user/sven/linux.git/mm/util.c, branch v4.0

mm/util: add kstrdup_const

2015-02-14T05:21:35Z

kstrdup() is often used to duplicate strings where neither source neither destination will be ever modified. In such case we can just reuse the source instead of duplicating it. The problem is that we must be sure that the source is non-modifiable and its life-time is long enough. I suspect the good candidates for such strings are strings located in kernel .rodata section, they cannot be modifed because the section is read-only and their life-time is equal to kernel life-time. This small patchset proposes alternative version of kstrdup - kstrdup_const, which returns source string if it is located in .rodata otherwise it fallbacks to kstrdup. To verify if the source is in .rodata function checks if the address is between sentinels __start_rodata, __end_rodata. I guess it should work with all architectures. The main patch is accompanied by four patches constifying kstrdup for cases where situtation described above happens frequently. I have tested the patchset on mobile platform (exynos4210-trats) and it saves 3272 string allocations. Since minimal allocation is 32 or 64 bytes depending on Kconfig options the patchset saves respectively about 100KB or 200KB of memory. Stats from tested platform show that the main offender is sysfs: By caller: 2260 __kernfs_new_node 631 clk_register+0xc8/0x1b8 318 clk_register+0x34/0x1b8 51 kmem_cache_create 12 alloc_vfsmnt By string (with count >= 5): 883 power 876 subsystem 135 parameters 132 device 61 iommu_group ... This patch (of 5): Add an alternative version of kstrdup which returns pointer to constant char array. The function checks if input string is in persistent and read-only memory section, if yes it returns the input string, otherwise it fallbacks to kstrdup. kstrdup_const is accompanied by kfree_const performing conditional memory deallocation of the string. Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Kyungmin Park Cc: Mike Turquette Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Greg KH Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: gup: use get_user_pages_unlocked within get_user_pages_fast

2015-02-12T01:06:05Z

This allows the get_user_pages_fast slow path to release the mmap_sem before blocking. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: Peter Feiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc/maps: make vm_is_stack() logic namespace-friendly

2014-10-10T02:25:50Z

- Rename vm_is_stack() to task_of_stack() and change it to return "struct task_struct *" rather than the global (and thus wrong in general) pid_t. - Add the new pid_of_stack() helper which calls task_of_stack() and uses the right namespace to report the correct pid_t. Unfortunately we need to define this helper twice, in task_mmu.c and in task_nommu.c. perhaps it makes sense to add fs/proc/util.c and move at least pid_of_stack/task_of_stack there to avoid the code duplication. - Change show_map_vma() and show_numa_map() to use the new helper. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vm_is_stack: use for_each_thread() rather then buggy while_each_thread()

2014-08-08T22:57:17Z

Aleksei hit the soft lockup during reading /proc/PID/smaps. David investigated the problem and suggested the right fix. while_each_thread() is racy and should die, this patch updates vm_is_stack(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Aleksei Besogonov Tested-by: Aleksei Besogonov Suggested-by: David Rientjes Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move slab related stuff from util.c to slab_common.c

2014-08-07T01:01:15Z

Functions krealloc(), __krealloc(), kzfree() belongs to slab API, so should be placed in slab_common.c Also move slab allocator's tracepoints defenitions to slab_common.c No functional changes here. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nick kvfree() from apparmor

2014-05-06T18:02:53Z

too many places open-code it Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit

2014-04-12T19:38:53Z

Pull audit updates from Eric Paris. * git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (28 commits) AUDIT: make audit_is_compat depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_COMPAT_GENERIC audit: renumber AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE into the 1300 range audit: do not cast audit_rule_data pointers pointlesly AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces audit: define audit_is_compat in kernel internal header kernel: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in audit.c sched: declare pid_alive as inline audit: use uapi/linux/audit.h for AUDIT_ARCH declarations syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments audit: remove stray newline from audit_log_execve_info() audit_panic() call audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log_lost messages audit: include subject in login records audit: remove superfluous new- prefix in AUDIT_LOGIN messages audit: allow user processes to log from another PID namespace audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace. pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns audit: rename the misleading audit_get_context() to audit_take_context() audit: Add generic compat syscall support audit: Add CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL ...

mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of attribute((...))

2014-04-07T23:35:54Z

To increase compiler portability there is which provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs. Eg: __weak for __attribute__((weak)). I've replaced all instances of gcc attributes with the right macro in the memory management (/mm) subsystem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: while-we're-there consistency tweaks] Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Create utility function for accessing a tasks commandline value

2014-03-07T16:52:45Z

introduce get_cmdline() for retreiving the value of a processes proc/self/cmdline value. Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Stephen Smalley Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: William Roberts Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable

2014-01-22T00:19:44Z

Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the maximum usage of memory without swapping. With growing memory, the 1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB). This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a much finer grain. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build] Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds