user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/mmzone.h, branch v6.15.1

mm: vmscan: restore high-cpu watermark safety in kswapd

2025-04-18T03:10:09Z

Vlastimil points out that commit a211c6550efc ("mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarks") switched kswapd from zone_watermark_ok_safe() to the standard, percpu-cached version of reading free pages, thus dropping the watermark safety precautions for systems with high CPU counts (e.g. >212 cpus on 64G). Restore them. Since zone_watermark_ok_safe() is no longer the right interface, and this was the last caller of the function anyway, open-code the zone_page_state_snapshot() conditional and delete the function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250416135142.778933-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: a211c6550efc ("mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarks") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Brendan Jackman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/page_alloc: fix deadlock on cpu_hotplug_lock in __accept_page()

2025-04-18T03:10:05Z

When the last page in the zone is accepted, __accept_page() calls static_branch_dec(). This function takes cpu_hotplug_lock, which can lead to a deadlock if the allocation occurs during CPU bringup path as _cpu_up() also takes the lock. To prevent this deadlock, defer static_branch_dec() to a workqueue. Call static_branch_dec() only when the workqueue is not yet initialized. Workqueues are initialized before CPU bring up, so this will not conflict with the first scenario. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250329171030.3942298-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Fixes: 55ad43e8ba0f ("mm: add a helper to accept page") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal Tested-by: Srikanth Aithal Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Ashish Kalra Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" Cc: Thomas Lendacky Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-04-01T16:29:18Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide compile-time checking of percpu area accesses. This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect. - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code. - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now succeed. - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated for half a year and nobody has complained. - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime effects are anticipated. - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark. - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan noticed when working on the swap code. - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak user-visible output. - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's handling of large folios. - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk() behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of kdamond's walking of DAMON regions. - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory work for the future removal of page structure fields. - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter" from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by huge page sizes. - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings" from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and file-backed mappings. - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping for pte-mapped large folios. - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one microbenchmark. - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON docs. - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed when using CMA on large machines. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages" from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the page's mapped/unmapped status. - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression operations preemptibly. - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan encountered while runnimg our selftests. - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to determine whether a particular page is a guard page. - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply wasn't being effective. - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this code. - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP Kconfig logic. - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for DAMON's aggregation interval tuning. - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize vmalloc. - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the code easier to follow. - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which we accidentally added late last year. - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page initialization. - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb" from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page balancing code. - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention is updated accordingly. - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc. - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as it claims. - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case checks. - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code. - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped exclusively into a single MM. - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters. - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical. - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs access to DAMON internal data. - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and cmdline options. - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios are generated. - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during an xarray split. - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code. - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the page allocator code. - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work. - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling" from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai has observed in the memory-failure implementation. - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing fragmentation. - The series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from Matthew Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs. - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages" from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages, separately for file and anon pages. - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim statistics. - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits) mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex() x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages > 2M docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page() ...

mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics

2025-03-22T05:03:16Z

Patch series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics". These two patches are related to proactive memory reclaim. Patch 1 Split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim counters and introduces new counters: pgsteal_proactive, pgdemote_proactive, and pgscan_proactive. Patch 2 Adds pswpin and pswpout items to the cgroup-v2 documentation. This patch (of 2): In proactive memory reclaim scenarios, it is necessary to accurately track proactive reclaim statistics to dynamically adjust the frequency and amount of memory being reclaimed proactively. Currently, proactive reclaim is included in direct reclaim statistics, which can make these direct reclaim statistics misleading. Therefore, separate proactive reclaim memory from the direct reclaim counters by introducing new counters: pgsteal_proactive, pgdemote_proactive, and pgscan_proactive, to avoid confusion with direct reclaim. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318075833.90615-1-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318075833.90615-2-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hao Jia Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers

2025-03-22T05:03:13Z

Patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers", v2. This series introduces a way to track memory used by balloon drivers. Add a NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by the balloon drivers. First add the accounting, then updates the balloon drivers (virtio, Hyper-V, VMware, Pseries-cmm, and Xen) to maintain this counter. The virtio, Vmware, and pseries-cmm balloon drivers utilize the balloon_compaction interface to allocate and free balloon pages. Other balloon drivers will have to maintain this counter manually. This makes the information visible in memory reporting interfaces like /proc/meminfo, show_mem, and OOM reporting. This provides admins visibility into their VM balloon sizes without requiring different virtualization tooling. Furthermore, this information is helpful when debugging an OOM inside a VM. This patch (of 4): Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces. [npache@redhat.com: document Balloon Meminfo entry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-1-npache@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-2-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache Cc: Alexander Atanasov Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Juegren Gross Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Michael Kelley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: page_alloc: defrag_mode kswapd/kcompactd watermarks

2025-03-18T05:07:07Z

The previous patch added pageblock_order reclaim to kswapd/kcompactd, which helps, but produces only one block at a time. Allocation stalls and THP failure rates are still higher than they could be. To adequately reflect ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT demand for pageblocks, change the watermarking for kswapd & kcompactd: instead of targeting the high watermark in order-0 pages and checking for one suitable block, simply require that the high watermark is entirely met in pageblocks. To this end, track the number of free pages within contiguous pageblocks, then change pgdat_balanced() and compact_finished() to check watermarks against this new value. This further reduces THP latencies and allocation stalls, and improves THP success rates against the previous patch: DEFRAGMODE-ASYNC DEFRAGMODE-ASYNC-WMARKS Hugealloc Time mean 34300.36 ( +0.00%) 28904.00 ( -15.73%) Hugealloc Time stddev 36390.42 ( +0.00%) 33464.37 ( -8.04%) Kbuild Real time 196.13 ( +0.00%) 196.59 ( +0.23%) Kbuild User time 1234.74 ( +0.00%) 1231.67 ( -0.25%) Kbuild System time 62.62 ( +0.00%) 59.10 ( -5.54%) THP fault alloc 57054.53 ( +0.00%) 63223.67 ( +10.81%) THP fault fallback 11581.40 ( +0.00%) 5412.47 ( -53.26%) Direct compact fail 107.80 ( +0.00%) 59.07 ( -44.79%) Direct compact success 4.53 ( +0.00%) 2.80 ( -31.33%) Direct compact success rate % 3.20 ( +0.00%) 3.99 ( +18.66%) Compact daemon scanned migrate 5461033.93 ( +0.00%) 2267500.33 ( -58.48%) Compact daemon scanned free 5824897.93 ( +0.00%) 2339773.00 ( -59.83%) Compact direct scanned migrate 58336.93 ( +0.00%) 47659.93 ( -18.30%) Compact direct scanned free 32791.87 ( +0.00%) 40729.67 ( +24.21%) Compact total migrate scanned 5519370.87 ( +0.00%) 2315160.27 ( -58.05%) Compact total free scanned 5857689.80 ( +0.00%) 2380502.67 ( -59.36%) Alloc stall 2424.60 ( +0.00%) 638.87 ( -73.62%) Pages kswapd scanned 2657018.33 ( +0.00%) 4002186.33 ( +50.63%) Pages kswapd reclaimed 559583.07 ( +0.00%) 718577.80 ( +28.41%) Pages direct scanned 722094.07 ( +0.00%) 355172.73 ( -50.81%) Pages direct reclaimed 107257.80 ( +0.00%) 31162.80 ( -70.95%) Pages total scanned 3379112.40 ( +0.00%) 4357359.07 ( +28.95%) Pages total reclaimed 666840.87 ( +0.00%) 749740.60 ( +12.43%) Swap out 77238.20 ( +0.00%) 110084.33 ( +42.53%) Swap in 11712.80 ( +0.00%) 24457.00 ( +108.80%) File refaults 143438.80 ( +0.00%) 188226.93 ( +31.22%) Also of note is that compaction work overall is reduced. The reason for this is that when free pageblocks are more readily available, allocations are also much more likely to get physically placed in LRU order, instead of being forced to scavenge free space here and there. This means that reclaim by itself has better chances of freeing up whole blocks, and the system relies less on compaction. Comparing all changes to the vanilla kernel: VANILLA DEFRAGMODE-ASYNC-WMARKS Hugealloc Time mean 52739.45 ( +0.00%) 28904.00 ( -45.19%) Hugealloc Time stddev 56541.26 ( +0.00%) 33464.37 ( -40.81%) Kbuild Real time 197.47 ( +0.00%) 196.59 ( -0.44%) Kbuild User time 1240.49 ( +0.00%) 1231.67 ( -0.71%) Kbuild System time 70.08 ( +0.00%) 59.10 ( -15.45%) THP fault alloc 46727.07 ( +0.00%) 63223.67 ( +35.30%) THP fault fallback 21910.60 ( +0.00%) 5412.47 ( -75.29%) Direct compact fail 195.80 ( +0.00%) 59.07 ( -69.48%) Direct compact success 7.93 ( +0.00%) 2.80 ( -57.46%) Direct compact success rate % 3.51 ( +0.00%) 3.99 ( +10.49%) Compact daemon scanned migrate 3369601.27 ( +0.00%) 2267500.33 ( -32.71%) Compact daemon scanned free 5075474.47 ( +0.00%) 2339773.00 ( -53.90%) Compact direct scanned migrate 161787.27 ( +0.00%) 47659.93 ( -70.54%) Compact direct scanned free 163467.53 ( +0.00%) 40729.67 ( -75.08%) Compact total migrate scanned 3531388.53 ( +0.00%) 2315160.27 ( -34.44%) Compact total free scanned 5238942.00 ( +0.00%) 2380502.67 ( -54.56%) Alloc stall 2371.07 ( +0.00%) 638.87 ( -73.02%) Pages kswapd scanned 2160926.73 ( +0.00%) 4002186.33 ( +85.21%) Pages kswapd reclaimed 533191.07 ( +0.00%) 718577.80 ( +34.77%) Pages direct scanned 400450.33 ( +0.00%) 355172.73 ( -11.31%) Pages direct reclaimed 94441.73 ( +0.00%) 31162.80 ( -67.00%) Pages total scanned 2561377.07 ( +0.00%) 4357359.07 ( +70.12%) Pages total reclaimed 627632.80 ( +0.00%) 749740.60 ( +19.46%) Swap out 47959.53 ( +0.00%) 110084.33 ( +129.53%) Swap in 7276.00 ( +0.00%) 24457.00 ( +236.10%) File refaults 138043.00 ( +0.00%) 188226.93 ( +36.35%) THP allocation latencies and %sys time are down dramatically. THP allocation failures are down from nearly 50% to 8.5%. And to recall previous data points, the success rates are steady and reliable without the cumulative deterioration of fragmentation events. Compaction work is down overall. Direct compaction work especially is drastically reduced. As an aside, its success rate of 4% indicates there is room for improvement. For now it's good to rely on it less. Reclaim work is up overall, however direct reclaim work is down. Part of the increase can be attributed to a higher use of THPs, which due to internal fragmentation increase the memory footprint. This is not necessarily an unexpected side-effect for users of THP. However, taken both points together, there may well be some opportunities for fine tuning in the reclaim/compaction coordination. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix squawks from rebasing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314210558.GD1316033@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313210647.1314586-6-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

drivers/base/memory: improve add_boot_memory_block()

2025-03-18T05:07:01Z

Patch series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups", v3. Two cleanups to drivers/base/memory. This patch (of 2)L It's unnecessary to count the present sections for the specified block since the block will be added if any section in the block is present. Besides, for_each_present_section_nr() can be reused as Andrew Morton suggested. Improve by using for_each_present_section_nr() and dropping the unnecessary @section_count. No functional changes intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250311233045.148943-1-gshan@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250311233045.148943-2-gshan@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: allow compound zone device pages

2025-03-18T05:06:39Z

Zone device pages are used to represent various type of device memory managed by device drivers. Currently compound zone device pages are not supported. This is because MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX pages are the only user of higher order zone device pages and have their own page reference counting. A future change will unify FS DAX reference counting with normal page reference counting rules and remove the special FS DAX reference counting. Supporting that requires compound zone device pages. Supporting compound zone device pages requires compound_head() to distinguish between head and tail pages whilst still preserving the special struct page fields that are specific to zone device pages. A tail page is distinguished by having bit zero being set in page->compound_head, with the remaining bits pointing to the head page. For zone device pages page->compound_head is shared with page->pgmap. The page->pgmap field must be common to all pages within a folio, even if the folio spans memory sections. Therefore pgmap is the same for both head and tail pages and can be moved into the folio and we can use the standard scheme to find compound_head from a tail page. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/67055d772e6102accf85161d0b57b0b3944292bf.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Tested-by: Alison Schofield Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Asahi Lina Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Hubbard Cc: linmiaohe Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/sparse: allow for alternate vmemmap section init at boot

2025-03-17T05:06:27Z

Add functions that are called just before the per-section memmap is initialized and just before the memmap page structures are initialized. They are called sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early and sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_late, respectively. This allows for mm subsystems to add calls to initialize memmap and page structures in a specific way, if using SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. Specifically, hugetlb can pre-HVO bootmem allocated pages that way, so that no time and resources are wasted on allocating vmemmap pages, only to free them later (and possibly unnecessarily running the system out of memory in the process). Refactor some code and export a few convenience functions for external use. In sparse_init_nid, skip any sections that are already initialized, e.g. they have been initialized by sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early already. The hugetlb code to use these functions will be added in a later commit. Export section_map_size, as any alternate memmap init code will want to use it. The internal config option to enable this is SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT, which is selected if an architecture-specific option, ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_PREINIT, is set. In the future, if other subsystems want to do preinit too, they can do it in a similar fashion. The internal config option is there because a section flag is used, and the number of flags available is architecture-dependent (see mmzone.h). Architecures can decide if there is room for the flag when enabling options that select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT. Fortunately, as of right now, all sparse vmemmap using architectures do have room. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-11-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock()

2025-02-27T17:36:18Z

Introduce free_pages_nolock() that can free pages without taking locks. It relies on trylock and can be called from any context. Since spin_trylock() cannot be used in PREEMPT_RT from hard IRQ or NMI it uses lockless link list to stash the pages which will be freed by subsequent free_pages() from good context. Do not use llist unconditionally. BPF maps continuously allocate/free, so we cannot unconditionally delay the freeing to llist. When the memory becomes free make it available to the kernel and BPF users right away if possible, and fallback to llist as the last resort. Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250222024427.30294-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov