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2015-08-07mm/memory-failure: set PageHWPoison before migrate_pages()Naoya Horiguchi
Now page freeing code doesn't consider PageHWPoison as a bad page, so by setting it before completing the page containment, we can prevent the error page from being reused just after successful page migration. I added TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON for try_to_unmap() to make sure that the page table entry is transformed into migration entry, not to hwpoison entry. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-08-07mm/memory-failure: give up error handling for non-tail-refcounted thpNaoya Horiguchi
"non anonymous thp" case is still racy with freeing thp, which causes panic due to put_page() for refcount-0 page. It seems that closing up this race might be hard (and/or not worth doing,) so let's give up the error handling for this case. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-08-07mm/memory-failure: fix race in counting num_poisoned_pagesNaoya Horiguchi
When memory_failure() is called on a page which are just freed after page migration from soft offlining, the counter num_poisoned_pages is raised twi= ce. So let's fix it with using TestSetPageHWPoison. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-08-07mm/memory-failure: unlock_page before put_pageNaoya Horiguchi
Recently I addressed a few of hwpoison race problems and the patches are merged on v4.2-rc1. It made progress, but unfortunately some problems still remain due to less coverage of my testing. So I'm trying to fix or avoid them in this series. One point I'm expecting to discuss is that patch 4/5 changes the page flag set to be checked on free time. In current behavior, __PG_HWPOISON is not supposed to be set when the page is freed. I think that there is no strong reason for this behavior, and it causes a problem hard to fix only in error handler side (because __PG_HWPOISON could be set at arbitrary timing.) So I suggest to change it. With this patchset, hwpoison stress testing in official mce-test testsuite (which previously failed) passes. This patch (of 5): In "just unpoisoned" path, we do put_page and then unlock_page, which is a wrong order and causes "freeing locked page" bug. So let's fix it. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24tracing: add trace event for memory-failureXie XiuQi
RAS user space tools like rasdaemon which base on trace event, could receive mce error event, but no memory recovery result event. So, I want to add this event to make this scenario complete. This patch add a event at ras group for memory-failure. The output like below: # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2 #P:24 # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | mce-inject-13150 [001] .... 277.019359: memory_failure_event: pfn 0x19869: recovery action for free buddy page: Delayed [xiexiuqi@huawei.com: fix build error] Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24memory-failure: change type of action_result's param 3 to enumXie XiuQi
Change type of action_result's param 3 to enum for type consistency, and rename mf_outcome to mf_result for clearly. Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24memory-failure: export page_type and action resultXie XiuQi
Export 'outcome' and 'action_page_type' to mm.h, so we could use this emnus outside. This patch is preparation for adding trace events for memory-failure recovery action. Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24mm/memory-failure: me_huge_page() does nothing for thpNaoya Horiguchi
memory_failure() is supposed not to handle thp itself, but to split it. But if something were wrong and page_action() were called on thp, me_huge_page() (action routine for hugepages) should be better to take no action, rather than to take wrong action prepared for hugetlb (which triggers BUG_ON().) This change is for potential problems, but makes sense to me because thp is an actively developing feature and this code path can be open in the future. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24mm: soft-offline: don't free target page in successful page migrationNaoya Horiguchi
Stress testing showed that soft offline events for a process iterating "mmap-pagefault-munmap" loop can trigger VM_BUG_ON(PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP) in __free_one_page(): Soft offlining page 0x70fe1 at 0x70100008d000 Soft offlining page 0x705fb at 0x70300008d000 page:ffffea0001c3f840 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x2 flags: 0x1fffff80800000(hwpoison) page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->flags & ((1 << 25) - 1)) ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/mm/page_alloc.c:585! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: cfg80211 rfkill crc32c_intel microcode ppdev parport_pc pcspkr serio_raw virtio_balloon parport i2c_piix4 virtio_blk virtio_net ata_generic pata_acpi floppy CPU: 3 PID: 1779 Comm: test_base_madv_ Not tainted 4.0.0-v4.0-150511-1451-00009-g82360a3730e6 #139 RIP: free_pcppages_bulk+0x52a/0x6f0 Call Trace: drain_pages_zone+0x3d/0x50 drain_local_pages+0x1d/0x30 on_each_cpu_mask+0x46/0x80 drain_all_pages+0x14b/0x1e0 soft_offline_page+0x432/0x6e0 SyS_madvise+0x73c/0x780 system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 Code: ff 89 45 b4 48 8b 45 c0 48 83 b8 a8 00 00 00 00 0f 85 e3 fb ff ff 0f 1f 00 0f 0b 48 8b 7d 90 48 c7 c6 e8 95 a6 81 e8 e6 32 02 00 <0f> 0b 8b 45 cc 49 89 47 30 41 8b 47 18 83 f8 ff 0f 85 10 ff ff RIP [<ffffffff811a806a>] free_pcppages_bulk+0x52a/0x6f0 RSP <ffff88007a117d28> ---[ end trace 53926436e76d1f35 ]--- When soft offline successfully migrates page, the source page is supposed to be freed. But there is a race condition where a source page looks isolated (i.e. the refcount is 0 and the PageHWPoison is set) but somewhat linked to pcplist. Then another soft offline event calls drain_all_pages() and tries to free such hwpoisoned page, which is forbidden. This odd page state seems to happen due to the race between put_page() in putback_lru_page() and __pagevec_lru_add_fn(). But I don't want to play with tweaking drain code as done in commit 9ab3b598d2df "mm: hwpoison: drop lru_add_drain_all() in __soft_offline_page()", or to change page freeing code for this soft offline's purpose. Instead, let's think about the difference between hard offline and soft offline. There is an interesting difference in how to isolate the in-use page between these, that is, hard offline marks PageHWPoison of the target page at first, and doesn't free it by keeping its refcount 1. OTOH, soft offline tries to free the target page then marks PageHWPoison. This difference might be the source of complexity and result in bugs like the above. So making soft offline isolate with keeping refcount can be a solution for this problem. We can pass to page migration code the "reason" which shows the caller, so let's use this more to avoid calling putback_lru_page() when called from soft offline, which effectively does the isolation for soft offline. With this change, target pages of soft offline never be reused without changing migratetype, so this patch also removes the related code. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24mm/memory-failure: introduce get_hwpoison_page() for consistent refcount ↵Naoya Horiguchi
handling memory_failure() can run in 2 different mode (specified by MF_COUNT_INCREASED) in page refcount perspective. When MF_COUNT_INCREASED is set, memory_failure() assumes that the caller takes a refcount of the target page. And if cleared, memory_failure() takes it in it's own. In current code, however, refcounting is done differently in each caller. For example, madvise_hwpoison() uses get_user_pages_fast() and hwpoison_inject() uses get_page_unless_zero(). So this inconsistent refcounting causes refcount failure especially for thp tail pages. Typical user visible effects are like memory leak or VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page)) in isolate_lru_page(). To fix this refcounting issue, this patch introduces get_hwpoison_page() to handle thp tail pages in the same manner for each caller of hwpoison code. memory_failure() might fail to split thp and in such case it returns without completing page isolation. This is not good because PageHWPoison on the thp is still set and there's no easy way to unpoison such thps. So this patch try to roll back any action to the thp in "non anonymous thp" case and "thp split failed" case, expecting an MCE(SRAR) generated by later access afterward will properly free such thps. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_HWPOISON_INJECT=m] Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24mm/memory-failure: split thp earlier in memory error handlingNaoya Horiguchi
memory_failure() doesn't handle thp itself at this time and need to split it before doing isolation. Currently thp is split in the middle of hwpoison_user_mappings(), but there're corner cases where memory_failure() wrongly tries to handle thp without splitting. 1) "non anonymous" thp, which is not a normal operating mode of thp, but a memory error could hit a thp before anon_vma is initialized. In such case, split_huge_page() fails and me_huge_page() (intended for hugetlb) is called for thp, which triggers BUG_ON in page_hstate(). 2) !PageLRU case, where hwpoison_user_mappings() returns with SWAP_SUCCESS and the result is the same as case 1. memory_failure() can't avoid splitting, so let's split it more earlier, which also reduces code which are prepared for both of normal page and thp. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24mm, hwpoison: remove obsolete "Notebook" todo listAndi Kleen
All the items mentioned here have been either addressed, or were not really needed. So just remove the comment. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24mm, hwpoison: add comment describing when to add new casesAndi Kleen
Here's another comment fix for hwpoison. It describes the "guiding principle" on when to add new memory error recovery code. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-05-05mm: soft-offline: fix num_poisoned_pages counting on concurrent eventsNaoya Horiguchi
If multiple soft offline events hit one free page/hugepage concurrently, soft_offline_page() can handle the free page/hugepage multiple times, which makes num_poisoned_pages counter increased more than once. This patch fixes this wrong counting by checking TestSetPageHWPoison for normal papes and by checking the return value of dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page() for hugepages. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.14+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-05-05mm/memory-failure: call shake_page() when error hits thp tail pageNaoya Horiguchi
Currently memory_failure() calls shake_page() to sweep pages out from pcplists only when the victim page is 4kB LRU page or thp head page. But we should do this for a thp tail page too. Consider that a memory error hits a thp tail page whose head page is on a pcplist when memory_failure() runs. Then, the current kernel skips shake_pages() part, so hwpoison_user_mappings() returns without calling split_huge_page() nor try_to_unmap() because PageLRU of the thp head is still cleared due to the skip of shake_page(). As a result, me_huge_page() runs for the thp, which is broken behavior. One effect is a leak of the thp. And another is to fail to isolate the memory error, so later access to the error address causes another MCE, which kills the processes which used the thp. This patch fixes this problem by calling shake_page() for thp tail case. Fixes: 385de35722c9 ("thp: allow a hwpoisoned head page to be put back to LRU") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-15mm: hugetlb: introduce page_huge_activeNaoya Horiguchi
We are not safe from calling isolate_huge_page() on a hugepage concurrently, which can make the victim hugepage in invalid state and results in BUG_ON(). The root problem of this is that we don't have any information on struct page (so easily accessible) about hugepages' activeness. Note that hugepages' activeness means just being linked to hstate->hugepage_activelist, which is not the same as normal pages' activeness represented by PageActive flag. Normal pages are isolated by isolate_lru_page() which prechecks PageLRU before isolation, so let's do similarly for hugetlb with a new paeg_huge_active(). set/clear_page_huge_active() should be called within hugetlb_lock. But hugetlb_cow() and hugetlb_no_page() don't do this, being justified because in these functions set_page_huge_active() is called right after the hugepage is allocated and no other thread tries to isolate it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/PageHugeActive/page_huge_active/, make it return bool] [fengguang.wu@intel.com: set_page_huge_active() can be static] Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-15mm/memory-failure.c: define page types for action_result() in one placeNaoya Horiguchi
This cleanup patch moves all strings passed to action_result() into a singl= e array action_page_type so that a reader can easily find which kind of actio= n results are possible. And this patch also fixes the odd lines to be printed out, like "unknown page state page" or "free buddy, 2nd try page". [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename messages, per David] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/DIRTY_UNEVICTABLE_LRU/CLEAN_UNEVICTABLE_LRU', per Andi] Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Xie XiuQi" <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12mm: hwpoison: drop lru_add_drain_all() in __soft_offline_page()Naoya Horiguchi
A race condition starts to be visible in recent mmotm, where a PG_hwpoison flag is set on a migration source page *before* it's back in buddy page poo= l. This is problematic because no page flag is supposed to be set when freeing (see __free_one_page().) So the user-visible effect of this race is that it could trigger the BUG_ON() when soft-offlining is called. The root cause is that we call lru_add_drain_all() to make sure that the page is in buddy, but that doesn't work because this function just schedule= s a work item and doesn't wait its completion. drain_all_pages() does drainin= g directly, so simply dropping lru_add_drain_all() solves this problem. Fixes: f15bdfa802bf ("mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak in successful soft offlining") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.11+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12vmscan: per memory cgroup slab shrinkersVladimir Davydov
This patch adds SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag. If a shrinker has this flag set, it will be called per memory cgroup. The memory cgroup to scan objects from is passed in shrink_control->memcg. If the memory cgroup is NULL, a memcg aware shrinker is supposed to scan objects from the global list. Unaware shrinkers are only called on global pressure with memcg=NULL. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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>
2014-12-13mm: vmscan: invoke slab shrinkers from shrink_zone()Johannes Weiner
The slab shrinkers are currently invoked from the zonelist walkers in kswapd, direct reclaim, and zone reclaim, all of which roughly gauge the eligible LRU pages and assemble a nodemask to pass to NUMA-aware shrinkers, which then again have to walk over the nodemask. This is redundant code, extra runtime work, and fairly inaccurate when it comes to the estimation of actually scannable LRU pages. The code duplication will only get worse when making the shrinkers cgroup-aware and requiring them to have out-of-band cgroup hierarchy walks as well. Instead, invoke the shrinkers from shrink_zone(), which is where all reclaimers end up, to avoid this duplication. Take the count for eligible LRU pages out of get_scan_count(), which considers many more factors than just the availability of swap space, like zone_reclaimable_pages() currently does. Accumulate the number over all visited lruvecs to get the per-zone value. Some nodes have multiple zones due to memory addressing restrictions. To avoid putting too much pressure on the shrinkers, only invoke them once for each such node, using the class zone of the allocation as the pivot zone. For now, this integrates the slab shrinking better into the reclaim logic and gets rid of duplicative invocations from kswapd, direct reclaim, and zone reclaim. It also prepares for cgroup-awareness, allowing memcg-capable shrinkers to be added at the lruvec level without much duplication of both code and runtime work. This changes kswapd behavior, which used to invoke the shrinkers for each zone, but with scan ratios gathered from the entire node, resulting in meaningless pressure quantities on multi-zone nodes. Zone reclaim behavior also changes. It used to shrink slabs until the same amount of pages were shrunk as were reclaimed from the LRUs. Now it merely invokes the shrinkers once with the zone's scan ratio, which makes the shrinkers go easier on caches that implement aging and would prefer feeding back pressure from recently used slab objects to unused LRU pages. [vdavydov@parallels.com: assure class zone is populated] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13mm/memory-failure: share the i_mmap_rwsemDavidlohr Bueso
No brainer conversion: collect_procs_file() only schedules a process for later kill, share the lock, similarly to the anon vma variant. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13mm: use new helper functions around the i_mmap_mutexDavidlohr Bueso
Convert all open coded mutex_lock/unlock calls to the i_mmap_[lock/unlock]_write() helpers. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10Merge branch 'akpm' (patchbomb from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton: - a few minor cifs fixes - dma-debug upadtes - ocfs2 - slab - about half of MM - procfs - kernel/exit.c - panic.c tweaks - printk upates - lib/ updates - checkpatch updates - fs/binfmt updates - the drivers/rtc tree - nilfs - kmod fixes - more kernel/exit.c - various other misc tweaks and fixes * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (190 commits) exit: pidns: fix/update the comments in zap_pid_ns_processes() exit: pidns: alloc_pid() leaks pid_namespace if child_reaper is exiting exit: exit_notify: re-use "dead" list to autoreap current exit: reparent: call forget_original_parent() under tasklist_lock exit: reparent: avoid find_new_reaper() if no children exit: reparent: introduce find_alive_thread() exit: reparent: introduce find_child_reaper() exit: reparent: document the ->has_child_subreaper checks exit: reparent: s/while_each_thread/for_each_thread/ in find_new_reaper() exit: reparent: fix the cross-namespace PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER reparenting exit: reparent: fix the dead-parent PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER reparenting exit: proc: don't try to flush /proc/tgid/task/tgid exit: release_task: fix the comment about group leader accounting exit: wait: drop tasklist_lock before psig->c* accounting exit: wait: don't use zombie->real_parent exit: wait: cleanup the ptrace_reparented() checks usermodehelper: kill the kmod_thread_locker logic usermodehelper: don't use CLONE_VFORK for ____call_usermodehelper() fs/hfs/catalog.c: fix comparison bug in hfs_cat_keycmp nilfs2: fix the nilfs_iget() vs. nilfs_new_inode() races ...
2014-12-10mm, memory_hotplug/failure: drain single zone pcplistsVlastimil Babka
Memory hotplug and failure mechanisms have several places where pcplists are drained so that pages are returned to the buddy allocator and can be e.g. prepared for offlining. This is always done in the context of a single zone, we can reduce the pcplists drain to the single zone, which is now possible. The change should make memory offlining due to hotremove or failure faster and not disturbing unrelated pcplists anymore. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10mm: introduce single zone pcplists drainVlastimil Babka
The functions for draining per-cpu pages back to buddy allocators currently always operate on all zones. There are however several cases where the drain is only needed in the context of a single zone, and spilling other pcplists is a waste of time both due to the extra spilling and later refilling. This patch introduces new zone pointer parameter to drain_all_pages() and changes the dummy parameter of drain_local_pages() to be also a zone pointer. When NULL is passed, the functions operate on all zones as usual. Passing a specific zone pointer reduces the work to the single zone. All callers are updated to pass the NULL pointer in this patch. Conversion to single zone (where appropriate) is done in further patches. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-21RAS, HWPOISON: Fix wrong error recovery statusChen, Gong
When Uncorrected error happens, if the poisoned page is referenced by more than one user after error recovery, the recovery is not successful. But currently the display result is wrong. Before this patch: MCE 0x44e336: dirty mlocked LRU page recovery: Recovered MCE 0x44e336: dirty mlocked LRU page still referenced by 1 users mce: Memory error not recovered After this patch: MCE 0x44e336: dirty mlocked LRU page recovery: Failed MCE 0x44e336: dirty mlocked LRU page still referenced by 1 users mce: Memory error not recovered Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406530260-26078-3-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2014-09-19cgroup: remove redundant check in cgroup_ino()Zefan Li
After we implemented default unified hierarchy, cgrp->kn can never be NULL. Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-08-06hwpoison: fix race with changing page during offliningAndi Kleen
When a hwpoison page is locked it could change state due to parallel modifications. The original compound page can be torn down and then this 4k page becomes part of a differently-size compound page is is a standalone regular page. Check after the lock if the page is still the same compound page. We could go back, grab the new head page and try again but it should be quite rare, so I thought this was safest. A retry loop would be more difficult to test and may have more side effects. The hwpoison code by design only tries to handle cases that are reasonably common in workloads, as visible in page-flags. I'm not really that concerned about handling this (likely rare case), just not crashing on it. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-30hwpoison: call action_result() in failure path of hwpoison_user_mappings()Naoya Horiguchi
hwpoison_user_mappings() could fail for various reasons, so printk()s to print out the reasons should be done in each failure check inside hwpoison_user_mappings(). And currently we don't call action_result() when hwpoison_user_mappings() fails, which is not consistent with other exit points of memory error handler. So this patch fixes these messaging problems. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-30hwpoison: fix hugetlbfs/thp precheck in hwpoison_user_mappings()Naoya Horiguchi
A recent fix from Chen Yucong, commit 0bc1f8b0682c ("hwpoison: fix the handling path of the victimized page frame that belong to non-LRU") rejects going into unmapping operation for hugetlbfs/thp pages, which results in failing error containing on such pages. This patch fixes it. With this patch, hwpoison functional tests in mce-test testsuite pass. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-23mm/rmap.c: fix pgoff calculation to handle hugepage correctlyNaoya Horiguchi
I triggered VM_BUG_ON() in vma_address() when I tried to migrate an anonymous hugepage with mbind() in the kernel v3.16-rc3. This is because pgoff's calculation in rmap_walk_anon() fails to consider compound_order() only to have an incorrect value. This patch introduces page_to_pgoff(), which gets the page's offset in PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. Kirill pointed out that page cache tree should natively handle hugepages, and in order to make hugetlbfs fit it, page->index of hugetlbfs page should be in PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. This is beyond this patch, but page_to_pgoff() contains the point to be fixed in a single function. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-03hwpoison: fix the handling path of the victimized page frame that belong to ↵Chen Yucong
non-LRU Until now, the kernel has the same policy to handle victimized page frames that belong to kernel-space(reserved/slab-subsystem) or non-LRU(unknown page state). In other word, the result of handling either of these victimized page frames is (IGNORED | FAILED), and the return value of memory_failure() is -EBUSY. This patch is to avoid that memory_failure() returns very soon due to the "true" value of (!PageLRU(p)), and it also ensures that action_result() can report more precise information("reserved kernel", "kernel slab", and "unknown page state") instead of "non LRU", especially for memory errors which are detected by memory-scrubbing. Andi said: : While running the mcelog test suite on 3.14 I hit the following VM_BUG_ON: : : soft_offline: 0x56d4: unknown non LRU page type 3ffff800008000 : page:ffffea000015b400 count:3 mapcount:2097169 mapping: (null) index:0xffff8800056d7000 : page flags: 0x3ffff800004081(locked|slab|head) : ------------[ cut here ]------------ : kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1495! : : I think what happened is that a LRU page turned into a slab page in : parallel with offlining. memory_failure initially tests for this case, : but doesn't retest later after the page has been locked. : : ... : : I ran this patch in a loop over night with some stress plus : the mcelog test suite running in a loop. I cannot guarantee it hit it, : but it should have given it a good beating. : : The kernel survived with no messages, although the mcelog test suite : got killed at some point because it couldn't fork anymore. Probably : some unrelated problem. : : So the patch is ok for me for .16. Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mm/memory-failure.c: support use of a dedicated thread to handle ↵Naoya Horiguchi
SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO) Currently memory error handler handles action optional errors in the deferred manner by default. And if a recovery aware application wants to handle it immediately, it can do it by setting PF_MCE_EARLY flag. However, such signal can be sent only to the main thread, so it's problematic if the application wants to have a dedicated thread to handler such signals. So this patch adds dedicated thread support to memory error handler. We have PF_MCE_EARLY flags for each thread separately, so with this patch AO signal is sent to the thread with PF_MCE_EARLY flag set, not the main thread. If you want to implement a dedicated thread, you call prctl() to set PF_MCE_EARLY on the thread. Memory error handler collects processes to be killed, so this patch lets it check PF_MCE_EARLY flag on each thread in the collecting routines. No behavioral change for all non-early kill cases. Tony said: : The old behavior was crazy - someone with a multithreaded process might : well expect that if they call prctl(PF_MCE_EARLY) in just one thread, then : that thread would see the SIGBUS with si_code = BUS_MCEERR_A0 - even if : that thread wasn't the main thread for the process. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kamil Iskra <iskra@mcs.anl.gov> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.jf.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mm/memory-failure.c: don't let collect_procs() skip over processes for ↵Tony Luck
MF_ACTION_REQUIRED When Linux sees an "action optional" machine check (where h/w has reported an error that is not in the current execution path) we generally do not want to signal a process, since most processes do not have a SIGBUS handler - we'd just prematurely terminate the process for a problem that they might never actually see. task_early_kill() decides whether to consider a process - and it checks whether this specific process has been marked for early signals with "prctl", or if the system administrator has requested early signals for all processes using /proc/sys/vm/memory_failure_early_kill. But for MF_ACTION_REQUIRED case we must not defer. The error is in the execution path of the current thread so we must send the SIGBUS immediatley. Fix by passing a flag argument through collect_procs*() to task_early_kill() so it knows whether we can defer or must take action. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.jf.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mm/memory-failure.c-failure: send right signal code to correct threadTony Luck
When a thread in a multi-threaded application hits a machine check because of an uncorrectable error in memory - we want to send the SIGBUS with si.si_code = BUS_MCEERR_AR to that thread. Currently we fail to do that if the active thread is not the primary thread in the process. collect_procs() just finds primary threads and this test: if ((flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) && t == current) { will see that the thread we found isn't the current thread and so send a si.si_code = BUS_MCEERR_AO to the primary (and nothing to the active thread at this time). We can fix this by checking whether "current" shares the same mm with the process that collect_procs() said owned the page. If so, we send the SIGBUS to current (with code BUS_MCEERR_AR). Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reported-by: Otto Bruggeman <otto.g.bruggeman@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.jf.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mm/memory-failure.c: move commentNaoya Horiguchi
The comment about pages under writeback is far from the relevant code, so let's move it to the right place. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mm, migration: add destination page freeing callbackDavid Rientjes
Memory migration uses a callback defined by the caller to determine how to allocate destination pages. When migration fails for a source page, however, it frees the destination page back to the system. This patch adds a memory migration callback defined by the caller to determine how to free destination pages. If a caller, such as memory compaction, builds its own freelist for migration targets, this can reuse already freed memory instead of scanning additional memory. If the caller provides a function to handle freeing of destination pages, it is called when page migration fails. If the caller passes NULL then freeing back to the system will be handled as usual. This patch introduces no functional change. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mm: replace __get_cpu_var uses with this_cpu_ptrChristoph Lameter
Replace places where __get_cpu_var() is used for an address calculation with this_cpu_ptr(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04mem-hotplug: implement get/put_online_memsVladimir Davydov
kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink} need to get a stable value of cpu/node online mask, because they init/destroy/access per-cpu/node kmem_cache parts, which can be allocated or destroyed on cpu/mem hotplug. To protect against cpu hotplug, these functions use {get,put}_online_cpus. However, they do nothing to synchronize with memory hotplug - taking the slab_mutex does not eliminate the possibility of race as described in patch 2. What we need there is something like get_online_cpus, but for memory. We already have lock_memory_hotplug, which serves for the purpose, but it's a bit of a hammer right now, because it's backed by a mutex. As a result, it imposes some limitations to locking order, which are not desirable, and can't be used just like get_online_cpus. That's why in patch 1 I substitute it with get/put_online_mems, which work exactly like get/put_online_cpus except they block not cpu, but memory hotplug. [ v1 can be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/6/68. I NAK'ed it by myself, because it used an rw semaphore for get/put_online_mems, making them dead lock prune. ] This patch (of 2): {un}lock_memory_hotplug, which is used to synchronize against memory hotplug, is currently backed by a mutex, which makes it a bit of a hammer - threads that only want to get a stable value of online nodes mask won't be able to proceed concurrently. Also, it imposes some strong locking ordering rules on it, which narrows down the set of its usage scenarios. This patch introduces get/put_online_mems, which are the same as get/put_online_cpus, but for memory hotplug, i.e. executing a code inside a get/put_online_mems section will guarantee a stable value of online nodes, present pages, etc. lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug() are removed altogether. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-05-23mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak by race between poison and unpoisonNaoya Horiguchi
When a memory error happens on an in-use page or (free and in-use) hugepage, the victim page is isolated with its refcount set to one. When you try to unpoison it later, unpoison_memory() calls put_page() for it twice in order to bring the page back to free page pool (buddy or free hugepage list). However, if another memory error occurs on the page which we are unpoisoning, memory_failure() returns without releasing the refcount which was incremented in the same call at first, which results in memory leak and unconsistent num_poisoned_pages statistics. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.32+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-05-23hwpoison, hugetlb: lock_page/unlock_page does not match for handling a free ↵Chen Yucong
hugepage For handling a free hugepage in memory failure, the race will happen if another thread hwpoisoned this hugepage concurrently. So we need to check PageHWPoison instead of !PageHWPoison. If hwpoison_filter(p) returns true or a race happens, then we need to unlock_page(hpage). Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Tested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.36+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03Merge branch 'for-3.15' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot updates for cgroup: - The biggest one is cgroup's conversion to kernfs. cgroup took after the long abandoned vfs-entangled sysfs implementation and made it even more convoluted over time. cgroup's internal objects were fused with vfs objects which also brought in vfs locking and object lifetime rules. Naturally, there are places where vfs rules don't fit and nasty hacks, such as credential switching or lock dance interleaving inode mutex and cgroup_mutex with object serial number comparison thrown in to decide whether the operation is actually necessary, needed to be employed. After conversion to kernfs, internal object lifetime and locking rules are mostly isolated from vfs interactions allowing shedding of several nasty hacks and overall simplification. This will also allow implmentation of operations which may affect multiple cgroups which weren't possible before as it would have required nesting i_mutexes. - Various simplifications including dropping of module support, easier cgroup name/path handling, simplified cgroup file type handling and task_cg_lists optimization. - Prepatory changes for the planned unified hierarchy, which is still a patchset away from being actually operational. The dummy hierarchy is updated to serve as the