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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2019-09-29T17:33:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-29T17:33:41+00:00</published>
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More libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Complete the reworks to interoperate with powerpc dynamic huge page
   sizes

 - Fix a crash due to missed accounting for the powerpc 'struct
   page'-memmap mapping granularity

 - Fix badblock initialization for volatile (DRAM emulated) pmem ranges

 - Stop triggering request_key() notifications to userspace when
   NVDIMM-security is disabled / not present

 - Miscellaneous small fixups

* tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  libnvdimm/region: Enable MAP_SYNC for volatile regions
  libnvdimm: prevent nvdimm from requesting key when security is disabled
  libnvdimm/region: Initialize bad block for volatile namespaces
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: Fix acpi_handle redefinition
  libnvdimm/altmap: Track namespace boundaries in altmap
  libnvdimm: Fix endian conversion issues 
  libnvdimm/dax: Pick the right alignment default when creating dax devices
  powerpc/book3s64: Export has_transparent_hugepage() related functions.
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More libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Complete the reworks to interoperate with powerpc dynamic huge page
   sizes

 - Fix a crash due to missed accounting for the powerpc 'struct
   page'-memmap mapping granularity

 - Fix badblock initialization for volatile (DRAM emulated) pmem ranges

 - Stop triggering request_key() notifications to userspace when
   NVDIMM-security is disabled / not present

 - Miscellaneous small fixups

* tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  libnvdimm/region: Enable MAP_SYNC for volatile regions
  libnvdimm: prevent nvdimm from requesting key when security is disabled
  libnvdimm/region: Initialize bad block for volatile namespaces
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: Fix acpi_handle redefinition
  libnvdimm/altmap: Track namespace boundaries in altmap
  libnvdimm: Fix endian conversion issues 
  libnvdimm/dax: Pick the right alignment default when creating dax devices
  powerpc/book3s64: Export has_transparent_hugepage() related functions.
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal</title>
<updated>2019-09-29T17:24:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-29T17:24:23+00:00</published>
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Pull thermal SoC updates from Eduardo Valentin:
 "This is a really small pull in the midst of a lot of pending patches.

  We are in the middle of restructuring how we are maintaining the
  thermal subsystem, as per discussion in our last LPC. For now, I am
  sending just some changes that were pending in my tree. Looking
  forward to get a more streamlined process in the next merge window"

* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal:
  thermal: db8500: Rewrite to be a pure OF sensor
  thermal: db8500: Use dev helper variable
  thermal: db8500: Finalize device tree conversion
  thermal: thermal_mmio: remove some dead code
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Pull thermal SoC updates from Eduardo Valentin:
 "This is a really small pull in the midst of a lot of pending patches.

  We are in the middle of restructuring how we are maintaining the
  thermal subsystem, as per discussion in our last LPC. For now, I am
  sending just some changes that were pending in my tree. Looking
  forward to get a more streamlined process in the next merge window"

* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal:
  thermal: db8500: Rewrite to be a pure OF sensor
  thermal: db8500: Use dev helper variable
  thermal: db8500: Finalize device tree conversion
  thermal: thermal_mmio: remove some dead code
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2019-09-29T00:47:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-29T00:47:33+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Sanity check URB networking device parameters to avoid divide by
    zero, from Oliver Neukum.

 2) Disable global multicast filter in NCSI, otherwise LLDP and IPV6
    don't work properly. Longer term this needs a better fix tho. From
    Vijay Khemka.

 3) Small fixes to selftests (use ping when ping6 is not present, etc.)
    from David Ahern.

 4) Bring back rt_uses_gateway member of struct rtable, it's semantics
    were not well understood and trying to remove it broke things. From
    David Ahern.

 5) Move usbnet snaity checking, ignore endpoints with invalid
    wMaxPacketSize. From Bjørn Mork.

 6) Missing Kconfig deps for sja1105 driver, from Mao Wenan.

 7) Various small fixes to the mlx5 DR steering code, from Alaa Hleihel,
    Alex Vesker, and Yevgeny Kliteynik

 8) Missing CAP_NET_RAW checks in various places, from Ori Nimron.

 9) Fix crash when removing sch_cbs entry while offloading is enabled,
    from Vinicius Costa Gomes.

10) Signedness bug fixes, generally in looking at the result given by
    of_get_phy_mode() and friends. From Dan Crapenter.

11) Disable preemption around BPF_PROG_RUN() calls, from Eric Dumazet.

12) Don't create VRF ipv6 rules if ipv6 is disabled, from David Ahern.

13) Fix quantization code in tcp_bbr, from Kevin Yang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (127 commits)
  net: tap: clean up an indentation issue
  nfp: abm: fix memory leak in nfp_abm_u32_knode_replace
  tcp: better handle TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in SYN_SENT state
  sk_buff: drop all skb extensions on free and skb scrubbing
  tcp_bbr: fix quantization code to not raise cwnd if not probing bandwidth
  mlxsw: spectrum_flower: Fail in case user specifies multiple mirror actions
  Documentation: Clarify trap's description
  mlxsw: spectrum: Clear VLAN filters during port initialization
  net: ena: clean up indentation issue
  NFC: st95hf: clean up indentation issue
  net: phy: micrel: add Asym Pause workaround for KSZ9021
  net: socionext: ave: Avoid using netdev_err() before calling register_netdev()
  ptp: correctly disable flags on old ioctls
  lib: dimlib: fix help text typos
  net: dsa: microchip: Always set regmap stride to 1
  nfp: flower: fix memory leak in nfp_flower_spawn_vnic_reprs
  nfp: flower: prevent memory leak in nfp_flower_spawn_phy_reprs
  net/sched: Set default of CONFIG_NET_TC_SKB_EXT to N
  vrf: Do not attempt to create IPv6 mcast rule if IPv6 is disabled
  net: sched: sch_sfb: don't call qdisc_put() while holding tree lock
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Sanity check URB networking device parameters to avoid divide by
    zero, from Oliver Neukum.

 2) Disable global multicast filter in NCSI, otherwise LLDP and IPV6
    don't work properly. Longer term this needs a better fix tho. From
    Vijay Khemka.

 3) Small fixes to selftests (use ping when ping6 is not present, etc.)
    from David Ahern.

 4) Bring back rt_uses_gateway member of struct rtable, it's semantics
    were not well understood and trying to remove it broke things. From
    David Ahern.

 5) Move usbnet snaity checking, ignore endpoints with invalid
    wMaxPacketSize. From Bjørn Mork.

 6) Missing Kconfig deps for sja1105 driver, from Mao Wenan.

 7) Various small fixes to the mlx5 DR steering code, from Alaa Hleihel,
    Alex Vesker, and Yevgeny Kliteynik

 8) Missing CAP_NET_RAW checks in various places, from Ori Nimron.

 9) Fix crash when removing sch_cbs entry while offloading is enabled,
    from Vinicius Costa Gomes.

10) Signedness bug fixes, generally in looking at the result given by
    of_get_phy_mode() and friends. From Dan Crapenter.

11) Disable preemption around BPF_PROG_RUN() calls, from Eric Dumazet.

12) Don't create VRF ipv6 rules if ipv6 is disabled, from David Ahern.

13) Fix quantization code in tcp_bbr, from Kevin Yang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (127 commits)
  net: tap: clean up an indentation issue
  nfp: abm: fix memory leak in nfp_abm_u32_knode_replace
  tcp: better handle TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in SYN_SENT state
  sk_buff: drop all skb extensions on free and skb scrubbing
  tcp_bbr: fix quantization code to not raise cwnd if not probing bandwidth
  mlxsw: spectrum_flower: Fail in case user specifies multiple mirror actions
  Documentation: Clarify trap's description
  mlxsw: spectrum: Clear VLAN filters during port initialization
  net: ena: clean up indentation issue
  NFC: st95hf: clean up indentation issue
  net: phy: micrel: add Asym Pause workaround for KSZ9021
  net: socionext: ave: Avoid using netdev_err() before calling register_netdev()
  ptp: correctly disable flags on old ioctls
  lib: dimlib: fix help text typos
  net: dsa: microchip: Always set regmap stride to 1
  nfp: flower: fix memory leak in nfp_flower_spawn_vnic_reprs
  nfp: flower: prevent memory leak in nfp_flower_spawn_phy_reprs
  net/sched: Set default of CONFIG_NET_TC_SKB_EXT to N
  vrf: Do not attempt to create IPv6 mcast rule if IPv6 is disabled
  net: sched: sch_sfb: don't call qdisc_put() while holding tree lock
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'hugepage-fallbacks' (hugepatch patches from David Rientjes)</title>
<updated>2019-09-28T21:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-28T21:26:47+00:00</published>
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Merge hugepage allocation updates from David Rientjes:
 "We (mostly Linus, Andrea, and myself) have been discussing offlist how
  to implement a sane default allocation strategy for hugepages on NUMA
  platforms.

  With these reverts in place, the page allocator will happily allocate
  a remote hugepage immediately rather than try to make a local hugepage
  available. This incurs a substantial performance degradation when
  memory compaction would have otherwise made a local hugepage
  available.

  This series reverts those reverts and attempts to propose a more sane
  default allocation strategy specifically for hugepages. Andrea
  acknowledges this is likely to fix the swap storms that he originally
  reported that resulted in the patches that removed __GFP_THISNODE from
  hugepage allocations.

  The immediate goal is to return 5.3 to the behavior the kernel has
  implemented over the past several years so that remote hugepages are
  not immediately allocated when local hugepages could have been made
  available because the increased access latency is untenable.

  The next goal is to introduce a sane default allocation strategy for
  hugepages allocations in general regardless of the configuration of
  the system so that we prevent thrashing of local memory when
  compaction is unlikely to succeed and can prefer remote hugepages over
  remote native pages when the local node is low on memory."

Note on timing: this reverts the hugepage VM behavior changes that got
introduced fairly late in the 5.3 cycle, and that fixed a huge
performance regression for certain loads that had been around since
4.18.

Andrea had this note:

 "The regression of 4.18 was that it was taking hours to start a VM
  where 3.10 was only taking a few seconds, I reported all the details
  on lkml when it was finally tracked down in August 2018.

     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180820032640.9896-2-aarcange@redhat.com/

  __GFP_THISNODE in MADV_HUGEPAGE made the above enterprise vfio
  workload degrade like in the "current upstream" above. And it still
  would have been that bad as above until 5.3-rc5"

where the bad behavior ends up happening as you fill up a local node,
and without that change, you'd get into the nasty swap storm behavior
due to compaction working overtime to make room for more memory on the
nodes.

As a result 5.3 got the two performance fix reverts in rc5.

However, David Rientjes then noted that those performance fixes in turn
regressed performance for other loads - although not quite to the same
degree.  He suggested reverting the reverts and instead replacing them
with two small changes to how hugepage allocations are done (patch
descriptions rephrased by me):

 - "avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed": just admit
   that the allocation failed when you're trying to allocate a huge-page
   and compaction wasn't successful.

 - "allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised": when that
   node-local huge-page allocation failed, retry without forcing the
   local node.

but by then I judged it too late to replace the fixes for a 5.3 release.
So 5.3 was released with behavior that harked back to the pre-4.18 logic.

But now we're in the merge window for 5.4, and we can see if this
alternate model fixes not just the horrendous swap storm behavior, but
also restores the performance regression that the late reverts caused.

Fingers crossed.

* emailed patches from David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;:
  mm, page_alloc: allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised
  mm, page_alloc: avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed
  Revert "Revert "Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask""
  Revert "Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations""
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Merge hugepage allocation updates from David Rientjes:
 "We (mostly Linus, Andrea, and myself) have been discussing offlist how
  to implement a sane default allocation strategy for hugepages on NUMA
  platforms.

  With these reverts in place, the page allocator will happily allocate
  a remote hugepage immediately rather than try to make a local hugepage
  available. This incurs a substantial performance degradation when
  memory compaction would have otherwise made a local hugepage
  available.

  This series reverts those reverts and attempts to propose a more sane
  default allocation strategy specifically for hugepages. Andrea
  acknowledges this is likely to fix the swap storms that he originally
  reported that resulted in the patches that removed __GFP_THISNODE from
  hugepage allocations.

  The immediate goal is to return 5.3 to the behavior the kernel has
  implemented over the past several years so that remote hugepages are
  not immediately allocated when local hugepages could have been made
  available because the increased access latency is untenable.

  The next goal is to introduce a sane default allocation strategy for
  hugepages allocations in general regardless of the configuration of
  the system so that we prevent thrashing of local memory when
  compaction is unlikely to succeed and can prefer remote hugepages over
  remote native pages when the local node is low on memory."

Note on timing: this reverts the hugepage VM behavior changes that got
introduced fairly late in the 5.3 cycle, and that fixed a huge
performance regression for certain loads that had been around since
4.18.

Andrea had this note:

 "The regression of 4.18 was that it was taking hours to start a VM
  where 3.10 was only taking a few seconds, I reported all the details
  on lkml when it was finally tracked down in August 2018.

     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180820032640.9896-2-aarcange@redhat.com/

  __GFP_THISNODE in MADV_HUGEPAGE made the above enterprise vfio
  workload degrade like in the "current upstream" above. And it still
  would have been that bad as above until 5.3-rc5"

where the bad behavior ends up happening as you fill up a local node,
and without that change, you'd get into the nasty swap storm behavior
due to compaction working overtime to make room for more memory on the
nodes.

As a result 5.3 got the two performance fix reverts in rc5.

However, David Rientjes then noted that those performance fixes in turn
regressed performance for other loads - although not quite to the same
degree.  He suggested reverting the reverts and instead replacing them
with two small changes to how hugepage allocations are done (patch
descriptions rephrased by me):

 - "avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed": just admit
   that the allocation failed when you're trying to allocate a huge-page
   and compaction wasn't successful.

 - "allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised": when that
   node-local huge-page allocation failed, retry without forcing the
   local node.

but by then I judged it too late to replace the fixes for a 5.3 release.
So 5.3 was released with behavior that harked back to the pre-4.18 logic.

But now we're in the merge window for 5.4, and we can see if this
alternate model fixes not just the horrendous swap storm behavior, but
also restores the performance regression that the late reverts caused.

Fingers crossed.

* emailed patches from David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;:
  mm, page_alloc: allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised
  mm, page_alloc: avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed
  Revert "Revert "Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask""
  Revert "Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations""
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<entry>
<title>Revert "Revert "Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask""</title>
<updated>2019-09-28T21:05:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-04T19:54:20+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 92717d429b38e4f9f934eed7e605cc42858f1839.

Since commit a8282608c88e ("Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage
allocations"") is reverted in this series, it is better to restore the
previous 5.2 behavior between the thp allocation and the page allocator
rather than to attempt any consolidation or cleanup for a policy that is
now reverted.  It's less risky during an rc cycle and subsequent patches
in this series further modify the same policy that the pre-5.3 behavior
implements.

Consolidation and cleanup can be done subsequent to a sane default page
allocation strategy, so this patch reverts a cleanup done on a strategy
that is now reverted and thus is the least risky option.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG &lt;s.priebe@profihost.ag&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 92717d429b38e4f9f934eed7e605cc42858f1839.

Since commit a8282608c88e ("Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage
allocations"") is reverted in this series, it is better to restore the
previous 5.2 behavior between the thp allocation and the page allocator
rather than to attempt any consolidation or cleanup for a policy that is
now reverted.  It's less risky during an rc cycle and subsequent patches
in this series further modify the same policy that the pre-5.3 behavior
implements.

Consolidation and cleanup can be done subsequent to a sane default page
allocation strategy, so this patch reverts a cleanup done on a strategy
that is now reverted and thus is the least risky option.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG &lt;s.priebe@profihost.ag&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: 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>Revert "Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations""</title>
<updated>2019-09-28T21:05:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-04T19:54:18+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit a8282608c88e08b1782141026eab61204c1e533f.

The commit references the original intended semantic for MADV_HUGEPAGE
which has subsequently taken on three unique purposes:

 - enables or disables thp for a range of memory depending on the system's
   config (is thp "enabled" set to "always" or "madvise"),

 - determines the synchronous compaction behavior for thp allocations at
   fault (is thp "defrag" set to "always", "defer+madvise", or "madvise"),
   and

 - reverts a previous MADV_NOHUGEPAGE (there is no madvise mode to only
   clear previous hugepage advice).

These are the three purposes that currently exist in 5.2 and over the
past several years that userspace has been written around.  Adding a
NUMA locality preference adds a fourth dimension to an already conflated
advice mode.

Based on the semantic that MADV_HUGEPAGE has provided over the past
several years, there exist workloads that use the tunable based on these
principles: specifically that the allocation should attempt to
defragment a local node before falling back.  It is agreed that remote
hugepages typically (but not always) have a better access latency than
remote native pages, although on Naples this is at parity for
intersocket.

The revert commit that this patch reverts allows hugepage allocation to
immediately allocate remotely when local memory is fragmented.  This is
contrary to the semantic of MADV_HUGEPAGE over the past several years:
that is, memory compaction should be attempted locally before falling
back.

The performance degradation of remote hugepages over local hugepages on
Rome, for example, is 53.5% increased access latency.  For this reason,
the goal is to revert back to the 5.2 and previous behavior that would
attempt local defragmentation before falling back.  With the patch that
is reverted by this patch, we see performance degradations at the tail
because the allocator happily allocates the remote hugepage rather than
even attempting to make a local hugepage available.

zone_reclaim_mode is not a solution to this problem since it does not
only impact hugepage allocations but rather changes the memory
allocation strategy for *all* page allocations.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG &lt;s.priebe@profihost.ag&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit a8282608c88e08b1782141026eab61204c1e533f.

The commit references the original intended semantic for MADV_HUGEPAGE
which has subsequently taken on three unique purposes:

 - enables or disables thp for a range of memory depending on the system's
   config (is thp "enabled" set to "always" or "madvise"),

 - determines the synchronous compaction behavior for thp allocations at
   fault (is thp "defrag" set to "always", "defer+madvise", or "madvise"),
   and

 - reverts a previous MADV_NOHUGEPAGE (there is no madvise mode to only
   clear previous hugepage advice).

These are the three purposes that currently exist in 5.2 and over the
past several years that userspace has been written around.  Adding a
NUMA locality preference adds a fourth dimension to an already conflated
advice mode.

Based on the semantic that MADV_HUGEPAGE has provided over the past
several years, there exist workloads that use the tunable based on these
principles: specifically that the allocation should attempt to
defragment a local node before falling back.  It is agreed that remote
hugepages typically (but not always) have a better access latency than
remote native pages, although on Naples this is at parity for
intersocket.

The revert commit that this patch reverts allows hugepage allocation to
immediately allocate remotely when local memory is fragmented.  This is
contrary to the semantic of MADV_HUGEPAGE over the past several years:
that is, memory compaction should be attempted locally before falling
back.

The performance degradation of remote hugepages over local hugepages on
Rome, for example, is 53.5% increased access latency.  For this reason,
the goal is to revert back to the 5.2 and previous behavior that would
attempt local defragmentation before falling back.  With the patch that
is reverted by this patch, we see performance degradations at the tail
because the allocator happily allocates the remote hugepage rather than
even attempting to make a local hugepage available.

zone_reclaim_mode is not a solution to this problem since it does not
only impact hugepage allocations but rather changes the memory
allocation strategy for *all* page allocations.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG &lt;s.priebe@profihost.ag&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-09-28T19:39:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-28T19:39:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9c5efe9ae7df78600c0ee7bcce27516eb687fa6e'/>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:

 - Apply a number of membarrier related fixes and cleanups, which fixes
   a use-after-free race in the membarrier code

 - Introduce proper RCU protection for tasks on the runqueue - to get
   rid of the subtle task_rcu_dereference() interface that was easy to
   get wrong

 - Misc fixes, but also an EAS speedup

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Avoid redundant EAS calculation
  sched/core: Remove double update_max_interval() call on CPU startup
  sched/core: Fix preempt_schedule() interrupt return comment
  sched/fair: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings
  sched/core: Fix migration to invalid CPU in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
  sched/membarrier: Return -ENOMEM to userspace on memory allocation failure
  sched/membarrier: Skip IPIs when mm-&gt;mm_users == 1
  selftests, sched/membarrier: Add multi-threaded test
  sched/membarrier: Fix p-&gt;mm-&gt;membarrier_state racy load
  sched/membarrier: Call sync_core only before usermode for same mm
  sched/membarrier: Remove redundant check
  sched/membarrier: Fix private expedited registration check
  tasks, sched/core: RCUify the assignment of rq-&gt;curr
  tasks, sched/core: With a grace period after finish_task_switch(), remove unnecessary code
  tasks, sched/core: Ensure tasks are available for a grace period after leaving the runqueue
  tasks: Add a count of task RCU users
  sched/core: Convert vcpu_is_preempted() from macro to an inline function
  sched/fair: Remove unused cfs_rq_clock_task() function
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:

 - Apply a number of membarrier related fixes and cleanups, which fixes
   a use-after-free race in the membarrier code

 - Introduce proper RCU protection for tasks on the runqueue - to get
   rid of the subtle task_rcu_dereference() interface that was easy to
   get wrong

 - Misc fixes, but also an EAS speedup

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Avoid redundant EAS calculation
  sched/core: Remove double update_max_interval() call on CPU startup
  sched/core: Fix preempt_schedule() interrupt return comment
  sched/fair: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings
  sched/core: Fix migration to invalid CPU in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
  sched/membarrier: Return -ENOMEM to userspace on memory allocation failure
  sched/membarrier: Skip IPIs when mm-&gt;mm_users == 1
  selftests, sched/membarrier: Add multi-threaded test
  sched/membarrier: Fix p-&gt;mm-&gt;membarrier_state racy load
  sched/membarrier: Call sync_core only before usermode for same mm
  sched/membarrier: Remove redundant check
  sched/membarrier: Fix private expedited registration check
  tasks, sched/core: RCUify the assignment of rq-&gt;curr
  tasks, sched/core: With a grace period after finish_task_switch(), remove unnecessary code
  tasks, sched/core: Ensure tasks are available for a grace period after leaving the runqueue
  tasks: Add a count of task RCU users
  sched/core: Convert vcpu_is_preempted() from macro to an inline function
  sched/fair: Remove unused cfs_rq_clock_task() function
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2019-09-28T15:14:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-28T15:14:15+00:00</published>
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Pull kernel lockdown mode from James Morris:
 "This is the latest iteration of the kernel lockdown patchset, from
  Matthew Garrett, David Howells and others.

  From the original description:

    This patchset introduces an optional kernel lockdown feature,
    intended to strengthen the boundary between UID 0 and the kernel.
    When enabled, various pieces of kernel functionality are restricted.
    Applications that rely on low-level access to either hardware or the
    kernel may cease working as a result - therefore this should not be
    enabled without appropriate evaluation beforehand.

    The majority of mainstream distributions have been carrying variants
    of this patchset for many years now, so there's value in providing a
    doesn't meet every distribution requirement, but gets us much closer
    to not requiring external patches.

  There are two major changes since this was last proposed for mainline:

   - Separating lockdown from EFI secure boot. Background discussion is
     covered here: https://lwn.net/Articles/751061/

   -  Implementation as an LSM, with a default stackable lockdown LSM
      module. This allows the lockdown feature to be policy-driven,
      rather than encoding an implicit policy within the mechanism.

  The new locked_down LSM hook is provided to allow LSMs to make a
  policy decision around whether kernel functionality that would allow
  tampering with or examining the runtime state of the kernel should be
  permitted.

  The included lockdown LSM provides an implementation with a simple
  policy intended for general purpose use. This policy provides a coarse
  level of granularity, controllable via the kernel command line:

    lockdown={integrity|confidentiality}

  Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to integrity, kernel features
  that allow userland to modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
  confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland to extract
  confidential information from the kernel are also disabled.

  This may also be controlled via /sys/kernel/security/lockdown and
  overriden by kernel configuration.

  New or existing LSMs may implement finer-grained controls of the
  lockdown features. Refer to the lockdown_reason documentation in
  include/linux/security.h for details.

  The lockdown feature has had signficant design feedback and review
  across many subsystems. This code has been in linux-next for some
  weeks, with a few fixes applied along the way.

  Stephen Rothwell noted that commit 9d1f8be5cf42 ("bpf: Restrict bpf
  when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode") is missing a
  Signed-off-by from its author. Matthew responded that he is providing
  this under category (c) of the DCO"

* 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (31 commits)
  kexec: Fix file verification on S390
  security: constify some arrays in lockdown LSM
  lockdown: Print current-&gt;comm in restriction messages
  efi: Restrict efivar_ssdt_load when the kernel is locked down
  tracefs: Restrict tracefs when the kernel is locked down
  debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is locked down
  kexec: Allow kexec_file() with appropriate IMA policy when locked down
  lockdown: Lock down perf when in confidentiality mode
  bpf: Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode
  lockdown: Lock down tracing and perf kprobes when in confidentiality mode
  lockdown: Lock down /proc/kcore
  x86/mmiotrace: Lock down the testmmiotrace module
  lockdown: Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)
  lockdown: Lock down TIOCSSERIAL
  lockdown: Prohibit PCMCIA CIS storage when the kernel is locked down
  acpi: Disable ACPI table override if the kernel is locked down
  acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel param when the kernel has been locked down
  ACPI: Limit access to custom_method when the kernel is locked down
  x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is locked down
  x86: Lock down IO port access when the kernel is locked down
  ...
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Pull kernel lockdown mode from James Morris:
 "This is the latest iteration of the kernel lockdown patchset, from
  Matthew Garrett, David Howells and others.

  From the original description:

    This patchset introduces an optional kernel lockdown feature,
    intended to strengthen the boundary between UID 0 and the kernel.
    When enabled, various pieces of kernel functionality are restricted.
    Applications that rely on low-level access to either hardware or the
    kernel may cease working as a result - therefore this should not be
    enabled without appropriate evaluation beforehand.

    The majority of mainstream distributions have been carrying variants
    of this patchset for many years now, so there's value in providing a
    doesn't meet every distribution requirement, but gets us much closer
    to not requiring external patches.

  There are two major changes since this was last proposed for mainline:

   - Separating lockdown from EFI secure boot. Background discussion is
     covered here: https://lwn.net/Articles/751061/

   -  Implementation as an LSM, with a default stackable lockdown LSM
      module. This allows the lockdown feature to be policy-driven,
      rather than encoding an implicit policy within the mechanism.

  The new locked_down LSM hook is provided to allow LSMs to make a
  policy decision around whether kernel functionality that would allow
  tampering with or examining the runtime state of the kernel should be
  permitted.

  The included lockdown LSM provides an implementation with a simple
  policy intended for general purpose use. This policy provides a coarse
  level of granularity, controllable via the kernel command line:

    lockdown={integrity|confidentiality}

  Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to integrity, kernel features
  that allow userland to modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
  confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland to extract
  confidential information from the kernel are also disabled.

  This may also be controlled via /sys/kernel/security/lockdown and
  overriden by kernel configuration.

  New or existing LSMs may implement finer-grained controls of the
  lockdown features. Refer to the lockdown_reason documentation in
  include/linux/security.h for details.

  The lockdown feature has had signficant design feedback and review
  across many subsystems. This code has been in linux-next for some
  weeks, with a few fixes applied along the way.

  Stephen Rothwell noted that commit 9d1f8be5cf42 ("bpf: Restrict bpf
  when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode") is missing a
  Signed-off-by from its author. Matthew responded that he is providing
  this under category (c) of the DCO"

* 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (31 commits)
  kexec: Fix file verification on S390
  security: constify some arrays in lockdown LSM
  lockdown: Print current-&gt;comm in restriction messages
  efi: Restrict efivar_ssdt_load when the kernel is locked down
  tracefs: Restrict tracefs when the kernel is locked down
  debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is locked down
  kexec: Allow kexec_file() with appropriate IMA policy when locked down
  lockdown: Lock down perf when in confidentiality mode
  bpf: Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode
  lockdown: Lock down tracing and perf kprobes when in confidentiality mode
  lockdown: Lock down /proc/kcore
  x86/mmiotrace: Lock down the testmmiotrace module
  lockdown: Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)
  lockdown: Lock down TIOCSSERIAL
  lockdown: Prohibit PCMCIA CIS storage when the kernel is locked down
  acpi: Disable ACPI table override if the kernel is locked down
  acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel param when the kernel has been locked down
  ACPI: Limit access to custom_method when the kernel is locked down
  x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is locked down
  x86: Lock down IO port access when the kernel is locked down
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity</title>
<updated>2019-09-28T02:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-28T02:37:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f1f2f614d535564992f32e720739cb53cf03489f'/>
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Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar:
 "The major feature in this time is IMA support for measuring and
  appraising appended file signatures. In addition are a couple of bug
  fixes and code cleanup to use struct_size().

  In addition to the PE/COFF and IMA xattr signatures, the kexec kernel
  image may be signed with an appended signature, using the same
  scripts/sign-file tool that is used to sign kernel modules.

  Similarly, the initramfs may contain an appended signature.

  This contained a lot of refactoring of the existing appended signature
  verification code, so that IMA could retain the existing framework of
  calculating the file hash once, storing it in the IMA measurement list
  and extending the TPM, verifying the file's integrity based on a file
  hash or signature (eg. xattrs), and adding an audit record containing
  the file hash, all based on policy. (The IMA support for appended
  signatures patch set was posted and reviewed 11 times.)

  The support for appended signature paves the way for adding other
  signature verification methods, such as fs-verity, based on a single
  system-wide policy. The file hash used for verifying the signature and
  the signature, itself, can be included in the IMA measurement list"

* 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity:
  ima: ima_api: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
  ima: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
  sefltest/ima: support appended signatures (modsig)
  ima: Fix use after free in ima_read_modsig()
  MODSIGN: make new include file self contained
  ima: fix freeing ongoing ahash_request
  ima: always return negative code for error
  ima: Store the measurement again when appraising a modsig
  ima: Define ima-modsig template
  ima: Collect modsig
  ima: Implement support for module-style appended signatures
  ima: Factor xattr_verify() out of ima_appraise_measurement()
  ima: Add modsig appraise_type option for module-style appended signatures
  integrity: Select CONFIG_KEYS instead of depending on it
  PKCS#7: Introduce pkcs7_get_digest()
  PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature()
  MODSIGN: Export module signature definitions
  ima: initialize the "template" field with the default template
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Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar:
 "The major feature in this time is IMA support for measuring and
  appraising appended file signatures. In addition are a couple of bug
  fixes and code cleanup to use struct_size().

  In addition to the PE/COFF and IMA xattr signatures, the kexec kernel
  image may be signed with an appended signature, using the same
  scripts/sign-file tool that is used to sign kernel modules.

  Similarly, the initramfs may contain an appended signature.

  This contained a lot of refactoring of the existing appended signature
  verification code, so that IMA could retain the existing framework of
  calculating the file hash once, storing it in the IMA measurement list
  and extending the TPM, verifying the file's integrity based on a file
  hash or signature (eg. xattrs), and adding an audit record containing
  the file hash, all based on policy. (The IMA support for appended
  signatures patch set was posted and reviewed 11 times.)

  The support for appended signature paves the way for adding other
  signature verification methods, such as fs-verity, based on a single
  system-wide policy. The file hash used for verifying the signature and
  the signature, itself, can be included in the IMA measurement list"

* 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity:
  ima: ima_api: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
  ima: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
  sefltest/ima: support appended signatures (modsig)
  ima: Fix use after free in ima_read_modsig()
  MODSIGN: make new include file self contained
  ima: fix freeing ongoing ahash_request
  ima: always return negative code for error
  ima: Store the measurement again when appraising a modsig
  ima: Define ima-modsig template
  ima: Collect modsig
  ima: Implement support for module-style appended signatures
  ima: Factor xattr_verify() out of ima_appraise_measurement()
  ima: Add modsig appraise_type option for module-style appended signatures
  integrity: Select CONFIG_KEYS instead of depending on it
  PKCS#7: Introduce pkcs7_get_digest()
  PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature()
  MODSIGN: Export module signature definitions
  ima: initialize the "template" field with the default template
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfsd-5.4' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux</title>
<updated>2019-09-28T00:00:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-28T00:00:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=298fb76a5583900a155d387efaf37a8b39e5dea2'/>
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "Highlights:

   - Add a new knfsd file cache, so that we don't have to open and close
     on each (NFSv2/v3) READ or WRITE. This can speed up read and write
     in some cases. It also replaces our readahead cache.

   - Prevent silent data loss on write errors, by treating write errors
     like server reboots for the purposes of write caching, thus forcing
     clients to resend their writes.

   - Tweak the code that allocates sessions to be more forgiving, so
     that NFSv4.1 mounts are less likely to hang when a server already
     has a lot of clients.

   - Eliminate an arbitrary limit on NFSv4 ACL sizes; they should now be
     limited only by the backend filesystem and the maximum RPC size.

   - Allow the server to enforce use of the correct kerberos credentials
     when a client reclaims state after a reboot.

  And some miscellaneous smaller bugfixes and cleanup"

* tag 'nfsd-5.4' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (34 commits)
  sunrpc: clean up indentation issue
  nfsd: fix nfs read eof detection
  nfsd: Make nfsd_reset_boot_verifier_locked static
  nfsd: degraded slot-count more gracefully as allocation nears exhaustion.
  nfsd: handle drc over-allocation gracefully.
  nfsd: add support for upcall version 2
  nfsd: add a "GetVersion" upcall for nfsdcld
  nfsd: Reset the boot verifier on all write I/O errors
  nfsd: Don't garbage collect files that might contain write errors
  nfsd: Support the server resetting the boot verifier
  nfsd: nfsd_file cache entries should be per net namespace
  nfsd: eliminate an unnecessary acl size limit
  Deprecate nfsd fault injection
  nfsd: remove duplicated include from filecache.c
  nfsd: Fix the documentation for svcxdr_tmpalloc()
  nfsd: Fix up some unused variable warnings
  nfsd: close cached files prior to a REMOVE or RENAME that would replace target
  nfsd: rip out the raparms cache
  nfsd: have nfsd_test_lock use the nfsd_file cache
  nfsd: hook up nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op to the nfsd_file cache
  ...
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "Highlights:

   - Add a new knfsd file cache, so that we don't have to open and close
     on each (NFSv2/v3) READ or WRITE. This can speed up read and write
     in some cases. It also replaces our readahead cache.

   - Prevent silent data loss on write errors, by treating write errors
     like server reboots for the purposes of write caching, thus forcing
     clients to resend their writes.

   - Tweak the code that allocates sessions to be more forgiving, so
     that NFSv4.1 mounts are less likely to hang when a server already
     has a lot of clients.

   - Eliminate an arbitrary limit on NFSv4 ACL sizes; they should now be
     limited only by the backend filesystem and the maximum RPC size.

   - Allow the server to enforce use of the correct kerberos credentials
     when a client reclaims state after a reboot.

  And some miscellaneous smaller bugfixes and cleanup"

* tag 'nfsd-5.4' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (34 commits)
  sunrpc: clean up indentation issue
  nfsd: fix nfs read eof detection
  nfsd: Make nfsd_reset_boot_verifier_locked static
  nfsd: degraded slot-count more gracefully as allocation nears exhaustion.
  nfsd: handle drc over-allocation gracefully.
  nfsd: add support for upcall version 2
  nfsd: add a "GetVersion" upcall for nfsdcld
  nfsd: Reset the boot verifier on all write I/O errors
  nfsd: Don't garbage collect files that might contain write errors
  nfsd: Support the server resetting the boot verifier
  nfsd: nfsd_file cache entries should be per net namespace
  nfsd: eliminate an unnecessary acl size limit
  Deprecate nfsd fault injection
  nfsd: remove duplicated include from filecache.c
  nfsd: Fix the documentation for svcxdr_tmpalloc()
  nfsd: Fix up some unused variable warnings
  nfsd: close cached files prior to a REMOVE or RENAME that would replace target
  nfsd: rip out the raparms cache
  nfsd: have nfsd_test_lock use the nfsd_file cache
  nfsd: hook up nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op to the nfsd_file cache
  ...
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