user/sven/linux.git/mm/migrate.c, branch v4.4.87

Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks

2017-08-25T00:02:36Z

commit 197e7e521384a23b9e585178f3f11c9fa08274b9 upstream. The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability). That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that still shares your uid. So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()' model instead. This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice. Famous last words. Reported-by: Otto Ebeling Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: Export migrate_page_move_mapping and migrate_page_copy

2016-07-27T16:47:31Z

commit 1118dce773d84f39ebd51a9fe7261f9169cb056e upstream. Export these symbols such that UBIFS can implement ->migratepage. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/hwpoison: fix wrong num_poisoned_pages accounting

2016-05-04T21:48:49Z

commit d7e69488bd04de165667f6bc741c1c0ec6042ab9 upstream. Currently, migration code increses num_poisoned_pages on *failed* migration page as well as successfully migrated one at the trial of memory-failure. It will make the stat wrong. As well, it marks the page as PG_HWPoison even if the migration trial failed. It would mean we cannot recover the corrupted page using memory-failure facility. This patches fixes it. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: numa: quickly fail allocations for NUMA balancing on full nodes

2016-03-03T23:07:11Z

commit 8479eba7781fa9ffb28268840de6facfc12c35a7 upstream. Commit 4167e9b2cf10 ("mm: remove GFP_THISNODE") removed the GFP_THISNODE flag combination due to confusing semantics. It noted that alloc_misplaced_dst_page() was one such user after changes made by commit e97ca8e5b864 ("mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify"). Unfortunately when GFP_THISNODE was removed, users of alloc_misplaced_dst_page() started waking kswapd and entering direct reclaim because the wrong GFP flags are cleared. The consequence is that workloads that used to fit into memory now get reclaimed which is addressed by this patch. The problem can be demonstrated with "mutilate" that exercises memcached which is software dedicated to memory object caching. The configuration uses 80% of memory and is run 3 times for varying numbers of clients. The results on a 4-socket NUMA box are mutilate 4.4.0 4.4.0 vanilla numaswap-v1 Hmean 1 8394.71 ( 0.00%) 8395.32 ( 0.01%) Hmean 4 30024.62 ( 0.00%) 34513.54 ( 14.95%) Hmean 7 32821.08 ( 0.00%) 70542.96 (114.93%) Hmean 12 55229.67 ( 0.00%) 93866.34 ( 69.96%) Hmean 21 39438.96 ( 0.00%) 85749.21 (117.42%) Hmean 30 37796.10 ( 0.00%) 50231.49 ( 32.90%) Hmean 47 18070.91 ( 0.00%) 38530.13 (113.22%) The metric is queries/second with the more the better. The results are way outside of the noise and the reason for the improvement is obvious from some of the vmstats 4.4.0 4.4.0 vanillanumaswap-v1r1 Minor Faults 1929399272 2146148218 Major Faults 19746529 3567 Swap Ins 57307366 9913 Swap Outs 50623229 17094 Allocation stalls 35909 443 DMA allocs 0 0 DMA32 allocs 72976349 170567396 Normal allocs 5306640898 5310651252 Movable allocs 0 0 Direct pages scanned 404130893 799577 Kswapd pages scanned 160230174 0 Kswapd pages reclaimed 55928786 0 Direct pages reclaimed 1843936 41921 Page writes file 2391 0 Page writes anon 50623229 17094 The vanilla kernel is swapping like crazy with large amounts of direct reclaim and kswapd activity. The figures are aggregate but it's known that the bad activity is throughout the entire test. Note that simple streaming anon/file memory consumers also see this problem but it's not as obvious. In those cases, kswapd is awake when it should not be. As there are at least two reclaim-related bugs out there, it's worth spelling out the user-visible impact. This patch only addresses bugs related to excessive reclaim on NUMA hardware when the working set is larger than a NUMA node. There is a bug related to high kswapd CPU usage but the reports are against laptops and other UMA hardware and is not addressed by this patch. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM

2015-11-07T01:50:42Z

__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing __GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the wrong flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing them prevents it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd

2015-11-07T01:50:42Z

__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve". Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic reserves. This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic, cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use __GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake kswapd for background reclaim. This patch then converts a number of sites o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag. o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress. o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to flag manipulations. o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons. In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH. The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc

2015-11-06T03:34:48Z

clear_page_dirty_for_io() has accumulated writeback and memcg subtleties since v2.6.16 first introduced page migration; and the set_page_dirty() which completed its migration of PageDirty, later had to be moderated to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(); then PageSwapBacked had to skip that too. No actual problems seen with this procedure recently, but if you look into what the clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)+set_page_dirty(newpage) is actually achieving, it turns out to be nothing more than moving the PageDirty flag, and its NR_FILE_DIRTY stat from one zone to another. It would be good to avoid a pile of irrelevant decrementations and incrementations, and improper event counting, and unnecessary descent of the radix_tree under tree_lock (to set the PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY which radix_tree_replace_slot() left in place anyway). Do the NR_FILE_DIRTY movement, like the other stats movements, while interrupts still disabled in migrate_page_move_mapping(); and don't even bother if the zone is the same. Do the PageDirty movement there under tree_lock too, where old page is frozen and newpage not yet visible: bearing in mind that as soon as newpage becomes visible in radix_tree, an un-page-locked set_page_dirty() might interfere (or perhaps that's just not possible: anything doing so should already hold an additional reference to the old page, preventing its migration; but play safe). But we do still need to transfer PageDirty in migrate_page_copy(), for those who don't go the mapping route through migrate_page_move_mapping(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: page migration avoid touching newpage until no going back

2015-11-06T03:34:48Z

We have had trouble in the past from the way in which page migration's newpage is initialized in dribs and drabs - see commit 8bdd63809160 ("mm: fix direct reclaim writeback regression") which proposed a cleanup. We have no actual problem now, but I think the procedure would be clearer (and alternative get_new_page pools safer to implement) if we assert that newpage is not touched until we are sure that it's going to be used - except for taking the trylock on it in __unmap_and_move(). So shift the early initializations from move_to_new_page() into migrate_page_move_mapping(), mapping and NULL-mapping paths. Similarly migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(), but its NULL-mapping path can just be deleted: you cannot reach hugetlbfs_migrate_page() with a NULL mapping. Adjust stages 3 to 8 in the Documentation file accordingly. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: simplify page migration's anon_vma comment and flow

2015-11-06T03:34:48Z

__unmap_and_move() contains a long stale comment on page_get_anon_vma() and PageSwapCache(), with an odd control flow that's hard to follow. Mostly this reflects our confusion about the lifetime of an anon_vma, in the early days of page migration, before we could take a reference to one. Nowadays this seems quite straightforward: cut it all down to essentials. I cannot see the relevance of swapcache here at all, so don't treat it any differently: I believe the old comment reflects in part our anon_vma confusions, and in part the original v2.6.16 page migration technique, which used actual swap to migrate anon instead of swap-like migration entries. Why should a swapcache page not be migrated with the aid of migration entry ptes like everything else? So lose that comment now, and enable migration entries for swapcache in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: page migration remove_migration_ptes at lock+unlock level

2015-11-06T03:34:48Z

Clean up page migration a little more by calling remove_migration_ptes() from the same level, on success or on failure, from __unmap_and_move() or from unmap_and_move_huge_page(). Don't reset page->mapping of a PageAnon old page in move_to_new_page(), leave that to when the page is freed. Except for here in page migration, it has been an invariant that a PageAnon (bit set in page->mapping) page stays PageAnon until it is freed, and I think we're safer to keep to that. And with the above rearrangement, it's necessary because zap_pte_range() wants to identify whether a migration entry represents a file or an anon page, to update the appropriate rss stats without waiting on it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds