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2024-05-13docs: cgroup-v1: Update page cache removal functionsIllia Ostapyshyn
Commit 452e9e6992fe ("filemap: Add filemap_remove_folio and __filemap_remove_folio") reimplemented __delete_from_page_cache() as __filemap_remove_folio() and delete_from_page_cache() as filemap_remove_folio(). The compatibility wrappers were finally removed in ece62684dcfb ("hugetlbfs: convert hugetlb_delete_from_page_cache() to use folios") and 6ffcd825e7d0 ("mm: Remove __delete_from_page_cache()"). Update the remaining references to dead functions in the memcg implementation memo. Signed-off-by: Illia Ostapyshyn <illia@yshyn.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2024-05-13Merge tag 'rcu.next.v6.10' of https://github.com/urezki/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull RCU updates from Uladzislau Rezki: - Fix a lockdep complain for lazy-preemptible kernel, remove redundant BH disable for TINY_RCU, remove redundant READ_ONCE() in tree.c, fix false positives KCSAN splat and fix buffer overflow in the print_cpu_stall_info(). - Misc updates related to bpf, tracing and update the MAINTAINERS file. - An improvement of a normal synchronize_rcu() call in terms of latency. It maintains a separate track for sync. users only. This approach bypasses per-cpu nocb-lists thus sync-users do not depend on nocb-list length and how fast regular callbacks are processed. - RCU tasks: switch tasks RCU grace periods to sleep at TASK_IDLE priority, fix some comments, add some diagnostic warning to the exit_tasks_rcu_start() and fix a buffer overflow in the show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread(). - RCU torture: Increase memory to guest OS, fix a Tasks Rude RCU testing, some updates for TREE09, dump mode information to debug GP kthread state, remove redundant READ_ONCE(), fix some comments about RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN and pipe_count, remove some redundant pointer initialization, fix a hung splat task by when the rcutorture tests start to exit, fix invalid context warning, add '--do-kvfree' parameter to torture test and use slow register unregister callbacks only for rcutype test. * tag 'rcu.next.v6.10' of https://github.com/urezki/linux: (48 commits) rcutorture: Use rcu_gp_slow_register/unregister() only for rcutype test torture: Scale --do-kvfree test time rcutorture: Fix invalid context warning when enable srcu barrier testing rcutorture: Make stall-tasks directly exit when rcutorture tests end rcutorture: Removing redundant function pointer initialization rcutorture: Make rcutorture support print rcu-tasks gp state rcutorture: Use the gp_kthread_dbg operation specified by cur_ops rcutorture: Re-use value stored to ->rtort_pipe_count instead of re-reading rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture_one_read() pipe_count overflow comment rcutorture: Remove extraneous rcu_torture_pipe_update_one() READ_ONCE() rcu: Allocate WQ with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM bit set rcu: Support direct wake-up of synchronize_rcu() users rcu: Add a trace event for synchronize_rcu_normal() rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info() rcu: Mollify sparse with RCU guard rcu-tasks: Fix show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread buffer overflow rcu-tasks: Fix the comments for tasks_rcu_exit_srcu_stall_timer rcu-tasks: Replace exit_tasks_rcu_start() initialization with WARN_ON_ONCE() rcu: Remove redundant CONFIG_PROVE_RCU #if condition ...
2024-05-13Merge tag 's390-6.10-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev: - Store AP Query Configuration Information in a static buffer - Rework the AP initialization and add missing cleanups to the error path - Swap IRQ and AP bus/device registration to avoid race conditions - Export prot_virt_guest symbol - Introduce AP configuration changes notifier interface to facilitate modularization of the AP bus - Add CONFIG_AP kernel configuration option to allow modularization of the AP bus - Rework CONFIG_ZCRYPT_DEBUG kernel configuration option description and dependency and rename it to CONFIG_AP_DEBUG - Convert sprintf() and snprintf() to sysfs_emit() in CIO code - Adjust indentation of RELOCS command build step - Make crypto performance counters upward compatible - Convert make_page_secure() and gmap_make_secure() to use folio - Rework channel-utilization-block (CUB) handling in preparation of introducing additional CUBs - Use attribute groups to simplify registration, removal and extension of measurement-related channel-path sysfs attributes - Add a per-channel-path binary "ext_measurement" sysfs attribute that provides access to extended channel-path measurement data - Export measurement data for all channel-measurement-groups (CMG), not only for a specific ones. This enables support of new CMG data formats in userspace without the need for kernel changes - Add a per-channel-path sysfs attribute "speed_bps" that provides the operating speed in bits per second or 0 if the operating speed is not available - The CIO tracepoint subchannel-type field "st" is incorrectly set to the value of subchannel-enabled SCHIB "ena" field. Fix that - Do not forcefully limit vmemmap starting address to MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - Consider the maximum physical address available to a DCSS segment (512GB) when memory layout is set up - Simplify the virtual memory layout setup by reducing the size of identity mapping vs vmemmap overlap - Swap vmalloc and Lowcore/Real Memory Copy areas in virtual memory. This will allow to place the kernel image next to kernel modules - Move everyting KASLR related from <asm/setup.h> to <asm/page.h> - Put virtual memory layout information into a structure to improve code generation - Currently __kaslr_offset is the kernel offset in both physical and virtual memory spaces. Uncouple these offsets to allow uncoupling of the addresses spaces - Currently the identity mapping base address is implicit and is always set to zero. Make it explicit by putting into __identity_base persistent boot variable and use it in proper context - Introduce .amode31 section start and end macros AMODE31_START and AMODE31_END - Introduce OS_INFO entries that do not reference any data in memory, but rather provide only values - Store virtual memory layout in OS_INFO. It is read out by makedumpfile, crash and other tools - Store virtual memory layout in VMCORE_INFO. It is read out by crash and other tools when /proc/kcore device is used - Create additional PT_LOAD ELF program header that covers kernel image only, so that vmcore tools could locate kernel text and data when virtual and physical memory spaces are uncoupled - Uncouple physical and virtual address spaces - Map kernel at fixed location when KASLR mode is disabled. The location is defined by CONFIG_KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE kernel configuration value. - Rework deployment of kernel image for both compressed and uncompressed variants as defined by CONFIG_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED kernel configuration value - Move .vmlinux.relocs section in front of the compressed kernel. The interim section rescue step is avoided as result - Correct modules thunk offset calculation when branch target is more than 2GB away - Kernel modules contain their own set of expoline thunks. Now that the kernel modules area is less than 4GB away from kernel expoline thunks, make modules use kernel expolines. Also make EXPOLINE_EXTERN the default if the compiler supports it - userfaultfd can insert shared zeropages into processes running VMs, but that is not allowed for s390. Fallback to allocating a fresh zeroed anonymous folio and insert that instead - Re-enable shared zeropages for non-PV and non-skeys KVM guests - Rename hex2bitmap() to ap_hex2bitmap() and export it for external use - Add ap_config sysfs attribute to provide the means for setting or displaying adapters, domains and control domains assigned to a vfio-ap mediated device in a single operation - Make vfio_ap_mdev_link_queue() ignore duplicate link requests - Add write support to ap_config sysfs attribute to allow atomic update a vfio-ap mediated device state - Document ap_config sysfs attribute - Function os_info_old_init() is expected to be called only from a regular kdump kernel. Enable it to be called from a stand-alone dump kernel - Address gcc -Warray-bounds warning and fix array size in struct os_info - s390 does not support SMBIOS, so drop unneeded CONFIG_DMI checks - Use unwinder instead of __builtin_return_address() with ftrace to prevent returning of undefined values - Sections .hash and .gnu.hash are only created when CONFIG_PIE_BUILD kernel is enabled. Drop these for the case CONFIG_PIE_BUILD is disabled - Compile kernel with -fPIC and link with -no-pie to allow kpatch feature always succeed and drop the whole CONFIG_PIE_BUILD option-enabled code - Add missing virt_to_phys() converter for VSIE facility and crypto control blocks * tag 's390-6.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (54 commits) Revert "s390: Relocate vmlinux ELF data to virtual address space" KVM: s390: vsie: Use virt_to_phys for crypto control block s390: Relocate vmlinux ELF data to virtual address space s390: Compile kernel with -fPIC and link with -no-pie s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Drop .hash and .gnu.hash for !CONFIG_PIE_BUILD s390/ftrace: Use unwinder instead of __builtin_return_address() s390/pci: Drop unneeded reference to CONFIG_DMI s390/os_info: Fix array size in struct os_info s390/os_info: Initialize old os_info in standalone dump kernel docs: Update s390 vfio-ap doc for ap_config sysfs attribute s390/vfio-ap: Add write support to sysfs attr ap_config s390/vfio-ap: Ignore duplicate link requests in vfio_ap_mdev_link_queue s390/vfio-ap: Add sysfs attr, ap_config, to export mdev state s390/ap: Externalize AP bus specific bitmap reading function s390/mm: Re-enable the shared zeropage for !PV and !skeys KVM guests mm/userfaultfd: Do not place zeropages when zeropages are disallowed s390/expoline: Make modules use kernel expolines s390/nospec: Correct modules thunk offset calculation s390/boot: Do not rescue .vmlinux.relocs section s390/boot: Rework deployment of the kernel image ...
2024-05-13Merge branches 'arm/renesas', 'arm/smmu', 'x86/amd', 'core' and 'x86/vt-d' ↵Joerg Roedel
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2024-05-12ARC: Add eBPF JIT supportShahab Vahedi
This will add eBPF JIT support to the 32-bit ARCv2 processors. The implementation is qualified by running the BPF tests on a Synopsys HSDK board with "ARC HS38 v2.1c at 500 MHz" as the 4-core CPU. The test_bpf.ko reports 2-10 fold improvements in execution time of its tests. For instance: test_bpf: #33 tcpdump port 22 jited:0 704 1766 2104 PASS test_bpf: #33 tcpdump port 22 jited:1 120 224 260 PASS test_bpf: #141 ALU_DIV_X: 4294967295 / 4294967295 = 1 jited:0 238 PASS test_bpf: #141 ALU_DIV_X: 4294967295 / 4294967295 = 1 jited:1 23 PASS test_bpf: #776 JMP32_JGE_K: all ... magnitudes jited:0 2034681 PASS test_bpf: #776 JMP32_JGE_K: all ... magnitudes jited:1 1020022 PASS Deployment and structure ------------------------ The related codes are added to "arch/arc/net": - bpf_jit.h -- The interface that a back-end translator must provide - bpf_jit_core.c -- Knows how to handle the input eBPF byte stream - bpf_jit_arcv2.c -- The back-end code that knows the translation logic The bpf_int_jit_compile() at the end of bpf_jit_core.c is the entrance to the whole process. Normally, the translation is done in one pass, namely the "normal pass". In case some relocations are not known during this pass, some data (arc_jit_data) is allocated for the next pass to come. This possible next (and last) pass is called the "extra pass". 1. Normal pass # The necessary pass 1a. Dry run # Get the whole JIT length, epilogue offset, etc. 1b. Emit phase # Allocate memory and start emitting instructions 2. Extra pass # Only needed if there are relocations to be fixed 2a. Patch relocations Support status -------------- The JIT compiler supports BPF instructions up to "cpu=v4". However, it does not yet provide support for: - Tail calls - Atomic operations - 64-bit division/remainder - BPF_PROBE_MEM* (exception table) The result of "test_bpf" test suite on an HSDK board is: hsdk-lnx# insmod test_bpf.ko test_suite=test_bpf test_bpf: Summary: 863 PASSED, 186 FAILED, [851/851 JIT'ed] All the failing test cases are due to the ones that were not JIT'ed. Categorically, they can be represented as: .-----------.------------.-------------. | test type | opcodes | # of cases | |-----------+------------+-------------| | atomic | 0xC3, 0xDB | 149 | | div64 | 0x37, 0x3F | 22 | | mod64 | 0x97, 0x9F | 15 | `-----------^------------+-------------| | (total) 186 | `-------------' Setup: build config ------------------- The following configs must be set to have a working JIT test: CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y CONFIG_TEST_BPF=m The following options are not necessary for the tests module, but are good to have: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y # prerequisite for below CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y # so bpftool can generate vmlinux.h CONFIG_FTRACE=y # CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y # all these options lead to CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y # having CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y # Some BPF programs provide data through /sys/kernel/debug: CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y arc# mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug Setup: elfutils --------------- The libdw.{so,a} library that is used by pahole for processing the final binary must come from elfutils 0.189 or newer. The support for ARCv2 [1] has been added since that version. [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=commit;h=de3d46b3e7 Setup: pahole ------------- The line below in linux/scripts/Makefile.btf must be commented out: pahole-flags-$(call test-ge, $(pahole-ver), 121) += --btf_gen_floats Or else, the build will fail: $ make V=1 ... BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o pahole -J --btf_gen_floats \ -j --lang_exclude=rust \ --skip_encoding_btf_inconsistent_proto \ --btf_gen_optimized .tmp_vmlinux.btf Complex, interval and imaginary float types are not supported Encountered error while encoding BTF. ... BTFIDS vmlinux ./tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids vmlinux libbpf: failed to find '.BTF' ELF section in vmlinux FAILED: load BTF from vmlinux: No data available This is due to the fact that the ARC toolchains generate "complex float" DIE entries in libgcc and at the moment, pahole can't handle such entries. Running the tests ----------------- host$ scp /bld/linux/lib/test_bpf.ko arc: arc # sysctl net.core.bpf_jit_enable=1 arc # insmod test_bpf.ko test_suite=test_bpf ... test_bpf: #1048 Staggered jumps: JMP32_JSLE_X jited:1 697811 PASS test_bpf: Summary: 863 PASSED, 186 FAILED, [851/851 JIT'ed] Acknowledgments --------------- - Claudiu Zissulescu for his unwavering support - Yuriy Kolerov for testing and troubleshooting - Vladimir Isaev for the pahole workaround - Sergey Matyukevich for paving the road by adding the interpreter support Signed-off-by: Shahab Vahedi <shahab@synopsys.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240430145604.38592-1-list+bpf@vahedi.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2024-05-11Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update ↵SeongJae Park
command To update effective size quota of DAMOS schemes on DAMON sysfs file interface, user should write 'update_schemes_effective_quotas' to the kdamond 'state' file. But the document is mistakenly saying the input string as 'update_schemes_effective_bytes'. Fix it (s/bytes/quotas/). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-8-sj@kernel.org Fixes: a6068d6dfa2f ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document effective_bytes file") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.9.x] Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-11Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching ↵SeongJae Park
sysfs file The example usage of DAMOS filter sysfs files, specifically the part of 'matching' file writing for memcg type filter, is wrong. The intention is to exclude pages of a memcg that already getting enough care from a given scheme, but the example is setting the filter to apply the scheme to only the pages of the memcg. Fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-7-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 9b7f9322a530 ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMOS filters of sysfs") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240317191358.97578-1-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.3.x] Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-09cgroup: Add documentation for missing zswap memory.statUsama Arif
This includes zswpin, zswpout and zswpwb. Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20240502185307.3942173-2-usamaarif642@gmail.com>
2024-05-09docs: document DCP-backed trusted keys kernel paramsDavid Gstir
Document the kernel parameters trusted.dcp_use_otp_key and trusted.dcp_skip_zk_test for DCP-backed trusted keys. Co-developed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Co-developed-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at> Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at> Signed-off-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
2024-05-09Merge branch 'for-next/perf' into for-next/coreWill Deacon
* for-next/perf: (41 commits) arm64: Add USER_STACKTRACE support drivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Actually use devm_add_action_or_reset() drivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group drivers/perf: hisi_pcie: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group perf/arm-spe: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm-smmuv3: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm-dsu: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm-dmc620: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm-ccn: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm-cci: Assign parents for event_source device perf/alibaba_uncore: Assign parents for event_source device perf/arm_pmu: Assign parents for event_source devices perf/imx_ddr: Assign parents for event_source devices perf/qcom: Assign parents for event_source devices Documentation: qcom-pmu: Use /sys/bus/event_source/devices paths perf/riscv: Assign parents for event_source devices perf/thunderx2: Assign parents for event_source devices Documentation: thunderx2-pmu: Use /sys/bus/event_source/devices paths perf/xgene: Assign parents for event_source devices Documentation: xgene-pmu: Use /sys/bus/event_source/devices paths ...
2024-05-08Merge tag 'pci-v6.9-fixes-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci Pull pci fixes from Bjorn Helgaas: - Update kernel-parameters doc to describe "pcie_aspm=off" more accurately (Bjorn Helgaas) - Restore the parent's (not the child's) ASPM state to the parent during resume, which fixes a reboot during resume (Kai-Heng Feng) * tag 'pci-v6.9-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci: PCI/ASPM: Restore parent state to parent, child state to child PCI/ASPM: Clarify that pcie_aspm=off means leave ASPM untouched
2024-05-08watchdog: allow nmi watchdog to use raw perf eventSong Liu
NMI watchdog permanently consumes one hardware counters per CPU on the system. For systems that use many hardware counters, this causes more aggressive time multiplexing of perf events. OTOH, some CPUs (mostly Intel) support "ref-cycles" event, which is rarely used. Add kernel cmdline arg nmi_watchdog=rNNN to configure the watchdog to use raw event. For example, on Intel CPUs, we can use "r300" to configure the watchdog to use ref-cycles event. If the raw event does not work, fall back to use "cycles". [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240430060236.1878002-2-song@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-05Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for young page type DAMOS filterSeongJae Park
Update DAMON usage document for the newly added DAMOS filter type, 'young page'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426195247.100306-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-05mm/khugepaged: replace page_mapcount() check by folio_likely_mapped_shared()David Hildenbrand
We want to limit the use of page_mapcount() to places where absolutely required, to prepare for kernel configs where we won't keep track of per-page mapcounts in large folios. khugepaged is one of the remaining "more challenging" page_mapcount() users, but we might be able to move away from page_mapcount() without resulting in a significant behavior change that would warrant special-casing based on kernel configs. In 2020, we first added support to khugepaged for collapsing COW-shared pages via commit 9445689f3b61 ("khugepaged: allow to collapse a page shared across fork"), followed by support for collapsing PTE-mapped THP in commit 5503fbf2b0b8 ("khugepaged: allow to collapse PTE-mapped compound pages") and limiting the memory waste via the "page_count() > 1" check in commit 71a2c112a0f6 ("khugepaged: introduce 'max_ptes_shared' tunable"). As a default, khugepaged will allow up to half of the PTEs to map shared pages: where page_mapcount() > 1. MADV_COLLAPSE ignores the khugepaged setting. khugepaged does currently not care about swapcache page references, and does not check under folio lock: so in some corner cases the "shared vs. exclusive" detection might be a bit off, making us detect "exclusive" when it's actually "shared". Most of our anonymous folios in the system are usually exclusive. We frequently see sharing of anonymous folios for a short period of time, after which our short-lived suprocesses either quit or exec(). There are some famous examples, though, where child processes exist for a long time, and where memory is COW-shared with a lot of processes (webservers, webbrowsers, sshd, ...) and COW-sharing is crucial for reducing the memory footprint. We don't want to suddenly change the behavior to result in a significant increase in memory waste. Interestingly, khugepaged will only collapse an anonymous THP if at least one PTE is writable. After fork(), that means that something (usually a page fault) populated at least a single exclusive anonymous THP in that PMD range. So ... what happens when we switch to "is this folio mapped shared" instead of "is this page mapped shared" by using folio_likely_mapped_shared()? For "not-COW-shared" folios, small folios and for THPs (large folios) that are completely mapped into at least one process, switching to folio_likely_mapped_shared() will not result in a change. We'll only see a change for COW-shared PTE-mapped THPs that are partially mapped into all involved processes. There are two cases to consider: (A) folio_likely_mapped_shared() returns "false" for a PTE-mapped THP If the folio is detected as exclusive, and it actually is exclusive, there is no change: page_mapcount() == 1. This is the common case without fork() or with short-lived child processes. folio_likely_mapped_shared() might currently still detect a folio as exclusive although it is shared (false negatives): if the first page is not mapped multiple times and if the average per-page mapcount is smaller than 1, implying that (1) the folio is partially mapped and (2) if we are responsible for many mapcounts by mapping many pages others can't ("mostly exclusive") (3) if we are not responsible for many mapcounts by mapping little pages ("mostly shared") it won't make a big impact on the end result. So while we might now detect a page as "exclusive" although it isn't, it's not expected to make a big difference in common cases. (B) folio_likely_mapped_shared() returns "true" for a PTE-mapped THP folio_likely_mapped_shared() will never detect a large anonymous folio as shared although it is exclusive: there are no false positives. If we detect a THP as shared, at least one page of the THP is mapped by another process. It could well be that some pages are actually exclusive. For example, our child processes could have unmapped/COW'ed some pages such that they would now be exclusive to out process, which we now would treat as still-shared. Examples: (1) Parent maps all pages of a THP, child maps some pages. We detect all pages in the parent as shared although some are actually exclusive. (2) Parent maps all but some page of a THP, child maps the remainder. We detect all pages of the THP that the parent maps as shared although they are all exclusive. In (1) we wouldn't collapse a THP right now already: no PTE is writable, because a write fault would have resulted in COW of a single page and the parent would no longer map all pages of that THP. For (2) we would have collapsed a THP in the parent so far, now we wouldn't as long as the child process is still alive: unless the child process unmaps the remaining THP pages or we decide to split that THP. Possibly, the child COW'ed many pages, meaning that it's likely that we can populate a THP for our child first, and then for our parent. For (2), we are making really bad use of the THP in the first place (not even mapped completely in at least one process). If the THP would be completely partially mapped, it would be on the deferred split queue where we would split it lazily later. For short-running child processes, we don't particularly care. For long-running processes, the expectation is that such scenarios are rather rare: further, a THP might be best placed if most data in the PMD range is actually written, implying that we'll have to COW more pages first before khugepaged would collapse it. To summarize, in the common case, this change is not expected to matter much. The more common application of khugepaged operates on exclusive pages, either before fork() or after a child quit. Can we improve (A)? Yes, if we implement more precise tracking of "mapped shared" vs. "mapped exclusively", we could get rid of the false negatives completely. Can we improve (B)? We could count how many pages of a large folio we map inside the current page table and detect that we are responsible for most of the folio mapcount and conclude "as good as exclusive", which might help in some cases. ... but likely, some other mechanism should detect that the THP is not a good use in the scenario (not even mapped completely in a single process) and try splitting that folio lazily etc. We'll move the folio_test_anon() check before our "shared" check, so we might get more expressive results for SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE: this order of checks now matches the one in __collapse_huge_page_isolate(). Extend documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240424122630.495788-1-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-05mm: zswap: remove same_filled module paramsYosry Ahmed
These knobs offer more fine-grained control to userspace than needed and directly expose/influence kernel implementation; remove them. For disabling same_filled handling, there is no logical reason to refuse storing same-filled pages more efficiently and opt for compression. Scanning pages for patterns may be an argument, but the page contents will be read into the CPU cache anyway during compression. Also, removing the same_filled handling code does not move the needle significantly in terms of performance anyway [1]. For disabling non_same_filled handling, it was added when the compressed pages in zswap were not being properly charged to memcgs, as workloads could escape the accounting with compression [2]. This is no longer the case after commit f4840ccfca25 ("zswap: memcg accounting"), and using zswap without compression does not make much sense. [1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkaySFP2hBQw4pnZHJJwe3bMdjJ1t9VC2VJd=khn1_TXvA@mail.gmail.com/ [2]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/19d5cdee-2868-41bd-83d5-6da75d72e940@maciej.szmigiero.name/ [yosryahmed@google.com: remove same_filled_pages from docs] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZhxFVggdyvCo79jc@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413022407.785696-5-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-05mm: correct the docs for thp_fault_alloc and thp_fault_fallbackBarry Song
The documentation does not align with the code. In __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(), THP_FAULT_FALLBACK is incremented when mem_cgroup_charge() fails, despite the allocation succeeding, whereas THP_FAULT_ALLOC is only incremented after a successful charge. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412114858.407208-5-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-05mm: add docs for per-order mTHP counters and transhuge_page ABIBarry Song
This patch includes documentation for mTHP counters and an ABI file for sys-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage, which appears to have been missing for some time. [v-songbaohua@oppo.com: fix the name and unexpected indentation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415054538.17071-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412114858.407208-4-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-05Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst: don't reference page_mapcount()David Hildenbrand
Let's stop talking about page_mapcount(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240409192301.907377-19-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-03PCI/ASPM: Clarify that pcie_aspm=off means leave ASPM untouchedBjorn Helgaas
Previously we claimed "pcie_aspm=off" meant that ASPM would be disabled, which is wrong. Correct this to say that with "pcie_aspm=off", Linux doesn't touch any ASPM configuration at all. ASPM may have been enabled by firmware, and that will be left unchanged. See "aspm_support_enabled". Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429191821.691726-1-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reviewed-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>
2024-05-03arm64: Add the arm64.no32bit_el0 command line optionAndrea della Porta
Introducing the field 'el0' to the idreg-override for register ID_AA64PFR0_EL1. This field is also aliased to the new kernel command line option 'arm64.no32bit_el0' as a more recognizable and mnemonic name to disable the execution of 32 bit userspace applications (i.e. avoid Aarch32 execution state in EL0) from kernel command line. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240207105847.7739-1-andrea.porta@suse.com/ Signed-off-by: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429102833.6426-1-andrea.porta@suse.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2024-05-02Docs: typos/spellingRemington Brasga
Fix spelling and grammar in Docs descriptions Signed-off-by: Remington Brasga <rbrasga@uci.edu> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429225527.2329-1-rbrasga@uci.edu
2024-04-30iommu/vt-d: Make posted MSI an opt-in command line optionJacob Pan
Add a command line opt-in option for posted MSI if CONFIG_X86_POSTED_MSI=y. Also introduce a helper function for testing if posted MSI is supported on the platform. Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423174114.526704-12-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com
2024-04-29media: Documentation: add Intel IPU6 ISYS driver admin-guide docBingbu Cao
This document mainly describe the functionality of IPU6 and IPU6 isys driver, and gives an example that how user can do imaging capture with tools. Signed-off-by: Bingbu Cao <bingbu.cao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
2024-04-28Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2024-04-28' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Make the CPU_MITIGATIONS=n interaction with conflicting mitigation-enabling boot parameters a bit saner. - Re-enable CPU mitigations by default on non-x86 - Fix TDX shared bit propagation on mprotect() - Fix potential show_regs() system hang when PKE initialization is not fully finished yet. - Add the 0x10-0x1f model IDs to the Zen5 range - Harden #VC instruction emulation some more * tag 'x86-urgent-2024-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: cpu: Ignore "mitigations" kernel parameter if CPU_MITIGATIONS=n cpu: Re-enable CPU mitigations by default for !X86 architectures x86/tdx: Preserve shared bit on mprotect() x86/cpu: Fix check for RDPKRU in __show_regs() x86/CPU/AMD: Add models 0x10-0x1f to the Zen5 range x86/sev: Check for MWAITX and MONITORX opcodes in the #VC handler
2024-04-25Documentation: kdump: clean up the outdated descriptionBaoquan He
After commit 443cbaf9e2fd ("crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.c"), Kconfig item CRASH_CORE has gone away in kernel. Items VMCORE_INFO and CRASH_RESERVE are used instead. So clean up the outdated description about CRASH_CORE and update it accordingly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329132825.1102459-3-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25zram: add max_pages param to recompressionSergey Senozhatsky
Introduce "max_pages" param to recompress device attribute which sets an upper limit on the number of entries (pages) zram attempts to recompress (in this particular recompression call). S/W recompression can be quite expensive so limiting the number of pages recompress touches can be quite helpful. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329094050.2815699-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25mm: init_mlocked_on_free_v3York Jasper Niebuhr
Implements the "init_mlocked_on_free" boot option. When this boot option is enabled, any mlock'ed pages are zeroed on free. If the pages are munlock'ed beforehand, no initialization takes place. This boot option is meant to combat the performance hit of "init_on_free" as reported in commit 6471384af2a6 ("mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options"). With "init_mlocked_on_free=1" only relevant data is freed while everything else is left untouched by the kernel. Correspondingly, this patch introduces no performance hit for unmapping non-mlock'ed memory. The unmapping overhead for purely mlocked memory was measured to be approximately 13%. Realistically, most systems mlock only a fraction of the total memory so the real-world system overhead should be close to zero. Optimally, userspace programs clear any key material or other confidential memory before exit and munlock the according memory regions. If a program crashes, userspace key managers fail to do this job. Accordingly, no munlock operations are performed so the data is caught and zeroed by the kernel. Should the program not crash, all memory will ideally be munlocked so no overhead is caused. CONFIG_INIT_MLOCKED_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON can be set to enable "init_mlocked_on_free" by default. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329145605.149917-1-yjnworkstation@gmail.com Signed-off-by: York Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: York Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25remove references to page->flags in documentationMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Mostly rewording, but remove entirely the copy of page_fixed_fake_head() in the documentation; we can refer people to the actual source if necessary. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326171045.410737-10-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25docs: hugetlbpage.rst: add hugetlb migration descriptionBaolin Wang
Add some description of the hugetlb migration strategy. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/63fb16e7a4ebc5cb69ce655af86e29b2d8e9ba34.1709719720.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25lib: add allocation tagging support for memory allocation profilingSuren Baghdasaryan
Introduce CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING which provides definitions to easily instrument memory allocators. It registers an "alloc_tags" codetag type with /proc/allocinfo interface to output allocation tag information when the feature is enabled. CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG is provided for debugging the memory allocation profiling instrumentation. Memory allocation profiling can be enabled or disabled at runtime using /proc/sys/vm/mem_profiling sysctl when CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=n. CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT enables memory allocation profiling by default. [surenb@google.com: Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst: fix allocinfo title] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326073813.727090-1-surenb@google.com [surenb@google.com: do limited memory accounting for modules with ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240402180933.1663992-2-surenb@google.com [klarasmodin@gmail.com: explicitly include irqflags.h in alloc_tag.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240407133252.173636-1-klarasmodin@gmail.com [surenb@google.com: fix alloc_tag_init() to prevent passing NULL to PTR_ERR()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240417003349.2520094-1-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-14-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Co-developed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25cpu: Ignore "mitigations" kernel parameter if CPU_MITIGATIONS=nSean Christopherson
Explicitly disallow enabling mitigations at runtime for kernels that were built with CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=n, as some architectures may omit code entirely if mitigations are disabled at compile time. E.g. on x86, a large pile of Kconfigs are buried behind CPU_MITIGATIONS, and trying to provide sane behavior for retroactively enabling mitigations is extremely difficult, bordering on impossible. E.g. page table isolation and call depth tracking require build-time support, BHI mitigations will still be off without additional kernel parameters, etc. [ bp: Touchups. ] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-3-seanjc@google.com
2024-04-24mm: Update shuffle documentation to match its current stateMaíra Canal
Commit 839195352d82 ("mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration") removed the dynamic reconfiguration capabilities from the shuffle page allocator. This means that, now, we don't have any perspective of an "autodetection of memory-side-cache" that triggers the enablement of the shuffle page allocator. Therefore, let the documentation reflect that the only way to enable the shuffle page allocator is by setting `page_alloc.shuffle=1`. Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240422142007.1062231-1-mcanal@igalia.com
2024-04-24admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling: fix return type of PR_SCHED_CORE_GETThomas Weißschuh
sched_core_share_pid() copies the cookie to userspace with put_user(id, (u64 __user *)uaddr), expecting 64 bits of space. The "unsigned long" datatype that is documented in core-scheduling.rst however is only 32 bits large on 32 bit architectures. Document "unsigned long long" as the correct data type that is always 64bits large. This matches what the selftest cs_prctl_test.c has been doing all along. Fixes: 0159bb020ca9 ("Documentation: Add usecases, design and interface for core scheduling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/util-linux/df7a25a0-7923-4f8b-a527-5e6f0064074d@t-8ch.de/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Reviewed-by: Chris Hyser <chris.hyser@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423-core-scheduling-cookie-v1-1-5753a35f8dfc@weissschuh.net
2024-04-24sched/pelt: Remove shift of thermal clockVincent Guittot
The optional shift of the clock used by thermal/hw load avg has been introduced to handle case where the signal was not always a high frequency hw signal. Now that cpufreq provides a signal for firmware and SW pressure, we can remove this exception and always keep this PELT signal aligned with other signals. Mark sysctl_sched_migration_cost boot parameter as deprecated Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io> Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326091616.3696851-6-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2024-04-23Merge 6.9-rc5 into tty-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
We want the tty fixes in here as well, and it resolves a merge conflict in: drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-22Merge tag 'docs-6.9-fixes2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A set of updates from Thorsten to his (new) guide to verifying bugs and tracking down regressions" * tag 'docs-6.9-fixes2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: verify/bisect: stable regressions: first stable, then mainline docs: verify/bisect: describe how to use a build host docs: verify/bisect: explain testing reverts, patches and newer code docs: verify/bisect: proper headlines and more spacing docs: verify/bisect: add and fetch stable branches ahead of time docs: verify/bisect: use git switch, tag kernel, and various fixes
2024-04-19Documentation: qcom-pmu: Use /sys/bus/event_source/devices pathsJonathan Cameron
To allow setting an appropriate parent for the struct pmu device remove existing references to /sys/devices/ path. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412161057.14099-14-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2024-04-19Documentation: thunderx2-pmu: Use /sys/bus/event_source/devices pathsJonathan Cameron
To allow setting an appropriate parent for the struct pmu device remove existing references to /sys/devices/ path. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412161057.14099-11-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2024-04-19Documentation: xgene-pmu: Use /sys/bus/event_source/devices pathsJonathan Cameron
To allow setting an appropriate parent for the struct pmu device remove existing references to /sys/devices/ path. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412161057.14099-9-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2024-04-19Documentation: hns-pmu: Use /sys/bus/event_source/devices pathsJonathan Cameron
To allow setting an appropriate parent for the struct pmu device remove existing references to /sys/devices/ path. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412161057.14099-5-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2024-04-19Documentation: hisi-pmu: Drop reference to /sys/devices pathJonathan Cameron
Having assigned a parent to the device, the suggested path is no longer valid. As /sys/bus/event_sources based path is also provided, simply drop mention of alternative. Reviewed-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412161057.14099-3-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2024-04-18docs, cgroup: add entries for pids to cgroup-v2.rstXiu Jianfeng
This patch add two entries (pids.peak and pids.events) for pids controller, and also update pids.current because it's on non-root. Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2024-04-17s390: Map kernel at fixed location when KASLR is disabledAlexander Gordeev
Since kernel virtual and physical address spaces are uncoupled the kernel is mapped at the top of the virtual address space in case KASLR is disabled. That does not pose any issue with regard to the kernel booting and operation, but makes it difficult to use a generated vmlinux with some debugging tools (e.g. gdb), because the exact location of the kernel image in virtual memory is unknown. Make that location known and introduce CONFIG_KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE configuration option. A custom CONFIG_KERNEL_IMAGE_BASE value that would break the virtual memory layout leads to a build error. The kernel image size is defined by KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE macro and set to 512 MB, by analogy with x86. Suggested-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
2024-04-16dm-crypt: add the optional "high_priority" flagMikulas Patocka
When WQ_HIGHPRI was used for the dm-crypt kcryptd workqueue it was reported that dm-crypt performs badly when the system is loaded[1]. Because of reports of audio skipping, dm-crypt stopped using WQ_HIGHPRI with commit f612b2132db5 (Revert "dm crypt: use WQ_HIGHPRI for the IO and crypt workqueues"). But it has since been determined that WQ_HIGHPRI provides improved performance (with reduced latency) for highend systems with much more resources than those laptop/desktop users which suffered from the use of WQ_HIGHPRI. As such, add an option "high_priority" that allows the use of WQ_HIGHPRI for dm-crypt's workqueues and also sets the write_thread to nice level MIN_NICE (-20). This commit makes it optional, so that normal users won't be harmed by it. [1] https://listman.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2023-February/053410.html Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
2024-04-15rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu() latencyUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
A call to a synchronize_rcu() can be optimized from a latency point of view. Workloads which depend on this can benefit of it. The delay of wakeme_after_rcu() callback, which unblocks a waiter, depends on several factors: - how fast a process of offloading is started. Combination of: - !CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU/CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU; - !CONFIG_RCU_LAZY/CONFIG_RCU_LAZY; - other. - when started, invoking path is interrupted due to: - time limit; - need_resched(); - if limit is reached. - where in a nocb list it is located; - how fast previous callbacks completed; Example: 1. On our embedded devices i can easily trigger the scenario when it is a last in the list out of ~3600 callbacks: <snip> <...>-29 [001] d..1. 21950.145313: rcu_batch_start: rcu_preempt CBs=3613 bl=28 ... <...>-29 [001] ..... 21950.152578: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=00000000b2d6dee8 func=__free_vm_area_struct.cfi_jt <...>-29 [001] ..... 21950.152579: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=00000000a446f607 func=__free_vm_area_struct.cfi_jt <...>-29 [001] ..... 21950.152580: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=00000000a5cab03b func=__free_vm_area_struct.cfi_jt <...>-29 [001] ..... 21950.152581: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0000000013b7e5ee func=__free_vm_area_struct.cfi_jt <...>-29 [001] ..... 21950.152582: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=000000000a8ca6f9 func=__free_vm_area_struct.cfi_jt <...>-29 [001] ..... 21950.152583: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=000000008f162ca8 func=wakeme_after_rcu.cfi_jt <...>-29 [001] d..1. 21950.152625: rcu_batch_end: rcu_preempt CBs-invoked=3612 idle=.... <snip> 2. We use cpuset/cgroup to classify tasks and assign them into different cgroups. For example "backgrond" group which binds tasks only to little CPUs or "foreground" which makes use of all CPUs. Tasks can be migrated between groups by a request if an acceleration is needed. See below an example how "surfaceflinger" task gets migrated. Initially it is located in the "system-background" cgroup which allows to run only on little cores. In order to speed it up it can be temporary moved into "foreground" cgroup which allows to use big/all CPUs: cgroup_attach_task(): -> cgroup_migrate_execute() -> cpuset_can_attach() -> percpu_down_write() -> rcu_sync_enter() -> synchronize_rcu() -> now move tasks to the new cgroup. -> cgroup_migrate_finish() <snip> rcuop/1-29 [000] ..... 7030.528570: rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=00000000461605e0 func=wakeme_after_rcu.cfi_jt PERFD-SERVER-1855 [000] d..1. 7030.530293: cgroup_attach_task: dst_root=3 dst_id=22 dst_level=1 dst_path=/foreground pid=1900 comm=surfaceflinger TimerDispatch-2768 [002] d..5. 7030.537542: sched_migrate_task: comm=surfaceflinger pid=1900 prio=98 orig_cpu=0 dest_cpu=4 <snip> "Boosting a task" depends on synchronize_rcu() latency: - first trace shows a completion of synchronize_rcu(); - second shows attaching a task to a new group; - last shows a final step when migration occurs. 3. To address this drawback, maintain a separate track that consists of synchronize_rcu() callers only. After completion of a grace period users are deferred to a dedicated worker to process requests. 4. This patch reduces the latency of synchronize_rcu() approximately by ~30-40% on synthetic tests. The real test case, camera launch time, shows(time is in milliseconds): 1-run 542 vs 489 improvement 9% 2-run 540 vs 466 improvement 13% 3-run 518 vs 468 improvement 9% 4-run 531 vs 457 improvement 13% 5-run 548 vs 475 improvement 13% 6-run 509 vs 484 improvement 4% Synthetic test(no "noise" from other callbacks): Hardware: x86_64 64 CPUs, 64GB of memory Linux-6.6 - 10K tasks(simultaneous); - each task does(1000 loops) synchronize_rcu(); kfree(p); default: CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU: takes 54 seconds to complete all users; patch: CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU: takes 35 seconds to complete all users. Running 60K gives approximately same results on my setup. Please note it is without any interaction with another type of callbacks, otherwise it will impact a lot a default case. 5. By default it is disabled. To enable this perform one of the below sequence: echo 1 > /sys/module/rcutree/parameters/rcu_normal_wake_from_gp or pass a boot parameter "rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1" Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
2024-04-15docs: verify/bisect: stable regressions: first stable, then mainlineThorsten Leemhuis
Rearrange the instructions so that readers facing a regression within a stable or longterm series first test its latest release before testing mainline. This is less scary for some people. It also reduces the chance that something goes sideways for readers that compile their first kernel, as mainline can cause slightly more trouble. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/efd3cb9c68db450091021326bf9c334553df0ec2.1712647788.git.linux@leemhuis.info
2024-04-15docs: verify/bisect: describe how to use a build hostThorsten Leemhuis
Describe how to build kernels on another system (with and without cross-compiling), as building locally can be quite painfully on some slow systems. This is done in an add-on section, as it would make the step-by-step guide to complicated if this special case would be described there. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/288160cb4769e46a3280250ca71da0abc4aa002d.1712647788.git.linux@leemhuis.info
2024-04-15docs: verify/bisect: explain testing reverts, patches and newer codeThorsten Leemhuis
Rename 'Supplementary tasks' to 'Complementary tasks' while introducing a section 'Optional tasks: test reverts, patches, or later versions': the latter is something readers occasionally will have to do after reporting a bug and thus is best covered here. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dacf26a4c48e9e8f04ecbc77e0a74c9b2a6a1103.1712647788.git.linux@leemhuis.info
2024-04-15docs: verify/bisect: proper headlines and more spacingThorsten Leemhuis
Various small improvements and fixes: * Separate ref links from their target with a space for better readability. * Add a proper heading for the note at the end of the step-by-step guide. * Use proper 3rd and 4th level headlines in the reference section and add short intros for the 2nd level headlines that lacked one. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f59f0f235a2192ed93899a7338153e4cb71075f0.1712647788.git.linux@leemhuis.info
2024-04-15docs: verify/bisect: add and fetch stable branches ahead of timeThorsten Leemhuis
Add and fetch all required stable branches ahead of time. This fixes a bug, as readers that wanted to bisect a regression within a stable or longterm series otherwise did not have them available at the right time. This way also matches the flow somewhat better and avoids some "if you haven't already added it" phrases that otherwise become necessary in future changes. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57dcf312959476abe6151bf3d35eb79e3e9a83d1.1712647788.git.linux@leemhuis.info