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13 daysMerge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector. The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores - "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2 - "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts - "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump. When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in the series [0/N] cover letter - "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count - "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c - "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb scripts * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits) llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off() scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux() kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email nilfs2: remove wbc->for_reclaim handling fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK fork: check charging success before zeroing stack fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()" crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel ...
13 daysMerge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide this. - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up and better prepare us for future work. - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory block size. - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's memory consumption was dramatic. - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to this part of our swap handling code. - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this time we can alter only "system call information that are used by strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall arguments, and syscall return value. This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM" branch, but I goofed. - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get at the info about guard regions. - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error. - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of using more current facilities. - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are enabled for ARM. - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables. This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page tables". This change does result in various architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur. - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures. - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've been missing for 15 years. - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to load this particular operation. - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly reduced. - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code. - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit. - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON for memory tiering. - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan found via code inspection. - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset settings to violated. This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently. - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code. - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization. - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios. - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved. - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping ranges of invalid pfns. - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases. - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when using JFS. - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more appropriate mm/vma.c. - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index() function. - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that. - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the test_memcontrol selftest. - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging. - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement. - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and documents. - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement. - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the hugetlb code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits) mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range() mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private() memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject() mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat() mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs ...
2025-05-26Merge tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: - ublk updates: - Add support for updating the size of a ublk instance - Zero-copy improvements - Auto-registering of buffers for zero-copy - Series simplifying and improving GET_DATA and request lookup - Series adding quiesce support - Lots of selftests additions - Various cleanups - NVMe updates via Christoph: - add per-node DMA pools and use them for PRP/SGL allocations (Caleb Sander Mateos, Keith Busch) - nvme-fcloop refcounting fixes (Daniel Wagner) - support delayed removal of the multipath node and optionally support the multipath node for private namespaces (Nilay Shroff) - support shared CQs in the PCI endpoint target code (Wilfred Mallawa) - support admin-queue only authentication (Hannes Reinecke) - use the crc32c library instead of the crypto API (Eric Biggers) - misc cleanups (Christoph Hellwig, Marcelo Moreira, Hannes Reinecke, Leon Romanovsky, Gustavo A. R. Silva) - MD updates via Yu: - Fix that normal IO can be starved by sync IO, found by mkfs on newly created large raid5, with some clean up patches for bdev inflight counters - Clean up brd, getting rid of atomic kmaps and bvec poking - Add loop driver specifically for zoned IO testing - Eliminate blk-rq-qos calls with a static key, if not enabled - Improve hctx locking for when a plug has IO for multiple queues pending - Remove block layer bouncing support, which in turn means we can remove the per-node bounce stat as well - Improve blk-throttle support - Improve delay support for blk-throttle - Improve brd discard support - Unify IO scheduler switching. This should also fix a bunch of lockdep warnings we've been seeing, after enabling lockdep support for queue freezing/unfreezeing - Add support for block write streams via FDP (flexible data placement) on NVMe - Add a bunch of block helpers, facilitating the removal of a bunch of duplicated boilerplate code - Remove obsolete BLK_MQ pci and virtio Kconfig options - Add atomic/untorn write support to blktrace - Various little cleanups and fixes * tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (186 commits) selftests: ublk: add test for UBLK_F_QUIESCE ublk: add feature UBLK_F_QUIESCE selftests: ublk: add test case for UBLK_U_CMD_UPDATE_SIZE traceevent/block: Add REQ_ATOMIC flag to block trace events ublk: run auto buf unregisgering in same io_ring_ctx with registering io_uring: add helper io_uring_cmd_ctx_handle() ublk: remove io argument from ublk_auto_buf_reg_fallback() ublk: handle ublk_set_auto_buf_reg() failure correctly in ublk_fetch() selftests: ublk: add test for covering UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK selftests: ublk: support UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG ublk: support UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK ublk: register buffer to local io_uring with provided buf index via UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG ublk: prepare for supporting to register request buffer automatically ublk: convert to refcount_t selftests: ublk: make IO & device removal test more stressful nvme: rename nvme_mpath_shutdown_disk to nvme_mpath_remove_disk nvme: introduce multipath_always_on module param nvme-multipath: introduce delayed removal of the multipath head node nvme-pci: derive and better document max segments limits nvme-pci: use struct_size for allocation struct nvme_dev ...
2025-05-11proc: fix the issue of proc_mem_open returning NULLPenglei Jiang
proc_mem_open() can return an errno, NULL, or mm_struct*. If it fails to acquire mm, it returns NULL, but the caller does not check for the case when the return value is NULL. The following conditions lead to failure in acquiring mm: - The task is a kernel thread (PF_KTHREAD) - The task is exiting (PF_EXITING) Changes: - Add documentation comments for the return value of proc_mem_open(). - Add checks in the caller to return -ESRCH when proc_mem_open() returns NULL. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250404063357.78891-1-superman.xpt@gmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+f9238a0a31f9b5603fef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000f52642060d4e3750@google.com Signed-off-by: Penglei Jiang <superman.xpt@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com> Cc: Jeff layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11fs/proc/page: refactor to reduce code duplicationLiu Ye
kpageflags_read() and kpagecgroup_read() are quite similar to kpagecount_read(). Refactor common code into a helper function to reduce code duplication. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318063226.223284-1-liuyerd@163.com Signed-off-by: Liu Ye <liuye@kylinos.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Svetly Todorov <svetly.todorov@memverge.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regionsAndrei Vagin
Patch series "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions", v2. Introduce the PAGE_IS_GUARD flag in the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to expose information about guard regions. This allows userspace tools, such as CRIU, to detect and handle guard regions. Currently, CRIU utilizes PAGEMAP_SCAN as a more efficient alternative to parsing /proc/pid/pagemap. Without this change, guard regions are incorrectly reported as swap-anon regions, leading CRIU to attempt dumping them and subsequently failing. The series includes updates to the documentation and selftests to reflect the new functionality. This patch (of 3): Introduce the PAGE_IS_GUARD flag in the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to expose information about guard regions. This allows userspace tools, such as CRIU, to detect and handle guard regions. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250324065328.107678-1-avagin@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250324065328.107678-2-avagin@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-05mm: remove NR_BOUNCE zone statChristoph Hellwig
The stat is always 0 now, so remove it and hardwire the user visible output to 0. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250505081138.3435992-8-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2025-04-08Use try_lookup_noperm() instead of d_hash_and_lookup() outside of VFSNeilBrown
try_lookup_noperm() and d_hash_and_lookup() are nearly identical. The former does some validation of the name where the latter doesn't. Outside of the VFS that validation is likely valuable, and having only one exported function for this task is certainly a good idea. So make d_hash_and_lookup() local to VFS files and change all other callers to try_lookup_noperm(). Note that the arguments are swapped. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-6-neil@brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-04-01Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic layers. - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the get_maintainer output. - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the ucount code. - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot. - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to secs_to_jiffies(). - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds some more tests and performs some cleanups. - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task. - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros. - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the individual changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits) mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan() relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES() resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED() resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED() samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap() lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers lib/rbtree: add random seed lib/rbtree: split tests lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 ...
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() ...
2025-03-25Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-03-23' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Fix a memory ordering issue in posix-timers Posix-timer lookup is lockless and reevaluates the timer validity under the timer lock, but the update which validates the timer is not protected by the timer lock. That allows the store to be reordered against the initialization stores, so that the lookup side can observe a partially initialized timer. That's mostly a theoretical problem, but incorrect nevertheless. - Fix a long standing inconsistency of the coarse time getters The coarse time getters read the base time of the current update cycle without reading the actual hardware clock. NTP frequency adjustment can set the base time backwards. The fine grained interfaces compensate this by reading the clock and applying the new conversion factor, but the coarse grained time getters use the base time directly. That allows the user to observe time going backwards. Cure it by always forwarding base time, when NTP changes the frequency with an immediate step. - Rework of posix-timer hashing The posix-timer hash is not scalable and due to the CRIU timer restore mechanism prone to massive contention on the global hash bucket lock. Replace the global hash lock with a fine grained per bucket locking scheme to address that. - Rework the proc/$PID/timers interface. /proc/$PID/timers is provided for CRIU to be able to restore a timer. The printout happens with sighand lock held and interrupts disabled. That's not required as this can be done with RCU protection as well. - Provide a sane mechanism for CRIU to restore a timer ID CRIU restores timers by creating and deleting them until the kernel internal per process ID counter reached the requested ID. That's horribly slow for sparse timer IDs. Provide a prctl() which allows CRIU to restore a timer with a given ID. When enabled the ID pointer is used as input pointer to read the requested ID from user space. When disabled, the normal allocation scheme (next ID) is active as before. This is backwards compatible for both kernel and user space. - Make hrtimer_update_function() less expensive. The sanity checks are valuable, but expensive for high frequency usage in io/uring. Make the debug checks conditional and enable them only when lockdep is enabled. - Small updates, cleanups and improvements * tag 'timers-core-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits) selftests/timers: Improve skew_consistency by testing with other clockids timekeeping: Fix possible inconsistencies in _COARSE clockids posix-timers: Drop redundant memset() invocation selftests/timers/posix-timers: Add a test for exact allocation mode posix-timers: Provide a mechanism to allocate a given timer ID posix-timers: Dont iterate /proc/$PID/timers with sighand:: Siglock held posix-timers: Make per process list RCU safe posix-timers: Avoid false cacheline sharing posix-timers: Switch to jhash32() posix-timers: Improve hash table performance posix-timers: Make signal_struct:: Next_posix_timer_id an atomic_t posix-timers: Make lock_timer() use guard() posix-timers: Rework timer removal posix-timers: Simplify lock/unlock_timer() posix-timers: Use guards in a few places posix-timers: Remove SLAB_PANIC from kmem cache posix-timers: Remove a few paranoid warnings posix-timers: Cleanup includes posix-timers: Add cond_resched() to posix_timer_add() search loop posix-timers: Initialise timer before adding it to the hash table ...
2025-03-24Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-03-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Core & fair scheduler changes: - Cancel the slice protection of the idle entity (Zihan Zhou) - Reduce the default slice to avoid tasks getting an extra tick (Zihan Zhou) - Force propagating min_slice of cfs_rq when {en,de}queue tasks (Tianchen Ding) - Refactor can_migrate_task() to elimate looping (I Hsin Cheng) - Add unlikey branch hints to several system calls (Colin Ian King) - Optimize current_clr_polling() on certain architectures (Yujun Dong) Deadline scheduler: (Juri Lelli) - Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call - Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h Uclamp: - Use the uclamp_is_used() helper instead of open-coding it (Xuewen Yan) - Optimize sched_uclamp_used static key enabling (Xuewen Yan) Scheduler topology support: (Juri Lelli) - Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains - Add wrappers for sched_domains_mutex - Generalize unique visiting of root domains - Rebuild root domain accounting after every update - Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains - Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked RSEQ: (Michael Jeanson) - Update kernel fields in lockstep with CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y - Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero - selftests: Add rseq syscall errors test - selftests: Ensure the rseq ABI TLS is actually 1024 bytes Membarriers: - Fix redundant load of membarrier_state (Nysal Jan K.A.) Scheduler debugging: - Introduce and use preempt_model_str() (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG unconditional (Ingo Molnar) Fixes and cleanups: - Always save/restore x86 TSC sched_clock() on suspend/resume (Guilherme G. Piccoli) - Misc fixes and cleanups (Thorsten Blum, Juri Lelli, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)" * tag 'sched-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits) cpuidle, sched: Use smp_mb__after_atomic() in current_clr_polling() sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG from self-test config files sched/debug, Documentation: Remove (most) CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG references from documentation sched/debug: Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG functionality unconditional sched/debug: Make 'const_debug' tunables unconditional __read_mostly sched/debug: Change SCHED_WARN_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE() rseq/selftests: Fix namespace collision with rseq UAPI header include/{topology,cpuset}: Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h sched/topology: Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked cgroup/cpuset: Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains sched/topology: Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call sched/deadline: Rebuild root domain accounting after every update sched/deadline: Generalize unique visiting of root domains sched/topology: Wrappers for sched_domains_mutex sched/deadline: Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains tracing: Use preempt_model_str() xtensa: Rely on generic printing of preemption model x86: Rely on generic printing of preemption model s390: Rely on generic printing of preemption model ...
2025-03-24Merge tag 'execve-v6.15-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull execve updates from Kees Cook: - elf: Define and use note name macros (Akihiko Odaki) - elf: add remaining SHF_ flag macros (Timur Tabi) - binfmt: Remove loader from linux_binprm struct (Yonatan Goldschmidt) - binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix variable set but not used warning (sunliming) * tag 'execve-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix variable set but not used warning elf: add remaining SHF_ flag macros binfmt: Remove loader from linux_binprm struct crash: Remove KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME s390/crash: Use note name macros crash: Use note name macros powerpc/crash: Use note name macros binfmt_elf: Use note name macros elf: Define note name macros
2025-03-21fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()Bart Van Assche
proc_pid_wchan() used to report kernel addresses to user space but that is no longer the case today. Bring the comment above proc_pid_wchan() in sync with the implementation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250319210222.1518771-1-bvanassche@acm.org Fixes: b2f73922d119 ("fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-21meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon driversNico Pache
Patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers", v2. This series introduces a way to track memory used by balloon drivers. Add a NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by the balloon drivers. First add the accounting, then updates the balloon drivers (virtio, Hyper-V, VMware, Pseries-cmm, and Xen) to maintain this counter. The virtio, Vmware, and pseries-cmm balloon drivers utilize the balloon_compaction interface to allocate and free balloon pages. Other balloon drivers will have to maintain this counter manually. This makes the information visible in memory reporting interfaces like /proc/meminfo, show_mem, and OOM reporting. This provides admins visibility into their VM balloon sizes without requiring different virtualization tooling. Furthermore, this information is helpful when debugging an OOM inside a VM. This patch (of 4): Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces. [npache@redhat.com: document Balloon Meminfo entry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-1-npache@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-2-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-19sched/debug: Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG functionality unconditionalIngo Molnar
All the big Linux distros enable CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, because the various features it provides help not just with kernel development, but with system administration and user-space software development as well. Reflect this reality and enable this functionality unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250317104257.3496611-4-mingo@kernel.org
2025-03-17fs/proc/task_mmu: remove per-page mapcount dependency for smaps/smaps_rollup ↵David Hildenbrand
(CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT) Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. When computing the output for smaps / smaps_rollups, in particular when calculating the USS (Unique Set Size) and the PSS (Proportional Set Size), we still rely on per-page mapcounts. To determine private vs. shared, we'll use folio_likely_mapped_shared(), similar to how we handle PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE. Similarly, we might now under-estimate the USS and count pages towards "shared" that are actually "private" ("exclusively mapped"). When calculating the PSS, we'll now also use the average per-page mapcount for large folios: this can result in both, an over-estimation and an under-estimation of the PSS. The difference is not expected to matter much in practice, but we'll have to learn as we go. We can now provide folio_precise_page_mapcount() only with CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT, and remove one of the last users of per-page mapcounts when CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT is enabled. Document the new behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-20-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>
2025-03-17fs/proc/task_mmu: remove per-page mapcount dependency for "mapmax" ↵David Hildenbrand
(CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT) Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. For calculating "mapmax", we now use the average per-page mapcount in a large folio instead of the per-page mapcount. For hugetlb folios and folios that are not partially mapped into MMs, there is no change. Likely, this change will not matter much in practice, and an alternative might be to simple remove this stat with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. However, there might be value to it, so let's keep it like that and document the behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-19-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>
2025-03-17fs/proc/task_mmu: remove per-page mapcount dependency for PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE ↵David Hildenbrand
(CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT) Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE will now be set if folio_likely_mapped_shared() is true -- when the folio is considered "mapped shared", including when it once was "mapped shared" but no longer is, as documented. This might result in and under-indication of "exclusively mapped", which is considered better than over-indicating it: under-estimating the USS (Unique Set Size) is better than over-estimating it. As an alternative, we could simply remove that flag with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT completely, but there might be value to it. So, let's keep it like that and document the behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-18-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>
2025-03-17fs/proc/page: remove per-page mapcount dependency for /proc/kpagecount ↵David Hildenbrand
(CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT) Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. For large folios, we'll return the per-page average mapcount within the folio, whereby we round to the closest integer when calculating the average: however, we'll always return at least 1 if the folio is mapped. So assuming a folio with 512 pages, the average would be: * 0 if not pages are mapped * 1 if there are 1 .. 767 per-page mappings * 2 if there are 767 .. 1279 per-page mappings ... For hugetlb folios and for large folios that are fully mapped into all address spaces, there is no change. We'll make use of this helper in other context next. As an alternative, we could simply return 0 for non-hugetlb large folios, or disable this legacy interface with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. But the information exposed by this interface can still be valuable, and frequently we deal with fully-mapped large folios where the average corresponds to the actual page mapcount. So we'll leave it like this for now and document the new behavior. Note: this interface is likely not very relevant for performance. If ever required, we could try doing a rather expensive rmap walk to collect precisely how often this folio page is mapped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-17-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: 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>
2025-03-17fs/proc/task_mmu: reduce scope of lazy mmu regionRyan Roberts
Update the way arch_[enter|leave]_lazy_mmu_mode() is called in pagemap_scan_pmd_entry() to follow the normal pattern of holding the ptl for user space mappings. As a result the scope is reduced to only the pte table, but that's where most of the performance win is. While I believe there wasn't technically a bug here, the original scope made it easier to accidentally nest or, worse, accidentally call something like kmap() which would expect an immediate mode pte modification but it would end up deferred. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303141542.3371656-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemapLorenzo Stoakes
Patch series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap". Currently there is no means of determining whether a given page in a mapping range is designated a guard region (as installed via madvise() using the MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag). This is generally not an issue, but in some instances users may wish to determine whether this is the case. This series adds this ability via /proc/$pid/pagemap, updates the documentation and adds a self test to assert that this functions correctly. This patch (of 2): Currently there is no means by which users can determine whether a given page in memory is in fact a guard region, that is having had the MADV_GUARD_INSTALL madvise() flag applied to it. This is intentional, as to provide this information in VMA metadata would contradict the intent of the feature (providing a means to change fault behaviour at a page table level rather than a VMA level), and would require VMA metadata operations to scan page tables, which is unacceptable. In many cases, users have no need to reflect and determine what regions have been designated guard regions, as it is the user who has established them in the first place. But in some instances, such as monitoring software, or software that relies upon being able to ascertain the nature of mappings within a remote process for instance, it becomes useful to be able to determine which pages have the guard region marker applied. This patch makes use of an unused pagemap bit (58) to provide this information. This patch updates the documentation at the same time as making the change such that the implementation of the feature and the documentation of it are tied together. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1740139449.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/521d99c08b975fb06a1e7201e971cc24d68196d1.1740139449.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode()Ye Bin
Fix race between rmmod and /proc/XXX's inode instantiation. The bug is that pde->proc_ops don't belong to /proc, it belongs to a module, therefore dereferencing it after /proc entry has been registered is a bug unless use_pde/unuse_pde() pair has been used. use_pde/unuse_pde can be avoided (2 atomic ops!) because pde->proc_ops never changes so information necessary for inode instantiation can be saved _before_ proc_register() in PDE itself and used later, avoiding pde->proc_ops->... dereference. rmmod lookup sys_delete_module proc_lookup_de pde_get(de); proc_get_inode(dir->i_sb, de); mod->exit() proc_remove remove_proc_subtree proc_entry_rundown(de); free_module(mod); if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) if (de->proc_ops->proc_read_iter) --> As module is already freed, will trigger UAF BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff80a702b PGD 817fc4067 P4D 817fc4067 PUD 817fc0067 PMD 102ef4067 PTE 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 2667 Comm: ls Tainted: G Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) RIP: 0010:proc_get_inode+0x302/0x6e0 RSP: 0018:ffff88811c837998 EFLAGS: 00010a06 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffffc0538140 RCX: 0000000000000007 RDX: 1ffffffff80a702b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffffc0538158 RBP: ffff8881299a6000 R08: 0000000067bbe1e5 R09: 1ffff11023906f20 R10: ffffffffb560ca07 R11: ffffffffb2b43a58 R12: ffff888105bb78f0 R13: ffff888100518048 R14: ffff8881299a6004 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00007f95b9686840(0000) GS:ffff8883af100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: fffffbfff80a702b CR3: 0000000117dd2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> proc_lookup_de+0x11f/0x2e0 __lookup_slow+0x188/0x350 walk_component+0x2ab/0x4f0 path_lookupat+0x120/0x660 filename_lookup+0x1ce/0x560 vfs_statx+0xac/0x150 __do_sys_newstat+0x96/0x110 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [adobriyan@gmail.com: don't do 2 atomic ops on the common path] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d25ded0-1739-447e-812b-e34da7990dcf@p183 Fixes: 778f3dd5a13c ("Fix procfs compat_ioctl regression") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-13posix-timers: Dont iterate /proc/$PID/timers with sighand:: Siglock heldThomas Gleixner
The readout of /proc/$PID/timers holds sighand::siglock with interrupts disabled. That is required to protect against concurrent modifications of the task::signal::posix_timers list because the list is not RCU safe. With the conversion of the timer storage to a RCU protected hlist, this is not longer required. The only requirement is to protect the returned entry against a concurrent free, which is trivial as the timers are RCU protected. Removing the trylock of sighand::siglock is benign because the life time of task_struct::signal is bound to the life time of the task_struct itself. There are two scenarios where this matters: 1) The process is life and not about to be checkpointed 2) The process is stopped via ptrace for checkpointing #1 is a racy snapshot of the armed timers and nothing can rely on it. It's not more than debug information and it has been that way before because sighand lock is dropped when the buffer is full and the restart of the iteration might find a completely different set of timers. The task and therefore task::signal cannot be freed as timers_start() acquired a reference count via get_pid_task(). #2 the process is stopped for checkpointing so nothing can delete or create timers at this point. Neither can the process exit during the traversal. If CRIU fails to observe an exit in progress prior to the dissimination of the timers, then there are more severe problems to solve in the CRIU mechanics as they can't rely on posix timers being enabled in the first place. Therefore replace the lock acquisition with rcu_read_lock() and switch the timer storage traversal over to seq_hlist_*_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155624.465175807@linutronix.de
2025-02-17procfs: fix a locking bug in a vmcore_add_device_dump() error pathBart Van Assche
Unlock vmcore_mutex when returning -EBUSY. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129222003.1495713-1-bvanassche@acm.org Fixes: 0f3b1c40c652 ("fs/proc/vmcore: disallow vmcore modifications while the vmcore is open") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-02-10crash: Use note name macrosAkihiko Odaki
Use note name macros to match with the userspace's expectation. Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115-elf-v5-4-0f9e55bbb2fc@daynix.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2025-01-30Merge tag 'pull-revalidate' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs d_revalidate updates from Al Viro: "Provide stable parent and name to ->d_revalidate() instances Most of the filesystem methods where we care about dentry name and parent have their stability guaranteed by the callers; ->d_revalidate() is the major exception. It's easy enough for callers to supply stable values for expected name and expected parent of the dentry being validated. That kills quite a bit of boilerplate in ->d_revalidate() instances, along with a bunch of races where they used to access ->d_name without sufficient precautions" * tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: 9p: fix ->rename_sem exclusion orangefs_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller nfs: fix ->d_revalidate() UAF on ->d_name accesses nfs{,4}_lookup_validate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller gfs2_drevalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller fuse_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller vfat_revalidate{,_ci}(): use stable parent inode passed by caller exfat_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller fscrypt_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller ceph_d_revalidate(): propagate stable name down into request encoding ceph_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller afs_d_revalidate(): use stable name and parent inode passed by caller Pass parent directory inode and expected name to ->d_revalidate() generic_ci_d_compare(): use shortname_storage ext4 fast_commit: make use of name_snapshot primitives dissolve external_name.u into separate members make take_dentry_name_snapshot() lockless dcache: back inline names with a struct-wrapped array of unsigned long make sure that DNAME_INLINE_LEN is a multiple of word size
2025-01-27Pass parent directory inode and expected name to ->d_revalidate()Al Viro
->d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller to caller. We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing on it ever gets renamed. It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already have the values of ->d_parent and ->d_name stable. There is a couple of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all. It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if there's a ->d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that in the instances. This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied values is left to followups. NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need more precautions than the usual boilerplate. This series doesn't do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem a-la v9fs). One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name->name will normally point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies name->len bytes starting at name->name, and there is NUL somewhere after it, but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'. Do not ignore name->len. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-01-27Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhostLinus Torvalds
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin: "A small number of improvements all over the place: - vdpa/octeon support for multiple interrupts - virtio-pci support for error recovery - vp_vdpa support for notification with data - vhost/net fix to set num_buffers for spec compliance - virtio-mem now works with kdump on s390 And small cleanups all over the place" * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (23 commits) virtio_blk: Add support for transport error recovery virtio_pci: Add support for PCIe Function Level Reset vhost/net: Set num_buffers for virtio 1.0 vdpa/octeon_ep: read vendor-specific PCI capability virtio-pci: define type and header for PCI vendor data vdpa/octeon_ep: handle device config change events vdpa/octeon_ep: enable support for multiple interrupts per device vdpa: solidrun: Replace deprecated PCI functions s390/kdump: virtio-mem kdump support (CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM) virtio-mem: support CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM virtio-mem: remember usable region size virtio-mem: mark device ready before registering callbacks in kdump mode fs/proc/vmcore: introduce PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM to detect device RAM ranges in 2nd kernel fs/proc/vmcore: factor out freeing a list of vmcore ranges fs/proc/vmcore: factor out allocating a vmcore range and adding it to a list fs/proc/vmcore: move vmcore definitions out of kcore.h fs/proc/vmcore: prefix all pr_* with "vmcore:" fs/proc/vmcore: disallow vmcore modifications while the vmcore is open fs/proc/vmcore: replace vmcoredd_mutex by vmcore_mutex fs/proc/vmcore: convert vmcore_cb_lock into vmcore_mutex ...
2025-01-27virtio-mem: support CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAMDavid Hildenbrand
Let's implement the get_device_ram() vmcore callback, so architectures that select NEED_PROC_VMCORE_NEED_DEVICE_RAM, like s390 soon, can include that memory in a crash dump. Merge ranges, and process ranges that might contain a mixture of plugged and unplugged, to reduce the total number of ranges. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-12-david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-01-27fs/proc/vmcore: introduce PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM to detect device RAM ranges ↵David Hildenbrand
in 2nd kernel s390 allocates+prepares the elfcore hdr in the dump (2nd) kernel, not in the crashed kernel. RAM provided by memory devices such as virtio-mem can only be detected using the device driver; when vmcore_init() is called, these device drivers are usually not loaded yet, or the devices did not get probed yet. Consequently, on s390 these RAM ranges will not be included in the crash dump, which makes the dump partially corrupt and is unfortunate. Instead of deferring the vmcore_init() call, to an (unclear?) later point, let's reuse the vmcore_cb infrastructure to obtain device RAM ranges as the device drivers probe the device and get access to this information. Then, we'll add these ranges to the vmcore, adding more PT_LOAD entries and updating the offsets+vmcore size. Use a separate Kconfig option to be set by an architecture to include this code only if the arch really needs it. Further, we'll make the config depend on the relevant drivers (i.e., virtio_mem) once they implement support (next). The alternative of having a PROVIDE_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM config option was dropped for now for simplicity. The current target use case is s390, which only creates an elf64 elfcore, so focusing on elf64 is sufficient. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-9-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-01-27fs/proc/vmcore: factor out freeing a list of vmcore rangesDavid Hildenbrand
Let's factor it out into include/linux/crash_dump.h, from where we can use it also outside of vmcore.c later. Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-8-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-01-27fs/proc/vmcore: factor out allocating a vmcore range and adding it to a listDavid Hildenbrand
Let's factor it out into include/linux/crash_dump.h, from where we can use it also outside of vmcore.c later. Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-7-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-01-27fs/proc/vmcore: move vmcore definitions out of kcore.hDavid Hildenbrand
These vmcore defines are not related to /proc/kcore, move them out. We'll move "struct vmcoredd_node" to vmcore.c, because it is only used internally. While "struct vmcore" is only used internally for now, we're planning on using it from inline functions in crash_dump.h next, so move it to crash_dump.h. While at it, rename "struct vmcore" to "struct vmcore_range", which is a more suitable name and will make the usage of it outside of vmcore.c clearer. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-6-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-01-27fs/proc/vmcore: prefix all pr_* with "vmcore:"David Hildenbrand
Let's use "vmcore: " as a prefix, converting the single "Kdump: vmcore not initialized" one to effectively be "vmcore: not initialized". Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-5-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-01-27fs/proc/vmcore: disallow vmcore modifications while the vmcore is openDavid Hildenbrand
The vmcoredd_update_size() call and its effects (size/offset changes) are currently completely unsynchronized, and will cause trouble when performed concurrently, or when done while someone is already reading the vmcore. Let's protect all vmcore modifications by the vmcore_mutex, disallow vmcore modifications while the vmcore is open, and warn on vmcore modifications after the vmcore was already opened once: modifications while the vmcore is open are unsafe, and modifications after the vmcore was opened indicates trouble. Properly synchronize against concurrent opening of the vmcore. No need to grab the mutex during mmap()/read(): after we opened the vmcore, modifications are impossible. It's worth noting that modifications after the vmcore was opened are completely unexpected, so failing if open, and warning if already opened (+closed again) is good enough. This change not only handles concurrent adding of device dumps + concurrent reading of the vmcore properly, it also prepares for other mechanisms that will modify the vmcore. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-4-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-01-27fs/proc/vmcore: replace vmcoredd_mutex by vmcore_mutexDavid Hildenbrand
Now that we have a mutex that synchronizes against opening of the vmcore, let's use that one to replace vmcoredd_mutex: there is no need to have two separate ones. This is a preparation for properly preventing vmcore modifications after the vmcore was opened. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-3-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2025-01-27fs/proc/vmcore: convert vmcore_cb_lock into vmcore_mutexDavid Hildenbrand
We want to protect vmcore modifications from concurrent opening of the vmcore, and also serialize vmcore modification. (a) We can currently modify the vmcore after it was opened. This can happen if a vmcoredd is added after the vmcore module was initialized and already opened by user space. We want to fix that and prepare for new code wanting to serialize against concurrent opening. (b) To handle it cleanly we need to protect the modifications against concurrent opening. As the modifications end up allocating memory and can sleep, we cannot rely on the spinlock. Let's convert the spinlock into a mutex to prepare for further changes. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-2-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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 ...
2025-01-25ksm: add ksm involvement information for each processxu xin
In /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat, add two extra ksm involvement items including KSM_mergeable and KSM_merge_any. It helps administrators to better know the system's KSM behavior at process level. ksm_merge_any: yes/no whether the process'mm is added by prctl() into the candidate list of KSM or not, and fully enabled at process level. ksm_mergeable: yes/no whether any VMAs of the process'mm are currently applicable to KSM. Purpose ======= These two items are just to improve the observability of KSM at process level, so that users can know if a certain process has enabled KSM. For example, if without these two items, when we look at /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat and there's no merging pages found, We are not sure whether it is because KSM was not enabled or because KSM did not successfully merge any pages. Although "mg" in /proc/<pid>/smaps indicate VM_MERGEABLE, it's opaque and not very obvious for non professionals. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: wording tweaks, per David and akpm] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110174034304QOb8eDoqtFkp3_t8mqnqc@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com> Cc: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn> Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-20Merge tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Support caching symlink lengths in inodes The size is stored in a new union utilizing the same space as i_devices, thus avoiding growing the struct or taking up any more space When utilized it dodges strlen() in vfs_readlink(), giving about 1.5% speed up when issuing readlink on /initrd.img on ext4 - Add RWF_DONTCACHE iocb and FOP_DONTCACHE file_operations flag If a file system supports uncached buffered IO, it may set FOP_DONTCACHE and enable support for RWF_DONTCACHE. If RWF_DONTCACHE is attempted without the file system supporting it, it'll get errored with -EOPNOTSUPP - Enable VBOXGUEST and VBOXSF_FS on ARM64 Now that VirtualBox is able to run as a host on arm64 (e.g. the Apple M3 processors) we can enable VBOXSF_FS (and in turn VBOXGUEST) for this architecture. Tested with various runs of bonnie++ and dbench on an Apple MacBook Pro with the latest Virtualbox 7.1.4 r165100 installed Cleanups: - Delay sysctl_nr_open check in expand_files() - Use kernel-doc includes in fiemap docbook - Use page->private instead of page->index in watch_queue - Use a consume fence in mnt_idmap() as it's heavily used in link_path_walk() - Replace magic number 7 with ARRAY_SIZE() in fc_log - Sort out a stale comment about races between fd alloc and dup2() - Fix return type of do_mount() from long to int - Various cosmetic cleanups for the lockref code Fixes: - Annotate spinning as unlikely() in __read_seqcount_begin The annotation already used to be there, but got lost in commit 52ac39e5db51 ("seqlock: seqcount_t: Implement all read APIs as statement expressions") - Fix proc_handler for sysctl_nr_open - Flush delayed work in delayed fput() - Fix grammar and spelling in propagate_umount() - Fix ESP not readable during coredump In /proc/PID/stat, there is the kstkesp field which is the stack pointer of a thread. While the thread is active, this field reads zero. But during a coredump, it should have a valid value However, at the moment, kstkesp is zero even during coredump - Don't wake up the writer if the pipe is still full - Fix unbalanced user_access_end() in select code" * tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits) gfs2: use lockref_init for qd_lockref erofs: use lockref_init for pcl->lockref dcache: use lockref_init for d_lockref lockref: add a lockref_init helper lockref: drop superfluous externs lockref: use bool for false/true returns lockref: improve the lockref_get_not_zero description lockref: remove lockref_put_not_zero fs: Fix return type of do_mount() from long to int select: Fix unbalanced user_access_end() vbox: Enable VBOXGUEST and VBOXSF_FS on ARM64 pipe_read: don't wake up the writer if the pipe is still full selftests: coredump: Add stackdump test fs/proc: do_task_stat: Fix ESP not readable during coredump fs: add RWF_DONTCACHE iocb and FOP_DONTCACHE file_operations flag fs: sort out a stale comment about races between fd alloc and dup2 fs: Fix grammar and spelling in propagate_umount() fs: fc_log replace magic number 7 with ARRAY_SIZE() fs: use a consume fence in mnt_idmap() file: flush delayed work in delayed fput() ...
2025-01-20Merge tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.kcore' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull /proc/kcore updates from Christian Brauner: "The performance of /proc/kcore reads has been showing up as a bottleneck for the drgn debugger. drgn scripts often spend ~25% of their time in the kernel reading from /proc/kcore. A lot of this overhead comes from silly inefficiencies. This pull request contains fixes for the low-hanging fruit. The fixes are all fairly small and straightforward. The result is a 25% improvement in read latency in micro-benchmarks (from ~235 nanoseconds to ~175) and a 15% improvement in execution time for real-world drgn scripts: - Make /proc/kcore entry permanent - Avoid walking the list on every read - Use percpu_rw_semaphore for kclist_lock - Make Omar Sandoval the official maintainer for /proc/kcore" * tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.kcore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: MAINTAINERS: add me as /proc/kcore maintainer proc/kcore: use percpu_rw_semaphore for kclist_lock proc/kcore: don't walk list on every read proc/kcore: mark proc entry as permanent
2025-01-12fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore (part 2)Rik van Riel
Since commit 5cbcb62dddf5 ("fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore") the number of softlockups in __read_vmcore at kdump time have gone down, but they still happen sometimes. In a memory constrained environment like the kdump image, a softlockup is not just a harmless message, but it can interfere with things like RCU freeing memory, causing the crashdump to get stuck. The second loop in __read_vmcore has a lot more opportunities for natural sleep points, like scheduling out while waiting for a data write to happen, but apparently that is not always enough. Add a cond_resched() to the second loop in __read_vmcore to (hopefully) get rid of the softlockups. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110102821.2a37581b@fangorn Fixes: 5cbcb62dddf5 ("fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore") Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-04fs/proc: do_task_stat: Fix ESP not readable during coredumpNam Cao
The field "eip" (instruction pointer) and "esp" (stack pointer) of a task can be read from /proc/PID/stat. These fields can be interesting for coredump. However, these fields were disabled by commit 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat"), because it is generally unsafe to do so. But it is safe for a coredumping process, and therefore exceptions were made: - for a coredumping thread by commit fd7d56270b52 ("fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping"). - for all other threads in a coredumping process by commit cb8f381f1613 ("fs/proc/array.c: allow reporting eip/esp for all coredumping threads"). The above two commits check the PF_DUMPCORE flag to determine a coredump thread and the PF_EXITING flag for the other threads. Unfortunately, commit 92307383082d ("coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core") moved coredump to happen earlier and before PF_EXITING is set. Thus, checking PF_EXITING is no longer the correct way to determine threads in a coredumping process. Instead of PF_EXITING, use PF_POSTCOREDUMP to determine the other threads. Checking of PF_EXITING was added for coredumping, so it probably can now be removed. But it doesn't hurt to keep. Fixes: 92307383082d ("coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d89af63d478d6c64cc46a01420b46fd6eb147d6f.1735805772.git.namcao@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-30fs/proc/task_mmu: fix pagemap flags with PMD THP entries on 32bitDavid Hildenbrand
Entries (including flags) are u64, even on 32bit. So right now we are cutting of the flags on 32bit. This way, for example the cow selftest complains about: # ./cow ... Bail Out! read and ioctl return unmatched results for populated: 0 1 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241217195000.1734039-1-david@redhat.com Fixes: 2c1f057e5be6 ("fs/proc/task_mmu: properly detect PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE per page of PMD-mapped THPs") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-12-22vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodesMateusz Guzik
When utilized it dodges strlen() in vfs_readlink(), giving about 1.5% speed up when issuing readlink on /initrd.img on ext4. Filesystems opt in by calling inode_set_cached_link() when creating an inode. The size is stored in a new union utilizing the same space as i_devices, thus avoiding growing the struct or taking up any more space. Churn-wise the current readlink_copy() helper is patched to accept the size instead of calculating it. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120112037.822078-2-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-05fs/proc/vmcore.c: fix warning when CONFIG_MMU=nAndrew Morton
>> fs/proc/vmcore.c:424:19: warning: 'mmap_vmcore_fault' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] 424 | static vm_fault_t mmap_vmcore_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf) Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202411140156.2o0nS4fl-lkp@intel.com/ Cc: Qi Xi <xiqi2@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-12-02proc/kcore: use percpu_rw_semaphore for kclist_lockOmar Sandoval
The list of memory ranges for /proc/kcore is protected by a rw_semaphore. We lock it for reading on every read from /proc/kcore. This is very heavy, especially since it is rarely locked for writing. Since we want to strongly favor read lock performance, convert it to a percpu_rw_semaphore. I also experimented with percpu_ref and SRCU, but this change was the simplest and the fastest. In my benchmark, this reduces the time per read by yet another 20 nanoseconds on top of the previous two changes, from 195 nanoseconds per read to 175. Link: https://github.com/osandov/drgn/issues/106 Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/83a3b235b4bcc3b8aef7c533e0657f4d7d5d35ae.1731115587.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-12-02proc/kcore: don't walk list on every readOmar Sandoval
We maintain a list of memory ranges for /proc/kcore, which usually has 10-20 entries. Currently, every single read from /proc/kcore walks the entire list in order to count the number of entries and compute some offsets. These values only change when the list of memory ranges changes, which is very rare (only when memory is hot(un)plugged). We can cache the values when the list is populated to avoid these redundant walks. In my benchmark, this reduces the time per read by another 20 nanoseconds on top of the previous change, from 215 nanoseconds per read to 195. Link: https://github.com/osandov/drgn/issues/106 Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8d945558b9c9efe74103a34b7780f1cd90d9ce7f.1731115587.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>