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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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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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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
for vfs and individual fses.
Features:
- Add Jan Kara as VFS reviewer
- Show correct device and inode numbers in proc/<pid>/maps for vma
files on stacked filesystems. This is now easily doable thanks to
the backing file work from the last cycles. This comes with
selftests
Cleanups:
- Remove a redundant might_sleep() from wait_on_inode()
- Initialize pointer with NULL, not 0
- Clarify comment on access_override_creds()
- Rework and simplify eventfd_signal() and eventfd_signal_mask()
helpers
- Process aio completions in batches to avoid needless wakeups
- Completely decouple struct mnt_idmap from namespaces. We now only
keep the actual idmapping around and don't stash references to
namespaces
- Reformat maintainer entries to indicate that a given subsystem
belongs to fs/
- Simplify fput() for files that were never opened
- Get rid of various pointless file helpers
- Rename various file helpers
- Rename struct file members after SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU switch from
last cycle
- Make relatime_need_update() return bool
- Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER when allocating superblocks
- Replace deprecated ida_simple_*() calls with their current ida_*()
counterparts
Fixes:
- Fix comments on user namespace id mapping helpers. They aren't
kernel doc comments so they shouldn't be using /**
- s/Retuns/Returns/g in various places
- Add missing parameter documentation on can_move_mount_beneath()
- Rename i_mapping->private_data to i_mapping->i_private_data
- Fix a false-positive lockdep warning in pipe_write() for watch
queues
- Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation to improve performance
- Only notify writer that pipe resizing has finished after setting
pipe->max_usage otherwise writers are never notified that the pipe
has been resized and hang
- Fix some kernel docs in hfsplus
- s/passs/pass/g in various places
- Fix kernel docs in ntfs
- Fix kcalloc() arguments order reported by gcc 14
- Fix uninitialized value in reiserfs"
* tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
reiserfs: fix uninit-value in comp_keys
watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order
ntfs: dir.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warnings
fs: fix doc comment typo fs tree wide
selftests/overlayfs: verify device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
eventfd: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation
fs/hfsplus: wrapper.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
fs: add Jan Kara as reviewer
fs/inode: Make relatime_need_update return bool
pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
file: remove __receive_fd()
file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
file: remove pointless wrapper
file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
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hugetlb rmap handling differs quite a lot from "ordinary" rmap code. For
example, hugetlb currently only supports entire mappings, and treats any
mapping as mapped using a single "logical PTE". Let's move it out of the
way so we can overhaul our "ordinary" rmap. implementation/interface.
So let's introduce and use hugetlb_try_dup_anon_rmap() to make all hugetlb
handling use dedicated hugetlb_* rmap functions.
Add sanity checks that we end up with the right folios in the right
functions.
Note that is_device_private_page() does not apply to hugetlb.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220224504.646757-5-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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hugetlb rmap handling differs quite a lot from "ordinary" rmap code. For
example, hugetlb currently only supports entire mappings, and treats any
mapping as mapped using a single "logical PTE". Let's move it out of the
way so we can overhaul our "ordinary" rmap. implementation/interface.
Right now we're using page_dup_file_rmap() in some cases where "ordinary"
rmap code would have used page_add_file_rmap(). So let's introduce and
use hugetlb_add_file_rmap() instead. We won't be adding a
"hugetlb_dup_file_rmap()" functon for the fork() case, as it would be
doing the same: "dup" is just an optimization for "add".
What remains is a single page_dup_file_rmap() call in fork() code.
Add sanity checks that we end up with the right folios in the right
functions.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220224504.646757-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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hugetlb rmap handling differs quite a lot from "ordinary" rmap code. For
example, hugetlb currently only supports entire mappings, and treats any
mapping as mapped using a single "logical PTE". Let's move it out of the
way so we can overhaul our "ordinary" rmap. implementation/interface.
Let's introduce and use hugetlb_remove_rmap() and remove the hugetlb code
from page_remove_rmap(). This effectively removes one check on the
small-folio path as well.
Add sanity checks that we end up with the right folios in the right
functions.
Note: all possible candidates that need care are page_remove_rmap() that
pass compound=true.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220224504.646757-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm/rmap: interface overhaul", v2.
This series overhauls the rmap interface, to get rid of the "bool
compound" / RMAP_COMPOUND parameter with the goal of making the interface
less error prone, more future proof, and more natural to extend to
"batching". Also, this converts the interface to always consume
folio+subpage, which speeds up operations on large folios.
Further, this series adds PTE-batching variants for 4 rmap functions,
whereby only folio_add_anon_rmap_ptes() is used for batching in this
series when PTE-remapping a PMD-mapped THP. folio_remove_rmap_ptes(),
folio_try_dup_anon_rmap_ptes() and folio_dup_file_rmap_ptes() will soon
come in handy[1,2].
This series performs a lot of folio conversion along the way. Most of the
added LOC in the diff are only due to documentation.
As we're moving to a pte/pmd interface where we clearly express the
mapping granularity we are dealing with, we first get the remainder of
hugetlb out of the way, as it is special and expected to remain special:
it treats everything as a "single logical PTE" and only currently allows
entire mappings.
Even if we'd ever support partial mappings, I strongly assume the
interface and implementation will still differ heavily: hopefull we can
avoid working on subpages/subpage mapcounts completely and only add a
"count" parameter for them to enable batching.
New (extended) hugetlb interface that operates on entire folio:
* hugetlb_add_new_anon_rmap() -> Already existed
* hugetlb_add_anon_rmap() -> Already existed
* hugetlb_try_dup_anon_rmap()
* hugetlb_try_share_anon_rmap()
* hugetlb_add_file_rmap()
* hugetlb_remove_rmap()
New "ordinary" interface for small folios / THP::
* folio_add_new_anon_rmap() -> Already existed
* folio_add_anon_rmap_[pte|ptes|pmd]()
* folio_try_dup_anon_rmap_[pte|ptes|pmd]()
* folio_try_share_anon_rmap_[pte|pmd]()
* folio_add_file_rmap_[pte|ptes|pmd]()
* folio_dup_file_rmap_[pte|ptes|pmd]()
* folio_remove_rmap_[pte|ptes|pmd]()
folio_add_new_anon_rmap() will always map at the largest granularity
possible (currently, a single PMD to cover a PMD-sized THP). Could be
extended if ever required.
In the future, we might want "_pud" variants and eventually "_pmds"
variants for batching.
I ran some simple microbenchmarks on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210R:
measuring munmap(), fork(), cow, MADV_DONTNEED on each PTE ... and PTE
remapping PMD-mapped THPs on 1 GiB of memory.
For small folios, there is barely a change (< 1% improvement for me).
For PTE-mapped THP:
* PTE-remapping a PMD-mapped THP is more than 10% faster.
* fork() is more than 4% faster.
* MADV_DONTNEED is 2% faster
* COW when writing only a single byte on a COW-shared PTE is 1% faster
* munmap() barely changes (< 1%).
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810103332.3062143-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231204105440.61448-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
This patch (of 40):
Let's just call it "hugetlb_".
Yes, it's all already inconsistent and confusing because we have a lot of
"hugepage_" functions for legacy reasons. But "hugetlb" cannot possibly
be confused with transparent huge pages, and it matches "hugetlb.c" and
"folio_test_hugetlb()". So let's minimize confusion in rmap code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220224504.646757-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220224504.646757-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The routine __vma_private_lock tests for the existence of a reserve map
associated with a private hugetlb mapping. A pointer to the reserve map
is in vma->vm_private_data. __vma_private_lock was checking the pointer
for NULL. However, it is possible that the low bits of the pointer could
be used as flags. In such instances, vm_private_data is not NULL and not
a valid pointer. This results in the null-ptr-deref reported by syzbot:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000001d:
0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000e8-0x00000000000000ef]
CPU: 0 PID: 5048 Comm: syz-executor139 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc7-syzkaller-00142-g88
8cf78c29e2 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 1
0/09/2023
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x109/0x5de0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5004
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Call Trace:
<TASK>
lock_acquire kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5753 [inline]
lock_acquire+0x1ae/0x510 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5718
down_write+0x93/0x200 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1573
hugetlb_vma_lock_write mm/hugetlb.c:300 [inline]
hugetlb_vma_lock_write+0xae/0x100 mm/hugetlb.c:291
__hugetlb_zap_begin+0x1e9/0x2b0 mm/hugetlb.c:5447
hugetlb_zap_begin include/linux/hugetlb.h:258 [inline]
unmap_vmas+0x2f4/0x470 mm/memory.c:1733
exit_mmap+0x1ad/0xa60 mm/mmap.c:3230
__mmput+0x12a/0x4d0 kernel/fork.c:1349
mmput+0x62/0x70 kernel/fork.c:1371
exit_mm kernel/exit.c:567 [inline]
do_exit+0x9ad/0x2a20 kernel/exit.c:861
__do_sys_exit kernel/exit.c:991 [inline]
__se_sys_exit kernel/exit.c:989 [inline]
__x64_sys_exit+0x42/0x50 kernel/exit.c:989
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x38/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Mask off low bit flags before checking for NULL pointer. In addition, the
reserve map only 'belongs' to the OWNER (parent in parent/child
relationships) so also check for the OWNER flag.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231114012033.259600-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Reported-by: syzbot+6ada951e7c0f7bc8a71e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/00000000000078d1e00608d7878b@google.com/
Fixes: bf4916922c60 ("hugetlbfs: extend hugetlb_vma_lock to private VMAs")
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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It is hard to find where mapping->private_lock, mapping->private_list and
mapping->private_data are used, due to private_XXX being a relatively
common name for variables and structure members in the kernel. To fit
with other members of struct address_space, rename them all to have an
i_ prefix. Tested with an allmodconfig build.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231117215823.2821906-1-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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mbind(2) holds down_write of current task's mmap_lock throughout
(exclusive because it needs to set the new mempolicy on the vmas);
migrate_pages(2) holds down_read of pid's mmap_lock throughout.
They both hold mmap_lock across the internal migrate_pages(), under which
all new page allocations (huge or small) are made. I'm nervous about it;
and migrate_pages() certainly does not need mmap_lock itself. It's done
this way for mbind(2), because its page allocator is vma_alloc_folio() or
alloc_hugetlb_folio_vma(), both of which depend on vma and address.
Now that we have alloc_pages_mpol(), depending on (refcounted) memory
policy and interleave index, mbind(2) can be modified to use that or
alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask(), and then not need mmap_lock across the
internal migrate_pages() at all: add alloc_migration_target_by_mpol() to
replace mbind's new_page().
(After that change, alloc_hugetlb_folio_vma() is used by nothing but a
userfaultfd function: move it out of hugetlb.h and into the #ifdef.)
migrate_pages(2) has chosen its target node before migrating, so can
continue to use the standard alloc_migration_target(); but let it take and
drop mmap_lock just around migrate_to_node()'s queue_pages_range():
neither the node-to-node calculations nor the page migrations need it.
It seems unlikely, but it is conceivable that some userspace depends on
the kernel's mmap_lock exclusion here, instead of doing its own locking:
more likely in a testsuite than in real life. It is also possible, of
course, that some pages on the list will be munmapped by another thread
before they are migrated, or a newer memory policy applied to the range by
that time: but such races could happen before, as soon as mmap_lock was
dropped, so it does not appear to be a concern.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/21e564e8-269f-6a89-7ee2-fd612831c289@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Most function calls in hugetlb.c are made with folio arguments. This
brings hugetlb_vmemmap calls inline with them by using folio instead of
head struct page. Head struct page is still needed within these
functions.
The set/clear/test functions for hugepages are also changed to folio
versions.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231011144557.1720481-2-usama.arif@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@bytedance.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The routine update_and_free_pages_bulk already performs vmemmap
restoration on the list of hugetlb pages in a separate step. In
preparation for more functionality to be added in this step, create a new
routine hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folios() that will restore vmemmap for a
list of folios.
This new routine must provide sufficient feedback about errors and actual
restoration performed so that update_and_free_pages_bulk can perform
optimally.
Special care must be taken when encountering an error from
hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folios. We want to continue making as much
forward progress as possible. A new routine bulk_vmemmap_restore_error
handles this specific situation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019023113.345257-5-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When adding hugetlb pages to the pool, we first create a list of the
allocated pages before adding to the pool. Pass this list of pages to a
new routine hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios() for vmemmap optimization.
Due to significant differences in vmemmmap initialization for bootmem
allocated hugetlb pages, a new routine prep_and_add_bootmem_folios is
created.
We also modify the routine vmemmap_should_optimize() to check for pages
that are already optimized. There are code paths that might request
vmemmap optimization twice and we want to make sure this is not attempted.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019023113.345257-4-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Allocation of a hugetlb page for the hugetlb pool is done by the routine
alloc_pool_huge_page. This routine will allocate contiguous pages from a
low level allocator, prep the pages for usage as a hugetlb page and then
add the resulting hugetlb page to the pool.
In the 'prep' stage, optional vmemmap optimization is done. For
performance reasons we want to perform vmemmap optimization on multiple
hugetlb pages at once. To do this, restructure the hugetlb pool
allocation code such that vmemmap optimization can be isolated and later
batched.
The code to allocate hugetlb pages from bootmem was also modified to
allow batching.
No functional changes, only code restructure.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019023113.345257-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations", v8.
When hugetlb vmemmap optimization was introduced, the overhead of enabling
the option was measured as described in commit 426e5c429d16 [1]. The
summary states that allocating a hugetlb page should be ~2x slower with
optimization and freeing a hugetlb page should be ~2-3x slower. Such
overhead was deemed an acceptable trade off for the memory savings
obtained by freeing vmemmap pages.
It was recently reported that the overhead associated with enabling
vmemmap optimization could be as high as 190x for hugetlb page
allocations. Yes, 190x! Some actual numbers from other environments are:
Bare Metal 8 socket Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895
------------------------------------------------
Unmodified next-20230824, vm.hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap = 0
time echo 500000 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m4.119s
time echo 0 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m4.477s
Unmodified next-20230824, vm.hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap = 1
time echo 500000 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m28.973s
time echo 0 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m36.748s
VM with 252 vcpus on host with 2 socket AMD EPYC 7J13 Milan
-----------------------------------------------------------
Unmodified next-20230824, vm.hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap = 0
time echo 524288 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m2.463s
time echo 0 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m2.931s
Unmodified next-20230824, vm.hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap = 1
time echo 524288 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 2m27.609s
time echo 0 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 2m29.924s
In the VM environment, the slowdown of enabling hugetlb vmemmap optimization
resulted in allocation times being 61x slower.
A quick profile showed that the vast majority of this overhead was due to
TLB flushing. Each time we modify the kernel pagetable we need to flush
the TLB. For each hugetlb that is optimized, there could be potentially
two TLB flushes performed. One for the vmemmap pages associated with the
hugetlb page, and potentially another one if the vmemmap pages are mapped
at the PMD level and must be split. The TLB flushes required for the
kernel pagetable, result in a broadcast IPI with each CPU having to flush
a range of pages, or do a global flush if a threshold is exceeded. So,
the flush time increases with the number of CPUs. In addition, in virtual
environments the broadcast IPI can’t be accelerated by hypervisor
hardware and leads to traps that need to wakeup/IPI all vCPUs which is
very expensive. Because of this the slowdown in virtual environments is
even worse than bare metal as the number of vCPUS/CPUs is increased.
The following series attempts to reduce amount of time spent in TLB
flushing. The idea is to batch the vmemmap modification operations for
multiple hugetlb pages. Instead of doing one or two TLB flushes for each
page, we do two TLB flushes for each batch of pages. One flush after
splitting pages mapped at the PMD level, and another after remapping
vmemmap associated with all hugetlb pages. Results of such batching are
as follows:
Bare Metal 8 socket Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895
------------------------------------------------
next-20230824 + Batching patches, vm.hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap = 0
time echo 500000 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m4.719s
time echo 0 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m4.245s
next-20230824 + Batching patches, vm.hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap = 1
time echo 500000 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m7.267s
time echo 0 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m13.199s
VM with 252 vcpus on host with 2 socket AMD EPYC 7J13 Milan
-----------------------------------------------------------
next-20230824 + Batching patches, vm.hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap = 0
time echo 524288 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m2.715s
time echo 0 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m3.186s
next-20230824 + Batching patches, vm.hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap = 1
time echo 524288 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m4.799s
time echo 0 > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
real 0m5.273s
With batching, results are back in the 2-3x slowdown range.
This patch (of 8):
update_and_free_pages_bulk is designed to free a list of hugetlb pages
back to their associated lower level allocators. This may require
allocating vmemmmap pages associated with each hugetlb page. The hugetlb
page destructor must be changed before pages are freed to lower level
allocators. However, the destructor must be changed under the hugetlb
lock. This means there is potentially one lock cycle per page.
Minimize the number of lock cycles in update_and_free_pages_bulk by:
1) allocating necessary vmemmap for all hugetlb pages on the list
2) take hugetlb lock and clear destructor for all pages on the list
3) free all pages on list back to low level allocators
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019023113.345257-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019023113.345257-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently, hugetlb memory usage is not acounted for in the memory
controller, which could lead to memory overprotection for cgroups with
hugetlb-backed memory. This has been observed in our production system.
For instance, here is one of our usecases: suppose there are two 32G
containers. The machine is booted with hugetlb_cma=6G, and each container
may or may not use up to 3 gigantic page, depending on the workload within
it. The rest is anon, cache, slab, etc. We can set the hugetlb cgroup
limit of each cgroup to 3G to enforce hugetlb fairness. But it is very
difficult to configure memory.max to keep overall consumption, including
anon, cache, slab etc. fair.
What we have had to resort to is to constantly poll hugetlb usage and
readjust memory.max. Similar procedure is done to other memory limits
(memory.low for e.g). However, this is rather cumbersome and buggy.
Furthermore, when there is a delay in memory limits correction, (for e.g
when hugetlb usage changes within consecutive runs of the userspace
agent), the system could be in an over/underprotected state.
This patch rectifies this issue by charging the memcg when the hugetlb
folio is utilized, and uncharging when the folio is freed (analogous to
the hugetlb controller). Note that we do not charge when the folio is
allocated to the hugetlb pool, because at this point it is not owned by
any memcg.
Some caveats to consider:
* This feature is only available on cgroup v2.
* There is no hugetlb pool management involved in the memory
controller. As stated above, hugetlb folios are only charged towards
the memory controller when it is used. Host overcommit management
has to consider it when configuring hard limits.
* Failure to charge towards the memcg results in SIGBUS. This could
happen even if the hugetlb pool still has pages (but the cgroup
limit is hit and reclaim attempt fails).
* When this feature is enabled, hugetlb pages contribute to memory
reclaim protection. low, min limits tuning must take into account
hugetlb memory.
* Hugetlb pages utilized while this option is not selected will not
be tracked by the memory controller (even if cgroup v2 is remounted
later on).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006184629.155543-4-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Originally, hugetlb_cgroup was the only hugetlb user of tail page
structure fields. So, the code defined and checked against
HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER to make sure pages weren't too small to use.
However, by now, tail page #2 is used to store hugetlb hwpoison and
subpool information as well. In other words, without that tail page
hugetlb doesn't work.
Acknowledge this fact by getting rid of HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER and
checks against it. Instead, just check for the minimum viable page order
at hstate creation time.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231004153248.3842997-1-fvdl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Let's convert it to consume a folio.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231002142949.235104-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
folio_move_anon_rmap()".
Convert page_move_anon_rmap() to folio_move_anon_rmap(), letting the
callers handle PageAnonExclusive. I'm including cleanup patch #3 because
it fits into the picture and can be done cleaner by the conversion.
This patch (of 3):
Let's move it into the caller: there is a difference between whether an
anon folio can only be mapped by one process (e.g., into one VMA), and
whether it is truly exclusive (e.g., no references -- including GUP --
from other processes).
Further, for large folios the page might not actually be pointing at the
head page of the folio, so it better be handled in the caller. This is a
preparation for converting page_move_anon_rmap() to consume a folio.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231002142949.235104-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231002142949.235104-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTL on the pagemap file can be used to get or optionally
clear the info about page table entries. The following operations are
supported in this IOCTL:
- Scan the address range and get the memory ranges matching the provided
criteria. This is performed when the output buffer is specified.
- Write-protect the pages. The PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING is used to write-protect
the pages of interest. The PM_SCAN_CHECK_WPASYNC aborts the operation if
non-Async Write Protected pages are found. The ``PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING``
can be used with or without PM_SCAN_CHECK_WPASYNC.
- Both of those operations can be combined into one atomic operation where
we can get and write protect the pages as well.
Following flags about pages are currently supported:
- PAGE_IS_WPALLOWED - Page has async-write-protection enabled
- PAGE_IS_WRITTEN - Page has been written to from the time it was write protected
- PAGE_IS_FILE - Page is file backed
- PAGE_IS_PRESENT - Page is present in the memory
- PAGE_IS_SWAPPED - Page is in swapped
- PAGE_IS_PFNZERO - Page has zero PFN
- PAGE_IS_HUGE - Page is THP or Hugetlb backed
This IOCTL can be extended to get information about more PTE bits. The
entire address range passed by user [start, end) is scanned until either
the user provided buffer is full or max_pages have been found.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update it for "mm: hugetlb: add huge page size param to set_huge_pte_at()"]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n warning]
[arnd@arndb.de: hide unused pagemap_scan_backout_range() function]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230927060257.2975412-1-arnd@kernel.org
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix "fs/proc/task_mmu: hide unused pagemap_scan_backout_range() function"]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230928092223.0625c6bf@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821141518.870589-3-usama.anjum@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@amd.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Miroslaw <emmir@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Paul Gofman <pgofman@codeweavers.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about
PTEs", v33.
*Motivation*
The real motivation for adding PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTL is to emulate Windows
GetWriteWatch() and ResetWriteWatch() syscalls [1]. The GetWriteWatch()
retrieves the addresses of the pages that are written to in a region of
virtual memory.
This syscall is used in Windows applications and games etc. This syscall
is being emulated in pretty slow manner in userspace. Our purpose is to
enhance the kernel such that we translate it efficiently in a better way.
Currently some out of tree hack patches are being used to efficiently
emulate it in some kernels. We intend to replace those with these
patches. So the whole gaming on Linux can effectively get benefit from
this. It means there would be tons of users of this code.
CRIU use case [2] was mentioned by Andrei and Danylo:
> Use cases for migrating sparse VMAs are binaries sanitized with ASAN,
> MSAN or TSAN [3]. All of these sanitizers produce sparse mappings of
> shadow memory [4]. Being able to migrate such binaries allows to highly
> reduce the amount of work needed to identify and fix post-migration
> crashes, which happen constantly.
Andrei defines the following uses of this code:
* it is more granular and allows us to track changed pages more
effectively. The current interface can clear dirty bits for the entire
process only. In addition, reading info about pages is a separate
operation. It means we must freeze the process to read information
about all its pages, reset dirty bits, only then we can start dumping
pages. The information about pages becomes more and more outdated,
while we are processing pages. The new interface solves both these
downsides. First, it allows us to read pte bits and clear the
soft-dirty bit atomically. It means that CRIU will not need to freeze
processes to pre-dump their memory. Second, it clears soft-dirty bits
for a specified region of memory. It means CRIU will have actual info
about pages to the moment of dumping them.
* The new interface has to be much faster because basic page filtering
is happening in the kernel. With the old interface, we have to read
pagemap for each page.
*Implementation Evolution (Short Summary)*
From the definition of GetWriteWatch(), we feel like kernel's soft-dirty
feature can be used under the hood with some additions like:
* reset soft-dirty flag for only a specific region of memory instead of
clearing the flag for the entire process
* get and clear soft-dirty flag for a specific region atomically
So we decided to use ioctl on pagemap file to read or/and reset soft-dirty
flag. But using soft-dirty flag, sometimes we get extra pages which weren't
even written. They had become soft-dirty because of VMA merging and
VM_SOFTDIRTY flag. This breaks the definition of GetWriteWatch(). We were
able to by-pass this short coming by ignoring VM_SOFTDIRTY until David
reported that mprotect etc messes up the soft-dirty flag while ignoring
VM_SOFTDIRTY [5]. This wasn't happening until [6] got introduced. We
discussed if we can revert these patches. But we could not reach to any
conclusion. So at this point, I made couple of tries to solve this whole
VM_SOFTDIRTY issue by correcting the soft-dirty implementation:
* [7] Correct the bug fixed wrongly back in 2014. It had potential to cause
regression. We left it behind.
* [8] Keep a list of soft-dirty part of a VMA across splits and merges. I
got the reply don't increase the size of the VMA by 8 bytes.
At this point, we left soft-dirty considering it is too much delicate and
userfaultfd [9] seemed like the only way forward. From there onward, we
have been basing soft-dirty emulation on userfaultfd wp feature where
kernel resolves the faults itself when WP_ASYNC feature is used. It was
straight forward to add WP_ASYNC feature in userfautlfd. Now we get only
those pages dirty or written-to which are really written in reality. (PS
There is another WP_UNPOPULATED userfautfd feature is required which is
needed to avoid pre-faulting memory before write-protecting [9].)
All the different masks were added on the request of CRIU devs to create
interface more generic and better.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/memoryapi/nf-memoryapi-getwritewatch
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221014134802.1361436-1-mdanylo@google.com
[3] https://github.com/google/sanitizers
[4] https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerAlgorithm#64-bit
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bfcae708-db21-04b4-0bbe-712badd03071@redhat.com
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220725142048.30450-1-peterx@redhat.com/
[7] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221122115007.2787017-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com
[8] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221220162606.1595355-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com
[9] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230306213925.617814-1-peterx@redhat.com
[10] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230125144529.1630917-1-mdanylo@google.com
This patch (of 6):
Add a new userfaultfd-wp feature UFFD_FEATURE_WP_ASYNC, that allows
userfaultfd wr-protect faults to be resolved by the kernel directly.
It can be used like a high accuracy version of soft-dirty, without vma
modifications during tracking, and also with ranged support by default
rather than for a whole mm when reset the protections due to existence of
ioctl(UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT).
Several goals of such a dirty tracking interface:
1. All types of memory should be supported and tracable. This is nature
for soft-dirty but should mention when the context is userfaultfd,
because it used to only support anon/shmem/hugetlb. The problem is for
a dirty tracking purpose these three types may not be enough, and it's
legal to track anything e.g. any page cache writes from mmap.
2. Protections can be applied to partial of a memory range, without vma
split/merge fuss. The hope is that the tracking itself should not
affect any vma layout change. It also helps when reset happens because
the reset will not need mmap write lock which can block the tracee.
3. Accuracy needs to be maintained. This means we need pte markers to work
on any type of VMA.
One could question that, the whole concept of async dirty tracking is not
really close to fundamentally what userfaultfd used to be: it's not "a
fault to be serviced by userspace" anymore. However, using userfaultfd-wp
here as a framework is convenient for us in at least:
1. VM_UFFD_WP vma flag, which has a very good name to suite something like
this, so we don't need VM_YET_ANOTHER_SOFT_DIRTY. Just use a new
feature bit to identify from a sync version of uffd-wp registration.
2. PTE markers logic can be leveraged across the whole kernel to maintain
the uffd-wp bit as long as an arch supports, this also applies to this
case where uffd-wp bit will be a hint to dirty information and it will
not go lost easily (e.g. when some page cache ptes got zapped).
3. Reuse ioctl(UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT) interface for either starting or
resetting a range of memory, while there's no counterpart in the old
soft-dirty world, hence if this is wanted in a new design we'll need a
new interface otherwise.
We can somehow understand that commonality because uffd-wp was
fundamentally a similar idea of write-protecting pages just like
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