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Linus Torvalds
5ebe0ee802 There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and
some new CAN driver documentation.  Beyond that, we have kernel-doc fixes,
 a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and the usual collection of
 small fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation update from Jon Corbet:
 "There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work
  and some new CAN driver documentation.  Beyond that, we have
  kernel-doc fixes, a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and
  the usual collection of small fixes"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (34 commits)
  Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.
  Documentation/vm/slub.txt: document slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
  Doc: ABI/stable: Fix typo in ABI/stable
  doc: Clarify that nmi_watchdog param is for hardlockups
  Typo correction for description in gpio document.
  DocBook: Fix kernel-doc to be case-insensitive for private:
  kernel-docs.txt: update kernelnewbies reference
  Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm
  Documentation/Changes: Add bc in "Current Minimal Requirements" section
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: remove trailing whitespace
  DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output
  MAINTAINERS: The docs tree has moved
  Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage
  SubmittingPatches: make Subject examples match the de facto standard
  Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has been deprecated
  Documentation: cgroups: just fix a few typos
  Documentation: Update kselftest.txt
  Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same
  Documentation: Update the default value of crashkernel low
  zram: update documentation
  ...
2015-11-05 15:59:24 -08:00
Tejun Heo
e4b7037c86 cgroup: drop cgroup__DEVEL__legacy_files_on_dfl
Now that interfaces for the major three controllers - cpu, memory, io
- are shaping up, there's no reason to have an option to force legacy
files to show up on the unified hierarchy for testing.  Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2015-10-15 17:00:43 -04:00
Tejun Heo
afcf6c8b75 cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->free() method and use it to fix pids controller
pids controller is completely broken in that it uncharges when a task
exits allowing zombies to escape resource control.  With the recent
updates, cgroup core now maintains cgroup association till task free
and pids controller can be fixed by uncharging on free instead of
exit.

This patch adds cgroup_subsys->free() method and update pids
controller to use it instead of ->exit() for uncharging.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
2015-10-15 16:41:53 -04:00
Tejun Heo
2e91fa7f6d cgroup: keep zombies associated with their original cgroups
cgroup_exit() is called when a task exits and disassociates the
exiting task from its cgroups and half-attach it to the root cgroup.
This is unnecessary and undesirable.

No controller actually needs an exiting task to be disassociated with
non-root cgroups.  Both cpu and perf_event controllers update the
association to the root cgroup from their exit callbacks just to keep
consistent with the cgroup core behavior.

Also, this disassociation makes it difficult to track resources held
by zombies or determine where the zombies came from.  Currently, pids
controller is completely broken as it uncharges on exit and zombies
always escape the resource restriction.  With cgroup association being
reset on exit, fixing it is pretty painful.

There's no reason to reset cgroup membership on exit.  The zombie can
be removed from its css_set so that it doesn't show up on
"cgroup.procs" and thus can't be migrated or interfere with cgroup
removal.  It can still pin and point to the css_set so that its cgroup
membership is maintained.  This patch makes cgroup core keep zombies
associated with their cgroups at the time of exit.

* Previous patches decoupled populated_cnt tracking from css_set
  lifetime, so a dying task can be simply unlinked from its css_set
  while pinning and pointing to the css_set.  This keeps css_set
  association from task side alive while hiding it from "cgroup.procs"
  and populated_cnt tracking.  The css_set reference is dropped when
  the task_struct is freed.

* ->exit() callback no longer needs the css arguments as the
  associated css never changes once PF_EXITING is set.  Removed.

* cpu and perf_events controllers no longer need ->exit() callbacks.
  There's no reason to explicitly switch away on exit.  The final
  schedule out is enough.  The callbacks are removed.

* On traditional hierarchies, nothing changes.  "/proc/PID/cgroup"
  still reports "/" for all zombies.  On the default hierarchy,
  "/proc/PID/cgroup" keeps reporting the cgroup that the task belonged
  to at the time of exit.  If the cgroup gets removed before the task
  is reaped, " (deleted)" is appended.

v2: Build brekage due to missing dummy cgroup_free() when
    !CONFIG_CGROUP fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
2015-10-15 16:41:53 -04:00
Yuan Sun
55d0159541 Documentation: cgroups: just fix a few typos
Just fix some typos in blkio-controller.txt, freezer-subsystem.txt,
unified-hierarchy.txt.

Signed-off-by: Yuan Sun <sunyuan3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-09-24 15:53:28 -06:00
Tejun Heo
4a07c222d3 cgroup: replace "cgroup.populated" with "cgroup.events"
memcg already uses "memory.events" for event reporting and other
controllers may need event reporting too.  Let's standardize on
"$SUBSYS.events" interface file for reporting events which don't
happen too frequently and thus can share event notification.

"cgroup.populated" is replaced with "populated" field in
"cgroup.events" and documentation is updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2015-09-18 17:54:22 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
b0a1ea51bd Merge branch 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a
  while.  This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our
  buffered cgroup writeback.  It was dependent on the other cgroup
  changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle.

  Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates:

   - bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being
     skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure.

   - Simplification of wb work wait mechanism.

   - Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup.

  Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling:

     cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup.  It didn't
     have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there
     was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO.
     writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each
     writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against.

     This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is
     tagged with.  Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group,
     which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data.  This
     makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution
     implemented by cfq.

     - Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff.

     - Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased.

  Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches:

     This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods
     and blk[c]g_policy_data handling.

     - alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data.  exit dropped.

     - alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data.

     - blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct
       allocation.

     - all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or
       blkcg.

  And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats
  handling:

    blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess.  This patchset
    tries to improve the situation a bit.

     - The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and
       blkg creation.  This is in itself is an improvement and helps
       colllecting common stats on bio issue.

     - per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request
       completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave
       the same way.  The issue was spotted by Vivek.

     - cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle
       implements custom per-cpu stats.  This patchset make blkcg core
       support both by default.

     - cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats
       multiple times.  Unify them"

* 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits)
  blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/
  blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface
  blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf()
  blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers
  blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy
  blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io
  blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration
  blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device()
  blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum()
  blkcg: remove cfqg_stats->sectors
  blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu
  blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat->aux_cnt and replace cfq_group->dead_stats with it
  blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()
  blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling
  blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup()
  blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup()
  ...
2015-09-10 18:56:14 -07:00
Tejun Heo
20f1f4b5ff Merge branch 'for-4.3-unified-base' into for-4.3 2015-08-25 14:19:29 -04:00
Tejun Heo
69d7fde590 blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy
cgroup is trying to make interface consistent across different
controllers.  For weight based resource control, the knob should have
the range [1, 10000] and default to 100.  This patch updates
cfq-iosched so that the weight range conforms.  The internal
calculations have enough range and the widening of the weight range
shouldn't cause any problem.

* blkcg_policy->cpd_bind_fn() is added.  If present, this is invoked
  when blkcg is attached to a hierarchy.

* cfq_cpd_init() is updated to use the new default value on the
  unified hierarchy.

* cfq_cpd_bind() callback is implemented to clear per-blkg configs and
  apply the default config matching the hierarchy type.

* cfqd->root_group->[leaf_]weight initialization in cfq_init_queue()
  is moved into !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED block.  cfq_cpd_bind() is
  now responsible for initializing the initial weights when blkcg is
  enabled.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:36 -07:00
Tejun Heo
2ee867dcfa blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
blkcg interface grew to be the biggest of all controllers and
unfortunately most inconsistent too.  The interface files are
inconsistent with a number of cloes duplicates.  Some files have
recursive variants while others don't.  There's distinction between
normal and leaf weights which isn't intuitive and there are a lot of
stat knobs which don't make much sense outside of debugging and expose
too much implementation details to userland.

In the unified hierarchy, everything is always hierarchical and
internal nodes can't have tasks rendering the two structural issues
twisting the current interface.  The interface has to be updated in a
significant anyway and this is a good chance to revamp it as a whole.
This patch implements blkcg interface for the unified hierarchy.

* (from a previous patch) blkcg is identified by "io" instead of
  "blkio" on the unified hierarchy.  Given that the whole interface is
  updated anyway, the rename shouldn't carry noticeable conversion
  overhead.

* The original interface consisted of 27 files is replaced with the
  following three files.

  blkio.stat	: per-blkcg stats
  blkio.weight	: per-cgroup and per-cgroup-queue weight settings
  blkio.max	: per-cgroup-queue bps and iops max limits

Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt updated accordingly.

v2: blkcg_policy->dfl_cftypes wasn't removed on
    blkcg_policy_unregister() corrupting the cftypes list.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:35 -07:00
Tejun Heo
77ea733884 blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
Currently, both cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of
io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats.  While keeping track of them
separately may be useful during development, it doesn't make much
sense otherwise.  Also, blk-throttle was counting bio's as IOs while
cfq-iosched request's, which is more confusing than informative.

This patch adds ->stat_bytes and ->stat_ios to blkg (blkcg_gq),
removes the counterparts from cfq-iosched and blk-throttle and let
them print from the common blkg counters.  The common counters are
incremented during bio issue in blkcg_bio_issue_check().

The outputs are still filtered by whether the policy has
blkg_policy_data on a given blkg, so cfq's output won't show up if it
has never been used for a given blkg.  The only times when the outputs
would differ significantly are when policies are attached on the fly
or elevators are switched back and forth.  Those are quite exceptional
operations and I don't think they warrant keeping separate counters.

v3: Update blkio-controller.txt accordingly.

v2: Account IOs during bio issues instead of request completions so
    that bio-based drivers can be handled the same way.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo
6abc8ca19d cgroup: define controller file conventions
Traditionally, each cgroup controller implemented whatever interface
it wanted leading to interfaces which are widely inconsistent.
Examining the requirements of the controllers readily yield that there
are only a few control schemes shared among all.

Two major controllers already had to implement new interface for the
unified hierarchy due to significant structural changes.  Let's take
the chance to establish common conventions throughout all controllers.

This patch defines CGROUP_WEIGHT_MIN/DFL/MAX to be used on all weight
based control knobs and documents the conventions that controllers
should follow on the unified hierarchy.  Except for io.weight knob,
all existing unified hierarchy knobs are already compliant.  A
follow-up patch will update io.weight.

v2: Added descriptions of min, low and high knobs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2015-08-04 15:20:55 -04:00
Aleksa Sarai
917d8e2d10 cgroup: add documentation for the PIDs controller
Add documentation derived from kernel/cgroup_pids.c to the relevant
Documentation/ directory, along with a few examples of how to use the
PIDs controller as well an explanation of its peculiarities.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-07-14 17:29:23 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bbe179f88d Merge branch 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - threadgroup_lock got reorganized so that its users can pick the
   actual locking mechanism to use.  Its only user - cgroups - is
   updated to use a percpu_rwsem instead of per-process rwsem.

   This makes things a bit lighter on hot paths and allows cgroups to
   perform and fail multi-task (a process) migrations atomically.
   Multi-task migrations are used in several places including the
   unified hierarchy.

 - Delegation rule and documentation added to unified hierarchy.  This
   will likely be the last interface update from the cgroup core side
   for unified hierarchy before lifting the devel mask.

 - Some groundwork for the pids controller which is scheduled to be
   merged in the coming devel cycle.

* 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: add delegation section to unified hierarchy documentation
  cgroup: require write perm on common ancestor when moving processes on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: separate out cgroup_procs_write_permission() from __cgroup_procs_write()
  kernfs: make kernfs_get_inode() public
  MAINTAINERS: add a cgroup core co-maintainer
  cgroup: fix uninitialised iterator in for_each_subsys_which
  cgroup: replace explicit ss_mask checking with for_each_subsys_which
  cgroup: use bitmask to filter for_each_subsys
  cgroup: add seq_file forward declaration for struct cftype
  cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking
  sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem
  sched, cgroup: reorganize threadgroup locking
  cgroup: switch to unsigned long for bitmasks
  cgroup: reorganize include/linux/cgroup.h
  cgroup: separate out include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
  cgroup: fix some comment typos
2015-06-26 19:50:04 -07:00
Tejun Heo
8a0792ef8e cgroup: add delegation section to unified hierarchy documentation
v2: Rearranged paragraphs as suggested by Johannes Weiner.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2015-06-18 16:54:28 -04:00
Tejun Heo
3e1534cf4a writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
Update Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt to reflect the
recently added cgroup writeback support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-17 12:47:40 -06:00
Greg Thelen
c4843a7593 memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accounting
When modifying PG_Dirty on cached file pages, update the new
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY counter.  This is done in the same places where
global NR_FILE_DIRTY is managed.  The new memcg stat is visible in the
per memcg memory.stat cgroupfs file.  The most recent past attempt at
this was http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/8632

The new accounting supports future efforts to add per cgroup dirty
page throttling and writeback.  It also helps an administrator break
down a container's memory usage and provides evidence to understand
memcg oom kills (the new dirty count is included in memcg oom kill
messages).

The ability to move page accounting between memcg
(memory.move_charge_at_immigrate) makes this accounting more
complicated than the global counter.  The existing
mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_page_stat() lock is used to serialize move
accounting with stat updates.
Typical update operation:
	memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page)
	if (TestSetPageDirty()) {
		[...]
		mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(memcg)
	}
	mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg)

Summary of mem_cgroup_end_page_stat() overhead:
- Without CONFIG_MEMCG it's a no-op
- With CONFIG_MEMCG and no inter memcg task movement, it's just
  rcu_read_lock()
- With CONFIG_MEMCG and inter memcg  task movement, it's
  rcu_read_lock() + spin_lock_irqsave()

A memcg parameter is added to several routines because their callers
now grab mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() which returns the memcg later
needed by for mem_cgroup_update_page_stat().

Because mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() may disable interrupts, some
adjustments are needed:
- move __mark_inode_dirty() from __set_page_dirty() to its caller.
  __mark_inode_dirty() locking does not want interrupts disabled.
- use spin_lock_irqsave(tree_lock) rather than spin_lock_irq() in
  __delete_from_page_cache(), replace_page_cache_page(),
  invalidate_complete_page2(), and __remove_mapping().

   text    data     bss      dec    hex filename
8925147 1774832 1785856 12485835 be84cb vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-before
8925339 1774832 1785856 12486027 be858b vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-after
                            +192 text bytes
8965977 1784992 1785856 12536825 bf4bf9 vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-before
8966750 1784992 1785856 12537598 bf4efe vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-after
                            +773 text bytes

Performance tests run on v4.0-rc1-36-g4f671fe2f952.  Lower is better for
all metrics, they're all wall clock or cycle counts.  The read and write
fault benchmarks just measure fault time, they do not include I/O time.

* CONFIG_MEMCG not set:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m25.030000(+-0.088% 3 samples)       1m25.426667(+-0.120% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.859211561 +-15.10%                  0.874162885 +-15.03%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.670653105 +-17.87%                  1.669384764 +-11.99%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.434691190 +-14.15%                  8.474733215 +-14.77%
  read fault cycles       254.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)            253.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2021.2(+-3.070% 10 samples)           1984.5(+-1.036% 10 samples)

* CONFIG_MEMCG=y root_memcg:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m25.716667(+-0.105% 3 samples)       1m25.686667(+-0.153% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.855650830 +-14.90%                  0.887557919 +-14.90%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.688322953 +-12.72%                  1.667682724 +-13.33%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.418601605 +-14.30%                  8.673532299 +-15.00%
  read fault cycles       266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)            266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2051.7(+-1.349% 10 samples)           2049.6(+-1.686% 10 samples)

* CONFIG_MEMCG=y non-root_memcg:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m26.120000(+-0.273% 3 samples)       1m25.763333(+-0.127% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.861723964 +-15.25%                  0.818129350 +-14.82%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.669887569 +-13.30%                  1.698645885 +-13.27%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.383191730 +-14.65%                  8.351742280 +-14.52%
  read fault cycles       265.7(+-0.172% 10 samples)            267.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2070.6(+-1.512% 10 samples)           2084.4(+-2.148% 10 samples)

As expected anon page faults are not affected by this patch.

tj: Updated to apply on top of the recent cancel_dirty_page() changes.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:33:33 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
d6a24d0640 The documentation tree update for 4.1. Numerous fixes, the overdue removal
of the i2o docs, some new Chinese translations, and, hopefully, the README
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Numerous fixes, the overdue removal of the i2o docs, some new Chinese
  translations, and, hopefully, the README fix that will end the flow of
  identical patches to that file"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
  Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status
  Documentation: blackfin: Makefile: Typo building issue
  Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt: correct location of page-types tool
  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: typo fix
  doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat'
  Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right place
  Documentation: gpio: Update ACPI part of the document to mention _DSD
  docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections
  doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes
  Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt
  Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt
  Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
  DocBook media: fix broken EIA hyperlink
  Documentation: tweak the maintainers entry
  README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format
  README: Update version number reference
  doc:pci: Fix typo in Documentation/PCI
  Documentation: drm: Use '->' when describing access through pointers.
  Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriers
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB
  ...
2015-04-18 11:10:49 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
4fd48b45ff Merge branch 'for-4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing too interesting.  Rik made cpuset cooperate better with
  isolcpus and there are several other cleanup patches"

* 'for-4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset, isolcpus: document relationship between cpusets & isolcpus
  cpusets, isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusets
  sched, isolcpu: make cpu_isolated_map visible outside scheduler
  cpuset: initialize cpuset a bit early
  cgroup: Use kvfree in pidlist_free()
  cgroup: call cgroup_subsys->bind on cgroup subsys initialization
2015-04-13 16:47:11 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
197175427a Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status
Memcg/kmem reclaim support has been finally merged. Reflect this in the
documentation.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-04-11 15:23:31 +02:00
Rik van Riel
34ebe93341 cpuset, isolcpus: document relationship between cpusets & isolcpus
Document the subtly changed relationship between cpusets and isolcpus.
Turns out the old documentation did not match the code...

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-03-19 14:28:20 -04:00
Johannes Weiner
d2973697b3 mm: memcontrol: use "max" instead of "infinity" in control knobs
The memcg control knobs indicate the highest possible value using the
symbolic name "infinity", which is long and awkward to type.

Switch to the string "max", which is just as descriptive but shorter and
sweeter.

This changes a user interface, so do it before the release and before
the development flag is dropped from the default hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
241994ed86 mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory
Introduce the basic control files to account, partition, and limit
memory using cgroups in default hierarchy mode.

This interface versioning allows us to address fundamental design
issues in the existing memory cgroup interface, further explained
below.  The old interface will be maintained indefinitely, but a
clearer model and improved workload performance should encourage
existing users to switch over to the new one eventually.

The control files are thus:

  - memory.current shows the current consumption of the cgroup and its
    descendants, in bytes.

  - memory.low configures the lower end of the cgroup's expected
    memory consumption range.  The kernel considers memory below that
    boundary to be a reserve - the minimum that the workload needs in
    order to make forward progress - and generally avoids reclaiming
    it, unless there is an imminent risk of entering an OOM situation.

  - memory.high configures the upper end of the cgroup's expected
    memory consumption range.  A cgroup whose consumption grows beyond
    this threshold is forced into direct reclaim, to work off the
    excess and to throttle new allocations heavily, but is generally
    allowed to continue and the OOM killer is not invoked.

  - memory.max configures the hard maximum amount of memory that the
    cgroup is allowed to consume before the OOM killer is invoked.

  - memory.events shows event counters that indicate how often the
    cgroup was reclaimed while below memory.low, how often it was
    forced to reclaim excess beyond memory.high, how often it hit
    memory.max, and how often it entered OOM due to memory.max.  This
    allows users to identify configuration problems when observing a
    degradation in workload performance.  An overcommitted system will
    have an increased rate of low boundary breaches, whereas increased
    rates of high limit breaches, maximum hits, or even OOM situations
    will indicate internally overcommitted cgroups.

For existing users of memory cgroups, the following deviations from
the current interface are worth pointing out and explaining:

  - The original lower boundary, the soft limit, is defined as a limit
    that is per default unset.  As a result, the set of cgroups that
    global reclaim prefers is opt-in, rather than opt-out.  The costs
    for optimizing these mostly negative lookups are so high that the
    implementation, despite its enormous size, does not even provide
    the basic desirable behavior.  First off, the soft limit has no
    hierarchical meaning.  All configured groups are organized in a
    global rbtree and treated like equal peers, regardless where they
    are located in the hierarchy.  This makes subtree delegation
    impossible.  Second, the soft limit reclaim pass is so aggressive
    that it not just introduces high allocation latencies into the
    system, but also impacts system performance due to overreclaim, to
    the point where the feature becomes self-defeating.

    The memory.low boundary on the other hand is a top-down allocated
    reserve.  A cgroup enjoys reclaim protection when it and all its
    ancestors are below their low boundaries, which makes delegation
    of subtrees possible.  Secondly, new cgroups have no reserve per
    default and in the common case most cgroups are eligible for the
    preferred reclaim pass.  This allows the new low boundary to be
    efficiently implemented with just a minor addition to the generic
    reclaim code, without the need for out-of-band data structures and
    reclaim passes.  Because the generic reclaim code considers all
    cgroups except for the ones running low in the preferred first
    reclaim pass, overreclaim of individual groups is eliminated as
    well, resulting in much better overall workload performance.

  - The original high boundary, the hard limit, is defined as a strict
    limit that can not budge, even if the OOM killer has to be called.
    But this generally goes against the goal of making the most out of
    the available memory.  The memory consumption of workloads varies
    during runtime, and that requires users to overcommit.  But doing
    that with a strict upper limit requires either a fairly accurate
    prediction of the working set size or adding slack to the limit.
    Since working set size estimation is hard and error prone, and
    getting it wrong results in OOM kills, most users tend to err on
    the side of a looser limit and end up wasting precious resources.

    The memory.high boundary on the other hand can be set much more
    conservatively.  When hit, it throttles allocations by forcing
    them into direct reclaim to work off the excess, but it never
    invokes the OOM killer.  As a result, a high boundary that is
    chosen too aggressively will not terminate the processes, but
    instead it will lead to gradual performance degradation.  The user
    can monitor this and make corrections until the minimal memory
    footprint that still gives acceptable performance is found.

    In extreme cases, with many concurrent allocations and a complete
    breakdown of reclaim progress within the group, the high boundary
    can be exceeded.  But even then it's mostly better to satisfy the
    allocation from the slack available in other groups or the rest of
    the system than killing the group.  Otherwise, memory.max is there
    to limit this type of spillover and ultimately contain buggy or
    even malicious applications.

  - The original control file names are unwieldy and inconsistent in
    many different ways.  For example, the upper boundary hit count is
    exported in the memory.failcnt file, but an OOM event count has to
    be manually counted by listening to memory.oom_control events, and
    lower boundary / soft limit events have to be counted by first
    setting a threshold for that value and then counting those events.
    Also, usage and limit files encode their units in the filename.
    That makes the filenames very long, even though this is not
    information that a user needs to be reminded of every time they
    type out those names.

    To address these naming issues, as well as to signal clearly that
    the new interface carries a new configuration model, the naming
    conventions in it necessarily differ from the old interface.

  - The original limit files indicate the state of an unset limit with
    a very high number, and a configured limit can be unset by echoing
    -1 into those files.  But that very high number is implementation
    and architecture dependent and not very descriptive.  And while -1
    can be understood as an underflow into the highest possible value,
    -2 or -10M etc. do not work, so it's not inconsistent.

    memory.low, memory.high, and memory.max will use the string
    "infinity" to indicate and set the highest possible value.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use seq_puts() for basic strings]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
Henrik Austad
f595f76def Update of Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX
unified-hierarchy.txt was added by 65731578 (cgroup: add documentation
about unified hierarchy)

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-01-05 09:19:32 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
78a45c6f06 Merge branch 'akpm' (second patch-bomb from Andrew)
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
 - the rest of MM
 - misc fs fixes
 - add execveat() syscall
 - new ratelimit feature for fault-injection
 - decompressor updates
 - ipc/ updates
 - fallocate feature creep
 - fsnotify cleanups
 - a few other misc things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (99 commits)
  cgroups: Documentation: fix trivial typos and wrong paragraph numberings
  parisc: percpu: update comments referring to __get_cpu_var
  percpu: update local_ops.txt to reflect this_cpu operations
  percpu: remove __get_cpu_var and __raw_get_cpu_var macros
  fsnotify: remove destroy_list from fsnotify_mark
  fsnotify: unify inode and mount marks handling
  fallocate: create FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY events
  mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions
  slub: fix cpuset check in get_any_partial
  slab: fix cpuset check in fallback_alloc
  shmdt: use i_size_read() instead of ->i_size
  ipc/shm.c: fix overly aggressive shmdt() when calls span multiple segments
  ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling
  ipc/sem.c: increase SEMMSL, SEMMNI, SEMOPM
  ipc/sem.c: change memory barrier in sem_lock() to smp_rmb()
  lib/decompress.c: consistency of compress formats for kernel image
  decompress_bunzip2: off by one in get_next_block()
  usr/Kconfig: make initrd compression algorithm selection not expert
  fault-inject: add ratelimit option
  ratelimit: add initialization macro
  ...
2014-12-13 13:00:36 -08:00
SeongJae Park
29d293b600 cgroups: Documentation: fix trivial typos and wrong paragraph numberings
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13 12:42:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
823e334ecd Docs changes for the 3.19 merge window
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Here's my set of accumulated documentation changes for 3.19.

  It includes a couple of additions to the coding style document, some
  fixes for minor build problems within the documentation tree, the
  relocation of the kselftest docs, and various tweaks and additions.

  A couple of changes reach outside of Documentation/; they only make
  trivial comment changes and I did my best to get the required acks.

  Complete with a shiny signed tag this time around"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  kobject: grammar fix
  Input: xpad - update docs to reflect current state
  Documentation: Build mic/mpssd only for x86_64
  cgroups: Documentation: fix wrong cgroupfs paths
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: add info about Claws Mail
  CodingStyle: add some more error handling guidelines
  kselftest: Move the docs to the Documentation dir
  Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy
  Documentation: power: Fix typo in Documentation/power
  Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information
  ipv4: add kernel parameter tcpmhash_entries
  Documentation: Fix a typo in mailbox.txt
  treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers
  CodingStyle: Add a chapter on conditional compilation
2014-12-12 14:42:48 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
1306a85aed mm: embed the memcg pointer directly into struct page
Memory cgroups used to have 5 per-page pointers.  To allow users to
disable that amount of overhead during runtime, those pointers were
allocated in a separate array, with a translation layer between them and
struct page.

There is now only one page pointer remaining: the memcg pointer, that
indicates which cgroup the page is associated with when charged.  The
complexity of runtime allocation and the runtime translation overhead is
no longer justified to save that *potential* 0.19% of memory.  With
CONFIG_SLUB, page->mem_cgroup actually sits in the doubleword padding
after the page->private member and doesn't even increase struct page,
and then this patch actually saves space.  Remaining users that care can
still compile their kernels without CONFIG_MEMCG.

     text    data     bss     dec     hex     filename
  8828345 1725264  983040 11536649 b00909  vmlinux.old
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[mhocko@suse.cz: update Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:09 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
5b1efc027c kernel: res_counter: remove the unused API
All memory accounting and limiting has been switched over to the
lockless page counters.  Bye, res_counter!

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt]
[mhocko@suse.cz: ditch the last remainings of res_counter]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
71f87bee38 mm: hugetlb_cgroup: convert to lockless page counters
Abandon the spinlock-protected byte counters in favor of the unlocked
page counters in the hugetlb controller as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
3e32cb2e0a mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters
Memory is internally accounted in bytes, using spinlock-protected 64-bit
counters, even though the smallest accounting delta is a page.  The
counter interface is also convoluted and does too many things.

Introduce a new lockless word-sized page counter API, then change all
memory accounting over to it.  The translation from and to bytes then only
happens when interfacing with userspace.

The removed locking overhead is noticable when scaling beyond the per-cpu
charge caches - on a 4-socket machine with 144-threads, the following test
shows the performance differences of 288 memcgs concurrently running a
page fault benchmark:

vanilla:

   18631648.500498      task-clock (msec)         #  140.643 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.33% )
         1,380,638      context-switches          #    0.074 K/sec                    ( +-  0.75% )
            24,390      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  8.44% )
     1,843,305,768      page-faults               #    0.099 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
50,134,994,088,218      cycles                    #    2.691 GHz                      ( +-  0.33% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
 8,049,712,224,651      instructions              #    0.16  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.04% )
 1,586,970,584,979      branches                  #   85.176 M/sec                    ( +-  0.05% )
     1,724,989,949      branch-misses             #    0.11% of all branches          ( +-  0.48% )

     132.474343877 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.21% )

lockless:

   12195979.037525      task-clock (msec)         #  133.480 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.18% )
           832,850      context-switches          #    0.068 K/sec                    ( +-  0.54% )
            15,624      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +- 10.17% )
     1,843,304,774      page-faults               #    0.151 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
32,811,216,801,141      cycles                    #    2.690 GHz                      ( +-  0.18% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
 9,999,265,091,727      instructions              #    0.30  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.10% )
 2,076,759,325,203      branches                  #  170.282 M/sec                    ( +-  0.12% )
     1,656,917,214      branch-misses             #    0.08% of all branches          ( +-  0.55% )

      91.369330729 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.45% )

On top of improved scalability, this also gets rid of the icky long long
types in the very heart of memcg, which is great for 32 bit and also makes
the code a lot more readable.

Notable differences between the old and new API:

- res_counter_charge() and res_counter_charge_nofail() become
  page_counter_try_charge() and page_counter_charge() resp. to match
  the more common kernel naming scheme of try_do()/do()

- res_counter_uncharge_until() is only ever used to cancel a local
  counter and never to uncharge bigger segments of a hierarchy, so
  it's replaced by the simpler page_counter_cancel()

- res_counter_set_limit() is replaced by page_counter_limit(), which
  expects its callers to serialize against themselves

- res_counter_memparse_write_strategy() is replaced by
  page_counter_limit(), which rounds down to the nearest page size -
  rather than up.  This is more reasonable for explicitely requested
  hard upper limits.

- to keep charging light-weight, page_counter_try_charge() charges
  speculatively, only to roll back if the result exceeds the limit.
  Because of this, a failing bigger charge can temporarily lock out
  smaller charges that would otherwise succeed.  The error is bounded
  to the difference between the smallest and the biggest possible
  charge size, so for memcg, this means that a failing THP charge can
  send base page charges into reclaim upto 2MB (4MB) before the limit
  would have been reached.  This should be acceptable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add includes for WARN_ON_ONCE and memparse]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add includes for WARN_ON_ONCE, memparse, strncmp, and PAGE_SIZE]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
SeongJae Park
845502d263 cgroups: Documentation: fix wrong cgroupfs paths
Few paths used as example to describe cgroupfs usage have been wrong
from f6e07d3807 ("Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point") by
mistake. This patch fix those trivial wrong paths.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-03 08:53:12 -05:00
Zefan Li
2ad654bc5e cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags
When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk->flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.

Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.

Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230

To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.

v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Fixes: 950592f7b9 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.31+
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-09-24 22:16:06 -04:00
Johannes Weiner
0a31bc97c8 mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API
The memcg uncharging code that is involved towards the end of a page's
lifetime - truncation, reclaim, swapout, migration - is impressively
complicated and fragile.

Because anonymous and file pages were always charged before they had their
page->mapping established, uncharges had to happen when the page type
could still be known from the context; as in unmap for anonymous, page
cache removal for file and shmem pages, and swap cache truncation for swap
pages.  However, these operations happen well before the page is actually
freed, and so a lot of synchronization is necessary:

- Charging, uncharging, page migration, and charge migration all need
  to take a per-page bit spinlock as they could race with uncharging.

- Swap cache truncation happens during both swap-in and swap-out, and
  possibly repeatedly before the page is actually freed.  This means
  that the memcg swapout code is called from many contexts that make
  no sense and it has to figure out the direction from page state to
  make sure memory and memory+swap are always correctly charged.

- On page migration, the old page might be unmapped but then reused,
  so memcg code has to prevent untimely uncharging in that case.
  Because this code - which should be a simple charge transfer - is so
  special-cased, it is not reusable for replace_page_cache().

But now that charged pages always have a page->mapping, introduce
mem_cgroup_uncharge(), which is called after the final put_page(), when we
know for sure that nobody is looking at the page anymore.

For page migration, introduce mem_cgroup_migrate(), which is called after
the migration is successful and the new page is fully rmapped.  Because
the old page is no longer uncharged after migration, prevent double
charges by decoupling the page's memcg association (PCG_USED and
pc->mem_cgroup) from the page holding an actual charge.  The new bits
PCG_MEM and PCG_MEMSW represent the respective charges and are transferred
to the new page during migration.

mem_cgroup_migrate() is suitable for replace_page_cache() as well,
which gets rid of mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache().  However, care
needs to be taken because both the source and the target page can
already be charged and on the LRU when fuse is splicing: grab the page
lock on the charge moving side to prevent changing pc->mem_cgroup of a
page under migration.  Also, the lruvecs of both pages change as we
uncharge the old and charge the new during migration, and putback may
race with us, so grab the lru lock and isolate the pages iff on LRU to
prevent races and ensure the pages are on the right lruvec afterward.

Swap accounting is massively simplified: because the page is no longer
uncharged as early as swap cache deletion, a new mem_cgroup_swapout() can
transfer the page's memory+swap charge (PCG_MEMSW) to the swap entry
before the final put_page() in page reclaim.

Finally, page_cgroup changes are now protected by whatever protection the
page itself offers: anonymous pages are charged under the page table lock,
whereas page cache insertions, swapin, and migration hold the page lock.
Uncharging happens under full exclusion with no outstanding references.
Charging and uncharging also ensure that the page is off-LRU, which
serializes against charge migration.  Remove the very costly page_cgroup
lock and set pc->flags non-atomically.

[mhocko@suse.cz: mem_cgroup_charge_statistics needs preempt_disable]
[vdavydov@parallels.com: fix flags definition]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.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>
2014-08-08 15:57:17 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
00501b531c mm: memcontrol: rewrite charge API
These patches rework memcg charge lifetime to integrate more naturally
with the lifetime of user pages.  This drastically simplifies the code and
reduces charging and uncharging overhead.  The most expensive part of
charging and uncharging is the page_cgroup bit spinlock, which is removed
entirely after this series.

Here are the top-10 profile entries of a stress test that reads a 128G
sparse file on a freshly booted box, without even a dedicated cgroup (i.e.
 executing in the root memcg).  Before:

    15.36%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_user_generic_string
    13.31%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
    11.48%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_mpage_readpage
     4.23%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_page_from_freelist
     2.38%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_page
     2.32%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
     2.18%          kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common
     1.92%          kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] shrink_page_list
     1.86%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __radix_tree_lookup
     1.62%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __pagevec_lru_add_fn

After:

    15.67%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_user_generic_string
    13.48%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
    11.42%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_mpage_readpage
     3.98%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_page_from_freelist
     2.46%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_page
     2.13%       kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] shrink_page_list
     1.88%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __radix_tree_lookup
     1.67%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __pagevec_lru_add_fn
     1.39%       kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] free_pcppages_bulk
     1.30%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] kfree

As you can see, the memcg footprint has shrunk quite a bit.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  37970    9892     400   48262    bc86 mm/memcontrol.o.old
  35239    9892     400   45531    b1db mm/memcontrol.o

This patch (of 4):

The memcg charge API charges pages before they are rmapped - i.e.  have an
actual "type" - and so every callsite needs its own set of charge and
uncharge functions to know what type is being operated on.  Worse,
uncharge has to happen from a context that is still type-specific, rather
than at the end of the page's lifetime with exclusive access, and so
requires a lot of synchronization.

Rewrite the charge API to provide a generic set of try_charge(),
commit_charge() and cancel_charge() transaction operations, much like
what's currently done for swap-in:

  mem_cgroup_try_charge() attempts to reserve a charge, reclaiming
  pages from the memcg if necessary.

  mem_cgroup_commit_charge() commits the page to the charge once it
  has a valid page->mapping and PageAnon() reliably tells the type.

  mem_cgroup_cancel_charge() aborts the transaction.

This reduces the charge API and enables subsequent patches to
drastically simplify uncharging.

As pages need to be committed after rmap is established but before they
are added to the LRU, page_add_new_anon_rmap() must stop doing LRU
additions again.  Revive lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable().

[hughd@google.com: fix shmem_unuse]
[hughd@google.com: Add comments on the private use of -EAGAIN]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: 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>
2014-08-08 15:57:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo
a8ddc8215e cgroup: distinguish the default and legacy hierarchies when handling cftypes
Until now, cftype arrays carried files for both the default and legacy
hierarchies and the files which needed to be used on only one of them
were flagged with either CFTYPE_ONLY_ON_DFL or CFTYPE_INSANE.  This
gets confusing very quickly and we may end up exposing interface files
to the default hierarchy without thinking it through.

This patch makes cgroup core provide separate sets of interfaces for
cftype handling so that the cftypes for the default and legacy
hierarchies are clearly distinguished.  The previous two patches
renamed the existing ones so that they clearly indicate that they're
for the legacy hierarchies.  This patch adds the interface for the
default hierarchy and apply them selectively depending on the
hierarchy type.

* cftypes added through cgroup_subsys->dfl_cftypes and
  cgroup_add_dfl_cftypes() only show up on the default hierarchy.

* cftypes added through cgroup_subsys->legacy_cftypes and
  cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes() only show up on the legacy hierarchies.

* cgroup_subsys->dfl_cftypes and ->legacy_cftypes can point to the
  same array for the cases where the interface files are identical on
  both types of hierarchies.

* This makes all the existing subsystem interface files legacy-only by
  default and all subsystems will have no interface file created when
  enabled on the default hierarchy.  Each subsystem should explicitly
  review and compose the interface for the default hierarchy.

* A boot param "cgroup__DEVEL__legacy_files_on_dfl" is added which
  makes subsystems which haven't decided the interface files for the
  default hierarchy to present the legacy files on the default
  hierarchy so that its behavior on the default hierarchy can be
  tested.  As the awkward name suggests, this is for development only.

* memcg's CFTYPE_INSANE on "use_hierarchy" is noop now as the whole
  array isn't used on the default hierarchy.  The flag is removed.

v2: Updated documentation for cgroup__DEVEL__legacy_files_on_dfl.

v3: Clear CFTYPE_ONLY_ON_DFL and CFTYPE_INSANE when cfts are removed
    as suggested by Li.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-15 11:05:10 -04:00
Tejun Heo
af0ba6789c cgroup: implement cgroup_subsys->depends_on
Currently, the blkio subsystem attributes all of writeback IOs to the
root.  One of the issues is that there's no way to tell who originated
a writeback IO from block layer.  Those IOs are usually issued
asynchronously from a task which didn't have anything to do with
actually generating the dirty pages.  The memory subsystem, when
enabled, already keeps track of the ownership of each dirty page and
it's desirable for blkio to piggyback instead of adding its own
per-page tag.

blkio piggybacking on memory is an implementation detail which
preferably should be handled automatically without requiring explicit
userland action.  To achieve that, this patch implements
cgroup_subsys->depends_on which contains the mask of subsystems which
should be enabled together when the subsystem is enabled.

The previous patches already implemented the support for enabled but
invisible subsystems and cgroup_subsys->depends_on can be easily
implemented by updating cgroup_refresh_child_subsys_mask() so that it
calculates cgroup->child_subsys_mask considering
cgroup_subsys->depends_on of the explicitly enabled subsystems.

Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt is updated to explain that
subsystems may not become immediately available after being unused
from userland and that dependency could be a factor in it.  As
subsystems may already keep residual references, this doesn't
significantly change how subsystem rebinding can be used.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2014-07-08 18:02:57 -04:00
Tejun Heo
b4536f0cab cgroup: implement cgroup_subsys->css_reset()
cgroup is implementing support for subsystem dependency which would
require a way to enable a subsystem even when it's not directly
configured through "cgroup.subtree_control".

The previous patches added support for explicitly and implicitly
enabled subsystems and showing/hiding their interface files.  An
explicitly enabled subsystem may become implicitly enabled if it's
turned off through "cgroup.subtree_control" but there are subsystems
depending on it.  In such cases, the subsystem, as it's turned off
when seen from userland, shouldn't enforce any resource control.
Also, the subsystem may be explicitly turned on later again and its
interface files should be as close to the intial state as possible.

This patch adds cgroup_subsys->css_reset() which is invoked when a css
is hidden.  The callback should disable resource control and reset the
state to the vanilla state.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2014-07-08 18:02:57 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
14208b0ec5 Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on cgroup side.  Heavy restructuring including
  locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable
  implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind
  a __DEVEL__ mount option.  The core support is mostly complete but
  individual controllers need further work.  To explain the design and
  rationales of the the unified hierarchy

        Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt

  is added.

  Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each
  controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration
  update.  This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and
  visibility.  cgroup started with reference count draining on removal
  way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are
  iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to
  allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted.  The css
  iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be
  used to simplify memcg significantly"

* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits)
  cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: don't destroy the default root
  cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries
  cgroup: implement css_tryget()
  device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children()
  cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()
  cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD
  cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly
  cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window
  cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists
  cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: remove cgroup->parent
  device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children
  memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child()
  memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
  cgroup: remove css_parent()
  cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
  cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting
  ...
2014-06-09 15:03:33 -07:00
Michal Hocko
688eb988d1 vmscan: memcg: always use swappiness of the reclaimed memcg
Memory reclaim always uses swappiness of the reclaim target memcg
(origin of the memory pressure) or vm_swappiness for global memory
reclaim.  This behavior was consistent (except for difference between
global and hard limit reclaim) because swappiness was enforced to be
consistent within each memcg hierarchy.

After "mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and
oom_control" each memcg can have its own swappiness independent of
hierarchical parents, though, so the consistency guarantee is gone.
This can lead to an unexpected behavior.  Say that a group is explicitly
configured to not swapout by memory.swappiness=0 but its memory gets
swapped out anyway when the memory pressure comes from its parent with a
It is also unexpected that the knob is meaningless without setting the
hard limit which would trigger the reclaim and enforce the swappiness.
There are setups where the hard limit is configured higher in the
hierarchy by an administrator and children groups are under control of
somebody else who is interested in the swapout behavior but not
necessarily about the memory limit.

From a semantic point of view swappiness is an attribute defining anon
vs.
 file proportional scanning of LRU which is memcg specific (unlike
charges which are propagated up the hierarchy) so it should be applied
to the particular memcg's LRU regardless where the memory pressure comes
from.

This patch removes vmscan_swappiness() and stores the swappiness into
the scan_control structure.  mem_cgroup_swappiness is then used to
provide the correct value before shrink_lruvec is called.  The global
vm_swappiness is used for the root memcg.

[hughd@google.com: oopses immediately when booted with cgroup_disable=memory]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
2ee0646870 Documentation/memcg: warn about incomplete kmemcg state
Kmemcg is currently under development and lacks some important features.
In particular, it does not have support of kmem reclaim on memory pressure
inside cgroup, which practically makes it unusable in real life.  Let's
warn about it in both Kconfig and Documentation to prevent complaints
arising.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-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>
2014-06-04 16:54:00 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
3dae7fec5e mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom_control
Per-memcg swappiness and oom killing can currently not be tweaked on a
memcg that is part of a hierarchy, but not the root of that hierarchy.
Users have complained that they can't configure this when they turned on
hierarchy mode.  In fact, with hierarchy mode becoming the default, this
restriction disables the tunables entirely.

But there is no good reason for this restriction.  The settings for
swappiness and OOM killing are taken from whatever memcg whose limit
triggered reclaim and OOM invocation, regardless of its position in the
hierarchy tree.

Allow setting swappiness on any group.  The knob on the root memcg
already reads the global VM swappiness, make it writable as well.

Allow disabling the OOM killer on any non-root memcg.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
Michal Hocko
f61c42a7d9 memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
Tejun has correctly pointed out that tasks/children test in
mem_cgroup_force_empty is not correct because there is no other locking
which preserves this state throughout the rest of the function so both
new tasks can join the group or new children groups can be added while
somebody is writing to memory.force_empty. A new task would break
mem_cgroup_reparent_charges expectation that all failures as described
by mem_cgroup_force_empty_list are temporal and there is no way out.

The main use case for the knob as described by
Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt is to:
"
  The typical use case for this interface is before calling rmdir().
  Because rmdir() moves all pages to parent, some out-of-use page caches can be
  moved to the parent. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
"

This means that reparenting is not really required as rmdir will
reparent pages implicitly from the safe context. If we remove it from
mem_cgroup_force_empty then we are safe even with existing tasks because
the number of reclaim attempts is bounded. Moreover the knob still does
what the documentation claims (modulo reparenting which doesn't make any
difference) and users might expect. Longterm we want to deprecate the
whole knob and put the reparented pages to the tail of parent LRU during
cgroup removal.

tj: Removed unused variable @cgrp from mem_cgroup_force_empty()

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-05-16 13:22:48 -04:00
Tejun Heo
6573157800 cgroup: add documentation about unified hierarchy
Unified hierarchy will be the new version of cgroup interface.  This
patch adds Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt which describes
the design and rationales of unified hierarchy.

v2: Grammatical updates as per Randy Dunlap's review.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
2014-04-25 18:28:02 -04:00
Michal Hocko
d715ae08f2 memcg: rename high level charging functions
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>
2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
David Rientjes
539a13b47e res_counter: remove interface for locked charging and uncharging
The res_counter_{charge,uncharge}_locked() variants are not used in the
kernel outside of the resource counter code itself, so remove the
interface.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b399c46ea0 Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 - a new jpeg codec driver for Samsung Exynos (jpeg-hw-exynos4)
 - a new dvb frontend for ds2103 chipset (m88ds2103)
 - a new sensor driver for Samsung S5K5BAF UXGA (s5k5baf)
 - new drivers for R-Car VSP1
 - a new radio driver: radio-raremono
 - a new tuner driver for ts2022 chipset (m88ts2022)
 - the analog part of em28xx is now a separate module that only
   load/runs if the device is not a pure digital TV device
 - added a staging driver for bcm2048 radio devices
 - the omap 2 video driver (omap24xx) was moved to staging.  This driver
   is for an old hardware and uses a deprecated Kernel internal API.  If
   nobody cares enough to fix it, it would be removed on a couple Kernel
   releases
 - the sn9c102 driver was moved to staging.  This driver was replaced by
   gspca, and disabled on some distros, as almost all devices are known
   to work properly with gspca.  It should be removed from kernel on a
   couple Kernel releases
 - lots of driver fixes, improvements and cleanups

* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (421 commits)
  [media] media: v4l2-dev: fix video device index assignment
  [media] rc-core: reuse device numbers
  [media] em28xx-cards: properly initialize the device bitmap
  [media] Staging: media: Fix line length exceeding 80 characters in as102_drv.c
  [media] Staging: media: Fix line length exceeding 80 characters in as102_fe.c
  [media] Staging: media: Fix quoted string split across line in as102_fe.c
  [media] media: st-rc: Add reset support
  [media] m2m-deinterlace: fix allocated struct type
  [media] radio-usb-si4713: fix sparse non static symbol warnings
  [media] em28xx-audio: remove needless check before usb_free_coherent()
  [media] au0828: Fix sparse non static symbol warning
  Revert "[media] go7007-usb: only use go->dev after allocated"
  [media] em28xx-audio: provide an error code when URB submit fails
  [media] em28xx: fix check for audio only usb interfaces when changing the usb alternate setting
  [media] em28xx: fix usb alternate setting for analog and digital video endpoints > 0
  [media] em28xx: make 'em28xx_ctrl_ops' static
  em28xx-alsa: Fix error patch for init/fini
  [media] em28xx-audio: flush work at .fini
  [media] drxk: remove the option to load firmware asynchronously
  [media] em28xx: adjust period size at runtime
  ...
2014-01-31 09:31:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4ba9920e5e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) BPF debugger and asm tool by Daniel Borkmann.

 2) Speed up create/bind in AF_PACKET, also from Daniel Borkmann.

 3) Correct reciprocal_divide and update users, from Hannes Frederic
    Sowa and Daniel Borkmann.

 4) Currently we only have a "set" operation for the hw timestamp socket
    ioctl, add a "get" operation to match.  From Ben Hutchings.

 5) Add better trace events for debugging driver datapath problems, also
    from Ben Hutchings.

 6) Implement auto corking in TCP, from Eric Dumazet.  Basically, if we
    have a small send and a previous packet is already in the qdisc or
    device queue, defer until TX completion or we get more data.

 7) Allow userspace to manage ipv6 temporary addresses, from Jiri Pirko.

 8) Add a qdisc bypass option for AF_PACKET sockets, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 9) Share IP header compression code between Bluetooth and IEEE802154
    layers, from Jukka Rissanen.

10) Fix ipv6 router reachability probing, from Jiri Benc.

11) Allow packets to be captured on macvtap devices, from Vlad Yasevich.

12) Support tunneling in GRO layer, from Jerry Chu.

13) Allow bonding to be configured fully using netlink, from Scott
    Feldman.

14) Allow AF_PACKET users to obtain the VLAN TPID, just like they can
    already get the TCI.  From Atzm Watanabe.

15) New "Heavy Hitter" qdisc, from Terry Lam.

16) Significantly improve the IPSEC support in pktgen, from Fan Du.

17) Allow ipv4 tunnels to cache routes, just like sockets.  From Tom
    Herbert.

18) Add Proportional Integral Enhanced packet scheduler, from Vijay
    Subramanian.

19) Allow openvswitch to mmap'd netlink, from Thomas Graf.

20) Key TCP metrics blobs also by source address, not just destination
    address.  From Christoph Paasch.

21) Support 10G in generic phylib.  From Andy Fleming.

22) Try to short-circuit GRO flow compares using device provided RX
    hash, if provided.  From Tom Herbert.

The wireless and netfilter folks have been busy little bees too.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2064 commits)
  net/cxgb4: Fix referencing freed adapter
  ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up
  fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  rtnetlink: remove IFLA_BOND_SLAVE definition
  rtnetlink: remove check for fill_slave_info in rtnl_have_link_slave_info
  qlcnic: update version to 5.3.55
  qlcnic: Enhance logic to calculate msix vectors.
  qlcnic: Refactor interrupt coalescing code for all adapters.
  qlcnic: Update poll controller code path
  qlcnic: Interrupt code cleanup
  qlcnic: Enhance Tx timeout debugging.
  qlcnic: Use bool for rx_mac_learn.
  bonding: fix u64 division
  rtnetlink: add missing IFLA_BOND_AD_INFO_UNSPEC
  sfc: Use the correct maximum TX DMA ring size for SFC9100
  Add Shradha Shah as the sfc driver maintainer.
  net/vxlan: Share RX skb de-marking and checksum checks with ovs
  tulip: cleanup by using ARRAY_SIZE()
  ip_tunnel: clear IPCB in ip_tunnel_xmit() in case dst_link_failure() is called
  net/cxgb4: Don't retrieve stats during recovery
  ...
2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
Daniel Borkmann
82a37132f3 netfilter: x_tables: lightweight process control group matching
It would be useful e.g. in a server or desktop environment to have
a facility in the notion of fine-grained "per application" or "per
application group" firewall policies. Probably, users in the mobile,
embedded area (e.g. Android based) with different security policy
requirements for application groups could have great benefit from
that as well. For example, with a little bit of configuration effort,
an admin could whitelist well-known applications, and thus block
otherwise unwanted "hard-to-track" applications like [1] from a
user's machine. Blocking is just one example, but it is not limited
to that, meaning we can have much different scenarios/policies that
netfilter allows us than just blocking, e.g. fine grained settings
where applications are allowed to connect/send traffic to, application
traffic marking/conntracking, application-specific packet mangling,
and so on.

Implementation of PID-based matching would not be appropriate
as they frequently change, and child tracking would make that
even more complex and ugly. Cgroups would be a perfect candidate
for accomplishing that as they associate a set of tasks with a
set of parameters for one or more subsystems, in our case the
netfilter subsystem, which, of course, can be combined with other
cgroup subsystems into something more complex if needed.

As mentioned, to overcome this constraint, such processes could
be placed into one or multiple cgroups where different fine-grained
rules can be defined depending on the application scenario, while
e.g. everything else that is not part of that could be dropped (or
vice versa), thus making life harder for unwanted processes to
communicate to the outside world. So, we make use of cgroups here
to track jobs and limit their resources in terms of iptables
policies; in other words, limiting, tracking, etc what they are
allowed to communicate.

In our case we're working on outgoing traffic based on which local
socket that originated from. Also, one doesn't even need to have
an a-prio knowledge of the application internals regarding their
particular use of ports or protocols. Matching is *extremly*
lightweight as we just test for the sk_classid marker of sockets,
originating from net_cls. net_cls and netfilter do not contradict
each other; in fact, each construct can live as standalone or they
can be used in combination with each other, which is perfectly fine,
plus it serves Tejun's requirement to not introduce a new cgroups
subsystem. Through this, we result in a very minimal and efficient
module, and don't add anything except netfilter code.

One possible, minimal usage example (many other iptables options
can be applied obviously):

 1) Configuring cgroups if not already done, e.g.:

  mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls
  mount -t cgroup -o net_cls net_cls /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls
  mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls/0
  echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls/0/net_cls.classid
  (resp. a real flow handle id for tc)

 2) Configuring netfilter (iptables-nftables), e.g.:

  iptables -A OUTPUT -m cgroup ! --cgroup 1 -j DROP

 3) Running applications, e.g.:

  ping 208.67.222.222  <pid:1799>
  echo 1799 > /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls/0/tasks
  64 bytes from 208.67.222.222: icmp_seq=44 ttl=49 time=11.9 ms
  [...]
  ping 208.67.220.220  <pid:1804>
  ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
  [...]
  echo 1804 > /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls/0/tasks
  64 bytes from 208.67.220.220: icmp_seq=89 ttl=56 time=19.0 ms
  [...]

Of course, real-world deployments would make use of cgroups user
space toolsuite, or own custom policy daemons dynamically moving
applications from/to various cgroups.

  [1] http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2014-01-03 23:41:44 +01:00
Masanari Iida
8173d5a495 doc: cgroups: Fix typo in doc/cgroups
Correct spelling typo in memory.txt and
resource_counter.txt

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-12-31 07:33:38 -05:00