user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/vmalloc.h, branch v5.13.13

mm/vmalloc: add vmalloc_no_huge

2021-06-25T02:40:53Z

Patch series "mm: add vmalloc_no_huge and use it", v4. Add vmalloc_no_huge() and export it, so modules can allocate memory with small pages. Use the newly added vmalloc_no_huge() in KVM on s390 to get around a hardware limitation. This patch (of 2): Commit 121e6f3258fe3 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") added support for hugepage vmalloc mappings, it also added the flag VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP for __vmalloc_node_range to request the allocation to be performed with 0-order non-huge pages. This flag is not accessible when calling vmalloc, the only option is to call directly __vmalloc_node_range, which is not exported. This means that a module can't vmalloc memory with small pages. Case in point: KVM on s390x needs to vmalloc a large area, and it needs to be mapped with non-huge pages, because of a hardware limitation. This patch adds the function vmalloc_no_huge, which works like vmalloc, but it is guaranteed to always back the mapping using small pages. This new function is exported, therefore it is usable by modules. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: whitespace fixes, per Christoph] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614132357.10202-1-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614132357.10202-2-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com Fixes: 121e6f3258fe3 ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix typos in comments

2021-05-07T07:26:35Z

Fix ~94 single-word typos in locking code comments, plus a few very obvious grammar mistakes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322212624.GA1963421@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322205203.GB1959563@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite()

2021-05-07T07:26:34Z

The last user (/dev/kmem) is gone. Let's drop it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-4-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: huang ying Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

2021-05-07T07:26:34Z

Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good". Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem. Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be able to deal with things like a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem) -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient. b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched -> mem_pfn_is_ram() Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might fault/crash the machine. Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1], after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion. CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from 15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well. 1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.". RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching" 2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned pages, though) 3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot yourself into the foot. 4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes, /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older kernels can be used. 5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there. Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's just remove it. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/ [2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled [4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/ [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Andrew Lunn Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Corentin Labbe Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Gregory Clement Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: huang ying Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: James Troup Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Kuninori Morimoto Cc: Liviu Dudau Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Niklas Schnelle Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Pierre Morel Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Russell King Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sudeep Holla Cc: Theodore Dubois Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: William Cohen Cc: Xiaoming Ni Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc: remove unmap_kernel_range

2021-04-30T18:20:40Z

This is a shim around vunmap_range, get rid of it. Move the main API comment from the _noflush variant to the normal variant, and make _noflush internal to mm/. [npiggin@gmail.com: fix nommu builds and a comment bug per sfr] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1617292598.m6g0knx24s.astroid@bobo.none [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move vunmap_range_noflush() stub inside !CONFIG_MMU, not !CONFIG_NUMA] [npiggin@gmail.com: fix nommu builds] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1617292497.o1uhq5ipxp.astroid@bobo.none Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322021806.892164-5-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Cédric Le Goater Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc: remove map_kernel_range

2021-04-30T18:20:40Z

Patch series "mm/vmalloc: cleanup after hugepage series", v2. Christoph pointed out some overdue cleanups required after the huge vmalloc series, and I had another failure error message improvement as well. This patch (of 5): This is a shim around vmap_pages_range, get rid of it. Move the main API comment from the _noflush variant to the normal variant, and make _noflush internal to mm/. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322021806.892164-1-npiggin@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322021806.892164-2-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Cédric Le Goater Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings

2021-04-30T18:20:40Z

Support huge page vmalloc mappings. Config option HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC enables support on architectures that define HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP and supports PMD sized vmap mappings. vmalloc will attempt to allocate PMD-sized pages if allocating PMD size or larger, and fall back to small pages if that was unsuccessful. Architectures must ensure that any arch specific vmalloc allocations that require PAGE_SIZE mappings (e.g., module allocations vs strict module rwx) use the VM_NOHUGE flag to inhibit larger mappings. This can result in more internal fragmentation and memory overhead for a given allocation, an option nohugevmalloc is added to disable at boot. [colin.king@canonical.com: fix read of uninitialized pointer area] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210318155955.18220-1-colin.king@canonical.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210317062402.533919-14-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ding Tianhong Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move vmap_range from mm/ioremap.c to mm/vmalloc.c

2021-04-30T18:20:40Z

This is a generic kernel virtual memory mapper, not specific to ioremap. Code is unchanged other than making vmap_range non-static. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210317062402.533919-12-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ding Tianhong Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmalloc: provide fallback arch huge vmap support functions

2021-04-30T18:20:40Z

If an architecture doesn't support a particular page table level as a huge vmap page size then allow it to skip defining the support query function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210317062402.533919-11-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ding Tianhong Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: HUGE_VMAP arch support cleanup

2021-04-30T18:20:40Z

This changes the awkward approach where architectures provide init functions to determine which levels they can provide large mappings for, to one where the arch is queried for each call. This removes code and indirection, and allows constant-folding of dead code for unsupported levels. This also adds a prot argument to the arch query. This is unused currently but could help with some architectures (e.g., some powerpc processors can't map uncacheable memory with large pages). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210317062402.533919-7-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Reviewed-by: Ding Tianhong Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Russell King Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds