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<title>linux.git/arch/parisc/include/uapi, branch v5.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix pdc_toc_pim_11 and pdc_toc_pim_20 definitions</title>
<updated>2022-01-07T00:29:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-05T21:38:10+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The definitions for pdc_toc_pim_11 and pdc_toc_pim_20 are wrong since they
include an entry for a hversion field which doesn't exist in the specification.

Fix this and clean up some whitespaces so that the whole file will be in
sync with it's copy in the SeaBIOS-hppa sources.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.16
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<pre>
The definitions for pdc_toc_pim_11 and pdc_toc_pim_20 are wrong since they
include an entry for a hversion field which doesn't exist in the specification.

Fix this and clean up some whitespaces so that the whole file will be in
sync with it's copy in the SeaBIOS-hppa sources.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.16
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-for-5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T13:20:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T13:20:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fc02cb2b37fe2cbf1d3334b9f0f0eab9431766c4'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - Remove socket skb caches

   - Add a SO_RESERVE_MEM socket op to forward allocate buffer space and
     avoid memory accounting overhead on each message sent

   - Introduce managed neighbor entries - added by control plane and
     resolved by the kernel for use in acceleration paths (BPF / XDP
     right now, HW offload users will benefit as well)

   - Make neighbor eviction on link down controllable by userspace to
     work around WiFi networks with bad roaming implementations

   - vrf: Rework interaction with netfilter/conntrack

   - fq_codel: implement L4S style ce_threshold_ect1 marking

   - sch: Eliminate unnecessary RCU waits in mini_qdisc_pair_swap()

  BPF:

   - Add support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG, arbitrary type tagging
     as implemented in LLVM14

   - Introduce bpf_get_branch_snapshot() to capture Last Branch Records

   - Implement variadic trace_printk helper

   - Add a new Bloomfilter map type

   - Track &lt;8-byte scalar spill and refill

   - Access hw timestamp through BPF's __sk_buff

   - Disallow unprivileged BPF by default

   - Document BPF licensing

  Netfilter:

   - Introduce egress hook for looking at raw outgoing packets

   - Allow matching on and modifying inner headers / payload data

   - Add NFT_META_IFTYPE to match on the interface type either from
     ingress or egress

  Protocols:

   - Multi-Path TCP:
      - increase default max additional subflows to 2
      - rework forward memory allocation
      - add getsockopts: MPTCP_INFO, MPTCP_TCPINFO, MPTCP_SUBFLOW_ADDRS

   - MCTP flow support allowing lower layer drivers to configure msg
     muxing as needed

   - Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) driver based on RFC7450

   - HSR support the redbox supervision frames (IEC-62439-3:2018)

   - Support for the ip6ip6 encapsulation of IOAM

   - Netlink interface for CAN-FD's Transmitter Delay Compensation

   - Support SMC-Rv2 eliminating the current same-subnet restriction, by
     exploiting the UDP encapsulation feature of RoCE adapters

   - TLS: add SM4 GCM/CCM crypto support

   - Bluetooth: initial support for link quality and audio/codec offload

  Driver APIs:

   - Add a batched interface for RX buffer allocation in AF_XDP buffer
     pool

   - ethtool: Add ability to control transceiver modules' power mode

   - phy: Introduce supported interfaces bitmap to express MAC
     capabilities and simplify PHY code

   - Drop rtnl_lock from DSA .port_fdb_{add,del} callbacks

  New drivers:

   - WiFi driver for Realtek 8852AE 802.11ax devices (rtw89)

   - Ethernet driver for ASIX AX88796C SPI device (x88796c)

  Drivers:

   - Broadcom PHYs
      - support 72165, 7712 16nm PHYs
      - support IDDQ-SR for additional power savings

   - PHY support for QCA8081, QCA9561 PHYs

   - NXP DPAA2: support for IRQ coalescing

   - NXP Ethernet (enetc): support for software TCP segmentation

   - Renesas Ethernet (ravb) - support DMAC and EMAC blocks of
     Gigabit-capable IP found on RZ/G2L SoC

   - Intel 100G Ethernet
      - support for eswitch offload of TC/OvS flow API, including
        offload of GRE, VxLAN, Geneve tunneling
      - support application device queues - ability to assign Rx and Tx
        queues to application threads
      - PTP and PPS (pulse-per-second) extensions

   - Broadcom Ethernet (bnxt)
      - devlink health reporting and device reload extensions

   - Mellanox Ethernet (mlx5)
      - offload macvlan interfaces
      - support HW offload of TC rules involving OVS internal ports
      - support HW-GRO and header/data split
      - support application device queues

   - Marvell OcteonTx2:
      - add XDP support for PF
      - add PTP support for VF

   - Qualcomm Ethernet switch (qca8k): support for QCA8328

   - Realtek Ethernet DSA switch (rtl8366rb)
      - support bridge offload
      - support STP, fast aging, disabling address learning
      - support for Realtek RTL8365MB-VC, a 4+1 port 10M/100M/1GE switch

   - Mellanox Ethernet/IB switch (mlxsw)
      - multi-level qdisc hierarchy offload (e.g. RED, prio and shaping)
      - offload root TBF qdisc as port shaper
      - support multiple routing interface MAC address prefixes
      - support for IP-in-IP with IPv6 underlay

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
      - mt7921 - ASPM, 6GHz, SDIO and testmode support
      - mt7915 - LED and TWT support

   - Qualcomm WiFi (ath11k)
      - include channel rx and tx time in survey dump statistics
      - support for 80P80 and 160 MHz bandwidths
      - support channel 2 in 6 GHz band
      - spectral scan support for QCN9074
      - support for rx decapsulation offload (data frames in 802.3
        format)

   - Qualcomm phone SoC WiFi (wcn36xx)
      - enable Idle Mode Power Save (IMPS) to reduce power consumption
        during idle

   - Bluetooth driver support for MediaTek MT7922 and MT7921

   - Enable support for AOSP Bluetooth extension in Qualcomm WCN399x and
     Realtek 8822C/8852A

   - Microsoft vNIC driver (mana)
      - support hibernation and kexec

   - Google vNIC driver (gve)
      - support for jumbo frames
      - implement Rx page reuse

  Refactor:

   - Make all writes to netdev-&gt;dev_addr go thru helpers, so that we can
     add this address to the address rbtree and handle the updates

   - Various TCP cleanups and optimizations including improvements to
     CPU cache use

   - Simplify the gnet_stats, Qdisc stats' handling and remove
     qdisc-&gt;running sequence counter

   - Driver changes and API updates to address devlink locking
     deficiencies"

* tag 'net-next-for-5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2122 commits)
  Revert "net: avoid double accounting for pure zerocopy skbs"
  selftests: net: add arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier
  net: ndisc: introduce ndisc_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter
  net: arp: introduce arp_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter
  libbpf: Deprecate AF_XDP support
  kbuild: Unify options for BTF generation for vmlinux and modules
  selftests/bpf: Add a testcase for 64-bit bounds propagation issue.
  bpf: Fix propagation of signed bounds from 64-bit min/max into 32-bit.
  bpf: Fix propagation of bounds from 64-bit min/max into 32-bit and var_off.
  net: vmxnet3: remove multiple false checks in vmxnet3_ethtool.c
  net: avoid double accounting for pure zerocopy skbs
  tcp: rename sk_wmem_free_skb
  netdevsim: fix uninit value in nsim_drv_configure_vfs()
  selftests/bpf: Fix also no-alu32 strobemeta selftest
  bpf: Add missing map_delete_elem method to bloom filter map
  selftests/bpf: Add bloom map success test for userspace calls
  bpf: Add alignment padding for "map_extra" + consolidate holes
  bpf: Bloom filter map naming fixups
  selftests/bpf: Add test cases for struct_ops prog
  bpf: Add dummy BPF STRUCT_OPS for test purpose
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - Remove socket skb caches

   - Add a SO_RESERVE_MEM socket op to forward allocate buffer space and
     avoid memory accounting overhead on each message sent

   - Introduce managed neighbor entries - added by control plane and
     resolved by the kernel for use in acceleration paths (BPF / XDP
     right now, HW offload users will benefit as well)

   - Make neighbor eviction on link down controllable by userspace to
     work around WiFi networks with bad roaming implementations

   - vrf: Rework interaction with netfilter/conntrack

   - fq_codel: implement L4S style ce_threshold_ect1 marking

   - sch: Eliminate unnecessary RCU waits in mini_qdisc_pair_swap()

  BPF:

   - Add support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG, arbitrary type tagging
     as implemented in LLVM14

   - Introduce bpf_get_branch_snapshot() to capture Last Branch Records

   - Implement variadic trace_printk helper

   - Add a new Bloomfilter map type

   - Track &lt;8-byte scalar spill and refill

   - Access hw timestamp through BPF's __sk_buff

   - Disallow unprivileged BPF by default

   - Document BPF licensing

  Netfilter:

   - Introduce egress hook for looking at raw outgoing packets

   - Allow matching on and modifying inner headers / payload data

   - Add NFT_META_IFTYPE to match on the interface type either from
     ingress or egress

  Protocols:

   - Multi-Path TCP:
      - increase default max additional subflows to 2
      - rework forward memory allocation
      - add getsockopts: MPTCP_INFO, MPTCP_TCPINFO, MPTCP_SUBFLOW_ADDRS

   - MCTP flow support allowing lower layer drivers to configure msg
     muxing as needed

   - Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) driver based on RFC7450

   - HSR support the redbox supervision frames (IEC-62439-3:2018)

   - Support for the ip6ip6 encapsulation of IOAM

   - Netlink interface for CAN-FD's Transmitter Delay Compensation

   - Support SMC-Rv2 eliminating the current same-subnet restriction, by
     exploiting the UDP encapsulation feature of RoCE adapters

   - TLS: add SM4 GCM/CCM crypto support

   - Bluetooth: initial support for link quality and audio/codec offload

  Driver APIs:

   - Add a batched interface for RX buffer allocation in AF_XDP buffer
     pool

   - ethtool: Add ability to control transceiver modules' power mode

   - phy: Introduce supported interfaces bitmap to express MAC
     capabilities and simplify PHY code

   - Drop rtnl_lock from DSA .port_fdb_{add,del} callbacks

  New drivers:

   - WiFi driver for Realtek 8852AE 802.11ax devices (rtw89)

   - Ethernet driver for ASIX AX88796C SPI device (x88796c)

  Drivers:

   - Broadcom PHYs
      - support 72165, 7712 16nm PHYs
      - support IDDQ-SR for additional power savings

   - PHY support for QCA8081, QCA9561 PHYs

   - NXP DPAA2: support for IRQ coalescing

   - NXP Ethernet (enetc): support for software TCP segmentation

   - Renesas Ethernet (ravb) - support DMAC and EMAC blocks of
     Gigabit-capable IP found on RZ/G2L SoC

   - Intel 100G Ethernet
      - support for eswitch offload of TC/OvS flow API, including
        offload of GRE, VxLAN, Geneve tunneling
      - support application device queues - ability to assign Rx and Tx
        queues to application threads
      - PTP and PPS (pulse-per-second) extensions

   - Broadcom Ethernet (bnxt)
      - devlink health reporting and device reload extensions

   - Mellanox Ethernet (mlx5)
      - offload macvlan interfaces
      - support HW offload of TC rules involving OVS internal ports
      - support HW-GRO and header/data split
      - support application device queues

   - Marvell OcteonTx2:
      - add XDP support for PF
      - add PTP support for VF

   - Qualcomm Ethernet switch (qca8k): support for QCA8328

   - Realtek Ethernet DSA switch (rtl8366rb)
      - support bridge offload
      - support STP, fast aging, disabling address learning
      - support for Realtek RTL8365MB-VC, a 4+1 port 10M/100M/1GE switch

   - Mellanox Ethernet/IB switch (mlxsw)
      - multi-level qdisc hierarchy offload (e.g. RED, prio and shaping)
      - offload root TBF qdisc as port shaper
      - support multiple routing interface MAC address prefixes
      - support for IP-in-IP with IPv6 underlay

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
      - mt7921 - ASPM, 6GHz, SDIO and testmode support
      - mt7915 - LED and TWT support

   - Qualcomm WiFi (ath11k)
      - include channel rx and tx time in survey dump statistics
      - support for 80P80 and 160 MHz bandwidths
      - support channel 2 in 6 GHz band
      - spectral scan support for QCN9074
      - support for rx decapsulation offload (data frames in 802.3
        format)

   - Qualcomm phone SoC WiFi (wcn36xx)
      - enable Idle Mode Power Save (IMPS) to reduce power consumption
        during idle

   - Bluetooth driver support for MediaTek MT7922 and MT7921

   - Enable support for AOSP Bluetooth extension in Qualcomm WCN399x and
     Realtek 8822C/8852A

   - Microsoft vNIC driver (mana)
      - support hibernation and kexec

   - Google vNIC driver (gve)
      - support for jumbo frames
      - implement Rx page reuse

  Refactor:

   - Make all writes to netdev-&gt;dev_addr go thru helpers, so that we can
     add this address to the address rbtree and handle the updates

   - Various TCP cleanups and optimizations including improvements to
     CPU cache use

   - Simplify the gnet_stats, Qdisc stats' handling and remove
     qdisc-&gt;running sequence counter

   - Driver changes and API updates to address devlink locking
     deficiencies"

* tag 'net-next-for-5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2122 commits)
  Revert "net: avoid double accounting for pure zerocopy skbs"
  selftests: net: add arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier
  net: ndisc: introduce ndisc_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter
  net: arp: introduce arp_evict_nocarrier sysctl parameter
  libbpf: Deprecate AF_XDP support
  kbuild: Unify options for BTF generation for vmlinux and modules
  selftests/bpf: Add a testcase for 64-bit bounds propagation issue.
  bpf: Fix propagation of signed bounds from 64-bit min/max into 32-bit.
  bpf: Fix propagation of bounds from 64-bit min/max into 32-bit and var_off.
  net: vmxnet3: remove multiple false checks in vmxnet3_ethtool.c
  net: avoid double accounting for pure zerocopy skbs
  tcp: rename sk_wmem_free_skb
  netdevsim: fix uninit value in nsim_drv_configure_vfs()
  selftests/bpf: Fix also no-alu32 strobemeta selftest
  bpf: Add missing map_delete_elem method to bloom filter map
  selftests/bpf: Add bloom map success test for userspace calls
  bpf: Add alignment padding for "map_extra" + consolidate holes
  bpf: Bloom filter map naming fixups
  selftests/bpf: Add test cases for struct_ops prog
  bpf: Add dummy BPF STRUCT_OPS for test purpose
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: add support for TOC (transfer of control)</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T06:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Schnelle</name>
<email>svens@stackframe.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-14T19:49:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bc294838cc3443a2fbec58f8936ad4bd0a0b3055'/>
<id>bc294838cc3443a2fbec58f8936ad4bd0a0b3055</id>
<content type='text'>
Almost all PA-RISC machines have either a button that
is labeled with 'TOC' or a BMC function to trigger a TOC.
TOC is a non-maskable interrupt that is sent to the processor.
This can be used for diagnostic purposes like obtaining a
stack trace/register dump or to enter KDB/KGDB.

As an example, on my c8000, TOC can be used with:

CONFIG_KGDB=y
CONFIG_KGDB_KDB=y

and the 'kgdboc=ttyS0,115200' appended to the command line.

Press ^[( on serial console, which will enter the BMC command line,
and enter 'TOC s':

root@(none):/# (
cli&gt;TOC s
Sending TOC/INIT.
&lt;Cpu3&gt; 2800035d03e00000  0000000040c21ac8  CC_ERR_CHECK_TOC
&lt;Cpu0&gt; 2800035d00e00000  0000000040c21ad0  CC_ERR_CHECK_TOC
&lt;Cpu2&gt; 2800035d02e00000  0000000040c21ac8  CC_ERR_CHECK_TOC
&lt;Cpu1&gt; 2800035d01e00000  0000000040c21ad0  CC_ERR_CHECK_TOC
&lt;Cpu3&gt; 37000f7303e00000  2000000000000000  CC_ERR_CPU_CHECK_SUMMARY
&lt;Cpu0&gt; 37000f7300e00000  2000000000000000  CC_ERR_CPU_CHECK_SUMMARY
&lt;Cpu2&gt; 37000f7302e00000  2000000000000000  CC_ERR_CPU_CHECK_SUMMARY
&lt;Cpu1&gt; 37000f7301e00000  2000000000000000  CC_ERR_CPU_CHECK_SUMMARY
&lt;Cpu3&gt; 4300100803e00000  c0000000001d26cc  CC_MC_BR_TO_OS_TOC
&lt;Cpu0&gt; 4300100800e00000  c0000000001d26cc  CC_MC_BR_TO_OS_TOC
&lt;Cpu2&gt; 4300100802e00000  c0000000001d26cc  CC_MC_BR_TO_OS_TOC
&lt;Cpu1&gt; 4300100801e00000  c0000000001d26cc  CC_MC_BR_TO_OS_TOC

Entering kdb (current=0x00000000411cef80, pid 0) on processor 0 due to NonMaskable Interrupt @ 0x40c21ad0
[0]kdb&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Almost all PA-RISC machines have either a button that
is labeled with 'TOC' or a BMC function to trigger a TOC.
TOC is a non-maskable interrupt that is sent to the processor.
This can be used for diagnostic purposes like obtaining a
stack trace/register dump or to enter KDB/KGDB.

As an example, on my c8000, TOC can be used with:

CONFIG_KGDB=y
CONFIG_KGDB_KDB=y

and the 'kgdboc=ttyS0,115200' appended to the command line.

Press ^[( on serial console, which will enter the BMC command line,
and enter 'TOC s':

root@(none):/# (
cli&gt;TOC s
Sending TOC/INIT.
&lt;Cpu3&gt; 2800035d03e00000  0000000040c21ac8  CC_ERR_CHECK_TOC
&lt;Cpu0&gt; 2800035d00e00000  0000000040c21ad0  CC_ERR_CHECK_TOC
&lt;Cpu2&gt; 2800035d02e00000  0000000040c21ac8  CC_ERR_CHECK_TOC
&lt;Cpu1&gt; 2800035d01e00000  0000000040c21ad0  CC_ERR_CHECK_TOC
&lt;Cpu3&gt; 37000f7303e00000  2000000000000000  CC_ERR_CPU_CHECK_SUMMARY
&lt;Cpu0&gt; 37000f7300e00000  2000000000000000  CC_ERR_CPU_CHECK_SUMMARY
&lt;Cpu2&gt; 37000f7302e00000  2000000000000000  CC_ERR_CPU_CHECK_SUMMARY
&lt;Cpu1&gt; 37000f7301e00000  2000000000000000  CC_ERR_CPU_CHECK_SUMMARY
&lt;Cpu3&gt; 4300100803e00000  c0000000001d26cc  CC_MC_BR_TO_OS_TOC
&lt;Cpu0&gt; 4300100800e00000  c0000000001d26cc  CC_MC_BR_TO_OS_TOC
&lt;Cpu2&gt; 4300100802e00000  c0000000001d26cc  CC_MC_BR_TO_OS_TOC
&lt;Cpu1&gt; 4300100801e00000  c0000000001d26cc  CC_MC_BR_TO_OS_TOC

Entering kdb (current=0x00000000411cef80, pid 0) on processor 0 due to NonMaskable Interrupt @ 0x40c21ad0
[0]kdb&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: add PIM TOC data structures</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T06:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Schnelle</name>
<email>svens@stackframe.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-14T19:49:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d9e203366936e9df752468d27fef039b38d968e1'/>
<id>d9e203366936e9df752468d27fef039b38d968e1</id>
<content type='text'>
These data structures describe the TOC data we get from firmware
when issuing a PDC_PIM_TOC request.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
These data structures describe the TOC data we get from firmware
when issuing a PDC_PIM_TOC request.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix up for "net: add new socket option SO_RESERVE_MEM"</title>
<updated>2021-10-01T14:00:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-01T13:43:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=10d48705d5afb854d2edf3e17a3fb222001425d6'/>
<id>10d48705d5afb854d2edf3e17a3fb222001425d6</id>
<content type='text'>
Some architectures do not include uapi/asm/socket.h

Fixes: 2bb2f5fb21b0 ("net: add new socket option SO_RESERVE_MEM")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Some architectures do not include uapi/asm/socket.h

Fixes: 2bb2f5fb21b0 ("net: add new socket option SO_RESERVE_MEM")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Drop __arch_swab16(), arch_swab24(), _arch_swab32() and __arch_swab64() functions</title>
<updated>2021-09-02T21:54:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-02T21:54:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e5a2cac908df691f1637f9272d4c6dec83239611'/>
<id>e5a2cac908df691f1637f9272d4c6dec83239611</id>
<content type='text'>
No need to keep those as inline assembly functions, the compiler now
generates the same or even better optimized code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
No need to keep those as inline assembly functions, the compiler now
generates the same or even better optimized code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sock: allow reading and changing sk_userlocks with setsockopt</title>
<updated>2021-08-04T11:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tikhomirov</name>
<email>ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-04T07:55:56+00:00</published>
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SOCK_SNDBUF_LOCK and SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK flags disable automatic socket
buffers adjustment done by kernel (see tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() and
tcp_sndbuf_expand()). If we've just created a new socket this adjustment
is enabled on it, but if one changes the socket buffer size by
setsockopt(SO_{SND,RCV}BUF*) it becomes disabled.

CRIU needs to call setsockopt(SO_{SND,RCV}BUF*) on each socket on
restore as it first needs to increase buffer sizes for packet queues
restore and second it needs to restore back original buffer sizes. So
after CRIU restore all sockets become non-auto-adjustable, which can
decrease network performance of restored applications significantly.

CRIU need to be able to restore sockets with enabled/disabled adjustment
to the same state it was before dump, so let's add special setsockopt
for it.

Let's also export SOCK_SNDBUF_LOCK and SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK flags to uAPI so
that using these interface one can reenable automatic socket buffer
adjustment on their sockets.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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SOCK_SNDBUF_LOCK and SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK flags disable automatic socket
buffers adjustment done by kernel (see tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() and
tcp_sndbuf_expand()). If we've just created a new socket this adjustment
is enabled on it, but if one changes the socket buffer size by
setsockopt(SO_{SND,RCV}BUF*) it becomes disabled.

CRIU needs to call setsockopt(SO_{SND,RCV}BUF*) on each socket on
restore as it first needs to increase buffer sizes for packet queues
restore and second it needs to restore back original buffer sizes. So
after CRIU restore all sockets become non-auto-adjustable, which can
decrease network performance of restored applications significantly.

CRIU need to be able to restore sockets with enabled/disabled adjustment
to the same state it was before dump, so let's add special setsockopt
for it.

Let's also export SOCK_SNDBUF_LOCK and SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK flags to uAPI so
that using these interface one can reenable automatic socket buffer
adjustment on their sockets.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T03:47:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:52:28+00:00</published>
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I. Background: Sparse Memory Mappings

When we manage sparse memory mappings dynamically in user space - also
sometimes involving MAP_NORESERVE - we want to dynamically populate/
discard memory inside such a sparse memory region.  Example users are
hypervisors (especially implementing memory ballooning or similar
technologies like virtio-mem) and memory allocators.  In addition, we want
to fail in a nice way (instead of generating SIGBUS) if populating does
not succeed because we are out of backend memory (which can happen easily
with file-based mappings, especially tmpfs and hugetlbfs).

While MADV_DONTNEED, MADV_REMOVE and FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE allow for
reliably discarding memory for most mapping types, there is no generic
approach to populate page tables and preallocate memory.

Although mmap() supports MAP_POPULATE, it is not applicable to the concept
of sparse memory mappings, where we want to populate/discard dynamically
and avoid expensive/problematic remappings.  In addition, we never
actually report errors during the final populate phase - it is best-effort
only.

fallocate() can be used to preallocate file-based memory and fail in a
safe way.  However, it cannot really be used for any private mappings on
anonymous files via memfd due to COW semantics.  In addition, fallocate()
does not actually populate page tables, so we still always get pagefaults
on first access - which is sometimes undesired (i.e., real-time workloads)
and requires real prefaulting of page tables, not just a preallocation of
backend storage.  There might be interesting use cases for sparse memory
regions along with mlockall(MCL_ONFAULT) which fallocate() cannot satisfy
as it does not prefault page tables.

II. On preallcoation/prefaulting from user space

Because we don't have a proper interface, what applications (like QEMU and
databases) end up doing is touching (i.e., reading+writing one byte to not
overwrite existing data) all individual pages.

However, that approach
1) Can result in wear on storage backing, because we end up reading/writing
   each page; this is especially a problem for dax/pmem.
2) Can result in mmap_sem contention when prefaulting via multiple
   threads.
3) Requires expensive signal handling, especially to catch SIGBUS in case
   of hugetlbfs/shmem/file-backed memory. For example, this is
   problematic in hypervisors like QEMU where SIGBUS handlers might already
   be used by other subsystems concurrently to e.g, handle hardware errors.
   "Simply" doing preallocation concurrently from other thread is not that
   easy.

III. On MADV_WILLNEED

Extending MADV_WILLNEED is not an option because
1. It would change the semantics: "Expect access in the near future." and
   "might be a good idea to read some pages" vs. "Definitely populate/
   preallocate all memory and definitely fail on errors.".
2. Existing users (like virtio-balloon in QEMU when deflating the balloon)
   don't want populate/prealloc semantics. They treat this rather as a hint
   to give a little performance boost without too much overhead - and don't
   expect that a lot of memory might get consumed or a lot of time
   might be spent.

IV. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE

Let's introduce MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE, inspired by
MAP_POPULATE, with the following semantics:
1. MADV_POPULATE_READ can be used to prefault page tables just like
   manually reading each individual page. This will not break any COW
   mappings. The shared zero page might get mapped and no backend storage
   might get preallocated -- allocation might be deferred to
   write-fault time. Especially shared file mappings require an explicit
   fallocate() upfront to actually preallocate backend memory (blocks in
   the file system) in case the file might have holes.
2. If MADV_POPULATE_READ succeeds, all page tables have been populated
   (prefaulted) readable once.
3. MADV_POPULATE_WRITE can be used to preallocate backend memory and
   prefault page tables just like manually writing (or
   reading+writing) each individual page. This will break any COW
   mappings -- e.g., the shared zeropage is never populated.
4. If MADV_POPULATE_WRITE succeeds, all page tables have been populated
   (prefaulted) writable once.
5. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE cannot be applied to special
   mappings marked with VM_PFNMAP and VM_IO. Also, proper access
   permissions (e.g., PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE) are required. If any such
   mapping is encountered, madvise() fails with -EINVAL.
6. If MADV_POPULATE_READ or MADV_POPULATE_WRITE fails, some page tables
   might have been populated.
7. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE will return -EHWPOISON
   when encountering a HW poisoned page in the range.
8. Similar to MAP_POPULATE, MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE
   cannot protect from the OOM (Out Of Memory) handler killing the
   process.

While the use case for MADV_POPULATE_WRITE is fairly obvious (i.e.,
preallocate memory and prefault page tables for VMs), one issue is that
whenever we prefault pages writable, the pages have to be marked dirty,
because the CPU could dirty them any time.  while not a real problem for
hugetlbfs or dax/pmem, it can be a problem for shared file mappings: each
page will be marked dirty and has to be written back later when evicting.

MADV_POPULATE_READ allows for optimizing this scenario: Pre-read a whole
mapping from backend storage without marking it dirty, such that eviction
won't have to write it back.  As discussed above, shared file mappings
might require an explciit fallocate() upfront to achieve
preallcoation+prepopulation.

Although sparse memory mappings are the primary use case, this will also
be useful for other preallocate/prefault use cases where MAP_POPULATE is
not desired or the semantics of MAP_POPULATE are not sufficient: as one
example, QEMU users can trigger preallocation/prefaulting of guest RAM
after the mapping was created -- and don't want errors to be silently
suppressed.

Looking at the history, MADV_POPULATE was already proposed in 2013 [1],
however, the main motivation back than was performance improvements --
which should also still be the case.

V. Single-threaded performance comparison

I did a short experiment, prefaulting page tables on completely *empty
mappings/files* and repeated the experiment 10 times.  The results
correspond to the shortest execution time.  In general, the performance
benefit for huge pages is negligible with small mappings.

V.1: Private mappings

POPULATE_READ and POPULATE_WRITE is fastest.  Note that
Reading/POPULATE_READ will populate the shared zeropage where applicable
-- which result in short population times.

The fastest way to allocate backend storage (here: swap or huge pages) and
prefault page tables is POPULATE_WRITE.

V.2: Shared mappings

fallocate() is fastest, however, doesn't prefault page tables.
POPULATE_WRITE is faster than simple writes and read/writes.
POPULATE_READ is faster than simple reads.

Without a fd, the fastest way to allocate backend storage and prefault
page tables is POPULATE_WRITE.  With an fd, the fastest way is usually
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ or FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE respectively; one
exception are actual files: FALLOCATE+Read is slightly faster than
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ.

The fastest way to allocate backend storage prefault page tables is
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE -- except when dealing with actual files; then,
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ is fastest and won't directly mark all pages as
dirty.

v.3: Detailed results

==================================================
2 MiB MAP_PRIVATE:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :     0.119 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :     0.222 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :     0.380 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.060 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.158 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :     0.034 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :     0.310 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :     0.362 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.229 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :     0.033 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :     0.313 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :     0.406 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.285 ms
file           : Read                     :     0.033 ms
file           : Write                    :     0.351 ms
file           : Read/Write               :     0.408 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.290 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
**************************************************
4096 MiB MAP_PRIVATE:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :   237.940 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :   708.409 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :  1054.041 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   124.310 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   572.582 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :   136.928 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :   963.898 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :  1106.561 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :    78.450 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   805.881 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :   357.116 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :   357.210 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :   357.606 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   356.094 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   356.937 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :   137.536 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :   954.362 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :  1105.954 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :    80.289 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :   822.826 ms
file           : Read                     :   137.874 ms
file           : Write                    :   987.025 ms
file           : Read/Write               :  1107.439 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :    80.413 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :   857.622 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :   355.607 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :   355.729 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :   356.127 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :   354.585 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :   355.138 ms
**************************************************
2 MiB MAP_SHARED:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :     0.394 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :     0.348 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :     0.400 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.326 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.273 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :     0.412 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :     0.372 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :     0.419 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.343 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.288 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE                :     0.137 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.446 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.330 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.454 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.379 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.268 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE                :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.030 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :     0.416 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :     0.369 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :     0.425 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :     0.346 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.295 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE                :     0.139 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.447 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.333 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.454 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.380 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.272 ms
file           : Read                     :     0.191 ms
file           : Write                    :     0.511 ms
file           : Read/Write               :     0.524 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :     0.196 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.434 ms
file           : FALLOCATE                :     0.004 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.197 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.554 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.480 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.201 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.381 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE                :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.031 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.031 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.030 ms
**************************************************
4096 MiB MAP_SHARED:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :  1053.090 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :   913.642 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :  1060.350 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   893.691 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   782.885 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read                     :   358.553 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Write                    :   358.419 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read/Write               :   357.992 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   357.533 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   357.808 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :  1078.144 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :   942.036 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :  1100.391 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   925.829 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   804.394 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE                :   304.632 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :  1163.359 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :   933.186 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1187.304 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :  1013.660 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   794.560 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :   358.131 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :   358.099 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :   358.250 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   357.563 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   357.334 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE                :   356.735 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :   358.152 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :   358.331 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :   358.018 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   357.286 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   357.523 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :  1087.265 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :   950.840 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :  1107.567 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :   922.605 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :   810.094 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE                :   306.320 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read           :  1169.796 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Write          :   933.730 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1191.610 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :  1020.474 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   798.945 ms
file           : Read                     :   654.101 ms
file           : Write                    :  1259.142 ms
file           : Read/Write               :  1289.509 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :   661.642 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :  1106.816 ms
file           : FALLOCATE                :     1.864 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read           :   656.328 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Write          :  1153.300 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1180.613 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   668.347 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   996.143 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :   357.245 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :   357.413 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :   357.120 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :   356.321 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :   356.693 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE                :   355.927 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read           :   357.074 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Write          :   357.120 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :   356.983 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   356.413 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   356.266 ms
**************************************************

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/27/698

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210419135443.12822-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eike-kernel@sf-tec.de&gt;
Cc: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
I. Background: Sparse Memory Mappings

When we manage sparse memory mappings dynamically in user space - also
sometimes involving MAP_NORESERVE - we want to dynamically populate/
discard memory inside such a sparse memory region.  Example users are
hypervisors (especially implementing memory ballooning or similar
technologies like virtio-mem) and memory allocators.  In addition, we want
to fail in a nice way (instead of generating SIGBUS) if populating does
not succeed because we are out of backend memory (which can happen easily
with file-based mappings, especially tmpfs and hugetlbfs).

While MADV_DONTNEED, MADV_REMOVE and FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE allow for
reliably discarding memory for most mapping types, there is no generic
approach to populate page tables and preallocate memory.

Although mmap() supports MAP_POPULATE, it is not applicable to the concept
of sparse memory mappings, where we want to populate/discard dynamically
and avoid expensive/problematic remappings.  In addition, we never
actually report errors during the final populate phase - it is best-effort
only.

fallocate() can be used to preallocate file-based memory and fail in a
safe way.  However, it cannot really be used for any private mappings on
anonymous files via memfd due to COW semantics.  In addition, fallocate()
does not actually populate page tables, so we still always get pagefaults
on first access - which is sometimes undesired (i.e., real-time workloads)
and requires real prefaulting of page tables, not just a preallocation of
backend storage.  There might be interesting use cases for sparse memory
regions along with mlockall(MCL_ONFAULT) which fallocate() cannot satisfy
as it does not prefault page tables.

II. On preallcoation/prefaulting from user space

Because we don't have a proper interface, what applications (like QEMU and
databases) end up doing is touching (i.e., reading+writing one byte to not
overwrite existing data) all individual pages.

However, that approach
1) Can result in wear on storage backing, because we end up reading/writing
   each page; this is especially a problem for dax/pmem.
2) Can result in mmap_sem contention when prefaulting via multiple
   threads.
3) Requires expensive signal handling, especially to catch SIGBUS in case
   of hugetlbfs/shmem/file-backed memory. For example, this is
   problematic in hypervisors like QEMU where SIGBUS handlers might already
   be used by other subsystems concurrently to e.g, handle hardware errors.
   "Simply" doing preallocation concurrently from other thread is not that
   easy.

III. On MADV_WILLNEED

Extending MADV_WILLNEED is not an option because
1. It would change the semantics: "Expect access in the near future." and
   "might be a good idea to read some pages" vs. "Definitely populate/
   preallocate all memory and definitely fail on errors.".
2. Existing users (like virtio-balloon in QEMU when deflating the balloon)
   don't want populate/prealloc semantics. They treat this rather as a hint
   to give a little performance boost without too much overhead - and don't
   expect that a lot of memory might get consumed or a lot of time
   might be spent.

IV. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE

Let's introduce MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE, inspired by
MAP_POPULATE, with the following semantics:
1. MADV_POPULATE_READ can be used to prefault page tables just like
   manually reading each individual page. This will not break any COW
   mappings. The shared zero page might get mapped and no backend storage
   might get preallocated -- allocation might be deferred to
   write-fault time. Especially shared file mappings require an explicit
   fallocate() upfront to actually preallocate backend memory (blocks in
   the file system) in case the file might have holes.
2. If MADV_POPULATE_READ succeeds, all page tables have been populated
   (prefaulted) readable once.
3. MADV_POPULATE_WRITE can be used to preallocate backend memory and
   prefault page tables just like manually writing (or
   reading+writing) each individual page. This will break any COW
   mappings -- e.g., the shared zeropage is never populated.
4. If MADV_POPULATE_WRITE succeeds, all page tables have been populated
   (prefaulted) writable once.
5. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE cannot be applied to special
   mappings marked with VM_PFNMAP and VM_IO. Also, proper access
   permissions (e.g., PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE) are required. If any such
   mapping is encountered, madvise() fails with -EINVAL.
6. If MADV_POPULATE_READ or MADV_POPULATE_WRITE fails, some page tables
   might have been populated.
7. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE will return -EHWPOISON
   when encountering a HW poisoned page in the range.
8. Similar to MAP_POPULATE, MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE
   cannot protect from the OOM (Out Of Memory) handler killing the
   process.

While the use case for MADV_POPULATE_WRITE is fairly obvious (i.e.,
preallocate memory and prefault page tables for VMs), one issue is that
whenever we prefault pages writable, the pages have to be marked dirty,
because the CPU could dirty them any time.  while not a real problem for
hugetlbfs or dax/pmem, it can be a problem for shared file mappings: each
page will be marked dirty and has to be written back later when evicting.

MADV_POPULATE_READ allows for optimizing this scenario: Pre-read a whole
mapping from backend storage without marking it dirty, such that eviction
won't have to write it back.  As discussed above, shared file mappings
might require an explciit fallocate() upfront to achieve
preallcoation+prepopulation.

Although sparse memory mappings are the primary use case, this will also
be useful for other preallocate/prefault use cases where MAP_POPULATE is
not desired or the semantics of MAP_POPULATE are not sufficient: as one
example, QEMU users can trigger preallocation/prefaulting of guest RAM
after the mapping was created -- and don't want errors to be silently
suppressed.

Looking at the history, MADV_POPULATE was already proposed in 2013 [1],
however, the main motivation back than was performance improvements --
which should also still be the case.

V. Single-threaded performance comparison

I did a short experiment, prefaulting page tables on completely *empty
mappings/files* and repeated the experiment 10 times.  The results
correspond to the shortest execution time.  In general, the performance
benefit for huge pages is negligible with small mappings.

V.1: Private mappings

POPULATE_READ and POPULATE_WRITE is fastest.  Note that
Reading/POPULATE_READ will populate the shared zeropage where applicable
-- which result in short population times.

The fastest way to allocate backend storage (here: swap or huge pages) and
prefault page tables is POPULATE_WRITE.

V.2: Shared mappings

fallocate() is fastest, however, doesn't prefault page tables.
POPULATE_WRITE is faster than simple writes and read/writes.
POPULATE_READ is faster than simple reads.

Without a fd, the fastest way to allocate backend storage and prefault
page tables is POPULATE_WRITE.  With an fd, the fastest way is usually
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ or FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE respectively; one
exception are actual files: FALLOCATE+Read is slightly faster than
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ.

The fastest way to allocate backend storage prefault page tables is
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE -- except when dealing with actual files; then,
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ is fastest and won't directly mark all pages as
dirty.

v.3: Detailed results

==================================================
2 MiB MAP_PRIVATE:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :     0.119 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :     0.222 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :     0.380 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.060 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.158 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :     0.034 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :     0.310 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :     0.362 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.229 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :     0.033 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :     0.313 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :     0.406 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.285 ms
file           : Read                     :     0.033 ms
file           : Write                    :     0.351 ms
file           : Read/Write               :     0.408 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.290 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
**************************************************
4096 MiB MAP_PRIVATE:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :   237.940 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :   708.409 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :  1054.041 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   124.310 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   572.582 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :   136.928 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :   963.898 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :  1106.561 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :    78.450 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   805.881 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :   357.116 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :   357.210 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :   357.606 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   356.094 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   356.937 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :   137.536 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :   954.362 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :  1105.954 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :    80.289 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :   822.826 ms
file           : Read                     :   137.874 ms
file           : Write                    :   987.025 ms
file           : Read/Write               :  1107.439 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :    80.413 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :   857.622 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :   355.607 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :   355.729 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :   356.127 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :   354.585 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :   355.138 ms
**************************************************
2 MiB MAP_SHARED:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :     0.394 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :     0.348 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :     0.400 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.326 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.273 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :     0.412 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :     0.372 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :     0.419 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.343 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.288 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE                :     0.137 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.446 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.330 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.454 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.379 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.268 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE                :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.030 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :     0.416 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :     0.369 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :     0.425 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :     0.346 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.295 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE                :     0.139 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.447 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.333 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.454 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.380 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.272 ms
file           : Read                     :     0.191 ms
file           : Write                    :     0.511 ms
file           : Read/Write               :     0.524 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :     0.196 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.434 ms
file           : FALLOCATE                :     0.004 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.197 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.554 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.480 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.201 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.381 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE                :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.031 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.031 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.030 ms
**************************************************
4096 MiB MAP_SHARED:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :  1053.090 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :   913.642 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :  1060.350 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   893.691 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   782.885 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read                     :   358.553 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Write                    :   358.419 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read/Write               :   357.992 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   357.533 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   357.808 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :  1078.144 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :   942.036 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :  1100.391 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   925.829 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   804.394 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE                :   304.632 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :  1163.359 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :   933.186 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1187.304 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :  1013.660 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   794.560 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :   358.131 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :   358.099 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :   358.250 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   357.563 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   357.334 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE                :   356.735 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :   358.152 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :   358.331 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :   358.018 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   357.286 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   357.523 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :  1087.265 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :   950.840 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :  1107.567 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :   922.605 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :   810.094 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE                :   306.320 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read           :  1169.796 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Write          :   933.730 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1191.610 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :  1020.474 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   798.945 ms
file           : Read                     :   654.101 ms
file           : Write                    :  1259.142 ms
file           : Read/Write               :  1289.509 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :   661.642 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :  1106.816 ms
file           : FALLOCATE                :     1.864 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read           :   656.328 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Write          :  1153.300 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1180.613 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   668.347 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   996.143 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :   357.245 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :   357.413 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :   357.120 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :   356.321 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :   356.693 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE                :   355.927 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read           :   357.074 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Write          :   357.120 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :   356.983 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   356.413 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   356.266 ms
**************************************************

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/27/698

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210419135443.12822-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eike-kernel@sf-tec.de&gt;
Cc: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: retrieve netns cookie via getsocketopt</title>
<updated>2021-06-24T18:13:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martynas Pumputis</name>
<email>m@lambda.lt</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-23T13:56:45+00:00</published>
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It's getting more common to run nested container environments for
testing cloud software. One of such examples is Kind [1] which runs a
Kubernetes cluster in Docker containers on a single host. Each container
acts as a Kubernetes node, and thus can run any Pod (aka container)
inside the former. This approach simplifies testing a lot, as it
eliminates complicated VM setups.

Unfortunately, such a setup breaks some functionality when cgroupv2 BPF
programs are used for load-balancing. The load-balancer BPF program
needs to detect whether a request originates from the host netns or a
container netns in order to allow some access, e.g. to a service via a
loopback IP address. Typically, the programs detect this by comparing
netns cookies with the one of the init ns via a call to
bpf_get_netns_cookie(NULL). However, in nested environments the latter
cannot be used given the Kubernetes node's netns is outside the init ns.
To fix this, we need to pass the Kubernetes node netns cookie to the
program in a different way: by extending getsockopt() with a
SO_NETNS_COOKIE option, the orchestrator which runs in the Kubernetes
node netns can retrieve the cookie and pass it to the program instead.

Thus, this is following up on Eric's commit 3d368ab87cf6 ("net:
initialize net-&gt;net_cookie at netns setup") to allow retrieval via
SO_NETNS_COOKIE.  This is also in line in how we retrieve socket cookie
via SO_COOKIE.

  [1] https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martynas Pumputis &lt;m@lambda.lt&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It's getting more common to run nested container environments for
testing cloud software. One of such examples is Kind [1] which runs a
Kubernetes cluster in Docker containers on a single host. Each container
acts as a Kubernetes node, and thus can run any Pod (aka container)
inside the former. This approach simplifies testing a lot, as it
eliminates complicated VM setups.

Unfortunately, such a setup breaks some functionality when cgroupv2 BPF
programs are used for load-balancing. The load-balancer BPF program
needs to detect whether a request originates from the host netns or a
container netns in order to allow some access, e.g. to a service via a
loopback IP address. Typically, the programs detect this by comparing
netns cookies with the one of the init ns via a call to
bpf_get_netns_cookie(NULL). However, in nested environments the latter
cannot be used given the Kubernetes node's netns is outside the init ns.
To fix this, we need to pass the Kubernetes node netns cookie to the
program in a different way: by extending getsockopt() with a
SO_NETNS_COOKIE option, the orchestrator which runs in the Kubernetes
node netns can retrieve the cookie and pass it to the program instead.

Thus, this is following up on Eric's commit 3d368ab87cf6 ("net:
initialize net-&gt;net_cookie at netns setup") to allow retrieval via
SO_NETNS_COOKIE.  This is also in line in how we retrieve socket cookie
via SO_COOKIE.

  [1] https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer &lt;lmb@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martynas Pumputis &lt;m@lambda.lt&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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