linux/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h, branch v6.15

mm: introduce ctor/dtor at PGD level

2025-01-26T04:22:24Z

Following on from the introduction of P4D-level ctor/dtor, let's finish the job and introduce ctor/dtor at PGD level. The incurred improvement in page accounting is minimal - the main motivation is to create a single, generic place where construction/destruction hooks can be added for all page table pages. This patch should cover all architectures and all configurations where PGDs are one or more regular pages. This excludes any configuration where PGDs are allocated from a kmem_cache object. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-7-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Walleij Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic __pgd_{alloc,free}

2025-01-26T04:22:24Z

We already have a generic implementation of alloc/free up to P4D level, as well as pgd_free(). Let's finish the work and add a generic PGD-level alloc helper as well. Unlike at lower levels, almost all architectures need some specific magic at PGD level (typically initialising PGD entries), so introducing a generic pgd_alloc() isn't worth it. Instead we introduce two new helpers, __pgd_alloc() and __pgd_free(), and make use of them in the arch-specific pgd_alloc() and pgd_free() wherever possible. To accommodate as many arch as possible, __pgd_alloc() takes a page allocation order. Because pagetable_alloc() allocates zeroed pages, explicit zeroing in pgd_alloc() becomes redundant and we can get rid of it. Some trivial implementations of pgd_free() also become unnecessary once __pgd_alloc() is used; remove them. Another small improvement is consistent accounting of PGD pages by using GFP_PGTABLE_{USER,KERNEL} as appropriate. Not all PGD allocations can be handled by the generic helpers. In particular, multiple architectures allocate PGDs from a kmem_cache, and those PGDs may not be page-sized. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-6-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Walleij Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: pgtable: introduce generic pagetable_dtor_free()

2025-01-26T04:22:23Z

The pte_free(), pmd_free(), __pud_free() and __p4d_free() in asm-generic/pgalloc.h and the generic __tlb_remove_table() are basically the same, so let's introduce pagetable_dtor_free() to deduplicate them. In addition, the pagetable_dtor_free() in s390 does the same thing, so let's s390 also calls generic pagetable_dtor_free(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1663a0565aca881d1338ceb7d1db4aa9c333abd6.1736317725.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev [s390] Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: pgtable: introduce pagetable_dtor()

2025-01-26T04:22:22Z

The pagetable_p*_dtor() are exactly the same except for the handling of ptlock. If we make ptlock_free() handle the case where ptdesc->ptl is NULL and remove VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() from pmd_ptlock_free(), we can unify pagetable_p*_dtor() into one function. Let's introduce pagetable_dtor() to do this. Later, pagetable_dtor() will be moved to tlb_remove_ptdesc(), so that ptlock and page table pages can be freed together (regardless of whether RCU is used). This prevents the use-after-free problem where the ptlock is freed immediately but the page table pages is freed later via RCU. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/47f44fff9dc68d9d9e9a0d6c036df275f820598a.1736317725.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev [s390] Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: pgtable: add statistics for P4D level page table

2025-01-26T04:22:21Z

Like other levels of page tables, add statistics for P4D level page table. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d55fe3c286305aae84457da9e1066df99b3de125.1736317725.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic p4d_{alloc_one,free}

2025-01-26T04:22:21Z

Four architectures currently implement 5-level pgtables: arm64, riscv, x86 and s390. The first three have essentially the same implementation for p4d_alloc_one() and p4d_free(), so we've got an opportunity to reduce duplication like at the lower levels. Provide a generic version of p4d_alloc_one() and p4d_free(), and make use of it on those architectures. Their implementation is the same as at PUD level, except that p4d_free() performs a runtime check by calling mm_p4d_folded(). 5-level pgtables depend on a runtime-detected hardware feature on all supported architectures, so we might as well include this check in the generic implementation. No runtime check is required in p4d_alloc_one() as the top-level p4d_alloc() already does the required check. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/26d69c74a29183ecc335b9b407040d8e4cd70c6a.1736317725.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann [asm-generic] Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site

2024-04-26T03:55:59Z

Main goal of memory allocation profiling patchset is to provide accounting that is cheap enough to run in production. To achieve that we inject counters using codetags at the allocation call sites to account every time allocation is made. This injection allows us to perform accounting efficiently because injected counters are immediately available as opposed to the alternative methods, such as using _RET_IP_, which would require counter lookup and appropriate locking that makes accounting much more expensive. This method requires all allocation functions to inject separate counters at their call sites so that their callers can be individually accounted. Counter injection is implemented by allocation hooks which should wrap all allocation functions. Inlined functions which perform allocations but do not use allocation hooks are directly charged for the allocations they perform. In most cases these functions are just specialized allocation wrappers used from multiple places to allocate objects of a specific type. It would be more useful to do the accounting at their call sites instead. Instrument these helpers to do accounting at the call site. Simple inlined allocation wrappers are converted directly into macros. More complex allocators or allocators with documentation are converted into _noprof versions and allocation hooks are added. This allows memory allocation profiling mechanism to charge allocations to the callers of these functions. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415020731.1152108-1-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Acked-by: Jan Kara [jbd2] Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Tissoires Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Jakub Sitnicki Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add statistics for PUD level pagetable

2023-10-06T21:44:10Z

Recently, we found that cross-die access to pagetable pages on ARM64 machines can cause performance fluctuations in our business. Currently, there are no PMU events available to track this situation on our ARM64 machines, so accurate pagetable accounting can help to analyze this issue, but now the PUD level pagetable accounting is missed. So introduce pagetable_pud_ctor/dtor() to help to get accurate PUD pagetable accounting, as well as converting the architectures which use generic PUD pagetable allocation to add corresponding PUD pagetable accounting. Moreover this patch will mark the PUD level pagetable with PG_table flag, which will help to do sanity validation in unpoison_memory(). On my testing machine, I can see more pagetables statistics after the patch with page-types tool: Before patch: flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000004000000 27326 106 __________________________g_________________ pgtable After patch: 0x0000000004000000 27541 107 __________________________g_________________ pgtable Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/876c71c03a7e69c17722a690e3225a4f7b172fb2.1695017383.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

pgalloc: convert various functions to use ptdescs

2023-08-21T20:37:55Z

As part of the conversions to replace pgtable constructor/destructors with ptdesc equivalents, convert various page table functions to use ptdescs. Some of the functions use the *get*page*() helper functions. Convert these to use pagetable_alloc() and ptdesc_address() instead to help standardize page tables further. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230807230513.102486-17-vishal.moola@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Claudio Imbrenda Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: prefer xxx_page() alloc/free functions for order-0 pages

2023-03-28T23:20:16Z

Update instances of alloc_pages(..., 0), __get_free_pages(..., 0) and __free_pages(..., 0) to use alloc_page(), __get_free_page() and __free_page() respectively in core code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/50c48ca4789f1da2a65795f2346f5ae3eff7d665.1678710232.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton