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 1bafe96e89 ("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 859d4adc34 ("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>
Currently, we never end up reusing PTE-mapped THPs after fork. This
wasn't really a problem with PMD-sized THPs, because they would have to be
PTE-mapped first, but it's getting a problem with smaller THP sizes that
are effectively always PTE-mapped.
With our new "mapped exclusively" vs "maybe mapped shared" logic for large
folios, implementing CoW reuse for PTE-mapped THPs is straight forward: if
exclusively mapped, make sure that all references are from these (our)
mappings. Add some helpful comments to explain the details.
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE selects CONFIG_MM_ID. If we spot an anon
large folio without CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE in that code, something is
seriously messed up.
There are plenty of things we can optimize in the future: For example, we
could remember that the folio is fully exclusive so we could speedup the
next fault further. Also, we could try "faulting around", turning
surrounding PTEs that map the same folio writable. But especially the
latter might increase COW latency, so it would need further investigation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-14-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>
Let's limit the use of MMU_NOTIFY_EXCLUSIVE to the case where we convert a
present PTE to device-exclusive. For the other case, we can simply use
MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, because it really is clearing the device-exclusive entry
first, to then install the present entry.
Update the documentation of MMU_NOTIFY_EXCLUSIVE, to document the single
use case more thoroughly.
If ever required, we could add a separate MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR_EXCLUSIVE; for
now using MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR seems to be sufficient.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226132257.2826043-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let's pass the folio and the pte to restore_exclusive_pte(), so we can
avoid repeated page_folio() and ptep_get(). To do that, pass the pte to
try_restore_exclusive_pte() and use a folio in there already.
While at it, just avoid the "swp_entry_t entry" variable in
try_restore_exclusive_pte() and add a folio-locked check to
restore_exclusive_pte().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226132257.2826043-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In commit b832a354d7 ("mm/memory: page_add_anon_rmap() ->
folio_add_anon_rmap_pte()") we accidentally changed the sanity check to
essentially ignore anonymous folio by mis-placing the "!" ... but we
really always only get anonymous folios in restore_exclusive_pte().
However, in the meantime we removed the separate "writable
device-exclusive entries" and always detect if the PTE can be writable
using can_change_pte_writable() -- which also consults PageAnonExclusive.
So let's just get rid of this sanity check completely.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226132257.2826043-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ioremap_prot() currently accepts pgprot_val parameter as an unsigned long,
thus implicitly assuming that pgprot_val and pgprot_t could never be
bigger than unsigned long. But this assumption soon will not be true on
arm64 when using D128 pgtables. In 128 bit page table configuration,
unsigned long is 64 bit, but pgprot_t is 128 bit.
Passing platform abstracted pgprot_t argument is better as compared to
size based data types. Let's change the parameter to directly pass
pgprot_t like another similar helper generic_ioremap_prot().
Without this change in place, D128 configuration does not work on arm64 as
the top 64 bits gets silently stripped when passing the protection value
to this function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250218101954.415331-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
rw_semaphore is a sizable structure of 40 bytes and consumes considerable
space for each vm_area_struct. However vma_lock has two important
specifics which can be used to replace rw_semaphore with a simpler
structure:
1. Readers never wait. They try to take the vma_lock and fall back to
mmap_lock if that fails.
2. Only one writer at a time will ever try to write-lock a vma_lock
because writers first take mmap_lock in write mode. Because of these
requirements, full rw_semaphore functionality is not needed and we can
replace rw_semaphore and the vma->detached flag with a refcount
(vm_refcnt).
When vma is in detached state, vm_refcnt is 0 and only a call to
vma_mark_attached() can take it out of this state. Note that unlike
before, now we enforce both vma_mark_attached() and vma_mark_detached() to
be done only after vma has been write-locked. vma_mark_attached() changes
vm_refcnt to 1 to indicate that it has been attached to the vma tree.
When a reader takes read lock, it increments vm_refcnt, unless the top
usable bit of vm_refcnt (0x40000000) is set, indicating presence of a
writer. When writer takes write lock, it sets the top usable bit to
indicate its presence. If there are readers, writer will wait using newly
introduced mm->vma_writer_wait. Since all writers take mmap_lock in write
mode first, there can be only one writer at a time. The last reader to
release the lock will signal the writer to wake up. refcount might
overflow if there are many competing readers, in which case read-locking
will fail. Readers are expected to handle such failures.
In summary:
1. all readers increment the vm_refcnt;
2. writer sets top usable (writer) bit of vm_refcnt;
3. readers cannot increment the vm_refcnt if the writer bit is set;
4. in the presence of readers, writer must wait for the vm_refcnt to drop
to 1 (plus the VMA_LOCK_OFFSET writer bit), indicating an attached vma
with no readers;
5. vm_refcnt overflow is handled by the readers.
While this vm_lock replacement does not yet result in a smaller
vm_area_struct (it stays at 256 bytes due to cacheline alignment), it
allows for further size optimization by structure member regrouping to
bring the size of vm_area_struct below 192 bytes.
[surenb@google.com: fix a crash due to vma_end_read() that should have been removed]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250220200208.323769-1-surenb@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-13-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Now that conversion to device-exclusive does no longer perform an rmap
walk and all page_vma_mapped_walk() users were taught to properly handle
device-exclusive entries, let's treat device-exclusive entries just as if
they would be present, similar to how we handle device-private entries
already.
This fixes swapout/migration/split/hwpoison of folios with
device-exclusive entries.
We only had to take care of page_vma_mapped_walk() users, because these
traditionally assume pte_present(). Other page table walkers already have
to handle !pte_present(), and some of them might simply skip them (e.g.,
MADV_PAGEOUT) if they are not specialized on them. This change doesn't
modify the latter.
Note that while folios with device-exclusive PTEs can now get migrated,
khugepaged will not collapse a THP if there is device-exclusive PTE.
Doing so might also not be desired if the device frequently performs
atomics to the same page. Similarly, KSM will never merge order-0 folios
that are device-exclusive.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210193801.781278-17-david@redhat.com
Fixes: b756a3b5e7 ("mm: device exclusive memory access")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Lyude <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let's do it just like mprotect write-upgrade or during NUMA-hinting faults
on PROT_NONE PTEs: detect if the PTE can be writable by using
can_change_pte_writable().
Set the PTE only dirty if the folio is dirty: we might not necessarily
have a write access, and setting the PTE writable doesn't require setting
the PTE dirty.
From a CPU perspective, these entries are clean. So only set the PTE
dirty if the folios is dirty.
With this change in place, there is no need to have separate readable and
writable device-exclusive entry types, and we'll merge them next
separately.
Note that, during fork(), we first convert the device-exclusive entries
back to ordinary PTEs, and we only ever allow conversion of writable PTEs
to device-exclusive -- only mprotect can currently change them to
readable-device-exclusive. Consequently, we always expect
PageAnonExclusive(page)==true and can_change_pte_writable()==true, unless
we are dealing with soft-dirty tracking or uffd-wp. But reusing
can_change_pte_writable() for now is cleaner.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210193801.781278-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Lyude <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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
...
Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
"This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
generated before a file contents is accessed.
The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
handler.
The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
system.
Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
been improved and now file->f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file->f_mode
check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
uptodate folio in the page cache.
Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
with the minimal useful feature set"
* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
...
Now in order to pursue high performance, applications mostly use some
high-performance user-mode memory allocators, such as jemalloc or
tcmalloc. These memory allocators use madvise(MADV_DONTNEED or MADV_FREE)
to release physical memory, but neither MADV_DONTNEED nor MADV_FREE will
release page table memory, which may cause huge page table memory usage.
The following are a memory usage snapshot of one process which actually
happened on our server:
VIRT: 55t
RES: 590g
VmPTE: 110g
In this case, most of the page table entries are empty. For such a PTE
page where all entries are empty, we can actually free it back to the
system for others to use.
As a first step, this commit aims to synchronously free the empty PTE
pages in madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) case. We will detect and free empty PTE
pages in zap_pte_range(), and will add zap_details.reclaim_pt to exclude
cases other than madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
Once an empty PTE is detected, we first try to hold the pmd lock within
the pte lock. If successful, we clear the pmd entry directly (fast path).
Otherwise, we wait until the pte lock is released, then re-hold the pmd
and pte locks and loop PTRS_PER_PTE times to check pte_none() to re-detect
whether the PTE page is empty and free it (slow path).
For other cases such as madvise(MADV_FREE), consider scanning and freeing
empty PTE pages asynchronously in the future.
The following code snippet can show the effect of optimization:
mmap 50G
while (1) {
for (; i < 1024 * 25; i++) {
touch 2M memory
madvise MADV_DONTNEED 2M
}
}
As we can see, the memory usage of VmPTE is reduced:
before after
VIRT 50.0 GB 50.0 GB
RES 3.1 MB 3.1 MB
VmPTE 102640 KB 240 KB
[zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com: fix uninitialized symbol 'ptl']
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241206112348.51570-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/224e6a4e-43b5-4080-bdd8-b0a6fb2f0853@stanley.mountain/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/92aba2b319a734913f18ba41e7d86a265f0b84e2.1733305182.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In current kernel, hugetlb_wp() calls copy_user_large_folio() with the
fault address. Where the fault address may be not aligned with the huge
page size. Then, copy_user_large_folio() may call
copy_user_gigantic_page() with the address, while
copy_user_gigantic_page() requires the address to be huge page size
aligned. So, this may cause memory corruption or information leak,
addtional, use more obvious naming 'addr_hint' instead of 'addr' for
copy_user_gigantic_page().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241028145656.932941-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Fixes: 530dd9926d ("mm: memory: improve copy_user_large_folio()")
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In current kernel, hugetlb_no_page() calls folio_zero_user() with the
fault address. Where the fault address may be not aligned with the huge
page size. Then, folio_zero_user() may call clear_gigantic_page() with
the address, while clear_gigantic_page() requires the address to be huge
page size aligned. So, this may cause memory corruption or information
leak, addtional, use more obvious naming 'addr_hint' instead of 'addr' for
clear_gigantic_page().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241028145656.932941-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Fixes: 78fefd04c1 ("mm: memory: convert clear_huge_page() to folio_zero_user()")
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
