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    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep... · d0164adc
      Mel Gorman authored 
      
mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd

__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: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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    • Paul McQuade's avatar
      mm/dmapool.c: fixed a brace coding style issue · baa2ef83
      Paul McQuade authored 
      

Remove 3 brace coding style for any arm of this statement
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      baa2ef83
    • Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar
      mm: dmapool: add/remove sysfs file outside of the pool lock lock · 01c2965f
      Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored 
      

cat /sys/.../pools followed by removal the device leads to:

|======================================================
|[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
|3.17.0-rc4+ #1498 Not tainted
|-------------------------------------------------------
|rmmod/2505 is trying to acquire lock:
| (s_active#28){++++.+}, at: [<c017f754>] kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3c/0x88
|
|but task is already holding lock:
| (pools_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c011494c>] dma_pool_destroy+0x18/0x17c
|
|which lock already depends on the new lock.
|the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
|
|-> #1 (pools_lock){+.+.+.}:
|   [<c0114ae8>] show_pools+0x30/0xf8
|   [<c0313210>] dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x48
|   [<c0180e84>] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x88/0x10c
|   [<c017f960>] kernfs_seq_show+0x24/0x28
|   [<c013efc4>] seq_read+0x1b8/0x480
|   [<c011e820>] vfs_read+0x8c/0x148
|   [<c011ea10>] SyS_read+0x40/0x8c
|   [<c000e960>] ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48
|
|-> #0 (s_active#28){++++.+}:
|   [<c017e9ac>] __kernfs_remove+0x258/0x2ec
|   [<c017f754>] kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3c/0x88
|   [<c0114a7c>] dma_pool_destroy+0x148/0x17c
|   [<c03ad288>] hcd_buffer_destroy+0x20/0x34
|   [<c03a4780>] usb_remove_hcd+0x110/0x1a4

The problem is the lock order of pools_lock and kernfs_mutex in
dma_pool_destroy() vs show_pools() call path.

This patch breaks out the creation of the sysfs file outside of the
pools_lock mutex.  The newly added pools_reg_lock ensures that there is no
race of create vs destroy code path in terms whether or not the sysfs file
has to be deleted (and was it deleted before we try to create a new one)
and what to do if device_create_file() failed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      01c2965f
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    • Alexey Dobriyan's avatar
      Detach sched.h from mm.h · e8edc6e0
      Alexey Dobriyan authored 
      

First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e8edc6e0
  53. 27 Apr, 2007 1 commit
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    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      devres: device resource management · 9ac7849e
      Tejun Heo authored 
      

Implement device resource management, in short, devres.  A device
driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated
with a release function.  On driver detach, release function is
invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed.

devreses are typed by associated release functions.  Some devreses are
better represented by single instance of the type while others need
multiple instances sharing the same release function.  Both usages are
supported.

devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver
can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization
or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4
ports).

This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following
managed interfaces.

* alloc/free	: devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree()
* IO region	: devm_request_region(), devm_release_region()
* IRQ		: devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq()
* DMA		: dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(),
		  dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(),
		  dmam_pool_destroy()
* PCI		: pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed()
* iomap		: devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(),
		  devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(),
		  pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap()
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      9ac7849e