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2025-05-11maple_tree: add sufficient heightSidhartha Kumar
In order to support rebalancing and spanning stores using less than the worst case number of nodes, we need to track more than just the vacant height. Using only vacant height to reduce the worst case maple node allocation count can lead to a shortcoming of nodes in the following scenarios. For rebalancing writes, when a leaf node becomes insufficient, it may be combined with a sibling into a single node. This means that the parent node which has entries for this children will lose one entry. If this parent node was just meeting the minimum entries, losing one entry will now cause this parent node to be insufficient. This leads to a cascading operation of rebalancing at different levels and can lead to more node allocations than simply using vacant height can return. For spanning writes, a similar situation occurs. At the location at which a spanning write is detected, the number of ancestor nodes may similarly need to rebalanced into a smaller number of nodes and the same cascading situation could occur. To use less than the full height of the tree for the number of allocations, we also need to track the height at which a non-leaf node cannot become insufficient. This means even if a rebalance occurs to a child of this node, it currently has enough entries that it can lose one without any further action. This field is stored in the maple write state as sufficient height. In mas_prealloc_calc() when figuring out how many nodes to allocate, we check if the vacant node is lower in the tree than a sufficient node (has a larger value). If it is, we cannot use the vacant height and must use the difference in the height and sufficient height as the basis for the number of nodes needed. An off by one bug was also discovered in mast_overflow() where it is using >= rather than >. This caused extra iterations of the mas_spanning_rebalance() loop and lead to unneeded allocations. A test is also added to check the number of allocations is correct. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410191446.2474640-6-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11maple_tree: break on convergence in mas_spanning_rebalance()Sidhartha Kumar
This allows support for using the vacant height to calculate the worst case number of nodes needed for wr_rebalance operation. mas_spanning_rebalance() was seen to perform unnecessary node allocations. We can reduce allocations by breaking early during the rebalancing loop once we realize that we have ascended to a common ancestor. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410191446.2474640-5-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11maple_tree: use vacant nodes to reduce worst case allocationsSidhartha Kumar
In order to determine the store type for a maple tree operation, a walk of the tree is done through mas_wr_walk(). This function descends the tree until a spanning write is detected or we reach a leaf node. While descending, keep track of the height at which we encounter a node with available space. This is done by checking if mas->end is less than the number of slots a given node type can fit. Now that the height of the vacant node is tracked, we can use the difference between the height of the tree and the height of the vacant node to know how many levels we will have to propagate creating new nodes. Update mas_prealloc_calc() to consider the vacant height and reduce the number of worst-case allocations. Rebalancing and spanning stores are not supported and fall back to using the full height of the tree for allocations. Update preallocation testing assertions to take into account vacant height. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410191446.2474640-4-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11maple_tree: use height and depth consistentlySidhartha Kumar
For the maple tree, the root node is defined to have a depth of 0 with a height of 1. Each level down from the node, these values are incremented by 1. Various code paths define a root with depth 1 which is inconsisent with the definition. Modify the code to be consistent with this definition. In mas_spanning_rebalance(), l_mas.depth was being used to track the height based on the number of iterations done in the main loop. This information was then used in mas_put_in_tree() to set the height. Rather than overload the l_mas.depth field to track height, simply keep track of height in the local variable new_height and directly pass this to mas_wmb_replace() which will be passed into mas_put_in_tree(). This allows up to remove writes to l_mas.depth. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410191446.2474640-3-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11maple_tree: convert mas_prealloc_calc() to take in a maple write stateSidhartha Kumar
Patch series "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts", v5. ================ overview ======================== Currently, the maple tree preallocates the worst case number of nodes for given store type by taking into account the whole height of the tree. This comes from a worst case scenario of every node in the tree being full and having to propagate node allocation upwards until we reach the root of the tree. This can be optimized if there are vacancies in nodes that are at a lower depth than the root node. This series implements tracking the level at which there is a vacant node so we only need to allocate until this level is reached, rather than always using the full height of the tree. The ma_wr_state struct is modified to add a field which keeps track of the vacant height and is updated during walks of the tree. This value is then read in mas_prealloc_calc() when we decide how many nodes to allocate. For rebalancing and spanning stores, we also need to track the lowest height at which a node has 1 more entry than the minimum sufficient number of entries. This is because rebalancing can cause a parent node to become insufficient which results in further node allocations. In this case, we need to use the sufficient height as the worst case rather than the vacant height. patch 1-2: preparatory patches patch 3: implement vacant height tracking + update the tests patch 4: support vacant height tracking for rebalancing writes patch 5: implement sufficient height tracking patch 6: reorder switch case statements ================ results ========================= Bpftrace was used to profile the allocation path for requesting new maple nodes while running stress-ng mmap 120s. The histograms below represent requests to kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() and show the count argument. This represnts how many maple nodes the caller is requesting in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() command: stress-ng --mmap 4 --timeout 120 mm-unstable @bulk_alloc_req: [3, 4) 4 | | [4, 5) 54170 |@ | [5, 6) 0 | | [6, 7) 893057 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [7, 8) 4 | | [8, 9) 2230287 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [9, 10) 55811 |@ | [10, 11) 77834 |@ | [11, 12) 0 | | [12, 13) 1368684 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [13, 14) 0 | | [14, 15) 0 | | [15, 16) 367197 |@@@@@@@@ | @maple_node_total: 46,630,160 @total_vmas: 46184591 mm-unstable + this series @bulk_alloc_req: [2, 3) 198 | | [3, 4) 4 | | [4, 5) 43 | | [5, 6) 0 | | [6, 7) 1069503 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [7, 8) 4 | | [8, 9) 2597268 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [9, 10) 472191 |@@@@@@@@@ | [10, 11) 191904 |@@@ | [11, 12) 0 | | [12, 13) 247316 |@@@@ | [13, 14) 0 | | [14, 15) 0 | | [15, 16) 98769 |@ | @maple_node_total: 37,813,856 @total_vmas: 43493287 This represents a ~19% reduction in the number of bulk maple nodes allocated. For more reproducible results, a historgram of the return value of mas_prealloc_calc() is displayed while running the maple_tree_tests whcih have a deterministic store pattern mas_prealloc_calc() return value mm-unstable 1 : (12068) 3 : (11836) 5 : ***** (271192) 7 : ************************************************** (2329329) 9 : *********** (534186) 10 : (435) 11 : *************** (704306) 13 : ******** (409781) mas_prealloc_calc() return value mm-unstable + this series 1 : (12070) 3 : ************************************************** (3548777) 5 : ******** (633458) 7 : (65081) 9 : (11224) 10 : (341) 11 : (2973) 13 : (68) do_mmap latency was also measured for regressions: command: stress-ng --mmap 4 --timeout 120 mm-unstable: avg = 7162 nsecs, total: 16101821292 nsecs, count: 2248034 mm-unstable + this series: avg = 6689 nsecs, total: 15135391764 nsecs, count: 2262726 stress-ng --mmap4 --timeout 120 with vacant_height: stress-ng: info: [257] 21526312 Maple Tree Read 0.176 M/sec stress-ng: info: [257] 339979348 Maple Tree Write 2.774 M/sec without vacant_height: stress-ng: info: [8228] 20968900 Maple Tree Read 0.171 M/sec stress-ng: info: [8228] 312214648 Maple Tree Write 2.547 M/sec This represents an increase of ~3% read throughput and ~9% increase in write throughput. This patch (of 6): In a subsequent patch, mas_prealloc_calc() will need to access fields only in the ma_wr_state. Convert the function to take in a ma_wr_state and modify all callers. There is no functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410191446.2474640-1-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410191446.2474640-2-sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED[_LOCKED]SeongJae Park
MADV_DONTNEED[_LOCKED] handling for [process_]madvise() flushes tlb for each vma of each address range. Update the logic to do tlb flushes in a batched way. Initialize an mmu_gather object from do_madvise() and vector_madvise(), which are the entry level functions for [process_]madvise(), respectively. And pass those objects to the function for per-vma work, via madvise_behavior struct. Make the per-vma logic not flushes tlb on their own but just saves the tlb entries to the received mmu_gather object. For this internal logic change, make zap_page_range_single_batched() non-static and use it directly from madvise_dontneed_single_vma(). Finally, the entry level functions flush the tlb entries that gathered for the entire user request, at once. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410000022.1901-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/memory: split non-tlb flushing part from zap_page_range_single()SeongJae Park
Some of zap_page_range_single() callers such as [process_]madvise() with MADV_DONTNEED[_LOCKED] cannot batch tlb flushes because zap_page_range_single() flushes tlb for each invocation. Split out the body of zap_page_range_single() except mmu_gather object initialization and gathered tlb entries flushing for such batched tlb flushing usage. To avoid hugetlb pages allocation failures from concurrent page faults, the tlb flush should be done before hugetlb faults unlocking, though. Do the flush and the unlock inside the split out function in the order for hugetlb vma case. Refer to commit 2820b0f09be9 ("hugetlbfs: close race between MADV_DONTNEED and page fault") for more details about the concurrent faults' page allocation failure problem. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410000022.1901-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_FREESeongJae Park
MADV_FREE handling for [process_]madvise() flushes tlb for each vma of each address range. Update the logic to do tlb flushes in a batched way. Initialize an mmu_gather object from do_madvise() and vector_madvise(), which are the entry level functions for [process_]madvise(), respectively. And pass those objects to the function for per-vma work, via madvise_behavior struct. Make the per-vma logic not flushes tlb on their own but just saves the tlb entries to the received mmu_gather object. Finally, the entry level functions flush the tlb entries that gathered for the entire user request, at once. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410000022.1901-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/madvise: define and use madvise_behavior struct for madvise_do_behavior()SeongJae Park
Patch series "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE", v3. When process_madvise() is called to do MADV_DONTNEED[_LOCKED] or MADV_FREE with multiple address ranges, tlb flushes happen for each of the given address ranges. Because such tlb flushes are for the same process, doing those in a batch is more efficient while still being safe. Modify process_madvise() entry level code path to do such batched tlb flushes, while the internal unmap logic do only gathering of the tlb entries to flush. In more detail, modify the entry functions to initialize an mmu_gather object and pass it to the internal logic. And make the internal logic do only gathering of the tlb entries to flush into the received mmu_gather object. After all internal function calls are done, the entry functions flush the gathered tlb entries at once. Because process_madvise() and madvise() share the internal unmap logic, make same change to madvise() entry code together, to make code consistent and cleaner. It is only for keeping the code clean, and shouldn't degrade madvise(). It could rather provide a potential tlb flushes reduction benefit for a case that there are multiple vmas for the given address range. It is only a side effect from an effort to keep code clean, so we don't measure it separately. Similar optimizations might be applicable to other madvise behavior such as MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT. Those are simply out of the scope of this patch series, though. Patches Sequence ================ The first patch defines a new data structure for managing information that is required for batched tlb flushes (mmu_gather and behavior), and update code paths for MADV_DONTNEED[_LOCKED] and MADV_FREE handling internal logic to receive it. The second patch batches tlb flushes for MADV_FREE handling for both madvise() and process_madvise(). Remaining two patches are for MADV_DONTNEED[_LOCKED] tlb flushes batching. The third patch splits zap_page_range_single() for batching of MADV_DONTNEED[_LOCKED] handling. The fourth patch batches tlb flushes for the hint using the sub-logic that the third patch split out, and the helpers for batched tlb flushes that introduced for the MADV_FREE case, by the second patch. Test Results ============ I measured the latency to apply MADV_DONTNEED advice to 256 MiB memory using multiple process_madvise() calls. I apply the advice in 4 KiB sized regions granularity, but with varying batch size per process_madvise() call (vlen) from 1 to 1024. The source code for the measurement is available at GitHub[1]. To reduce measurement errors, I did the measurement five times. The measurement results are as below. 'sz_batch' column shows the batch size of process_madvise() calls. 'Before' and 'After' columns show the average of latencies in nanoseconds that measured five times on kernels that built without and with the tlb flushes batching of this series (patches 3 and 4), respectively. For the baseline, mm-new tree of 2025-04-09[2] has been used, after reverting the second version of this patch series and adding a temporal fix for !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM build failure[3]. 'B-stdev' and 'A-stdev' columns show ratios of latency measurements standard deviation to average in percent for 'Before' and 'After', respectively. 'Latency_reduction' shows the reduction of the latency that the 'After' has achieved compared to 'Before', in percent. Higher 'Latency_reduction' values mean more efficiency improvements. sz_batch Before B-stdev After A-stdev Latency_reduction 1 146386348 2.78 111327360.6 3.13 23.95 2 108222130 1.54 72131173.6 2.39 33.35 4 93617846.8 2.76 51859294.4 2.50 44.61 8 80555150.4 2.38 44328790 1.58 44.97 16 77272777 1.62 37489433.2 1.16 51.48 32 76478465.2 2.75 33570506 3.48 56.10 64 75810266.6 1.15 27037652.6 1.61 64.34 128 73222748 3.86 25517629.4 3.30 65.15 256 72534970.8 2.31 25002180.4 0.94 65.53 512 71809392 5.12 24152285.4 2.41 66.37 1024 73281170.2 4.53 24183615 2.09 67.00 Unexpectedly the latency has reduced (improved) even with batch size one. I think some of compiler optimizations have affected that, like also observed with the first version of this patch series. So, please focus on the proportion between the improvement and the batch size. As expected, tlb flushes batching provides latency reduction that proportional to the batch size. The efficiency gain ranges from about 33 percent with batch size 2, and up to 67 percent with batch size 1,024. Please note that this is a very simple microbenchmark, so real efficiency gain on real workload could be very different. This patch (of 4): To implement batched tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED[_LOCKED] and MADV_FREE, an mmu_gather object in addition to the behavior integer need to be passed to the internal logics. Using a struct can make it easy without increasing the number of parameters of all code paths towards the internal logic. Define a struct for the purpose and use it on the code path that starts from madvise_do_behavior() and ends on madvise_dontneed_free(). Note that this changes madvise_walk_vmas() visitor type signature, too. Specifically, it changes its 'arg' type from 'unsigned long' to the new struct pointer. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410000022.1901-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250410000022.1901-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <howlett@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: huge_memory: add folio_mark_accessed() when zapping file THPBaolin Wang
When investigating performance issues during file folio unmap, I noticed some behavioral differences in handling non-PMD-sized folios and PMD-sized folios. For non-PMD-sized file folios, it will call folio_mark_accessed() to mark the folio as having seen activity, but this is not done for PMD-sized folios. This might not cause obvious issues, but a potential problem could be that, it might lead to reclaim of hot file folios under memory pressure, as quoted from Johannes: : Sometimes file contents are only accessed through relatively short-lived : mappings. But they can nevertheless be accessed a lot and be hot. It's : important to not lose that information on unmap, and end up kicking out a : frequently used cache page. Therefore, we should also add folio_mark_accessed() for PMD-sized file folios when unmapping. [baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: add comment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/23fdc11d-e983-4627-89a8-79e9ecf9a45a@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fc117f60d7b686f87067f36a0ef7cdbc3a78109c.1744190345.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11tools/testing/selftests: assert that anon merge cases behave as expectedLorenzo Stoakes
Prior to the recently applied commit that permits this merge, mprotect()'ing a faulted VMA, adjacent to an unfaulted VMA, such that the two share characteristics would fail to merge due to what appear to be unintended consequences of commit 965f55dea0e3 ("mmap: avoid merging cloned VMAs"). Now we have fixed this bug, assert that we can indeed merge anonymous VMAs this way. Also assert that forked source/target VMAs are equally rejected. Previously, all empty target anon merges with one VMA faulted and the other unfaulted would be rejected incorrectly, now we ensure that unforked merge, but forked do not. Additionally, add the new test file to the MEMORY MAPPING section in MAINTAINERS, as these tests are explicitly memory mapping related. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b69330274a3b71721f7042c5eabe91143934415.1744104124.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11tools/testing: add PROCMAP_QUERY helper functions in mm self testsLorenzo Stoakes
The PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl() is very useful - it allows for binary access to /proc/$pid/[s]maps data and thus convenient lookup of data contained there. This patch exposes this for convenient use by mm self tests so the state of VMAs can easily be queried. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce83d877093d1fc594762cf4b82f0c27963030ee.1744104124.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/vma: fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA mergesLorenzo Stoakes
Patch series "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges", v2. It appears that we have been incorrectly rejecting merge cases for 15 years, apparently by mistake. Imagine a range of anonymous mapped momemory divided into two VMAs like this, with incompatible protection bits: RW RWX unfaulted faulted |-----------|-----------| | prev | vma | |-----------|-----------| mprotect(RW) Now imagine mprotect()'ing vma so it is RW. This appears as if it should merge, it does not. Neither does this case, again mprotect()'ing vma RW: RWX RW faulted unfaulted |-----------|-----------| | vma | next | |-----------|-----------| mprotect(RW) Nor: RW RWX RW unfaulted faulted unfaulted |-----------|-----------|-----------| | prev | vma | next | |-----------|-----------|-----------| mprotect(RW) What's going on here? In commit 5beb49305251 ("mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue"), from 2010, Rik von Riel took careful care to account for these cases - commenting that '[this is] easily overlooked: when mprotect shifts the boundary, make sure the expanding vma has anon_vma set if the shrinking vma had, to cover any anon pages imported.' However, commit 965f55dea0e3 ("mmap: avoid merging cloned VMAs") introduced a little over a year later, appears to have accidentally disallowed this. By adjusting the is_mergeable_anon_vma() function to avoid lock contention across large trees of forked anon_vma's, this commit wrongly assumed the VMA being checked (the ostensible merge 'target') should be faulted, that is, have an anon_vma, and thus an anon_vma_chain list established, but only of length 1. This appears to have been unintentional, as disallowing empty target VMAs like this across the board makes no sense. We already have logic that accounts for this case, the same logic Rik introduced in 2010, now via dup_anon_vma() (and ultimately anon_vma_clone()), so there is no problem permitting this. This series fixes this mistake and also ensures that scalability concerns remain addressed by explicitly checking that whatever VMA is being merged has not been forked. A full set of self tests which reproduce the issue are provided, as well as updating userland VMA tests to assert this behaviour. The self tests additionally assert scalability concerns are addressed. This patch (of 3): anon_vma_chain's were introduced by Rik von Riel in commit 5beb49305251 ("mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue"). This patch was introduced in March 2010. As part of this change, careful attention was made to the instance of mprotect() causing a VMA merge, with one faulted (i.e. having anon_vma set) and another not: /* * Easily overlooked: when mprotect shifts the boundary, * make sure the expanding vma has anon_vma set if the * shrinking vma had, to cover any anon pages imported. */ In the modern VMA code, this is handled in dup_anon_vma() (and ultimately anon_vma_clone()). This case is one of the three configurations of adjacent VMA anon_vma state that we might encounter on merge (where dst is the VMA which will be merged into and src the one being merged into dst): 1. dst->anon_vma, src->anon_vma - These must be equal, no-op. 2. dst->anon_vma, !src->anon_vma - We simply use dst->anon_vma, no-op. 3. !dst->anon_vma, src->anon_vma - The case in question here. In case 3, the instance addressed here - we duplicate the AVC connections from src and place into dst. However, in practice, we very often do NOT do this. This appears to be due to an inadvertent consequence of the change introduced by commit 965f55dea0e3 ("mmap: avoid merging cloned VMAs"), introduced in May 2011. This implies that this merge case was functional only for a little over a year, and has since been broken for ~15 years. Here, lock scalability concerns lead to us restricting anonymous merges only to those VMAs with 1 entry in their vma->anon_vma_chain, that is, a VMA that is not connected to any parent process's anon_vma. The mergeability test looks like this: static inline bool is_mergeable_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma1, struct anon_vma *anon_vma2, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { if ((!anon_vma1 || !anon_vma2) && (!vma || !vma->anon_vma || list_is_singular(&vma->anon_vma_chain))) return true; return anon_vma1 == anon_vma2; } However, we have a problem here - typically the vma passed here is the destination VMA. For instance in vma_merge_existing_range() we invoke: can_vma_merge_left() -> [ check that there is an immediately adjacent prior VMA ] -> can_vma_merge_after() -> is_mergeable_vma() for general attribute check -> is_mergeable_anon_vma([ proposed anon_vma ], prev->anon_vma, prev) So if we were considering a target unfaulted 'prev': unfaulted faulted |-----------|-----------| | prev | vma | |-----------|-----------| This would call is_mergeable_anon_vma(NULL, vma->anon_vma, prev). The list_is_singular() check for vma->anon_vma_chain, an empty list on fault, would cause this merge to _fail_ even though all else indicates a merge. Equally a simple merge into a next VMA would hit the same problem: faulted unfaulted |-----------|-----------| | vma | next | |-----------|-----------| can_vma_merge_right() -> [ check that there is an immediately adjacent succeeding VMA ] -> can_vma_merge_before() -> is_mergeable_vma() for general attribute check -> is_mergeable_anon_vma([ proposed anon_vma ], next->anon_vma, next) For a 3-way merge, we'd also hit the same problem if it was configured like this for instance: unfaulted faulted unfaulted |-----------|-----------|-----------| | prev | vma | next | |-----------|-----------|-----------| As we'd call can_vma_merge_left() for prev, and can_vma_merge_right() for next, both of which would fail. vma_merge_new_range() (and relatedly, vma_expand()) are not impacted, as the new VMA would never already be faulted (it is a proposed new range). Because we already handle each of the aforementioned merge cases, and can absolutely therefore deal with an existing VMA merge with !dst->anon_vma, src->anon_vma, there is absolutely no reason to disallow this kind of merge. It seems that the intention of this patch is to ensure that, in the instance of merging unfaulted VMAs with faulted ones, we never wish to do so with those with multiple AVCs due to the fact that anon_vma lock's are held across both parent and child anon_vma's (actually, the 'root' parent anon_vma's lock is used). In fact, the original commit alludes to this - "find_mergeable_anon_vma() already considers this case". In find_mergeable_anon_vma() however, we check the anon_vma which will be merged from, if it is set, then we check list_is_singular(vma->anon_vma_chain). So to match this logic, update is_mergeable_anon_vma() to perform this scalability check on the VMA whose anon_vma we ultimately merge into. This matches existing behaviour with forked VMAs, only we no longer wrongly disallow ALL empty target merges. So we both allow merge cases and ensure the scalability check is correctly applied. We may wish to revisit these lock scalability concerns at a later date and ensure they are still valid. Additionally, correct userland VMA tests which were mistakenly not asserting these cases correctly previously to now correctly assert this, and to ensure vmg->anon_vma state is always consistent to account for newly introduced asserts. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1744104124.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/18c756fc9eaf7ad082a710c91133b8346f8cd9a8.1744104124.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Fixes: 965f55dea0e3 ("mmap: avoid merging cloned VMAs") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: rust: add MEMORY MANAGEMENT [RUST]Alice Ryhl
We have introduced Rust bindings for core mm abstractions as part of this series, so add an entry in MAINTAINERS to be explicit about who maintains this. Patches are anticipated to be taken through the mm tree as usual with other mm code. Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-kernel-policy#how-is-rust-introduced-in-a-subsystem Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/33e64b12-aa07-4e78-933a-b07c37ff1d84@lucifer.local/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-9-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11task: rust: rework how current is accessedAlice Ryhl
Introduce a new type called `CurrentTask` that lets you perform various operations that are only safe on the `current` task. Use the new type to provide a way to access the current mm without incrementing its refcount. With this change, you can write stuff such as let vma = current!().mm().lock_vma_under_rcu(addr); without incrementing any refcounts. This replaces the existing abstractions for accessing the current pid namespace. With the old approach, every field access to current involves both a macro and a unsafe helper function. The new approach simplifies that to a single safe function on the `CurrentTask` type. This makes it less heavy-weight to add additional current accessors in the future. That said, creating a `CurrentTask` type like the one in this patch requires that we are careful to ensure that it cannot escape the current task or otherwise access things after they are freed. To do this, I declared that it cannot escape the current "task context" where I defined a "task context" as essentially the region in which `current` remains unchanged. So e.g., release_task() or begin_new_exec() would leave the task context. If a userspace thread returns to userspace and later makes another syscall, then I consider the two syscalls to be different task contexts. This allows values stored in that task to be modified between syscalls, even if they're guaranteed to be immutable during a syscall. Ensuring correctness of `CurrentTask` is slightly tricky if we also want the ability to have a safe `kthread_use_mm()` implementation in Rust. To support that safely, there are two patterns we need to ensure are safe: // Case 1: current!() called inside the scope. let mm; kthread_use_mm(some_mm, || { mm = current!().mm(); }); drop(some_mm); mm.do_something(); // UAF and: // Case 2: current!() called before the scope. let mm; let task = current!(); kthread_use_mm(some_mm, || { mm = task.mm(); }); drop(some_mm); mm.do_something(); // UAF The existing `current!()` abstraction already natively prevents the first case: The `&CurrentTask` would be tied to the inner scope, so the borrow-checker ensures that no reference derived from it can escape the scope. Fixing the second case is a bit more tricky. The solution is to essentially pretend that the contents of the scope execute on an different thread, which means that only thread-safe types can cross the boundary. Since `CurrentTask` is marked `NotThreadSafe`, attempts to move it to another thread will fail, and this includes our fake pretend thread boundary. This has the disadvantage that other types that aren't thread-safe for reasons unrelated to `current` also cannot be moved across the `kthread_use_mm()` boundary. I consider this an acceptable tradeoff. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-8-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11rust: miscdevice: add mmap supportAlice Ryhl
Add the ability to write a file_operations->mmap hook in Rust when using the miscdevice abstraction. The `vma` argument to the `mmap` hook uses the `VmaNew` type from the previous commit; this type provides the correct set of operations for a file_operations->mmap hook. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-7-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: rust: add VmaNew for f_ops->mmap()Alice Ryhl
This type will be used when setting up a new vma in an f_ops->mmap() hook. Using a separate type from VmaRef allows us to have a separate set of operations that you are only able to use during the mmap() hook. For example, the VM_MIXEDMAP flag must not be changed after the initial setup that happens during the f_ops->mmap() hook. To avoid setting invalid flag values, the methods for clearing VM_MAYWRITE and similar involve a check of VM_WRITE, and return an error if VM_WRITE is set. Trying to use `try_clear_maywrite` without checking the return value results in a compilation error because the `Result` type is marked #[must_use]. For now, there's only a method for VM_MIXEDMAP and not VM_PFNMAP. When we add a VM_PFNMAP method, we will need some way to prevent you from setting both VM_MIXEDMAP and VM_PFNMAP on the same vma. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-6-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: rust: add mmput_async supportAlice Ryhl
Adds an MmWithUserAsync type that uses mmput_async when dropped but is otherwise identical to MmWithUser. This has to be done using a separate type because the thing we are changing is the destructor. Rust Binder needs this to avoid a certain deadlock. See commit 9a9ab0d96362 ("binder: fix race between mmput() and do_exit()") for details. It's also needed in the shrinker to avoid cleaning up the mm in the shrinker's context. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-5-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: rust: add lock_vma_under_rcuAlice Ryhl
Currently, the binder driver always uses the mmap lock to make changes to its vma. Because the mmap lock is global to the process, this can involve significant contention. However, the kernel has a feature called per-vma locks, which can significantly reduce contention. For example, you can take a vma lock in parallel with an mmap write lock. This is important because contention on the mmap lock has been a long-term recurring challenge for the Binder driver. This patch introduces support for using `lock_vma_under_rcu` from Rust. The Rust Binder driver will be able to use this to reduce contention on the mmap lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-4-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: rust: add vm_insert_pageAlice Ryhl
The vm_insert_page method is only usable on vmas with the VM_MIXEDMAP flag, so we introduce a new type to keep track of such vmas. The approach used in this patch assumes that we will not need to encode many flag combinations in the type. I don't think we need to encode more than VM_MIXEDMAP and VM_PFNMAP as things are now. However, if that becomes necessary, using generic parameters in a single type would scale better as the number of flags increases. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-3-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: rust: add vm_area_struct methods that require read accessAlice Ryhl
This adds a type called VmaRef which is used when referencing a vma that you have read access to. Here, read access means that you hold either the mmap read lock or the vma read lock (or stronger). Additionally, a vma_lookup method is added to the mmap read guard, which enables you to obtain a &VmaRef in safe Rust code. This patch only provides a way to lock the mmap read lock, but a follow-up patch also provides a way to just lock the vma read lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-2-d8b446e885d9@google.com Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: rust: add abstraction for struct mm_structAlice Ryhl
Patch series "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap", v16. This updates the vm_area_struct support to use the approach we discussed at LPC where there are several different Rust wrappers for vm_area_struct depending on the kind of access you have to the vma. Each case allows a different set of operations on the vma. This includes an MM MAINTAINERS entry as proposed by Lorenzo: https://lore.kernel.org/all/33e64b12-aa07-4e78-933a-b07c37ff1d84@lucifer.local/ This patch (of 9): These abstractions allow you to reference a `struct mm_struct` using both mmgrab and mmget refcounts. This is done using two Rust types: * Mm - represents an mm_struct where you don't know anything about the value of mm_users. * MmWithUser - represents an mm_struct where you know at compile time that mm_users is non-zero. This allows us to encode in the type system whether a method requires that mm_users is non-zero or not. For instance, you can always call `mmget_not_zero` but you can only call `mmap_read_lock` when mm_users is non-zero. The struct is called Mm to keep consistency with the C side. The ability to obtain `current->mm` is added later in this series. The mm module is defined to only exist when CONFIG_MMU is set. This avoids various errors due to missing types and functions when CONFIG_MMU is disabled. More fine-grained cfgs can be considered in the future. See the thread at [1] for more info. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-9-d8b446e885d9@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408-vma-v16-1-d8b446e885d9@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202503091916.QousmtcY-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11riscv: mm: call PUD/P4D ctor in special kernel pgtable allocKevin Brodsky
Constructors for PUD/P4D-level pgtables were recently introduced. They should be called for all pgtables; make sure they are called for special kernel mappings created by create_pgd_mapping() too. While at it also switch to using pagetable_alloc() like in alloc_{pte,pmd}_late(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-13-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11arm64: mm: call PUD/P4D ctor in __create_pgd_mapping()Kevin Brodsky
Constructors for PUD/P4D-level pgtables were recently introduced. They should be called for all pgtables; make sure they are called for special kernel mappings created by __create_pgd_mapping() too. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-12-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11riscv: mm: clarify ctor mm argument in alloc_{pte,pmd}_lateKevin Brodsky
pagetable_{pte,pmd}_ctor(mm, ptdesc) skip the ptlock initialisation if mm is &init_mm. To avoid unnecessary overhead, it is therefore preferable to pass the actual mm associated to the PTE/PMD. Unfortunately, this proves challenging for alloc_{pte,pmd}_late() as the associated mm is not available at the point where they are called - in fact not even top-level functions like create_pgd_mapping() are passed the mm. As a result they both call the ctor with NULL as mm; this is safe but potentially wasteful. This is not a new situation, but let's add a couple of comments to clarify it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-11-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11arm64: mm: always call PTE/PMD ctor in __create_pgd_mapping()Kevin Brodsky
TL;DR: always call the PTE/PMD ctor, passing the appropriate mm to skip ptlock_init() if unneeded. __create_pgd_mapping() is used for creating different kinds of mappings, and may allocate page table pages if passed an allocator callback. There are currently three such cases: 1. create_pgd_mapping(), which is used to create the EFI mapping 2. arch_add_memory() 3. map_entry_trampoline() 1. uses pgd_pgtable_alloc() as allocator callback, which calls the PTE/PMD ctor, while 2. and 3. use __pgd_pgtable_alloc(), which does not. The rationale is most likely that pgtables associated with init_mm do not make use of split page table locks, and it is therefore unnecessary to initialise them by calling the ctor. 2. operates on swapper_pg_dir so the allocated pgtables are clearly associated with init_mm, this is arguably the case for 3. too (the trampoline mapping is never modified so ptlocks are anyway irrelevant). 1. corresponds to efi_mm so ptlocks need to be initialised in that case. We are now moving towards calling the ctor for all page tables, even those associated with init_mm. pagetable_{pte,pmd}_ctor() have become aware of the associated mm so that the ptlock initialisation can be skipped for init_mm. This patch therefore amends the allocator callbacks so that the PTE/PMD ctor are always called, with an appropriate mm pointer to avoid unnecessary ptlock overhead. Modifying the prototype of the allocator callbacks to take the mm and propagating that pointer all the way down would be pretty invasive. Instead: * __pgd_pgtable_alloc() (cases 2. and 3. above) is replaced with pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm(), resulting in the ctors being called with &init_mm. This is the main functional change in this patch; the ptlock still isn't initialised, but other ctor actions (e.g. accounting-related) are now carried out for those allocated pgtables. * pgd_pgtable_alloc() (case 1. above) is replaced with pgd_pgtable_alloc_special_mm(), resulting in the ctors being called with NULL as mm. No functional change here; NULL essentially means "not init_mm", and the ptlock is still initialised. __pgd_pgtable_alloc() is now the common implementation of those two helpers. While at it we switch it to using pagetable_alloc() like standard pgtable allocator functions and remove the comment regarding ctor calls (ctors are now always expected to be called). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-10-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11arm64: mm: use enum to identify pgtable level instead of *_SHIFTKevin Brodsky
Commit 90292aca9854 ("arm64: mm: use appropriate ctors for page tables") introduced pgtable ctor calls in pgd_pgtable_alloc(). To identify the pgtable level and call the appropriate ctor, the *_SHIFT value associated with the pgtable level is used. However, those values do not unambiguously identify a level, because if a given level is folded, the *_SHIFT value will be equal to that of the upper level (e.g. PMD_SHIFT == PUD_SHIFT if PMD is folded). As things stand, there is probably not much damaged done by calling the ctor for a different level, and ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK is only selected if PMD isn't folded (so we don't needlessly initialise pmd_ptlock). Still, this is pretty confusing, and it would get even more confusing when adding ctor calls for the remaining levels. Let's simplify all this by using an enum to identify the pgtable level instead; this way folding becomes irrelevant. This is inspired by one of the m68k pgtable allocators (arch/m68k/include/asm/motorola_pgalloc.h). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-9-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: skip ptlock_init() for kernel PMDsKevin Brodsky
Split page table locks are not used for pgtables associated to init_mm, at any level. pte_alloc_kernel() does not call ptlock_init() as a result. There is however no separate alloc/free functions for kernel PMDs, and pmd_ptlock_init() is called unconditionally. When ALLOC_SPLIT_PTLOCKS is true (e.g. 32-bit architectures or if CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is selected), this results in unnecessary dynamic memory allocation every time a kernel PMD is allocated. Now that pagetable_pmd_ctor() is passed the associated mm, we can easily remove this overhead by skipping pmd_ptlock_init() if the pgtable is associated to init_mm. No special-casing is needed on the dtor path, as ptlock_free() is already called unconditionally for all levels. (ptlock_free() is a no-op unless a ptlock was allocated for the given PTP.) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-8-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11sparc64: mm: call ctor/dtor for kernel PTEsKevin Brodsky
The generic implementation of pte_{alloc_one,free}_kernel now calls the [cd]tor, without initialising the ptlock needlessly as pagetable_pte_ctor() skips it for init_mm. Align sparc64 with the generic implementation by ensuring pagetable_pte_[cd]tor() are called for kernel PTEs. As a result the kernel and user alloc/free functions have the same implementation, and since pgtable_t is defined as pte_t *, we can have both call a common helper. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-7-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11powerpc: mm: call ctor/dtor for kernel PTEsKevin Brodsky
The generic implementation of pte_{alloc_one,free}_kernel now calls the [cd]tor, without initialising the ptlock needlessly as pagetable_pte_ctor() skips it for init_mm. On powerpc, all functions related to PTE allocation are implemented by common helpers, which are passed a boolean to differentiate user from kernel pgtables. This patch aligns the powerpc implementation with the generic one by calling pagetable_pte_[cd]tor() unconditionally in those helpers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-6-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11m68k: mm: call ctor/dtor for kernel PTEsKevin Brodsky
The generic implementation of pte_{alloc_one,free}_kernel now calls the [cd]tor. Align the m68k/ColdFire implementation of those functions by calling the [cd]tor explicitly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-5-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: call ctor/dtor for kernel PTEsKevin Brodsky
Since [1], constructors/destructors are expected to be called for all page table pages, at all levels and for both user and kernel pgtables. There is however one glaring exception: kernel PTEs are managed via separate helpers (pte_alloc_kernel/pte_free_kernel), which do not call the [cd]tor, at least not in the generic implementation. The most obvious reason for this anomaly is that init_mm is special-cased not to use split page table locks. As a result calling ptlock_init() for PTEs associated with init_mm would be wasteful, potentially resulting in dynamic memory allocation. However, pgtable [cd]tors perform other actions - currently related to accounting/statistics, and potentially more functionally significant in the future. Now that pagetable_pte_ctor() is passed the associated mm, we can make it skip the call to ptlock_init() for init_mm; this allows us to call the ctor from pte_alloc_one_kernel() too. This is matched by a call to the pgtable destructor in pte_free_kernel(); no special-casing is needed on that path, as ptlock_free() is already called unconditionally. (ptlock_free() is a no-op unless a ptlock was allocated for the given PTP.) This patch ensures that all architectures that rely on <asm-generic/pgalloc.h> call the [cd]tor for kernel PTEs. pte_free_kernel() cannot be overridden so changing the generic implementation is sufficient. pte_alloc_one_kernel() can be overridden using __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_ALLOC_ONE_KERNEL, and a few architectures implement it by calling the page allocator directly. We amend those so that they call the generic __pte_alloc_one_kernel() instead, if possible, ensuring that the ctor is called. A few architectures do not use <asm-generic/pgalloc.h>; those will be taken care of separately. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250103184415.2744423-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-4-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> # s390 Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11x86: pgtable: always use pte_free_kernel()Kevin Brodsky
Page table pages are normally freed using the appropriate helper for the given page table level. On x86, pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page() are an exception to the rule: they call free_page() directly. Constructor/destructor calls are about to be introduced for kernel PTEs. To avoid missing dtor calls in those helpers, free the PTE pages using pte_free_kernel() instead of free_page(). While at it also use pmd_free() instead of calling pagetable_dtor() explicitly at the PMD level. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-3-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: pass mm down to pagetable_{pte,pmd}_ctorKevin Brodsky
Patch series "Always call constructor for kernel page tables", v2. There has been much confusion around exactly when page table constructors/destructors (pagetable_*_[cd]tor) are supposed to be called. They were initially introduced for user PTEs only (to support split page table locks), then at the PMD level for the same purpose. Accounting was added later on, starting at the PTE level and then moving to higher levels (PMD, PUD). Finally, with my earlier series "Account page tables at all levels" [1], the ctor/dtor is run for all levels, all the way to PGD. I thought this was the end of the story, and it hopefully is for user pgtables, but I was wrong for what concerns kernel pgtables. The current situation there makes very little sense: * At the PTE level, the ctor/dtor is not called (at least in the generic implementation). Specific helpers are used for kernel pgtables at this level (pte_{alloc,free}_kernel()) and those have never called the ctor/dtor, most likely because they were initially irrelevant in the kernel case. * At all other levels, the ctor/dtor is normally called. This is potentially wasteful at the PMD level (more on that later). This series aims to ensure that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables. Besides consistency, the main motivation is to guarantee that ctor/dtor hooks are systematically called; this makes it possible to insert hooks to protect page tables [2], for instance. There is however an extra challenge: split locks are not used for kernel pgtables, and it would therefore be wasteful to initialise them (ptlock_init()). It is worth clarifying exactly when split locks are used. They clearly are for user pgtables, but as illustrated in commit 61444cde9170 ("ARM: 8591/1: mm: use fully constructed struct pages for EFI pgd allocations"), they also are for special page tables like efi_mm. The one case where split locks are definitely unused is pgtables owned by init_mm; this is consistent with the behaviour of apply_to_pte_range(). The approach chosen in this series is therefore to pass the mm associated to the pgtables being constructed to pagetable_{pte,pmd}_ctor() (patch 1), and skip ptlock_init() if mm == &init_mm (patch 3 and 7). This makes it possible to call the PTE ctor/dtor from pte_{alloc,free}_kernel() without unintended consequences (patch 3). As a result the accounting functions are now called at all levels for kernel pgtables, and split locks are never initialised. In configurations where ptlocks are dynamically allocated (32-bit, PREEMPT_RT, etc.) and ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK is selected, this series results in the removal of a kmem_cache allocation for every kernel PMD. Additionally, for certain architectures that do not use <asm-generic/pgalloc.h> such as s390, the same optimisation occurs at the PTE level. === Things get more complicated when it comes to special pgtable allocators (patch 8-12). All architectures need such allocators to create initial kernel pgtables; we are not concerned with those as the ctor cannot be called so early in the boot sequence. However, those allocators may also be used later in the boot sequence or during normal operations. There are two main use-cases: 1. Mapping EFI memory: efi_mm (arm, arm64, riscv) 2. arch_add_memory(): init_mm The ctor is already explicitly run (at the PTE/PMD level) in the first case, as required for pgtables that are not associated with init_mm. However the same allocators may also be used for the second use-case (or others), and this is where it gets messy. Patch 1 calls the ctor with NULL as mm in those situations, as the actual mm isn't available. Practically this means that ptlocks will be unconditionally initialised. This is fine on arm - create_mapping_late() is only used for the EFI mapping. On arm64, __create_pgd_mapping() is also used by arch_add_memory(); patch 8/9/11 ensure that ctors are called at all levels with the appropriate mm. The situation is similar on riscv, but propagating the mm down to the ctor would require significant refactoring. Since they are already called unconditionally, this series leaves riscv no worse off - patch 10 adds comments to clarify the situation. From a cursory look at other architectures implementing arch_add_memory(), s390 and x86 may also need a similar treatment to add constructor calls. This is to be taken care of in a future version or as a follow-up. === The complications in those special pgtable allocators beg the question: does it really make sense to treat efi_mm and init_mm differently in e.g. apply_to_pte_range()? Maybe what we really need is a way to tell if an mm corresponds to user memory or not, and never use split locks for non-user mm's. Feedback and suggestions welcome! This patch (of 12): In preparation for calling constructors for all kernel page tables while eliding unnecessary ptlock initialisation, let's pass down the associated mm to the PTE/PMD level ctors. (These are the two levels where ptlocks are used.) In most cases the mm is already around at the point of calling the ctor so we simply pass it down. This is however not the case for special page table allocators: * arch/arm/mm/mmu.c * arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c * arch/riscv/mm/init.c In those cases, the page tables being allocated are either for standard kernel memory (init_mm) or special page directories, which may not be associated to any mm. For now let's pass NULL as mm; this will be refined where possible in future patches. No functional change in this patch. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250103184415.2744423-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20250203101839.1223008-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com/ [2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-2-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> [s390] Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11vmalloc: use for_each_vmap_node() in purge-vmap-areaUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
Update a __purge_vmap_area_lazy() to use introduced helper. This is last place in vmalloc code. Also this patch introduces an extra function which is node_to_id() that converts a vmap_node pointer to an index in array. __purge_vmap_area_lazy() requires that extra function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408151549.77937-3-urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Christop Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11vmalloc: switch to for_each_vmap_node() helperUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
There are places which can be updated easily to use the helper to iterate over all vmap-nodes. This is what this patch does. The aim is to improve readability and simplify the code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408151549.77937-2-urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Christop Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11vmalloc: add for_each_vmap_node() helperUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
To simplify iteration over vmap-nodes, add the for_each_vmap_node() macro that iterates over all nodes in a system. It tends to simplify the code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408151549.77937-1-urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Christop Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11fs/proc/page: refactor to reduce code duplicationLiu Ye
kpageflags_read() and kpagecgroup_read() are quite similar to kpagecount_read(). Refactor common code into a helper function to reduce code duplication. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318063226.223284-1-liuyerd@163.com Signed-off-by: Liu Ye <liuye@kylinos.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Svetly Todorov <svetly.todorov@memverge.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11xarray: make xa_alloc_cyclic() return 0 on all success casesPrzemek Kitszel
Change xa_alloc_cyclic() to return 0 even on wrap-around. Do the same for xa_alloc_cyclic_irq() and xa_alloc_cyclic_bh(). This will prevent any future bug of treating return of 1 as an error: int ret = xa_alloc_cyclic(...) if (ret) // currently mishandles ret==1 goto failure; If there will be someone interested in when wrap-around occurs, there is still __xa_alloc_cyclic() that behaves as before. For now there is no such user. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250320102219.8101-1-przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z9gUd-5t8b5NX2wE@casper.infradead.org Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com> Cc: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11arm64/mm: define ptdesc_tAnshuman Khandual
Define ptdesc_t type which describes the basic page table descriptor layout on arm64 platform. Subsequently all level specific pxxval_t descriptors are derived from ptdesc_t thus establishing a common original format, which can also be appropriate for page table entries, masks and protection values etc which are used at all page table levels. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407053113.746295-4-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Suggested-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/ptdump: split effective_prot() into level specific callbacksAnshuman Khandual
Last argument in effective_prot() is u64 assuming pxd_val() returned value (all page table levels) is 64 bit. pxd_val() is very platform specific and its type should not be assumed in generic MM. Split effective_prot() into individual page table level specific callbacks which accepts corresponding pxd_t argument instead and then the subscribing platform (only x86) just derive pxd_val() from the entries as required and proceed as earlier. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407053113.746295-3-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/ptdump: split note_page() into level specific callbacksAnshuman Khandual
Patch series "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64", v2. Last argument passed down in note_page() is u64 assuming pxd_val() returned value (all page table levels) is 64 bit - which might not be the case going ahead when D128 page tables is enabled on arm64 platform. Besides pxd_val() is very platform specific and its type should not be assumed in generic MM. A similar problem exists for effective_prot(), although it is restricted to x86 platform. This series splits note_page() and effective_prot() into individual page table level specific callbacks which accepts corresponding pxd_t page table entry as an argument instead and later on all subscribing platforms could derive pxd_val() from the table entries as required and proceed as before. Define ptdesc_t type which describes the basic page table descriptor layout on arm64 platform. Subsequently all level specific pxxval_t descriptors are derived from ptdesc_t thus establishing a common original format, which can also be appropriate for page table entries, masks and protection values etc which are used at all page table levels. This patch (of 3): Last argument passed down in note_page() is u64 assuming pxd_val() returned value (all page table levels) is 64 bit - which might not be the case going ahead when D128 page tables is enabled on arm64 platform. Besides pxd_val() is very platform specific and its type should not be assumed in generic MM. Split note_page() into individual page table level specific callbacks which accepts corresponding pxd_t argument instead and then subscribing platforms just derive pxd_val() from the entries as required and proceed as earlier. Also add a note_page_flush() callback for flushing the last page table page that was being handled earlier via level = -1. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407053113.746295-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407053113.746295-2-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11selftest/mm: make hugetlb_reparenting_test tolerant to async reparentingLi Wang
In cgroup v2, memory and hugetlb usage reparenting is asynchronous. This can cause test flakiness when immediately asserting usage after deleting a child cgroup. To address this, add a helper function `assert_with_retry()` that checks usage values with a timeout-based retry. This improves test stability without relying on fixed sleep delays. Also bump up the tolerance size to 7MB. To avoid False Positives: ... # Assert memory charged correctly for child only use. # actual a = 11 MB # expected a = 0 MB # fail # cleanup # [FAIL] not ok 11 hugetlb_reparenting_test.sh -cgroup-v2 # exit=1 # 0 # SUMMARY: PASS=10 SKIP=0 FAIL=1 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407084201.74492-1-liwang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com> Tested-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: page_alloc: tighten up find_suitable_fallback()Johannes Weiner
find_suitable_fallback() is not as efficient as it could be, and somewhat difficult to follow. 1. should_try_claim_block() is a loop invariant. There is no point in checking fallback areas if the caller is interested in claimable blocks but the order and the migratetype don't allow for that. 2. __rmqueue_steal() doesn't care about claimability, so it shouldn't have to run those tests. Different callers want different things from this helper: 1. __compact_finished() scans orders up until it finds a claimable block 2. __rmqueue_claim() scans orders down as long as blocks are claimable 3. __rmqueue_steal() doesn't care about claimability at all Move should_try_claim_block() out of the loop. Only test it for the two callers who care in the first place. Distinguish "no blocks" from "order + mt are not claimable" in the return value; __rmqueue_claim() can stop once order becomes unclaimable, __compact_finished() can keep advancing until order becomes claimable. Before: Performance counter stats for './run case-lru-file-mmap-read' (5 runs): 85,294.85 msec task-clock # 5.644 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.32% ) 15,968 context-switches # 187.209 /sec ( +- 3.81% ) 153 cpu-migrations # 1.794 /sec ( +- 3.29% ) 801,808 page-faults # 9.400 K/sec ( +- 0.10% ) 733,358,331,786 instructions # 1.87 insn per cycle ( +- 0.20% ) (64.94%) 392,622,904,199 cycles # 4.603 GHz ( +- 0.31% ) (64.84%) 148,563,488,531 branches # 1.742 G/sec ( +- 0.18% ) (63.86%) 152,143,228 branch-misses # 0.10% of all branches ( +- 1.19% ) (62.82%) 15.1128 +- 0.0637 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.42% ) After: Performance counter stats for './run case-lru-file-mmap-read' (5 runs): 84,380.21 msec task-clock # 5.664 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.21% ) 16,656 context-switches # 197.392 /sec ( +- 3.27% ) 151 cpu-migrations # 1.790 /sec ( +- 3.28% ) 801,703 page-faults # 9.501 K/sec ( +- 0.09% ) 731,914,183,060 instructions # 1.88 insn per cycle ( +- 0.38% ) (64.90%) 388,673,535,116 cycles # 4.606 GHz ( +- 0.24% ) (65.06%) 148,251,482,143 branches # 1.757 G/sec ( +- 0.37% ) (63.92%) 149,766,550 branch-misses # 0.10% of all branches ( +- 1.22% ) (62.88%) 14.8968 +- 0.0486 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.33% ) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407180154.63348-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Carlos Song <carlos.song@nxp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewriteDavid Hildenbrand
uprobe_write_opcode() does some pretty low-level things that really, it shouldn't be doing: for example, manually breaking COW by allocating anonymous folios and replacing mapped pages. Further, it does seem to do some shaky things: for example, writing to possible COW-shared anonymous pages or zapping anonymous pages that might be pinned. We're also not taking care of uffd, uffd-wp, softdirty ... although rather corner cases here. Let's just get it right like ordinary ptrace writes would. Let's rewrite the code, leaving COW-breaking to core-MM, triggered by FOLL_FORCE|FOLL_WRITE (note that the code was already using FOLL_FORCE). We'll use GUP to lookup/faultin the page and break COW if required. Then, we'll walk the page tables using a folio_walk to perform our page modification atomically by temporarily unmap the PTE + flushing the TLB. Likely, we could avoid the temporary unmap in case we can just atomically write the instruction, but that will be a separate project. Unfortunately, we still have to implement the zapping logic manually, because we only want to zap in specific circumstances (e.g., page content identical). Note that we can now handle large folios (compound pages) and the shared zeropage just fine, so drop these checks. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321113713.204682-4-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: tongtiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11kernel/events/uprobes: pass VMA to set_swbp(), set_orig_insn() and ↵David Hildenbrand
uprobe_write_opcode() We already have the VMA, no need to look it up using get_user_page_vma_remote(). We can now switch to get_user_pages_remote(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321113713.204682-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: tongtiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11kernel/events/uprobes: pass VMA instead of MM to remove_breakpoint()David Hildenbrand
Patch series "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite", v3. Currently, uprobe_write_opcode() implements COW-breaking manually, which is really far from ideal. Further, there is interest in supporting uprobes on hugetlb pages [1], and leaving at least the COW-breaking to the core will make this much easier. Also, I think the current code doesn't really handle some things properly (see patch #3) when replacing/zapping pages. Let's rewrite it, to leave COW-breaking to the fault handler, and handle registration/unregistration by temporarily unmapping the anonymous page, modifying it, and mapping it again. We still have to implement zapping of anonymous pages ourselves, unfortunately. We could look into not performing the temporary unmapping if we can perform the write atomically, which would likely also make adding hugetlb support a lot easier. But, limited (e.g., only PMD/PUD) hugetlb support could be added on top of this with some tweaking. Note that we now won't have to allocate another anonymous folio when unregistering (which will be beneficial for hugetlb as well), we can simply modify the already-mapped one from the registration (if any). When registering a uprobe, we'll first trigger a ptrace-like write fault to break COW, to then modify the already-mapped page. Briefly sanity tested with perf probes and with the bpf uprobes selftest. This patch (of 3): Pass VMA instead of MM to remove_breakpoint() and remove the "MM" argument from install_breakpoint(), because it can easily be derived from the VMA. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321113713.204682-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321113713.204682-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: tongtiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm/debug: fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()Gavin Shan
As the comments of page_mapcount_is_type() indicate, the parameter passed to the function should be one more than page->_mapcount. However, page->_mapcount is passed to the function by commit 4ffca5a96678 ("mm: support only one page_type per page") where page_type_has_type() is replaced by page_mapcount_is_type(), but the parameter isn't adjusted. Fix the parameter for page_mapcount_is_type() to be (page->__mapcount + 1). Note that the issue doesn't cause any visible impacts due to the safety gap introduced by PGTY_mapcount_underflow limit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify __dump_folio(), per David] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321120222.1456770-3-gshan@redhat.com Fixes: 4ffca5a96678 ("mm: support only one page_type per page") Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: gehao <gehao@kylinos.cn> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()Gavin Shan
Patch series "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()", v2. Found by code inspection. There are two places where the parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type() is (page->_mapcount), which is incorrect since it should be one more than the value, as explained in the comments to page_mapcount_is_type(): (a) page_has_type() in page-flags.h (b) __dump_folio() in mm/debug.c PATCH[1] fixes the parameter for (a) PATCH[2] fixes the parameter for (b) Note that the issue doesn't cause any visible impacts due to the safety gap introduced by PGTY_mapcount_underflow limit. So the tag 'Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org' isn't needed. This patch (of 2): As the comments of page_mapcount_is_type() indicate, the parameter passed to the function should be one more than page->_mapcount. However, page->_mapcount (equivalent to page->page_type) is passed to the function by commit 4ffca5a96678 ("mm: support only one page_type per page") page_type_has_type() is replaced by page_mapcount_is_type(), but the parameter isn't adjusted. Fix it by replacing page_mapcount_is_type() with page_type_has_type() in page_has_type(). Note that the issue doesn't cause any visible impacts due to the safety gap introduced by PGTY_mapcount_underflow limit. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321120222.1456770-1-gshan@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250321120222.1456770-2-gshan@redhat.com Fixes: 4ffca5a96678 ("mm: support only one page_type per page") Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: gehao <gehao@kylinos.cn> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11selftests/mm: add PAGEMAP_SCAN guard region testAndrei Vagin
Add a selftest to verify the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl correctly reports guard regions using the newly introduced PAGE_IS_GUARD flag. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250324065328.107678-4-avagin@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>