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<title>perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T08:12:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-11T02:07:22+00:00</published>
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commit ff083a2d972f56bebfd82409ca62e5dfce950961 upstream.

Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU to fix multiple possible errors.  Luckily,
all paths that read perf_guest_cbs already require RCU protection, e.g. to
protect the callback chains, so only the direct perf_guest_cbs touchpoints
need to be modified.

Bug #1 is a simple lack of WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE behavior to ensure
perf_guest_cbs isn't reloaded between a !NULL check and a dereference.
Fixed via the READ_ONCE() in rcu_dereference().

Bug #2 is that on weakly-ordered architectures, updates to the callbacks
themselves are not guaranteed to be visible before the pointer is made
visible to readers.  Fixed by the smp_store_release() in
rcu_assign_pointer() when the new pointer is non-NULL.

Bug #3 is that, because the callbacks are global, it's possible for
readers to run in parallel with an unregisters, and thus a module
implementing the callbacks can be unloaded while readers are in flight,
resulting in a use-after-free.  Fixed by a synchronize_rcu() call when
unregistering callbacks.

Bug #1 escaped notice because it's extremely unlikely a compiler will
reload perf_guest_cbs in this sequence.  perf_guest_cbs does get reloaded
for future derefs, e.g. for -&gt;is_user_mode(), but the -&gt;is_in_guest()
guard all but guarantees the consumer will win the race, e.g. to nullify
perf_guest_cbs, KVM has to completely exit the guest and teardown down
all VMs before KVM start its module unload / unregister sequence.  This
also makes it all but impossible to encounter bug #3.

Bug #2 has not been a problem because all architectures that register
callbacks are strongly ordered and/or have a static set of callbacks.

But with help, unloading kvm_intel can trigger bug #1 e.g. wrapping
perf_guest_cbs with READ_ONCE in perf_misc_flags() while spamming
kvm_intel module load/unload leads to:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 6 PID: 1825 Comm: stress Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2+ #459
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:perf_misc_flags+0x1c/0x70
  Call Trace:
   perf_prepare_sample+0x53/0x6b0
   perf_event_output_forward+0x67/0x160
   __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0xf0
   handle_pmi_common+0x207/0x300
   intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xcf/0x410
   perf_event_nmi_handler+0x28/0x50
   nmi_handle+0xc7/0x260
   default_do_nmi+0x6b/0x170
   exc_nmi+0x103/0x130
   asm_exc_nmi+0x76/0xbf

Fixes: 39447b386c84 ("perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ff083a2d972f56bebfd82409ca62e5dfce950961 upstream.

Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU to fix multiple possible errors.  Luckily,
all paths that read perf_guest_cbs already require RCU protection, e.g. to
protect the callback chains, so only the direct perf_guest_cbs touchpoints
need to be modified.

Bug #1 is a simple lack of WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE behavior to ensure
perf_guest_cbs isn't reloaded between a !NULL check and a dereference.
Fixed via the READ_ONCE() in rcu_dereference().

Bug #2 is that on weakly-ordered architectures, updates to the callbacks
themselves are not guaranteed to be visible before the pointer is made
visible to readers.  Fixed by the smp_store_release() in
rcu_assign_pointer() when the new pointer is non-NULL.

Bug #3 is that, because the callbacks are global, it's possible for
readers to run in parallel with an unregisters, and thus a module
implementing the callbacks can be unloaded while readers are in flight,
resulting in a use-after-free.  Fixed by a synchronize_rcu() call when
unregistering callbacks.

Bug #1 escaped notice because it's extremely unlikely a compiler will
reload perf_guest_cbs in this sequence.  perf_guest_cbs does get reloaded
for future derefs, e.g. for -&gt;is_user_mode(), but the -&gt;is_in_guest()
guard all but guarantees the consumer will win the race, e.g. to nullify
perf_guest_cbs, KVM has to completely exit the guest and teardown down
all VMs before KVM start its module unload / unregister sequence.  This
also makes it all but impossible to encounter bug #3.

Bug #2 has not been a problem because all architectures that register
callbacks are strongly ordered and/or have a static set of callbacks.

But with help, unloading kvm_intel can trigger bug #1 e.g. wrapping
perf_guest_cbs with READ_ONCE in perf_misc_flags() while spamming
kvm_intel module load/unload leads to:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 6 PID: 1825 Comm: stress Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2+ #459
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:perf_misc_flags+0x1c/0x70
  Call Trace:
   perf_prepare_sample+0x53/0x6b0
   perf_event_output_forward+0x67/0x160
   __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0xf0
   handle_pmi_common+0x207/0x300
   intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xcf/0x410
   perf_event_nmi_handler+0x28/0x50
   nmi_handle+0xc7/0x260
   default_do_nmi+0x6b/0x170
   exc_nmi+0x103/0x130
   asm_exc_nmi+0x76/0xbf

Fixes: 39447b386c84 ("perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devtmpfs regression fix: reconfigure on each mount</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T08:12:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-16T22:07:26+00:00</published>
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commit a6097180d884ddab769fb25588ea8598589c218c upstream.

Prior to Linux v5.4 devtmpfs used mount_single() which treats the given
mount options as "remount" options, so it updates the configuration of
the single super_block on each mount.

Since that was changed, the mount options used for devtmpfs are ignored.
This is a regression which affect systemd - which mounts devtmpfs with
"-o mode=755,size=4m,nr_inodes=1m".

This patch restores the "remount" effect by calling reconfigure_single()

Fixes: d401727ea0d7 ("devtmpfs: don't mix {ramfs,shmem}_fill_super() with mount_single()")
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a6097180d884ddab769fb25588ea8598589c218c upstream.

Prior to Linux v5.4 devtmpfs used mount_single() which treats the given
mount options as "remount" options, so it updates the configuration of
the single super_block on each mount.

Since that was changed, the mount options used for devtmpfs are ignored.
This is a regression which affect systemd - which mounts devtmpfs with
"-o mode=755,size=4m,nr_inodes=1m".

This patch restores the "remount" effect by calling reconfigure_single()

Fixes: d401727ea0d7 ("devtmpfs: don't mix {ramfs,shmem}_fill_super() with mount_single()")
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2022-01-07' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm</title>
<updated>2022-01-07T17:17:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-07T17:17:53+00:00</published>
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Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie:
 "There is only the amdgpu runtime pm regression fix in here:

  amdgpu:

   - suspend/resume fix

   - fix runtime PM regression"

* tag 'drm-fixes-2022-01-07' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm:
  drm/amdgpu: disable runpm if we are the primary adapter
  fbdev: fbmem: add a helper to determine if an aperture is used by a fw fb
  drm/amd/pm: keep the BACO feature enabled for suspend
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Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie:
 "There is only the amdgpu runtime pm regression fix in here:

  amdgpu:

   - suspend/resume fix

   - fix runtime PM regression"

* tag 'drm-fixes-2022-01-07' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm:
  drm/amdgpu: disable runpm if we are the primary adapter
  fbdev: fbmem: add a helper to determine if an aperture is used by a fw fb
  drm/amd/pm: keep the BACO feature enabled for suspend
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'amd-drm-fixes-5.16-2021-12-31' of ssh://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux into drm-fixes</title>
<updated>2022-01-06T20:46:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Airlie</name>
<email>airlied@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-06T20:46:07+00:00</published>
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amd-drm-fixes-5.16-2021-12-31:

amdgpu:
- Suspend/resume fix
- Restore runtime pm behavior with efifb

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
From: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211231143825.11479-1-alexander.deucher@amd.com
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amd-drm-fixes-5.16-2021-12-31:

amdgpu:
- Suspend/resume fix
- Restore runtime pm behavior with efifb

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
From: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211231143825.11479-1-alexander.deucher@amd.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-5.16-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2022-01-05T22:08:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-05T22:08:56+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski"
 "Networking fixes, including fixes from bpf, and WiFi. One last pull
  request, turns out some of the recent fixes did more harm than good.

  Current release - regressions:

   - Revert "xsk: Do not sleep in poll() when need_wakeup set", made the
     problem worse

   - Revert "net: phy: fixed_phy: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() checking in
     __fixed_phy_register", broke EPROBE_DEFER handling

   - Revert "net: usb: r8152: Add MAC pass-through support for more
     Lenovo Docks", broke setups without a Lenovo dock

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - selftests: set amt.sh executable

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - batman-adv: mcast: don't send link-local multicast to mcast routers

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - ipv4/ipv6: check attribute length for RTA_FLOW / RTA_GATEWAY

   - sctp: hold endpoint before calling cb in
     sctp_transport_lookup_process

   - mac80211: mesh: embed mesh_paths and mpp_paths into
     ieee80211_if_mesh to avoid complicated handling of sub-object
     allocation failures

   - seg6: fix traceroute in the presence of SRv6

   - tipc: fix a kernel-infoleak in __tipc_sendmsg()"

* tag 'net-5.16-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (36 commits)
  selftests: set amt.sh executable
  Revert "net: usb: r8152: Add MAC passthrough support for more Lenovo Docks"
  sfc: The RX page_ring is optional
  iavf: Fix limit of total number of queues to active queues of VF
  i40e: Fix incorrect netdev's real number of RX/TX queues
  i40e: Fix for displaying message regarding NVM version
  i40e: fix use-after-free in i40e_sync_filters_subtask()
  i40e: Fix to not show opcode msg on unsuccessful VF MAC change
  ieee802154: atusb: fix uninit value in atusb_set_extended_addr
  mac80211: mesh: embedd mesh_paths and mpp_paths into ieee80211_if_mesh
  mac80211: initialize variable have_higher_than_11mbit
  sch_qfq: prevent shift-out-of-bounds in qfq_init_qdisc
  netrom: fix copying in user data in nr_setsockopt
  udp6: Use Segment Routing Header for dest address if present
  icmp: ICMPV6: Examine invoking packet for Segment Route Headers.
  seg6: export get_srh() for ICMP handling
  Revert "net: phy: fixed_phy: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() checking in __fixed_phy_register"
  ipv6: Do cleanup if attribute validation fails in multipath route
  ipv6: Continue processing multipath route even if gateway attribute is invalid
  net/fsl: Remove leftover definition in xgmac_mdio
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski"
 "Networking fixes, including fixes from bpf, and WiFi. One last pull
  request, turns out some of the recent fixes did more harm than good.

  Current release - regressions:

   - Revert "xsk: Do not sleep in poll() when need_wakeup set", made the
     problem worse

   - Revert "net: phy: fixed_phy: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() checking in
     __fixed_phy_register", broke EPROBE_DEFER handling

   - Revert "net: usb: r8152: Add MAC pass-through support for more
     Lenovo Docks", broke setups without a Lenovo dock

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - selftests: set amt.sh executable

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - batman-adv: mcast: don't send link-local multicast to mcast routers

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - ipv4/ipv6: check attribute length for RTA_FLOW / RTA_GATEWAY

   - sctp: hold endpoint before calling cb in
     sctp_transport_lookup_process

   - mac80211: mesh: embed mesh_paths and mpp_paths into
     ieee80211_if_mesh to avoid complicated handling of sub-object
     allocation failures

   - seg6: fix traceroute in the presence of SRv6

   - tipc: fix a kernel-infoleak in __tipc_sendmsg()"

* tag 'net-5.16-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (36 commits)
  selftests: set amt.sh executable
  Revert "net: usb: r8152: Add MAC passthrough support for more Lenovo Docks"
  sfc: The RX page_ring is optional
  iavf: Fix limit of total number of queues to active queues of VF
  i40e: Fix incorrect netdev's real number of RX/TX queues
  i40e: Fix for displaying message regarding NVM version
  i40e: fix use-after-free in i40e_sync_filters_subtask()
  i40e: Fix to not show opcode msg on unsuccessful VF MAC change
  ieee802154: atusb: fix uninit value in atusb_set_extended_addr
  mac80211: mesh: embedd mesh_paths and mpp_paths into ieee80211_if_mesh
  mac80211: initialize variable have_higher_than_11mbit
  sch_qfq: prevent shift-out-of-bounds in qfq_init_qdisc
  netrom: fix copying in user data in nr_setsockopt
  udp6: Use Segment Routing Header for dest address if present
  icmp: ICMPV6: Examine invoking packet for Segment Route Headers.
  seg6: export get_srh() for ICMP handling
  Revert "net: phy: fixed_phy: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() checking in __fixed_phy_register"
  ipv6: Do cleanup if attribute validation fails in multipath route
  ipv6: Continue processing multipath route even if gateway attribute is invalid
  net/fsl: Remove leftover definition in xgmac_mdio
  ...
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<entry>
<title>icmp: ICMPV6: Examine invoking packet for Segment Route Headers.</title>
<updated>2022-01-04T12:17:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Lunn</name>
<email>andrew@lunn.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-03T17:11:31+00:00</published>
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RFC8754 says:

ICMP error packets generated within the SR domain are sent to source
nodes within the SR domain.  The invoking packet in the ICMP error
message may contain an SRH.  Since the destination address of a packet
with an SRH changes as each segment is processed, it may not be the
destination used by the socket or application that generated the
invoking packet.

For the source of an invoking packet to process the ICMP error
message, the ultimate destination address of the IPv6 header may be
required.  The following logic is used to determine the destination
address for use by protocol-error handlers.

*  Walk all extension headers of the invoking IPv6 packet to the
   routing extension header preceding the upper-layer header.

   -  If routing header is type 4 Segment Routing Header (SRH)

      o  The SID at Segment List[0] may be used as the destination
         address of the invoking packet.

Mangle the skb so the network header points to the invoking packet
inside the ICMP packet. The seg6 helpers can then be used on the skb
to find any segment routing headers. If found, mark this fact in the
IPv6 control block of the skb, and store the offset into the packet of
the SRH. Then restore the skb back to its old state.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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RFC8754 says:

ICMP error packets generated within the SR domain are sent to source
nodes within the SR domain.  The invoking packet in the ICMP error
message may contain an SRH.  Since the destination address of a packet
with an SRH changes as each segment is processed, it may not be the
destination used by the socket or application that generated the
invoking packet.

For the source of an invoking packet to process the ICMP error
message, the ultimate destination address of the IPv6 header may be
required.  The following logic is used to determine the destination
address for use by protocol-error handlers.

*  Walk all extension headers of the invoking IPv6 packet to the
   routing extension header preceding the upper-layer header.

   -  If routing header is type 4 Segment Routing Header (SRH)

      o  The SID at Segment List[0] may be used as the destination
         address of the invoking packet.

Mangle the skb so the network header points to the invoking packet
inside the ICMP packet. The seg6 helpers can then be used on the skb
to find any segment routing headers. If found, mark this fact in the
IPv6 control block of the skb, and store the offset into the packet of
the SRH. Then restore the skb back to its old state.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress</title>
<updated>2021-12-31T19:17:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-02T15:06:14+00:00</published>
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Mike Galbraith, Alexey Avramov and Darrick Wong all reported similar
problems due to reclaim throttling for excessive lengths of time.  In
Alexey's case, a memory hog that should go OOM quickly stalls for
several minutes before stalling.  In Mike and Darrick's cases, a small
memcg environment stalled excessively even though the system had enough
memory overall.

Commit 69392a403f49 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is
being made") introduced the problem although commit a19594ca4a8b
("mm/vmscan: increase the timeout if page reclaim is not making
progress") made it worse.  Systems at or near an OOM state that cannot
be recovered must reach OOM quickly and memcg should kill tasks if a
memcg is near OOM.

To address this, only stall for the first zone in the zonelist, reduce
the timeout to 1 tick for VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS and only stall if
the scan control nr_reclaimed is 0, kswapd is still active and there
were excessive pages pending for writeback.  If kswapd has stopped
reclaiming due to excessive failures, do not stall at all so that OOM
triggers relatively quickly.  Similarly, if an LRU is simply congested,
only lightly throttle similar to NOPROGRESS.

Alexey's original case was the most straight forward

	for i in {1..3}; do tail /dev/zero; done

On vanilla 5.16-rc1, this test stalled heavily, after the patch the test
completes in a few seconds similar to 5.15.

Alexey's second test case added watching a youtube video while tail runs
10 times.  On 5.15, playback only jitters slightly, 5.16-rc1 stalls a
lot with lots of frames missing and numerous audio glitches.  With this
patch applies, the video plays similarly to 5.15.

[lkp@intel.com: Fix W=1 build warning]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/99e779783d6c7fce96448a3402061b9dc1b3b602.camel@gmx.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202150614.22440-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv/
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Avramov &lt;hakavlad@inbox.lv&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Tracked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis &lt;regressions@leemhuis.info&gt;
Fixes: 69392a403f49 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Mike Galbraith, Alexey Avramov and Darrick Wong all reported similar
problems due to reclaim throttling for excessive lengths of time.  In
Alexey's case, a memory hog that should go OOM quickly stalls for
several minutes before stalling.  In Mike and Darrick's cases, a small
memcg environment stalled excessively even though the system had enough
memory overall.

Commit 69392a403f49 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is
being made") introduced the problem although commit a19594ca4a8b
("mm/vmscan: increase the timeout if page reclaim is not making
progress") made it worse.  Systems at or near an OOM state that cannot
be recovered must reach OOM quickly and memcg should kill tasks if a
memcg is near OOM.

To address this, only stall for the first zone in the zonelist, reduce
the timeout to 1 tick for VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS and only stall if
the scan control nr_reclaimed is 0, kswapd is still active and there
were excessive pages pending for writeback.  If kswapd has stopped
reclaiming due to excessive failures, do not stall at all so that OOM
triggers relatively quickly.  Similarly, if an LRU is simply congested,
only lightly throttle similar to NOPROGRESS.

Alexey's original case was the most straight forward

	for i in {1..3}; do tail /dev/zero; done

On vanilla 5.16-rc1, this test stalled heavily, after the patch the test
completes in a few seconds similar to 5.15.

Alexey's second test case added watching a youtube video while tail runs
10 times.  On 5.15, playback only jitters slightly, 5.16-rc1 stalls a
lot with lots of frames missing and numerous audio glitches.  With this
patch applies, the video plays similarly to 5.15.

[lkp@intel.com: Fix W=1 build warning]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/99e779783d6c7fce96448a3402061b9dc1b3b602.camel@gmx.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202150614.22440-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv/
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Avramov &lt;hakavlad@inbox.lv&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Tracked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis &lt;regressions@leemhuis.info&gt;
Fixes: 69392a403f49 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>fbdev: fbmem: add a helper to determine if an aperture is used by a fw fb</title>
<updated>2021-12-31T13:57:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Deucher</name>
<email>alexander.deucher@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-23T03:41:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9a45ac2320d0a6ae01880a30d4b86025fce4061b'/>
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Add a function for drivers to check if the a firmware initialized
fb is corresponds to their aperture.  This allows drivers to check if the
device corresponds to what the firmware set up as the display device.

Bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215203
Bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1840
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
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Add a function for drivers to check if the a firmware initialized
fb is corresponds to their aperture.  This allows drivers to check if the
device corresponds to what the firmware set up as the display device.

Bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215203
Bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1840
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-urgent-for-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2021-12-27T16:58:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-27T16:58:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a8ad9a2434dc7967ab285437f443cae633b6fc1c'/>
<id>a8ad9a2434dc7967ab285437f443cae633b6fc1c</id>
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Pull EFI fix from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Another EFI fix for v5.16:

   - Prevent missing prototype warning from breaking the build under
     CONFIG_WERROR=y"

* tag 'efi-urgent-for-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: Move efifb_setup_from_dmi() prototype from arch headers
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Pull EFI fix from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Another EFI fix for v5.16:

   - Prevent missing prototype warning from breaking the build under
     CONFIG_WERROR=y"

* tag 'efi-urgent-for-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: Move efifb_setup_from_dmi() prototype from arch headers
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'objtool_urgent_for_v5.16_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-12-26T18:19:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-26T18:19:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2afa90bd1c7526766b5eadb1856988b61a31501f'/>
<id>2afa90bd1c7526766b5eadb1856988b61a31501f</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull objtool fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Prevent clang from reordering the reachable annotation in
   an inline asm statement without inputs

 - Fix objtool builds on non-glibc systems due to undefined
   __always_inline

* tag 'objtool_urgent_for_v5.16_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  compiler.h: Fix annotation macro misplacement with Clang
  uapi: Fix undefined __always_inline on non-glibc systems
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Pull objtool fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Prevent clang from reordering the reachable annotation in
   an inline asm statement without inputs

 - Fix objtool builds on non-glibc systems due to undefined
   __always_inline

* tag 'objtool_urgent_for_v5.16_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  compiler.h: Fix annotation macro misplacement with Clang
  uapi: Fix undefined __always_inline on non-glibc systems
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