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<title>sched/numa: Fix mm numa_scan_seq based unconditional scan</title>
<updated>2024-02-05T20:16:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Raghavendra K T</name>
<email>raghavendra.kt@amd.com</email>
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<published>2023-10-20T15:57:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 84db47ca7146d7bd00eb5cf2b93989a971c84650 ]

Since commit fc137c0ddab2 ("sched/numa: enhance vma scanning logic")

NUMA Balancing allows updating PTEs to trap NUMA hinting faults if the
task had previously accessed VMA. However unconditional scan of VMAs are
allowed during initial phase of VMA creation until process's
mm numa_scan_seq reaches 2 even though current task had not accessed VMA.

Rationale:
 - Without initial scan subsequent PTE update may never happen.
 - Give fair opportunity to all the VMAs to be scanned and subsequently
understand the access pattern of all the VMAs.

But it has a corner case where, if a VMA is created after some time,
process's mm numa_scan_seq could be already greater than 2.

For e.g., values of mm numa_scan_seq when VMAs are created by running
mmtest autonuma benchmark briefly looks like:
start_seq=0 : 459
start_seq=2 : 138
start_seq=3 : 144
start_seq=4 : 8
start_seq=8 : 1
start_seq=9 : 1
This results in no unconditional PTE updates for those VMAs created after
some time.

Fix:
 - Note down the initial value of mm numa_scan_seq in per VMA start_seq.
 - Allow unconditional scan till start_seq + 2.

Result:
SUT: AMD EPYC Milan with 2 NUMA nodes 256 cpus.
base kernel: upstream 6.6-rc6 with Mels patches [1] applied.

kernbench
==========		base                  patched %gain
Amean    elsp-128      165.09 ( 0.00%)      164.78 *   0.19%*

Duration User       41404.28    41375.08
Duration System      9862.22     9768.48
Duration Elapsed      519.87      518.72

Ops NUMA PTE updates           1041416.00      831536.00
Ops NUMA hint faults            263296.00      220966.00
Ops NUMA pages migrated         258021.00      212769.00
Ops AutoNUMA cost                 1328.67        1114.69

autonumabench

NUMA01_THREADLOCAL
==================
Amean  elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL   81.79 (0.00%)  67.74 *  17.18%*

Duration User       54832.73    47379.67
Duration System        75.00      185.75
Duration Elapsed      576.72      476.09

Ops NUMA PTE updates                  394429.00    11121044.00
Ops NUMA hint faults                    1001.00     8906404.00
Ops NUMA pages migrated                  288.00     2998694.00
Ops AutoNUMA cost                          7.77       44666.84

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2ea7cbce80ac7c62e90cbfb9653a7972f902439f.1697816692.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 84db47ca7146d7bd00eb5cf2b93989a971c84650 ]

Since commit fc137c0ddab2 ("sched/numa: enhance vma scanning logic")

NUMA Balancing allows updating PTEs to trap NUMA hinting faults if the
task had previously accessed VMA. However unconditional scan of VMAs are
allowed during initial phase of VMA creation until process's
mm numa_scan_seq reaches 2 even though current task had not accessed VMA.

Rationale:
 - Without initial scan subsequent PTE update may never happen.
 - Give fair opportunity to all the VMAs to be scanned and subsequently
understand the access pattern of all the VMAs.

But it has a corner case where, if a VMA is created after some time,
process's mm numa_scan_seq could be already greater than 2.

For e.g., values of mm numa_scan_seq when VMAs are created by running
mmtest autonuma benchmark briefly looks like:
start_seq=0 : 459
start_seq=2 : 138
start_seq=3 : 144
start_seq=4 : 8
start_seq=8 : 1
start_seq=9 : 1
This results in no unconditional PTE updates for those VMAs created after
some time.

Fix:
 - Note down the initial value of mm numa_scan_seq in per VMA start_seq.
 - Allow unconditional scan till start_seq + 2.

Result:
SUT: AMD EPYC Milan with 2 NUMA nodes 256 cpus.
base kernel: upstream 6.6-rc6 with Mels patches [1] applied.

kernbench
==========		base                  patched %gain
Amean    elsp-128      165.09 ( 0.00%)      164.78 *   0.19%*

Duration User       41404.28    41375.08
Duration System      9862.22     9768.48
Duration Elapsed      519.87      518.72

Ops NUMA PTE updates           1041416.00      831536.00
Ops NUMA hint faults            263296.00      220966.00
Ops NUMA pages migrated         258021.00      212769.00
Ops AutoNUMA cost                 1328.67        1114.69

autonumabench

NUMA01_THREADLOCAL
==================
Amean  elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL   81.79 (0.00%)  67.74 *  17.18%*

Duration User       54832.73    47379.67
Duration System        75.00      185.75
Duration Elapsed      576.72      476.09

Ops NUMA PTE updates                  394429.00    11121044.00
Ops NUMA hint faults                    1001.00     8906404.00
Ops NUMA pages migrated                  288.00     2998694.00
Ops AutoNUMA cost                          7.77       44666.84

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2ea7cbce80ac7c62e90cbfb9653a7972f902439f.1697816692.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T15:10:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T15:10:11+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Support usec resolution of TCP timestamps, enabled selectively by a
     route attribute.

   - Defer regular TCP ACK while processing socket backlog, try to send
     a cumulative ACK at the end. Increase single TCP flow performance
     on a 200Gbit NIC by 20% (100Gbit -&gt; 120Gbit).

   - The Fair Queuing (FQ) packet scheduler:
       - add built-in 3 band prio / WRR scheduling
       - support bypass if the qdisc is mostly idle (5% speed up for TCP RR)
       - improve inactive flow reporting
       - optimize the layout of structures for better cache locality

   - Support TCP Authentication Option (RFC 5925, TCP-AO), a more modern
     replacement for the old MD5 option.

   - Add more retransmission timeout (RTO) related statistics to
     TCP_INFO.

   - Support sending fragmented skbs over vsock sockets.

   - Make sure we send SIGPIPE for vsock sockets if socket was
     shutdown().

   - Add sysctl for ignoring lower limit on lifetime in Router
     Advertisement PIO, based on an in-progress IETF draft.

   - Add sysctl to control activation of TCP ping-pong mode.

   - Add sysctl to make connection timeout in MPTCP configurable.

   - Support rcvlowat and notsent_lowat on MPTCP sockets, to help apps
     limit the number of wakeups.

   - Support netlink GET for MDB (multicast forwarding), allowing user
     space to request a single MDB entry instead of dumping the entire
     table.

   - Support selective FDB flushing in the VXLAN tunnel driver.

   - Allow limiting learned FDB entries in bridges, prevent OOM attacks.

   - Allow controlling via configfs netconsole targets which were
     created via the kernel cmdline at boot, rather than via configfs at
     runtime.

   - Support multiple PTP timestamp event queue readers with different
     filters.

   - MCTP over I3C.

  BPF:

   - Add new veth-like netdevice where BPF program defines the logic of
     the xmit routine. It can operate in L3 and L2 mode.

   - Support exceptions - allow asserting conditions which should never
     be true but are hard for the verifier to infer. With some extra
     flexibility around handling of the exit / failure:

          https://lwn.net/Articles/938435/

   - Add support for local per-cpu kptr, allow allocating and storing
     per-cpu objects in maps. Access to those objects operates on the
     value for the current CPU.

     This allows to deprecate local one-off implementations of per-CPU
     storage like BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE maps.

   - Extend cgroup BPF sockaddr hooks for UNIX sockets. The use case is
     for systemd to re-implement the LogNamespace feature which allows
     running multiple instances of systemd-journald to process the logs
     of different services.

   - Enable open-coded task_vma iteration, after maple tree conversion
     made it hard to directly walk VMAs in tracing programs.

   - Add open-coded task, css_task and css iterator support. One of the
     use cases is customizable OOM victim selection via BPF.

   - Allow source address selection with bpf_*_fib_lookup().

   - Add ability to pin BPF timer to the current CPU.

   - Prevent creation of infinite loops by combining tail calls and
     fentry/fexit programs.

   - Add missed stats for kprobes to retrieve the number of missed
     kprobe executions and subsequent executions of BPF programs.

   - Inherit system settings for CPU security mitigations.

   - Add BPF v4 CPU instruction support for arm32 and s390x.

  Changes to common code:

   - overflow: add DEFINE_FLEX() for on-stack definition of structs with
     flexible array members.

   - Process doc update with more guidance for reviewers.

  Driver API:

   - Simplify locking in WiFi (cfg80211 and mac80211 layers), use wiphy
     mutex in most places and remove a lot of smaller locks.

   - Create a common DPLL configuration API. Allow configuring and
     querying state of PLL circuits used for clock syntonization, in
     network time distribution.

   - Unify fragmented and full page allocation APIs in page pool code.
     Let drivers be ignorant of PAGE_SIZE.

   - Rework PHY state machine to avoid races with calls to phy_stop().

   - Notify DSA drivers of MAC address changes on user ports, improve
     correctness of offloads which depend on matching port MAC
     addresses.

   - Allow antenna control on injected WiFi frames.

   - Reduce the number of variants of napi_schedule().

   - Simplify error handling when composing devlink health messages.

  Misc:

   - A lot of KCSAN data race "fixes", from Eric.

   - A lot of __counted_by() annotations, from Kees.

   - A lot of strncpy -&gt; strscpy and printf format fixes.

   - Replace master/slave terminology with conduit/user in DSA drivers.

   - Handful of KUnit tests for netdev and WiFi core.

  Removed:

   - AppleTalk COPS.

   - AppleTalk ipddp.

   - TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet driver.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - add a driver for the Intel E2000 IPUs
         - make CRC/FCS stripping configurable
         - cross-timestamping for E823 devices
         - basic support for E830 devices
         - use aux-bus for managing client drivers
         - i40e: report firmware versions via devlink
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support 4-port NICs
         - increase max number of channels to 256
         - optimize / parallelize SF creation flow
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - enhance NIC temperature reporting
         - support PAM4 speeds and lane configuration
      - Marvell OcteonTX2:
         - PTP pulse-per-second output support
         - enable hardware timestamping for VFs
      - Solarflare/AMD:
         - conntrack NAT offload and offload for tunnels
      - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
         - expose HW statistics
      - Pensando/AMD:
         - support PCI level reset
         - narrow down the condition under which skbs are linearized
      - Netronome/Corigine (nfp):
         - support CHACHA20-POLY1305 crypto in IPsec offload

   - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - add Loongson-1 SoC support
         - enable use of HW queues with no offload capabilities
         - enable PPS input support on all 5 channels
         - increase TX coalesce timer to 5ms
      - RealTek USB (r8152): improve efficiency of Rx by using GRO frags
      - xen: support SW packet timestamping
      - add drivers for implementations based on TI's PRUSS (AM64x EVM)

   - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches:
      - avoid poor HW resource use on Spectrum-4 by better block
        selection for IPv6 multicast forwarding and ordering of blocks
        in ACL region

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Microchip:
         - support configuring the drive strength for EMI compliance
         - ksz9477: partial ACL support
         - ksz9477: HSR offload
         - ksz9477: Wake on LAN
      - Realtek:
         - rtl8366rb: respect device tree config of the CPU port

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support Broadcom BCM5221 PHYs
      - TI dp83867: support hardware LED blinking

   - CAN:
      - add support for Linux-PHY based CAN transceivers
      - at91_can: clean up and use rx-offload helpers

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - new sub-driver for mt7925 USB/PCIe devices
         - HW wireless &lt;&gt; Ethernet bridging in MT7988 chips
         - mt7603/mt7628 stability improvements
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - WCN7850:
            - enable 320 MHz channels in 6 GHz band
            - hardware rfkill support
            - enable IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS to
              make scan faster
            - read board data variant name from SMBIOS
        - QCN9274: mesh support
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - TDMA-based multi-channel concurrency (MCC)
      - Silicon Labs (wfx):
         - Remain-On-Channel (ROC) support

   - Bluetooth:
      - ISO: many improvements for broadcast support
      - mark BCM4378/BCM4387 as BROKEN_LE_CODED
      - add support for QCA2066
      - btmtksdio: enable Bluetooth wakeup from suspend"

* tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1816 commits)
  net: pcs: xpcs: Add 2500BASE-X case in get state for XPCS drivers
  net: bpf: Use sockopt_lock_sock() in ip_sock_set_tos()
  net: mana: Use xdp_set_features_flag instead of direct assignment
  vxlan: Cleanup IFLA_VXLAN_PORT_RANGE entry in vxlan_get_size()
  iavf: delete the iavf client interface
  iavf: add a common function for undoing the interrupt scheme
  iavf: use unregister_netdev
  iavf: rely on netdev's own registered state
  iavf: fix the waiting time for initial reset
  iavf: in iavf_down, don't queue watchdog_task if comms failed
  iavf: simplify mutex_trylock+sleep loops
  iavf: fix comments about old bit locks
  doc/netlink: Update schema to support cmd-cnt-name and cmd-max-name
  tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types
  ipvlan: properly track tx_errors
  netdevsim: Block until all devices are released
  nfp: using napi_build_skb() to replace build_skb()
  net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: Fix spelling mistake "Enery" -&gt; "Energy"
  net: dsa: microchip: Ensure Stable PME Pin State for Wake-on-LAN
  net: dsa: microchip: Refactor switch shutdown routine for WoL preparation
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Support usec resolution of TCP timestamps, enabled selectively by a
     route attribute.

   - Defer regular TCP ACK while processing socket backlog, try to send
     a cumulative ACK at the end. Increase single TCP flow performance
     on a 200Gbit NIC by 20% (100Gbit -&gt; 120Gbit).

   - The Fair Queuing (FQ) packet scheduler:
       - add built-in 3 band prio / WRR scheduling
       - support bypass if the qdisc is mostly idle (5% speed up for TCP RR)
       - improve inactive flow reporting
       - optimize the layout of structures for better cache locality

   - Support TCP Authentication Option (RFC 5925, TCP-AO), a more modern
     replacement for the old MD5 option.

   - Add more retransmission timeout (RTO) related statistics to
     TCP_INFO.

   - Support sending fragmented skbs over vsock sockets.

   - Make sure we send SIGPIPE for vsock sockets if socket was
     shutdown().

   - Add sysctl for ignoring lower limit on lifetime in Router
     Advertisement PIO, based on an in-progress IETF draft.

   - Add sysctl to control activation of TCP ping-pong mode.

   - Add sysctl to make connection timeout in MPTCP configurable.

   - Support rcvlowat and notsent_lowat on MPTCP sockets, to help apps
     limit the number of wakeups.

   - Support netlink GET for MDB (multicast forwarding), allowing user
     space to request a single MDB entry instead of dumping the entire
     table.

   - Support selective FDB flushing in the VXLAN tunnel driver.

   - Allow limiting learned FDB entries in bridges, prevent OOM attacks.

   - Allow controlling via configfs netconsole targets which were
     created via the kernel cmdline at boot, rather than via configfs at
     runtime.

   - Support multiple PTP timestamp event queue readers with different
     filters.

   - MCTP over I3C.

  BPF:

   - Add new veth-like netdevice where BPF program defines the logic of
     the xmit routine. It can operate in L3 and L2 mode.

   - Support exceptions - allow asserting conditions which should never
     be true but are hard for the verifier to infer. With some extra
     flexibility around handling of the exit / failure:

          https://lwn.net/Articles/938435/

   - Add support for local per-cpu kptr, allow allocating and storing
     per-cpu objects in maps. Access to those objects operates on the
     value for the current CPU.

     This allows to deprecate local one-off implementations of per-CPU
     storage like BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE maps.

   - Extend cgroup BPF sockaddr hooks for UNIX sockets. The use case is
     for systemd to re-implement the LogNamespace feature which allows
     running multiple instances of systemd-journald to process the logs
     of different services.

   - Enable open-coded task_vma iteration, after maple tree conversion
     made it hard to directly walk VMAs in tracing programs.

   - Add open-coded task, css_task and css iterator support. One of the
     use cases is customizable OOM victim selection via BPF.

   - Allow source address selection with bpf_*_fib_lookup().

   - Add ability to pin BPF timer to the current CPU.

   - Prevent creation of infinite loops by combining tail calls and
     fentry/fexit programs.

   - Add missed stats for kprobes to retrieve the number of missed
     kprobe executions and subsequent executions of BPF programs.

   - Inherit system settings for CPU security mitigations.

   - Add BPF v4 CPU instruction support for arm32 and s390x.

  Changes to common code:

   - overflow: add DEFINE_FLEX() for on-stack definition of structs with
     flexible array members.

   - Process doc update with more guidance for reviewers.

  Driver API:

   - Simplify locking in WiFi (cfg80211 and mac80211 layers), use wiphy
     mutex in most places and remove a lot of smaller locks.

   - Create a common DPLL configuration API. Allow configuring and
     querying state of PLL circuits used for clock syntonization, in
     network time distribution.

   - Unify fragmented and full page allocation APIs in page pool code.
     Let drivers be ignorant of PAGE_SIZE.

   - Rework PHY state machine to avoid races with calls to phy_stop().

   - Notify DSA drivers of MAC address changes on user ports, improve
     correctness of offloads which depend on matching port MAC
     addresses.

   - Allow antenna control on injected WiFi frames.

   - Reduce the number of variants of napi_schedule().

   - Simplify error handling when composing devlink health messages.

  Misc:

   - A lot of KCSAN data race "fixes", from Eric.

   - A lot of __counted_by() annotations, from Kees.

   - A lot of strncpy -&gt; strscpy and printf format fixes.

   - Replace master/slave terminology with conduit/user in DSA drivers.

   - Handful of KUnit tests for netdev and WiFi core.

  Removed:

   - AppleTalk COPS.

   - AppleTalk ipddp.

   - TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet driver.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - add a driver for the Intel E2000 IPUs
         - make CRC/FCS stripping configurable
         - cross-timestamping for E823 devices
         - basic support for E830 devices
         - use aux-bus for managing client drivers
         - i40e: report firmware versions via devlink
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support 4-port NICs
         - increase max number of channels to 256
         - optimize / parallelize SF creation flow
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - enhance NIC temperature reporting
         - support PAM4 speeds and lane configuration
      - Marvell OcteonTX2:
         - PTP pulse-per-second output support
         - enable hardware timestamping for VFs
      - Solarflare/AMD:
         - conntrack NAT offload and offload for tunnels
      - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
         - expose HW statistics
      - Pensando/AMD:
         - support PCI level reset
         - narrow down the condition under which skbs are linearized
      - Netronome/Corigine (nfp):
         - support CHACHA20-POLY1305 crypto in IPsec offload

   - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - add Loongson-1 SoC support
         - enable use of HW queues with no offload capabilities
         - enable PPS input support on all 5 channels
         - increase TX coalesce timer to 5ms
      - RealTek USB (r8152): improve efficiency of Rx by using GRO frags
      - xen: support SW packet timestamping
      - add drivers for implementations based on TI's PRUSS (AM64x EVM)

   - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches:
      - avoid poor HW resource use on Spectrum-4 by better block
        selection for IPv6 multicast forwarding and ordering of blocks
        in ACL region

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Microchip:
         - support configuring the drive strength for EMI compliance
         - ksz9477: partial ACL support
         - ksz9477: HSR offload
         - ksz9477: Wake on LAN
      - Realtek:
         - rtl8366rb: respect device tree config of the CPU port

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support Broadcom BCM5221 PHYs
      - TI dp83867: support hardware LED blinking

   - CAN:
      - add support for Linux-PHY based CAN transceivers
      - at91_can: clean up and use rx-offload helpers

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - new sub-driver for mt7925 USB/PCIe devices
         - HW wireless &lt;&gt; Ethernet bridging in MT7988 chips
         - mt7603/mt7628 stability improvements
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - WCN7850:
            - enable 320 MHz channels in 6 GHz band
            - hardware rfkill support
            - enable IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS to
              make scan faster
            - read board data variant name from SMBIOS
        - QCN9274: mesh support
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - TDMA-based multi-channel concurrency (MCC)
      - Silicon Labs (wfx):
         - Remain-On-Channel (ROC) support

   - Bluetooth:
      - ISO: many improvements for broadcast support
      - mark BCM4378/BCM4387 as BROKEN_LE_CODED
      - add support for QCA2066
      - btmtksdio: enable Bluetooth wakeup from suspend"

* tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1816 commits)
  net: pcs: xpcs: Add 2500BASE-X case in get state for XPCS drivers
  net: bpf: Use sockopt_lock_sock() in ip_sock_set_tos()
  net: mana: Use xdp_set_features_flag instead of direct assignment
  vxlan: Cleanup IFLA_VXLAN_PORT_RANGE entry in vxlan_get_size()
  iavf: delete the iavf client interface
  iavf: add a common function for undoing the interrupt scheme
  iavf: use unregister_netdev
  iavf: rely on netdev's own registered state
  iavf: fix the waiting time for initial reset
  iavf: in iavf_down, don't queue watchdog_task if comms failed
  iavf: simplify mutex_trylock+sleep loops
  iavf: fix comments about old bit locks
  doc/netlink: Update schema to support cmd-cnt-name and cmd-max-name
  tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types
  ipvlan: properly track tx_errors
  netdevsim: Block until all devices are released
  nfp: using napi_build_skb() to replace build_skb()
  net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: Fix spelling mistake "Enery" -&gt; "Energy"
  net: dsa: microchip: Ensure Stable PME Pin State for Wake-on-LAN
  net: dsa: microchip: Refactor switch shutdown routine for WoL preparation
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm_types: add virtual and _last_cpupid into struct folio</title>
<updated>2023-10-25T23:47:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-18T14:07:48+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: convert page cpupid functions to folios", v3.

The cpupid(or access time) used by numa balancing is stored in flags or
_last_cpupid(if LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS) of page, this is to convert
page cpupid to folio cpupid, a new _last_cpupid is added into folio, which
make us to use folio-&gt;_last_cpupid directly, and the page cpupid functions
are converted to folio ones.

  page_cpupid_last()		-&gt; folio_last_cpupid()
  xchg_page_access_time()	-&gt; folio_xchg_access_time()
  page_cpupid_xchg_last()	-&gt; folio_xchg_last_cpupid()


This patch (of 19):

If WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL and LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS defined, the
'virtual' and '_last_cpupid' are in struct page, and since _last_cpupid is
used by numa balancing feature, it is better to move it before KMSAN
metadata from struct page, also add them into struct folio to make us to
access them from folio directly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231018140806.2783514-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231018140806.2783514-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm: convert page cpupid functions to folios", v3.

The cpupid(or access time) used by numa balancing is stored in flags or
_last_cpupid(if LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS) of page, this is to convert
page cpupid to folio cpupid, a new _last_cpupid is added into folio, which
make us to use folio-&gt;_last_cpupid directly, and the page cpupid functions
are converted to folio ones.

  page_cpupid_last()		-&gt; folio_last_cpupid()
  xchg_page_access_time()	-&gt; folio_xchg_access_time()
  page_cpupid_xchg_last()	-&gt; folio_xchg_last_cpupid()


This patch (of 19):

If WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL and LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS defined, the
'virtual' and '_last_cpupid' are in struct page, and since _last_cpupid is
used by numa balancing feature, it is better to move it before KMSAN
metadata from struct page, also add them into struct folio to make us to
access them from folio directly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231018140806.2783514-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231018140806.2783514-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: move vma_policy() and anon_vma_name() decls to mm_types.h</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T21:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-11T17:04:27+00:00</published>
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Patch series "Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()", v4.

The vma_merge() interface is very confusing and its implementation has led
to numerous bugs as a result of that confusion.

In addition there is duplication both in invocation of vma_merge(), but
also in the common mprotect()-style pattern of attempting a merge, then if
this fails, splitting the portion of a VMA about to have its attributes
changed.

This pattern has been copy/pasted around the kernel in each instance where
such an operation has been required, each very slightly modified from the
last to make it even harder to decipher what is going on.

Simplify the whole thing by dividing the actual uses of vma_merge() and
split_vma() into specific and abstracted functions and de-duplicate the
vma_merge()/split_vma() pattern altogether.

Doing so also opens the door to changing how vma_merge() is implemented -
by knowing precisely what cases a caller is invoking rather than having a
central interface where anything might happen we can untangle the brittle
and confusing vma_merge() implementation into something more workable.

For mprotect()-like cases we introduce vma_modify() which performs the
vma_merge()/split_vma() pattern, returning a pointer to either the merged
or split VMA or an ERR_PTR(err) if the splits fail.

We provide a number of inline helper functions to make things even clearer:-

* vma_modify_flags()      - Prepare to modify the VMA's flags.
* vma_modify_flags_name() - Prepare to modify the VMA's flags/anon_vma_name
* vma_modify_policy()     - Prepare to modify the VMA's mempolicy.
* vma_modify_flags_uffd() - Prepare to modify the VMA's flags/uffd context.

For cases where a new VMA is attempted to be merged with adjacent VMAs we
add:-

* vma_merge_new_vma() - Prepare to merge a new VMA.
* vma_merge_extend()  - Prepare to extend the end of a new VMA.


This patch (of 5):

The vma_policy() define is a helper specifically for a VMA field so it
makes sense to host it in the memory management types header.

The anon_vma_name(), anon_vma_name_alloc() and anon_vma_name_free()
functions are a little out of place in mm_inline.h as they define external
functions, and so it makes sense to locate them in mm_types.h.

The purpose of these relocations is to make it possible to abstract static
inline wrappers which invoke both of these helpers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1697043508.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/24bfc6c9e382fffbcb0ea8d424392c27d56cc8ca.1697043508.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()", v4.

The vma_merge() interface is very confusing and its implementation has led
to numerous bugs as a result of that confusion.

In addition there is duplication both in invocation of vma_merge(), but
also in the common mprotect()-style pattern of attempting a merge, then if
this fails, splitting the portion of a VMA about to have its attributes
changed.

This pattern has been copy/pasted around the kernel in each instance where
such an operation has been required, each very slightly modified from the
last to make it even harder to decipher what is going on.

Simplify the whole thing by dividing the actual uses of vma_merge() and
split_vma() into specific and abstracted functions and de-duplicate the
vma_merge()/split_vma() pattern altogether.

Doing so also opens the door to changing how vma_merge() is implemented -
by knowing precisely what cases a caller is invoking rather than having a
central interface where anything might happen we can untangle the brittle
and confusing vma_merge() implementation into something more workable.

For mprotect()-like cases we introduce vma_modify() which performs the
vma_merge()/split_vma() pattern, returning a pointer to either the merged
or split VMA or an ERR_PTR(err) if the splits fail.

We provide a number of inline helper functions to make things even clearer:-

* vma_modify_flags()      - Prepare to modify the VMA's flags.
* vma_modify_flags_name() - Prepare to modify the VMA's flags/anon_vma_name
* vma_modify_policy()     - Prepare to modify the VMA's mempolicy.
* vma_modify_flags_uffd() - Prepare to modify the VMA's flags/uffd context.

For cases where a new VMA is attempted to be merged with adjacent VMAs we
add:-

* vma_merge_new_vma() - Prepare to merge a new VMA.
* vma_merge_extend()  - Prepare to extend the end of a new VMA.


This patch (of 5):

The vma_policy() define is a helper specifically for a VMA field so it
makes sense to host it in the memory management types header.

The anon_vma_name(), anon_vma_name_alloc() and anon_vma_name_free()
functions are a little out of place in mm_inline.h as they define external
functions, and so it makes sense to locate them in mm_types.h.

The purpose of these relocations is to make it possible to abstract static
inline wrappers which invoke both of these helpers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1697043508.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/24bfc6c9e382fffbcb0ea8d424392c27d56cc8ca.1697043508.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>page_pool: fragment API support for 32-bit arch with 64-bit DMA</title>
<updated>2023-10-17T01:28:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yunsheng Lin</name>
<email>linyunsheng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-13T06:48:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=90de47f020db086f7929e09f64efd0cf627d6869'/>
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Currently page_pool_alloc_frag() is not supported in 32-bit
arch with 64-bit DMA because of the overlap issue between
pp_frag_count and dma_addr_upper in 'struct page' for those
arches, which seems to be quite common, see [1], which means
driver may need to handle it when using fragment API.

It is assumed that the combination of the above arch with an
address space &gt;16TB does not exist, as all those arches have
64b equivalent, it seems logical to use the 64b version for a
system with a large address space. It is also assumed that dma
address is page aligned when we are dma mapping a page aligned
buffer, see [2].

That means we're storing 12 bits of 0 at the lower end for a
dma address, we can reuse those bits for the above arches to
support 32b+12b, which is 16TB of memory.

If we make a wrong assumption, a warning is emitted so that
user can report to us.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211117075652.58299-1-linyunsheng@huawei.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230818145145.4b357c89@kernel.org/

Tested-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
CC: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.duyck@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Liang Chen &lt;liangchen.linux@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Guillaume Tucker &lt;guillaume.tucker@collabora.com&gt;
CC: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
CC: Linux-MM &lt;linux-mm@kvack.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231013064827.61135-2-linyunsheng@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently page_pool_alloc_frag() is not supported in 32-bit
arch with 64-bit DMA because of the overlap issue between
pp_frag_count and dma_addr_upper in 'struct page' for those
arches, which seems to be quite common, see [1], which means
driver may need to handle it when using fragment API.

It is assumed that the combination of the above arch with an
address space &gt;16TB does not exist, as all those arches have
64b equivalent, it seems logical to use the 64b version for a
system with a large address space. It is also assumed that dma
address is page aligned when we are dma mapping a page aligned
buffer, see [2].

That means we're storing 12 bits of 0 at the lower end for a
dma address, we can reuse those bits for the above arches to
support 32b+12b, which is 16TB of memory.

If we make a wrong assumption, a warning is emitted so that
user can report to us.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211117075652.58299-1-linyunsheng@huawei.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230818145145.4b357c89@kernel.org/

Tested-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
CC: Lorenzo Bianconi &lt;lorenzo@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.duyck@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Liang Chen &lt;liangchen.linux@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Guillaume Tucker &lt;guillaume.tucker@collabora.com&gt;
CC: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
CC: Linux-MM &lt;linux-mm@kvack.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231013064827.61135-2-linyunsheng@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/numa: Complete scanning of inactive VMAs when there is no alternative</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T21:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-10T08:31:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f169c62ff7cd1acf8bac8ae17bfeafa307d9e6fa'/>
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VMAs are skipped if there is no recent fault activity but this represents
a chicken-and-egg problem as there may be no fault activity if the PTEs
are never updated to trap NUMA hints. There is an indirect reliance on
scanning to be forced early in the lifetime of a task but this may fail
to detect changes in phase behaviour. Force inactive VMAs to be scanned
when all other eligible VMAs have been updated within the same scan
sequence.

Test results in general look good with some changes in performance, both
negative and positive, depending on whether the additional scanning and
faulting was beneficial or not to the workload. The autonuma benchmark
workload NUMA01_THREADLOCAL was picked for closer examination. The workload
creates two processes with numerous threads and thread-local storage that
is zero-filled in a loop. It exercises the corner case where unrelated
threads may skip VMAs that are thread-local to another thread and still
has some VMAs that inactive while the workload executes.

The VMA skipping activity frequency with and without the patch:

	6.6.0-rc2-sched-numabtrace-v1
	=============================
	    649 reason=scan_delay
	  9,094 reason=unsuitable
	 48,915 reason=shared_ro
	143,919 reason=inaccessible
	193,050 reason=pid_inactive

	6.6.0-rc2-sched-numabselective-v1
	=============================
	    146 reason=seq_completed
	    622 reason=ignore_pid_inactive

	    624 reason=scan_delay
	  6,570 reason=unsuitable
	 16,101 reason=shared_ro
	 27,608 reason=inaccessible
	 41,939 reason=pid_inactive

Note that with the patch applied, the PID activity is ignored
(ignore_pid_inactive) to ensure a VMA with some activity is completely
scanned. In addition, a small number of VMAs are scanned when no other
eligible VMA is available during a single scan window (seq_completed).
The number of times a VMA is skipped due to no PID activity from the
scanning task (pid_inactive) drops dramatically. It is expected that
this will increase the number of PTEs updated for NUMA hinting faults
as well as hinting faults but these represent PTEs that would otherwise
have been missed. The tradeoff is scan+fault overhead versus improving
locality due to migration.

On a 2-socket Cascade Lake test machine, the time to complete the
workload is as follows;

                                                 6.6.0-rc2              6.6.0-rc2
                                       sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1
  Min       elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL      174.22 (   0.00%)      117.64 (  32.48%)
  Amean     elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL      175.68 (   0.00%)      123.34 *  29.79%*
  Stddev    elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL        1.20 (   0.00%)        4.06 (-238.20%)
  CoeffVar  elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL        0.68 (   0.00%)        3.29 (-381.70%)
  Max       elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL      177.18 (   0.00%)      128.03 (  27.74%)

The time to complete the workload is reduced by almost 30%:

                     6.6.0-rc2   6.6.0-rc2
                  sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1 /
  Duration User       91201.80    63506.64
  Duration System      2015.53     1819.78
  Duration Elapsed     1234.77      868.37

In this specific case, system CPU time was not increased but it's not
universally true.

From vmstat, the NUMA scanning and fault activity is as follows;

                                        6.6.0-rc2      6.6.0-rc2
                              sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1
  Ops NUMA base-page range updates       64272.00    26374386.00
  Ops NUMA PTE updates                   36624.00       55538.00
  Ops NUMA PMD updates                      54.00       51404.00
  Ops NUMA hint faults                   15504.00       75786.00
  Ops NUMA hint local faults %           14860.00       56763.00
  Ops NUMA hint local percent               95.85          74.90
  Ops NUMA pages migrated                 1629.00     6469222.00

Both the number of PTE updates and hint faults is dramatically
increased. While this is superficially unfortunate, it represents
ranges that were simply skipped without the patch. As a result
of the scanning and hinting faults, many more pages were also
migrated but as the time to completion is reduced, the overhead
is offset by the gain.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
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VMAs are skipped if there is no recent fault activity but this represents
a chicken-and-egg problem as there may be no fault activity if the PTEs
are never updated to trap NUMA hints. There is an indirect reliance on
scanning to be forced early in the lifetime of a task but this may fail
to detect changes in phase behaviour. Force inactive VMAs to be scanned
when all other eligible VMAs have been updated within the same scan
sequence.

Test results in general look good with some changes in performance, both
negative and positive, depending on whether the additional scanning and
faulting was beneficial or not to the workload. The autonuma benchmark
workload NUMA01_THREADLOCAL was picked for closer examination. The workload
creates two processes with numerous threads and thread-local storage that
is zero-filled in a loop. It exercises the corner case where unrelated
threads may skip VMAs that are thread-local to another thread and still
has some VMAs that inactive while the workload executes.

The VMA skipping activity frequency with and without the patch:

	6.6.0-rc2-sched-numabtrace-v1
	=============================
	    649 reason=scan_delay
	  9,094 reason=unsuitable
	 48,915 reason=shared_ro
	143,919 reason=inaccessible
	193,050 reason=pid_inactive

	6.6.0-rc2-sched-numabselective-v1
	=============================
	    146 reason=seq_completed
	    622 reason=ignore_pid_inactive

	    624 reason=scan_delay
	  6,570 reason=unsuitable
	 16,101 reason=shared_ro
	 27,608 reason=inaccessible
	 41,939 reason=pid_inactive

Note that with the patch applied, the PID activity is ignored
(ignore_pid_inactive) to ensure a VMA with some activity is completely
scanned. In addition, a small number of VMAs are scanned when no other
eligible VMA is available during a single scan window (seq_completed).
The number of times a VMA is skipped due to no PID activity from the
scanning task (pid_inactive) drops dramatically. It is expected that
this will increase the number of PTEs updated for NUMA hinting faults
as well as hinting faults but these represent PTEs that would otherwise
have been missed. The tradeoff is scan+fault overhead versus improving
locality due to migration.

On a 2-socket Cascade Lake test machine, the time to complete the
workload is as follows;

                                                 6.6.0-rc2              6.6.0-rc2
                                       sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1
  Min       elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL      174.22 (   0.00%)      117.64 (  32.48%)
  Amean     elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL      175.68 (   0.00%)      123.34 *  29.79%*
  Stddev    elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL        1.20 (   0.00%)        4.06 (-238.20%)
  CoeffVar  elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL        0.68 (   0.00%)        3.29 (-381.70%)
  Max       elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL      177.18 (   0.00%)      128.03 (  27.74%)

The time to complete the workload is reduced by almost 30%:

                     6.6.0-rc2   6.6.0-rc2
                  sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1 /
  Duration User       91201.80    63506.64
  Duration System      2015.53     1819.78
  Duration Elapsed     1234.77      868.37

In this specific case, system CPU time was not increased but it's not
universally true.

From vmstat, the NUMA scanning and fault activity is as follows;

                                        6.6.0-rc2      6.6.0-rc2
                              sched-numabtrace-v1 sched-numabselective-v1
  Ops NUMA base-page range updates       64272.00    26374386.00
  Ops NUMA PTE updates                   36624.00       55538.00
  Ops NUMA PMD updates                      54.00       51404.00
  Ops NUMA hint faults                   15504.00       75786.00
  Ops NUMA hint local faults %           14860.00       56763.00
  Ops NUMA hint local percent               95.85          74.90
  Ops NUMA pages migrated                 1629.00     6469222.00

Both the number of PTE updates and hint faults is dramatically
increased. While this is superficially unfortunate, it represents
ranges that were simply skipped without the patch. As a result
of the scanning and hinting faults, many more pages were also
migrated but as the time to completion is reduced, the overhead
is offset by the gain.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/numa: Rename vma_numab_state::access_pids[] =&gt; ::pids_active[], ::next_pid_reset =&gt; ::pids_active_reset</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T09:10:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-10T08:31:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f3a6c97940fbd25d6c84c2d5642338fc99a9b35b'/>
<id>f3a6c97940fbd25d6c84c2d5642338fc99a9b35b</id>
<content type='text'>
The access_pids[] field name is somewhat ambiguous as no PIDs are accessed.
Similarly, it's not clear that next_pid_reset is related to access_pids[].
Rename the fields to more accurately reflect their purpose.

[ mingo: Rename in the comments too. ]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
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<pre>
The access_pids[] field name is somewhat ambiguous as no PIDs are accessed.
Similarly, it's not clear that next_pid_reset is related to access_pids[].
Rename the fields to more accurately reflect their purpose.

[ mingo: Rename in the comments too. ]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/numa: Document vma_numab_state fields</title>
<updated>2023-10-10T09:10:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-10T08:31:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9ae5c00ea2e600a8b823f9b95606dd244f3096bf'/>
<id>9ae5c00ea2e600a8b823f9b95606dd244f3096bf</id>
<content type='text'>
Document the intended usage of the fields.

[ mingo: Reformatted to take less vertical space &amp; tidied it up. ]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
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<pre>
Document the intended usage of the fields.

[ mingo: Reformatted to take less vertical space &amp; tidied it up. ]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010083143.19593-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T23:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-21T16:08:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=85a1333417a7561c1d10a77d6c873a37e6ea63a0'/>
<id>85a1333417a7561c1d10a77d6c873a37e6ea63a0</id>
<content type='text'>
Let's stop working on the private field and use an explicit swap field. 
We have to move the swp_entry_t typedef.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821160849.531668-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjenning@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitaly.wool@konsulko.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Let's stop working on the private field and use an explicit swap field. 
We have to move the swp_entry_t typedef.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821160849.531668-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjenning@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitaly.wool@konsulko.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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