linux.git/mm/page-writeback.c, branch v6.13

mm: fix div by zero in bdi_ratio_from_pages

2025-01-13T03:03:36+00:00

During testing it has been detected, that it is possible to get div by
zero error in bdi_set_min_bytes.  The error is caused by the function
bdi_ratio_from_pages().  bdi_ratio_from_pages() calls global_dirty_limits.
If the dirty threshold is 0, the div by zero is raised.  This can happen
if the root user is setting:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio

The following is a test case:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
cd /sys/class/bdi/
echo 1 > strict_limit
echo 8192 > min_bytes

==> error is raised.

The problem is addressed by returning -EINVAL if dirty_ratio or
dirty_bytes is set to 0.

[shr@devkernel.io: check for -EINVAL in bdi_set_min_bytes() and bdi_set_max_bytes()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250108014723.166637-1-shr@devkernel.io
[shr@devkernel.io: v3]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109063411.6591-1-shr@devkernel.io
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250104012037.159386-1-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch 
Reported-by: cheung wall 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/87pll35yd0.fsf@devkernel.io/T/#t
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Qiang Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2024-11-26T20:41:27+00:00

Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Add page -> folio conversions (Joanne Koong, Josef Bacik)

 - Allow max size of fuse requests to be configurable with a sysctl
   (Joanne Koong)

 - Allow FOPEN_DIRECT_IO to take advantage of async code path (yangyun)

 - Fix large kernel reads (like a module load) in virtio_fs (Hou Tao)

 - Fix attribute inconsistency in case readdirplus (and plain lookup in
   corner cases) is racing with inode eviction (Zhang Tianci)

 - Fix a WARN_ON triggered by virtio_fs (Asahi Lina)

* tag 'fuse-update-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (30 commits)
  virtiofs: dax: remove ->writepages() callback
  fuse: check attributes staleness on fuse_iget()
  fuse: remove pages for requests and exclusively use folios
  fuse: convert direct io to use folios
  mm/writeback: add folio_mark_dirty_lock()
  fuse: convert writebacks to use folios
  fuse: convert retrieves to use folios
  fuse: convert ioctls to use folios
  fuse: convert writes (non-writeback) to use folios
  fuse: convert reads to use folios
  fuse: convert readdir to use folios
  fuse: convert readlink to use folios
  fuse: convert cuse to use folios
  fuse: add support in virtio for requests using folios
  fuse: support folios in struct fuse_args_pages and fuse_copy_pages()
  fuse: convert fuse_notify_store to use folios
  fuse: convert fuse_retrieve to use folios
  fuse: use the folio based vmstat helpers
  fuse: convert fuse_writepage_need_send to take a folio
  fuse: convert fuse_do_readpage to use folios
  ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

- Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
series which clean up the implementation:
- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
- "refine storing null"

- The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

- The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
code.

- The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
shadow entries.

- The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

- The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
the hugetlb code.

- The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

- The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

- The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
do.

- The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

- The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
splitting.

- The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

- The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
addresses some potential performance issues.

- The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
read-only-execute module text.

- The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
feature.

- The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
most references to page->index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
struct page.

- The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
DAMON's self testing code.

- The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
this zswap operation.

- The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
tests over to the KUnit framework.

- The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
expected.

- The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
activity.

- The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

- The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
from the kernel boot command line.

- The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

- The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
mm: define general function pXd_init()
kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
...

memcg-v1: no need for memcg locking for writeback tracking

2024-11-07T04:11:19+00:00

During the era of memcg charge migration, the kernel has to be make
sure that the writeback stat updates do not race with the charge
migration.  Otherwise it might update the writeback stats of the wrong
memcg.  Now with the memcg charge migration gone, there is no more race
for writeback stat updates and the previous locking can be removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241025012304.2473312-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Yosry Ahmed 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

memcg-v1: no need for memcg locking for dirty tracking

2024-11-07T04:11:19+00:00

During the era of memcg charge migration, the kernel has to be make
sure that the dirty stat updates do not race with the charge migration.
Otherwise it might update the dirty stats of the wrong memcg.  Now
with the memcg charge migration gone, there is no more race for dirty
stat updates and the previous locking can be removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241025012304.2473312-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Yosry Ahmed 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/page-writeback: raise wb_thresh to prevent write blocking with strictlimit

2024-11-07T04:11:17+00:00

With the strictlimit flag, wb_thresh acts as a hard limit in
balance_dirty_pages() and wb_position_ratio().  When device write
operations are inactive, wb_thresh can drop to 0, causing writes to be
blocked.  The issue occasionally occurs in fuse fs, particularly with
network backends, the write thread is blocked frequently during a period. 
To address it, this patch raises the minimum wb_thresh to a controllable
level, similar to the non-strictlimit case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241023100032.62952-1-jimzhao.ai@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jim Zhao 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/writeback: add folio_mark_dirty_lock()

2024-11-05T10:14:32+00:00

Add a new convenience helper folio_mark_dirty_lock() that grabs the
folio lock before calling folio_mark_dirty().

Refactor set_page_dirty_lock() to directly use folio_mark_dirty_lock().

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

mm/page-writeback.c: Fix comment of wb_domain_writeout_add()

2024-10-22T09:16:58+00:00

__bdi_writeout_inc() has undergone multiple renamings, but the comment
within the function body have not been updated accordingly. Update it
to reflect the latest wb_domain_writeout_add().

Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241009151728.300477-3-yizhou.tang@shopee.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

mm/page-writeback.c: Update comment for BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL

2024-10-22T09:16:58+00:00

The name of the BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL macro is misleading, as it is not
only used in the bandwidth update functions wb_update_bandwidth() and
__wb_update_bandwidth(), but also in the dirty limit update function
domain_update_dirty_limit().

Currently, we haven't found an ideal name, so update the comment only.

Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241009151728.300477-2-yizhou.tang@shopee.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-09-21T14:29:05+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series
in this pull request are:

- "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds
consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation
functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification.

- "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes -
mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications.

- "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No
functional changes - code cleanups only.

- "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a
little cleanup.

- "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and
simplifications and .text shrinkage.

- "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel
Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as

$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 3
kstack_2k 188
kstack_4k 11391
kstack_8k 243
kstack_16k 0

which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at
all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but
partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project".

- "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel
Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory.

- "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3
independent small optimizations of page counters".

- "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from
David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes
powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident.

- "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand.
Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible()
unneeded.

- "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David
Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the
cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector.

- "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation
APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions,
even from a userspace-only harness.

- "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix
issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved
performance.

- "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill
in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo.

- "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand.
Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk())
resulting in the removal of follow_page().

- "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat
Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant
reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown.

- "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill
Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature,

- "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on
DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied
yet.

- "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha
Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple
tree library code.

- "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move
more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code.

- "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt.
Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are
deprecated.

- "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from
Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap
allocation.

- "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various
disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic
code.

- "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly
improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes.

- "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin
Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into
simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem.

- "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice
performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios.

- "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for
khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios.

- "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect()
performance regression due to the addition of mseal().

- "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew
Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type!

- "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy
page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their
accessors/mutators can be removed.

- "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama
Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading
zero-filled zswap pages to backing store.

- "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race
window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during
an unrelated vma tree walk.

- "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of
the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and
better tested.

- "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park.
Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests.

- "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang.
Code cleanups and folio conversions.

- "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts.
Cleanups for shmem controls and stats.

- "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song.
Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning.

- "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more
folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs.

- "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with
per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram
rationalization.

- "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from
SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates.

- "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and
improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page
allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags.

- "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy.
This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas.

- "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky.
Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning.

- "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped
area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area()
implementations to better respect guard areas.

- "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability
of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups.

- "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge
pfnmap support.

- "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()"
from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with
CXL memory.

- "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches
a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering
of poisoned memry.

- "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support
the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather
than into single-page folios"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits)
zram: free secondary algorithms names
uprobes: turn xol_area->pages[2] into xol_area->page
uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping
Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality"
mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices
mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios
mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries
set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs
mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units
mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page()
mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault()
resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()
resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource
mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD
vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support
mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings
mm/x86: support large pfn mappings
...