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* Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of ↵Linus Torvalds13 days4-48/+55
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton: "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM, documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs. Notable series include: - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/ maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge() API". - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in one test. - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being allocated: number of calls and amount of memory. - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in largely similar code sites. - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene" Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction efficiency. - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent" Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should improve hugetlb allocation reliability. - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when memory almost met memcg limit". - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting" Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10% performance improvement in one test. - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor free_area_init_core()". - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement". - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove follow_pfn". - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various page->flags cleanups". - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring". - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series: "Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio" "khugepaged folio conversions" "Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers" "Use folio APIs in procfs" "Clean up __folio_put()" "Some cleanups for memory-failure" "Remove page_mapping()" "More folio compat code removal" - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert hugetlb functions to work on folis". - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2". - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the series "Cover a guard gap corner case". - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl". - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs. This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is "support multi-size THP numa balancing". - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address". - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes". - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting". - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's permission page faults in the series "arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess" "mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS" - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast". - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault path to use struct vm_fault". - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"". - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes". Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different memory types works as intended. - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn follow_pte() fixes". - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups". - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to folio in KSM". - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout counters". - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap same-filled and limit checking cleanups". - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head documentation". - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free" optimizes the freeing of these things. - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback". - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback". - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test. - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series "mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck" "selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test" - Also some maintenance work in the series "mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout" "mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements" - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as XFAIL". - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg: reduce memory consumption by memcg stats". - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking"" * tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits) memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None' selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv() selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal ...
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update ↵SeongJae Park2024-05-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | command To update effective size quota of DAMOS schemes on DAMON sysfs file interface, user should write 'update_schemes_effective_quotas' to the kdamond 'state' file. But the document is mistakenly saying the input string as 'update_schemes_effective_bytes'. Fix it (s/bytes/quotas/). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-8-sj@kernel.org Fixes: a6068d6dfa2f ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document effective_bytes file") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.9.x] Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching ↵SeongJae Park2024-05-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sysfs file The example usage of DAMOS filter sysfs files, specifically the part of 'matching' file writing for memcg type filter, is wrong. The intention is to exclude pages of a memcg that already getting enough care from a given scheme, but the example is setting the filter to apply the scheme to only the pages of the memcg. Fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-7-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 9b7f9322a530 ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMOS filters of sysfs") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240317191358.97578-1-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.3.x] Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for young page type DAMOS filterSeongJae Park2024-05-051-13/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update DAMON usage document for the newly added DAMOS filter type, 'young page'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426195247.100306-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * mm/khugepaged: replace page_mapcount() check by folio_likely_mapped_shared()David Hildenbrand2024-05-051-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We want to limit the use of page_mapcount() to places where absolutely required, to prepare for kernel configs where we won't keep track of per-page mapcounts in large folios. khugepaged is one of the remaining "more challenging" page_mapcount() users, but we might be able to move away from page_mapcount() without resulting in a significant behavior change that would warrant special-casing based on kernel configs. In 2020, we first added support to khugepaged for collapsing COW-shared pages via commit 9445689f3b61 ("khugepaged: allow to collapse a page shared across fork"), followed by support for collapsing PTE-mapped THP in commit 5503fbf2b0b8 ("khugepaged: allow to collapse PTE-mapped compound pages") and limiting the memory waste via the "page_count() > 1" check in commit 71a2c112a0f6 ("khugepaged: introduce 'max_ptes_shared' tunable"). As a default, khugepaged will allow up to half of the PTEs to map shared pages: where page_mapcount() > 1. MADV_COLLAPSE ignores the khugepaged setting. khugepaged does currently not care about swapcache page references, and does not check under folio lock: so in some corner cases the "shared vs. exclusive" detection might be a bit off, making us detect "exclusive" when it's actually "shared". Most of our anonymous folios in the system are usually exclusive. We frequently see sharing of anonymous folios for a short period of time, after which our short-lived suprocesses either quit or exec(). There are some famous examples, though, where child processes exist for a long time, and where memory is COW-shared with a lot of processes (webservers, webbrowsers, sshd, ...) and COW-sharing is crucial for reducing the memory footprint. We don't want to suddenly change the behavior to result in a significant increase in memory waste. Interestingly, khugepaged will only collapse an anonymous THP if at least one PTE is writable. After fork(), that means that something (usually a page fault) populated at least a single exclusive anonymous THP in that PMD range. So ... what happens when we switch to "is this folio mapped shared" instead of "is this page mapped shared" by using folio_likely_mapped_shared()? For "not-COW-shared" folios, small folios and for THPs (large folios) that are completely mapped into at least one process, switching to folio_likely_mapped_shared() will not result in a change. We'll only see a change for COW-shared PTE-mapped THPs that are partially mapped into all involved processes. There are two cases to consider: (A) folio_likely_mapped_shared() returns "false" for a PTE-mapped THP If the folio is detected as exclusive, and it actually is exclusive, there is no change: page_mapcount() == 1. This is the common case without fork() or with short-lived child processes. folio_likely_mapped_shared() might currently still detect a folio as exclusive although it is shared (false negatives): if the first page is not mapped multiple times and if the average per-page mapcount is smaller than 1, implying that (1) the folio is partially mapped and (2) if we are responsible for many mapcounts by mapping many pages others can't ("mostly exclusive") (3) if we are not responsible for many mapcounts by mapping little pages ("mostly shared") it won't make a big impact on the end result. So while we might now detect a page as "exclusive" although it isn't, it's not expected to make a big difference in common cases. (B) folio_likely_mapped_shared() returns "true" for a PTE-mapped THP folio_likely_mapped_shared() will never detect a large anonymous folio as shared although it is exclusive: there are no false positives. If we detect a THP as shared, at least one page of the THP is mapped by another process. It could well be that some pages are actually exclusive. For example, our child processes could have unmapped/COW'ed some pages such that they would now be exclusive to out process, which we now would treat as still-shared. Examples: (1) Parent maps all pages of a THP, child maps some pages. We detect all pages in the parent as shared although some are actually exclusive. (2) Parent maps all but some page of a THP, child maps the remainder. We detect all pages of the THP that the parent maps as shared although they are all exclusive. In (1) we wouldn't collapse a THP right now already: no PTE is writable, because a write fault would have resulted in COW of a single page and the parent would no longer map all pages of that THP. For (2) we would have collapsed a THP in the parent so far, now we wouldn't as long as the child process is still alive: unless the child process unmaps the remaining THP pages or we decide to split that THP. Possibly, the child COW'ed many pages, meaning that it's likely that we can populate a THP for our child first, and then for our parent. For (2), we are making really bad use of the THP in the first place (not even mapped completely in at least one process). If the THP would be completely partially mapped, it would be on the deferred split queue where we would split it lazily later. For short-running child processes, we don't particularly care. For long-running processes, the expectation is that such scenarios are rather rare: further, a THP might be best placed if most data in the PMD range is actually written, implying that we'll have to COW more pages first before khugepaged would collapse it. To summarize, in the common case, this change is not expected to matter much. The more common application of khugepaged operates on exclusive pages, either before fork() or after a child quit. Can we improve (A)? Yes, if we implement more precise tracking of "mapped shared" vs. "mapped exclusively", we could get rid of the false negatives completely. Can we improve (B)? We could count how many pages of a large folio we map inside the current page table and detect that we are responsible for most of the folio mapcount and conclude "as good as exclusive", which might help in some cases. ... but likely, some other mechanism should detect that the THP is not a good use in the scenario (not even mapped completely in a single process) and try splitting that folio lazily etc. We'll move the folio_test_anon() check before our "shared" check, so we might get more expressive results for SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE: this order of checks now matches the one in __collapse_huge_page_isolate(). Extend documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240424122630.495788-1-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * mm: zswap: remove same_filled module paramsYosry Ahmed2024-05-051-29/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These knobs offer more fine-grained control to userspace than needed and directly expose/influence kernel implementation; remove them. For disabling same_filled handling, there is no logical reason to refuse storing same-filled pages more efficiently and opt for compression. Scanning pages for patterns may be an argument, but the page contents will be read into the CPU cache anyway during compression. Also, removing the same_filled handling code does not move the needle significantly in terms of performance anyway [1]. For disabling non_same_filled handling, it was added when the compressed pages in zswap were not being properly charged to memcgs, as workloads could escape the accounting with compression [2]. This is no longer the case after commit f4840ccfca25 ("zswap: memcg accounting"), and using zswap without compression does not make much sense. [1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkaySFP2hBQw4pnZHJJwe3bMdjJ1t9VC2VJd=khn1_TXvA@mail.gmail.com/ [2]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/19d5cdee-2868-41bd-83d5-6da75d72e940@maciej.szmigiero.name/ [yosryahmed@google.com: remove same_filled_pages from docs] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZhxFVggdyvCo79jc@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413022407.785696-5-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * mm: correct the docs for thp_fault_alloc and thp_fault_fallbackBarry Song2024-05-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation does not align with the code. In __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(), THP_FAULT_FALLBACK is incremented when mem_cgroup_charge() fails, despite the allocation succeeding, whereas THP_FAULT_ALLOC is only incremented after a successful charge. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412114858.407208-5-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * mm: add docs for per-order mTHP counters and transhuge_page ABIBarry Song2024-05-051-0/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch includes documentation for mTHP counters and an ABI file for sys-kernel-mm-transparent-hugepage, which appears to have been missing for some time. [v-songbaohua@oppo.com: fix the name and unexpected indentation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415054538.17071-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240412114858.407208-4-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * docs: hugetlbpage.rst: add hugetlb migration descriptionBaolin Wang2024-04-251-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some description of the hugetlb migration strategy. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/63fb16e7a4ebc5cb69ce655af86e29b2d8e9ba34.1709719720.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* | Docs: typos/spellingRemington Brasga2024-05-021-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | Fix spelling and grammar in Docs descriptions Signed-off-by: Remington Brasga <rbrasga@uci.edu> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429225527.2329-1-rbrasga@uci.edu
* docs: zswap: fix shell command formatWeiji Wang2024-03-291-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Format the shell commands as code block to keep the documentation in the same style Signed-off-by: Weiji Wang <nebclllo0444@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319114253.2647-1-nebclllo0444@gmail.com
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document auto-tuning parametersSeongJae Park2024-02-231-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | Update DAMON_RECLAIM usage document for the user/self feedback based auto-tuning of the quota. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-21-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document quota goal metric fileSeongJae Park2024-02-231-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | Update DAMON usage document for the quota goal target_metric file. [sj@kernel.org: fix a typo on the auto-tuning design reference link] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240221170852.55529-3-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-18-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document effective_bytes fileSeongJae Park2024-02-231-3/+16
| | | | | | | | | Update DAMON usage document for the effective quota file of the DAMON sysfs interface. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219194431.159606-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong quotas diabling conditionSeongJae Park2024-02-221-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | After the introduction of DAMOS quotas, DAMOS quotas is not disabled if both size and time quotas are zero but the quota goal is set. The new rule is also applied to DAMON sysfs interface, but the usage doc is not updated. Update it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240217005842.87348-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/mm/damon: move monitoring target regions setup detail from the usage to ↵SeongJae Park2024-02-221-11/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the design document Design doc is aimed to have all concept level details, while the usage doc is focused on only how the features can be used. Some details about monitoring target regions construction is on the usage doc. Move the details about the monitoring target regions construction differences for DAMON operations set from the usage to the design doc. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240217005842.87348-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/mm/damon: move DAMON operation sets list from the usage to the design ↵SeongJae Park2024-02-221-12/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | document The list of DAMON operation sets and their explanation, which may better to be on design document, is written on the usage document. Move the detail to design document and make the usage document only reference the design document. [sj@kernel.org: fix a typo on a reference link] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240221170852.55529-2-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240217005842.87348-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/mm/damon: move the list of DAMOS actions to design docSeongJae Park2024-02-221-34/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | DAMOS operation actions are explained nearly twice on the DAMON usage document, once for the sysfs interface, and then again for the debugfs interface. Duplication is bad. Also it would better to keep this kind of concept level details in design document and keep the usage document small and focus on only the usage. Move the list to design document and update usage document to reference it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240217005842.87348-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/mempolicy: introduce MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE for weighted interleavingGregory Price2024-02-221-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a system has multiple NUMA nodes and it becomes bandwidth hungry, using the current MPOL_INTERLEAVE could be an wise option. However, if those NUMA nodes consist of different types of memory such as socket-attached DRAM and CXL/PCIe attached DRAM, the round-robin based interleave policy does not optimally distribute data to make use of their different bandwidth characteristics. Instead, interleave is more effective when the allocation policy follows each NUMA nodes' bandwidth weight rather than a simple 1:1 distribution. This patch introduces a new memory policy, MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE, enabling weighted interleave between NUMA nodes. Weighted interleave allows for proportional distribution of memory across multiple numa nodes, preferably apportioned to match the bandwidth of each node. For example, if a system has 1 CPU node (0), and 2 memory nodes (0,1), with bandwidth of (100GB/s, 50GB/s) respectively, the appropriate weight distribution is (2:1). Weights for each node can be assigned via the new sysfs extension: /sys/kernel/mm/mempolicy/weighted_interleave/ For now, the default value of all nodes will be `1`, which matches the behavior of standard 1:1 round-robin interleave. An extension will be added in the future to allow default values to be registered at kernel and device bringup time. The policy allocates a number of pages equal to the set weights. For example, if the weights are (2,1), then 2 pages will be allocated on node0 for every 1 page allocated on node1. The new flag MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE can be used in set_mempolicy(2) and mbind(2). Some high level notes about the pieces of weighted interleave: current->il_prev: Tracks the node previously allocated from. current->il_weight: The active weight of the current node (current->il_prev) When this reaches 0, current->il_prev is set to the next node and current->il_weight is set to the next weight. weighted_interleave_nodes: Counts the number of allocations as they occur, and applies the weight for the current node. When the weight reaches 0, switch to the next node. Operates only on task->mempolicy. weighted_interleave_nid: Gets the total weight of the nodemask as well as each individual node weight, then calculates the node based on the given index. Operates on VMA policies. bulk_array_weighted_interleave: Gets the total weight of the nodemask as well as each individual node weight, then calculates the number of "interleave rounds" as well as any delta ("partial round"). Calculates the number of pages for each node and allocates them. If a node was scheduled for interleave via interleave_nodes, the current weight will be allocated first. Operates only on the task->mempolicy. One piece of complexity is the interaction between a recent refactor which split the logic to acquire the "ilx" (interleave index) of an allocation and the actually application of the interleave. If a call to alloc_pages_mpol() were made with a weighted-interleave policy and ilx set to NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX, weighted_interleave_nodes() would operate on a VMA policy - violating the description above. An inspection of all callers of alloc_pages_mpol() shows that all external callers set ilx to `0`, an index value, or will call get_vma_policy() to acquire the ilx. For example, mm/shmem.c may call into alloc_pages_mpol. The call stacks all set (pgoff_t ilx) or end up in `get_vma_policy()`. This enforces the `weighted_interleave_nodes()` and `weighted_interleave_nid()` policy requirements (task/vma respectively). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202170238.90004-4-gregory.price@memverge.com Suggested-by: Hasan Al Maruf <Hasan.Maruf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com> Co-developed-by: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Co-developed-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> Co-developed-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com> Co-developed-by: Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com> Co-developed-by: Ravi Jonnalagadda <ravis.opensrc@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Ravi Jonnalagadda <ravis.opensrc@micron.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for monitor_on renamingSeongJae Park2024-02-221-14/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update DAMON debugfs interface sections on the usage document to reflect the fact that 'monitor_on' file has renamed to 'monitor_on_DEPRECATED'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document 'DEPRECATED' file of DAMON debugfs ↵SeongJae Park2024-02-221-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | interface Document the newly added DAMON debugfs interface deprecation notice file on the usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: use sysfs interface for tracepoints exampleSeongJae Park2024-02-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch series "mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable". DAMON debugfs interface is deprecated in February 2023, by commit 5445fcbc4cda ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: add DAMON debugfs interface deprecation notice"). Make the fact unable to be easily ignored by removing an example usage from the document (patch 1), renaming the config (patch 2), adding a deprecation notice file to the debugfs directory (patches 3-5), and renaming the debugfs file that essnetial to be used for real use of DAMON (patches 6-9). This patch (of 9): DAMON tracepoints example on the DAMON usage document is using DAMON debugfs interface, which is deprecated. Use its alternative, DAMON sysfs interface. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* zswap: memcontrol: implement zswap writeback disablingNhat Pham2023-12-291-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During our experiment with zswap, we sometimes observe swap IOs due to occasional zswap store failures and writebacks-to-swap. These swapping IOs prevent many users who cannot tolerate swapping from adopting zswap to save memory and improve performance where possible. This patch adds the option to disable this behavior entirely: do not writeback to backing swapping device when a zswap store attempt fail, and do not write pages in the zswap pool back to the backing swap device (both when the pool is full, and when the new zswap shrinker is called). This new behavior can be opted-in/out on a per-cgroup basis via a new cgroup file. By default, writebacks to swap device is enabled, which is the previous behavior. Initially, writeback is enabled for the root cgroup, and a newly created cgroup will inherit the current setting of its parent. Note that this is subtly different from setting memory.swap.max to 0, as it still allows for pages to be stored in the zswap pool (which itself consumes swap space in its current form). This patch should be applied on top of the zswap shrinker series: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231130194023.4102148-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/ as it also disables the zswap shrinker, a major source of zswap writebacks. For the most part, this feature is motivated by internal parties who have already established their opinions regarding swapping - the workloads that are highly sensitive to IO, and especially those who are using servers with really slow disk performance (for instance, massive but slow HDDs). For these folks, it's impossible to convince them to even entertain zswap if swapping also comes as a packaged deal. Writeback disabling is quite a useful feature in these situations - on a mixed workloads deployment, they can disable writeback for the more IO-sensitive workloads, and enable writeback for other background workloads. For instance, on a server with HDD, I allocate memories and populate them with random values (so that zswap store will always fail), and specify memory.high low enough to trigger reclaim. The time it takes to allocate the memories and just read through it a couple of times (doing silly things like computing the values' average etc.): zswap.writeback disabled: real 0m30.537s user 0m23.687s sys 0m6.637s 0 pages swapped in 0 pages swapped out zswap.writeback enabled: real 0m45.061s user 0m24.310s sys 0m8.892s 712686 pages swapped in 461093 pages swapped out (the last two lines are from vmstat -s). [nphamcs@gmail.com: add a comment about recurring zswap store failures leading to reclaim inefficiency] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231221005725.3446672-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207192406.3809579-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/ksm: document ksm advisor and its sysfs knobsStefan Roesch2023-12-291-0/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | This documents the KSM advisor and its new knobs in /sys/fs/kernel/mm. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231218231054.1625219-5-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* userfaultfd: UFFDIO_MOVE uABIAndrea Arcangeli2023-12-291-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement the uABI of UFFDIO_MOVE ioctl. UFFDIO_COPY performs ~20% better than UFFDIO_MOVE when the application needs pages to be allocated [1]. However, with UFFDIO_MOVE, if pages are available (in userspace) for recycling, as is usually the case in heap compaction algorithms, then we can avoid the page allocation and memcpy (done by UFFDIO_COPY). Also, since the pages are recycled in the userspace, we avoid the need to release (via madvise) the pages back to the kernel [2]. We see over 40% reduction (on a Google pixel 6 device) in the compacting thread's completion time by using UFFDIO_MOVE vs. UFFDIO_COPY. This was measured using a benchmark that emulates a heap compaction implementation using userfaultfd (to allow concurrent accesses by application threads). More details of the usecase are explained in [2]. Furthermore, UFFDIO_MOVE enables moving swapped-out pages without touching them within the same vma. Today, it can only be done by mremap, however it forces splitting the vma. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1425575884-2574-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CA+EESO4uO84SSnBhArH4HvLNhaUQ5nZKNKXqxRCyjniNVjp0Aw@mail.gmail.com/ Update for the ioctl_userfaultfd(2) manpage: UFFDIO_MOVE (Since Linux xxx) Move a continuous memory chunk into the userfault registered range and optionally wake up the blocked thread. The source and destination addresses and the number of bytes to move are specified by the src, dst, and len fields of the uffdio_move structure pointed to by argp: struct uffdio_move { __u64 dst; /* Destination of move */ __u64 src; /* Source of move */ __u64 len; /* Number of bytes to move */ __u64 mode; /* Flags controlling behavior of move */ __s64 move; /* Number of bytes moved, or negated error */ }; The following value may be bitwise ORed in mode to change the behavior of the UFFDIO_MOVE operation: UFFDIO_MOVE_MODE_DONTWAKE Do not wake up the thread that waits for page-fault resolution UFFDIO_MOVE_MODE_ALLOW_SRC_HOLES Allow holes in the source virtual range that is being moved. When not specified, the holes will result in ENOENT error. When specified, the holes will be accounted as successfully moved memory. This is mostly useful to move hugepage aligned virtual regions without knowing if there are transparent hugepages in the regions or not, but preventing the risk of having to split the hugepage during the operation. The move field is used by the kernel to return the number of bytes that was actually moved, or an error (a negated errno- style value). If the value returned in move doesn't match the value that was specified in len, the operation fails with the error EAGAIN. The move field is output-only; it is not read by the UFFDIO_MOVE operation. The operation may fail for various reasons. Usually, remapping of pages that are not exclusive to the given process fail; once KSM might deduplicate pages or fork() COW-shares pages during fork() with child processes, they are no longer exclusive. Further, the kernel might only perform lightweight checks for detecting whether the pages are exclusive, and return -EBUSY in case that check fails. To make the operation more likely to succeed, KSM should be disabled, fork() should be avoided or MADV_DONTFORK should be configured for the source VMA before fork(). This ioctl(2) operation returns 0 on success. In this case, the entire area was moved. On error, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. Possible errors include: EAGAIN The number of bytes moved (i.e., the value returned in the move field) does not equal the value that was specified in the len field. EINVAL Either dst or len was not a multiple of the system page size, or the range specified by src and len or dst and len was invalid. EINVAL An invalid bit was specified in the mode field. ENOENT The source virtual memory range has unmapped holes and UFFDIO_MOVE_MODE_ALLOW_SRC_HOLES is not set. EEXIST The destination virtual memory range is fully or partially mapped. EBUSY The pages in the source virtual memory range are either pinned or not exclusive to the process. The kernel might only perform lightweight checks for detecting whether the pages are exclusive. To make the operation more likely to succeed, KSM should be disabled, fork() should be avoided or MADV_DONTFORK should be configured for the source virtual memory area before fork(). ENOMEM Allocating memory needed for the operation failed. ESRCH The target process has exited at the time of a UFFDIO_MOVE operation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231206103702.3873743-3-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Geoffray <ngeoffray@google.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: use a list for 'state' sysfs file input ↵SeongJae Park2023-12-201-24/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | commands There are eight command inputs for 'state' DAMON sysfs file, and those are verbosely explained in multiple paragraphs. It is not easy to find explanation of specific command, and getting whole picture of supported commands. Replace the paragraphs with a list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: add links to sysfs files hierarchySeongJae Park2023-12-201-21/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'Sysfs Files Hierarchy' section of DAMON usage document shows whole picture of the interface. Then sections for detailed explanation of the files follow. Due to the amount of the files, navigating between the whole picture and the section for specific files sometimes require no subtle amount of scrolling. Add links from the whole picture to the dedicated sections for making the navigation easier. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update context directory section labelSeongJae Park2023-12-201-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | The label for context DAMON sysfs directory section is having name sysfs_contexts. The name would be better to be used for the contexts directory. Rename it to represent a single context. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213190338.54146-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: thp: introduce multi-size THP sysfs interfaceRyan Roberts2023-12-201-19/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In preparation for adding support for anonymous multi-size THP, introduce new sysfs structure that will be used to control the new behaviours. A new directory is added under transparent_hugepage for each supported THP size, and contains an `enabled` file, which can be set to "inherit" (to inherit the global setting), "always", "madvise" or "never". For now, the kernel still only supports PMD-sized anonymous THP, so only 1 directory is populated. The first half of the change converts transhuge_vma_suitable() and hugepage_vma_check() so that they take a bitfield of orders for which the user wants to determine support, and the functions filter out all the orders that can't be supported, given the current sysfs configuration and the VMA dimensions. The resulting functions are renamed to thp_vma_suitable_orders() and thp_vma_allowable_orders() respectively. Convenience functions that take a single, unencoded order and return a boolean are also defined as thp_vma_suitable_order() and thp_vma_allowable_order(). The second half of the change implements the new sysfs interface. It has been done so that each supported THP size has a `struct thpsize`, which describes the relevant metadata and is itself a kobject. This is pretty minimal for now, but should make it easy to add new per-thpsize files to the interface if needed in future (e.g. per-size defrag). Rather than keep the `enabled` state directly in the struct thpsize, I've elected to directly encode it into huge_anon_orders_[always|madvise|inherit] bitfields since this reduces the amount of work required in thp_vma_allowable_orders() which is called for every page fault. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst, as modified by this commit, for details of how the new sysfs interface works. [ryan.roberts@arm.com: fix build warning when CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231211125320.3997543-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207161211.2374093-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Tested-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document for quota goalsSeongJae Park2023-12-121-7/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | Update DAMON sysfs usage for newly added DAMOS quota goals interface. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130023652.50284-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* zswap: shrink zswap pool based on memory pressureNhat Pham2023-12-121-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, we only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is hit. This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed ahead of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on factors such as memory access patterns and compressibility of the memory pages). This patch implements a memcg- and NUMA-aware shrinker for zswap, that is initiated when there is memory pressure. The shrinker does not have any parameter that must be tuned by the user, and can be opted in or out on a per-memcg basis. Furthermore, to make it more robust for many workloads and prevent overshrinking (i.e evicting warm pages that might be refaulted into memory), we build in the following heuristics: * Estimate the number of warm pages residing in zswap, and attempt to protect this region of the zswap LRU. * Scale the number of freeable objects by an estimate of the memory saving factor. The better zswap compresses the data, the fewer pages we will evict to swap (as we will otherwise incur IO for relatively small memory saving). * During reclaim, if the shrinker encounters a page that is also being brought into memory, the shrinker will cautiously terminate its shrinking action, as this is a sign that it is touching the warmer region of the zswap LRU. As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall performance. Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds. [nphamcs@gmail.com: check shrinker enablement early, use less costly stat flushing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231206194456.3234203-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-7-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/proc/task_mmu: report SOFT_DIRTY bits through the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctlAndrei Vagin2023-12-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl returns information regarding page table entries. It is more efficient compared to reading pagemap files. CRIU can start to utilize this ioctl, but it needs info about soft-dirty bits to track memory changes. We are aware of a new method for tracking memory changes implemented in the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl. For CRIU, the primary advantage of this method is its usability by unprivileged users. However, it is not feasible to transparently replace the soft-dirty tracker with the new one. The main problem here is userfault descriptors that have to be preserved between pre-dump iterations. It means criu continues supporting the soft-dirty method to avoid breakage for current users. The new method will be implemented as a separate feature. [avagin@google.com: update tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107164139.576046-1-avagin@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106220959.296568-1-avagin@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of ↵Linus Torvalds2023-11-024-43/+216
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are included in this merge do the following: - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction' - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an implementation which Linus suggested - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i the following patch series: mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is unaccepted memory' - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab shrinking code - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink' - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups' - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion and unification' - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()' - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct manipulation of hugetlb page frames - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of gigantic pages are in use - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the series 'support large folio for mlock' - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and useful) under memcg v2 - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable) prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE without inheritance' - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing functions to use a folio' which does what it says - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment across exec() - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering: calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT' - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical information from previous scans - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates values' - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/<pid>/pagemap which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty state. This is mainly used by CRIU - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to this code - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible as a result - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some cleanups and folio conversions - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye to providing groundwork for future improvements - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes and improvements' which does those things - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series 'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages' - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise() and page faults - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups and an optimization to the core pagecache code - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the series 'hugetlb memcg accounting' - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()' - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps' - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings' - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations' - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition' - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning' - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page cpupid functions to folios' - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about kmemleak' - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series 'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately' - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some khugepaged folio conversions'" [ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/ with help from Qi Zheng. The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ] * tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits) mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs selftests: add a sanity check for zswap Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter() zswap: export compression failure stats Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets() ...
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for tried regions update time intervalSeongJae Park2023-10-181-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation says DAMOS tried regions update feature of DAMON sysfs interface is doing the update for one aggregation interval after the request is made. Since the introduction of the per-scheme apply interval, that behavior makes no much sense. Hence the implementation has changed to update the regions for each scheme for only its apply interval. Further update the document to reflect the real behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231012192256.33556-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * mm/pagemap: add documentation of PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTLMuhammad Usama Anjum2023-10-181-0/+89
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some explanation and method to use write-protection and written-to on memory range. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821141518.870589-6-usama.anjum@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> Cc: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@amd.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Miroslaw <emmir@google.com> Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Paul Gofman <pgofman@codeweavers.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * userfaultfd: UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNCPeter Xu2023-10-181-0/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch series "Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs", v33. *Motivation* The real motivation for adding PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTL is to emulate Windows GetWriteWatch() and ResetWriteWatch() syscalls [1]. The GetWriteWatch() retrieves the addresses of the pages that are written to in a region of virtual memory. This syscall is used in Windows applications and games etc. This syscall is being emulated in pretty slow manner in userspace. Our purpose is to enhance the kernel such that we translate it efficiently in a better way. Currently some out of tree hack patches are being used to efficiently emulate it in some kernels. We intend to replace those with these patches. So the whole gaming on Linux can effectively get benefit from this. It means there would be tons of users of this code. CRIU use case [2] was mentioned by Andrei and Danylo: > Use cases for migrating sparse VMAs are binaries sanitized with ASAN, > MSAN or TSAN [3]. All of these sanitizers produce sparse mappings of > shadow memory [4]. Being able to migrate such binaries allows to highly > reduce the amount of work needed to identify and fix post-migration > crashes, which happen constantly. Andrei defines the following uses of this code: * it is more granular and allows us to track changed pages more effectively. The current interface can clear dirty bits for the entire process only. In addition, reading info about pages is a separate operation. It means we must freeze the process to read information about all its pages, reset dirty bits, only then we can start dumping pages. The information about pages becomes more and more outdated, while we are processing pages. The new interface solves both these downsides. First, it allows us to read pte bits and clear the soft-dirty bit atomically. It means that CRIU will not need to freeze processes to pre-dump their memory. Second, it clears soft-dirty bits for a specified region of memory. It means CRIU will have actual info about pages to the moment of dumping them. * The new interface has to be much faster because basic page filtering is happening in the kernel. With the old interface, we have to read pagemap for each page. *Implementation Evolution (Short Summary)* From the definition of GetWriteWatch(), we feel like kernel's soft-dirty feature can be used under the hood with some additions like: * reset soft-dirty flag for only a specific region of memory instead of clearing the flag for the entire process * get and clear soft-dirty flag for a specific region atomically So we decided to use ioctl on pagemap file to read or/and reset soft-dirty flag. But using soft-dirty flag, sometimes we get extra pages which weren't even written. They had become soft-dirty because of VMA merging and VM_SOFTDIRTY flag. This breaks the definition of GetWriteWatch(). We were able to by-pass this short coming by ignoring VM_SOFTDIRTY until David reported that mprotect etc messes up the soft-dirty flag while ignoring VM_SOFTDIRTY [5]. This wasn't happening until [6] got introduced. We discussed if we can revert these patches. But we could not reach to any conclusion. So at this point, I made couple of tries to solve this whole VM_SOFTDIRTY issue by correcting the soft-dirty implementation: * [7] Correct the bug fixed wrongly back in 2014. It had potential to cause regression. We left it behind. * [8] Keep a list of soft-dirty part of a VMA across splits and merges. I got the reply don't increase the size of the VMA by 8 bytes. At this point, we left soft-dirty considering it is too much delicate and userfaultfd [9] seemed like the only way forward. From there onward, we have been basing soft-dirty emulation on userfaultfd wp feature where kernel resolves the faults itself when WP_ASYNC feature is used. It was straight forward to add WP_ASYNC feature in userfautlfd. Now we get only those pages dirty or written-to which are really written in reality. (PS There is another WP_UNPOPULATED userfautfd feature is required which is needed to avoid pre-faulting memory before write-protecting [9].) All the different masks were added on the request of CRIU devs to create interface more generic and better. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/memoryapi/nf-memoryapi-getwritewatch [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221014134802.1361436-1-mdanylo@google.com [3] https://github.com/google/sanitizers [4] https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerAlgorithm#64-bit [5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bfcae708-db21-04b4-0bbe-712badd03071@redhat.com [6] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220725142048.30450-1-peterx@redhat.com/ [7] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221122115007.2787017-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com [8] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221220162606.1595355-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com [9] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230306213925.617814-1-peterx@redhat.com [10] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230125144529.1630917-1-mdanylo@google.com This patch (of 6): Add a new userfaultfd-wp feature UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC, that allows userfaultfd wr-protect faults to be resolved by the kernel directly. It can be used like a high accuracy version of soft-dirty, without vma modifications during tracking, and also with ranged support by default rather than for a whole mm when reset the protections due to existence of ioctl(UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT). Several goals of such a dirty tracking interface: 1. All types of memory should be supported and tracable. This is nature for soft-dirty but should mention when the context is userfaultfd, because it used to only support anon/shmem/hugetlb. The problem is for a dirty tracking purpose these three types may not be enough, and it's legal to track anything e.g. any page cache writes from mmap. 2. Protections can be applied to partial of a memory range, without vma split/merge fuss. The hope is that the tracking itself should not affect any vma layout change. It also helps when reset happens because the reset will not need mmap write lock which can block the tracee. 3. Accuracy needs to be maintained. This means we need pte markers to work on any type of VMA. One could question that, the whole concept of async dirty tracking is not really close to fundamentally what userfaultfd used to be: it's not "a fault to be serviced by userspace" anymore. However, using userfaultfd-wp here as a framework is convenient for us in at least: 1. VM_UFFD_WP vma flag, which has a very good name to suite something like this, so we don't need VM_YET_ANOTHER_SOFT_DIRTY. Just use a new feature bit to identify from a sync version of uffd-wp registration. 2. PTE markers logic can be leveraged across the whole kernel to maintain the uffd-wp bit as long as an arch supports, this also applies to this case where uffd-wp bit will be a hint to dirty information and it will not go lost easily (e.g. when some page cache ptes got zapped). 3. Reuse ioctl(UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT) interface for either starting or resetting a range of memory, while there's no counterpart in the old soft-dirty world, hence if this is wanted in a new design we'll need a new interface otherwise. We can somehow understand that commonality because uffd-wp was fundamentally a similar idea of write-protecting pages just like soft-dirty. This implementation allows WP_ASYNC to imply WP_UNPOPULATED, because so far WP_ASYNC seems to not usable if without WP_UNPOPULATE. This also gives us chance to modify impl of WP_ASYNC just in case it could be not depending on WP_UNPOPULATED anymore in the future kernels. It's also fine to imply that because both features will rely on PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP config option, so they'll show up together (or both missing) in an UFFDIO_API probe. vma_can_userfault() now allows any VMA if the userfaultfd registration is only about async uffd-wp. So we can track dirty for all kinds of memory including generic file systems (like XFS, EXT4 or BTRFS). One trick worth mention in do_wp_page() is that we need to manually update vmf->orig_pte here because it can be used later with a pte_same() check - this path always has FAULT_FLAG_ORIG_PTE_VALID set in the flags. The major defect of this approach of dirty tracking is we need to populate the pgtables when tracking starts. Soft-dirty doesn't do it like that. It's unwanted in the case where the range of memory to track is huge and unpopulated (e.g., tracking updates on a 10G file with mmap() on top, without having any page cache installed yet). One way to improve this is to allow pte markers exist for larger than PTE level for PMD+. That will not change the interface if to implemented, so we can leave that for later. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821141518.870589-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821141518.870589-2-usama.anjum@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> Cc: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@amd.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Miroslaw <emmir@google.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Paul Gofman <pgofman@codeweavers.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com> Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * mm/ksm: document pages_skipped sysfs knobStefan Roesch2023-10-161-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds documentation for the new metric pages_skipped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-5-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * mm/ksm: document smart scan modeStefan Roesch2023-10-161-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds documentation for the smart scan mode of KSM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document that smart_scan defaults to on] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926040939.516161-4-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for DAMOS apply intervalsSeongJae Park2023-10-041-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update DAMON usage document's DAMON sysfs interface section for the newly added DAMOS apply intervals support (apply_interval_us file). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230916020945.47296-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document damos_before_apply tracepointSeongJae Park2023-10-041-7/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document damos_before_apply tracepoint on the usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230913022050.2109-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: link design doc for details of kdamond and ↵SeongJae Park2023-10-041-10/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | context The explanation of kdamond and context is duplicated in the design and the usage documents. Replace that in the usage with links to those in the design document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: explain the format of damon_aggregate ↵SeongJae Park2023-10-041-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tracepoint The example of the section for damon_aggregated tracepoint is not explaining how the output looks like, and how it can be interpreted. Add it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: move debugfs intro to the bottom of the sectionSeongJae Park2023-10-041-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On the DAMON usage introduction section, the introduction of DAMON debugfs interface, which is deprecated, is above kernel API, which is actively supported. Move the DAMON debugfs intro to bottom, so that readers have less chances to read it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: place debugfs usage at the bottomSeongJae Park2023-10-041-20/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | debugfs interface is deprecated. Put it at the bottom of the document so that readers have less chances to read it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| * Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fixup missed :ref: keywordSeongJae Park2023-10-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch series "mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint". This patchset contains miscellaneous simple fixups for documents, comments and tracepoint of DAMON. This patch (of 11): A cross-link reference in DAMON usage document is missing ':ref:' Sphynx keyword. Fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907022929.91361-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2023-11-011-5/+5
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "The number of commits for documentation is not huge this time around, but there are some significant changes nonetheless: - Some more Spanish-language and Chinese translations - The much-discussed documentation of the confidential-computing threat model - Powerpc and RISCV documentation move under Documentation/arch - these complete this particular bit of documentation churn - A large traditional-Chinese documentation update - A new document on backporting and conflict resolution - Some kernel-doc and Sphinx fixes Plus the usual smattering of smaller updates and typo fixes" * tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: Fix the regex for matching -Werror flag docs: backporting: address feedback Documentation: driver-api: pps: Update PPS generator documentation speakup: Document USB support doc: blk-ioprio: Bring the doc in line with the implementation docs: usb: fix reference to nonexistent file in UVC Gadget docs: doc-guide: mention 'make refcheckdocs' Documentation: fix typo in dynamic-debug howto scripts/kernel-doc: match -Werror flag strictly Documentation/sphinx: Remove the repeated word "the" in comments. docs: sparse: add SPDX-License-Identifier docs/zh_CN: Add subsystem-apis Chinese translation docs/zh_TW: update contents for zh_TW docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to commenters docs: add backporting and conflict resolution document docs: move riscv under arch docs: update link to powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst mm/memory-hotplug: fix typo in documentation docs: move powerpc under arch PCI: Update the devres documentation regarding to pcim_*() ...
| * | mm/memory-hotplug: fix typo in documentationAmos Wenger2023-10-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm 90% sure memory hotunplugging doesn't involve a "fist" phase Signed-off-by: Amos Wenger <amos@bearcove.net> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231006112636.97128-1-amos@bearcove.net
| * | memory-hotplug.rst: fix wrong /sys/device/ pathWang Jinchao2023-09-221-4/+4
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Actually, it should be /sys/devices/ Signed-off-by: Wang Jinchao <wangjinchao@xfusion.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <ZQz1NUATBMOb3RT+@fedora>
* / Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64Ard Biesheuvel2023-09-111-1/+1
|/ | | | | | Drop or update mentions of IA64, as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
* Merge tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2023-08-302-3/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes: - Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there - Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/ - Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub ... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes" * tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits) Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add() Documentation: Fix typos Documentation/ABI: Fix typos scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN] Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function doc: update params of memhp_default_state= docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines docs: move mips under arch docs: move loongarch under arch ...