user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v4.15.11

mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm

2017-11-30T02:40:42Z

Patch series "introduce get_user_pages_longterm()", v2. Here is a new get_user_pages api for cases where a driver intends to keep an elevated page count indefinitely. This is distinct from usages like iov_iter_get_pages where the elevated page counts are transient. The iov_iter_get_pages cases immediately turn around and submit the pages to a device driver which will put_page when the i/o operation completes (under kernel control). In the longterm case userspace is responsible for dropping the page reference at some undefined point in the future. This is untenable for filesystem-dax case where the filesystem is in control of the lifetime of the block / page and needs reasonable limits on how long it can wait for pages in a mapping to become idle. Fixing filesystems to actually wait for dax pages to be idle before blocks from a truncate/hole-punch operation are repurposed is saved for a later patch series. Also, allowing longterm registration of dax mappings is a future patch series that introduces a "map with lease" semantic where the kernel can revoke a lease and force userspace to drop its page references. I have also tagged these for -stable to purposely break cases that might assume that longterm memory registrations for filesystem-dax mappings were supported by the kernel. The behavior regression this policy change implies is one of the reasons we maintain the "dax enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk" notification when mounting a filesystem in dax mode. It is worth noting the device-dax interface does not suffer the same constraints since it does not support file space management operations like hole-punch. This patch (of 4): Until there is a solution to the dma-to-dax vs truncate problem it is not safe to allow long standing memory registrations against filesytem-dax vmas. Device-dax vmas do not have this problem and are explicitly allowed. This is temporary until a "memory registration with layout-lease" mechanism can be implemented for the affected sub-systems (RDMA and V4L2). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kcalloc()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151068939435.7446.13560129395419350737.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Doug Ledford Cc: Hal Rosenstock Cc: Inki Dae Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Joonyoung Shim Cc: Kyungmin Park Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Sean Hefty Cc: Seung-Woo Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->split() to vm_operations_struct

2017-11-30T02:40:42Z

Patch series "device-dax: fix unaligned munmap handling" When device-dax is operating in huge-page mode we want it to behave like hugetlbfs and fail attempts to split vmas into unaligned ranges. It would be messy to teach the munmap path about device-dax alignment constraints in the same (hstate) way that hugetlbfs communicates this constraint. Instead, these patches introduce a new ->split() vm operation. This patch (of 2): The device-dax interface has similar constraints as hugetlbfs in that it requires the munmap path to unmap in huge page aligned units. Rather than add more custom vma handling code in __split_vma() introduce a new vm operation to perform this vma specific check. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151130418135.4029.6783191281930729710.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Fixes: dee410792419 ("/dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-11-17T17:51:57Z

Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams: "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a build success notification. The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged. - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable 'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk") before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler. Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag is validated as supported by the filesystem's ->mmap() file operation. - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods. This enables interoperability with environments that only implement the standardized methods. - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods. - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection, and SMART alarm threshold control. - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only. - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support dynamic unlock of the label area. - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands. Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next: - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"): Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and 7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()") Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong " * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits) acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush() brd: remove dax support dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported() fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault() ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault() dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault() dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault() ...

mm: speed up cancel_dirty_page() for clean pages

2017-11-16T02:21:06Z

Patch series "Speed up page cache truncation", v1. When rebasing our enterprise distro to a newer kernel (from 4.4 to 4.12) we have noticed a regression in bonnie++ benchmark when deleting files. Eventually we have tracked this down to a fact that page cache truncation got slower by about 10%. There were both gains and losses in the above interval of kernels but we have been able to identify that commit 83929372f629 ("filemap: prepare find and delete operations for huge pages") caused about 10% regression on its own. After some investigation it didn't seem easily possible to fix the regression while maintaining the THP in page cache functionality so we've decided to optimize the page cache truncation path instead to make up for the change. This series is a result of that effort. Patch 1 is an easy speedup of cancel_dirty_page(). Patches 2-6 refactor page cache truncation code so that it is easier to batch radix tree operations. Patch 7 implements batching of deletes from the radix tree which more than makes up for the original regression. This patch (of 7): cancel_dirty_page() does quite some work even for clean pages (fetching of mapping, locking of memcg, atomic bit op on page flags) so it accounts for ~2.5% of cost of truncation of a clean page. That is not much but still dumb for something we don't need at all. Check whether a page is actually dirty and avoid any work if not. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010151937.26984-2-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: zero reserved and unavailable struct pages

2017-11-16T02:21:05Z

Some memory is reserved but unavailable: not present in memblock.memory (because not backed by physical pages), but present in memblock.reserved. Such memory has backing struct pages, but they are not initialized by going through __init_single_page(). In some cases these struct pages are accessed even if they do not contain any data. One example is page_to_pfn() might access page->flags if this is where section information is stored (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS). One example of such memory: trim_low_memory_range() unconditionally reserves from pfn 0, but e820__memblock_setup() might provide the exiting memory from pfn 1 (i.e. KVM). Since struct pages are zeroed in __init_single_page(), and not during allocation time, we must zero such struct pages explicitly. The patch involves adding a new memblock iterator: for_each_resv_unavail_range(i, p_start, p_end) Which iterates through reserved && !memory lists, and we zero struct pages explicitly by calling mm_zero_struct_page(). === Here is more detailed example of problem that this patch is addressing: Run tested on qemu with the following arguments: -enable-kvm -cpu kvm64 -m 512 -smp 2 This patch reports that there are 98 unavailable pages. They are: pfn 0 and pfns in range [159, 255]. Note, trim_low_memory_range() reserves only pfns in range [0, 15], it does not reserve [159, 255] ones. e820__memblock_setup() reports linux that the following physical ranges are available: [1 , 158] [256, 130783] Notice, that exactly unavailable pfns are missing! Now, lets check what we have in zone 0: [1, 131039] pfn 0, is not part of the zone, but pfns [1, 158], are. However, the bigger problem we have if we do not initialize these struct pages is with memory hotplug. Because, that path operates at 2M boundaries (section_nr). And checks if 2M range of pages is hot removable. It starts with first pfn from zone, rounds it down to 2M boundary (sturct pages are allocated at 2M boundaries when vmemmap is created), and checks if that section is hot removable. In this case start with pfn 1 and convert it down to pfn 0. Later pfn is converted to struct page, and some fields are checked. Now, if we do not zero struct pages, we get unpredictable results. In fact when CONFIG_VM_DEBUG is enabled, and we explicitly set all vmemmap memory to ones, the following panic is observed with kernel test without this patch applied: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x35/0x90 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT ... task: ffff88001f4e2900 task.stack: ffffc90000314000 RIP: 0010:is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x35/0x90 Call Trace: ? is_mem_section_removable+0x5a/0xd0 show_mem_removable+0x6b/0xa0 dev_attr_show+0x1b/0x50 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xa1/0x100 kernfs_seq_show+0x22/0x30 seq_read+0x1ac/0x3a0 kernfs_fop_read+0x36/0x190 ? security_file_permission+0x90/0xb0 __vfs_read+0x16/0x30 vfs_read+0x81/0x130 SyS_read+0x44/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013173214.27300-7-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Reviewed-by: Bob Picco Tested-by: Bob Picco Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: consolidate page table accounting

2017-11-16T02:21:04Z

Currently, we account page tables separately for each page table level, but that's redundant -- we only make use of total memory allocated to page tables for oom_badness calculation. We also provide the information to userspace, but it has dubious value there too. This patch switches page table accounting to single counter. mm->pgtables_bytes is now used to account all page table levels. We use bytes, because page table size for different levels of page table tree may be different. The change has user-visible effect: we don't have VmPMD and VmPUD reported in /proc/[pid]/status. Not sure if anybody uses them. (As alternative, we can always report 0 kB for them.) OOM-killer report is also slightly changed: we now report pgtables_bytes instead of nr_ptes, nr_pmd, nr_puds. Apart from reducing number of counters per-mm, the benefit is that we now calculate oom_badness() more correctly for machines which have different size of page tables depending on level or where page tables are less than a page in size. The only downside can be debuggability because we do not know which page table level could leak. But I do not remember many bugs that would be caught by separate counters so I wouldn't lose sleep over this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/huge_memory.c] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006100651.44742-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko [kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: fix build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171016150113.ikfxy3e7zzfvsr4w@black.fi.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce wrappers to access mm->nr_ptes

2017-11-16T02:21:04Z

Let's add wrappers for ->nr_ptes with the same interface as for nr_pmd and nr_pud. The patch also makes nr_ptes accounting dependent onto CONFIG_MMU. Page table accounting doesn't make sense if you don't have page tables. It's preparation for consolidation of page-table counters in mm_struct. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006100651.44742-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: account pud page tables

2017-11-16T02:21:04Z

On a machine with 5-level paging support a process can allocate significant amount of memory and stay unnoticed by oom-killer and memory cgroup. The trick is to allocate a lot of PUD page tables. We don't account PUD page tables, only PMD and PTE. We already addressed the same issue for PMD page tables, see commit dc6c9a35b66b ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process"). Introduction of 5-level paging brings the same issue for PUD page tables. The patch expands accounting to PUD level. [kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: s/pmd_t/pud_t/] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004074305.x35eh5u7ybbt5kar@black.fi.intel.com [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390/mm: fix pud table accounting] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103090551.18231-1-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171002080427.3320-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes and resolve conflicts

2017-11-07T09:53:06Z

Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults

2017-11-03T13:26:25Z

Add a flag to iomap interface informing the caller that inode needs fdstasync(2) for returned extent to become persistent and use it in DAX fault code so that we don't map such extents into page tables immediately. Instead we propagate the information that fdatasync(2) is necessary from dax_iomap_fault() with a new VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC flag. Filesystem fault handler is then responsible for calling fdatasync(2) and inserting pfn into page tables. Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Dan Williams