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<title>kasan, arm64: only use kasan_depth for software modes</title>
<updated>2020-12-22T20:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-22T20:00:56+00:00</published>
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This is a preparatory commit for the upcoming addition of a new hardware
tag-based (MTE-based) KASAN mode.

Hardware tag-based KASAN won't use kasan_depth.  Only define and use it
when one of the software KASAN modes are enabled.

No functional changes for software modes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e16f15aeda90bc7fb4dfc2e243a14b74cc5c8219.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is a preparatory commit for the upcoming addition of a new hardware
tag-based (MTE-based) KASAN mode.

Hardware tag-based KASAN won't use kasan_depth.  Only define and use it
when one of the software KASAN modes are enabled.

No functional changes for software modes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e16f15aeda90bc7fb4dfc2e243a14b74cc5c8219.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-5.11/block-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T20:57:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T20:57:51+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Another series of killing more code than what is being added, again
  thanks to Christoph's relentless cleanups and tech debt tackling.

  This contains:

   - blk-iocost improvements (Baolin Wang)

   - part0 iostat fix (Jeffle Xu)

   - Disable iopoll for split bios (Jeffle Xu)

   - block tracepoint cleanups (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Merging of struct block_device and hd_struct (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Rework/cleanup of how block device sizes are updated (Christoph
     Hellwig)

   - Simplification of gendisk lookup and removal of block device
     aliasing (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Block device ioctl cleanups (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Removal of bdget()/blkdev_get() as exported API (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Disk change rework, avoid -&gt;revalidate_disk() (Christoph Hellwig)

   - sbitmap improvements (Pavel Begunkov)

   - Hybrid polling fix (Pavel Begunkov)

   - bvec iteration improvements (Pavel Begunkov)

   - Zone revalidation fixes (Damien Le Moal)

   - blk-throttle limit fix (Yu Kuai)

   - Various little fixes"

* tag 'for-5.11/block-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (126 commits)
  blk-mq: fix msec comment from micro to milli seconds
  blk-mq: update arg in comment of blk_mq_map_queue
  blk-mq: add helper allocating tagset-&gt;tags
  Revert "block: Fix a lockdep complaint triggered by request queue flushing"
  nvme-loop: use blk_mq_hctx_set_fq_lock_class to set loop's lock class
  blk-mq: add new API of blk_mq_hctx_set_fq_lock_class
  block: disable iopoll for split bio
  block: Improve blk_revalidate_disk_zones() checks
  sbitmap: simplify wrap check
  sbitmap: replace CAS with atomic and
  sbitmap: remove swap_lock
  sbitmap: optimise sbitmap_deferred_clear()
  blk-mq: skip hybrid polling if iopoll doesn't spin
  blk-iocost: Factor out the base vrate change into a separate function
  blk-iocost: Factor out the active iocgs' state check into a separate function
  blk-iocost: Move the usage ratio calculation to the correct place
  blk-iocost: Remove unnecessary advance declaration
  blk-iocost: Fix some typos in comments
  blktrace: fix up a kerneldoc comment
  block: remove the request_queue to argument request based tracepoints
  ...
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Another series of killing more code than what is being added, again
  thanks to Christoph's relentless cleanups and tech debt tackling.

  This contains:

   - blk-iocost improvements (Baolin Wang)

   - part0 iostat fix (Jeffle Xu)

   - Disable iopoll for split bios (Jeffle Xu)

   - block tracepoint cleanups (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Merging of struct block_device and hd_struct (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Rework/cleanup of how block device sizes are updated (Christoph
     Hellwig)

   - Simplification of gendisk lookup and removal of block device
     aliasing (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Block device ioctl cleanups (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Removal of bdget()/blkdev_get() as exported API (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Disk change rework, avoid -&gt;revalidate_disk() (Christoph Hellwig)

   - sbitmap improvements (Pavel Begunkov)

   - Hybrid polling fix (Pavel Begunkov)

   - bvec iteration improvements (Pavel Begunkov)

   - Zone revalidation fixes (Damien Le Moal)

   - blk-throttle limit fix (Yu Kuai)

   - Various little fixes"

* tag 'for-5.11/block-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (126 commits)
  blk-mq: fix msec comment from micro to milli seconds
  blk-mq: update arg in comment of blk_mq_map_queue
  blk-mq: add helper allocating tagset-&gt;tags
  Revert "block: Fix a lockdep complaint triggered by request queue flushing"
  nvme-loop: use blk_mq_hctx_set_fq_lock_class to set loop's lock class
  blk-mq: add new API of blk_mq_hctx_set_fq_lock_class
  block: disable iopoll for split bio
  block: Improve blk_revalidate_disk_zones() checks
  sbitmap: simplify wrap check
  sbitmap: replace CAS with atomic and
  sbitmap: remove swap_lock
  sbitmap: optimise sbitmap_deferred_clear()
  blk-mq: skip hybrid polling if iopoll doesn't spin
  blk-iocost: Factor out the base vrate change into a separate function
  blk-iocost: Factor out the active iocgs' state check into a separate function
  blk-iocost: Move the usage ratio calculation to the correct place
  blk-iocost: Remove unnecessary advance declaration
  blk-iocost: Fix some typos in comments
  blktrace: fix up a kerneldoc comment
  block: remove the request_queue to argument request based tracepoints
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'printk-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T18:45:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T18:45:11+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Finally allow parallel writes and reads into/from the lockless
   ringbuffer. But it is not a complete solution. Readers are still
   serialized against each other. And nested writes are still prevented
   by printk_safe per-CPU buffers.

 - Use ttynull as the ultimate fallback for /dev/console.

 - Officially allow disabling console output by using console="" or
   console=null

 - A few code cleanups

* tag 'printk-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk: remove logbuf_lock writer-protection of ringbuffer
  printk: inline log_output(),log_store() in vprintk_store()
  printk: remove obsolete dead assignment
  printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null
  init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console
  printk: ringbuffer: Reference text_data_ring directly in callees.
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<pre>
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Finally allow parallel writes and reads into/from the lockless
   ringbuffer. But it is not a complete solution. Readers are still
   serialized against each other. And nested writes are still prevented
   by printk_safe per-CPU buffers.

 - Use ttynull as the ultimate fallback for /dev/console.

 - Officially allow disabling console output by using console="" or
   console=null

 - A few code cleanups

* tag 'printk-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk: remove logbuf_lock writer-protection of ringbuffer
  printk: inline log_output(),log_store() in vprintk_store()
  printk: remove obsolete dead assignment
  printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null
  init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console
  printk: ringbuffer: Reference text_data_ring directly in callees.
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'exec-update-lock-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T03:36:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T03:36:48+00:00</published>
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Pull exec-update-lock update from Eric Biederman:
 "The key point of this is to transform exec_update_mutex into a
  rw_semaphore so readers can be separated from writers.

  This makes it easier to understand what the holders of the lock are
  doing, and makes it harder to contend or deadlock on the lock.

  The real deadlock fix wound up in perf_event_open"

* 'exec-update-lock-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore
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Pull exec-update-lock update from Eric Biederman:
 "The key point of this is to transform exec_update_mutex into a
  rw_semaphore so readers can be separated from writers.

  This makes it easier to understand what the holders of the lock are
  doing, and makes it harder to contend or deadlock on the lock.

  The real deadlock fix wound up in perf_event_open"

* 'exec-update-lock-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:53:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T20:53:37+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...
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<pre>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm, page_alloc: do not rely on the order of page_poison and init_on_alloc/free parameters</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:13:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T03:13:30+00:00</published>
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Patch series "cleanup page poisoning", v3.

I have identified a number of issues and opportunities for cleanup with
CONFIG_PAGE_POISON and friends:

 - interaction with init_on_alloc and init_on_free parameters depends on
   the order of parameters (Patch 1)

 - the boot time enabling uses static key, but inefficienty (Patch 2)

 - sanity checking is incompatible with hibernation (Patch 3)

 - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY can be removed now that we have
   init_on_free (Patch 4)

 - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO can be most likely removed now that we
   have init_on_free (Patch 5)

This patch (of 5):

Enabling page_poison=1 together with init_on_alloc=1 or init_on_free=1
produces a warning in dmesg that page_poison takes precedence.  However,
as these warnings are printed in early_param handlers for
init_on_alloc/free, they are not printed if page_poison is enabled later
on the command line (handlers are called in the order of their
parameters), or when init_on_alloc/free is always enabled by the
respective config option - before the page_poison early param handler is
called, it is not considered to be enabled.  This is inconsistent.

We can remove the dependency on order by making the init_on_* parameters
only set a boolean variable, and postponing the evaluation after all early
params have been processed.  Introduce a new
init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() function for that, and move the related
debug_pagealloc processing there as well.

As a result init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() knows always accurately if
init_on_* and/or page_poison options were enabled.  Thus we can also
optimize want_init_on_alloc() and want_init_on_free().  We don't need to
check page_poisoning_enabled() there, we can instead not enable the
init_on_* static keys at all, if page poisoning is enabled.  This results
in a simpler and more effective code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mateusz Nosek &lt;mateusznosek0@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "cleanup page poisoning", v3.

I have identified a number of issues and opportunities for cleanup with
CONFIG_PAGE_POISON and friends:

 - interaction with init_on_alloc and init_on_free parameters depends on
   the order of parameters (Patch 1)

 - the boot time enabling uses static key, but inefficienty (Patch 2)

 - sanity checking is incompatible with hibernation (Patch 3)

 - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY can be removed now that we have
   init_on_free (Patch 4)

 - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO can be most likely removed now that we
   have init_on_free (Patch 5)

This patch (of 5):

Enabling page_poison=1 together with init_on_alloc=1 or init_on_free=1
produces a warning in dmesg that page_poison takes precedence.  However,
as these warnings are printed in early_param handlers for
init_on_alloc/free, they are not printed if page_poison is enabled later
on the command line (handlers are called in the order of their
parameters), or when init_on_alloc/free is always enabled by the
respective config option - before the page_poison early param handler is
called, it is not considered to be enabled.  This is inconsistent.

We can remove the dependency on order by making the init_on_* parameters
only set a boolean variable, and postponing the evaluation after all early
params have been processed.  Introduce a new
init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() function for that, and move the related
debug_pagealloc processing there as well.

As a result init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() knows always accurately if
init_on_* and/or page_poison options were enabled.  Thus we can also
optimize want_init_on_alloc() and want_init_on_free().  We don't need to
check page_poisoning_enabled() there, we can instead not enable the
init_on_* static keys at all, if page poisoning is enabled.  This results
in a simpler and more effective code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mateusz Nosek &lt;mateusznosek0@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>init/main: fix broken buffer_init when DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT set</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:13:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lin Feng</name>
<email>linf@wangsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T03:11:19+00:00</published>
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In the booting phase if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set,
we have following callchain:

start_kernel
...
  mm_init
    mem_init
     memblock_free_all
       reset_all_zones_managed_pages
       free_low_memory_core_early
...
  buffer_init
    nr_free_buffer_pages
      zone-&gt;managed_pages
...
  rest_init
    kernel_init
      kernel_init_freeable
        page_alloc_init_late
          kthread_run(deferred_init_memmap, NODE_DATA(nid), "pgdatinit%d", nid);
          wait_for_completion(&amp;pgdat_init_all_done_comp);
          ...
          files_maxfiles_init

It's clear that buffer_init depends on zone-&gt;managed_pages, but it's reset
in reset_all_zones_managed_pages after that pages are readded into
zone-&gt;managed_pages, but when buffer_init runs this process is half done
and most of them will finally be added till deferred_init_memmap done.  In
large memory couting of nr_free_buffer_pages drifts too much, also
drifting from kernels to kernels on same hardware.

Fix is simple, it delays buffer_init run till deferred_init_memmap all
done.

But as corrected by this patch, max_buffer_heads becomes very large, the
value is roughly as many as 4 times of totalram_pages, formula:
max_buffer_heads = nrpages * (10%) * (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct
buffer_head));

Say in a 64GB memory box we have 16777216 pages, then max_buffer_heads
turns out to be roughly 67,108,864.  In common cases, should a buffer_head
be mapped to one page/block(4KB)?  So max_buffer_heads never exceeds
totalram_pages.  IMO it's likely to make buffer_heads_over_limit bool
value alwasy false, then make codes 'if (buffer_heads_over_limit)' test in
vmscan unnecessary.

So this patch will change the original behavior related to
buffer_heads_over_limit in vmscan since we used a half done value of
zone-&gt;managed_pages before, or should we use a smaller factor(&lt;10%) in
previous formula.

akpm: I think this is OK - the max_buffer_heads code is only needed on
highmem machines, to prevent ZONE_NORMAL from being consumed by large
amounts of buffer_heads attached to highmem pagecache.  This problem will
not occur on 64-bit machines, so this feature's non-functionality on such
machines is a feature, not a bug.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201123110500.103523-1-linf@wangsu.com
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng &lt;linf@wangsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In the booting phase if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set,
we have following callchain:

start_kernel
...
  mm_init
    mem_init
     memblock_free_all
       reset_all_zones_managed_pages
       free_low_memory_core_early
...
  buffer_init
    nr_free_buffer_pages
      zone-&gt;managed_pages
...
  rest_init
    kernel_init
      kernel_init_freeable
        page_alloc_init_late
          kthread_run(deferred_init_memmap, NODE_DATA(nid), "pgdatinit%d", nid);
          wait_for_completion(&amp;pgdat_init_all_done_comp);
          ...
          files_maxfiles_init

It's clear that buffer_init depends on zone-&gt;managed_pages, but it's reset
in reset_all_zones_managed_pages after that pages are readded into
zone-&gt;managed_pages, but when buffer_init runs this process is half done
and most of them will finally be added till deferred_init_memmap done.  In
large memory couting of nr_free_buffer_pages drifts too much, also
drifting from kernels to kernels on same hardware.

Fix is simple, it delays buffer_init run till deferred_init_memmap all
done.

But as corrected by this patch, max_buffer_heads becomes very large, the
value is roughly as many as 4 times of totalram_pages, formula:
max_buffer_heads = nrpages * (10%) * (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct
buffer_head));

Say in a 64GB memory box we have 16777216 pages, then max_buffer_heads
turns out to be roughly 67,108,864.  In common cases, should a buffer_head
be mapped to one page/block(4KB)?  So max_buffer_heads never exceeds
totalram_pages.  IMO it's likely to make buffer_heads_over_limit bool
value alwasy false, then make codes 'if (buffer_heads_over_limit)' test in
vmscan unnecessary.

So this patch will change the original behavior related to
buffer_heads_over_limit in vmscan since we used a half done value of
zone-&gt;managed_pages before, or should we use a smaller factor(&lt;10%) in
previous formula.

akpm: I think this is OK - the max_buffer_heads code is only needed on
highmem machines, to prevent ZONE_NORMAL from being consumed by large
amounts of buffer_heads attached to highmem pagecache.  This problem will
not occur on 64-bit machines, so this feature's non-functionality on such
machines is a feature, not a bug.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201123110500.103523-1-linf@wangsu.com
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng &lt;linf@wangsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix page_owner initializing issue for arm32</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T20:13:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhenhua Huang</name>
<email>zhenhuah@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T03:04:46+00:00</published>
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Page owner of pages used by page owner itself used is missing on arm32
targets.  The reason is dummy_handle and failure_handle is not initialized
correctly.  Buddy allocator is used to initialize these two handles.
However, buddy allocator is not ready when page owner calls it.  This
change fixed that by initializing page owner after buddy initialization.

The working flow before and after this change are:
original logic:
 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
 2. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like page_owner(using buddy
    allocator).
 3. initialize buddy.

after this change:
 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
 2. initialize buddy.
 3. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like page_owner(using buddy
    allocator).

with the change, failure/dummy_handle can get its correct value and page
owner output for example has the one for page owner itself:

  Page allocated via order 2, mask 0x6202c0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN), pid 1006, ts 67278156558 ns
  PFN 543776 type Unmovable Block 531 type Unmovable Flags 0x0()
    init_page_owner+0x28/0x2f8
    invoke_init_callbacks_flatmem+0x24/0x34
    start_kernel+0x33c/0x5d8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1603104925-5888-1-git-send-email-zhenhuah@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Huang &lt;zhenhuah@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Page owner of pages used by page owner itself used is missing on arm32
targets.  The reason is dummy_handle and failure_handle is not initialized
correctly.  Buddy allocator is used to initialize these two handles.
However, buddy allocator is not ready when page owner calls it.  This
change fixed that by initializing page owner after buddy initialization.

The working flow before and after this change are:
original logic:
 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
 2. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like page_owner(using buddy
    allocator).
 3. initialize buddy.

after this change:
 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
 2. initialize buddy.
 3. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like page_owner(using buddy
    allocator).

with the change, failure/dummy_handle can get its correct value and page
owner output for example has the one for page owner itself:

  Page allocated via order 2, mask 0x6202c0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN), pid 1006, ts 67278156558 ns
  PFN 543776 type Unmovable Block 531 type Unmovable Flags 0x0()
    init_page_owner+0x28/0x2f8
    invoke_init_callbacks_flatmem+0x24/0x34
    start_kernel+0x33c/0x5d8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1603104925-5888-1-git-send-email-zhenhuah@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Huang &lt;zhenhuah@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T00:40:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T00:40:27+00:00</published>
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Pull misc fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains several fixes which felt worth being combined into a
  single branch:

   - Use put_nsproxy() instead of open-coding it switch_task_namespaces()

   - Kirill's work to unify lifecycle management for all namespaces. The
     lifetime counters are used identically for all namespaces types.
     Namespaces may of course have additional unrelated counters and
     these are not altered. This work allows us to unify the type of the
     counters and reduces maintenance cost by moving the counter in one
     place and indicating that basic lifetime management is identical
     for all namespaces.

   - Peilin's fix adding three byte padding to Dmitry's
     PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO uapi struct to prevent an info leak.

   - Two smal patches to convert from the /* fall through */ comment
     annotation to the fallthrough keyword annotation which I had taken
     into my branch and into -next before df561f6688fe ("treewide: Use
     fallthrough pseudo-keyword") made it upstream which fixed this
     tree-wide.

     Since I didn't want to invalidate all testing for other commits I
     didn't rebase and kept them"

* tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  nsproxy: use put_nsproxy() in switch_task_namespaces()
  sys: Convert to the new fallthrough notation
  signal: Convert to the new fallthrough notation
  time: Use generic ns_common::count
  cgroup: Use generic ns_common::count
  mnt: Use generic ns_common::count
  user: Use generic ns_common::count
  pid: Use generic ns_common::count
  ipc: Use generic ns_common::count
  uts: Use generic ns_common::count
  net: Use generic ns_common::count
  ns: Add a common refcount into ns_common
  ptrace: Prevent kernel-infoleak in ptrace_get_syscall_info()
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Pull misc fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains several fixes which felt worth being combined into a
  single branch:

   - Use put_nsproxy() instead of open-coding it switch_task_namespaces()

   - Kirill's work to unify lifecycle management for all namespaces. The
     lifetime counters are used identically for all namespaces types.
     Namespaces may of course have additional unrelated counters and
     these are not altered. This work allows us to unify the type of the
     counters and reduces maintenance cost by moving the counter in one
     place and indicating that basic lifetime management is identical
     for all namespaces.

   - Peilin's fix adding three byte padding to Dmitry's
     PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO uapi struct to prevent an info leak.

   - Two smal patches to convert from the /* fall through */ comment
     annotation to the fallthrough keyword annotation which I had taken
     into my branch and into -next before df561f6688fe ("treewide: Use
     fallthrough pseudo-keyword") made it upstream which fixed this
     tree-wide.

     Since I didn't want to invalidate all testing for other commits I
     didn't rebase and kept them"

* tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  nsproxy: use put_nsproxy() in switch_task_namespaces()
  sys: Convert to the new fallthrough notation
  signal: Convert to the new fallthrough notation
  time: Use generic ns_common::count
  cgroup: Use generic ns_common::count
  mnt: Use generic ns_common::count
  user: Use generic ns_common::count
  pid: Use generic ns_common::count
  ipc: Use generic ns_common::count
  uts: Use generic ns_common::count
  net: Use generic ns_common::count
  ns: Add a common refcount into ns_common
  ptrace: Prevent kernel-infoleak in ptrace_get_syscall_info()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-5.11-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T00:22:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T00:22:26+00:00</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:

 - Add support for the hugetlb_cma command line option to allocate
   gigantic hugepages using CMA

 - Add arch_get_random_long() support.

 - Add ap bus userspace notifications.

 - Increase default size of vmalloc area to 512GB and otherwise let it
   increase dynamically by the size of physical memory. This should fix
   all occurrences where the vmalloc area was not large enough.

 - Completely get rid of set_fs() (aka select SET_FS) and rework address
   space handling while doing that; making address space handling much
   more simple.

 - Reimplement getcpu vdso syscall in C.

 - Add support for extended SCLP responses (&gt; 4k). This allows e.g. to
   handle also potential large system configurations.

 - Simplify KASAN by removing 3-level page table support and only
   supporting 4-levels from now on.

 - Improve debug-ability of the kernel decompressor code, which now
   prints also stack traces and symbols in case of problems to the
   console.

 - Remove more power management leftovers.

 - Other various fixes and improvements all over the place.

* tag 's390-5.11-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (62 commits)
  s390/mm: add support to allocate gigantic hugepages using CMA
  s390/crypto: add arch_get_random_long() support
  s390/smp: perform initial CPU reset also for SMT siblings
  s390/mm: use invalid asce for user space when switching to init_mm
  s390/idle: fix accounting with machine checks
  s390/idle: add missing mt_cycles calculation
  s390/boot: add build-id to decompressor
  s390/kexec_file: fix diag308 subcode when loading crash kernel
  s390/cio: fix use-after-free in ccw_device_destroy_console
  s390/cio: remove pm support from ccw bus driver
  s390/cio: remove pm support from css-bus driver
  s390/cio: remove pm support from IO subchannel drivers
  s390/cio: remove pm support from chsc subchannel driver
  s390/vmur: remove unused pm related functions
  s390/tape: remove unsupported PM functions
  s390/cio: remove pm support from eadm-sch drivers
  s390: remove pm support from console drivers
  s390/dasd: remove unused pm related functions
  s390/zfcp: remove pm support from zfcp driver
  s390/ap: let bus_register() add the AP bus sysfs attributes
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:

 - Add support for the hugetlb_cma command line option to allocate
   gigantic hugepages using CMA

 - Add arch_get_random_long() support.

 - Add ap bus userspace notifications.

 - Increase default size of vmalloc area to 512GB and otherwise let it
   increase dynamically by the size of physical memory. This should fix
   all occurrences where the vmalloc area was not large enough.

 - Completely get rid of set_fs() (aka select SET_FS) and rework address
   space handling while doing that; making address space handling much
   more simple.

 - Reimplement getcpu vdso syscall in C.

 - Add support for extended SCLP responses (&gt; 4k). This allows e.g. to
   handle also potential large system configurations.

 - Simplify KASAN by removing 3-level page table support and only
   supporting 4-levels from now on.

 - Improve debug-ability of the kernel decompressor code, which now
   prints also stack traces and symbols in case of problems to the
   console.

 - Remove more power management leftovers.

 - Other various fixes and improvements all over the place.

* tag 's390-5.11-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (62 commits)
  s390/mm: add support to allocate gigantic hugepages using CMA
  s390/crypto: add arch_get_random_long() support
  s390/smp: perform initial CPU reset also for SMT siblings
  s390/mm: use invalid asce for user space when switching to init_mm
  s390/idle: fix accounting with machine checks
  s390/idle: add missing mt_cycles calculation
  s390/boot: add build-id to decompressor
  s390/kexec_file: fix diag308 subcode when loading crash kernel
  s390/cio: fix use-after-free in ccw_device_destroy_console
  s390/cio: remove pm support from ccw bus driver
  s390/cio: remove pm support from css-bus driver
  s390/cio: remove pm support from IO subchannel drivers
  s390/cio: remove pm support from chsc subchannel driver
  s390/vmur: remove unused pm related functions
  s390/tape: remove unsupported PM functions
  s390/cio: remove pm support from eadm-sch drivers
  s390: remove pm support from console drivers
  s390/dasd: remove unused pm related functions
  s390/zfcp: remove pm support from zfcp driver
  s390/ap: let bus_register() add the AP bus sysfs attributes
  ...
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