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2025-04-17fs/dax: fix folio splitting issue by resetting old folio order + _nr_pagesDavid Hildenbrand
Alison reports an issue with fsdax when large extends end up using large ZONE_DEVICE folios: [ 417.796271] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000b00 [ 417.796982] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 417.797540] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 417.798123] PGD 2a5c5067 P4D 2a5c5067 PUD 2a5c6067 PMD 0 [ 417.798690] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 417.799178] CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 1515 Comm: mmap Tainted: ... [ 417.800150] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE [ 417.800583] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 417.801358] RIP: 0010:__lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x7e/0x250 [ 417.801948] Code: ... [ 417.803662] RSP: 0000:ffffc90002be3a08 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 417.804234] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000200 RCX: 0000000000000002 [ 417.804984] RDX: ffffffff815652d7 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff82a2beae [ 417.805689] RBP: ffffc90002be3a28 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 417.806384] R10: ffffea0007000040 R11: ffff888376ffe000 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 417.807099] R13: 0000000000000012 R14: ffff88807fe4ab40 R15: ffff888029210580 [ 417.807801] FS: 00007f339fa7a740(0000) GS:ffff8881fa9b9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 417.808570] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 417.809193] CR2: 0000000000000b00 CR3: 000000002a4f0004 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 [ 417.809925] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 417.810622] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 417.811353] Call Trace: [ 417.811709] <TASK> [ 417.812038] folio_add_file_rmap_ptes+0x143/0x230 [ 417.812566] insert_page_into_pte_locked+0x1ee/0x3c0 [ 417.813132] insert_page+0x78/0xf0 [ 417.813558] vmf_insert_page_mkwrite+0x55/0xa0 [ 417.814088] dax_fault_iter+0x484/0x7b0 [ 417.814542] dax_iomap_pte_fault+0x1ca/0x620 [ 417.815055] dax_iomap_fault+0x39/0x40 [ 417.815499] __xfs_write_fault+0x139/0x380 [ 417.815995] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x5e5/0x1a60 [ 417.816483] xfs_write_fault+0x41/0x50 [ 417.816966] xfs_filemap_fault+0x3b/0xe0 [ 417.817424] __do_fault+0x31/0x180 [ 417.817859] __handle_mm_fault+0xee1/0x1a60 [ 417.818325] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20 [ 417.818844] handle_mm_fault+0xe1/0x2b0 [...] The issue is that when we split a large ZONE_DEVICE folio to order-0 ones, we don't reset the order/_nr_pages. As folio->_nr_pages overlays page[1]->memcg_data, once page[1] is a folio, it suddenly looks like it has folio->memcg_data set. And we never manually initialize folio->memcg_data in fsdax code, because we never expect it to be set at all. When __lruvec_stat_mod_folio() then stumbles over such a folio, it tries to use folio->memcg_data (because it's non-NULL) but it does not actually point at a memcg, resulting in the problem. Alison also observed that these folios sometimes have "locked" set, which is rather concerning (folios locked from the beginning ...). The reason is that the order for large folios is stored in page[1]->flags, which become the folio->flags of a new small folio. Let's fix it by adding a folio helper to clear order/_nr_pages for splitting purposes. Maybe we should reinitialize other large folio flags / folio members as well when splitting, because they might similarly cause harm once page[1] becomes a folio? At least other flags in PAGE_FLAGS_SECOND should not be set for fsdax, so at least page[1]->flags might be as expected with this fix. From a quick glimpse, initializing ->mapping, ->pgmap and ->share should re-initialize most things from a previous page[1] used by large folios that fsdax cares about. For example folio->private might not get reinitialized, but maybe that's not relevant -- no traces of it's use in fsdax code. Needs a closer look. Another thing that should be considered in the future is performing similar checks as we perform in free_tail_page_prepare() -- checking pincount etc. -- when freeing a large fsdax folio. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410091020.119116-1-david@redhat.com Fixes: 4996fc547f5b ("mm: let _folio_nr_pages overlay memcg_data in first tail page") Fixes: 38607c62b34b ("fs/dax: properly refcount fs dax pages") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reported-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com> Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Z_W9Oeg-D9FhImf3@aschofie-mobl2.lan Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Tested-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-04-03Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-04-02-22-07' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "mm: fixes for fallouts from mem_init() cleanup" from Mike Rapoport fixes a couple of issues with the just-merged "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" series - The series "MAINTAINERS: add my isub-entries to MM part." from Mike Rapoport does some maintenance on MAINTAINERS - The series "remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc()" from Qi Zheng does some cleanup work to the page mapping code - The series "mseal system mappings" from Jeff Xu permits sealing of "system mappings", such as vdso, vvar, vvar_vclock, vectors (arm compat-mode), sigpage (arm compat-mode) - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches * tag 'mm-stable-2025-04-02-22-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (31 commits) mseal sysmap: add arch-support txt mseal sysmap: enable s390 selftest: test system mappings are sealed mseal sysmap: update mseal.rst mseal sysmap: uprobe mapping mseal sysmap: enable arm64 mseal sysmap: enable x86-64 mseal sysmap: generic vdso vvar mapping selftests: x86: test_mremap_vdso: skip if vdso is msealed mseal sysmap: kernel config and header change mm: pgtable: remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc() x86: pgtable: convert to use tlb_remove_ptdesc() riscv: pgtable: unconditionally use tlb_remove_ptdesc() mm: pgtable: convert some architectures to use tlb_remove_ptdesc() mm: pgtable: change pt parameter of tlb_remove_ptdesc() to struct ptdesc* mm: pgtable: make generic tlb_remove_table() use struct ptdesc microblaze/mm: put mm_cmdline_setup() in .init.text section mm/memory_hotplug: fix call folio_test_large with tail page in do_migrate_range MAINTAINERS: mm: add entry for secretmem MAINTAINERS: mm: add entry for numa memblocks and numa emulation ...
2025-04-01Merge tag 'vfio-v6.15-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfioLinus Torvalds
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - Relax IGD support code to match display class device rather than specifically requiring a VGA device (Tomita Moeko) - Accelerate DMA mapping of device MMIO by iterating at PMD and PUD levels to take advantage of huge pfnmap support added in v6.12 (Alex Williamson) - Extend virtio vfio-pci variant driver to include migration support for block devices where enabled by the PF (Yishai Hadas) - Virtualize INTx PIN register for devices where the platform does not route legacy PCI interrupts for the device and the interrupt is reported as IRQ_NOTCONNECTED (Alex Williamson) * tag 'vfio-v6.15-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: vfio/pci: Handle INTx IRQ_NOTCONNECTED vfio/virtio: Enable support for virtio-block live migration vfio/type1: Use mapping page mask for pfnmaps mm: Provide address mask in struct follow_pfnmap_args vfio/type1: Use consistent types for page counts vfio/type1: Use vfio_batch for vaddr_get_pfns() vfio/type1: Convert all vaddr_get_pfns() callers to use vfio_batch vfio/type1: Catch zero from pin_user_pages_remote() vfio/pci: match IGD devices in display controller class
2025-04-01mseal sysmap: kernel config and header changeJeff Xu
Patch series "mseal system mappings", v9. As discussed during mseal() upstream process [1], mseal() protects the VMAs of a given virtual memory range against modifications, such as the read/write (RW) and no-execute (NX) bits. For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see mseal.rst [2]. The mseal() is useful to mitigate memory corruption issues where a corrupted pointer is passed to a memory management system. For example, such an attacker primitive can break control-flow integrity guarantees since read-only memory that is supposed to be trusted can become writable or .text pages can get remapped. The system mappings are readonly only, memory sealing can protect them from ever changing to writable or unmmap/remapped as different attributes. System mappings such as vdso, vvar, vvar_vclock, vectors (arm compat-mode), sigpage (arm compat-mode), are created by the kernel during program initialization, and could be sealed after creation. Unlike the aforementioned mappings, the uprobe mapping is not established during program startup. However, its lifetime is the same as the process's lifetime [3]. It could be sealed from creation. The vsyscall on x86-64 uses a special address (0xffffffffff600000), which is outside the mm managed range. This means mprotect, munmap, and mremap won't work on the vsyscall. Since sealing doesn't enhance the vsyscall's security, it is skipped in this patch. If we ever seal the vsyscall, it is probably only for decorative purpose, i.e. showing the 'sl' flag in the /proc/pid/smaps. For this patch, it is ignored. It is important to note that the CHECKPOINT_RESTORE feature (CRIU) may alter the system mappings during restore operations. UML(User Mode Linux) and gVisor, rr are also known to change the vdso/vvar mappings. Consequently, this feature cannot be universally enabled across all systems. As such, CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS is disabled by default. To support mseal of system mappings, architectures must define CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS and update their special mappings calls to pass mseal flag. Additionally, architectures must confirm they do not unmap/remap system mappings during the process lifetime. The existence of this flag for an architecture implies that it does not require the remapping of thest system mappings during process lifetime, so sealing these mappings is safe from a kernel perspective. This version covers x86-64 and arm64 archiecture as minimum viable feature. While no specific CPU hardware features are required for enable this feature on an archiecture, memory sealing requires a 64-bit kernel. Other architectures can choose whether or not to adopt this feature. Currently, I'm not aware of any instances in the kernel code that actively munmap/mremap a system mapping without a request from userspace. The PPC does call munmap when _install_special_mapping fails for vdso; however, it's uncertain if this will ever fail for PPC - this needs to be investigated by PPC in the future [4]. The UML kernel can add this support when KUnit tests require it [5]. In this version, we've improved the handling of system mapping sealing from previous versions, instead of modifying the _install_special_mapping function itself, which would affect all architectures, we now call _install_special_mapping with a sealing flag only within the specific architecture that requires it. This targeted approach offers two key advantages: 1) It limits the code change's impact to the necessary architectures, and 2) It aligns with the software architecture by keeping the core memory management within the mm layer, while delegating the decision of sealing system mappings to the individual architecture, which is particularly relevant since 32-bit architectures never require sealing. Prior to this patch series, we explored sealing special mappings from userspace using glibc's dynamic linker. This approach revealed several issues: - The PT_LOAD header may report an incorrect length for vdso, (smaller than its actual size). The dynamic linker, which relies on PT_LOAD information to determine mapping size, would then split and partially seal the vdso mapping. Since each architecture has its own vdso/vvar code, fixing this in the kernel would require going through each archiecture. Our initial goal was to enable sealing readonly mappings, e.g. .text, across all architectures, sealing vdso from kernel since creation appears to be simpler than sealing vdso at glibc. - The [vvar] mapping header only contains address information, not length information. Similar issues might exist for other special mappings. - Mappings like uprobe are not covered by the dynamic linker, and there is no effective solution for them. This feature's security enhancements will benefit ChromeOS, Android, and other high security systems. Testing: This feature was tested on ChromeOS and Android for both x86-64 and ARM64. - Enable sealing and verify vdso/vvar, sigpage, vector are sealed properly, i.e. "sl" shown in the smaps for those mappings, and mremap is blocked. - Passing various automation tests (e.g. pre-checkin) on ChromeOS and Android to ensure the sealing doesn't affect the functionality of Chromebook and Android phone. I also tested the feature on Ubuntu on x86-64: - With config disabled, vdso/vvar is not sealed, - with config enabled, vdso/vvar is sealed, and booting up Ubuntu is OK, normal operations such as browsing the web, open/edit doc are OK. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240415163527.626541-1-jeffxu@chromium.org/ [1] Link: Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABi2SkU9BRUnqf70-nksuMCQ+yyiWjo3fM4XkRkL-NrCZxYAyg@mail.gmail.com/ [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABi2SkV6JJwJeviDLsq9N4ONvQ=EFANsiWkgiEOjyT9TQSt+HA@mail.gmail.com/ [4] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202502251035.239B85A93@keescook/ [5] This patch (of 7): Provide infrastructure to mseal system mappings. Establish two kernel configs (CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS, ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS) and VM_SEALED_SYSMAP macro for future patches. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250305021711.3867874-1-jeffxu@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250305021711.3867874-2-jeffxu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Cc: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Elliot Hughes <enh@google.com> Cc: Florian Faineli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@kernel.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes <jorgelo@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Röttger <sroettger@google.com> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-04-01Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide compile-time checking of percpu area accesses. This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect. - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code. - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now succeed. - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated for half a year and nobody has complained. - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime effects are anticipated. - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark. - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan noticed when working on the swap code. - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak user-visible output. - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's handling of large folios. - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk() behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of kdamond's walking of DAMON regions. - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory work for the future removal of page structure fields. - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter" from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by huge page sizes. - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings" from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and file-backed mappings. - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping for pte-mapped large folios. - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one microbenchmark. - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON docs. - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed when using CMA on large machines. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages" from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the page's mapped/unmapped status. - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression operations preemptibly. - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan encountered while runnimg our selftests. - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to determine whether a particular page is a guard page. - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply wasn't being effective. - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this code. - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP Kconfig logic. - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for DAMON's aggregation interval tuning. - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize vmalloc. - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the code easier to follow. - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which we accidentally added late last year. - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page initialization. - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb" from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page balancing code. - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention is updated accordingly. - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc. - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as it claims. - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case checks. - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code. - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped exclusively into a single MM. - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters. - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical. - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs access to DAMON internal data. - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and cmdline options. - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios are generated. - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during an xarray split. - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code. - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the page allocator code. - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work. - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling" from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai has observed in the memory-failure implementation. - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing fragmentation. - The series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from Matthew Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs. - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages" from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages, separately for file and anon pages. - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim statistics. - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits) mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex() x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages > 2M docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page() ...
2025-03-31Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt: - Restructure the persistent memory to have a "scratch" area Instead of hard coding the KASLR offset in the persistent memory by the ring buffer, push that work up to the callers of the persistent memory as they are the ones that need this information. The offsets and such is not important to the ring buffer logic and it should not be part of that. A scratch pad is now created when the caller allocates a ring buffer from persistent memory by stating how much memory it needs to save. - Allow where modules are loaded to be saved in the new scratch pad Save the addresses of modules when they are loaded into the persistent memory scratch pad. - A new module_for_each_mod() helper function was created With the acknowledgement of the module maintainers a new module helper function was created to iterate over all the currently loaded modules. This has a callback to be called for each module. This is needed for when tracing is started in the persistent buffer and the currently loaded modules need to be saved in the scratch area. - Expose the last boot information where the kernel and modules were loaded The last_boot_info file is updated to print out the addresses of where the kernel "_text" location was loaded from a previous boot, as well as where the modules are loaded. If the buffer is recording the current boot, it only prints "# Current" so that it does not expose the KASLR offset of the currently running kernel. - Allow the persistent ring buffer to be released (freed) To have this in production environments, where the kernel command line can not be changed easily, the ring buffer needs to be freed when it is not going to be used. The memory for the buffer will always be allocated at boot up, but if the system isn't going to enable tracing, the memory needs to be freed. Allow it to be freed and added back to the kernel memory pool. - Allow stack traces to print the function names in the persistent buffer Now that the modules are saved in the persistent ring buffer, if the same modules are loaded, the printing of the function names will examine the saved modules. If the module is found in the scratch area and is also loaded, then it will do the offset shift and use kallsyms to display the function name. If the address is not found, it simply displays the address from the previous boot in hex. * tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Use _text and the kernel offset in last_boot_info tracing: Show last module text symbols in the stacktrace ring-buffer: Remove the unused variable bmeta tracing: Skip update_last_data() if cleared and remove active check for save_mod() tracing: Initialize scratch_size to zero to prevent UB tracing: Fix a compilation error without CONFIG_MODULES tracing: Freeable reserved ring buffer mm/memblock: Add reserved memory release function tracing: Update modules to persistent instances when loaded tracing: Show module names and addresses of last boot tracing: Have persistent trace instances save module addresses module: Add module_for_each_mod() function tracing: Have persistent trace instances save KASLR offset ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_meta_scratch() ring-buffer: Add buffer meta data for persistent ring buffer ring-buffer: Use kaslr address instead of text delta ring-buffer: Fix bytes_dropped calculation issue
2025-03-30Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: "For this merge window we're splitting BPF pull request into three for higher visibility: main changes, res_spin_lock, try_alloc_pages. These are the main BPF changes: - Add DFA-based live registers analysis to improve verification of programs with loops (Eduard Zingerman) - Introduce load_acquire and store_release BPF instructions and add x86, arm64 JIT support (Peilin Ye) - Fix loop detection logic in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman) - Drop unnecesary lock in bpf_map_inc_not_zero() (Eric Dumazet) - Add kfunc for populating cpumask bits (Emil Tsalapatis) - Convert various shell based tests to selftests/bpf/test_progs format (Bastien Curutchet) - Allow passing referenced kptrs into struct_ops callbacks (Amery Hung) - Add a flag to LSM bpf hook to facilitate bpf program signing (Blaise Boscaccy) - Track arena arguments in kfuncs (Ihor Solodrai) - Add copy_remote_vm_str() helper for reading strings from remote VM and bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfunc (Jordan Rome) - Add support for timed may_goto instruction (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Allow bpf_get_netns_cookie() int cgroup_skb programs (Mahe Tardy) - Reduce bpf_cgrp_storage_busy false positives when accessing cgroup local storage (Martin KaFai Lau) - Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy() kfunc (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Allow retrieving BTF data with BTF token (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Add BPF kfuncs to set and get xattrs with 'security.bpf.' prefix (Song Liu) - Reject attaching programs to noreturn functions (Yafang Shao) - Introduce pre-order traversal of cgroup bpf programs (Yonghong Song)" * tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (186 commits) selftests/bpf: Add selftests for load-acquire/store-release when register number is invalid bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read in check_atomic_load/store() libbpf: Add namespace for errstr making it libbpf_errstr bpf: Add struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_aux selftests/bpf: Sanitize pointer prior fclose() selftests/bpf: Migrate test_xdp_vlan.sh into test_progs selftests/bpf: test_xdp_vlan: Rename BPF sections bpf: clarify a misleading verifier error message selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching fexit to __noreturn functions bpf: Reject attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions bpf: Only fails the busy counter check in bpf_cgrp_storage_get if it creates storage bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types. bpftool: Using the right format specifiers bpftool: Add -Wformat-signedness flag to detect format errors selftests/bpf: Test freplace from user namespace libbpf: Pass BPF token from find_prog_btf_id to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID bpf: Return prog btf_id without capable check bpf: BPF token support for BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID bpf, x86: Fix objtool warning for timed may_goto bpf: Check map->record at the beginning of check_and_free_fields() ...
2025-03-28mm/memblock: Add reserved memory release functionMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Add reserve_mem_release_by_name() to release a reserved memory region with a given name. This allows us to release reserved memory which is defined by kernel cmdline, after boot. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173989133862.230693.14094993331347437600.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-03-26Merge tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados: - Move vm_table members out of kernel/sysctl.c All vm_table array members have moved to their respective subsystems leading to the removal of vm_table from kernel/sysctl.c. This increases modularity by placing the ctl_tables closer to where they are actually used and at the same time reducing the chances of merge conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c. - ctl_table range fixes Replace the proc_handler function that checks variable ranges in coredump_sysctls and vdso_table with the one that actually uses the extra{1,2} pointers as min/max values. This tightens the range of the values that users can pass into the kernel effectively preventing {under,over}flows. - Misc fixes Correct grammar errors and typos in test messages. Update sysctl files in MAINTAINERS. Constified and removed array size in declaration for alignment_tbl * tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (22 commits) selftests/sysctl: fix wording of help messages selftests: fix spelling/grammar errors in sysctl/sysctl.sh MAINTAINERS: Update sysctl file list in MAINTAINERS sysctl: Fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler sysctl: remove unneeded include sysctl: remove the vm_table sh: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c x86: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c sunrpc: simplify rpcauth_cache_shrink_count() fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.c fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.c security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c mm: mmap: move sysctl to mm/mmap.c mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.c mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.c mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.c mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c ...
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Add CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS infrastucture: - Catch invalid modes in open - Use the new debug macros in inode_set_cached_link() - Use debug-only asserts around fd allocation and install - Place f_ref to 3rd cache line in struct file to resolve false sharing Cleanups: - Start using anon_inode_getfile_fmode() helper in various places - Don't take f_lock during SEEK_CUR if exclusion is guaranteed by f_pos_lock - Add unlikely() to kcmp() - Remove legacy ->remount_fs method from ecryptfs after port to the new mount api - Remove invalidate_inodes() in favour of evict_inodes() - Simplify ep_busy_loopER by removing unused argument - Avoid mmap sem relocks when coredumping with many missing pages - Inline getname() - Inline new_inode_pseudo() and de-staticize alloc_inode() - Dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1 - Consistently deref the files table with rcu_dereference_raw() - Dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps - Use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add() - Drop the lock trip around I_NEW wake up in evict() - Load the ->i_sb pointer once in inode_sb_list_{add,del} - Predict not reaching the limit in alloc_empty_file() - Tidy up do_sys_openat2() with likely/unlikely - Call inode_sb_list_add() outside of inode hash lock - Sort out fd allocation vs dup2 race commentary - Turn page_offset() into a wrapper around folio_pos() - Remove locking in exportfs around ->get_parent() call - try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks in autofs - Fix return type of several functions from long to int in open - Fix return type of several functions from long to int in ioctls Fixes: - Fix watch queue accounting mismatch" * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (30 commits) fs: sort out fd allocation vs dup2 race commentary, take 2 fs: call inode_sb_list_add() outside of inode hash lock fs: tidy up do_sys_openat2() with likely/unlikely fs: predict not reaching the limit in alloc_empty_file() fs: load the ->i_sb pointer once in inode_sb_list_{add,del} fs: drop the lock trip around I_NEW wake up in evict() fs: use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add() VFS/autofs: try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks fs: dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps fs: consistently deref the files table with rcu_dereference_raw() exportfs: remove locking around ->get_parent() call. fs: use debug-only asserts around fd allocation and install fs: dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1 vfs: Remove invalidate_inodes() ecryptfs: remove NULL remount_fs from super_operations watch_queue: fix pipe accounting mismatch fs: place f_ref to 3rd cache line in struct file to resolve false sharing epoll: simplify ep_busy_loop by removing always 0 argument fs: Turn page_offset() into a wrapper around folio_pos() kcmp: improve performance adding an unlikely hint to task comparisons ...
2025-03-17Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-03-17-20-09' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull misc hotfixes from Andrew Morton: "15 hotfixes. 7 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.13 issues or aren't considered necessary for -stable kernels. 13 are for MM and the other two are for squashfs and procfs. All are singletons. Please see the individual changelogs for details" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-03-17-20-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm/page_alloc: fix memory accept before watermarks gets initialized mm: decline to manipulate the refcount on a slab page memcg: drain obj stock on cpu hotplug teardown mm/huge_memory: drop beyond-EOF folios with the right number of refs selftests/mm: run_vmtests.sh: fix half_ufd_size_MB calculation mm: fix error handling in __filemap_get_folio() with FGP_NOWAIT mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak from offline cgroup mm/vma: do not register private-anon mappings with khugepaged during mmap squashfs: fix invalid pointer dereference in squashfs_cache_delete mm/migrate: fix shmem xarray update during migration mm/hugetlb: fix surplus pages in dissolve_free_huge_page() mm/damon/core: initialize damos->walk_completed in damon_new_scheme() mm/damon: respect core layer filters' allowance decision on ops layer filemap: move prefaulting out of hot write path proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode()
2025-03-17arch, mm: introduce arch_mm_preinitMike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Currently, implementation of mem_init() in every architecture consists of one or more of the following: * initializations that must run before page allocator is active, for instance swiotlb_init() * a call to memblock_free_all() to release all the memory to the buddy allocator * initializations that must run after page allocator is ready and there is no arch-specific hook other than mem_init() for that, like for example register_page_bootmem_info() in x86 and sparc64 or simple setting of mem_init_done = 1 in several architectures * a bunch of semi-related stuff that apparently had no better place to live, for example a ton of BUILD_BUG_ON()s in parisc. Introduce arch_mm_preinit() that will be the first thing called from mm_core_init(). On architectures that have initializations that must happen before the page allocator is ready, move those into arch_mm_preinit() along with the code that does not depend on ordering with page allocator setup. On several architectures this results in reduction of mem_init() to a single call to memblock_free_all() that allows its consolidation next. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-13-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> [x86] Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Guo Ren (csky) <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17arch, mm: streamline HIGHMEM freeingMike Rapoport (Microsoft)
All architectures that support HIGHMEM have their code that frees high memory pages to the buddy allocator while __free_memory_core() is limited to freeing only low memory. There is no actual reason for that. The memory map is completely ready by the time memblock_free_all() is called and high pages can be released to the buddy allocator along with low memory. Remove low memory limit from __free_memory_core() and drop per-architecture code that frees high memory pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-12-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> [x86] Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Guo Ren (csky) <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17arch, mm: set max_mapnr when allocating memory map for FLATMEMMike Rapoport (Microsoft)
max_mapnr is essentially the size of the memory map for systems that use FLATMEM. There is no reason to calculate it in each and every architecture when it's anyway calculated in alloc_node_mem_map(). Drop setting of max_mapnr from architecture code and set it once in alloc_node_mem_map(). While on it, move definition of mem_map and max_mapnr to mm/mm_init.c so there won't be two copies for MMU and !MMU variants. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-10-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> [x86] Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Guo Ren (csky) <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared()David Hildenbrand
Let's reuse our new MM ownership tracking infrastructure for large folios to make folio_likely_mapped_shared() never return false negatives -- never indicating "not mapped shared" although the folio *is* mapped shared. With that, we can rename it to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() and get rid of the dependency on the mapcount of the first folio page. The semantics are now arguably clearer: no mixture of "false negatives" and "false positives", only the remaining possibility for "false positives". Thoroughly document the new semantics. We might now detect that a large folio is "maybe mapped shared" although it *no longer* is -- but once was. Now, if more than two MMs mapped a folio at the same time, and the MM mapping the folio exclusively at the end is not one tracked in the two folio MM slots, we will detect the folio as "maybe mapped shared". For anonymous folios, usually (except weird corner cases) all PTEs that target a "maybe mapped shared" folio are R/O. As soon as a child process would write to them (iow, actively use them), we would CoW and effectively replace these PTEs. Most cases (below) are not expected to really matter with large anonymous folios for this reason. Most importantly, there will be no change at all for: * small folios * hugetlb folios * PMD-mapped PMD-sized THPs (single mapping) This change has the potential to affect existing callers of folio_likely_mapped_shared() -> folio_maybe_mapped_shared(): (1) fs/proc/task_mmu.c: no change (hugetlb) (2) khugepaged counts PTEs that target shared folios towards max_ptes_shared (default: HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2), meaning we could skip a collapse where we would have previously collapsed. This only applies to anonymous folios and is not expected to matter in practice. Worth noting that this change sorts out case (A) documented in commit 1bafe96e89f0 ("mm/khugepaged: replace page_mapcount() check by folio_likely_mapped_shared()") by removing the possibility for "false negatives". (3) MADV_COLD / MADV_PAGEOUT / MADV_FREE will not try splitting PTE-mapped THPs that are considered shared but not fully covered by the requested range, consequently not processing them. PMD-mapped PMD-sized THP are not affected, or when all PTEs are covered. These functions are usually only called on anon/file folios that are exclusively mapped most of the time (no other file mappings or no fork()), so the "false negatives" are not expected to matter in practice. (4) mbind() / migrate_pages() / move_pages() will refuse to migrate shared folios unless MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is effective (requires CAP_SYS_NICE). We will now reject some folios that could be migrated. Similar to (3), especially with MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, so this is not expected to matter in practice. Note that cpuset_migrate_mm_workfn() calls do_migrate_pages() with MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL. (5) NUMA hinting mm/migrate.c:migrate_misplaced_folio_prepare() will skip file folios that are probably shared libraries (-> "mapped shared" and executable). This check would have detected it as a shared library at some point (at least 3 MMs mapping it), so detecting it afterwards does not sound wrong (still a shared library). Not expected to matter. mm/memory.c:numa_migrate_check() will indicate TNF_SHARED in MAP_SHARED file mappings when encountering a shared folio. Similar reasoning, not expected to matter. mm/mprotect.c:change_pte_range() will skip folios detected as shared in CoW mappings. Similarly, this is not expected to matter in practice, but if it would ever be a problem we could relax that check a bit (e.g., basing it on the average page-mapcount in a folio), because it was only an optimization when many (e.g., 288) processes were mapping the same folios -- see commit 859d4adc3415 ("mm: numa: do not trap faults on shared data section pages.") (6) mm/rmap.c:folio_referenced_one() will skip exclusive swapbacked folios in dying processes. Applies to anonymous folios only. Without "false negatives", we'll now skip all actually shared ones. Skipping ones that are actually exclusive won't really matter, it's a pure optimization, and is not expected to matter in practice. In theory, one can detect the problematic scenario: folio_mapcount() > 0 and no folio MM slot is occupied ("state unknown"). One could reset the MM slots while doing an rmap walk, which migration / folio split already do when setting everything up. Further, when batching PTEs we might naturally learn about a owner (e.g., folio_mapcount() == nr_ptes) and could update the owner. However, we'll defer that until the scenarios where it would really matter are clear. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-15-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: move _entire_mapcount in folio to page[2] on 32bitDavid Hildenbrand
Let's free up some space on 32bit in page[1] by moving the _pincount to page[2]. Ordinary folios only use the entire mapcount with PMD mappings, so order-1 folios don't apply. Similarly, hugetlb folios are always larger than order-1, turning the entire mapcount essentially unused for all order-1 folios. Moving it to order-1 folios will not change anything. On 32bit, simply check in folio_entire_mapcount() whether we have an order-1 folio, and return 0 in that case. Note that THPs on 32bit are not particularly common (and we don't care too much about performance), but we want to keep it working reliably, because likely we want to use large folios there as well in the future, independent of PMD leaf support. Once we dynamically allocate "struct folio", the 32bit specifics will go away again; even small folios could then have a pincount. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-7-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: move _pincount in folio to page[2] on 32bitDavid Hildenbrand
Let's free up some space on 32bit in page[1] by moving the _pincount to page[2]. For order-1 folios (never anon folios!) on 32bit, we will now also use the GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS approach. A fully-mapped order-1 folio requires 2 references. With GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS being 1024, we'd detect such folios as "maybe pinned" with 512 full mappings, instead of 1024 for order-0. As anon folios are out of the picture (which are the most relevant users of checking for pinnings on *mapped* pages) and we are talking about 32bit, this is not expected to cause any trouble. In __dump_page(), copy one additional folio page if we detect a folio with an order > 1, so we can dump the pincount on order > 1 folios reliably. Note that THPs on 32bit are not particularly common (and we don't care too much about performance), but we want to keep it working reliably, because likely we want to use large folios there as well in the future, independent of PMD leaf support. Once we dynamically allocate "struct folio", fortunately the 32bit specifics will likely go away again; even small folios could then have a pincount and folio_has_pincount() would essentially always return "true". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-6-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: let _folio_nr_pages overlay memcg_data in first tail pageDavid Hildenbrand
Let's free up some more of the "unconditionally available on 64BIT" space in order-1 folios by letting _folio_nr_pages overlay memcg_data in the first tail page (second folio page). Consequently, we have the optimization now whenever we have CONFIG_MEMCG, independent of 64BIT. We have to make sure that page->memcg on tail pages does not return "surprises". page_memcg_check() already properly refuses PageTail(). Let's do that earlier in print_page_owner_memcg() to avoid printing wrong "Slab cache page" information. No other code should touch that field on tail pages of compound pages. Reset the "_nr_pages" to 0 when splitting folios, or when freeing them back to the buddy (to avoid false page->memcg_data "bad page" reports). Note that in __split_huge_page(), folio_nr_pages() would stop working already as soon as we start messing with the subpages. Most kernel configs should have at least CONFIG_MEMCG enabled, even if disabled at runtime. 64byte "struct memmap" is what we usually have on 64BIT. While at it, rename "_folio_nr_pages" to "_nr_pages". Hopefully memdescs / dynamically allocating "strut folio" in the future will further clean this up, e.g., making _nr_pages available in all configs and maybe even in small folios. Doing that should be fairly easy on top of this change. [david@redhat.com: make "make htmldoc" happy] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a97f8a91-ec41-4796-81e3-7c9e0e491ba4@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-4-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: factor out large folio handling from folio_nr_pages() into ↵David Hildenbrand
folio_large_nr_pages() Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. While at it, let's consistently return a "long" value from all these similar functions. Note that we cannot use "unsigned int" (even though _folio_nr_pages is of that type), because it would break some callers that do stuff like "-folio_nr_pages()". Both "int" or "unsigned long" would work as well. Maybe in the future we'll have the nr_pages readily available for all large folios, maybe even for small folios, or maybe for none. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: factor out large folio handling from folio_order() into folio_large_order()David Hildenbrand
Patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT", v3. Let's add an "easy" way to decide -- without false positives, without page-mapcounts and without page table/rmap scanning -- whether a large folio is "certainly mapped exclusively" into a single MM, or whether it "maybe mapped shared" into multiple MMs. Use that information to implement Copy-on-Write reuse, to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_share(), and to introduce a kernel config option that lets us not use+maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. The bigger picture was presented at LSF/MM [1]. This series is effectively a follow-up on my early work [2], which implemented a more precise, but also more complicated, way to identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" into multiple MMs or "mapped exclusively" into a single MM. 1 Patch Organization ==================== Patch #1 -> #6: make more room in order-1 folios, so we have two "unsigned long" available for our purposes Patch #7 -> #11: preparations Patch #12: MM owner tracking for large folios Patch #13: COW reuse for PTE-mapped anon THP Patch #14: folio_maybe_mapped_shared() Patch #15 -> #20: introduce and implement CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 2 MM owner tracking =================== We assign each MM a unique ID ("MM ID"), to be able to squeeze more information in our folios. On 32bit we use 15-bit IDs, on 64bit we use 31-bit IDs. For each large folios, we now store two MM-ID+mapcount ("slot") combinations: * mm0_id + mm0_mapcount * mm1_id + mm1_mapcount On 32bit, we use a 16-bit per-MM mapcount, on 64bit an ordinary 32bit mapcount. This way, we require 2x "unsigned long" on 32bit and 64bit for both slots. Paired with the large mapcount, we can reliably identify whether one of these MMs is the current owner (-> owns all mappings) or even holds all folio references (-> owns all mappings, and all references are from mappings). As long as only two MMs map folio pages at a time, we can reliably and precisely identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" or "mapped exclusively". Any additional MM that starts mapping the folio while there are no free slots becomes an "untracked MM". If one such "untracked MM" is the last one mapping a folio exclusively, we will not detect the folio as "mapped exclusively" but instead as "maybe mapped shared". (exception: only a single mapping remains) So that's where the approach gets imprecise. For now, we use a bit-spinlock to sync the large mapcount + slots, and make sure we do keep the machinery fast, to not degrade (un)map performance drastically: for example, we make sure to only use a single atomic (when grabbing the bit-spinlock), like we would already perform when updating the large mapcount. 3 CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT ========================= patch #15 -> #20 spell out and document what exactly is affected when not maintaining the per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. Most importantly, as we cannot maintain folio->_nr_pages_mapped anymore when (un)mapping pages, we'll account a complete folio as mapped if a single page is mapped. In addition, we'll not detect partially mapped anonymous folios as such in all cases yet. Likely less relevant changes include that we might now under-estimate the USS (Unique Set Size) of a process, but never over-estimate it. The goal is to make CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT the default at some point, to then slowly make it the only option, as we learn about real-life impacts and possible ways to mitigate them. 4 Performance ============= Detailed performance numbers were included in v1 [3], and not that much changed between v1 and v2. I did plenty of measurements on different systems in the meantime, that all revealed slightly different results. The pte-mapped-folio micro-benchmarks [4] are fairly sensitive to code layout changes on some systems. Especially the fork() benchmark started being more-shaky-than-before on recent kernels for some reason. In summary, with my micro-benchmarks: * Small folios are not impacted. * CoW performance seems to be mostly unchanged across all folios sizes. * CoW reuse performance of large folios now matches CoW reuse performance of small folios, because we now actually implement the CoW reuse optimization. On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R I measured a ~65% reduction in runtime, on an arm64 system I measured ~54% reduction. * munmap() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~30% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~70% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * munmao() performance very slightly (couple percent) degrades without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT for smaller folios. For larger folios, there seems to be no change at all. * fork() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~20% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~10% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * While fork() performance without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT seems to be almost unchanged on some systems, I saw some degradation for smaller folios on the AmpereOne A192-32X. I did not investigate the details yet, but I suspect code layout changes or suboptimal code placement / inlining. I'm not to worried about the fork() micro-benchmarks for smaller folios given how shaky the results are lately and by how much we improved fork() performance recently. I also ran case-anon-cow-rand and case-anon-cow-seq part of vm-scalability, to assess the scalability and the impact of the bit-spinlock. My measurements on a two 2-socket 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU revealed no significant changes. Similarly, running these benchmarks with 2 MiB THPs enabled on the AmpereOne A192-32X with 192 cores, I got < 1% difference with < 1% stdev, which is nice. So far, I did not get my hands on a similarly large system with multiple sockets. I found no other fitting scalability benchmarks that seem to really hammer on concurrent mapping/unmapping of large folio pages like case-anon-cow-seq does. 5 Concerns ========== 5.1 Bit spinlock ---------------- I'm not quite happy about the bit-spinlock, but so far it does not seem to affect scalability in my measurements. If it ever becomes a problem we could either investigate improving the locking, or simply stopping the MM tracking once there are "too many mappings" and simply assume that the folio is "mapped shared" until it was freed. This would be similar (but slightly different) to the "0,1,2,stopped" counting idea Willy had at some point. Adding that logic to "stop tracking" adds more code to the hot path, so I avoided that for now. 5.2 folio_maybe_mapped_shared() ------------------------------- I documented the change from folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() quite extensively. If we run into surprises, I have some ideas on how to resolve them. For now, I think we should be fine. 5.3 Added code to map/unmap hot path ------------------------------------ So far, it looks like the added code on the rmap hot path does not really seem to matter much in the bigger picture. I'd like to further reduce it (and possibly improve fork() performance further), but I don't easily see how right now. Well, and I am out of puff 🙂 Having that said, alternatives I considered (e.g., per-MM per-folio mapcount) would add a lot more overhead to these hot paths. 6 Future Work ============= 6.1 Large mapcount ------------------ It would be very handy if the large mapcount would count how often folio pages are actually mapped into page tables: a PMD on x86-64 would count 512 times. Calculating the average per-page mapcount will be easy, and remapping (PMD->PTE) folios would get even faster. That would also remove the need for the entire mapcount (except for PMD-sized folios for memory statistics reasons ...), and allow for mapping folios larger than PMDs (e.g., 4 MiB) easily. We likely would also have to take the same number of folio references to make our folio_mapcount() == folio_ref_count() work, and we'd want to be able to avoid mapcount+refcount overflows: this could already become an issue with pte-mapped PUD-sized folios (fsdax). One approach we discussed in the THP cabal meeting is (1) extending the mapcount for large folios to 64bit (at least on 64bit systems) and (2) keeping the refcount at 32bit, but (3) having exactly one reference if the the mapcount != 0. It should be doable, but there are some corner cases to consider on the unmap path; it is something that I will be looking into next. 6.2 hugetlb ----------- I'd love to make use of the same tracking also for hugetlb. The real problem is PMD table sharing: getting a page mapped by MM X and unmapped by MM Y will not work. With mshare, that problem should not exist (all mapping/unmapping will be routed through the mshare MM). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974223/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a9922f58-8129-4f15-b160-e0ace581bcbe@redhat.com/T/ [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240829165627.2256514-1-david@redhat.com [4] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/pte-mapped-folio-benchmarks.c This patch (of 20): Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. Maybe in the future we'll have the order readily available for small and large folios; in that case, folio_large_order() would simply translate to folio_order(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17fs/dax: properly refcount fs dax pagesAlistair Popple
Currently fs dax pages are considered free when the refcount drops to one and their refcounts are not increased when mapped via PTEs or decreased when unmapped. This requires special logic in mm paths to detect that these pages should not be properly refcounted, and to detect when the refcount drops to one instead of zero. On the other hand get_user_pages(), etc. will properly refcount fs dax pages by taking a reference and dropping it when the page is unpinned. Tracking this special behaviour requires extra PTE bits (eg. pte_devmap) and introduces rules that are potentially confusing and specific to FS DAX pages. To fix this, and to possibly allow removal of the special PTE bits in future, convert the fs dax page refcounts to be zero based and instead take a reference on the page each time it is mapped as is currently the case for normal pages. This may also allow a future clean-up to remove the pgmap refcounting that is currently done in mm/gup.c. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c7d886ad7468a20452ef6e0ddab6cfe220874e7c.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm/gup: don't allow FOLL_LONGTERM pinning of FS DAX pagesAlistair Popple
Longterm pinning of FS DAX pages should already be disallowed by various pXX_devmap checks. However a future change will cause these checks to be invalid for FS DAX pages so make folio_is_longterm_pinnable() return false for FS DAX pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/250a31876704b79f7c65b159f3c835e547f052df.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm/memory: add vmf_insert_page_mkwrite()Alistair Popple
Currently to map a DAX page the DAX driver calls vmf_insert_pfn. This creates a special devmap PTE entry for the pfn but does not take a reference on the underlying struct page for the mapping. This is because DAX page refcounts are treated specially, as indicated by the presence of a devmap entry. To allow DAX page refcounts to be managed the same as normal page refcounts introduce vmf_insert_page_mkwrite(). This will take a reference on the underlying page much the same as vmf_insert_page, except it also permits upgrading an existing mapping to be writable if requested/possible. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ce3aa984c060f370105e0bfef1035869578be47.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Asahi Lina <lina@asahilina.net> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Wiliams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm/sparse: add vmemmap_*_hvo functionsFrank van der Linden
Add a few functions to enable early HVO: vmemmap_populate_hvo vmemmap_undo_hvo vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo The populate and undo functions are expected to be used in early init, from the sparse_init_nid_early() function. The wrprotect function is to be used, potentially, later. To implement these functions, mostly re-use the existing compound pages vmemmap logic used by DAX. vmemmap_populate_address has its argument changed a bit in this commit: the page structure passed in to be reused in the mapping is replaced by a PFN and a flag. The flag indicates whether an extra ref should be taken on the vmemmap page containing the head page structure. Taking the ref is appropriate to for DAX / ZONE_DEVICE, but not for HugeTLB HVO. The HugeTLB vmemmap optimization maps tail page structure pages read-only. The vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo function that does this is implemented separately, because it cannot be guaranteed that reserved page structures will not be write accessed during memory initialization. Even with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT, they might still be written to (if they are at the bottom of a zone). So, vmemmap_populate_hvo leaves the tail page structure pages RW initially, and then later during initialization, after memmap init is fully done, vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo must be called to finish the job. Subsequent commits will use these functions for early HugeTLB HVO. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-15-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm/sparse: allow for alternate vmemmap section init at bootFrank van der Linden
Add functions that are called just before the per-section memmap is initialized and just before the memmap page structures are initialized. They are called sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early and sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_late, respectively. This allows for mm subsystems to add calls to initialize memmap and page structures in a specific way, if using SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. Specifically, hugetlb can pre-HVO bootmem allocated pages that way, so that no time and resources are wasted on allocating vmemmap pages, only to free them later (and possibly unnecessarily running the system out of memory in the process). Refactor some code and export a few convenience functions for external use. In sparse_init_nid, skip any sections that are already initialized, e.g. they have been initialized by sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early already. The hugetlb code to use these functions will be added in a later commit. Export section_map_size, as any alternate memmap init code will want to use it. The internal config option to enable this is SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT, which is selected if an architecture-specific option, ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_PREINIT, is set. In the future, if other subsystems want to do preinit too, they can do it in a similar fashion. The internal config option is there because a section flag is used, and the number of flags available is architecture-dependent (see mmzone.h). Architecures can decide if there is room for the flag when enabling options that select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT. Fortunately, as of right now, all sparse vmemmap using architectures do have room. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-11-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm/bootmem_info: export register_page_bootmem_memmapFrank van der Linden
If other mm code wants to use this function for early memmap inialization (on the platforms that have it), it should be made available properly, not just unconditionally in mm.h Make this function available for such cases. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-10-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: make vma cache SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCUSuren Baghdasaryan
To enable SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for vma cache we need to ensure that object reuse before RCU grace period is over will be detected by lock_vma_under_rcu(). Current checks are sufficient as long as vma is detached before it is freed. The only place this is not currently happening is in exit_mmap(). Add the missing vma_mark_detached() in exit_mmap(). Another issue which might trick lock_vma_under_rcu() during vma reuse is vm_area_dup(), which copies the entire content of the vma into a new one, overriding new vma's vm_refcnt and temporarily making it appear as attached. This might trick a racing lock_vma_under_rcu() to operate on a reused vma if it found the vma before it got reused. To prevent this situation, we should ensure that vm_refcnt stays at detached state (0) when it is copied and advances to attached state only after it is added into the vma tree. Introduce vm_area_init_from() which preserves new vma's vm_refcnt and use it in vm_area_dup(). Since all vmas are in detached state with no current readers when they are freed, lock_vma_under_rcu() will not be able to take vm_refcnt after vma got detached even if vma is reused. vma_mark_attached() in modified to include a release fence to ensure all stores to the vma happen before vm_refcnt gets initialized. Finally, make vm_area_cachep SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. This will facilitate vm_area_struct reuse and will minimize the number of call_rcu() calls. [surenb@google.com: remove atomic_set_release() usage in tools/] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250217054351.2973666-1-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-18-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: prepare lock_vma_under_rcu() for vma reuse possibilitySuren Baghdasaryan
Once we make vma cache SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, it will be possible for a vma to be reused and attached to another mm after lock_vma_under_rcu() locks the vma. lock_vma_under_rcu() should ensure that vma_start_read() is using the original mm and after locking the vma it should ensure that vma->vm_mm has not changed from under us. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-17-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: remove extra vma_numab_state_init() callSuren Baghdasaryan
vma_init() already memset's the whole vm_area_struct to 0, so there is no need to an additional vma_numab_state_init(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-16-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: replace vm_lock and detached flag with a reference countSuren Baghdasaryan
rw_semaphore is a sizable structure of 40 bytes and consumes considerable space for each vm_area_struct. However vma_lock has two important specifics which can be used to replace rw_semaphore with a simpler structure: 1. Readers never wait. They try to take the vma_lock and fall back to mmap_lock if that fails. 2. Only one writer at a time will ever try to write-lock a vma_lock because writers first take mmap_lock in write mode. Because of these requirements, full rw_semaphore functionality is not needed and we can replace rw_semaphore and the vma->detached flag with a refcount (vm_refcnt). When vma is in detached state, vm_refcnt is 0 and only a call to vma_mark_attached() can take it out of this state. Note that unlike before, now we enforce both vma_mark_attached() and vma_mark_detached() to be done only after vma has been write-locked. vma_mark_attached() changes vm_refcnt to 1 to indicate that it has been attached to the vma tree. When a reader takes read lock, it increments vm_refcnt, unless the top usable bit of vm_refcnt (0x40000000) is set, indicating presence of a writer. When writer takes write lock, it sets the top usable bit to indicate its presence. If there are readers, writer will wait using newly introduced mm->vma_writer_wait. Since all writers take mmap_lock in write mode first, there can be only one writer at a time. The last reader to release the lock will signal the writer to wake up. refcount might overflow if there are many competing readers, in which case read-locking will fail. Readers are expected to handle such failures. In summary: 1. all readers increment the vm_refcnt; 2. writer sets top usable (writer) bit of vm_refcnt; 3. readers cannot increment the vm_refcnt if the writer bit is set; 4. in the presence of readers, writer must wait for the vm_refcnt to drop to 1 (plus the VMA_LOCK_OFFSET writer bit), indicating an attached vma with no readers; 5. vm_refcnt overflow is handled by the readers. While this vm_lock replacement does not yet result in a smaller vm_area_struct (it stays at 256 bytes due to cacheline alignment), it allows for further size optimization by structure member regrouping to bring the size of vm_area_struct below 192 bytes. [surenb@google.com: fix a crash due to vma_end_read() that should have been removed] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250220200208.323769-1-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-13-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: uninline the main body of vma_start_write()Suren Baghdasaryan
vma_start_write() is used in many places and will grow in size very soon. It is not used in performance critical paths and uninlining it should limit the future code size growth. No functional changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-10-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: allow vma_start_read_locked/vma_start_read_locked_nested to failSuren Baghdasaryan
With upcoming replacement of vm_lock with vm_refcnt, we need to handle a possibility of vma_start_read_locked/vma_start_read_locked_nested failing due to refcount overflow. Prepare for such possibility by changing these APIs and adjusting their users. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-8-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: introduce vma_iter_store_attached() to use with attached vmasSuren Baghdasaryan
vma_iter_store() functions can be used both when adding a new vma and when updating an existing one. However for existing ones we do not need to mark them attached as they are already marked that way. With vma->detached being a separate flag, double-marking a vmas as attached or detached is not an issue because the flag will simply be overwritten with the same value. However once we fold this flag into the refcount later in this series, re-attaching or re-detaching a vma becomes an issue since these operations will be incrementing/decrementing a refcount. Introduce vma_iter_store_new() and vma_iter_store_overwrite() to replace vma_iter_store() and avoid re-attaching a vma during vma update. Add assertions in vma_mark_attached()/vma_mark_detached() to catch invalid usage. Update vma tests to check for vma detached state correctness. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-5-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: mark vma as detached until it's added into vma treeSuren Baghdasaryan
Current implementation does not set detached flag when a VMA is first allocated. This does not represent the real state of the VMA, which is detached until it is added into mm's VMA tree. Fix this by marking new VMAs as detached and resetting detached flag only after VMA is added into a tree. Introduce vma_mark_attached() to make the API more readable and to simplify possible future cleanup when vma->vm_mm might be used to indicate detached vma and vma_mark_attached() will need an additional mm parameter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-4-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: move per-vma lock into vm_area_structSuren Baghdasaryan
Back when per-vma locks were introduces, vm_lock was moved out of vm_area_struct in [1] because of the performance regression caused by false cacheline sharing. Recent investigation [2] revealed that the regressions is limited to a rather old Broadwell microarchitecture and even there it can be mitigated by disabling adjacent cacheline prefetching, see [3]. Splitting single logical structure into multiple ones leads to more complicated management, extra pointer dereferences and overall less maintainable code. When that split-away part is a lock, it complicates things even further. With no performance benefits, there are no reasons for this split. Merging the vm_lock back into vm_area_struct also allows vm_area_struct to use SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU later in this patchset. Move vm_lock back into vm_area_struct, aligning it at the cacheline boundary and changing the cache to be cacheline-aligned as well. With kernel compiled using defconfig, this causes VMA memory consumption to grow from 160 (vm_area_struct) + 40 (vm_lock) bytes to 256 bytes: slabinfo before: <name> ... <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : ... vma_lock ... 40 102 1 : ... vm_area_struct ... 160 51 2 : ... slabinfo after moving vm_lock: <name> ... <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : ... vm_area_struct ... 256 32 2 : ... Aggregate VMA memory consumption per 1000 VMAs grows from 50 to 64 pages, which is 5.5MB per 100000 VMAs. Note that the size of this structure is dependent on the kernel configuration and typically the original size is higher than 160 bytes. Therefore these calculations are close to the worst case scenario. A more realistic vm_area_struct usage before this change is: <name> ... <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : ... vma_lock ... 40 102 1 : ... vm_area_struct ... 176 46 2 : ... Aggregate VMA memory consumption per 1000 VMAs grows from 54 to 64 pages, which is 3.9MB per 100000 VMAs. This memory consumption growth can be addressed later by optimizing the vm_lock. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230227173632.3292573-34-surenb@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZsQyI%2F087V34JoIt@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJuCfpEisU8Lfe96AYJDZ+OM4NoPmnw9bP53cT_kbfP_pR+-2g@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-3-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: introduce vma_start_read_locked{_nested} helpersSuren Baghdasaryan
Patch series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount", v10. Back when per-vma locks were introduces, vm_lock was moved out of vm_area_struct in [1] because of the performance regression caused by false cacheline sharing. Recent investigation [2] revealed that the regressions is limited to a rather old Broadwell microarchitecture and even there it can be mitigated by disabling adjacent cacheline prefetching, see [3]. Splitting single logical structure into multiple ones leads to more complicated management, extra pointer dereferences and overall less maintainable code. When that split-away part is a lock, it complicates things even further. With no performance benefits, there are no reasons for this split. Merging the vm_lock back into vm_area_struct also allows vm_area_struct to use SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU later in this patchset. This patchset: 1. moves vm_lock back into vm_area_struct, aligning it at the cacheline boundary and changing the cache to be cacheline-aligned to minimize cacheline sharing; 2. changes vm_area_struct initialization to mark new vma as detached until it is inserted into vma tree; 3. replaces vm_lock and vma->detached flag with a reference counter; 4. regroups vm_area_struct members to fit them into 3 cachelines; 5. changes vm_area_struct cache to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU to allow for their reuse and to minimize call_rcu() calls. Pagefault microbenchmarks show performance improvement: Hmean faults/cpu-1 507926.5547 ( 0.00%) 506519.3692 * -0.28%* Hmean faults/cpu-4 479119.7051 ( 0.00%) 481333.6802 * 0.46%* Hmean faults/cpu-7 452880.2961 ( 0.00%) 455845.6211 * 0.65%* Hmean faults/cpu-12 347639.1021 ( 0.00%) 352004.2254 * 1.26%* Hmean faults/cpu-21 200061.2238 ( 0.00%) 229597.0317 * 14.76%* Hmean faults/cpu-30 145251.2001 ( 0.00%) 164202.5067 * 13.05%* Hmean faults/cpu-48 106848.4434 ( 0.00%) 120641.5504 * 12.91%* Hmean faults/cpu-56 92472.3835 ( 0.00%) 103464.7916 * 11.89%* Hmean faults/sec-1 507566.1468 ( 0.00%) 506139.0811 * -0.28%* Hmean faults/sec-4 1880478.2402 ( 0.00%) 1886795.6329 * 0.34%* Hmean faults/sec-7 3106394.3438 ( 0.00%) 3140550.7485 * 1.10%* Hmean faults/sec-12 4061358.4795 ( 0.00%) 4112477.0206 * 1.26%* Hmean faults/sec-21 3988619.1169 ( 0.00%) 4577747.1436 * 14.77%* Hmean faults/sec-30 3909839.5449 ( 0.00%) 4311052.2787 * 10.26%* Hmean faults/sec-48 4761108.4691 ( 0.00%) 5283790.5026 * 10.98%* Hmean faults/sec-56 4885561.4590 ( 0.00%) 5415839.4045 * 10.85%* This patch (of 18): Introduce helper functions which can be used to read-lock a VMA when holding mmap_lock for read. Replace direct accesses to vma->vm_lock with these new helpers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-1-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-2-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16mm: decline to manipulate the refcount on a slab pageMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Slab pages now have a refcount of 0, so nobody should be trying to manipulate the refcount on them. Doing so has little effect; the object could be freed and reallocated to a different purpose, although the slab itself would not be until the refcount was put making it behave rather like TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. Unfortunately, __iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() does take a refcount. Fix that to not change the refcount, and make put_page() silently not change the refcount. get_page() warns so that we can fix any other callers that need to be changed. Long-term, networking needs to stop taking a refcount on the pages that it uses and rely on the caller to hold whatever references are necessary to make the memory stable. In the medium term, more page types are going to hav a zero refcount, so we'll want to move get_page() and put_page() out of line. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310143544.1216127-1-willy@infradead.org Fixes: 9aec2fb0fd5e (slab: allocate frozen pages) Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reported-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/08c29e4b-2f71-4b6d-8046-27e407214d8c@suse.com/ Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-13Revert "fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault"Amir Goldstein
This reverts commit 8392bc2ff8c8bf7c4c5e6dfa71ccd893a3c046f6. In the use case of buffered write whose input buffer is mmapped file on a filesystem with a pre-content mark, the prefaulting of the buffer can happen under the filesystem freeze protection (obtained in vfs_write()) which breaks assumptions of pre-content hook and introduces potential deadlock of HSM handler in userspace with filesystem freezing. Now that we have pre-content hooks at file mmap() time, disable the pre-content event hooks on page fault to avoid the potential deadlock. Reported-by: syzbot+7229071b47908b19d5b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/7ehxrhbvehlrjwvrduoxsao5k3x4aw275patsb3krkwuq573yv@o2hskrfawbnc/ Fixes: 8392bc2ff8c8 ("fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312073852.2123409-5-amir73il@gmail.com
2025-02-27mm: Provide address mask in struct follow_pfnmap_argsAlex Williamson
follow_pfnmap_start() walks the page table for a given address and fills out the struct follow_pfnmap_args in pfnmap_args_setup(). The address mask of the page table level is already provided to this latter function for calculating the pfn. This address mask can also be useful for the caller to determine the extent of the contiguous mapping. For example, vfio-pci now supports huge_fault for pfnmaps and is able to insert pud and pmd mappings. When we DMA map these pfnmaps, ex. PCI MMIO BARs, we iterate follow_pfnmap_start() to get each pfn to test for a contiguous pfn range. Providing the mapping address mask allows us to skip the extent of the mapping level. Assuming a 1GB pud level and 4KB page size, iterations are reduced by a factor of 256K. In wall clock time, mapping a 32GB PCI BAR is reduced from ~1s to <1ms. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mitchell Augustin <mitchell.augustin@canonical.com> Tested-by: Mitchell Augustin <mitchell.augustin@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250218222209.1382449-6-alex.williamson@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2025-02-21fs: avoid mmap sem relocks when coredumping with many missing pagesMateusz Guzik
Dumping processes with large allocated and mostly not-faulted areas is very slow. Borrowing a test case from Tavian Barnes: int main(void) { char *mem = mmap(NULL, 1ULL << 40, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0); printf("%p %m\n", mem); if (mem != MAP_FAILED) { mem[0] = 1; } abort(); } That's 1TB of almost completely not-populated area. On my test box it takes 13-14 seconds to dump. The profile shows: - 99.89% 0.00% a.out entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe do_syscall_64 syscall_exit_to_user_mode arch_do_signal_or_restart - get_signal - 99.89% do_coredump - 99.88% elf_core_dump - dump_user_range - 98.12% get_dump_page - 64.19% __get_user_pages - 40.92% gup_vma_lookup - find_vma - mt_find 4.21% __rcu_read_lock 1.33% __rcu_read_unlock - 3.14% check_vma_flags 0.68% vma_is_secretmem 0.61% __cond_resched 0.60% vma_pgtable_walk_end 0.59% vma_pgtable_walk_begin 0.58% no_page_table - 15.13% down_read_killable 0.69% __cond_resched 13.84% up_read 0.58% __cond_resched Almost 29% of the time is spent relocking the mmap semaphore between calls to get_dump_page() which find nothing. Whacking that results in times of 10 seconds (down from 13-14). While here make the thing killable. The real problem is the page-sized iteration and the real fix would patch it up instead. It is left as an exercise for the mm-familiar reader. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250119103205.2172432-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-19mm: Add copy_remote_vm_str() for readng C strings from remote VMJordan Rome
Similar to `access_process_vm()` but specific to strings. Also chunks reads by page and utilizes `strscpy()` for handling null termination. The primary motivation for this change is to copy strings from a non-current task/process in BPF. There is already a helper `bpf_copy_from_user_task()`, which uses `access_process_vm()` but one to handle strings would be very helpful. Signed-off-by: Jordan Rome <linux@jordanrome.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250213152125.1837400-1-linux@jordanrome.com
2025-02-07fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.cKaixiong Yu
The sysctl_drop_caches to fs/drop_caches.c, move it to fs/drop_caches.c from /kernel/sysctl.c. And remove the useless extern variable declaration from include/linux/mm.h Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-02-07mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.cKaixiong Yu
The sysctl_nr_trim_pages belongs to nommu.c, move it to mm/nommu.c from /kernel/sysctl.c. And remove the useless extern variable declaration from include/linux/mm.h Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-02-07mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.cKaixiong Yu
This moves all util related sysctls to mm/util.c, as part of the kernel/sysctl.c cleaning, also removes redundant external variable declarations and function declarations. Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-02-07mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.cKaixiong Yu
The page-cluster belongs to mm/swap.c, move it to mm/swap.c . Removes the redundant external variable declaration and unneeded include(linux/swap.h). Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-02-07mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.cKaixiong Yu
This moves the filemap related sysctl to mm/filemap.c, and removes the redundant external variable declaration. Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-01-26Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs. - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a refcount inc & dec - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to use large folios other than PMD-sized ones - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part of the mapletree code - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a few minor code cleanups - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and a test for the mapletree code - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the (relatively) new mm/vma.c - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the page allocator - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue. It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are accumulated: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests code when optional compiler warnings are enabled - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of __GFP_HARDWALL - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly pertaining to the pkeys tests - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to estimate application working set size - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare use-after-free race is fixed - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging logic - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in improvements in accounting accuracy - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes DAMON's sysfs file interface logic - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is presented in response to DAMOS actions - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the migration to sysfs is completed - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation accounting - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting), but also inclusion (allowing) behavior - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of memory descriptors - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel build time with swap-on-zram - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal" from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that mmap_region() can be made MM-internal - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae Park updates DAMON documentation - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb folios, THP folios and migration - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when reading/writing fast devices - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags() tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us() seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin() mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page() mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch() mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type() selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy() kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags() selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue ...
2025-01-25mm: make mmap_region() internalLorenzo Stoakes
Now that we have removed the one user of mmap_region() outside of mm, make it internal and add it to vma.c so it can be userland tested. This ensures that all external memory mappings are performed using the appropriate interfaces and allows us to modify memory mapping logic as we see fit. Additionally expand test stubs to allow for the mmap_region() code to compile and be userland testable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/de5a3c574d35c26237edf20a1d8652d7305709c9.1735819274.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-25mm: introduce ctor/dtor at PGD levelKevin Brodsky
Following on from the introduction of P4D-level ctor/dtor, let's finish the job and introduce ctor/dtor at PGD level. The incurred improvement in page accounting is minimal - the main motivation is to create a single, generic place where construction/destruction hooks can be added for all page table pages. This patch should cover all architectures and all configurations where PGDs are one or more regular pages. This excludes any configuration where PGDs are allocated from a kmem_cache object. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-7-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-25mm: move common part of pagetable_*_ctor to helperKevin Brodsky
Patch series "Account page tables at all levels". This series should be considered in conjunction with Qi's series [1]. Together, they ensure that page table ctor/dtor are called at all levels (PTE to PGD) and all architectures, where page tables are regular pages. Besides the improvement in accounting and general cleanup, this also create a single place where construction/destruction hooks can be called for all page tables, namely the now-generic pagetable_dtor() introduced by Qi, and __pagetable_ctor() introduced in this series. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cover.1735549103.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ This patch (of 6): pagetable_*_ctor all have the same basic implementation. Move the common part to a helper to reduce duplication. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-2-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>