linux.git/Documentation/vm, branch v5.7

mm/zswap: allow setting default status, compressor and allocator in Kconfig

2020-04-07T17:43:41+00:00

The compressed cache for swap pages (zswap) currently needs from 1 to 3
extra kernel command line parameters in order to make it work: it has to
be enabled by adding a "zswap.enabled=1" command line parameter and if one
wants a different compressor or pool allocator than the default lzo / zbud
combination then these choices also need to be specified on the kernel
command line in additional parameters.

Using a different compressor and allocator for zswap is actually pretty
common as guides often recommend using the lz4 / z3fold pair instead of
the default one.  In such case it is also necessary to remember to enable
the appropriate compression algorithm and pool allocator in the kernel
config manually.

Let's avoid the need for adding these kernel command line parameters and
automatically pull in the dependencies for the selected compressor
algorithm and pool allocator by adding an appropriate default switches to
Kconfig.

The default values for these options match what the code was using
previously as its defaults.

Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Wool 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200202000112.456103-1-mail@maciej.szmigiero.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_reporting: add free page reporting documentation

2020-04-07T17:43:39+00:00

Add documentation for free page reporting.  Currently the only consumer is
virtio-balloon, however it is possible that other drivers might make use
of this so it is best to add a bit of documetation explaining at a high
level how to use the API.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Luiz Capitulino 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Pankaj Gupta 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Wei Wang 
Cc: Yang Zhang 
Cc: wei qi 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211224730.29318.43815.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx

2020-04-03T20:12:26+00:00

Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are three SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1.

  One fixes up the SPDX tag for a single driver, while the other two go
  through the tree and add SPDX tags for all of the .gitignore files as
  needed.

  Nothing too complex, but you will get a merge conflict with your
  current tree, that should be trivial to handle (one file modified by
  two things, one file deleted.)

  All three of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no
  reported issues other than the merge conflict"

* tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  ASoC: MT6660: make spdxcheck.py happy
  .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
  .gitignore: remove too obvious comments

mm/hmm: remove HMM_FAULT_SNAPSHOT

2020-03-27T23:19:24+00:00

Now that flags are handled on a fine-grained per-page basis this global
flag is redundant and has a confusing overlap with the pfn_flags_mask and
default_flags.

Normalize the HMM_FAULT_SNAPSHOT behavior into one place. Callers needing
the SNAPSHOT behavior should set a pfn_flags_mask and default_flags that
always results in a cleared HMM_PFN_VALID. Then no pages will be faulted,
and HMM_FAULT_SNAPSHOT is not a special flow that overrides the masking
mechanism.

As this is the last flag, also remove the flags argument. If future flags
are needed they can be part of the struct hmm_range function arguments.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200327200021.29372-5-jgg@ziepe.ca
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe

.gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier

2020-03-25T10:50:48+00:00

Add SPDX License Identifier to all .gitignore files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/zswap.c: add allocation hysteresis if pool limit is hit

2020-01-31T18:30:39+00:00

zswap will always try to shrink pool when zswap is full.  If there is a
high pressure on zswap it will result in flipping pages in and out zswap
pool without any real benefit, and the overall system performance will
drop.  The previous discussion on this subject [1] ended up with a
suggestion to implement a sort of hysteresis to refuse taking pages into
zswap pool until it has sufficient space if the limit has been hit.
This is my take on this.

Hysteresis is controlled with a sysfs-configurable parameter (namely,
/sys/kernel/debug/zswap/accept_threhsold_percent).  It specifies the
threshold at which zswap would start accepting pages again after it
became full.  Setting this parameter to 100 disables the hysteresis and
sets the zswap behavior to pre-hysteresis state.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/8/949

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200108200118.15563-1-vitaly.wool@konsulko.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool 
Cc: Dan Streetman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mmu_notifiers: Use 'interval_sub' as the variable for mmu_interval_notifier

2020-01-14T15:54:47+00:00

The 'interval_sub' is placed on the 'notifier_subscriptions' interval
tree.

This eliminates the poor name 'mni' for this variable.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe

mm/hmm: remove hmm_mirror and related

2019-11-23T23:56:45+00:00

The only two users of this are now converted to use mmu_interval_notifier,
delete all the code and update hmm.rst.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112202231.3856-14-jgg@ziepe.ca
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Tested-by: Ralph Campbell 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe

mm: treewide: clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming

2019-09-26T17:10:44+00:00

The naming of pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() seems to have confused a few
people, and until recently arm64 used these erroneously/pointlessly for
other levels of page table.

To make it incredibly clear that these only apply to the PTE level, and to
align with the naming of pgtable_pmd_page_{ctor,dtor}(), let's rename them
to pgtable_pte_page_{ctor,dtor}().

These changes were generated with the following shell script:

----
git grep -lw 'pgtable_page_.tor' | while read FILE; do
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_ctor/pgtable_pte_page_ctor/}' $FILE;
    sed -i '{s/pgtable_page_dtor/pgtable_pte_page_dtor/}' $FILE;
done
----

... with the documentation re-flowed to remain under 80 columns, and
whitespace fixed up in macros to keep backslashes aligned.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722141133.3116-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 	[m68k]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Yu Zhao 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'odp_fixes' into hmm.git

2019-08-21T23:58:18+00:00

From rdma.git

Jason Gunthorpe says:

====================
This is a collection of general cleanups for ODP to clarify some of the
flows around umem creation and use of the interval tree.
====================

The branch is based on v5.3-rc5 due to dependencies, and is being taken
into hmm.git due to dependencies in the next patches.

* odp_fixes:
  RDMA/mlx5: Use odp instead of mr->umem in pagefault_mr
  RDMA/mlx5: Use ib_umem_start instead of umem.address
  RDMA/core: Make invalidate_range a device operation
  RDMA/odp: Use kvcalloc for the dma_list and page_list
  RDMA/odp: Check for overflow when computing the umem_odp end
  RDMA/odp: Provide ib_umem_odp_release() to undo the allocs
  RDMA/odp: Split creating a umem_odp from ib_umem_get
  RDMA/odp: Make the three ways to create a umem_odp clear
  RMDA/odp: Consolidate umem_odp initialization
  RDMA/odp: Make it clearer when a umem is an implicit ODP umem
  RDMA/odp: Iterate over the whole rbtree directly
  RDMA/odp: Use the common interval tree library instead of generic
  RDMA/mlx5: Fix MR npages calculation for IB_ACCESS_HUGETLB

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe