page_commit+0x84/0xb0 free_unref_page+0x3e/0x70 __free_pages+0x1d/0x20 free_highmem_page+0x19/0x40 add_highpages_with_active_regions+0xab/0xeb set_highmem_pages_init+0x66/0x73 mem_init+0x1b/0x1d7 start_kernel+0x17a/0x363 i386_start_kernel+0x95/0x99 startup_32_smp+0x164/0x168 The reason for this error is that the span of MOVABLE_ZONE is extended to whole node span for future CMA initialization, and, normal memory is wrongly freed here. I submitted the fix and it seems to work, but, another problem happened. It's so late time to fix the later problem so I decide to reverting the series. Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä Acked-by: Laura Abbott Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

xen, mm: allow deferred page initialization for xen pv domains

2018-04-11T17:28:38+00:00

Juergen Gross noticed that commit f7f99100d8d ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap") broke XEN PV domains when deferred struct page initialization is enabled. This is because the xen's PagePinned() flag is getting erased from struct pages when they are initialized later in boot. Juergen fixed this problem by disabling deferred pages on xen pv domains. It is desirable, however, to have this feature available as it reduces boot time. This fix re-enables the feature for pv-dmains, and fixes the problem the following way: The fix is to delay setting PagePinned flag until struct pages for all allocated memory are initialized, i.e. until after free_all_bootmem(). A new x86_init.hyper op init_after_bootmem() is called to let xen know that boot allocator is done, and hence struct pages for all the allocated memory are now initialized. If deferred page initialization is enabled, the rest of struct pages are going to be initialized later in boot once page_alloc_init_late() is called. xen_after_bootmem() walks page table's pages and marks them pinned. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226160112.24724-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Tested-by: Juergen Gross Cc: Daniel Jordan Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Alok Kataria Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Mathias Krause Cc: Jinbum Park Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Jia Zhang Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Stefano Stabellini Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/cma: remove ALLOC_CMA

2018-04-11T17:28:32+00:00

Now, all reserved pages for CMA region are belong to the ZONE_MOVABLE and it only serves for a request with GFP_HIGHMEM && GFP_MOVABLE. Therefore, we don't need to maintain ALLOC_CMA at all. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512114786-5085-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE

2018-04-11T17:28:32+00:00

Patch series "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE", v2. 0. History This patchset is the follow-up of the discussion about the "Introduce ZONE_CMA (v7)" [1]. Please reference it if more information is needed. 1. What does this patch do? This patch changes the management way for the memory of the CMA area in the MM subsystem. Currently the memory of the CMA area is managed by the zone where their pfn is belong to. However, this approach has some problems since MM subsystem doesn't have enough logic to handle the situation that different characteristic memories are in a single zone. To solve this issue, this patch try to manage all the memory of the CMA area by using the MOVABLE zone. In MM subsystem's point of view, characteristic of the memory on the MOVABLE zone and the memory of the CMA area are the same. So, managing the memory of the CMA area by using the MOVABLE zone will not have any problem. 2. Motivation There are some problems with current approach. See following. Although these problem would not be inherent and it could be fixed without this conception change, it requires many hooks addition in various code path and it would be intrusive to core MM and would be really error-prone. Therefore, I try to solve them with this new approach. Anyway, following is the problems of the current implementation. o CMA memory utilization First, following is the freepage calculation logic in MM. - For movable allocation: freepage = total freepage - For unmovable allocation: freepage = total freepage - CMA freepage Freepages on the CMA area is used after the normal freepages in the zone where the memory of the CMA area is belong to are exhausted. At that moment that the number of the normal freepages is zero, so - For movable allocation: freepage = total freepage = CMA freepage - For unmovable allocation: freepage = 0 If unmovable allocation comes at this moment, allocation request would fail to pass the watermark check and reclaim is started. After reclaim, there would exist the normal freepages so freepages on the CMA areas would not be used. FYI, there is another attempt [2] trying to solve this problem in lkml. And, as far as I know, Qualcomm also has out-of-tree solution for this problem. Useless reclaim: There is no logic to distinguish CMA pages in the reclaim path. Hence, CMA page is reclaimed even if the system just needs the page that can be usable for the kernel allocation. Atomic allocation failure: This is also related to the fallback allocation policy for the memory of the CMA area. Consider the situation that the number of the normal freepages is *zero* since the bunch of the movable allocation requests come. Kswapd would not be woken up due to following freepage calculation logic. - For movable allocation: freepage = total freepage = CMA freepage If atomic unmovable allocation request comes at this moment, it would fails due to following logic. - For unmovable allocation: freepage = total freepage - CMA freepage = 0 It was reported by Aneesh [3]. Useless compaction: Usual high-order allocation request is unmovable allocation request and it cannot be served from the memory of the CMA area. In compaction, migration scanner try to migrate the page in the CMA area and make high-order page there. As mentioned above, it cannot be usable for the unmovable allocation request so it's just waste. 3. Current approach and new approach Current approach is that the memory of the CMA area is managed by the zone where their pfn is belong to. However, these memory should be distinguishable since they have a strong limitation. So, they are marked as MIGRATE_CMA in pageblock flag and handled specially. However, as mentioned in section 2, the MM subsystem doesn't have enough logic to deal with this special pageblock so many problems raised. New approach is that the memory of the CMA area is managed by the MOVABLE zone. MM already have enough logic to deal with special zone like as HIGHMEM and MOVABLE zone. So, managing the memory of the CMA area by the MOVABLE zone just naturally work well because constraints for the memory of the CMA area that the memory should always be migratable is the same with the constraint for the MOVABLE zone. There is one side-effect for the usability of the memory of the CMA area. The use of MOVABLE zone is only allowed for a request with GFP_HIGHMEM && GFP_MOVABLE so now the memory of the CMA area is also only allowed for this gfp flag. Before this patchset, a request with GFP_MOVABLE can use them. IMO, It would not be a big issue since most of GFP_MOVABLE request also has GFP_HIGHMEM flag. For example, file cache page and anonymous page. However, file cache page for blockdev file is an exception. Request for it has no GFP_HIGHMEM flag. There is pros and cons on this exception. In my experience, blockdev file cache pages are one of the top reason that causes cma_alloc() to fail temporarily. So, we can get more guarantee of cma_alloc() success by discarding this case. Note that there is no change in admin POV since this patchset is just for internal implementation change in MM subsystem. Just one minor difference for admin is that the memory stat for CMA area will be printed in the MOVABLE zone. That's all. 4. Result Following is the experimental result related to utilization problem. 8 CPUs, 1024 MB, VIRTUAL MACHINE make -j16 CMA area: 0 MB 512 MB Elapsed-time: 92.4 186.5 pswpin: 82 18647 pswpout: 160 69839 CMA : 0 MB 512 MB Elapsed-time: 93.1 93.4 pswpin: 84 46 pswpout: 183 92 akpm: "kernel test robot" reported a 26% improvement in vm-scalability.throughput: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180330012721.GA3845@yexl-desktop [1]: lkml.kernel.org/r/1491880640-9944-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/15/623 [3]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg100562.html Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512114786-5085-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE request

2018-04-11T17:28:32+00:00

Freepage on ZONE_HIGHMEM doesn't work for kernel memory so it's not that important to reserve. When ZONE_MOVABLE is used, this problem would theorectically cause to decrease usable memory for GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE allocation request which is mainly used for page cache and anon page allocation. So, fix it by setting 0 to sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[ZONE_HIGHMEM]. And, defining sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio array by MAX_NR_ZONES - 1 size makes code complex. For example, if there is highmem system, following reserve ratio is activated for *NORMAL ZONE* which would be easyily misleading people. #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM 32 #endif This patch also fixes this situation by defining sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio array by MAX_NR_ZONES and place "#ifdef" to right place. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504672525-17915-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Russell King Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds