linux.git/mm/Makefile, branch v5.4.301

mm: silence -Woverride-init/initializer-overrides

2019-09-24T22:54:10+00:00

When compiling a kernel with W=1, there are several of those warnings due
to arm64 overriding a field on purpose.  Just disable those warnings for
both GCC and Clang of this file, so it will help dig "gems" hidden in the
W=1 warnings by reducing some noises.

mm/init-mm.c:39:2: warning: initializer overrides prior initialization
of this subobject [-Winitializer-overrides]
        INIT_MM_CONTEXT(init_mm)
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h:133:9: note: expanded from macro
'INIT_MM_CONTEXT'
        .pgd = init_pg_dir,
               ^~~~~~~~~~~
mm/init-mm.c:30:10: note: previous initialization is here
        .pgd            = swapper_pg_dir,
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Note: there is a side project trying to support explicitly allowing
specific initializer overrides in Clang, but there is no guarantee it
will happen or not.

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/639

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566920867-27453-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Masahiro Yamada 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove quicklist page table caches

2019-09-24T22:54:09+00:00

Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".

A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].

I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
use generic versions of PTE allocation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com

This patch (of 3):

Remove page table allocator "quicklists".  These have been around for a
long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
used on ia64 and sh architectures.

The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
apply anymore.  If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
behaviour for minor archs.

Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
allocator if this is still so slow.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memremap: move from kernel/ to mm/

2019-08-03T14:02:01+00:00

memremap.c implements MM functionality for ZONE_DEVICE, so it really
should be in the mm/ directory, not the kernel/ one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722094143.18387-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Acked-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma

2019-07-15T02:42:11+00:00

Pull HMM updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
 "Improvements and bug fixes for the hmm interface in the kernel:

   - Improve clarity, locking and APIs related to the 'hmm mirror'
     feature merged last cycle. In linux-next we now see AMDGPU and
     nouveau to be using this API.

   - Remove old or transitional hmm APIs. These are hold overs from the
     past with no users, or APIs that existed only to manage cross tree
     conflicts. There are still a few more of these cleanups that didn't
     make the merge window cut off.

   - Improve some core mm APIs:
       - export alloc_pages_vma() for driver use
       - refactor into devm_request_free_mem_region() to manage
         DEVICE_PRIVATE resource reservations
       - refactor duplicative driver code into the core dev_pagemap
         struct

   - Remove hmm wrappers of improved core mm APIs, instead have drivers
     use the simplified API directly

   - Remove DEVICE_PUBLIC

   - Simplify the kconfig flow for the hmm users and core code"

* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (42 commits)
  mm: don't select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER from HMM_MIRROR
  mm: remove the HMM config option
  mm: sort out the DEVICE_PRIVATE Kconfig mess
  mm: simplify ZONE_DEVICE page private data
  mm: remove hmm_devmem_add
  mm: remove hmm_vma_alloc_locked_page
  nouveau: use devm_memremap_pages directly
  nouveau: use alloc_page_vma directly
  PCI/P2PDMA: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
  device-dax: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
  memremap: provide an optional internal refcount in struct dev_pagemap
  memremap: replace the altmap_valid field with a PGMAP_ALTMAP_VALID flag
  memremap: remove the data field in struct dev_pagemap
  memremap: add a migrate_to_ram method to struct dev_pagemap_ops
  memremap: lift the devmap_enable manipulation into devm_memremap_pages
  memremap: pass a struct dev_pagemap to ->kill and ->cleanup
  memremap: move dev_pagemap callbacks into a separate structure
  memremap: validate the pagemap type passed to devm_memremap_pages
  mm: factor out a devm_request_free_mem_region helper
  mm: export alloc_pages_vma
  ...

mm: consolidate the get_user_pages* implementations

2019-07-12T18:05:45+00:00

Always build mm/gup.c so that we don't have to provide separate nommu
stubs.  Also merge the get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast stubs
when HAVE_FAST_GUP into the main implementations, which will never call
the fast path if HAVE_FAST_GUP is not set.

This also ensures the new put_user_pages* helpers are available for nommu,
as those are currently missing, which would create a problem as soon as we
actually grew users for it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625143715.1689-13-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Khalid Aziz 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Paul Burton 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove the HMM config option

2019-07-02T17:32:45+00:00

All the mm/hmm.c code is better keyed off HMM_MIRROR.  Also let nouveau
depend on it instead of the mix of a dummy dependency symbol plus the
actually selected one.  Drop various odd dependencies, as the code is
pretty portable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny 
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe 
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe

mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve memory-side-cache utilization

2019-05-15T02:52:48+00:00

Patch series "mm: Randomize free memory", v10.

This patch (of 3):

Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of
a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.  Memory side caching is a platform
capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC
(high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms.  In
that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to
higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM.  Now, this capability is going
to be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in
front of higher latency persistent memory [1].

Robert offered an explanation of the state of the art of Linux
interactions with memory-side-caches [2], and I copy it here:

    It's been a problem in the HPC space:
    http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/knl-cache-mode-performance-coe/

    A kernel module called zonesort is available to try to help:
    https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xeon-phi-software

    and this abandoned patch series proposed that for the kernel:
    https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823100205.17311-1-lukasz.daniluk@intel.com

    Dan's patch series doesn't attempt to ensure buffers won't conflict, but
    also reduces the chance that the buffers will. This will make performance
    more consistent, albeit slower than "optimal" (which is near impossible
    to attain in a general-purpose kernel).  That's better than forcing
    users to deploy remedies like:
        "To eliminate this gradual degradation, we have added a Stream
         measurement to the Node Health Check that follows each job;
         nodes are rebooted whenever their measured memory bandwidth
         falls below 300 GB/s."

A replacement for zonesort was merged upstream in commit cc9aec03e58f
("x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability").  With this
numa_emulation capability, memory can be split into cache sized
("near-memory" sized) numa nodes.  A bind operation to such a node, and
disabling workloads on other nodes, enables full cache performance.
However, once the workload exceeds the cache size then cache conflicts
are unavoidable.  While HPC environments might be able to tolerate
time-scheduling of cache sized workloads, for general purpose server
platforms, the oversubscribed cache case will be the common case.

The worst case scenario is that a server system owner benchmarks a
workload at boot with an un-contended cache only to see that performance
degrade over time, even below the average cache performance due to
excessive conflicts.  Randomization clips the peaks and fills in the
valleys of cache utilization to yield steady average performance.

Here are some performance impact details of the patches:

1/ An Intel internal synthetic memory bandwidth measurement tool, saw a
   3X speedup in a contrived case that tries to force cache conflicts.
   The contrived cased used the numa_emulation capability to force an
   instance of the benchmark to be run in two of the near-memory sized
   numa nodes.  If both instances were placed on the same emulated they
   would fit and cause zero conflicts.  While on separate emulated nodes
   without randomization they underutilized the cache and conflicted
   unnecessarily due to the in-order allocation per node.

2/ A well known Java server application benchmark was run with a heap
   size that exceeded cache size by 3X.  The cache conflict rate was 8%
   for the first run and degraded to 21% after page allocator aging.  With
   randomization enabled the rate levelled out at 11%.

3/ A MongoDB workload did not observe measurable difference in
   cache-conflict rates, but the overall throughput dropped by 7% with
   randomization in one case.

4/ Mel Gorman ran his suite of performance workloads with randomization
   enabled on platforms without a memory-side-cache and saw a mix of some
   improvements and some losses [3].

While there is potentially significant improvement for applications that
depend on low latency access across a wide working-set, the performance
may be negligible to negative for other workloads.  For this reason the
shuffle capability defaults to off unless a direct-mapped
memory-side-cache is detected.  Even then, the page_alloc.shuffle=0
parameter can be specified to disable the randomization on those systems.

Outside of memory-side-cache utilization concerns there is potentially
security benefit from randomization.  Some data exfiltration and
return-oriented-programming attacks rely on the ability to infer the
location of sensitive data objects.  The kernel page allocator, especially
early in system boot, has predictable first-in-first out behavior for
physical pages.  Pages are freed in physical address order when first
onlined.

Quoting Kees:
    "While we already have a base-address randomization
     (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY), attacks against the same hardware and
     memory layouts would certainly be using the predictability of
     allocation ordering (i.e. for attacks where the base address isn't
     important: only the relative positions between allocated memory).
     This is common in lots of heap-style attacks. They try to gain
     control over ordering by spraying allocations, etc.

     I'd really like to see this because it gives us something similar
     to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM but for the page allocator."

While SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM reduces the predictability of some local slab
caches it leaves vast bulk of memory to be predictably in order allocated.
However, it should be noted, the concrete security benefits are hard to
quantify, and no known CVE is mitigated by this randomization.

Introduce shuffle_free_memory(), and its helper shuffle_zone(), to perform
a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the page allocator 'free_area' lists when they
are initially populated with free memory at boot and at hotplug time.  Do
this based on either the presence of a page_alloc.shuffle=Y command line
parameter, or autodetection of a memory-side-cache (to be added in a
follow-on patch).

The shuffling is done in terms of CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER sized free
pages where the default CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER is MAX_ORDER-1 i.e.  10,
4MB this trades off randomization granularity for time spent shuffling.
MAX_ORDER-1 was chosen to be minimally invasive to the page allocator
while still showing memory-side cache behavior improvements, and the
expectation that the security implications of finer granularity
randomization is mitigated by CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM.  The
performance impact of the shuffling appears to be in the noise compared to
other memory initialization work.

This initial randomization can be undone over time so a follow-on patch is
introduced to inject entropy on page free decisions.  It is reasonable to
ask if the page free entropy is sufficient, but it is not enough due to
the in-order initial freeing of pages.  At the start of that process
putting page1 in front or behind page0 still keeps them close together,
page2 is still near page1 and has a high chance of being adjacent.  As
more pages are added ordering diversity improves, but there is still high
page locality for the low address pages and this leads to no significant
impact to the cache conflict rate.

[1]: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-operating-modes/
[2]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/AT5PR8401MB1169D656C8B5E121752FC0F8AB120@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
[3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/309

[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix shuffle enable]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154943713038.3858443.4125180191382062871.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[cai@lca.pw: fix SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR help texts]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425201300.75650-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Keith Busch 
Cc: Robert Elliott 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove nobootmem

2018-10-31T15:54:16+00:00

Move a few remaining functions from nobootmem.c to memblock.c and remove
nobootmem

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-28-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Greentime Hu 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Burton 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Serge Semin 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK

2018-10-31T15:54:15+00:00

All architecures use memblock for early memory management. There is no need
for the CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK configuration option.

[rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com: of/fdt: fixup #ifdefs]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919103457.GA20545@rapoport-lnx
[rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com: csky: fixups after bootmem removal]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180926112744.GC4628@rapoport-lnx
[rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com: remove stale #else and the code it protects]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538067825-24835-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Greentime Hu 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Burton 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Serge Semin 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM

2018-10-31T15:54:14+00:00

All achitectures select NO_BOOTMEM which essentially becomes 'Y' for any
kernel configuration and therefore it can be removed.

[alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com: remove now defunct NO_BOOTMEM from depends list for deferred init]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925201814.3576.15105.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-3-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Greentime Hu 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Burton 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Serge Semin 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds