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2023-11-03Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are included in this merge do the following: - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction' - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an implementation which Linus suggested - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i the following patch series: mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is unaccepted memory' - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab shrinking code - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink' - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups' - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion and unification' - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()' - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct manipulation of hugetlb page frames - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of gigantic pages are in use - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the series 'support large folio for mlock' - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and useful) under memcg v2 - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable) prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE without inheritance' - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing functions to use a folio' which does what it says - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment across exec() - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering: calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT' - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical information from previous scans - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates values' - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/<pid>/pagemap which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty state. This is mainly used by CRIU - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to this code - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible as a result - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some cleanups and folio conversions - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye to providing groundwork for future improvements - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes and improvements' which does those things - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series 'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages' - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise() and page faults - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups and an optimization to the core pagecache code - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the series 'hugetlb memcg accounting' - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()' - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps' - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings' - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations' - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition' - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning' - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page cpupid functions to folios' - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about kmemleak' - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series 'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately' - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some khugepaged folio conversions'" [ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/ with help from Qi Zheng. The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ] * tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits) mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs selftests: add a sanity check for zswap Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter() zswap: export compression failure stats Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets() ...
2023-11-02Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-9/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned, now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be maintained as an LTS kernel. - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall. * tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie() Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64 lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
2023-11-01Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling errorTom Yang1-1/+1
The "first" is spelled "fist". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231023095737.21823-1-yangqixiao@inspur.com Signed-off-by: Tom Yang <yangqixiao@inspur.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-12workqueue: doc: Fix function and sysfs path errorsWangJinchao1-2/+2
alloc_ordered_queue -> alloc_ordered_workqueue /sys/devices/virtual/WQ_NAME/ -> /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/WQ_NAME/ Signed-off-by: WangJinchao <wangjinchao@xfusion.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-09-11Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64Ard Biesheuvel1-3/+3
Drop or update mentions of IA64, as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-09-11arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architectureArd Biesheuvel1-6/+0
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some distro packages that are rarely used in practice. None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as 'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2 reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have dropped support years ago. While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64 could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case. There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64 but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64 be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead of keeping it supported is real. So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely. This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5], which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow once the kernel support is removed. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/ [2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html [3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/ [5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/ Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-09-04Merge tag 'printk-for-6.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Do not try to get the console lock when it is not need or useful in panic() - Replace the global console_suspended state by a per-console flag - Export symbols needed for dumping the raw printk buffer in panic() - Fix documentation of printf formats for integer types - Moved Sergey Senozhatsky to the reviewer role - Misc cleanups * tag 'printk-for-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: printk: export symbols for debug modules lib: test_scanf: Add explicit type cast to result initialization in test_number_prefix() printk: ringbuffer: Fix truncating buffer size min_t cast printk: Rename abandon_console_lock_in_panic() to other_cpu_in_panic() printk: Add per-console suspended state printk: Consolidate console deferred printing printk: Do not take console lock for console_flush_on_panic() printk: Keep non-panic-CPUs out of console lock printk: Reduce console_unblank() usage in unsafe scenarios kdb: Do not assume write() callback available docs: printk-formats: Treat char as always unsigned docs: printk-formats: Fix hex printing of signed values MAINTAINERS: adjust printk/vsprintf entries
2023-09-02Merge tag 'wq-for-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds1-19/+337
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: - Unbound workqueues now support more flexible affinity scopes. The default behavior is to soft-affine according to last level cache boundaries. A work item queued from a given LLC is executed by a worker running on the same LLC but the worker may be moved across cache boundaries as the scheduler sees fit. On machines which multiple L3 caches, which are becoming more popular along with chiplet designs, this improves cache locality while not harming work conservation too much. Unbound workqueues are now also a lot more flexible in terms of execution affinity. Differeing levels of affinity scopes are supported and both the default and per-workqueue affinity settings can be modified dynamically. This should help working around amny of sub-optimal behaviors observed recently with asymmetric ARM CPUs. This involved signficant restructuring of workqueue code. Nothing was reported yet but there's some risk of subtle regressions. Should keep an eye out. - Rescuer workers now has more identifiable comms. - workqueue.unbound_cpus added so that CPUs which can be used by workqueue can be constrained early during boot. - Now that all the in-tree users have been flushed out, trigger warning if system-wide workqueues are flushed. * tag 'wq-for-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (31 commits) workqueue: fix data race with the pwq->stats[] increment workqueue: Rename rescuer kworker workqueue: Make default affinity_scope dynamically updatable workqueue: Add "Affinity Scopes and Performance" section to documentation workqueue: Implement non-strict affinity scope for unbound workqueues workqueue: Add workqueue_attrs->__pod_cpumask workqueue: Factor out need_more_worker() check and worker wake-up workqueue: Factor out work to worker assignment and collision handling workqueue: Add multiple affinity scopes and interface to select them workqueue: Modularize wq_pod_type initialization workqueue: Add tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py which prints out workqueue configuration workqueue: Generalize unbound CPU pods workqueue: Factor out clearing of workqueue-only attrs fields workqueue: Factor out actual cpumask calculation to reduce subtlety in wq_update_pod() workqueue: Initialize unbound CPU pods later in the boot workqueue: Move wq_pod_init() below workqueue_init() workqueue: Rename NUMA related names to use pod instead workqueue: Rename workqueue_attrs->no_numa to ->ordered workqueue: Make unbound workqueues to use per-cpu pool_workqueues workqueue: Call wq_update_unbound_numa() on all CPUs in NUMA node on CPU hotplug ...
2023-08-31Merge tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes: - Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there - Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/ - Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub ... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes" * tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits) Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add() Documentation: Fix typos Documentation/ABI: Fix typos scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN] Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function doc: update params of memhp_default_state= docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines docs: move mips under arch docs: move loongarch under arch ...
2023-08-30Merge tag 'sound-6.6-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound Pull sound updates from Takashi Iwai: "We've received a fairly wide range of changes at this time, including for ALSA and ASoC core, but all of them are rather small changes. Here are some highlights: ALSA / ASoC Core: - Fixes of inconsistent locking around control API helpers - A few new control API functions and cleanups - Workarounds for potential UAFs by delayed kobj releases - Unified PCM copy ops with iov_iter - Continued efforts for ASoC API cleanups ASoC: - An adaptor to allow use of IIO DACs and ADCs in ASoC which pulls in some IIO changes - Create a library function for intlog10() and use it in the NAU8825 driver - Convert drivers to use the more modern maple tree register cache - Lots of work on the SOF framework, AMD and Intel drivers, including a lot of cleanup and new device support - Standardization of the presentation of jacks from drivers - Provision of some generic sound card DT properties - Support for AMD Van Gogh, AMD machines with MAX98388 and NAU8821, AWInic AW88261, Cirrus Logic CS35L36 and CS42L43, various Intel platforms including AVS machines with ES8336 and RT5663, Mediatek MT7986, NXP i.MX93, RealTek RT1017 and StarFive JH7110 Others: - New test coverage including ASoC and topology tests in KUnit; this also involves enabling UML builds of ALSA since that's the default KUnit test environment which pulls in the addition of some stubs to the driver - More enhancement of pcmtest driver - A few fixes / enhancements of MIDI 2.0 UMP core - Using PCI definitions in allover HD-audio code - Support for Cirrus CS35L56 and TI TAS2781 HD-audio sub-codecs - CS35L41 HD-audio sub-codec improvements - Continued emu10k1 improvements" * tag 'sound-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (693 commits) ALSA: pcm: Fix missing fixup call in compat hw_refine ioctl ASoC: dwc: i2s: Fix unused functions ALSA: usb-audio: Don't try to submit URBs after disconnection ALSA: emu10k1: add separate documentation for E-MU cards ALSA: emu10k1: more documentation updates ALSA: emu10k1: de-duplicate audigy-mixer.rst vs. sb-live-mixer.rst ALSA: ump: Fix -Wformat-truncation warnings ALSA: hda: Add missing dependency on CONFIG_EFI for Cirrus/TI sub-codecs ALSA: doc: Fix missing backquote in midi-2.0.rst ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for mute LEDs on HP ENVY x360 15-eu0xxx ALSA: hda/tas2781: Switch back to use struct i2c_driver's .probe() ASoC: soc-core.c: Do not error if a DAI link component is not found ASoC: codecs: Fix error code in aw88261_i2c_probe() ASoC: audio-graph-card.c: move audio_graph_parse_of() ASoC: cs42l43: Use new-style PM runtime macros ALSA: documentation: Add description for USB MIDI 2.0 gadget driver ALSA: ump: Don't create unused substreams for static blocks ALSA: ump: Fill group names for legacy rawmidi substreams ALSA: usb-audio: Attach legacy rawmidi after probing all UMP EPs ALSA: ac97: Fix possible error value of *rac97 ...
2023-08-30Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+18
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options") - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a couple of macros to args.h") - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper commands") - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions") - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot un/plug") - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits) document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread() drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array x86/crash: optimize CPU changes crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu() crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug kstrtox: consistently use _tolower() kill do_each_thread() nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED lockdep: fix static memory detection even more lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition ...
2023-08-30Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-28/+52
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages. - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path of mas_store()"). - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements"). - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program"). - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages"). - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED"). - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache"). - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with UFFD"). - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge() check"). - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup"). - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU"). - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages"). - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check"). - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a folio"). - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext"). - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way"). - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration"). - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree"). - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation, from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission upgrade"). - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes for arm64"). - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code ("Two minor cleanups for compaction"). - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle most file-backed faults under the VMA lock"). - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap optimization for ppc64"). - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header"). - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three cleanups"). - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan"). - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to vma_is_initial_heap/stack()"). - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets"). - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction"). - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy"). - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely ("cleanup with helper macro K()"). - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for memmap on memory feature on ppc64"). - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock migratetype"). - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking, "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page"). - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups for vm.memfd_noexec"). - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h"). - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text output"). - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized"). - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor and _folio_order"). - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults"). - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table range API"). - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups"). - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault"). - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation"). * tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits) maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append() secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem() nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize() mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files. mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps() mm: remove enum page_entry_size mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h mm: remove checks for pte_index memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry() mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0 selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check ...
2023-08-29Merge tag 'net-next-6.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core: - Increase size limits for to-be-sent skb frag allocations. This allows tun, tap devices and packet sockets to better cope with large writes operations - Store netdevs in an xarray, to simplify iterating over netdevs - Refactor nexthop selection for multipath routes - Improve sched class lifetime handling - Add backup nexthop ID support for bridge - Implement drop reasons support in openvswitch - Several data races annotations and fixes - Constify the sk parameter of routing functions - Prepend kernel version to netconsole message Protocols: - Implement support for TCP probing the peer being under memory pressure - Remove hard coded limitation on IPv6 specific info placement inside the socket struct - Get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale and use an auto-estimated per socket scaling factor - Scaling-up the IPv6 expired route GC via a separated list of expiring routes - In-kernel support for the TLS alert protocol - Better support for UDP reuseport with connected sockets - Add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X behavior, reducing the SR header size - Get rid of additional ancillary per MPTCP connection struct socket - Implement support for BPF-based MPTCP packet schedulers - Format MPTCP subtests selftests results in TAP - Several new SMC 2.1 features including unique experimental options, max connections per lgr negotiation, max links per lgr negotiation BPF: - Multi-buffer support in AF_XDP - Add multi uprobe BPF links for attaching multiple uprobes and usdt probes, which is significantly faster and saves extra fds - Implement an fd-based tc BPF attach API (TCX) and BPF link support on top of it - Add SO_REUSEPORT support for TC bpf_sk_assign - Support new instructions from cpu v4 to simplify the generated code and feature completeness, for x86, arm64, riscv64 - Support defragmenting IPv(4|6) packets in BPF - Teach verifier actual bounds of bpf_get_smp_processor_id() and fix perf+libbpf issue related to custom section handling - Introduce bpf map element count and enable it for all program types - Add a BPF hook in sys_socket() to change the protocol ID from IPPROTO_TCP to IPPROTO_MPTCP to cover migration for legacy - Introduce bpf_me_mcache_free_rcu() and fix OOM under stress - Add uprobe support for the bpf_get_func_ip helper - Check skb ownership against full socket - Support for up to 12 arguments in BPF trampoline - Extend link_info for kprobe_multi and perf_event links Netfilter: - Speed-up process exit by aborting ruleset validation if a fatal signal is pending - Allow NLA_POLICY_MASK to be used with BE16/BE32 types Driver API: - Page pool optimizations, to improve data locality and cache usage - Introduce ndo_hwtstamp_get() and ndo_hwtstamp_set() to avoid the need for raw ioctl() handling in drivers - Simplify genetlink dump operations (doit/dumpit) providing them the common information already populated in struct genl_info - Extend and use the yaml devlink specs to [re]generate the split ops - Introduce devlink selective dumps, to allow SF filtering SF based on handle and other attributes - Add yaml netlink spec for netlink-raw families, allow route, link and address related queries via the ynl tool - Remove phylink legacy mode support - Support offload LED blinking to phy - Add devlink port function attributes for IPsec New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - Broadcom ASP 2.0 (72165) ethernet controller - MediaTek MT7988 SoC - Texas Instruments AM654 SoC - Texas Instruments IEP driver - Atheros qca8081 phy - Marvell 88Q2110 phy - NXP TJA1120 phy - WiFi: - MediaTek mt7981 support - Can: - Kvaser SmartFusion2 PCI Express devices - Allwinner T113 controllers - Texas Instruments tcan4552/4553 chips - Bluetooth: - Intel Gale Peak - Qualcomm WCN3988 and WCN7850 - NXP AW693 and IW624 - Mediatek MT2925 Drivers: - Ethernet NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - mlx5: - support UDP encapsulation in packet offload mode - IPsec packet offload support in eswitch mode - improve aRFS observability by adding new set of counters - extends MACsec offload support to cover RoCE traffic - dynamic completion EQs - mlx4: - convert to use auxiliary bus instead of custom interface logic - Intel - ice: - implement switchdev bridge offload, even for LAG interfaces - implement SRIOV support for LAG interfaces - igc: - add support for multiple in-flight TX timestamps - Broadcom: - bnxt: - use the unified RX page pool buffers for XDP and non-XDP - use the NAPI skb allocation cache - OcteonTX2: - support Round Robin scheduling HTB offload - TC flower offload support for SPI field - Freescale: - add XDP_TX feature support - AMD: - ionic: add support for PCI FLR event - sfc: - basic conntrack offload - introduce eth, ipv4 and ipv6 pedit offloads - ST Microelectronics: - stmmac: maximze PTP timestamping resolution - Virtual NICs: - Microsoft vNIC: - batch ringing RX queue doorbell on receiving packets - add page pool for RX buffers - Virtio vNIC: - add per queue interrupt coalescing support - Google vNIC: - add queue-page-list mode support - Ethernet high-speed switches: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw): - add port range matching tc-flower offload - permit enslavement to netdevices with uppers - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - convert to phylink_pcs - Renesas: - r8A779fx: add speed change support - rzn1: enables vlan support - Ethernet PHYs: - convert mv88e6xxx to phylink_pcs - WiFi: - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 (ath12k): - extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY support - RealTek (rtl8xxxu): - enable AP mode for: RTL8192FU, RTL8710BU (RTL8188GU), RTL8192EU and RTL8723BU - RealTek (rtw89): - Introduce Time Averaged SAR (TAS) support - Connector: - support for event filtering" * tag 'net-next-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1806 commits) net: ethernet: mtk_wed: minor change in wed_{tx,rx}info_show net: ethernet: mtk_wed: add some more info in wed_txinfo_show handler net: stmmac: clarify difference between "interface" and "phy_interface" r8152: add vendor/device ID pair for D-Link DUB-E250 devlink: move devlink_notify_register/unregister() to dev.c devlink: move small_ops definition into netlink.c devlink: move tracepoint definitions into core.c devlink: push linecard related code into separate file devlink: push rate related code into separate file devlink: push trap related code into separate file devlink: use tracepoint_enabled() helper devlink: push region related code into separate file devlink: push param related code into separate file devlink: push resource related code into separate file devlink: push dpipe related code into separate file devlink: move and rename devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb() helper devlink: push shared buffer related code into separate file devlink: push port related code into separate file devlink: push object register/unregister notifications into separate helpers inet: fix IP_TRANSPARENT error handling ...
2023-08-28Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-examplePhilipp Stanner1-1/+1
A code example was missing the pointer to dereference a variable. Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230824110109.18844-1-pstanner@redhat.com
2023-08-28doc/netlink: Update genetlink-legacy documentationDonald Hunter1-4/+5
Add documentation for recently added genetlink-legacy schema attributes. Remove statements about 'work in progress' and 'todo'. Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825122756.7603-4-donald.hunter@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2023-08-25crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributesEric DeVolder1-0/+18
Introduce the crash_hotplug attribute for memory and CPUs for use by userspace. These attributes directly facilitate the udev rule for managing userspace re-loading of the crash kernel upon hot un/plug changes. For memory, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the /sys/devices/system/memory directory. For example: # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/memory/memory81 looking at device '/devices/system/memory/memory81': KERNEL=="memory81" SUBSYSTEM=="memory" DRIVER=="" ATTR{online}=="1" ATTR{phys_device}=="0" ATTR{phys_index}=="00000051" ATTR{removable}=="1" ATTR{state}=="online" ATTR{valid_zones}=="Movable" looking at parent device '/devices/system/memory': KERNELS=="memory" SUBSYSTEMS=="" DRIVERS=="" ATTRS{auto_online_blocks}=="offline" ATTRS{block_size_bytes}=="8000000" ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1" For CPUs, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the /sys/devices/system/cpu directory. For example: # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 looking at device '/devices/system/cpu/cpu0': KERNEL=="cpu0" SUBSYSTEM=="cpu" DRIVER=="processor" ATTR{crash_notes}=="277c38600" ATTR{crash_notes_size}=="368" ATTR{online}=="1" looking at parent device '/devices/system/cpu': KERNELS=="cpu" SUBSYSTEMS=="" DRIVERS=="" ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1" ATTRS{isolated}=="" ATTRS{kernel_max}=="8191" ATTRS{nohz_full}==" (null)" ATTRS{offline}=="4-7" ATTRS{online}=="0-3" ATTRS{possible}=="0-7" ATTRS{present}=="0-3" With these sysfs attributes in place, it is possible to efficiently instruct the udev rule to skip crash kernel reloading for kernels configured with crash hotplug support. For example, the following is the proposed udev rule change for RHEL system 98-kexec.rules (as the first lines of the rule file): # The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" When examined in the context of 98-kexec.rules, the above rules test if crash_hotplug is set, and if so, the userspace initiated unload-then-reload of the crash kernel is skipped. CPU and memory checks are separated in accordance with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG kernel config options. If an architecture supports, for example, memory hotplug but not CPU hotplug, then the /sys/devices/system/memory/crash_hotplug attribute file is present, but the /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug attribute file will NOT be present. Thus the udev rule skips userspace processing of memory hot un/plug events, but the udev rule will evaluate false for CPU events, thus allowing userspace to process CPU hot un/plug events (ie the unload-then-reload of the kdump capture kernel). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-5-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-25mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-0/+25
There are many files in mm/ that contain kernel-doc which is not currently published on kernel.org. Some of it is easily categorisable, but most of it is going into the miscellaneous documentation section to be organised later. Some files aren't ready to be included; they contain documentation with build errors. Or they're nommu.c which duplicates documentation from "real" MMU systems. Those files are noted with a # mark (although really anything which isn't a recognised directive would do to prevent inclusion) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230818200630.2719595-5-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-25mm: remove ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_FOLIOMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-15/+9
Current best practice is to reuse the name of the function as a define to indicate that the function is implemented by the architecture. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-6-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-25mm: add generic flush_icache_pages() and documentationMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-17/+22
flush_icache_page() is deprecated but not yet removed, so add a range version of it. Change the documentation to refer to update_mmu_cache_range() instead of update_mmu_cache(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-08Documentation: core-api/cpuhotplug: Fix state namesAnna-Maria Behnsen1-5/+5
Dynamic allocated hotplug states in documentation and the comment above cpuhp_state enum do not match the code. To not get confused by wrong documentation, change to proper state names. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515162038.62703-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de
2023-08-08workqueue: Make default affinity_scope dynamically updatableTejun Heo1-1/+8
While workqueue.default_affinity_scope is writable, it only affects workqueues which are created afterwards and isn't very useful. Instead, let's introduce explicit "default" scope and update the effective scope dynamically when workqueue.default_affinity_scope is changed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-08-08workqueue: Add "Affinity Scopes and Performance" section to documentationTejun Heo1-5/+179
With affinity scopes and their strictness setting added, unbound workqueues should now be able to cover wide variety of configurations and use cases. Unfortunately, the performance picture is not entirely straight-forward due to a trade-off between efficiency and work-conservation in some situations necessitating manual configuration. This patch adds "Affinity Scopes and Performance" section to Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst which illustrates the trade-off with a set of experiments and provides some guidelines. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-08-08workqueue: Implement non-strict affinity scope for unbound workqueuesTejun Heo1-7/+23
An unbound workqueue can be served by multiple worker_pools to improve locality. The segmentation is achieved by grouping CPUs into pods. By default, the cache boundaries according to cpus_share_cache() define the CPUs are grouped. Let's a workqueue is allowed to run on all CPUs and the system has two L3 caches. The workqueue would be mapped to two worker_pools each serving one L3 cache domains. While this improves locality, because the pod boundaries are strict, it limits the total bandwidth a given issuer can consume. For example, let's say there is a thread pinned to a CPU issuing enough work items to saturate the whole machine. With the machine segmented into two pods, no matter how many work items it issues, it can only use half of the CPUs on the system. While this limitation has existed for a very long time, it wasn't very pronounced because the affinity grouping used to be always by NUMA nodes. With cache boundaries as the default and support for even finer grained scopes (smt and cpu), it is now an a lot more pressing problem. This patch implements non-strict affinity scope where the pod boundaries aren't enforced strictly. Going back to the previous example, the workqueue would still be mapped to two worker_pools; however, the affinity enforcement would be soft. The workers in both pools would have their cpus_allowed set to the whole machine thus allowing the scheduler to migrate them anywhere on the machine. However, whenever an idle worker is woken up, the workqueue code asks the scheduler to bring back the task within the pod if the worker is outside. ie. work items start executing within its affinity scope but can be migrated outside as the scheduler sees fit. This removes the hard cap on utilization while maintaining the benefits of affinity scopes. After the earlier ->__pod_cpumask changes, the implementation is pretty simple. When non-strict which is the new default: * pool_allowed_cpus() returns @pool->attrs->cpumask instead of ->__pod_cpumask so that the workers are allowed to run on any CPU that the associated workqueues allow. * If the idle worker task's ->wake_cpu is outside the pod, kick_pool() sets the field to a CPU within the pod. This would be the first use of task_struct->wake_cpu outside scheduler proper, so it isn't clear whether this would be acceptable. However, other methods of migrating tasks are significantly more expensive and are likely prohibitively so if we want to do this on every work item. This needs discussion with scheduler folks. There is also a race window where setting ->wake_cpu wouldn't be effective as the target task is still on CPU. However, the window is pretty small and this being a best-effort optimization, it doesn't seem to warrant more complexity at the moment. While the non-strict cache affinity scopes seem to be the best option, the performance picture interacts with the affinity scope and is a bit complicated to fully discuss in this patch, so the behavior is made easily selectable through wqattrs and sysfs and the next patch will add documentation to discuss performance implications. v2: pool->attrs->affn_strict is set to true for per-cpu worker_pools. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-08workqueue: Add multiple affinity scopes and interface to select themTejun Heo1-0/+63
Add three more affinity scopes - WQ_AFFN_CPU, SMT and CACHE - and make CACHE the default. The code changes to actually add the additional scopes are trivial. Also add module parameter "workqueue.default_affinity_scope" to override the default scope and "affinity_scope" sysfs file to configure it per workqueue. wq_dump.py and documentations are updated accordingly. This enables significant flexibility in configuring how unbound workqueues behave. If affinity scope is set to "cpu", it'll behave close to a per-cpu workqueue. On the other hand, "system" removes all locality boundaries. Many modern machines have multiple L3 caches often while being mostly uniform in terms of memory access. Thus, workqueue's previous behavior of spreading work items in each NUMA node had negative performance implications from unncessarily crossing L3 boundaries between issue and execution. However, picking a finer grained affinity scope also has a downside in that an issuer in one group can't utilize CPUs in other groups. While dependent on the specifics of workload, there's usually a noticeable penalty in crossing L3 boundaries, so let's default to CACHE. This issue will be further addressed and documented with examples in future patches. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-08-08workqueue: Add tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py which prints out workqueue ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+59
configuration Lack of visibility has always been a pain point for workqueues. While the recently added wq_monitor.py improved the situation, it's still difficult to understand what worker pools are active in the system, how workqueues map to them and why. The lack of visibility into how workqueues are configured is going to become more noticeable as workqueue improves locality awareness and provides more mechanisms to customize locality related behaviors. Now that the basic framework for more flexible locality support is in place, this is a good time to improve the situation. This patch adds tools/workqueues/wq_dump.py which prints out the topology configuration, worker pools and how workqueues are mapped to pools. Read the command's help message for more details. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-08-08workqueue: Make unbound workqueues to use per-cpu pool_workqueuesTejun Heo1-11/+10
A pwq (pool_workqueue) represents an association between a workqueue and a worker_pool. When a work item is queued, the workqueue selects the pwq to use, which in turn determines the pool, and queues the work item to the pool through the pwq. pwq is also what implements the maximum concurrency limit - @max_active. As a per-cpu workqueue should be assocaited with a different worker_pool on each CPU, it always had per-cpu pwq's that are accessed through wq->cpu_pwq. However, unbound workqueues were sharing a pwq within each NUMA node by default. The sharing has several downsides: * Because @max_active is per-pwq, the meaning of @max_active changes depending on the machine configuration and whether workqueue NUMA locality support is enabled. * Makes per-cpu and unbound code deviate. * Gets in the way of making workqueue CPU locality awareness more flexible. This patch makes unbound workqueues use per-cpu pwq's the same way per-cpu workqueues do by making the following changes: * wq->numa_pwq_tbl[] is removed and unbound workqueues now use wq->cpu_pwq just like per-cpu workqueues. wq->cpu_pwq is now RCU protected for unbound workqueues. * numa_pwq_tbl_install() is renamed to install_unbound_pwq() and installs the specified pwq to the target CPU's wq->cpu_pwq. * apply_wqattrs_prepare() now always allocates a separate pwq for each CPU unless the workqueue is ordered. If ordered, all CPUs use wq->dfl_pwq. This makes the return value of wq_calc_node_cpumask() unnecessary. It now returns void. * @max_active now means the same thing for both per-cpu and unbound workqueues. WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE now equals WQ_MAX_ACTIVE and documentation is updated accordingly. WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE is no longer used in workqueue implementation and will be removed later. * All unbound pwq operations which used to be per-numa-node are now per-cpu. For most unbound workqueue users, this shouldn't cause noticeable changes. Work item issue and completion will be a small bit faster, flush_workqueue() would become a bit more expensive, and the total concurrency limit would likely become higher. All @max_active==1 use cases are currently being audited for conversion into alloc_ordered_workqueue() and they shouldn't be affected once the audit and conversion is complete. One area where the behavior change may be more noticeable is workqueue_congested() as the reported congestion state is now per CPU instead of NUMA node. There are only two users of this interface - drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1 and net/smc. Maintainers of both subsystems are cc'd. Inputs on the behavior change would be very much appreciated. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Karsten Graul <kgraul@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Karcher <jaka@linux.ibm.com>
2023-07-25Documentation: core-api: Drop :export: for int_log.hAndy Shevchenko1-1/+0
The :export: keyword makes sense only for C-files, where EXPORT_SYMBOL() might appear. Otherwise kernel-doc may not produce anything out of this file. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Fixes: f97fa3dcb2db ("lib/math: Move dvb_math.c into lib/math/int_log.c") Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230725104956.47806-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2023-07-18docs: printk-formats: Treat char as always unsignedAndy Shevchenko1-1/+2
The Linux kernel switched to have char be equivalent to usigned char. Reflect this in the printk specifiers. Fixes: 3bc753c06dd0 ("kbuild: treat char as always unsigned") Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230703145839.14248-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
2023-07-18docs: printk-formats: Fix hex printing of signed valuesAndy Shevchenko1-4/+4
The commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]") obviously missed the point of sign promotion for the signed values lesser than int. In such case %x prints not the same as %h[h]x. Restore back those specifiers for the signed hex cases. Fixes: cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]") Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230703145839.14248-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
2023-07-10lib/math: Move dvb_math.c into lib/math/int_log.cAndy Shevchenko1-2/+5
Some existing and new users may benefit from the intlog2() and intlog10() APIs, make them wide available. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230619172019.21457-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230703135211.87416-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2023-06-28Merge tag 'wq-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds1-0/+32
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: - Concurrency-managed per-cpu work items that hog CPUs and delay the execution of other work items are now automatically detected and excluded from concurrency management. Reporting on such work items can also be enabled through a config option. - Added tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py which improves visibility into workqueue usages and behaviors. - Arnd's minimal fix for gcc-13 enum warning on 32bit compiles, superseded by commit afa4bb778e48 in mainline. * tag 'wq-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: Disable per-cpu CPU hog detection when wq_cpu_intensive_thresh_us is 0 workqueue: Fix WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers in worker_enter_idle() workqueue: fix enum type for gcc-13 workqueue: Track and monitor per-workqueue CPU time usage workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE workqueue: Improve locking rule description for worker fields workqueue: Move worker_set/clr_flags() upwards workqueue: Re-order struct worker fields workqueue: Add pwq->stats[] and a monitoring script Further upgrade queue_work_on() comment
2023-06-28Merge tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: - Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double() The cmpxchg128() family of functions is basically & functionally the same as cmpxchg_double(), but with a saner interface. Instead of a 6-parameter horror that forced u128 - u64/u64-halves layout details on the interface and exposed users to complexity, fragility & bugs, use a natural 3-parameter interface with u128 types. - Restructure the generated atomic headers, and add kerneldoc comments for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t operations. The generated definitions are much cleaner now, and come with documentation. - Implement lock_set_cmp_fn() on lockdep, for defining an ordering when taking multiple locks of the same type. This gets rid of one use of lockdep_set_novalidate_class() in the bcache code. - Fix raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg() bug due to an unintended variable shadowing generating garbage code on Clang on certain ARM builds. * tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits) locking/atomic: scripts: fix ${atomic}_dec_if_positive() kerneldoc percpu: Fix self-assignment of __old in raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg() locking/atomic: treewide: delete arch_atomic_*() kerneldoc locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API documentation locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments docs: scripts: kernel-doc: accept bitwise negation like ~@var locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic*() definitions locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic_long*() definitions locking/atomic: scripts: split pfx/name/sfx/order locking/atomic: scripts: restructure fallback ifdeffery locking/atomic: scripts: build raw_atomic_long*() directly locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_<op>() locking/atomic: scripts: add trivial raw_atomic*_<op>() locking/atomic: scripts: factor out order template generation locking/atomic: scripts: remove leftover "${mult}" locking/atomic: scripts: remove bogus order parameter locking/atomic: xtensa: add preprocessor symbols locking/atomic: x86: add preprocessor symbols locking/atomic: sparc: add preprocessor symbols locking/atomic: sh: add preprocessor symbols ...
2023-06-27Merge tag 'docs-6.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-0/+6
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively calm cycle in docsland. We do have: - Some initial page-table documentation from Linus (the other Linus) - Regression-handling documentation improvements from Thorsten - Addition of kerneldoc documentation for the ERR_PTR() and related macros from James Seo ... and the usual collection of fixes and updates" * tag 'docs-6.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: consolidate storage interfaces Documentation: update git configuration for Link: tag Documentation: KVM: make corrections to vcpu-requests.rst Documentation: KVM: make corrections to ppc-pv.rst Documentation: KVM: make corrections to locking.rst Documentation: KVM: make corrections to halt-polling.rst Documentation: virt: correct location of haltpoll module params Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation docs: crypto: async-tx-api: fix typo in struct name docs/doc-guide: Clarify how to write tables docs: handling-regressions: rework section about fixing procedures docs: process: fix a typoed cross-reference docs: submitting-patches: Discuss interleaved replies MAINTAINERS: direct process doc changes to a dedicated ML Documentation: core-api: Add error pointer functions to kernel-api err.h: Add missing kerneldocs for error pointer functions Documentation: conf.py: Add __force to c_id_attributes docs: clarify KVM related kernel parameters' descriptions docs: consolidate human interface subsystems docs: admin-guide: Add information about intel_pstate active mode
2023-06-27Merge tag 'rcu.2023.06.22a' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney: "Documentation updates Miscellaneous fixes, perhaps most notably: - Remove RCU_NONIDLE(). The new visibility of most of the idle loop to RCU has obsoleted this API. - Make the RCU_SOFTIRQ callback-invocation time limit also apply to the rcuc kthreads that invoke callbacks for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. - Add a jiffies-based callback-invocation time limit to handle long-running callbacks. (The local_clock() function is only invoked once per 32 callbacks due to its high overhead.) - Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs, which fixes a bug that can occur on systems with non-contiguous CPU numbering. kvfree_rcu updates: - Eliminate the single-argument variant of k[v]free_rcu() now that all uses have been converted to k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep(). - Add WARN_ON_ONCE() checks for k[v]free_rcu*() freeing callbacks too soon. Yes, this is closing the barn door after the horse has escaped, but Murphy says that there will be more horses. Callback-offloading updates: - Fix a number of bugs involving the shrinker and lazy callbacks. Tasks RCU updates Torture-test updates" * tag 'rcu.2023.06.22a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (32 commits) torture: Remove duplicated argument -enable-kvm for ppc64 doc/rcutorture: Add description of rcutorture.stall_cpu_block rcu/rcuscale: Stop kfree_scale_thread thread(s) after unloading rcuscale rcu/rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_*() after kfree_scale_cleanup() rcutorture: Correct name of use_softirq module parameter locktorture: Add long_hold to adjust lock-hold delays rcu/nocb: Make shrinker iterate only over NOCB CPUs rcu-tasks: Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs rcu: Make rcu_cpu_starting() rely on interrupts being disabled rcu: Mark rcu_cpu_kthread() accesses to ->rcu_cpu_has_work rcu: Mark additional concurrent load from ->cpu_no_qs.b.exp rcu: Employ jiffies-based backstop to callback time limit rcu: Check callback-invocation time limit for rcuc kthreads rcu: Remove RCU_NONIDLE() rcu: Add more RCU files to kernel-api.rst rcu-tasks: Clarify the cblist_init_generic() function's pr_info() output rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic() rcu/nocb: Recheck lazy callbacks under the ->nocb_lock from shrinker rcu/nocb: Fix shrinker race against callback enqueuer rcu/nocb: Protect lazy shrinker against concurrent (de-)offloading ...
2023-06-26Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-11/+2
ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A large update for SMP management: - Parallel CPU bringup The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to shorten the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the downtime of the VM tenants. The current fully serialized bringup does the following per AP: 1) Prepare callbacks (allocate, intialize, create threads) 2) Kick the AP alive (e.g. INIT/SIPI on x86) 3) Wait for the AP to report alive state 4) Let the AP continue through the atomic bringup 5) Let the AP run the threaded bringup to full online state There are two significant delays: #3 The time for an AP to report alive state in start_secondary() on x86 has been measured in the range between 350us and 3.5ms depending on vendor and CPU type, BIOS microcode size etc. #4 The atomic bringup does the microcode update. This has been measured to take up to ~8ms on the primary threads depending on the microcode patch size to apply. On a two socket SKL server with 56 cores (112 threads) the boot CPU spends on current mainline about 800ms busy waiting for the APs to come up and apply microcode. That's more than 80% of the actual onlining procedure. This can be reduced significantly by splitting the bringup mechanism into two parts: 1) Run the prepare callbacks and kick the AP alive for each AP which needs to be brought up. The APs wake up, do their firmware initialization and run the low level kernel startup code including microcode loading in parallel up to the first synchronization point. (#1 and #2 above) 2) Run the rest of the bringup code strictly serialized per CPU (#3 - #5 above) as it's done today. Parallelizing that stage of the CPU bringup might be possible in theory, but it's questionable whether required surgery would be justified for a pretty small gain. If the system is large enough the first AP is already waiting at the first synchronization point when the boot CPU finished the wake-up of the last AP. That reduces the AP bringup time on that SKL from ~800ms to ~80ms, i.e. by a factor ~10x. The actual gain varies wildly depending on the system, CPU, microcode patch size and other factors. There are some opportunities to reduce the overhead further, but that needs some deep surgery in the x86 CPU bringup code. For now this is only enabled on x86, but the core functionality obviously works for all SMP capable architectures. - Enhancements for SMP function call tracing so it is possible to locate the scheduling and the actual execution points. That allows to measure IPI delivery time precisely" * tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits) trace,smp: Add tracepoints for scheduling remotelly called functions trace,smp: Add tracepoints around remotelly called functions MAINTAINERS: Add CPU HOTPLUG entry x86/smpboot: Fix the parallel bringup decision x86/realmode: Make stack lock work in trampoline_compat() x86/smp: Initialize cpu_primary_thread_mask late cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask() x86/apic: Fix use of X{,2}APIC_ENABLE in asm with older binutils x86/smpboot/64: Implement arch_cpuhp_init_parallel_bringup() and enable it x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs x86/smpboot: Implement a bit spinlock to protect the realmode stack x86/apic: Save the APIC virtual base address cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask x86/smpboot: Enable split CPU startup cpu/hotplug: Provide a split up CPUHP_BRINGUP mechanism cpu/hotplug: Reset task stack state in _cpu_up() cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions riscv: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization parisc: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization ...
2023-06-05arch: Remove cmpxchg_doublePeter Zijlstra1-2/+0
No moar users, remove the monster. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531132323.991907085@infradead.org
2023-05-31mm: Don't pin ZERO_PAGE in pin_user_pages()David Howells1-0/+6
Make pin_user_pages*() leave a ZERO_PAGE unpinned if it extracts a pointer to it from the page tables and make unpin_user_page*() correspondingly ignore a ZERO_PAGE when unpinning. We don't want to risk overrunning a zero page's refcount as we're only allowed ~2 million pins on it - something that userspace can conceivably trigger. Add a pair of functions to test whether a page or a folio is a ZERO_PAGE. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230526214142.958751-2-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2023-05-19Documentation: core-api: Add error pointer functions to kernel-apiJames Seo1-0/+6
Bring the error pointer functions (e.g. ERR_PTR(), PTR_ERR()) into the docs build so that they can be cross-referenced elsewhere. List them as kernel library functions in the kernel-api document. Nowhere else seems to fit, and they need to go *somewhere*. Signed-off-by: James Seo <james@equiv.tech> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509175543.2065835-4-james@equiv.tech
2023-05-18workqueue: Track and monitor per-workqueue CPU time usageTejun Heo1-19/+19
Now that wq_worker_tick() is there, we can easily track the rough CPU time consumption of each workqueue by charging the whole tick whenever a tick hits an active workqueue. While not super accurate, it provides reasonable visibility into the workqueues that consume a lot of CPU cycles. wq_monitor.py is updated to report the per-workqueue CPU times. v2: wq_monitor.py was using "cputime" as the key when outputting in json format. Use "cpu_time" instead for consistency with other fields. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2023-05-18workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVETejun Heo1-19/+19
If a per-cpu work item hogs the CPU, it can prevent other work items from starting through concurrency management. A per-cpu workqueue which intends to host such CPU-hogging work items can choose to not participate in concurrency management by setting %WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE; however, this can be error-prone and difficult to debug when missed. This patch adds an automatic CPU usage based detection. If a concurrency-managed work item consumes more CPU time than the threshold (10ms by default) continuously without intervening sleeps, wq_worker_tick() which is called from scheduler_tick() will detect the condition and automatically mark it CPU_INTENSIVE. The mechanism isn't foolproof: * Detection depends on tick hitting the work item. Getting preempted at the right timings may allow a violating work item to evade detection at least temporarily. * nohz_full CPUs may not be running ticks and thus can fail detection. * Even when detection is working, the 10ms detection delays can add up if many CPU-hogging work items are queued at the same time. However, in vast majority of cases, this should be able to detect violations reliably and provide reasonable protection with a small increase in code complexity. If some work items trigger this condition repeatedly, the bigger problem likely is the CPU being saturated with such per-cpu work items and the solution would be making them UNBOUND. The next patch will add a debug mechanism to help spot such cases. v4: Documentation for workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us added to kernel-parameters.txt. v3: Switch to use wq_worker_tick() instead of hooking into preemptions as suggested by Peter. v2: Lai pointed out that wq_worker_stopping() also needs to be called from preemption and rtlock paths and an earlier patch was updated accordingly. This patch adds a comment describing the risk of infinte recursions and how they're avoided. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
2023-05-18workqueue: Add pwq->stats[] and a monitoring scriptTejun Heo1-0/+32
Currently, the only way to peer into workqueue operations is through tracing. While possible, it isn't easy or convenient to monitor per-workqueue behaviors over time this way. Let's add pwq->stats[] that track relevant events and a drgn monitoring script - tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py. It's arguable whether this needs to be configurable. However, it currently only has several counters and the runtime overhead shouldn't be noticeable given that they're on pwq's which are per-cpu on per-cpu workqueues and per-numa-node on unbound ones. Let's keep it simple for the time being. v2: Patch reordered to earlier with fewer fields. Field will be added back gradually. Help message improved. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
2023-05-15x86/topology: Remove CPU0 hotplug optionThomas Gleixner1-11/+2
This was introduced together with commit e1c467e69040 ("x86, hotplug: Wake up CPU0 via NMI instead of INIT, SIPI, SIPI") to eventually support physical hotplug of CPU0: "We'll change this code in the future to wake up hard offlined CPU0 if real platform and request are available." 11 years later this has not happened and physical hotplug is not officially supported. Remove the cruft. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> # Steam Deck Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512205255.715707999@linutronix.de
2023-05-11rcu: Add more RCU files to kernel-api.rstPaul E. McKenney1-0/+12
Recent changes and additions to RCU have not been reflected in Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst, which makes it harder to find the kernel-doc headers in recently added RCU files. Therefore, add those files. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
2023-04-28Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+11
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of switching from a user process to a kernel thread. - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav. - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky. - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the alteration of memcg userspace tunables. - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig: - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page() - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap backing. Use `mount -o noswap'. - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing some scalability benefits. - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its operations O(1) rather than O(n). - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd, permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes. - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its unintuitive meaning. - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature, which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte. - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge(): cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test harness. - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes. - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c. - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more. - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases. - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge(). - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code. - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults. - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to per-VMA locking. - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads. - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig logic. - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a chunk of memory if zswap is not being used. - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing. - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged, userfaultfd and shmem. - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related code paths. - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's testing of our pte state changing. - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it. - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd selftests. - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting. - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the selftests/mm code. - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned pages. - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time. - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a per-process and per-cgroup basis. * tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file() sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area() hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map() maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area() mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs mm: add new api to enable ksm per process mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma() lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper ...
2023-04-28Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+21
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain: "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is: - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace. Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help* reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup. Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details: The functional change change in this pull request is the very first patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put together all types of supported module memory types in one data structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way. If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as quite a bit of fixes have been found for it. Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module specific dynamic debug information. Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request so to: a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit. Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching, kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&D on this area is active with no clear solution in sight. b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"). Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it being part of a module, and if so define a new define -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0]. A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped with no clear solution in sight [1]. In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative / guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing, it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use: ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \ $(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo) You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it demonstrates the effectiveness of the script. Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks. The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code. The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3] of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this instead" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1] Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3] * tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits) module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo module: remove use of uninitialized variable len module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure module: extract patient module check into helper modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol() module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol() scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address interconnect: remove module-related code interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules ...
2023-04-25Merge tag 'slab-for-6.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+13
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka: "The main change is naturally the SLOB removal. Since its deprecation in 6.2 I've seen no complaints so hopefully SLUB_(TINY) works well for everyone and we can proceed. Besides the code cleanup, the main immediate benefit will be allowing kfree() family of function to work on kmem_cache_alloc() objects, which was incompatible with SLOB. This includes kfree_rcu() which had no kmem_cache_free_rcu() counterpart yet and now it shouldn't be necessary anymore. Besides that, there are several small code and comment improvements from Thomas, Thorsten and Vernon" * tag 'slab-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objects mm/slob: remove slob.c mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLOB code from slab common code mm, pagemap: remove SLOB and SLQB from comments and documentation mm, page_flags: remove PG_slob_free mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB mm/slub: fix help comment of SLUB_DEBUG mm: slub: make kobj_type structure constant slab: Adjust comment after refactoring of gfp.h
2023-04-18module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressureLuis Chamberlain1-2/+20
Loading modules with finit_module() can end up using vmalloc(), vmap() and vmalloc() again, for a total of up to 3 separate allocations in the worst case for a single module. We always kernel_read*() the module, that's a vmalloc(). Then vmap() is used for the module decompression, and if so the last read buffer is freed as we use the now decompressed module buffer to stuff data into our copy module. The last allocation is specific to each architectures but pretty much that's generally a series of vmalloc() calls or a variation of vmalloc to handle ELF sections with special permissions. Evaluation with new stress-ng module support [1] with just 100 ops is proving that you can end up using GiBs of data easily even with all care we have in the kernel and userspace today in trying to not load modules which are already loaded. 100 ops seems to resemble the sort of pressure a system with about 400 CPUs can create on module loading. Although issues relating to duplicate module requests due to each CPU inucurring a new module reuest is silly and some of these are being fixed, we currently lack proper tooling to help diagnose easily what happened, when it happened and who likely is to blame -- userspace or kernel module autoloading. Provide an initial set of stats which use debugfs to let us easily scrape post-boot information about failed loads. This sort of information can be used on production worklaods to try to optimize *avoiding* redundant memory pressure using finit_module(). There's a few examples that can be provided: A 255 vCPU system without the next patch in this series applied: Startup finished in 19.143s (kernel) + 7.078s (userspace) = 26.221s graphical.target reached after 6.988s in userspace And 13.58 GiB of virtual memory space lost due to failed module loading: root@big ~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/modules/stats Mods ever loaded 67 Mods failed on kread 0 Mods failed on decompress 0 Mods failed on becoming 0 Mods failed on load 1411 Total module size 11464704 Total mod text size 4194304 Failed kread bytes 0 Failed decompress bytes 0 Failed becoming bytes 0 Failed kmod bytes 14588526272 Virtual mem wasted bytes 14588526272 Average mod size 171115 Average mod text size 62602 Average fail load bytes 10339140 Duplicate failed modules: module-name How-many-times Reason kvm_intel 249 Load kvm 249 Load irqbypass 8 Load crct10dif_pclmul 128 Load ghash_clmulni_intel 27 Load sha512_ssse3 50 Load sha512_generic 200 Load aesni_intel 249 Load crypto_simd 41 Load cryptd 131 Load evdev 2 Load serio_raw 1 Load virtio_pci 3 Load nvme 3 Load nvme_core 3 Load virtio_pci_legacy_dev 3 Load virtio_pci_modern_dev 3 Load t10_pi 3 Load virtio 3 Load crc32_pclmul 6 Load crc64_rocksoft 3 Load crc32c_intel 40 Load virtio_ring 3 Load crc64 3 Load The following screen shot, of a simple 8vcpu 8 GiB KVM guest with the next patch in this series applied, shows 226.53 MiB are wasted in virtual memory allocations which due to duplicate module requests during boot. It also shows an average module memory size of 167.10 KiB and an an average module .text + .init.text size of 61.13 KiB. The end shows all modules which were detected as duplicate requests and whether or not they failed early after just the first kernel_read*() call or late after we've already allocated the private space for the module in layout_and_allocate(). A system with module decompression would reveal more wasted virtual memory space. We should put effort now into identifying the source of these duplicate module requests and trimming these down as much possible. Larger systems will obviously show much more wasted virtual memory allocations. root@kmod ~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/modules/stats Mods ever loaded 67 Mods failed on kread 0 Mods failed on decompress 0 Mods failed on becoming 83 Mods failed on load 16 Total module size 11464704 Total mod text size 4194304 Failed kread bytes 0 Failed decompress bytes 0 Failed becoming bytes 228959096 Failed kmod bytes 8578080 Virtual mem wasted bytes 237537176 Average mod size 171115 Average mod text size 62602 Avg fail becoming bytes 2758544 Average fail load bytes 536130 Duplicate failed modules: module-name How-many-times Reason kvm_intel 7 Becoming kvm 7 Becoming irqbypass 6 Becoming & Load crct10dif_pclmul 7 Becoming & Load ghash_clmulni_intel 7 Becoming & Load sha512_ssse3 6 Becoming & Load sha512_generic 7 Becoming & Load aesni_intel 7 Becoming crypto_simd 7 Becoming & Load cryptd 3 Becoming & Load evdev 1 Becoming serio_raw 1 Becoming nvme 3 Becoming nvme_core 3 Becoming t10_pi 3 Becoming virtio_pci 3 Becoming crc32_pclmul 6 Becoming & Load crc64_rocksoft 3 Becoming crc32c_intel 3 Becoming virtio_pci_modern_dev 2 Becoming virtio_pci_legacy_dev 1 Becoming crc64 2 Becoming virtio 2 Becoming virtio_ring 2 Becoming [0] https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng.git [1] echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks ./stress-ng --module 100 --module-name xfs Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
2023-04-11dma-api-howto: typo fixMichael S. Tsirkin1-1/+1
Stumbled upon a typo while reading the doc, here's a fix. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/af1505348a67981f63ccff4e3c3d45b686cda43f.1680864874.git.mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-30docs: move x86 documentation into Documentation/arch/Jonathan Corbet1-1/+1
Move the x86 documentation under Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning up the top-level directory and making the structure of our docs more closely match the structure of the source directories it describes. All in-kernel references to the old paths have been updated. Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-29mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objectsVlastimil Babka1-4/+13
This will make it easier to free objects in situations when they can come from either kmalloc() or kmem_cache_alloc(), and also allow kfree_rcu() for freeing objects from kmem_cache_alloc(). For the SLAB and SLUB allocators this was always possible so with SLOB gone, we can document it as supported. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>