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2023-05-06Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-05-06-10-49' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-205/+202
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull dmapool updates - again - from Andrew Morton: "Reinstate the dmapool changes which were accidentally removed by a mishap on the last commit in the previous attempt at the series" Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup"). [ The whole old series: def8574308ed..2d55c16c0c54 results in an empty diff because that last commit ended up being just a revert of all that came everything before it. - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2023-05-06-10-49' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: dmapool: link blocks across pages dmapool: don't memset on free twice dmapool: simplify freeing dmapool: consolidate page initialization dmapool: rearrange page alloc failure handling dmapool: move debug code to own functions dmapool: speedup DMAPOOL_DEBUG with init_on_alloc dmapool: cleanup integer types dmapool: use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf() dmapool: remove checks for dev == NULL
2023-05-06Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-05-06-10-45' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-5/+15
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull hotfixes from Andrew Morton: "Five hotfixes. Three are cc:stable, two pertain to merge window changes" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-05-06-10-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: afs: fix the afs_dir_get_folio return value nilfs2: do not write dirty data after degenerating to read-only mm: do not reclaim private data from pinned page nilfs2: fix infinite loop in nilfs_mdt_get_block() mm/mmap/vma_merge: always check invariants
2023-05-06dmapool: link blocks across pagesKeith Busch1-127/+130
The allocated dmapool pages are never freed for the lifetime of the pool. There is no need for the two level list+stack lookup for finding a free block since nothing is ever removed from the list. Just use a simple stack, reducing time complexity to constant. The implementation inserts the stack linking elements and the dma handle of the block within itself when freed. This means the smallest possible dmapool block is increased to at most 16 bytes to accommodate these fields, but there are no exisiting users requesting a dma pool smaller than that anyway. Removing the list has a significant change in performance. Using the kernel's micro-benchmarking self test: Before: # modprobe dmapool_test dmapool test: size:16 blocks:8192 time:57282 dmapool test: size:64 blocks:8192 time:172562 dmapool test: size:256 blocks:8192 time:789247 dmapool test: size:1024 blocks:2048 time:371823 dmapool test: size:4096 blocks:1024 time:362237 After: # modprobe dmapool_test dmapool test: size:16 blocks:8192 time:24997 dmapool test: size:64 blocks:8192 time:26584 dmapool test: size:256 blocks:8192 time:33542 dmapool test: size:1024 blocks:2048 time:9022 dmapool test: size:4096 blocks:1024 time:6045 The module test allocates quite a few blocks that may not accurately represent how these pools are used in real life. For a more marco level benchmark, running fio high-depth + high-batched on nvme, this patch shows submission and completion latency reduced by ~100usec each, 1% IOPs improvement, and perf record's time spent in dma_pool_alloc/free were reduced by half. [kbusch@kernel.org: push new blocks in ascending order] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230221165400.1595247-1-kbusch@meta.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-12-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: don't memset on free twiceKeith Busch1-2/+2
If debug is enabled, dmapool will poison the range, so no need to clear it to 0 immediately before writing over it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-11-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: simplify freeingKeith Busch1-16/+6
The actions for busy and not busy are mostly the same, so combine these and remove the unnecessary function. Also, the pool is about to be freed so there's no need to poison the page data since we only check for poison on alloc, which can't be done on a freed pool. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-10-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: consolidate page initializationKeith Busch1-4/+3
Various fields of the dma pool are set in different places. Move it all to one function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-9-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: rearrange page alloc failure handlingKeith Busch1-7/+9
Handle the error in a condition so the good path can be in the normal flow. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-8-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: move debug code to own functionsKeith Busch1-51/+77
Clean up the normal path by moving the debug code outside it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-7-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: speedup DMAPOOL_DEBUG with init_on_allocTony Battersby1-1/+1
Avoid double-memset of the same allocated memory in dma_pool_alloc() when both DMAPOOL_DEBUG is enabled and init_on_alloc=1. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-6-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: cleanup integer typesTony Battersby1-8/+11
To represent the size of a single allocation, dmapool currently uses 'unsigned int' in some places and 'size_t' in other places. Standardize on 'unsigned int' to reduce overhead, but use 'size_t' when counting all the blocks in the entire pool. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-5-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf()Tony Battersby1-16/+7
Use sysfs_emit instead of scnprintf, snprintf or sprintf. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-4-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06dmapool: remove checks for dev == NULLTony Battersby1-31/+14
dmapool originally tried to support pools without a device because dma_alloc_coherent() supports allocations without a device. But nobody ended up using dma pools without a device, and trying to do so will result in an oops. So remove the checks for pool->dev == NULL since they are unneeded bloat. [kbusch@kernel.org: add check for null dev on create] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-3-kbusch@meta.com Fixes: 2d55c16c0c54 ("dmapool: create/destroy cleanup") Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06mm: do not reclaim private data from pinned pageJan Kara1-0/+10
If the page is pinned, there's no point in trying to reclaim it. Furthermore if the page is from the page cache we don't want to reclaim fs-private data from the page because the pinning process may be writing to the page at any time and reclaiming fs private info on a dirty page can upset the filesystem (see link below). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180103100430.GE4911@quack2.suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230428124140.30166-1-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06mm/mmap/vma_merge: always check invariantsLorenzo Stoakes1-5/+5
We may still have inconsistent input parameters even if we choose not to merge and the vma_merge() invariant checks are useful for checking this with no production runtime cost (these are only relevant when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is specified). Therefore, perform these checks regardless of whether we merge. This is relevant, as a recent issue (addressed in commit "mm/mempolicy: Correctly update prev when policy is equal on mbind") in the mbind logic was only picked up in the 6.2.y stable branch where these assertions are performed prior to determining mergeability. Had this remained the same in mainline this issue may have been picked up faster, so moving forward let's always check them. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/df548a6ae3fa135eec3b446eb3dae8eb4227da97.1682885809.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-06filemap: Handle error return from __filemap_get_folio()Matthew Wilcox1-1/+1
Smatch reports that filemap_fault() was missed in the conversion of __filemap_get_folio() error returns from NULL to ERR_PTR. Fixes: 66dabbb65d67 ("mm: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Reported-by: syzbot+48011b86c8ea329af1b9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-05Merge branch 'x86-uaccess-cleanup': x86 uaccess header cleanupsLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
Merge my x86 uaccess updates branch. The LAM ("Linear Address Masking") updates in this release made me unhappy about how "access_ok()" was done, and it actually turned out to have a couple of small bugs in it too. This is my cleanup of the code: - use the sign bit of the __user pointer rather than masking the address and checking it against the TASK_SIZE range. We already did this part for the get/put_user() side, but 'access_ok()' did the naïve "mask and range check" thing, which not only generates nasty code, but also ended up meaning that __access_ok itself didn't do a good job, and so copy_from_user_nmi() didn't get the check right. - move all the code that is 64-bit only into the 64-bit version of the header file, so that we don't unnecessarily pollute the shared x86 code and make it look like LAM might work in 32-bit too. - fix a bug in the address masking (that doesn't end up mattering: in this case the fix was to just remove the buggy code entirely). - a couple of trivial cleanups and added commentary about the access_ok() rules. * x86-uaccess-cleanup: x86-64: mm: clarify the 'positive addresses' user address rules x86: mm: remove 'sign' games from LAM untagged_addr*() macros x86: uaccess: move 32-bit and 64-bit parts into proper <asm/uaccess_N.h> header x86: mm: remove architecture-specific 'access_ok()' define x86-64: make access_ok() independent of LAM
2023-05-04Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-05-03-16-27' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-5/+13
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull hitfixes from Andrew Morton: "Five hotfixes. Three are cc:stable, two for this -rc cycle" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-05-03-16-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm: change per-VMA lock statistics to be disabled by default MAINTAINERS: update Michal Simek's email mm/mempolicy: correctly update prev when policy is equal on mbind relayfs: fix out-of-bounds access in relay_file_read kasan: hw_tags: avoid invalid virt_to_page()
2023-05-04Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-05-03-16-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-16/+89
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Some DAMON cleanups from Kefeng Wang - Some KSM work from David Hildenbrand, to make the PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE ioctl's behavior more similar to KSM's behavior. [ Andrew called these "final", but I suspect we'll have a series fixing up the fact that the last commit in the dmapools series in the previous pull seems to have unintentionally just reverted all the other commits in the same series.. - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2023-05-03-16-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm: hwpoison: coredump: support recovery from dump_user_range() mm/page_alloc: add some comments to explain the possible hole in __pageblock_pfn_to_page() mm/ksm: move disabling KSM from s390/gmap code to KSM code selftests/ksm: ksm_functional_tests: add prctl unmerge test mm/ksm: unmerge and clear VM_MERGEABLE when setting PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE=0 mm/damon/paddr: fix missing folio_sz update in damon_pa_young() mm/damon/paddr: minor refactor of damon_pa_mark_accessed_or_deactivate() mm/damon/paddr: minor refactor of damon_pa_pageout()
2023-05-03x86-64: make access_ok() independent of LAMLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
The linear address masking (LAM) code made access_ok() more complicated, in that it now needs to untag the address in order to verify the access range. See commit 74c228d20a51 ("x86/uaccess: Provide untagged_addr() and remove tags before address check"). We were able to avoid that overhead in the get_user/put_user code paths by simply using the sign bit for the address check, and depending on the GP fault if the address was non-canonical, which made it all independent of LAM. And we can do the same thing for access_ok(): simply check that the user pointer range has the high bit clear. No need to bother with any address bit masking. In fact, we can go a bit further, and just check the starting address for known small accesses ranges: any accesses that overflow will still be in the non-canonical area and will still GP fault. To still make syzkaller catch any potentially unchecked user addresses, we'll continue to warn about GP faults that are caused by accesses in the non-canonical range. But we'll limit that to purely "high bit set and past the one-page 'slop' area". We could probably just do that "check only starting address" for any arbitrary range size: realistically all kernel accesses to user space will be done starting at the low address. But let's leave that kind of optimization for later. As it is, this already allows us to generate simpler code and not worry about any tag bits in the address. The one thing to look out for is the GUP address check: instead of actually copying data in the virtual address range (and thus bad addresses being caught by the GP fault), GUP will look up the page tables manually. As a result, the page table limits need to be checked, and that was previously implicitly done by the access_ok(). With the relaxed access_ok() check, we need to just do an explicit check for TASK_SIZE_MAX in the GUP code instead. The GUP code already needs to do the tag bit unmasking anyway, so there this is all very straightforward, and there are no LAM issues. Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02mm: change per-VMA lock statistics to be disabled by defaultSuren Baghdasaryan1-2/+8
Change CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK_STATS to be disabled by default, as most users don't need it. Add configuration help to clarify its usage. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230428173533.18158-1-surenb@google.com Fixes: 52f238653e45 ("mm: introduce per-VMA lock statistics") Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02mm/mempolicy: correctly update prev when policy is equal on mbindLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+3
The refactoring in commit f4e9e0e69468 ("mm/mempolicy: fix use-after-free of VMA iterator") introduces a subtle bug which arises when attempting to apply a new NUMA policy across a range of VMAs in mbind_range(). The refactoring passes a **prev pointer to keep track of the previous VMA in order to reduce duplication, and in all but one case it keeps this correctly updated. The bug arises when a VMA within the specified range has an equivalent policy as determined by mpol_equal() - which unlike other cases, does not update prev. This can result in a situation where, later in the iteration, a VMA is found whose policy does need to change. At this point, vma_merge() is invoked with prev pointing to a VMA which is before the previous VMA. Since vma_merge() discovers the curr VMA by looking for the one immediately after prev, it will now be in a situation where this VMA is incorrect and the merge will not proceed correctly. This is checked in the VM_WARN_ON() invariant case with end > curr->vm_end, which, if a merge is possible, results in a warning (if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is specified). I note that vma_merge() performs these invariant checks only after merge_prev/merge_next are checked, which is debatable as it hides this issue if no merge is possible even though a buggy situation has arisen. The solution is simply to update the prev pointer even when policies are equal. This caused a bug to arise in the 6.2.y stable tree, and this patch resolves this bug. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/83f1d612acb519d777bebf7f3359317c4e7f4265.1682866629.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Fixes: f4e9e0e69468 ("mm/mempolicy: fix use-after-free of VMA iterator") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202304292203.44ddeff6-oliver.sang@intel.com Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02kasan: hw_tags: avoid invalid virt_to_page()Mark Rutland1-2/+2
When booting with 'kasan.vmalloc=off', a kernel configured with support for KASAN_HW_TAGS will explode at boot time due to bogus use of virt_to_page() on a vmalloc adddress. With CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL selected this will be reported explicitly, and with or without CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL the kernel will dereference a bogus address: | ------------[ cut here ]------------ | virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: (____ptrval____) (0xffff800008000000) | WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:15 __virt_to_phys+0x78/0x80 | Modules linked in: | CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc3-00073-g83865133300d-dirty #4 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) | pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) | pc : __virt_to_phys+0x78/0x80 | lr : __virt_to_phys+0x78/0x80 | sp : ffffcd076afd3c80 | x29: ffffcd076afd3c80 x28: 0068000000000f07 x27: ffff800008000000 | x26: fffffbfff0000000 x25: fffffbffff000000 x24: ff00000000000000 | x23: ffffcd076ad3c000 x22: fffffc0000000000 x21: ffff800008000000 | x20: ffff800008004000 x19: ffff800008000000 x18: ffff800008004000 | x17: 666678302820295f x16: ffffffffffffffff x15: 0000000000000004 | x14: ffffcd076b009e88 x13: 0000000000000fff x12: 0000000000000003 | x11: 00000000ffffefff x10: c0000000ffffefff x9 : 0000000000000000 | x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 205d303030303030 x6 : 302e30202020205b | x5 : ffffcd076b41d63f x4 : ffffcd076afd3827 x3 : 0000000000000000 | x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffffcd076afd3a30 x0 : 000000000000004f | Call trace: | __virt_to_phys+0x78/0x80 | __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc+0xd4/0x478 | __vmalloc_node_range+0x77c/0x7b8 | __vmalloc_node+0x54/0x64 | init_IRQ+0x94/0xc8 | start_kernel+0x194/0x420 | __primary_switched+0xbc/0xc4 | ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- | Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 03fffacbe27b8000 | Mem abort info: | ESR = 0x0000000096000004 | EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits | SET = 0, FnV = 0 | EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 | FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault | Data abort info: | ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004 | CM = 0, WnR = 0 | swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000041bc5000 | [03fffacbe27b8000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 | Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP | Modules linked in: | CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.3.0-rc3-00073-g83865133300d-dirty #4 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) | pstate: 200000c5 (nzCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) | pc : __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc+0xe4/0x478 | lr : __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc+0xd4/0x478 | sp : ffffcd076afd3ca0 | x29: ffffcd076afd3ca0 x28: 0068000000000f07 x27: ffff800008000000 | x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 03fffacbe27b8000 x24: ff00000000000000 | x23: ffffcd076ad3c000 x22: fffffc0000000000 x21: ffff800008000000 | x20: ffff800008004000 x19: ffff800008000000 x18: ffff800008004000 | x17: 666678302820295f x16: ffffffffffffffff x15: 0000000000000004 | x14: ffffcd076b009e88 x13: 0000000000000fff x12: 0000000000000001 | x11: 0000800008000000 x10: ffff800008000000 x9 : ffffb2f8dee00000 | x8 : 000ffffb2f8dee00 x7 : 205d303030303030 x6 : 302e30202020205b | x5 : ffffcd076b41d63f x4 : ffffcd076afd3827 x3 : 0000000000000000 | x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffffcd076afd3a30 x0 : ffffb2f8dee00000 | Call trace: | __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc+0xe4/0x478 | __vmalloc_node_range+0x77c/0x7b8 | __vmalloc_node+0x54/0x64 | init_IRQ+0x94/0xc8 | start_kernel+0x194/0x420 | __primary_switched+0xbc/0xc4 | Code: d34cfc08 aa1f03fa 8b081b39 d503201f (f9400328) | ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- | Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! This is because init_vmalloc_pages() erroneously calls virt_to_page() on a vmalloc address, while virt_to_page() is only valid for addresses in the linear/direct map. Since init_vmalloc_pages() expects virtual addresses in the vmalloc range, it must use vmalloc_to_page() rather than virt_to_page(). We call init_vmalloc_pages() from __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(), where we check !is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(), suggesting that we might encounter a non-vmalloc address. Luckily, this never happens. By design, we only call __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc() on pointers in the vmalloc area, and I have verified that we don't violate that expectation. Given that, is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() must always be true for any legitimate argument to __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(). Correct init_vmalloc_pages() to use vmalloc_to_page(), and remove the redundant and misleading use of is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() in __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418164212.1775741-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Fixes: 6c2f761dad7851d8 ("kasan: fix zeroing vmalloc memory with HW_TAGS") Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02mm/page_alloc: add some comments to explain the possible hole in ↵Baolin Wang1-0/+9
__pageblock_pfn_to_page() Now the __pageblock_pfn_to_page() is used by set_zone_contiguous(), which checks whether the given zone contains holes, and uses pfn_to_online_page() to validate if the start pfn is online and valid, as well as using pfn_valid() to validate the end pfn. However, the __pageblock_pfn_to_page() function may return non-NULL even if the end pfn of a pageblock is in a memory hole in some situations. For example, if the pageblock order is MAX_ORDER, which will fall into 2 sub-sections, and the end pfn of the pageblock may be hole even though the start pfn is online and valid. See below memory layout as an example and suppose the pageblock order is MAX_ORDER. [ 0.000000] Zone ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000ffffffff] [ 0.000000] DMA32 empty [ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000001fa7ffffff] [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x0000001fa3c7ffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa3c80000-0x0000001fa3ffffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa4000000-0x0000001fa402ffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa4030000-0x0000001fa40effff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa40f0000-0x0000001fa73cffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa73d0000-0x0000001fa745ffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa7460000-0x0000001fa746ffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa7470000-0x0000001fa758ffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000001fa7590000-0x0000001fa7dfffff] Focus on the last memory range, and there is a hole for the range [mem 0x0000001fa7590000-0x0000001fa7dfffff]. That means the last pageblock will contain the range from 0x1fa7c00000 to 0x1fa7ffffff, since the pageblock must be 4M aligned. And in this pageblock, these pfns will fall into 2 sub-section (the sub-section size is 2M aligned). So, the 1st sub-section (indicates pfn range: 0x1fa7c00000 - 0x1fa7dfffff ) in this pageblock is valid by calling subsection_map_init() in free_area_init(), but the 2nd sub-section (indicates pfn range: 0x1fa7e00000 - 0x1fa7ffffff ) in this pageblock is not valid. This did not break anything until now, but the zone continuous is fragile in this possible scenario. So as previous discussion[1], it is better to add some comments to explain this possible issue in case there are some future pfn walkers that rely on this. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87r0sdsmr6.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c26368865e79c743a453dea48d30670b19d2e4f.1682425534.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c26368865e79c743a453dea48d30670b19d2e4f.1682425534.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02mm/ksm: move disabling KSM from s390/gmap code to KSM codeDavid Hildenbrand1-0/+11
Let's factor out actual disabling of KSM. The existing "mm->def_flags &= ~VM_MERGEABLE;" was essentially a NOP and can be dropped, because def_flags should never include VM_MERGEABLE. Note that we don't currently prevent re-enabling KSM. This should now be faster in case KSM was never enabled, because we only conditionally iterate all VMAs. Further, it certainly looks cleaner. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230422210156.33630-1-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02mm/ksm: unmerge and clear VM_MERGEABLE when setting PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE=0David Hildenbrand1-0/+59
Patch series "mm/ksm: improve PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE=0 handling and cleanup disabling KSM", v2. (1) Make PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE=0 unmerge pages like setting MADV_UNMERGEABLE does, (2) add a selftest for it and (3) factor out disabling of KSM from s390/gmap code. This patch (of 3): Let's unmerge any KSM pages when setting PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE=0, and clear the VM_MERGEABLE flag from all VMAs -- just like KSM would. Of course, only do that if we previously set PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE=1. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230422205420.30372-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230422205420.30372-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02mm/damon/paddr: fix missing folio_sz update in damon_pa_young()Kefeng Wang1-4/+2
The *folio_sz in damon_pa_young() will be used(as last_folio_sz) by __damon_pa_check_access(), so it's need to be updated, fix missing branch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230308083311.120951-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02mm/damon/paddr: minor refactor of damon_pa_mark_accessed_or_deactivate()Kefeng Wang1-4/+3
Omit one line by unified folio_put(), and make code more clear. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230308083311.120951-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-02mm/damon/paddr: minor refactor of damon_pa_pageout()Kefeng Wang1-8/+5
Patch series "mm/damon/paddr: minor code improvement", v3. Unify folio_put() to make code more clear, and also fix minor issue in damon_pa_young(). This patch (of 3): Omit three lines by unified folio_put(), and make code more clear. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230308083311.120951-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230308083311.120951-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-30Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel: - Convert to platform remove callback returning void - Extend changing default domain to normal group - Intel VT-d updates: - Remove VT-d virtual command interface and IOASID - Allow the VT-d driver to support non-PRI IOPF - Remove PASID supervisor request support - Various small and misc cleanups - ARM SMMU updates: - Device-tree binding updates: * Allow Qualcomm GPU SMMUs to accept relevant clock properties * Document Qualcomm 8550 SoC as implementing an MMU-500 * Favour new "qcom,smmu-500" binding for Adreno SMMUs - Fix S2CR quirk detection on non-architectural Qualcomm SMMU implementations - Acknowledge SMMUv3 PRI queue overflow when consuming events - Document (in a comment) why ATS is disabled for bypass streams - AMD IOMMU updates: - 5-level page-table support - NUMA awareness for memory allocations - Unisoc driver: Support for reattaching an existing domain - Rockchip driver: Add missing set_platform_dma_ops callback - Mediatek driver: Adjust the dma-ranges - Various other small fixes and cleanups * tag 'iommu-updates-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (82 commits) iommu: Remove iommu_group_get_by_id() iommu: Make iommu_release_device() static iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in dmar_insert_dev_scope() iommu/vt-d: Remove a useless BUG_ON(dev->is_virtfn) iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in map/unmap() iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON when domain->pgd is NULL iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in handling iotlb cache invalidation iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON on checking valid pfn range iommu/vt-d: Make size of operands same in bitwise operations iommu/vt-d: Remove PASID supervisor request support iommu/vt-d: Use non-privileged mode for all PASIDs iommu/vt-d: Remove extern from function prototypes iommu/vt-d: Do not use GFP_ATOMIC when not needed iommu/vt-d: Remove unnecessary checks in iopf disabling path iommu/vt-d: Move PRI handling to IOPF feature path iommu/vt-d: Move pfsid and ats_qdep calculation to device probe path iommu/vt-d: Move iopf code from SVA to IOPF enabling path iommu/vt-d: Allow SVA with device-specific IOPF dmaengine: idxd: Add enable/disable device IOPF feature arm64: dts: mt8186: Add dma-ranges for the parent "soc" node ...
2023-04-29Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - cpuset changes including the fix for an incorrect interaction with CPU hotplug and an optimization - Other doc and cosmetic changes * tag 'cgroup-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: docs: cgroup-v1/cpusets: update libcgroup project link cgroup/cpuset: Minor updates to test_cpuset_prs.sh cgroup/cpuset: Include offline CPUs when tasks' cpumasks in top_cpuset are updated cgroup/cpuset: Skip task update if hotplug doesn't affect current cpuset cpuset: Clean up cpuset_node_allowed cgroup: bpf: use cgroup_lock()/cgroup_unlock() wrappers
2023-04-28Merge tag 'x86_mm_for_6.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-9/+11
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 LAM (Linear Address Masking) support from Dave Hansen: "Add support for the new Linear Address Masking CPU feature. This is similar to ARM's Top Byte Ignore and allows userspace to store metadata in some bits of pointers without masking it out before use" * tag 'x86_mm_for_6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mm/iommu/sva: Do not allow to set FORCE_TAGGED_SVA bit from outside x86/mm/iommu/sva: Fix error code for LAM enabling failure due to SVA selftests/x86/lam: Add test cases for LAM vs thread creation selftests/x86/lam: Add ARCH_FORCE_TAGGED_SVA test cases for linear-address masking selftests/x86/lam: Add inherit test cases for linear-address masking selftests/x86/lam: Add io_uring test cases for linear-address masking selftests/x86/lam: Add mmap and SYSCALL test cases for linear-address masking selftests/x86/lam: Add malloc and tag-bits test cases for linear-address masking x86/mm/iommu/sva: Make LAM and SVA mutually exclusive iommu/sva: Replace pasid_valid() helper with mm_valid_pasid() mm: Expose untagging mask in /proc/$PID/status x86/mm: Provide arch_prctl() interface for LAM x86/mm: Reduce untagged_addr() overhead for systems without LAM x86/uaccess: Provide untagged_addr() and remove tags before address check mm: Introduce untagged_addr_remote() x86/mm: Handle LAM on context switch x86: CPUID and CR3/CR4 flags for Linear Address Masking x86: Allow atomic MM_CONTEXT flags setting x86/mm: Rework address range check in get_user() and put_user()
2023-04-27Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Mainly singleton patches all over the place. Series of note are: - updates to scripts/gdb from Glenn Washburn - kexec cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (50 commits) mailmap: add entries for Paul Mackerras libgcc: add forward declarations for generic library routines mailmap: add entry for Oleksandr ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status ia64: fix an addr to taddr in huge_pte_offset() checkpatch: introduce proper bindings license check epoll: rename global epmutex scripts/gdb: add GDB convenience functions $lx_dentry_name() and $lx_i_dentry() scripts/gdb: create linux/vfs.py for VFS related GDB helpers uapi/linux/const.h: prefer ISO-friendly __typeof__ delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ scripts/gdb: timerlist: convert int chunks to str scripts/gdb: print interrupts scripts/gdb: raise error with reduced debugging information scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser lib/rbtree: use '+' instead of '|' for setting color. proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time() checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links ...
2023-04-27Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds74-4378/+5473
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of switching from a user process to a kernel thread. - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav. - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky. - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the alteration of memcg userspace tunables. - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig: - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page() - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap backing. Use `mount -o noswap'. - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing some scalability benefits. - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its operations O(1) rather than O(n). - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd, permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes. - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its unintuitive meaning. - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature, which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte. - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge(): cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test harness. - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes. - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c. - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more. - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases. - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge(). - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code. - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults. - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to per-VMA locking. - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads. - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig logic. - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a chunk of memory if zswap is not being used. - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing. - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged, userfaultfd and shmem. - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related code paths. - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's testing of our pte state changing. - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it. - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd selftests. - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting. - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the selftests/mm code. - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned pages. - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time. - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a per-process and per-cgroup basis. * tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file() sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area() hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map() maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area() mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs mm: add new api to enable ksm per process mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma() lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper ...
2023-04-27Merge tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-17/+150
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain: "This only does a few sysctl moves from the kernel/sysctl.c file, the rest of the work has been put towards deprecating two API calls which incur recursion and prevent us from simplifying the registration process / saving memory per move. Most of the changes have been soaking on linux-next since v6.3-rc3. I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these moves instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more memory since when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its own file we end up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register it. To achieve saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed without requiring the end element being empty, and just have our registration process rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting both styles of sysctls would make the sysctl registration pretty brittle, hard to read and maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's efforts to do just this [0]. Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE() for all sysctl registrations also implies doing the work to deprecate two API calls which use recursion in order to support sysctl declarations with subdirectories. And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove them: - register_sysctl_table() - register_sysctl_paths() During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end of this merge window. Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but this pull request goes with a few example of how to do this. As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot. The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes. Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths() does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've just kept the stragglers after rc3" Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org [0] * tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (29 commits) fs: fix sysctls.c built mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars ia64: simplify one-level sysctl registration for kdump_ctl_table utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table ntfs: simplfy one-level sysctl registration for ntfs_sysctls coda: simplify one-level sysctl registration for coda_table fs/cachefiles: simplify one-level sysctl registration for cachefiles_sysctls xfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for xfs_table nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs_cb_sysctls nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs4_cb_sysctls lockd: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nlm_sysctls proc_sysctl: enhance documentation xen: simplify sysctl registration for balloon