delta/linux.git/include/linux/pagevec.h, branch proc-cmdline

mm: get 7% more pages in a pagevec

2018-02-01T01:18:37+00:00

We don't have to use an entire 'long' for the number of elements in the
pagevec; we know it's a number between 0 and 14 (now 15).  So we can
store it in a char, and then the bool packs next to it and we still have
two or six bytes of padding for more elements in the header.  That gives
us space to cram in an extra page.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206022521.GM26021@bombadil.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, pagevec: rename pagevec drained field

2017-11-16T02:21:06+00:00

According to Vlastimil Babka, the drained field in pagevec is
potentially misleading because it might be interpreted as draining this
pagevec instead of the percpu lru pagevecs.  Rename the field for
clarity.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171019093346.ylahzdpzmoriyf4v@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, pagevec: remove cold parameter for pagevecs

2017-11-16T02:21:06+00:00

Every pagevec_init user claims the pages being released are hot even in
cases where it is unlikely the pages are hot.  As no one cares about the
hotness of pages being released to the allocator, just ditch the
parameter.

No performance impact is expected as the overhead is marginal.  The
parameter is removed simply because it is a bit stupid to have a useless
parameter copied everywhere.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: only drain per-cpu pagevecs once per pagevec usage

2017-11-16T02:21:06+00:00

When a pagevec is initialised on the stack, it is generally used
multiple times over a range of pages, looking up entries and then
releasing them.  On each pagevec_release, the per-cpu deferred LRU
pagevecs are drained on the grounds the page being released may be on
those queues and the pages may be cache hot.  In many cases only the
first drain is necessary as it's unlikely that the range of pages being
walked is racing against LRU addition.  Even if there is such a race,
the impact is marginal where as constantly redraining the lru pagevecs
costs.

This patch ensures that pagevec is only drained once in a given
lifecycle without increasing the cache footprint of the pagevec
structure.  Only sparsetruncate tiny is shown here as large files have
many exceptional entries and calls pagecache_release less frequently.

sparsetruncate (tiny)
                              4.14.0-rc4             4.14.0-rc4
                        batchshadow-v1r1          onedrain-v1r1
Min          Time      141.00 (   0.00%)      141.00 (   0.00%)
1st-qrtle    Time      142.00 (   0.00%)      142.00 (   0.00%)
2nd-qrtle    Time      142.00 (   0.00%)      142.00 (   0.00%)
3rd-qrtle    Time      143.00 (   0.00%)      143.00 (   0.00%)
Max-90%      Time      144.00 (   0.00%)      144.00 (   0.00%)
Max-95%      Time      146.00 (   0.00%)      145.00 (   0.68%)
Max-99%      Time      198.00 (   0.00%)      194.00 (   2.02%)
Max          Time      254.00 (   0.00%)      208.00 (  18.11%)
Amean        Time      145.12 (   0.00%)      144.30 (   0.56%)
Stddev       Time       12.74 (   0.00%)        9.62 (  24.49%)
Coeff        Time        8.78 (   0.00%)        6.67 (  24.06%)
Best99%Amean Time      144.29 (   0.00%)      143.82 (   0.32%)
Best95%Amean Time      142.68 (   0.00%)      142.31 (   0.26%)
Best90%Amean Time      142.52 (   0.00%)      142.19 (   0.24%)
Best75%Amean Time      142.26 (   0.00%)      141.98 (   0.20%)
Best50%Amean Time      141.90 (   0.00%)      141.71 (   0.13%)
Best25%Amean Time      141.80 (   0.00%)      141.43 (   0.26%)

The impact on bonnie is marginal and within the noise because a
significant percentage of the file being truncated has been reclaimed
and consists of shadow entries which reduce the hotness of the
pagevec_release path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove nr_pages argument from pagevec_lookup_{,range}_tag()

2017-11-16T02:21:04+00:00

All users of pagevec_lookup() and pagevec_lookup_range() now pass
PAGEVEC_SIZE as a desired number of pages.  Just drop the argument.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009151359.31984-15-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: add variant of pagevec_lookup_range_tag() taking number of pages

2017-11-16T02:21:04+00:00

Currently pagevec_lookup_range_tag() takes number of pages to look up
but most users don't need this.  Create a new function
pagevec_lookup_range_nr_tag() that takes maximum number of pages to
lookup for Ceph which wants this functionality so that we can drop
nr_pages argument from pagevec_lookup_range_tag().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009151359.31984-13-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: implement find_get_pages_range_tag()

2017-11-16T02:21:03+00:00

Patch series "Ranged pagevec tagged lookup", v3.

In this series I provide a ranged variant of pagevec_lookup_tag() and
use it in places where it makes sense.  This series removes some common
code and it also has a potential for speeding up some operations
similarly as for pagevec_lookup_range() (but for now I can think of only
artificial cases where this happens).

This patch (of 16):

Implement a variant of find_get_pages_tag() that stops iterating at
given index.  Lots of users of this function (through pagevec_lookup())
actually want a range lookup and all of them are currently open-coding
this.

Also create corresponding pagevec_lookup_range_tag() function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009151359.31984-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan 
Cc: Bob Peterson 
Cc: Chao Yu 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: David Sterba 
Cc: Ilya Dryomov 
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim 
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi 
Cc: Steve French 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: remove nr_pages argument from pagevec_lookup{,_range}()

2017-09-07T00:27:27+00:00

All users of pagevec_lookup() and pagevec_lookup_range() now pass
PAGEVEC_SIZE as a desired number of pages.

Just drop the argument.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170726114704.7626-11-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: implement find_get_pages_range()

2017-09-07T00:27:26+00:00

Implement a variant of find_get_pages() that stops iterating at given
index.  This may be substantial performance gain if the mapping is
sparse.  See following commit for details.  Furthermore lots of users of
this function (through pagevec_lookup()) actually want a range lookup
and all of them are currently open-coding this.

Also create corresponding pagevec_lookup_range() function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170726114704.7626-4-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds