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<title>mm, slub: better heuristic for number of cpus when calculating slab order</title>
<updated>2021-02-10T19:19:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-09T21:42:32+00:00</published>
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When creating a new kmem cache, SLUB determines how large the slab pages
will based on number of inputs, including the number of CPUs in the
system.  Larger slab pages mean that more objects can be allocated/free
from per-cpu slabs before accessing shared structures, but also
potentially more memory can be wasted due to low slab usage and
fragmentation.  The rough idea of using number of CPUs is that larger
systems will be more likely to benefit from reduced contention, and also
should have enough memory to spare.

Number of CPUs used to be determined as nr_cpu_ids, which is number of
possible cpus, but on some systems many will never be onlined, thus
commit 045ab8c9487b ("mm/slub: let number of online CPUs determine the
slub page order") changed it to nr_online_cpus().  However, for kmem
caches created early before CPUs are onlined, this may lead to
permamently low slab page sizes.

Vincent reports a regression [1] of hackbench on arm64 systems:

  "I'm facing significant performances regression on a large arm64
   server system (224 CPUs). Regressions is also present on small arm64
   system (8 CPUs) but in a far smaller order of magnitude

   On 224 CPUs system : 9 iterations of hackbench -l 16000 -g 16
   v5.11-rc4 : 9.135sec (+/- 0.45%)
   v5.11-rc4 + revert this patch: 3.173sec (+/- 0.48%)
   v5.10: 3.136sec (+/- 0.40%)"

Mel reports a regression [2] of hackbench on x86_64, with lockstat suggesting
page allocator contention:

  "i.e. the patch incurs a 7% to 32% performance penalty. This bisected
   cleanly yesterday when I was looking for the regression and then
   found the thread.

   Numerous caches change size. For example, kmalloc-512 goes from
   order-0 (vanilla) to order-2 with the revert.

   So mostly this is down to the number of times SLUB calls into the
   page allocator which only caches order-0 pages on a per-cpu basis"

Clearly num_online_cpus() doesn't work too early in bootup.  We could
change the order dynamically in a memory hotplug callback, but runtime
order changing for existing kmem caches has been already shown as
dangerous, and removed in 32a6f409b693 ("mm, slub: remove runtime
allocation order changes").

It could be resurrected in a safe manner with some effort, but to fix
the regression we need something simpler.

We could use num_present_cpus() that should be the number of physically
present CPUs even before they are onlined.  That would work for PowerPC
[3], which triggered the original commit, but that still doesn't work on
arm64 [4] as explained in [5].

So this patch tries to determine the best available value without
specific arch knowledge.

 - num_present_cpus() if the number is larger than 1, as that means the
   arch is likely setting it properly

 - nr_cpu_ids otherwise

This should fix the reported regressions while also keeping the effect
of 045ab8c9487b for PowerPC systems.  It's possible there are
configurations where num_present_cpus() is 1 during boot while
nr_cpu_ids is at the same time bloated, so these (if they exist) would
keep the large orders based on nr_cpu_ids as was before 045ab8c9487b.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAKfTPtA_JgMf_+zdFbcb_V9rM7JBWNPjAz9irgwFj7Rou=xzZg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210128134512.GF3592@techsingularity.net/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210123051607.GC2587010@in.ibm.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAKfTPtAjyVmS5VYvU6DBxg4-JEo5bdmWbngf-03YsY18cmWv_g@mail.gmail.com/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210126230305.GD30941@willie-the-truck/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210208134108.22286-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: 045ab8c9487b ("mm/slub: let number of online CPUs determine the slub page order")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Tested-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When creating a new kmem cache, SLUB determines how large the slab pages
will based on number of inputs, including the number of CPUs in the
system.  Larger slab pages mean that more objects can be allocated/free
from per-cpu slabs before accessing shared structures, but also
potentially more memory can be wasted due to low slab usage and
fragmentation.  The rough idea of using number of CPUs is that larger
systems will be more likely to benefit from reduced contention, and also
should have enough memory to spare.

Number of CPUs used to be determined as nr_cpu_ids, which is number of
possible cpus, but on some systems many will never be onlined, thus
commit 045ab8c9487b ("mm/slub: let number of online CPUs determine the
slub page order") changed it to nr_online_cpus().  However, for kmem
caches created early before CPUs are onlined, this may lead to
permamently low slab page sizes.

Vincent reports a regression [1] of hackbench on arm64 systems:

  "I'm facing significant performances regression on a large arm64
   server system (224 CPUs). Regressions is also present on small arm64
   system (8 CPUs) but in a far smaller order of magnitude

   On 224 CPUs system : 9 iterations of hackbench -l 16000 -g 16
   v5.11-rc4 : 9.135sec (+/- 0.45%)
   v5.11-rc4 + revert this patch: 3.173sec (+/- 0.48%)
   v5.10: 3.136sec (+/- 0.40%)"

Mel reports a regression [2] of hackbench on x86_64, with lockstat suggesting
page allocator contention:

  "i.e. the patch incurs a 7% to 32% performance penalty. This bisected
   cleanly yesterday when I was looking for the regression and then
   found the thread.

   Numerous caches change size. For example, kmalloc-512 goes from
   order-0 (vanilla) to order-2 with the revert.

   So mostly this is down to the number of times SLUB calls into the
   page allocator which only caches order-0 pages on a per-cpu basis"

Clearly num_online_cpus() doesn't work too early in bootup.  We could
change the order dynamically in a memory hotplug callback, but runtime
order changing for existing kmem caches has been already shown as
dangerous, and removed in 32a6f409b693 ("mm, slub: remove runtime
allocation order changes").

It could be resurrected in a safe manner with some effort, but to fix
the regression we need something simpler.

We could use num_present_cpus() that should be the number of physically
present CPUs even before they are onlined.  That would work for PowerPC
[3], which triggered the original commit, but that still doesn't work on
arm64 [4] as explained in [5].

So this patch tries to determine the best available value without
specific arch knowledge.

 - num_present_cpus() if the number is larger than 1, as that means the
   arch is likely setting it properly

 - nr_cpu_ids otherwise

This should fix the reported regressions while also keeping the effect
of 045ab8c9487b for PowerPC systems.  It's possible there are
configurations where num_present_cpus() is 1 during boot while
nr_cpu_ids is at the same time bloated, so these (if they exist) would
keep the large orders based on nr_cpu_ids as was before 045ab8c9487b.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAKfTPtA_JgMf_+zdFbcb_V9rM7JBWNPjAz9irgwFj7Rou=xzZg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210128134512.GF3592@techsingularity.net/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210123051607.GC2587010@in.ibm.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAKfTPtAjyVmS5VYvU6DBxg4-JEo5bdmWbngf-03YsY18cmWv_g@mail.gmail.com/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210126230305.GD30941@willie-the-truck/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210208134108.22286-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: 045ab8c9487b ("mm/slub: let number of online CPUs determine the slub page order")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Tested-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Bharata B Rao &lt;bharata@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "mm: memcontrol: avoid workload stalls when lowering memory.high"</title>
<updated>2021-02-10T01:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-09T21:42:28+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 536d3bf261a2fc3b05b3e91e7eef7383443015cf, as it can
cause writers to memory.high to get stuck in the kernel forever,
performing page reclaim and consuming excessive amounts of CPU cycles.

Before the patch, a write to memory.high would first put the new limit
in place for the workload, and then reclaim the requested delta.  After
the patch, the kernel tries to reclaim the delta before putting the new
limit into place, in order to not overwhelm the workload with a sudden,
large excess over the limit.  However, if reclaim is actively racing
with new allocations from the uncurbed workload, it can keep the write()
working inside the kernel indefinitely.

This is causing problems in Facebook production.  A privileged
system-level daemon that adjusts memory.high for various workloads
running on a host can get unexpectedly stuck in the kernel and
essentially turn into a sort of involuntary kswapd for one of the
workloads.  We've observed that daemon busy-spin in a write() for
minutes at a time, neglecting its other duties on the system, and
expending privileged system resources on behalf of a workload.

To remedy this, we have first considered changing the reclaim logic to
break out after a couple of loops - whether the workload has converged
to the new limit or not - and bound the write() call this way.  However,
the root cause that inspired the sequence change in the first place has
been fixed through other means, and so a revert back to the proven
limit-setting sequence, also used by memory.max, is preferable.

The sequence was changed to avoid extreme latencies in the workload when
the limit was lowered: the sudden, large excess created by the limit
lowering would erroneously trigger the penalty sleeping code that is
meant to throttle excessive growth from below.  Allocating threads could
end up sleeping long after the write() had already reclaimed the delta
for which they were being punished.

However, erroneous throttling also caused problems in other scenarios at
around the same time.  This resulted in commit b3ff92916af3 ("mm, memcg:
reclaim more aggressively before high allocator throttling"), included
in the same release as the offending commit.  When allocating threads
now encounter large excess caused by a racing write() to memory.high,
instead of entering punitive sleeps, they will simply be tasked with
helping reclaim down the excess, and will be held no longer than it
takes to accomplish that.  This is in line with regular limit
enforcement - i.e.  if the workload allocates up against or over an
otherwise unchanged limit from below.

With the patch breaking userspace, and the root cause addressed by other
means already, revert it again.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210122184341.292461-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: 536d3bf261a2 ("mm: memcontrol: avoid workload stalls when lowering memory.high")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[5.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 536d3bf261a2fc3b05b3e91e7eef7383443015cf, as it can
cause writers to memory.high to get stuck in the kernel forever,
performing page reclaim and consuming excessive amounts of CPU cycles.

Before the patch, a write to memory.high would first put the new limit
in place for the workload, and then reclaim the requested delta.  After
the patch, the kernel tries to reclaim the delta before putting the new
limit into place, in order to not overwhelm the workload with a sudden,
large excess over the limit.  However, if reclaim is actively racing
with new allocations from the uncurbed workload, it can keep the write()
working inside the kernel indefinitely.

This is causing problems in Facebook production.  A privileged
system-level daemon that adjusts memory.high for various workloads
running on a host can get unexpectedly stuck in the kernel and
essentially turn into a sort of involuntary kswapd for one of the
workloads.  We've observed that daemon busy-spin in a write() for
minutes at a time, neglecting its other duties on the system, and
expending privileged system resources on behalf of a workload.

To remedy this, we have first considered changing the reclaim logic to
break out after a couple of loops - whether the workload has converged
to the new limit or not - and bound the write() call this way.  However,
the root cause that inspired the sequence change in the first place has
been fixed through other means, and so a revert back to the proven
limit-setting sequence, also used by memory.max, is preferable.

The sequence was changed to avoid extreme latencies in the workload when
the limit was lowered: the sudden, large excess created by the limit
lowering would erroneously trigger the penalty sleeping code that is
meant to throttle excessive growth from below.  Allocating threads could
end up sleeping long after the write() had already reclaimed the delta
for which they were being punished.

However, erroneous throttling also caused problems in other scenarios at
around the same time.  This resulted in commit b3ff92916af3 ("mm, memcg:
reclaim more aggressively before high allocator throttling"), included
in the same release as the offending commit.  When allocating threads
now encounter large excess caused by a racing write() to memory.high,
instead of entering punitive sleeps, they will simply be tasked with
helping reclaim down the excess, and will be held no longer than it
takes to accomplish that.  This is in line with regular limit
enforcement - i.e.  if the workload allocates up against or over an
otherwise unchanged limit from below.

With the patch breaking userspace, and the root cause addressed by other
means already, revert it again.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210122184341.292461-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: 536d3bf261a2 ("mm: memcontrol: avoid workload stalls when lowering memory.high")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[5.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/mremap: fix BUILD_BUG_ON() error in get_extent</title>
<updated>2021-02-10T01:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-09T21:42:10+00:00</published>
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clang can't evaluate this function argument at compile time when the
function is not inlined, which leads to a link time failure:

  ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __compiletime_assert_414
  &gt;&gt;&gt; referenced by mremap.c
  &gt;&gt;&gt;               mremap.o:(get_extent) in archive mm/built-in.a

Mark the function as __always_inline to avoid it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201230154104.522605-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 9ad9718bfa41 ("mm/mremap: calculate extent in one place")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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clang can't evaluate this function argument at compile time when the
function is not inlined, which leads to a link time failure:

  ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __compiletime_assert_414
  &gt;&gt;&gt; referenced by mremap.c
  &gt;&gt;&gt;               mremap.o:(get_extent) in archive mm/built-in.a

Mark the function as __always_inline to avoid it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201230154104.522605-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 9ad9718bfa41 ("mm/mremap: calculate extent in one place")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: fix stack traces dependency for HW_TAGS</title>
<updated>2021-02-10T01:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-09T21:42:03+00:00</published>
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Currently, whether the alloc/free stack traces collection is enabled by
default for hardware tag-based KASAN depends on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.
The intention for this dependency was to only enable collection on slow
debug kernels due to a significant perf and memory impact.

As it turns out, CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not considered a debug option
and is enabled on many productions kernels including Android and Ubuntu.
As the result, this dependency is pointless and only complicates the
code and documentation.

Having stack traces collection disabled by default would make the
hardware mode work differently to to the software ones, which is
confusing.

This change removes the dependency and enables stack traces collection
by default.

Looking into the future, this default might makes sense for production
kernels, assuming we implement a fast stack trace collection approach.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6678d77ceffb71f1cff2cf61560e2ffe7bb6bfe9.1612808820.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, whether the alloc/free stack traces collection is enabled by
default for hardware tag-based KASAN depends on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.
The intention for this dependency was to only enable collection on slow
debug kernels due to a significant perf and memory impact.

As it turns out, CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not considered a debug option
and is enabled on many productions kernels including Android and Ubuntu.
As the result, this dependency is pointless and only complicates the
code and documentation.

Having stack traces collection disabled by default would make the
hardware mode work differently to to the software ones, which is
confusing.

This change removes the dependency and enables stack traces collection
by default.

Looking into the future, this default might makes sense for production
kernels, assuming we implement a fast stack trace collection approach.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6678d77ceffb71f1cff2cf61560e2ffe7bb6bfe9.1612808820.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb: fix missing put_page in gather_surplus_pages()</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T19:03:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muchun Song</name>
<email>songmuchun@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-05T02:33:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e558464be982af2546229dcbef746d24e942abaa'/>
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<content type='text'>
The VM_BUG_ON_PAGE avoids the generation of any code, even if that
expression has side-effects when !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210126031009.96266-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: e5dfacebe4a4 ("mm/hugetlb.c: just use put_page_testzero() instead of page_count()")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The VM_BUG_ON_PAGE avoids the generation of any code, even if that
expression has side-effects when !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210126031009.96266-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: e5dfacebe4a4 ("mm/hugetlb.c: just use put_page_testzero() instead of page_count()")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: make addr_has_metadata() return true for valid addresses</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T19:03:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincenzo Frascino</name>
<email>vincenzo.frascino@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-05T02:32:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b99acdcbfe3c8394ddd8b8d89d9bae2bbba4a459'/>
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<content type='text'>
Currently, addr_has_metadata() returns true for every address.  An
invalid address (e.g.  NULL) passed to the function when, KASAN_HW_TAGS
is enabled, leads to a kernel panic.

Make addr_has_metadata() return true for valid addresses only.

Note: KASAN_HW_TAGS support for vmalloc will be added with a future
patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210126134409.47894-3-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com
Fixes: 2e903b91479782b7 ("kasan, arm64: implement HW_TAGS runtime")
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, addr_has_metadata() returns true for every address.  An
invalid address (e.g.  NULL) passed to the function when, KASAN_HW_TAGS
is enabled, leads to a kernel panic.

Make addr_has_metadata() return true for valid addresses only.

Note: KASAN_HW_TAGS support for vmalloc will be added with a future
patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210126134409.47894-3-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com
Fixes: 2e903b91479782b7 ("kasan, arm64: implement HW_TAGS runtime")
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/filemap: add missing mem_cgroup_uncharge() to __add_to_page_cache_locked()</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T19:03:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-05T02:32:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=da74240eb3fcd806edb1643874363e954d9e948b'/>
<id>da74240eb3fcd806edb1643874363e954d9e948b</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 3fea5a499d57 ("mm: memcontrol: convert page cache to a new
mem_cgroup_charge() API") introduced a bug in __add_to_page_cache_locked()
causing the following splat:

  page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_memcg(page))
  pages's memcg:ffff8889a4116000
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at mm/memcontrol.c:2924!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
  CPU: 35 PID: 12345 Comm: cat Tainted: G S      W I       5.11.0-rc4-debug+ #1
  Hardware name: HP HP Z8 G4 Workstation/81C7, BIOS P60 v01.25 12/06/2017
  RIP: commit_charge+0xf4/0x130
  Call Trace:
    mem_cgroup_charge+0x175/0x770
    __add_to_page_cache_locked+0x712/0xad0
    add_to_page_cache_lru+0xc5/0x1f0
    cachefiles_read_or_alloc_pages+0x895/0x2e10 [cachefiles]
    __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x6c0/0xa00 [fscache]
    __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x16d/0x630 [nfs]
    nfs_readpages+0x24e/0x540 [nfs]
    read_pages+0x5b1/0xc40
    page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x460/0x750
    generic_file_buffered_read_get_pages+0x290/0x1710
    generic_file_buffered_read+0x2a9/0xc30
    nfs_file_read+0x13f/0x230 [nfs]
    new_sync_read+0x3af/0x610
    vfs_read+0x339/0x4b0
    ksys_read+0xf1/0x1c0
    do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Before that commit, there was a try_charge() and commit_charge() in
__add_to_page_cache_locked().  These two separated charge functions were
replaced by a single mem_cgroup_charge().  However, it forgot to add a
matching mem_cgroup_uncharge() when the xarray insertion failed with the
page released back to the pool.

Fix this by adding a mem_cgroup_uncharge() call when insertion error
happens.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210125042441.20030-1-longman@redhat.com
Fixes: 3fea5a499d57 ("mm: memcontrol: convert page cache to a new mem_cgroup_charge() API")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi &lt;alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;smuchun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 3fea5a499d57 ("mm: memcontrol: convert page cache to a new
mem_cgroup_charge() API") introduced a bug in __add_to_page_cache_locked()
causing the following splat:

  page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_memcg(page))
  pages's memcg:ffff8889a4116000
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at mm/memcontrol.c:2924!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
  CPU: 35 PID: 12345 Comm: cat Tainted: G S      W I       5.11.0-rc4-debug+ #1
  Hardware name: HP HP Z8 G4 Workstation/81C7, BIOS P60 v01.25 12/06/2017
  RIP: commit_charge+0xf4/0x130
  Call Trace:
    mem_cgroup_charge+0x175/0x770
    __add_to_page_cache_locked+0x712/0xad0
    add_to_page_cache_lru+0xc5/0x1f0
    cachefiles_read_or_alloc_pages+0x895/0x2e10 [cachefiles]
    __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x6c0/0xa00 [fscache]
    __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x16d/0x630 [nfs]
    nfs_readpages+0x24e/0x540 [nfs]
    read_pages+0x5b1/0xc40
    page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x460/0x750
    generic_file_buffered_read_get_pages+0x290/0x1710
    generic_file_buffered_read+0x2a9/0xc30
    nfs_file_read+0x13f/0x230 [nfs]
    new_sync_read+0x3af/0x610
    vfs_read+0x339/0x4b0
    ksys_read+0xf1/0x1c0
    do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Before that commit, there was a try_charge() and commit_charge() in
__add_to_page_cache_locked().  These two separated charge functions were
replaced by a single mem_cgroup_charge().  However, it forgot to add a
matching mem_cgroup_uncharge() when the xarray insertion failed with the
page released back to the pool.

Fix this by adding a mem_cgroup_uncharge() call when insertion error
happens.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210125042441.20030-1-longman@redhat.com
Fixes: 3fea5a499d57 ("mm: memcontrol: convert page cache to a new mem_cgroup_charge() API")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi &lt;alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;smuchun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T19:03:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-05T02:32:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2dcb3964544177c51853a210b6ad400de78ef17d'/>
<id>2dcb3964544177c51853a210b6ad400de78ef17d</id>
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With kaslr the kernel image is placed at a random place, so starting the
bottom-up allocation with the kernel_end can result in an allocation
failure and a warning like this one:

  hugetlb_cma: reserve 2048 MiB, up to 2048 MiB per node
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  memblock: bottom-up allocation failed, memory hotremove may be affected
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/memblock.c:332 memblock_find_in_range_node+0x178/0x25a
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.10.0+ #1169
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:memblock_find_in_range_node+0x178/0x25a
  Code: e9 6d ff ff ff 48 85 c0 0f 85 da 00 00 00 80 3d 9b 35 df 00 00 75 15 48 c7 c7 c0 75 59 88 c6 05 8b 35 df 00 01 e8 25 8a fa ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 c7 44 24 20 ff ff ff ff 44 89 e6 44 89 ea 48 c7 c1 70 5c
  RSP: 0000:ffffffff88803d18 EFLAGS: 00010086 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000240000000 RCX: 00000000ffffdfff
  RDX: 00000000ffffdfff RSI: 00000000ffffffea RDI: 0000000000000046
  RBP: 0000000100000000 R08: ffffffff88922788 R09: 0000000000009ffb
  R10: 00000000ffffe000 R11: 3fffffffffffffff R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000080000000 R15: 00000001fb42c000
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff88f71000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: ffffa080fb401000 CR3: 00000001fa80a000 CR4: 00000000000406b0
  Call Trace:
    memblock_alloc_range_nid+0x8d/0x11e
    cma_declare_contiguous_nid+0x2c4/0x38c
    hugetlb_cma_reserve+0xdc/0x128
    flush_tlb_one_kernel+0xc/0x20
    native_set_fixmap+0x82/0xd0
    flat_get_apic_id+0x5/0x10
    register_lapic_address+0x8e/0x97
    setup_arch+0x8a5/0xc3f
    start_kernel+0x66/0x547
    load_ucode_bsp+0x4c/0xcd
    secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb0/0xbb
  random: get_random_bytes called from __warn+0xab/0x110 with crng_init=0
  ---[ end trace f151227d0b39be70 ]---

At the same time, the kernel image is protected with memblock_reserve(),
so we can just start searching at PAGE_SIZE.  In this case the bottom-up
allocation has the same chances to success as a top-down allocation, so
there is no reason to fallback in the case of a failure.  All together it
simplifies the logic.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201217201214.3414100-2-guro@fb.com
Fixes: 8fabc623238e ("powerpc: Ensure that swiotlb buffer is allocated from low memory")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Wonhyuk Yang &lt;vvghjk1234@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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With kaslr the kernel image is placed at a random place, so starting the
bottom-up allocation with the kernel_end can result in an allocation
failure and a warning like this one:

  hugetlb_cma: reserve 2048 MiB, up to 2048 MiB per node
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  memblock: bottom-up allocation failed, memory hotremove may be affected
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/memblock.c:332 memblock_find_in_range_node+0x178/0x25a
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.10.0+ #1169
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:memblock_find_in_range_node+0x178/0x25a
  Code: e9 6d ff ff ff 48 85 c0 0f 85 da 00 00 00 80 3d 9b 35 df 00 00 75 15 48 c7 c7 c0 75 59 88 c6 05 8b 35 df 00 01 e8 25 8a fa ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 c7 44 24 20 ff ff ff ff 44 89 e6 44 89 ea 48 c7 c1 70 5c
  RSP: 0000:ffffffff88803d18 EFLAGS: 00010086 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000240000000 RCX: 00000000ffffdfff
  RDX: 00000000ffffdfff RSI: 00000000ffffffea RDI: 0000000000000046
  RBP: 0000000100000000 R08: ffffffff88922788 R09: 0000000000009ffb
  R10: 00000000ffffe000 R11: 3fffffffffffffff R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000080000000 R15: 00000001fb42c000
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff88f71000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: ffffa080fb401000 CR3: 00000001fa80a000 CR4: 00000000000406b0
  Call Trace:
    memblock_alloc_range_nid+0x8d/0x11e
    cma_declare_contiguous_nid+0x2c4/0x38c
    hugetlb_cma_reserve+0xdc/0x128
    flush_tlb_one_kernel+0xc/0x20
    native_set_fixmap+0x82/0xd0
    flat_get_apic_id+0x5/0x10
    register_lapic_address+0x8e/0x97
    setup_arch+0x8a5/0xc3f
    start_kernel+0x66/0x547
    load_ucode_bsp+0x4c/0xcd
    secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb0/0xbb
  random: get_random_bytes called from __warn+0xab/0x110 with crng_init=0
  ---[ end trace f151227d0b39be70 ]---

At the same time, the kernel image is protected with memblock_reserve(),
so we can just start searching at PAGE_SIZE.  In this case the bottom-up
allocation has the same chances to success as a top-down allocation, so
there is no reason to fallback in the case of a failure.  All together it
simplifies the logic.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201217201214.3414100-2-guro@fb.com
Fixes: 8fabc623238e ("powerpc: Ensure that swiotlb buffer is allocated from low memory")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Wonhyuk Yang &lt;vvghjk1234@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T19:03:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-05T02:32:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1c2f67308af4c102b4e1e6cd6f69819ae59408e0'/>
<id>1c2f67308af4c102b4e1e6cd6f69819ae59408e0</id>
<content type='text'>
Sergey reported deadlock between kswapd correctly doing its usual
lock_page(page) followed by down_read(page-&gt;mapping-&gt;i_mmap_rwsem), and
madvise(MADV_REMOVE) on an madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) area doing
down_write(page-&gt;mapping-&gt;i_mmap_rwsem) followed by lock_page(page).

This happened when shmem_fallocate(punch hole)'s unmap_mapping_range()
reaches zap_pmd_range()'s call to __split_huge_pmd().  The same deadlock
could occur when partially truncating a mapped huge tmpfs file, or using
fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) on it.

__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock was added in 5.8, to make sure that any
concurrent use of reuse_swap_page() (holding page lock) could not catch
the anon THP's mapcounts and swapcounts while they were being split.

Fortunately, reuse_swap_page() is never applied to a shmem or file THP
(not even by khugepaged, which checks PageSwapCache before calling), and
anonymous THPs are never created in shmem or file areas: so that
__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock can only be necessary for anonymous THPs,
on which there is no risk of deadlock with i_mmap_rwsem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2101161409470.2022@eggly.anvils
Fixes: c444eb564fb1 ("mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Sergey reported deadlock between kswapd correctly doing its usual
lock_page(page) followed by down_read(page-&gt;mapping-&gt;i_mmap_rwsem), and
madvise(MADV_REMOVE) on an madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) area doing
down_write(page-&gt;mapping-&gt;i_mmap_rwsem) followed by lock_page(page).

This happened when shmem_fallocate(punch hole)'s unmap_mapping_range()
reaches zap_pmd_range()'s call to __split_huge_pmd().  The same deadlock
could occur when partially truncating a mapped huge tmpfs file, or using
fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) on it.

__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock was added in 5.8, to make sure that any
concurrent use of reuse_swap_page() (holding page lock) could not catch
the anon THP's mapcounts and swapcounts while they were being split.

Fortunately, reuse_swap_page() is never applied to a shmem or file THP
(not even by khugepaged, which checks PageSwapCache before calling), and
anonymous THPs are never created in shmem or file areas: so that
__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock can only be necessary for anonymous THPs,
on which there is no risk of deadlock with i_mmap_rwsem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2101161409470.2022@eggly.anvils
Fixes: c444eb564fb1 ("mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm, compaction: move high_pfn to the for loop scope</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T19:03:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>Rokudo Yan</name>
<email>wu-yan@tcl.com</email>
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<published>2021-02-05T02:32:20+00:00</published>
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In fast_isolate_freepages, high_pfn will be used if a prefered one (ie
PFN &gt;= low_fn) not found.

But the high_pfn is not reset before searching an free area, so when it
was used as freepage, it may from another free area searched before.  As
a result move_freelist_head(freelist, freepage) will have unexpected
behavior (eg corrupt the MOVABLE freelist)

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dead000000000200
  Mem abort info:
    ESR = 0x96000044
    Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
    SET = 0, FnV = 0
    EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  Data abort info:
    ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000044
    CM = 0, WnR = 1
  [dead000000000200] address between user and kernel address ranges

  -000|list_cut_before(inline)
  -000|move_freelist_head(inline)
  -000|fast_isolate_freepages(inline)
  -000|isolate_freepages(inline)
  -000|compaction_alloc(?, ?)
  -001|unmap_and_move(inline)
  -001|migrate_pages([NSD:0xFFFFFF80088CBBD0] from = 0xFFFFFF80088CBD88, [NSD:0xFFFFFF80088CBBC8] get_new_p
  -002|__read_once_size(inline)
  -002|static_key_count(inline)
  -002|static_key_false(inline)
  -002|trace_mm_compaction_migratepages(inline)
  -002|compact_zone(?, [NSD:0xFFFFFF80088CBCB0] capc = 0x0)
  -003|kcompactd_do_work(inline)
  -003|kcompactd([X19] p = 0xFFFFFF93227FBC40)
  -004|kthread([X20] _create = 0xFFFFFFE1AFB26380)
  -005|ret_from_fork(asm)

The issue was reported on an smart phone product with 6GB ram and 3GB
zram as swap device.

This patch fixes the issue by reset high_pfn before searching each free
area, which ensure freepage and freelist match when call
move_freelist_head in fast_isolate_freepages().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-12-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210112094720.1238444-1-wu-yan@tcl.com
Fixes: 5a811889de10f1eb ("mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration target")
Signed-off-by: Rokudo Yan &lt;wu-yan@tcl.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In fast_isolate_freepages, high_pfn will be used if a prefered one (ie
PFN &gt;= low_fn) not found.

But the high_pfn is not reset before searching an free area, so when it
was used as freepage, it may from another free area searched before.  As
a result move_freelist_head(freelist, freepage) will have unexpected
behavior (eg corrupt the MOVABLE freelist)

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dead000000000200
  Mem abort info:
    ESR = 0x96000044
    Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
    SET = 0, FnV = 0
    EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  Data abort info:
    ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000044
    CM = 0, WnR = 1
  [dead000000000200] address between user and kernel address ranges

  -000|list_cut_before(inline)
  -000|move_freelist_head(inline)
  -000|fast_isolate_freepages(inline)
  -000|isolate_freepages(inline)
  -000|compaction_alloc(?, ?)
  -001|unmap_and_move(inline)
  -001|migrate_pages([NSD:0xFFFFFF80088CBBD0] from = 0xFFFFFF80088CBD88, [NSD:0xFFFFFF80088CBBC8] get_new_p
  -002|__read_once_size(inline)
  -002|static_key_count(inline)
  -002|static_key_false(inline)
  -002|trace_mm_compaction_migratepages(inline)
  -002|compact_zone(?, [NSD:0xFFFFFF80088CBCB0] capc = 0x0)
  -003|kcompactd_do_work(inline)
  -003|kcompactd([X19] p = 0xFFFFFF93227FBC40)
  -004|kthread([X20] _create = 0xFFFFFFE1AFB26380)
  -005|ret_from_fork(asm)

The issue was reported on an smart phone product with 6GB ram and 3GB
zram as swap device.

This patch fixes the issue by reset high_pfn before searching each free
area, which ensure freepage and freelist match when call
move_freelist_head in fast_isolate_freepages().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-12-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210112094720.1238444-1-wu-yan@tcl.com
Fixes: 5a811889de10f1eb ("mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration target")
Signed-off-by: Rokudo Yan &lt;wu-yan@tcl.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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