linux.git/mm, branch v5.1-rc2

Merge tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2019-03-16T20:05:32+00:00

Pull device-dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "New device-dax infrastructure to allow persistent memory and other
  "reserved" / performance differentiated memories, to be assigned to
  the core-mm as "System RAM".

  Some users want to use persistent memory as additional volatile
  memory. They are willing to cope with potential performance
  differences, for example between DRAM and 3D Xpoint, and want to use
  typical Linux memory management apis rather than a userspace memory
  allocator layered over an mmap() of a dax file. The administration
  model is to decide how much Persistent Memory (pmem) to use as System
  RAM, create a device-dax-mode namespace of that size, and then assign
  it to the core-mm. The rationale for device-dax is that it is a
  generic memory-mapping driver that can be layered over any "special
  purpose" memory, not just pmem. On subsequent boots udev rules can be
  used to restore the memory assignment.

  One implication of using pmem as RAM is that mlock() no longer keeps
  data off persistent media. For this reason it is recommended to enable
  NVDIMM Security (previously merged for 5.0) to encrypt pmem contents
  at rest. We considered making this recommendation an actively enforced
  requirement, but in the end decided to leave it as a distribution /
  administrator policy to allow for emulation and test environments that
  lack security capable NVDIMMs.

  Summary:

   - Replace the /sys/class/dax device model with /sys/bus/dax, and
     include a compat driver so distributions can opt-in to the new ABI.

   - Allow for an alternative driver for the device-dax address-range

   - Introduce the 'kmem' driver to hotplug / assign a device-dax
     address-range to the core-mm.

   - Arrange for the device-dax target-node to be onlined so that the
     newly added memory range can be uniquely referenced by numa apis"

NOTE! I'm not entirely happy with the whole "PMEM as RAM" model because
we currently have special - and very annoying rules in the kernel about
accessing PMEM only with the "MC safe" accessors, because machine checks
inside the regular repeat string copy functions can be fatal in some
(not described) circumstances.

And apparently the PMEM modules can cause that a lot more than regular
RAM.  The argument is that this happens because PMEM doesn't necessarily
get scrubbed at boot like RAM does, but that is planned to be added for
the user space tooling.

Quoting Dan from another email:
 "The exposure can be reduced in the volatile-RAM case by scanning for
  and clearing errors before it is onlined as RAM. The userspace tooling
  for that can be in place before v5.1-final. There's also runtime
  notifications of errors via acpi_nfit_uc_error_notify() from
  background scrubbers on the DIMM devices. With that mechanism the
  kernel could proactively clear newly discovered poison in the volatile
  case, but that would be additional development more suitable for v5.2.

  I understand the concern, and the need to highlight this issue by
  tapping the brakes on feature development, but I don't see PMEM as RAM
  making the situation worse when the exposure is also there via DAX in
  the PMEM case. Volatile-RAM is arguably a safer use case since it's
  possible to repair pages where the persistent case needs active
  application coordination"

* tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM
  mm/resource: Let walk_system_ram_range() search child resources
  mm/memory-hotplug: Allow memory resources to be children
  mm/resource: Move HMM pr_debug() deeper into resource code
  mm/resource: Return real error codes from walk failures
  device-dax: Add a 'modalias' attribute to DAX 'bus' devices
  device-dax: Add a 'target_node' attribute
  device-dax: Auto-bind device after successful new_id
  acpi/nfit, device-dax: Identify differentiated memory with a unique numa-node
  device-dax: Add /sys/class/dax backwards compatibility
  device-dax: Add support for a dax override driver
  device-dax: Move resource pinning+mapping into the common driver
  device-dax: Introduce bus + driver model
  device-dax: Start defining a dax bus model
  device-dax: Remove multi-resource infrastructure
  device-dax: Kill dax_region base
  device-dax: Kill dax_region ida

filemap: add a comment about FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT behavior

2019-03-15T18:26:07+00:00

I thought Josef Bacik's patch to drop the mmap_sem was buggy, because
when looking at the error cases, there was one case where we returned
VM_FAULT_RETRY without actually dropping the mmap_sem.

Josef had to explain to me (using small words) that yes, that's actually
what we're supposed to do, and his patch was correct.  Which not only
convinced me he knew what he was doing and I should stop arguing with
him, but also that I should add a comment to the case I was confused
about.

Patiently-pointed-out-by: Josef Bacik 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

filemap: drop the mmap_sem for all blocking operations

2019-03-15T18:21:25+00:00

Currently we only drop the mmap_sem if there is contention on the page
lock.  The idea is that we issue readahead and then go to lock the page
while it is under IO and we want to not hold the mmap_sem during the IO.

The problem with this is the assumption that the readahead does anything.
In the case that the box is under extreme memory or IO pressure we may end
up not reading anything at all for readahead, which means we will end up
reading in the page under the mmap_sem.

Even if the readahead does something, it could get throttled because of io
pressure on the system and the process is in a lower priority cgroup.

Holding the mmap_sem while doing IO is problematic because it can cause
system-wide priority inversions.  Consider some large company that does a
lot of web traffic.  This large company has load balancing logic in it's
core web server, cause some engineer thought this was a brilliant plan.
This load balancing logic gets statistics from /proc about the system,
which trip over processes mmap_sem for various reasons.  Now the web
server application is in a protected cgroup, but these other processes may
not be, and if they are being throttled while their mmap_sem is held we'll
stall, and cause this nice death spiral.

Instead rework filemap fault path to drop the mmap sem at any point that
we may do IO or block for an extended period of time.  This includes while
issuing readahead, locking the page, or needing to call ->readpage because
readahead did not occur.  Then once we have a fully uptodate page we can
return with VM_FAULT_RETRY and come back again to find our nicely in-cache
page that was gotten outside of the mmap_sem.

This patch also adds a new helper for locking the page with the mmap_sem
dropped.  This doesn't make sense currently as generally speaking if the
page is already locked it'll have been read in (unless there was an error)
before it was unlocked.  However a forthcoming patchset will change this
with the ability to abort read-ahead bio's if necessary, making it more
likely that we could contend for a page lock and still have a not uptodate
page.  This allows us to deal with this case by grabbing the lock and
issuing the IO without the mmap_sem held, and then returning
VM_FAULT_RETRY to come back around.

[josef@toxicpanda.com: v6]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181212152757.10017-1-josef@toxicpanda.com
[kirill@shutemov.name: fix race in filemap_fault()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181228235106.okk3oastsnpxusxs@kshutemo-mobl1
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211173801.29535-4-josef@toxicpanda.com
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Tested-by: syzbot+b437b5a429d680cf2217@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

filemap: kill page_cache_read usage in filemap_fault

2019-03-15T18:21:25+00:00

Patch series "drop the mmap_sem when doing IO in the fault path", v6.

Now that we have proper isolation in place with cgroups2 we have started
going through and fixing the various priority inversions.  Most are all
gone now, but this one is sort of weird since it's not necessarily a
priority inversion that happens within the kernel, but rather because of
something userspace does.

We have giant applications that we want to protect, and parts of these
giant applications do things like watch the system state to determine how
healthy the box is for load balancing and such.  This involves running
'ps' or other such utilities.  These utilities will often walk
/proc//whatever, and these files can sometimes need to
down_read(&task->mmap_sem).  Not usually a big deal, but we noticed when
we are stress testing that sometimes our protected application has latency
spikes trying to get the mmap_sem for tasks that are in lower priority
cgroups.

This is because any down_write() on a semaphore essentially turns it into
a mutex, so even if we currently have it held for reading, any new readers
will not be allowed on to keep from starving the writer.  This is fine,
except a lower priority task could be stuck doing IO because it has been
throttled to the point that its IO is taking much longer than normal.  But
because a higher priority group depends on this completing it is now stuck
behind lower priority work.

In order to avoid this particular priority inversion we want to use the
existing retry mechanism to stop from holding the mmap_sem at all if we
are going to do IO.  This already exists in the read case sort of, but
needed to be extended for more than just grabbing the page lock.  With
io.latency we throttle at submit_bio() time, so the readahead stuff can
block and even page_cache_read can block, so all these paths need to have
the mmap_sem dropped.

The other big thing is ->page_mkwrite.  btrfs is particularly shitty here
because we have to reserve space for the dirty page, which can be a very
expensive operation.  We use the same retry method as the read path, and
simply cache the page and verify the page is still setup properly the next
pass through ->page_mkwrite().

I've tested these patches with xfstests and there are no regressions.

This patch (of 3):

If we do not have a page at filemap_fault time we'll do this weird forced
page_cache_read thing to populate the page, and then drop it again and
loop around and find it.  This makes for 2 ways we can read a page in
filemap_fault, and it's not really needed.  Instead add a FGP_FOR_MMAP
flag so that pagecache_get_page() will return a unlocked page that's in
pagecache.  Then use the normal page locking and readpage logic already in
filemap_fault.  This simplifies the no page in page cache case
significantly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment text]
[josef@toxicpanda.com: don't unlock null page in FGP_FOR_MMAP case]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190312201742.22935-1-josef@toxicpanda.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211173801.29535-2-josef@toxicpanda.com
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

filemap: pass vm_fault to the mmap ra helpers

2019-03-14T21:36:20+00:00

All of the arguments to these functions come from the vmf.

Cut down on the amount of arguments passed by simply passing in the vmf
to these two helpers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211173801.29535-3-josef@toxicpanda.com
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2019-03-12T17:39:53+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - the rest of MM

-  remove flex_arrays, replace with new simple radix-tree implementation

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (38 commits)
  Drop flex_arrays
  sctp: convert to genradix
  proc: commit to genradix
  generic radix trees
  selinux: convert to kvmalloc
  md: convert to kvmalloc
  openvswitch: convert to kvmalloc
  of: fix kmemleak crash caused by imbalance in early memory reservation
  mm: memblock: update comments and kernel-doc
  memblock: split checks whether a region should be skipped to a helper function
  memblock: remove memblock_{set,clear}_region_flags
  memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants
  memblock: memblock_alloc_try_nid: don't panic
  treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  swiotlb: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  mm/percpu: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  sparc: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  ia64: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  arch: don't memset(0) memory returned by memblock_alloc()
  ...

mm: memblock: update comments and kernel-doc

2019-03-12T17:04:02+00:00

* Remove comments mentioning bootmem
* Extend "DOC: memblock overview"
* Add kernel-doc comments for several more functions

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix copy-n-paste error]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549626347-25461-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memblock: split checks whether a region should be skipped to a helper function

2019-03-12T17:04:02+00:00

__next_mem_range() and __next_mem_range_rev() duplicate the code that
checks whether a region should be skipped because of node or flags
incompatibility.

Split this code into a helper function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549455025-17706-3-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memblock: remove memblock_{set,clear}_region_flags

2019-03-12T17:04:02+00:00

The memblock API provides dedicated helpers to set or clear a flag on a
memory region, e.g.  memblock_{mark,clear}_hotplug().

The memblock_{set,clear}_region_flags() functions are used only by the
memblock internal function that adjusts the region flags.  Drop these
functions and use open-coded implementation instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549455025-17706-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants

2019-03-12T17:04:02+00:00

As all the memblock allocation functions return NULL in case of error
rather than panic(), the duplicates with _nopanic suffix can be removed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548057848-15136-22-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 		[printk]
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Dennis Zhou 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Greentime Hu 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Guo Ren 				[c-sky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Juergen Gross 			[Xen]
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Paul Burton 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Rob Herring 
Cc: Rob Herring 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds