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<title>x86/mm: Fix VDSO and VVAR placement on 5-level paging machines</title>
<updated>2023-08-09T20:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-03T15:16:09+00:00</published>
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Yingcong has noticed that on the 5-level paging machine, VDSO and VVAR
VMAs are placed above the 47-bit border:

8000001a9000-8000001ad000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0                          [vvar]
8000001ad000-8000001af000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]

This might confuse users who are not aware of 5-level paging and expect
all userspace addresses to be under the 47-bit border.

So far problem has only been triggered with ASLR disabled, although it
may also occur with ASLR enabled if the layout is randomized in a just
right way.

The problem happens due to custom placement for the VMAs in the VDSO
code: vdso_addr() tries to place them above the stack and checks the
result against TASK_SIZE_MAX, which is wrong. TASK_SIZE_MAX is set to
the 56-bit border on 5-level paging machines. Use DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW
instead.

Fixes: b569bab78d8d ("x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace")
Reported-by: Yingcong Wu &lt;yingcong.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230803151609.22141-1-kirill.shutemov%40linux.intel.com
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Yingcong has noticed that on the 5-level paging machine, VDSO and VVAR
VMAs are placed above the 47-bit border:

8000001a9000-8000001ad000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0                          [vvar]
8000001ad000-8000001af000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]

This might confuse users who are not aware of 5-level paging and expect
all userspace addresses to be under the 47-bit border.

So far problem has only been triggered with ASLR disabled, although it
may also occur with ASLR enabled if the layout is randomized in a just
right way.

The problem happens due to custom placement for the VMAs in the VDSO
code: vdso_addr() tries to place them above the stack and checks the
result against TASK_SIZE_MAX, which is wrong. TASK_SIZE_MAX is set to
the 56-bit border on 5-level paging machines. Use DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW
instead.

Fixes: b569bab78d8d ("x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace")
Reported-by: Yingcong Wu &lt;yingcong.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230803151609.22141-1-kirill.shutemov%40linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>x86: Fix kthread unwind</title>
<updated>2023-07-20T21:03:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-19T20:15:38+00:00</published>
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The rewrite of ret_from_form() misplaced an unwind hint which caused
all kthread stack unwinds to be marked unreliable, breaking
livepatching.

Restore the annotation and add a comment to explain the how and why of
things.

Fixes: 3aec4ecb3d1f ("x86: Rewrite ret_from_fork() in C")
Reported-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719201538.GA3553016@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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The rewrite of ret_from_form() misplaced an unwind hint which caused
all kthread stack unwinds to be marked unreliable, breaking
livepatching.

Restore the annotation and add a comment to explain the how and why of
things.

Fixes: 3aec4ecb3d1f ("x86: Rewrite ret_from_fork() in C")
Reported-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719201538.GA3553016@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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<entry>
<title>x86: Rewrite ret_from_fork() in C</title>
<updated>2023-07-10T07:52:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Gerst</name>
<email>brgerst@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-23T22:55:29+00:00</published>
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When kCFI is enabled, special handling is needed for the indirect call
to the kernel thread function.  Rewrite the ret_from_fork() function in
C so that the compiler can properly handle the indirect call.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230623225529.34590-3-brgerst@gmail.com
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When kCFI is enabled, special handling is needed for the indirect call
to the kernel thread function.  Rewrite the ret_from_fork() function in
C so that the compiler can properly handle the indirect call.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230623225529.34590-3-brgerst@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/32: Remove schedule_tail_wrapper()</title>
<updated>2023-07-10T07:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Gerst</name>
<email>brgerst@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-23T22:55:28+00:00</published>
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The unwinder expects a return address at the very top of the kernel
stack just below pt_regs and before any stack frame is created.  Instead
of calling a wrapper, set up a return address as if ret_from_fork()
was called from the syscall entry code.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230623225529.34590-2-brgerst@gmail.com
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<pre>
The unwinder expects a return address at the very top of the kernel
stack just below pt_regs and before any stack frame is created.  Instead
of calling a wrapper, set up a return address as if ret_from_fork()
was called from the syscall entry code.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230623225529.34590-2-brgerst@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T17:28:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T17:28:11+00:00</published>
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs

 - Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing

 - Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace
   with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to
   mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability

 - Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the
   prevalence of page rescanning

 - Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the
   get_user_pages() interface

 - Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the
   maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree

 - Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code

 - David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for
   get_user_pages()

 - Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization
   work for the vmalloc code

 - Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups,

 - SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code

 - Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of
   device refcounting

 - Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code

 - Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some
   rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the
   provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses

 - Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache
   and directio access to file mappings

 - John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code

 - ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign

 - Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly
   with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock

 - Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment
   from 128 to 8

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by
   reorganizing the LRU management

 - Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the
   buffer_head code

 - Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work

 - Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their
   functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool()
  mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem()
  hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss()
  Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one"
  mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node
  mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim()
  mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list()
  mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block()
  mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads
  mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes
  mm: remove references to pagevec
  mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate
  mm: remove struct pagevec
  net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch
  i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch
  pagevec: rename fbatch_count()
  mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages()
  drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch
  i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch
  scatterlist: add sg_set_folio()
  ...
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs

 - Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing

 - Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace
   with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to
   mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability

 - Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the
   prevalence of page rescanning

 - Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the
   get_user_pages() interface

 - Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the
   maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree

 - Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code

 - David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for
   get_user_pages()

 - Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization
   work for the vmalloc code

 - Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups,

 - SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code

 - Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of
   device refcounting

 - Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code

 - Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some
   rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the
   provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses

 - Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache
   and directio access to file mappings

 - John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code

 - ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign

 - Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly
   with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock

 - Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment
   from 128 to 8

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by
   reorganizing the LRU management

 - Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the
   buffer_head code

 - Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work

 - Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their
   functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool()
  mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem()
  hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss()
  Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one"
  mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node
  mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim()
  mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list()
  mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block()
  mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads
  mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes
  mm: remove references to pagevec
  mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate
  mm: remove struct pagevec
  net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch
  i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch
  pagevec: rename fbatch_count()
  mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages()
  drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch
  i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch
  scatterlist: add sg_set_folio()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'objtool-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T22:05:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T22:05:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6f612579be9d0ff527ca2e517e10bfaf08cc1860'/>
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molar:
 "Build footprint &amp; performance improvements:

   - Reduce memory usage with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y

     In the worst case of an allyesconfig+CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y kernel,
     DWARF creates almost 200 million relocations, ballooning objtool's
     peak heap usage to 53GB. These patches reduce that to 25GB.

     On a distro-type kernel with kernel IBT enabled, they reduce
     objtool's peak heap usage from 4.2GB to 2.8GB.

     These changes also improve the runtime significantly.

  Debuggability improvements:

   - Add the unwind_debug command-line option, for more extend unwinding
     debugging output
   - Limit unreachable warnings to once per function
   - Add verbose option for disassembling affected functions
   - Include backtrace in verbose mode
   - Detect missing __noreturn annotations
   - Ignore exc_double_fault() __noreturn warnings
   - Remove superfluous global_noreturns entries
   - Move noreturn function list to separate file
   - Add __kunit_abort() to noreturns

  Unwinder improvements:

   - Allow stack operations in UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED regions
   - drm/vmwgfx: Add unwind hints around RBP clobber

  Cleanups:

   - Move the x86 entry thunk restore code into thunk functions
   - x86/unwind/orc: Use swap() instead of open coding it
   - Remove unnecessary/unused variables

  Fixes for modern stack canary handling"

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  x86/orc: Make the is_callthunk() definition depend on CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y
  objtool: Skip reading DWARF section data
  objtool: Free insns when done
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;rel[a]
  objtool: Shrink elf hash nodes
  objtool: Shrink reloc-&gt;sym_reloc_entry
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;jump_table_start
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;addend
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;type
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;offset
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;idx
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;list
  objtool: Allocate relocs in advance for new rela sections
  objtool: Add for_each_reloc()
  objtool: Don't free memory in elf_close()
  objtool: Keep GElf_Rel[a] structs synced
  objtool: Add elf_create_section_pair()
  objtool: Add mark_sec_changed()
  objtool: Fix reloc_hash size
  objtool: Consolidate rel/rela handling
  ...
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<pre>
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molar:
 "Build footprint &amp; performance improvements:

   - Reduce memory usage with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y

     In the worst case of an allyesconfig+CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y kernel,
     DWARF creates almost 200 million relocations, ballooning objtool's
     peak heap usage to 53GB. These patches reduce that to 25GB.

     On a distro-type kernel with kernel IBT enabled, they reduce
     objtool's peak heap usage from 4.2GB to 2.8GB.

     These changes also improve the runtime significantly.

  Debuggability improvements:

   - Add the unwind_debug command-line option, for more extend unwinding
     debugging output
   - Limit unreachable warnings to once per function
   - Add verbose option for disassembling affected functions
   - Include backtrace in verbose mode
   - Detect missing __noreturn annotations
   - Ignore exc_double_fault() __noreturn warnings
   - Remove superfluous global_noreturns entries
   - Move noreturn function list to separate file
   - Add __kunit_abort() to noreturns

  Unwinder improvements:

   - Allow stack operations in UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED regions
   - drm/vmwgfx: Add unwind hints around RBP clobber

  Cleanups:

   - Move the x86 entry thunk restore code into thunk functions
   - x86/unwind/orc: Use swap() instead of open coding it
   - Remove unnecessary/unused variables

  Fixes for modern stack canary handling"

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  x86/orc: Make the is_callthunk() definition depend on CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y
  objtool: Skip reading DWARF section data
  objtool: Free insns when done
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;rel[a]
  objtool: Shrink elf hash nodes
  objtool: Shrink reloc-&gt;sym_reloc_entry
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;jump_table_start
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;addend
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;type
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;offset
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;idx
  objtool: Get rid of reloc-&gt;list
  objtool: Allocate relocs in advance for new rela sections
  objtool: Add for_each_reloc()
  objtool: Don't free memory in elf_close()
  objtool: Keep GElf_Rel[a] structs synced
  objtool: Add elf_create_section_pair()
  objtool: Add mark_sec_changed()
  objtool: Fix reloc_hash size
  objtool: Consolidate rel/rela handling
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cachestat: implement cachestat syscall</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T23:25:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nhat Pham</name>
<email>nphamcs@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-03T01:36:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a'/>
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There is currently no good way to query the page cache state of large file
sets and directory trees.  There is mincore(), but it scales poorly: the
kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to aggregate,
when the user really doesn not care about per-page information in that
case.  The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes along,
which can be quite slow as well.

Some use cases where this information could come in handy:
  * Allowing database to decide whether to perform an index scan or
    direct table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the
    index.
  * Visibility into the writeback algorithm, for performance issues
    diagnostic.
  * Workload-aware writeback pacing: estimating IO fulfilled by page
    cache (and IO to be done) within a range of a file, allowing for
    more frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and
    batching when there is not.
  * Computing memory usage of large files/directory trees, analogous to
    the du tool for disk usage.

More information about these use cases could be found in the following
thread:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315170934.GA97793@cmpxchg.org/

This patch implements a new syscall that queries cache state of a file and
summarizes the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of
pages marked for writeback, number of (recently) evicted pages, etc.  in a
given range.  Currently, the syscall is only wired in for x86
architecture.

NAME
    cachestat - query the page cache statistics of a file.

SYNOPSIS
    #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

    struct cachestat_range {
        __u64 off;
        __u64 len;
    };

    struct cachestat {
        __u64 nr_cache;
        __u64 nr_dirty;
        __u64 nr_writeback;
        __u64 nr_evicted;
        __u64 nr_recently_evicted;
    };

    int cachestat(unsigned int fd, struct cachestat_range *cstat_range,
        struct cachestat *cstat, unsigned int flags);

DESCRIPTION
    cachestat() queries the number of cached pages, number of dirty
    pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of evicted
    pages, number of recently evicted pages, in the bytes range given by
    `off` and `len`.

    An evicted page is a page that is previously in the page cache but
    has been evicted since. A page is recently evicted if its last
    eviction was recent enough that its reentry to the cache would
    indicate that it is actively being used by the system, and that
    there is memory pressure on the system.

    These values are returned in a cachestat struct, whose address is
    given by the `cstat` argument.

    The `off` and `len` arguments must be non-negative integers. If
    `len` &gt; 0, the queried range is [`off`, `off` + `len`]. If `len` ==
    0, we will query in the range from `off` to the end of the file.

    The `flags` argument is unused for now, but is included for future
    extensibility. User should pass 0 (i.e no flag specified).

    Currently, hugetlbfs is not supported.

    Because the status of a page can change after cachestat() checks it
    but before it returns to the application, the returned values may
    contain stale information.

RETURN VALUE
    On success, cachestat returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno
    is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
    EFAULT cstat or cstat_args points to an invalid address.

    EINVAL invalid flags.

    EBADF  invalid file descriptor.

    EOPNOTSUPP file descriptor is of a hugetlbfs file

[nphamcs@gmail.com: replace rounddown logic with the existing helper]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230504022044.3675469-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-3-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There is currently no good way to query the page cache state of large file
sets and directory trees.  There is mincore(), but it scales poorly: the
kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to aggregate,
when the user really doesn not care about per-page information in that
case.  The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes along,
which can be quite slow as well.

Some use cases where this information could come in handy:
  * Allowing database to decide whether to perform an index scan or
    direct table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the
    index.
  * Visibility into the writeback algorithm, for performance issues
    diagnostic.
  * Workload-aware writeback pacing: estimating IO fulfilled by page
    cache (and IO to be done) within a range of a file, allowing for
    more frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and
    batching when there is not.
  * Computing memory usage of large files/directory trees, analogous to
    the du tool for disk usage.

More information about these use cases could be found in the following
thread:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315170934.GA97793@cmpxchg.org/

This patch implements a new syscall that queries cache state of a file and
summarizes the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of
pages marked for writeback, number of (recently) evicted pages, etc.  in a
given range.  Currently, the syscall is only wired in for x86
architecture.

NAME
    cachestat - query the page cache statistics of a file.

SYNOPSIS
    #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

    struct cachestat_range {
        __u64 off;
        __u64 len;
    };

    struct cachestat {
        __u64 nr_cache;
        __u64 nr_dirty;
        __u64 nr_writeback;
        __u64 nr_evicted;
        __u64 nr_recently_evicted;
    };

    int cachestat(unsigned int fd, struct cachestat_range *cstat_range,
        struct cachestat *cstat, unsigned int flags);

DESCRIPTION
    cachestat() queries the number of cached pages, number of dirty
    pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of evicted
    pages, number of recently evicted pages, in the bytes range given by
    `off` and `len`.

    An evicted page is a page that is previously in the page cache but
    has been evicted since. A page is recently evicted if its last
    eviction was recent enough that its reentry to the cache would
    indicate that it is actively being used by the system, and that
    there is memory pressure on the system.

    These values are returned in a cachestat struct, whose address is
    given by the `cstat` argument.

    The `off` and `len` arguments must be non-negative integers. If
    `len` &gt; 0, the queried range is [`off`, `off` + `len`]. If `len` ==
    0, we will query in the range from `off` to the end of the file.

    The `flags` argument is unused for now, but is included for future
    extensibility. User should pass 0 (i.e no flag specified).

    Currently, hugetlbfs is not supported.

    Because the status of a page can change after cachestat() checks it
    but before it returns to the application, the returned values may
    contain stale information.

RETURN VALUE
    On success, cachestat returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno
    is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
    EFAULT cstat or cstat_args points to an invalid address.

    EINVAL invalid flags.

    EBADF  invalid file descriptor.

    EOPNOTSUPP file descriptor is of a hugetlbfs file

[nphamcs@gmail.com: replace rounddown logic with the existing helper]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230504022044.3675469-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-3-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/entry: Move thunk restore code into thunk functions</title>
<updated>2023-06-07T16:54:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-30T23:07:41+00:00</published>
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There's no need for both thunk functions to jump to the same shared
thunk restore code which lives outside the thunk function boundaries.
It disrupts i-cache locality and confuses objtool.  Keep it simple by
keeping each thunk's restore code self-contained within the function.

Fixes a bunch of false positive "missing __noreturn" warnings like:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_arch_prctl_common+0xf4: preempt_schedule_thunk() is missing a __noreturn annotation

Fixes: fedb724c3db5 ("objtool: Detect missing __noreturn annotations")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305281037.3PaI3tW4-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/46aa8aeb716f302e22e1673ae15ee6fe050b41f4.1685488050.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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There's no need for both thunk functions to jump to the same shared
thunk restore code which lives outside the thunk function boundaries.
It disrupts i-cache locality and confuses objtool.  Keep it simple by
keeping each thunk's restore code self-contained within the function.

Fixes a bunch of false positive "missing __noreturn" warnings like:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_arch_prctl_common+0xf4: preempt_schedule_thunk() is missing a __noreturn annotation

Fixes: fedb724c3db5 ("objtool: Detect missing __noreturn annotations")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305281037.3PaI3tW4-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/46aa8aeb716f302e22e1673ae15ee6fe050b41f4.1685488050.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/vdso: Include vdso/processor.h</title>
<updated>2023-05-18T18:56:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-16T19:35:45+00:00</published>
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__vdso_getcpu is declared in a header but this is not included
before the definition, causing a W=1 warning:

arch/x86/entry/vdso/vgetcpu.c:13:1: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_getcpu' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/../vgetcpu.c:13:1: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_getcpu' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230516193549.544673-17-arnd%40kernel.org
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__vdso_getcpu is declared in a header but this is not included
before the definition, causing a W=1 warning:

arch/x86/entry/vdso/vgetcpu.c:13:1: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_getcpu' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/../vgetcpu.c:13:1: error: no previous prototype for '__vdso_getcpu' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230516193549.544673-17-arnd%40kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T21:02:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T21:02:54+00:00</published>
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn, make all architectures &amp;
   drivers that did this inconsistently follow this new, common
   convention, and fix all the fallout that objtool can now detect
   statically

 - Fix/improve the ORC unwinder becoming unreliable due to
   UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY ambiguity, split it into UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK
   and UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED to resolve it

 - Fix noinstr violations in the KCSAN code and the lkdtm/stackleak code

 - Generate ORC data for __pfx code

 - Add more __noreturn annotations to various kernel startup/shutdown
   and panic functions

 - Misc improvements &amp; fixes

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/hyperv: Mark hv_ghcb_terminate() as noreturn
  scsi: message: fusion: Mark mpt_halt_firmware() __noreturn
  x86/cpu: Mark {hlt,resume}_play_dead() __noreturn
  btrfs: Mark btrfs_assertfail() __noreturn
  objtool: Include weak functions in global_noreturns check
  cpu: Mark nmi_panic_self_stop() __noreturn
  cpu: Mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn
  arm64/cpu: Mark cpu_park_loop() and friends __noreturn
  x86/head: Mark *_start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark [arch_call_]rest_init() __noreturn
  objtool: Generate ORC data for __pfx code
  x86/linkage: Fix padding for typed functions
  objtool: Separate prefix code from stack validation code
  objtool: Remove superfluous dead_end_function() check
  objtool: Add symbol iteration helpers
  objtool: Add WARN_INSN()
  scripts/objdump-func: Support multiple functions
  context_tracking: Fix KCSAN noinstr violation
  objtool: Add stackleak instrumentation to uaccess safe list
  ...
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Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn, make all architectures &amp;
   drivers that did this inconsistently follow this new, common
   convention, and fix all the fallout that objtool can now detect
   statically

 - Fix/improve the ORC unwinder becoming unreliable due to
   UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY ambiguity, split it into UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK
   and UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED to resolve it

 - Fix noinstr violations in the KCSAN code and the lkdtm/stackleak code

 - Generate ORC data for __pfx code

 - Add more __noreturn annotations to various kernel startup/shutdown
   and panic functions

 - Misc improvements &amp; fixes

* tag 'objtool-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/hyperv: Mark hv_ghcb_terminate() as noreturn
  scsi: message: fusion: Mark mpt_halt_firmware() __noreturn
  x86/cpu: Mark {hlt,resume}_play_dead() __noreturn
  btrfs: Mark btrfs_assertfail() __noreturn
  objtool: Include weak functions in global_noreturns check
  cpu: Mark nmi_panic_self_stop() __noreturn
  cpu: Mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn
  arm64/cpu: Mark cpu_park_loop() and friends __noreturn
  x86/head: Mark *_start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark start_kernel() __noreturn
  init: Mark [arch_call_]rest_init() __noreturn
  objtool: Generate ORC data for __pfx code
  x86/linkage: Fix padding for typed functions
  objtool: Separate prefix code from stack validation code
  objtool: Remove superfluous dead_end_function() check
  objtool: Add symbol iteration helpers
  objtool: Add WARN_INSN()
  scripts/objdump-func: Support multiple functions
  context_tracking: Fix KCSAN noinstr violation
  objtool: Add stackleak instrumentation to uaccess safe list
  ...
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