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2022-12-17Merge tag 'x86_mm_for_6.2_v2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-19/+18
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm updates from Dave Hansen: "New Feature: - Randomize the per-cpu entry areas Cleanups: - Have CR3_ADDR_MASK use PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK instead of open coding it - Move to "native" set_memory_rox() helper - Clean up pmd_get_atomic() and i386-PAE - Remove some unused page table size macros" * tag 'x86_mm_for_6.2_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits) x86/mm: Ensure forced page table splitting x86/kasan: Populate shadow for shared chunk of the CPU entry area x86/kasan: Add helpers to align shadow addresses up and down x86/kasan: Rename local CPU_ENTRY_AREA variables to shorten names x86/mm: Populate KASAN shadow for entire per-CPU range of CPU entry area x86/mm: Recompute physical address for every page of per-CPU CEA mapping x86/mm: Rename __change_page_attr_set_clr(.checkalias) x86/mm: Inhibit _PAGE_NX changes from cpa_process_alias() x86/mm: Untangle __change_page_attr_set_clr(.checkalias) x86/mm: Add a few comments x86/mm: Fix CR3_ADDR_MASK x86/mm: Remove P*D_PAGE_MASK and P*D_PAGE_SIZE macros mm: Convert __HAVE_ARCH_P..P_GET to the new style mm: Remove pointless barrier() after pmdp_get_lockless() x86/mm/pae: Get rid of set_64bit() x86_64: Remove pointless set_64bit() usage x86/mm/pae: Be consistent with pXXp_get_and_clear() x86/mm/pae: Use WRITE_ONCE() x86/mm/pae: Don't (ab)use atomic64 mm/gup: Fix the lockless PMD access ...
2022-12-15x86/mm: Use mm_alloc() in poking_init()Peter Zijlstra1-5/+0
Instead of duplicating init_mm, allocate a fresh mm. The advantage is that mm_alloc() has much simpler dependencies. Additionally it makes more conceptual sense, init_mm has no (and must not have) user state to duplicate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.816175235@infradead.org
2022-12-15mm: Move mm_cachep initialization to mm_init()Peter Zijlstra1-14/+18
In order to allow using mm_alloc() much earlier, move initializing mm_cachep into mm_init(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.751153381@infradead.org
2022-12-13Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+20
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu - Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying - Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola - David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW handling - Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin - Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki - Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew Wilcox - A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use it - Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the __no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword. This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad - Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and memory section removal for huge pages - DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park - Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages - Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors - Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it and making it more efficient - Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and David Hildenbrand - zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky - David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which didn't work very well anyway - Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain enabled during per-cpu page allocations - Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper - Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of pagecache - David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW breaking - Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's zsmalloc backend - Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in file[map]_write_and_wait_range() - sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang Chen - Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect - Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several filesystems. They only need .writepages() - Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target beancounting - David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit machines - Many singleton patches, as usual * tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits) mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment kmsan: fix memcpy tests mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry() mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until() mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure omfs: remove ->writepage jfs: remove ->writepage ...
2022-12-12Merge tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld: - Replace prandom_u32_max() and various open-coded variants of it, there is now a new family of functions that uses fast rejection sampling to choose properly uniformly random numbers within an interval: get_random_u32_below(ceil) - [0, ceil) get_random_u32_above(floor) - (floor, U32_MAX] get_random_u32_inclusive(floor, ceil) - [floor, ceil] Coccinelle was used to convert all current users of prandom_u32_max(), as well as many open-coded patterns, resulting in improvements throughout the tree. I'll have a "late" 6.1-rc1 pull for you that removes the now unused prandom_u32_max() function, just in case any other trees add a new use case of it that needs to converted. According to linux-next, there may be two trivial cases of prandom_u32_max() reintroductions that are fixable with a 's/.../.../'. So I'll have for you a final conversion patch doing that alongside the removal patch during the second week. This is a treewide change that touches many files throughout. - More consistent use of get_random_canary(). - Updates to comments, documentation, tests, headers, and simplification in configuration. - The arch_get_random*_early() abstraction was only used by arm64 and wasn't entirely useful, so this has been replaced by code that works in all relevant contexts. - The kernel will use and manage random seeds in non-volatile EFI variables, refreshing a variable with a fresh seed when the RNG is initialized. The RNG GUID namespace is then hidden from efivarfs to prevent accidental leakage. These changes are split into random.c infrastructure code used in the EFI subsystem, in this pull request, and related support inside of EFISTUB, in Ard's EFI tree. These are co-dependent for full functionality, but the order of merging doesn't matter. - Part of the infrastructure added for the EFI support is also used for an improvement to the way vsprintf initializes its siphash key, replacing an sleep loop wart. - The hardware RNG framework now always calls its correct random.c input function, add_hwgenerator_randomness(), rather than sometimes going through helpers better suited for other cases. - The add_latent_entropy() function has long been called from the fork handler, but is a no-op when the latent entropy gcc plugin isn't used, which is fine for the purposes of latent entropy. But it was missing out on the cycle counter that was also being mixed in beside the latent entropy variable. So now, if the latent entropy gcc plugin isn't enabled, add_latent_entropy() will expand to a call to add_device_randomness(NULL, 0), which adds a cycle counter, without the absent latent entropy variable. - The RNG is now reseeded from a delayed worker, rather than on demand when used. Always running from a worker allows it to make use of the CPU RNG on platforms like S390x, whose instructions are too slow to do so from interrupts. It also has the effect of adding in new inputs more frequently with more regularity, amounting to a long term transcript of random values. Plus, it helps a bit with the upcoming vDSO implementation (which isn't yet ready for 6.2). - The jitter entropy algorithm now tries to execute on many different CPUs, round-robining, in hopes of hitting even more memory latencies and other unpredictable effects. It also will mix in a cycle counter when the entropy timer fires, in addition to being mixed in from the main loop, to account more explicitly for fluctuations in that timer firing. And the state it touches is now kept within the same cache line, so that it's assured that the different execution contexts will cause latencies. * tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: (23 commits) random: include <linux/once.h> in the right header random: align entropy_timer_state to cache line random: mix in cycle counter when jitter timer fires random: spread out jitter callback to different CPUs random: remove extraneous period and add a missing one in comments efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized vsprintf: initialize siphash key using notifier random: add back async readiness notifier random: reseed in delayed work rather than on-demand random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy() hw_random: use add_hwgenerator_randomness() for early entropy random: modernize documentation comment on get_random_bytes() random: adjust comment to account for removed function random: remove early archrandom abstraction random: use random.trust_{bootloader,cpu} command line option only stackprotector: actually use get_random_canary() stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible treewide: use get_random_u32_{above,below}() instead of manual loop treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function ...
2022-12-12Merge tag 'execve-v6.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-9/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull execve updates from Kees Cook: "Most are small refactorings and bug fixes, but three things stand out: switching timens (which got reverted before) looks solid now, FOLL_FORCE has been removed (no failures seen yet across several weeks in -next), and some whitespace cleanups (which are long overdue). - Add timens support (when switching mm). This version has survived in -next for the entire cycle (Andrei Vagin) - Various small bug fixes, refactoring, and readability improvements (Bernd Edlinger, Rolf Eike Beer, Bo Liu, Li Zetao Liu Shixin) - Remove FOLL_FORCE for stack setup (Kees Cook) - Whitespace cleanups (Rolf Eike Beer, Kees Cook)" * tag 'execve-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: binfmt_misc: fix shift-out-of-bounds in check_special_flags binfmt: Fix error return code in load_elf_fdpic_binary() exec: Remove FOLL_FORCE for stack setup binfmt_elf: replace IS_ERR() with IS_ERR_VALUE() binfmt_elf: simplify error handling in load_elf_phdrs() binfmt_elf: fix documented return value for load_elf_phdrs() exec: simplify initial stack size expansion binfmt: Fix whitespace issues exec: Add comments on check_unsafe_exec() fs counting ELF uapi: add spaces before '{' selftests/timens: add a test for vfork+exit fs/exec: switch timens when a task gets a new mm
2022-12-02seccomp: Move copy_seccomp() to no failure path.Kuniyuki Iwashima1-6/+11
Our syzbot instance reported memory leaks in do_seccomp() [0], similar to the report [1]. It shows that we miss freeing struct seccomp_filter and some objects included in it. We can reproduce the issue with the program below [2] which calls one seccomp() and two clone() syscalls. The first clone()d child exits earlier than its parent and sends a signal to kill it during the second clone(), more precisely before the fatal_signal_pending() test in copy_process(). When the parent receives the signal, it has to destroy the embryonic process and return -EINTR to user space. In the failure path, we have to call seccomp_filter_release() to decrement the filter's refcount. Initially, we called it in free_task() called from the failure path, but the commit 3a15fb6ed92c ("seccomp: release filter after task is fully dead") moved it to release_task() to notify user space as early as possible that the filter is no longer used. To keep the change and current seccomp refcount semantics, let's move copy_seccomp() just after the signal check and add a WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_task() for future debugging. [0]: unreferenced object 0xffff8880063add00 (size 256): comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.914s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: do_seccomp (./include/linux/slab.h:600 ./include/linux/slab.h:733 kernel/seccomp.c:666 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) unreferenced object 0xffffc90000035000 (size 4096): comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: __vmalloc_node_range (mm/vmalloc.c:3226) __vmalloc_node (mm/vmalloc.c:3261 (discriminator 4)) bpf_prog_alloc_no_stats (kernel/bpf/core.c:91) bpf_prog_alloc (kernel/bpf/core.c:129) bpf_prog_create_from_user (net/core/filter.c:1414) do_seccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) unreferenced object 0xffff888003fa1000 (size 1024): comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: bpf_prog_alloc_no_stats (./include/linux/slab.h:600 ./include/linux/slab.h:733 kernel/bpf/core.c:95) bpf_prog_alloc (kernel/bpf/core.c:129) bpf_prog_create_from_user (net/core/filter.c:1414) do_seccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) unreferenced object 0xffff888006360240 (size 16): comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 01 00 37 00 76 65 72 6c e0 83 01 06 80 88 ff ff ..7.verl........ backtrace: bpf_prog_store_orig_filter (net/core/filter.c:1137) bpf_prog_create_from_user (net/core/filter.c:1428) do_seccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) unreferenced object 0xffff8880060183e0 (size 8): comm "repro_seccomp", pid 230, jiffies 4294687090 (age 9.915s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 06 00 00 00 00 00 ff 7f ........ backtrace: kmemdup (mm/util.c:129) bpf_prog_store_orig_filter (net/core/filter.c:1144) bpf_prog_create_from_user (net/core/filter.c:1428) do_seccomp (kernel/seccomp.c:671 kernel/seccomp.c:708 kernel/seccomp.c:1871 kernel/seccomp.c:1991) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) [1]: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=2809bb0ac77ad9aa3f4afe42d6a610aba594a987 [2]: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <sched.h> #include <signal.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <linux/filter.h> #include <linux/seccomp.h> void main(void) { struct sock_filter filter[] = { BPF_STMT(BPF_RET | BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW), }; struct sock_fprog fprog = { .len = sizeof(filter) / sizeof(filter[0]), .filter = filter, }; long i, pid; syscall(__NR_seccomp, SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, 0, &fprog); for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { pid = syscall(__NR_clone, CLONE_NEWNET | SIGKILL, NULL, NULL, 0); if (pid == 0) return; } } Fixes: 3a15fb6ed92c ("seccomp: release filter after task is fully dead") Reported-by: syzbot+ab17848fe269b573eb71@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Ayushman Dutta <ayudutta@amazon.com> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823154532.82913-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
2022-11-30percpu_counter: add percpu_counter_sum_all interfaceShakeel Butt1-0/+5
The percpu_counter is used for scenarios where performance is more important than the accuracy. For percpu_counter users, who want more accurate information in their slowpath, percpu_counter_sum is provided which traverses all the online CPUs to accumulate the data. The reason it only needs to traverse online CPUs is because percpu_counter does implement CPU offline callback which syncs the local data of the offlined CPU. However there is a small race window between the online CPUs traversal of percpu_counter_sum and the CPU offline callback. The offline callback has to traverse all the percpu_counters on the system to flush the CPU local data which can be a lot. During that time, the CPU which is going offline has already been published as offline to all the readers. So, as the offline callback is running, percpu_counter_sum can be called for one counter which has some state on the CPU going offline. Since percpu_counter_sum only traverses online CPUs, it will skip that specific CPU and the offline callback might not have flushed the state for that specific percpu_counter on that offlined CPU. Normally this is not an issue because percpu_counter users can deal with some inaccuracy for small time window. However a new user i.e. mm_struct on the cleanup path wants to check the exact state of the percpu_counter through check_mm(). For such users, this patch introduces percpu_counter_sum_all() which traverses all possible CPUs and it is used in fork.c:check_mm() to avoid the potential race. This issue is exposed by the later patch "mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109012011.881058-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-11-30mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counterShakeel Butt1-1/+15
Currently mm_struct maintains rss_stats which are updated on page fault and the unmapping codepaths. For page fault codepath the updates are cached per thread with the batch of TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH which is 64. The reason for caching is performance for multithreaded applications otherwise the rss_stats updates may become hotspot for such applications. However this optimization comes with the cost of error margin in the rss stats. The rss_stats for applications with large number of threads can be very skewed. At worst the error margin is (nr_threads * 64) and we have a lot of applications with 100s of threads, so the error margin can be very high. Internally we had to reduce TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH to 32. Recently we started seeing the unbounded errors for rss_stats for specific applications which use TCP rx0cp. It seems like vm_insert_pages() codepath does not sync rss_stats at all. This patch converts the rss_stats into percpu_counter to convert the error margin from (nr_threads * 64) to approximately (nr_cpus ^ 2). However this conversion enable us to get the accurate stats for situations where accuracy is more important than the cpu cost. This patch does not make such tradeoffs - we can just use percpu_counter_add_local() for the updates and percpu_counter_sum() (or percpu_counter_sync() + percpu_counter_read) for the readers. At the moment the readers are either procfs interface, oom_killer and memory reclaim which I think are not performance critical and should be ok with slow read. However I think we can make that change in a separate patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221024052841.3291983-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-11-18stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.hJason A. Donenfeld1-1/+1
This has nothing to do with random.c and everything to do with stack protectors. Yes, it uses randomness. But many things use randomness. random.h and random.c are concerned with the generation of randomness, not with each and every use. So move this function into the more specific stackprotector.h file where it belongs. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
2022-10-25fs/exec: switch timens when a task gets a new mmAndrei Vagin1-9/+0
Changing a time namespace requires remapping a vvar page, so we don't want to allow doing that if any other tasks can use the same mm. Currently, we install a time namespace when a task is created with a new vm. exec() is another case when a task gets a new mm and so it can switch a time namespace safely, but it isn't handled now. One more issue of the current interface is that clone() with CLONE_VM isn't allowed if the current task has unshared a time namespace (timens_for_children doesn't match the current timens). Both these issues make some inconvenience for users. For example, Alexey and Florian reported that posix_spawn() uses vfork+exec and this pattern doesn't work with time namespaces due to the both described issues. LXC needed to workaround the exec() issue by calling setns. In the commit 133e2d3e81de5 ("fs/exec: allow to unshare a time namespace on vfork+exec"), we tried to fix these issues with minimal impact on UAPI. But it adds extra complexity and some undesirable side effects. Eric suggested fixing the issues properly because here are all the reasons to suppose that there are no users that depend on the old behavior. Cc: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Origin-author: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921003120.209637-1-avagin@google.com
2022-10-12Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco) - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic (Valentin Schneider) - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei) - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu counters (Jiebin Sun) - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi) - lots of other single patches all over the tree! * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits) include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies ia64: update config files nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure fork: remove duplicate included header files init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions proc: mark more files as permanent nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse() checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion() ...
2022-10-11fork: remove duplicate included header filesXu Panda1-1/+0
linux/sched/mm.h is included more than once. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220912071556.16811-1-xu.panda@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@zte.com.cn> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-10Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-36/+43
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that). - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock contention. Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees. Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up. - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down to the single bit level. KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones. - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of memory into THPs. - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to support file/shmem-backed pages. - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and memory-failure - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages. - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced memory consumption. - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song. - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner. - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :( - migration enhancements from Peter Xu - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM drivers, etc. - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn. - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand. - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging activity. - THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng. - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox. - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov. - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia. - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups. - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song. - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1] * tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits) hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file() mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE ...
2022-10-10Merge tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Debuggability: - Change most occurances of BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE() - Reorganize & fix TASK_ state comparisons, turn it into a bitmap - Update/fix misc scheduler debugging facilities Load-balancing & regular scheduling: - Improve the behavior of the scheduler in presence of lot of SCHED_IDLE tasks - in particular they should not impact other scheduling classes. - Optimize task load tracking, cleanups & fixes - Clean up & simplify misc load-balancing code Freezer: - Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be simpler in general, by replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN & fixing/adjusting all the fallout. Deadline scheduler: - Fix the DL capacity-aware code - Factor out dl_task_is_earliest_deadline() & replenish_dl_new_period() - Relax/optimize locking in task_non_contending() Cleanups: - Factor out the update_current_exec_runtime() helper - Various cleanups, simplifications" * tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits) sched: Fix more TASK_state comparisons sched: Fix TASK_state comparisons sched/fair: Move call to list_last_entry() in detach_tasks sched/fair: Cleanup loop_max and loop_break sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task sched: Show PF_flag holes freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic sched: Widen TAKS_state literals sched/wait: Add wait_event_state() sched/completion: Add wait_for_completion_state() sched: Add TASK_ANY for wait_task_inactive() sched: Change wait_task_inactive()s match_state freezer,umh: Clean up freezer/initrd interaction freezer: Have {,un}lock_system_sleep() save/restore flags sched: Rename task_running() to task_on_cpu() sched/fair: Cleanup for SIS_PROP sched/fair: Default to false in test_idle_cores() sched/fair: Remove useless check in select_idle_core() sched/fair: Avoid double search on same cpu sched/fair: Remove redundant check in select_idle_smt() ...
2022-10-09Merge tag 'ucount-rlimits-cleanups-for-v5.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull ucounts update from Eric Biederman: "Split rlimit and ucount values and max values After the ucount rlimit code was merged a bunch of small but siginificant bugs were found and fixed. At the time it was realized that part of the problem was that while the ucount rlimits were very similar to the oridinary ucounts (in being nested counts with limits) the semantics were slightly different and the code would be less error prone if there was less sharing. This is the long awaited cleanup that should hopefully keep things more comprehensible and less error prone for whoever needs to touch that code next" * tag 'ucount-rlimits-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values
2022-10-09Merge tag 'signal-for-v5.20' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull ptrace update from Eric Biederman: "ptrace: Stop supporting SIGKILL for PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT Recently I had a conversation where it was pointed out to me that SIGKILL sent to a tracee stropped in PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT is quite difficult for a tracer to handle. Keeping SIGKILL working after the process has been killed is pain from an implementation point of view. So since the debuggers don't want this behavior let's see if we can remove this wart for the userspace API If a regression is detected it should only need to be the last change that is the reverted. The other two are just general cleanups that make the last patch simpler" * tag 'signal-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: signal: Drop signals received after a fatal signal has been processed signal: Guarantee that SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set on process exit signal: Ensure SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT gets set in do_group_exit
2022-10-03kmsan: handle task creation and exitingAlexander Potapenko1-0/+2
Tell KMSAN that a new task is created, so the tool creates a backing metadata structure for that task. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-17-glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-03hugetlb: add vma based lock for pmd sharingMike Kravetz1-4/+2
Allocate a new hugetlb_vma_lock structure and hang off vm_private_data for synchronization use by vmas that could be involved in pmd sharing. This data structure contains a rw semaphore that is the primary tool used for synchronization. This new structure is ref counted, so that it can exist when NOT attached to a vma. This is only helpful in resolving lock ordering issues where code may need to obtain the vma_lock while there are no guarantees the vma may go away. By obtaining a ref on the structure, it can be guaranteed that at least the rw semaphore will not go away. Only add infrastructure for the new lock here. Actual use will be added in subsequent patches. [mike.kravetz@oracle.com: fix build issue for missing hugetlb_vma_lock_release] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YyNUtA1vRASOE4+M@monkey Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914221810.95771-7-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26mm: remove the vma linked listLiam R. Howlett1-18/+1
Replace any vm_next use with vma_find(). Update free_pgtables(), unmap_vmas(), and zap_page_range() to use the maple tree. Use the new free_pgtables() and unmap_vmas() in do_mas_align_munmap(). At the same time, alter the loop to be more compact. Now that free_pgtables() and unmap_vmas() take a maple tree as an argument, rearrange do_mas_align_munmap() to use the new tree to hold the vmas to remove. Remove __vma_link_list() and __vma_unlink_list() as they are exclusively used to update the linked list. Drop linked list update from __insert_vm_struct(). Rework validation of tree as it was depending on the linked list. [yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com: fix one kernel-doc comment] Link: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=1949 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220824021918.94116-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.comLink: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-69-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26fork: use VMA iteratorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-2/+5
The VMA iterator is faster than the linked list and removing the linked list will shrink the vm_area_struct. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-50-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26mm: remove vmacacheLiam R. Howlett1-5/+0
By using the maple tree and the maple tree state, the vmacache is no longer beneficial and is complicating the VMA code. Remove the vmacache to reduce the work in keeping it up to date and code complexity. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-26-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26mm: remove rb tree.Liam R. Howlett1-8/+0
Remove the RB tree and start using the maple tree for vm_area_struct tracking. Drop validate_mm() calls in expand_upwards() and expand_downwards() as the lock is not held. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-18-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26kernel/fork: use maple tree for dup_mmap() during forkingLiam R. Howlett1-2/+13
The maple tree was already tracking VMAs in this function by an earlier commit, but the rbtree iterator was being used to iterate the list. Change the iterator to use a maple tree native iterator and switch to the maple tree advanced API to avoid multiple walks of the tree during insert operations. Unexport the now-unused vma_store() function. For performance reasons we bulk allocate the maple tree nodes. The node calculations are done internally to the tree and use the VMA count and assume the worst-case node requirements. The VM_DONT_COPY flag does not allow for the most efficient copy method of the tree and so a bulk loading algorithm is used. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-15-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26mm: start tracking VMAs with maple treeLiam R. Howlett1-3/+17
Start tracking the VMAs with the new maple tree structure in parallel with the rb_tree. Add debug and trace events for maple tree operations and duplicate the rb_tree that is created on forks into the maple tree. The maple tree is added to the mm_struct including the mm_init struct, added support in required mm/mmap functions, added tracking in kernel/fork for process forking, and used to find the unmapped_area and checked against what the rbtree finds. This also moves the mmap_lock() in exit_mmap() since the oom reaper call does walk the VMAs. Otherwise lockdep will be unhappy if oom happens. When splitting a vma fails due to allocations of the maple tree nodes, the error path in __split_vma() calls new->vm_ops->close(new). The page accounting for hugetlb is actually in the close() operation, so it accounts for the removal of 1/2 of the VMA which was not adjusted. This results in a negative exit value. To avoid the negative charge, set vm_start = vm_end and vm_pgoff = 0. There is also a potential accounting issue in special mappings from insert_vm_struct() failing to allocate, so reverse the charge there in the failure scenario. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-9-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-26mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walksYu Zhao1-0/+9
To further exploit spatial locality, the aging prefers to walk page tables to search for young PTEs and promote hot pages. A kill switch will be added in the next patch to disable this behavior. When disabled, the aging relies on the rmap only. NB: this behavior has nothing similar with the page table scanning in the 2.4 kernel [1], which searches page tables for old PTEs, adds cold pages to swapcache and unmaps them. To avoid confusion, the term "iteration" specifically means the traversal of an entire mm_struct list; the term "walk" will be applied to page tables and the rmap, as usual. An mm_struct list is maintained for each memcg, and an mm_struct follows its owner task to the new memcg when this task is migrated. Given an lruvec, the aging iterates lruvec_memcg()->mm_list and calls walk_page_range() with each mm_struct on this list to promote hot pages before it increments max_seq. When multiple page table walkers iterate the same list, each of them gets a unique mm_struct; therefore they can run concurrently. Page table walkers ignore any misplaced pages, e.g., if an mm_struct was migrated, pages it left in the previous memcg will not be promoted when its current memcg is under reclaim. Similarly, page table walkers will not promote pages from nodes other than the one under reclaim. This patch uses the following optimizations when walking page tables: 1. It tracks the usage of mm_struct's between context switches so that page table walkers can skip processes that have been sleeping since the last iteration. 2. It uses generational Bloom filters to record populated branches so that page table walkers can reduce their search space based on the query results, e.g., to skip page tables containing mostly holes or misplaced pages. 3. It takes advantage of the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y. 4. It does not zigzag between a PGD table and the same PMD table spanning multiple VMAs. IOW, it finishes all the VMAs within the range of the same PMD table before it returns to a PGD table. This improves the cache performance for workloads that have large numbers of tiny VMAs [2], especially when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=5. Server benchmark results: Single workload: fio (buffered I/O): no change Single workload: memcached (anon): +[8, 10]% Ops/sec KB/sec patch1-7: 1147696.57 44640.29 patch1-8: 1245274.91 48435.66 Configurations: no change Client benchmark results: kswapd profiles: patch1-7 48.16% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 8.20% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 7.06% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 2.92% ptep_clear_flush 2.53% __zram_bvec_write 2.11% do_raw_spin_lock 2.02% memmove 1.93% lru_gen_look_around 1.56% free_unref_page_list 1.40% memset patch1-8 49.44% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 6.19% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 5.97% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 3.13% get_pfn_folio 2.85% ptep_clear_flush 2.42% __zram_bvec_write 2.08% do_raw_spin_lock 1.92% memmove 1.44% alloc_zspage 1.36% memset Configurations: no change Thanks to the following developers for their efforts [3]. kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/23732/ [2] https://llvm.org/docs/ScudoHardenedAllocator.html [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202204160827.ekEARWQo-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010