MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_COMPOUND will be used to select THP pages during
migrate_vma_setup() and MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND will make migrating device
pages as compound pages during device pfn migration.
migrate_device code paths go through the collect, setup and finalize
phases of migration.
The entries in src and dst arrays passed to these functions still remain
at a PAGE_SIZE granularity. When a compound page is passed, the first
entry has the PFN along with MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND and other flags set
(MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE, MIGRATE_PFN_VALID), the remaining entries
(HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1) are filled with 0's. This representation allows for
the compound page to be split into smaller page sizes.
migrate_vma_collect_hole(), migrate_vma_collect_pmd() are now THP page
aware. Two new helper functions migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd() and
migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page() have been added.
migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd() can collect THP pages, but if for some
reason this fails, there is fallback support to split the folio and
migrate it.
migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page() closely follows the logic of
migrate_vma_insert_page()
Support for splitting pages as needed for migration will follow in later
patches in this series.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001065707.920170-8-balbirs@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: support device-private THP", v7.
This patch series introduces support for Transparent Huge Page (THP)
migration in zone device-private memory. The implementation enables
efficient migration of large folios between system memory and
device-private memory
Background
Current zone device-private memory implementation only supports PAGE_SIZE
granularity, leading to:
- Increased TLB pressure
- Inefficient migration between CPU and device memory
This series extends the existing zone device-private infrastructure to
support THP, leading to:
- Reduced page table overhead
- Improved memory bandwidth utilization
- Seamless fallback to base pages when needed
In my local testing (using lib/test_hmm) and a throughput test, the series
shows a 350% improvement in data transfer throughput and a 80% improvement
in latency
These patches build on the earlier posts by Ralph Campbell [1]
Two new flags are added in vma_migration to select and mark compound
pages. migrate_vma_setup(), migrate_vma_pages() and
migrate_vma_finalize() support migration of these pages when
MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_COMPOUND is passed in as arguments.
The series also adds zone device awareness to (m)THP pages along with
fault handling of large zone device private pages. page vma walk and the
rmap code is also zone device aware. Support has also been added for
folios that might need to be split in the middle of migration (when the
src and dst do not agree on MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND), that occurs when src
side of the migration can migrate large pages, but the destination has not
been able to allocate large pages. The code supported and used
folio_split() when migrating THP pages, this is used when
MIGRATE_VMA_SELECT_COMPOUND is not passed as an argument to
migrate_vma_setup().
The test infrastructure lib/test_hmm.c has been enhanced to support THP
migration. A new ioctl to emulate failure of large page allocations has
been added to test the folio split code path. hmm-tests.c has new test
cases for huge page migration and to test the folio split path. A new
throughput test has been added as well.
The nouveau dmem code has been enhanced to use the new THP migration
capability.
mTHP support:
The patches hard code, HPAGE_PMD_NR in a few places, but the code has been
kept generic to support various order sizes. With additional refactoring
of the code support of different order sizes should be possible.
The future plan is to post enhancements to support mTHP with a rough
design as follows:
1. Add the notion of allowable thp orders to the HMM based test driver
2. For non PMD based THP paths in migrate_device.c, check to see if
a suitable order is found and supported by the driver
3. Iterate across orders to check the highest supported order for migration
4. Migrate and finalize
The mTHP patches can be built on top of this series, the key design
elements that need to be worked out are infrastructure and driver support
for multiple ordered pages and their migration.
HMM support for large folios was added in 10b9feee2d ("mm/hmm:
populate PFNs from PMD swap entry").
This patch (of 16)
Add routines to support allocation of large order zone device folios and
helper functions for zone device folios, to check if a folio is device
private and helpers for setting zone device data.
When large folios are used, the existing page_free() callback in pgmap is
called when the folio is freed, this is true for both PAGE_SIZE and higher
order pages.
Zone device private large folios do not support deferred split and scan
like normal THP folios.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001065707.920170-1-balbirs@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001065707.920170-2-balbirs@nvidia.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201106005147.20113-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@intel.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit c010d47f10 ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages")
introduced an early check on the folio's order via mapping->flags before
proceeding with the split work.
This check introduced a bug: for shmem folios in the swap cache and
truncated folios, the mapping pointer can be NULL. Accessing
mapping->flags in this state leads directly to a NULL pointer dereference.
This commit fixes the issue by moving the check for mapping != NULL before
any attempt to access mapping->flags.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251119235302.24773-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Fixes: c010d47f10 ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
After commit 4f78252da8, nr_swap_pages is decremented in
swap_range_alloc(). Since cluster_alloc_swap_entry() calls
swap_range_alloc() internally, the decrement in get_swap_page_of_type()
causes double-decrementing.
As a representative userspace-visible runtime example of the impact,
/proc/meminfo reports increasingly inaccurate SwapFree values. The
discrepancy grows with each swap allocation, and during hibernation
when large amounts of memory are written to swap, the reported value
can deviate significantly from actual available swap space, misleading
users and monitoring tools.
Remove the duplicate decrement.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251102082456.79807-1-youngjun.park@lge.com
Fixes: 4f78252da8 ("mm: swap: move nr_swap_pages counter decrement from folio_alloc_swap() to swap_range_alloc()")
Signed-off-by: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.17+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Assert that we correctly merge VMAs containing VM_SOFTDIRTY flags now that
we correctly handle these as sticky.
In order to do so, we have to account for the fact the pagemap interface
checks soft dirty PTEs and additionally that newly merged VMAs are marked
VM_SOFTDIRTY.
We do this by using use unfaulted anon VMAs, establishing one and clearing
references on that one, before establishing another and merging the two
before checking that soft-dirty is propagated as expected.
We check that this functions correctly with mremap() and mprotect() as
sample cases, because VMA merge of adjacent newly mapped VMAs will
automatically be made soft-dirty due to existing logic which does so.
We are therefore exercising other means of merging VMAs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d5a0f735783fb4f30a604f570ede02ccc5e29be9.1763399675.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag", v2.
Currently we set VM_SOFTDIRTY when a new mapping is set up (whether by
establishing a new VMA, or via merge) as implemented in __mmap_complete()
and do_brk_flags().
However, when performing a merge of existing mappings such as when
performing mprotect(), we may lose the VM_SOFTDIRTY flag.
Now we have the concept of making VMA flags 'sticky', that is that they
both don't prevent merge and, importantly, are propagated to merged VMAs,
this seems a sensible alternative to the existing special-casing of
VM_SOFTDIRTY.
We additionally add a self-test that demonstrates that this logic behaves
as expected.
This patch (of 2):
Currently we set VM_SOFTDIRTY when a new mapping is set up (whether by
establishing a new VMA, or via merge) as implemented in __mmap_complete()
and do_brk_flags().
However, when performing a merge of existing mappings such as when
performing mprotect(), we may lose the VM_SOFTDIRTY flag.
This is because currently we simply ignore VM_SOFTDIRTY for the purposes
of merge, so one VMA may possess the flag and another not, and whichever
happens to be the target VMA will be the one upon which the merge is
performed which may or may not have VM_SOFTDIRTY set.
Now we have the concept of 'sticky' VMA flags, let's make VM_SOFTDIRTY one
which solves this issue.
Additionally update VMA userland tests to propagate changes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update comments, per Lorenzo]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0019e0b8-ee1e-4359-b5ee-94225cbe5588@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1763399675.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/955478b5170715c895d1ef3b7f68e0cd77f76868.1763399675.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Acked-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon: misc cleanups".
Yet another batch of misc cleanups and refactoring for DAMON code, tests,
and documents.
First two patches (1and 2) rename DAMOS core filters related code for
readability.
Three following patches (3-5) refactor page table walk callback functions
in DAMON, as suggested by Hugh and David, and I promised.
Next two patches (6 and 7) refactor DAMON core layer kunit test and sysfs
interface selftest to be simple and deduplicated.
Final two patches (8 and 9) fix up sphinx and grammatical errors on
documents.
This patch (of 9):
DAMOS filters handled by the core layer are called core filters, while
those handled by the ops layer are called ops filters. They share the
same type but are managed in different places since core filters are
evaluated before the ops filters. They also have different helper
functions that depend on their managed places.
The helper functions for ops filters have '_ops_' keyword on their name,
so it is easy to know they are for ops filters. Meanwhile, the helper
functions for core filters are not having the 'core' keyword on their
name. This makes it easy to be mistakenly used for ops filters. Actually
there was such a bug.
To avoid future mistakes from similar confusions, rename DAMOS core
filters helper functions to have a keyword 'core' on their names.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251112154114.66053-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251112154114.66053-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit".
A DAMON feature called parameters "commit" allows DAMON API callers and
ABI users to update nearly every DAMON parameter while DAMON is running.
This is being used for flexible DAMON use cases such as taking a snapshot
of the monitoring results with minimum overhead, or adjusting access-aware
system operations (DAMOS) for user-space driven auto-tuning or
investigations.
Compared to the usefulness of the feature and size of the implementation,
the test coverage is pretty small. Only the filter commit part has a
single test case, namely damos_test_commit_filter(). Actually, we found
and fixed a few bugs of the feature in the past. The single existing test
was also added to avoid reintroduction of a found bug.
Add more unit tests for the feature.
First four patches (1-4) refactor and extend the existing test for DAMOS
filter commit for multiple test cases.
Next three patches (5-7) add tests for DAMOS quota commit.
Next two patches (8 and 9) refactor damos_commit_dests() for ease of code
reading and test writing, and implement a new unit test of the function
that is being refactored in a test-friendly way.
Final two patches (10 and 11) further add new unit tests for
damos_commit() and damon_commit_target_regions().
This patch (of 11):
damos_test_commit_filter() is dynamically allocating test-purpose DAMOS
filters. Allocation failure checks are making the code longer,
complicated, and difficult to extend for more test cases. Refactor the
code to remove the dynamic allocation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251111184415.141757-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251111184415.141757-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "vma_start_write_killable"", v2.
When we added the VMA lock, we made a major oversight in not adding a
killable variant. That can run us into trouble where a thread takes the
VMA lock for read (eg handling a page fault) and then goes out to lunch
for an hour (eg doing reclaim). Another thread tries to modify the VMA,
taking the mmap_lock for write, then attempts to lock the VMA for write.
That blocks on the first thread, and ensures that every other page fault
now tries to take the mmap_lock for read. Because everything's in an
uninterruptible sleep, we can't kill the task, which makes me angry.
This patchset just adds vma_start_write_killable() and converts one caller
to use it. Most users are somewhat tricky to convert, so expect follow-up
individual patches per call-site which need careful analysis to make sure
we've done proper cleanup.
This patch (of 2):
The vma can be held read-locked for a substantial period of time, eg if
memory allocation needs to go into reclaim. It's useful to be able to
send fatal signals to threads which are waiting for the write lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110203204.1454057-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110203204.1454057-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chriscli@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We only need to keep the page table stable so we can perform this
operation under the VMA lock. PTE installation is stabilised via the PTE
lock.
One caveat is that, if we prepare vma->anon_vma we must hold the mmap read
lock. We can account for this by adapting the VMA locking logic to
explicitly check for this case and prevent a VMA lock from being acquired
should it be the case.
This check is safe, as while we might be raced on anon_vma installation,
this would simply make the check conservative, there's no way for us to
see an anon_vma and then for it to be cleared, as doing so requires the
mmap/VMA write lock.
We abstract the VMA lock validity logic to is_vma_lock_sufficient() for
this purpose, and add prepares_anon_vma() to abstract the anon_vma logic.
In order to do this we need to have a way of installing page tables
explicitly for an identified VMA, so we export walk_page_range_vma() in an
unsafe variant - walk_page_range_vma_unsafe() and use this should the VMA
read lock be taken.
We additionally update the comments in madvise_guard_install() to more
accurately reflect the cases in which the logic may be reattempted,
specifically THP huge pages being present.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cca1edbd99cd1386ad20556d08ebdb356c45ef91.1762795245.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock", v2.
There is no reason why can't perform guard region operations under the VMA
lock, as long we take proper precautions to ensure that we do so in a safe
manner.
This is fine, as VMA lock acquisition is always best-effort, so if we are
unable to do so, we can simply fall back to using the mmap read lock.
Doing so will reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing guard
region operations and help establish a precedent of trying to use the VMA
lock where possible.
As part of this change we perform a trivial rename of page walk functions
which bypass safety checks (i.e. whether or not mm_walk_ops->install_pte
is specified) in order that we can keep naming consistent with the mm
walk.
This is because we need to expose a VMA-specific walk that still allows us
to install PTE entries.
This patch (of 2):
Make it clear we're referencing an unsafe variant of this function
explicitly.
This is laying the foundation for exposing more such functions and
maintaining a consistent naming scheme.
As a part of this change, rename check_ops_valid() to check_ops_safe() for
consistency.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1762795245.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c684d91464a438d6e31172c9450416a373f10649.1762795245.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
