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2023-12-29mm/rmap: rename COMPOUND_MAPPED to ENTIRELY_MAPPEDDavid Hildenbrand
We removed all "bool compound" and RMAP_COMPOUND parameters. Let's remove the remaining "compound" terminology by making COMPOUND_MAPPED match the "folio->_entire_mapcount" terminology, renaming it to ENTIRELY_MAPPED. ENTIRELY_MAPPED is only used when the whole folio is mapped using a single page table entry (e.g., a single PMD mapping a PMD-sized THP). For now, we don't support mapping any THP bigger than that, so ENTIRELY_MAPPED only applies to PMD-mapped PMD-sized THP only. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220224504.646757-40-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-29Documentation: stop referring to page_remove_rmap()David Hildenbrand
Refer to folio_remove_rmap_*() instaed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220224504.646757-32-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-20Docs/mm/damon/design: place execution model and data structures at the beginningSeongJae Park
The execution model and data structures section at the end of the design document is briefly explaining how DAMON works overall. Knowing that first may help better drawing the overall picture. It may also help better understanding following detailed sections. Move it to the beginning of the document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-12Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document for quota goalsSeongJae Park
Update DAMON sysfs usage for newly added DAMOS quota goals interface. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-12Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMOS quota auto tuningSeongJae Park
Document the DAMOS quota auto tuning feature on the design document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-10Documentation/mm: drop pte_bad() descriptions from arch page table helpersAnshuman Khandual
pte_bad() never existed unlike similar helpers at PMU, PUD, and PGD level. This was added erroneously and hence should be dropped instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231114063456.339652-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-11-02Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are included in this merge do the following: - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction' - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an implementation which Linus suggested - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i the following patch series: mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is unaccepted memory' - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab shrinking code - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink' - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups' - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion and unification' - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()' - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct manipulation of hugetlb page frames - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of gigantic pages are in use - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the series 'support large folio for mlock' - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and useful) under memcg v2 - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable) prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE without inheritance' - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing functions to use a folio' which does what it says - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment across exec() - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering: calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT' - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical information from previous scans - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates values' - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/<pid>/pagemap which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty state. This is mainly used by CRIU - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to this code - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible as a result - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some cleanups and folio conversions - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye to providing groundwork for future improvements - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes and improvements' which does those things - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series 'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages' - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise() and page faults - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups and an optimization to the core pagecache code - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the series 'hugetlb memcg accounting' - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()' - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps' - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings' - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations' - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition' - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning' - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page cpupid functions to folios' - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about kmemleak' - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series 'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately' - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some khugepaged folio conversions'" [ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/ with help from Qi Zheng. The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ] * tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits) mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs selftests: add a sanity check for zswap Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter() zswap: export compression failure stats Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets() ...
2023-10-10docs: update link to powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rstCosta Shulyupin
after move of powerpc/ to arch/ Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927164319.2686237-1-costa.shul@redhat.com
2023-10-10docs: mm: fix vm overcommit documentation for OVERCOMMIT_GUESSVratislav Bendel
Commit 8c7829b04c52 "mm: fix false-positive OVERCOMMIT_GUESS failures" changed the behavior of the default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS setting. Reflect the change also in the Documentation, namely files: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst Documentation/mm/overcommit-accounting.rst Reported-by: Jozef Bacik <jobacik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vratislav Bendel <vbendel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829124638.63748-1-vbendel@redhat.com
2023-10-10Documentation/page_tables: Add info about MMU/TLB and Page FaultsFabio M. De Francesco
Extend page_tables.rst by adding a section about the role of MMU and TLB in translating between virtual addresses and physical page frames. Furthermore explain the concept behind Page Faults and how the Linux kernel handles TLB misses. Finally briefly explain how and why to disable the page faults handler. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818112726.6156-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
2023-10-04Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMOS apply intervalsSeongJae Park
Update DAMON design doc to explain about DAMOS apply intervals. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230916020945.47296-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: link design doc for details of kdamond and ↵SeongJae Park
context The explanation of kdamond and context is duplicated in the design and the usage documents. Replace that in the usage with links to those in the design document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04Docs/mm/damon/design: add a section for kdamond and DAMON contextSeongJae Park
The design document is not explaining about the concept of kdamond and the DAMON context, while usage document does. Those concept explanation should be in the design document, and usage document should link those. Add a section for those. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: explain the format of damon_aggregate ↵SeongJae Park
tracepoint The example of the section for damon_aggregated tracepoint is not explaining how the output looks like, and how it can be interpreted. Add it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04Docs/mm/damon/design: explicitly introduce ``nr_accesses``SeongJae Park
The design document is explaining about the access tracking mechanism and the access rate counter (nr_accesses), but not directly mentions the name. Add a sentence for making it clear. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-31Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen: "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack part of this feature, and just for userspace. The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction, the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy. For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier versions of this patch set" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/ * tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits) x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support ...
2023-08-30Merge tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes: - Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there - Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/ - Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub ... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes" * tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits) Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add() Documentation: Fix typos Documentation/ABI: Fix typos scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN] Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function doc: update params of memhp_default_state= docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines docs: move mips under arch docs: move loongarch under arch ...
2023-08-28docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typosMarco Pagani
Clean typos and remove the reference to the sync_cpu_device_pagetables() callback since all hmm_mirror ops have been removed. Fixes: a22dd506400d ("mm/hmm: remove hmm_mirror and related") Signed-off-by: Marco Pagani <marpagan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825133546.249683-1-marpagan@redhat.com
2023-08-24mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
There are many files in mm/ that contain kernel-doc which is not currently published on kernel.org. Some of it is easily categorisable, but most of it is going into the miscellaneous documentation section to be organised later. Some files aren't ready to be included; they contain documentation with build errors. Or they're nommu.c which duplicates documentation from "real" MMU systems. Those files are noted with a # mark (although really anything which isn't a recognised directive would do to prevent inclusion) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230818200630.2719595-5-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21mm: convert free_huge_page() to free_huge_folio()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Pass a folio instead of the head page to save a few instructions. Update the documentation, at least in English. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816151201.3655946-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21mm: remove pgtable_{pmd, pte}_page_{ctor, dtor}() wrappersVishal Moola (Oracle)
These functions are no longer necessary. Remove them and cleanup Documentation referencing them. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230807230513.102486-32-vishal.moola@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21Docs/mm/damon/design: update for DAMON monitoring target type DAMOS filterSeongJae Park
Update DAMON design document for the newly added DAMON monitoring target type DAMOS filter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802214312.110532-12-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21Docs/mm/damon/design: update for address range filtersSeongJae Park
Update DAMON design document's DAMOS filters section for address range DAMOS filters. Because address range filters are handled by the core layer and it makes difference in schemes tried regions and schemes statistics, clearly describe it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802214312.110532-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21mm: kill frontswapJohannes Weiner
The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long time. Have swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: remove obsolete comment, per Yosry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719142832.GA932528@cmpxchg.org [fengwei.yin@intel.com: don't warn if none swapcache folio is passed to zswap_load] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810095652.3905184-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717160227.GA867137@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-18Documentation: Fix typosBjorn Helgaas
Fix typos in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-08-18powerpc/book3s64/radix: add support for vmemmap optimization for radixAneesh Kumar K.V
With 2M PMD-level mapping, we require 32 struct pages and a single vmemmap page can contain 1024 struct pages (PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct page)). Hence with 64K page size, we don't use vmemmap deduplication for PMD-level mapping. [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: ppc64: don't include radix headers if CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU=n] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zg3jw8km.fsf@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724190759.483013-12-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-18docs: mm: Fix number of base pages for 1GB HugeTLBUsama Arif
1GB HugeTLB page consists of 262144 base pages. Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207114456.2304801-1-usama.arif@bytedance.com
2023-07-14Documentation/highmem: Add information about kmap_local_folio()Fabio M. De Francesco
The differences between kmap_local_page() and kmap_local_folio() consist only in the first taking a pointer to a page and the second taking two arguments, a pointer to a folio and the byte offset within the folio which identifies the page. The two API's can be explained at the same time in the "Temporary Virtual Mappings" section of the Highmem's documentation. Add information about kmap_local_folio() in the same subsection that explains kmap_local_page(). Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230708121719.8270-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
2023-07-11mm: Make pte_mkwrite() take a VMARick Edgecombe
The x86 Shadow stack feature includes a new type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to function properly. One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable, but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that call pte_mkwrite(). Future patches will make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so that the x86 implementation of it can know whether to create regular writable or shadow stack mappings. But there are a couple of challenges to this. Modifying the signatures of each arch pte_mkwrite() implementation would be error prone because some are generated with macros and would need to be re-implemented. Also, some pte_mkwrite() callers operate on kernel memory without a VMA. So this can be done in a three step process. First pte_mkwrite() can be renamed to pte_mkwrite_novma() in each arch, with a generic pte_mkwrite() added that just calls pte_mkwrite_novma(). Next callers without a VMA can be moved to pte_mkwrite_novma(). And lastly, pte_mkwrite() and all callers can be changed to take/pass a VMA. Previous work pte_mkwrite() renamed pte_mkwrite_novma() and converted callers that don't have a VMA were to use pte_mkwrite_novma(). So now change pte_mkwrite() to take a VMA and change the remaining callers to pass a VMA. Apply the same changes for pmd_mkwrite(). No functional change. Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-4-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
2023-07-11mm: Rename arch pte_mkwrite()'s to pte_mkwrite_novma()Rick Edgecombe
The x86 Shadow stack feature includes a new type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to function properly. One of these unusual properties is that shadow stack memory is writable, but only in limited ways. These limits are applied via a specific PTE bit combination. Nevertheless, the memory is writable, and core mm code will need to apply the writable permissions in the typical paths that call pte_mkwrite(). The goal is to make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA, so that the x86 implementation of it can know whether to create regular writable or shadow stack mappings. But there are a couple of challenges to this. Modifying the signatures of each arch pte_mkwrite() implementation would be error prone because some are generated with macros and would need to be re-implemented. Also, some pte_mkwrite() callers operate on kernel memory without a VMA. So this can be done in a three step process. First pte_mkwrite() can be renamed to pte_mkwrite_novma() in each arch, with a generic pte_mkwrite() added that just calls pte_mkwrite_novma(). Next callers without a VMA can be moved to pte_mkwrite_novma(). And lastly, pte_mkwrite() and all callers can be changed to take/pass a VMA. Start the process by renaming pte_mkwrite() to pte_mkwrite_novma() and adding the pte_mkwrite() wrapper in linux/pgtable.h. Apply the same pattern for pmd_mkwrite(). Since not all archs have a pmd_mkwrite_novma(), create a new arch config HAS_HUGE_PAGE that can be used to tell if pmd_mkwrite() should be defined. Otherwise in the !HAS_HUGE_PAGE cases the compiler would not be able to find pmd_mkwrite_novma(). No functional change. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZjSu7c9sFYZb3q04108stgHff2wfbokGCCgW7riz+8Q@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-2-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
2023-06-28Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton: - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs - Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing - Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability - Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the prevalence of page rescanning - Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the get_user_pages() interface - Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree - Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code - David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for get_user_pages() - Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization work for the vmalloc code - Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups, - SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code - Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of device refcounting - Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code - Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses - Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache and directio access to file mappings - John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code - ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign - Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock - Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment from 128 to 8 - Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by reorganizing the LRU management - Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the buffer_head code - Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work - Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch * tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits) mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool() mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem() hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss() Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one" mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim() mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list() mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block() mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes mm: remove references to pagevec mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate mm: remove struct pagevec net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch pagevec: rename fbatch_count() mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages() drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch scatterlist: add sg_set_folio() ...
2023-06-27Merge tag 'docs-6.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively calm cycle in docsland. We do have: - Some initial page-table documentation from Linus (the other Linus) - Regression-handling documentation improvements from Thorsten - Addition of kerneldoc documentation for the ERR_PTR() and related macros from James Seo ... and the usual collection of fixes and updates" * tag 'docs-6.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: consolidate storage interfaces Documentation: update git configuration for Link: tag Documentation: KVM: make corrections to vcpu-requests.rst Documentation: KVM: make corrections to ppc-pv.rst Documentation: KVM: make corrections to locking.rst Documentation: KVM: make corrections to halt-polling.rst Documentation: virt: correct location of haltpoll module params Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation docs: crypto: async-tx-api: fix typo in struct name docs/doc-guide: Clarify how to write tables docs: handling-regressions: rework section about fixing procedures docs: process: fix a typoed cross-reference docs: submitting-patches: Discuss interleaved replies MAINTAINERS: direct process doc changes to a dedicated ML Documentation: core-api: Add error pointer functions to kernel-api err.h: Add missing kerneldocs for error pointer functions Documentation: conf.py: Add __force to c_id_attributes docs: clarify KVM related kernel parameters' descriptions docs: consolidate human interface subsystems docs: admin-guide: Add information about intel_pstate active mode
2023-06-19Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: link design document for DAMOSSeongJae Park
The background and concept of DAMOS is redundantly documented, in the design document and the usage document. Replace the duplicated ones in usage document with links to the design document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616191742.87531-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-19Docs/mm/damon/design: document 'age' of regionSeongJae Park
Patch series "Docs/{mm,admin-guide}damon: update design and usage docs". Update DAMON design and usage documents for outdated and unnecessarily duplicated parts. This patch (of 7): The 'age' of each region in DAMON monitoring results is an important concept for both monitoring part and DAMOS. And DAMOS section of the design document is mentioning it. However, the age itself is not explained in the document. Add a section for that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616191742.87531-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230616191742.87531-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-19mm/pgtable: allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to failHugh Dickins
Make pte_offset_map() a wrapper for __pte_offset_map() (optionally outputs pmdval), pte_offset_map_lock() a sparse __cond_lock wrapper for __pte_offset_map_lock(): those __funcs added in mm/pgtable-generic.c. __pte_offset_map() do pmdval validation (including pmd_clear_bad() when pmd_bad()), returning NULL if pmdval is not for a page table. __pte_offset_map_lock() verify pmdval unchanged after getting the lock, trying again if it changed. No #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE around them: that could be done to cover the imminent case, but we expect to generalize it later, and it makes a mess of where to do the pmd_bad() clearing. Add pte_offset_map_nolock(): outputs ptl like pte_offset_map_lock(), without actually taking the lock. This will be preferred to open uses of pte_lockptr(), because (when split ptlock is in page table's struct page) it points to the right lock for the returned pte pointer, even if *pmd gets changed racily afterwards. Update corresponding Documentation. Do not add the anticipated rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()s yet: they have to wait until all architectures are balancing pte_offset_map()s with pte_unmap()s (as in the arch series posted earlier). But comment where they will go, so that it's easy to add them for experiments. And only when those are in place can transient racy failure cases be enabled. Add more safety for the PAE mismatched pmd_low pmd_high case at that time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2929bfd-9893-a374-e463-4c3127ff9b9d@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-16Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentationLinus Walleij
This is based on an earlier blog post at people.kernel.org, it describes the concepts about page tables that were hardest for me to grasp when dealing with them for the first time, such as the prevalent three-letter acronyms pfn, pgd, p4d, pud, pmd and pte. I don't know if this is what people want, but it's what I would have wanted. The wording, introduction, choice of initial subjects and choice of style is mine. I discussed at one point with Mike Rapoport to bring this into the kernel documentation, so here is a small proposal. The current form is augmented in response to feedback from Mike Rapoport, Matthew Wilcox, Jonathan Cameron, Kuan-Ying Lee, Randy Dunlap and Bagas Sanjaya. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://people.kernel.org/linusw/arm32-page-tables Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614072548.996940-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/design: add a section for the modules layerSeongJae Park
Add a section for covering DAMON modules layer to the design document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-11-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/design: add a section for DAMON core APISeongJae Park
Add a section covering the API of DAMON core layer on the design document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/design: add sections for advanced features of DAMOSSeongJae Park
Add sections for advanced features of DAMOS including quotas, prioritization, watermarks, and filters of DAMOS on the design document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/design: add sections for basic parts of DAMOSSeongJae Park
DAMOS is an important part of DAMON, but the design doc is not covering it. Add sections for covering the basic part of DAMOS. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/design: add a section for the relation between Core and ↵SeongJae Park
Modules layer Add overall desription of the interface and the relation between the Core and the Modules layer under 'Overall Architecture' section. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/design: rewrite configurable layersSeongJae Park
The 'Configurable Operations Set' section is a little bit outdated. Update the text. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/design: update the layout based on the layersSeongJae Park
DAMON design document is describing only the operations set layer and monitoring part of the core logic. Update the layout based on the DAMON's layers, so that more parts of DAMON including DAMOS core logic and DAMON modules can easily be added. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/design: add a section for overall architectureSeongJae Park
The design doc is missing overall picture of DAMON. Add a section for overall architeucture and layers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: fix typos and grammar errorsSeongJae Park
Fix a few typos and grammar erros in DAMON Maintainer Profile document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Docs/mm/damon/faq: remove old questionsSeongJae Park
Patch series "Docs/mm/damon: Minor fixes and design doc update". Some of the DAMON documents are outdated, or having minor typos or grammar erros. Especially, the design doc has not updated for DAMOS, which is an important part of DAMON. Fix the minor issues and update documents. This patch (of 10): The first two questions of DAMON faqs have raised when DAMON patches were first submitted. More than one year has passed since DAMON patches get merged in the mainline, and that kind of questions are not asked nowadays. Remove the questions. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230525214314.5204-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09mm: convert migrate_pages() to work on foliosMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Almost all of the callers & implementors of migrate_pages() were already converted to use folios. compaction_alloc() & compaction_free() are trivial to convert a part of this patch and not worth splitting out. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230513001101.276972-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-29mm: page_table_check: Make it dependent on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAMRuihan Li
Without EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM, users are allowed to map arbitrary physical memory regions into the userspace via /dev/mem. At the same time, pages may change their properties (e.g., from anonymous pages to named pages) while they are still being mapped in the userspace, leading to "corruption" detected by the page table check. To avoid these false positives, this patch makes PAGE_TABLE_CHECK depends on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM. This dependency is understandable because PAGE_TABLE_CHECK is a hardening technique but /dev/mem without STRICT_DEVMEM (i.e., !EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM) is itself a security problem. Even with EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM, I/O pages may be still allowed to be mapped via /dev/mem. However, these pages are always considered as named pages, so they won't break the logic used in the page table check. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.17 Signed-off-by: Ruihan Li <lrh2000@pku.edu.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515130958.32471-4-lrh2000@pku.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-04-27Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of switching from a user process to a kernel thread. - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav. - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky. - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the alteration of memcg userspace tunables. - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig: - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page() - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap backing. Use `mount -o noswap'. - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing some scalability benefits. - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its operations O(1) rather than O(n). - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd, permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes. - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its unintuitive meaning. - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature, which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte. - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge(): cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test harness. - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes. - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c. - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more. - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases. - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge(). - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code. - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults. - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to per-VMA locking. - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads. - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig logic. - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a chunk of memory if zswap is not being used. - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing. - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged, userfaultfd and shmem. - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related code paths. - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's testing of our pte state changing. - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it. - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd selftests. - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting. - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the selftests/mm code. - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned pages. - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time. - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a per-process and per-cgroup basis. * tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file() sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area() hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map() maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area() mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs mm: add new api to enable ksm per process mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma() lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper ...
2023-04-24Merge tag 'docs-6.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Commit volume in documentation is relatively low this time, but there is still a fair amount going on, including: - Reorganize the architecture-specific documentation under Documentation/arch This makes the structure match the source directory and helps to clean up the mess that is the top-level Documentation directory a bit. This work creates the new directory and moves x86 and most of the less-active architectures there. The current plan is to move the rest of the architectures in 6.5, with the patches going through the appropriate subsystem trees. - Some more Spanish translations and maintenance of the Italian translation - A new "Kernel contribution maturity model" document from Ted - A new tutorial on quickly building a trimmed kernel from Thorsten Plus the usual set of updates and fixes" * tag 'docs-6.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (47 commits) media: Adjust column width for pdfdocs media: Fix building pdfdocs docs: clk: add documentation to log which clocks have been disabled docs: trace: Fix typo in ftrace.rst Documentation/process: always CC responsible lists docs: kmemleak: adjust to config renaming ELF: document some de-facto PT_* ABI quirks Documentation: arm: remove stih415/stih416 related entries docs: turn off "smart quotes" in the HTML build Documentation: firmware: Clarify firmware path usage docs/mm: Physical Memory: Fix grammar Documentation: Add document for false sharing dma-api-howto: typo fix docs: move m68k architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/ docs: move parisc documentation under Documentation/arch/ docs: move ia64 architecture docs under Documentation/arch/ docs: Move arc architecture docs under Documentation/arch/ docs: move nios2 documentation under Documentation/arch/ docs: move openrisc documentation under Documentation/arch/ docs: move superh documentation under Documentation/arch/ ...