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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Generate a list of built DTB files (arch/*/boot/dts/dtbs-list)
- Use more threads when building Debian packages in parallel
- Fix warnings shown during the RPM kernel package uninstallation
- Change OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_*.o etc. to take a relative path to
Makefile
- Support GCC's -fmin-function-alignment flag
- Fix a null pointer dereference bug in modpost
- Add the DTB support to the RPM package
- Various fixes and cleanups in Kconfig
* tag 'kbuild-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (67 commits)
kconfig: tests: test dependency after shuffling choices
kconfig: tests: add a test for randconfig with dependent choices
kconfig: tests: support KCONFIG_SEED for the randconfig runner
kbuild: rpm-pkg: add dtb files in kernel rpm
kconfig: remove unneeded menu_is_visible() call in conf_write_defconfig()
kconfig: check prompt for choice while parsing
kconfig: lxdialog: remove unused dialog colors
kconfig: lxdialog: fix button color for blackbg theme
modpost: fix null pointer dereference
kbuild: remove GCC's default -Wpacked-bitfield-compat flag
kbuild: unexport abs_srctree and abs_objtree
kbuild: Move -Wenum-{compare-conditional,enum-conversion} into W=1
kconfig: remove named choice support
kconfig: use linked list in get_symbol_str() to iterate over menus
kconfig: link menus to a symbol
kbuild: fix inconsistent indentation in top Makefile
kbuild: Use -fmin-function-alignment when available
alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_GAMMA
alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_EV4
kbuild: change DTC_FLAGS_<basetarget>.o to take the path relative to $(obj)
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Introduce a generic way to query whether the data cache is virtually
aliased on all architectures. Its purpose is to ensure that subsystems
which are incompatible with virtually aliased data caches (e.g. FS_DAX)
can reliably query this.
For data cache aliasing, there are three scenarios dependending on the
architecture. Here is a breakdown based on my understanding:
A) The data cache is always aliasing:
* arc
* csky
* m68k (note: shared memory mappings are incoherent ? SHMLBA is missing there.)
* sh
* parisc
B) The data cache aliasing is statically known or depends on querying CPU
state at runtime:
* arm (cache_is_vivt() || cache_is_vipt_aliasing())
* mips (cpu_has_dc_aliases)
* nios2 (NIOS2_DCACHE_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE)
* sparc32 (vac_cache_size > PAGE_SIZE)
* sparc64 (L1DCACHE_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE)
* xtensa (DCACHE_WAY_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE)
C) The data cache is never aliasing:
* alpha
* arm64 (aarch64)
* hexagon
* loongarch (but with incoherent write buffers, which are disabled since
commit d23b7795 ("LoongArch: Change SHMLBA from SZ_64K to PAGE_SIZE"))
* microblaze
* openrisc
* powerpc
* riscv
* s390
* um
* x86
Require architectures in A) and B) to select ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING and
implement "cpu_dcache_is_aliasing()".
Architectures in C) don't select ARCH_HAS_CPU_CACHE_ALIASING, and thus
cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() simply evaluates to "false".
Note that this leaves "cpu_icache_is_aliasing()" to be implemented as future
work. This would be useful to gate features like XIP on architectures
which have aliasing CPU dcache-icache but not CPU dcache-dcache.
Use "cpu_dcache" and "cpu_cache" rather than just "dcache" and "cache"
to clarify that we really mean "CPU data cache" and "CPU cache" to
eliminate any possible confusion with VFS "dentry cache" and "page
cache".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20030910210416.GA24258@mail.jlokier.co.uk/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215144633.96437-9-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Fixes: d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The !zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled mode will leave compressed copy in
the zswap tree and lru list after the folio swapin.
There are some disadvantages in this mode:
1. It's a waste of memory since there are two copies of data, one is
folio, the other one is compressed data in zswap. And it's unlikely
the compressed data is useful in the near future.
2. If that folio is dirtied, the compressed data must be not useful,
but we don't know and don't invalidate the trashy memory in zswap.
3. It's not reclaimable from zswap shrinker since zswap_writeback_entry()
will always return -EEXIST and terminate the shrinking process.
On the other hand, the only downside of zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled
is a little more cpu usage/latency when compression, and the same if
the folio is removed from swapcache or dirtied.
More explanation by Johannes on why we should consider exclusive load
as the default for zswap:
Caching "swapout work" is helpful when the system is thrashing. Then
recently swapped in pages might get swapped out again very soon. It
certainly makes sense with conventional swap, because keeping a clean
copy on the disk saves IO work and doesn't cost any additional memory.
But with zswap, it's different. It saves some compression work on a
thrashing page. But the act of keeping compressed memory contributes
to a higher rate of thrashing. And that can cause IO in other places
like zswap writeback and file memory.
And the A/B test results of the kernel build in tmpfs with limited memory
can support this theory:
!exclusive exclusive
real 63.80 63.01
user 1063.83 1061.32
sys 290.31 266.15
workingset_refault_anon 2383084.40 1976397.40
workingset_refault_file 44134.00 45689.40
workingset_activate_anon 837878.00 728441.20
workingset_activate_file 4710.00 4085.20
workingset_restore_anon 732622.60 639428.40
workingset_restore_file 1007.00 926.80
workingset_nodereclaim 0.00 0.00
pgscan 14343003.40 12409570.20
pgscan_kswapd 0.00 0.00
pgscan_direct 14343003.40 12409570.20
pgscan_khugepaged 0.00 0.00
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201-b4-zswap-invalidate-entry-v2-5-99d4084260a0@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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There is no real difference between the global area, and other
additionally configured CMA areas via CONFIG_CMA_AREAS that always
defaults without user input. This makes MAX_CMA_AREAS same as
CONFIG_CMA_AREAS, also incrementing its default values, thus maintaining
current default for MAX_CMA_AREAS both for UMA and NUMA systems.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240205051929.298559-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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All pr_debug() prints in (mm/cma.c) could be enabled via standard Makefile
based method. Besides cma_debug_show_areas() should always be called
during cma_alloc() failure path. This seemingly redundant config,
CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG can be dropped without any problem.
[lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com: remove debug code to removed CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240207143825.986-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240205031647.283510-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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'def_bool X' is a shorthand for 'bool' plus 'default X'.
'def_bool' is redundant where 'bool' is already present, so 'def_bool X'
can be replaced with 'default X', or removed if X is 'n'.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu
Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
"Core changes:
- Fix race conditions in device probe path
- Retire IOMMU bus_ops
- Support for passing custom allocators to page table drivers
- Clean up Kconfig around IOMMU_SVA
- Support for sharing SVA domains with all devices bound to a mm
- Firmware data parsing cleanup
- Tracing improvements for iommu-dma code
- Some smaller fixes and cleanups
ARM-SMMU drivers:
- Device-tree binding updates:
- Add additional compatible strings for Qualcomm SoCs
- Document Adreno clocks for Qualcomm's SM8350 SoC
- SMMUv2:
- Implement support for the ->domain_alloc_paging() callback
- Ensure Secure context is restored following suspend of Qualcomm
SMMU implementation
- SMMUv3:
- Disable stalling mode for the "quiet" context descriptor
- Minor refactoring and driver cleanups
Intel VT-d driver:
- Cleanup and refactoring
AMD IOMMU driver:
- Improve IO TLB invalidation logic
- Small cleanups and improvements
Rockchip IOMMU driver:
- DT binding update to add Rockchip RK3588
Apple DART driver:
- Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART support
- Cleanups
Virtio IOMMU driver:
- Add support for iotlb_sync_map
- Enable deferred IO TLB flushes"
* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (66 commits)
iommu: Don't reserve 0-length IOVA region
iommu/vt-d: Move inline helpers to header files
iommu/vt-d: Remove unused vcmd interfaces
iommu/vt-d: Remove unused parameter of intel_pasid_setup_pass_through()
iommu/vt-d: Refactor device_to_iommu() to retrieve iommu directly
iommu/sva: Fix memory leak in iommu_sva_bind_device()
dt-bindings: iommu: rockchip: Add Rockchip RK3588
iommu/dma: Trace bounce buffer usage when mapping buffers
iommu/arm-smmu: Convert to domain_alloc_paging()
iommu/arm-smmu: Pass arm_smmu_domain to internal functions
iommu/arm-smmu: Implement IOMMU_DOMAIN_BLOCKED
iommu/arm-smmu: Convert to a global static identity domain
iommu/arm-smmu: Reorganize arm_smmu_domain_add_master()
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Remove ARM_SMMU_DOMAIN_NESTED
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Master cannot be NULL in arm_smmu_write_strtab_ent()
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add a type for the STE
iommu/arm-smmu-v3: disable stall for quiet_cd
iommu/qcom: restore IOMMU state if needed
iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Add QCM2290 MDSS compatible
iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Add missing GMU entry to match table
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
included in this merge do the following:
- Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series
'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers'
'Some cleanups of maple tree'
- In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem'
Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug
and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily
have its memmap placed within that newly added memory.
- Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes)
in the patch series
'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()'
'Make folio_start_writeback return void'
'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages'
'Convert aops->error_remove_page to ->error_remove_folio'
'Finish two folio conversions'
'More swap folio conversions'
- Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series
'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault'
- Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series
'tweak kmemleak report format'.
- In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey
Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction
of no longer needed stack traces.
- Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page
allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm:
page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'.
- Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code
for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series
'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'.
- Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series
'maple_tree: iterator state changes'.
- Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series
'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'.
- DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the
series
'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS'
'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests'
'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8'
- Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm:
memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'.
- In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts
has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which
improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during
anonymous page faults.
- Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance
work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head
cleanups'.
- Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series
'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap
compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than
UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free.
- Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm:
Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning
aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs.
- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use
in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'.
- Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback
code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the
writeback paths'.
- Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free
stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan:
save mempool stack traces'.
- Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series
'kasan: assorted clean-ups'.
- David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more
pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap:
interface overhaul'.
- Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code
in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'.
- Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups
in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'"
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits)
mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting
selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output
selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output
selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output
mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output
mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large
mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state()
mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file()
slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node
slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc()
slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page()
mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions
mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker
kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles
mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- SLUB: delayed freezing of CPU partial slabs (Chengming Zhou)
Freezing is an operation involving double_cmpxchg() that makes a slab
exclusive for a particular CPU. Chengming noticed that we use it also
in situations where we are not yet installing the slab as the CPU
slab, because freezing also indicates that the slab is not on the
shared list. This results in redundant freeze/unfreeze operation and
can be avoided by marking separately the shared list presence by
reusing the PG_workingset flag.
This approach neatly avoids the issues described in 9b1ea29bc0d7
("Revert "mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab()
fails"") as we can now grab a slab from the shared list in a quick
and guaranteed way without the cmpxchg_double() operation that
amplifies the lock contention and can fail.
As a result, lkp has reported 34.2% improvement of
stress-ng.rawudp.ops_per_sec
- SLAB removal and SLUB cleanups (Vlastimil Babka)
The SLAB allocator has been deprecated since 6.5 and nobody has
objected so far. We agreed at LSF/MM to wait until the next LTS,
which is 6.6, so we should be good to go now.
This doesn't yet erase all traces of SLAB outside of mm/ so some dead
code, comments or documentation remain, and will be cleaned up
gradually (some series are already in the works).
Removing the choice of allocators has already allowed to simplify and
optimize the code wiring up the kmalloc APIs to the SLUB
implementation.
* tag 'slab-for-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (34 commits)
mm/slub: free KFENCE objects in slab_free_hook()
mm/slub: handle bulk and single object freeing separately
mm/slub: introduce __kmem_cache_free_bulk() without free hooks
mm/slub: fix bulk alloc and free stats
mm/slub: optimize free fast path code layout
mm/slub: optimize alloc fastpath code layout
mm/slub: remove slab_alloc() and __kmem_cache_alloc_lru() wrappers
mm/slab: move kmalloc() functions from slab_common.c to slub.c
mm/slab: move kmalloc_slab() to mm/slab.h
mm/slab: move kfree() from slab_common.c to slub.c
mm/slab: move struct kmem_cache_node from slab.h to slub.c
mm/slab: move memcg related functions from slab.h to slub.c
mm/slab: move pre/post-alloc hooks from slab.h to slub.c
mm/slab: consolidate includes in the internal mm/slab.h
mm/slab: move the rest of slub_def.h to mm/slab.h
mm/slab: move struct kmem_cache_cpu declaration to slub.c
mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h
mm/mempool/dmapool: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB ifdefs
mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB code from slab common code
cpu/hotplug: remove CPUHP_SLAB_PREPARE hooks
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commit 23baf831a32c ("mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely") has
changed the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive. This has caused
issues with code that was not yet upstream and depended on the previous
definition.
To draw attention to the altered meaning of the define, rename MAX_ORDER
to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add CONFIG_LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU such that if disabled, the code that
walks page tables to promote pages into the youngest generation will
not be built.
Also improves code readability by adding two helper functions
get_mm_state() and get_next_mm().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231227141205.2200125-3-kinseyho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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'x86/vt-d', 'x86/amd' and 'core' into next
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IA64 has gone with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64)
architecture"), remove unnecessary ia64 special mm code and comment too.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231222070203.2966980-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently enabling THP support (CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) requires
enabling either CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS or
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE, which both cause khugepaged starting
by default at kernel bootup. Add the third choice
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER, in line with the existing kernel
command line setting transparent_hugepage=never, to disable THP by default
(in particular, to prevent starting khugepaged by default) but still allow
enabling it at runtime via sysfs.
Rationale: khugepaged has its own non-negligible memory cost even if it is
not used by any applications, since it bumps up vm.min_free_kbytes to its
own required minimum in set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(). For example,
on a machine with 4GB RAM, with 3 mm zones and pageblock_order ==
MAX_ORDER, starting khugepaged causes vm.min_free_kbytes increase from 8MB
to 132MB.
So if we use THP on machines with e.g. >=8GB of memory for better
performance, but avoid using it on lower-memory machines to avoid its
memory overhead, then for the same reason we also want to avoid even
starting khugepaged on those <8GB machines. So with
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER we can use the same kernel image on both
>=8GB and <8GB machines, with THP support enabled but khugepaged not
started by default. The userspace can then decide to enable THP via sysfs
if needed, based on the total amount of memory.
This could also be achieved with the existing transparent_hugepage=never
setting in the kernel command line instead. But it seems cleaner to avoid
tweaking the command line for such a basic setting.
P.S. I see that CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_NEVER was already proposed
in the past [1] but without an explanation of the purpose.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/202211301651462590168@zte.com.cn/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205170244.2746210-1-dmaluka@chromium.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231204163254.2636289-1-dmaluka@chromium.org/
Signed-off-by: Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, we only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is
hit. This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are
unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious
memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed ahead
of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on factors such as
memory access patterns and compressibility of the memory pages).
This patch implements a memcg- and NUMA-aware shrinker for zswap, that is
initiated when there is memory pressure. The shrinker does not have any
parameter that must be tuned by the user, and can be opted in or out on a
per-memcg basis.
Furthermore, to make it more robust for many workloads and prevent
overshrinking (i.e evicting warm pages that might be refaulted into
memory), we build in the following heuristics:
* Estimate the number of warm pages residing in zswap, and attempt to
protect this region of the zswap LRU.
* Scale the number of freeable objects by an estimate of the memory
saving factor. The better zswap compresses the data, the fewer pages
we will evict to swap (as we will otherwise incur IO for relatively
small memory saving).
* During reclaim, if the shrinker encounters a page that is also being
brought into memory, the shrinker will cautiously terminate its
shrinking action, as this is a sign that it is touching the warmer
region of the zswap LRU.
As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the
linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in
tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall
performance. Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe
from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds.
[nphamcs@gmail.com: check shrinker enablement early, use less costly stat flushing]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231206194456.3234203-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-7-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus suggested that the kconfig here is confusing:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgUiAtiszwseM1p2fCJ+sC4XWQ+YN4TanFhUgvUqjr9Xw@mail.gmail.com/
Let's break it into three kconfigs controlling distinct things:
- CONFIG_IOMMU_MM_DATA controls if the mm_struct has the additional
fields for the IOMMU. Currently only PASID, but later patches store
a struct iommu_mm_data *
- CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID controls if the arch needs the scheduling bit
for keeping track of the ENQCMD instruction. x86 will select this if
IOMMU_SVA is enabled
- IOMMU_SVA controls if the IOMMU core compiles in the SVA support code
for iommu driver use and the IOMMU exported API
This way ARM will not enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027000525.1278806-2-tina.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP is a subconfig for userfaultfd. To make it clear,
switch to use menuconfig for userfaultfd.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231123224204.1060152-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove CONFIG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED and
everything in Kconfig files and mm/Makefile that depends on those. Since
SLUB is the only remaining allocator, remove the allocator choice, make
CONFIG_SLUB a "def_bool y" for now and remove all explicit dependencies
on SLUB or SLAB as it's now always enabled. Make every option's verbose
name and description refer to "the slab allocator" without refering to
the specific implementation. Do not rename the CONFIG_ option names yet.
Everything under #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB, and mm/slab.c is now dead code, all
code under #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB is now always compiled.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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In page allocator, PCP (Per-CPU Pageset) is refilled and drained in
batches to increase page allocation throughput, reduce page
allocation/freeing latency per page, and reduce zone lock contention. But
too large batch size will cause too long maximal allocation/freeing
latency, which may punish arbitrary users. So the default batch size is
chosen carefully (in zone_batchsize(), the value is 63 for zone > 1GB) to
avoid that.
In commit 3b12e7e97938 ("mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are
batch freed"), the batch size will be scaled for large number of page
freeing to improve page freeing performance and reduce zone lock
contention. Similar optimization can be used for large number of pages
allocation too.
To find out a suitable max batch scale factor (that is, max effective
batch size), some tests and measurement on some machines were done as
follows.
A set of debug patches are implemented as follows,
- Set PCP high to be 2 * batch to reduce the effect of PCP high
- Disable free batch size scaling to get the raw performance.
- The code with zone lock held is extracted from rmqueue_bulk() and
free_pcppages_bulk() to 2 separate functions to make it easy to
measure the function run time with ftrace function_graph tracer.
- The batch size is hard coded to be 63 (default), 127, 255, 511,
1023, 2047, 4095.
Then will-it-scale/page_fault1 is used to generate the page
allocation/freeing workload. The page allocation/freeing throughput
(page/s) is measured via will-it-scale. The page allocation/freeing
average latency (alloc/free latency avg, in us) and allocation/freeing
latency at 99 percentile (alloc/free latency 99%, in us) are measured with
ftrace function_graph tracer.
The test results are as follows,
Sapphire Rapids Server
======================
Batch throughput free latency free latency alloc latency alloc latency
page/s avg / us 99% / us avg / us 99% / us
----- ---------- ------------ ------------ ------------- -------------
63 513633.4 2.33 3.57 2.67 6.83
127 517616.7 4.35 6.65 4.22 13.03
255 520822.8 8.29 13.32 7.52 25.24
511 524122.0 15.79 23.42 14.02 49.35
1023 525980.5 30.25 44.19 25.36 94.88
2047 526793.6 59.39 84.50 45.22 140.81
Ice Lake Server
===============
Batch throughput free latency free latency alloc latency alloc latency
page/s avg / us 99% / us avg / us 99% / us
----- ---------- ------------ ------------ ------------- -------------
63 620210.3 2.21 3.68 2.02 4.35
127 627003.0 4.09 6.86 3.51 8.28
255 630777.5 7.70 13.50 6.17 15.97
511 633651.5 14.85 22.62 11.66 31.08
1023 637071.1 28.55 42.02 20.81 54.36
2047 638089.7 56.54 84.06 39.28 91.68
Cascade Lake Server
===================
Batch throughput free latency free latency alloc latency alloc latency
page/s avg / us 99% / us avg / us 99% / us
----- ---------- ------------ ------------ ------------- -------------
63 404706.7 3.29 5.03 3.53 4.75
127 422475.2 6.12 9.09 6.36 8.76
255 411522.2 11.68 16.97 10.90 16.39
511 428124.1 22.54 31.28 19.86 32.25
1023 414718.4 43.39 62.52 40.00 66.33
2047 429848.7 86.64 120.34 71.14 106.08
Commet Lake Desktop
===================
Batch throughput free latency free latency alloc latency alloc latency
page/s avg / us 99% / us avg / us 99% / us
----- ---------- ------------ ------------ ------------- -------------
63 795183.13 2.18 3.55 2.03 3.05
127 803067.85 3.91 6.56 3.85 5.52
255 812771.10 7.35 10.80 7.14 10.20
511 817723.48 14.17 27.54 13.43 30.31
1023 818870.19 27.72 40.10 27.89 46.28
Coffee Lake Desktop
===================
Batch throughput free latency free latency alloc latency alloc latency
page/s avg / us 99% / us avg / us 99% / us
----- ---------- ------------ ------------ ------------- -------------
63 510542.8 3.13 4.40 2.48 3.43
127 514288.6 5.97 7.89 4.65 6.04
255 516889.7 11.86 15.58 8.96 12.55
511 519802.4 23.10 28.81 16.95 26.19
1023 520802.7 45.30 52.51 33.19 45.95
2047 519997.1 90.63 104.00 65.26 81.74
From the above data, to restrict the allocation/freeing latency to be less
than 100 us in most times, the max batch scale factor needs to be less
than or equal to 5.
Although it is reasonable to use 5 as max batch scale factor for the
systems tested, there are also slower systems. Where smaller value should
be used to constrain the page allocation/freeing latency.
So, in this patch, a new kconfig option (PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX) is added to
set the max batch scale factor. Whose default value is 5, and users can
reduce it when necessary.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231016053002.756205-5-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Out of zswap's 3 allocators, zsmalloc is the clear superior in terms of
memory utilization, both in theory and as observed in practice, with its
high storage density and low internal fragmentation. zsmalloc is also
more actively developed and maintained, since it is the allocator of
choice for zswap for many users, as well as the only allocator for zram.
A historical objection to the selection of zsmalloc as the default
allocator for zswap is its lack of writeback capability. However, this
has changed, with the zsmalloc writeback patchset, and the subsequent
zswap LRU refactor. With this, there is not a lot of good reasons to keep
zbud, an otherwise inferior allocator, as the default instead of zswap.
This patch changes the default allocator to zsmalloc. The only exception
is on settings without MMU, in which case zbud will remain as the default.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908235115.2943486-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
add_to_avail_list")
- Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.
- Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
of mas_store()").
- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").
- Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").
- xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").
- Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").
- David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").
- Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
UFFD").
- Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
check").
- Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").
- Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").
- Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").
- Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").
- More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
folio").
- page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").
- Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").
- Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").
- Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").
- Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
upgrade").
- Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
for arm64").
- Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
("Two minor cleanups for compaction").
- Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").
- Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
optimization for ppc64").
- page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").
- Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
cleanups").
- kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").
- VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").
- DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").
- Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").
- Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").
- ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
("cleanup with helper macro K()").
- Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
memmap on memory feature on ppc64").
- pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
migratetype").
- Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
"struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").
- memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
for vm.memfd_noexec").
- MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").
- THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
output").
- kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").
- More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
and _folio_order").
- A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").
- pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
range API").
- A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").
- Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault").
- Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
mm: remove enum page_entry_size
mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
mm: remove checks for pte_index
memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio
mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
...
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Patch series "Add support for memmap on memory feature on ppc64", v8.
This patch series update memmap on memory feature to fall back to
memmap allocation outside the memory block if the alignment rules are
not met. This makes the feature more useful on architectures like
ppc64 where alignment rules are different with 64K page size.
This patch (of 6):
Instead of adding menu entry with all supported architectures, add
mm/Kconfig variable and select the same from supported architectures.
No functional change in this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808091501.287660-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808091501.287660-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long time. Have
swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection.
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: remove obsolete comment, per Yosry]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719142832.GA932528@cmpxchg.org
[fengwei.yin@intel.com: don't warn if none swapcache folio is passed to zswap_load]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810095652.3905184-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717160227.GA867137@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Arm disabled hugetlb vmemmap optimization [1] because hugetlb vmemmap
optimization includes an update of both the permissions (writeable to
read-only) and the output address (pfn) of the vmemmap ptes. That is not
supported without unmapping of pte(marking it invalid) by some
architectures.
With DAX vmemmap optimization we don't require such pte updates and
architectures can enable DAX vmemmap optimization while having hugetlb
vmemmap optimization disabled. Hence split DAX optimization support into
a different config.
s390, loongarch and riscv don't have devdax support. So the DAX config is
not enabled for them. With this change, arm64 should be able to select
DAX optimization
[1] commit 060a2c92d1b6 ("arm64: mm: hugetlb: Disable HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724190759.483013-8-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The memfd_create() syscall, enabled by CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE, is useful on
its own even when not required by CONFIG_TMPFS or CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
Split it into its own proper bool option that can be enabled by users.
Move that option into mm/ where the code itself also lies. Also add
"select" statements to CONFIG_TMPFS and CONFIG_HUGETLBFS so they
automatically enable CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE as before.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230630-config-memfd-v1-1-9acc3ae38b5a@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Tested-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When exploiting memory vulnerabilities, "heap spraying" is a common
technique targeting those related to dynamic memory allocation (i.e. the
"heap"), and it plays an important role in a successful exploitation.
Basically, it is to overwrite the memory area of vulnerable object by
triggering allocation in other subsystems or modules and therefore
getting a reference to the targeted memory location. It's usable on
various types of vulnerablity including use after free (UAF), heap out-
of-bound write and etc.
There are (at least) two reasons why the heap can be sprayed: 1) generic
slab caches are shared among different subsystems and modules, and
2) dedicated slab caches could be merged with the generic ones.
Currently these two factors cannot be prevented at a low cost: the first
one is a widely used memory allocation mechanism, and shutting down slab
merging completely via `slub_nomerge` would be overkill.
To efficiently prevent heap spraying, we propose the following approach:
to create multiple copies of generic slab caches that will never be
merged, and random one of them will be used at allocation. The random
selection is based on the address of code that calls `kmalloc()`, which
means it is static at runtime (rather than dynamically determined at
each time of allocation, which could be bypassed by repeatedly spraying
in brute force). In other words, the randomness of cache selection will
be with respect to the code address rather than time, i.e. allocations
in different code paths would most likely pick different caches,
although kmalloc() at each place would use the same cache copy whenever
it is executed. In this way, the vulnerable object and memory allocated
in other subsystems and modules will (most probably) be on different
slab caches, which prevents the object from being sprayed.
Meanwhile, the static random selection is further enhanced with a
per-boot random seed, which prevents the attacker from finding a usable
kmalloc that happens to pick the same cache with the vulnerable
subsystem/module by analyzing the open source code. In other words, with
the per-boot seed, the random selection is static during each time the
system starts and runs, but not across different system startups.
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