user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v4.8.10

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2016-09-02T01:23:22Z

Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "14 fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : rapidio/tsi721: fix incorrect detection of address translation condition rapidio/documentation/mport_cdev: add missing parameter description kernel/fork: fix CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID regression in nscd MAINTAINERS: Vladimir has moved mm, mempolicy: task->mempolicy must be NULL before dropping final reference printk/nmi: avoid direct printk()-s from __printk_nmi_flush() treewide: remove references to the now unnecessary DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE drivers/scsi/wd719x.c: remove last declaration using DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE mm, vmscan: only allocate and reclaim from zones with pages managed by the buddy allocator lib/test_hash.c: fix warning in preprocessor symbol evaluation lib/test_hash.c: fix warning in two-dimensional array init kconfig: tinyconfig: provide whole choice blocks to avoid warnings kexec: fix double-free when failing to relocate the purgatory mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request

kernel/fork: fix CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID regression in nscd

2016-09-02T00:52:02Z

Commit fec1d0115240 ("[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal exit") has caused a subtle regression in nscd which uses CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID to clear the nscd_certainly_running flag in the shared databases, so that the clients are notified when nscd is restarted. Now, when nscd uses a non-persistent database, clients that have it mapped keep thinking the database is being updated by nscd, when in fact nscd has created a new (anonymous) one (for non-persistent databases it uses an unlinked file as backend). The original proposal for the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID change claimed (https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/233): : The NPTL library uses the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flag on clone() syscalls : on behalf of pthread_create() library calls. This feature is used to : request that the kernel clear the thread-id in user space (at an address : provided in the syscall) when the thread disassociates itself from the : address space, which is done in mm_release(). : : Unfortunately, when a multi-threaded process incurs a core dump (such as : from a SIGSEGV), the core-dumping thread sends SIGKILL signals to all of : the other threads, which then proceed to clear their user-space tids : before synchronizing in exit_mm() with the start of core dumping. This : misrepresents the state of process's address space at the time of the : SIGSEGV and makes it more difficult for someone to debug NPTL and glibc : problems (misleading him/her to conclude that the threads had gone away : before the fault). : : The fix below is to simply avoid the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID action if a : core dump has been initiated. The resulting patch from Roland (https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/26/269) seems to have a larger scope than the original patch asked for. It seems that limitting the scope of the check to core dumping should work for SIGSEGV issue describe above. [Changelog partly based on Andreas' description] Fixes: fec1d0115240 ("[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal exit") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471968749-26173-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Tested-by: William Preston Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Andreas Schwab Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit

2016-09-01T22:55:56Z

Pull audit fixes from Paul Moore: "Two small patches to fix some bugs with the audit-by-executable functionality we introduced back in v4.3 (both patches are marked for the stable folks)" * 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit: audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare mm: introduce get_task_exe_file

mm: introduce get_task_exe_file

2016-08-31T20:11:20Z

For more convenient access if one has a pointer to the task. As a minor nit take advantage of the fact that only task lock + rcu are needed to safely grab ->exe_file. This saves mm refcount dance. Use the helper in proc_exe_link. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: # 4.3.x Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

cgroup: reduce read locked section of cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem during fork

2016-08-17T13:54:52Z

cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem is acquired in read mode during process exit and fork. It is also grabbed in write mode during __cgroups_proc_write(). I've recently run into a scenario with lots of memory pressure and OOM and I am beginning to see systemd __switch_to+0x1f8/0x350 __schedule+0x30c/0x990 schedule+0x48/0xc0 percpu_down_write+0x114/0x170 __cgroup_procs_write.isra.12+0xb8/0x3c0 cgroup_file_write+0x74/0x1a0 kernfs_fop_write+0x188/0x200 __vfs_write+0x6c/0xe0 vfs_write+0xc0/0x230 SyS_write+0x6c/0x110 system_call+0x38/0xb4 This thread is waiting on the reader of cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem to exit. The reader itself is under memory pressure and has gone into reclaim after fork. There are times the reader also ends up waiting on oom_lock as well. __switch_to+0x1f8/0x350 __schedule+0x30c/0x990 schedule+0x48/0xc0 jbd2_log_wait_commit+0xd4/0x180 ext4_evict_inode+0x88/0x5c0 evict+0xf8/0x2a0 dispose_list+0x50/0x80 prune_icache_sb+0x6c/0x90 super_cache_scan+0x190/0x210 shrink_slab.part.15+0x22c/0x4c0 shrink_zone+0x288/0x3c0 do_try_to_free_pages+0x1dc/0x590 try_to_free_pages+0xdc/0x260 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x72c/0xc90 alloc_pages_current+0xb4/0x1a0 page_table_alloc+0xc0/0x170 __pte_alloc+0x58/0x1f0 copy_page_range+0x4ec/0x950 copy_process.isra.5+0x15a0/0x1870 _do_fork+0xa8/0x4b0 ppc_clone+0x8/0xc In the meanwhile, all processes exiting/forking are blocked almost stalling the system. This patch moves the threadgroup_change_begin from before cgroup_fork() to just before cgroup_canfork(). There is no nee to worry about threadgroup changes till the task is actually added to the threadgroup. This avoids having to call reclaim with cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem held. tj: Subject and description edits. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh Acked-by: Zefan Li Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+ Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

mm: fix memcg stack accounting for sub-page stacks

2016-07-28T23:07:41Z

We should account for stacks regardless of stack size, and we need to account in sub-page units if THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE. Change the units to kilobytes and Move it into account_kernel_stack(). Fixes: 12580e4b54ba8 ("mm: memcontrol: report kernel stack usage in cgroup2 memory.stat") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b5314e3ee5eda61b0317ec1563768602c1ef438.1468523549.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: track NR_KERNEL_STACK in KiB instead of number of stacks

2016-07-28T23:07:41Z

Currently, NR_KERNEL_STACK tracks the number of kernel stacks in a zone. This only makes sense if each kernel stack exists entirely in one zone, and allowing vmapped stacks could break this assumption. Since frv has THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE, we need to track kernel stack allocations in a unit that divides both THREAD_SIZE and PAGE_SIZE on all architectures. Keep it simple and use KiB. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/083c71e642c5fa5f1b6898902e1b2db7b48940d4.1468523549.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: charge/uncharge kmemcg from generic page allocator paths

2016-07-26T23:19:19Z

Currently, to charge a non-slab allocation to kmemcg one has to use alloc_kmem_pages helper with __GFP_ACCOUNT flag. A page allocated with this helper should finally be freed using free_kmem_pages, otherwise it won't be uncharged. This API suits its current users fine, but it turns out to be impossible to use along with page reference counting, i.e. when an allocation is supposed to be freed with put_page, as it is the case with pipe or unix socket buffers. To overcome this limitation, this patch moves charging/uncharging to generic page allocator paths, i.e. to __alloc_pages_nodemask and free_pages_prepare, and zaps alloc/free_kmem_pages helpers. This way, one can use any of the available page allocation functions to get the allocated page charged to kmemcg - it's enough to pass __GFP_ACCOUNT, just like in case of kmalloc and friends. A charged page will be automatically uncharged on free. To make it possible, we need to mark pages charged to kmemcg somehow. To avoid introducing a new page flag, we make use of page->_mapcount for marking such pages. Since pages charged to kmemcg are not supposed to be mapped to userspace, it should work just fine. There are other (ab)users of page->_mapcount - buddy and balloon pages - but we don't conflict with them. In case kmemcg is compiled out or not used at runtime, this patch introduces no overhead to generic page allocator paths. If kmemcg is used, it will be plus one gfp flags check on alloc and plus one page->_mapcount check on free, which shouldn't hurt performance, because the data accessed are hot. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a9736d856f895bcb465d9f257b54efe32eda6f99.1464079538.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix build break in fork.c when THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE

2016-06-25T13:01:28Z

Commit b235beea9e99 ("Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators") breaks the build on some powerpc configs, where THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE: kernel/fork.c:235:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'free_thread_stack' kernel/fork.c:355:8: error: assignment from incompatible pointer type stack = alloc_thread_stack_node(tsk, node); ^ Fix it by renaming free_stack() to free_thread_stack(), and updating the return type of alloc_thread_stack_node(). Fixes: b235beea9e99 ("Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators

2016-06-24T22:09:37Z

We've had the thread info allocated together with the thread stack for most architectures for a long time (since the thread_info was split off from the task struct), but that is about to change. But the patches that move the thread info to be off-stack (and a part of the task struct instead) made it clear how confused the allocator and freeing functions are. Because the common case was that we share an allocation with the thread stack and the thread_info, the two pointers were identical. That identity then meant that we would have things like ti = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node); ... tsk->stack = ti; which certainly _worked_ (since stack and thread_info have the same value), but is rather confusing: why are we assigning a thread_info to the stack? And if we move the thread_info away, the "confusing" code just gets to be entirely bogus. So remove all this confusion, and make it clear that we are doing the stack allocation by renaming and clarifying the function names to be about the stack. The fact that the thread_info then shares the allocation is an implementation detail, and not really about the allocation itself. This is a pure renaming and type fix: we pass in the same pointer, it's just that we clarify what the pointer means. The ia64 code that actually only has one single allocation (for all of task_struct, thread_info and kernel thread stack) now looks a bit odd, but since "tsk->stack" is actually not even used there, that oddity doesn't matter. It would be a separate thing to clean that up, I intentionally left the ia64 changes as a pure brute-force renaming and type change. Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds