Patch series "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap", v3.
We are in the rather silly situation that we are running out of VMA flags
as they are currently limited to a system word in size.
This leads to absurd situations where we limit features to 64-bit
architectures only because we simply do not have the ability to add a flag
for 32-bit ones.
This is very constraining and leads to hacks or, in the worst case, simply
an inability to implement features we want for entirely arbitrary reasons.
This also of course gives us something of a Y2K type situation in mm where
we might eventually exhaust all of the VMA flags even on 64-bit systems.
This series lays the groundwork for getting away from this limitation by
establishing VMA flags as a bitmap whose size we can increase in future
beyond 64 bits if required.
This is necessarily a highly iterative process given the extensive use of
VMA flags throughout the kernel, so we start by performing basic steps.
Firstly, we declare VMA flags by bit number rather than by value,
retaining the VM_xxx fields but in terms of these newly introduced
VMA_xxx_BIT fields.
While we are here, we use sparse annotations to ensure that, when dealing
with VMA bit number parameters, we cannot be passed values which are not
declared as such - providing some useful type safety.
We then introduce an opaque VMA flag type, much like the opaque mm_struct
flag type introduced in commit bb6525f2f8 ("mm: add bitmap mm->flags
field"), which we establish in union with vma->vm_flags (but still set at
system word size meaning there is no functional or data type size change).
We update the vm_flags_xxx() helpers to use this new bitmap, introducing
sensible helpers to do so.
This series lays the foundation for further work to expand the use of
bitmap VMA flags and eventually eliminate these arbitrary restrictions.
This patch (of 4):
In order to lay the groundwork for VMA flags being a bitmap rather than a
system word in size, we need to be able to consistently refer to VMA flags
by bit number rather than value.
Take this opportunity to do so in an enum which we which is additionally
useful for tooling to extract metadata from.
This additionally makes it very clear which bits are being used for what
at a glance.
We use the VMA_ prefix for the bit values as it is logical to do so since
these reference VMAs. We consistently suffix with _BIT to make it clear
what the values refer to.
We declare bit values even when the flags that use them would not be
enabled by config options as this is simply clearer and clearly defines
what bit numbers are used for what, at no additional cost.
We declare a sparse-bitwise type vma_flag_t which ensures that users can't
pass around invalid VMA flags by accident and prepares for future work
towards VMA flags being a bitmap where we want to ensure bit values are
type safe.
To make life easier, we declare some macro helpers - DECLARE_VMA_BIT()
allows us to avoid duplication in the enum bit number declarations (and
maintaining the sparse __bitwise attribute), and INIT_VM_FLAG() is used to
assist with declaration of flags.
Unfortunately we can't declare both in the enum, as we run into issue with
logic in the kernel requiring that flags are preprocessor definitions, and
additionally we cannot have a macro which declares another macro so we
must define each flag macro directly.
Additionally, update the VMA userland testing vma_internal.h header to
include these changes.
We also have to fix the parameters to the vma_flag_*_atomic() functions
since VMA_MAYBE_GUARD_BIT is now of type vma_flag_t and sparse will
complain otherwise.
We have to update some rather silly if-deffery found in mm/task_mmu.c
which would otherwise break.
Finally, we update the rust binding helper as now it cannot auto-detect
the flags at all.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1764064556.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a35e5a0bcfa00e84af24cbafc0653e74deda64a.1764064556.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> [rust]
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() is already safe against irqs, so there is no
need to have a separate interface (i.e. lruvec_stat_mod_folio) which
wraps calls to it with irq disabling and reenabling. Let's rename
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() to lruvec_stat_mod_folio().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The current hugepage collapse scan results include two separate values,
SCAN_PMD_NONE and SCAN_PMD_NULL, which are handled identically by the
consuming code.
To reduce confusion and improve long-term maintenance, this commit merges
these two functionally equivalent states into a single, clearer
identifier: SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114030028.7035-4-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Suggested-by: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
SCAN_PMD_NONE means current pmd is empty, but we can still continue
collapse next pmd range.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114030028.7035-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup", v2.
This small series addresses two minor cleanup opportunities in the
hugepage collapse logic.
The initial motivation arose during a code review of madvise_collapse(),
where it was noted that the function was missing a handler for
SCAN_PMD_NONE. This oversight exposed the inconsistent handling of
SCAN_PMD_NULL and SCAN_PMD_NONE.
Since both scan results are functionally identical (they indicate the
absence of a PTE table), the primary patch unifies them into a single,
clearer identifier, SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE.
The series also takes the opportunity to remove a redundant clearing of
the struct collapse_control.
This patch (of 3):
The structure struct collapse_control is being unnecessarily cleared twice
during the huge page collapse process.
Both hpage_collapse_scan_file() and hpage_collapse_scan_pmd() currently
perform a clear operation on this structure.
Remove the redundant clear operation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114030028.7035-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114030028.7035-2-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce softleaf_from_pmd() to do the equivalent operation for PMDs that
softleaf_from_pte() fulfils, and cascade changes through code base
accordingly, introducing helpers as necessary.
We are then able to eliminate pmd_to_swp_entry(),
is_pmd_migration_entry(), is_pmd_device_private_entry() and
is_pmd_non_present_folio_entry().
This further establishes the use of leaf operations throughout the code
base and further establishes the foundations for eliminating
is_swap_pmd().
No functional change intended.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: check writable, not readable/writable, per Vlastimil]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cd97b6ec-00f9-45a4-9ae0-8f009c212a94@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3fb431699639ded8fdc63d2210aa77a38c8891f1.1762812360.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>\
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
There's an established convention in the kernel that we treat PTEs as
containing swap entries (and the unfortunately named non-swap swap
entries) should they be neither empty (i.e. pte_none() evaluating true)
nor present (i.e. pte_present() evaluating true).
However, there is some inconsistency in how this is applied, as we also
have the is_swap_pte() helper which explicitly performs this check:
/* check whether a pte points to a swap entry */
static inline int is_swap_pte(pte_t pte)
{
return !pte_none(pte) && !pte_present(pte);
}
As this represents a predicate, and it's logical to assume that in order
to establish that a PTE entry can correctly be manipulated as a
swap/non-swap entry, this predicate seems as if it must first be checked.
But we instead, we far more often utilise the established convention of
checking pte_none() / pte_present() before operating on entries as if they
were swap/non-swap.
This patch works towards correcting this inconsistency by removing all
uses of is_swap_pte() where we are already in a position where we perform
pte_none()/pte_present() checks anyway or otherwise it is clearly logical
to do so.
We also take advantage of the fact that pte_swp_uffd_wp() is only set on
swap entries.
Additionally, update comments referencing to is_swap_pte() and
non_swap_entry().
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/17fd6d7f46a846517fd455fadd640af47fcd7c55.1762812360.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we install pmd folio with map_anon_folio_pmd() in
__do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() and do_huge_zero_wp_pmd(). While in
collapse_huge_page(), it is done with identical code except statistics
adjustment.
Unify the process with map_anon_folio_pmd() to install pmd folio. Split
it to map_anon_folio_pmd_pf() and map_anon_folio_pmd_nopf() to be used in
page fault or not respectively.
No functional change is intended.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded map_anon_folio_pmd_nopf() stub, per Wei & David]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251008095453.18772-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Now we have established the VM_MAYBE_GUARD flag and added the capacity to
set it atomically, do so upon MADV_GUARD_INSTALL.
The places where this flag is used currently and matter are:
* VMA merge - performed under mmap/VMA write lock, therefore excluding
racing writes.
* /proc/$pid/smaps - can race the write, however this isn't meaningful
as the flag write is performed at the point of the guard region being
established, and thus an smaps reader can't reasonably expect to avoid
races. Due to atomicity, a reader will observe either the flag being
set or not. Therefore consistency will be maintained.
In all other cases the flag being set is irrelevant and atomicity
guarantees other flags will be read correctly.
Note that non-atomic updates of unrelated flags do not cause an issue with
this flag being set atomically, as writes of other flags are performed
under mmap/VMA write lock, and these atomic writes are performed under
mmap/VMA read lock, which excludes the write, avoiding RMW races.
Note that we do not encounter issues with KCSAN by adjusting this flag
atomically, as we are only updating a single bit in the flag bitmap and
therefore we do not need to annotate these changes.
We intentionally set this flag in advance of actually updating the page
tables, to ensure that any racing atomic read of this flag will only
return false prior to page tables being updated, to allow for
serialisation via page table locks.
Note that we set vma->anon_vma for anonymous mappings. This is because
the expectation for anonymous mappings is that an anon_vma is established
should they possess any page table mappings. This is also consistent with
what we were doing prior to this patch (unconditionally setting anon_vma
on guard region installation).
We also need to update retract_page_tables() to ensure that madvise(...,
MADV_COLLAPSE) doesn't incorrectly collapse file-backed ranges contain
guard regions.
This was previously guarded by anon_vma being set to catch MAP_PRIVATE
cases, but the introduction of VM_MAYBE_GUARD necessitates that we check
this flag instead.
We utilise vma_flag_test_atomic() to do so - we first perform an
optimistic check, then after the PTE page table lock is held, we can check
again safely, as upon guard marker install the flag is set atomically
prior to the page table lock being taken to actually apply it.
So if the initial check fails either:
* Page table retraction acquires page table lock prior to VM_MAYBE_GUARD
being set - guard marker installation will be blocked until page table
retraction is complete.
OR:
* Guard marker installation acquires page table lock after setting
VM_MAYBE_GUARD, which raced and didn't pick this up in the initial
optimistic check, blocking page table retraction until the guard regions
are installed - the second VM_MAYBE_GUARD check will prevent page table
retraction.
Either way we're safe.
We refactor the retraction checks into a single
file_backed_vma_is_retractable(), there doesn't seem to be any reason that
the checks were separated as before.
Note that VM_MAYBE_GUARD being set atomically remains correct as
vma_needs_copy() is invoked with the mmap and VMA write locks held,
excluding any race with madvise_guard_install().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9e9ce95b6ac17497de7f60fc110c7dd9e489e8d.1763460113.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For now, including <asm/pgalloc.h> instead of <linux/pgalloc.h> is
technically fine unless the .c file calls p*d_populate_kernel() helper
functions.
But it is a better practice to always include <linux/pgalloc.h>. Include
<linux/pgalloc.h> instead of <asm/pgalloc.h> outside arch/.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024113047.119058-3-harry.yoo@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Both scan_sleep_millisecs_store() and alloc_sleep_millisecs_store()
perform the same operations: parse the input value, update their
respective sleep interval, reset khugepaged_sleep_expire, and wake up the
khugepaged thread.
Factor out this duplicated logic into a helper function
__sleep_millisecs_store(), and simplify both store functions.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251021134431.26488-1-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
A non-present entry, like a swap PTE, contains completely different data
(swap type and offset). pte_pfn() doesn't know this, so if we feed it a
non-present entry, it will spit out a junk PFN.
What if that junk PFN happens to match the zeropage's PFN by sheer chance?
While really unlikely, this would be really bad if it did.
So, let's fix this potential bug by ensuring all calls to is_zero_pfn() in
khugepaged.c are properly guarded by a pte_present() check.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251020151111.53561-1-lance.yang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The comment for khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs incorrectly states the
default scan period is 30 seconds. The actual default value in the code
is 10000ms (10 seconds).
This patch corrects the comment to match the code, preventing potential
confusion. The incorrect comment has existed since the feature was first
introduced. While at it, replace the magic value 512 by HPAGE_PMD_NR and
use 'ptes'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015092957.37432-1-lianux.mm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We got some late review commits during review of commit b4c9ffb54b
("mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot"). No
need to keep the old cache name "khugepaged_mm_slot", let's simply use
KMEM_CACHE().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001091900.20041-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Fixes: b4c9ffb54b ("mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When collapsing a pmd, there are two address in use:
* address points to the start of pmd
* address points to each individual page
Current naming makes it difficult to distinguish these two and is hence
error prone.
Considering the plan to collapse mTHP, name the first one `start_addr' and
the second `addr' for better readability and consistency.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922140938.27343-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Current code is not correct to get struct khugepaged_mm_slot by
mm_slot_entry() without checking mm_slot is !NULL. There is no problem
reported since slot is the first element of struct khugepaged_mm_slot.
While struct khugepaged_mm_slot is just a wrapper of struct mm_slot, there
is no need to define it.
Remove the definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot, so there is not chance
to miss use mm_slot_entry().
[richard.weiyang@gmail.com: fix use-after-free crash]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922002834.vz6ntj36e75ehkyp@master
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250919071244.17020-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
MADV_COLLAPSE on a file mapping behaves inconsistently depending on if PMD
page table is installed or not.
Consider following example:
p = mmap(NULL, 2UL << 20, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
err = madvise(p, 2UL << 20, MADV_COLLAPSE);
fd is a populated tmpfs file.
The result depends on the address that the kernel returns on mmap(). If
it is located in an existing PMD table, the madvise() will succeed.
However, if the table does not exist, it will fail with -EINVAL.
This occurs because find_pmd_or_thp_or_none() returns SCAN_PMD_NULL when a
page table is missing, which causes collapse_pte_mapped_thp() to fail.
SCAN_PMD_NULL and SCAN_PMD_NONE should be treated the same in
collapse_pte_mapped_thp(): install the PMD leaf entry and allocate page
tables as needed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/v5ivpub6z2n2uyemlnxgbilzs52ep4lrary7lm7o6axxoneb75@yfacfl5rkzeh
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Now that all actionable outcomes from checking pte_write() are gone, drop
the related references.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250908075028.38431-3-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse", v2.
Currently khugepaged does not collapse an anonymous region which does not
have a single writable pte. This is wasteful since a region mapped with
non-writable ptes, for example, non-writable VMAs mapped by the
application, won't benefit from THP collapse.
An additional consequence of this constraint is that MADV_COLLAPSE does
not perform a collapse on a non-writable VMA, and this restriction is
nowhere to be found on the manpage - the restriction itself sounds wrong
to me since the user knows the protection of the memory it has mapped, so
collapsing read-only memory via madvise() should be a choice of the user
which shouldn't be overridden by the kernel.
Therefore, remove this constraint.
On an arm64 bare metal machine, comparing with vanilla 6.17-rc2, an
average of 5% improvement is seen on some mmtests benchmarks, particularly
hackbench, with a maximum improvement of 12%. In the following table, (I)
denotes statistically significant improvement, (R) denotes statistically
significant regression.
+-------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------+
| mmtests/hackbench | process-pipes-1 (seconds) | -0.06% |
| | process-pipes-4 (seconds) | -0.27% |
| | process-pipes-7 (seconds) | (I) -12.13% |
| | process-pipes-12 (seconds) | (I) -5.32% |
| | process-pipes-21 (seconds) | (I) -2.87% |
| | process-pipes-30 (seconds) | (I) -3.39% |
| | process-pipes-48 (seconds) | (I) -5.65% |
| | process-pipes-79 (seconds) | (I) -6.74% |
| | process-pipes-110 (seconds) | (I) -6.26% |
| | process-pipes-141 (seconds) | (I) -4.99% |
| | process-pipes-172 (seconds) | (I) -4.45% |
| | process-pipes-203 (seconds) | (I) -3.65% |
| | process-pipes-234 (seconds) | (I) -3.45% |
| | process-pipes-256 (seconds) | (I) -3.47% |
| | process-sockets-1 (seconds) | 2.13% |
| | process-sockets-4 (seconds) | 1.02% |
| | process-sockets-7 (seconds) | -0.26% |
| | process-sockets-12 (seconds) | -1.24% |
| | process-sockets-21 (seconds) | 0.01% |
| | process-sockets-30 (seconds) | -0.15% |
| | process-sockets-48 (seconds) | 0.15% |
| | process-sockets-79 (seconds) | 1.45% |
| | process-sockets-110 (seconds) | -1.64% |
| | process-sockets-141 (seconds) | (I) -4.27% |
| | process-sockets-172 (seconds) | 0.30% |
| | process-sockets-203 (seconds) | -1.71% |
| | process-sockets-234 (seconds) | -1.94% |
| | process-sockets-256 (seconds) | -0.71% |
| | thread-pipes-1 (seconds) | 0.66% |
| | thread-pipes-4 (seconds) | 1.66% |
| | thread-pipes-7 (seconds) | -0.17% |
| | thread-pipes-12 (seconds) | (I) -4.12% |
| | thread-pipes-21 (seconds) | (I) -2.13% |
| | thread-pipes-30 (seconds) | (I) -3.78% |
| | thread-pipes-48 (seconds) | (I) -5.77% |
| | thread-pipes-79 (seconds) | (I) -5.31% |
| | thread-pipes-110 (seconds) | (I) -6.12% |
| | thread-pipes-141 (seconds) | (I) -4.00% |
| | thread-pipes-172 (seconds) | (I) -3.01% |
| | thread-pipes-203 (seconds) | (I) -2.62% |
| | thread-pipes-234 (seconds) | (I) -2.00% |
| | thread-pipes-256 (seconds) | (I) -2.30% |
| | thread-sockets-1 (seconds) | (R) 2.39% |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------+
+-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| mmtests/sysbench-mutex | sysbenchmutex-1 (usec) | -0.02% |
| | sysbenchmutex-4 (usec) | -0.02% |
| | sysbenchmutex-7 (usec) | 0.00% |
| | sysbenchmutex-12 (usec) | 0.12% |
| | sysbenchmutex-21 (usec) | -0.40% |
| | sysbenchmutex-30 (usec) | 0.08% |
| | sysbenchmutex-48 (usec) | 2.59% |
| | sysbenchmutex-79 (usec) | -0.80% |
| | sysbenchmutex-110 (usec) | -3.87% |
| | sysbenchmutex-128 (usec) | (I) -4.46% |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------+
This patch (of 2):
Currently khugepaged does not collapse an anonymous region which does not
have a single writable pte. This is wasteful since a region mapped with
non-writable ptes, for example, non-writable VMAs mapped by the
application, won't benefit from THP collapse.
An additional consequence of this constraint is that MADV_COLLAPSE does
not perform a collapse on a non-writable VMA, and this restriction is
nowhere to be found on the manpage - the restriction itself sounds wrong
to me since the user knows the protection of the memory it has mapped, so
collapsing read-only memory via madvise() should be a choice of the user
which shouldn't be overridden by the kernel.
Therefore, remove this restriction by not honouring SCAN_PAGE_RO.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250908075028.38431-1-dev.jain@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250908075028.38431-2-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In general, khugepaged_scan_mm_slot() iterates khugepaged_scan.mm_head list
to get a mm_struct for collapse memory.
Use list_xxx() helper would be more obvious to the list iteration
operation.
No functional change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822025732.9025-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When determining which THP orders are eligible for a VMA mapping, we have
previously specified tva_flags, however it turns out it is really not
necessary to treat these as flags.
Rather, we distinguish between distinct modes.
The only case where we previously combined flags was with
TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS, but we can avoid this by observing that this is the
default, except for MADV_COLLAPSE or an edge cases in
collapse_pte_mapped_thp() and hugepage_vma_revalidate(), and adding a mode
specifically for this case - TVA_FORCED_COLLAPSE.
We have:
* smaps handling for showing "THPeligible"
* Pagefault handling
* khugepaged handling
* Forced collapse handling: primarily MADV_COLLAPSE, but also for
an edge case in collapse_pte_mapped_thp()
Disregarding the edge cases, we only want to ignore sysfs settings only
when we are forcing a collapse through MADV_COLLAPSE, otherwise we want to
enforce it, hence this patch does the following flag to enum conversions:
* TVA_SMAPS | TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_SMAPS
* TVA_IN_PF | TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_PAGEFAULT
* TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_KHUGEPAGED
* 0 -> TVA_FORCED_COLLAPSE
With this change, we immediately know if we are in the forced collapse
case, which will be valuable next.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-3-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when
advised", v5.
This will allow individual processes to opt-out of THP = "always" into THP
= "madvise", without affecting other workloads on the system. This has
been extensively discussed on the mailing list and has been summarized
very well by David in the first patch which also includes the links to
alternatives, please refer to the first patch commit message for the
motivation for this series.
Patch 1 adds the PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED flag to implement this,
along with the MMF changes.
Patch 2 is a cleanup patch for tva_flags that will allow the forced
collapse case to be transmitted to vma_thp_disabled (which is done in
patch 3).
Patch 4 adds documentation for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE/PR_GET_THP_DISABLE.
Patches 6-7 implement the selftests for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE for completely
disabling THPs (old behaviour) and only enabling it at advise
(PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).
This patch (of 7):
People want to make use of more THPs, for example, moving from the "never"
system policy to "madvise", or from "madvise" to "always".
While this is great news for every THP desperately waiting to get
allocated out there, apparently there are some workloads that require a
bit of care during that transition: individual processes may need to
opt-out from this behavior for various reasons, and this should be
permitted without needing to make all other workloads on the system
similarly opt-out.
The following scenarios are imaginable:
(1) Switch from "none" system policy to "madvise"/"always", but keep THPs
disabled for selected workloads.
(2) Stay at "none" system policy, but enable THPs for selected
workloads, making only these workloads use the "madvise" or "always"
policy.
(3) Switch from "madvise" system policy to "always", but keep the
"madvise" policy for selected workloads: allocate THPs only when
advised.
(4) Stay at "madvise" system policy, but enable THPs even when not advised
for selected workloads -- "always" policy.
Once can emulate (2) through (1), by setting the system policy to
"madvise"/"always" while disabling THPs for all processes that don't want
THPs. It requires configuring all workloads, but that is a user-space
problem to sort out.
(4) can be emulated through (3) in a similar way.
Back when (1) was relevant in the past, as people started enabling THPs,
we added PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, so relevant workloads that were not ready yet
(i.e., used by Redis) were able to just disable THPs completely. Redis
still implements the option to use this interface to disable THPs
completely.
With PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, we added a way to force-disable THPs for a
workload -- a process, including fork+exec'ed process hierarchy. That
essentially made us support (1): simply disable THPs for all workloads
that are not ready for THPs yet, while still enabling THPs system-wide.
The quest for handling (3) and (4) started, but current approaches
(completely new prctl, options to set other policies per process,
alternatives to prctl -- mctrl, cgroup handling) don't look particularly
promising. Likely, the future will use bpf or something similar to
implement better policies, in particular to also make better decisions
about THP sizes to use, but this will certainly take a while as that work
just started.
Long story short: a simple enable/disable is not really suitable for the
future, so we're not willing to add completely new toggles.
While we could emulate (3)+(4) through (1)+(2) by simply disabling THPs
completely for these processes, this is a step backwards, because these
processes can no longer allocate THPs in regions where THPs were
explicitly advised: regions flagged as VM_HUGEPAGE. Apparently, that
imposes a problem for relevant workloads, because "not THPs" is certainly
worse than "THPs only when advised".
Could we simply relax PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, to "disable THPs unless not
explicitly advised by the app through MAD_HUGEPAGE"? *maybe*, but this
would change the documented semantics quite a bit, and the versatility to
use it for debugging purposes, so I am not 100% sure that is what we want
-- although it would certainly be much easier.
So instead, as an easy way forward for (3) and (4), add an option to
make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE disable *less* THPs for a process.
In essence, this patch:
(A) Adds PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED, to be used as a flag in arg3
of prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE) when disabling THPs (arg2 != 0).
prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, 1, PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).
(B) Makes prctl(PR_GET_THP_DISABLE) return 3 if
PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set while disabling.
Previously, it would return 1 if THPs were disabled completely. Now
it returns the set flags as well: 3 if PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED
was set.
(C) Renames MMF_DISABLE_THP to MMF_DISABLE_THP_COMPLETELY, to express
the semantics clearly.
Fortunately, there are only two instances outside of prctl() code.
(D) Adds MMF_DISABLE_THP_EXCEPT_ADVISED to express "no THP except for VMAs
with VM_HUGEPAGE" -- essentially "thp=madvise" behavior
Fortunately, we only have to extend vma_thp_disabled().
(E) Indicates "THP_enabled: 0" in /proc/pid/status only if THPs are
disabled completely
Only indicating that THPs are disabled when they are really disabled
completely, not only partially.
For now, we don't add another interface to obtained whether THPs
are disabled partially (PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set). If
ever required, we could add a new entry.
The documented semantics in the man page for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE "is
inherited by a child created via fork(2) and is preserved across
execve(2)" is maintained. This behavior, for example, allows for
disabling THPs for a workload through the launching process (e.g., systemd
where we fork() a helper process to then exec()).
For now, MADV_COLLAPSE will *fail* in regions without VM_HUGEPAGE and
VM_NOHUGEPAGE. As MADV_COLLAPSE is a clear advise that user space thinks
a THP is a good idea, we'll enable that separately next (requiring a bit
of cleanup first).
There is currently not way to prevent that a process will not issue
PR_SET_THP_DISABLE itself to re-enable THP. There are not really known
users for re-enabling it, and it's against the purpose of the original
interface. So if ever required, we could investigate just forbidding to
re-enable them, or make this somehow configurable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-2-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
As part of the effort to move to mm->flags becoming a bitmap field,
convert existing users to making use of the mm_flags_*() accessors which
will, when the conversion is complete, be the only means of accessing
mm_struct flags.
This will result in the debug output being that of a bitmap output, which
will result in a minor change here, but since this is for debug only, this
should have no bearing.
Otherwise, no functional changes intended.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1eb2266f4408798a55bda00cb04545a3203aa572.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 8ee53820ed ("thp: mmu_notifier_test_young") introduced
mmu_notifier_test_young(), but we are passing the wrong address.
In xxx_scan_pmd(), the actual iteration address is "_address" not
"address". We seem to misuse the variable on the very beginning.
Change it to the right one.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org fix whitespace, per everyone]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822063318.11644-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Fixes: 8ee53820ed ("thp: mmu_notifier_test_young")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: 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: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Use PTE batching to batch process PTEs mapping the same large folio. An
improvement is expected due to batching mapcount manipulation on the
folios, and for arm64 which supports contig mappings, the number of
TLB flushes is also reduced.
Note that we do not need to make a change to the check
"if (folio_page(folio, i) != page)"; if i'th page of the folio is equal
to the first page of our batch, then i + 1, .... i + nr_batch_ptes - 1
pages of the folio will be equal to the corresponding pages of our
batch mapping consecutive pages.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250724052301.23844-4-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Use PTE batching to batch process PTEs mapping the same large folio. An
improvement is expected due to batching refcount-mapcount manipulation on
the folios, and for arm64 which supports contig mappings, the number of
TLB flushes is also reduced.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250724052301.23844-3-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Suppose a folio is under migration, and khugepaged is also trying to
collapse it. collapse_pte_mapped_thp() will retrieve the folio from the
page cache via filemap_lock_folio(), thus taking a reference on the folio
and sleeping on the folio lock, since the lock is held by the migration
path. Migration will then fail in __folio_migrate_mapping ->
folio_ref_freeze. Reduce the probability of such a race happening
(leading to migration failure) by bailing out if we detect a PMD is marked
with a migration entry.
This fixes the migration-shared-anon-thp testcase failure on Apple M3.
Note that, this is not a "fix" since it only reduces the chance of
interference of khugepaged with migration, wherein both the kernel
functionalities are deemed "best-effort".
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704040417.63826-1-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The madvise code has for the longest time had very confusing code around
the 'prev' VMA pointer passed around various functions which, in all cases
except madvise_update_vma(), is unused and instead simply updated as soon
as the function is invoked.
To compound the confusion, the prev pointer is also used to indicate to
the caller that the mmap lock has been dropped and that we can therefore
not safely access the end of the current VMA (which might have been
updated by madvise_update_vma()).
Clear up this confusion by not setting prev = vma anywhere except in
madvise_walk_vmas(), update all references to prev which will always be
equal to vma after madvise_vma_behavior() is invoked, and adding a flag to
indicate that the lock has been dropped to make this explicit.
Additionally, drop a redundant BUG_ON() from madvise_collapse(), which is
simply reiterating the BUG_ON(mmap_locked) above it (note that BUG_ON() is
not appropriate here, but we leave existing code as-is).
We finally adjust the madvise_walk_vmas() logic to be a little clearer -
delaying the assignment of the end of the range to the start of the new
range until the last moment and handling the lock being dropped scenario
immediately.
Additionally add some explanatory comments.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: fix very subtle bug]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dca94cde-8afb-4eab-8e57-3f508624d670@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/63d281c5df2e64225ab5b4bda398b45e22818701.1750433500.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The pmd_devmap() check in check_pmd_state() is redundant because the only
user of pmd_devmap were device dax and fs dax. However all callers of
check_pmd_state() first call thp_vma_allowable_order() to check if the vma
should be scanned. Except when called from a page fault this always
returns 0 for dax vma's, hence we would never expect to see a pmd_devmap
entry.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a68175fd3a37e9b72cc82c1d63fd8b69691a85b5.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org>
Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Inki Dae <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: John Groves <john@groves.net>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The core kernel code is currently very inconsistent in its use of
vm_flags_t vs. unsigned long. This prevents us from changing the type of
vm_flags_t in the future and is simply not correct, so correct this.
While this results in rather a lot of churn, it is a critical
pre-requisite for a future planned change to VMA flag type.
Additionally, update VMA userland tests to account for the changes.
To make review easier and to break things into smaller parts, driver and
architecture-specific changes is left for a subsequent commit.
The code has been adjusted to cascade the changes across all calling code
as far as is needed.
We will adjust architecture-specific and driver code in a subsequent patch.
Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d1588e7bb96d1ea3fe7b9df2c699d5b4592d901d.1750274467.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Use folio_expected_ref_count() instead of open-coded logic in
is_refcount_suitable(). This avoids code duplication and improves
clarity.
Drop is_refcount_suitable() as it is no longer needed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250526182818.37978-2-shivankg@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Fengwei Yin <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
hpage_collapse_scan_file() calls is_refcount_suitable(), which in turn
calls folio_mapcount(). folio_mapcount() checks folio_test_large() before
proceeding to folio_large_mapcount(), but there is a race window where the
folio may get split/freed between these checks, triggering:
VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_large(folio), folio)
Take a temporary reference to the folio in hpage_collapse_scan_file().
This stabilizes the folio during refcount check and prevents incorrect
large folio detection due to concurrent split/free. Use helper
folio_expected_ref_count() + 1 to compare with folio_ref_count() instead
of using is_refcount_suitable().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250526182818.37978-1-shivankg@amd.com
Fixes: 05c5323b2a ("mm: track mapcount of large folios in single value")
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+2b99589e33edbe9475ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6828470d.a70a0220.38f255.000c.GAE@google.com
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Fengwei Yin <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Originally, the file pages collapse was intended for tmpfs/shmem to merge
into THP in the background. However, now not only tmpfs/shmem can support
large folios, but some other file systems (such as XFS, erofs ...) also
support large folios. Therefore, it is time to decouple the support of
file folios collapse from SHMEM.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce5c2314e0368cf34bda26f9bacf01c982d4da17.1747119309.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In do_set_pmd(), we always use the folio->page to build PMD mappings for
the entire folio. Since all callers of do_set_pmd() already hold a stable
folio, converting do_set_pmd() to take a folio is safe and more
straightforward.
In addition, to ensure the extensibility of do_set_pmd() for supporting
larger folios beyond PMD size, we keep the 'page' parameter to specify
which page within the folio should be mapped.
No functional changes expected.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b488f4ecb4d3fd8634e3d448dd0ed6964482480.1747017104.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We've already gotten the stable locked folio in collapse_pte_mapped_thp(),
so just use folio for set_huge_pmd() to set the PMD entry, which is more
straightforward.
Moreover, we will check the folio size in do_set_pmd(), so we can remove
the unnecessary VM_BUG_ON() in set_huge_pmd(). While we are at it, we can
also remove the PageTransHuge(), as it currently has no callers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/110c3e1ec5fe7854a0e2c95ffcbc985817180ed7.1747017104.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The trace functions trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate() and
trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd() each have a single user, which always
passes in the head page of a folio. Refactor both functions to take a
folio directly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250425002425.533698-1-nifan.cxl@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
free_page_and_swap_cache() takes a struct page pointer as input parameter,
but it will immediately convert it to folio and all operations following
within use folio instead of page. It makes more sense to pass in folio
directly.
Convert free_page_and_swap_cache() to free_folio_and_swap_cache() to
consume folio directly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250416201720.41678-1-nifan.cxl@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Removes five conversions from folio to page. Also removes both callers of
mk_pmd() that aren't part of mk_huge_pmd(), getting us a step closer to
removing the confusion between mk_pmd(), mk_huge_pmd() and pmd_mkhuge().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-11-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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>
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.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.
- "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
refcount inc & dec
- "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
use large folios other than PMD-sized ones
- "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest
- "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
of the mapletree code
- "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
few minor code cleanups
- "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
a test for the mapletree code
- "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
(relatively) new mm/vma.c
- "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
page allocator
- "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading
- "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
accumulated:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
- "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
code when optional compiler warnings are enabled
- "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
__GFP_HARDWALL
- "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
pertaining to the pkeys tests
- "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
estimate application working set size
- "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic
- "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated
- "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated
- "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
use-after-free race is fixed
- "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
logic
- "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
improvements in accounting accuracy
- "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
DAMON's sysfs file interface logic
- "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
presented in response to DAMOS actions
- "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
migration to sysfs is completed
- "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
accounting
- "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface
- "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
but also inclusion (allowing) behavior
- "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
memory descriptors
- "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
build time with swap-on-zram
- "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
mmap_region() can be made MM-internal
- "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance
- "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
Park updates DAMON documentation
- "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing
- "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
folios, THP folios and migration
- "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
reading/writing fast devices
- "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
...
syzkaller reported such a BUG_ON():
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kernel BUG at mm/khugepaged.c:1835!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
...
CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 8009 Comm: syz.15.106 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.13.0-rc6 #22
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
pstate: 00400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : collapse_file+0xa44/0x1400
lr : collapse_file+0x88/0x1400
sp : ffff80008afe3a60
...
Call trace:
collapse_file+0xa44/0x1400 (P)
hpage_collapse_scan_file+0x278/0x400
madvise_collapse+0x1bc/0x678
madvise_vma_behavior+0x32c/0x448
madvise_walk_vmas.constprop.0+0xbc/0x140
do_madvise.part.0+0xdc/0x2c8
__arm64_sys_madvise+0x68/0x88
invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x34/0x128
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xd0
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
This indicates that the pgoff is unaligned. After analysis, I confirm the
vma is mapped to /dev/zero. Such a vma certainly has vm_file, but it is
set to anonymous by mmap_zero(). So even if it's mmapped by 2m-unaligned,
it can pass the check in thp_vma_allowable_order() as it is an
anonymous-mmap, but then be collapsed as a file-mmap.
It seems the problem has existed for a long time, but actually, since we
have khugepaged_max_ptes_none check before, we will skip collapse it as it
is /dev/zero and so has no present page. But commit d8ea7cc854 limit
the check for only khugepaged, so the BUG_ON() can be triggered by
madvise_collapse().
Add vma_is_anonymous() check to make such vma be processed by
hpage_collapse_scan_pmd().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111034511.2223353-1-liushixin2@huawei.com
Fixes: d8ea7cc854 ("mm/khugepaged: add flag to predicate khugepaged-only behavior")
Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Mattew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages", v4.
Previously, we tried to use a completely asynchronous method to reclaim
empty user PTE pages [1]. After discussing with David Hildenbrand, we
decided to implement synchronous reclaimation in the case of
madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) as the first step.
So this series 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).
In zap_pte_range(), mmu_gather is used to perform batch tlb flushing and
page freeing operations. Therefore, if we want to free the empty PTE page
in this path, the most natural way is to add it to mmu_gather as well.
Now, if CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE is selected, mmu_gather will free
page table pages by semi RCU:
- batch table freeing: asynchronous free by RCU
- single table freeing: IPI + synchronous free
But this is not enough to free the empty PTE page table pages in paths
other that munmap and exit_mmap path, because IPI cannot be synchronized
with rcu_read_lock() in pte_offset_map{_lock}(). So we should let single
table also be freed by RCU like batch table freeing.
As a first step, we supported this feature on x86_64 and selectd the newly
introduced CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM.
For other cases such as madvise(MADV_FREE), consider scanning and freeing
empty PTE pages asynchronously in the future.
Note: issues related to TLB flushing are not new to this series and are tracked
in the separate RFC patch [3]. And more context please refer to this
thread [4].
[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1727332572.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
[3]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240815120715.14516-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
[4]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6f38cb19-9847-4f70-bbe7-06881bb016be@bytedance.com/
This patch (of 11):
In retract_page_tables(), the lock of new_folio is still held, we will be
blocked in the page fault path, which prevents the pte entries from being
set again. So even though the old empty PTE page may be concurrently
freed and a new PTE page is filled into the pmd entry, it is still empty
and can be removed.
So just refactor the retract_page_tables() a little bit and recheck the
pmd state after holding the pmd lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1733305182.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/70a51804cd19d44ccaf031825d9fb6eaf92f2bad.1733305182.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.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: 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>
Since commit 5abc1e37af ("mm: list_lru: allocate list_lru_one only when
needed"), all list_lru users need to allocate the items using the new
infrastructure that provides list_lru info for slab allocation, ensuring
that the corresponding memcg list_lru is allocated before use.
For workingset shadow nodes (which are xa_node), users are converted to
use the new infrastructure by commit 9bbdc0f324 ("xarray: use
kmem_cache_alloc_lru to allocate xa_node"). The xas->xa_lru will be set
correctly for filemap users. However, there is a missing case: xa_node
allocations caused by madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE).
madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE) will also read in the absent parts of file
map, and there will be xa_nodes allocated for the caller's memcg (assuming
it's not rootcg). However, these allocations won't trigger memcg list_lru
allocation because the proper xas info was not set.
If nothing else has allocated other xa_nodes for that memcg to trigger
list_lru creation, and memory pressure starts to evict file pages,
workingset_update_node will try to add these xa_nodes to their
corresponding memcg list_lru, and it does not exist (NULL). So they will
be added to rootcg's list_lru instead.
This shouldn't be a significant issue in practice, but it is indeed
unexpected behavior, and these xa_nodes will not be reclaimed effectively.
And may lead to incorrect counting of the list_lru->nr_items counter.
This problem wasn't exposed until recent commit 28e98022b3
("mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation") added a
sanity check: only dying memcg could have a NULL list_lru when
list_lru_{add,del} is called. This problem triggered this WARNING.
So make madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE) also call xas_set_lru() to pass the
list_lru which we may want to insert xa_node into later. And move
mapping_set_update to mm/internal.h, and turn into a macro to avoid
including extra headers in mm/internal.h.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241222122936.67501-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Fixes: 9bbdc0f324 ("xarray: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru to allocate xa_node")
Reported-by: syzbot+38a0cbd267eff2d286ff@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/675d01e9.050a0220.37aaf.00be.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In collapse_pte_mapped_thp(), we may modify the pte and pmd entry after
acquiring the ptl, so convert it to using pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(). At
this time, the pte_same() check is not performed after the PTL held. So
we should get pgt_pmd and do pmd_same() check after the ptl held.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/055e42db68da00ac8ecab94bd2633c7cd965eb1c.1727332572.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In __collapse_huge_page_swapin(), we just use the ptl for pte_same() check
in do_swap_page(). In other places, we directly use
pte_offset_map_lock(), so convert it to using pte_offset_map_ro_nolock().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc97a6c3cb9ea80cab30c5626eeea79959d93258.1727332572.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The types of mm flags are now far beyond the core dump related features.
This patch moves mm flags from linux/sched/coredump.h to linux/mm_types.h.
The linux/sched/coredump.h has include the mm_types.h, so the C files
related to coredump does not need to change head file inclusion. In
addition, the inclusion of sched/coredump.h now can be deleted from the C
files that irrelevant to core dump.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926074922.2721274-1-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shmem has a separate interface (different from anonymous pages) to control
huge page allocation, that means shmem THP can be enabled while anonymous
THP is disabled. However, in this case, khugepaged will not start to
collapse shmem THP, which is unreasonable.
To fix this issue, we should call start_stop_khugepaged() to activate or
deactivate the khugepaged thread when setting shmem mTHP interfaces.
Moreover, add a new helper shmem_hpage_pmd_enabled() to help to check
whether shmem THP is enabled, which will determine if khugepaged should be
activated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b9c6cbc4499bf44c6455367fd9e0f6036525680.1726978977.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Khugepaged already supports collapsing file large folios (including shmem
mTHP) by commit 7de856ffd0 ("mm: khugepaged: support shmem mTHP
collapse"), and the control parameters in khugepaged:
'khugepaged_max_ptes_swap' and 'khugepaged_max_ptes_none', still compare
based on PTE granularity to determine whether a file collapse is needed.
However, the statistics for 'present' and 'swap' in
hpage_collapse_scan_file() do not take into account the large folios,
which may lead to incorrect judgments regarding the
khugepaged_max_ptes_swap/none parameters, resulting in unnecessary file
collapses.
To fix this issue, take into account the large folios' statistics for
'present' and 'swap' variables in the hpage_collapse_scan_file().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c76305d96d12d030a1a346b50503d148364246d2.1728901391.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 7de856ffd0 ("mm: khugepaged: support shmem mTHP collapse")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Lorenzo Stoakes