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<title>madvise:madvise_free_huge_pmd(): don't use mapcount() against large folio for sharing check</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T21:59:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yin Fengwei</name>
<email>fengwei.yin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-08T02:09:16+00:00</published>
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Commit fc986a38b670 ("mm: huge_memory: convert madvise_free_huge_pmd to
use a folio") replaced the page_mapcount() with folio_mapcount() to check
whether the folio is shared by other mapping.

It's not correct for large folios. folio_mapcount() returns the total
mapcount of large folio which is not suitable to detect whether the folio
is shared.

Use folio_estimated_sharers() which returns a estimated number of shares.
That means it's not 100% correct. It should be OK for madvise case here.

User-visible effects is that the THP is skipped when user call madvise.
But the correct behavior is THP should be split and processed then.

NOTE: this change is a temporary fix to reduce the user-visible effects
before the long term fix from David is ready.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808020917.2230692-3-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Fixes: fc986a38b670 ("mm: huge_memory: convert madvise_free_huge_pmd to use a folio")
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei &lt;fengwei.yin@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) &lt;vishal.moola@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit fc986a38b670 ("mm: huge_memory: convert madvise_free_huge_pmd to
use a folio") replaced the page_mapcount() with folio_mapcount() to check
whether the folio is shared by other mapping.

It's not correct for large folios. folio_mapcount() returns the total
mapcount of large folio which is not suitable to detect whether the folio
is shared.

Use folio_estimated_sharers() which returns a estimated number of shares.
That means it's not 100% correct. It should be OK for madvise case here.

User-visible effects is that the THP is skipped when user call madvise.
But the correct behavior is THP should be split and processed then.

NOTE: this change is a temporary fix to reduce the user-visible effects
before the long term fix from David is ready.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808020917.2230692-3-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Fixes: fc986a38b670 ("mm: huge_memory: convert madvise_free_huge_pmd to use a folio")
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei &lt;fengwei.yin@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) &lt;vishal.moola@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/gup: reintroduce FOLL_NUMA as FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT</title>
<updated>2023-08-21T20:07:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-03T14:32:02+00:00</published>
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Unfortunately commit 474098edac26 ("mm/gup: replace FOLL_NUMA by
gup_can_follow_protnone()") missed that follow_page() and
follow_trans_huge_pmd() never implicitly set FOLL_NUMA because they really
don't want to fail on PROT_NONE-mapped pages -- either due to NUMA hinting
or due to inaccessible (PROT_NONE) VMAs.

As spelled out in commit 0b9d705297b2 ("mm: numa: Support NUMA hinting
page faults from gup/gup_fast"): "Other follow_page callers like KSM
should not use FOLL_NUMA, or they would fail to get the pages if they use
follow_page instead of get_user_pages."

liubo reported [1] that smaps_rollup results are imprecise, because they
miss accounting of pages that are mapped PROT_NONE.  Further, it's easy to
reproduce that KSM no longer works on inaccessible VMAs on x86-64, because
pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone() also indictaes "true" in inaccessible VMAs,
and follow_page() refuses to return such pages right now.

As KVM really depends on these NUMA hinting faults, removing the
pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone() handling in GUP code completely is not
really an option.

To fix the issues at hand, let's revive FOLL_NUMA as FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT
to restore the original behavior for now and add better comments.

Set FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT independent of FOLL_FORCE in
is_valid_gup_args(), to add that flag for all external GUP users.

Note that there are three GUP-internal __get_user_pages() users that don't
end up calling is_valid_gup_args() and consequently won't get
FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT set.

1) get_dump_page(): we really don't want to handle NUMA hinting
   faults. It specifies FOLL_FORCE and wouldn't have honored NUMA
   hinting faults already.
2) populate_vma_page_range(): we really don't want to handle NUMA hinting
   faults. It specifies FOLL_FORCE on accessible VMAs, so it wouldn't have
   honored NUMA hinting faults already.
3) faultin_vma_page_range(): we similarly don't want to handle NUMA
   hinting faults.

To make the combination of FOLL_FORCE and FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT work in
inaccessible VMAs properly, we have to perform VMA accessibility checks in
gup_can_follow_protnone().

As GUP-fast should reject such pages either way in
pte_access_permitted()/pmd_access_permitted() -- for example on x86-64 and
arm64 that both implement pte_protnone() -- let's just always fallback to
ordinary GUP when stumbling over pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone().

As Linus notes [2], honoring NUMA faults might only make sense for
selected GUP users.

So we should really see if we can instead let relevant GUP callers specify
it manually, and not trigger NUMA hinting faults from GUP as default. 
Prepare for that by making FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT an external GUP flag and
adding appropriate documenation.

While at it, remove a stale comment from follow_trans_huge_pmd(): That
comment for pmd_protnone() was added in commit 2b4847e73004 ("mm: numa:
serialise parallel get_user_page against THP migration"), which noted:

	THP does not unmap pages due to a lack of support for migration
	entries at a PMD level.  This allows races with get_user_pages

Nowadays, we do have PMD migration entries, so the comment no longer
applies.  Let's drop it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726073409.631838-1-liubo254@huawei.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgRiP_9X0rRdZKT8nhemZGNateMtb366t37d8-x7VRs=g@mail.gmail.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230803143208.383663-2-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 474098edac26 ("mm/gup: replace FOLL_NUMA by gup_can_follow_protnone()")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: liubo &lt;liubo254@huawei.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726073409.631838-1-liubo254@huawei.com
Reported-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZMKJjDaqZ7FW0jfe@x1n/
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Unfortunately commit 474098edac26 ("mm/gup: replace FOLL_NUMA by
gup_can_follow_protnone()") missed that follow_page() and
follow_trans_huge_pmd() never implicitly set FOLL_NUMA because they really
don't want to fail on PROT_NONE-mapped pages -- either due to NUMA hinting
or due to inaccessible (PROT_NONE) VMAs.

As spelled out in commit 0b9d705297b2 ("mm: numa: Support NUMA hinting
page faults from gup/gup_fast"): "Other follow_page callers like KSM
should not use FOLL_NUMA, or they would fail to get the pages if they use
follow_page instead of get_user_pages."

liubo reported [1] that smaps_rollup results are imprecise, because they
miss accounting of pages that are mapped PROT_NONE.  Further, it's easy to
reproduce that KSM no longer works on inaccessible VMAs on x86-64, because
pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone() also indictaes "true" in inaccessible VMAs,
and follow_page() refuses to return such pages right now.

As KVM really depends on these NUMA hinting faults, removing the
pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone() handling in GUP code completely is not
really an option.

To fix the issues at hand, let's revive FOLL_NUMA as FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT
to restore the original behavior for now and add better comments.

Set FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT independent of FOLL_FORCE in
is_valid_gup_args(), to add that flag for all external GUP users.

Note that there are three GUP-internal __get_user_pages() users that don't
end up calling is_valid_gup_args() and consequently won't get
FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT set.

1) get_dump_page(): we really don't want to handle NUMA hinting
   faults. It specifies FOLL_FORCE and wouldn't have honored NUMA
   hinting faults already.
2) populate_vma_page_range(): we really don't want to handle NUMA hinting
   faults. It specifies FOLL_FORCE on accessible VMAs, so it wouldn't have
   honored NUMA hinting faults already.
3) faultin_vma_page_range(): we similarly don't want to handle NUMA
   hinting faults.

To make the combination of FOLL_FORCE and FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT work in
inaccessible VMAs properly, we have to perform VMA accessibility checks in
gup_can_follow_protnone().

As GUP-fast should reject such pages either way in
pte_access_permitted()/pmd_access_permitted() -- for example on x86-64 and
arm64 that both implement pte_protnone() -- let's just always fallback to
ordinary GUP when stumbling over pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone().

As Linus notes [2], honoring NUMA faults might only make sense for
selected GUP users.

So we should really see if we can instead let relevant GUP callers specify
it manually, and not trigger NUMA hinting faults from GUP as default. 
Prepare for that by making FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT an external GUP flag and
adding appropriate documenation.

While at it, remove a stale comment from follow_trans_huge_pmd(): That
comment for pmd_protnone() was added in commit 2b4847e73004 ("mm: numa:
serialise parallel get_user_page against THP migration"), which noted:

	THP does not unmap pages due to a lack of support for migration
	entries at a PMD level.  This allows races with get_user_pages

Nowadays, we do have PMD migration entries, so the comment no longer
applies.  Let's drop it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726073409.631838-1-liubo254@huawei.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgRiP_9X0rRdZKT8nhemZGNateMtb366t37d8-x7VRs=g@mail.gmail.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230803143208.383663-2-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 474098edac26 ("mm/gup: replace FOLL_NUMA by gup_can_follow_protnone()")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: liubo &lt;liubo254@huawei.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726073409.631838-1-liubo254@huawei.com
Reported-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZMKJjDaqZ7FW0jfe@x1n/
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: remove references to pagevec</title>
<updated>2023-06-23T23:59:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-21T16:45:56+00:00</published>
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Most of these should just refer to the LRU cache rather than the data
structure used to implement the LRU cache.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230621164557.3510324-13-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Most of these should just refer to the LRU cache rather than the data
structure used to implement the LRU cache.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230621164557.3510324-13-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: ptep_get() conversion</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T23:19:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryan Roberts</name>
<email>ryan.roberts@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-12T15:15:45+00:00</published>
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Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use
ptep_get() helper.  This means that by default, the accesses change from a
C dereference to a READ_ONCE().  This is technically the correct thing to
do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are
volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics.

But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by
the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte.  Arch code
is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best.  It is
intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own
implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or
determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source.

Conversion was done using Coccinelle:

----

// $ make coccicheck \
//          COCCI=ptepget.cocci \
//          SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \
//          MODE=patch

virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
pte_t *v;
@@

- *v
+ ptep_get(v)

----

Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to
ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a
variable, where it is correct to do so.  This aims to negate any cost of
READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex.

Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that
was pointed out by kernel test robot.  The issue arose because config
MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including
ptep_get().  HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple
huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep.
So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because
ptep_get() is not defined.  Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference
when MMU=n.  This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be
trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are
defined.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich &lt;dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Convert all instances of direct pte_t* dereferencing to instead use
ptep_get() helper.  This means that by default, the accesses change from a
C dereference to a READ_ONCE().  This is technically the correct thing to
do since where pgtables are modified by HW (for access/dirty) they are
volatile and therefore we should always ensure READ_ONCE() semantics.

But more importantly, by always using the helper, it can be overridden by
the architecture to fully encapsulate the contents of the pte.  Arch code
is deliberately not converted, as the arch code knows best.  It is
intended that arch code (arm64) will override the default with its own
implementation that can (e.g.) hide certain bits from the core code, or
determine young/dirty status by mixing in state from another source.

Conversion was done using Coccinelle:

----

// $ make coccicheck \
//          COCCI=ptepget.cocci \
//          SPFLAGS="--include-headers" \
//          MODE=patch

virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
pte_t *v;
@@

- *v
+ ptep_get(v)

----

Then reviewed and hand-edited to avoid multiple unnecessary calls to
ptep_get(), instead opting to store the result of a single call in a
variable, where it is correct to do so.  This aims to negate any cost of
READ_ONCE() and will benefit arch-overrides that may be more complex.

Included is a fix for an issue in an earlier version of this patch that
was pointed out by kernel test robot.  The issue arose because config
MMU=n elides definition of the ptep helper functions, including
ptep_get().  HUGETLB_PAGE=n configs still define a simple
huge_ptep_clear_flush() for linking purposes, which dereferences the ptep.
So when both configs are disabled, this caused a build error because
ptep_get() is not defined.  Fix by continuing to do a direct dereference
when MMU=n.  This is safe because for this config the arch code cannot be
trying to virtualize the ptes because none of the ptep helpers are
defined.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612151545.3317766-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202305120142.yXsNEo6H-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich &lt;dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove set_compound_page_dtor()</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T23:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sidhartha Kumar</name>
<email>sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-12T16:34:05+00:00</published>
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All users can use the folio equivalent so this function can be safely
removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612163405.99345-1-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar &lt;sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tarun Sahu &lt;tsahu@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
All users can use the folio equivalent so this function can be safely
removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612163405.99345-1-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar &lt;sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tarun Sahu &lt;tsahu@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/huge_memory: split huge pmd under one pte_offset_map()</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T23:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-09T01:41:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c9c1ee20ee84b1a827437ca6dba2f06fe475d9b1'/>
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<content type='text'>
__split_huge_zero_page_pmd() use a single pte_offset_map() to sweep the
extent: it's already under pmd_lock(), so this is no worse for latency;
and since it's supposed to have full control of the just-withdrawn page
table, here choose to VM_BUG_ON if it were to fail.  And please don't
increment haddr by PAGE_SIZE, that should remain huge aligned: declare a
separate addr (not a bugfix, but it was deceptive).

__split_huge_pmd_locked() likewise (but it had declared a separate addr);
and change its BUG_ON(!pte_none) to VM_BUG_ON, for consistency with zero
(those deposited page tables are sometimes victims of random corruption).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/90cbed7f-90d9-b779-4a46-d2485baf9595@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zack Rusin &lt;zackr@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
__split_huge_zero_page_pmd() use a single pte_offset_map() to sweep the
extent: it's already under pmd_lock(), so this is no worse for latency;
and since it's supposed to have full control of the just-withdrawn page
table, here choose to VM_BUG_ON if it were to fail.  And please don't
increment haddr by PAGE_SIZE, that should remain huge aligned: declare a
separate addr (not a bugfix, but it was deceptive).

__split_huge_pmd_locked() likewise (but it had declared a separate addr);
and change its BUG_ON(!pte_none) to VM_BUG_ON, for consistency with zero
(those deposited page tables are sometimes victims of random corruption).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/90cbed7f-90d9-b779-4a46-d2485baf9595@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zack Rusin &lt;zackr@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/mremap: retry if either pte_offset_map_*lock() fails</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T23:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-09T01:32:47+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
move_ptes() return -EAGAIN if pte_offset_map_lock() of old fails, or if
pte_offset_map_nolock() of new fails: move_page_tables() retry if so.

But that does need a pmd_none() check inside, to stop endless loop when
huge shmem is truncated (thank you to syzbot); and move_huge_pmd() must
tolerate that a page table might have been allocated there just before (of
course it would be more satisfying to remove the empty page table, but
this is not a path worth optimizing).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/65e5e84a-f04-947-23f2-b97d3462e1e@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zack Rusin &lt;zackr@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
move_ptes() return -EAGAIN if pte_offset_map_lock() of old fails, or if
pte_offset_map_nolock() of new fails: move_page_tables() retry if so.

But that does need a pmd_none() check inside, to stop endless loop when
huge shmem is truncated (thank you to syzbot); and move_huge_pmd() must
tolerate that a page table might have been allocated there just before (of
course it would be more satisfying to remove the empty page table, but
this is not a path worth optimizing).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/65e5e84a-f04-947-23f2-b97d3462e1e@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zack Rusin &lt;zackr@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>THP: avoid lock when check whether THP is in deferred list</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T23:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yin Fengwei</name>
<email>fengwei.yin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-29T08:27:58+00:00</published>
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free_transhuge_page() acquires split queue lock then check whether the THP
was added to deferred list or not.  It brings high deferred queue lock
contention.

It's safe to check whether the THP is in deferred list or not without
holding the deferred queue lock in free_transhuge_page() because when code
hit free_transhuge_page(), there is no one tries to add the folio to
_deferred_list.

Running page_fault1 of will-it-scale + order 2 folio for anonymous
mapping with 96 processes on an Ice Lake 48C/96T test box, we could
see the 61% split_queue_lock contention:
-   63.02%     0.01%  page_fault1_pro  [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] free_transhuge_page
   - 63.01% free_transhuge_page
      + 62.91% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave

With this patch applied, the split_queue_lock contention is less
than 1%.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230429082759.1600796-2-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei &lt;fengwei.yin@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
free_transhuge_page() acquires split queue lock then check whether the THP
was added to deferred list or not.  It brings high deferred queue lock
contention.

It's safe to check whether the THP is in deferred list or not without
holding the deferred queue lock in free_transhuge_page() because when code
hit free_transhuge_page(), there is no one tries to add the folio to
_deferred_list.

Running page_fault1 of will-it-scale + order 2 folio for anonymous
mapping with 96 processes on an Ice Lake 48C/96T test box, we could
see the 61% split_queue_lock contention:
-   63.02%     0.01%  page_fault1_pro  [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] free_transhuge_page
   - 63.01% free_transhuge_page
      + 62.91% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave

With this patch applied, the split_queue_lock contention is less
than 1%.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230429082759.1600796-2-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei &lt;fengwei.yin@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions</title>
<updated>2023-04-21T21:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-18T14:21:13+00:00</published>
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Staring at the comment "Recheck VMA as permissions can change since
migration started" in remove_migration_pte() can result in confusion,
because if the source PTE/PMD indicates write permissions, then there
should be no need to check VMA write permissions when restoring migration
entries or PTE-mapping a PMD.

Commit d3cb8bf6081b ("mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion
and mprotect") introduced the maybe_mkwrite() handling in
remove_migration_pte() in 2014, stating that a race between mprotect() and
migration finishing would be possible, and that we could end up with a
writable PTE that should be readable.

However, mprotect() code first updates vma-&gt;vm_flags / vma-&gt;vm_page_prot
and then walks the page tables to (a) set all present writable PTEs to
read-only and (b) convert all writable migration entries to readable
migration entries.  While walking the page tables and modifying the
entries, migration code has to grab the PT locks to synchronize against
concurrent page table modifications.

Assuming migration would find a writable migration entry (while holding
the PT lock) and replace it with a writable present PTE, surely mprotect()
code didn't stumble over the writable migration entry yet (converting it
into a readable migration entry) and would instead wait for the PT lock to
convert the now present writable PTE into a read-only PTE.  As mprotect()
didn't finish yet, the behavior is just like migration didn't happen: a
writable PTE will be converted to a read-only PTE.

So it's fine to rely on the writability information in the source PTE/PMD
and not recheck against the VMA as long as we're holding the PT lock to
synchronize with anyone who concurrently wants to downgrade write
permissions (like mprotect()) by first adjusting vma-&gt;vm_flags /
vma-&gt;vm_page_prot to then walk over the page tables to adjust the page
table entries.

Running test cases that should reveal such races -- mprotect(PROT_READ)
racing with page migration or THP splitting -- for multiple hours did not
reveal an issue with this cleanup.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418142113.439494-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Staring at the comment "Recheck VMA as permissions can change since
migration started" in remove_migration_pte() can result in confusion,
because if the source PTE/PMD indicates write permissions, then there
should be no need to check VMA write permissions when restoring migration
entries or PTE-mapping a PMD.

Commit d3cb8bf6081b ("mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion
and mprotect") introduced the maybe_mkwrite() handling in
remove_migration_pte() in 2014, stating that a race between mprotect() and
migration finishing would be possible, and that we could end up with a
writable PTE that should be readable.

However, mprotect() code first updates vma-&gt;vm_flags / vma-&gt;vm_page_prot
and then walks the page tables to (a) set all present writable PTEs to
read-only and (b) convert all writable migration entries to readable
migration entries.  While walking the page tables and modifying the
entries, migration code has to grab the PT locks to synchronize against
concurrent page table modifications.

Assuming migration would find a writable migration entry (while holding
the PT lock) and replace it with a writable present PTE, surely mprotect()
code didn't stumble over the writable migration entry yet (converting it
into a readable migration entry) and would instead wait for the PT lock to
convert the now present writable PTE into a read-only PTE.  As mprotect()
didn't finish yet, the behavior is just like migration didn't happen: a
writable PTE will be converted to a read-only PTE.

So it's fine to rely on the writability information in the source PTE/PMD
and not recheck against the VMA as long as we're holding the PT lock to
synchronize with anyone who concurrently wants to downgrade write
permissions (like mprotect()) by first adjusting vma-&gt;vm_flags /
vma-&gt;vm_page_prot to then walk over the page tables to adjust the page
table entries.

Running test cases that should reveal such races -- mprotect(PROT_READ)
racing with page migration or THP splitting -- for multiple hours did not
reveal an issue with this cleanup.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418142113.439494-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm/huge_memory: conditionally call maybe_mkwrite() and drop pte_wrprotect() in __split_huge_pmd_locked()</title>
<updated>2023-04-18T23:30:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-11T14:25:12+00:00</published>
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No need to call maybe_mkwrite() to then wrprotect if the source PMD was not
writable.

It's worth nothing that this now allows for PTEs to be writable even if
the source PMD was not writable: if vma-&gt;vm_page_prot includes write
permissions.

As documented in commit 931298e103c2 ("mm/userfaultfd: rely on
vma-&gt;vm_page_prot in uffd_wp_range()"), any mechanism that intends to
have pages wrprotected (COW, writenotify, mprotect, uffd-wp, softdirty,
...) has to properly adjust vma-&gt;vm_page_prot upfront, to not include
write permissions. If vma-&gt;vm_page_prot includes write permissions, the
PTE/PMD can be writable as default.

This now mimics the handling in mm/migrate.c:remove_migration_pte() and in
mm/huge_memory.c:remove_migration_pmd(), which has been in place for a
long time (except that 96a9c287e25d ("mm/migrate: fix wrongly apply write
bit after mkdirty on sparc64") temporarily changed it).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230411142512.438404-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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No need to call maybe_mkwrite() to then wrprotect if the source PMD was not
writable.

It's worth nothing that this now allows for PTEs to be writable even if
the source PMD was not writable: if vma-&gt;vm_page_prot includes write
permissions.

As documented in commit 931298e103c2 ("mm/userfaultfd: rely on
vma-&gt;vm_page_prot in uffd_wp_range()"), any mechanism that intends to
have pages wrprotected (COW, writenotify, mprotect, uffd-wp, softdirty,
...) has to properly adjust vma-&gt;vm_page_prot upfront, to not include
write permissions. If vma-&gt;vm_page_prot includes write permissions, the
PTE/PMD can be writable as default.

This now mimics the handling in mm/migrate.c:remove_migration_pte() and in
mm/huge_memory.c:remove_migration_pmd(), which has been in place for a
long time (except that 96a9c287e25d ("mm/migrate: fix wrongly apply write
bit after mkdirty on sparc64") temporarily changed it).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230411142512.438404-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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