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<entry>
<title>mm, page_alloc: fix core hung in free_pcppages_bulk()</title>
<updated>2020-08-26T09:49:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charan Teja Reddy</name>
<email>charante@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-21T00:42:27+00:00</published>
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commit 88e8ac11d2ea3acc003cf01bb5a38c8aa76c3cfd upstream.

The following race is observed with the repeated online, offline and a
delay between two successive online of memory blocks of movable zone.

P1						P2

Online the first memory block in
the movable zone. The pcp struct
values are initialized to default
values,i.e., pcp-&gt;high = 0 &amp;
pcp-&gt;batch = 1.

					Allocate the pages from the
					movable zone.

Try to Online the second memory
block in the movable zone thus it
entered the online_pages() but yet
to call zone_pcp_update().
					This process is entered into
					the exit path thus it tries
					to release the order-0 pages
					to pcp lists through
					free_unref_page_commit().
					As pcp-&gt;high = 0, pcp-&gt;count = 1
					proceed to call the function
					free_pcppages_bulk().
Update the pcp values thus the
new pcp values are like, say,
pcp-&gt;high = 378, pcp-&gt;batch = 63.
					Read the pcp's batch value using
					READ_ONCE() and pass the same to
					free_pcppages_bulk(), pcp values
					passed here are, batch = 63,
					count = 1.

					Since num of pages in the pcp
					lists are less than -&gt;batch,
					then it will stuck in
					while(list_empty(list)) loop
					with interrupts disabled thus
					a core hung.

Avoid this by ensuring free_pcppages_bulk() is called with proper count of
pcp list pages.

The mentioned race is some what easily reproducible without [1] because
pcp's are not updated for the first memory block online and thus there is
a enough race window for P2 between alloc+free and pcp struct values
update through onlining of second memory block.

With [1], the race still exists but it is very narrow as we update the pcp
struct values for the first memory block online itself.

This is not limited to the movable zone, it could also happen in cases
with the normal zone (e.g., hotplug to a node that only has DMA memory, or
no other memory yet).

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11696389/

Fixes: 5f8dcc21211a ("page-allocator: split per-cpu list into one-list-per-migrate-type")
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy &lt;charante@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinmenon@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [2.6+]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1597150703-19003-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org
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 88e8ac11d2ea3acc003cf01bb5a38c8aa76c3cfd upstream.

The following race is observed with the repeated online, offline and a
delay between two successive online of memory blocks of movable zone.

P1						P2

Online the first memory block in
the movable zone. The pcp struct
values are initialized to default
values,i.e., pcp-&gt;high = 0 &amp;
pcp-&gt;batch = 1.

					Allocate the pages from the
					movable zone.

Try to Online the second memory
block in the movable zone thus it
entered the online_pages() but yet
to call zone_pcp_update().
					This process is entered into
					the exit path thus it tries
					to release the order-0 pages
					to pcp lists through
					free_unref_page_commit().
					As pcp-&gt;high = 0, pcp-&gt;count = 1
					proceed to call the function
					free_pcppages_bulk().
Update the pcp values thus the
new pcp values are like, say,
pcp-&gt;high = 378, pcp-&gt;batch = 63.
					Read the pcp's batch value using
					READ_ONCE() and pass the same to
					free_pcppages_bulk(), pcp values
					passed here are, batch = 63,
					count = 1.

					Since num of pages in the pcp
					lists are less than -&gt;batch,
					then it will stuck in
					while(list_empty(list)) loop
					with interrupts disabled thus
					a core hung.

Avoid this by ensuring free_pcppages_bulk() is called with proper count of
pcp list pages.

The mentioned race is some what easily reproducible without [1] because
pcp's are not updated for the first memory block online and thus there is
a enough race window for P2 between alloc+free and pcp struct values
update through onlining of second memory block.

With [1], the race still exists but it is very narrow as we update the pcp
struct values for the first memory block online itself.

This is not limited to the movable zone, it could also happen in cases
with the normal zone (e.g., hotplug to a node that only has DMA memory, or
no other memory yet).

[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11696389/

Fixes: 5f8dcc21211a ("page-allocator: split per-cpu list into one-list-per-migrate-type")
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy &lt;charante@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinmenon@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [2.6+]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1597150703-19003-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org
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>
<entry>
<title>mm: include CMA pages in lowmem_reserve at boot</title>
<updated>2020-08-26T09:48:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Doug Berger</name>
<email>opendmb@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-21T00:42:24+00:00</published>
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commit e08d3fdfe2dafa0331843f70ce1ff6c1c4900bf4 upstream.

The lowmem_reserve arrays provide a means of applying pressure against
allocations from lower zones that were targeted at higher zones.  Its
values are a function of the number of pages managed by higher zones and
are assigned by a call to the setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve() function.

The function is initially called at boot time by the function
init_per_zone_wmark_min() and may be called later by accesses of the
/proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio sysctl file.

The function init_per_zone_wmark_min() was moved up from a module_init to
a core_initcall to resolve a sequencing issue with khugepaged.
Unfortunately this created a sequencing issue with CMA page accounting.

The CMA pages are added to the managed page count of a zone when
cma_init_reserved_areas() is called at boot also as a core_initcall.  This
makes it uncertain whether the CMA pages will be added to the managed page
counts of their zones before or after the call to
init_per_zone_wmark_min() as it becomes dependent on link order.  With the
current link order the pages are added to the managed count after the
lowmem_reserve arrays are initialized at boot.

This means the lowmem_reserve values at boot may be lower than the values
used later if /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio is accessed even if the
ratio values are unchanged.

In many cases the difference is not significant, but for example
an ARM platform with 1GB of memory and the following memory layout

  cma: Reserved 256 MiB at 0x0000000030000000
  Zone ranges:
    DMA      [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000002fffffff]
    Normal   empty
    HighMem  [mem 0x0000000030000000-0x000000003fffffff]

would result in 0 lowmem_reserve for the DMA zone.  This would allow
userspace to deplete the DMA zone easily.

Funnily enough

  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio

would fix up the situation because as a side effect it forces
setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve.

This commit breaks the link order dependency by invoking
init_per_zone_wmark_min() as a postcore_initcall so that the CMA pages
have the chance to be properly accounted in their zone(s) and allowing
the lowmem_reserve arrays to receive consistent values.

Fixes: bc22af74f271 ("mm: update min_free_kbytes from khugepaged after core initialization")
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger &lt;opendmb@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1597423766-27849-1-git-send-email-opendmb@gmail.com
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 e08d3fdfe2dafa0331843f70ce1ff6c1c4900bf4 upstream.

The lowmem_reserve arrays provide a means of applying pressure against
allocations from lower zones that were targeted at higher zones.  Its
values are a function of the number of pages managed by higher zones and
are assigned by a call to the setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve() function.

The function is initially called at boot time by the function
init_per_zone_wmark_min() and may be called later by accesses of the
/proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio sysctl file.

The function init_per_zone_wmark_min() was moved up from a module_init to
a core_initcall to resolve a sequencing issue with khugepaged.
Unfortunately this created a sequencing issue with CMA page accounting.

The CMA pages are added to the managed page count of a zone when
cma_init_reserved_areas() is called at boot also as a core_initcall.  This
makes it uncertain whether the CMA pages will be added to the managed page
counts of their zones before or after the call to
init_per_zone_wmark_min() as it becomes dependent on link order.  With the
current link order the pages are added to the managed count after the
lowmem_reserve arrays are initialized at boot.

This means the lowmem_reserve values at boot may be lower than the values
used later if /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio is accessed even if the
ratio values are unchanged.

In many cases the difference is not significant, but for example
an ARM platform with 1GB of memory and the following memory layout

  cma: Reserved 256 MiB at 0x0000000030000000
  Zone ranges:
    DMA      [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000002fffffff]
    Normal   empty
    HighMem  [mem 0x0000000030000000-0x000000003fffffff]

would result in 0 lowmem_reserve for the DMA zone.  This would allow
userspace to deplete the DMA zone easily.

Funnily enough

  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio

would fix up the situation because as a side effect it forces
setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve.

This commit breaks the link order dependency by invoking
init_per_zone_wmark_min() as a postcore_initcall so that the CMA pages
have the chance to be properly accounted in their zone(s) and allowing
the lowmem_reserve arrays to receive consistent values.

Fixes: bc22af74f271 ("mm: update min_free_kbytes from khugepaged after core initialization")
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger &lt;opendmb@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1597423766-27849-1-git-send-email-opendmb@gmail.com
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>
<entry>
<title>mm/page_alloc: fix documentation error</title>
<updated>2020-07-03T23:15:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Savitz</name>
<email>jsavitz@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-03T22:15:30+00:00</published>
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When I increased the upper bound of the min_free_kbytes value in
ee8eb9a5fe863 ("mm/page_alloc: increase default min_free_kbytes bound") I
forgot to tweak the above comment to reflect the new value.  This patch
fixes that mistake.

Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz &lt;jsavitz@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fabrizio D'Angelo &lt;fdangelo@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624221236.29560-1-jsavitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When I increased the upper bound of the min_free_kbytes value in
ee8eb9a5fe863 ("mm/page_alloc: increase default min_free_kbytes bound") I
forgot to tweak the above comment to reflect the new value.  This patch
fixes that mistake.

Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz &lt;jsavitz@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fabrizio D'Angelo &lt;fdangelo@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624221236.29560-1-jsavitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost</title>
<updated>2020-06-10T20:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-10T20:42:09+00:00</published>
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Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

 - virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory hotplug

 - support doorbell mapping for vdpa

 - config interrupt support in ifc

 - fixes all over the place

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (40 commits)
  vhost/test: fix up after API change
  virtio_mem: convert device block size into 64bit
  virtio-mem: drop unnecessary initialization
  ifcvf: implement config interrupt in IFCVF
  vhost: replace -1 with VHOST_FILE_UNBIND in ioctls
  vhost_vdpa: Support config interrupt in vdpa
  ifcvf: ignore continuous setting same status value
  virtio-mem: Don't rely on implicit compiler padding for requests
  virtio-mem: Try to unplug the complete online memory block first
  virtio-mem: Use -ETXTBSY as error code if the device is busy
  virtio-mem: Unplug subblocks right-to-left
  virtio-mem: Drop manual check for already present memory
  virtio-mem: Add parent resource for all added "System RAM"
  virtio-mem: Better retry handling
  virtio-mem: Offline and remove completely unplugged memory blocks
  mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce offline_and_remove_memory()
  virtio-mem: Allow to offline partially unplugged memory blocks
  mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE
  virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 2
  virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 1
  ...
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Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:

 - virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory hotplug

 - support doorbell mapping for vdpa

 - config interrupt support in ifc

 - fixes all over the place

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (40 commits)
  vhost/test: fix up after API change
  virtio_mem: convert device block size into 64bit
  virtio-mem: drop unnecessary initialization
  ifcvf: implement config interrupt in IFCVF
  vhost: replace -1 with VHOST_FILE_UNBIND in ioctls
  vhost_vdpa: Support config interrupt in vdpa
  ifcvf: ignore continuous setting same status value
  virtio-mem: Don't rely on implicit compiler padding for requests
  virtio-mem: Try to unplug the complete online memory block first
  virtio-mem: Use -ETXTBSY as error code if the device is busy
  virtio-mem: Unplug subblocks right-to-left
  virtio-mem: Drop manual check for already present memory
  virtio-mem: Add parent resource for all added "System RAM"
  virtio-mem: Better retry handling
  virtio-mem: Offline and remove completely unplugged memory blocks
  mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce offline_and_remove_memory()
  virtio-mem: Allow to offline partially unplugged memory blocks
  mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE
  virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 2
  virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 1
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases</title>
<updated>2020-06-08T18:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-08T04:40:27+00:00</published>
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We can now handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line, but
historically some parameters introduced their own command line
equivalent, which we don't want to remove for compatibility reasons.

We can, however, convert them to the generic infrastructure with a table
translating the legacy command line parameters to their sysctl names,
and removing the one-off param handlers.

This patch adds the support and makes the first conversion to
demonstrate it, on the (deprecated) numa_zonelist_order parameter.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Guilherme G . Piccoli" &lt;gpiccoli@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Teterevkov &lt;ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We can now handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line, but
historically some parameters introduced their own command line
equivalent, which we don't want to remove for compatibility reasons.

We can, however, convert them to the generic infrastructure with a table
translating the legacy command line parameters to their sysctl names,
and removing the one-off param handlers.

This patch adds the support and makes the first conversion to
demonstrate it, on the (deprecated) numa_zonelist_order parameter.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Guilherme G . Piccoli" &lt;gpiccoli@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Teterevkov &lt;ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE</title>
<updated>2020-06-04T19:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-07T14:01:30+00:00</published>
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virtio-mem wants to allow to offline memory blocks of which some parts
were unplugged (allocated via alloc_contig_range()), especially, to later
offline and remove completely unplugged memory blocks. The important part
is that PageOffline() has to remain set until the section is offline, so
these pages will never get accessed (e.g., when dumping). The pages should
not be handed back to the buddy (which would require clearing PageOffline()
and result in issues if offlining fails and the pages are suddenly in the
buddy).

Let's allow to do that by allowing to isolate any PageOffline() page
when offlining. This way, we can reach the memory hotplug notifier
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE, where the driver can signal that he is fine with
offlining this page by dropping its reference count. PageOffline() pages
with a reference count of 0 can then be skipped when offlining the
pages (like if they were free, however they are not in the buddy).

Anybody who uses PageOffline() pages and does not agree to offline them
(e.g., Hyper-V balloon, XEN balloon, VMWare balloon for 2MB pages) will not
decrement the reference count and make offlining fail when trying to
migrate such an unmovable page. So there should be no observable change.
Same applies to balloon compaction users (movable PageOffline() pages), the
pages will simply be migrated.

Note 1: If offlining fails, a driver has to increment the reference
	count again in MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE.

Note 2: A driver that makes use of this has to be aware that re-onlining
	the memory block has to be handled by hooking into onlining code
	(online_page_callback_t), resetting the page PageOffline() and
	not giving them to the buddy.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Anthony Yznaga &lt;anthony.yznaga@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507140139.17083-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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virtio-mem wants to allow to offline memory blocks of which some parts
were unplugged (allocated via alloc_contig_range()), especially, to later
offline and remove completely unplugged memory blocks. The important part
is that PageOffline() has to remain set until the section is offline, so
these pages will never get accessed (e.g., when dumping). The pages should
not be handed back to the buddy (which would require clearing PageOffline()
and result in issues if offlining fails and the pages are suddenly in the
buddy).

Let's allow to do that by allowing to isolate any PageOffline() page
when offlining. This way, we can reach the memory hotplug notifier
MEM_GOING_OFFLINE, where the driver can signal that he is fine with
offlining this page by dropping its reference count. PageOffline() pages
with a reference count of 0 can then be skipped when offlining the
pages (like if they were free, however they are not in the buddy).

Anybody who uses PageOffline() pages and does not agree to offline them
(e.g., Hyper-V balloon, XEN balloon, VMWare balloon for 2MB pages) will not
decrement the reference count and make offlining fail when trying to
migrate such an unmovable page. So there should be no observable change.
Same applies to balloon compaction users (movable PageOffline() pages), the
pages will simply be migrated.

Note 1: If offlining fails, a driver has to increment the reference
	count again in MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE.

Note 2: A driver that makes use of this has to be aware that re-onlining
	the memory block has to be handled by hooking into onlining code
	(online_page_callback_t), resetting the page PageOffline() and
	not giving them to the buddy.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Anthony Yznaga &lt;anthony.yznaga@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507140139.17083-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotunplug part 2</title>
<updated>2020-06-04T19:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-07T14:01:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=255f598507083905995ecab96392770ae03aac7f'/>
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We also want to unplug online memory (contained in online memory blocks
and, therefore, managed by the buddy), and eventually replug it later.

When requested to unplug memory, we use alloc_contig_range() to allocate
subblocks in online memory blocks (so we are the owner) and send them to
our hypervisor. When requested to plug memory, we can replug such memory
using free_contig_range() after asking our hypervisor.

We also want to mark all allocated pages PG_offline, so nobody will
touch them. To differentiate pages that were never onlined when
onlining the memory block from pages allocated via alloc_contig_range(), we
use PageDirty(). Based on this flag, virtio_mem_fake_online() can either
online the pages for the first time or use free_contig_range().

It is worth noting that there are no guarantees on how much memory can
actually get unplugged again. All device memory might completely be
fragmented with unmovable data, such that no subblock can get unplugged.

We are not touching the ZONE_MOVABLE. If memory is onlined to the
ZONE_MOVABLE, it can only get unplugged after that memory was offlined
manually by user space. In normal operation, virtio-mem memory is
suggested to be onlined to ZONE_NORMAL. In the future, we will try to
make unplug more likely to succeed.

Add a module parameter to control if online memory shall be touched.

As we want to access alloc_contig_range()/free_contig_range() from
kernel module context, export the symbols.

Note: Whenever virtio-mem uses alloc_contig_range(), all affected pages
are on the same node, in the same zone, and contain no holes.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt; # to export contig range allocator API
Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Igor Mammedov &lt;imammedo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi &lt;stefanha@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507140139.17083-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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We also want to unplug online memory (contained in online memory blocks
and, therefore, managed by the buddy), and eventually replug it later.

When requested to unplug memory, we use alloc_contig_range() to allocate
subblocks in online memory blocks (so we are the owner) and send them to
our hypervisor. When requested to plug memory, we can replug such memory
using free_contig_range() after asking our hypervisor.

We also want to mark all allocated pages PG_offline, so nobody will
touch them. To differentiate pages that were never onlined when
onlining the memory block from pages allocated via alloc_contig_range(), we
use PageDirty(). Based on this flag, virtio_mem_fake_online() can either
online the pages for the first time or use free_contig_range().

It is worth noting that there are no guarantees on how much memory can
actually get unplugged again. All device memory might completely be
fragmented with unmovable data, such that no subblock can get unplugged.

We are not touching the ZONE_MOVABLE. If memory is onlined to the
ZONE_MOVABLE, it can only get unplugged after that memory was offlined
manually by user space. In normal operation, virtio-mem memory is
suggested to be onlined to ZONE_NORMAL. In the future, we will try to
make unplug more likely to succeed.

Add a module parameter to control if online memory shall be touched.

As we want to access alloc_contig_range()/free_contig_range() from
kernel module context, export the symbols.

Note: Whenever virtio-mem uses alloc_contig_range(), all affected pages
are on the same node, in the same zone, and contain no holes.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt; # to export contig range allocator API
Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Igor Mammedov &lt;imammedo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi &lt;stefanha@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507140139.17083-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-06-04T03:24:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T03:24:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ee01c4d72adffb7d424535adf630f2955748fa8b'/>
<id>ee01c4d72adffb7d424535adf630f2955748fa8b</id>
<content type='text'>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "More mm/ work, plenty more to come

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: slub, memcg, gup, kasan,
  pagealloc, hugetlb, vmscan, tools, mempolicy, memblock, hugetlbfs,
  thp, mmap, kconfig"

* akpm: (131 commits)
  arm64: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
  x86: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
  riscv: support DEBUG_WX
  mm: add DEBUG_WX support
  drivers/base/memory.c: cache memory blocks in xarray to accelerate lookup
  mm/thp: rename pmd_mknotpresent() as pmd_mkinvalid()
  powerpc/mm: drop platform defined pmd_mknotpresent()
  mm: thp: don't need to drain lru cache when splitting and mlocking THP
  hugetlbfs: get unmapped area below TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE for hugetlbfs
  sparc32: register memory occupied by kernel as memblock.memory
  include/linux/memblock.h: fix minor typo and unclear comment
  mm, mempolicy: fix up gup usage in lookup_node
  tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line
  mm: swap: memcg: fix memcg stats for huge pages
  mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge pages
  mm: vmscan: limit the range of LRU type balancing
  mm: vmscan: reclaim writepage is IO cost
  mm: vmscan: determine anon/file pressure balance at the reclaim root
  mm: balance LRU lists based on relative thrashing
  mm: only count actual rotations as LRU reclaim cost
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "More mm/ work, plenty more to come

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: slub, memcg, gup, kasan,
  pagealloc, hugetlb, vmscan, tools, mempolicy, memblock, hugetlbfs,
  thp, mmap, kconfig"

* akpm: (131 commits)
  arm64: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
  x86: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
  riscv: support DEBUG_WX
  mm: add DEBUG_WX support
  drivers/base/memory.c: cache memory blocks in xarray to accelerate lookup
  mm/thp: rename pmd_mknotpresent() as pmd_mkinvalid()
  powerpc/mm: drop platform defined pmd_mknotpresent()
  mm: thp: don't need to drain lru cache when splitting and mlocking THP
  hugetlbfs: get unmapped area below TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE for hugetlbfs
  sparc32: register memory occupied by kernel as memblock.memory
  include/linux/memblock.h: fix minor typo and unclear comment
  mm, mempolicy: fix up gup usage in lookup_node
  tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line
  mm: swap: memcg: fix memcg stats for huge pages
  mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge pages
  mm: vmscan: limit the range of LRU type balancing
  mm: vmscan: reclaim writepage is IO cost
  mm: vmscan: determine anon/file pressure balance at the reclaim root
  mm: balance LRU lists based on relative thrashing
  mm: only count actual rotations as LRU reclaim cost
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/vmscan.c: change prototype for shrink_page_list</title>
<updated>2020-06-04T03:09:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maninder Singh</name>
<email>maninder1.s@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T23:01:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=730ec8c01a2bd6a311ada404398f44c142ac5e8e'/>
<id>730ec8c01a2bd6a311ada404398f44c142ac5e8e</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 3c710c1ad11b ("mm, vmscan extract shrink_page_list reclaim counters
into a struct") changed data type for the function, so changing return
type for funciton and its caller.

Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh &lt;maninder1.s@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Amit Sahrawat &lt;a.sahrawat@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1588168259-25604-1-git-send-email-maninder1.s@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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commit 3c710c1ad11b ("mm, vmscan extract shrink_page_list reclaim counters
into a struct") changed data type for the function, so changing return
type for funciton and its caller.

Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh &lt;maninder1.s@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Amit Sahrawat &lt;a.sahrawat@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1588168259-25604-1-git-send-email-maninder1.s@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/page_alloc.c: add missing newline</title>
<updated>2020-06-04T03:09:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Tao</name>
<email>chentao107@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T23:00:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=633bf2fe8da0520c74ee73e9eb82d78948c3b3cc'/>
<id>633bf2fe8da0520c74ee73e9eb82d78948c3b3cc</id>
<content type='text'>
Add missing line breaks on pr_warn().

Signed-off-by: Chen Tao &lt;chentao107@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200603063547.235825-1-chentao107@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add missing line breaks on pr_warn().

Signed-off-by: Chen Tao &lt;chentao107@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200603063547.235825-1-chentao107@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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