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Indicate that the actual value will be one character less.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205154100.736499-1-mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name
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Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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In preparation for adding support for anonymous multi-size THP, introduce
new sysfs structure that will be used to control the new behaviours. A
new directory is added under transparent_hugepage for each supported THP
size, and contains an `enabled` file, which can be set to "inherit" (to
inherit the global setting), "always", "madvise" or "never". For now, the
kernel still only supports PMD-sized anonymous THP, so only 1 directory is
populated.
The first half of the change converts transhuge_vma_suitable() and
hugepage_vma_check() so that they take a bitfield of orders for which the
user wants to determine support, and the functions filter out all the
orders that can't be supported, given the current sysfs configuration and
the VMA dimensions. The resulting functions are renamed to
thp_vma_suitable_orders() and thp_vma_allowable_orders() respectively.
Convenience functions that take a single, unencoded order and return a
boolean are also defined as thp_vma_suitable_order() and
thp_vma_allowable_order().
The second half of the change implements the new sysfs interface. It has
been done so that each supported THP size has a `struct thpsize`, which
describes the relevant metadata and is itself a kobject. This is pretty
minimal for now, but should make it easy to add new per-thpsize files to
the interface if needed in future (e.g. per-size defrag). Rather than
keep the `enabled` state directly in the struct thpsize, I've elected to
directly encode it into huge_anon_orders_[always|madvise|inherit]
bitfields since this reduces the amount of work required in
thp_vma_allowable_orders() which is called for every page fault.
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst, as modified by this
commit, for details of how the new sysfs interface works.
[ryan.roberts@arm.com: fix build warning when CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231211125320.3997543-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207161211.2374093-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add /proc/bootconfig description to Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231005171747.541123-3-paulmck@kernel.org/
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Update the /proc/cmdline documentation to explicitly state that this
file provides kernel boot parameters obtained via boot config from the
kernel image as well as those supplied by the boot loader.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231005171747.541123-1-paulmck@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Stefan Roesch has added ksm statistics to /proc/pid/smaps
- Also a number of singleton patches, mainly cleanups and leftovers
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-09-04-14-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
mm/kmemleak: move up cond_resched() call in page scanning loop
mm: page_alloc: remove stale CMA guard code
MAINTAINERS: add rmap.h to mm entry
rmap: remove anon_vma_link() nommu stub
proc/ksm: add ksm stats to /proc/pid/smaps
mm/hwpoison: rename hwp_walk* to hwpoison_walk*
mm: memory-failure: add PageOffline() check
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With madvise and prctl KSM can be enabled for different VMA's. Once it is
enabled we can query how effective KSM is overall. However we cannot
easily query if an individual VMA benefits from KSM.
This commit adds a KSM section to the /prod/<pid>/smaps file. It reports
how many of the pages are KSM pages. Note that KSM-placed zeropages are
not included, only actual KSM pages.
Here is a typical output:
7f420a000000-7f421a000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
Size: 262144 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
Rss: 51212 kB
Pss: 8276 kB
Shared_Clean: 172 kB
Shared_Dirty: 42996 kB
Private_Clean: 196 kB
Private_Dirty: 7848 kB
Referenced: 15388 kB
Anonymous: 51212 kB
KSM: 41376 kB
LazyFree: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
FilePmdMapped: 0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Swap: 202016 kB
SwapPss: 3882 kB
Locked: 0 kB
THPeligible: 0
ProtectionKey: 0
ksm_state: 0
ksm_skip_base: 0
ksm_skip_count: 0
VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me nr mg anon
This information also helps with the following workflow:
- First enable KSM for all the VMA's of a process with prctl.
- Then analyze with the above smaps report which VMA's benefit the most
- Change the application (if possible) to add the corresponding madvise
calls for the VMA's that benefit the most
[shr@devkernel.io: v5]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823170107.1457915-1-shr@devkernel.io
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230822180539.1424843-1-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
"This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).
CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
part of this feature, and just for userspace.
The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.
For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
versions of this patch set"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
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Fix typos in Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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New hardware extensions implement support for shadow stack memory, such
as x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). Add a new VM flag to
identify these areas, for example, to be used to properly indicate shadow
stack PTEs to the hardware.
Shadow stack VMA creation will be tightly controlled and limited to
anonymous memory to make the implementation simpler and since that is all
that is required. The solution will rely on pte_mkwrite() to create the
shadow stack PTEs, so it will not be required for vm_get_page_prot() to
learn how to create shadow stack memory. For this reason document that
VM_SHADOW_STACK should not be mixed with VM_SHARED.
Co-developed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-15-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Mainly singleton patches all over the place.
Series of note are:
- updates to scripts/gdb from Glenn Washburn
- kexec cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (50 commits)
mailmap: add entries for Paul Mackerras
libgcc: add forward declarations for generic library routines
mailmap: add entry for Oleksandr
ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage
fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status
ia64: fix an addr to taddr in huge_pte_offset()
checkpatch: introduce proper bindings license check
epoll: rename global epmutex
scripts/gdb: add GDB convenience functions $lx_dentry_name() and $lx_i_dentry()
scripts/gdb: create linux/vfs.py for VFS related GDB helpers
uapi/linux/const.h: prefer ISO-friendly __typeof__
delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ
scripts/gdb: timerlist: convert int chunks to str
scripts/gdb: print interrupts
scripts/gdb: raise error with reduced debugging information
scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser
lib/rbtree: use '+' instead of '|' for setting color.
proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time()
checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags
checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links
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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
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The command `ps -ef ` and `top -c` mark kernel thread by '[' and ']', but
sometimes the result is not correct. The task->flags in /proc/$pid/stat
is good, but we need remember the value of PF_KTHREAD is 0x00200000 and
convert dec to hex. If we have no binary program and shell script which
read /proc/$pid/stat, we can know it directly by `cat /proc/$pid/status`.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230416052404.2920-1-fullspring2018@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chunguang Wu <fullspring2018@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently the memtest results were only presented in dmesg.
When running a large fleet of devices without ECC RAM it's currently not
easy to do bulk monitoring for memory corruption. You have to parse
dmesg, but that's a ring buffer so the error might disappear after some
time. In general I do not consider dmesg to be a great API to query RAM
status.
In several companies I've seen such errors remain undetected and cause
issues for way too long. So I think it makes sense to provide a
monitoring API, so that we can safely detect and act upon them.
This adds /proc/meminfo entry which can be easily used by scripts.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321103430.7130-1-tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Update URL for the latest online version of this document.
Correct "files" to "fields" in a few places.
Update /proc/scsi, /proc/stat, and /proc/fs/ext4 information.
Drop /usr/src/ from the location of the kernel source tree.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230314060347.605-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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/proc/net/softnet_stat exists for a long time, but proc.rst miss it.
Softnet_stat shows some statistics of struct softnet_data of online
CPUs. Struct softnet_data manages incoming and output packets
on per-CPU queues. Note that fastroute and cpu_collision in
softnet_stat are obsolete and their value is always 0.
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yunkai <zhang.yunkai@zte.com.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202212091421536982085@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu
- Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying
- Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola
- David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW
handling
- Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin
- Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki
- Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew
Wilcox
- A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use
it
- Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the
__no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword.
This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad
- Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and
memory section removal for huge pages
- DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park
- Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages
- Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors
- Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it
and making it more efficient
- Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and
David Hildenbrand
- zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky
- David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so
that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which
didn't work very well anyway
- Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain
enabled during per-cpu page allocations
- Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper
- Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to
prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of
pagecache
- David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW
breaking
- Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's
zsmalloc backend
- Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in
file[map]_write_and_wait_range()
- sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang
Chen
- Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode
work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect
- Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several
filesystems. They only need .writepages()
- Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target
beancounting
- David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit
machines
- Many singleton patches, as usual
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits)
mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio
mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps
mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment
kmsan: fix memcpy tests
mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages
selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit
selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit
selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions
mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem
mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount
mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting
mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim
mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim
selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until()
mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure
omfs: remove ->writepage
jfs: remove ->writepage
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- A ptrace API cleanup series from Sergey Shtylyov
- Fixes and cleanups for kexec from ye xingchen
- nilfs2 updates from Ryusuke Konishi
- squashfs feature work from Xiaoming Ni: permit configuration of the
filesystem's compression concurrency from the mount command line
- A series from Akinobu Mita which addresses bound checking errors when
writing to debugfs files
- A series from Yang Yingliang to address rapidio memory leaks
- A series from Zheng Yejian to address possible overflow errors in
encode_comp_t()
- And a whole shower of singleton patches all over the place
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (79 commits)
ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()
hfsplus: fix bug causing custom uid and gid being unable to be assigned with mount
rapidio: devices: fix missing put_device in mport_cdev_open
kcov: fix spelling typos in comments
hfs: Fix OOB Write in hfs_asc2mac
hfs: fix OOB Read in __hfs_brec_find
relay: fix type mismatch when allocating memory in relay_create_buf()
ocfs2: always read both high and low parts of dinode link count
io-mapping: move some code within the include guarded section
kernel: kcsan: kcsan_test: build without structleak plugin
mailmap: update email for Iskren Chernev
eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal() ifndef CONFIG_EVENTFD
rapidio: fix possible UAF when kfifo_alloc() fails
relay: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
cpumask: limit visibility of FORCE_NR_CPUS
acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t()
acct: fix accuracy loss for input value of encode_comp_t()
linux/init.h: include <linux/build_bug.h> and <linux/stringify.h>
rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport()
rapidio: fix possible name leaks when rio_add_device() fails
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Since commit 9a10064f5625 ("mm: add a field to store names for private
anonymous memory"), name for private anonymous memory, but not shared
anonymous, can be set. However, naming shared anonymous memory just as
useful for tracking purposes.
Extend the functionality to be able to set names for shared anon.
There are two ways to create anonymous shared memory, using memfd or
directly via mmap():
1. fd = memfd_create(...)
mem = mmap(..., MAP_SHARED, fd, ...)
2. mem = mmap(..., MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, ...)
In both cases the anonymous shared memory is created the same way by
mapping an unlinked file on tmpfs.
The memfd way allows to give a name for anonymous shared memory, but
not useful when parts of shared memory require to have distinct names.
Example use case: The VMM maps VM memory as anonymous shared memory (not
private because VMM is sandboxed and drivers are running in their own
processes). However, the VM tells back to the VMM how parts of the memory
are actually used by the guest, how each of the segments should be backed
(i.e. 4K pages, 2M pages), and some other information about the segments.
The naming allows us to monitor the effective memory footprint for each
of these segments from the host without looking inside the guest.
Sample output:
/* Create shared anonymous segmenet */
anon_shmem = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
/* Name the segment: "MY-NAME" */
rv = prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME,
anon_shmem, SIZE, "MY-NAME");
cat /proc/<pid>/maps (and smaps):
7fc8e2b4c000-7fc8f2b4c000 rw-s 00000000 00:01 1024 [anon_shmem:MY-NAME]
If the segment is not named, the output is:
7fc8e2b4c000-7fc8f2b4c000 rw-s 00000000 00:01 1024 /dev/zero (deleted)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221115020602.804224-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: xu xin <cgel.zte@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Many monitoring tools include open file count as a metric. Currently the
only way to get this number is to enumerate the files in /proc/pid/fd.
The problem with the current approach is that it does many things people
generally don't care about when they need one number for a metric. In our
tests for cadvisor, which reports open file counts per cgroup, we observed
that reading the number of open files is slow. Out of 35.23% of CPU time
spent in `proc_readfd_common`, we see 29.43% spent in `proc_fill_cache`,
which is responsible for filling dentry info. Some of this extra time is
spinlock contention, but it's a contention for the lock we don't want to
take to begin with.
We considered putting the number of open files in /proc/pid/status.
Unfortunately, counting the number of fds involves iterating the
open_files bitmap, which has a linear complexity in proportion with the
number of open files (bitmap slots really, but it's close). We don't want
to make /proc/pid/status any slower, so instead we put this info in
/proc/pid/fd as a size member of the stat syscall result. Previously the
reported number was zero, so there's very little risk of breaking
anything, while still providing a somewhat logical way to count the open
files with a fallback if it's zero.
RFC for this patch included iterating open fds under RCU. Thanks to Frank
Hofmann for the suggestion to use the bitmap instead.
Previously:
```
$ sudo stat /proc/1/fd | head -n2
File: /proc/1/fd
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 directory
```
With this patch:
```
$ sudo stat /proc/1/fd | head -n2
File: /proc/1/fd
Size: 65 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 directory
```
Correctness check:
```
$ sudo ls /proc/1/fd | wc -l
65
```
I added the docs for /proc/<pid>/fd while I'm at it.
[ivan@cloudflare.com: use bitmap_weight() to count the bits]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018045844.37697-1-ivan@cloudflare.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include linux/bitmap.h for bitmap_weight()]
[ivan@cloudflare.com: return errno from proc_fd_getattr() instead of setting negative size]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221024173140.30673-1-ivan@cloudflare.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220922224027.59266-1-ivan@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When the tracer of process is outside of current pid namespace, field
`TracerPid` in /proc/<pid>/status will be 0, too, just like this process
not have been traced.
This is because that function `task_pid_nr_ns` used to get the pid of
tracer will return 0 in this situation.
Co-authored-by: Yuan Haisheng <heysion@deepin.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan@uniontech.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102081517.19770-1-chenlinxuan@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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We keep track of several kernel memory stats (total kernel memory, page
tables, stack, vmalloc, etc) on multiple levels (global, per-node,
per-memcg, etc). These stats give insights to users to how much memory
is used by the kernel and for what purposes.
Currently, memory used by KVM mmu is not accounted in any of those
kernel memory stats. This patch series accounts the memory pages
used by KVM for page tables in those stats in a new
NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE stat. This stat can be later extended to account
for other types of secondary pages tables (e.g. iommu page tables).
KVM has a decent number of large allocations that aren't for page
tables, but for most of them, the number/size of those allocations
scales linearly with either the number of vCPUs or the amount of memory
assigned to the VM. KVM's secondary page table allocations do not scale
linearly, especially when nested virtualization is in use.
From a KVM perspective, NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE will scale with KVM's
per-VM pages_{4k,2m,1g} stats unless the guest is doing something
bizarre (e.g. accessing only 4kb chunks of 2mb pages so that KVM is
forced to allocate a large number of page tables even though the guest
isn't accessing that much memory). However, someone would need to either
understand how KVM works to make that connection, or know (or be told) to
go look at KVM's stats if they're running VMs to better decipher the stats.
Furthermore, having NR_PAGETABLE side-by-side with NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE
is informative. For example, when backing a VM with THP vs. HugeTLB,
NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE is roughly the same, but NR_PAGETABLE is an order
of magnitude higher with THP. So having this stat will at the very least
prove to be useful for understanding tradeoffs between VM backing types,
and likely even steer folks towards potential optimizations.
The original discussion with more details about the rationale:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ilqoi77b.wl-maz@kernel.org
This stat will be used by subsequent patches to count KVM mmu
memory usage.
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823004639.2387269-2-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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The THPeligible bit shows 1 if and only if the VMA is eligible for
allocating THP and the THP is also PMD mappable. Some misaligned file
VMAs may be eligible for allocating THP but the THP can't be mapped by
PMD. Make this more explicitly to avoid ambiguity.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220616174840.1202070-8-shy828301@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Pss is the sum of the sizes of clean and dirty private pages, and the
proportional sizes of clean and dirty shared pages:
Private = Private_Dirty + Private_Clean
Shared_Proportional = Shared_Dirty_Proportional + Shared_Clean_Proportional
Pss = Private + Shared_Proportional
The Shared*Proportional fields are not present in smaps, so it is not
always possible to determine how much of the Pss is from dirty pages and
how much is from clean pages. This information can be useful for
measuring memory usage for the purpose of optimisation, since clean pages
can usually be discarded by the kernel immediately while dirty pages
cannot.
The smaps routines in the kernel already have access to this data, so add
a Pss_Dirty to show it to userspace. Pss_Clean is not added since it can
be calculated from Pss and Pss_Dirty.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220620081251.2928103-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with
Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off,
reviewed, etc.
- Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of
readonly file-backed transparent hugepages.
- Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
managed on a per-cgroup basis.
- Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for
runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization
feature.
- Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
pagetable invalidation.
- Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
virtualization.
- Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.
- David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.
- Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults
against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.
- More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of
the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address
ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are
available.
- Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during
mprotect().
- Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS
support.
- David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
get_user_pages().
- Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.
- Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by
device-dax's compound devmaps.
- Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman
Khandual.
- Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
transparent hugepages.
- Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.
... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the
customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin"
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits)
mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper
selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable
selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES
selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests
selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore
selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment
ksm: fix typo in comment
selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests
Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim"
mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message
include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace"
include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion"
mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()
MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB
zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning
mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang
cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M()
mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE
tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
...
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Currently it requires poking at debugfs to figure out the size and
population of the zswap cache on a host. There are no counters for reads
and writes against the cache. As a result, it's difficult to understand
zswap behavior on production systems.
Print zswap memory consumption and how many pages are zswapped out in
/proc/meminfo. Count zswapouts and zswapins in /proc/vmstat.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510152847.230957-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "zswap: accounting & cgroup control", v2.
Zswap can consume nearly a quarter of RAM in the default configuration,
yet it's neither listed in /proc/meminfo, nor is it accounted and
manageable on a per-cgroup basis.
This makes reasoning about the memory situation on a host in general
rather difficult. On shared/cgrouped hosts, the consequences are worse.
First, workloads can escape memory containment and cause resource priority
inversions: a lo-pri group can fill the global zswap pool and force a
hi-pri group out to disk. Second, not all workloads benefit from zswap
equally. Some even suffer when memory contents compress poorly, and are
better off going to disk swap directly. On a host with mixed workloads,
it's currently not possible to enable zswap for one workload but not for
the other.
This series implements the missing global accounting as well as cgroup
tracking & control for zswap backing memory:
- Patch 1 refreshes the very out-of-date meminfo documentation in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
- Patches 2-4 clean up related and adjacent options in Kconfig. Not
actual dependencies, just things I noticed during development.
- Patch 5 adds meminfo and vmstat coverage for zswap consumption and
activity.
- Patch 6 implements per-cgroup tracking & control of zswap memory.
This patch (of 6):
Add new entries. Minor corrections and cleanups.
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix htmldocs warnings]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Ynve8dg4zJyhH2gW@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: change `Unevictable' wording, per David]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YnwFraZlVWQoCjz3@cmpxchg.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510152847.230957-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510152847.230957-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The last traces of the IDE driver went away in commit b7fb14d3ac63
("ide: remove the legacy ide driver") but it left behind some traces
of old documentation.
As luck would have it Randy and I would submit similar changes within
a week of each other to address this. As Randy's commit is in the doc
tree already - this delta is just the stuff my removal contained that
was not in Randy's IDE doc removal.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220427165917.GE12977@windriver.com
[phil@philpotter.co.uk: removed diffs already added by others]
Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220515205833.944139-5-phil@philpotter.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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In many userspace applications, and especially in VM based applications
like Android uses heavily, there are multiple different allocators in
use. At a minimum there is libc malloc and the stack, and in many cases
there are libc malloc, the stack, direct syscalls to mmap anonymous
memory, and multiple VM heaps (one for small objects, one for big
objects, etc.). Each of these layers usually has its own tools to
inspect its usage; malloc by compiling a debug version, the VM through
heap inspection tools, and for direct syscalls there is usually no way
to track them.
On Android we heavily use a set of tools that use an extended version of
the logic covered in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt to walk all pages
mapped in userspace and slice their usage by process, shared (COW) vs.
unique mappings, backing, etc. This can account for real physical
memory usage even in cases like fork without exec (which Android uses
heavily to share as many private COW pages as possible between
processes), Kernel SamePage Merging, and clean zero pages. It produces
a measurement of the pages that only exist in that process (USS, for
unique), and a measurement of the physical memory usage of that process
with the cost of shared pages being evenly split between processes that
share them (PSS).
If all anonymous memory is indistinguishable then figuring out the real
physical memory usage (PSS) of each heap requires either a pagemap
walking tool that can understand the heap debugging of every layer, or
for every layer's heap debugging tools to implement the pagemap walking
logic, in which case it is hard to get a consistent view of memory
across the whole system.
Tracking the information in userspace leads to all sorts of problems.
It either needs to be stored inside the process, which means every
process has to have an API to export its current heap information upon
request, or it has to be stored externally in a filesystem that somebody
needs to clean up on crashes. It needs to be readable while the process
is still running, so it has to have some sort of synchronization with
every layer of userspace. Efficiently tracking the ranges requires
reimplementing something like the kernel vma trees, and linking to it
from every layer of userspace. It requires more memory, more syscalls,
more runtime cost, and more complexity to separately track regions that
the kernel is already tracking.
This patch adds a field to /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps to show a
userspace-provided name for anonymous vmas. The names of named
anonymous vmas are shown in /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps as
[anon:<name>].
Userspace can set the name for a region of memory by calling
prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, start, len, (unsigned long)name)
Setting the name to NULL clears it. The name length limit is 80 bytes
including NUL-terminator and is checked to contain only printable ascii
characters (including space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.
Ascii strings are being used to have a descriptive identifiers for vmas,
which can be understood by the users reading /proc/pid/maps or
/proc/pid/smaps. Names can be standardized for a given system and they
can include some variable parts such as the name of the allocator or a
library, tid of the thread using it, etc.
The name is stored in a pointer in the shared union in vm_area_struct
that points to a null terminated string. Anonymous vmas with the same
name (equivalent strings) and are otherwise mergeable will be merged.
The name pointers are not shared between vmas even if they contain the
same name. The name pointer is stored in a union with fields that are
only used on file-backed mappings, so it does not increase memory usage.
CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME kernel configuration is introduced to enable this
feature. It keeps the feature disabled by default to prevent any
additional memory overhead and to avoid confusing procfs parsers on
systems which are not ready to support named anonymous vmas.
The patch is based on the original patch developed by Colin Cross, more
specifically on its latest version [1] posted upstream by Sumit Semwal.
It used a userspace pointer to store vma names. In that design, name
pointers could be shared between vmas. However during the last
upstreaming attempt, Kees Cook raised concerns [2] about this approach
and suggested to copy the name into kernel memory space, perform
validity checks [3] and store as a string referenced from
vm_area_struct.
One big concern is about fork() performance which would need to strdup
anonymous vma names. Dave Hansen suggested experimenting with
worst-case scenario of forking a process with 64k vmas having longest
possible names [4]. I ran this experiment on an ARM64 Android device
and recorded a worst-case regression of almost 40% when forking such a
process.
This regression is addressed in the followup patch which replaces the
pointer to a name with a refcounted structure that allows sharing the
name pointer between vmas of the same name. Instead of duplicating the
string during fork() or when splitting a vma it increments the refcount.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200901161459.11772-4-sumit.semwal@linaro.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031031.D32EF57ED@keescook/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202009031022.3834F692@keescook/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/5d0358ab-8c47-2f5f-8e43-23b89d6a8e95@intel.com/
Changes for prctl(2) manual page (in the options section):
PR_SET_VMA
Sets an attribute specified in arg2 for virtual memory areas
starting from the address specified in arg3 and spanning the
size specified in arg4. arg5 specifies the value of the attribute
to be set. Note that assigning an attribute to a virtual memory
area might prevent it from being merged with adjacent virtual
memory areas due to the difference in that attribute's value.
Currently, arg2 must be one of:
PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME
Set a name for anonymous virtual memory areas. arg5 should
be a pointer to a null-terminated string containing the
name. The name length including null byte cannot exceed
80 bytes. If arg5 is NULL, the name of the appropriate
anonymous virtual memory areas will be reset. The name
can contain only printable ascii characters (including
space), except '[',']','\','$' and '`'.
This feature is available only if the kernel is built with
the CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME option enabled.
[surenb@google.com: docs: proc.rst: /proc/PID/maps: fix malformed table]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123185928.2513763-1-surenb@google.com
[surenb: rebased over v5.15-rc6, replaced userpointer with a kernel copy,
added input sanitization and CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME config. The bulk of the
work here was done by Colin Cross, therefore, with his permission, keeping
him as the author]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019215511.3771969-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211007040001.103413-3-mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Without reading thoroughly, one could easily oversee that there may be several
fields after #6.
Made it more clearly by changing the field numbering.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211007040001.103413-2-mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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And 'ino' field to /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<FD> and
/proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/fdinfo/<FD>.
The inode numbers can be used to uniquely identify DMA buffers in user
space and avoids a dependency on /proc/<pid>/fd/* when accounting
per-process DMA buffer sizes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210308170651.919148-2-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a paragraph that explains that it may happen that the counters in
/proc/meminfo do not add up to the overall memory usage.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421061127.1182723-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We've missed a few documentation when adding new VM_* flags. Add the missing
pieces so they'll be in sync now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302000646.432358-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Fix indentation snafu in proc.rst as reported by Stephen.
next-20210219/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst:697: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Fixes: 93ea4a0b8fce ("Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223060418.21443-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Address Jon's feedback on the previous patch by adding info about
field separators in the /proc/loadavg file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210222034729.22350-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Update contents of /proc/loadavg: add 3 more fields.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fe55b139-bd03-4762-199b-83be873cf7dd@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Similar to speculation store bypass, show information about the indirect
branch speculation mode of a task in /proc/$pid/status.
For testing/benchmarking, I needed to see whether IB (Indirect Branch)
speculation (see Spectre-v2) is enabled on a task, to see whether an
IBPB instruction should be executed on an address space switch.
Unfortunately, this information isn't available anywhere else and
currently the only way to get it is to hack the kernel to expose it
(like this change). It also helped expose a bug with conditional IB
speculation on certain CPUs.
Another place this could be useful is to audit the system when using
sanboxing. With this change, I can confirm that seccomp-enabled
process have IB speculation force disabled as expected when the kernel
command line parameter `spectre_v2_user=seccomp`.
Since there's already a 'Speculation_Store_Bypass' field, I used that
as precedent for adding this one.
[amistry@google.com: remove underscores from field name to workaround documentation issue]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106131015.v2.1.I7782b0cedb705384a634cfd8898eb7523562da99@changeid
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030172731.1.I7782b0cedb705384a634cfd8898eb7523562da99@changeid
Signed-off-by: Anand K Mistry <amistry@google.com>
Cc: Anthony Steinhauser <asteinhauser@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anand K Mistry <amistry@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Document that /proc/PID/smaps shows PROT_MTE settings in VmFlags.
Support for this was introduced in
commit 9f3419315f3cdc41a7318e4d50ba18a592b30c8c
arm64: mte: Add PROT_MTE support to mmap() and mprotect()
Signed-off-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106101940.5777-1-szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The exported value includes oom_score_adj so the range is no [0, 1000] as
described in the previous section but rather [0, 2000]. Mention that fact
explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200709062603.18480-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are at least two notes in the oom section. The 3% discount for root
processes is gone since d46078b28889 ("mm, oom: remove 3% bonus for
CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes").
Likewise children of the selected oom victim are not sacrificed since
bbbe48029720 ("mm, oom: remove 'prefer children over parent' heuristic")
Drop both of them.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200709062603.18480-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Clean up Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst.
This is basically fixing lots of spelling, grammar, punctuation,
typos, spacing, consistency, section numbering, and headings.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a5f126e6-d67a-154a-1c87-d8f07542a21c@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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A new chapter was added to proc.rst. Adjust the markups
to avoid this warning:
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst:2194: WARNING: Inconsistent literal block quoting.
And to properly mark the code-blocks there.
Fixes: 37e7647a7212 ("docs: proc: add documentation for "hidepid=4" and "subset=pid" options and new mount behavior")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/de67ec04a2e735f4450eb3ce966f7d80b9438244.1592895969.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Changeset 424037b77519 ("mm: smaps: Report arm64 guarded pages in smaps")
added a new parameter to a table. This causes Sphinx warnings,
because there's now an extra "-" at the wrong place:
/devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst:548: WARNING: Malformed table.
Text in column margin in table line 29.
== =======================================
rd readable
...
bt - arm64 BTI guarded page
== =======================================
Fixes: 424037b77519 ("mm: smaps: Report arm64 guarded pages in smaps")
Fixes: c33e97efa9d9 ("docs: filesystems: convert proc.txt to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/28c4f4c5c66c0fd7cbce83fe11963ea6154f1d47.1591137229.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull proc updates from Eric Biederman:
"This has four sets of changes:
- modernize proc to support multiple private instances
- ensure we see the exit of each process tid exactly
- remove has_group_leader_pid
- use pids not tasks in posix-cpu-timers lookup
Alexey updated proc so each mount of proc uses a new superblock. This
allows people to actually use mount options with proc with no fear of
messing up another mount of proc. Given the kernel's internal mounts
of proc for things like uml this was a real problem, and resulted in
Android's hidepid mount options being ignored and introducing security
issues.
The rest of the changes are small cleanups and fixes that came out of
my work to allow this change to proc. In essence it is swapping the
pids in de_thread during exec which removes a special case the code
had to handle. Then updating the code to stop handling that special
case"
* 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
proc: proc_pid_ns takes super_block as an argument
remove the no longer needed pid_alive() check in __task_pid_nr_ns()
posix-cpu-timers: Replace __get_task_for_clock with pid_for_clock
posix-cpu-timers: Replace cpu_timer_pid_type with clock_pid_type
posix-cpu-timers: Extend rcu_read_lock removing task_struct references
signal: Remove has_group_leader_pid
exec: Remove BUG_ON(has_group_leader_pid)
posix-cpu-timer: Unify the now redundant code in lookup_task
posix-cpu-timer: Tidy up group_leader logic in lookup_task
proc: Ensure we see the exit of each process tid exactly once
rculist: Add hlists_swap_heads_rcu
proc: Use PIDTYPE_TGID in next_tgid
Use proc_pid_ns() to get pid_namespace from the proc superblock
proc: use named enums for better readability
proc: use human-readable values for hidepid
docs: proc: add documentation for "hidepid=4" and "subset=pid" options and new mount behavior
proc: add option to mount only a pids subset
proc: instantiate only pids that we can ptrace on 'hidepid=4' mount option
proc: allow to mount many instances of proc in one pid namespace
proc: rename struct proc_fs_info to proc_fs_opts
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
"A few little subsystems and a start of a lot of MM patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: squashfs, ocfs2, parisc,
vfs. With mm subsystems: slab-generic, slub, debug, pagecache, gup,
swap, memcg, pagemap, memory-failure, vmalloc, kasan"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (128 commits)
kasan: move kasan_report() into report.c
mm/mm_init.c: report kasan-tag information stored in page->flags
ubsan: entirely disable alignment checks under UBSAN_TRAP
kasan: fix clang compilation warning due to stack protector
x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting
mm: remove vmalloc_sync_(un)mappings()
x86/mm/32: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings()
x86/mm/64: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings()
mm/ioremap: track which page-table levels were modified
mm/vmalloc: track which page-table levels were modified
mm: add functions to track page directory modifications
s390: use __vmalloc_node in stack_alloc
powerpc: use __vmalloc_node in alloc_vm_stack
arm64: use __vmalloc_node in arch_alloc_vmap_stack
mm: remove vmalloc_user_node_flags
mm: switch the test_vmalloc module to use __vmalloc_node
mm: remove __vmalloc_node_flags_caller
mm: remove both instances of __vmalloc_node_flags
mm: remove the prot argument to __vmalloc_node
mm: remove the pgprot argument to __vmalloc
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After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a
COMMIT request succeeds. If the COMMIT fails, the page will be
re-written.
These "unstable" pages are currently accounted as "reclaimable", either
in WB_RECLAIMABLE, or in NR_UNSTABLE_NFS which is included in a
'reclaimable' count. This might have made sense when sending the COMMIT
required a separate action by the VFS/MM (e.g. releasepage() used to
send a COMMIT). However now that all writes generated by ->writepages()
will automatically be followed by a COMMIT (since commit 919e3bd9a875
("NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete")) it makes more
sense to treat them as writeback pages.
So this patch removes NR_UNSTABLE_NFS and accounts unstable pages in
NR_WRITEBACK and WB_WRITEBACK.
A particular effect of this change is that when
wb_check_background_flush() calls wb_over_bg_threshold(), the latter
will report 'true' a lot less often as the 'unstable' pages are no
longer considered 'dirty' (as there is nothing that writeback can do
about them anyway).
Currently wb_check_background_flush() will trigger writeback to NFS even
when there are relatively few dirty pages (if there are lots of unstable
pages), this can result in small writes going to the server (10s of
Kilobytes rather than a Megabyte) which hurts throughput. With this
patch, there are fewer writes which are each larger on average.
Where the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS count was included in statistics
virtual-files, the entry is retained, but the value is hard-coded as
zero. static trace points and warning printks which mentioned this
counter no longer report it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: re-layout comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> [mm]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d06j7gqa.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another
massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I
*really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile,
those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references
around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There
will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts.
Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots
of fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits)
Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template
zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst
tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering
docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format
docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content
Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description
mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda
docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst
docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile
Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry
Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files
Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/
docs: move digsig docs to the security book
docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book
docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book
docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book
docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file
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- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document and section titles;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add table markups;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6692b8abc177130e9e53aace94117a2ad076cab5.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Merge in user support for Branch Target Identification, which narrowly
missed the cut for 5.7 after a late ABI concern.
* for-next/bti-user:
arm64: bti: Document behaviour for dynamically linked binaries
arm64: elf: Fix allnoconfig kernel build with !ARCH_USE_GNU_PROPERTY
arm64: BTI: Add Kconfig entry for userspace BTI
mm: smaps: Report arm64 guarded pages in smaps
arm64: mm: Display guarded pages in ptdump
KVM: arm64: BTI: Reset BTYPE when skipping emulated instructions
arm64: BTI: Reset BTYPE when skipping emulated instructions
arm64: traps: Shuffle code to eliminate forward declarations
arm64: unify native/compat instruction skipping
arm64: BTI: Decode BYTPE bits when printing PSTATE
arm64: elf: Enable BTI at exec based on ELF program properties
elf: Allow arch to tweak initial mmap prot flags
arm64: Basic Branch Target Identification support
ELF: Add ELF program property parsing support
ELF: UAPI and Kconfig additions for ELF program properties
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