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<title>mm/ksm: fix race with VMA iteration and mm_struct teardown</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T10:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liam R. Howlett</name>
<email>Liam.Howlett@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-08T22:03:10+00:00</published>
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commit 6db504ce55bdbc575723938fc480713c9183f6a2 upstream.

exit_mmap() will tear down the VMAs and maple tree with the mmap_lock held
in write mode.  Ensure that the maple tree is still valid by checking
ksm_test_exit() after taking the mmap_lock in read mode, but before the
for_each_vma() iterator dereferences a destroyed maple tree.

Since the maple tree is destroyed, the flags telling lockdep to check an
external lock has been cleared.  Skip the for_each_vma() iterator to avoid
dereferencing a maple tree without the external lock flag, which would
create a lockdep warning.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230308220310.3119196-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Fixes: a5f18ba07276 ("mm/ksm: use vma iterators instead of vma linked list")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pengfei Xu &lt;pengfei.xu@intel.com&gt;
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZAdUUhSbaa6fHS36@xpf.sh.intel.com/
Reported-by: syzbot+2ee18845e89ae76342c5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
  Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=64a3e95957cd3deab99df7cd7b5a9475af92c93e
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;heng.su@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6db504ce55bdbc575723938fc480713c9183f6a2 upstream.

exit_mmap() will tear down the VMAs and maple tree with the mmap_lock held
in write mode.  Ensure that the maple tree is still valid by checking
ksm_test_exit() after taking the mmap_lock in read mode, but before the
for_each_vma() iterator dereferences a destroyed maple tree.

Since the maple tree is destroyed, the flags telling lockdep to check an
external lock has been cleared.  Skip the for_each_vma() iterator to avoid
dereferencing a maple tree without the external lock flag, which would
create a lockdep warning.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230308220310.3119196-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Fixes: a5f18ba07276 ("mm/ksm: use vma iterators instead of vma linked list")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pengfei Xu &lt;pengfei.xu@intel.com&gt;
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZAdUUhSbaa6fHS36@xpf.sh.intel.com/
Reported-by: syzbot+2ee18845e89ae76342c5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
  Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=64a3e95957cd3deab99df7cd7b5a9475af92c93e
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;heng.su@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare"</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T10:51:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-10T04:29:13+00:00</published>
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commit f446883d12b8bfa486f7c98d403054d61d38c989 upstream.

This reverts commit 487a32ec24be819e747af8c2ab0d5c515508086a.

should_skip_kasan_poison() reads the PG_skip_kasan_poison flag from
page-&gt;flags.  However, this line of code in free_pages_prepare():

	page-&gt;flags &amp;= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP;

clears most of page-&gt;flags, including PG_skip_kasan_poison, before calling
should_skip_kasan_poison(), which meant that it would never return true as
a result of the page flag being set.  Therefore, fix the code to call
should_skip_kasan_poison() before clearing the flags, as we were doing
before the reverted patch.

This fixes a measurable performance regression introduced in the reverted
commit, where munmap() takes longer than intended if HW tags KASAN is
supported and enabled at runtime.  Without this patch, we see a
single-digit percentage performance regression in a particular
mmap()-heavy benchmark when enabling HW tags KASAN, and with the patch,
there is no statistically significant performance impact when enabling HW
tags KASAN.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310042914.3805818-2-pcc@google.com
Fixes: 487a32ec24be ("kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare")
  Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ic4f13affeebd20548758438bb9ed9ca40e312b79
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[6.1]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f446883d12b8bfa486f7c98d403054d61d38c989 upstream.

This reverts commit 487a32ec24be819e747af8c2ab0d5c515508086a.

should_skip_kasan_poison() reads the PG_skip_kasan_poison flag from
page-&gt;flags.  However, this line of code in free_pages_prepare():

	page-&gt;flags &amp;= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP;

clears most of page-&gt;flags, including PG_skip_kasan_poison, before calling
should_skip_kasan_poison(), which meant that it would never return true as
a result of the page flag being set.  Therefore, fix the code to call
should_skip_kasan_poison() before clearing the flags, as we were doing
before the reverted patch.

This fixes a measurable performance regression introduced in the reverted
commit, where munmap() takes longer than intended if HW tags KASAN is
supported and enabled at runtime.  Without this patch, we see a
single-digit percentage performance regression in a particular
mmap()-heavy benchmark when enabling HW tags KASAN, and with the patch,
there is no statistically significant performance impact when enabling HW
tags KASAN.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310042914.3805818-2-pcc@google.com
Fixes: 487a32ec24be ("kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare")
  Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ic4f13affeebd20548758438bb9ed9ca40e312b79
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[6.1]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kfence: avoid passing -g for test</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T10:51:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-16T22:47:04+00:00</published>
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commit 2e08ca1802441224f5b7cc6bffbb687f7406de95 upstream.

Nathan reported that when building with GNU as and a version of clang that
defaults to DWARF5:

  $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- \
			LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=0 O=build \
			mrproper allmodconfig mm/kfence/kfence_test.o
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14627: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14628: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14632: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14633: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14639: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  ...

This is because `-g` defaults to the compiler debug info default.  If the
assembler does not support some of the directives used, the above errors
occur.  To fix, remove the explicit passing of `-g`.

All the test wants is that stack traces print valid function names, and
debug info is not required for that.  (I currently cannot recall why I
added the explicit `-g`.)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316224705.709984-1-elver@google.com
Fixes: bc8fbc5f305a ("kfence: add test suite")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2e08ca1802441224f5b7cc6bffbb687f7406de95 upstream.

Nathan reported that when building with GNU as and a version of clang that
defaults to DWARF5:

  $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- \
			LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=0 O=build \
			mrproper allmodconfig mm/kfence/kfence_test.o
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14627: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14628: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14632: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14633: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14639: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
  ...

This is because `-g` defaults to the compiler debug info default.  If the
assembler does not support some of the directives used, the above errors
occur.  To fix, remove the explicit passing of `-g`.

All the test wants is that stack traces print valid function names, and
debug info is not required for that.  (I currently cannot recall why I
added the explicit `-g`.)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316224705.709984-1-elver@google.com
Fixes: bc8fbc5f305a ("kfence: add test suite")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: kfence: fix using kfence_metadata without initialization in show_object()</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T10:51:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muchun Song</name>
<email>songmuchun@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-15T03:44:41+00:00</published>
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commit 1c86a188e03156223a34d09ce290b49bd4dd0403 upstream.

The variable kfence_metadata is initialized in kfence_init_pool(), then,
it is not initialized if kfence is disabled after booting.  In this case,
kfence_metadata will be used (e.g.  -&gt;lock and -&gt;state fields) without
initialization when reading /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects.  There will
be a warning if you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK.  Fix it by creating
debugfs files when necessary.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315034441.44321-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1c86a188e03156223a34d09ce290b49bd4dd0403 upstream.

The variable kfence_metadata is initialized in kfence_init_pool(), then,
it is not initialized if kfence is disabled after booting.  In this case,
kfence_metadata will be used (e.g.  -&gt;lock and -&gt;state fields) without
initialization when reading /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects.  There will
be a warning if you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK.  Fix it by creating
debugfs files when necessary.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315034441.44321-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/slab: Fix undefined init_cache_node_node() for NUMA and !SMP</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T10:51:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-21T08:30:59+00:00</published>
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commit 66a1c22b709178e7b823d44465d0c2e5ed7492fb upstream.

sh/migor_defconfig:

    mm/slab.c: In function ‘slab_memory_callback’:
    mm/slab.c:1127:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_cache_node_node’; did you mean ‘drain_cache_node_node’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
     1127 |                 ret = init_cache_node_node(nid);
	  |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	  |                       drain_cache_node_node

The #ifdef condition protecting the definition of init_cache_node_node()
no longer matches the conditions protecting the (multiple) users.

Fix this by syncing the conditions.

Fixes: 76af6a054da40553 ("mm/migrate: add CPU hotplug to demotion #ifdef")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b5bdea22-ed2f-3187-6efe-0c72330270a4@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 66a1c22b709178e7b823d44465d0c2e5ed7492fb upstream.

sh/migor_defconfig:

    mm/slab.c: In function ‘slab_memory_callback’:
    mm/slab.c:1127:23: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_cache_node_node’; did you mean ‘drain_cache_node_node’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
     1127 |                 ret = init_cache_node_node(nid);
	  |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	  |                       drain_cache_node_node

The #ifdef condition protecting the definition of init_cache_node_node()
no longer matches the conditions protecting the (multiple) users.

Fix this by syncing the conditions.

Fixes: 76af6a054da40553 ("mm/migrate: add CPU hotplug to demotion #ifdef")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b5bdea22-ed2f-3187-6efe-0c72330270a4@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: teach mincore_hugetlb about pte markers</title>
<updated>2023-03-22T12:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Houghton</name>
<email>jthoughton@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T22:24:04+00:00</published>
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commit 63cf584203f3367c8b073d417c8e5cbbfc450506 upstream.

By checking huge_pte_none(), we incorrectly classify PTE markers as
"present".  Instead, check huge_pte_none_mostly(), classifying PTE markers
the same as if the PTE were completely blank.

PTE markers, unlike other kinds of swap entries, don't reference any
physical page and don't indicate that a physical page was mapped
previously.  As such, treat them as non-present for the sake of mincore().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230302222404.175303-1-jthoughton@google.com
Fixes: 5c041f5d1f23 ("mm: teach core mm about pte markers")
Signed-off-by: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 63cf584203f3367c8b073d417c8e5cbbfc450506 upstream.

By checking huge_pte_none(), we incorrectly classify PTE markers as
"present".  Instead, check huge_pte_none_mostly(), classifying PTE markers
the same as if the PTE were completely blank.

PTE markers, unlike other kinds of swap entries, don't reference any
physical page and don't indicate that a physical page was mapped
previously.  As such, treat them as non-present for the sake of mincore().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230302222404.175303-1-jthoughton@google.com
Fixes: 5c041f5d1f23 ("mm: teach core mm about pte markers")
Signed-off-by: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/userfaultfd: propagate uffd-wp bit when PTE-mapping the huge zeropage</title>
<updated>2023-03-22T12:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T17:54:23+00:00</published>
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commit 42b2af2c9b7eede8ef21d0943f84d135e21a32a3 upstream.

Currently, we'd lose the userfaultfd-wp marker when PTE-mapping a huge
zeropage, resulting in the next write faults in the PMD range not
triggering uffd-wp events.

Various actions (partial MADV_DONTNEED, partial mremap, partial munmap,
partial mprotect) could trigger this.  However, most importantly,
un-protecting a single sub-page from the userfaultfd-wp handler when
processing a uffd-wp event will PTE-map the shared huge zeropage and lose
the uffd-wp bit for the remainder of the PMD.

Let's properly propagate the uffd-wp bit to the PMDs.

 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdint.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdbool.h&gt;
 #include &lt;inttypes.h&gt;
 #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
 #include &lt;errno.h&gt;
 #include &lt;poll.h&gt;
 #include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/ioctl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;linux/userfaultfd.h&gt;

 static size_t pagesize;
 static int uffd;
 static volatile bool uffd_triggered;

 #define barrier() __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory")

 static void uffd_wp_range(char *start, size_t size, bool wp)
 {
 	struct uffdio_writeprotect uffd_writeprotect;

 	uffd_writeprotect.range.start = (unsigned long) start;
 	uffd_writeprotect.range.len = size;
 	if (wp) {
 		uffd_writeprotect.mode = UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP;
 	} else {
 		uffd_writeprotect.mode = 0;
 	}
 	if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT, &amp;uffd_writeprotect)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT failed: %d\n", errno);
 		exit(1);
 	}
 }

 static void *uffd_thread_fn(void *arg)
 {
 	static struct uffd_msg msg;
 	ssize_t nread;

 	while (1) {
 		struct pollfd pollfd;
 		int nready;

 		pollfd.fd = uffd;
 		pollfd.events = POLLIN;
 		nready = poll(&amp;pollfd, 1, -1);
 		if (nready == -1) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "poll() failed: %d\n", errno);
 			exit(1);
 		}

 		nread = read(uffd, &amp;msg, sizeof(msg));
 		if (nread &lt;= 0)
 			continue;

 		if (msg.event != UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT ||
 		    !(msg.arg.pagefault.flags &amp; UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP)) {
 			printf("FAIL: wrong uffd-wp event fired\n");
 			exit(1);
 		}

 		/* un-protect the single page. */
 		uffd_triggered = true;
 		uffd_wp_range((char *)(uintptr_t)msg.arg.pagefault.address,
 			      pagesize, false);
 	}
 	return arg;
 }

 static int setup_uffd(char *map, size_t size)
 {
 	struct uffdio_api uffdio_api;
 	struct uffdio_register uffdio_register;
 	pthread_t thread;

 	uffd = syscall(__NR_userfaultfd,
 		       O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK | UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY);
 	if (uffd &lt; 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "syscall() failed: %d\n", errno);
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	uffdio_api.api = UFFD_API;
 	uffdio_api.features = UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP;
 	if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &amp;uffdio_api) &lt; 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "UFFDIO_API failed: %d\n", errno);
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	if (!(uffdio_api.features &amp; UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "UFFD_FEATURE_WRITEPROTECT missing\n");
 		return -ENOSYS;
 	}

 	uffdio_register.range.start = (unsigned long) map;
 	uffdio_register.range.len = size;
 	uffdio_register.mode = UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_WP;
 	if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_REGISTER, &amp;uffdio_register) &lt; 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "UFFDIO_REGISTER failed: %d\n", errno);
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	pthread_create(&amp;thread, NULL, uffd_thread_fn, NULL);

 	return 0;
 }

 int main(void)
 {
 	const size_t size = 4 * 1024 * 1024ull;
 	char *map, *cur;

 	pagesize = getpagesize();

 	map = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
 	if (map == MAP_FAILED) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed\n");
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	if (madvise(map, size, MADV_HUGEPAGE)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "MADV_HUGEPAGE failed\n");
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	if (setup_uffd(map, size))
 		return 1;

 	/* Read the whole range, populating zeropages. */
 	madvise(map, size, MADV_POPULATE_READ);

 	/* Write-protect the whole range. */
 	uffd_wp_range(map, size, true);

 	/* Make sure uffd-wp triggers on each page. */
 	for (cur = map; cur &lt; map + size; cur += pagesize) {
 		uffd_triggered = false;

 		barrier();
 		/* Trigger a write fault. */
 		*cur = 1;
 		barrier();

 		if (!uffd_triggered) {
 			printf("FAIL: uffd-wp did not trigger\n");
 			return 1;
 		}
 	}

 	printf("PASS: uffd-wp triggered\n");
 	return 0;
 }

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230302175423.589164-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: e06f1e1dd499 ("userfaultfd: wp: enabled write protection in userfaultfd API")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 42b2af2c9b7eede8ef21d0943f84d135e21a32a3 upstream.

Currently, we'd lose the userfaultfd-wp marker when PTE-mapping a huge
zeropage, resulting in the next write faults in the PMD range not
triggering uffd-wp events.

Various actions (partial MADV_DONTNEED, partial mremap, partial munmap,
partial mprotect) could trigger this.  However, most importantly,
un-protecting a single sub-page from the userfaultfd-wp handler when
processing a uffd-wp event will PTE-map the shared huge zeropage and lose
the uffd-wp bit for the remainder of the PMD.

Let's properly propagate the uffd-wp bit to the PMDs.

 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdint.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdbool.h&gt;
 #include &lt;inttypes.h&gt;
 #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
 #include &lt;errno.h&gt;
 #include &lt;poll.h&gt;
 #include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/ioctl.h&gt;
 #include &lt;linux/userfaultfd.h&gt;

 static size_t pagesize;
 static int uffd;
 static volatile bool uffd_triggered;

 #define barrier() __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory")

 static void uffd_wp_range(char *start, size_t size, bool wp)
 {
 	struct uffdio_writeprotect uffd_writeprotect;

 	uffd_writeprotect.range.start = (unsigned long) start;
 	uffd_writeprotect.range.len = size;
 	if (wp) {
 		uffd_writeprotect.mode = UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP;
 	} else {
 		uffd_writeprotect.mode = 0;
 	}
 	if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT, &amp;uffd_writeprotect)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT failed: %d\n", errno);
 		exit(1);
 	}
 }

 static void *uffd_thread_fn(void *arg)
 {
 	static struct uffd_msg msg;
 	ssize_t nread;

 	while (1) {
 		struct pollfd pollfd;
 		int nready;

 		pollfd.fd = uffd;
 		pollfd.events = POLLIN;
 		nready = poll(&amp;pollfd, 1, -1);
 		if (nready == -1) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "poll() failed: %d\n", errno);
 			exit(1);
 		}

 		nread = read(uffd, &amp;msg, sizeof(msg));
 		if (nread &lt;= 0)
 			continue;

 		if (msg.event != UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT ||
 		    !(msg.arg.pagefault.flags &amp; UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP)) {
 			printf("FAIL: wrong uffd-wp event fired\n");
 			exit(1);
 		}

 		/* un-protect the single page. */
 		uffd_triggered = true;
 		uffd_wp_range((char *)(uintptr_t)msg.arg.pagefault.address,
 			      pagesize, false);
 	}
 	return arg;
 }

 static int setup_uffd(char *map, size_t size)
 {
 	struct uffdio_api uffdio_api;
 	struct uffdio_register uffdio_register;
 	pthread_t thread;

 	uffd = syscall(__NR_userfaultfd,
 		       O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK | UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY);
 	if (uffd &lt; 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "syscall() failed: %d\n", errno);
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	uffdio_api.api = UFFD_API;
 	uffdio_api.features = UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP;
 	if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &amp;uffdio_api) &lt; 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "UFFDIO_API failed: %d\n", errno);
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	if (!(uffdio_api.features &amp; UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "UFFD_FEATURE_WRITEPROTECT missing\n");
 		return -ENOSYS;
 	}

 	uffdio_register.range.start = (unsigned long) map;
 	uffdio_register.range.len = size;
 	uffdio_register.mode = UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_WP;
 	if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_REGISTER, &amp;uffdio_register) &lt; 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "UFFDIO_REGISTER failed: %d\n", errno);
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	pthread_create(&amp;thread, NULL, uffd_thread_fn, NULL);

 	return 0;
 }

 int main(void)
 {
 	const size_t size = 4 * 1024 * 1024ull;
 	char *map, *cur;

 	pagesize = getpagesize();

 	map = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
 	if (map == MAP_FAILED) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed\n");
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	if (madvise(map, size, MADV_HUGEPAGE)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "MADV_HUGEPAGE failed\n");
 		return -errno;
 	}

 	if (setup_uffd(map, size))
 		return 1;

 	/* Read the whole range, populating zeropages. */
 	madvise(map, size, MADV_POPULATE_READ);

 	/* Write-protect the whole range. */
 	uffd_wp_range(map, size, true);

 	/* Make sure uffd-wp triggers on each page. */
 	for (cur = map; cur &lt; map + size; cur += pagesize) {
 		uffd_triggered = false;

 		barrier();
 		/* Trigger a write fault. */
 		*cur = 1;
 		barrier();

 		if (!uffd_triggered) {
 			printf("FAIL: uffd-wp did not trigger\n");
 			return 1;
 		}
 	}

 	printf("PASS: uffd-wp triggered\n");
 	return 0;
 }

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230302175423.589164-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: e06f1e1dd499 ("userfaultfd: wp: enabled write protection in userfaultfd API")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>memory tier: release the new_memtier in find_create_memory_tier()</title>
<updated>2023-03-10T08:29:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tong Tiangen</name>
<email>tongtiangen@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-29T04:06:51+00:00</published>
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commit 93419139fa14124c1c507d804f2b28866ebee28d upstream.

In find_create_memory_tier(), if failed to register device, then we should
release new_memtier from the tier list and put device instead of memtier.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230129040651.1329208-1-tongtiangen@huawei.com
Fixes: 9832fb87834e ("mm/demotion: expose memory tier details via sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen &lt;tongtiangen@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Guohanjun &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 93419139fa14124c1c507d804f2b28866ebee28d upstream.

In find_create_memory_tier(), if failed to register device, then we should
release new_memtier from the tier list and put device instead of memtier.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230129040651.1329208-1-tongtiangen@huawei.com
Fixes: 9832fb87834e ("mm/demotion: expose memory tier details via sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen &lt;tongtiangen@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Guohanjun &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/thp: check and bail out if page in deferred queue already</title>
<updated>2023-03-10T08:29:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yin Fengwei</name>
<email>fengwei.yin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-23T13:52:07+00:00</published>
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commit 81e506bec9be1eceaf5a2c654e28ba5176ef48d8 upstream.

Kernel build regression with LLVM was reported here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y1GCYXGtEVZbcv%2F5@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/ with
commit f35b5d7d676e ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP
boundaries").  And the commit f35b5d7d676e was reverted.

It turned out the regression is related with madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
was used by ld.lld. But with none PMD_SIZE aligned parameter len.
trace-bpfcc captured:
531607  531732  ld.lld          do_madvise.part.0 start: 0x7feca9000000, len: 0x7fb000, behavior: 0x4
531607  531793  ld.lld          do_madvise.part.0 start: 0x7fec86a00000, len: 0x7fb000, behavior: 0x4

If the underneath physical page is THP, the madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) can
trigger split_queue_lock contention raised significantly. perf showed
following data:
    14.85%     0.00%  ld.lld           [kernel.kallsyms]           [k]
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
           11.52%
                entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
                do_syscall_64
                __x64_sys_madvise
                do_madvise.part.0
                zap_page_range
                unmap_single_vma
                unmap_page_range
                page_remove_rmap
                deferred_split_huge_page
                __lock_text_start
                native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath

If THP can't be removed from rmap as whole THP, partial THP will be
removed from rmap by removing sub-pages from rmap.  Even the THP head page
is added to deferred queue already, the split_queue_lock will be acquired
and check whether the THP head page is in the queue already.  Thus, the
contention of split_queue_lock is raised.

Before acquire split_queue_lock, check and bail out early if the THP
head page is in the queue already. The checking without holding
split_queue_lock could race with deferred_split_scan, but it doesn't
impact the correctness here.

Test result of building kernel with ld.lld:
commit 7b5a0b664ebe (parent commit of f35b5d7d676e):
time -f "\t%E real,\t%U user,\t%S sys" make LD=ld.lld -skj96 allmodconfig all
        6:07.99 real,   26367.77 user,  5063.35 sys

commit f35b5d7d676e:
time -f "\t%E real,\t%U user,\t%S sys" make LD=ld.lld -skj96 allmodconfig all
        7:22.15 real,   26235.03 user,  12504.55 sys

commit f35b5d7d676e with the fixing patch:
time -f "\t%E real,\t%U user,\t%S sys" make LD=ld.lld -skj96 allmodconfig all
        6:08.49 real,   26520.15 user,  5047.91 sys

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221223135207.2275317-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei &lt;fengwei.yin@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Xing Zhengjun &lt;zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 81e506bec9be1eceaf5a2c654e28ba5176ef48d8 upstream.

Kernel build regression with LLVM was reported here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y1GCYXGtEVZbcv%2F5@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/ with
commit f35b5d7d676e ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP
boundaries").  And the commit f35b5d7d676e was reverted.

It turned out the regression is related with madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
was used by ld.lld. But with none PMD_SIZE aligned parameter len.
trace-bpfcc captured:
531607  531732  ld.lld          do_madvise.part.0 start: 0x7feca9000000, len: 0x7fb000, behavior: 0x4
531607  531793  ld.lld          do_madvise.part.0 start: 0x7fec86a00000, len: 0x7fb000, behavior: 0x4

If the underneath physical page is THP, the madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) can
trigger split_queue_lock contention raised significantly. perf showed
following data:
    14.85%     0.00%  ld.lld           [kernel.kallsyms]           [k]
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
           11.52%
                entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
                do_syscall_64
                __x64_sys_madvise
                do_madvise.part.0
                zap_page_range
                unmap_single_vma
                unmap_page_range
                page_remove_rmap
                deferred_split_huge_page
                __lock_text_start
                native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath

If THP can't be removed from rmap as whole THP, partial THP will be
removed from rmap by removing sub-pages from rmap.  Even the THP head page
is added to deferred queue already, the split_queue_lock will be acquired
and check whether the THP head page is in the queue already.  Thus, the
contention of split_queue_lock is raised.

Before acquire split_queue_lock, check and bail out early if the THP
head page is in the queue already. The checking without holding
split_queue_lock could race with deferred_split_scan, but it doesn't
impact the correctness here.

Test result of building kernel with ld.lld:
commit 7b5a0b664ebe (parent commit of f35b5d7d676e):
time -f "\t%E real,\t%U user,\t%S sys" make LD=ld.lld -skj96 allmodconfig all
        6:07.99 real,   26367.77 user,  5063.35 sys

commit f35b5d7d676e:
time -f "\t%E real,\t%U user,\t%S sys" make LD=ld.lld -skj96 allmodconfig all
        7:22.15 real,   26235.03 user,  12504.55 sys

commit f35b5d7d676e with the fixing patch:
time -f "\t%E real,\t%U user,\t%S sys" make LD=ld.lld -skj96 allmodconfig all
        6:08.49 real,   26520.15 user,  5047.91 sys

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221223135207.2275317-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei &lt;fengwei.yin@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Xing Zhengjun &lt;zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: memcontrol: deprecate charge moving</title>
<updated>2023-03-10T08:29:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-07T13:00:39+00:00</published>
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commit da34a8484d162585e22ed8c1e4114aa2f60e3567 upstream.

Charge moving mode in cgroup1 allows memory to follow tasks as they
migrate between cgroups.  This is, and always has been, a questionable
thing to do - for several reasons.

First, it's expensive.  Pages need to be identified, locked and isolated
from various MM operations, and reassigned, one by one.

Second, it's unreliable.  Once pages are charged to a cgroup, there isn't
always a clear owner task anymore.  Cache isn't moved at all, for example.
Mapped memory is moved - but if trylocking or isolating a page fails,
it's arbitrarily left behind.  Frequent moving between domains may leave a
task's memory scattered all over the place.

Third, it isn't really needed.  Launcher tasks can kick off workload tasks
directly in their target cgroup.  Using dedicated per-workload groups
allows fine-grained policy adjustments - no need to move tasks and their
physical pages between control domains.  The feature was never
forward-ported to cgroup2, and it hasn't been missed.

Despite it being a niche usecase, the maintenance overhead of supporting
it is enormous.  Because pages are moved while they are live and subject
to various MM operations, the synchronization rules are complicated.
There are lock_page_memcg() in MM and FS code, which non-cgroup people
don't understand.  In some cases we've been able to shift code and cgroup
API calls around such that we can rely on native locking as much as
possible.  But that's fragile, and sometimes we need to hold MM locks for
longer than we otherwise would (pte lock e.g.).

Mark the feature deprecated. Hopefully we can remove it soon.

And backport into -stable kernels so that people who develop against
earlier kernels are warned about this deprecation as early as possible.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix memory.rst underlining]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5COd+qXwk/S+n8N@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit da34a8484d162585e22ed8c1e4114aa2f60e3567 upstream.

Charge moving mode in cgroup1 allows memory to follow tasks as they
migrate between cgroups.  This is, and always has been, a questionable
thing to do - for several reasons.

First, it's expensive.  Pages need to be identified, locked and isolated
from various MM operations, and reassigned, one by one.

Second, it's unreliable.  Once pages are charged to a cgroup, there isn't
always a clear owner task anymore.  Cache isn't moved at all, for example.
Mapped memory is moved - but if trylocking or isolating a page fails,
it's arbitrarily left behind.  Frequent moving between domains may leave a
task's memory scattered all over the place.

Third, it isn't really needed.  Launcher tasks can kick off workload tasks
directly in their target cgroup.  Using dedicated per-workload groups
allows fine-grained policy adjustments - no need to move tasks and their
physical pages between control domains.  The feature was never
forward-ported to cgroup2, and it hasn't been missed.

Despite it being a niche usecase, the maintenance overhead of supporting
it is enormous.  Because pages are moved while they are live and subject
to various MM operations, the synchronization rules are complicated.
There are lock_page_memcg() in MM and FS code, which non-cgroup people
don't understand.  In some cases we've been able to shift code and cgroup
API calls around such that we can rely on native locking as much as
possible.  But that's fragile, and sometimes we need to hold MM locks for
longer than we otherwise would (pte lock e.g.).

Mark the feature deprecated. Hopefully we can remove it soon.

And backport into -stable kernels so that people who develop against
earlier kernels are warned about this deprecation as early as possible.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix memory.rst underlining]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5COd+qXwk/S+n8N@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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