linux/mm/vmalloc.c, branch v4.19

mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for architectures

2018-08-17T23:20:29Z

Some architectures just don't have PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC. The mm/nommu.c and mm/vmalloc.c code have been using PAGE_KERNEL as a fallback for years. Move this fallback to asm-generic. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180510185507.2439-3-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use octal not symbolic permissions

2018-06-14T22:55:25Z

mm/*.c files use symbolic and octal styles for permissions. Using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more readable. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945 Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions. Done using $ scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace mm/*.c and some typing. Before: $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l 44 After: $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l 86 Miscellanea: o Whitespace neatening around these conversions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e032ef111eebcd4c5952bae86763b541d373469.1522102887.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmalloc: pass proper vm_start into debugobjects

2018-06-08T00:34:35Z

Client can call vunmap with some intermediate 'addr' which may not be the start of the VM area. Entire unmap code works with vm->vm_start which is proper but debug object API is called with 'addr'. This could be a problem within debug objects. Pass proper start address into debug object API. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523961828-9485-3-git-send-email-cpandya@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Yisheng Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmalloc: avoid racy handling of debugobjects in vunmap

2018-06-08T00:34:35Z

Currently, __vunmap flow is, 1) Release the VM area 2) Free the debug objects corresponding to that vm area. This leave some race window open. 1) Release the VM area 1.5) Some other client gets the same vm area 1.6) This client allocates new debug objects on the same vm area 2) Free the debug objects corresponding to this vm area. Here, we actually free 'other' client's debug objects. Fix this by freeing the debug objects first and then releasing the VM area. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523961828-9485-2-git-send-email-cpandya@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Yisheng Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmalloc: clean up vunmap to avoid pgtable ops twice

2018-06-08T00:34:35Z

vunmap does page table clear operations twice in the case when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT is enabled. So, clean up the code as that is unintended. As a perf gain, we save few us. Below ftrace data was obtained while doing 1 MB of vmalloc/vfree on ARM64 based SoC *without* this patch applied. After this patch, we can save ~3 us (on 1 extra vunmap_page_range). CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS | | | | | | | 6) | __vunmap() { 6) | vmap_debug_free_range() { 6) 3.281 us | vunmap_page_range(); 6) + 45.468 us | } 6) 2.760 us | vunmap_page_range(); 6) ! 505.105 us | } [cpandya@codeaurora.org: v3] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525176960-18408-1-git-send-email-cpandya@codeaurora.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523876342-10545-1-git-send-email-cpandya@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Florian Fainelli Cc: Yisheng Xie Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Byungchul Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: introduce proc_create_seq_private

2018-05-16T05:23:35Z

Variant of proc_create_data that directly take a struct seq_operations argument + a private state size and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers. All trivial callers converted over. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}

2018-05-16T05:23:35Z

Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers. All trivial callers converted over. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

vmalloc: fix __GFP_HIGHMEM usage for vmalloc_32 on 32b systems

2018-02-21T23:35:43Z

Kai Heng Feng has noticed that BUG_ON(PageHighMem(pg)) triggers in drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_core.c since 19809c2da28a ("mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly"). saa7146_vmalloc_build_pgtable uses vmalloc_32 and it is reasonable to expect that the resulting page is not in highmem. The above commit aimed to add __GFP_HIGHMEM only for those requests which do not specify any zone modifier gfp flag. vmalloc_32 relies on GFP_VMALLOC32 which should do the right thing. Except it has been missed that GFP_VMALLOC32 is an alias for GFP_KERNEL on 32b architectures. Thanks to Matthew to notice this. Fix the problem by unconditionally setting GFP_DMA32 in GFP_VMALLOC32 for !64b arches (as a bailout). This should do the right thing and use ZONE_NORMAL which should be always below 4G on 32b systems. Debugged by Matthew Wilcox. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212095019.GX21609@dhcp22.suse.cz Fixes: 19809c2da28a ("mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly”) Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reported-by: Kai Heng Feng Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed"

2017-10-13T23:18:32Z

This reverts commits 5d17a73a2ebe ("vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed") and 171012f56127 ("mm: don't warn when vmalloc() fails due to a fatal signal"). Commit 5d17a73a2ebe ("vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed") made all vmalloc allocations from a signal-killed task fail. We have seen crashes in the tty driver from this, where a killed task exiting tries to switch back to N_TTY, fails n_tty_open because of the vmalloc failing, and later crashes when dereferencing tty->disc_data. Arguably, relying on a vmalloc() call to succeed in order to properly exit a task is not the most robust way of doing things. There will be a follow-up patch to the tty code to fall back to the N_NULL ldisc. But the justification to make that vmalloc() call fail like this isn't convincing, either. The patch mentions an OOM victim exhausting the memory reserves and thus deadlocking the machine. But the OOM killer is only one, improbable source of fatal signals. It doesn't make sense to fail allocations preemptively with plenty of memory in most cases. The patch doesn't mention real-life instances where vmalloc sites would exhaust memory, which makes it sound more like a theoretical issue to begin with. But just in case, the OOM access to memory reserves has been restricted on the allocator side in cd04ae1e2dc8 ("mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access"), which should take care of any theoretical concerns on that front. Revert this patch, and the follow-up that suppresses the allocation warnings when we fail the allocations due to a signal. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004185906.GB2136@cmpxchg.org Fixes: 171012f56127 ("mm: don't warn when vmalloc() fails due to a fatal signal") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc.c: don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API

2017-09-07T00:27:29Z

Although llist provides proper APIs, they are not used. Make them used. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502095374-16112-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park Cc: zijun_hu Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds