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2025-04-10x86/mm/pat: Fix VM_PAT handling when fork() fails in copy_page_range()David Hildenbrand1-0/+4
[ Upstream commit dc84bc2aba85a1508f04a936f9f9a15f64ebfb31 ] If track_pfn_copy() fails, we already added the dst VMA to the maple tree. As fork() fails, we'll cleanup the maple tree, and stumble over the dst VMA for which we neither performed any reservation nor copied any page tables. Consequently untrack_pfn() will see VM_PAT and try obtaining the PAT information from the page table -- which fails because the page table was not copied. The easiest fix would be to simply clear the VM_PAT flag of the dst VMA if track_pfn_copy() fails. However, the whole thing is about "simply" clearing the VM_PAT flag is shaky as well: if we passed track_pfn_copy() and performed a reservation, but copying the page tables fails, we'll simply clear the VM_PAT flag, not properly undoing the reservation ... which is also wrong. So let's fix it properly: set the VM_PAT flag only if the reservation succeeded (leaving it clear initially), and undo the reservation if anything goes wrong while copying the page tables: clearing the VM_PAT flag after undoing the reservation. Note that any copied page table entries will get zapped when the VMA will get removed later, after copy_page_range() succeeded; as VM_PAT is not set then, we won't try cleaning VM_PAT up once more and untrack_pfn() will be happy. Note that leaving these page tables in place without a reservation is not a problem, as we are aborting fork(); this process will never run. A reproducer can trigger this usually at the first try: https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/reproducers/pat_fork.c WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 11650 at arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c:983 get_pat_info+0xf6/0x110 Modules linked in: ... CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 11650 Comm: repro3 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5+ #92 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:get_pat_info+0xf6/0x110 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ... untrack_pfn+0x52/0x110 unmap_single_vma+0xa6/0xe0 unmap_vmas+0x105/0x1f0 exit_mmap+0xf6/0x460 __mmput+0x4b/0x120 copy_process+0x1bf6/0x2aa0 kernel_clone+0xab/0x440 __do_sys_clone+0x66/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x95/0x180 Likely this case was missed in: d155df53f310 ("x86/mm/pat: clear VM_PAT if copy_p4d_range failed") ... and instead of undoing the reservation we simply cleared the VM_PAT flag. Keep the documentation of these functions in include/linux/pgtable.h, one place is more than sufficient -- we should clean that up for the other functions like track_pfn_remap/untrack_pfn separately. Fixes: d155df53f310 ("x86/mm/pat: clear VM_PAT if copy_p4d_range failed") Fixes: 2ab640379a0a ("x86: PAT: hooks in generic vm code to help archs to track pfnmap regions - v3") Reported-by: xingwei lee <xrivendell7@gmail.com> Reported-by: yuxin wang <wang1315768607@163.com> Reported-by: Marius Fleischer <fleischermarius@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321112323.153741-1-david@redhat.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABOYnLx_dnqzpCW99G81DmOr+2UzdmZMk=T3uxwNxwz+R1RAwg@mail.gmail.com/ Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJg=8jwijTP5fre8woS4JVJQ8iUA6v+iNcsOgtj9Zfpc3obDOQ@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-02-01kernel: be more careful about dup_mmap() failures and uprobe registeringLiam R. Howlett1-3/+14
If a memory allocation fails during dup_mmap(), the maple tree can be left in an unsafe state for other iterators besides the exit path. All the locks are dropped before the exit_mmap() call (in mm/mmap.c), but the incomplete mm_struct can be reached through (at least) the rmap finding the vmas which have a pointer back to the mm_struct. Up to this point, there have been no issues with being able to find an mm_struct that was only partially initialised. Syzbot was able to make the incomplete mm_struct fail with recent forking changes, so it has been proven unsafe to use the mm_struct that hasn't been initialised, as referenced in the link below. Although 8ac662f5da19f ("fork: avoid inappropriate uprobe access to invalid mm") fixed the uprobe access, it does not completely remove the race. This patch sets the MMF_OOM_SKIP to avoid the iteration of the vmas on the oom side (even though this is extremely unlikely to be selected as an oom victim in the race window), and sets MMF_UNSTABLE to avoid other potential users from using a partially initialised mm_struct. When registering vmas for uprobe, skip the vmas in an mm that is marked unstable. Modifying a vma in an unstable mm may cause issues if the mm isn't fully initialised. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6756d273.050a0220.2477f.003d.GAE@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250127170221.1761366-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()") Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-26Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series in this pull are: - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation" from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap library code - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code - "Update reference to include/asm-<arch>" from Geert Uytterhoeven fixes pathnames in some code comments - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is appropriate - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen switches two filesystems to the new mount API - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various places - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs some maintainability work - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented with a corrupted image - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does some maintenance work on the min/max library code - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance work on the xarray library code" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits) ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks() Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc() Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause() Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked() ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions gcov: clang: use correct function param names latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp() minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp() minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp() minmax.h: update some comments minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return CREDITS: fix spelling mistake ...
2025-01-23Merge tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 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 ...
2025-01-21Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-01-20' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar: "Seqlock optimizations that arose in a perf context and were merged into the perf tree: - seqlock: Add raw_seqcount_try_begin (Suren Baghdasaryan) - mm: Convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount (Suren Baghdasaryan) - mm: Introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry} (Suren Baghdasaryan) - mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin() (Peter Zijlstra) Core perf enhancements: - Reduce 'struct page' footprint of perf by mapping pages in advance (Lorenzo Stoakes) - Save raw sample data conditionally based on sample type (Yabin Cui) - Reduce sampling overhead by checking sample_type in perf_sample_save_callchain() and perf_sample_save_brstack() (Yabin Cui) - Export perf_exclude_event() (Namhyung Kim) Uprobes scalability enhancements: (Andrii Nakryiko) - Simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks - Add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution - Simplify session consumer tracking - Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing - Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing - Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task - Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance() AMD core PMU driver enhancements: - Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS (Namhyung Kim) AMD RAPL energy counters support: (Dhananjay Ugwekar) - Introduce topology_logical_core_id() (K Prateek Nayak) - Remove the unused get_rapl_pmu_cpumask() function - Remove the cpu_to_rapl_pmu() function - Rename rapl_pmu variables - Make rapl_model struct global - Add arguments to the init and cleanup functions - Modify the generic variable names to *_pkg* - Remove the global variable rapl_msrs - Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct - Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs Intel core PMU driver enhancements: - Support RDPMC 'metrics clear mode' feature (Kan Liang) - Clarify adaptive PEBS processing (Kan Liang) - Factor out functions for PEBS records processing (Kan Liang) - Simplify the PEBS records processing for adaptive PEBS (Kan Liang) Intel uncore driver enhancements: (Kan Liang) - Convert buggy pmu->func_id use to pmu->registered - Support more units on Granite Rapids" * tag 'perf-core-2025-01-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits) perf: map pages in advance perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support more units on Granite Rapids perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clean up func_id perf/x86/intel: Support RDPMC metrics clear mode uprobes: Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance() perf/x86: Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS perf/core: Export perf_exclude_event() uprobes: Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task uprobes: Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing uprobes: Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing uprobes: Simplify session consumer tracking uprobes: add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution uprobes: simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks mm: introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry} mm: convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin() seqlock: add raw_seqcount_try_begin perf/x86/rapl: Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs perf/x86/rapl: Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct perf/x86/rapl: Remove the global variable rapl_msrs ...
2025-01-12get_task_exe_file: check PF_KTHREAD locklesslyMateusz Guzik1-4/+5
Same thing as 8ac5dc66599c ("get_task_mm: check PF_KTHREAD lockless") Nowadays PF_KTHREAD is sticky and it was never protected by ->alloc_lock. Move the PF_KTHREAD check outside of task_lock() section to make this code more understandable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241119143526.704986-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-12-18fork: avoid inappropriate uprobe access to invalid mmLorenzo Stoakes1-7/+6
If dup_mmap() encounters an issue, currently uprobe is able to access the relevant mm via the reverse mapping (in build_map_info()), and if we are very unlucky with a race window, observe invalid XA_ZERO_ENTRY state which we establish as part of the fork error path. This occurs because uprobe_write_opcode() invokes anon_vma_prepare() which in turn invokes find_mergeable_anon_vma() that uses a VMA iterator, invoking vma_iter_load() which uses the advanced maple tree API and thus is able to observe XA_ZERO_ENTRY entries added to dup_mmap() in commit d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()"). This change was made on the assumption that only process tear-down code would actually observe (and make use of) these values. However this very unlikely but still possible edge case with uprobes exists and unfortunately does make these observable. The uprobe operation prevents races against the dup_mmap() operation via the dup_mmap_sem semaphore, which is acquired via uprobe_start_dup_mmap() and dropped via uprobe_end_dup_mmap(), and held across register_for_each_vma() prior to invoking build_map_info() which does the reverse mapping lookup. Currently these are acquired and dropped within dup_mmap(), which exposes the race window prior to error handling in the invoking dup_mm() which tears down the mm. We can avoid all this by just moving the invocation of uprobe_start_dup_mmap() and uprobe_end_dup_mmap() up a level to dup_mm() and only release this lock once the dup_mmap() operation succeeds or clean up is done. This means that the uprobe code can never observe an incompletely constructed mm and resolves the issue in this case. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241210172412.52995-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reported-by: syzbot+2d788f4f7cb660dac4b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6756d273.050a0220.2477f.003d.GAE@google.com/ Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-12-11fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched filesAmir Goldstein1-6/+6
Commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec") removed the legacy behavior of getting ETXTBSY on attempt to open and executable file for write while it is being executed. This commit was reverted because an application that depends on this legacy behavior was broken by the change. We need to allow HSM writing into executable files while executed to fill their content on-the-fly. To that end, disable the ETXTBSY legacy behavior for files that are watched by pre-content events. This change is not expected to cause regressions with existing systems which do not have any pre-content event listeners. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241128142532.465176-1-amir73il@gmail.com
2024-12-02mm: convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcountSuren Baghdasaryan1-4/+1
Convert mm_lock_seq to be seqcount_t and change all mmap_write_lock variants to increment it, in-line with the usual seqcount usage pattern. This lets us check whether the mmap_lock is write-locked by checking mm_lock_seq.sequence counter (odd=locked, even=unlocked). This will be used when implementing mmap_lock speculation functions. As a result vm_lock_seq is also change to be unsigned to match the type of mm_lock_seq.sequence. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241122174416.1367052-2-surenb@google.com
2024-11-27Revert "fs: don't block i_writecount during exec"Christian Brauner1-3/+23
This reverts commit 2a010c41285345da60cece35575b4e0af7e7bf44. Rui Ueyama <rui314@gmail.com> writes: > I'm the creator and the maintainer of the mold linker > (https://github.com/rui314/mold). Recently, we discovered that mold > started causing process crashes in certain situations due to a change > in the Linux kernel. Here are the details: > > - In general, overwriting an existing file is much faster than > creating an empty file and writing to it on Linux, so mold attempts to > reuse an existing executable file if it exists. > > - If a program is running, opening the executable file for writing > previously failed with ETXTBSY. If that happens, mold falls back to > creating a new file. > > - However, the Linux kernel recently changed the behavior so that > writing to an executable file is now always permitted > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a010c412853). > > That caused mold to write to an executable file even if there's a > process running that file. Since changes to mmap'ed files are > immediately visible to other processes, any processes running that > file would almost certainly crash in a very mysterious way. > Identifying the cause of these random crashes took us a few days. > > Rejecting writes to an executable file that is currently running is a > well-known behavior, and Linux had operated that way for a very long > time. So, I don’t believe relying on this behavior was our mistake; > rather, I see this as a regression in the Linux kernel. Quoting myself from commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec") > Yes, someone in userspace could potentially be relying on this. It's not > completely out of the realm of possibility but let's find out if that's > actually the case and not guess. It seems we found out that someone is relying on this obscure behavior. So revert the change. Link: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1361 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4a2bc207-76be-4715-8e12-7fc45a76a125@leemhuis.info Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-11-23Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings. - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several series which clean up the implementation: - "refine mas_mab_cp()" - "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node" - "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()" - "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()" - "refine storing null" - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390. - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping code. - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of shadow entries. - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag. - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in the hugetlb code. - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults. - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code. - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to do. - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed. - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON splitting. - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature. - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and addresses some potential performance issues. - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations" from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for read-only-execute module text. - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling feature. - The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove most references to page->index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking struct page. - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for DAMON's self testing code. - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for this zswap operation. - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in tests over to the KUnit framework. - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are expected. - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing activity. - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance. - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP from the kernel boot command line. - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests. - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope" from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep is enabled. * tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits) cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem() mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault() zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show() memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite mm: define general function pXd_init() kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols ...
2024-11-19Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather large update for timekeeping and timers: - The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored. This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life time rules. Cure this by: - Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a always valid container_of() now. - Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list. - Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered. - Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal delivery code to rearm the timer. This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they are consistent across all situations. With that all self test scenarios finally succeed. - Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode attributes are actively observed via getattr(). These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top. - Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure - Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file - Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper defines. - Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account. Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings. - Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions and fix up stale documentation links all over the place - Fixup a few usage sites - Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP clocks A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the various user space daemons through adjtimex(2). The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited. They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself. As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks. The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2) infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc. Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using static variables. This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step. - Consolidate hrtimer initialization hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons. That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less straight forward than it should be. Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used interfaces over. The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window. - Drivers: - Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems. Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with other clusters. - Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement" * tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits) posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit() clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack() alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack() io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack() sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack() hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack() wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() ...
2024-11-19Merge tag 'x86-splitlock-2024-11-18' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 splitlock updates from Ingo Molnar: - Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file (Ravi Bangoria) - Add split/bus lock support for AMD (Ravi Bangoria) * tag 'x86-splitlock-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/bus_lock: Add support for AMD x86/split_lock: Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file
2024-11-19Merge tag 'sched-core-2024-11-18' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Core facilities: - Add the "Lazy preemption" model (CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY=y), which optimizes fair-class preemption by delaying preemption requests to the tick boundary, while working as full preemption for RR/FIFO/DEADLINE classes. (Peter Zijlstra) - x86: Enable Lazy preemption (Peter Zijlstra) - riscv: Enable Lazy preemption (Jisheng Zhang) - Initialize idle tasks only once (Thomas Gleixner) - sched/ext: Remove sched_fork() hack (Thomas Gleixner) Fair scheduler: - Optimize the PLACE_LAG when se->vlag is zero (Huang Shijie) Idle loop: - Optimize the generic idle loop by removing unnecessary memory barrier (Zhongqiu Han) RSEQ: - Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency IDs for intermittent workloads (Mathieu Desnoyers) Waitqueues: - Make wake_up_{bit,var} less fragile (Neil Brown) PSI: - Pass enqueue/dequeue flags to psi callbacks directly (Johannes Weiner) Preparatory patches for proxy execution: - Add move_queued_task_locked helper (Connor O'Brien) - Consolidate pick_*_task to task_is_pushable helper (Connor O'Brien) - Split out __schedule() deactivate task logic into a helper (John Stultz) - Split scheduler and execution contexts (Peter Zijlstra) - Make mutex::wait_lock irq safe (Juri Lelli) - Expose __mutex_owner() (Juri Lelli) - Remove wakeups from under mutex::wait_lock (Peter Zijlstra) Misc fixes and cleanups: - Remove unused __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS hook support (David Disseldorp) - Update the comment for TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Remove unused bit_wait_io_timeout (Dr. David Alan Gilbert) - remove the DOUBLE_TICK feature (Huang Shijie) - fix the comment for PREEMPT_SHORT (Huang Shijie) - Fix unnused variable warning (Christian Loehle) - No PREEMPT_RT=y for all{yes,mod}config" * tag 'sched-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits) sched, x86: Update the comment for TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY. sched: No PREEMPT_RT=y for all{yes,mod}config riscv: add PREEMPT_LAZY support sched, x86: Enable Lazy preemption sched: Enable PREEMPT_DYNAMIC for PREEMPT_RT sched: Add Lazy preemption model sched: Add TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY infrastructure sched/ext: Remove sched_fork() hack sched: Initialize idle tasks only once sched: psi: pass enqueue/dequeue flags to psi callbacks directly sched/uclamp: Fix unnused variable warning sched: Split scheduler and execution contexts sched: Split out __schedule() deactivate task logic into a helper sched: Consolidate pick_*_task to task_is_pushable helper sched: Add move_queued_task_locked helper locking/mutex: Expose __mutex_owner() locking/mutex: Make mutex::wait_lock irq safe locking/mutex: Remove wakeups from under mutex::wait_lock sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency IDs for intermittent workloads sched: idle: Optimize the generic idle loop by removing needless memory barrier ...
2024-11-07signal: Provide ignored_posix_timers listThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
To prepare for handling posix timer signals on sigaction(SIG_IGN) properly, add a list to task::signal. This list will be used to queue posix timers so their signal can be requeued when SIG_IGN is lifted later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.920101900@linutronix.de
2024-11-05mm: move mm flags to mm_types.hNanyong Sun1-1/+0
The types of mm flags are now far beyond the core dump related features. This patch moves mm flags from linux/sched/coredump.h to linux/mm_types.h. The linux/sched/coredump.h has include the mm_types.h, so the C files related to coredump does not need to change head file inclusion. In addition, the inclusion of sched/coredump.h now can be deleted from the C files that irrelevant to core dump. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926074922.2721274-1-sunnanyong@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05mm: refactor mm_access() to not return NULLLorenzo Stoakes1-2/+3
mm_access() can return NULL if the mm is not found, but this is handled the same as an error in all callers, with some translating this into an -ESRCH error. Only proc_mem_open() returns NULL if no mm is found, however in this case it is clearer and makes more sense to explicitly handle the error. Additionally we take the opportunity to refactor the function to eliminate unnecessary nesting. Simplify things by simply returning -ESRCH if no mm is found - this both eliminates confusing use of the IS_ERR_OR_NULL() macro, and simplifies callers which would return -ESRCH by returning this error directly. [lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: prefer neater pointer error comparison] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2fae1834-749a-45e1-8594-5e5979cf7103@lucifer.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240924201023.193135-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-03Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2024-11-03' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner: "A single fix for posix CPU timers. When a thread is cloned, the posix CPU timers are not inherited. If the parent has a CPU timer armed the corresponding tick dependency in the tasks tick_dep_mask is set and copied to the new thread, which means the new thread and all decendants will prevent the system to go into full NOHZ operation. Clear the tick dependency mask in copy_process() to fix this" * tag 'timers-urgent-2024-11-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: posix-cpu-timers: Clear TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER on clone
2024-10-28fork: only invoke khugepaged, ksm hooks if no errorLorenzo Stoakes1-5/+2
There is no reason to invoke these hooks early against an mm that is in an incomplete state. The change in commit d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()") makes this more pertinent as we may be in a state where entries in the maple tree are not yet consistent. Their placement early in dup_mmap() only appears to have been meaningful for early error checking, and since functionally it'd require a very small allocation to fail (in practice 'too small to fail') that'd only occur in the most dire circumstances, meaning the fork would fail or be OOM'd in any case. Since both khugepaged and KSM tracking are there to provide optimisations to memory performance rather than critical functionality, it doesn't really matter all that much if, under such dire memory pressure, we fail to register an mm with these. As a result, we follow the example of commit d2081b2bf819 ("mm: khugepaged: make khugepaged_enter() void function") and make ksm_fork() a void function also. We only expose the mm to these functions once we are done with them and only if no error occurred in the fork operation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e0cb8b840c9d1d5a6e84d4f8eff5f3f2022aa10c.1729014377.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-10-28fork: do not invoke uffd on fork if error occursLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+4
Patch series "fork: do not expose incomplete mm on fork". During fork we may place the virtual memory address space into an inconsistent state before the fork operation is complete. In addition, we may encounter an error during the fork operation that indicates that the virtual memory address space is invalidated. As a result, we should not be exposing it in any way to external machinery that might interact with the mm or VMAs, machinery that is not designed to deal with incomplete state. We specifically update the fork logic to defer khugepaged and ksm to the end of the operation and only to be invoked if no error arose, and disallow uffd from observing fork events should an error have occurred. This patch (of 2): Currently on fork we expose the virtual address space of a process to userland unconditionally if uffd is registered in VMAs, regardless of whether an error arose in the fork. This is performed in dup_userfaultfd_complete() which is invoked unconditionally, and performs two duties - invoking registered handlers for the UFFD_EVENT_FORK event via dup_fctx(), and clearing down userfaultfd_fork_ctx objects established in dup_userfaultfd(). This is problematic, because the virtual address space may not yet be correctly initialised if an error arose. The change in commit d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()") makes this more pertinent as we may be in a state where entries in the maple tree are not yet consistent. We address this by, on fork error, ensuring that we roll back state that we would otherwise expect to clean up through the event being handled by userland and perform the memory freeing duty otherwise performed by dup_userfaultfd_complete(). We do this by implementing a new function, dup_userfaultfd_fail(), which performs the same loop, only decrementing reference counts. Note that we perform mmgrab() on the parent and child mm's, however userfaultfd_ctx_put() will mmdrop() this once the reference count drops to zero, so we will avoid memory leaks correctly here. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1729014377.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d3691d58bb58712b6fb3df2be441d175bd3cdf07.1729014377.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-10-27posix-cpu-timers: Clear TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER on cloneBenjamin Segall1-0/+2
When cloning a new thread, its posix_cputimers are not inherited, and are cleared by posix_cputimers_init(). However, this does not clear the tick dependency it creates in tsk->tick_dep_mask, and the handler does not reach the code to clear the dependency if there were no timers to begin with. Thus if a thread has a cputimer running before clone/fork, all descendants will prevent nohz_full unless they create a cputimer of their own. Fix this by entirely clearing the tick_dep_mask in copy_process(). (There is currently no inherited state that needs a tick dependency) Process-wide timers do not have this problem because fork does not copy signal_struct as a baseline, it creates one from scratch. Fixes: b78783000d5c ("posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model") Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xm26o737bq8o.fsf@google.com
2024-10-14sched: Improve cache locality of RSEQ concurrency IDs for intermittent workloadsMathieu Desnoyers1-1/+1
commit 223baf9d17f25 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid") introduced a per-mm/cpu current concurrency id (mm_cid), which keeps a reference to the concurrency id allocated for each CPU. This reference expires shortly after a 100ms delay. These per-CPU references keep the per-mm-cid data cache-local in situations where threads are running at least once on each CPU within each 100ms window, thus keeping the per-cpu reference alive. However, intermittent workloads behaving in bursts spaced by more than 100ms on each CPU exhibit bad cache locality and degraded performance compared to purely per-cpu data indexing, because concurrency IDs are allocated over various CPUs and cores, therefore losing cache locality of the associated data. Introduce the following changes to improve per-mm-cid cache locality: - Add a "recent_cid" field to the per-mm/cpu mm_cid structure to keep track of which mm_cid value was last used, and use it as a hint to attempt re-allocating the same concurrency ID the next time this mm/cpu needs to allocate a concurrency ID, - Add a per-mm CPUs allowed mask, which keeps track of the union of CPUs allowed for all threads belonging to this mm. This cpumask is only set during the lifetime of the mm, never cleared, so it represents the union of all the CPUs allowed since the beginning of the mm lifetime (note that the mm_cpumask() is really arch-specific and tailored to the TLB flush needs, and is thus _not_ a viable approach for this), - Add a per-mm nr_cpus_allowed to keep track of the weight of the per-mm CPUs allowed mask (for fast access), - Add a per-mm max_nr_cid to keep track of the highest number of concurrency IDs allocated for the mm. This is used for expanding the concurrency ID allocation within the upper bound defined by: min(mm->nr_cpus_allowed, mm->mm_users) When the next unused CID value reaches this threshold, stop trying to expand the cid allocation and use the first available cid value instead. Spreading allocation to use all the cid values within the range [ 0, min(mm->nr_cpus_allowed, mm->mm_users) - 1 ] improves cache locality while preserving mm_cid compactness within the expected user limits, - In __mm_cid_try_get, only return cid values within the range [ 0, mm->nr_cpus_allowed ] rather than [ 0, nr_cpu_ids ]. This prevents allocating cids above the number of allowed cpus in rare scenarios where cid allocation races with a concurrent remote-clear of the per-mm/cpu cid. This improvement is made possible by the addition of the per-mm CPUs allowed mask, - In sched_mm_cid_migrate_to, use mm->nr_cpus_allowed rather than t->nr_cpus_allowed. This criterion was really meant to compare the number of mm->mm_users to the number of CPUs allowed for the entire mm. Therefore, the prior comparison worked fine when all threads shared the same CPUs allowed mask, but not so much in scenarios where those threads have different masks (e.g. each thread pinned to a single CPU). This improvement is made possible by the addition of the per-mm CPUs allowed mask. * Benchmarks Each thread increments 16kB worth of 8-bit integers in bursts, with a configurable delay between each thread's execution. Each thread run one after the other (no threads run concurrently). The order of thread execution in the sequen