Truncated history
Fix warnings and compilation errors with gcc 4.8
Makefile: O3, snapdragon linaro optimizations
Neon instead of softvfp+vfp
Defconfig: Add Labo_Defconfig
Change build host/name
Remove '+' symbol from kernel version string

Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
IO: removed usless test & debug things
Not cool to force that debugging.
SL[aou]B fixes

slub: use __SetPageSlab function to set PG_slab flag

To set page-flag, using SetPageXXXX() and __SetPageXXXX() is more
understandable and maintainable. So change it.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Use freelist instead of "object" in __slab_alloc

The variable "object" really refers to a list of objects that we
are handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Add frozen check in __slab_alloc

Verify that objects returned from __slab_alloc come from slab pages
in the correct state.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Acquire_slab() avoid loop

Avoid the loop in acquire slab and simply fail if there is a conflict.

This will cause the next page on the list to be considered.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	mm/slub.c
slub: Simplify control flow in __slab_alloc()

Simplify control flow a bit avoiding nesting.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: new_slab_objects() can also get objects from partial list

Moving the attempt to get a slab page from the partial lists simplifies
__slab_alloc which is rather complicated.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Get rid of the node field

The node field is always page_to_nid(c->page). So its rather easy to
replace. Note that there maybe slightly more overhead in various hot paths
due to the need to shift the bits from page->flags. However, that is mostly
compensated for by a smaller footprint of the kmem_cache_cpu structure (this
patch reduces that to 3 words per cache) which allows better caching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Separate out kmem_cache_cpu processing from deactivate_slab

Processing on fields of kmem_cache_cpu is cleaner if code working on fields
of this struct is taken out of deactivate_slab().

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Use page variable instead of c->page.

Store the value of c->page to avoid additional fetches
from per cpu data.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: pass page to node_match() instead of kmem_cache_cpu structure

Avoid passing the kmem_cache_cpu pointer to node_match. This makes the
node_match function more generic and easier to understand.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
slob: Define page struct fields used in mm_types.h

Define the fields used by slob in mm_types.h and use struct page instead
of struct slob_page in slob. This cleans up numerous of typecasts in slob.c and
makes readers aware of slob's use of page struct fields.

[Also cleans up some bitrot in slob.c. The page struct field layout
in slob.c is an old layout and does not match the one in mm_types.h]

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: Use page struct fields instead of casting

Add fields to the page struct so that it is properly documented that
slab overlays the lru fields.

This cleans up some casts in slab.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: Remove some accessors

Those are rather trivial now and its better to see inline what is
really going on.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slob: No need to zero mapping since it is no longer in use

Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slob: Remove various small accessors

Those have become so simple that they are no longer needed.

Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache

Define a struct that describes common fields used in all slab allocators.
A slab allocator either uses the common definition (like SLOB) or is
required to provide members of kmem_cache with the definition given.

After that it will be possible to share code that
only operates on those fields of kmem_cache.

The patch basically takes the slob definition of kmem cache and
uses the field namees for the other allocators.

It also standardizes the names used for basic object lengths in
allocators:

object_size	Struct size specified at kmem_cache_create. Basically
		the payload expected to be used by the subsystem.

size		The size of memory allocator for each object. This size
		is larger than object_size and includes padding, alignment
		and extra metadata for each object (f.e. for debugging
		and rcu).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common code for kmem_cache_create()

Kmem_cache_create() does a variety of sanity checks but those
vary depending on the allocator. Use the strictest tests and put them into
a slab_common file. Make the tests conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

This patch has the effect of adding sanity checks for SLUB and SLOB
under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and removes the checks in SLAB for !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
slob: Fix early boot kernel crash

Commit fd3142a59af2012a7c5dc72ec97a4935ff1c5fc6 broke
slob since a piece of a change for a later patch slipped into
it.

Fengguang Wu writes:

  The commit crashes the kernel w/o any dmesg output (the attached one is
  created by the script as a summary for that run). This is very
  reproducible in kvm for the attached config.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: Get rid of obj_size macro

The size of the slab object is frequently needed. Since we now
have a size field directly in the kmem_cache structure there is no
need anymore of the obj_size macro/function.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interrupt context

slab_node() could access current->mempolicy from interrupt context.
However there's a race condition during exit where the mempolicy
is first freed and then the pointer zeroed.

Using this from interrupts seems bogus anyways. The interrupt
will interrupt a random process and therefore get a random
mempolicy. Many times, this will be idle's, which noone can change.

Just disable this here and always use local for slab
from interrupts. I also cleaned up the callers of slab_node a bit
which always passed the same argument.

I believe the original mempolicy code did that in fact,
so it's likely a regression.

v2: send version with correct logic
v3: simplify. fix typo.
Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org
Cc: cl@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[tdmackey@twitter.com: Rework control flow based on feedback from
cl@linux.com, fix logic, and cleanup current task_struct reference]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: rename gfpflags to allocflags

A consistent name with slub saves us an acessor function.
In both caches, this field represents the same thing. We would
like to use it from the mem_cgroup code.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slab: Build fix for recent kmem_cache changes

Commit 3b0efdf ("mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct
kmem_cache") renamed the kmem_cache structure's "next" field to "list"
but forgot to update one instance in leaks_show().

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: Fix a typo in commit 8c138b "slab: Get rid of obj_size macro"

Commit  8c138b only sits in Pekka's and linux-next tree now, which tries
to replace obj_size(cachep) with cachep->object_size, but has a typo in
kmem_cache_free() by using "size" instead of "object_size", which casues
some regressions.

Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: move FULL state transition to an initcall

During kmem_cache_init_late(), we transition to the LATE state,
and after some more work, to the FULL state, its last state

This is quite different from slub, that will only transition to
its last state (previously SYSFS), in a (late)initcall, after a lot
more of the kernel is ready.

This means that in slab, we have no way to taking actions dependent
on the initialization of other pieces of the kernel that are supposed
to start way after kmem_init_late(), such as cgroups initialization.

To achieve more consistency in this behavior, that patch only
transitions to the UP state in kmem_init_late. In my analysis,
setup_cpu_cache() should be happy to test for >= UP, instead of
== FULL. It also has passed some tests I've made.

We then only mark FULL state after the reap timers are in place,
meaning that no further setup is expected.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: use __cmpxchg_double_slab() at interrupt disabled place

get_freelist(), unfreeze_partials() are only called with interrupt disabled,
so __cmpxchg_double_slab() is suitable.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: refactoring unfreeze_partials()

Current implementation of unfreeze_partials() is so complicated,
but benefit from it is insignificant. In addition many code in
do {} while loop have a bad influence to a fail rate of cmpxchg_double_slab.
Under current implementation which test status of cpu partial slab
and acquire list_lock in do {} while loop,
we don't need to acquire a list_lock and gain a little benefit
when front of the cpu partial slab is to be discarded, but this is a rare case.
In case that add_partial is performed and cmpxchg_double_slab is failed,
remove_partial should be called case by case.

I think that these are disadvantages of current implementation,
so I do refactoring unfreeze_partials().

Minimizing code in do {} while loop introduce a reduced fail rate
of cmpxchg_double_slab. Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256'
when './perf stat -r 33 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done.

** before **
Cmpxchg_double Looping
------------------------
Locked Cmpxchg Double redos   182685
Unlocked Cmpxchg Double redos 0

** after **
Cmpxchg_double Looping
------------------------
Locked Cmpxchg Double redos   177995
Unlocked Cmpxchg Double redos 1

We can see cmpxchg_double_slab fail rate is improved slightly.

Bolow is output of './perf stat -r 30 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null'.

** before **
 Performance counter stats for './hackbench 50 process 4000' (30 runs):

     108517.190463 task-clock                #    7.926 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.24% )
         2,919,550 context-switches          #    0.027 M/sec                    ( +-  3.07% )
           100,774 CPU-migrations            #    0.929 K/sec                    ( +-  4.72% )
           124,201 page-faults               #    0.001 M/sec                    ( +-  0.15% )
   401,500,234,387 cycles                    #    3.700 GHz                      ( +-  0.24% )
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
   250,576,913,354 instructions              #    0.62  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.13% )
    45,934,956,860 branches                  #  423.297 M/sec                    ( +-  0.14% )
       188,219,787 branch-misses             #    0.41% of all branches          ( +-  0.56% )

      13.691837307 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.24% )

** after **
 Performance counter stats for './hackbench 50 process 4000' (30 runs):

     107784.479767 task-clock                #    7.928 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.22% )
         2,834,781 context-switches          #    0.026 M/sec                    ( +-  2.33% )
            93,083 CPU-migrations            #    0.864 K/sec                    ( +-  3.45% )
           123,967 page-faults               #    0.001 M/sec                    ( +-  0.15% )
   398,781,421,836 cycles                    #    3.700 GHz                      ( +-  0.22% )
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
   250,189,160,419 instructions              #    0.63  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.09% )
    45,855,370,128 branches                  #  425.436 M/sec                    ( +-  0.10% )
       169,881,248 branch-misses             #    0.37% of all branches          ( +-  0.43% )

      13.596272341 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.22% )

No regression is found, but rather we can see slightly better result.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable

If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
the end of the iterator.  The patch replaces s->name by al->name, which is
referenced nearby.

This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, sl[aou]b: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators

All allocators have some sort of support for the bootstrap status.

Setup a common definition for the boot states and make all slab
allocators use that definition.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, sl[aou]b: Use a common mutex definition

Use the mutex definition from SLAB and make it the common way to take a sleeping lock.

This has the effect of using a mutex instead of a rw semaphore for SLUB.

SLOB gains the use of a mutex for kmem_cache_create serialization.
Not needed now but SLOB may acquire some more features later (like slabinfo
/ sysfs support) through the expansion of the common code that will
need this.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
mm, sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache_create mutex handling to common code

Move the mutex handling into the common kmem_cache_create()
function.

Then we can also move more checks out of SLAB's kmem_cache_create()
into the common code.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
mm, slub: ensure irqs are enabled for kmemcheck

kmemcheck_alloc_shadow() requires irqs to be enabled, so wait to disable
them until after its called for __GFP_WAIT allocations.

This fixes a warning for such allocations:

	WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2739 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x14e/0x1c0()

Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages

When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they
create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it
with swapon.  Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless
systems.  The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part
of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the
use of disks and thin clients.

The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block
Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download
There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at
places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The
nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap.  Despite this, the fact
is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap
is used intensively.  This patch series addresses the problem.
The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like
normal block devices do.  As the host cannot control where they receive
packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory
they might need.  Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of
patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is
carrying within their kernels.  This patch series borrows very heavily
from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to
supporting swap-over-NFS.  The bulk of the complexity is concerned with
preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use
by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS.

Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to
        preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations
        to callers that are freeing memory.

Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks

Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC
        reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC.

Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves        for later use by network packet processing.

Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required

Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set.

Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when
        the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If
        packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under
        low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets
        are dropped.

        Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking
        folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate
        pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a
        strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being
        that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should
        not fail.

Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the
        common case.
Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use
        PFMEMALLOC if necessary.

Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled

Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on
loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and
sysbench.  Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators
reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance
variances.

For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a
swapfile backed by NBD.  8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create
anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop.  The total
size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under
memory pressure.

Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes
and runs to completion with them applied.  With SLAB, the story is
different as an unpatched kernel run to completion.  However, the patched
kernel completed the test 45% faster.

MICRO
                                         3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2
                                         vanilla     swapnbd
Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write
MMTests Statistics: duration
Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             197.80    173.07
User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        206.96    182.03
Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               3240.70   1762.09

This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages

Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine
hanging due to a lack of memory.  To prevent this, only callers who have
PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are
allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS.  Once they are allocated to
a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects
within those slabs.  This patch limits access to slab pages that were
alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves.

When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark
are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to
determine how the page should be protected.  SLAB restricts access to any
page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to
access the PFMEMALLOC reserve.  If one is not available, an attempt is
made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve.  SLUB is a bit more
relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated
from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does
not have the necessary GFP or process flags.  This was found to be
sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining
smaller lists than SLAB.

In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail
a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are
being preserved for callers that are freeing pages.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation]
[sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

backported for Android Linux 3.4 by faux123

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks

This patch removes the check for pfmemalloc from the alloc hotpath and
puts the logic after the election of a new per cpu slab.  For a pfmemalloc
page we do not use the fast path but force the use of the slow path which
is also used for the debug case.

This has the side-effect of weakening pfmemalloc processing in the
following way;

1. A process that is allocating for network swap calls __slab_alloc.
   pfmemalloc_match is true so the freelist is loaded and c->freelist is
   now pointing to a pfmemalloc page.

2. A process that is attempting normal allocations calls slab_alloc,
   finds the pfmemalloc page on the freelist and uses it because it did
   not check pfmemalloc_match()

The patch allows non-pfmemalloc allocations to use pfmemalloc pages with
the kmalloc slabs being the most vunerable caches on the grounds they
are most likely to have a mix of pfmemalloc and !pfmemalloc requests. A
later patch will still protect the system as processes will get throttled
if the pfmemalloc reserves get depleted but performance will not degrade
as smoothly.

[mgorman@suse.de: Expanded changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
slub: use free_page instead of put_page for freeing kmalloc allocation

When freeing objects, the slub allocator will most of the time free
empty pages by calling __free_pages(). But high-order kmalloc will be
diposed by means of put_page() instead. It makes no sense to call
put_page() in kernel pages that are provided by the object allocators,
so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves. Aside from the consistency
change, we don't change the flow too much. put_page()'s would call its
dtor function, which is __free_pages. We also already do all of the
Compound page tests ourselves, and the Mlock test we lose don't really
matter.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Take node lock during object free checks

Only applies to scenarios where debugging is on:

Validation of slabs can currently occur while debugging
information is updated from the fast paths of the allocator.
This results in various races where we get false reports about
slab metadata not being in order.

This patch makes the fast paths take the node lock so that
serialization with slab validation will occur. Causes additional
slowdown in debug scenarios.

Reported-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: reduce failure of this_cpu_cmpxchg in put_cpu_partial() after unfreezing

In current implementation, after unfreezing, we doesn't touch oldpage,
so it remain 'NOT NULL'. When we call this_cpu_cmpxchg()
with this old oldpage, this_cpu_cmpxchg() is mostly be failed.

We can change value of oldpage to NULL after unfreezing,
because unfreeze_partial() ensure that all the cpu partial slabs is removed
from cpu partial list. In this time, we could expect that
this_cpu_cmpxchg is mostly succeed.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slub: Add debugging to verify correct cache use on kmem_cache_free()

Add additional debugging to check that the objects is actually from the cache
the caller claims. Doing so currently trips up some other debugging code. It
takes a lot to infer from that what was happening.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
[ penberg@kernel.org: Use pr_err() ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slub: Use kmem_cache for the kmem_cache structure

Do not use kmalloc() but kmem_cache_alloc() for the allocation
of the kmem_cache structures in slub.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
backported for Linux 3.4

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to
 emergency reserves

__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, much
like PF_MEMALLOC.  It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in
object related allocation flags as opposed to task related flags, such as
sk->sk_allocation.  This removes the need for ALLOC_PFMEMALLOC as callers
using __GFP_MEMALLOC can get the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK flag which is now
enough to identify allocations related to page reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

backported to Android Linux 3.4 by faux123

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
mm: micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call

Getting and putting objects in SLAB currently requires a function call but
the bulk of the work is related to PFMEMALLOC reserves which are only
consumed when network-backed storage is critical.  Use an inline function
to determine if the function call is required.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
slab: do not call compound_head() in page_get_cache()

page_get_cache() does not need to call compound_head(), as its unique
caller virt_to_slab() already makes sure to return a head page.

Additionally, removing the compound_head() call makes page_get_cache()
consistent with page_get_slab().

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slab: remove page_get_cache

page_get_cache() isn't called from anything, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slab: lock the correct nodelist after reenabling irqs

cache_grow() can reenable irqs so the cpu (and node) can change, so ensure
that we take list_lock on the correct nodelist.

This fixes an issue with commit 072bb0aa5e06 ("mm: sl[au]b: add
knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages") where list_lock for the wrong
node was taken after growing the cache.

Reported-and-tested-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: Fix build warning in kmem_cache_create()

The label oops is used in CONFIG_DEBUG_VM ifdef block and is defined
outside ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM block. This results in the following
build warning when built with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM disabled. Fix to move
label oops definition to inside a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM block.

mm/slab_common.c: In function ‘kmem_cache_create’:
mm/slab_common.c:101:1: warning: label ‘oops’ defined but not used
[-Wunused-label]

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	mm/slab_common.c
mm/slab_common.c: cleanup

Eliminate an ifdef and a label by moving all the CONFIG_DEBUG_VM checking
inside the locked region.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Revert "mm/slab_common.c: cleanup"

This reverts commit 455ce9eb1cfa083da0def023094190aeb133855a. Andrew
sent a better version.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slab: restructure kmem_cache_create() debug checks

kmem_cache_create() does cache integrity checks when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is
defined.  These checks interspersed with the regular code path has lead
to compile time warnings when compiled without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM defined.
Restructuring the code to move the integrity checks in to a new function
would eliminate the current compile warning problem and also will allow
for future changes to the debug only code to evolve without introducing
new warnings in the regular path.

This restructuring work is based on the discussion in the following
thread:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/13/424

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build, cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@hp.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slab_common: Improve error handling in kmem_cache_create

Instead of using s == NULL use an errorcode. This allows much more
detailed diagnostics as to what went wrong. As we add more functionality
from the slab allocators to the common kmem_cache_create() function we will
also add more error conditions.

Print the error code during the panic as well as in a warning if the module
can handle failure. The API for kmem_cache_create() currently does not allow
the returning of an error code. Return NULL but log the cause of the problem
in the syslog.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Move list_add() to slab_common.c

Move the code to append the new kmem_cache to the list of slab caches to
the kmem_cache_create code in the shared code.

This is possible now since the acquisition of the mutex was moved into
kmem_cache_create().

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
mm/sl[aou]b: Use "kmem_cache" name for slab cache with kmem_cache struct

Make all allocators use the "kmem_cache" slabname for the "kmem_cache"
structure.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Extract a common function for kmem_cache_destroy

kmem_cache_destroy does basically the same in all allocators.

Extract common code which is easy since we already have common mutex
handling.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Move freeing of kmem_cache structure to common code

The freeing action is basically the same in all slab allocators.
Move to the common kmem_cache_destroy() function.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Get rid of __kmem_cache_destroy

What is done there can be done in __kmem_cache_shutdown.

This affects RCU handling somewhat. On rcu free all slab allocators do
not refer to other management structures than the kmem_cache structure.
Therefore these other structures can be freed before the rcu deferred
free to the page allocator occurs.

Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Move duping of slab name to slab_common.c

Duping of the slabname has to be done by each slab. Moving this code to
slab_common avoids duplicate implementations.

With this patch we have common string handling for all slab allocators.
Strings passed to kmem_cache_create() are copied internally. Subsystems
can create temporary strings to create slab caches.

Slabs allocated in early states of bootstrap will never be freed (and
those can never be freed since they are essential to slab allocator
operations).  During bootstrap we therefore do not have to worry about
duping names.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
mm/sl[aou]b: Do slab aliasing call from common code

The slab aliasing logic causes some strange contortions in slub. So add
a call to deal with aliases to slab_common.c but disable it for other
slab allocators by providng stubs that fail to create aliases.

Full general support for aliases will require additional cleanup passes
and more standardization of fields in kmem_cache.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Move sysfs_slab_add to common

Simplify locking by moving the slab_add_sysfs after all locks have been
dropped. Eases the upcoming move to provide sysfs support for all
allocators.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache allocations into common code

Shift the allocations to common code. That way the allocation and
freeing of the kmem_cache structures is handled by common code.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Shrink __kmem_cache_create() parameter lists

Do the initial settings of the fields in common code. This will allow us
to push more processing into common code later and improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache refcounting to common code

Get rid of the refcount stuff in the allocators and do that part of
kmem_cache management in the common code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Revert "mm/sl[aou]b: Move sysfs_slab_add to common"

This reverts commit 96d17b7be0a9849d381442030886211dbb2a7061 which
caused the following errors at boot:

  [    1.114885] kobject (ffff88001a802578): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong.
  [    1.114885] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W    3.6.0-rc1+ #6
  [    1.114885] Call Trace:
  [    1.114885]  [<ffffffff81273f37>] kobject_init+0x87/0xa0
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff8127426a>] kobject_init_and_add+0x2a/0x90
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff8127c870>] ? sprintf+0x40/0x50
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81124c60>] sysfs_slab_add+0x80/0x210
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81100175>] kmem_cache_create+0xa5/0x250
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81cf24cd>] ? md_init+0x144/0x144
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81cf25b6>] local_init+0xa4/0x11b
  [    1.115555]  [<ffffffff81cf24e1>] dm_init+0x14/0x45
  [    1.115836]  [<ffffffff810001ba>] do_one_initcall+0x3a/0x160
  [    1.116834]  [<ffffffff81cc2c90>] kernel_init+0x133/0x1b7
  [    1.117835]  [<ffffffff81cc25c4>] ? do_early_param+0x86/0x86
  [    1.117835]  [<ffffffff8171aff4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [    1.118401]  [<ffffffff81cc2b5d>] ? start_kernel+0x33f/0x33f
  [    1.119832]  [<ffffffff8171aff0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
  [    1.120325] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [    1.120835] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0xc1/0xf0()
  [    1.121437] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/kernel/slab/:t-0000016'
  [    1.121831] Modules linked in:
  [    1.122138] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W    3.6.0-rc1+ #6
  [    1.122831] Call Trace:
  [    1.123074]  [<ffffffff81195ce1>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xc1/0xf0
  [    1.123833]  [<ffffffff8103adfa>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
  [    1.124405]  [<ffffffff8103aed1>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
  [    1.124832]  [<ffffffff81195ce1>] sysfs_add_one+0xc1/0xf0
  [    1.125337]  [<ffffffff81195eb3>] create_dir+0x73/0xd0
  [    1.125832]  [<ffffffff81196221>] sysfs_create_dir+0x81/0xe0
  [    1.126363]  [<ffffffff81273d3d>] kobject_add_internal+0x9d/0x210
  [    1.126832]  [<ffffffff812742a3>] kobject_init_and_add+0x63/0x90
  [    1.127406]  [<ffffffff81124c60>] sysfs_slab_add+0x80/0x210
  [    1.127832]  [<ffffffff81100175>] kmem_cache_create+0xa5/0x250
  [    1.128384]  [<ffffffff81cf24cd>] ? md_init+0x144/0x144
  [    1.128833]  [<ffffffff81cf25b6>] local_init+0xa4/0x11b
  [    1.129831]  [<ffffffff81cf24e1>] dm_init+0x14/0x45
  [    1.130305]  [<ffffffff810001ba>] do_one_initcall+0x3a/0x160
  [    1.130831]  [<ffffffff81cc2c90>] kernel_init+0x133/0x1b7
  [    1.131351]  [<ffffffff81cc25c4>] ? do_early_param+0x86/0x86
  [    1.131830]  [<ffffffff8171aff4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [    1.132392]  [<ffffffff81cc2b5d>] ? start_kernel+0x33f/0x33f
  [    1.132830]  [<ffffffff8171aff0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
  [    1.133315] ---[ end trace 2703540871c8fab7 ]---
  [    1.133830] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [    1.134274] WARNING: at lib/kobject.c:196 kobject_add_internal+0x1f5/0x210()
  [    1.134829] kobject_add_internal failed for :t-0000016 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
  [    1.135829] Modules linked in:
  [    1.136135] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W    3.6.0-rc1+ #6
  [    1.136828] Call Trace:
  [    1.137071]  [<ffffffff81273e95>] ? kobject_add_internal+0x1f5/0x210
  [    1.137830]  [<ffffffff8103adfa>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
  [    1.138402]  [<ffffffff8103aed1>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
  [    1.138830]  [<ffffffff811955a3>] ? release_sysfs_dirent+0x73/0xf0
  [    1.139419]  [<ffffffff81273e95>] kobject_add_internal+0x1f5/0x210
  [    1.139830]  [<ffffffff812742a3>] kobject_init_and_add+0x63/0x90
  [    1.140429]  [<ffffffff81124c60>] sysfs_slab_add+0x80/0x210
  [    1.140830]  [<ffffffff81100175>] kmem_cache_create+0xa5/0x250
  [    1.141829]  [<ffffffff81cf24cd>] ? md_init+0x144/0x144
  [    1.142307]  [<ffffffff81cf25b6>] local_init+0xa4/0x11b
  [    1.142829]  [<ffffffff81cf24e1>] dm_init+0x14/0x45
  [    1.143307]  [<ffffffff810001ba>] do_one_initcall+0x3a/0x160
  [    1.143829]  [<ffffffff81cc2c90>] kernel_init+0x133/0x1b7
  [    1.144352]  [<ffffffff81cc25c4>] ? do_early_param+0x86/0x86
  [    1.144829]  [<ffffffff8171aff4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [    1.145405]  [<ffffffff81cc2b5d>] ? start_kernel+0x33f/0x33f
  [    1.145828]  [<ffffffff8171aff0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
  [    1.146313] ---[ end trace 2703540871c8fab8 ]---

Conflicts:

	mm/slub.c

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Zero initial memory segment for kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node

Tony Luck reported the following problem on IA-64:

  Worked fine yesterday on next-20120905, crashes today. First sign of
  trouble was an unaligned access, then a NULL dereference. SL*B related
  bits of my config:

  CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
  # CONFIG_SLAB is not set
  CONFIG_SLUB=y
  CONFIG_SLABINFO=y
  # CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is not set
  # CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is not set

  And he console log.

  PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 1, 32768 bytes)
  Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 7, 2097152 bytes)
  Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 6, 1048576 bytes)
  Memory: 2047920k/2086064k available (13992k code, 38144k reserved,
  6012k data, 880k init)
  kernel unaligned access to 0xca2ffc55fb373e95, ip=0xa0000001001be550
  swapper[0]: error during unaligned kernel access
   -1 [1]
  Modules linked in:

  Pid: 0, CPU 0, comm:              swapper
  psr : 00001010084a2018 ifs : 800000000000060f ip  :
  [<a0000001001be550>]    Not tainted (3.6.0-rc4-zx1-smp-next-20120906)
  ip is at new_slab+0x90/0x680
  unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 000000000000060f rsc : 0000000000000003
  rnat: 9666960159966a59 bsps: a0000001001441c0 pr  : 9666960159965a59
  ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c8a70433f
  csd : 0000000000000000 ssd : 0000000000000000
  b0  : a0000001001be500 b6  : a00000010112cb20 b7  : a0000001011660a0
  f6  : 0fff7f0f0f0f0e54f0000 f7  : 0ffe8c5c1000000000000
  f8  : 1000d8000000000000000 f9  : 100068800000000000000
  f10 : 10005f0f0f0f0e54f0000 f11 : 1003e0000000000000078
  r1  : a00000010155eef0 r2  : 0000000000000000 r3  : fffffffffffc1638
  r8  : e0000040600081b8 r9  : ca2ffc55fb373e95 r10 : 0000000000000000
  r11 : e000004040001646 r12 : a000000101287e20 r13 : a000000101280000
  r14 : 0000000000004000 r15 : 0000000000000078 r16 : ca2ffc55fb373e75
  r17 : e000004040040000 r18 : fffffffffffc1646 r19 : e000004040001646
  r20 : fffffffffffc15f8 r21 : 000000000000004d r22 : a00000010132fa68
  r23 : 00000000000000ed r24 : 0000000000000000 r25 : 0000000000000000
  r26 : 0000000000000001 r27 : a0000001012b8500 r28 : a00000010135f4a0
  r29 : 0000000000000000 r30 : 0000000000000000 r31 : 0000000000000001
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (address
  0000000000000018)
  swapper[0]: Oops 11003706212352 [2]
  Modules linked in:

  Pid: 0, CPU 0, comm:              swapper
  psr : 0000121008022018 ifs : 800000000000cc18 ip  :
  [<a0000001004dc8f1>]    Not tainted (3.6.0-rc4-zx1-smp-next-20120906)
  ip is at __copy_user+0x891/0x960
  unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 0000000000000813 rsc : 0000000000000003
  rnat: 0000000000000000 bsps: 0000000000000000 pr  : 9666960159961765
  ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c0270033f
  csd : 0000000000000000 ssd : 0000000000000000
  b0  : a00000010004b550 b6  : a00000010004b740 b7  : a00000010000c750
  f6  : 000000000000000000000 f7  : 1003e9e3779b97f4a7c16
  f8  : 1003e0a00000010001550 f9  : 100068800000000000000
  f10 : 10005f0f0f0f0e54f0000 f11 : 1003e0000000000000078
  r1  : a00000010155eef0 r2  : a0000001012870b0 r3  : a0000001012870b8
  r8  : 0000000000000298 r9  : 0000000000000013 r10 : 0000000000000000
  r11 : 9666960159961a65 r12 : a000000101287010 r13 : a000000101280000
  r14 : a000000101287068 r15 : a000000101287080 r16 : 0000000000000298
  r17 : 0000000000000010 r18 : 0000000000000018 r19 : a000000101287310
  r20 : 0000000000000290 r21 : 0000000000000000 r22 : 0000000000000000
  r23 : a000000101386f58 r24 : 0000000000000000 r25 : 000000007fffffff
  r26 : a000000101287078 r27 : a0000001013c69b0 r28 : 0000000000000000
  r29 : 0000000000000014 r30 : 0000000000000000 r31 : 0000000000000813

Sedat Dilek and Hugh Dickins reported similar problems as well.

Earlier patches in the common set moved the zeroing of the kmem_cache
structure into common code. See "Move allocation of kmem_cache into
common code".

The allocation for the two special structures is still done from SLUB
specific code but no zeroing is done since the cache creation functions
used to zero. This now needs to be updated so that the structures are
zeroed during allocation in kmem_cache_init().  Otherwise random pointer
values may be followed.

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: consider pfmemalloc_match() in get_partial_node()

get_partial() is currently not checking pfmemalloc_match() meaning that
it is possible for pfmemalloc pages to leak to non-pfmemalloc users.
This is a problem in the following situation.  Assume that there is a
request from normal allocation and there are no objects in the per-cpu
cache and no node-partial slab.

In this case, slab_alloc enters the slow path and new_slab_objects() is
called which may return a PFMEMALLOC page.  As the current user is not
allowed to access PFMEMALLOC page, deactivate_slab() is called
([5091b74a: mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc
checks]) and returns an object from PFMEMALLOC page.

Next time, when we get another request from normal allocation,
slab_alloc() enters the slow-path and calls new_slab_objects().  In
new_slab_objects(), we call get_partial() and get a partial slab which
was just deactivated but is a pfmemalloc page.  We extract one object
from it and re-deactivate.

  "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial -> re-deactivate" occures repeatedly.

As a result, access to PFMEMALLOC page is not properly restricted and it
can cause a performance degradation due to frequent deactivation.
deactivation frequently.

This patch changes get_partial_node() to take pfmemalloc_match() into
account and prevents the "deactivate -> re-get in get_partial()
scenario.  Instead, new_slab() is called.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lock

DEADLOCK will be report while running a kernel with NUMA and LOCKDEP enabled,
the process of this fake report is:

	   kmem_cache_free()	//free obj in cachep
	-> cache_free_alien()	//acquire cachep's l3 alien lock
	-> __drain_alien_cache()
	-> free_block()
	-> slab_destroy()
	-> kmem_cache_free()	//free slab in cachep->slabp_cache
	-> cache_free_alien()	//acquire cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien lock

Since the cachep and cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien are in the same lock class,
fake report generated.

This should not happen since we already have init_lock_keys() which will
reassign the lock class for both l3 list and l3 alien.

However, init_lock_keys() was invoked at a wrong position which is before we
invoke enable_cpucache() on each cache.

Since until set slab_state to be FULL, we won't invoke enable_cpucache()
on caches to build their l3 alien while creating them, so although we invoked
init_lock_keys(), the l3 alien lock class won't change since we don't have
them until invoked enable_cpucache() later.

This patch will invoke init_lock_keys() after we done enable_cpucache()
instead of before to avoid the fake DEADLOCK report.

Michael traced the problem back to a commit in release 3.0.0:

commit 30765b92ada267c5395fc788623cb15233276f5c
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu Jul 28 23:22:56 2011 +0200

    slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them

    Fernando found we hit the regular OFF_SLAB 'recursion' before we
    annotate the locks, cure this.

    The relevant portion of the stack-trace:

    > [    0.000000]  [<c085e24f>] rt_spin_lock+0x50/0x56
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fb406>] __cache_free+0x43/0xc3
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fb23f>] kmem_cache_free+0x6c/0xdc
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fb2fe>] slab_destroy+0x4f/0x53
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fb396>] free_block+0x94/0xc1
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fc551>] do_tune_cpucache+0x10b/0x2bb
    > [    0.000000]  [<c04fc8dc>] enable_cpucache+0x7b/0xa7
    > [    0.000000]  [<c0bd9d3c>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x1f/0x61
    > [    0.000000]  [<c0bba687>] start_kernel+0x24c/0x363
    > [    0.000000]  [<c0bba0ba>] i386_start_kernel+0xa9/0xaf

    Reported-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
    Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311888176.2617.379.camel@laptop
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The commit moved init_lock_keys() before we build up the alien, so we
failed to reclass it.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.0+
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab

Right now, we call ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for first page of slab when we
clear SlabPfmemalloc flag.  This is fine for most swap-over-network use
cases as it is expected that order-0 pages are in use.  Unfortunately it
is possible that that __ac_put_obj() checks SlabPfmemalloc on a tail
page and while this is harmless, it is sloppy.  This patch ensures that
the head page is always used.

This problem was originally identified by Joonsoo Kim.

[js1304@gmail.com: Original implementation and problem identification]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
slab: fix starting index for finding another object

In array cache, there is a object at index 0, check it.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
slab: Only define slab_error for DEBUG

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (sparc64 defconfig)
> produced this warning:
>
> mm/slab.c:808:13: warning: '__slab_error' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>
> Introduced by commit 945cf2b6199b ("mm/sl[aou]b: Extract a common
> function for kmem_cache_destroy").  All uses of slab_error() are now
> guarded by DEBUG.

There is no use case left for slab builds without DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, sl[au]b: Taint kernel when we detect a corrupted slab

It doesn't seem worth adding a new taint flag for this, so just re-use
the one from 'bad page'

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> # SLUB
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slub: Rename slab_alloc() -> slab_alloc_node() to match SLAB

This patch does not fix anything, and its only goal is to enable us
to obtain some common code between SLAB and SLUB.
Neither behavior nor produced code is affected.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: init_kmem_cache_cpus() and put_cpu_partial() can be static

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: remove one code path and reduce lock contention in __slab_free()

When we try to free object, there is some of case that we need
to take a node lock. This is the necessary step for preventing a race.
After taking a lock, then we try to cmpxchg_double_slab().
But, there is a possible scenario that cmpxchg_double_slab() is failed
with taking a lock. Following example explains it.

CPU A               CPU B
need lock
...                 need lock
...                 lock!!
lock..but spin      free success
spin...             unlock
lock!!
free fail

In this case, retry with taking a lock is occured in CPU A.
I think that in this case for CPU A,
"release a lock first, and re-take a lock if necessary" is preferable way.

There are two reasons for this.

First, this makes __slab_free()'s logic somehow simple.
With this patch, 'was_frozen = 1' is "always" handled without taking a lock.
So we can remove one code path.

Second, it may reduce lock contention.
When we do retrying, status of slab is already changed,
so we don't need a lock anymore in almost every case.
"release a lock first, and re-take a lock if necessary" policy is
helpful to this.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slab: Remove silly function slab_buffer_size()

This function is seldom used, and can be simply replaced with cachep->size.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slab: Replace 'caller' type, void* -> unsigned long

This allows to use _RET_IP_ instead of builtin_address(0), thus
achiveing implementation consistency in all three allocators.
Though maybe a nitpick, the real goal behind this patch is
to be able to obtain common code between SLAB and SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slab: Match SLAB and SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype

This long (seemingly unnecessary) patch does not fix anything and
its only goal is to produce common code between SLAB and SLUB.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slab: Rename __cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc()

This patch does not fix anything and its only goal is to
produce common code between SLAB and SLUB.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slab: Fix typo _RET_IP -> _RET_IP_

The bug was introduced by commit 7c0cb9c64f83 ("mm, slab: Replace
'caller' type, void* -> unsigned long").

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration

The bug was introduced in commit 4052147c0afa ("mm, slab: Match SLAB
and SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype").

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Revert "mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration"

This reverts commit 1e5965bf1f018cc30a4659fa3f1a40146e4276f6. Ezequiel
Garcia has a better fix.
slab: Fix build failure in __kmem_cache_create()

Fix build failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y && CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y caused
by commit 8a13a4cc "mm/sl[aou]b: Shrink __kmem_cache_create() parameter lists".

mm/slab.c: In function '__kmem_cache_create':
mm/slab.c:2474: error: 'align' undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/slab.c:2474: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mm/slab.c:2474: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [mm/slab.o] Error 1
make: *** [mm] Error 2

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slab: release slab_mutex earlier in kmem_cache_destroy()

Commit 1331e7a1bbe1 ("rcu: Remove _rcu_barrier() dependency on
__stop_machine()") introduced slab_mutex -> cpu_hotplug.lock dependency
through kmem_cache_destroy() -> rcu_barrier() -> _rcu_barrier() ->
get_online_cpus().

Lockdep thinks that this might actually result in ABBA deadlock,
and reports it as below:

=== [ cut here ] ===
 ======================================================
 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 3.6.0-rc5-00004-g0d8ee37 #143 Not tainted
 -------------------------------------------------------
 kworker/u:2/40 is trying to acquire lock:
  (rcu_sched_state.barrier_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff810f2126>] _rcu_barrier+0x26/0x1e0

 but task is already holding lock:
  (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81176e15>] kmem_cache_destroy+0x45/0xe0

 which lock already depends on the new lock.

 the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

 -> #2 (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}:
        [<ffffffff810ae1e2>] validate_chain+0x632/0x720
        [<ffffffff810ae5d9>] __lock_acquire+0x309/0x530
        [<ffffffff810ae921>] lock_acquire+0x121/0x190
        [<ffffffff8155d4cc>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5c/0x450
        [<ffffffff8155d9ee>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x50
        [<ffffffff81558cb5>] cpuup_callback+0x2f/0xbe
        [<ffffffff81564b83>] notifier_call_chain+0x93/0x140
        [<ffffffff81076f89>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x9/0x10
        [<ffffffff8155719d>] _cpu_up+0xba/0x14e
        [<ffffffff815572ed>] cpu_up+0xbc/0x117
        [<ffffffff81ae05e3>] smp_init+0x6b/0x9f
        [<ffffffff81ac47d6>] kernel_init+0x147/0x1dc
        [<ffffffff8156ab44>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10

 -> #1 (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}:
        [<ffffffff810ae1e2>] validate_chain+0x632/0x720
        [<ffffffff810ae5d9>] __lock_acquire+0x309/0x530
        [<ffffffff810ae921>] lock_acquire+0x121/0x190
        [<ffffffff8155d4cc>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5c/0x450
        [<ffffffff8155d9ee>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x50
        [<ffffffff81049197>] get_online_cpus+0x37/0x50
        [<ffffffff810f21bb>] _rcu_barrier+0xbb/0x1e0
        [<ffffffff810f22f0>] rcu_barrier_sched+0x10/0x20
        [<ffffffff810f2309>] rcu_barrier+0x9/0x10
        [<ffffffff8118c129>] deactivate_locked_super+0x49/0x90
        [<ffffffff8118cc01>] deactivate_super+0x61/0x70
        [<ffffffff811aaaa7>] mntput_no_expire+0x127/0x180
        [<ffffffff811ab49e>] sys_umount+0x6e/0xd0
        [<ffffffff81569979>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

 -> #0 (rcu_sched_state.barrier_mutex){+.+...}:
        [<ffffffff810adb4e>] check_prev_add+0x3de/0x440
        [<ffffffff810ae1e2>] validate_chain+0x632/0x720
        [<ffffffff810ae5d9>] __lock_acquire+0x309/0x530
        [<ffffffff810ae921>] lock_acquire+0x121/0x190
        [<ffffffff8155d4cc>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5c/0x450
        [<ffffffff8155d9ee>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x50
        [<ffffffff810f2126>] _rcu_barrier+0x26/0x1e0
        [<ffffffff810f22f0>] rcu_barrier_sched+0x10/0x20
        [<ffffffff810f2309>] rcu_barrier+0x9/0x10
        [<ffffffff81176ea1>] kmem_cache_destroy+0xd1/0xe0
        [<ffffffffa04c3154>] nf_conntrack_cleanup_net+0xe4/0x110 [nf_conntrack]
        [<ffffffffa04c31aa>] nf_conntrack_cleanup+0x2a/0x70 [nf_conntrack]
        [<ffffffffa04c42ce>] nf_conntrack_net_exit+0x5e/0x80 [nf_conntrack]
        [<ffffffff81454b79>] ops_exit_list+0x39/0x60
        [<ffffffff814551ab>] cleanup_net+0xfb/0x1b0
        [<ffffffff8106917b>] process_one_work+0x26b/0x4c0
        [<ffffffff81069f3e>] worker_thread+0x12e/0x320
        [<ffffffff8106f73e>] kthread+0x9e/0xb0
        [<ffffffff8156ab44>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10

 other info that might help us debug this:

 Chain exists of:
   rcu_sched_state.barrier_mutex --> cpu_hotplug.lock --> slab_mutex

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock(slab_mutex);
                                lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
                                lock(slab_mutex);
   lock(rcu_sched_state.barrier_mutex);

  *** DEADLOCK ***
=== [ cut here ] ===

This is actually a false positive. Lockdep has no way of knowing the fact
that the ABBA can actually never happen, because of special semantics of
cpu_hotplug.refcount and its handling in cpu_hotplug_begin(); the mutual
exclusion there is not achieved through mutex, but through
cpu_hotplug.refcount.

The "neither cpu_up() nor cpu_down() will proceed past cpu_hotplug_begin()
until everyone who called get_online_cpus() will call put_online_cpus()"
semantics is totally invisible to lockdep.

This patch therefore moves the unlock of slab_mutex so that rcu_barrier()
is being called with it unlocked. It has two advantages:

- it slightly reduces hold time of slab_mutex; as it's used to protect
  the cachep list, it's not necessary to hold it over kmem_cache_free()
  call any more
- it silences the lockdep false positive warning, as it avoids lockdep ever
  learning about slab_mutex -> cpu_hotplug.lock dependency

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[au]b: Move slabinfo processing to slab_common.c

This patch moves all the common machinery to slabinfo processing
to slab_common.c. We can do better by noticing that the output is
heavily common, and having the allocators to just provide finished
information about this. But after this first step, this can be done
easier.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[au]b: Move print_slabinfo_header to slab_common.c

The header format is highly similar between slab and slub. The main
difference lays in the fact that slab may optionally have statistics
added here in case of CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, while the slub will stick them
somewhere else.

By making sure that information conditionally lives inside a
globally-visible CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB switch, we can move the header
printing to a common location.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
sl[au]b: Process slabinfo_show in common code

With all the infrastructure in place, we can now have slabinfo_show
done from slab_common.c. A cache-specific function is called to grab
information about the cache itself, since that is still heavily
dependent on the implementation. But with the values produced by it, all
the printing and handling is done from common code.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Commonize slab_cache field in struct page

Right now, slab and slub have fields in struct page to derive which
cache a page belongs to, but they do it slightly differently.

slab uses a field called slab_cache, that lives in the third double
word. slub, uses a field called "slab", living outside of the
doublewords area.

Ideally, we could use the same field for this. Since slub heavily makes
use of the doubleword region, there isn't really much room to move
slub's slab_cache field around. Since slab does not have such strict
placement restrictions, we can move it outside the doubleword area.

The naming used by slab, "slab_cache", is less confusing, and it is
preferred over slub's generic "slab".

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slob: Use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	mm/slob.c
mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller()

Currently slob falls back to regular kmalloc for this case.
With this patch kmalloc_track_caller() is correctly implemented,
thus tracing the specified caller.

This is important to trace accurately allocations performed by
krealloc, kstrdup, kmemdup, etc.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, slob: fix build breakage in __kmalloc_node_track_caller

On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> @@ -454,15 +455,35 @@ void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
>  			gfp |= __GFP_COMP;
>  		ret = slob_new_pages(gfp, order, node);
>
> -		trace_kmalloc_node(_RET_IP_, ret,
> +		trace_kmalloc_node(caller, ret,
>  				   size, PAGE_SIZE << order, gfp, node);
>  	}
>
>  	kmemleak_alloc(ret, size, 1, gfp);
>  	return ret;
>  }
> +
> +void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
> +{
> +	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, node, _RET_IP_);
> +}
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
> +void *__kmalloc_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, unsigned long caller)
> +{
> +	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, NUMA_NO_NODE, caller);
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags,
> +					int node, unsigned long caller)
> +{
> +	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, node, caller);
> +}
> +#endif

This breaks Pekka's slab/next tree with this:

mm/slob.c: In function '__kmalloc_node_track_caller':
mm/slob.c:488: error: 'gfp' undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/slob.c:488: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mm/slob.c:488: error: for each function it appears in.)

mm, slob: fix build breakage in __kmalloc_node_track_caller

"mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller()" breaks the build
because gfp is undeclared.  Fix it.

Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slob: Drop usage of page->private for storing page-sized allocations

This field was being used to store size allocation so it could be
retrieved by ksize(). However, it is a bad practice to not mark a page
as a slab page and then use fields for special purposes.
There is no need to store the allocated size and
ksize() can simply return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page).

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slob: Use object_size field in kmem_cache_size()

Fields object_size and size are not the same: the latter might include
slab metadata. Return object_size field in kmem_cache_size().
Also, improve trace accuracy by correctly tracing reported size.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Move common kmem_cache_size() to slab.h

This function is identically defined in all three allocators
and it's trivial to move it to slab.h

Since now it's static, inline, header-defined function
this patch also drops the EXPORT_SYMBOL tag.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation

Some flags are used internally by the allocators for management
purposes. One example of that is the CFLGS_OFF_SLAB flag that slab uses
to mark that the metadata for that cache is stored outside of the slab.

No cache should ever pass those as a creation flags. We can just ignore
this bit if it happens to be passed (such as when duplicating a cache in
the kmem memcg patches).

Because such flags can vary from allocator to allocator, we allow them
to make their own decisions on that, defining SLAB_AVAILABLE_FLAGS with
all flags that are valid at creation time.  Allocators that doesn't have
any specific flag requirement should define that to mean all flags.

Common code will mask out all flags not belonging to that set.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Use correct cpu_slab on dead cpu

Pass a kmem_cache_cpu pointer into unfreeze partials so that a different
kmem_cache_cpu structure than the local one can be specified.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm: fix slab.c kernel-doc warnings

Fix new kernel-doc warnings in mm/slab.c:

Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): No description found for parameter 'cachep'
Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'name' description in '__kmem_cache_create'
Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'size' description in '__kmem_cache_create'
Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'align' description in '__kmem_cache_create'
Warning(mm/slab.c:2358): Excess function parameter 'ctor' description in '__kmem_cache_create'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: Simplify bootstrap

The nodelists field in kmem_cache is pointing to the first unused
object in the array field when bootstrap is complete.

A problem with the current approach is that the statically sized
kmem_cache structure use on boot can only contain NR_CPUS entries.
If the number of nodes plus the number of cpus is greater then we
would overwrite memory following the kmem_cache_boot definition.

Increase the size of the array field to ensure that also the node
pointers fit into the array field.

Once we do that we no longer need the kmem_cache_nodelists
array and we can then also use that structure elsewhere.

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm, sl[au]b: create common functions for boot slab creation

Use a special function to create kmalloc caches and use that function in
SLAB and SLUB.

Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: Use statically allocated kmem_cache boot structure for bootstrap

Simplify bootstrap by statically allocated two kmem_cache structures. These are
freed after bootup is complete. Allows us to no longer worry about calculations
of sizes of kmem_cache structures during bootstrap.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: Use the new create_boot_cache function to simplify bootstrap

Simplify setup and reduce code in kmem_cache_init(). This allows us to
get rid of initarray_cache as well as the manual setup code for
the kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node arrays during bootstrap.

We introduce a new bootstrap state "PARTIAL" for slab that signals the
creation of a kmem_cache boot cache.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slob: Use free_page instead of put_page for page-size kmalloc allocations

When freeing objects, the slob allocator currently free empty pages
calling __free_pages(). However, page-size kmallocs are disposed
using put_page() instead.

It makes no sense to call put_page() for kernel pages that are provided
by the object allocator, so we shouldn't be doing this ourselves.

This is based on:
commit d9b7f22623b5fa9cc189581dcdfb2ac605933bf4
Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
slub: use free_page instead of put_page for freeing kmalloc allocation

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slob: use min_t() to compare ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN

The definition of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is architecture dependent
and can be either of type size_t or int. Comparing that value
with ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN can cause harmless warnings on
platforms where they are different. Since both are always
small positive integer numbers, using the size_t type to compare
them is safe and gets rid of the warning.

Without this patch, building ARM collie_defconfig results in:

mm/slob.c: In function '__kmalloc_node':
mm/slob.c:431:152: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
mm/slob.c: In function 'kfree':
mm/slob.c:484:153: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]
mm/slob.c: In function 'ksize':
mm/slob.c:503:153: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[ penberg@kernel.org: updates for master ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code

Extract the code to do object alignment from the allocators.
Do the alignment calculations in slab_common so that the
__kmem_cache_create functions of the allocators do not have
to deal with alignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub, hotplug: ignore unrelated node's hot-adding and hot-removing

SLUB only focuses on the nodes which have normal memory and it ignores the
other node's hot-adding and hot-removing.

Aka: if some memory of a node which has no onlined memory is online, but
this new memory onlined is not normal memory (for example, highmem), we
should not allocate kmem_cache_node for SLUB.

And if the last normal memory is offlined, but the node still has memory,
we should remove kmem_cache_node for that node.  (The current code delays
it when all of the memory is offlined)

So we only do something when marg->status_change_nid_normal > 0.
marg->status_change_nid is not suitable here.

The same problem doesn't exist in SLAB, because SLAB allocates kmem_list3
for every node even the node don't have normal memory, SLAB tolerates
kmem_list3 on alien nodes.  SLUB only focuses on the nodes which have
normal memory, it don't tolerate alien kmem_cache_node.  The patch makes
SLUB become self-compatible and avoids WARNs and BUGs in rare conditions.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
slab: annotate on-slab caches nodelist locks

We currently provide lockdep annotation for kmalloc caches, and also
caches that have SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS enabled.  The reason for this is that
we can quite frequently nest in the l3->list_lock lock, which is not
something trivial to avoid.

My proposal with this patch, is to extend this to caches whose slab
management object lives within the slab as well ("on_slab").  The need for
this arose in the context of testing kmemcg-slab patches.  With such
patchset, we can have per-memcg kmalloc caches.  So the same path that led
to nesting between kmalloc caches will could then lead to in-memcg
nesting.  Because they are not annotated, lockdep will trigger.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page in kmem_cache_free()

struct page already has this information.  If we start chaining caches,
this information will always be more trustworthy than whatever is passed
into the function.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

backported to Android Linux 3.4 by faux123
Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	include/linux/memcontrol.h
	mm/slab.h
Revert "mm: micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call"

This reverts commit 381760eadc393bcb1bb328510ad75cf13431806d.
drivers/tty/smux_private.h: SLAB/SLOB compatibility fixup

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
Defconfig: clean
mach: msm: fix mismatch.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Add .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
msm: krait: add CPU Voltage control.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
lib/int_sqrt.c: optimize square root algorithm

Optimize the current version of the shift-and-subtract (hardware)
algorithm, described by John von Newmann[1] and Guy L Steele.

Iterating 1,000,000 times, perf shows for the current version:

 Performance counter stats for './sqrt-curr' (10 runs):

         27.170996 task-clock                #    0.979 CPUs utilized            ( +-  3.19% )
                 3 context-switches          #    0.103 K/sec                    ( +-  4.76% )
                 0 cpu-migrations            #    0.004 K/sec                    ( +-100.00% )
               104 page-faults               #    0.004 M/sec                    ( +-  0.16% )
        64,921,199 cycles                    #    2.389 GHz                      ( +-  0.03% )
        28,967,789 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   44.62% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.18% )
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
       104,502,623 instructions              #    1.61  insns per cycle
                                             #    0.28  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.00% )
        34,088,368 branches                  # 1254.587 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
             4,901 branch-misses             #    0.01% of all branches          ( +-  1.32% )

       0.027763015 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  3.22% )

And for the new version:

Performance counter stats for './sqrt-new' (10 runs):

          0.496869 task-clock                #    0.519 CPUs utilized            ( +-  2.38% )
                 0 context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0 cpu-migrations            #    0.403 K/sec                    ( +-100.00% )
               104 page-faults               #    0.209 M/sec                    ( +-  0.15% )
           590,760 cycles                    #    1.189 GHz                      ( +-  2.35% )
           395,053 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   66.87% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  3.67% )
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
           398,963 instructions              #    0.68  insns per cycle
                                             #    0.99  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  0.39% )
            70,228 branches                  #  141.341 M/sec                    ( +-  0.36% )
             3,364 branch-misses             #    4.79% of all branches          ( +-  5.45% )

       0.000957440 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  2.42% )

Furthermore, this saves space in instruction text:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    111       0       0     111      6f lib/int_sqrt-baseline.o
     89       0       0      89      59 lib/int_sqrt.o

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the_EDVAC

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Gonzalez <jgonzlez@linets.cl>
Tested-by: Jonathan Gonzalez <jgonzlez@linets.cl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
cpufreq: Manage only online cpus

cpufreq core doesn't manage offline cpus and if driver->init() has returned
mask including offline cpus, it may result in unwanted behavior by cpufreq core
or governors.

We need to get only online cpus in this mask. There are two places to fix this
mask, cpufreq core and cpufreq driver. It makes sense to do this at common place
and hence is done in core.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
writeback: fix writeback cache thrashing

From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>

Consider Process A: huge I/O on sda
        doing heavy write operation - dirty memory becomes more
        than dirty_background_ratio
        on HDD - flusher thread flush-8:0

Consider Process B: small I/O on sdb
        doing while [1]; read 1024K + rewrite 1024K + sleep 2sec
        on Flash device - flusher thread flush-8:16

As Process A is a heavy dirtier, dirty memory becomes more
than dirty_background_thresh. Due to this, below check becomes
true(checking global_page_state in over_bground_thresh)
for all bdi devices(even for very small dirtied bdi - sdb):

In this case, even small cached data on 'sdb' is forced to flush
and writeback cache thrashing happens.

When we added debug prints inside above 'if' condition and ran
above Process A(heavy dirtier on bdi with flush-8:0) and
Process B(1024K frequent read/rewrite on bdi with flush-8:16)
we got below prints:

[Test setup: ARM dual core CPU, 512 MB RAM]

[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  56064 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  56704 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 84720 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 94720 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   384 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   960 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =    64 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 92160 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   256 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   768 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =    64 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   256 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   320 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =     0 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 92032 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 91968 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   192 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  1024 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =    64 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   192 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   576 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =     0 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 84352 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   192 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   512 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =     0 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 92608 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 92544 KB

As mentioned in above log, when global dirty memory > global background_thresh
small cached data is also forced to flush by flush-8:16.
If removing global background_thresh checking code, we can reduce cache
thrashing of frequently used small data.
And It will be great if we can reserve a portion of writeback cache using
min_ratio.

After applying patch:
$ echo 5 > /sys/block/sdb/bdi/min_ratio
$ cat /sys/block/sdb/bdi/min_ratio
5
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  56064 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  56704 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  84160 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  96960 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  94080 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  93120 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  93120 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  91520 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  89600 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  93696 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  93696 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  72960 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  90624 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  90624 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  90688 KB

As mentioned in the above logs, once cache is reserved for Process B,
and patch is applied there is less writeback cache thrashing on sdb
by frequent forced writeback by flush-8:16 in over_bground_thresh.

After all, small cached data will be flushed by periodic writeback
once every dirty_writeback_interval.

Suggested-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi <t.vivek@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
writeback: increase bdi_min_ratio to 5 in light of the latest writeback commit.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
writeback: I believe these defines were calculated with HZ=1000 in mind. Since our devices are HZ=100 I hardcoded the values on this constants. I'm not 100% sure if this code was made for HZ with 1000 but I couldn't track it to understand clearly. Although I didn't see any drawback of using this as it is now. If anyone knows the answer please chime in.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
CPU hotplug, writeback: Don't call writeback_set_ratelimit() too often during hotplug

The CPU hotplug callback related to writeback calls writeback_set_ratelimit()
during every state change in the hotplug sequence. This is unnecessary
since num_online_cpus() changes only once during the entire hotplug operation.

So invoke the function only once per hotplug, thereby avoiding the
unnecessary repetition of those costly calculations.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>