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2023-02-24Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-12/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X bit. - Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset() thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition related to PMD unsharing. - Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes - Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()") which does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work. - SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series "mm/damon/core: implement damos filter". These filters provide users with finer-grained control over DAMOS's actions. SeongJae has also done some DAMON cleanup work. - Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap"). - Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple tree". - Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global reclaim. - David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups". - Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library function in the series "remove generic_writepages". - Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in his series "Some small improvements for compaction". - Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his series "Get rid of tail page fields". - David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series "mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with swap PTEs". - Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC". - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with his series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable". - Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of writeable+executable mappings. The previous BPF-based approach had shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel support for memory-deny-write-execute (MDWE)". - Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series "mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() & fix UAF". - T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series "mm: multi-gen LRU: improve". - Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a per-node basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error statistics". - Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage during compaction". - Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series "cleanup vfree and vunmap". - Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in ths series "remove ->rw_page". - We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()". - Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier functions". - Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's series "mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for FLATMEM" and "fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()" - Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and /proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series "mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas". - Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest of the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for GUP". - SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the series "mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface". - Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes and clean-ups" series. - Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing". - Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes". * tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (505 commits) include/linux/migrate.h: remove unneeded externs mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range() mm/uffd: fix comment in handling pte markers mm: change to return bool for isolate_movable_page() mm: hugetlb: change to return bool for isolate_hugetlb() mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page() mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru() objtool: add UACCESS exceptions for __tsan_volatile_read/write kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code kasan: mark addr_has_metadata __always_inline mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled() sh: initialize max_mapnr m68k/nommu: add missing definition of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size() maple_tree: reduce stack usage with gcc-9 and earlier mm: page_alloc: call panic() when memoryless node allocation fails mm: multi-gen LRU: avoid futile retries migrate_pages: move THP/hugetlb migration support check to simplify code migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB migrate_pages: share more code between _unmap and _move ...
2023-02-03mm: convert deferred_split_huge_page() to deferred_split_folio()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-3/+3
Now that both callers use a folio, pass the folio in and save a call to compound_head(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230111142915.1001531-28-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-03doc: clarify refcount section by referring to folios & pagesMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-9/+9
Include the rename of subpages_mapcount to _nr_pages_mapped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230111142915.1001531-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-02docs/mm: remove useless markupMike Rapoport (IBM)1-2/+0
It is enough to use a file name to cross-reference another rst document. Jon says: The right things will happen in the HTML output, readers of the plain-text will know immediately where to go, and we don't have to add the label clutter. Drop reference markup and unnecessary labels and use plain file names. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230201094156.991542-3-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-12-01mm,thp,rmap: subpages_mapcount COMPOUND_MAPPED if PMD-mappedHugh Dickins1-4/+3
Can the lock_compound_mapcount() bit_spin_lock apparatus be removed now? Yes. Not by atomic64_t or cmpxchg games, those get difficult on 32-bit; but if we slightly abuse subpages_mapcount by additionally demanding that one bit be set there when the compound page is PMD-mapped, then a cascade of two atomic ops is able to maintain the stats without bit_spin_lock. This is harder to reason about than when bit_spin_locked, but I believe safe; and no drift in stats detected when testing. When there are racing removes and adds, of course the sequence of operations is less well- defined; but each operation on subpages_mapcount is atomically good. What might be disastrous, is if subpages_mapcount could ever fleetingly appear negative: but the pte lock (or pmd lock) these rmap functions are called under, ensures that a last remove cannot race ahead of a first add. Continue to make an exception for hugetlb (PageHuge) pages, though that exception can be easily removed by a further commit if necessary: leave subpages_mapcount 0, don't bother with COMPOUND_MAPPED in its case, just carry on checking compound_mapcount too in folio_mapped(), page_mapped(). Evidence is that this way goes slightly faster than the previous implementation in all cases (pmds after ptes now taking around 103ms); and relieves us of worrying about contention on the bit_spin_lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3978f3ca-5473-55a7-4e14-efea5968d892@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-12-01mm,thp,rmap: subpages_mapcount of PTE-mapped subpagesHugh Dickins1-1/+2
Patch series "mm,thp,rmap: rework the use of subpages_mapcount", v2. This patch (of 3): Following suggestion from Linus, instead of counting every PTE map of a compound page in subpages_mapcount, just count how many of its subpages are PTE-mapped: this yields the exact number needed for NR_ANON_MAPPED and NR_FILE_MAPPED stats, without any need for a locked scan of subpages; and requires updating the count less often. This does then revert total_mapcount() and folio_mapcount() to needing a scan of subpages; but they are inherently racy, and need no locking, so Linus is right that the scans are much better done there. Plus (unlike in 6.1 and previous) subpages_mapcount lets us avoid the scan in the common case of no PTE maps. And page_mapped() and folio_mapped() remain scanless and just as efficient with the new meaning of subpages_mapcount: those are the functions which I most wanted to remove the scan from. The updated page_dup_compound_rmap() is no longer suitable for use by anon THP's __split_huge_pmd_locked(); but page_add_anon_rmap() can be used for that, so long as its VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked) is deleted. Evidence is that this way goes slightly faster than the previous implementation for most cases; but significantly faster in the (now scanless) pmds after ptes case, which started out at 870ms and was brought down to 495ms by the previous series, now takes around 105ms. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a5849eca-22f1-3517-bf29-95d982242742@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/eec17e16-4e1-7c59-f1bc-5bca90dac919@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-12-01mm,thp,rmap: lock_compound_mapcounts() on THP mapcountsHugh Dickins1-7/+9
Fix the races in maintaining compound_mapcount, subpages_mapcount and subpage _mapcount by using PG_locked in the first tail of any compound page for a bit_spin_lock() on such modifications; skipping the usual atomic operations on those fields in this case. Bring page_remove_file_rmap() and page_remove_anon_compound_rmap() back into page_remove_rmap() itself. Rearrange page_add_anon_rmap() and page_add_file_rmap() and page_remove_rmap() to follow the same "if (compound) {lock} else if (PageCompound) {lock} else {atomic}" pattern (with a PageTransHuge in the compound test, like before, to avoid BUG_ONs and optimize away that block when THP is not configured). Move all the stats updates outside, after the bit_spin_locked section, so that it is sure to be a leaf lock. Add page_dup_compound_rmap() to manage compound locking versus atomics in sync with the rest. In particular, hugetlb pages are still using the atomics: to avoid unnecessary interference there, and because they never have subpage mappings; but this exception can easily be changed. Conveniently, page_dup_compound_rmap() turns out to suit an anon THP's __split_huge_pmd_locked() too. bit_spin_lock() is not popular with PREEMPT_RT folks: but PREEMPT_RT sensibly excludes TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE already, so its only exposure is to the non-hugetlb non-THP pte-mapped compound pages (with large folios being currently dependent on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE). There is never any scan of subpages in this case; but we have chosen to use PageCompound tests rather than PageTransCompound tests to gate the use of lock_compound_mapcounts(), so that page_mapped() is correct on all compound pages, whether or not TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled: could that be a problem for PREEMPT_RT, when there is contention on the lock - under heavy concurrent forking for example? If so, then it can be turned into a sleeping lock (like folio_lock()) when PREEMPT_RT. A simple 100 X munmap(mmap(2GB, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, tmpfs), 2GB) took 18 seconds on small pages, and used to take 1 second on huge pages, but now takes 115 milliseconds on huge pages. Mapping by pmds a second time used to take 860ms and now takes 86ms; mapping by pmds after mapping by ptes (when the scan is needed) used to take 870ms and now takes 495ms. Mapping huge pages by ptes is largely unaffected but variable: between 5% faster and 5% slower in what I've recorded. Contention on the lock is likely to behave worse than contention on the atomics behaved. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1b42bd1a-8223-e827-602f-d466c2db7d3c@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-12-01mm,thp,rmap: simplify compound page mapcount handlingHugh Dickins1-18/+0
Compound page (folio) mapcount calculations have been different for anon and file (or shmem) THPs, and involved the obscure PageDoubleMap flag. And each huge mapping and unmapping of a file (or shmem) THP involved atomically incrementing and decrementing the mapcount of every subpage of that huge page, dirtying many struct page cachelines. Add subpages_mapcount field to the struct folio and first tail page, so that the total of subpage mapcounts is available in one place near the head: then page_mapcount() and total_mapcount() and page_mapped(), and their folio equivalents, are so quick that anon and file and hugetlb don't need to be optimized differently. Delete the unloved PageDoubleMap. page_add and page_remove rmap functions must now maintain the subpages_mapcount as well as the subpage _mapcount, when dealing with pte mappings of huge pages; and correct maintenance of NR_ANON_MAPPED and NR_FILE_MAPPED statistics still needs reading through the subpages, using nr_subpages_unmapped() - but only when first or last pmd mapping finds subpages_mapcount raised (double-map case, not the common case). But are those counts (used to decide when to split an anon THP, and in vmscan's pagecache_reclaimable heuristic) correctly maintained? Not quite: since page_remove_rmap() (and also split_huge_pmd()) is often called without page lock, there can be races when a subpage pte mapcount 0<->1 while compound pmd mapcount 0<->1 is scanning - races which the previous implementation had prevented. The statistics might become inaccurate, and even drift down until they underflow through 0. That is not good enough, but is better dealt with in a followup patch. Update a few comments on first and second tail page overlaid fields. hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() has to "increment" compound_mapcount, but subpages_mapcount and compound_pincount are already correctly at 0, so delete its reinitialization of compound_pincount. A simple 100 X munmap(mmap(2GB, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, tmpfs), 2GB) took 18 seconds on small pages, and used to take 1 second on huge pages, but now takes 119 milliseconds on huge pages. Mapping by pmds a second time used to take 860ms and now takes 92ms; mapping by pmds after mapping by ptes (when the scan is needed) used to take 870ms and now takes 495ms. But there might be some benchmarks which would show a slowdown, because tail struct pages now fall out of cache until final freeing checks them. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/47ad693-717-79c8-e1ba-46c3a6602e48@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-06-27docs: rename Documentation/vm to Documentation/mmMike Rapoport1-0/+187
so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>