Patch series "Fix mm/rodata_test", v2.
Make sure that the test actually reads the read-only memory location.
Verify that the variable contains the expected value rather than any
non-zero value.
This patch (of 2):
The C compiler may optimize away the memory read of a const variable if
its value is known at compile time.
In particular, GCC14 with -O2 generates no code at all for test 1, and it
generates the following x86_64 instructions for test 3:
cmpl $195, 4(%rsp)
je .L14
That is, it replaces the read of rodata_test_data with an immediate value
and compares it to the value of the local variable "zero".
Use READ_ONCE() to undo any such compiler optimizations and enforce a
memory read.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1732016064.git.ptesarik@suse.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a66dee010151b25cb143efb39091ef7530aa00a.1732016064.git.ptesarik@suse.com
Fixes: 2959a5f726 ("mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA")
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Now the tmpfs can allow to allocate any sized large folios, and the default
huge policy is still preferred to be 'never'. Due to tmpfs not behaving like
other file systems in some cases as previously explained by David[1]:
: I think I raised this in the past, but tmpfs/shmem is just like any
: other file system .. except it sometimes really isn't and behaves much
: more like (swappable) anonymous memory. (or mlocked files)
:
: There are many systems out there that run without swap enabled, or with
: extremely minimal swap (IIRC until recently kubernetes was completely
: incompatible with swapping). Swap can even be disabled today for shmem
: using a mount option.
:
: That's a big difference to all other file systems where you are
: guaranteed to have backend storage where you can simply evict under
: memory pressure (might temporarily fail, of course).
:
: I *think* that's the reason why we have the "huge=" parameter that also
: controls the THP allocations during page faults (IOW possible memory
: over-allocation). Maybe also because it was a new feature, and we only
: had a single THP size.
Thus adding a new command line to change the default huge policy will be
helpful to use the large folios for tmpfs, which is similar to the
'transparent_hugepage_shmem' cmdline for shmem.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cbadd5fe-69d5-4c21-8eb8-3344ed36c721@redhat.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff390b2656f0d39649547f8f2cbb30fcb7e7be2d.1732779148.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add large folio support for tmpfs write and fallocate paths matching the
same high order preference mechanism used in the iomap buffered IO path as
used in __filemap_get_folio().
Add shmem_mapping_size_orders() to get a hint for the orders of the folio
based on the file size which takes care of the mapping requirements.
Traditionally, tmpfs only supported PMD-sized large folios. However
nowadays with other file systems supporting any sized large folios, and
extending anonymous to support mTHP, we should not restrict tmpfs to
allocating only PMD-sized large folios, making it more special. Instead,
we should allow tmpfs can allocate any sized large folios.
Considering that tmpfs already has the 'huge=' option to control the
PMD-sized large folios allocation, we can extend the 'huge=' option to
allow any sized large folios. The semantics of the 'huge=' mount option
are:
huge=never: no any sized large folios
huge=always: any sized large folios
huge=within_size: like 'always' but respect the i_size
huge=advise: like 'always' if requested with madvise()
Note: for tmpfs mmap() faults, due to the lack of a write size hint, still
allocate the PMD-sized huge folios if huge=always/within_size/advise is
set.
Moreover, the 'deny' and 'force' testing options controlled by
'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled', still retain the same
semantics. The 'deny' can disable any sized large folios for tmpfs, while
the 'force' can enable PMD sized large folios for tmpfs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/035bf55fbdebeff65f5cb2cdb9907b7d632c3228.1732779148.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Co-developed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Support large folios for tmpfs", v3.
Traditionally, tmpfs only supported PMD-sized large folios. However
nowadays with other file systems supporting any sized large folios, and
extending anonymous to support mTHP, we should not restrict tmpfs to
allocating only PMD-sized large folios, making it more special. Instead,
we should allow tmpfs can allocate any sized large folios.
Considering that tmpfs already has the 'huge=' option to control the
PMD-sized large folios allocation, we can extend the 'huge=' option to
allow any sized large folios. The semantics of the 'huge=' mount option
are:
huge=never: no any sized large folios
huge=always: any sized large folios
huge=within_size: like 'always' but respect the i_size
huge=advise: like 'always' if requested with madvise()
Note: for tmpfs mmap() faults, due to the lack of a write size hint, still
allocate the PMD-sized large folios if huge=always/within_size/advise is
set.
Moreover, the 'deny' and 'force' testing options controlled by
'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled', still retain the same
semantics. The 'deny' can disable any sized large folios for tmpfs, while
the 'force' can enable PMD sized large folios for tmpfs.
This patch (of 6):
Factor out the order calculation into a new helper, which can be reused by
shmem in the following patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1732779148.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5505f9ea50942820c1924d1803bfdd3a524e54f6.1732779148.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In the generic ptep_get_and_clear() implementation, it is just a simple
combination of ptep_get() and pte_clear(). But for some architectures
(such as x86 and arm64, etc), the hardware will modify the A/D bits of the
page table entry, so the ptep_get_and_clear() needs to be overwritten
and implemented as an atomic operation to avoid contention, which has a
performance cost.
The commit d283d422c6 ("x86: mm: add x86_64 support for page table
check") adds the ptep_clear() on the x86, and makes it call
ptep_get_and_clear() when CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK is enabled. The page
table check feature does not actually care about the A/D bits, so only
ptep_get() + pte_clear() should be called. But considering that the page
table check is a debug option, this should not have much of an impact.
But then the commit de8c8e5283 ("mm: page_table_check: add hooks to
public helpers") changed ptep_clear() to unconditionally call
ptep_get_and_clear(), so that the CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK check can be
put into the page table check stubs (in include/linux/page_table_check.h).
This also cause performance loss to the kernel without
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK enabled, which doesn't make sense.
Currently ptep_clear() is only used in debug code and in khugepaged
collapse paths, which are fairly expensive. So the cost of an extra atomic
RMW operation does not matter. But this may be used for other paths in the
future. After all, for the present pte entry, we need to call ptep_clear()
instead of pte_clear() to ensure that PAGE_TABLE_CHECK works properly.
So to be more precise, just calling ptep_get() and pte_clear() in the
ptep_clear().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241122073652.54030-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We are starting to deploy mmap_lock tracepoint monitoring across our
fleet and the early results showed that these tracepoints are consuming
significant amount of CPUs in kernfs_path_from_node when enabled.
It seems like the kernel is trying to resolve the cgroup path in the
fast path of the locking code path when the tracepoints are enabled. In
addition for some application their metrics are regressing when
monitoring is enabled.
The cgroup path resolution can be slow and should not be done in the
fast path. Most userspace tools, like bpftrace, provides functionality
to get the cgroup path from cgroup id, so let's just trace the cgroup
id and the users can use better tools to get the path in the slow path.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241125171617.113892-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 5cbcb62ddd ("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: 5cbcb62ddd ("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>
When MGLRU is enabled, the pgdemote_kswapd, pgdemote_direct, and
pgdemote_khugepaged stats in vmstat are not being updated.
Commit f77f0c7514 ("mm,memcg: provide per-cgroup counters for NUMA
balancing operations") moved the pgdemote vmstat update from
demote_folio_list() to shrink_inactive_list(), which is in the normal LRU
path. As a result, the pgdemote stats are updated correctly for the
normal LRU but not for MGLRU.
To address this, we have added the pgdemote stat update in the
evict_folios() function, which is in the MGLRU path. With this patch, the
pgdemote stats will now be updated correctly when MGLRU is enabled.
Without this patch vmstat output when MGLRU is enabled
======================================================
pgdemote_kswapd 0
pgdemote_direct 0
pgdemote_khugepaged 0
With this patch vmstat output when MGLRU is enabled
===================================================
pgdemote_kswapd 43234
pgdemote_direct 4691
pgdemote_khugepaged 0
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109060540.451261-1-donettom@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: f77f0c7514 ("mm,memcg: provide per-cgroup counters for NUMA balancing operations")
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Tested-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kaiyang Zhao <kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The upstream commit adcfb264c3 ("vmstat: disable vmstat_work on
vmstat_cpu_down_prep()") introduced another warning during the boot phase
so was soon reverted on upstream by commit cd6313beae ("Revert "vmstat:
disable vmstat_work on vmstat_cpu_down_prep()""). This commit resolves it
and reattempts the original fix.
Even after mm/vmstat:online teardown, shepherd may still queue work for
the dying cpu until the cpu is removed from online mask. While it's quite
rare, this means that after unbind_workers() unbinds a per-cpu kworker, it
potentially runs vmstat_update for the dying CPU on an irrelevant cpu
before entering atomic AP states. When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y, it results
in the following error with the backtrace.
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: \
kworker/7:3/1702
caller is refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x235/0x5f0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1702 Comm: kworker/7:3 Tainted: G
Tainted: [N]=TEST
Workqueue: mm_percpu_wq vmstat_update
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xb0
check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xe0
refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0x235/0x5f0
vmstat_update+0x17/0xa0
process_one_work+0x869/0x1aa0
worker_thread+0x5e5/0x1100
kthread+0x29e/0x380
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
So, for mm/vmstat:online, disable vmstat_work reliably on teardown and
symmetrically enable it on startup.
For secondary CPUs during CPU hotplug scenarios, ensure the delayed work
is disabled immediately after the initialization. These CPUs are not yet
online when start_shepherd_timer() runs on boot CPU. vmstat_cpu_online()
will enable the work for them.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250108042807.3429745-1-koichiro.den@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@canonical.com>
Suggested-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
After commit b1f202060a ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage
when splitting isolated thp"), cow test cases involving swapping out THPs
via madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) started to be skipped due to the subsequent
check via pagemap determining that the memory was not actually swapped
out. Logs similar to this were emitted:
...
# [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with swapped-out, PTE-mapped THP (16 kB)
ok 2 # SKIP MADV_PAGEOUT did not work, is swap enabled?
# [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with single PTE of swapped-out THP (16 kB)
ok 3 # SKIP MADV_PAGEOUT did not work, is swap enabled?
# [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with swapped-out, PTE-mapped THP (32 kB)
ok 4 # SKIP MADV_PAGEOUT did not work, is swap enabled?
...
The commit in question introduces the behaviour of scanning THPs and if
their content is predominantly zero, it splits them and replaces the pages
which are wholly zero with the zero page. These cow test cases were
getting caught up in this.
So let's avoid that by filling the contents of all allocated memory with
a non-zero value. With this in place, the tests are passing again.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250107142555.1870101-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Fixes: b1f202060a ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp")
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In zswap_compress() and zswap_decompress(), the per-CPU acomp_ctx of the
current CPU at the beginning of the operation is retrieved and used
throughout. However, since neither preemption nor migration are disabled,
it is possible that the operation continues on a different CPU.
If the original CPU is hotunplugged while the acomp_ctx is still in use,
we run into a UAF bug as some of the resources attached to the acomp_ctx
are freed during hotunplug in zswap_cpu_comp_dead() (i.e.
acomp_ctx.buffer, acomp_ctx.req, or acomp_ctx.acomp).
The problem was introduced in commit 1ec3b5fe6e ("mm/zswap: move to use
crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration") when the switch to the
crypto_acomp API was made. Prior to that, the per-CPU crypto_comp was
retrieved using get_cpu_ptr() which disables preemption and makes sure the
CPU cannot go away from under us. Preemption cannot be disabled with the
crypto_acomp API as a sleepable context is needed.
Use the acomp_ctx.mutex to synchronize CPU hotplug callbacks allocating
and freeing resources with compression/decompression paths. Make sure
that acomp_ctx.req is NULL when the resources are freed. In the
compression/decompression paths, check if acomp_ctx.req is NULL after
acquiring the mutex (meaning the CPU was offlined) and retry on the new
CPU.
The initialization of acomp_ctx.mutex is moved from the CPU hotplug
callback to the pool initialization where it belongs (where the mutex is
allocated). In addition to adding clarity, this makes sure that CPU
hotplug cannot reinitialize a mutex that is already locked by
compression/decompression.
Previously a fix was attempted by holding cpus_read_lock() [1]. This
would have caused a potential deadlock as it is possible for code already
holding the lock to fall into reclaim and enter zswap (causing a
deadlock). A fix was also attempted using SRCU for synchronization, but
Johannes pointed out that synchronize_srcu() cannot be used in CPU hotplug
notifiers [2].
Alternative fixes that were considered/attempted and could have worked:
- Refcounting the per-CPU acomp_ctx. This involves complexity in
handling the race between the refcount dropping to zero in
zswap_[de]compress() and the refcount being re-initialized when the
CPU is onlined.
- Disabling migration before getting the per-CPU acomp_ctx [3], but
that's discouraged and is a much bigger hammer than needed, and could
result in subtle performance issues.
[1]https://lkml.kernel.org/20241219212437.2714151-1-yosryahmed@google.com/
[2]https://lkml.kernel.org/20250107074724.1756696-2-yosryahmed@google.com/
[3]https://lkml.kernel.org/20250107222236.2715883-2-yosryahmed@google.com/
[yosryahmed@google.com: remove comment]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJD7tkaxS1wjn+swugt8QCvQ-rVF5RZnjxwPGX17k8x9zSManA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250108222441.3622031-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Fixes: 1ec3b5fe6e ("mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration")
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241113213007.GB1564047@cmpxchg.org/
Reported-by: Sam Sun <samsun1006219@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAEkJfYMtSdM5HceNsXUDf5haghD5+o2e7Qv4OcuruL4tPg6OaQ@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>