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<title>mm:page_alloc: fix the NULL ac-&gt;nodemask in __alloc_pages_slowpath()</title>
<updated>2024-09-04T04:15:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhongkun He</name>
<email>hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-22T09:26:12+00:00</published>
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should_reclaim_retry() is not ALLOC_CPUSET aware and that means that it
considers reclaimability of NUMA nodes which are outside of the cpuset. 
If other nodes have a lot of reclaimable memory then should_reclaim_retry
would instruct page allocator to retry even though there is no memory
reclaimable on the cpuset nodemask.  This is not really a huge problem
because the number of retries without any reclaim progress is bound but it
could be certainly improved.  This is a cold path so this shouldn't really
have a measurable impact on performance on most workloads.

1.Test step and the machines.
------------
root@vm:/sys/fs/cgroup/test# numactl -H | grep size
node 0 size: 9477 MB
node 1 size: 10079 MB
node 2 size: 10079 MB
node 3 size: 10078 MB

root@vm:/sys/fs/cgroup/test# cat cpuset.mems
    2

root@vm:/sys/fs/cgroup/test# stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 12g  --vm-keep
stress: info: [33430] dispatching hogs: 0 cpu, 0 io, 1 vm, 0 hdd
stress: FAIL: [33430] (425) &lt;-- worker 33431 got signal 9
stress: WARN: [33430] (427) now reaping child worker processes
stress: FAIL: [33430] (461) failed run completed in 2s

2. reclaim_retry_zone info:

We can only alloc pages from node=2, but the reclaim_retry_zone is
node=0 and return true.

root@vm:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# cat trace
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.617311: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=1 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.617682: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=2 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.618103: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=3 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.618454: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=4 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.618770: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=5 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.619150: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=6 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.619510: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=7 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.619850: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=8 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.620171: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=9 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.620533: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=10 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.620894: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=11 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.621224: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=12 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.621551: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=13 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.621847: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=14 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.622200: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=15 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.622580: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=16 wmark_check=1

With this patch, we can check the right node and get less retry in
__alloc_pages_slowpath() because there is nothing to do.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240822092612.3209286-1-hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Zhongkun He &lt;hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan.x@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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should_reclaim_retry() is not ALLOC_CPUSET aware and that means that it
considers reclaimability of NUMA nodes which are outside of the cpuset. 
If other nodes have a lot of reclaimable memory then should_reclaim_retry
would instruct page allocator to retry even though there is no memory
reclaimable on the cpuset nodemask.  This is not really a huge problem
because the number of retries without any reclaim progress is bound but it
could be certainly improved.  This is a cold path so this shouldn't really
have a measurable impact on performance on most workloads.

1.Test step and the machines.
------------
root@vm:/sys/fs/cgroup/test# numactl -H | grep size
node 0 size: 9477 MB
node 1 size: 10079 MB
node 2 size: 10079 MB
node 3 size: 10078 MB

root@vm:/sys/fs/cgroup/test# cat cpuset.mems
    2

root@vm:/sys/fs/cgroup/test# stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 12g  --vm-keep
stress: info: [33430] dispatching hogs: 0 cpu, 0 io, 1 vm, 0 hdd
stress: FAIL: [33430] (425) &lt;-- worker 33431 got signal 9
stress: WARN: [33430] (427) now reaping child worker processes
stress: FAIL: [33430] (461) failed run completed in 2s

2. reclaim_retry_zone info:

We can only alloc pages from node=2, but the reclaim_retry_zone is
node=0 and return true.

root@vm:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# cat trace
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.617311: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=1 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.617682: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=2 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.618103: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=3 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.618454: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=4 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.618770: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=5 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.619150: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=6 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.619510: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=7 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.619850: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=8 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.620171: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=9 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.620533: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=10 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.620894: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=11 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.621224: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=12 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.621551: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=13 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.621847: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=14 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.622200: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=15 wmark_check=1
stress-33431   [001] ..... 13223.622580: reclaim_retry_zone: node=0 zone=Normal   order=0 reclaimable=4260 available=1772019 min_wmark=5962 no_progress_loops=16 wmark_check=1

With this patch, we can check the right node and get less retry in
__alloc_pages_slowpath() because there is nothing to do.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240822092612.3209286-1-hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Zhongkun He &lt;hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan.x@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>mm/contig_alloc: support __GFP_COMP</title>
<updated>2024-09-04T04:15:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Zhao</name>
<email>yuzhao@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-14T03:54:49+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios", v2.

Use __GFP_COMP for gigantic folios can greatly reduce not only the amount
of code but also the allocation and free time.

Approximate LOC to mm/hugetlb.c: +60, -240

Allocate and free 500 1GB hugeTLB memory without HVO by:
  time echo 500 &gt;/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
  time echo 0 &gt;/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

       Before  After
Alloc  ~13s    ~10s
Free   ~15s    &lt;1s

The above magnitude generally holds for multiple x86 and arm64 CPU
models.

Perf profile before:
  Alloc
    - 99.99% alloc_pool_huge_folio
       - __alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio
          - 83.23% alloc_contig_pages_noprof
             - 47.46% alloc_contig_range_noprof
                - 20.96% isolate_freepages_range
                     16.10% split_page
                - 14.10% start_isolate_page_range
                - 12.02% undo_isolate_page_range

  Free
    - update_and_free_pages_bulk
       - 87.71% free_contig_range
          - 76.02% free_unref_page
             - 41.30% free_unref_page_commit
                - 32.58% free_pcppages_bulk
                   - 24.75% __free_one_page
               13.96% _raw_spin_trylock
         12.27% __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio

Perf profile after:
  Alloc
    - 99.99% alloc_pool_huge_folio
         alloc_gigantic_folio
       - alloc_contig_pages_noprof
          - 59.15% alloc_contig_range_noprof
             - 20.72% start_isolate_page_range
               20.64% prep_new_page
             - 17.13% undo_isolate_page_range

  Free
    - update_and_free_pages_bulk
       - __folio_put
       - __free_pages_ok
            7.46% free_tail_page_prepare
          - 1.97% free_one_page
               1.86% __free_one_page

This patch (of 3):

Support __GFP_COMP in alloc_contig_range().  When the flag is set, upon
success the function returns a large folio prepared by prep_new_page(),
rather than a range of order-0 pages prepared by split_free_pages() (which
is renamed from split_map_pages()).

alloc_contig_range() can be used to allocate folios larger than
MAX_PAGE_ORDER, e.g., gigantic hugeTLB folios.  So on the free path,
free_one_page() needs to handle that by split_large_buddy().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix folio_alloc_gigantic_noprof() WARN expression, per Yu Liao]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814035451.773331-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814035451.773331-2-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Frank van der Linden &lt;fvdl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios", v2.

Use __GFP_COMP for gigantic folios can greatly reduce not only the amount
of code but also the allocation and free time.

Approximate LOC to mm/hugetlb.c: +60, -240

Allocate and free 500 1GB hugeTLB memory without HVO by:
  time echo 500 &gt;/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
  time echo 0 &gt;/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

       Before  After
Alloc  ~13s    ~10s
Free   ~15s    &lt;1s

The above magnitude generally holds for multiple x86 and arm64 CPU
models.

Perf profile before:
  Alloc
    - 99.99% alloc_pool_huge_folio
       - __alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio
          - 83.23% alloc_contig_pages_noprof
             - 47.46% alloc_contig_range_noprof
                - 20.96% isolate_freepages_range
                     16.10% split_page
                - 14.10% start_isolate_page_range
                - 12.02% undo_isolate_page_range

  Free
    - update_and_free_pages_bulk
       - 87.71% free_contig_range
          - 76.02% free_unref_page
             - 41.30% free_unref_page_commit
                - 32.58% free_pcppages_bulk
                   - 24.75% __free_one_page
               13.96% _raw_spin_trylock
         12.27% __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio

Perf profile after:
  Alloc
    - 99.99% alloc_pool_huge_folio
         alloc_gigantic_folio
       - alloc_contig_pages_noprof
          - 59.15% alloc_contig_range_noprof
             - 20.72% start_isolate_page_range
               20.64% prep_new_page
             - 17.13% undo_isolate_page_range

  Free
    - update_and_free_pages_bulk
       - __folio_put
       - __free_pages_ok
            7.46% free_tail_page_prepare
          - 1.97% free_one_page
               1.86% __free_one_page

This patch (of 3):

Support __GFP_COMP in alloc_contig_range().  When the flag is set, upon
success the function returns a large folio prepared by prep_new_page(),
rather than a range of order-0 pages prepared by split_free_pages() (which
is renamed from split_map_pages()).

alloc_contig_range() can be used to allocate folios larger than
MAX_PAGE_ORDER, e.g., gigantic hugeTLB folios.  So on the free path,
free_one_page() needs to handle that by split_large_buddy().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix folio_alloc_gigantic_noprof() WARN expression, per Yu Liao]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814035451.773331-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814035451.773331-2-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Frank van der Linden &lt;fvdl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</published>
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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<pre>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'loongarch-kvm-6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-07-12T15:24:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-12T15:24:12+00:00</published>
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LoongArch KVM changes for v6.11

1. Add ParaVirt steal time support.
2. Add some VM migration enhancement.
3. Add perf kvm-stat support for loongarch.
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LoongArch KVM changes for v6.11

1. Add ParaVirt steal time support.
2. Add some VM migration enhancement.
3. Add perf kvm-stat support for loongarch.
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<entry>
<title>mm, virt: merge AS_UNMOVABLE and AS_INACCESSIBLE</title>
<updated>2024-07-12T15:13:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-11T17:56:54+00:00</published>
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The flags AS_UNMOVABLE and AS_INACCESSIBLE were both added just for guest_memfd;
AS_UNMOVABLE is already in existing versions of Linux, while AS_INACCESSIBLE was
acked for inclusion in 6.11.

But really, they are the same thing: only guest_memfd uses them, at least for
now, and guest_memfd pages are unmovable because they should not be
accessed by the CPU.

So merge them into one; use the AS_INACCESSIBLE name which is more comprehensive.
At the same time, this fixes an embarrassing bug where AS_INACCESSIBLE was used
as a bit mask, despite it being just a bit index.

The bug was mostly benign, because AS_INACCESSIBLE's bit representation (1010)
corresponded to setting AS_UNEVICTABLE (which is already set) and AS_ENOSPC
(except no async writes can happen on the guest_memfd).  So the AS_INACCESSIBLE
flag simply had no effect.

Fixes: 1d23040caa8b ("KVM: guest_memfd: Use AS_INACCESSIBLE when creating guest_memfd inode")
Fixes: c72ceafbd12c ("mm: Introduce AS_INACCESSIBLE for encrypted/confidential memory")
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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The flags AS_UNMOVABLE and AS_INACCESSIBLE were both added just for guest_memfd;
AS_UNMOVABLE is already in existing versions of Linux, while AS_INACCESSIBLE was
acked for inclusion in 6.11.

But really, they are the same thing: only guest_memfd uses them, at least for
now, and guest_memfd pages are unmovable because they should not be
accessed by the CPU.

So merge them into one; use the AS_INACCESSIBLE name which is more comprehensive.
At the same time, this fixes an embarrassing bug where AS_INACCESSIBLE was used
as a bit mask, despite it being just a bit index.

The bug was mostly benign, because AS_INACCESSIBLE's bit representation (1010)
corresponded to setting AS_UNEVICTABLE (which is already set) and AS_ENOSPC
(except no async writes can happen on the guest_memfd).  So the AS_INACCESSIBLE
flag simply had no effect.

Fixes: 1d23040caa8b ("KVM: guest_memfd: Use AS_INACCESSIBLE when creating guest_memfd inode")
Fixes: c72ceafbd12c ("mm: Introduce AS_INACCESSIBLE for encrypted/confidential memory")
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: handle profiling for fake memory allocations during compaction</title>
<updated>2024-06-25T03:52:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suren Baghdasaryan</name>
<email>surenb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T23:05:04+00:00</published>
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During compaction isolated free pages are marked allocated so that they
can be split and/or freed.  For that, post_alloc_hook() is used inside
split_map_pages() and release_free_list().  split_map_pages() marks free
pages allocated, splits the pages and then lets
alloc_contig_range_noprof() free those pages.  release_free_list() marks
free pages and immediately frees them.  This usage of post_alloc_hook()
affect memory allocation profiling because these functions might not be
called from an instrumented allocator, therefore current-&gt;alloc_tag is
NULL and when debugging is enabled (CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y)
that causes warnings.  To avoid that, wrap such post_alloc_hook() calls
into an instrumented function which acts as an allocator which will be
charged for these fake allocations.  Note that these allocations are very
short lived until they are freed, therefore the associated counters should
usually read 0.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240614230504.3849136-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Sourav Panda &lt;souravpanda@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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During compaction isolated free pages are marked allocated so that they
can be split and/or freed.  For that, post_alloc_hook() is used inside
split_map_pages() and release_free_list().  split_map_pages() marks free
pages allocated, splits the pages and then lets
alloc_contig_range_noprof() free those pages.  release_free_list() marks
free pages and immediately frees them.  This usage of post_alloc_hook()
affect memory allocation profiling because these functions might not be
called from an instrumented allocator, therefore current-&gt;alloc_tag is
NULL and when debugging is enabled (CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y)
that causes warnings.  To avoid that, wrap such post_alloc_hook() calls
into an instrumented function which acts as an allocator which will be
charged for these fake allocations.  Note that these allocations are very
short lived until they are freed, therefore the associated counters should
usually read 0.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240614230504.3849136-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Sourav Panda &lt;souravpanda@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>memory: remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array</title>
<updated>2024-04-26T03:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-28T15:57:48+00:00</published>
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the empty
elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which will reduce
the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory bloat by ~64
bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel from all files under mm/ that register a sysctl table.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328-jag-sysctl_remset_misc-v1-1-47c1463b3af2@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the empty
elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which will reduce
the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory bloat by ~64
bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel from all files under mm/ that register a sysctl table.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328-jag-sysctl_remset_misc-v1-1-47c1463b3af2@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: enable page allocation tagging</title>
<updated>2024-04-26T03:55:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suren Baghdasaryan</name>
<email>surenb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-21T16:36:40+00:00</published>
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Redefine page allocators to record allocation tags upon their invocation. 
Instrument post_alloc_hook and free_pages_prepare to modify current
allocation tag.

[surenb@google.com: undo _noprof additions in the documentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326231453.1206227-3-surenb@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-19-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alex Gaynor &lt;alex.gaynor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Redefine page allocators to record allocation tags upon their invocation. 
Instrument post_alloc_hook and free_pages_prepare to modify current
allocation tag.

[surenb@google.com: undo _noprof additions in the documentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326231453.1206227-3-surenb@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-19-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alex Gaynor &lt;alex.gaynor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into mm-stable</title>
<updated>2024-03-18T16:47:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-18T16:47:52+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>mm, vmscan: prevent infinite loop for costly GFP_NOIO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations</title>
<updated>2024-03-05T00:40:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-21T11:43:58+00:00</published>
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Sven reports an infinite loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath() for costly order
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations that are also GFP_NOIO.  Such combination
can happen in a suspend/resume context where a GFP_KERNEL allocation can
have __GFP_IO masked out via gfp_allowed_mask.

Quoting Sven:

1. try to do a "costly" allocation (order &gt; PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
   with __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL set.

2. page alloc's __alloc_pages_slowpath tries to get a page from the
   freelist. This fails because there is nothing free of that costly
   order.

3. page alloc tries to reclaim by calling __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim,
   which bails out because a zone is ready to be compacted; it pretends
   to have made a single page of progress.

4. page alloc tries to compact, but this always bails out early because
   __GFP_IO is not set (it's not passed by the snd allocator, and even
   if it were, we are suspending so the __GFP_IO flag would be cleared
   anyway).

5. page alloc believes reclaim progress was made (because of the
   pretense in item 3) and so it checks whether it should retry
   compaction. The compaction retry logic thinks it should try again,
   because:
    a) reclaim is needed because of the early bail-out in item 4
    b) a zonelist is suitable for compaction

6. goto 2. indefinite stall.

(end quote)

The immediate root cause is confusing the COMPACT_SKIPPED returned from
__alloc_pages_direct_compact() (step 4) due to lack of __GFP_IO to be
indicating a lack of order-0 pages, and in step 5 evaluating that in
should_compact_retry() as a reason to retry, before incrementing and
limiting the number of retries.  There are however other places that
wrongly assume that compaction can happen while we lack __GFP_IO.

To fix this, introduce gfp_compaction_allowed() to abstract the __GFP_IO
evaluation and switch the open-coded test in try_to_compact_pages() to use
it.

Also use the new helper in:
- compaction_ready(), which will make reclaim not bail out in step 3, so
  there's at least one attempt to actually reclaim, even if chances are
  small for a costly order
- in_reclaim_compaction() which will make should_continue_reclaim()
  return false and we don't over-reclaim unnecessarily
- in __alloc_pages_slowpath() to set a local variable can_compact,
  which is then used to avoid retrying reclaim/compaction for costly
  allocations (step 5) if we can't compact and also to skip the early
  compaction attempt that we do in some cases

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240221114357.13655-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: 3250845d0526 ("Revert "mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request"")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Sven van Ashbrook &lt;svenva@chromium.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAG-rBihs_xMKb3wrMO1%2B-%2Bp4fowP9oy1pa_OTkfxBzPUVOZF%2Bg@mail.gmail.com/
Tested-by: Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian &lt;kramasub@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: Curtis Malainey &lt;cujomalainey@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Sven reports an infinite loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath() for costly order
__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations that are also GFP_NOIO.  Such combination
can happen in a suspend/resume context where a GFP_KERNEL allocation can
have __GFP_IO masked out via gfp_allowed_mask.

Quoting Sven:

1. try to do a "costly" allocation (order &gt; PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
   with __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL set.

2. page alloc's __alloc_pages_slowpath tries to get a page from the
   freelist. This fails because there is nothing free of that costly
   order.

3. page alloc tries to reclaim by calling __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim,
   which bails out because a zone is ready to be compacted; it pretends
   to have made a single page of progress.

4. page alloc tries to compact, but this always bails out early because
   __GFP_IO is not set (it's not passed by the snd allocator, and even
   if it were, we are suspending so the __GFP_IO flag would be cleared
   anyway).

5. page alloc believes reclaim progress was made (because of the
   pretense in item 3) and so it checks whether it should retry
   compaction. The compaction retry logic thinks it should try again,
   because:
    a) reclaim is needed because of the early bail-out in item 4
    b) a zonelist is suitable for compaction

6. goto 2. indefinite stall.

(end quote)

The immediate root cause is confusing the COMPACT_SKIPPED returned from
__alloc_pages_direct_compact() (step 4) due to lack of __GFP_IO to be
indicating a lack of order-0 pages, and in step 5 evaluating that in
should_compact_retry() as a reason to retry, before incrementing and
limiting the number of retries.  There are however other places that
wrongly assume that compaction can happen while we lack __GFP_IO.

To fix this, introduce gfp_compaction_allowed() to abstract the __GFP_IO
evaluation and switch the open-coded test in try_to_compact_pages() to use
it.

Also use the new helper in:
- compaction_ready(), which will make reclaim not bail out in step 3, so
  there's at least one attempt to actually reclaim, even if chances are
  small for a costly order
- in_reclaim_compaction() which will make should_continue_reclaim()
  return false and we don't over-reclaim unnecessarily
- in __alloc_pages_slowpath() to set a local variable can_compact,
  which is then used to avoid retrying reclaim/compaction for costly
  allocations (step 5) if we can't compact and also to skip the early
  compaction attempt that we do in some cases

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240221114357.13655-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: 3250845d0526 ("Revert "mm, oom: prevent premature OOM killer invocation for high order request"")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Sven van Ashbrook &lt;svenva@chromium.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAG-rBihs_xMKb3wrMO1%2B-%2Bp4fowP9oy1pa_OTkfxBzPUVOZF%2Bg@mail.gmail.com/
Tested-by: Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian &lt;kramasub@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: Curtis Malainey &lt;cujomalainey@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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