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<title>Merge mm-hotfixes-stable into mm-stable to pick up depended-upon changes.</title>
<updated>2023-06-23T23:58:19+00:00</updated>
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<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-06-23T23:58:19+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: fix regression in userfaultfd_unmap_prep()</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T23:19:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liam R. Howlett</name>
<email>Liam.Howlett@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-01T01:54:02+00:00</published>
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Android reported a performance regression in the userfaultfd unmap path. 
A closer inspection on the userfaultfd_unmap_prep() change showed that a
second tree walk would be necessary in the reworked code.

Fix the regression by passing each VMA that will be unmapped through to
the userfaultfd_unmap_prep() function as they are added to the unmap list,
instead of re-walking the tree for the VMA.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230601015402.2819343-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Fixes: 69dbe6daf104 ("userfaultfd: use maple tree iterator to iterate VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Android reported a performance regression in the userfaultfd unmap path. 
A closer inspection on the userfaultfd_unmap_prep() change showed that a
second tree walk would be necessary in the reworked code.

Fix the regression by passing each VMA that will be unmapped through to
the userfaultfd_unmap_prep() function as they are added to the unmap list,
instead of re-walking the tree for the VMA.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230601015402.2819343-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Fixes: 69dbe6daf104 ("userfaultfd: use maple tree iterator to iterate VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: ptep_get() conversion</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T23:19:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryan Roberts</name>
<email>ryan.roberts@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-12T15:15:45+00:00</published>
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Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use
ptep_get() helper.  This means that by default, the accesses change from a
C dereference to a READ_ONCE().  This is technically the correct thing to
do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are
volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics.

But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by
the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte.  Arch code
is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best.  It is
intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own
implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or
determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source.

Conversion was done using Coccinelle:

----

// $ make coccicheck \
//          COCCI=ptepget.cocci \
//          SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \
//          MODE=patch

virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
pte_t *v;
@@

- *v
+ ptep_get(v)

----

Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to
ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a
variable, where it is correct to do so.  This aims to negate any cost of
READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex.

Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that
was pointed out by kernel test robot.  The issue arose because config
MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including
ptep_get().  HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple
huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep.
So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because
ptep_get() is not defined.  Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference
when MMU=n.  This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be
trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are
defined.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich &lt;dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use
ptep_get() helper.  This means that by default, the accesses change from a
C dereference to a READ_ONCE().  This is technically the correct thing to
do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are
volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics.

But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by
the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte.  Arch code
is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best.  It is
intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own
implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or
determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source.

Conversion was done using Coccinelle:

----

// $ make coccicheck \
//          COCCI=ptepget.cocci \
//          SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \
//          MODE=patch

virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
pte_t *v;
@@

- *v
+ ptep_get(v)

----

Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to
ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a
variable, where it is correct to do so.  This aims to negate any cost of
READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex.

Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that
was pointed out by kernel test robot.  The issue arose because config
MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including
ptep_get().  HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple
huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep.
So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because
ptep_get() is not defined.  Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference
when MMU=n.  This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be
trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are
defined.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich &lt;dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm/userfaultfd: retry if pte_offset_map() fails</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T23:19:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-09T01:24:38+00:00</published>
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Instead of worrying whether the pmd is stable, userfaultfd_must_wait()
call pte_offset_map() as before, but go back to try again if that fails.

Risk of endless loop?  It already broke out if pmd_none(), !pmd_present()
or pmd_trans_huge(), and pte_offset_map() would have cleared pmd_bad():
which leaves pmd_devmap().  Presumably pmd_devmap() is inappropriate in a
vma subject to userfaultfd (it would have been mistreated before), but add
a check just to avoid all possibility of endless loop there.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/54423f-3dff-fd8d-614a-632727cc4cfb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zack Rusin &lt;zackr@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Instead of worrying whether the pmd is stable, userfaultfd_must_wait()
call pte_offset_map() as before, but go back to try again if that fails.

Risk of endless loop?  It already broke out if pmd_none(), !pmd_present()
or pmd_trans_huge(), and pte_offset_map() would have cleared pmd_bad():
which leaves pmd_devmap().  Presumably pmd_devmap() is inappropriate in a
vma subject to userfaultfd (it would have been mistreated before), but add
a check just to avoid all possibility of endless loop there.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/54423f-3dff-fd8d-614a-632727cc4cfb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zack Rusin &lt;zackr@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: use pmdp_get_lockless() without surplus barrier()</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T23:19:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-09T01:06:53+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail", v2.

What is it all about?  Some mmap_lock avoidance i.e.  latency reduction. 
Initially just for the case of collapsing shmem or file pages to THPs; but
likely to be relied upon later in other contexts e.g.  freeing of empty
page tables (but that's not work I'm doing).  mmap_write_lock avoidance
when collapsing to anon THPs?  Perhaps, but again that's not work I've
done: a quick attempt was not as easy as the shmem/file case.

I would much prefer not to have to make these small but wide-ranging
changes for such a niche case; but failed to find another way, and have
heard that shmem MADV_COLLAPSE's usefulness is being limited by that
mmap_write_lock it currently requires.

These changes (though of course not these exact patches) have been in
Google's data centre kernel for three years now: we do rely upon them.

What is this preparatory series about?

The current mmap locking will not be enough to guard against that tricky
transition between pmd entry pointing to page table, and empty pmd entry,
and pmd entry pointing to huge page: pte_offset_map() will have to
validate the pmd entry for itself, returning NULL if no page table is
there.  What to do about that varies: sometimes nearby error handling
indicates just to skip it; but in many cases an ACTION_AGAIN or "goto
again" is appropriate (and if that risks an infinite loop, then there must
have been an oops, or pfn 0 mistaken for page table, before).

Given the likely extension to freeing empty page tables, I have not
limited this set of changes to a THP config; and it has been easier, and
sets a better example, if each site is given appropriate handling: even
where deeper study might prove that failure could only happen if the pmd
table were corrupted.

Several of the patches are, or include, cleanup on the way; and by the
end, pmd_trans_unstable() and suchlike are deleted: pte_offset_map() and
pte_offset_map_lock() then handle those original races and more.  Most
uses of pte_lockptr() are deprecated, with pte_offset_map_nolock() taking
its place.


This patch (of 32):

Use pmdp_get_lockless() in preference to READ_ONCE(*pmdp), to get a more
reliable result with PAE (or READ_ONCE as before without PAE); and remove
the unnecessary extra barrier()s which got left behind in its callers.

HOWEVER: Note the small print in linux/pgtable.h, where it was designed
specifically for fast GUP, and depends on interrupts being disabled for
its full guarantee: most callers which have been added (here and before)
do NOT have interrupts disabled, so there is still some need for caution.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f35279a9-9ac0-de22-d245-591afbfb4dc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zack Rusin &lt;zackr@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm: allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail", v2.

What is it all about?  Some mmap_lock avoidance i.e.  latency reduction. 
Initially just for the case of collapsing shmem or file pages to THPs; but
likely to be relied upon later in other contexts e.g.  freeing of empty
page tables (but that's not work I'm doing).  mmap_write_lock avoidance
when collapsing to anon THPs?  Perhaps, but again that's not work I've
done: a quick attempt was not as easy as the shmem/file case.

I would much prefer not to have to make these small but wide-ranging
changes for such a niche case; but failed to find another way, and have
heard that shmem MADV_COLLAPSE's usefulness is being limited by that
mmap_write_lock it currently requires.

These changes (though of course not these exact patches) have been in
Google's data centre kernel for three years now: we do rely upon them.

What is this preparatory series about?

The current mmap locking will not be enough to guard against that tricky
transition between pmd entry pointing to page table, and empty pmd entry,
and pmd entry pointing to huge page: pte_offset_map() will have to
validate the pmd entry for itself, returning NULL if no page table is
there.  What to do about that varies: sometimes nearby error handling
indicates just to skip it; but in many cases an ACTION_AGAIN or "goto
again" is appropriate (and if that risks an infinite loop, then there must
have been an oops, or pfn 0 mistaken for page table, before).

Given the likely extension to freeing empty page tables, I have not
limited this set of changes to a THP config; and it has been easier, and
sets a better example, if each site is given appropriate handling: even
where deeper study might prove that failure could only happen if the pmd
table were corrupted.

Several of the patches are, or include, cleanup on the way; and by the
end, pmd_trans_unstable() and suchlike are deleted: pte_offset_map() and
pte_offset_map_lock() then handle those original races and more.  Most
uses of pte_lockptr() are deprecated, with pte_offset_map_nolock() taking
its place.


This patch (of 32):

Use pmdp_get_lockless() in preference to READ_ONCE(*pmdp), to get a more
reliable result with PAE (or READ_ONCE as before without PAE); and remove
the unnecessary extra barrier()s which got left behind in its callers.

HOWEVER: Note the small print in linux/pgtable.h, where it was designed
specifically for fast GUP, and depends on interrupts being disabled for
its full guarantee: most callers which have been added (here and before)
do NOT have interrupts disabled, so there is still some need for caution.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f35279a9-9ac0-de22-d245-591afbfb4dc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zack Rusin &lt;zackr@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/uffd: allow vma to merge as much as possible</title>
<updated>2023-06-12T18:31:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-17T19:09:16+00:00</published>
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We used to not pass in the pgoff correctly when register/unregister uffd
regions, it caused incorrect behavior on vma merging and can cause
mergeable vmas being separate after ioctls return.

For example, when we have:

  vma1(range 0-9, with uffd), vma2(range 10-19, no uffd)

Then someone unregisters uffd on range (5-9), it should logically become:

  vma1(range 0-4, with uffd), vma2(range 5-19, no uffd)

But with current code we'll have:

  vma1(range 0-4, with uffd), vma3(range 5-9, no uffd), vma2(range 10-19, no uffd)

This patch allows such merge to happen correctly before ioctl returns.

This behavior seems to have existed since the 1st day of uffd.  Since
pgoff for vma_merge() is only used to identify the possibility of vma
merging, meanwhile here what we did was always passing in a pgoff smaller
than what we should, so there should have no other side effect besides not
merging it.  Let's still tentatively copy stable for this, even though I
don't see anything will go wrong besides vma being split (which is mostly
not user visible).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517190916.3429499-3-peterx@redhat.com
Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We used to not pass in the pgoff correctly when register/unregister uffd
regions, it caused incorrect behavior on vma merging and can cause
mergeable vmas being separate after ioctls return.

For example, when we have:

  vma1(range 0-9, with uffd), vma2(range 10-19, no uffd)

Then someone unregisters uffd on range (5-9), it should logically become:

  vma1(range 0-4, with uffd), vma2(range 5-19, no uffd)

But with current code we'll have:

  vma1(range 0-4, with uffd), vma3(range 5-9, no uffd), vma2(range 10-19, no uffd)

This patch allows such merge to happen correctly before ioctl returns.

This behavior seems to have existed since the 1st day of uffd.  Since
pgoff for vma_merge() is only used to identify the possibility of vma
merging, meanwhile here what we did was always passing in a pgoff smaller
than what we should, so there should have no other side effect besides not
merging it.  Let's still tentatively copy stable for this, even though I
don't see anything will go wrong besides vma being split (which is mostly
not user visible).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517190916.3429499-3-peterx@redhat.com
Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/uffd: fix vma operation where start addr cuts part of vma</title>
<updated>2023-06-12T18:31:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-17T19:09:15+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm/uffd: Fix vma merge/split", v2.

This series contains two patches that fix vma merge/split for userfaultfd
on two separate issues.

Patch 1 fixes a regression since 6.1+ due to something we overlooked when
converting to maple tree apis.  The plan is we use patch 1 to replace the
commit "2f628010799e (mm: userfaultfd: avoid passing an invalid range to
vma_merge())" in mm-hostfixes-unstable tree if possible, so as to bring
uffd vma operations back aligned with the rest code again.

Patch 2 fixes a long standing issue that vma can be left unmerged even if
we can for either uffd register or unregister.

Many thanks to Lorenzo on either noticing this issue from the assert
movement patch, looking at this problem, and also provided a reproducer on
the unmerged vma issue [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/a11a10f5f479e7a977fc456331266e0e


This patch (of 2):

It seems vma merging with uffd paths is broken with either
register/unregister, where right now we can feed wrong parameters to
vma_merge() and it's found by recent patch which moved asserts upwards in
vma_merge() by Lorenzo Stoakes:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZFunF7DmMdK05MoF@FVFF77S0Q05N.cambridge.arm.com/

It's possible that "start" is contained within vma but not clamped to its
start.  We need to convert this into either "cannot merge" case or "can
merge" case 4 which permits subdivision of prev by assigning vma to prev. 
As we loop, each subsequent VMA will be clamped to the start.

This patch will eliminate the report and make sure vma_merge() calls will
become legal again.

One thing to mention is that the "Fixes: 29417d292bd0" below is there only
to help explain where the warning can start to trigger, the real commit to
fix should be 69dbe6daf104.  Commit 29417d292bd0 helps us to identify the
issue, but unfortunately we may want to keep it in Fixes too just to ease
kernel backporters for easier tracking.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517190916.3429499-1-peterx@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517190916.3429499-2-peterx@redhat.com
Fixes: 69dbe6daf104 ("userfaultfd: use maple tree iterator to iterate VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZFunF7DmMdK05MoF@FVFF77S0Q05N.cambridge.arm.com/
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm/uffd: Fix vma merge/split", v2.

This series contains two patches that fix vma merge/split for userfaultfd
on two separate issues.

Patch 1 fixes a regression since 6.1+ due to something we overlooked when
converting to maple tree apis.  The plan is we use patch 1 to replace the
commit "2f628010799e (mm: userfaultfd: avoid passing an invalid range to
vma_merge())" in mm-hostfixes-unstable tree if possible, so as to bring
uffd vma operations back aligned with the rest code again.

Patch 2 fixes a long standing issue that vma can be left unmerged even if
we can for either uffd register or unregister.

Many thanks to Lorenzo on either noticing this issue from the assert
movement patch, looking at this problem, and also provided a reproducer on
the unmerged vma issue [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/a11a10f5f479e7a977fc456331266e0e


This patch (of 2):

It seems vma merging with uffd paths is broken with either
register/unregister, where right now we can feed wrong parameters to
vma_merge() and it's found by recent patch which moved asserts upwards in
vma_merge() by Lorenzo Stoakes:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZFunF7DmMdK05MoF@FVFF77S0Q05N.cambridge.arm.com/

It's possible that "start" is contained within vma but not clamped to its
start.  We need to convert this into either "cannot merge" case or "can
merge" case 4 which permits subdivision of prev by assigning vma to prev. 
As we loop, each subsequent VMA will be clamped to the start.

This patch will eliminate the report and make sure vma_merge() calls will
become legal again.

One thing to mention is that the "Fixes: 29417d292bd0" below is there only
to help explain where the warning can start to trigger, the real commit to
fix should be 69dbe6daf104.  Commit 29417d292bd0 helps us to identify the
issue, but unfortunately we may want to keep it in Fixes too just to ease
kernel backporters for easier tracking.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517190916.3429499-1-peterx@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517190916.3429499-2-peterx@redhat.com
Fixes: 69dbe6daf104 ("userfaultfd: use maple tree iterator to iterate VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZFunF7DmMdK05MoF@FVFF77S0Q05N.cambridge.arm.com/
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</published>
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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 -&gt;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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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 -&gt;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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<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T23:52:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T23:52:33+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "This only does a few sysctl moves from the kernel/sysctl.c file, the
  rest of the work has been put towards deprecating two API calls which
  incur recursion and prevent us from simplifying the registration
  process / saving memory per move. Most of the changes have been
  soaking on linux-next since v6.3-rc3.

  I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's
  feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these moves
  instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more memory since
  when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its own file we end
  up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register it. To achieve
  saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed without requiring
  the end element being empty, and just have our registration process
  rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting both styles of sysctls
  would make the sysctl registration pretty brittle, hard to read and
  maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's efforts to do just this [0].
  Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE() for all sysctl registrations
  also implies doing the work to deprecate two API calls which use
  recursion in order to support sysctl declarations with subdirectories.

  And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into
  this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are
  deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove
  them:

   - register_sysctl_table()
   - register_sysctl_paths()

  During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport
  register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end of
  this merge window.

  Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but this
  pull request goes with a few example of how to do this.

  As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of
  these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these
  changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot.

  The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it
  gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the
  generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes.

  Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths()
  does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport
  you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've
  just kept the stragglers after rc3"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org [0]

* tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (29 commits)
  fs: fix sysctls.c built
  mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks
  mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file
  mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file
  arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars
  ia64: simplify one-level sysctl registration for kdump_ctl_table
  utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table
  ntfs: simplfy one-level sysctl registration for ntfs_sysctls
  coda: simplify one-level sysctl registration for coda_table
  fs/cachefiles: simplify one-level sysctl registration for cachefiles_sysctls
  xfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for xfs_table
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs_cb_sysctls
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs4_cb_sysctls
  lockd: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nlm_sysctls
  proc_sysctl: enhance documentation
  xen: simplify sysctl registration for balloon
  md: simplify sysctl registration
  hv: simplify sysctl registration
  scsi: simplify sysctl registration with register_sysctl()
  csky: simplify alignment sysctl registration
  ...
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "This only does a few sysctl moves from the kernel/sysctl.c file, the
  rest of the work has been put towards deprecating two API calls which
  incur recursion and prevent us from simplifying the registration
  process / saving memory per move. Most of the changes have been
  soaking on linux-next since v6.3-rc3.

  I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's
  feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these moves
  instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more memory since
  when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its own file we end
  up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register it. To achieve
  saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed without requiring
  the end element being empty, and just have our registration process
  rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting both styles of sysctls
  would make the sysctl registration pretty brittle, hard to read and
  maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's efforts to do just this [0].
  Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE() for all sysctl registrations
  also implies doing the work to deprecate two API calls which use
  recursion in order to support sysctl declarations with subdirectories.

  And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into
  this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are
  deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove
  them:

   - register_sysctl_table()
   - register_sysctl_paths()

  During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport
  register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end of
  this merge window.

  Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but this
  pull request goes with a few example of how to do this.

  As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of
  these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these
  changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot.

  The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it
  gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the
  generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes.

  Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths()
  does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport
  you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've
  just kept the stragglers after rc3"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org [0]

* tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (29 commits)
  fs: fix sysctls.c built
  mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks
  mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file
  mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file
  arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars
  ia64: simplify one-level sysctl registration for kdump_ctl_table
  utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table
  ntfs: simplfy one-level sysctl registration for ntfs_sysctls
  coda: simplify one-level sysctl registration for coda_table
  fs/cachefiles: simplify one-level sysctl registration for cachefiles_sysctls
  xfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for xfs_table
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs_cb_sysctls
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs4_cb_sysctls
  lockd: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nlm_sysctls
  proc_sysctl: enhance documentation
  xen: simplify sysctl registration for balloon
  md: simplify sysctl registration
  hv: simplify sysctl registration
  scsi: simplify sysctl registration with register_sysctl()
  csky: simplify alignment sysctl registration
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sync mm-stable with mm-hotfixes-stable to pick up depended-upon upstream changes</title>
<updated>2023-04-16T19:31:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-16T19:31:58+00:00</published>
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