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2011-07-25devres: fix possible use after freeMaxin B John1-1/+1
devres uses the pointer value as key after it's freed, which is safe but triggers spurious use-after-free warnings on some static analysis tools. Rearrange code to avoid such warnings. Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25writeback: account NR_WRITTEN at IO completion timeWu Fengguang1-2/+3
NR_WRITTEN is now accounted at block IO enqueue time, which is not very accurate as to common understanding. This moves NR_WRITTEN accounting to the IO completion time and makes it more consistent with BDI_WRITTEN, which is used for bandwidth estimation. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25tmpfs: simplify unuse and writepageHugh Dickins1-34/+16
shmem_unuse_inode() and shmem_writepage() contain a little code to cope with pages inserted independently into the filecache, probably by a filesystem stacked on top of tmpfs, then fed to its ->readpage() or ->writepage(). Unionfs was indeed experimenting with working in that way three years ago, but I find no current examples: nowadays the stacking filesystems use vfs interfaces to the lower filesystem. It's now illegal: remove most of that code, adding some WARN_ON_ONCEs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25tmpfs: simplify filepage/swappageHugh Dickins1-129/+108
We can now simplify shmem_getpage_gfp(): there is no longer a dilemma of filepage passed in via shmem_readpage(), then swappage found, which must then be copied over to it. Although at first it's tempting to replace the **pagep arg by returning struct page *, that makes a mess of IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page)s in all the callers, so leave as is. Insert BUG_ON(!PageUptodate) when we find and lock page: some of the complication came from uninitialized pages inserted into filecache prior to readpage; but now we're in control, and only release pagelock on filecache once it's uptodate (if an error occurs in reading back from swap, the page remains in swapcache, never moved to filecache). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25tmpfs: simplify prealloc_pageHugh Dickins1-44/+16
The prealloc_page handling in shmem_getpage_gfp() is unnecessarily complicated: first simplify that before going on to filepage/swappage. That's right, don't report ENOMEM when the preallocation fails: we may or may not need the page. But simply report ENOMEM once we find we do need it, instead of dropping lock, repeating allocation, unwinding on failure etc. And leave the out label on the fast path, don't goto. Fix something that looks like a bug but turns out not to be: set PageSwapBacked on prealloc_page before its mem_cgroup_cache_charge(), as the removed case was doing. That's important before adding to LRU (determines which LRU the page goes on), and does affect which path it takes through memcontrol.c, but in the end MEM_CGROUP_CHANGE_TYPE_ SHMEM is handled no differently from CACHE. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25tmpfs: remove_shmem_readpageHugh Dickins1-34/+6
Remove that pernicious shmem_readpage() at last: the things we needed it for (splice, loop, sendfile, i915 GEM) are now fully taken care of by shmem_file_splice_read() and shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(). This removal clears the way for a simpler shmem_getpage_gfp(), since page is never passed in; but leave most of that cleanup until after. sys_readahead() and sys_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) will now EINVAL, instead of unexpectedly trying to read ahead on tmpfs: if that proves to be an issue for someone, then we can either arrange for them to return success instead, or try to implement async readahead on tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25tmpfs: pass gfp to shmem_getpage_gfpHugh Dickins1-23/+44
Make shmem_getpage() a wrapper, passing mapping_gfp_mask() down to shmem_getpage_gfp(), which in turn passes gfp down to shmem_swp_alloc(). Change shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() to use shmem_getpage_gfp() in the CONFIG_SHMEM case; but leave tiny !SHMEM using read_cache_page_gfp(). Add a BUG_ON() in case anyone happens to call this on a non-shmem mapping; though we might later want to let that case route to read_cache_page_gfp(). It annoys me to have these two almost-redundant args, gfp and fault_type: I can't find a better way; but initialize fault_type only in shmem_fault(). Note that before, read_cache_page_gfp() was allocating i915_gem's pages with __GFP_NORETRY as intended; but the corresponding swap vector pages got allocated without it, leaving a small possibility of OOM. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25tmpfs: refine shmem_file_splice_readHugh Dickins1-119/+19
Tidy up shmem_file_splice_read(): Remove readahead: okay, we could implement shmem readahead on swap, but have never done so before, swap being the slow exceptional path. Use shmem_getpage() instead of find_or_create_page() plus ->readpage(). Remove several comments: sorry, I found them more distracting than helpful, and this will not be the reference version of splice_read(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25tmpfs: clone shmem_file_splice_read()Hugh Dickins1-1/+217
Copy __generic_file_splice_read() and generic_file_splice_read() from fs/splice.c to shmem_file_splice_read() in mm/shmem.c. Make page_cache_pipe_buf_ops and spd_release_page() accessible to it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm/futex: fix futex writes on archs with SW tracking of dirty & youngBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-1/+57
I haven't reproduced it myself but the fail scenario is that on such machines (notably ARM and some embedded powerpc), if you manage to hit that futex path on a writable page whose dirty bit has gone from the PTE, you'll livelock inside the kernel from what I can tell. It will go in a loop of trying the atomic access, failing, trying gup to "fix it up", getting succcess from gup, go back to the atomic access, failing again because dirty wasn't fixed etc... So I think you essentially hang in the kernel. The scenario is probably rare'ish because affected architecture are embedded and tend to not swap much (if at all) so we probably rarely hit the case where dirty is missing or young is missing, but I think Shan has a piece of SW that can reliably reproduce it using a shared writable mapping & fork or something like that. On archs who use SW tracking of dirty & young, a page without dirty is effectively mapped read-only and a page without young unaccessible in the PTE. Additionally, some architectures might lazily flush the TLB when relaxing write protection (by doing only a local flush), and expect a fault to invalidate the stale entry if it's still present on another processor. The futex code assumes that if the "in_atomic()" access -EFAULT's, it can "fix it up" by causing get_user_pages() which would then be equivalent to taking the fault. However that isn't the case. get_user_pages() will not call handle_mm_fault() in the case where the PTE seems to have the right permissions, regardless of the dirty and young state. It will eventually update those bits ... in the struct page, but not in the PTE. Additionally, it will not handle the lazy TLB flushing that can be required by some architectures in the fault case. Basically, gup is the wrong interface for the job. The patch provides a more appropriate one which boils down to just calling handle_mm_fault() since what we are trying to do is simulate a real page fault. The futex code currently attempts to write to user memory within a pagefault disabled section, and if that fails, tries to fix it up using get_user_pages(). This doesn't work on archs where the dirty and young bits are maintained by software, since they will gate access permission in the TLB, and will not be updated by gup(). In addition, there's an expectation on some archs that a spurious write fault triggers a local TLB flush, and that is missing from the picture as well. I decided that adding those "features" to gup() would be too much for this already too complex function, and instead added a new simpler fixup_user_fault() which is essentially a wrapper around handle_mm_fault() which the futex code can call. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix some nits Darren saw, fiddle comment layout] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reported-by: Shan Hai <haishan.bai@gmail.com> Tested-by: Shan Hai <haishan.bai@gmail.com> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Darren Hart <darren.hart@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: remove useless rcu lock-unlock from mapping_tagged()Konstantin Khlebnikov1-5/+1
radix_tree_tagged() is lockless - it reads from a member of the raid-tree root node. It does not require any protection. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: page allocator: reconsider zones for allocation after direct reclaimMel Gorman1-0/+23
With zone_reclaim_mode enabled, it's possible for zones to be considered full in the zonelist_cache so they are skipped in the future. If the process enters direct reclaim, the ZLC may still consider zones to be full even after reclaiming pages. Reconsider all zones for allocation if direct reclaim returns successfully. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: page allocator: initialise ZLC for first zone eligible for zone_reclaimMel Gorman1-13/+22
There have been a small number of complaints about significant stalls while copying large amounts of data on NUMA machines reported on a distribution bugzilla. In these cases, zone_reclaim was enabled by default due to large NUMA distances. In general, the complaints have not been about the workload itself unless it was a file server (in which case the recommendation was disable zone_reclaim). The stalls are mostly due to significant amounts of time spent scanning the preferred zone for pages to free. After a failure, it might fallback to another node (as zonelists are often node-ordered rather than zone-ordered) but stall quickly again when the next allocation attempt occurs. In bad cases, each page allocated results in a full scan of the preferred zone. Patch 1 checks the preferred zone for recent allocation failure which is particularly important if zone_reclaim has failed recently. This avoids rescanning the zone in the near future and instead falling back to another node. This may hurt node locality in some cases but a failure to zone_reclaim is more expensive than a remote access. Patch 2 clears the zlc information after direct reclaim. Otherwise, zone_reclaim can mark zones full, direct reclaim can reclaim enough pages but the zone is still not considered for allocation. This was tested on a 24-thread 2-node x86_64 machine. The tests were focused on large amounts of IO. All tests were bound to the CPUs on node-0 to avoid disturbances due to processes being scheduled on different nodes. The kernels tested are 3.0-rc6-vanilla Vanilla 3.0-rc6 zlcfirst Patch 1 applied zlcreconsider Patches 1+2 applied FS-Mark ./fs_mark -d /tmp/fsmark-10813 -D 100 -N 5000 -n 208 -L 35 -t 24 -S0 -s 524288 fsmark-3.0-rc6 3.0-rc6 3.0-rc6 vanilla zlcfirs zlcreconsider Files/s min 54.90 ( 0.00%) 49.80 (-10.24%) 49.10 (-11.81%) Files/s mean 100.11 ( 0.00%) 135.17 (25.94%) 146.93 (31.87%) Files/s stddev 57.51 ( 0.00%) 138.97 (58.62%) 158.69 (63.76%) Files/s max 361.10 ( 0.00%) 834.40 (56.72%) 802.40 (55.00%) Overhead min 76704.00 ( 0.00%) 76501.00 ( 0.27%) 77784.00 (-1.39%) Overhead mean 1485356.51 ( 0.00%) 1035797.83 (43.40%) 1594680.26 (-6.86%) Overhead stddev 1848122.53 ( 0.00%) 881489.88 (109.66%) 1772354.90 ( 4.27%) Overhead max 7989060.00 ( 0.00%) 3369118.00 (137.13%) 10135324.00 (-21.18%) MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 501.49 493.91 499.93 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 2451.57 2257.48 2215.92 MMTests Statistics: vmstat Page Ins 46268 63840 66008 Page Outs 90821596 90671128 88043732 Swap Ins 0 0 0 Swap Outs 0 0 0 Direct pages scanned 13091697 8966863 8971790 Kswapd pages scanned 0 1830011 1831116 Kswapd pages reclaimed 0 1829068 1829930 Direct pages reclaimed 13037777 8956828 8648314 Kswapd efficiency 100% 99% 99% Kswapd velocity 0.000 810.643 826.346 Direct efficiency 99% 99% 96% Direct velocity 5340.128 3972.068 4048.788 Percentage direct scans 100% 83% 83% Page writes by reclaim 0 3 0 Slabs scanned 796672 720640 720256 Direct inode steals 7422667 7160012 7088638 Kswapd inode steals 0 1736840 2021238 Test completes far faster with a large increase in the number of files created per second. Standard deviation is high as a small number of iterations were much higher than the mean. The number of pages scanned by zone_reclaim is reduced and kswapd is used for more work. LARGE DD 3.0-rc6 3.0-rc6 3.0-rc6 vanilla zlcfirst zlcreconsider download tar 59 ( 0.00%) 59 ( 0.00%) 55 ( 7.27%) dd source files 527 ( 0.00%) 296 (78.04%) 320 (64.69%) delete source 36 ( 0.00%) 19 (89.47%) 20 (80.00%) MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 125.03 118.98 122.01 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 624.56 375.02 398.06 MMTests Statistics: vmstat Page Ins 3594216 439368 407032 Page Outs 23380832 23380488 23377444 Swap Ins 0 0 0 Swap Outs 0 436 287 Direct pages scanned 17482342 69315973 82864918 Kswapd pages scanned 0 519123 575425 Kswapd pages reclaimed 0 466501 522487 Direct pages reclaimed 5858054 2732949 2712547 Kswapd efficiency 100% 89% 90% Kswapd velocity 0.000 1384.254 1445.574 Direct efficiency 33% 3% 3% Direct velocity 27991.453 184832.737 208171.929 Percentage direct scans 100% 99% 99% Page writes by reclaim 0 5082 13917 Slabs scanned 17280 29952 35328 Direct inode steals 115257 1431122 332201 Kswapd inode steals 0 0 979532 This test downloads a large tarfile and copies it with dd a number of times - similar to the most recent bug report I've dealt with. Time to completion is reduced. The number of pages scanned directly is still disturbingly high with a low efficiency but this is likely due to the number of dirty pages encountered. The figures could probably be improved with more work around how kswapd is used and how dirty pages are handled but that is separate work and this result is significant on its own. Streaming Mapped Writer MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 124.47 111.67 112.64 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 2138.14 1816.30 1867.56 MMTests Statistics: vmstat Page Ins 90760 89124 89516 Page Outs 121028340 120199524 120736696 Swap Ins 0 86 55 Swap Outs 0 0 0 Direct pages scanned 114989363 96461439 96330619 Kswapd pages scanned 56430948 56965763 57075875 Kswapd pages reclaimed 27743219 27752044 27766606 Direct pages reclaimed 49777 46884 36655 Kswapd efficiency 49% 48% 48% Kswapd velocity 26392.541 31363.631 30561.736 Direct efficiency 0% 0% 0% Direct velocity 53780.091 53108.759 51581.004 Percentage direct scans 67% 62% 62% Page writes by reclaim 385 122 1513 Slabs scanned 43008 39040 42112 Direct inode steals 0 10 8 Kswapd inode steals 733 534 477 This test just creates a large file mapping and writes to it linearly. Time to completion is again reduced. The gains are mostly down to two things. In many cases, there is less scanning as zone_reclaim simply gives up faster due to recent failures. The second reason is that memory is used more efficiently. Instead of scanning the preferred zone every time, the allocator falls back to another zone and uses it instead improving overall memory utilisation. This patch: initialise ZLC for first zone eligible for zone_reclaim. The zonelist cache (ZLC) is used among other things to record if zone_reclaim() failed for a particular zone recently. The intention is to avoid a high cost scanning extremely long zonelists or scanning within the zone uselessly. Currently the zonelist cache is setup only after the first zone has been considered and zone_reclaim() has been called. The objective was to avoid a costly setup but zone_reclaim is itself quite expensive. If it is failing regularly such as the first eligible zone having mostly mapped pages, the cost in scanning and allocation stalls is far higher than the ZLC initialisation step. This patch initialises ZLC before the first eligible zone calls zone_reclaim(). Once initialised, it is checked whether the zone failed zone_reclaim recently. If it has, the zone is skipped. As the first zone is now being checked, additional care has to be taken about zones marked full. A zone can be marked "full" because it should not have enough unmapped pages for zone_reclaim but this is excessive as direct reclaim or kswapd may succeed where zone_reclaim fails. Only mark zones "full" after zone_reclaim fails if it failed to reclaim enough pages after scanning. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: preallocate page before lock_page() at filemap COWKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-22/+34
Currently we are keeping faulted page locked throughout whole __do_fault call (except for page_mkwrite code path) after calling file system's fault code. If we do early COW, we allocate a new page which has to be charged for a memcg (mem_cgroup_newpage_charge). This function, however, might block for unbounded amount of time if memcg oom killer is disabled or fork-bomb is running because the only way out of the OOM situation is either an external event or OOM-situation fix. In the end we are keeping the faulted page locked and blocking other processes from faulting it in which is not good at all because we are basically punishing potentially an unrelated process for OOM condition in a different group (I have seen stuck system because of ld-2.11.1.so being locked). We can do test easily. % cgcreate -g memory:A % cgset -r memory.limit_in_bytes=64M A % cgset -r memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes=64M A % cd kernel_dir; cgexec -g memory:A make -j Then, the whole system will live-locked until you kill 'make -j' by hands (or push reboot...) This is because some important page in a a shared library are locked. Considering again, the new page is not necessary to be allocated with lock_page() held. And usual page allocation may dive into long memory reclaim loop with holding lock_page() and can cause very long latency. There are 3 ways. 1. do allocation/charge before lock_page() Pros. - simple and can handle page allocation in the same manner. This will reduce holding time of lock_page() in general. Cons. - we do page allocation even if ->fault() returns error. 2. do charge after unlock_page(). Even if charge fails, it's just OOM. Pros. - no impact to non-memcg path. Cons. - implemenation requires special cares of LRU and we need to modify page_add_new_anon_rmap()... 3. do unlock->charge->lock again method. Pros. - no impact to non-memcg path. Cons. - This may kill LOCK_PAGE_RETRY optimization. We need to release lock and get it again... This patch moves "charge" and memory allocation for COW page before lock_page(). Then, we can avoid scanning LRU with holding a lock on a page and latency under lock_page() will be reduced. Then, above livelock disappears. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix code layout] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Lutz Vieweg <lvml@5t9.de> Original-idea-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25tmpfs: no need to use i_lockHugh Dickins1-8/+6
2.6.36's 7e496299d4d2 ("tmpfs: make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter for used blocks") to make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter used inode->i_lock in place of sbinfo->stat_lock around i_blocks updates; but that was adverse to scalability, and unnecessary, since info->lock is already held there in the fast paths. Remove those uses of i_lock, and add info->lock in the three error paths where it's then needed across shmem_free_blocks(). It's not actually needed across shmem_unacct_blocks(), but they're so often paired that it looks wrong to split them apart. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: pincer in truncate_inode_pages_rangeHugh Dickins1-1/+1
truncate_inode_pages_range()'s final loop has a nice pincer property, bringing start and end together, squeezing out the last pages. But the range handling missed out on that, just sliding up the range, perhaps letting pages come in behind it. Add one more test to give it the same pincer effect. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: consistent truncate and invalidate loopsHugh Dickins2-63/+49
Make the pagevec_lookup loops in truncate_inode_pages_range(), invalidate_mapping_pages() and invalidate_inode_pages2_range() more consistent with each other. They were relying upon page->index of an unlocked page, but apologizing for it: accept it, embrace it, add comments and WARN_ONs, and simplify the index handling. invalidate_inode_pages2_range() had special handling for a wrapped page->index + 1 = 0 case; but MAX_LFS_FILESIZE doesn't let us anywhere near there, and a corrupt page->index in the radix_tree could cause more trouble than that would catch. Remove that wrapped handling. invalidate_inode_pages2_range() uses min() to limit the pagevec_lookup when near the end of the range: copy that into the other two, although it's less useful than you might think (it limits the use of the buffer, rather than the indices looked up). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: tidy vmtruncate_range and related functionsHugh Dickins1-14/+17
Use consistent variable names in truncate_pagecache(), truncate_setsize(), vmtruncate() and vmtruncate_range(). unmap_mapping_range() and vmtruncate_range() have mismatched interfaces: don't change either, but make the vmtruncates more precise about what they expect unmap_mapping_range() to do. vmtruncate_range() is currently called only with page-aligned start and end+1: can handle unaligned start, but unaligned end+1 would hit BUG_ON in truncate_inode_pages_range() (lacks partial clearing of the end page). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: cleanup descriptions of filler argHugh Dickins1-6/+6
The often-NULL data arg to read_cache_page() and read_mapping_page() functions is misdescribed as "destination for read data": no, it's the first arg to the filler function, often struct file * to ->readpage(). Satisfy checkpatch.pl on those filler prototypes, and tidy up the declarations in linux/pagemap.h. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mmap: fix and tidy up overcommit page arithmeticDmitry Fink2-42/+26
- shmem pages are not immediately available, but they are not potentially available either, even if we swap them out, they will just relocate from memory into swap, total amount of immediate and potentially available memory is not going to be affected, so we shouldn't count them as potentially free in the first place. - nr_free_pages() is not an expensive operation anymore, there is no need to split the decision making in two halves and repeat code. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Fink <dmitry.fink@palm.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm/memblock.c: avoid abuse of RED_INACTIVEAndrew Morton1-4/+4
RED_INACTIVE is a slab thing, and reusing it for memblock was inappropriate, because memblock is dealing with phys_addr_t's which have a Kconfigurable sizeof(). Create a new poison type for this application. Fixes the sparse warning warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (9f911029d74e35b becomes 9d74e35b) Reported-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25oom: remove references to old badness() functionDavid Rientjes1-1/+1
The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally exported function for clarity. The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove it. There are no existing users. Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts them accordingly. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm/memory.c: remove ZAP_BLOCK_SIZEAndrew Morton1-11/+0
ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE became unused in the preemptible-mmu_gather work ("mm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreak"). So zap it. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: hugetlb: fix coding style issuesChris Forbes1-16/+15
Fix coding style issues flagged by checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by: Chris Forbes <chrisf@ijw.co.nz> Acked-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm/huge_memory.c: minor lock simplification in __khugepaged_exitChris Wright1-4/+2
The lock is released first thing in all three branches. Simplify this by unconditionally releasing lock and remove else clause which was only there to be sure lock was released. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm/page_cgroup.c: simplify code by using SECTION_ALIGN_UP() and SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN() macrosDaniel Kiper1-4/+4
Commit a539f3533b78e3 ("mm: add SECTION_ALIGN_UP() and SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN() macro") introduced the SECTION_ALIGN_UP() and SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN() macros. Use those macros to increase code readability. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: remove the leftovers of noswapaccountWANG Cong1-1/+1
In commit a2c8990aed5ab ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter"), Michal forgot to remove some left pieces of noswapaccount in the tree, this patch removes them all. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25pagewalk: fix code comment for THPKOSAKI Motohiro1-1/+2
Commit bae9c19bf1 ("thp: split_huge_page_mm/vma") changed locking behavior of walk_page_range(). Thus this patch changes the comment too. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25pagewalk: add locking-rule commentsKOSAKI Motohiro1-0/+3
Originally, walk_hugetlb_range() didn't require a caller take any lock. But commit d33b9f45bd ("mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in walk_page_range") changed its rule. Because it added find_vma() call in walk_hugetlb_range(). Any locking-rule change commit should write a doc too. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25pagewalk: don't look up vma if walk->hugetlb_entry is unusedKOSAKI Motohiro1-6/+37
Currently, walk_page_range() calls find_vma() every page table for walk iteration. but it's completely unnecessary if walk->hugetlb_entry is unused. And we don't have to assume find_vma() is a lightweight operation. So this patch checks the walk->hugetlb_entry and avoids the find_vma() call if possible. This patch also makes some cleanups. 1) remove ugly uninitialized_var() and 2) #ifdef in function body. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25pagewalk: fix walk_page_range() don't check find_vma() result properlyKOSAKI Motohiro1-1/+1
The doc of find_vma() says, /* Look up the first VMA which satisfies addr < vm_end, NULL if none. */ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) { (snip) Thus, caller should confirm whether the returned vma matches a desired one. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: swap-token: add a comment for priority agingKOSAKI Motohiro1-0/+11
Document some swap token aging design decisions. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: swap-token: makes global variables to function localKOSAKI Motohiro1-2/+2
global_faults and last_aging are only used in grab_swap_token(). Move them into grab_swap_token(). Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: swap-token: fix dead linkKOSAKI Motohiro1-1/+1
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~sjiang/token.pdf is now dead. Replace it with an alive alternative. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: extend memory hotplug API to allow memory hotplug in virtual machinesDaniel Kiper1-3/+65
This patch contains online_page_callback and apropriate functions for registering/unregistering online page callbacks. It allows to do some machine specific tasks during online page stage which is required to implement memory hotplug in virtual machines. Currently this patch is required by latest memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver patch which will be posted soon. Additionally, originial online_page() function was splited into following functions doing "atomic" operations: - __online_page_set_limits() - set new limits for memory management code, - __online_page_increment_counters() - increment totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages, - __online_page_free() - free page to allocator. It was done to: - not duplicate existing code, - ease hotplug code devolpment by usage of well defined interface, - avoid stupid bugs which are unavoidable when the same code (by design) is developed in many places. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use explicit indirect-call syntax] Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm/backing-dev.c: reset bdi min_ratio in bdi_unregister()Peter Zijlstra1-0/+1
Vito said: : The system has many usb disks coming and going day to day, with their : respective bdi's having min_ratio set to 1 when inserted. It works for : some time until eventually min_ratio can no longer be set, even when the : active set of bdi's seen in /sys/class/bdi/*/min_ratio doesn't add up to : anywhere near 100. : : This then leads to an unrelated starvation problem caused by write-heavy : fuse mounts being used atop the usb disks, a problem the min_ratio setting : at the underlying devices bdi effectively prevents. Fix this leakage by resetting the bdi min_ratio when unregistering the BDI. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reported-by: Vito Caputo <lkml@pengaru.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25mm: make some struct page's constIan Campbell1-1/+1
These uses are read-only and in a subsequent patch I have a const struct page in my hand... [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings in lowmem_page_address()] Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25hugetlb: add phys addr to struct huge_bootmem_pageBecky Bruce1-1/+9
This is needed on HIGHMEM systems - we don't always have a virtual address so store the physical address and map it in as needed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-24[S390] reference bit testing for unmapped pagesMartin Schwidefsky1-3/+3
On x86 a page without a mapper is by definition not referenced / old. The s390 architecture keeps the reference bit in the storage key and the current code will check the storage key for page without a mapper. This leads to an interesting effect: the first time an s390 system needs to write pages to swap it only finds referenced pages. This causes a lot of pages to get added and written to the swap device. To avoid this behaviour change page_referenced to query the storage key only if there is a mapper of the page. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-07-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds6-43/+66
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits) vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp isofs: Remove global fs lock jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al. mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure Remove dead code in dget_parent() AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well simplify gfs2_lookup() jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or .. get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link() get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to start the periodic workers later.
2011-07-22Merge branch 'x86-numa-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+54
* 'x86-numa-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, numa: Implement pfn -> nid mapping granularity check x86, mm: s/PAGES_PER_ELEMENT/PAGES_PER_SECTION/
2011-07-22Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds1-16/+2
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: Fix wrong check in list_splice_init_rcu() net,rcu: Convert call_rcu(xt_rateest_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() sysctl,rcu: Convert call_rcu(free_head) to kfree vmalloc,rcu: Convert call_rcu(rcu_free_vb) to kfree_rcu() vmalloc,rcu: Convert call_rcu(rcu_free_va) to kfree_rcu() ipc,rcu: Convert call_rcu(ipc_immediate_free) to kfree_rcu() ipc,rcu: Convert call_rcu(free_un) to kfree_rcu() security,rcu: Convert call_rcu(sel_netport_free) to kfree_rcu() security,rcu: Convert call_rcu(sel_netnode_free) to kfree_rcu() ia64,rcu: Convert call_rcu(sn_irq_info_free) to kfree_rcu() block,rcu: Convert call_rcu(disk_free_ptbl_rcu_cb) to kfree_rcu() scsi,rcu: Convert call_rcu(fc_rport_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() audit_tree,rcu: Convert call_rcu(__put_tree) to kfree_rcu() security,rcu: Convert call_rcu(whitelist_item_free) to kfree_rcu() md,rcu: Convert call_rcu(free_conf) to kfree_rcu()
2011-07-22Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/miscLinus Torvalds2-4/+2
* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (39 commits) ptrace: do_wait(traced_leader_killed_by_mt_exec) can block forever ptrace: fix ptrace_signal() && STOP_DEQUEUED interaction connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers ptrace: dont send SIGSTOP on auto-attach if PT_SEIZED ptrace: mv send-SIGSTOP from do_fork() to ptrace_init_task() ptrace_init_task: initialize child->jobctl explicitly has_stopped_jobs: s/task_is_stopped/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/ ptrace: make former thread ID available via PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG after PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC stop ptrace: wait_consider_task: s/same_thread_group/ptrace_reparented/ ptrace: kill real_parent_is_ptracer() in in favor of ptrace_reparented() ptrace: ptrace_reparented() should check same_thread_group() redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0 do not change dead_task->exit_signal kill task_detached() reparent_leader: check EXIT_DEAD instead of task_detached() make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers __ptrace_detach: avoid task_detached(), check do_notify_parent() kill tracehook_notify_death() make do_notify_parent() return bool ptrace: s/tracehook_tracer_task()/ptrace_parent()/ ...
2011-07-22Merge branch 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6Linus Torvalds3-10/+118
* 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB warning slab: shrink sizeof(struct kmem_cache) slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build SLUB: Fix missing <linux/stacktrace.h> include slub: reduce overhead of slub_debug slub: Add method to verify memory is not freed slub: Enable backtrace for create/delete points slab allocators: Provide generic description of alignment defines slab, slub, slob: Unify alignment definition slob/lockdep: Fix gfp flags passed to lockdep
2011-07-22slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB warningTetsuo Handa1-1/+2
In commit c225150b "slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build", "if ((unsigned long)objp & (ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN-1))" is always true if ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN == 0. Do not print warning if ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN == 0. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-20fs: seq_file - add event counter to simplify poll() supportKay Sievers1-21/+8
Moving the event counter into the dynamically allocated 'struc seq_file' allows poll() support without the need to allocate its own tracking structure. All current users are switched over to use the new counter. Requested-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Tested-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20fs: kill i_alloc_semChristoph Hellwig4-7/+2
i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore. It's the last one that may be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by real exclusion. It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O requests to finish before starting a truncate. Replace it with a hand-grown construct: - exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can simply fall way - the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests. Truncate can't proceed as long as it's non-zero - when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags - new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex (or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation. This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit system). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20vmalloc,rcu: Convert call_rcu(rcu_free_vb) to kfree_rcu()Lai Jiangshan1-8/+1
The rcu callback rcu_free_vb() just calls a kfree(), so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(rcu_free_vb). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-07-20vmalloc,rcu: Convert call_rcu(rcu_free_va) to kfree_rcu()Lai Jiangshan1-8/+1
The rcu callback rcu_free_va() just calls a kfree(), so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(rcu_free_va). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-07-20slab: shrink sizeof(struct kmem_cache)Eric Dumazet1-4/+6
Reduce high order allocations for some setups. (NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB per kmem_cache struct) We now allocate exact needed size (using nr_cpu_ids and nr_node_ids) This also makes code a bit smaller on x86_64, since some field offsets are less than the 127 limit : Before patch : # size mm/slab.o text data bss dec hex filename 22605 361665 32 384302 5dd2e mm/slab.o After patch : # size mm/slab.o text data bss dec hex filename 22349 353473 8224 384046 5dc2e mm/slab.o CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>