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| * | process_vm_access: don't bother with returning the amounts of bytes copiedAl Viro2014-04-021-31/+16Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | we can calculate that in the caller just fine, TYVM Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | process_vm_rw_pages(): pass accurate amount of bytesAl Viro2014-04-021-8/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... makes passing the amount of pages unnecessary Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | process_vm_access: take get_user_pages/put_pages one level upAl Viro2014-04-021-58/+39Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... and trim the fuck out of process_vm_rw_pages() argument list. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | process_vm_access: switch to copy_page_to_iter/iov_iter_copy_from_userAl Viro2014-04-021-68/+23Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... rather than open-coding those. As a side benefit, we get much saner loop calling those; we can just feed entire pages, instead of the "copy would span the iovec boundary, let's do it in two loop iterations" mess. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | process_vm_access: switch to iov_iterAl Viro2014-04-021-34/+28Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | instead of keeping its pieces in separate variables and passing pointers to all of them... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | untangling process_vm_..., part 4Al Viro2014-04-021-16/+13Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | instead of passing vector size (by value) and index (by reference), pass the number of elements remaining. That's all we care about in these functions by that point. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | untangling process_vm_..., part 3Al Viro2014-04-021-4/+3Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lift iov one more level out - from process_vm_rw_single_vec to process_vm_rw_core(). Same story as with the previous commit. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | untangling process_vm_..., part 2Al Viro2014-04-021-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | move iov to caller's stack frame; the value we assign to it on the next call of process_vm_rw_pages() is equal to the value it had when the last time we were leaving process_vm_rw_pages(). drop lvec argument of process_vm_rw_pages() - it's not used anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | untangling process_vm_..., part 1Al Viro2014-04-021-5/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | we want to massage it to use of iov_iter. This one is an equivalent transformation - just introduce a local variable mirroring lvec + *lvec_current. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | introduce copy_page_to_iter, kill loop over iovec in generic_file_aio_read()Al Viro2014-04-022-143/+136Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | generic_file_aio_read() was looping over the target iovec, with loop over (source) pages nested inside that. Just set an iov_iter up and pass *that* to do_generic_file_aio_read(). With copy_page_to_iter() doing all work of mapping and copying a page to iovec and advancing iov_iter. Switch shmem_file_aio_read() to the same and kill file_read_actor(), while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | do_shmem_file_read(): call file_read_actor() directlyAl Viro2014-04-021-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | callers of iov_copy_from_user_atomic() don't need pagecache_disable()Al Viro2014-04-021-3/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... it does that itself (via kmap_atomic()) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | switch ->is_partially_uptodate() to saner argumentsAl Viro2014-04-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | | Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/auditLinus Torvalds2014-04-121-0/+48
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull audit updates from Eric Paris. * git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (28 commits) AUDIT: make audit_is_compat depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_COMPAT_GENERIC audit: renumber AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE into the 1300 range audit: do not cast audit_rule_data pointers pointlesly AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces audit: define audit_is_compat in kernel internal header kernel: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in audit.c sched: declare pid_alive as inline audit: use uapi/linux/audit.h for AUDIT_ARCH declarations syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments audit: remove stray newline from audit_log_execve_info() audit_panic() call audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log_lost messages audit: include subject in login records audit: remove superfluous new- prefix in AUDIT_LOGIN messages audit: allow user processes to log from another PID namespace audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace. pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns audit: rename the misleading audit_get_context() to audit_take_context() audit: Add generic compat syscall support audit: Add CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL ...
| * | | mm: Create utility function for accessing a tasks commandline valueWilliam Roberts2014-03-071-0/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | introduce get_cmdline() for retreiving the value of a processes proc/self/cmdline value. Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: William Roberts <wroberts@tresys.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* | | | mm: vmscan: do not swap anon pages just because free+file is lowJohannes Weiner2014-04-091-15/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Page reclaim force-scans / swaps anonymous pages when file cache drops below the high watermark of a zone in order to prevent what little cache remains from thrashing. However, on bigger machines the high watermark value can be quite large and when the workload is dominated by a static anonymous/shmem set, the file set might just be a small window of used-once cache. In such situations, the VM starts swapping heavily when instead it should be recycling the no longer used cache. This is a longer-standing problem, but it's more likely to trigger after commit 81c0a2bb515f ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy") because file pages can no longer accumulate in a single zone and are dispersed into smaller fractions among the available zones. To resolve this, do not force scan anon when file pages are low but instead rely on the scan/rotation ratios to make the right prediction. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [3.12+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)Linus Torvalds2014-04-0832-722/+1342
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - the rest of MM - zram updates - zswap updates - exit - procfs - exec - wait - crash dump - lib/idr - rapidio - adfs, affs, bfs, ufs - cris - Kconfig things - initramfs - small amount of IPC material - percpu enhancements - early ioremap support - various other misc things * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (156 commits) MAINTAINERS: update Intel C600 SAS driver maintainers fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_third pointer fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_second pointer fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_first pointer fs/ufs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache() doc/kernel-parameters.txt: add early_ioremap_debug arm64: add early_ioremap support arm64: initialize pgprot info earlier in boot x86: use generic early_ioremap mm: create generic early_ioremap() support x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops vmstat: use raw_cpu_ops to avoid false positives on preemption checks slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics net: replace __this_cpu_inc in route.c with raw_cpu_inc modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount. mm: use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node percpu: add raw_cpu_ops slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_add ...
| * | | | mm: create generic early_ioremap() supportMark Salter2014-04-083-0/+249
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch creates a generic implementation of early_ioremap() support based on the existing x86 implementation. early_ioremp() is useful for early boot code which needs to temporarily map I/O or memory regions before normal mapping functions such as ioremap() are available. Some architectures have optional MMU. In the no-MMU case, the remap functions simply return the passed in physical address and the unmap functions do nothing. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statisticsChristoph Lameter2014-04-081-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Statistics are not critical to the operation of the allocation but should also not cause too much overhead. When __this_cpu_inc is altered to check if preemption is disabled this triggers. Use raw_cpu_inc to avoid the checks. Using this_cpu_ops may cause interrupt disable/enable sequences on various arches which may significantly impact allocator performance. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.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>
| * | | | slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_addDave Jones2014-04-081-14/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The failure paths of sysfs_slab_add don't release the allocation of 'name' made by create_unique_id() a few lines above the context of the diff below. Create a common exit path to make it more obvious what needs freeing. [vdavydov@parallels.com: free the name only if !unmergeable] Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.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>
| * | | | slub: rework sysfs layout for memcg cachesVladimir Davydov2014-04-081-1/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, we try to arrange sysfs entries for memcg caches in the same manner as for global caches. Apart from turning /sys/kernel/slab into a mess when there are a lot of kmem-active memcgs created, it actually does not work properly - we won't create more than one link to a memcg cache in case its parent is merged with another cache. For instance, if A is a root cache merged with another root cache B, we will have the following sysfs setup: X A -> X B -> X where X is some unique id (see create_unique_id()). Now if memcgs M and N start to allocate from cache A (or B, which is the same), we will get: X X:M X:N A -> X B -> X A:M -> X:M A:N -> X:N Since B is an alias for A, we won't get entries B:M and B:N, which is confusing. It is more logical to have entries for memcg caches under the corresponding root cache's sysfs directory. This would allow us to keep sysfs layout clean, and avoid such inconsistencies like one described above. This patch does the trick. It creates a "cgroup" kset in each root cache kobject to keep its children caches there. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | slub: adjust memcg caches when creating cache aliasVladimir Davydov2014-04-081-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Otherwise, kzalloc() called from a memcg won't clear the whole object. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg, slab: do not destroy children caches if parent has aliasesVladimir Davydov2014-04-082-32/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we destroy children caches at the very beginning of kmem_cache_destroy(). This is wrong, because the root cache will not necessarily be destroyed in the end - if it has aliases (refcount > 0), kmem_cache_destroy() will simply decrement its refcount and return. In this case, at best we will get a bunch of warnings in dmesg, like this one: kmem_cache_destroy kmalloc-32:0: Slab cache still has objects CPU: 1 PID: 7139 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G B W 3.13.0+ #117 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x49/0x5b kmem_cache_destroy+0xdf/0xf0 kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children+0x97/0xc0 kmem_cache_destroy+0xf/0xf0 xfs_mru_cache_uninit+0x21/0x30 [xfs] exit_xfs_fs+0x2e/0xc44 [xfs] SyS_delete_module+0x198/0x1f0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b At worst - if kmem_cache_destroy() will race with an allocation from a memcg cache - the kernel will panic. This patch fixes this by moving children caches destruction after the check if the cache has aliases. Plus, it forbids destroying a root cache if it still has children caches, because each children cache keeps a reference to its parent. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg, slab: unregister cache from memcg before starting to destroy itVladimir Davydov2014-04-082-7/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, memcg_unregister_cache(), which deletes the cache being destroyed from the memcg_slab_caches list, is called after __kmem_cache_shutdown() (see kmem_cache_destroy()), which starts to destroy the cache. As a result, one can access a partially destroyed cache while traversing a memcg_slab_caches list, which can have deadly consequences (for instance, cache_show() called for each cache on a memcg_slab_caches list from mem_cgroup_slabinfo_read() will dereference pointers to already freed data). To fix this, let's move memcg_unregister_cache() before the cache destruction process beginning, issuing memcg_register_cache() on failure. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg, slab: separate memcg vs root cache creation pathsVladimir Davydov2014-04-082-86/+108
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Memcg-awareness turned kmem_cache_create() into a dirty interweaving of memcg-only and except-for-memcg calls. To clean this up, let's move the code responsible for memcg cache creation to a separate function. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg, slab: cleanup memcg cache creationVladimir Davydov2014-04-082-51/+43Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch cleans up the memcg cache creation path as follows: - Move memcg cache name creation to a separate function to be called from kmem_cache_create_memcg(). This allows us to get rid of the mutex protecting the temporary buffer used for the name formatting, because the whole cache creation path is protected by the slab_mutex. - Get rid of memcg_create_kmem_cache(). This function serves as a proxy to kmem_cache_create_memcg(). After separating the cache name creation path, it would be reduced to a function call, so let's inline it. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg, slab: never try to merge memcg cachesVladimir Davydov2014-04-083-30/+18Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a kmem cache is created (kmem_cache_create_memcg()), we first try to find a compatible cache that already exists and can handle requests from the new cache, i.e. has the same object size, alignment, ctor, etc. If there is such a cache, we do not create any new caches, instead we simply increment the refcount of the cache found and return it. Currently we do this procedure not only when creating root caches, but also for memcg caches. However, there is no point in that, because, as every memcg cache has exactly the same parameters as its parent and cache merging cannot be turned off in runtime (only on boot by passing "slub_nomerge"), the root caches of any two potentially mergeable memcg caches should be merged already, i.e. it must be the same root cache, and therefore we couldn't even get to the memcg cache creation, because it already exists. The only exception is boot caches - they are explicitly forbidden to be merged by setting their refcount to -1. There are currently only two of them - kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node, which are used in slab internals (I do not count kmalloc caches as their refcount is set to 1 immediately after creation). Since they are prevented from merging preliminary I guess we should avoid to merge their children too. So let's remove the useless code responsible for merging memcg caches. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/zswap.c: remove unnecessary parenthesesSeongJae Park2014-04-081-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix following trivial checkpatch error: ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/zswap: support multiple swap devicesMinchan Kim2014-04-081-31/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cai Liu reporeted that now zbud pool pages counting has a problem when multiple swap is used because it just counts only one swap intead of all of swap so zswap cannot control writeback properly. The result is unnecessary writeback or no writeback when we should really writeback. IOW, it made zswap crazy. Another problem in zswap is: For example, let's assume we use two swap A and B with different priority and A already has charged 19% long time ago and let's assume that A swap is full now so VM start to use B so that B has charged 1% recently. It menas zswap charged (19% + 1%) is full by default. Then, if VM want to swap out more pages into B, zbud_reclaim_page would be evict one of pages in B's pool and it would be repeated continuously. It's totally LRU reverse problem and swap thrashing in B would happen. This patch makes zswap consider mutliple swap by creating *a* zbud pool which will be shared by multiple swap so all of zswap pages in multiple swap keep order by LRU so it can prevent above two problems. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reported-by: Cai Liu <cai.liu@samsung.com> Suggested-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang.kh@gmail.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/zswap.c: update zsmalloc in comment to zbudSeongJae Park2014-04-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | zswap used zsmalloc before and now using zbud. But, some comments saying it use zsmalloc yet. Fix the trivial problems. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/zswap.c: fix trivial typo and arrange indentationSeongJae Park2014-04-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/page_alloc.c: change mm debug routines back to EXPORT_SYMBOLJohn Hubbard2014-04-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A new dump_page() routine was recently added, and marked EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. dump_page() was also added to the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() macro, and so the end result is that non-GPL code can no longer call get_page() and a few other routines. This only happens if the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. Change dump_page() to be EXPORT_SYMBOL. Longer explanation: Prior to commit 309381feaee5 ("mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE") , it was possible to build MIT-licensed (non-GPL) drivers on Fedora. Fedora is semi-unique, in that it sets CONFIG_VM_DEBUG. Because Fedora sets CONFIG_VM_DEBUG, they end up pulling in dump_page(), via VM_BUG_ON_PAGE, via get_page(). As one of the authors of NVIDIA's new, open source, "UVM-Lite" kernel module, I originally choose to use the kernel's get_page() routine from within nvidia_uvm_page_cache.c, because get_page() has always seemed to be very clearly intended for use by non-GPL, driver code. So I'm hoping that making get_page() widely accessible again will not be too controversial. We did check with Fedora first, and they responded (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074710#c3) that we should try to get upstream changed, before asking Fedora to change. Their reasoning seems beneficial to Linux: leaving CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set allows Fedora to help catch mm bugs. Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submitFabian Frederick2014-04-082-18/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit f9acc8c7b35a ("readahead: sanify file_ra_state names") left ra_submit with a single function call. Move ra_submit to internal.h and inline it to save some stack. Thanks to Andrew Morton for commenting different versions. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: hugetlb: fix softlockup when a large number of hugepages are freed.Mizuma, Masayoshi2014-04-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When I decrease the value of nr_hugepage in procfs a lot, softlockup happens. It is because there is no chance of context switch during this process. On the other hand, when I allocate a large number of hugepages, there is some chance of context switch. Hence softlockup doesn't happen during this process. So it's necessary to add the context switch in the freeing process as same as allocating process to avoid softlockup. When I freed 12 TB hugapages with kernel-2.6.32-358.el6, the freeing process occupied a CPU over 150 seconds and following softlockup message appeared twice or more. $ echo 6000000 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages $ cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages 6000000 $ grep ^Huge /proc/meminfo HugePages_Total: 6000000 HugePages_Free: 6000000 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB $ echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages BUG: soft lockup - CPU#16 stuck for 67s! [sh:12883] ... Pid: 12883, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: free_pool_huge_page+0xb8/0xd0 set_max_huge_pages+0x128/0x190 hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0x113/0x140 hugetlb_sysctl_handler+0x1e/0x20 proc_sys_call_handler+0x97/0xd0 proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20 vfs_write+0xb8/0x1a0 sys_write+0x51/0x90 __audit_syscall_exit+0x265/0x290 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b I have not confirmed this problem with upstream kernels because I am not able to prepare the machine equipped with 12TB memory now. However I confirmed that the amount of decreasing hugepages was directly proportional to the amount of required time. I measured required times on a smaller machine. It showed 130-145 hugepages decreased in a millisecond. Amount of decreasing Required time Decreasing rate hugepages (msec) (pages/msec) ------------------------------------------------------------ 10,000 pages == 20GB 70 - 74 135-142 30,000 pages == 60GB 208 - 229 131-144 It means decrement of 6TB hugepages will trigger softlockup with the default threshold 20sec, in this decreasing rate. Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/memblock.c: use PFN_PHYS()Fabian Frederick2014-04-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace ((phys_addr_t)(x) << PAGE_SHIFT) by pfn macro. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memblock: use for_each_memblock()Emil Medve2014-04-082-18/+16Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a small cleanup. Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: remove unused arg of set_page_dirty_balance()Miklos Szeredi2014-04-082-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's only one caller of set_page_dirty_balance() and that will call it with page_mkwrite == 0. The page_mkwrite argument was unused since commit b827e496c893 "mm: close page_mkwrite races". Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlockingVlastimil Babka2014-04-082-2/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A BUG_ON(!PageLocked) was triggered in mlock_vma_page() by Sasha Levin fuzzing with trinity. The call site try_to_unmap_cluster() does not lock the pages other than its check_page parameter (which is already locked). The BUG_ON in mlock_vma_page() is not documented and its purpose is somewhat unclear, but apparently it serializes against page migration, which could otherwise fail to transfer the PG_mlocked flag. This would not be fatal, as the page would be eventually encountered again, but NR_MLOCK accounting would become distorted nevertheless. This patch adds a comment to the BUG_ON in mlock_vma_page() and munlock_vma_page() to that effect. The call site try_to_unmap_cluster() is fixed so that for page != check_page, trylock_page() is attempted (to avoid possible deadlocks as we already have check_page locked) and mlock_vma_page() is performed only upon success. If the page lock cannot be obtained, the page is left without PG_mlocked, which is again not a problem in the whole unevictable memory design. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: page_alloc: spill to remote nodes before waking kswapdJohannes Weiner2014-04-082-44/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On NUMA systems, a node may start thrashing cache or even swap anonymous pages while there are still free pages on remote nodes. This is a result of commits 81c0a2bb515f ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy") and fff4068cba48 ("mm: page_alloc: revert NUMA aspect of fair allocation policy"). Before those changes, the allocator would first try all allowed zones, including those on remote nodes, before waking any kswapds. But now, the allocator fastpath doubles as the fairness pass, which in turn can only consider the local node to prevent remote spilling based on exhausted fairness batches alone. Remote nodes are only considered in the slowpath, after the kswapds are woken up. But if remote nodes still have free memory, kswapd should not be woken to rebalance the local node or it may thrash cash or swap prematurely. Fix this by adding one more unfair pass over the zonelist that is allowed to spill to remote nodes after the local fairness pass fails but before entering the slowpath and waking the kswapds. This also gets rid of the GFP_THISNODE exemption from the fairness protocol because the unfair pass is no longer tied to kswapd, which GFP_THISNODE is not allowed to wake up. However, because remote spills can be more frequent now - we prefer them over local kswapd reclaim - the allocation batches on remote nodes could underflow more heavily. When resetting the batches, use atomic_long_read() directly instead of zone_page_state() to calculate the delta as the latter filters negative counter values. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [3.12+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg: rename high level charging functionsMichal Hocko2014-04-085-13/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mem_cgroup_newpage_charge is used only for charging anonymous memory so it is better to rename it to mem_cgroup_charge_anon. mem_cgroup_cache_charge is used for file backed memory so rename it to mem_cgroup_charge_file. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg: sanitize __mem_cgroup_try_charge() call protocolJohannes Weiner2014-04-081-105/+102Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some callsites pass a memcg directly, some callsites pass an mm that then has to be translated to a memcg. This makes for a terrible function interface. Just push the mm-to-memcg translation into the respective callsites and always pass a memcg to mem_cgroup_try_charge(). [mhocko@suse.cz: add charge mm helper] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg: do not replicate get_mem_cgroup_from_mm in __mem_cgroup_try_chargeMichal Hocko2014-04-081-44/+6Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __mem_cgroup_try_charge duplicates get_mem_cgroup_from_mm for charges which came without a memcg. The only reason seems to be a tiny optimization when css_tryget is not called if the charge can be consumed from the stock. Nevertheless css_tryget is very cheap since it has been reworked to use per-cpu counting so this optimization doesn't give us anything these days. So let's drop the code duplication so that the code is more readable. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg: get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()Johannes Weiner2014-04-081-14/+4Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of returning NULL from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() when the mm owner is exiting, just return root_mem_cgroup. This makes sense for all callsites and gets rid of some of them having to fallback manually. [fengguang.wu@intel.com: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | memcg: remove unnecessary !mm check from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()Johannes Weiner2014-04-081-7/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Users pass either a mm that has been established under task lock, or use a verified current->mm, which means the task can't be exiting. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: memcg: push !mm handling out to page cache charge functionJohannes Weiner2014-04-081-9/+6Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Only page cache charges can happen without an mm context, so push this special case out of the inner core and into the cache charge function. An ancient comment explains that the mm can also be NULL in case the task is currently being migrated, but that is not actually true with the current case, so just remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: memcg: inline mem_cgroup_charge_common()Johannes Weiner2014-04-081-24/+16Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mem_cgroup_charge_common() is used by both cache and anon pages, but most of its body only applies to anon pages and the remainder is not worth having in a separate function. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: memcg: remove mem_cgroup_move_account_page_stat()Johannes Weiner2014-04-081-16/+12Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It used to disable preemption and run sanity checks but now it's only taking a number out of one percpu counter and putting it into another. Do this directly in the callsite and save the indirection. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: memcg: remove unnecessary preemption disablingJohannes Weiner2014-04-081-11/+4Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lock_page_cgroup() disables preemption, remove explicit preemption disabling for code paths holding this lock. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm: use 'const char *' insted of 'char *' for reason in dump_page()Kirill A. Shutemov2014-04-081-5/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I tried to use 'dump_page(page, __func__)' for debugging, but it triggers warning: warning: passing argument 2 of `dump_page' discards `const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default] Let's convert 'reason' to 'const char *' in dump_page() and friends: we shouldn't modify it anyway. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | mm/vmalloc.c: enhance vm_map_ram() commentGioh Kim2014-04-081-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | vm_map_ram() has a fragmentation problem when it cannot purge a chunk(ie, 4M address space) if there is a pinning object in that addresss space. So it could consume all VMALLOC address space easily. We can fix the fragmentation problem by using vmap instead of vm_map_ram() but vmap() is known to be slow compared to vm_map_ram(). Minchan said vm_map_ram is 5 times faster than vmap in his tests. So I thought we should fix fragment problem of vm_map_ram because our proprietary GPU driver has used it heavily. On second thought, it's not an easy because we should reuse freed space for solving the problem and it could make more IPI and bitmap operation for searching hole. It could mitigate API's goal which is very fast mapping. And even fragmentation problem wouldn't show in 64 bit machine. Another option is that the user should separate long-life and short-life object and use vmap for long-life but vm_map_ram for short-life. If we inform the user about the characteristic of vm_map_ram the user can choose one according to the page lifetime. Let's add some notice messages to user. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text] Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@lge.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>