Patch series "Use folio APIs in procfs".
We're down to very few users of the PageFoo macros, with proc being a
major user.
After this patchset and another patchset I have for khugepaged, we can get
rid of PageActive, PageReadahead and PageSwapBacked. This patchset has
the usual advantages in its own right of removing hidden calls to
compound_head(). We have the page table lock, so the mapcount & refcount
are stable and there can't be any races with folios suddenly becoming tail
pages.
This patch (of 4):
Replaces six calls to compound_head() with one. Shrinks the function from
5054 bytes to 1756 bytes in an allmodconfig build.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240403171456.1445117-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240403171456.1445117-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "khugepaged folio conversions".
We've been kind of hacking piecemeal at converting khugepaged to use
folios instead of compound pages, and so this patchset is a little larger
than it should be as I undo some of our wrong moves in the past. In
particular, collapse_file() now consistently uses 'new_folio' for the
freshly allocated folio and 'folio' for the one that's currently in use.
This patch (of 7):
This function has one caller, and the combined function is simpler to
read, reason about and modify.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240403171838.1445826-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240403171838.1445826-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mismatch index is currently being checked by a brute force iteration over
the buffer. Instead, break the comparison into O(sqrt(n)) number of
chunks, with the chunk size of this order only, where n is the size of the
buffer. Do a brute-force iteration to print to stdout only when the
highly optimized memcmp() library function returns a mismatch in the
chunk. The time complexity of this algorithm is O(sqrt(n)) * t, where t
is the time taken by memcmp(); for our test conditions, it is safe to
assume t to be small.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240330173557.2697684-3-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".
The mremap_test, in a worst case controlled by the -t flag, does a for
loop iteration in orders of GB. Without compromising on the stdout
report, the aim is to reduce this time.
A pre-filled random buffer is allocated based on the seed, replacing
repetitive rand() calls. The byte pattern in the memory locations is set
through memcpy() from the random buffer.
Replacing the loop for printing the mismatch index to stdout, employ an
efficient algorithm by breaking the comparison into chunks, use the highly
optimized memcmp() library function, and when a mismatch does occur, only
then do a brute force iteration.
Also, use sscanf() to parse /proc/self/maps for consistency across files.
Execution time results (x86 system):
./mremap_test
Original: 3 seconds
After change: 0.8 seconds
./mremap_test -t100
Original: 17 seconds
After change: 2 seconds
./mremap_test -t0 (worst case):
Original: 9:40 minutes
After change: 45 seconds
This patch (of 3):
Allocate a pre-filled random buffer using the seed. Replace iterative
copying of the random sequence to buffers using the highly optimized
library function memcpy().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240330173557.2697684-1-dev.jain@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240330173557.2697684-2-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".
The current vma_address() pretends that the ambiguity between head & tail
page is an advantage. If you pass a head page to vma_address(), it will
operate on all pages in the folio, while if you pass a tail page, it will
operate on a single page. That's not what any of the callers actually
want, so first convert all callers to use vma_pgoff_address() and then
rename vma_pgoff_address() to vma_address().
This patch (of 3):
If 'page' is the first page of a large folio then vma_address() will scan
for any page in the entire folio. This can lead to page_mapped_in_vma()
returning true if some of the tail pages are mapped and the head page is
not. This could lead to memory failure choosing to kill a task
unnecessarily.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328225831.1765286-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328225831.1765286-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Now the anonymous page allocation already supports multi-size THP (mTHP),
but the numa balancing still prohibits mTHP migration even though it is an
exclusive mapping, which is unreasonable.
Allow scanning mTHP:
Commit 859d4adc34 ("mm: numa: do not trap faults on shared data section
pages") skips shared CoW pages' NUMA page migration to avoid shared data
segment migration. In addition, commit 80d47f5de5 ("mm: don't try to
NUMA-migrate COW pages that have other uses") change to use page_count()
to avoid GUP pages migration, that will also skip the mTHP numa scanning.
Theoretically, we can use folio_maybe_dma_pinned() to detect the GUP
issue, although there is still a GUP race, the issue seems to have been
resolved by commit 80d47f5de5. Meanwhile, use the folio_likely_mapped_shared()
to skip shared CoW pages though this is not a precise sharers count. To
check if the folio is shared, ideally we want to make sure every page is
mapped to the same process, but doing that seems expensive and using
the estimated mapcount seems can work when running autonuma benchmark.
Allow migrating mTHP:
As mentioned in the previous thread[1], large folios (including THP) are
more susceptible to false sharing issues among threads than 4K base page,
leading to pages ping-pong back and forth during numa balancing, which is
currently not easy to resolve. Therefore, as a start to support mTHP numa
balancing, we can follow the PMD mapped THP's strategy, that means we can
reuse the 2-stage filter in should_numa_migrate_memory() to check if the
mTHP is being heavily contended among threads (through checking the CPU id
and pid of the last access) to avoid false sharing at some degree. Thus,
we can restore all PTE maps upon the first hint page fault of a large folio
to follow the PMD mapped THP's strategy. In the future, we can continue to
optimize the NUMA balancing algorithm to avoid the false sharing issue with
large folios as much as possible.
Performance data:
Machine environment: 2 nodes, 128 cores Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum
Base: 2024-03-25 mm-unstable branch
Enable mTHP to run autonuma-benchmark
mTHP:16K
Base Patched
numa01 numa01
224.70 143.48
numa01_THREAD_ALLOC numa01_THREAD_ALLOC
118.05 47.43
numa02 numa02
13.45 9.29
numa02_SMT numa02_SMT
14.80 7.50
mTHP:64K
Base Patched
numa01 numa01
216.15 114.40
numa01_THREAD_ALLOC numa01_THREAD_ALLOC
115.35 47.41
numa02 numa02
13.24 9.25
numa02_SMT numa02_SMT
14.67 7.34
mTHP:128K
Base Patched
numa01 numa01
205.13 144.45
numa01_THREAD_ALLOC numa01_THREAD_ALLOC
112.93 41.88
numa02 numa02
13.16 9.18
numa02_SMT numa02_SMT
14.81 7.49
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231117100745.fnpijbk4xgmals3k@techsingularity.net/
[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: v3]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c33a5c0b0a0323b1f8ed53772f50501f4b196e25.1712132950.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d28d276d599c26df7f38c9de8446f60e22dd1950.1711683069.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Implements the "init_mlocked_on_free" boot option. When this boot option
is enabled, any mlock'ed pages are zeroed on free. If
the pages are munlock'ed beforehand, no initialization takes place.
This boot option is meant to combat the performance hit of
"init_on_free" as reported in commit 6471384af2 ("mm: security:
introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options"). With
"init_mlocked_on_free=1" only relevant data is freed while everything
else is left untouched by the kernel. Correspondingly, this patch
introduces no performance hit for unmapping non-mlock'ed memory. The
unmapping overhead for purely mlocked memory was measured to be
approximately 13%. Realistically, most systems mlock only a fraction of
the total memory so the real-world system overhead should be close to
zero.
Optimally, userspace programs clear any key material or other
confidential memory before exit and munlock the according memory
regions. If a program crashes, userspace key managers fail to do this
job. Accordingly, no munlock operations are performed so the data is
caught and zeroed by the kernel. Should the program not crash, all
memory will ideally be munlocked so no overhead is caused.
CONFIG_INIT_MLOCKED_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON can be set to enable
"init_mlocked_on_free" by default.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329145605.149917-1-yjnworkstation@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: York Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: York Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In order to extend test_prctl_fork() and test_prctl_fork_exec() to make
sure that deduplication really happens, mmap_and_merge_range() needs to be
refactored.
Firstly, mmap_and_merge_range() will be called with no need to call enable
KSM by madvise or prctl. So, switch the 'bool use_prctl' parameter to
enum ksm_merge_mode.
Secondly, mmap_and_merge_range() will be called in child process in the
two testcases, it isn't appropriate to call ksft_test_result_{fail, skip},
because the global variables ksft_{fail, skip} aren't consistent with the
parent process. Thus, convert calls of ksft_test_result_{fail, skip} to
ksft_print_msg(), return differrent error according to the two cases, and
rename mmap_and_merge_range() to __mmap_and_merge_range(). For existing
callers, introduce new mmap_and_merge_range() to handle different return
values of __mmap_and_merge_range().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328111010.1502191-3-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl", v4.
commit 3c6f33b727 ("mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl") inherits
MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag when a task calls execve(). However, it doesn't
create the mm_slot, so ksmd will not try to scan this task. The first
patch fixes the issue.
The second patch refactors to prepare for the third patch. The third
patch extends the selftests of ksm to verfity the deduplication really
happens after fork/exec inherits ths KSM setting.
This patch (of 3):
commit 3c6f33b727 ("mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl") inherits
MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag when a task calls execve(). Howerver, it doesn't
create the mm_slot, so ksmd will not try to scan this task.
To fix it, allocate and add the mm_slot to ksm_mm_head in __bprm_mm_init()
when the mm has MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328111010.1502191-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328111010.1502191-2-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Fixes: 3c6f33b727 ("mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl")
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When memory is being placed, mmap() will take care to respect the guard
gaps of certain types of memory (VM_SHADOWSTACK, VM_GROWSUP and
VM_GROWSDOWN). In order to ensure guard gaps between mappings, mmap()
needs to consider two things:
1. That the new mapping isn't placed in an any existing mappings guard
gaps.
2. That the new mapping isn't placed such that any existing mappings
are not in *its* guard gaps.
The longstanding behavior of mmap() is to ensure 1, but not take any care
around 2. So for example, if there is a PAGE_SIZE free area, and a mmap()
with a PAGE_SIZE size, and a type that has a guard gap is being placed,
mmap() may place the shadow stack in the PAGE_SIZE free area. Then the
mapping that is supposed to have a guard gap will not have a gap to the
adjacent VMA.
For MAP_GROWSDOWN/VM_GROWSDOWN and MAP_GROWSUP/VM_GROWSUP this has not
been a problem in practice because applications place these kinds of
mappings very early, when there is not many mappings to find a space
between. But for shadow stacks, they may be placed throughout the
lifetime of the application.
Use the start_gap field to find a space that includes the guard gap for
the new mapping. Take care to not interfere with the alignment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-12-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When memory is being placed, mmap() will take care to respect the guard
gaps of certain types of memory (VM_SHADOWSTACK, VM_GROWSUP and
VM_GROWSDOWN). In order to ensure guard gaps between mappings, mmap()
needs to consider two things:
1. That the new mapping isn't placed in an any existing mappings guard
gaps.
2. That the new mapping isn't placed such that any existing mappings
are not in *its* guard gaps.
The longstanding behavior of mmap() is to ensure 1, but not take any care
around 2. So for example, if there is a PAGE_SIZE free area, and a mmap()
with a PAGE_SIZE size, and a type that has a guard gap is being placed,
mmap() may place the shadow stack in the PAGE_SIZE free area. Then the
mapping that is supposed to have a guard gap will not have a gap to the
adjacent VMA.
Add a THP implementations of the vm_flags variant of get_unmapped_area().
Future changes will call this from mmap.c in the do_mmap() path to allow
shadow stacks to be placed with consideration taken for the start guard
gap. Shadow stack memory is always private and anonymous and so special
guard gap logic is not needed in a lot of caseis, but it can be mapped by
THP, so needs to be handled.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-7-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When memory is being placed, mmap() will take care to respect the guard
gaps of certain types of memory (VM_SHADOWSTACK, VM_GROWSUP and
VM_GROWSDOWN). In order to ensure guard gaps between mappings, mmap()
needs to consider two things:
1. That the new mapping isn't placed in an any existing mappings guard
gaps.
2. That the new mapping isn't placed such that any existing mappings
are not in *its* guard gaps.
The longstanding behavior of mmap() is to ensure 1, but not take any care
around 2. So for example, if there is a PAGE_SIZE free area, and a mmap()
with a PAGE_SIZE size, and a type that has a guard gap is being placed,
mmap() may place the shadow stack in the PAGE_SIZE free area. Then the
mapping that is supposed to have a guard gap will not have a gap to the
adjacent VMA.
In order to take the start gap into account, the maple tree search needs
to know the size of start gap the new mapping will need. The call chain
from do_mmap() to the actual maple tree search looks like this:
do_mmap(size, vm_flags, map_flags, ..)
mm/mmap.c:get_unmapped_area(size, map_flags, ...)
arch_get_unmapped_area(size, map_flags, ...)
vm_unmapped_area(struct vm_unmapped_area_info)
One option would be to add another MAP_ flag to mean a one page start gap
(as is for shadow stack), but this consumes a flag unnecessarily. Another
option could be to simply increase the size passed in do_mmap() by the
start gap size, and adjust after the fact, but this will interfere with
the alignment requirements passed in struct vm_unmapped_area_info, and
unknown to mmap.c. Instead, introduce variants of
arch_get_unmapped_area/_topdown() that take vm_flags. In future changes,
these variants can be used in mmap.c:get_unmapped_area() to allow the
vm_flags to be passed through to vm_unmapped_area(), while preserving the
normal arch_get_unmapped_area/_topdown() for the existing callers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-4-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The mm_struct contains a function pointer *get_unmapped_area(), which is
set to either arch_get_unmapped_area() or arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown()
during the initialization of the mm.
Since the function pointer only ever points to two functions that are
named the same across all arch's, a function pointer is not really
required. In addition future changes will want to add versions of the
functions that take additional arguments. So to save a pointers worth of
bytes in mm_struct, and prevent adding additional function pointers to
mm_struct in future changes, remove it and keep the information about
which get_unmapped_area() to use in a flag.
Add the new flag to MMF_INIT_MASK so it doesn't get clobbered on fork by
mmf_init_flags(). Most MM flags get clobbered on fork. In the
pre-existing behavior mm->get_unmapped_area() would get copied to the new
mm in dup_mm(), so not clobbering the flag preserves the existing behavior
around inheriting the topdown-ness.
Introduce a helper, mm_get_unmapped_area(), to easily convert code that
refers to the old function pointer to instead select and call either
arch_get_unmapped_area() or arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() based on the
flag. Then drop the mm->get_unmapped_area() function pointer. Leave the
get_unmapped_area() pointer in struct file_operations alone. The main
purpose of this change is to reorganize in preparation for future changes,
but it also converts the calls of mm->get_unmapped_area() from indirect
branches into a direct ones.
The stress-ng bigheap benchmark calls realloc a lot, which calls through
get_unmapped_area() in the kernel. On x86, the change yielded a ~1%
improvement there on a retpoline config.
In testing a few x86 configs, removing the pointer unfortunately didn't
result in any actual size reductions in the compiled layout of mm_struct.
But depending on compiler or arch alignment requirements, the change could
shrink the size of mm_struct.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-3-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Cover a guard gap corner case", v4.
In working on x86’s shadow stack feature, I came across some limitations
around the kernel’s handling of guard gaps. AFAICT these limitations
are not too important for the traditional stack usage of guard gaps, but
have bigger impact on shadow stack’s usage. And now in addition to x86,
we have two other architectures implementing shadow stack like features
that plan to use guard gaps. I wanted to see about addressing them, but I
have not worked on mmap() placement related code before, so would greatly
appreciate if people could take a look and point me in the right
direction.
The nature of the limitations of concern is as follows. In order to ensure
guard gaps between mappings, mmap() would need to consider two things:
1. That the new mapping isn’t placed in an any existing mapping’s guard
gap.
2. That the new mapping isn’t placed such that any existing mappings are
not in *its* guard gaps
Currently mmap never considers (2), and (1) is not considered in some
situations.
When not passing an address hint, or passing one without
MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE, (1) is enforced. With MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE, (1) is
not enforced. With MAP_FIXED, (1) is not considered, but this seems to be
expected since MAP_FIXED can already clobber existing mappings. For
MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE I would have guessed it should respect the guard gaps
of existing mappings, but it is probably a little ambiguous.
In this series I just tried to add enforcement of (2) for the normal (no
address hint) case and only for the newer shadow stack memory (not
stacks). The reason is that with the no-address-hint situation, landing
next to a guard gap could come up naturally and so be more influencable by
attackers such that two shadow stacks could be adjacent without a guard
gap. Where as the address-hint scenarios would require more control -
being able to call mmap() with specific arguments. As for why not just
fix the other corner cases anyway, I thought it might have some greater
possibility of affecting existing apps.
This patch (of 14):
Future changes will perform a treewide change to remove the indirect
branch that is involved in calling mm->get_unmapped_area(). After doing
this, the function will no longer be able to be handled as a function
pointer. To make the treewide change diff cleaner and easier to review,
refactor pde_get_unmapped_area() such that mm->get_unmapped_area() is
called without being stored in a local function pointer. With this in
refactoring, follow on changes will be able to simply replace the call
site with a future function that calls it directly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-2-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, we end up wasting some memory in each vm_area_struct. Pahole
states that:
[...]
int vm_lock_seq; /* 40 4 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
struct vma_lock * vm_lock; /* 48 8 */
bool detached; /* 56 1 */
/* XXX 7 bytes hole, try to pack */
[...]
Let's reduce the holes and memory wastage by moving the bool:
[...]
bool detached; /* 40 1 */
/* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */
int vm_lock_seq; /* 44 4 */
struct vma_lock * vm_lock; /* 48 8 */
[...]
Effectively shrinking the vm_area_struct with CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK by
8 byte.
Likely, we could place "detached" in the lowest bit of vm_lock, but at
least on 64bit that won't really make a difference, so keep it simple.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240327143548.744070-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
PageAnonExclusive() used to forbid tail pages for hugetlbfs, as that used
to be called mostly in hugetlb specific paths and the head page was
guaranteed.
As we move forward towards merging hugetlb paths into generic mm, we may
start to pass in tail hugetlb pages (when with cont-pte/cont-pmd huge
pages) for such check. Allow it to properly fetch the head, in which case
the anon-exclusiveness of the head will always represents the tail page.
There's already a sign of it when we look at the GUP-fast which already
contain the hugetlb processing altogether: we used to have a specific
commit 5805192c7b ("mm/gup: handle cont-PTE hugetlb pages correctly in
gup_must_unshare() via GUP-fast") covering that area. Now with this more
generic change, that can also go away.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify PageAnonExclusive(), per Matthew]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Zg3u5Sh9EbbYPhaI@casper.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240403013249.1418299-2-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
