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<entry>
<title>soft_dirty: fix soft_dirty during THP split</title>
<updated>2016-09-07T06:34:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-25T22:16:57+00:00</published>
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commit 804dd150468cfd920d92d4b3cf00536fedef3902 upstream.

While adding proper userfaultfd_wp support with bits in pagetable and
swap entry to avoid false positives WP userfaults through swap/fork/
KSM/etc, I've been adding a framework that mostly mirrors soft dirty.

So I noticed in one place I had to add uffd_wp support to the pagetables
that wasn't covered by soft_dirty and I think it should have.

Example: in the THP migration code migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()
pmd_mkdirty is called unconditionally after mk_huge_pmd.

	entry = mk_huge_pmd(new_page, vma-&gt;vm_page_prot);
	entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(entry), vma);

That sets soft dirty too (it's a false positive for soft dirty, the soft
dirty bit could be more finegrained and transfer the bit like uffd_wp
will do..  pmd/pte_uffd_wp() enforces the invariant that when it's set
pmd/pte_write is not set).

However in the THP split there's no unconditional pmd_mkdirty after
mk_huge_pmd and pte_swp_mksoft_dirty isn't called after the migration
entry is created.  The code sets the dirty bit in the struct page
instead of setting it in the pagetable (which is fully equivalent as far
as the real dirty bit is concerned, as the whole point of pagetable bits
is to be eventually flushed out of to the page, but that is not
equivalent for the soft-dirty bit that gets lost in translation).

This was found by code review only and totally untested as I'm working
to actually replace soft dirty and I don't have time to test potential
soft dirty bugfixes as well :).

Transfer the soft_dirty from pmd to pte during THP splits.

This fix avoids losing the soft_dirty bit and avoids userland memory
corruption in the checkpoint.

Fixes: eef1b3ba053aa6 ("thp: implement split_huge_pmd()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471610515-30229-2-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&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 804dd150468cfd920d92d4b3cf00536fedef3902 upstream.

While adding proper userfaultfd_wp support with bits in pagetable and
swap entry to avoid false positives WP userfaults through swap/fork/
KSM/etc, I've been adding a framework that mostly mirrors soft dirty.

So I noticed in one place I had to add uffd_wp support to the pagetables
that wasn't covered by soft_dirty and I think it should have.

Example: in the THP migration code migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()
pmd_mkdirty is called unconditionally after mk_huge_pmd.

	entry = mk_huge_pmd(new_page, vma-&gt;vm_page_prot);
	entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(entry), vma);

That sets soft dirty too (it's a false positive for soft dirty, the soft
dirty bit could be more finegrained and transfer the bit like uffd_wp
will do..  pmd/pte_uffd_wp() enforces the invariant that when it's set
pmd/pte_write is not set).

However in the THP split there's no unconditional pmd_mkdirty after
mk_huge_pmd and pte_swp_mksoft_dirty isn't called after the migration
entry is created.  The code sets the dirty bit in the struct page
instead of setting it in the pagetable (which is fully equivalent as far
as the real dirty bit is concerned, as the whole point of pagetable bits
is to be eventually flushed out of to the page, but that is not
equivalent for the soft-dirty bit that gets lost in translation).

This was found by code review only and totally untested as I'm working
to actually replace soft dirty and I don't have time to test potential
soft dirty bugfixes as well :).

Transfer the soft_dirty from pmd to pte during THP splits.

This fix avoids losing the soft_dirty bit and avoids userland memory
corruption in the checkpoint.

Fixes: eef1b3ba053aa6 ("thp: implement split_huge_pmd()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471610515-30229-2-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&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>mm: thp: move pmd check inside ptl for freeze_page()</title>
<updated>2016-07-15T05:54:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-14T19:07:32+00:00</published>
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I found a race condition triggering VM_BUG_ON() in freeze_page(), when
running a testcase with 3 processes:
  - process 1: keep writing thp,
  - process 2: keep clearing soft-dirty bits from virtual address of process 1
  - process 3: call migratepages for process 1,

The kernel message is like this:

  kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/mm/huge_memory.c:3096!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: cfg80211 rfkill crc32c_intel ppdev serio_raw pcspkr virtio_balloon virtio_console parport_pc parport pvpanic acpi_cpufreq tpm_tis tpm i2c_piix4 virtio_blk virtio_net ata_generic pata_acpi floppy virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio
  CPU: 0 PID: 28863 Comm: migratepages Not tainted 4.6.0-v4.6-160602-0827-+ #2
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  task: ffff880037320000 ti: ffff88007cdd0000 task.ti: ffff88007cdd0000
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff811f8e06&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff811f8e06&gt;] split_huge_page_to_list+0x496/0x590
  RSP: 0018:ffff88007cdd3b70  EFLAGS: 00010202
  RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88007c7b88c0 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000700000200 RDI: ffffea0003188000
  RBP: ffff88007cdd3bb8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00003ffffffff000
  R10: ffff880000000000 R11: ffffc000001fffff R12: ffffea0003188000
  R13: ffffea0003188000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0400000000000080
  FS:  00007f8ec241d740(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000             CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007f8ec1f3ed20 CR3: 000000003707b000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
    ? list_del+0xd/0x30
    queue_pages_pte_range+0x4d1/0x590
    __walk_page_range+0x204/0x4e0
    walk_page_range+0x71/0xf0
    queue_pages_range+0x75/0x90
    ? queue_pages_hugetlb+0x190/0x190
    ? new_node_page+0xc0/0xc0
    ? change_prot_numa+0x40/0x40
    migrate_to_node+0x71/0xd0
    do_migrate_pages+0x1c3/0x210
    SyS_migrate_pages+0x261/0x290
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
  Code: e8 b0 87 fb ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c6 30 32 9f 81 e8 a2 87 fb ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c6 b8 46 9f 81 e8 94 87 fb ff 0f 0b 85 c0 0f 84 3e fd ff ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 85 c0 0f 85 a6 00 00 00 48 8b 75 c0 4c 89 f7 41 be f0 ff
  RIP   split_huge_page_to_list+0x496/0x590

I'm not sure of the full scenario of the reproduction, but my debug
showed that split_huge_pmd_address(freeze=true) returned without running
main code of pmd splitting because pmd_present(*pmd) in precheck somehow
returned 0.  If this happens, the subsequent try_to_unmap() fails and
returns non-zero (because page_mapcount() still &gt; 0), and finally
VM_BUG_ON() fires.  This patch tries to fix it by prechecking pmd state
inside ptl.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466990929-7452-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I found a race condition triggering VM_BUG_ON() in freeze_page(), when
running a testcase with 3 processes:
  - process 1: keep writing thp,
  - process 2: keep clearing soft-dirty bits from virtual address of process 1
  - process 3: call migratepages for process 1,

The kernel message is like this:

  kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/mm/huge_memory.c:3096!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: cfg80211 rfkill crc32c_intel ppdev serio_raw pcspkr virtio_balloon virtio_console parport_pc parport pvpanic acpi_cpufreq tpm_tis tpm i2c_piix4 virtio_blk virtio_net ata_generic pata_acpi floppy virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio
  CPU: 0 PID: 28863 Comm: migratepages Not tainted 4.6.0-v4.6-160602-0827-+ #2
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  task: ffff880037320000 ti: ffff88007cdd0000 task.ti: ffff88007cdd0000
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff811f8e06&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff811f8e06&gt;] split_huge_page_to_list+0x496/0x590
  RSP: 0018:ffff88007cdd3b70  EFLAGS: 00010202
  RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88007c7b88c0 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000700000200 RDI: ffffea0003188000
  RBP: ffff88007cdd3bb8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00003ffffffff000
  R10: ffff880000000000 R11: ffffc000001fffff R12: ffffea0003188000
  R13: ffffea0003188000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0400000000000080
  FS:  00007f8ec241d740(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000             CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007f8ec1f3ed20 CR3: 000000003707b000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
    ? list_del+0xd/0x30
    queue_pages_pte_range+0x4d1/0x590
    __walk_page_range+0x204/0x4e0
    walk_page_range+0x71/0xf0
    queue_pages_range+0x75/0x90
    ? queue_pages_hugetlb+0x190/0x190
    ? new_node_page+0xc0/0xc0
    ? change_prot_numa+0x40/0x40
    migrate_to_node+0x71/0xd0
    do_migrate_pages+0x1c3/0x210
    SyS_migrate_pages+0x261/0x290
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
  Code: e8 b0 87 fb ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c6 30 32 9f 81 e8 a2 87 fb ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c6 b8 46 9f 81 e8 94 87 fb ff 0f 0b 85 c0 0f 84 3e fd ff ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 85 c0 0f 85 a6 00 00 00 48 8b 75 c0 4c 89 f7 41 be f0 ff
  RIP   split_huge_page_to_list+0x496/0x590

I'm not sure of the full scenario of the reproduction, but my debug
showed that split_huge_pmd_address(freeze=true) returned without running
main code of pmd splitting because pmd_present(*pmd) in precheck somehow
returned 0.  If this happens, the subsequent try_to_unmap() fails and
returns non-zero (because page_mapcount() still &gt; 0), and finally
VM_BUG_ON() fires.  This patch tries to fix it by prechecking pmd state
inside ptl.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466990929-7452-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>madvise_free, thp: fix madvise_free_huge_pmd return value after splitting</title>
<updated>2016-07-15T05:54:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-14T19:07:12+00:00</published>
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madvise_free_huge_pmd should return 0 if the fallback PTE operations are
required.  In madvise_free_huge_pmd, if part pages of THP are discarded,
the THP will be split and fallback PTE operations should be used if
splitting succeeds.  But the original code will make fallback PTE
operations skipped, after splitting succeeds.  Fix that via make
madvise_free_huge_pmd return 0 after splitting successfully, so that the
fallback PTE operations will be done.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467135452-16688-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ebru Akagunduz &lt;ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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madvise_free_huge_pmd should return 0 if the fallback PTE operations are
required.  In madvise_free_huge_pmd, if part pages of THP are discarded,
the THP will be split and fallback PTE operations should be used if
splitting succeeds.  But the original code will make fallback PTE
operations skipped, after splitting succeeds.  Fix that via make
madvise_free_huge_pmd return 0 after splitting successfully, so that the
fallback PTE operations will be done.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467135452-16688-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ebru Akagunduz &lt;ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2016-05-23T18:18:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-23T18:18:01+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this update was stabilized before the merge window and
  appeared in -next.  The "device dax" implementation was revised this
  week in response to review feedback, and to address failures detected
  by the recently expanded ndctl unit test suite.

  Not included in this pull request are two dax topic branches (dax
  error handling, and dax radix-tree locking).  These topics were
  deferred to get a few more days of -next integration testing, and to
  coordinate a branch baseline with Ted and the ext4 tree.  Vishal and
  Ross will send the error handling and locking topics respectively in
  the next few days.

  This branch has received a positive build result from the kbuild robot
  across 226 configs.

  Summary:

   - Device DAX for persistent memory: Device DAX is the device-centric
     analogue of Filesystem DAX (CONFIG_FS_DAX).  It allows memory
     ranges to be allocated and mapped without need of an intervening
     file system.  Device DAX is strict, precise and predictable.
     Specifically this interface:

      a) Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size
         (pte, pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.

      b) Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what
         fault scenarios are supported.

     Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
     targeted for exclusive allocations of performance/feature
     differentiated memory ranges.

   - Support for the HPE DSM (device specific method) command formats.
     This enables management of these first generation devices until a
     unified DSM specification materializes.

   - Further ACPI 6.1 compliance with support for the common dimm
     identifier format.

   - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (40 commits)
  libnvdimm, dax: fix deletion
  libnvdimm, dax: fix alignment validation
  libnvdimm, dax: autodetect support
  libnvdimm: release ida resources
  Revert "block: enable dax for raw block devices"
  /dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap
  /dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory
  libnvdimm: stop requiring a driver -&gt;remove() method
  libnvdimm, dax: record the specified alignment of a dax-device instance
  libnvdimm, dax: reserve space to store labels for device-dax
  libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure
  nfit: add sysfs dimm 'family' and 'dsm_mask' attributes
  tools/testing/nvdimm: ND_CMD_CALL support
  nfit: disable vendor specific commands
  nfit: export subsystem ids as attributes
  nfit: fix format interface code byte order per ACPI6.1
  nfit, libnvdimm: limited/whitelisted dimm command marshaling mechanism
  nfit, libnvdimm: clarify "commands" vs "_DSMs"
  libnvdimm: increase max envelope size for ioctl
  acpi/nfit: Add sysfs "id" for NVDIMM ID
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this update was stabilized before the merge window and
  appeared in -next.  The "device dax" implementation was revised this
  week in response to review feedback, and to address failures detected
  by the recently expanded ndctl unit test suite.

  Not included in this pull request are two dax topic branches (dax
  error handling, and dax radix-tree locking).  These topics were
  deferred to get a few more days of -next integration testing, and to
  coordinate a branch baseline with Ted and the ext4 tree.  Vishal and
  Ross will send the error handling and locking topics respectively in
  the next few days.

  This branch has received a positive build result from the kbuild robot
  across 226 configs.

  Summary:

   - Device DAX for persistent memory: Device DAX is the device-centric
     analogue of Filesystem DAX (CONFIG_FS_DAX).  It allows memory
     ranges to be allocated and mapped without need of an intervening
     file system.  Device DAX is strict, precise and predictable.
     Specifically this interface:

      a) Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size
         (pte, pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.

      b) Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what
         fault scenarios are supported.

     Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
     targeted for exclusive allocations of performance/feature
     differentiated memory ranges.

   - Support for the HPE DSM (device specific method) command formats.
     This enables management of these first generation devices until a
     unified DSM specification materializes.

   - Further ACPI 6.1 compliance with support for the common dimm
     identifier format.

   - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (40 commits)
  libnvdimm, dax: fix deletion
  libnvdimm, dax: fix alignment validation
  libnvdimm, dax: autodetect support
  libnvdimm: release ida resources
  Revert "block: enable dax for raw block devices"
  /dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap
  /dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory
  libnvdimm: stop requiring a driver -&gt;remove() method
  libnvdimm, dax: record the specified alignment of a dax-device instance
  libnvdimm, dax: reserve space to store labels for device-dax
  libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure
  nfit: add sysfs dimm 'family' and 'dsm_mask' attributes
  tools/testing/nvdimm: ND_CMD_CALL support
  nfit: disable vendor specific commands
  nfit: export subsystem ids as attributes
  nfit: fix format interface code byte order per ACPI6.1
  nfit, libnvdimm: limited/whitelisted dimm command marshaling mechanism
  nfit, libnvdimm: clarify "commands" vs "_DSMs"
  libnvdimm: increase max envelope size for ioctl
  acpi/nfit: Add sysfs "id" for NVDIMM ID
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>/dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T05:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-14T19:20:44+00:00</published>
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The "Device DAX" core enables dax mappings of performance / feature
differentiated memory.  An open mapping or file handle keeps the backing
struct device live, but new mappings are only possible while the device
is enabled.   Faults are handled under rcu_read_lock to synchronize
with the enabled state of the device.

Similar to the filesystem-dax case the backing memory may optionally
have struct page entries.  However, unlike fs-dax there is no support
for private mappings, or mappings that are not backed by media (see
use of zero-page in fs-dax).

Mappings are always guaranteed to match the alignment of the dax_region.
If the dax_region is configured to have a 2MB alignment, all mappings
are guaranteed to be backed by a pmd entry.  Contrast this determinism
with the fs-dax case where pmd mappings are opportunistic.  If userspace
attempts to force a misaligned mapping, the driver will fail the mmap
attempt.  See dax_dev_check_vma() for other scenarios that are rejected,
like MAP_PRIVATE mappings.

Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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The "Device DAX" core enables dax mappings of performance / feature
differentiated memory.  An open mapping or file handle keeps the backing
struct device live, but new mappings are only possible while the device
is enabled.   Faults are handled under rcu_read_lock to synchronize
with the enabled state of the device.

Similar to the filesystem-dax case the backing memory may optionally
have struct page entries.  However, unlike fs-dax there is no support
for private mappings, or mappings that are not backed by media (see
use of zero-page in fs-dax).

Mappings are always guaranteed to match the alignment of the dax_region.
If the dax_region is configured to have a 2MB alignment, all mappings
are guaranteed to be backed by a pmd entry.  Contrast this determinism
with the fs-dax case where pmd mappings are opportunistic.  If userspace
attempts to force a misaligned mapping, the driver will fail the mmap
attempt.  See dax_dev_check_vma() for other scenarios that are rejected,
like MAP_PRIVATE mappings.

Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, thp: khugepaged should scan when sleep value is written</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T23:58:56+00:00</published>
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If a large value is written to scan_sleep_millisecs, for example, that
period must lapse before khugepaged will wake up for periodic
collapsing.

If this value is tuned to 1 day, for example, and then re-tuned to its
default 10s, khugepaged will still wait for a day before scanning again.

This patch causes khugepaged to wakeup immediately when the value is
changed and then sleep until that value is rewritten or the new value
lapses.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1605181453200.4786@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If a large value is written to scan_sleep_millisecs, for example, that
period must lapse before khugepaged will wake up for periodic
collapsing.

If this value is tuned to 1 day, for example, and then re-tuned to its
default 10s, khugepaged will still wait for a day before scanning again.

This patch causes khugepaged to wakeup immediately when the value is
changed and then sleep until that value is rewritten or the new value
lapses.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1605181453200.4786@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: thp: split_huge_pmd_address() comment improvement</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T23:58:27+00:00</published>
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Comment is partly wrong, this improves it by including the case of
split_huge_pmd_address() called by try_to_unmap_one if TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD
is set.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462547040-1737-4-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Comment is partly wrong, this improves it by including the case of
split_huge_pmd_address() called by try_to_unmap_one if TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD
is set.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462547040-1737-4-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: thp: simplify the implementation of mk_huge_pmd()</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang.shi@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T23:57:30+00:00</published>
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<id>340a43bed674a70308f196f2a61ec0b01f8a14d9</id>
<content type='text'>
The implementation of mk_huge_pmd looks verbose, it could be just
simplified to one line code.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The implementation of mk_huge_pmd looks verbose, it could be just
simplified to one line code.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>huge mm: move_huge_pmd does not need new_vma</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T00:12:54+00:00</published>
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<id>bf8616d5fa179d6c755f06726567c6d63c6fbbc7</id>
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Remove move_huge_pmd()'s redundant new_vma arg: all it was used for was
a VM_NOHUGEPAGE check on new_vma flags, but the new_vma is cloned from
the old vma, so a trans_huge_pmd in the new_vma will be as acceptable as
it was in the old vma, alignment and size permitting.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ning Qu &lt;quning@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove move_huge_pmd()'s redundant new_vma arg: all it was used for was
a VM_NOHUGEPAGE check on new_vma flags, but the new_vma is cloned from
the old vma, so a trans_huge_pmd in the new_vma will be as acceptable as
it was in the old vma, alignment and size permitting.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ning Qu &lt;quning@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T00:10:49+00:00</published>
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Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
struct page is _count and atomic type.  They would try to handle it
directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
tracepoint.  To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
to _refcount and add warning message on the code.  After that, developer
who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
accessed directly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Sunil Goutham &lt;sgoutham@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Manish Chopra &lt;manish.chopra@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Yuval Mintz &lt;yuval.mintz@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Many developers already know that field for reference count of the
struct page is _count and atomic type.  They would try to handle it
directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count
tracepoint.  To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it
to _refcount and add warning message on the code.  After that, developer
who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be
accessed directly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Sunil Goutham &lt;sgoutham@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Manish Chopra &lt;manish.chopra@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Yuval Mintz &lt;yuval.mintz@qlogic.com&gt;
Cc: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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