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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/mm_types.h, branch v5.15.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>page_pool: add interface to manipulate frag count in page pool</title>
<updated>2021-08-09T22:49:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yunsheng Lin</name>
<email>linyunsheng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-06T02:46:20+00:00</published>
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For 32 bit systems with 64 bit dma, dma_addr[1] is used to
store the upper 32 bit dma addr, those system should be rare
those days.

For normal system, the dma_addr[1] in 'struct page' is not
used, so we can reuse dma_addr[1] for storing frag count,
which means how many frags this page might be splited to.

In order to simplify the page frag support in the page pool,
the PAGE_POOL_DMA_USE_PP_FRAG_COUNT macro is added to indicate
the 32 bit systems with 64 bit dma, and the page frag support
in page pool is disabled for such system.

The newly added page_pool_set_frag_count() is called to reserve
the maximum frag count before any page frag is passed to the
user. The page_pool_atomic_sub_frag_count_return() is called
when user is done with the page frag.

Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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For 32 bit systems with 64 bit dma, dma_addr[1] is used to
store the upper 32 bit dma addr, those system should be rare
those days.

For normal system, the dma_addr[1] in 'struct page' is not
used, so we can reuse dma_addr[1] for storing frag count,
which means how many frags this page might be splited to.

In order to simplify the page frag support in the page pool,
the PAGE_POOL_DMA_USE_PP_FRAG_COUNT macro is added to indicate
the 32 bit systems with 64 bit dma, and the page frag support
in page pool is disabled for such system.

The newly added page_pool_set_frag_count() is called to reserve
the maximum frag count before any page frag is passed to the
user. The page_pool_atomic_sub_frag_count_return() is called
when user is done with the page frag.

Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix spelling mistakes</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T18:06:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhen Lei</name>
<email>thunder.leizhen@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:53:17+00:00</published>
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Fix some spelling mistakes in comments:
each having differents usage ==&gt; each has a different usage
statments ==&gt; statements
adresses ==&gt; addresses
aggresive ==&gt; aggressive
datas ==&gt; data
posion ==&gt; poison
higer ==&gt; higher
precisly ==&gt; precisely
wont ==&gt; won't
We moves tha ==&gt; We move the
endianess ==&gt; endianness

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210519065853.7723-2-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix some spelling mistakes in comments:
each having differents usage ==&gt; each has a different usage
statments ==&gt; statements
adresses ==&gt; addresses
aggresive ==&gt; aggressive
datas ==&gt; data
posion ==&gt; poison
higer ==&gt; higher
precisly ==&gt; precisely
wont ==&gt; won't
We moves tha ==&gt; We move the
endianess ==&gt; endianness

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210519065853.7723-2-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2021-06-30T22:51:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-30T22:51:09+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - BPF:
      - add syscall program type and libbpf support for generating
        instructions and bindings for in-kernel BPF loaders (BPF loaders
        for BPF), this is a stepping stone for signed BPF programs
      - infrastructure to migrate TCP child sockets from one listener to
        another in the same reuseport group/map to improve flexibility
        of service hand-off/restart
      - add broadcast support to XDP redirect

   - allow bypass of the lockless qdisc to improving performance (for
     pktgen: +23% with one thread, +44% with 2 threads)

   - add a simpler version of "DO_ONCE()" which does not require jump
     labels, intended for slow-path usage

   - virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support

   - add getsocketopt to retrieve netns cookie

   - ip: treat lowest address of a IPv4 subnet as ordinary unicast
     address allowing reclaiming of precious IPv4 addresses

   - ipv6: use prandom_u32() for ID generation

   - ip: add support for more flexible field selection for hashing
     across multi-path routes (w/ offload to mlxsw)

   - icmp: add support for extended RFC 8335 PROBE (ping)

   - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT46 behavior

   - mptcp:
      - DSS checksum support (RFC 8684) to detect middlebox meddling
      - support Connection-time 'C' flag
      - time stamping support

   - sctp: packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (RFC 8899)

   - xfrm: speed up state addition with seq set

   - WiFi:
      - hidden AP discovery on 6 GHz and other HE 6 GHz improvements
      - aggregation handling improvements for some drivers
      - minstrel improvements for no-ack frames
      - deferred rate control for TXQs to improve reaction times
      - switch from round robin to virtual time-based airtime scheduler

   - add trace points:
      - tcp checksum errors
      - openvswitch - action execution, upcalls
      - socket errors via sk_error_report

  Device APIs:

   - devlink: add rate API for hierarchical control of max egress rate
     of virtual devices (VFs, SFs etc.)

   - don't require RCU read lock to be held around BPF hooks in NAPI
     context

   - page_pool: generic buffer recycling

  New hardware/drivers:

   - mobile:
      - iosm: PCIe Driver for Intel M.2 Modem
      - support for Qualcomm MSM8998 (ipa)

   - WiFi: Qualcomm QCN9074 and WCN6855 PCI devices

   - sparx5: Microchip SparX-5 family of Enterprise Ethernet switches

   - Mellanox BlueField Gigabit Ethernet (control NIC of the DPU)

   - NXP SJA1110 Automotive Ethernet 10-port switch

   - Qualcomm QCA8327 switch support (qca8k)

   - Mikrotik 10/25G NIC (atl1c)

  Driver changes:

   - ACPI support for some MDIO, MAC and PHY devices from Marvell and
     NXP (our first foray into MAC/PHY description via ACPI)

   - HW timestamping (PTP) support: bnxt_en, ice, sja1105, hns3, tja11xx

   - Mellanox/Nvidia NIC (mlx5)
      - NIC VF offload of L2 bridging
      - support IRQ distribution to Sub-functions

   - Marvell (prestera):
      - add flower and match all
      - devlink trap
      - link aggregation

   - Netronome (nfp): connection tracking offload

   - Intel 1GE (igc): add AF_XDP support

   - Marvell DPU (octeontx2): ingress ratelimit offload

   - Google vNIC (gve): new ring/descriptor format support

   - Qualcomm mobile (rmnet &amp; ipa): inline checksum offload support

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
      - mt7915 MSI support
      - mt7915 Tx status reporting
      - mt7915 thermal sensors support
      - mt7921 decapsulation offload
      - mt7921 enable runtime pm and deep sleep

   - Realtek WiFi (rtw88)
      - beacon filter support
      - Tx antenna path diversity support
      - firmware crash information via devcoredump

   - Qualcomm WiFi (wcn36xx)
      - Wake-on-WLAN support with magic packets and GTK rekeying

   - Micrel PHY (ksz886x/ksz8081): add cable test support"

* tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2168 commits)
  tcp: change ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE definition
  tcp_yeah: check struct yeah size at compile time
  gve: DQO: Fix off by one in gve_rx_dqo()
  stmmac: intel: set PCI_D3hot in suspend
  stmmac: intel: Enable PHY WOL option in EHL
  net: stmmac: option to enable PHY WOL with PMT enabled
  net: say "local" instead of "static" addresses in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
  net: use netdev_info in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
  ptp: Set lookup cookie when creating a PTP PPS source.
  net: sock: add trace for socket errors
  net: sock: introduce sk_error_report
  net: dsa: replay the local bridge FDB entries pointing to the bridge dev too
  net: dsa: ensure during dsa_fdb_offload_notify that dev_hold and dev_put are on the same dev
  net: dsa: include fdb entries pointing to bridge in the host fdb list
  net: dsa: include bridge addresses which are local in the host fdb list
  net: dsa: sync static FDB entries on foreign interfaces to hardware
  net: dsa: install the host MDB and FDB entries in the master's RX filter
  net: dsa: reference count the FDB addresses at the cross-chip notifier level
  net: dsa: introduce a separate cross-chip notifier type for host FDBs
  net: dsa: reference count the MDB entries at the cross-chip notifier level
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - BPF:
      - add syscall program type and libbpf support for generating
        instructions and bindings for in-kernel BPF loaders (BPF loaders
        for BPF), this is a stepping stone for signed BPF programs
      - infrastructure to migrate TCP child sockets from one listener to
        another in the same reuseport group/map to improve flexibility
        of service hand-off/restart
      - add broadcast support to XDP redirect

   - allow bypass of the lockless qdisc to improving performance (for
     pktgen: +23% with one thread, +44% with 2 threads)

   - add a simpler version of "DO_ONCE()" which does not require jump
     labels, intended for slow-path usage

   - virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support

   - add getsocketopt to retrieve netns cookie

   - ip: treat lowest address of a IPv4 subnet as ordinary unicast
     address allowing reclaiming of precious IPv4 addresses

   - ipv6: use prandom_u32() for ID generation

   - ip: add support for more flexible field selection for hashing
     across multi-path routes (w/ offload to mlxsw)

   - icmp: add support for extended RFC 8335 PROBE (ping)

   - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT46 behavior

   - mptcp:
      - DSS checksum support (RFC 8684) to detect middlebox meddling
      - support Connection-time 'C' flag
      - time stamping support

   - sctp: packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (RFC 8899)

   - xfrm: speed up state addition with seq set

   - WiFi:
      - hidden AP discovery on 6 GHz and other HE 6 GHz improvements
      - aggregation handling improvements for some drivers
      - minstrel improvements for no-ack frames
      - deferred rate control for TXQs to improve reaction times
      - switch from round robin to virtual time-based airtime scheduler

   - add trace points:
      - tcp checksum errors
      - openvswitch - action execution, upcalls
      - socket errors via sk_error_report

  Device APIs:

   - devlink: add rate API for hierarchical control of max egress rate
     of virtual devices (VFs, SFs etc.)

   - don't require RCU read lock to be held around BPF hooks in NAPI
     context

   - page_pool: generic buffer recycling

  New hardware/drivers:

   - mobile:
      - iosm: PCIe Driver for Intel M.2 Modem
      - support for Qualcomm MSM8998 (ipa)

   - WiFi: Qualcomm QCN9074 and WCN6855 PCI devices

   - sparx5: Microchip SparX-5 family of Enterprise Ethernet switches

   - Mellanox BlueField Gigabit Ethernet (control NIC of the DPU)

   - NXP SJA1110 Automotive Ethernet 10-port switch

   - Qualcomm QCA8327 switch support (qca8k)

   - Mikrotik 10/25G NIC (atl1c)

  Driver changes:

   - ACPI support for some MDIO, MAC and PHY devices from Marvell and
     NXP (our first foray into MAC/PHY description via ACPI)

   - HW timestamping (PTP) support: bnxt_en, ice, sja1105, hns3, tja11xx

   - Mellanox/Nvidia NIC (mlx5)
      - NIC VF offload of L2 bridging
      - support IRQ distribution to Sub-functions

   - Marvell (prestera):
      - add flower and match all
      - devlink trap
      - link aggregation

   - Netronome (nfp): connection tracking offload

   - Intel 1GE (igc): add AF_XDP support

   - Marvell DPU (octeontx2): ingress ratelimit offload

   - Google vNIC (gve): new ring/descriptor format support

   - Qualcomm mobile (rmnet &amp; ipa): inline checksum offload support

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
      - mt7915 MSI support
      - mt7915 Tx status reporting
      - mt7915 thermal sensors support
      - mt7921 decapsulation offload
      - mt7921 enable runtime pm and deep sleep

   - Realtek WiFi (rtw88)
      - beacon filter support
      - Tx antenna path diversity support
      - firmware crash information via devcoredump

   - Qualcomm WiFi (wcn36xx)
      - Wake-on-WLAN support with magic packets and GTK rekeying

   - Micrel PHY (ksz886x/ksz8081): add cable test support"

* tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2168 commits)
  tcp: change ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE definition
  tcp_yeah: check struct yeah size at compile time
  gve: DQO: Fix off by one in gve_rx_dqo()
  stmmac: intel: set PCI_D3hot in suspend
  stmmac: intel: Enable PHY WOL option in EHL
  net: stmmac: option to enable PHY WOL with PMT enabled
  net: say "local" instead of "static" addresses in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
  net: use netdev_info in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
  ptp: Set lookup cookie when creating a PTP PPS source.
  net: sock: add trace for socket errors
  net: sock: introduce sk_error_report
  net: dsa: replay the local bridge FDB entries pointing to the bridge dev too
  net: dsa: ensure during dsa_fdb_offload_notify that dev_hold and dev_put are on the same dev
  net: dsa: include fdb entries pointing to bridge in the host fdb list
  net: dsa: include bridge addresses which are local in the host fdb list
  net: dsa: sync static FDB entries on foreign interfaces to hardware
  net: dsa: install the host MDB and FDB entries in the master's RX filter
  net: dsa: reference count the FDB addresses at the cross-chip notifier level
  net: dsa: introduce a separate cross-chip notifier type for host FDBs
  net: dsa: reference count the MDB entries at the cross-chip notifier level
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: gup: pack has_pinned in MMF_HAS_PINNED</title>
<updated>2021-06-29T17:53:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-29T02:36:40+00:00</published>
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has_pinned 32bit can be packed in the MMF_HAS_PINNED bit as a noop
cleanup.

Any atomic_inc/dec to the mm cacheline shared by all threads in pin-fast
would reintroduce a loss of SMP scalability to pin-fast, so there's no
future potential usefulness to keep an atomic in the mm for this.

set_bit(MMF_HAS_PINNED) will be theoretically a bit slower than WRITE_ONCE
(atomic_set is equivalent to WRITE_ONCE), but the set_bit (just like
atomic_set after this commit) has to be still issued only once per "mm",
so the difference between the two will be lost in the noise.

will-it-scale "mmap2" shows no change in performance with enterprise
config as expected.

will-it-scale "pin_fast" retains the &gt; 4000% SMP scalability performance
improvement against upstream as expected.

This is a noop as far as overall performance and SMP scalability are
concerned.

[peterx@redhat.com: pack has_pinned in MMF_HAS_PINNED]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YJqWESqyxa8OZA+2@t490s
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
[peterx@redhat.com: fix build for task_mmu.c, introduce mm_set_has_pinned_flag, fix comments]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210507150553.208763-4-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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has_pinned 32bit can be packed in the MMF_HAS_PINNED bit as a noop
cleanup.

Any atomic_inc/dec to the mm cacheline shared by all threads in pin-fast
would reintroduce a loss of SMP scalability to pin-fast, so there's no
future potential usefulness to keep an atomic in the mm for this.

set_bit(MMF_HAS_PINNED) will be theoretically a bit slower than WRITE_ONCE
(atomic_set is equivalent to WRITE_ONCE), but the set_bit (just like
atomic_set after this commit) has to be still issued only once per "mm",
so the difference between the two will be lost in the noise.

will-it-scale "mmap2" shows no change in performance with enterprise
config as expected.

will-it-scale "pin_fast" retains the &gt; 4000% SMP scalability performance
improvement against upstream as expected.

This is a noop as far as overall performance and SMP scalability are
concerned.

[peterx@redhat.com: pack has_pinned in MMF_HAS_PINNED]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YJqWESqyxa8OZA+2@t490s
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
[peterx@redhat.com: fix build for task_mmu.c, introduce mm_set_has_pinned_flag, fix comments]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210507150553.208763-4-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2021-06-19T02:47:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-19T02:47:02+00:00</published>
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Trivial conflicts in net/can/isotp.c and
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.sh

scaled_ppm_to_ppb() was moved from drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
to include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h in -next so re-apply
the fix there.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Trivial conflicts in net/can/isotp.c and
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.sh

scaled_ppm_to_ppb() was moved from drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
to include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h in -next so re-apply
the fix there.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: relocate 'write_protect_seq' in struct mm_struct</title>
<updated>2021-06-12T20:28:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Feng Tang</name>
<email>feng.tang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-11T01:54:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2e3025434a6ba090c85871a1d4080ff784109e1f'/>
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0day robot reported a 9.2% regression for will-it-scale mmap1 test
case[1], caused by commit 57efa1fe5957 ("mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from
racing with COW during fork").

Further debug shows the regression is due to that commit changes the
offset of hot fields 'mmap_lock' inside structure 'mm_struct', thus some
cache alignment changes.

From the perf data, the contention for 'mmap_lock' is very severe and
takes around 95% cpu cycles, and it is a rw_semaphore

        struct rw_semaphore {
                atomic_long_t count;	/* 8 bytes */
                atomic_long_t owner;	/* 8 bytes */
                struct optimistic_spin_queue osq; /* spinner MCS lock */
                ...

Before commit 57efa1fe5957 adds the 'write_protect_seq', it happens to
have a very optimal cache alignment layout, as Linus explained:

 "and before the addition of the 'write_protect_seq' field, the
  mmap_sem was at offset 120 in 'struct mm_struct'.

  Which meant that count and owner were in two different cachelines,
  and then when you have contention and spend time in
  rwsem_down_write_slowpath(), this is probably *exactly* the kind
  of layout you want.

  Because first the rwsem_write_trylock() will do a cmpxchg on the
  first cacheline (for the optimistic fast-path), and then in the
  case of contention, rwsem_down_write_slowpath() will just access
  the second cacheline.

  Which is probably just optimal for a load that spends a lot of
  time contended - new waiters touch that first cacheline, and then
  they queue themselves up on the second cacheline."

After the commit, the rw_semaphore is at offset 128, which means the
'count' and 'owner' fields are now in the same cacheline, and causes
more cache bouncing.

Currently there are 3 "#ifdef CONFIG_XXX" before 'mmap_lock' which will
affect its offset:

  CONFIG_MMU
  CONFIG_MEMBARRIER
  CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES

The layout above is on 64 bits system with 0day's default kernel config
(similar to RHEL-8.3's config), in which all these 3 options are 'y'.
And the layout can vary with different kernel configs.

Relayouting a structure is usually a double-edged sword, as sometimes it
can helps one case, but hurt other cases.  For this case, one solution
is, as the newly added 'write_protect_seq' is a 4 bytes long seqcount_t
(when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=n), placing it into an existing 4 bytes
hole in 'mm_struct' will not change other fields' alignment, while
restoring the regression.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210525031636.GB7744@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ [1]
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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0day robot reported a 9.2% regression for will-it-scale mmap1 test
case[1], caused by commit 57efa1fe5957 ("mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from
racing with COW during fork").

Further debug shows the regression is due to that commit changes the
offset of hot fields 'mmap_lock' inside structure 'mm_struct', thus some
cache alignment changes.

From the perf data, the contention for 'mmap_lock' is very severe and
takes around 95% cpu cycles, and it is a rw_semaphore

        struct rw_semaphore {
                atomic_long_t count;	/* 8 bytes */
                atomic_long_t owner;	/* 8 bytes */
                struct optimistic_spin_queue osq; /* spinner MCS lock */
                ...

Before commit 57efa1fe5957 adds the 'write_protect_seq', it happens to
have a very optimal cache alignment layout, as Linus explained:

 "and before the addition of the 'write_protect_seq' field, the
  mmap_sem was at offset 120 in 'struct mm_struct'.

  Which meant that count and owner were in two different cachelines,
  and then when you have contention and spend time in
  rwsem_down_write_slowpath(), this is probably *exactly* the kind
  of layout you want.

  Because first the rwsem_write_trylock() will do a cmpxchg on the
  first cacheline (for the optimistic fast-path), and then in the
  case of contention, rwsem_down_write_slowpath() will just access
  the second cacheline.

  Which is probably just optimal for a load that spends a lot of
  time contended - new waiters touch that first cacheline, and then
  they queue themselves up on the second cacheline."

After the commit, the rw_semaphore is at offset 128, which means the
'count' and 'owner' fields are now in the same cacheline, and causes
more cache bouncing.

Currently there are 3 "#ifdef CONFIG_XXX" before 'mmap_lock' which will
affect its offset:

  CONFIG_MMU
  CONFIG_MEMBARRIER
  CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES

The layout above is on 64 bits system with 0day's default kernel config
(similar to RHEL-8.3's config), in which all these 3 options are 'y'.
And the layout can vary with different kernel configs.

Relayouting a structure is usually a double-edged sword, as sometimes it
can helps one case, but hurt other cases.  For this case, one solution
is, as the newly added 'write_protect_seq' is a 4 bytes long seqcount_t
(when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=n), placing it into an existing 4 bytes
hole in 'mm_struct' will not change other fields' alignment, while
restoring the regression.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210525031636.GB7744@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ [1]
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add a signature in struct page</title>
<updated>2021-06-07T21:11:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matteo Croce</name>
<email>mcroce@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-07T19:02:36+00:00</published>
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This is needed by the page_pool to avoid recycling a page not allocated
via page_pool.

The page-&gt;signature field is aliased to page-&gt;lru.next and
page-&gt;compound_head, but it can't be set by mistake because the
signature value is a bad pointer, and can't trigger a false positive
in PageTail() because the last bit is 0.

Co-developed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is needed by the page_pool to avoid recycling a page not allocated
via page_pool.

The page-&gt;signature field is aliased to page-&gt;lru.next and
page-&gt;compound_head, but it can't be set by mistake because the
signature value is a bad pointer, and can't trigger a false positive
in PageTail() because the last bit is 0.

Co-developed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems</title>
<updated>2021-05-15T02:41:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-15T00:27:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9ddb3c14afba8bc5950ed297f02d4ae05ff35cd1'/>
<id>9ddb3c14afba8bc5950ed297f02d4ae05ff35cd1</id>
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32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers and
need 64-bit DMA addresses (arm, mips, ppc) had their struct page
inadvertently expanded in 2019.  When the dma_addr_t was added, it forced
the alignment of the union to 8 bytes, which inserted a 4 byte gap between
'flags' and the union.

Fix this by storing the dma_addr_t in one or two adjacent unsigned longs.
This restores the alignment to that of an unsigned long.  We always
store the low bits in the first word to prevent the PageTail bit from
being inadvertently set on a big endian platform.  If that happened,
get_user_pages_fast() racing against a page which was freed and
reallocated to the page_pool could dereference a bogus compound_head(),
which would be hard to trace back to this cause.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210510153211.1504886-1-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: c25fff7171be ("mm: add dma_addr_t to struct page")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers and
need 64-bit DMA addresses (arm, mips, ppc) had their struct page
inadvertently expanded in 2019.  When the dma_addr_t was added, it forced
the alignment of the union to 8 bytes, which inserted a 4 byte gap between
'flags' and the union.

Fix this by storing the dma_addr_t in one or two adjacent unsigned longs.
This restores the alignment to that of an unsigned long.  We always
store the low bits in the first word to prevent the PageTail bit from
being inadvertently set on a big endian platform.  If that happened,
get_user_pages_fast() racing against a page which was freed and
reallocated to the page_pool could dereference a bogus compound_head(),
which would be hard to trace back to this cause.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210510153211.1504886-1-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: c25fff7171be ("mm: add dma_addr_t to struct page")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/fork: clear PASID for new mm</title>
<updated>2021-03-13T19:27:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-13T05:07:15+00:00</published>
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When a new mm is created, its PASID should be cleared, i.e.  the PASID is
initialized to its init state 0 on both ARM and X86.

This patch was part of the series introducing mm-&gt;pasid, but got lost
along the way [1].  It still makes sense to have it, because each address
space has a different PASID.  And the IOMMU code in
iommu_sva_alloc_pasid() expects the pasid field of a new mm struct to be
cleared.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/YDgh53AcQHT+T3L0@otcwcpicx3.sc.intel.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302103837.2562625-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jacob Pan &lt;jacob.jun.pan@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When a new mm is created, its PASID should be cleared, i.e.  the PASID is
initialized to its init state 0 on both ARM and X86.

This patch was part of the series introducing mm-&gt;pasid, but got lost
along the way [1].  It still makes sense to have it, because each address
space has a different PASID.  And the IOMMU code in
iommu_sva_alloc_pasid() expects the pasid field of a new mm struct to be
cleared.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/YDgh53AcQHT+T3L0@otcwcpicx3.sc.intel.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210302103837.2562625-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jacob Pan &lt;jacob.jun.pan@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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