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<title>sched: Compact RSEQ concurrency IDs with reduced threads and affinity</title>
<updated>2025-02-27T12:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Desnoyers</name>
<email>mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-10T15:32:50+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 02d954c0fdf91845169cdacc7405b120f90afe01 ]

When a process reduces its number of threads or clears bits in its CPU
affinity mask, the mm_cid allocation should eventually converge towards
smaller values.

However, the change introduced by:

commit 7e019dcc470f ("sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency
IDs for intermittent workloads")

adds a per-mm/CPU recent_cid which is never unset unless a thread
migrates.

This is a tradeoff between:

A) Preserving cache locality after a transition from many threads to few
   threads, or after reducing the hamming weight of the allowed CPU mask.

B) Making the mm_cid upper bounds wrt nr threads and allowed CPU mask
   easy to document and understand.

C) Allowing applications to eventually react to mm_cid compaction after
   reduction of the nr threads or allowed CPU mask, making the tracking
   of mm_cid compaction easier by shrinking it back towards 0 or not.

D) Making sure applications that periodically reduce and then increase
   again the nr threads or allowed CPU mask still benefit from good
   cache locality with mm_cid.

Introduce the following changes:

* After shrinking the number of threads or reducing the number of
  allowed CPUs, reduce the value of max_nr_cid so expansion of CID
  allocation will preserve cache locality if the number of threads or
  allowed CPUs increase again.

* Only re-use a recent_cid if it is within the max_nr_cid upper bound,
  else find the first available CID.

Fixes: 7e019dcc470f ("sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency IDs for intermittent workloads")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210153253.460471-2-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 02d954c0fdf91845169cdacc7405b120f90afe01 ]

When a process reduces its number of threads or clears bits in its CPU
affinity mask, the mm_cid allocation should eventually converge towards
smaller values.

However, the change introduced by:

commit 7e019dcc470f ("sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency
IDs for intermittent workloads")

adds a per-mm/CPU recent_cid which is never unset unless a thread
migrates.

This is a tradeoff between:

A) Preserving cache locality after a transition from many threads to few
   threads, or after reducing the hamming weight of the allowed CPU mask.

B) Making the mm_cid upper bounds wrt nr threads and allowed CPU mask
   easy to document and understand.

C) Allowing applications to eventually react to mm_cid compaction after
   reduction of the nr threads or allowed CPU mask, making the tracking
   of mm_cid compaction easier by shrinking it back towards 0 or not.

D) Making sure applications that periodically reduce and then increase
   again the nr threads or allowed CPU mask still benefit from good
   cache locality with mm_cid.

Introduce the following changes:

* After shrinking the number of threads or reducing the number of
  allowed CPUs, reduce the value of max_nr_cid so expansion of CID
  allocation will preserve cache locality if the number of threads or
  allowed CPUs increase again.

* Only re-use a recent_cid if it is within the max_nr_cid upper bound,
  else find the first available CID.

Fixes: 7e019dcc470f ("sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency IDs for intermittent workloads")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210153253.460471-2-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count</title>
<updated>2024-12-31T01:59:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liu Shixin</name>
<email>liushixin2@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-16T07:11:47+00:00</published>
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The folio refcount may be increased unexpectly through try_get_folio() by
caller such as split_huge_pages.  In huge_pmd_unshare(), we use refcount
to check whether a pmd page table is shared.  The check is incorrect if
the refcount is increased by the above caller, and this can cause the page
table leaked:

 BUG: Bad page state in process sh  pfn:109324
 page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x66 pfn:0x109324
 flags: 0x17ffff800000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff)
 page_type: f2(table)
 raw: 017ffff800000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 raw: 0000000000000066 0000000000000000 00000000f2000000 0000000000000000
 page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
 ...
 CPU: 31 UID: 0 PID: 7515 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Tainted: G    B              6.13.0-rc2master+ #7
 Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
 Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 Call trace:
  show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
  dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xf8
  dump_stack+0x18/0x28
  bad_page+0x8c/0x130
  free_page_is_bad_report+0xa4/0xb0
  free_unref_page+0x3cc/0x620
  __folio_put+0xf4/0x158
  split_huge_pages_all+0x1e0/0x3e8
  split_huge_pages_write+0x25c/0x2d8
  full_proxy_write+0x64/0xd8
  vfs_write+0xcc/0x280
  ksys_write+0x70/0x110
  __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
  el0_svc+0x34/0x128
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xd0
  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198

The issue may be triggered by damon, offline_page, page_idle, etc, which
will increase the refcount of page table.

1. The page table itself will be discarded after reporting the
   "nonzero mapcount".

2. The HugeTLB page mapped by the page table miss freeing since we
   treat the page table as shared and a shared page table will not be
   unmapped.

Fix it by introducing independent PMD page table shared count.  As
described by comment, pt_index/pt_mm/pt_frag_refcount are used for s390
gmap, x86 pgds and powerpc, pt_share_count is used for x86/arm64/riscv
pmds, so we can reuse the field as pt_share_count.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241216071147.3984217-1-liushixin2@huawei.com
Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("[PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page")
Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin &lt;liushixin2@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ken Chen &lt;kenneth.w.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nanyong Sun &lt;sunnanyong@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jane Chu &lt;jane.chu@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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The folio refcount may be increased unexpectly through try_get_folio() by
caller such as split_huge_pages.  In huge_pmd_unshare(), we use refcount
to check whether a pmd page table is shared.  The check is incorrect if
the refcount is increased by the above caller, and this can cause the page
table leaked:

 BUG: Bad page state in process sh  pfn:109324
 page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x66 pfn:0x109324
 flags: 0x17ffff800000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff)
 page_type: f2(table)
 raw: 017ffff800000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 raw: 0000000000000066 0000000000000000 00000000f2000000 0000000000000000
 page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
 ...
 CPU: 31 UID: 0 PID: 7515 Comm: sh Kdump: loaded Tainted: G    B              6.13.0-rc2master+ #7
 Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
 Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 Call trace:
  show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
  dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xf8
  dump_stack+0x18/0x28
  bad_page+0x8c/0x130
  free_page_is_bad_report+0xa4/0xb0
  free_unref_page+0x3cc/0x620
  __folio_put+0xf4/0x158
  split_huge_pages_all+0x1e0/0x3e8
  split_huge_pages_write+0x25c/0x2d8
  full_proxy_write+0x64/0xd8
  vfs_write+0xcc/0x280
  ksys_write+0x70/0x110
  __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
  el0_svc+0x34/0x128
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xd0
  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198

The issue may be triggered by damon, offline_page, page_idle, etc, which
will increase the refcount of page table.

1. The page table itself will be discarded after reporting the
   "nonzero mapcount".

2. The HugeTLB page mapped by the page table miss freeing since we
   treat the page table as shared and a shared page table will not be
   unmapped.

Fix it by introducing independent PMD page table shared count.  As
described by comment, pt_index/pt_mm/pt_frag_refcount are used for s390
gmap, x86 pgds and powerpc, pt_share_count is used for x86/arm64/riscv
pmds, so we can reuse the field as pt_share_count.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241216071147.3984217-1-liushixin2@huawei.com
Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("[PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page")
Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin &lt;liushixin2@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ken Chen &lt;kenneth.w.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nanyong Sun &lt;sunnanyong@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jane Chu &lt;jane.chu@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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page-&gt;index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page-&gt;index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page-&gt;index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page-&gt;index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2024-11-21T16:28:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-21T16:28:08+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "The most significant set of changes is the per netns RTNL. The new
  behavior is disabled by default, regression risk should be contained.

  Notably the new config knob PTP_1588_CLOCK_VMCLOCK will inherit its
  default value from PTP_1588_CLOCK_KVM, as the first is intended to be
  a more reliable replacement for the latter.

  Core:

   - Started a very large, in-progress, effort to make the RTNL lock
     scope per network-namespace, thus reducing the lock contention
     significantly in the containerized use-case, comprising:
       - RCU-ified some relevant slices of the FIB control path
       - introduce basic per netns locking helpers
       - namespacified the IPv4 address hash table
       - remove rtnl_register{,_module}() in favour of
         rtnl_register_many()
       - refactor rtnl_{new,del,set}link() moving as much validation as
         possible out of RTNL lock
       - convert all phonet doit() and dumpit() handlers to RCU
       - convert IPv4 addresses manipulation to per-netns RTNL
       - convert virtual interface creation to per-netns RTNL
     the per-netns lock infrastructure is guarded by the
     CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL knob, disabled by default ad interim.

   - Introduce NAPI suspension, to efficiently switching between busy
     polling (NAPI processing suspended) and normal processing.

   - Migrate the IPv4 routing input, output and control path from direct
     ToS usage to DSCP macros. This is a work in progress to make ECN
     handling consistent and reliable.

   - Add drop reasons support to the IPv4 rotue input path, allowing
     better introspection in case of packets drop.

   - Make FIB seqnum lockless, dropping RTNL protection for read access.

   - Make inet{,v6} addresses hashing less predicable.

   - Allow providing timestamp OPT_ID via cmsg, to correlate TX packets
     and timestamps

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Add small file operations for debugfs, to reduce the struct ops
     size.

   - Refactoring and optimization for the implementation of page_frag
     API, This is a preparatory work to consolidate the page_frag
     implementation.

  Netfilter:

   - Optimize set element transactions to reduce memory consumption

   - Extended netlink error reporting for attribute parser failure.

   - Make legacy xtables configs user selectable, giving users the
     option to configure iptables without enabling any other config.

   - Address a lot of false-positive RCU issues, pointed by recent CI
     improvements.

  BPF:

   - Put xsk sockets on a struct diet and add various cleanups. Overall,
     this helps to bump performance by 12% for some workloads.

   - Extend BPF selftests to increase coverage of XDP features in
     combination with BPF cpumap.

   - Optimize and homogenize bpf_csum_diff helper for all archs and also
     add a batch of new BPF selftests for it.

   - Extend netkit with an option to delegate skb-&gt;{mark,priority}
     scrubbing to its BPF program.

   - Make the bpf_get_netns_cookie() helper available also to tc(x) BPF
     programs.

  Protocols:

   - Introduces 4-tuple hash for connected udp sockets, speeding-up
     significantly connected sockets lookup.

   - Add a fastpath for some TCP timers that usually expires after
     close, the socket lock contention.

   - Add inbound and outbound xfrm state caches to speed up state
     lookups.

   - Avoid sending MPTCP advertisements on stale subflows, reducing
     risks on loosing them.

   - Make neighbours table flushing more scalable, maintaining per
     device neigh lists.

  Driver API:

   - Introduce a unified interface to configure transmission H/W
     shaping, and expose it to user-space via generic-netlink.

   - Add support for per-NAPI config via netlink. This makes napi
     configuration persistent across queues removal and re-creation.
     Requires driver updates, currently supported drivers are:
     nVidia/Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5, Broadcom brcm and Intel ice.

   - Add ethtool support for writing SFP / PHY firmware blocks.

   - Track RSS context allocation from ethtool core.

   - Implement support for mirroring to DSA CPU port, via TC mirror
     offload.

   - Consolidate FDB updates notification, to avoid duplicates on
     device-specific entries.

   - Expose DPLL clock quality level to the user-space.

   - Support master-slave PHY config via device tree.

  Tests and tooling:

   - forwarding: introduce deferred commands, to simplify the cleanup
     phase

  Drivers:

   - Updated several drivers - Amazon vNic, Google vNic, Microsoft vNic,
     Intel e1000e and Broadcom Tigon3 - to use netdev-genl to link the
     IRQs and queues to NAPI IDs, allowing busy polling and better
     introspection.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - mlx5:
           - a large refactor to implement support for cross E-Switch
             scheduling
           - refactor H/W conter management to let it scale better
           - H/W GRO cleanups
      - Intel (100G, ice)::
         - add support for ethtool reset
         - implement support for per TX queue H/W shaping
      - AMD/Solarflare:
         - implement per device queue stats support
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - improve wildcard l4proto on IPv4/IPv6 ntuple rules
      - Marvell Octeon:
         - Add representor support for each Resource Virtualization Unit
           (RVU) device.
      - Hisilicon:
         - add support for the BMC Gigabit Ethernet
      - IBM (EMAC):
         - driver cleanup and modernization
      - Cisco (VIC):
         - raise the queues number limit to 256

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - Google vNIC:
         - implement page pool support
      - macsec:
         - inherit lower device's features and TSO limits when
           offloading
      - virtio_net:
         - enable premapped mode by default
         - support for XDP socket(AF_XDP) zerocopy TX
      - wireguard:
         - set the TSO max size to be GSO_MAX_SIZE, to aggregate larger
           packets.

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
      - Broadcom ASP:
         - enable software timestamping
      - Freescale:
         - add enetc4 PF driver
      - MediaTek: Airoha SoC:
         - implement BQL support
      - RealTek r8169:
         - enable TSO by default on r8168/r8125
         - implement extended ethtool stats
      - Renesas AVB:
         - enable TX checksum offload
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - support header splitting for vlan tagged packets
         - move common code for DWMAC4 and DWXGMAC into a separate FPE
           module.
         - add dwmac driver support for T-HEAD TH1520 SoC
      - Synopsys (xpcs):
         - driver refactor and cleanup
      - TI:
         - icssg_prueth: add VLAN offload support
      - Xilinx emaclite:
         - add clock support

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Microchip:
         - implement support for the lan969x Ethernet switch family
         - add LAN9646 switch support to KSZ DSA driver

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Marvel: 88q2x: enable auto negotiation
      - Microchip: add support for LAN865X Rev B1 and LAN867X Rev C1/C2

   - PTP:
      - Add support for the Amazon virtual clock device
      - Add PtP driver for s390 clocks

   - WiFi:
      - mac80211
         - EHT 1024 aggregation size for transmissions
         - new operation to indicate that a new interface is to be added
         - support radio separation of multi-band devices
         - move wireless extension spy implementation to libiw
      - Broadcom:
         - brcmfmac: optional LPO clock support
      - Microchip:
         - add support for Atmel WILC3000
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - firmware coredump collection support
         - add debugfs support for a multitude of statistics
      - Qualcomm (ath5k):
         -  Arcadyan ARV45XX AR2417 &amp; Gigaset SX76[23] AR241[34]A support
      - Realtek:
         - rtw88: 8821au and 8812au USB adapters support
         - rtw89: add thermal protection
         - rtw89: fine tune BT-coexsitence to improve user experience
         - rtw89: firmware secure boot for WiFi 6 chip

   - Bluetooth
      - add Qualcomm WCN785x support for ids Foxconn 0xe0fc/0xe0f3 and
        0x13d3:0x3623
      - add Realtek RTL8852BE support for id Foxconn 0xe123
      - add MediaTek MT7920 support for wireless module ids
      - btintel_pcie: add handshake between driver and firmware
      - btintel_pcie: add recovery mechanism
      - btnxpuart: add GPIO support to power save feature"

* tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1475 commits)
  mm: page_frag: fix a compile error when kernel is not compiled
  Documentation: tipc: fix formatting issue in tipc.rst
  selftests: nic_performance: Add selftest for performance of NIC driver
  selftests: nic_link_layer: Add selftest case for speed and duplex states
  selftests: nic_link_layer: Add link layer selftest for NIC driver
  bnxt_en: Add FW trace coredump segments to the coredump
  bnxt_en: Add a new ethtool -W dump flag
  bnxt_en: Add 2 parameters to bnxt_fill_coredump_seg_hdr()
  bnxt_en: Add functions to copy host context memory
  bnxt_en: Do not free FW log context memory
  bnxt_en: Manage the FW trace context memory
  bnxt_en: Allocate backing store memory for FW trace logs
  bnxt_en: Add a 'force' parameter to bnxt_free_ctx_mem()
  bnxt_en: Refactor bnxt_free_ctx_mem()
  bnxt_en: Add mem_valid bit to struct bnxt_ctx_mem_type
  bnxt_en: Update firmware interface spec to 1.10.3.85
  selftests/bpf: Add some tests with sockmap SK_PASS
  bpf: fix recursive lock when verdict program return SK_PASS
  wireguard: device: support big tcp GSO
  wireguard: selftests: load nf_conntrack if not present
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "The most significant set of changes is the per netns RTNL. The new
  behavior is disabled by default, regression risk should be contained.

  Notably the new config knob PTP_1588_CLOCK_VMCLOCK will inherit its
  default value from PTP_1588_CLOCK_KVM, as the first is intended to be
  a more reliable replacement for the latter.

  Core:

   - Started a very large, in-progress, effort to make the RTNL lock
     scope per network-namespace, thus reducing the lock contention
     significantly in the containerized use-case, comprising:
       - RCU-ified some relevant slices of the FIB control path
       - introduce basic per netns locking helpers
       - namespacified the IPv4 address hash table
       - remove rtnl_register{,_module}() in favour of
         rtnl_register_many()
       - refactor rtnl_{new,del,set}link() moving as much validation as
         possible out of RTNL lock
       - convert all phonet doit() and dumpit() handlers to RCU
       - convert IPv4 addresses manipulation to per-netns RTNL
       - convert virtual interface creation to per-netns RTNL
     the per-netns lock infrastructure is guarded by the
     CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL knob, disabled by default ad interim.

   - Introduce NAPI suspension, to efficiently switching between busy
     polling (NAPI processing suspended) and normal processing.

   - Migrate the IPv4 routing input, output and control path from direct
     ToS usage to DSCP macros. This is a work in progress to make ECN
     handling consistent and reliable.

   - Add drop reasons support to the IPv4 rotue input path, allowing
     better introspection in case of packets drop.

   - Make FIB seqnum lockless, dropping RTNL protection for read access.

   - Make inet{,v6} addresses hashing less predicable.

   - Allow providing timestamp OPT_ID via cmsg, to correlate TX packets
     and timestamps

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Add small file operations for debugfs, to reduce the struct ops
     size.

   - Refactoring and optimization for the implementation of page_frag
     API, This is a preparatory work to consolidate the page_frag
     implementation.

  Netfilter:

   - Optimize set element transactions to reduce memory consumption

   - Extended netlink error reporting for attribute parser failure.

   - Make legacy xtables configs user selectable, giving users the
     option to configure iptables without enabling any other config.

   - Address a lot of false-positive RCU issues, pointed by recent CI
     improvements.

  BPF:

   - Put xsk sockets on a struct diet and add various cleanups. Overall,
     this helps to bump performance by 12% for some workloads.

   - Extend BPF selftests to increase coverage of XDP features in
     combination with BPF cpumap.

   - Optimize and homogenize bpf_csum_diff helper for all archs and also
     add a batch of new BPF selftests for it.

   - Extend netkit with an option to delegate skb-&gt;{mark,priority}
     scrubbing to its BPF program.

   - Make the bpf_get_netns_cookie() helper available also to tc(x) BPF
     programs.

  Protocols:

   - Introduces 4-tuple hash for connected udp sockets, speeding-up
     significantly connected sockets lookup.

   - Add a fastpath for some TCP timers that usually expires after
     close, the socket lock contention.

   - Add inbound and outbound xfrm state caches to speed up state
     lookups.

   - Avoid sending MPTCP advertisements on stale subflows, reducing
     risks on loosing them.

   - Make neighbours table flushing more scalable, maintaining per
     device neigh lists.

  Driver API:

   - Introduce a unified interface to configure transmission H/W
     shaping, and expose it to user-space via generic-netlink.

   - Add support for per-NAPI config via netlink. This makes napi
     configuration persistent across queues removal and re-creation.
     Requires driver updates, currently supported drivers are:
     nVidia/Mellanox mlx4 and mlx5, Broadcom brcm and Intel ice.

   - Add ethtool support for writing SFP / PHY firmware blocks.

   - Track RSS context allocation from ethtool core.

   - Implement support for mirroring to DSA CPU port, via TC mirror
     offload.

   - Consolidate FDB updates notification, to avoid duplicates on
     device-specific entries.

   - Expose DPLL clock quality level to the user-space.

   - Support master-slave PHY config via device tree.

  Tests and tooling:

   - forwarding: introduce deferred commands, to simplify the cleanup
     phase

  Drivers:

   - Updated several drivers - Amazon vNic, Google vNic, Microsoft vNic,
     Intel e1000e and Broadcom Tigon3 - to use netdev-genl to link the
     IRQs and queues to NAPI IDs, allowing busy polling and better
     introspection.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - mlx5:
           - a large refactor to implement support for cross E-Switch
             scheduling
           - refactor H/W conter management to let it scale better
           - H/W GRO cleanups
      - Intel (100G, ice)::
         - add support for ethtool reset
         - implement support for per TX queue H/W shaping
      - AMD/Solarflare:
         - implement per device queue stats support
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - improve wildcard l4proto on IPv4/IPv6 ntuple rules
      - Marvell Octeon:
         - Add representor support for each Resource Virtualization Unit
           (RVU) device.
      - Hisilicon:
         - add support for the BMC Gigabit Ethernet
      - IBM (EMAC):
         - driver cleanup and modernization
      - Cisco (VIC):
         - raise the queues number limit to 256

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - Google vNIC:
         - implement page pool support
      - macsec:
         - inherit lower device's features and TSO limits when
           offloading
      - virtio_net:
         - enable premapped mode by default
         - support for XDP socket(AF_XDP) zerocopy TX
      - wireguard:
         - set the TSO max size to be GSO_MAX_SIZE, to aggregate larger
           packets.

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
      - Broadcom ASP:
         - enable software timestamping
      - Freescale:
         - add enetc4 PF driver
      - MediaTek: Airoha SoC:
         - implement BQL support
      - RealTek r8169:
         - enable TSO by default on r8168/r8125
         - implement extended ethtool stats
      - Renesas AVB:
         - enable TX checksum offload
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - support header splitting for vlan tagged packets
         - move common code for DWMAC4 and DWXGMAC into a separate FPE
           module.
         - add dwmac driver support for T-HEAD TH1520 SoC
      - Synopsys (xpcs):
         - driver refactor and cleanup
      - TI:
         - icssg_prueth: add VLAN offload support
      - Xilinx emaclite:
         - add clock support

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Microchip:
         - implement support for the lan969x Ethernet switch family
         - add LAN9646 switch support to KSZ DSA driver

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Marvel: 88q2x: enable auto negotiation
      - Microchip: add support for LAN865X Rev B1 and LAN867X Rev C1/C2

   - PTP:
      - Add support for the Amazon virtual clock device
      - Add PtP driver for s390 clocks

   - WiFi:
      - mac80211
         - EHT 1024 aggregation size for transmissions
         - new operation to indicate that a new interface is to be added
         - support radio separation of multi-band devices
         - move wireless extension spy implementation to libiw
      - Broadcom:
         - brcmfmac: optional LPO clock support
      - Microchip:
         - add support for Atmel WILC3000
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - firmware coredump collection support
         - add debugfs support for a multitude of statistics
      - Qualcomm (ath5k):
         -  Arcadyan ARV45XX AR2417 &amp; Gigaset SX76[23] AR241[34]A support
      - Realtek:
         - rtw88: 8821au and 8812au USB adapters support
         - rtw89: add thermal protection
         - rtw89: fine tune BT-coexsitence to improve user experience
         - rtw89: firmware secure boot for WiFi 6 chip

   - Bluetooth
      - add Qualcomm WCN785x support for ids Foxconn 0xe0fc/0xe0f3 and
        0x13d3:0x3623
      - add Realtek RTL8852BE support for id Foxconn 0xe123
      - add MediaTek MT7920 support for wireless module ids
      - btintel_pcie: add handshake between driver and firmware
      - btintel_pcie: add recovery mechanism
      - btnxpuart: add GPIO support to power save feature"

* tag 'net-next-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1475 commits)
  mm: page_frag: fix a compile error when kernel is not compiled
  Documentation: tipc: fix formatting issue in tipc.rst
  selftests: nic_performance: Add selftest for performance of NIC driver
  selftests: nic_link_layer: Add selftest case for speed and duplex states
  selftests: nic_link_layer: Add link layer selftest for NIC driver
  bnxt_en: Add FW trace coredump segments to the coredump
  bnxt_en: Add a new ethtool -W dump flag
  bnxt_en: Add 2 parameters to bnxt_fill_coredump_seg_hdr()
  bnxt_en: Add functions to copy host context memory
  bnxt_en: Do not free FW log context memory
  bnxt_en: Manage the FW trace context memory
  bnxt_en: Allocate backing store memory for FW trace logs
  bnxt_en: Add a 'force' parameter to bnxt_free_ctx_mem()
  bnxt_en: Refactor bnxt_free_ctx_mem()
  bnxt_en: Add mem_valid bit to struct bnxt_ctx_mem_type
  bnxt_en: Update firmware interface spec to 1.10.3.85
  selftests/bpf: Add some tests with sockmap SK_PASS
  bpf: fix recursive lock when verdict program return SK_PASS
  wireguard: device: support big tcp GSO
  wireguard: selftests: load nf_conntrack if not present
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: move the page fragment allocator from page_alloc into its own file</title>
<updated>2024-11-11T18:56:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yunsheng Lin</name>
<email>linyunsheng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-28T11:53:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=65941f10caf2c04781a7defa4ec0ab119dbd235a'/>
<id>65941f10caf2c04781a7defa4ec0ab119dbd235a</id>
<content type='text'>
Inspired by [1], move the page fragment allocator from page_alloc
into its own c file and header file, as we are about to make more
change for it to replace another page_frag implementation in
sock.c

As this patchset is going to replace 'struct page_frag' with
'struct page_frag_cache' in sched.h, including page_frag_cache.h
in sched.h has a compiler error caused by interdependence between
mm_types.h and mm.h for asm-offsets.c, see [2]. So avoid the compiler
error by moving 'struct page_frag_cache' to mm_types_task.h as
suggested by Alexander, see [3].

1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230411160902.4134381-3-dhowells@redhat.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/all/15623dac-9358-4597-b3ee-3694a5956920@gmail.com/
3. https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAKgT0UdH1yD=LSCXFJ=YM_aiA4OomD-2wXykO42bizaWMt_HOA@mail.gmail.com/
CC: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Linux-MM &lt;linux-mm@kvack.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexanderduyck@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241028115343.3405838-3-linyunsheng@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Inspired by [1], move the page fragment allocator from page_alloc
into its own c file and header file, as we are about to make more
change for it to replace another page_frag implementation in
sock.c

As this patchset is going to replace 'struct page_frag' with
'struct page_frag_cache' in sched.h, including page_frag_cache.h
in sched.h has a compiler error caused by interdependence between
mm_types.h and mm.h for asm-offsets.c, see [2]. So avoid the compiler
error by moving 'struct page_frag_cache' to mm_types_task.h as
suggested by Alexander, see [3].

1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230411160902.4134381-3-dhowells@redhat.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/all/15623dac-9358-4597-b3ee-3694a5956920@gmail.com/
3. https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAKgT0UdH1yD=LSCXFJ=YM_aiA4OomD-2wXykO42bizaWMt_HOA@mail.gmail.com/
CC: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Linux-MM &lt;linux-mm@kvack.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexanderduyck@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241028115343.3405838-3-linyunsheng@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: move mm flags to mm_types.h</title>
<updated>2024-11-06T00:56:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nanyong Sun</name>
<email>sunnanyong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-26T07:49:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f2f484085ef1a2bb5aea861a06bc6b4dc50d2ab8'/>
<id>f2f484085ef1a2bb5aea861a06bc6b4dc50d2ab8</id>
<content type='text'>
The types of mm flags are now far beyond the core dump related features. 
This patch moves mm flags from linux/sched/coredump.h to linux/mm_types.h.
The linux/sched/coredump.h has include the mm_types.h, so the C files
related to coredump does not need to change head file inclusion.  In
addition, the inclusion of sched/coredump.h now can be deleted from the C
files that irrelevant to core dump.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926074922.2721274-1-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun &lt;sunnanyong@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The types of mm flags are now far beyond the core dump related features. 
This patch moves mm flags from linux/sched/coredump.h to linux/mm_types.h.
The linux/sched/coredump.h has include the mm_types.h, so the C files
related to coredump does not need to change head file inclusion.  In
addition, the inclusion of sched/coredump.h now can be deleted from the C
files that irrelevant to core dump.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926074922.2721274-1-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun &lt;sunnanyong@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency IDs for intermittent workloads</title>
<updated>2024-10-14T10:52:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Desnoyers</name>
<email>mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-09T13:50:07+00:00</published>
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commit 223baf9d17f25 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid")
introduced a per-mm/cpu current concurrency id (mm_cid), which keeps
a reference to the concurrency id allocated for each CPU. This reference
expires shortly after a 100ms delay.

These per-CPU references keep the per-mm-cid data cache-local in
situations where threads are running at least once on each CPU within
each 100ms window, thus keeping the per-cpu reference alive.

However, intermittent workloads behaving in bursts spaced by more than
100ms on each CPU exhibit bad cache locality and degraded performance
compared to purely per-cpu data indexing, because concurrency IDs are
allocated over various CPUs and cores, therefore losing cache locality
of the associated data.

Introduce the following changes to improve per-mm-cid cache locality:

- Add a "recent_cid" field to the per-mm/cpu mm_cid structure to keep
  track of which mm_cid value was last used, and use it as a hint to
  attempt re-allocating the same concurrency ID the next time this
  mm/cpu needs to allocate a concurrency ID,

- Add a per-mm CPUs allowed mask, which keeps track of the union of
  CPUs allowed for all threads belonging to this mm. This cpumask is
  only set during the lifetime of the mm, never cleared, so it
  represents the union of all the CPUs allowed since the beginning of
  the mm lifetime (note that the mm_cpumask() is really arch-specific
  and tailored to the TLB flush needs, and is thus _not_ a viable
  approach for this),

- Add a per-mm nr_cpus_allowed to keep track of the weight of the
  per-mm CPUs allowed mask (for fast access),

- Add a per-mm max_nr_cid to keep track of the highest number of
  concurrency IDs allocated for the mm. This is used for expanding the
  concurrency ID allocation within the upper bound defined by:

    min(mm-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed, mm-&gt;mm_users)

  When the next unused CID value reaches this threshold, stop trying
  to expand the cid allocation and use the first available cid value
  instead.

  Spreading allocation to use all the cid values within the range

    [ 0, min(mm-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed, mm-&gt;mm_users) - 1 ]

  improves cache locality while preserving mm_cid compactness within the
  expected user limits,

- In __mm_cid_try_get, only return cid values within the range
  [ 0, mm-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed ] rather than [ 0, nr_cpu_ids ]. This
  prevents allocating cids above the number of allowed cpus in
  rare scenarios where cid allocation races with a concurrent
  remote-clear of the per-mm/cpu cid. This improvement is made
  possible by the addition of the per-mm CPUs allowed mask,

- In sched_mm_cid_migrate_to, use mm-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed rather than
  t-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed. This criterion was really meant to compare
  the number of mm-&gt;mm_users to the number of CPUs allowed for the
  entire mm. Therefore, the prior comparison worked fine when all
  threads shared the same CPUs allowed mask, but not so much in
  scenarios where those threads have different masks (e.g. each
  thread pinned to a single CPU). This improvement is made
  possible by the addition of the per-mm CPUs allowed mask.

* Benchmarks

Each thread increments 16kB worth of 8-bit integers in bursts, with
a configurable delay between each thread's execution. Each thread run
one after the other (no threads run concurrently). The order of
thread execution in the sequence is random. The thread execution
sequence begins again after all threads have executed. The 16kB areas
are allocated with rseq_mempool and indexed by either cpu_id, mm_cid
(not cache-local), or cache-local mm_cid. Each thread is pinned to its
own core.

Testing configurations:

8-core/1-L3:        Use 8 cores within a single L3
24-core/24-L3:      Use 24 cores, 1 core per L3
192-core/24-L3:     Use 192 cores (all cores in the system)
384-thread/24-L3:   Use 384 HW threads (all HW threads in the system)

Intermittent workload delays between threads: 200ms, 10ms.

Hardware:

CPU(s):                   384
  On-line CPU(s) list:    0-383
Vendor ID:                AuthenticAMD
  Model name:             AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core Processor
    Thread(s) per core:   2
    Core(s) per socket:   96
    Socket(s):            2
Caches (sum of all):
  L1d:                    6 MiB (192 instances)
  L1i:                    6 MiB (192 instances)
  L2:                     192 MiB (192 instances)
  L3:                     768 MiB (24 instances)

Each result is an average of 5 test runs. The cache-local speedup
is calculated as: (cache-local mm_cid) / (mm_cid).

Intermittent workload delay: 200ms

                     per-cpu     mm_cid    cache-local mm_cid    cache-local speedup
                         (ns)      (ns)                  (ns)
8-core/1-L3             1374      19289                  1336            14.4x
24-core/24-L3           2423      26721                  1594            16.7x
192-core/24-L3          2291      15826                  2153             7.3x
384-thread/24-L3        1874      13234                  1907             6.9x

Intermittent workload delay: 10ms

                     per-cpu     mm_cid    cache-local mm_cid    cache-local speedup
                         (ns)      (ns)                  (ns)
8-core/1-L3               662       756                   686             1.1x
24-core/24-L3            1378      3648                  1035             3.5x
192-core/24-L3           1439     10833                  1482             7.3x
384-thread/24-L3         1503     10570                  1556             6.8x

[ This deprecates the prior "sched: NUMA-aware per-memory-map concurrency IDs"
  patch series with a simpler and more general approach. ]

[ This patch applies on top of v6.12-rc1. ]

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240823185946.418340-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/
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commit 223baf9d17f25 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid")
introduced a per-mm/cpu current concurrency id (mm_cid), which keeps
a reference to the concurrency id allocated for each CPU. This reference
expires shortly after a 100ms delay.

These per-CPU references keep the per-mm-cid data cache-local in
situations where threads are running at least once on each CPU within
each 100ms window, thus keeping the per-cpu reference alive.

However, intermittent workloads behaving in bursts spaced by more than
100ms on each CPU exhibit bad cache locality and degraded performance
compared to purely per-cpu data indexing, because concurrency IDs are
allocated over various CPUs and cores, therefore losing cache locality
of the associated data.

Introduce the following changes to improve per-mm-cid cache locality:

- Add a "recent_cid" field to the per-mm/cpu mm_cid structure to keep
  track of which mm_cid value was last used, and use it as a hint to
  attempt re-allocating the same concurrency ID the next time this
  mm/cpu needs to allocate a concurrency ID,

- Add a per-mm CPUs allowed mask, which keeps track of the union of
  CPUs allowed for all threads belonging to this mm. This cpumask is
  only set during the lifetime of the mm, never cleared, so it
  represents the union of all the CPUs allowed since the beginning of
  the mm lifetime (note that the mm_cpumask() is really arch-specific
  and tailored to the TLB flush needs, and is thus _not_ a viable
  approach for this),

- Add a per-mm nr_cpus_allowed to keep track of the weight of the
  per-mm CPUs allowed mask (for fast access),

- Add a per-mm max_nr_cid to keep track of the highest number of
  concurrency IDs allocated for the mm. This is used for expanding the
  concurrency ID allocation within the upper bound defined by:

    min(mm-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed, mm-&gt;mm_users)

  When the next unused CID value reaches this threshold, stop trying
  to expand the cid allocation and use the first available cid value
  instead.

  Spreading allocation to use all the cid values within the range

    [ 0, min(mm-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed, mm-&gt;mm_users) - 1 ]

  improves cache locality while preserving mm_cid compactness within the
  expected user limits,

- In __mm_cid_try_get, only return cid values within the range
  [ 0, mm-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed ] rather than [ 0, nr_cpu_ids ]. This
  prevents allocating cids above the number of allowed cpus in
  rare scenarios where cid allocation races with a concurrent
  remote-clear of the per-mm/cpu cid. This improvement is made
  possible by the addition of the per-mm CPUs allowed mask,

- In sched_mm_cid_migrate_to, use mm-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed rather than
  t-&gt;nr_cpus_allowed. This criterion was really meant to compare
  the number of mm-&gt;mm_users to the number of CPUs allowed for the
  entire mm. Therefore, the prior comparison worked fine when all
  threads shared the same CPUs allowed mask, but not so much in
  scenarios where those threads have different masks (e.g. each
  thread pinned to a single CPU). This improvement is made
  possible by the addition of the per-mm CPUs allowed mask.

* Benchmarks

Each thread increments 16kB worth of 8-bit integers in bursts, with
a configurable delay between each thread's execution. Each thread run
one after the other (no threads run concurrently). The order of
thread execution in the sequence is random. The thread execution
sequence begins again after all threads have executed. The 16kB areas
are allocated with rseq_mempool and indexed by either cpu_id, mm_cid
(not cache-local), or cache-local mm_cid. Each thread is pinned to its
own core.

Testing configurations:

8-core/1-L3:        Use 8 cores within a single L3
24-core/24-L3:      Use 24 cores, 1 core per L3
192-core/24-L3:     Use 192 cores (all cores in the system)
384-thread/24-L3:   Use 384 HW threads (all HW threads in the system)

Intermittent workload delays between threads: 200ms, 10ms.

Hardware:

CPU(s):                   384
  On-line CPU(s) list:    0-383
Vendor ID:                AuthenticAMD
  Model name:             AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core Processor
    Thread(s) per core:   2
    Core(s) per socket:   96
    Socket(s):            2
Caches (sum of all):
  L1d:                    6 MiB (192 instances)
  L1i:                    6 MiB (192 instances)
  L2:                     192 MiB (192 instances)
  L3:                     768 MiB (24 instances)

Each result is an average of 5 test runs. The cache-local speedup
is calculated as: (cache-local mm_cid) / (mm_cid).

Intermittent workload delay: 200ms

                     per-cpu     mm_cid    cache-local mm_cid    cache-local speedup
                         (ns)      (ns)                  (ns)
8-core/1-L3             1374      19289                  1336            14.4x
24-core/24-L3           2423      26721                  1594            16.7x
192-core/24-L3          2291      15826                  2153             7.3x
384-thread/24-L3        1874      13234                  1907             6.9x

Intermittent workload delay: 10ms

                     per-cpu     mm_cid    cache-local mm_cid    cache-local speedup
                         (ns)      (ns)                  (ns)
8-core/1-L3               662       756                   686             1.1x
24-core/24-L3            1378      3648                  1035             3.5x
192-core/24-L3           1439     10833                  1482             7.3x
384-thread/24-L3         1503     10570                  1556             6.8x

[ This deprecates the prior "sched: NUMA-aware per-memory-map concurrency IDs"
  patch series with a simpler and more general approach. ]

[ This patch applies on top of v6.12-rc1. ]

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240823185946.418340-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/
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<entry>
<title>mm: remove PageSwapCache</title>
<updated>2024-09-04T04:15:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-21T19:34:37+00:00</published>
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This flag is now only used on folios, so we can remove all the page
accessors and reword the comments that refer to them.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240821193445.2294269-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This flag is now only used on folios, so we can remove all the page
accessors and reword the comments that refer to them.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240821193445.2294269-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add optional close() to struct vm_special_mapping</title>
<updated>2024-09-02T03:26:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-12T08:26:02+00:00</published>
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Add an optional close() callback to struct vm_special_mapping.  It will be
used, by powerpc at least, to handle unmapping of the VDSO.

Although support for unmapping the VDSO was initially added for CRIU[1],
it is not desirable to guard that support behind
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

There are other known users of unmapping the VDSO which are not related to
CRIU, eg.  Valgrind [2] and void-ship [3].

The powerpc arch_unmap() hook has been in place for ~9 years, with no
ifdef, so there may be other unknown users that have come to rely on
unmapping the VDSO.  Even if the code was behind an ifdef, major distros
enable CHECKPOINT_RESTORE so users may not realise unmapping the VDSO
depends on that configuration option.

It's also undesirable to have such core mm behaviour behind a relatively
obscure CONFIG option.

Longer term the unmap behaviour should be standardised across
architectures, however that is complicated by the fact the VDSO pointer is
stored differently across architectures.  There was a previous attempt to
unify that handling [4], which could be revived.

See [5] for further discussion.

[1]: commit 83d3f0e90c6c ("powerpc/mm: tracking vDSO remap")
[2]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=valgrind.git;a=commit;h=3a004915a2cbdcdebafc1612427576bf3321eef5
[3]: https://github.com/insanitybit/void-ship
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210611180242.711399-17-dima@arista.com/
[5]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/shiq5v3jrmyi6ncwke7wgl76ojysgbhrchsk32q4lbx2hadqqc@kzyy2igem256

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812082605.743814-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pedro.falcato@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add an optional close() callback to struct vm_special_mapping.  It will be
used, by powerpc at least, to handle unmapping of the VDSO.

Although support for unmapping the VDSO was initially added for CRIU[1],
it is not desirable to guard that support behind
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

There are other known users of unmapping the VDSO which are not related to
CRIU, eg.  Valgrind [2] and void-ship [3].

The powerpc arch_unmap() hook has been in place for ~9 years, with no
ifdef, so there may be other unknown users that have come to rely on
unmapping the VDSO.  Even if the code was behind an ifdef, major distros
enable CHECKPOINT_RESTORE so users may not realise unmapping the VDSO
depends on that configuration option.

It's also undesirable to have such core mm behaviour behind a relatively
obscure CONFIG option.

Longer term the unmap behaviour should be standardised across
architectures, however that is complicated by the fact the VDSO pointer is
stored differently across architectures.  There was a previous attempt to
unify that handling [4], which could be revived.

See [5] for further discussion.

[1]: commit 83d3f0e90c6c ("powerpc/mm: tracking vDSO remap")
[2]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=valgrind.git;a=commit;h=3a004915a2cbdcdebafc1612427576bf3321eef5
[3]: https://github.com/insanitybit/void-ship
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210611180242.711399-17-dima@arista.com/
[5]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/shiq5v3jrmyi6ncwke7wgl76ojysgbhrchsk32q4lbx2hadqqc@kzyy2igem256

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812082605.743814-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pedro.falcato@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix (harmless) type confusion in lock_vma_under_rcu()</title>
<updated>2024-09-02T03:26:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-05T12:52:03+00:00</published>
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There is a (harmless) type confusion in lock_vma_under_rcu(): After
vma_start_read(), we have taken the VMA lock but don't know yet whether
the VMA has already been detached and scheduled for RCU freeing.  At this
point, -&gt;vm_start and -&gt;vm_end are accessed.

vm_area_struct contains a union such that -&gt;vm_rcu uses the same memory as
-&gt;vm_start and -&gt;vm_end; so accessing -&gt;vm_start and -&gt;vm_end of a
detached VMA is illegal and leads to type confusion between union members.

Fix it by reordering the vma-&gt;detached check above the address checks, and
document the rules for RCU readers accessing VMAs.

This will probably change the number of observed VMA_LOCK_MISS events
(since previously, trying to access a detached VMA whose -&gt;vm_rcu has been
scheduled would bail out when checking the fault address against the
rcu_head members reinterpreted as VMA bounds).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240805-fix-vma-lock-type-confusion-v1-1-9f25443a9a71@google.com
Fixes: 50ee32537206 ("mm: introduce lock_vma_under_rcu to be used from arch-specific code")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There is a (harmless) type confusion in lock_vma_under_rcu(): After
vma_start_read(), we have taken the VMA lock but don't know yet whether
the VMA has already been detached and scheduled for RCU freeing.  At this
point, -&gt;vm_start and -&gt;vm_end are accessed.

vm_area_struct contains a union such that -&gt;vm_rcu uses the same memory as
-&gt;vm_start and -&gt;vm_end; so accessing -&gt;vm_start and -&gt;vm_end of a
detached VMA is illegal and leads to type confusion between union members.

Fix it by reordering the vma-&gt;detached check above the address checks, and
document the rules for RCU readers accessing VMAs.

This will probably change the number of observed VMA_LOCK_MISS events
(since previously, trying to access a detached VMA whose -&gt;vm_rcu has been
scheduled would bail out when checking the fault address against the
rcu_head members reinterpreted as VMA bounds).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240805-fix-vma-lock-type-confusion-v1-1-9f25443a9a71@google.com
Fixes: 50ee32537206 ("mm: introduce lock_vma_under_rcu to be used from arch-specific code")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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