linux.git/include/linux/ksm.h, branch v6.16-rc2

ksm: add ksm involvement information for each process

2025-01-26T04:22:40+00:00

In /proc//ksm_stat, add two extra ksm involvement items including
KSM_mergeable and KSM_merge_any.  It helps administrators to better know
the system's KSM behavior at process level.

ksm_merge_any: yes/no
	whether the process'mm is added by prctl() into the candidate list
	of KSM or not, and fully enabled at process level.

ksm_mergeable: yes/no
    whether any VMAs of the process'mm are currently applicable to KSM.

Purpose
=======
These two items are just to improve the observability of KSM at process
level, so that users can know if a certain process has enabled KSM.

For example, if without these two items, when we look at
/proc//ksm_stat and there's no merging pages found, We are not sure
whether it is because KSM was not enabled or because KSM did not
successfully merge any pages.

Although "mg" in /proc//smaps indicate VM_MERGEABLE, it's opaque
and not very obvious for non professionals.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: wording tweaks, per David and akpm]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110174034304QOb8eDoqtFkp3_t8mqnqc@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: xu xin 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Tested-by: Mario Casquero 
Cc: Wang Yaxin 
Cc: Yang Yang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: mass constification of folio/page pointers

2024-11-07T22:38:07+00:00

Now that page_pgoff() takes const pointers, we can constify the pointers
to a lot of functions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241005200121.3231142-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: move mm flags to mm_types.h

2024-11-06T00:56:26+00:00

The types of mm flags are now far beyond the core dump related features. 
This patch moves mm flags from linux/sched/coredump.h to linux/mm_types.h.
The linux/sched/coredump.h has include the mm_types.h, so the C files
related to coredump does not need to change head file inclusion.  In
addition, the inclusion of sched/coredump.h now can be deleted from the C
files that irrelevant to core dump.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926074922.2721274-1-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun 
Cc: Kefeng Wang 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fork: only invoke khugepaged, ksm hooks if no error

2024-10-29T04:40:39+00:00

There is no reason to invoke these hooks early against an mm that is in an
incomplete state.

The change in commit d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate
maple tree in dup_mmap()") makes this more pertinent as we may be in a
state where entries in the maple tree are not yet consistent.

Their placement early in dup_mmap() only appears to have been meaningful
for early error checking, and since functionally it'd require a very small
allocation to fail (in practice 'too small to fail') that'd only occur in
the most dire circumstances, meaning the fork would fail or be OOM'd in
any case.

Since both khugepaged and KSM tracking are there to provide optimisations
to memory performance rather than critical functionality, it doesn't
really matter all that much if, under such dire memory pressure, we fail
to register an mm with these.

As a result, we follow the example of commit d2081b2bf819 ("mm:
khugepaged: make khugepaged_enter() void function") and make ksm_fork() a
void function also.

We only expose the mm to these functions once we are done with them and
only if no error occurred in the fork operation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e0cb8b840c9d1d5a6e84d4f8eff5f3f2022aa10c.1729014377.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Reported-by: Jann Horn 
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett 
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/ksm: fix ksm_zero_pages accounting

2024-06-06T02:19:26+00:00

We normally ksm_zero_pages++ in ksmd when page is merged with zero page,
but ksm_zero_pages-- is done from page tables side, where there is no any
accessing protection of ksm_zero_pages.

So we can read very exceptional value of ksm_zero_pages in rare cases,
such as -1, which is very confusing to users.

Fix it by changing to use atomic_long_t, and the same case with the
mm->ksm_zero_pages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240528-b4-ksm-counters-v3-2-34bb358fdc13@linux.dev
Fixes: e2942062e01d ("ksm: count all zero pages placed by KSM")
Fixes: 6080d19f0704 ("ksm: add ksm zero pages for each process")
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Ran Xiaokai 
Cc: Stefan Roesch 
Cc: xu xin 
Cc: Yang Yang 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/memory-failure: pass the folio to collect_procs_ksm()

2024-05-06T00:53:47+00:00

We've already calculated it, so pass it in instead of recalculating it in
collect_procs_ksm().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412193510.2356957-12-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu 
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Miaohe Lin 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/ksm: remove redundant code in ksm_fork

2024-04-26T03:56:41+00:00

Since commit 3c6f33b7273a ("mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl"), when a
child process is forked, the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag will be inherited in
mm_init(). So, it's unnecessary to set the flag in ksm_fork().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240402024934.1093361-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Kefeng Wang 
Cc: Nanyong Sun 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Stefan Roesch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl

2024-04-26T03:56:29+00:00

Patch series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl", v4.

commit 3c6f33b7273a ("mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl") inherits
MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag when a task calls execve().  However, it doesn't
create the mm_slot, so ksmd will not try to scan this task.  The first
patch fixes the issue.

The second patch refactors to prepare for the third patch.  The third
patch extends the selftests of ksm to verfity the deduplication really
happens after fork/exec inherits ths KSM setting.


This patch (of 3):

commit 3c6f33b7273a ("mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl") inherits
MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag when a task calls execve().  Howerver, it doesn't
create the mm_slot, so ksmd will not try to scan this task.

To fix it, allocate and add the mm_slot to ksm_mm_head in __bprm_mm_init()
when the mm has MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328111010.1502191-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328111010.1502191-2-tujinjiang@huawei.com
Fixes: 3c6f33b7273a ("mm/ksm: support fork/exec for prctl")
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Kefeng Wang 
Cc: Nanyong Sun 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Stefan Roesch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: convert ksm_might_need_to_copy() to work on folios

2023-12-29T19:58:25+00:00

Patch series "Finish two folio conversions".

Most callers of page_add_new_anon_rmap() and
lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable() have been converted to their folio
equivalents, but there are still a few stragglers.  There's a bit of
preparatory work in ksm and unuse_pte(), but after that it's pretty
mechanical.


This patch (of 9):

Accept a folio as an argument and return a folio result.  Removes a call
to compound_head() in do_swap_page(), and prevents folio & page from
getting out of sync in unuse_pte().

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
[willy@infradead.org: fix smatch warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZXnPtblC6A1IkyAB@casper.infradead.org
[david@redhat.com: only adjust the page if the folio changed]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6a8f2110-fa91-4c10-9eae-88315309a6e3@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231211162214.2146080-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231211162214.2146080-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: ksm: use more folio api in ksm_might_need_to_copy()

2023-12-12T18:57:05+00:00

Patch series "mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault", v3.

Rename page_copy_prealloc() to folio_prealloc(), which is used by more
functions, also do more folio conversion in page fault.


This patch (of 5):

Since ksm only support normal page, no swapout/in for ksm large folio too,
add large folio check in ksm_might_need_to_copy(), also convert
page->index to folio->index as page->index is going away.

Then convert ksm_might_need_to_copy() to use more folio api to save nine
compound_head() calls, short 'address' to reduce max-line-length.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231118023232.1409103-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231118023232.1409103-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar 
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton