linux.git/mm/memory.c, branch v6.14-rc6

mm: fix finish_fault() handling for large folios

2025-03-06T05:36:18+00:00

When handling faults for anon shmem finish_fault() will attempt to install
ptes for the entire folio.  Unfortunately if it encounters a single
non-pte_none entry in that range it will bail, even if the pte that
triggered the fault is still pte_none.  When this situation happens the
fault will be retried endlessly never making forward progress.

This patch fixes this behavior and if it detects that a pte in the range
is not pte_none it will fall back to setting a single pte.

[bgeffon@google.com: tweak whitespace]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250227133236.1296853-1-bgeffon@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226162341.915535-1-bgeffon@google.com
Fixes: 43e027e41423 ("mm: memory: extend finish_fault() to support large folio")
Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon 
Suggested-by: Baolin Wang 
Reported-by: Marek Maslanka 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Hugh Dickens 
Cc: Kefeng Wang 
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: don't skip arch_sync_kernel_mappings() in error paths

2025-03-06T05:36:18+00:00

Fix callers that previously skipped calling arch_sync_kernel_mappings() if
an error occurred during a pgtable update.  The call is still required to
sync any pgtable updates that may have occurred prior to hitting the error
condition.

These are theoretical bugs discovered during code review.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226121610.2401743-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Fixes: 2ba3e6947aed ("mm/vmalloc: track which page-table levels were modified")
Fixes: 0c95cba49255 ("mm: apply_to_pte_range warn and fail if a large pte is encountered")
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts 
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Christop Hellwig 
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: pgtable: fix incorrect reclaim of non-empty PTE pages

2025-02-18T06:40:03+00:00

In zap_pte_range(), if the pte lock was released midway, the pte entries
may be refilled with physical pages by another thread, which may cause a
non-empty PTE page to be reclaimed and eventually cause the system to
crash.

To fix it, fall back to the slow path in this case to recheck if all pte
entries are still none.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250211072625.89188-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Fixes: 6375e95f381e ("mm: pgtable: reclaim empty PTE page in madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)")
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng 
Reported-by: Christian Brauner 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250207-anbot-bankfilialen-acce9d79a2c7@brauner/
Reported-by: Qu Wenruo 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/152296f3-5c81-4a94-97f3-004108fba7be@gmx.com/
Tested-by: Zi Yan 
Cc: 
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-01-27T02:36:23+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
  indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.

   - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
     the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
     free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
     refcount inc & dec

   - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
     use large folios other than PMD-sized ones

   - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
     and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest

   - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
     of the mapletree code

   - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
     few minor code cleanups

   - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
     a test for the mapletree code

   - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
     (relatively) new mm/vma.c

   - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
     Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
     page allocator

   - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
     Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
     It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading

   - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
     addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
     accumulated:

       https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

     Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
     memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

   - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
     Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
     code when optional compiler warnings are enabled

   - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
     David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
     __GFP_HARDWALL

   - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
     various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
     pertaining to the pkeys tests

   - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
     estimate application working set size

   - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
     provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic

   - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
     removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
     tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated

   - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
     has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
     zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated

   - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
     Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
     use-after-free race is fixed

   - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
     simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
     logic

   - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
     and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
     improvements in accounting accuracy

   - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
     core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
     DAMON's sysfs file interface logic

   - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
     SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
     presented in response to DAMOS actions

   - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
     removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
     migration to sysfs is completed

   - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
     Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
     accounting

   - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
     removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface

   - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
     extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
     but also inclusion (allowing) behavior

   - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
     introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
     overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
     reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
     memory descriptors

   - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
     and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
     demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
     build time with swap-on-zram

   - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
     from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
     mmap_region() can be made MM-internal

   - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
     MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance

   - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
     Park updates DAMON documentation

   - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing

   - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
     Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
     folios, THP folios and migration

   - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
     RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
     pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
     issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
     reading/writing fast devices

   - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
     Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
  s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
  kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
  tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
  mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
  seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
  mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
  zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
  mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
  mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
  selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
  kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
  selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
  selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
  mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
  ...

mm: pgtable: introduce pagetable_dtor()

2025-01-26T04:22:22+00:00

The pagetable_p*_dtor() are exactly the same except for the handling of
ptlock.  If we make ptlock_free() handle the case where ptdesc->ptl is
NULL and remove VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() from pmd_ptlock_free(), we can unify
pagetable_p*_dtor() into one function.  Let's introduce pagetable_dtor()
to do this.

Later, pagetable_dtor() will be moved to tlb_remove_ptdesc(), so that
ptlock and page table pages can be freed together (regardless of whether
RCU is used).  This prevents the use-after-free problem where the ptlock
is freed immediately but the page table pages is freed later via RCU.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/47f44fff9dc68d9d9e9a0d6c036df275f820598a.1736317725.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng 
Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky 
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev 	[s390]
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Ryan Roberts 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yu Zhao 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove unnecessary calls to lru_add_drain

2025-01-26T04:22:21+00:00

There seem to be several categories of calls to lru_add_drain and
lru_add_drain_all.

The first are code paths that recently allocated, swapped in, or otherwise
processed a batch of pages, and want them all on the LRU.  These drain
pages that were recently allocated, probably on the local CPU.

A second category are code paths that are actively trying to reclaim,
migrate, or offline memory.  These often use lru_add_drain_all, to drain
the caches on all CPUs.

However, there also seem to be some other callers where we aren't really
doing either.  They are calling lru_add_drain(), despite operating on
pages that may have been allocated long ago, and quite possibly on
different CPUs.

Those calls are not likely to be effective at anything but creating lock
contention on the LRU locks.

Remove the lru_add_drain calls in the latter category.

For detailed reasoning, see [1] and [2].

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dca2824e8e88e826c6b260a831d79089b5b9c79d.camel@surriel.com [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xxfhcjaq2xxcl5adastz5omkytenq7izo2e5f4q7e3ns4z6lko@odigjjc7hqrg [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241219153253.3da9e8aa@fangorn
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel 
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Chris Li 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Ryan Roberts 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: unexport apply_to_existing_page_range

2025-01-26T04:22:18+00:00

apply_to_existing_page_range() is only used by non-modular code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241212073423.1439954-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: fix outdated incorrect code comments for handle_mm_fault()

2025-01-26T04:22:18+00:00

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/mmap_Lock/mmap_lock/, per Liam]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241213031820.778342-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng 
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00

Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file->f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file->f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...

mm: add per-order mTHP swap-in fallback/fallback_charge counters

2025-01-14T06:40:49+00:00

Currently, large folio swap-in is supported, but we lack a method to
analyze their success ratio.  Similar to anon_fault_fallback, we introduce
per-order mTHP swpin_fallback and swpin_fallback_charge counters for
calculating their success ratio.  The new counters are located at:

/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-/stats/
	swpin_fallback
	swpin_fallback_charge

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241202124730.2407037-1-haowenchao22@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wenchao Hao 
Reviewed-by: Barry Song 
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang 
Cc: Baolin Wang 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Peter Xu 
Cc: Ryan Roberts 
Cc: Usama Arif 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton