linux.git/include/trace/events/mmflags.h, branch v6.11

mm: add MAP_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily freeable mappings

2024-07-19T18:22:12+00:00

The vDSO getrandom() implementation works with a buffer allocated with a
new system call that has certain requirements:

- It shouldn't be written to core dumps.
  * Easy: VM_DONTDUMP.
- It should be zeroed on fork.
  * Easy: VM_WIPEONFORK.

- It shouldn't be written to swap.
  * Uh-oh: mlock is rlimited.
  * Uh-oh: mlock isn't inherited by forks.

- It shouldn't reserve actual memory, but it also shouldn't crash when
  page faulting in memory if none is available
  * Uh-oh: VM_NORESERVE means segfaults.

It turns out that the vDSO getrandom() function has three really nice
characteristics that we can exploit to solve this problem:

1) Due to being wiped during fork(), the vDSO code is already robust to
   having the contents of the pages it reads zeroed out midway through
   the function's execution.

2) In the absolute worst case of whatever contingency we're coding for,
   we have the option to fallback to the getrandom() syscall, and
   everything is fine.

3) The buffers the function uses are only ever useful for a maximum of
   60 seconds -- a sort of cache, rather than a long term allocation.

These characteristics mean that we can introduce VM_DROPPABLE, which
has the following semantics:

a) It never is written out to swap.
b) Under memory pressure, mm can just drop the pages (so that they're
   zero when read back again).
c) It is inherited by fork.
d) It doesn't count against the mlock budget, since nothing is locked.
e) If there's not enough memory to service a page fault, it's not fatal,
   and no signal is sent.

This way, allocations used by vDSO getrandom() can use:

    VM_DROPPABLE | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_WIPEONFORK | VM_NORESERVE

And there will be no problem with OOMing, crashing on overcommitment,
using memory when not in use, not wiping on fork(), coredumps, or
writing out to swap.

In order to let vDSO getrandom() use this, expose these via mmap(2) as
MAP_DROPPABLE.

Note that this involves removing the MADV_FREE special case from
sort_folio(), which according to Yu Zhao is unnecessary and will simply
result in an extra call to shrink_folio_list() in the worst case. The
chunk removed reenables the swapbacked flag, which we don't want for
VM_DROPPABLE, and we can't conditionalize it here because there isn't a
vma reference available.

Finally, the provided self test ensures that this is working as desired.

Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

mm: free up PG_slab

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

Reclaim the Slab page flag by using a spare bit in PageType.  We are
perennially short of page flags for various purposes, and now that the
original SLAB allocator has been retired, SLUB does not use the
mapcount/page_type field.  This lets us remove a number of special cases
for ignoring mapcount on Slab pages.

[willy@infradead.org: update vmcoreinfo]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZgGV-O8WYQ_83kxp@casper.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321142448.1645400-8-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Miaohe Lin 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: turn folio_test_hugetlb into a PageType

2024-04-25T02:34:26+00:00

The current folio_test_hugetlb() can be fooled by a concurrent folio split
into returning true for a folio which has never belonged to hugetlbfs. 
This can't happen if the caller holds a refcount on it, but we have a few
places (memory-failure, compaction, procfs) which do not and should not
take a speculative reference.

Since hugetlb pages do not use individual page mapcounts (they are always
fully mapped and use the entire_mapcount field to record the number of
mappings), the PageType field is available now that page_mapcount()
ignores the value in this field.

In compaction and with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled, the current implementation
can result in an oops, as reported by Luis. This happens since 9c5ccf2db04b
("mm: remove HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR") effectively added some VM_BUG_ON() checks
in the PageHuge() testing path.

[willy@infradead.org: update vmcoreinfo]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZgGZUvsdhaT1Va-T@casper.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321142448.1645400-6-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: 9c5ccf2db04b ("mm: remove HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reported-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218227
Cc: Miaohe Lin 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00

The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.

None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.

While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.

There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.

So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

mm: compaction: remove compaction result helpers

2023-06-09T23:25:36+00:00

Patch series "mm: compaction: cleanups & simplifications".

These compaction cleanups are split out from the huge page allocator
series[1], as requested by reviewer feedback.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230418191313.268131-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org/


This patch (of 5):

The compaction result helpers encode quirks that are specific to the
allocator's retry logic.  E.g.  COMPACT_SUCCESS and COMPACT_COMPLETE
actually represent failures that should be retried upon, and so on.  I
frequently found myself pulling up the helper implementation in order to
understand and work on the retry logic.  They're not quite clean
abstractions; rather they split the retry logic into two locations.

Remove the helpers and inline the checks.  Then comment on the result
interpretations directly where the decision making happens.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519123959.77335-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519123959.77335-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kasan: remove PG_skip_kasan_poison flag

2023-03-28T23:20:16+00:00

Code inspection reveals that PG_skip_kasan_poison is redundant with
kasantag, because the former is intended to be set iff the latter is the
match-all tag.  It can also be observed that it's basically pointless to
poison pages which have kasantag=0, because any pages with this tag would
have been pointed to by pointers with match-all tags, so poisoning the
pages would have little to no effect in terms of bug detection. 
Therefore, change the condition in should_skip_kasan_poison() to check
kasantag instead, and remove PG_skip_kasan_poison and associated flags.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310042914.3805818-3-pcc@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I57f825f2eaeaf7e8389d6cf4597c8a5821359838
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne 
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov 
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm, printk: introduce new format %pGt for page_type

2023-03-28T23:20:09+00:00

%pGp format is used to display 'flags' field of a struct page.  However,
some page flags (i.e.  PG_buddy, see page-flags.h for more details) are
stored in page_type field.  To display human-readable output of page_type,
introduce %pGt format.

It is important to note the meaning of bits are different in page_type. 
if page_type is 0xffffffff, no flags are set.  Setting PG_buddy
(0x00000080) flag results in a page_type of 0xffffff7f.  Clearing a bit
actually means setting a flag.  Bits in page_type are inverted when
displaying type names.

Only values for which page_type_has_type() returns true are considered as
page_type, to avoid confusion with mapcount values.  if it returns false,
only raw values are displayed and not page type names.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230130042514.2418-3-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 	[vsprintf part]
Cc: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: John Ogness 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mmflags.h: use less error prone method to define pageflag_names

2023-03-28T23:20:08+00:00

Patch series "mm, printk: introduce new format for page_type", v4.

This series moves PG_slab page flag to page_type, freeing one bit in
page->flags and introduces %pGt format that prints human-readable
page_type like %pGp for printing page flags.

See changelog of patch 2 for more implementation details.

Thanks everyone that gave valuable comments.


This patch (of 3):

Use helper macro to decrease chances of typo when defining pageflag_names.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230130042514.2418-1-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y6AycLbpjVzXM5I9@smile.fi.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230130042514.2418-2-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: John Ogness 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: discard __GFP_ATOMIC

2023-02-03T06:33:13+00:00

__GFP_ATOMIC serves little purpose.  Its main effect is to set
ALLOC_HARDER which adds a few little boosts to increase the chance of an
allocation succeeding, one of which is to lower the water-mark at which it
will succeed.

It is *always* paired with __GFP_HIGH which sets ALLOC_HIGH which also
adjusts this watermark.  It is probable that other users of __GFP_HIGH
should benefit from the other little bonuses that __GFP_ATOMIC gets.

__GFP_ATOMIC also gives a warning if used with __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM.
There is little point to this.  We already get a might_sleep() warning if
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is set.

__GFP_ATOMIC allows the "watermark_boost" to be side-stepped.  It is
probable that testing ALLOC_HARDER is a better fit here.

__GFP_ATOMIC is used by tegra-smmu.c to check if the allocation might
sleep.  This should test __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM instead.

This patch:
 - removes __GFP_ATOMIC
 - allows __GFP_HIGH allocations to ignore watermark boosting as well
   as GFP_ATOMIC requests.
 - makes other adjustments as suggested by the above.

The net result is not change to GFP_ATOMIC allocations.  Other
allocations that use __GFP_HIGH will benefit from a few different extra
privileges.  This affects:
  xen, dm, md, ntfs3
  the vermillion frame buffer
  hibernation
  ksm
  swap
all of which likely produce more benefit than cost if these selected
allocation are more likely to succeed quickly.

[mgorman: Minor adjustments to rework on top of a series]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163712397076.13692.4727608274002939094@noble.neil.brown.name
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113111217.14134-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Thierry Reding 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Add PG_arch_3 page flag

2022-11-29T09:26:07+00:00

As with PG_arch_2, this flag is only allowed on 64-bit architectures due
to the shortage of bits available. It will be used by the arm64 MTE code
in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Marc Zyngier 
Cc: Steven Price 
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: added flag preserving in __split_huge_page_tail()]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Reviewed-by: Steven Price 
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104011041.290951-5-pcc@google.com