linux/Documentation/vm, branch v5.9

mm/vmstat: add events for THP migration without split

2020-08-12T17:57:57Z

Add following new vmstat events which will help in validating THP migration without split. Statistics reported through these new VM events will help in performance debugging. 1. THP_MIGRATION_SUCCESS 2. THP_MIGRATION_FAILURE 3. THP_MIGRATION_SPLIT In addition, these new events also update normal page migration statistics appropriately via PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS and PGMIGRATE_FAILURE. While here, this updates current trace event 'mm_migrate_pages' to accommodate now available THP statistics. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/hpage_nr_pages/thp_nr_pages/] [ziy@nvidia.com: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/C5E3C65C-8253-4638-9D3C-71A61858BB8B@nvidia.com [anshuman.khandual@arm.com: s/thp_nr_pages/hpage_nr_pages/] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594287583-16568-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Zi Yan Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594080415-27924-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparse: cleanup the code surrounding memory_present()

2020-08-07T18:33:27Z

After removal of CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP we have two equivalent functions that call memory_present() for each region in memblock.memory: sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions() and membocks_present(). Moreover, all architectures have a call to either of these functions preceding the call to sparse_init() and in the most cases they are called one after the other. Mark the regions from memblock.memory as present during sparce_init() by making sparse_init() call memblocks_present(), make memblocks_present() and memory_present() functions static and remove redundant sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions() function. Also remove no longer required HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT configuration option. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200712083130.22919-1-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparsemem: enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()

2020-08-07T18:33:27Z

There are many instances where vmemap allocation is often switched between regular memory and device memory just based on whether altmap is available or not. vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() is used in various platforms to allocate vmemmap mappings. Lets also enable it to handle altmap based device memory allocation along with existing regular memory allocations. This will help in avoiding the altmap based allocation switch in many places. To summarize there are two different methods to call vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(). vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, NULL) /* Allocate from system RAM */ vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, altmap) /* Allocate from altmap */ This converts altmap_alloc_block_buf() into a static function, drops it's entry from the header and updates Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst. Suggested-by: Robin Murphy Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: Jia He Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Steve Capper Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Yu Zhao Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594004178-8861-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/mm: add descriptions for arch page table helpers

2020-08-07T18:33:23Z

This adds a specific description file for all arch page table helpers which is in sync with the semantics being tested via CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. All future changes either to these descriptions here or the debug test should always remain in sync. [anshuman.khandual@arm.com: fold in Mike's patch for the rst document, fix typos in the rst document] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594610587-4172-5-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Zi Yan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1593996516-7186-5-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, slub: make remaining slub_debug related attributes read-only

2020-08-07T18:33:22Z

SLUB_DEBUG creates several files under /sys/kernel/slab// that can be read to check if the respective debugging options are enabled for given cache. Some options, namely sanity_checks, trace, and failslab can be also enabled and disabled at runtime by writing into the files. The runtime toggling is racy. Some options disable __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE when enabled, which means that in case of concurrent allocations, some can still use __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE and some not, leading to potential corruption. The s->flags field is also not updated or checked atomically. The simplest solution is to remove the runtime toggling. The extended slub_debug boot parameter syntax introduced by earlier patch should allow to fine-tune the debugging configuration during boot with same granularity. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Vijayanand Jitta Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Pekka Enberg Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-5-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, slub: make some slub_debug related attributes read-only

2020-08-07T18:33:22Z

SLUB_DEBUG creates several files under /sys/kernel/slab// that can be read to check if the respective debugging options are enabled for given cache. The options can be also toggled at runtime by writing into the files. Some of those, namely red_zone, poison, and store_user can be toggled only when no objects yet exist in the cache. Vijayanand reports [1] that there is a problem with freelist randomization if changing the debugging option's state results in different number of objects per page, and the random sequence cache needs thus needs to be recomputed. However, another problem is that the check for "no objects yet exist in the cache" is racy, as noted by Jann [2] and fixing that would add overhead or otherwise complicate the allocation/freeing paths. Thus it would be much simpler just to remove the runtime toggling support. The documentation describes it's "In case you forgot to enable debugging on the kernel command line", but the neccessity of having no objects limits its usefulness anyway for many caches. Vijayanand describes an use case [3] where debugging is enabled for all but zram caches for memory overhead reasons, and using the runtime toggles was the only way to achieve such configuration. After the previous patch it's now possible to do that directly from the kernel boot option, so we can remove the dangerous runtime toggles by making the /sys attribute files read-only. While updating it, also improve the documentation of the debugging /sys files. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1580379523-32272-1-git-send-email-vjitta@codeaurora.org [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez31PP--h6_FzVyfJ4H86QYczAFPdxtJHUEEan+7VJETAQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1383cd32-1ddc-4dac-b5f8-9c42282fa81c@codeaurora.org Reported-by: Vijayanand Jitta Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Pekka Enberg Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, slub: extend slub_debug syntax for multiple blocks

2020-08-07T18:33:22Z

Patch series "slub_debug fixes and improvements". The slub_debug kernel boot parameter can either apply a single set of options to all caches or a list of caches. There is a use case where debugging is applied for all caches and then disabled at runtime for specific caches, for performance and memory consumption reasons [1]. As runtime changes are dangerous, extend the boot parameter syntax so that multiple blocks of either global or slab-specific options can be specified, with blocks delimited by ';'. This will also support the use case of [1] without runtime changes. For details see the updated Documentation/vm/slub.rst [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1383cd32-1ddc-4dac-b5f8-9c42282fa81c@codeaurora.org [weiyongjun1@huawei.com: make parse_slub_debug_flags() static] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702150522.4940-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vijayanand Jitta Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: vm/memory-model: eliminate duplicated word

2020-07-13T15:45:04Z

Drop the doubled word "the". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707180414.10467-20-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-06-10T21:12:15Z

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with a patch changing a lot of HTTP links to HTTPS that had to be yanked and redone before the first pull" * tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic(): update Documentation Documentation: devres: add missing entry for devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation docs: it_IT: address invalid reference warnings doc: zh_CN: use doc reference to resolve undefined label warning docs: Update the location of the LF NDA program docs: dev-tools: coccinelle: underlines

mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments

2020-06-09T16:39:14Z

Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Laurent Dufour Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ying Han Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds