user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/ksm.h, branch v3.16.68

mm/rmap: use rmap_walk() in page_referenced()

2014-01-22T00:19:45Z

Now, we have an infrastructure in rmap_walk() to handle difference from variants of rmap traversing functions. So, just use it in page_referenced(). In this patch, I change following things. 1. remove some variants of rmap traversing functions. cf> page_referenced_ksm, page_referenced_anon, page_referenced_file 2. introduce new struct page_referenced_arg and pass it to page_referenced_one(), main function of rmap_walk, in order to count reference, to store vm_flags and to check finish condition. 3. mechanical change to use rmap_walk() in page_referenced(). [liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix BUG at rmap_walk] Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Cc: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/rmap: use rmap_walk() in try_to_munlock()

2014-01-22T00:19:45Z

Now, we have an infrastructure in rmap_walk() to handle difference from variants of rmap traversing functions. So, just use it in try_to_munlock(). In this patch, I change following things. 1. remove some variants of rmap traversing functions. cf> try_to_unmap_ksm, try_to_unmap_anon, try_to_unmap_file 2. mechanical change to use rmap_walk() in try_to_munlock(). 3. copy and paste comments. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/rmap: make rmap_walk to get the rmap_walk_control argument

2014-01-22T00:19:45Z

In each rmap traverse case, there is some difference so that we need function pointers and arguments to them in order to handle these For this purpose, struct rmap_walk_control is introduced in this patch, and will be extended in following patch. Introducing and extending are separate, because it clarify changes. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly

2013-02-24T01:50:19Z

Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot when they're trying to determine which merge_across_nodes setting is best. How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand, which ought to unmerge everything: yet oopses still occur when you then run 1. Three causes: 1. The old stable tree (built according to the inverse merge_across_nodes) has not been fully torn down. A stable node lingers until get_ksm_page() notices that the page it references no longer references it: but the page is not necessarily freed as soon as expected, particularly when swapcache. Fix this with a pass through the old stable tree, applying get_ksm_page() to each of the remaining nodes (most found stale and removed immediately), with forced removal of any left over. Unless the page is still mapped: I've not seen that case, it shouldn't occur, but better to WARN_ON_ONCE and EBUSY than BUG. 2. __ksm_enter() has a nice little optimization, to insert the new mm just behind ksmd's cursor, so there's a full pass for it to stabilize (or be removed) before ksmd addresses it. Nice when ksmd is running, but not so nice when we're trying to unmerge all mms: we were missing those mms forked and inserted behind the unmerge cursor. Easily fixed by inserting at the end when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE. 3. It is possible for a KSM page to be faulted back from swapcache into an mm, just after unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() scanned past it. Fix this by copying on fault when KSM_RUN_UNMERGE: but that is private to ksm.c, so dissolve the distinction between ksm_might_need_to_copy() and ksm_does_need_to_copy(), doing it all in the one call into ksm.c. A long outstanding, unrelated bugfix sneaks in with that third fix: ksm_does_need_to_copy() would copy from a !PageUptodate page (implying I/O error when read in from swap) to a page which it then marks Uptodate. Fix this case by not copying, letting do_swap_page() discover the error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Petr Holasek Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix swapin race condition

2010-09-10T01:57:24Z

The pte_same check is reliable only if the swap entry remains pinned (by the page lock on swapcache). We've also to ensure the swapcache isn't removed before we take the lock as try_to_free_swap won't care about the page pin. One of the possible impacts of this patch is that a KSM-shared page can point to the anon_vma of another process, which could exit before the page is freed. This can leave a page with a pointer to a recycled anon_vma object, or worse, a pointer to something that is no longer an anon_vma. [riel@redhat.com: changelog help] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ksm: fix ksm swapin time optimization

2010-08-10T03:44:58Z

The new anon-vma code, was suboptimal and it lead to erratic invocation of ksm_does_need_to_copy. That leads to host hangs or guest vnc lockup, or weird behavior. It's unclear why ksm_does_need_to_copy is unstable but the point is that when KSM is not in use, ksm_does_need_to_copy must never run or we bounce pages for no good reason. I suspect the same hangs will happen with KVM swaps. But this at least fixes the regression in the new-anon-vma code and it only let KSM bugs triggers when KSM is in use. The code in do_swap_page likely doesn't cope well with a not-swapcache, especially the memcg code. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fix ksm.h breakage of nommu build

2009-12-16T14:56:12Z

Commit 5ad6468801d28c4d4ac9f48ec19297817c915f6a "ksm: let shared pages be swappable" breaks the build on m68knommu and I suspect on any nommu: In file included from kernel/fork.c:52: include/linux/ksm.h:129: warning: 'enum ttu_flags' declared inside parameter list include/linux/ksm.h:129: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want include/linux/ksm.h:129: error: parameter 2 ('flags') has incomplete type make[1]: *** [kernel/fork.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Let's fix that with CONFIG_MMU around most of the !CONFIG_KSM declarations. Reported-by: Steven King Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Tested-by: Steven King Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes

2009-12-15T16:53:20Z

A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to page migration. Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c. Perhaps some consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet (try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does not). rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which fails when all migration ptes are in place. That was valid when NUMA page migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not valid in the memory hotremove case added since. For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that unlikely race later on. When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ksm: let shared pages be swappable

2009-12-15T16:53:19Z

Initial implementation for swapping out KSM's shared pages: add page_referenced_ksm() and try_to_unmap_ksm(), which rmap.c calls when faced with a PageKsm page. Most of what's needed can be got from the rmap_items listed from the stable_node of the ksm page, without discovering the actual vma: so in this patch just fake up a struct vma for page_referenced_one() or try_to_unmap_one(), then refine that in the next patch. Add VM_NONLINEAR to ksm_madvise()'s list of exclusions: it has always been implicit there (being only set with VM_SHARED, already excluded), but let's make it explicit, to help justify the lack of nonlinear unmap. Rely on the page lock to protect against concurrent modifications to that page's node of the stable tree. The awkward part is not swapout but swapin: do_swap_page() and page_add_anon_rmap() now have to allow for new possibilities - perhaps a ksm page still in swapcache, perhaps a swapcache page associated with one location in one anon_vma now needed for another location or anon_vma. (And the vma might even be no longer VM_MERGEABLE when that happens.) ksm_might_need_to_copy() checks for that case, and supplies a duplicate page when necessary, simply leaving it to a subsequent pass of ksmd to rediscover the identity and merge them back into one ksm page. Disappointingly primitive: but the alternative would have to accumulate unswappable info about the swapped out ksm pages, limiting swappability. Remove page_add_ksm_rmap(): page_add_anon_rmap() now has to allow for the particular case it was handling, so just use it instead. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ksm: stable_node point to page and back

2009-12-15T16:53:19Z

Add a pointer to the ksm page into struct stable_node, holding a reference to the page while the node exists. Put a pointer to the stable_node into the ksm page's ->mapping. Then we don't need get_ksm_page() while traversing the stable tree: the page to compare against is sure to be present and correct, even if it's no longer visible through any of its existing rmap_items. And we can handle the forked ksm page case more efficiently: no need to memcmp our way through the tree to find its match. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds