linux-stable.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v5.2.6

mm/nvdimm: add is_ioremap_addr and use that to check ioremap address

2019-07-26T07:11:06+00:00

commit 9bd3bb6703d8c0a5fb8aec8e3287bd55b7341dcd upstream.

Architectures like powerpc use different address range to map ioremap
and vmalloc range.  The memunmap() check used by the nvdimm layer was
wrongly using is_vmalloc_addr() to check for ioremap range which fails
for ppc64.  This result in ppc64 not freeing the ioremap mapping.  The
side effect of this is an unbind failure during module unload with
papr_scm nvdimm driver

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190701134038.14165-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Fixes: b5beae5e224f ("powerpc/pseries: Add driver for PAPR SCM regions")
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

uaccess: add noop untagged_addr definition

2019-06-07T20:09:06+00:00

Architectures that support memory tagging have a need to perform untagging
(stripping the tag) in various parts of the kernel. This patch adds an
untagged_addr() macro, which is defined as noop for architectures that do
not support memory tagging. The oncoming patch series will define it at
least for sparc64 and arm64.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz 
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move buddy list manipulations into helpers

2019-05-15T02:52:48+00:00

In preparation for runtime randomization of the zone lists, take all
(well, most of) the list_*() functions in the buddy allocator and put
them in helper functions.  Provide a common control point for injecting
additional behavior when freeing pages.

[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix buddy list helpers]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155033679702.1773410.13041474192173212653.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[vbabka@suse.cz: remove del_page_from_free_area() migratetype parameter]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4672701b-6775-6efd-0797-b6242591419e@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899812264.3165233.5219320056406926223.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Keith Busch 
Cc: Robert Elliott 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce new vm_map_pages() and vm_map_pages_zero() API

2019-05-14T16:47:50+00:00

Patch series "mm: Use vm_map_pages() and vm_map_pages_zero() API", v5.

This patch (of 5):

Previouly drivers have their own way of mapping range of kernel
pages/memory into user vma and this was done by invoking vm_insert_page()
within a loop.

As this pattern is common across different drivers, it can be generalized
by creating new functions and using them across the drivers.

vm_map_pages() is the API which can be used to map kernel memory/pages in
drivers which have considered vm_pgoff

vm_map_pages_zero() is the API which can be used to map a range of kernel
memory/pages in drivers which have not considered vm_pgoff.  vm_pgoff is
passed as default 0 for those drivers.

We _could_ then at a later "fix" these drivers which are using
vm_map_pages_zero() to behave according to the normal vm_pgoff offsetting
simply by removing the _zero suffix on the function name and if that
causes regressions, it gives us an easy way to revert.

Tested on Rockchip hardware and display is working, including talking to
Lima via prime.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/751cb8a0f4c3e67e95c58a3b072937617f338eea.1552921225.git.jrdr.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder 
Suggested-by: Russell King 
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robin Murphy 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Thierry Reding 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Marek Szyprowski 
Cc: Stefan Richter 
Cc: Sandy Huang 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Oleksandr Andrushchenko 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Pawel Osciak 
Cc: Kyungmin Park 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use mm_zero_struct_page from SPARC on all 64b architectures

2019-05-14T16:47:49+00:00

Patch series "Deferred page init improvements", v7.

This patchset is essentially a refactor of the page initialization logic
that is meant to provide for better code reuse while providing a
significant improvement in deferred page initialization performance.

In my testing on an x86_64 system with 384GB of RAM I have seen the
following.  In the case of regular memory initialization the deferred init
time was decreased from 3.75s to 1.38s on average.  This amounts to a 172%
improvement for the deferred memory initialization performance.

I have called out the improvement observed with each patch.

This patch (of 4):

Use the same approach that was already in use on Sparc on all the
architectures that support a 64b long.

This is mostly motivated by the fact that 7 to 10 store/move instructions
are likely always going to be faster than having to call into a function
that is not specialized for handling page init.

An added advantage to doing it this way is that the compiler can get away
with combining writes in the __init_single_page call.  As a result the
memset call will be reduced to only about 4 write operations, or at least
that is what I am seeing with GCC 6.2 as the flags, LRU pointers, and
count/mapcount seem to be cancelling out at least 4 of the 8 assignments
on my system.

One change I had to make to the function was to reduce the minimum page
size to 56 to support some powerpc64 configurations.

This change should introduce no change on SPARC since it already had this
code.  In the case of x86_64 I saw a reduction from 3.75s to 2.80s when
initializing 384GB of RAM per node.  Pavel Tatashin tested on a system
with Broadcom's Stingray CPU and 48GB of RAM and found that
__init_single_page() takes 19.30ns / 64-byte struct page before this patch
and with this patch it takes 17.33ns / 64-byte struct page.  Mike Rapoport
ran a similar test on a OpenPower (S812LC 8348-21C) with Power8 processor
and 128GB or RAM.  His results per 64-byte struct page were 4.68ns before,
and 4.59ns after this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190405221213.12227.9392.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck 
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Khalid Aziz 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Laurent Dufour 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Pavel Tatashin 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions

2019-05-14T16:47:47+00:00

A discussion of the overall problem is below.

As mentioned in patch 0001, the steps are to fix the problem are:

1) Provide put_user_page*() routines, intended to be used
   for releasing pages that were pinned via get_user_pages*().

2) Convert all of the call sites for get_user_pages*(), to
   invoke put_user_page*(), instead of put_page(). This involves dozens of
   call sites, and will take some time.

3) After (2) is complete, use get_user_pages*() and put_user_page*() to
   implement tracking of these pages. This tracking will be separate from
   the existing struct page refcounting.

4) Use the tracking and identification of these pages, to implement
   special handling (especially in writeback paths) when the pages are
   backed by a filesystem.

Overview
========

Some kernel components (file systems, device drivers) need to access
memory that is specified via process virtual address.  For a long time,
the API to achieve that was get_user_pages ("GUP") and its variations.
However, GUP has critical limitations that have been overlooked; in
particular, GUP does not interact correctly with filesystems in all
situations.  That means that file-backed memory + GUP is a recipe for
potential problems, some of which have already occurred in the field.

GUP was first introduced for Direct IO (O_DIRECT), allowing filesystem
code to get the struct page behind a virtual address and to let storage
hardware perform a direct copy to or from that page.  This is a
short-lived access pattern, and as such, the window for a concurrent
writeback of GUP'd page was small enough that there were not (we think)
any reported problems.  Also, userspace was expected to understand and
accept that Direct IO was not synchronized with memory-mapped access to
that data, nor with any process address space changes such as munmap(),
mremap(), etc.

Over the years, more GUP uses have appeared (virtualization, device
drivers, RDMA) that can keep the pages they get via GUP for a long period
of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, ...).  This long-term pinning
makes an underlying design problem more obvious.

In fact, there are a number of key problems inherent to GUP:

Interactions with file systems
==============================

File systems expect to be able to write back data, both to reclaim pages,
and for data integrity.  Allowing other hardware (NICs, GPUs, etc) to gain
write access to the file memory pages means that such hardware can dirty
the pages, without the filesystem being aware.  This can, in some cases
(depending on filesystem, filesystem options, block device, block device
options, and other variables), lead to data corruption, and also to kernel
bugs of the form:

    kernel BUG at /build/linux-fQ94TU/linux-4.4.0/fs/ext4/inode.c:1899!
    backtrace:
        ext4_writepage
        __writepage
        write_cache_pages
        ext4_writepages
        do_writepages
        __writeback_single_inode
        writeback_sb_inodes
        __writeback_inodes_wb
        wb_writeback
        wb_workfn
        process_one_work
        worker_thread
        kthread
        ret_from_fork

...which is due to the file system asserting that there are still buffer
heads attached:

        ({                                                      \
                BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page));                     \
                ((struct buffer_head *)page_private(page));     \
        })

Dave Chinner's description of this is very clear:

    "The fundamental issue is that ->page_mkwrite must be called on every
    write access to a clean file backed page, not just the first one.
    How long the GUP reference lasts is irrelevant, if the page is clean
    and you need to dirty it, you must call ->page_mkwrite before it is
    marked writeable and dirtied. Every. Time."

This is just one symptom of the larger design problem: real filesystems
that actually write to a backing device, do not actually support
get_user_pages() being called on their pages, and letting hardware write
directly to those pages--even though that pattern has been going on since
about 2005 or so.

Long term GUP
=============

Long term GUP is an issue when FOLL_WRITE is specified to GUP (so, a
writeable mapping is created), and the pages are file-backed.  That can
lead to filesystem corruption.  What happens is that when a file-backed
page is being written back, it is first mapped read-only in all of the CPU
page tables; the file system then assumes that nobody can write to the
page, and that the page content is therefore stable.  Unfortunately, the
GUP callers generally do not monitor changes to the CPU pages tables; they
instead assume that the following pattern is safe (it's not):

    get_user_pages()

    Hardware can keep a reference to those pages for a very long time,
    and write to it at any time.  Because "hardware" here means "devices
    that are not a CPU", this activity occurs without any interaction with
    the kernel's file system code.

    for each page
        set_page_dirty
        put_page()

In fact, the GUP documentation even recommends that pattern.

Anyway, the file system assumes that the page is stable (nothing is
writing to the page), and that is a problem: stable page content is
necessary for many filesystem actions during writeback, such as checksum,
encryption, RAID striping, etc.  Furthermore, filesystem features like COW
(copy on write) or snapshot also rely on being able to use a new page for
as memory for that memory range inside the file.

Corruption during write back is clearly possible here.  To solve that, one
idea is to identify pages that have active GUP, so that we can use a
bounce page to write stable data to the filesystem.  The filesystem would
work on the bounce page, while any of the active GUP might write to the
original page.  This would avoid the stable page violation problem, but
note that it is only part of the overall solution, because other problems
remain.

Other filesystem features that need to replace the page with a new one can
be inhibited for pages that are GUP-pinned.  This will, however, alter and
limit some of those filesystem features.  The only fix for that would be
to require GUP users to monitor and respond to CPU page table updates.
Subsystems such as ODP and HMM do this, for example.  This aspect of the
problem is still under discussion.

Direct IO
=========

Direct IO can cause corruption, if userspace does Direct-IO that writes to
a range of virtual addresses that are mmap'd to a file.  The pages written
to are file-backed pages that can be under write back, while the Direct IO
is taking place.  Here, Direct IO races with a write back: it calls GUP
before page_mkclean() has replaced the CPU pte with a read-only entry.
The race window is pretty small, which is probably why years have gone by
before we noticed this problem: Direct IO is generally very quick, and
tends to finish up before the filesystem gets around to do anything with
the page contents.  However, it's still a real problem.  The solution is
to never let GUP return pages that are under write back, but instead,
force GUP to take a write fault on those pages.  That way, GUP will
properly synchronize with the active write back.  This does not change the
required GUP behavior, it just avoids that race.

Details
=======

Introduces put_user_page(), which simply calls put_page().  This provides
a way to update all get_user_pages*() callers, so that they call
put_user_page(), instead of put_page().

Also introduces put_user_pages(), and a few dirty/locked variations, as a
replacement for release_pages(), and also as a replacement for open-coded
loops that release multiple pages.  These may be used for subsequent
performance improvements, via batching of pages to be released.

This is the first step of fixing a problem (also described in [1] and [2])
with interactions between get_user_pages ("gup") and filesystems.

Problem description: let's start with a bug report.  Below, is what
happens sometimes, under memory pressure, when a driver pins some pages
via gup, and then marks those pages dirty, and releases them.  Note that
the gup documentation actually recommends that pattern.  The problem is
that the filesystem may do a writeback while the pages were gup-pinned,
and then the filesystem believes that the pages are clean.  So, when the
driver later marks the pages as dirty, that conflicts with the
filesystem's page tracking and results in a BUG(), like this one that I
experienced:

    kernel BUG at /build/linux-fQ94TU/linux-4.4.0/fs/ext4/inode.c:1899!
    backtrace:
        ext4_writepage
        __writepage
        write_cache_pages
        ext4_writepages
        do_writepages
        __writeback_single_inode
        writeback_sb_inodes
        __writeback_inodes_wb
        wb_writeback
        wb_workfn
        process_one_work
        worker_thread
        kthread
        ret_from_fork

...which is due to the file system asserting that there are still buffer
heads attached:

        ({                                                      \
                BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page));                     \
                ((struct buffer_head *)page_private(page));     \
        })

Dave Chinner's description of this is very clear:

    "The fundamental issue is that ->page_mkwrite must be called on
    every write access to a clean file backed page, not just the first
    one.  How long the GUP reference lasts is irrelevant, if the page is
    clean and you need to dirty it, you must call ->page_mkwrite before it
    is marked writeable and dirtied.  Every.  Time."

This is just one symptom of the larger design problem: real filesystems
that actually write to a backing device, do not actually support
get_user_pages() being called on their pages, and letting hardware write
directly to those pages--even though that pattern has been going on since
about 2005 or so.

The steps are to fix it are:

1) (This patch): provide put_user_page*() routines, intended to be used
   for releasing pages that were pinned via get_user_pages*().

2) Convert all of the call sites for get_user_pages*(), to
   invoke put_user_page*(), instead of put_page(). This involves dozens of
   call sites, and will take some time.

3) After (2) is complete, use get_user_pages*() and put_user_page*() to
   implement tracking of these pages. This tracking will be separate from
   the existing struct page refcounting.

4) Use the tracking and identification of these pages, to implement
   special handling (especially in writeback paths) when the pages are
   backed by a filesystem.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/774411/ : "DMA and get_user_pages()"
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/ : "The Trouble with get_user_pages()"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327023632.13307-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 		[docs]
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny 
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Tested-by: Ira Weiny 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Ralph Campbell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/gup: change GUP fast to use flags rather than a write 'bool'

2019-05-14T16:47:46+00:00

To facilitate additional options to get_user_pages_fast() change the
singular write parameter to be gup_flags.

This patch does not change any functionality.  New functionality will
follow in subsequent patches.

Some of the get_user_pages_fast() call sites were unchanged because they
already passed FOLL_WRITE or 0 for the write parameter.

NOTE: It was suggested to change the ordering of the get_user_pages_fast()
arguments to ensure that callers were converted.  This breaks the current
GUP call site convention of having the returned pages be the final
parameter.  So the suggestion was rejected.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328084422.29911-4-ira.weiny@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190317183438.2057-4-ira.weiny@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny 
Reviewed-by: Mike Marshall 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/gup: replace get_user_pages_longterm() with FOLL_LONGTERM

2019-05-14T16:47:45+00:00

Pach series "Add FOLL_LONGTERM to GUP fast and use it".

HFI1, qib, and mthca, use get_user_pages_fast() due to its performance
advantages.  These pages can be held for a significant time.  But
get_user_pages_fast() does not protect against mapping FS DAX pages.

Introduce FOLL_LONGTERM and use this flag in get_user_pages_fast() which
retains the performance while also adding the FS DAX checks.  XDP has also
shown interest in using this functionality.[1]

In addition we change get_user_pages() to use the new FOLL_LONGTERM flag
and remove the specialized get_user_pages_longterm call.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/19/939

"longterm" is a relative thing and at this point is probably a misnomer.
This is really flagging a pin which is going to be given to hardware and
can't move.  I've thought of a couple of alternative names but I think we
have to settle on if we are going to use FL_LAYOUT or something else to
solve the "longterm" problem.  Then I think we can change the flag to a
better name.

Secondly, it depends on how often you are registering memory.  I have
spoken with some RDMA users who consider MR in the performance path...
For the overall application performance.  I don't have the numbers as the
tests for HFI1 were done a long time ago.  But there was a significant
advantage.  Some of which is probably due to the fact that you don't have
to hold mmap_sem.

Finally, architecturally I think it would be good for everyone to use
*_fast.  There are patches submitted to the RDMA list which would allow
the use of *_fast (they reworking the use of mmap_sem) and as soon as they
are accepted I'll submit a patch to convert the RDMA core as well.  Also
to this point others are looking to use *_fast.

As an aside, Jasons pointed out in my previous submission that *_fast and
*_unlocked look very much the same.  I agree and I think further cleanup
will be coming.  But I'm focused on getting the final solution for DAX at
the moment.

This patch (of 7):

This patch starts a series which aims to support FOLL_LONGTERM in
get_user_pages_fast().  Some callers who would like to do a longterm (user
controlled pin) of pages with the fast variant of GUP for performance
purposes.

Rather than have a separate get_user_pages_longterm() call, introduce
FOLL_LONGTERM and change the longterm callers to use it.

This patch does not change any functionality.  In the short term
"longterm" or user controlled pins are unsafe for Filesystems and FS DAX
in particular has been blocked.  However, callers of get_user_pages_fast()
were not "protected".

FOLL_LONGTERM can _only_ be supported with get_user_pages[_fast]() as it
requires vmas to determine if DAX is in use.

NOTE: In merging with the CMA changes we opt to change the
get_user_pages() call in check_and_migrate_cma_pages() to a call of
__get_user_pages_locked() on the newly migrated pages.  This makes the
code read better in that we are calling __get_user_pages_locked() on the
pages before and after a potential migration.

As a side affect some of the interfaces are cleaned up but this is not the
primary purpose of the series.

In review[1] it was asked:


> This I don't get - if you do lock down long term mappings performance
> of the actual get_user_pages call shouldn't matter to start with.
>
> What do I miss?

A couple of points.

First "longterm" is a relative thing and at this point is probably a
misnomer.  This is really flagging a pin which is going to be given to
hardware and can't move.  I've thought of a couple of alternative names
but I think we have to settle on if we are going to use FL_LAYOUT or
something else to solve the "longterm" problem.  Then I think we can
change the flag to a better name.

Second, It depends on how often you are registering memory.  I have spoken
with some RDMA users who consider MR in the performance path...  For the
overall application performance.  I don't have the numbers as the tests
for HFI1 were done a long time ago.  But there was a significant
advantage.  Some of which is probably due to the fact that you don't have
to hold mmap_sem.

Finally, architecturally I think it would be good for everyone to use
*_fast.  There are patches submitted to the RDMA list which would allow
the use of *_fast (they reworking the use of mmap_sem) and as soon as they
are accepted I'll submit a patch to convert the RDMA core as well.  Also
to this point others are looking to use *_fast.

As an asside, Jasons pointed out in my previous submission that *_fast and
*_unlocked look very much the same.  I agree and I think further cleanup
will be coming.  But I'm focused on getting the final solution for DAX at
the moment.



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190220180255.GA12020@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com/T/#md6abad2569f3bf6c1f03686c8097ab6563e94965

[ira.weiny@intel.com: v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328084422.29911-2-ira.weiny@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328084422.29911-2-ira.weiny@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190317183438.2057-2-ira.weiny@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Mike Marshall 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/hibernation: Make hibernation handle unmapped pages

2019-04-30T10:37:57+00:00

Make hibernate handle unmapped pages on the direct map when
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_ALIAS=y is set. These functions allow for setting pages
to invalid configurations, so now hibernate should check if the pages have
valid mappings and handle if they are unmapped when doing a hibernate
save operation.

Previously this checking was already done when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
was configured. It does not appear to have a big hibernating performance
impact. The speed of the saving operation before this change was measured
as 819.02 MB/s, and after was measured at 813.32 MB/s.

Before:
[    4.670938] PM: Wrote 171996 kbytes in 0.21 seconds (819.02 MB/s)

After:
[    4.504714] PM: Wrote 178932 kbytes in 0.22 seconds (813.32 MB/s)

Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Nadav Amit 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426001143.4983-16-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'page-refs' (page ref overflow)

2019-04-14T22:09:40+00:00

Merge page ref overflow branch.

Jann Horn reported that he can overflow the page ref count with
sufficient memory (and a filesystem that is intentionally extremely
slow).

Admittedly it's not exactly easy.  To have more than four billion
references to a page requires a minimum of 32GB of kernel memory just
for the pointers to the pages, much less any metadata to keep track of
those pointers.  Jann needed a total of 140GB of memory and a specially
crafted filesystem that leaves all reads pending (in order to not ever
free the page references and just keep adding more).

Still, we have a fairly straightforward way to limit the two obvious
user-controllable sources of page references: direct-IO like page
references gotten through get_user_pages(), and the splice pipe page
duplication.  So let's just do that.

* branch page-refs:
  fs: prevent page refcount overflow in pipe_buf_get
  mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount
  mm: add 'try_get_page()' helper function
  mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit