linux.git/arch/arc, branch v5.9-rc2

mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code

2020-08-12T17:58:04+00:00

After the cleanup of page fault accounting, gup does not need to pass
task_struct around any more.  Remove that parameter in the whole gup
stack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-26-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/arc: use general page fault accounting

2020-08-12T17:58:03+00:00

Use the general page fault accounting by passing regs into
handle_mm_fault().  It naturally solve the issue of multiple page fault
accounting when page fault retry happened.

Fix PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS perf event manually for page fault retries,
by moving it before taking mmap_sem.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-4-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: do page fault accounting in handle_mm_fault

2020-08-12T17:58:02+00:00

Patch series "mm: Page fault accounting cleanups", v5.

This is v5 of the pf accounting cleanup series.  It originates from Gerald
Schaefer's report on an issue a week ago regarding to incorrect page fault
accountings for retried page fault after commit 4064b9827063 ("mm: allow
VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times"):

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200610174811.44b94525@thinkpad/

What this series did:

  - Correct page fault accounting: we do accounting for a page fault
    (no matter whether it's from #PF handling, or gup, or anything else)
    only with the one that completed the fault.  For example, page fault
    retries should not be counted in page fault counters.  Same to the
    perf events.

  - Unify definition of PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS: currently this perf
    event is used in an adhoc way across different archs.

    Case (1): for many archs it's done at the entry of a page fault
    handler, so that it will also cover e.g.  errornous faults.

    Case (2): for some other archs, it is only accounted when the page
    fault is resolved successfully.

    Case (3): there're still quite some archs that have not enabled
    this perf event.

    Since this series will touch merely all the archs, we unify this
    perf event to always follow case (1), which is the one that makes most
    sense.  And since we moved the accounting into handle_mm_fault, the
    other two MAJ/MIN perf events are well taken care of naturally.

  - Unify definition of "major faults": the definition of "major
    fault" is slightly changed when used in accounting (not
    VM_FAULT_MAJOR).  More information in patch 1.

  - Always account the page fault onto the one that triggered the page
    fault.  This does not matter much for #PF handlings, but mostly for
    gup.  More information on this in patch 25.

Patchset layout:

Patch 1:     Introduced the accounting in handle_mm_fault(), not enabled.
Patch 2-23:  Enable the new accounting for arch #PF handlers one by one.
Patch 24:    Enable the new accounting for the rest outliers (gup, iommu, etc.)
Patch 25:    Cleanup GUP task_struct pointer since it's not needed any more

This patch (of 25):

This is a preparation patch to move page fault accountings into the
general code in handle_mm_fault().  This includes both the per task
flt_maj/flt_min counters, and the major/minor page fault perf events.  To
do this, the pt_regs pointer is passed into handle_mm_fault().

PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS should still be kept in per-arch page fault
handlers.

So far, all the pt_regs pointer that passed into handle_mm_fault() is
NULL, which means this patch should have no intented functional change.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Cain 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Gerald Schaefer 
Cc: Greentime Hu 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Nick Hu 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vincent Chen 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-1-peterx@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-2-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uaccess: remove segment_eq

2020-08-12T17:57:58+00:00

segment_eq is only used to implement uaccess_kernel.  Just open code
uaccess_kernel in the arch uaccess headers and remove one layer of
indirection.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Acked-by: Greentime Hu 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Nick Hu 
Cc: Vincent Chen 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710135706.537715-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2020-08-09T20:33:54+00:00

Pull regset conversion fix from Al Viro:
 "Fix a regression from an unnoticed bisect hazard in the regset series.

  A bunch of old (aout, originally) primitives used by coredumps became
  dead code after fdpic conversion to regsets. Removal of that dead code
  had been the first commit in the followups to regset series;
  unfortunately, it happened to hide the bisect hazard on sh (extern for
  fpregs_get() had not been updated in the main series when it should
  have been; followup simply made fpregs_get() static). And without that
  followup commit this bisect hazard became breakage in the mainline"

Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 

* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  kill unused dump_fpu() instances

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-08-07T18:39:33+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few MM hotfixes

 - kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs and ocfs2

 - some of MM

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs,
ocfs2 and mm (hofixes, pagealloc, slab-generic, slab, slub, kcsan,
debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, mincore,
sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, hugetlb and vmscan).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (162 commits)
  mm: vmscan: consistent update to pgrefill
  mm/vmscan.c: fix typo
  khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
  khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit
  khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock
  khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right range
  mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible
  mm: thp: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  mm/page_alloc: fix memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs
  mm/page_alloc.c: skip setting nodemask when we are in interrupt
  mm/page_alloc: fallbacks at most has 3 elements
  mm/page_alloc: silence a KASAN false positive
  mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary end_bitidx for [set|get]_pfnblock_flags_mask()
  mm/page_alloc.c: simplify pageblock bitmap access
  mm/page_alloc.c: extract the common part in pfn_to_bitidx()
  mm/page_alloc.c: replace the definition of NR_MIGRATETYPE_BITS with PB_migratetype_bits
  mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration
  mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant
  mm/page_alloc: remove nr_free_pagecache_pages()
  mm: remove vm_total_pages
  ...

mm: remove unneeded includes of

2020-08-07T18:33:26+00:00

Patch series "mm: cleanup usage of "

Most architectures have very similar versions of pXd_alloc_one() and
pXd_free_one() for intermediate levels of page table.  These patches add
generic versions of these functions in  and enable
use of the generic functions where appropriate.

In addition, functions declared and defined in  headers are
used mostly by core mm and early mm initialization in arch and there is no
actual reason to have the  included all over the place.
The first patch in this series removes unneeded includes of


In the end it didn't work out as neatly as I hoped and moving
pXd_alloc_track() definitions to  would require
unnecessary changes to arches that have custom page table allocations, so
I've decided to move lib/ioremap.c to mm/ and make pgalloc-track.h local
to mm/.

This patch (of 8):

In most cases  header is required only for allocations of
page table memory.  Most of the .c files that include that header do not
use symbols declared in  and do not require that header.

As for the other header files that used to include , it is
possible to move that include into the .c file that actually uses symbols
from  and drop the include from the header file.

The process was somewhat automated using

	sed -i -E '/[<"]asm\/pgalloc\.h/d' \
                $(grep -L -w -f /tmp/xx \
                        $(git grep -E -l '[<"]asm/pgalloc\.h'))

where /tmp/xx contains all the symbols defined in
arch/*/include/asm/pgalloc.h.

[rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix powerpc warning]

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 	[m68k]
Cc: Abdul Haleem 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Satheesh Rajendran 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200627143453.31835-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200627143453.31835-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'work.regset' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2020-08-07T16:29:25+00:00

Pull ptrace regset updates from Al Viro:
 "Internal regset API changes:

   - regularize copy_regset_{to,from}_user() callers

   - switch to saner calling conventions for ->get()

   - kill user_regset_copyout()

  The ->put() side of things will have to wait for the next cycle,
  unfortunately.

  The balance is about -1KLoC and replacements for ->get() instances are
  a lot saner"

* 'work.regset' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (41 commits)
  regset: kill user_regset_copyout{,_zero}()
  regset(): kill ->get_size()
  regset: kill ->get()
  csky: switch to ->regset_get()
  xtensa: switch to ->regset_get()
  parisc: switch to ->regset_get()
  nds32: switch to ->regset_get()
  nios2: switch to ->regset_get()
  hexagon: switch to ->regset_get()
  h8300: switch to ->regset_get()
  openrisc: switch to ->regset_get()
  riscv: switch to ->regset_get()
  c6x: switch to ->regset_get()
  ia64: switch to ->regset_get()
  arc: switch to ->regset_get()
  arm: switch to ->regset_get()
  sh: convert to ->regset_get()
  arm64: switch to ->regset_get()
  mips: switch to ->regset_get()
  sparc: switch to ->regset_get()
  ...

Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2020-08-04T21:47:45+00:00

Pull fork cleanups from Christian Brauner:
 "This is cleanup series from when we reworked a chunk of the process
  creation paths in the kernel and switched to struct
  {kernel_}clone_args.

  High-level this does two main things:

   - Remove the double export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() where
     do_fork() used the incosistent legacy clone calling convention.

     Now we only export _do_fork() which is based on struct
     kernel_clone_args.

   - Remove the copy_thread_tls()/copy_thread() split making the
     architecture specific HAVE_COYP_THREAD_TLS config option obsolete.

  This switches all remaining architectures to select
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and thus to the copy_thread_tls() calling
  convention. The current split makes the process creation codepaths
  more convoluted than they need to be. Each architecture has their own
  copy_thread() function unless it selects HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS then it
  has a copy_thread_tls() function.

  The split is not needed anymore nowadays, all architectures support
  CLONE_SETTLS but quite a few of them never bothered to select
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and instead simply continued to use copy_thread()
  and use the old calling convention. Removing this split cleans up the
  process creation codepaths and paves the way for implementing clone3()
  on such architectures since it requires the copy_thread_tls() calling
  convention.

  After having made each architectures support copy_thread_tls() this
  series simply renames that function back to copy_thread(). It also
  switches all architectures that call do_fork() directly over to
  _do_fork() and the struct kernel_clone_args calling convention. This
  is a corollary of switching the architectures that did not yet support
  it over to copy_thread_tls() since do_fork() is conditional on not
  supporting copy_thread_tls() (Mostly because it lacks a separate
  argument for tls which is trivial to fix but there's no need for this
  function to exist.).

  The do_fork() removal is in itself already useful as it allows to to
  remove the export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() we currently have
  in favor of only _do_fork(). This has already been discussed back when
  we added clone3(). The legacy clone() calling convention is - as is
  probably well-known - somewhat odd:

    #
    # ABI hall of shame
    #
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS3

  that is aggravated by the fact that some architectures such as sparc
  follow the CLONE_BACKWARDSx calling convention but don't really select
  the corresponding config option since they call do_fork() directly.

  So do_fork() enforces a somewhat arbitrary calling convention in the
  first place that doesn't really help the individual architectures that
  deviate from it. They can thus simply be switched to _do_fork()
  enforcing a single calling convention. (I really hope that any new
  architectures will __not__ try to implement their own calling
  conventions...)

  Most architectures already have made a similar switch (m68k comes to
  mind).

  Overall this removes more code than it adds even with a good portion
  of added comments. It simplifies a chunk of arch specific assembly
  either by moving the code into C or by simply rewriting the assembly.

  Architectures that have been touched in non-trivial ways have all been
  actually boot and stress tested: sparc and ia64 have been tested with
  Debian 9 images. They are the two architectures which have been
  touched the most. All non-trivial changes to architectures have seen
  acks from the relevant maintainers. nios2 with a custom built
  buildroot image. h8300 I couldn't get something bootable to test on
  but the changes have been fairly automatic and I'm sure we'll hear
  people yell if I broke something there.

  All other architectures that have been touched in trivial ways have
  been compile tested for each single patch of the series via git rebase
  -x "make ..." v5.8-rc2. arm{64} and x86{_64} have been boot tested
  even though they have just been trivially touched (removal of the
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS macro from their Kconfig) because well they are
  basically "core architectures" and since it is trivial to get your
  hands on a useable image"

* tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()
  arch: remove HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  unicore: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  sh: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  nds32: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  microblaze: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  hexagon: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  c6x: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  alpha: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  fork: remove do_fork()
  h8300: select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  nios2: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  sparc: unconditionally enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64
  sparc64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  fork: fold legacy_clone_args_valid() into _do_fork()

Merge branch 'locking/header'

2020-07-29T14:14:21+00:00