- The 4 patch series "mseal cleanups" from Lorenzo Stoakes erforms some
mseal cleaning with no intended functional change.
- The 3 patch series "Optimizations for khugepaged" from David
Hildenbrand improves khugepaged throughput by batching PTE operations
for large folios. This gain is mainly for arm64.
- The 8 patch series "x86: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for ftrace and
kprobes" from Mike Rapoport provides a bugfix, additional debug code and
cleanups to the execmem code.
- The 7 patch series "mm/shmem, swap: bugfix and improvement of mTHP
swap in" from Kairui Song provides bugfixes, cleanups and performance
improvememnts to the mTHP swapin code.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-08-03-12-35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Significant patch series in this pull request:
- "mseal cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Some mseal cleaning with no intended functional change.
- "Optimizations for khugepaged" (David Hildenbrand)
Improve khugepaged throughput by batching PTE operations for large
folios. This gain is mainly for arm64.
- "x86: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for ftrace and kprobes" (Mike Rapoport)
A bugfix, additional debug code and cleanups to the execmem code.
- "mm/shmem, swap: bugfix and improvement of mTHP swap in" (Kairui Song)
Bugfixes, cleanups and performance improvememnts to the mTHP swapin
code"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-08-03-12-35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (38 commits)
mm: mempool: fix crash in mempool_free() for zero-minimum pools
mm: correct type for vmalloc vm_flags fields
mm/shmem, swap: fix major fault counting
mm/shmem, swap: rework swap entry and index calculation for large swapin
mm/shmem, swap: simplify swapin path and result handling
mm/shmem, swap: never use swap cache and readahead for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO
mm/shmem, swap: tidy up swap entry splitting
mm/shmem, swap: tidy up THP swapin checks
mm/shmem, swap: avoid redundant Xarray lookup during swapin
x86/ftrace: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for ftrace allocations
x86/kprobes: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for kprobes allocations
execmem: drop writable parameter from execmem_fill_trapping_insns()
execmem: add fallback for failures in vmalloc(VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP)
execmem: move execmem_force_rw() and execmem_restore_rox() before use
execmem: rework execmem_cache_free()
execmem: introduce execmem_alloc_rw()
execmem: drop unused execmem_update_copy()
mm: fix a UAF when vma->mm is freed after vma->vm_refcnt got dropped
mm/rmap: add anon_vma lifetime debug check
mm: remove mm/io-mapping.c
...
If the swapin failed, don't update the major fault count. There is a long
existing comment for doing it this way, now with previous cleanups, we can
finally fix it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-9-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of calculating the swap entry differently in different swapin
paths, calculate it early before the swap cache lookup and use that for
the lookup and later swapin. And after swapin have brought a folio,
simply round it down against the size of the folio.
This is simple and effective enough to verify the swap value. A folio's
swap entry is always aligned by its size. Any kind of parallel split or
race is acceptable because the final shmem_add_to_page_cache ensures that
all entries covered by the folio are correct, and thus there will be no
data corruption.
This also prevents false positive cache lookup. If a shmem read request's
index points to the middle of a large swap entry, previously, shmem will
try the swap cache lookup using the large swap entry's starting value
(which is the first sub swap entry of this large entry). This will lead
to false positive lookup results if only the first few swap entries are
cached but the actual requested swap entry pointed by the index is
uncached. This is not a rare event, as swap readahead always tries to
cache order 0 folios when possible.
And this shouldn't cause any increased repeated faults. Instead, no
matter how the shmem mapping is split in parallel, as long as the mapping
still contains the right entries, the swapin will succeed.
The final object size and stack usage are also reduced due to simplified
code:
./scripts/bloat-o-meter mm/shmem.o.old mm/shmem.o
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-145 (-145)
Function old new delta
shmem_swapin_folio 4056 3911 -145
Total: Before=33242, After=33097, chg -0.44%
Stack usage (Before vs After):
mm/shmem.c:2314:12:shmem_swapin_folio 264 static
mm/shmem.c:2314:12:shmem_swapin_folio 256 static
And while at it, round down the index too if swap entry is round down.
The index is used either for folio reallocation or confirming the mapping
content. In either case, it should be aligned with the swap folio.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-8-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Slightly tidy up the different handling of swap in and error handling for
SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO and non-SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO devices. Now swapin will
always use either shmem_swap_alloc_folio or shmem_swapin_cluster, then
check the result.
Simplify the control flow and avoid a redundant goto label.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-7-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO devices, if a cache bypassing THP swapin failed due
to reasons like memory pressure, partially conflicting swap cache or ZSWAP
enabled, shmem will fallback to cached order 0 swapin.
Right now the swap cache still has a non-trivial overhead, and readahead
is not helpful for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO devices, so we should always skip
the readahead and swap cache even if the swapin falls back to order 0.
So handle the fallback logic without falling back to the cached read.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-6-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of keeping different paths of splitting the entry before the swap
in start, move the entry splitting after the swapin has put the folio in
swap cache (or set the SWAP_HAS_CACHE bit). This way we only need one
place and one unified way to split the large entry. Whenever swapin
brought in a folio smaller than the shmem swap entry, split the entry and
recalculate the entry and index for verification.
This removes duplicated codes and function calls, reduces LOC, and the
split is less racy as it's guarded by swap cache now. So it will have a
lower chance of repeated faults due to raced split. The compiler is also
able to optimize the coder further:
bloat-o-meter results with GCC 14:
With DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH (-fno-inline-functions-called-once):
./scripts/bloat-o-meter mm/shmem.o.old mm/shmem.o
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-143 (-143)
Function old new delta
shmem_swapin_folio 2358 2215 -143
Total: Before=32933, After=32790, chg -0.43%
With !DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH:
add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 1069/-749 (320)
Function old new delta
shmem_swapin_folio 2871 3940 +1069
shmem_split_large_entry.isra 749 - -749
Total: Before=32806, After=33126, chg +0.98%
Since shmem_split_large_entry is only called in one place now. The
compiler will either generate more compact code, or inlined it for
better performance.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-5-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Move all THP swapin related checks under CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, so
they will be trimmed off by the compiler if not needed.
And add a WARN if shmem sees a order > 0 entry when
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is disabled, that should never happen unless
things went very wrong.
There should be no observable feature change except the new added WARN.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-4-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/shmem, swap: bugfix and improvement of mTHP swap in", v6.
The current THP swapin path have several problems. It may potentially
hang, may cause redundant faults due to false positive swap cache lookup,
and it issues redundant Xarray walks. !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE builds
may also contain unnecessary THP checks.
This series fixes all of the mentioned issues, the code should be more
robust and prepared for the swap table series. Now 4 walks is reduced to
3 (get order & confirm, confirm, insert folio),
!CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE build overhead is also minimized, and comes
with a sanity check now.
The performance is slightly better after this series, sequential swap in
of 24G data from ZRAM, using transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=always (24 samples
each):
Before: avg: 10.66s, stddev: 0.04
After patch 1: avg: 10.58s, stddev: 0.04
After patch 2: avg: 10.65s, stddev: 0.05
After patch 3: avg: 10.65s, stddev: 0.04
After patch 4: avg: 10.67s, stddev: 0.04
After patch 5: avg: 9.79s, stddev: 0.04
After patch 6: avg: 9.79s, stddev: 0.05
After patch 7: avg: 9.78s, stddev: 0.05
After patch 8: avg: 9.79s, stddev: 0.04
Several patches improve the performance by a little, which is about ~8%
faster in total.
Build kernel test showed very slightly improvement, testing with make -j48
with defconfig in a 768M memcg also using ZRAM as swap, and
transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=always (6 test runs):
Before: avg: 3334.66s, stddev: 43.76
After patch 1: avg: 3349.77s, stddev: 18.55
After patch 2: avg: 3325.01s, stddev: 42.96
After patch 3: avg: 3354.58s, stddev: 14.62
After patch 4: avg: 3336.24s, stddev: 32.15
After patch 5: avg: 3325.13s, stddev: 22.14
After patch 6: avg: 3285.03s, stddev: 38.95
After patch 7: avg: 3287.32s, stddev: 26.37
After patch 8: avg: 3295.87s, stddev: 46.24
This patch (of 7):
Currently shmem calls xa_get_order to get the swap radix entry order,
requiring a full tree walk. This can be easily combined with the swap
entry value checking (shmem_confirm_swap) to avoid the duplicated lookup
and abort early if the entry is gone already. Which should improve the
performance.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-3-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
After commit acd7ccb284 ("mm: shmem: add large folio support for
tmpfs"), we extend the 'huge=' option to allow any sized large folios for
tmpfs, which means tmpfs will allow getting a highest order hint based on
the size of write() and fallocate() paths, and then will try each
allowable large order.
However, when the i915 driver allocates shmem memory, it doesn't provide
hint information about the size of the large folio to be allocated,
resulting in the inability to allocate PMD-sized shmem, which in turn
affects GPU performance.
Patryk added:
: In my tests, the performance drop ranges from a few percent up to 13%
: in Unigine Superposition under heavy memory usage on the CPU Core Ultra
: 155H with the Xe 128 EU GPU. Other users have reported performance
: impact up to 30% on certain workloads. Please find more in the
: regressions reports:
: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/14645
: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/13845
:
: I believe the change should be backported to all active kernel branches
: after version 6.12.
To fix this issue, we can use the inode's size as a write size hint in
shmem_read_folio_gfp() to help allocate PMD-sized large folios.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f7e64e99a3a87a8144cc6b2f1dddf7a89c12ce44.1753926601.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: acd7ccb284 ("mm: shmem: add large folio support for tmpfs")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Patryk Kowalczyk <patryk@kowalczyk.ws>
Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Patryk Kowalczyk <patryk@kowalczyk.ws>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The current swap-in code assumes that, when a swap entry in shmem mapping
is order 0, its cached folios (if present) must be order 0 too, which
turns out not always correct.
The problem is shmem_split_large_entry is called before verifying the
folio will eventually be swapped in, one possible race is:
CPU1 CPU2
shmem_swapin_folio
/* swap in of order > 0 swap entry S1 */
folio = swap_cache_get_folio
/* folio = NULL */
order = xa_get_order
/* order > 0 */
folio = shmem_swap_alloc_folio
/* mTHP alloc failure, folio = NULL */
<... Interrupted ...>
shmem_swapin_folio
/* S1 is swapped in */
shmem_writeout
/* S1 is swapped out, folio cached */
shmem_split_large_entry(..., S1)
/* S1 is split, but the folio covering it has order > 0 now */
Now any following swapin of S1 will hang: `xa_get_order` returns 0, and
folio lookup will return a folio with order > 0. The
`xa_get_order(&mapping->i_pages, index) != folio_order(folio)` will always
return false causing swap-in to return -EEXIST.
And this looks fragile. So fix this up by allowing seeing a larger folio
in swap cache, and check the whole shmem mapping range covered by the
swapin have the right swap value upon inserting the folio. And drop the
redundant tree walks before the insertion.
This will actually improve performance, as it avoids two redundant Xarray
tree walks in the hot path, and the only side effect is that in the
failure path, shmem may redundantly reallocate a few folios causing
temporary slight memory pressure.
And worth noting, it may seems the order and value check before inserting
might help reducing the lock contention, which is not true. The swap
cache layer ensures raced swapin will either see a swap cache folio or
failed to do a swapin (we have SWAP_HAS_CACHE bit even if swap cache is
bypassed), so holding the folio lock and checking the folio flag is
already good enough for avoiding the lock contention. The chance that a
folio passes the swap entry value check but the shmem mapping slot has
changed should be very low.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728075306.12704-2-ryncsn@gmail.com
Fixes: 809bc86517 ("mm: shmem: support large folio swap out")
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
- The 4 patch series "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new
VMAs" from Lorenzo Stoakes addresses an issue with KSM's
PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for
merging with existing adjacent VMAs.
- The 4 patch series "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and
practical access monitoring" from SeongJae Park adds a new kernel module
which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production
environments.
- The 6 patch series "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem
writeout" from Christoph Hellwig is a cleanup to the writeback code
which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control.
- The 7 patch series "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups"
from Donet Tom contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node
setup and management code.
- The 4 patch series "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" from
Tal Zussman does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.
- The 5 patch series "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" from Ryan
Roberts implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is
reading into order>0 folios.
- The 4 patch series "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" from Mark
Brown provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
selftests code.
- The 4 patch series "Optimize mremap() for large folios" from Dev Jain
does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.
- The 5 patch series "Remove zero_user()" from Matthew Wilcox expunges
zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().
- The 3 patch series "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and
vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" from David Hildenbrand addresses some warts
which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be
causing any issues at this time.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for
DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" from SeongJae Park provides some cleanup and
consolidation work in DAMON.
- The 3 patch series "use vm_flags_t consistently" from Lorenzo Stoakes
uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
types.
- The 3 patch series "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before
allocation" from Vivek Kasireddy increases the reliability of large page
allocation in the memfd code.
- The 14 patch series "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t
type" from Alistair Popple removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" from SeongJae
Park implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
sysfs layer.
- The 5 patch series "madvise cleanup" from Lorenzo Stoakes does quite a
lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.
- The 4 patch series "madvise anon_name cleanups" from Vlastimil Babka
provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.
- The 11 patch series "Implement numa node notifier" from Oscar Salvador
creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline
notifier.
- The 6 patch series "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" from Zi Yan
cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which
doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.
- The 5 patch series "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON
sysfs functionality tests" from SeongJae Park adds additional drgn- and
python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the
existing selftest suite.
- The 5 patch series "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" from Oscar
Salvador fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
follows that fix with a series of cleanups.
- The 3 patch series "cma: factor out allocation logic from
__cma_declare_contiguous_nid" from Mike Rapoport rationalizes and cleans
up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator.
- The 28 patch series "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration
(part 1)" from David Hildenbrand provides cleanups and
future-preparedness to the migration code.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned
monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" from SeongJae Park adds some
tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.
- The 6 patch series "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" from
SeongJae Park does that.
- The 6 patch series "mm/damon: misc cleanups" from SeongJae Park also
does what it claims.
- The 4 patch series "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" from David
Hildenbrand cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.
- The 13 patch series "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in
migrate_{hot,cold} actions" from SeongJae Park facilitates dynamic
alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy.
- The 3 patch series "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" from Vishal Moola
provides a couple of page->folio conversions.
- The 4 patch series "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" from Davidlohr
Bueso implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
current memcg-based implementation.
- The 14 patch series "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" from SeongJae
Park replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.
- The 10 patch series "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs"
from Lorenzo Stoakes implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course)
in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the
remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It
still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be
performed reliably.
- The 3 patch series "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" from Anthony Yznaga
switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes
the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().
- The 4 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated
stats update" from SeongJae Park augments the present
userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic
update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update
interval.
- The 4 patch series "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" from
Kemeng Shi does what is claims.
- The 4 patch series "mm: introduce snapshot_page" from Luiz Capitulino
and David Hildenbrand provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style
functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly
without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live
pageframe directly.
- The 6 patch series "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" from
Suren Baghdasaryan addresses the large contention issues which can be
triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more
than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.
- The 6 patch series "__folio_split() clean up" from Zi Yan cleans up
__folio_split()!
- The 7 patch series "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" from Dev
Jain provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
with large folios.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm
volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" from wang lian does some
cleanup work in the selftests code.
- The 3 patch series "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" from Lorenzo
Stoakes extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
multiple VMAs" feature.
- The 22 patch series "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters"
from SeongJae Park extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it
tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present
minimal subset.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
"cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.
I never knew the MM code was so dirty.
"mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
VMAs.
"mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
DAMON in production environments.
"stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
pointers from struct writeback_control.
"drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
management code.
"mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.
"Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
into order>0 folios.
"selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
selftests code.
"Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.
"Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().
"mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.
"mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.
"use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
types.
"mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
code.
"mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.
"mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
sysfs layer.
"madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.
"madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.
"Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
on/offline notifier.
"Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.
"selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.
"Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
follows that fix with a series of cleanups.
"cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
allocator.
"mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.
"mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.
"mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
does that.
"mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
also does what it claims.
"mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.
"mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
policy.
"Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
provides a couple of page->folio conversions.
"mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
current memcg-based implementation.
"mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.
"mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
reliably.
"drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().
"mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
tunable to control the update interval.
"Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
does what is claims.
"mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
directly.
"use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.
"__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
cleans up __folio_split()!
"Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
with large folios.
"selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
does some cleanup work in the selftests code.
"tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
multiple VMAs" feature.
"selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
subset"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section
MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull fileattr updates from Christian Brauner:
"This introduces the new file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls
after lengthy discussions.
Both system calls serve as successors and extensible companions to
the FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR system calls which have
started to show their age in addition to being named in a way that
makes it easy to conflate them with extended attribute related
operations.
These syscalls allow userspace to set filesystem inode attributes on
special files. One of the usage examples is the XFS quota projects.
XFS has project quotas which could be attached to a directory. All new
inodes in these directories inherit project ID set on parent
directory.
The project is created from userspace by opening and calling
FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR on each inode. This is not possible for special
files such as FIFO, SOCK, BLK etc. Therefore, some inodes are left
with empty project ID. Those inodes then are not shown in the quota
accounting but still exist in the directory. This is not critical but
in the case when special files are created in the directory with
already existing project quota, these new inodes inherit extended
attributes. This creates a mix of special files with and without
attributes. Moreover, special files with attributes don't have a
possibility to become clear or change the attributes. This, in turn,
prevents userspace from re-creating quota project on these existing
files.
In addition, these new system calls allow the implementation of
additional attributes that we couldn't or didn't want to fit into the
legacy ioctls anymore"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: tighten a sanity check in file_attr_to_fileattr()
tree-wide: s/struct fileattr/struct file_kattr/g
fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls
fs: prepare for extending file_get/setattr()
fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP
selinux: implement inode_file_[g|s]etattr hooks
lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
fs: split fileattr related helpers into separate file
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support
This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and
write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first
argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate
to the filesystem's buffered I/O path.
Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag
and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag.
Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to
bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of
directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb.
Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with
kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation.
Cleanups:
- don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open()
- proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
- fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
- vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from
evict_inodes()
- filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper
- fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
- VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
- netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
Fixes:
- eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
- eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
- fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo
- fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and
pollwake()
- fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files()
- docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
- fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
- fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
- fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in
generic_check_addressable
- fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
- fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function
fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter
drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create
eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes()
fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable
fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX
fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake()
docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
...
The basic rules are simple:
* stores to dentry->d_flags are OK under dentry->d_lock.
* stores to dentry->d_flags are OK in the dentry constructor, before
becomes potentially visible to other threads.
Unfortunately, there's a couple of exceptions to that, and that's where the
headache comes from.
Main PITA comes from d_set_d_op(); that primitive sets ->d_op
of dentry and adjusts the flags that correspond to presence of individual
methods. It's very easy to misuse; existing uses _are_ safe, but proof
of correctness is brittle.
Use in __d_alloc() is safe (we are within a constructor), but we
might as well precalculate the initial value of ->d_flags when we set
the default ->d_op for given superblock and set ->d_flags directly
instead of messing with that helper.
The reasons why other uses are safe are bloody convoluted; I'm not going
to reproduce it here. See https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224010624.GT1977892@ZenIV/
for gory details, if you care. The critical part is using d_set_d_op() only
just prior to d_splice_alias(), which makes a combination of d_splice_alias()
with setting ->d_op, etc. a natural replacement primitive. Better yet, if
we go that way, it's easy to take setting ->d_op and modifying ->d_flags
under ->d_lock, which eliminates the headache as far as ->d_flags exclusion
rules are concerned. Other exceptions are minor and easy to deal with.
What this series does:
* d_set_d_op() is no longer available; new primitive (d_splice_alias_ops())
is provided, equivalent to combination of d_set_d_op() and d_splice_alias().
* new field of struct super_block - ->s_d_flags. Default value of ->d_flags
to be used when allocating dentries on this filesystem.
* new primitive for setting ->s_d_op: set_default_d_op(). Replaces stores
to ->s_d_op at mount time. All in-tree filesystems converted; out-of-tree
ones will get caught by compiler (->s_d_op is renamed, so stores to it will
be caught). ->s_d_flags is set by the same primitive to match the ->s_d_op.
* a lot of filesystems had ->s_d_op->d_delete equal to always_delete_dentry;
that is equivalent to setting DCACHE_DONTCACHE in ->d_flags, so such filesystems
can bloody well set that bit in ->s_d_flags and drop ->d_delete() from
dentry_operations. In quite a few cases that results in empty dentry_operations,
which means that we can get rid of those.
* kill simple_dentry_operations - not needed anymore.
* massage d_alloc_parallel() to get rid of the other exception wrt ->d_flags
stores - we can set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP as soon as we allocate the new dentry;
no need to delay that until we commit to using the sucker.
As the result, ->d_flags stores are all either under ->d_lock or done before
the dentry becomes visible in any shared data structures.
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Merge tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull dentry d_flags updates from Al Viro:
"The current exclusion rules for dentry->d_flags stores are rather
unpleasant. The basic rules are simple:
- stores to dentry->d_flags are OK under dentry->d_lock
- stores to dentry->d_flags are OK in the dentry constructor, before
becomes potentially visible to other threads
Unfortunately, there's a couple of exceptions to that, and that's
where the headache comes from.
The main PITA comes from d_set_d_op(); that primitive sets ->d_op of
dentry and adjusts the flags that correspond to presence of individual
methods. It's very easy to misuse; existing uses _are_ safe, but proof
of correctness is brittle.
Use in __d_alloc() is safe (we are within a constructor), but we might
as well precalculate the initial value of 'd_flags' when we set the
default ->d_op for given superblock and set 'd_flags' directly instead
of messing with that helper.
The reasons why other uses are safe are bloody convoluted; I'm not
going to reproduce it here. See [1] for gory details, if you care. The
critical part is using d_set_d_op() only just prior to
d_splice_alias(), which makes a combination of d_splice_alias() with
setting ->d_op, etc a natural replacement primitive.
Better yet, if we go that way, it's easy to take setting ->d_op and
modifying 'd_flags' under ->d_lock, which eliminates the headache as
far as 'd_flags' exclusion rules are concerned. Other exceptions are
minor and easy to deal with.
What this series does:
- d_set_d_op() is no longer available; instead a new primitive
(d_splice_alias_ops()) is provided, equivalent to combination of
d_set_d_op() and d_splice_alias().
- new field of struct super_block - 's_d_flags'. This sets the
default value of 'd_flags' to be used when allocating dentries on
this filesystem.
- new primitive for setting 's_d_op': set_default_d_op(). This
replaces stores to 's_d_op' at mount time.
All in-tree filesystems converted; out-of-tree ones will get caught
by the compiler ('s_d_op' is renamed, so stores to it will be
caught). 's_d_flags' is set by the same primitive to match the
's_d_op'.
- a lot of filesystems had sb->s_d_op->d_delete equal to
always_delete_dentry; that is equivalent to setting
DCACHE_DONTCACHE in 'd_flags', so such filesystems can bloody well
set that bit in 's_d_flags' and drop 'd_delete()' from
dentry_operations.
In quite a few cases that results in empty dentry_operations, which
means that we can get rid of those.
- kill simple_dentry_operations - not needed anymore
- massage d_alloc_parallel() to get rid of the other exception wrt
'd_flags' stores - we can set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP as soon as we
allocate the new dentry; no need to delay that until we commit to
using the sucker.
As the result, 'd_flags' stores are all either under ->d_lock or done
before the dentry becomes visible in any shared data structures"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224010624.GT1977892@ZenIV/ [1]
* tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (21 commits)
configfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE
debugfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE
efivarfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE instead of always_delete_dentry()
9p: don't bother with always_delete_dentry
ramfs, hugetlbfs, mqueue: set DCACHE_DONTCACHE
kill simple_dentry_operations
devpts, sunrpc, hostfs: don't bother with ->d_op
shmem: no dentry retention past the refcount reaching zero
d_alloc_parallel(): set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP earlier
make d_set_d_op() static
simple_lookup(): just set DCACHE_DONTCACHE
tracefs: Add d_delete to remove negative dentries
set_default_d_op(): calculate the matching value for ->d_flags
correct the set of flags forbidden at d_set_d_op() time
split d_flags calculation out of d_set_d_op()
new helper: set_default_d_op()
fuse: no need for special dentry_operations for root dentry
switch procfs from d_set_d_op() to d_splice_alias_ops()
new helper: d_splice_alias_ops()
procfs: kill ->proc_dops
...
If swap_writeout() returns AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE (for example, because
zswap cannot compress and memcg disables writeback), there is no virtue in
keeping that folio in swap cache and holding the swap allocation:
shmem_writeout() switch it back to shmem page cache before returning.
Folio lock is held, and folio->memcg_data remains set throughout, so there
is no need to get into any memcg or memsw charge complications:
swap_free_nr() and delete_from_swap_cache() do as much as is needed (but
beware the race with shmem_free_swap() when inode truncated or evicted).
Doing the same for an anonymous folio is harder, since it will usually
have been unmapped, with references to the swap left in the page tables.
Adding a function to remap the folio would be fun, but not worthwhile
unless it has other uses, or an urgent bug with anon is demonstrated.
[hughd@google.com: use shmem_recalc_inode() rather than open coding, per Baolin]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/101a7d89-290c-545d-8a6d-b1174ed8b1e5@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c911f7a-af7a-5029-1dd4-2e00b66d565c@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
A flamegraph (from an MGLRU load) showed shmem_writeout()'s use of the
global shmem_swaplist_mutex worryingly hot: improvement is long overdue.
3.1 commit 6922c0c7ab ("tmpfs: convert shmem_writepage and enable swap")
apologized for extending shmem_swaplist_mutex across add_to_swap_cache(),
and hoped to find another way: yes, there may be lots of work to allocate
radix tree nodes in there. Then 6.15 commit b487a2da35 ("mm, swap:
simplify folio swap allocation") will have made it worse, by moving
shmem_writeout()'s swap allocation under that mutex too (but the worrying
flamegraph was observed even before that change).
There's a useful comment about pagelock no longer protecting from eviction
once moved to swap cache: but it's good till
shmem_delete_from_page_cache() replaces page pointer by swap entry, so
move the swaplist add between them.
We would much prefer to take the global lock once per inode than once per
page: given the possible races with shmem_unuse() pruning when !swapped
(and other tasks racing to swap other pages out or in), try the swaplist
add whenever swapped was incremented from 0 (but inode may already be on
the list - only unuse and evict bother to remove it).
This technique is more subtle than it looks (we're avoiding the very lock
which would make it easy), but works: whereas an unlocked list_empty()
check runs a risk of the inode being unqueued and left off the swaplist
forever, swapoff only completing when the page is faulted in or removed.
The need for a sleepable mutex went away in 5.1 commit b56a2d8af9 ("mm:
rid swapoff of quadratic complexity"): a spinlock works better now.
This commit is certain to take shmem_swaplist_mutex out of contention, and
has been seen to make a practical improvement (but there is likely to have
been an underlying issue which made its contention so visible).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87beaec6-a3b0-ce7a-c892-1e1e5bd57aa3@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Change the address_space_operations callbacks write_begin() and
write_end() to take struct kiocb * as the first argument instead of
struct file *.
Update all affected function prototypes, implementations, call sites,
and related documentation across VFS, filesystems, and block layer.
Part of a series refactoring address_space_operations write_begin and
write_end callbacks to use struct kiocb for passing write context and
flags.
Signed-off-by: Taotao Chen <chentaotao@didiglobal.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716093559.217344-4-chentaotao@didiglobal.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.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>
swap_writeout only needs the swap_iocb cookie from the writeback_control
structure, so pass it explicitly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610054959.2057526-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
shmem_writeout only needs the swap_iocb cookie and the split folio list.
Pass those explicitly and remove the now unused list member from struct
writeback_control.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610054959.2057526-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Now that we expose struct file_attr as our uapi struct rename all the
internal struct to struct file_kattr to clearly communicate that it is a
kernel internal struct. This is similar to struct mount_{k}attr and
others.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250703-restlaufzeit-baurecht-9ed44552b481@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Just set DCACHE_DONTCACHE in ->s_d_flags and be done with that.
Dentries there live for as long as they are pinned; once the
refcount hits zero, that's it. The same, of course, goes for
other tree-in-dcache filesystems - more in the next commits...
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... to be used instead of manually assigning to ->s_d_op.
All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed,
so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught
by compiler).
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sergey Senozhatsky adds infrastructure for passing algorithm-specific
parameters into zram. A single parameter `winbits' is implemented at
this time.
- The 5 patch series "memcg: nmi-safe kmem charging" from Shakeel Butt
makes memcg charging nmi-safe, which is required by BFP, which can
operate in NMI context.
- The 5 patch series "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem" from
Kemeng Shi implements small fixes and cleanups in the shmem code.
- The 2 patch series "Skip mm selftests instead when kernel features are
not present" from Zi Yan fixes some issues in the MM selftest code.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: build-enable essential DAMON components
by default" from SeongJae Park reworks DAMON Kconfig to make it easier
to enable CONFIG_DAMON.
- The 2 patch series "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task
migration" from Libo Chen adds more info into sysfs and procfs files to
improve visibility into the NUMA balancer's task migration activity.
- The 4 patch series "selftests/mm: cow and gup_longterm cleanups" from
Mark Brown provides various updates to some of the MM selftests to make
them play better with the overall containing framework.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters" from Sergey Senozhatsky
adds infrastructure for passing algorithm-specific parameters into
zram. A single parameter `winbits' is implemented at this time.
- "memcg: nmi-safe kmem charging" from Shakeel Butt makes memcg
charging nmi-safe, which is required by BFP, which can operate in NMI
context.
- "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem" from Kemeng Shi implements
small fixes and cleanups in the shmem code.
- "Skip mm selftests instead when kernel features are not present" from
Zi Yan fixes some issues in the MM selftest code.
- "mm/damon: build-enable essential DAMON components by default" from
SeongJae Park reworks DAMON Kconfig to make it easier to enable
CONFIG_DAMON.
- "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task migration" from Libo
Chen adds more info into sysfs and procfs files to improve visibility
into the NUMA balancer's task migration activity.
- "selftests/mm: cow and gup_longterm cleanups" from Mark Brown
provides various updates to some of the MM selftests to make them
play better with the overall containing framework.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (43 commits)
mm/khugepaged: clean up refcount check using folio_expected_ref_count()
selftests/mm: fix test result reporting in gup_longterm
selftests/mm: report unique test names for each cow test
selftests/mm: add helper for logging test start and results
selftests/mm: use standard ksft_finished() in cow and gup_longterm
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: skip testcases if CONFIG_DAMON_SYSFS is disabled
sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task
sched/numa: fix task swap by skipping kernel threads
tools/testing: check correct variable in open_procmap()
tools/testing/vma: add missing function stub
mm/gup: update comment explaining why gup_fast() disables IRQs
selftests/mm: two fixes for the pfnmap test
mm/khugepaged: fix race with folio split/free using temporary reference
mm: add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order
mmu_notifiers: remove leftover stub macros
selftests/mm: deduplicate test names in madv_populate
kcov: rust: add flags for KCOV with Rust
mm: rust: make CONFIG_MMU ifdefs more narrow
mmu_gather: move tlb flush for VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXEDMAP vmas into free_pgtables()
mm/damon/Kconfig: enable CONFIG_DAMON by default
...
As only value entry will be added to fbatch in shmem_find_swap_entries(),
there is no need to do xa_is_value() check in shmem_unuse_swap_entries().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-6-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Even if we fail to allocate a swap entry, the inode might have previously
allocated entry and we might take inode containing swap entry off
swaplist. As a result, try_to_unuse() may enter a potential dead loop to
repeatedly look for inode and clean it's swap entry. Only take inode off
swaplist when it's swapped page count is 0 to fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-5-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: b487a2da35 ("mm, swap: simplify folio swap allocation")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202505161438.9009cf47-lkp@intel.com
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If multi shmem_unuse() for different swap type is called concurrently, a
dead loop could occur as following:
shmem_unuse(typeA) shmem_unuse(typeB)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
list_for_each_entry_safe(info, next, ...)
...
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
/* info->swapped may drop to 0 */
shmem_unuse_inode(&info->vfs_inode, type)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
list_for_each_entry(info, next, ...)
if (!info->swapped)
list_del_init(&info->swaplist)
...
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
/* iterate with offlist entry and encounter a dead loop */
next = list_next_entry(info, swaplist);
...
Restart the iteration if the inode is already off shmem_swaplist list to
fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-4-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: b56a2d8af9 ("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We will miss shmem_unacct_size() when is_idmapped_mnt() returns a failure.
Move is_idmapped_mnt() before shmem_acct_size() to fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 7a80e5b8c6 ("shmem: support idmapped mounts for tmpfs")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem", v3.
This series contains some simple fixes and cleanup which are made during
learning shmem. More details can be found in respective patches.
This patch (of 5):
If we get a folio from swap_cache_get_folio() successfully but encounter a
failure before the folio is locked, we will unlock the folio which was not
previously locked.
Put the folio and set it to NULL when a failure occurs before the folio is
locked to fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-1-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 058313515d ("mm: shmem: fix potential data corruption during shmem swapin")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This will be the replacement for shmem_writepage().
Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402150005.2309458-6-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Uros Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.
This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
reported. In all cases the calling code was founf to be incorrect.
- The 4 patch series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong
implements some relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.
- The 17 patch series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)"
from David Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then
using device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now succeed.
- The 2 patch series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry
Ahmed remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been
deprecated for half a year and nobody has complained.
- The 5 patch series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from
Lorenzo Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No
runtime effects are anticipated.
- The 4 patch series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations
from process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in
the madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.
- The 12 patch series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code"
from Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
noticed when working on the swap code.
- The 2 patch series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak user-visible
output.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and
schemes handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
handling of large folios.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless
damos_walk() behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the
accuracy of kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.
- The 3 patch series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from
Lorenzo Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io
and core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is
preparatory work for the future removal of page structure fields.
- The 4 patch series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS
filter" from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering
by huge page sizes.
- The 4 patch series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem
mappings" from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
file-backed mappings.
- The 4 patch series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping for
pte-mapped large folios.
- The 18 patch series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from
Suren Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
microbenchmark.
- The 5 patch series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation
fixes and improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the
DAMON docs.
- The 27 patch series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from
Frank van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
when using CMA on large machines.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped
pages" from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
page's mapped/unmapped status.
- The 19 patch series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
operations preemptibly.
- The 12 patch series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run
them" from Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which
Brendan encountered while runnimg our selftests.
- The 2 patch series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap"
from Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
determine whether a particular page is a guard page.
- The 7 patch series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply wasn't
being effective.
- The 5 patch series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)"
from David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
code.
- The 5 patch series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman
Khandual implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the
GENERIC_PTDUMP Kconfig logic.
- The 8 patch series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from
SeongJae Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.
- The 5 patch series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some
issues in powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did
this in preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
vmalloc.
- The 2 patch series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the code
easier to follow.
- The 3 patch series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from
Shakeel Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase
which we accidentally added late last year.
- The 3 patch series "Add a command line option that enables control of
how many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
initialization.
- The 3 patch series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages()
for cgwb" from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
balancing code.
- The 9 patch series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters
useful and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow
and reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the
documention is updated accordingly.
- The 5 patch series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry
Ahmed updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits
the removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.
- The 6 patch series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang
does as it claims.
- The 20 patch series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts"
from Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
checks.
- The 4 patch series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes
is a preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.
- The 20 patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb)
+ CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
exclusively into a single MM.
- The 8 patch series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS
filters based on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of
new sysfs directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.
- The 13 patch series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()"
from Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.
- The 13 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
access to DAMON internal data.
- The 3 patch series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from
Luiz Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
cmdline options.
- The 8 patch series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split"
from Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios are
generated.
- The 2 patch series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split"
from Zi Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated
during an xarray split.
- The 2 patch series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.
- The 3 patch series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks
and totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to
the page allocator code.
- The 4 patch series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which SeongJae
observed during his earlier madvise work.
- The 3 patch series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure
handling" from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which
Shuai has observed in the memory-failure implementation.
- The 5 patch series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes
Weiner makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
fragmentation.
- The 5 patch series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from
Matthew Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of
memdescs.
- The 4 patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico
Pache introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon
drivers.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active
pages" from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
separately for file and anon pages.
- The 2 patch series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from
Hao Jia separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct
reclaim statistics.
- The 2 patch series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio"
from Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the
reclaim code.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.
This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.
- The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.
- The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
succeed.
- The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
for half a year and nobody has complained.
- The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
effects are anticipated.
- The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.
- The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
noticed when working on the swap code.
- The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
user-visible output.
- The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
handling of large folios.
- The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.
- The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
work for the future removal of page structure fields.
- The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
huge page sizes.
- The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
file-backed mappings.
- The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
for pte-mapped large folios.
- The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
microbenchmark.
- The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
docs.
- The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
when using CMA on large machines.
- The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
page's mapped/unmapped status.
- The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
operations preemptibly.
- The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
encountered while runnimg our selftests.
- The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
determine whether a particular page is a guard page.
- The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
wasn't being effective.
- The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
code.
- The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
Kconfig logic.
- The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.
- The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
vmalloc.
- The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
code easier to follow.
- The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
we accidentally added late last year.
- The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
initialization.
- The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
balancing code.
- The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
is updated accordingly.
- The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.
- The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
it claims.
- The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
checks.
- The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.
- The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
exclusively into a single MM.
- The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.
- The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.
- The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
access to DAMON internal data.
- The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
cmdline options.
- The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
are generated.
- The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
an xarray split.
- The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.
- The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
page allocator code.
- The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.
- The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
has observed in the memory-failure implementation.
- The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
fragmentation.
- The series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from Matthew
Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.
- The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.
- The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
separately for file and anon pages.
- The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
statistics.
- The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
code.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages > 2M
docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs async dir updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains cleanups that fell out of the work from async directory
handling:
- Change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return
a negative dentry. This simplifies the usability of these helpers
in various places
- Drop d_exact_alias() from the remaining place in NFS where it is
still used. This also allows us to drop the d_exact_alias() helper
completely
- Drop an unnecessary call to fh_update() from nfsd_create_locked()
- Change i_op->mkdir() to return a struct dentry
Change vfs_mkdir() to return a dentry provided by the filesystems
which is hashed and positive. This allows us to reduce the number
of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to very few
cases. The code in these places becomes simpler and easier to
understand.
- Repack DENTRY_* and LOOKUP_* flags"
* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
doc: fix inline emphasis warning
VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.
nfs: change mkdir inode_operation to return alternate dentry if needed.
fuse: return correct dentry for ->mkdir
ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir
hostfs: store inode in dentry after mkdir if possible.
Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked()
nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias()
VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()
VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry
VFS: repack LOOKUP_ bit flags.
VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.
Patch series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio".
Fix a bug during memory reclaim if folio is hwpoisoned.
This patch (of 2):
Introduce helper folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() to check if the entire
folio is hwpoisoned or it contains hwpoisoned pages.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318083939.987651-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318083939.987651-2-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger,kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
During shmem_split_large_entry(), large swap entries are covering n slots
and an order-0 folio needs to be inserted.
Instead of splitting all n slots, only the 1 slot covered by the folio
need to be split and the remaining n-1 shadow entries can be retained with
orders ranging from 0 to n-1. This method only requires
(n/XA_CHUNK_SHIFT) new xa_nodes instead of (n % XA_CHUNK_SHIFT) *
(n/XA_CHUNK_SHIFT) new xa_nodes, compared to the original
xas_split_alloc() + xas_split() one.
For example, to split an order-9 large swap entry (assuming XA_CHUNK_SHIFT
is 6), 1 xa_node is needed instead of 8.
xas_try_split_min_order() is used to reduce the number of calls to
xas_try_split() during split.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314222113.711703-3-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Mattew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The shmem_find_swap_entries() originally returned the index corresponding
to the swap entry, but no callers used this return value. It should
return the number of entries that were found like other functions, which
can be used by the callers.
No functional changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/070489b5946b8379b2a2d25f78115cef167cd145.1738918357.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Remove duplicate error code checks for 'start' and 'end', as the
get_order_from_str() will only return -EINVAL if the cmdline string is
configured incorrectly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dfadaba4c8b24c5ae1467fe8b6744b654c65ec91.1738918357.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
With slot cache gone, clean up the allocation helpers even more.
folio_alloc_swap will be the only entry for allocation and adding the
folio to swap cache (except suspend), making it opposite of
folio_free_swap.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313165935.63303-8-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The interweaving of two entirely different swap accounting strategies has
been one of the more confusing parts of the memcg code. Split out the v1
code to clarify the implementation and a handful of callsites, and to
avoid building the v1 bits when !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1.
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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250124054132.45643-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
or aren't considered necessary for -stable kernels.
26 are for MM and 7 are for non-MM.
- "mm: memory_failure: unmap poisoned folio during migrate properly"
from Ma Wupeng fixes a couple of two year old bugs involving the
migration of hwpoisoned folios.
- "selftests/damon: three fixes for false results" from SeongJae Park
fixes three one year old bugs in the SAMON selftest code.
The remainder are singletons and doubletons. Please see the individual
changelogs for details.
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Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-03-08-16-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"33 hotfixes. 24 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.13
issues or aren't considered necessary for -stable kernels.
26 are for MM and 7 are for non-MM.
- "mm: memory_failure: unmap poisoned folio during migrate properly"
from Ma Wupeng fixes a couple of two year old bugs involving the
migration of hwpoisoned folios.
- "selftests/damon: three fixes for false results" from SeongJae Park
fixes three one year old bugs in the SAMON selftest code.
The remainder are singletons and doubletons. Please see the individual
changelogs for details"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-03-08-16-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (33 commits)
mm/page_alloc: fix uninitialized variable
rapidio: add check for rio_add_net() in rio_scan_alloc_net()
rapidio: fix an API misues when rio_add_net() fails
MAINTAINERS: .mailmap: update Sumit Garg's email address
Revert "mm/page_alloc.c: don't show protection in zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone"
mm: fix finish_fault() handling for large folios
mm: don't skip arch_sync_kernel_mappings() in error paths
mm: shmem: remove unnecessary warning in shmem_writepage()
userfaultfd: fix PTE unmapping stack-allocated PTE copies
userfaultfd: do not block on locking a large folio with raised refcount
mm: zswap: use ATOMIC_LONG_INIT to initialize zswap_stored_pages
mm: shmem: fix potential data corruption during shmem swapin
mm: fix kernel BUG when userfaultfd_move encounters swapcache
selftests/damon/damon_nr_regions: sort collected regiosn before checking with min/max boundaries
selftests/damon/damon_nr_regions: set ops update for merge results check to 100ms
selftests/damon/damos_quota: make real expectation of quota exceeds
include/linux/log2.h: mark is_power_of_2() with __always_inline
NFS: fix nfs_release_folio() to not deadlock via kcompactd writeback
mm, swap: avoid BUG_ON in relocate_cluster()
mm: swap: use correct step in loop to wait all clusters in wait_for_allocation()
...
The fix to atomically read the pipe head and tail state when not holding
the pipe mutex has caused a number of headaches due to the size change
of the involved types.
It turns out that we don't have _that_ many places that access these
fields directly and were affected, but we have more than we strictly
should have, because our low-level helper functions have been designed
to have intimate knowledge of how the pipes work.
And as a result, that random noise of direct 'pipe->head' and
'pipe->tail' accesses makes it harder to pinpoint any actual potential
problem spots remaining.
For example, we didn't have a "is the pipe full" helper function, but
instead had a "given these pipe buffer indexes and this pipe size, is
the pipe full". That's because some low-level pipe code does actually
want that much more complicated interface.
But most other places literally just want a "is the pipe full" helper,
and not having it meant that those places ended up being unnecessarily
much too aware of this all.
It would have been much better if only the very core pipe code that
cared had been the one aware of this all.
So let's fix it - better late than never. This just introduces the
trivial wrappers for "is this pipe full or empty" and to get how many
pipe buffers are used, so that instead of writing
if (pipe_full(pipe->head, pipe->tail, pipe->max_usage))
the places that literally just want to know if a pipe is full can just
say
if (pipe_is_full(pipe))
instead. The existing trivial cases were converted with a 'sed' script.
This cuts down on the places that access pipe->head and pipe->tail
directly outside of the pipe code (and core splice code) quite a lot.
The splice code in particular still revels in doing the direct low-level
accesses, and the fuse fuse_dev_splice_write() code also seems a bit
unnecessarily eager to go very low-level, but it's at least a bit better
than it used to be.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Although the scenario where shmem_writepage() is called with info->flags &
VM_LOCKED is unlikely to happen, it's still possible, as evidenced by
syzbot [1]. However, the warning in this case isn't necessary because the
situation is already handled correctly [2].
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8afe1f7f-31a2-4fc0-1fbd-f9ba8a116fe3@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226-20250221-warning-in-shmem_writepage-v1-1-5ad19420e17e@igalia.com
Fixes: 9a976f0c84 ("shmem: skip page split if we're not reclaiming")
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cañuelo Navarro <rcn@igalia.com>
Reported-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZZ9PShXjKJkVelNm@xpf.sh.intel.com/ [1]
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Alex and Kairui reported some issues (system hang or data corruption) when
swapping out or swapping in large shmem folios. This is especially easy
to reproduce when the tmpfs is mount with the 'huge=within_size'
parameter. Thanks to Kairui's reproducer, the issue can be easily
replicated.
The root cause of the problem is that swap readahead may asynchronously
swap in order 0 folios into the swap cache, while the shmem mapping can
still store large swap entries. Then an order 0 folio is inserted into
the shmem mapping without splitting the large swap entry, which overwrites
the original large swap entry, leading to data corruption.
When getting a folio from the swap cache, we should split the large swap
entry stored in the shmem mapping if the orders do not match, to fix this
issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2fe47c557e74e9df5fe2437ccdc6c9115fa1bf70.1740476943.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 809bc86517 ("mm: shmem: support large folio swap out")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Reported-by: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1738717785.im3r5g2vxc.none@localhost/
Tested-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have
complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g. on a
different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir
request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir
request returns. For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the
directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the
original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at()
calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry
before the first mkdir returns.
This means that the dentry passed to ->mkdir() may not be the one that
is associated with the inode after the ->mkdir() completes. Some
callers need to interact with the inode after the ->mkdir completes and
they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the
dentry is no longer hashed.
This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to
avoid races. Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the
directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with
the mkdir.
To remove this barrier, this patch changes ->mkdir to return the
resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in.
Possible returns are:
NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used
ERR_PTR() - an error occurred
non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in
This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of
"err" or equivalent transformations. Subsequent patches will make
further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry.
Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry:
- NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of
the name to get inode information. Races could result in this
returning something different. Note that this lookup is
non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid. Placing the
lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem
has no other option.
- kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the ->revalidate
operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate
the dentry. This could be fixed but I don't think it is important
to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry.
The recommendation to use
d_drop();d_splice_alias()
is ugly but fits with current practice. A planned future patch will
change this.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.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
...
Linus Torvalds