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2025-05-11fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regionsAndrei Vagin
Patch series "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions", v2. Introduce the PAGE_IS_GUARD flag in the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to expose information about guard regions. This allows userspace tools, such as CRIU, to detect and handle guard regions. Currently, CRIU utilizes PAGEMAP_SCAN as a more efficient alternative to parsing /proc/pid/pagemap. Without this change, guard regions are incorrectly reported as swap-anon regions, leading CRIU to attempt dumping them and subsequently failing. The series includes updates to the documentation and selftests to reflect the new functionality. This patch (of 3): Introduce the PAGE_IS_GUARD flag in the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to expose information about guard regions. This allows userspace tools, such as CRIU, to detect and handle guard regions. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250324065328.107678-1-avagin@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250324065328.107678-2-avagin@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17fs/proc/task_mmu: remove per-page mapcount dependency for PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE ↵David Hildenbrand
(CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT) Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE will now be set if folio_likely_mapped_shared() is true -- when the folio is considered "mapped shared", including when it once was "mapped shared" but no longer is, as documented. This might result in and under-indication of "exclusively mapped", which is considered better than over-indicating it: under-estimating the USS (Unique Set Size) is better than over-estimating it. As an alternative, we could simply remove that flag with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT completely, but there might be value to it. So, let's keep it like that and document the behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-18-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17fs/proc/page: remove per-page mapcount dependency for /proc/kpagecount ↵David Hildenbrand
(CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT) Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. For large folios, we'll return the per-page average mapcount within the folio, whereby we round to the closest integer when calculating the average: however, we'll always return at least 1 if the folio is mapped. So assuming a folio with 512 pages, the average would be: * 0 if not pages are mapped * 1 if there are 1 .. 767 per-page mappings * 2 if there are 767 .. 1279 per-page mappings ... For hugetlb folios and for large folios that are fully mapped into all address spaces, there is no change. We'll make use of this helper in other context next. As an alternative, we could simply return 0 for non-hugetlb large folios, or disable this legacy interface with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. But the information exposed by this interface can still be valuable, and frequently we deal with fully-mapped large folios where the average corresponds to the actual page mapcount. So we'll leave it like this for now and document the new behavior. Note: this interface is likely not very relevant for performance. If ever required, we could try doing a rather expensive rmap walk to collect precisely how often this folio page is mapped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-17-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-16fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemapLorenzo Stoakes
Patch series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap". Currently there is no means of determining whether a given page in a mapping range is designated a guard region (as installed via madvise() using the MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag). This is generally not an issue, but in some instances users may wish to determine whether this is the case. This series adds this ability via /proc/$pid/pagemap, updates the documentation and adds a self test to assert that this functions correctly. This patch (of 2): Currently there is no means by which users can determine whether a given page in memory is in fact a guard region, that is having had the MADV_GUARD_INSTALL madvise() flag applied to it. This is intentional, as to provide this information in VMA metadata would contradict the intent of the feature (providing a means to change fault behaviour at a page table level rather than a VMA level), and would require VMA metadata operations to scan page tables, which is unacceptable. In many cases, users have no need to reflect and determine what regions have been designated guard regions, as it is the user who has established them in the first place. But in some instances, such as monitoring software, or software that relies upon being able to ascertain the nature of mappings within a remote process for instance, it becomes useful to be able to determine which pages have the guard region marker applied. This patch makes use of an unused pagemap bit (58) to provide this information. This patch updates the documentation at the same time as making the change such that the implementation of the feature and the documentation of it are tied together. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1740139449.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/521d99c08b975fb06a1e7201e971cc24d68196d1.1740139449.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-12kpageflags: detect isolated KPF_THP foliosRan Xiaokai
When folio is isolated, the PG_lru bit is cleared. So the PG_lru check in stable_page_flags() will miss this kind of isolated folios. Use folio_test_large_rmappable() instead to also include isolated folios. Since pagecache supports large folios and the introduction of mTHP, the semantics of KPF_THP have been expanded, now it indicates not only PMD-sized THP. Update related documentation to clearly state that KPF_THP indicates multiple order THPs. [ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn: directly use is_zero_folio(), per David] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240708062601.165215-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240705104343.112680-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Svetly Todorov <svetly.todorov@memverge.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-03Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst: drop "Using pagemap to do ↵David Hildenbrand
something useful" That example was added in 2008. In 2015, we restricted access to the PFNs in the pagemap to CAP_SYS_ADMIN, making that approach quite less usable. It's 2024 now, and using that racy and low-lewel mechanism to calculate the USS should not be considered a good example anymore. /proc/$pid/smaps and /proc/$pid/smaps_rollup can do a much better job without any of that low-level handling. Let's just drop that example. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240607122357.115423-7-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-10fs/proc/task_mmu: report SOFT_DIRTY bits through the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctlAndrei Vagin
The PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl returns information regarding page table entries. It is more efficient compared to reading pagemap files. CRIU can start to utilize this ioctl, but it needs info about soft-dirty bits to track memory changes. We are aware of a new method for tracking memory changes implemented in the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl. For CRIU, the primary advantage of this method is its usability by unprivileged users. However, it is not feasible to transparently replace the soft-dirty tracker with the new one. The main problem here is userfault descriptors that have to be preserved between pre-dump iterations. It means criu continues supporting the soft-dirty method to avoid breakage for current users. The new method will be implemented as a separate feature. [avagin@google.com: update tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231107164139.576046-1-avagin@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106220959.296568-1-avagin@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-18mm/pagemap: add documentation of PAGEMAP_SCAN IOCTLMuhammad Usama Anjum
Add some explanation and method to use write-protection and written-to on memory range. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821141518.870589-6-usama.anjum@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> Cc: Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@amd.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Miroslaw <emmir@google.com> Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Paul Gofman <pgofman@codeweavers.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-03-29mm, pagemap: remove SLOB and SLQB from comments and documentationVlastimil Babka
SLOB has been removed and SLQB never merged, so remove their mentions from comments and documentation of pagemap. In stable_page_flags() also correct an outdated comment mentioning that PageBuddy() means a page->_refcount of -1, and remove compound_head() from the PageSlab() call, as that's already implicitly there thanks to PF_NO_TAIL. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
2023-02-23Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X bit. - Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset() thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition related to PMD unsharing. - Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes - Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()") which does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work. - SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series "mm/damon/core: implement damos filter". These filters provide users with finer-grained control over DAMOS's actions. SeongJae has also done some DAMON cleanup work. - Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap"). - Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple tree". - Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global reclaim. - David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups". - Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library function in the series "remove generic_writepages". - Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in his series "Some small improvements for compaction". - Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his series "Get rid of tail page fields". - David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series "mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with swap PTEs". - Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC". - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with his series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable". - Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of writeable+executable mappings. The previous BPF-based approach had shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel support for memory-deny-write-execute (MDWE)". - Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series "mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() & fix UAF". - T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series "mm: multi-gen LRU: improve". - Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a per-node basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error statistics". - Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage during compaction". - Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series "cleanup vfree and vunmap". - Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in ths series "remove ->rw_page". - We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()". - Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier functions". - Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's series "mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for FLATMEM" and "fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()" - Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and /proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series "mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas". - Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest of the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for GUP". - SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the series "mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface". - Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes and clean-ups" series. - Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing". - Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes". * tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (505 commits) include/linux/migrate.h: remove unneeded externs mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range() mm/uffd: fix comment in handling pte markers mm: change to return bool for isolate_movable_page() mm: hugetlb: change to return bool for isolate_hugetlb() mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page() mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru() objtool: add UACCESS exceptions for __tsan_volatile_read/write kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code kasan: mark addr_has_metadata __always_inline mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled() sh: initialize max_mapnr m68k/nommu: add missing definition of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size() maple_tree: reduce stack usage with gcc-9 and earlier mm: page_alloc: call panic() when memoryless node allocation fails mm: multi-gen LRU: avoid futile retries migrate_pages: move THP/hugetlb migration support check to simplify code migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB migrate_pages: share more code between _unmap and _move ...
2023-02-02docs/admin-guide/mm: remove useless markupMike Rapoport (IBM)
It is enough to use a file name to cross-reference another rst document. Jon says: The right things will happen in the HTML output, readers of the plain-text will know immediately where to go, and we don't have to add the label clutter. Drop reference markup and unnecessary labels and use plain file names. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230201094156.991542-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-18tools/vm: rename tools/vm to tools/mmSeongJae Park
Rename tools/vm to tools/mm for being more consistent with the code and documentation directories, and won't be confused with virtual machines. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230103180754.129637-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-05proc: fix documentation and description of pagemapYun Zhou
Since bit 57 was exported for uffd-wp write-protected (commit fb8e37f35a2f: "mm/pagemap: export uffd-wp protection information"), fixing it can reduce some unnecessary confusion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220301044538.3042713-1-yun.zhou@windriver.com Fixes: fb8e37f35a2fe1 ("mm/pagemap: export uffd-wp protection information") Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Tiberiu A Georgescu <tiberiu.georgescu@nutanix.com> Cc: Florian Schmidt <florian.schmidt@nutanix.com> Cc: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptionsSeongJae Park
Some descriptions of page flags in 'pagemap.rst' are written in assumption of none-rst, which respects every new line, as below: 7 - SLAB page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head Because rst ignores the new line between the first sentence and second sentence, resulting html looks a little bit weird, as below. 7 - SLAB page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator When ^ compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head page; SLOB will not flag it at all. This change makes it more natural and consistent with other parts in the rendered version. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022090311.3856-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06Documentation: update pagemap with shmem exceptionsTiberiu A Georgescu
This patch follows the discussions on previous documentation patch threads [1][2]. It presents the exception case of shared memory management from the pagemap's point of view. It briefly describes what is missing, why it is missing and alternatives to the pagemap for page info retrieval in user space. In short, the kernel does not keep track of PTEs for swapped out shared pages within the processes that references them. Thus, the proc/pid/pagemap tool cannot print the swap destination of the shared memory pages, instead setting the pagemap entry to zero for both non-allocated and swapped out pages. This can create confusion for users who need information on swapped out pages. The reasons why maintaining the PTEs of all swapped out shared pages among all processes while maintaining similar performance is not a trivial task, or a desirable change, have been discussed extensively [1][3][4][5]. There are also arguments for why this arguably missing information should eventually be exposed to the user in either a future pagemap patch, or by an alternative tool. [1]: https://marc.info/?m=162878395426774 [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210920164931.175411-1-tiberiu.georgescu@nutanix.com/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210730160826.63785-1-tiberiu.georgescu@nutanix.com/ [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210807032521.7591-1-peterx@redhat.com/ [5]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210715201651.212134-1-peterx@redhat.com/ Mention the current missing information in the pagemap and alternatives on how to retrieve it, in case someone stumbles upon unexpected behaviour. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923064618.157046-1-tiberiu.georgescu@nutanix.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923064618.157046-2-tiberiu.georgescu@nutanix.com Signed-off-by: Tiberiu A Georgescu <tiberiu.georgescu@nutanix.com> Reviewed-by: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Schmidt <florian.schmidt@nutanix.com> Reviewed-by: Carl Waldspurger <carl.waldspurger@nutanix.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@nutanix.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-30mm/pagemap: export uffd-wp protection informationPeter Xu
Export the PTE/PMD status of uffd-wp to pagemap too. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210428225030.9708-6-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offlineDavid Hildenbrand
PG_balloon was introduced to implement page migration/compaction for pages inflated in virtio-balloon. Nowadays, it is only a marker that a page is part of virtio-balloon and therefore logically offline. We also want to make use of this flag in other balloon drivers - for inflated pages or when onlining a section but keeping some pages offline (e.g. used right now by XEN and Hyper-V via set_online_page_callback()). We are going to expose this flag to dump tools like makedumpfile. But instead of exposing PG_balloon, let's generalize the concept of marking pages as logically offline, so it can be reused for other purposes later on. Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is logically offline, the content stale and that it should not be touched (e.g. a hypervisor would have to allocate backing storage in order for the guest to dump an unused page). We can then e.g. exclude such pages from dumps. We replace and reuse KPF_BALLOON (23), as this shouldn't really harm (and for now the semantics stay the same). In following patches, we will make use of this bit also in other balloon drivers. While at it, document PGTABLE. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment text, per David] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181119101616.8901-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pankaj gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Julien Freche <jfreche@vmware.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-17tools/vm/page-types.c: include shared map countsChristian Hansen
Add a new flag that will read kpagecount for each PFN and print out the number of times the page is mapped along with the flags in the listing view. This information is useful in understanding and optimizing memory usage. Identifying pages which are not shared allows us to focus on adjusting the memory layout or access patterns for the sole owning process. Knowing the number of processes that share a page tells us how many other times we must make the same adjustments or how many processes to potentially disable. Truncated sample output: voffset map-cnt offset len flags 561a3591e 1 15fe8 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________ 561a3591f 1 2b103 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________ 561a36ca4 1 2cc78 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________ 7f588bb4e 14 2273c 1 __RU_lA____M______________________________ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [chansen3@cisco.com: add documentation, tweak whitespace] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180705181204.5529-1-chansen3@cisco.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612153205.12879-1-chansen3@cisco.com Signed-off-by: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-27docs/admin-guide/mm: convert plain text cross references to hyperlinksMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/admin-guide/mm: start moving here files from Documentation/vmMike Rapoport
Several documents in Documentation/vm fit quite well into the "admin/user guide" category. The documents that don't overload the reader with lots of implementation details and provide coherent description of certain feature can be moved to Documentation/admin-guide/mm. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>