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<updated>2021-09-30T08:13:06+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>alpha: Declare virt_to_phys and virt_to_bus parameter as pointer to volatile</title>
<updated>2021-09-30T08:13:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
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<published>2021-09-09T05:00:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 35a3f4ef0ab543daa1725b0c963eb8c05e3376f8 ]

Some drivers pass a pointer to volatile data to virt_to_bus() and
virt_to_phys(), and that works fine.  One exception is alpha.  This
results in a number of compile errors such as

  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_main.c: In function 'lmc_softreset':
  drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_main.c:1782:50: error:
	passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_bus' discards 'volatile'
	qualifier from pointer target type

  drivers/atm/ambassador.c: In function 'do_loader_command':
  drivers/atm/ambassador.c:1747:58: error:
	passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_bus' discards 'volatile'
	qualifier from pointer target type

Declare the parameter of virt_to_phys and virt_to_bus as pointer to
volatile to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>alpha: Add syscall_get_return_value()</title>
<updated>2021-07-26T05:33:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>He Zhe</name>
<email>zhe.he@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-26T09:16:29+00:00</published>
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audit now requires syscall_get_return_value instead of regs_return_value
to retrieve syscall return code . Other architectures that support audit
have already define this function.

Signed-off-by: He Zhe &lt;zhe.he@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: remove undef inline in compiler.h</title>
<updated>2021-07-26T05:18:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Li</name>
<email>chenli@uniontech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T06:31:52+00:00</published>
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since 889b3c1245de48ed0cacf7aebb25c489d3e4a3e9, CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING
is removed entirely and inline is always defined to `inline __gnu_inline
__inline_maybe_unused notrace` in compiler_types.h

Besides, undef inline here also means it never use
__attribute__((__gnu_inline__)), so `extern inline` function can never
be defined header files, otherwise multiple definition errors will
happen, e.g. if multiple translation units use alpha/include/asm/pal.h
will report multiple definitions, because there are many extern inline
function definitions in this header.

``` c
extern inline TYPE NAME(void)					\
{								\
	register TYPE __r0 __asm__("$0");			\
	__asm__ __volatile__(					\
...
```

Ofc, it is also ok to remove `extern` in `extern inline` here, then all
of iso c99 and gnuc99/89 are ok, but there are also other alpha headers
have such function definitions.

Signed-off-by: chenli &lt;chenli@uniontech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: rename pud_page_vaddr to pud_pgtable and make it return pmd_t *</title>
<updated>2021-07-08T18:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-08T01:09:53+00:00</published>
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No functional change in this patch.

[aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: fix]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87wnqtnb60.fsf@linux.ibm.com
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: another fix]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210619134410.89559-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615110859.320299-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/CAHk-=wi+J+iodze9FtjM3Zi4j4OeS+qqbKxME9QN4roxPEXH9Q@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-unaligned-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2021-07-02T19:43:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-02T19:43:40+00:00</published>
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Pull asm/unaligned.h unification from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper

  The get_unaligned()/put_unaligned() helpers are traditionally
  architecture specific, with the two main variants being the
  "access-ok.h" version that assumes unaligned pointer accesses always
  work on a particular architecture, and the "le-struct.h" version that
  casts the data to a byte aligned type before dereferencing, for
  architectures that cannot always do unaligned accesses in hardware.

  Based on the discussion linked below, it appears that the access-ok
  version is not realiable on any architecture, but the struct version
  probably has no downsides. This series changes the code to use the
  same implementation on all architectures, addressing the few
  exceptions separately"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75d07691-1e4f-741f-9852-38c0b4f520bc@synopsys.com/
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100363
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210507220813.365382-14-arnd@kernel.org/
Link: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git unaligned-rework-v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whGObOKruA_bU3aPGZfoDqZM1_9wBkwREp0H0FgR-90uQ@mail.gmail.com/

* tag 'asm-generic-unaligned-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  asm-generic: simplify asm/unaligned.h
  asm-generic: uaccess: 1-byte access is always aligned
  netpoll: avoid put_unaligned() on single character
  mwifiex: re-fix for unaligned accesses
  apparmor: use get_unaligned() only for multi-byte words
  partitions: msdos: fix one-byte get_unaligned()
  asm-generic: unaligned always use struct helpers
  asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers
  powerpc: use linux/unaligned/le_struct.h on LE power7
  m68k: select CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
  sh: remove unaligned access for sh4a
  openrisc: always use unaligned-struct header
  asm-generic: use asm-generic/unaligned.h for most architectures
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm/thp: define default pmd_pgtable()</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T18:06:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:53:59+00:00</published>
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Currently most platforms define pmd_pgtable() as pmd_page() duplicating
the same code all over.  Instead just define a default value i.e
pmd_page() for pmd_pgtable() and let platforms override when required via
&lt;asm/pgtable.h&gt;.  All the existing platform that override pmd_pgtable()
have been moved into their respective &lt;asm/pgtable.h&gt; header in order to
precede before the new generic definition.  This makes it much cleaner
with reduced code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1623646133-20306-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Hu &lt;nickhu@andestech.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: define default value for FIRST_USER_ADDRESS</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T18:06:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:53:13+00:00</published>
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Currently most platforms define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as 0UL duplication the
same code all over.  Instead just define a generic default value (i.e 0UL)
for FIRST_USER_ADDRESS and let the platforms override when required.  This
makes it much cleaner with reduced code.

The default FIRST_USER_ADDRESS here would be skipped in &lt;linux/pgtable.h&gt;
when the given platform overrides its value via &lt;asm/pgtable.h&gt;.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1620615725-24623-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;			[csky]
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;		[openrisc]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;	[arm64]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;	[RISC-V]
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T03:47:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:52:28+00:00</published>
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I. Background: Sparse Memory Mappings

When we manage sparse memory mappings dynamically in user space - also
sometimes involving MAP_NORESERVE - we want to dynamically populate/
discard memory inside such a sparse memory region.  Example users are
hypervisors (especially implementing memory ballooning or similar
technologies like virtio-mem) and memory allocators.  In addition, we want
to fail in a nice way (instead of generating SIGBUS) if populating does
not succeed because we are out of backend memory (which can happen easily
with file-based mappings, especially tmpfs and hugetlbfs).

While MADV_DONTNEED, MADV_REMOVE and FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE allow for
reliably discarding memory for most mapping types, there is no generic
approach to populate page tables and preallocate memory.

Although mmap() supports MAP_POPULATE, it is not applicable to the concept
of sparse memory mappings, where we want to populate/discard dynamically
and avoid expensive/problematic remappings.  In addition, we never
actually report errors during the final populate phase - it is best-effort
only.

fallocate() can be used to preallocate file-based memory and fail in a
safe way.  However, it cannot really be used for any private mappings on
anonymous files via memfd due to COW semantics.  In addition, fallocate()
does not actually populate page tables, so we still always get pagefaults
on first access - which is sometimes undesired (i.e., real-time workloads)
and requires real prefaulting of page tables, not just a preallocation of
backend storage.  There might be interesting use cases for sparse memory
regions along with mlockall(MCL_ONFAULT) which fallocate() cannot satisfy
as it does not prefault page tables.

II. On preallcoation/prefaulting from user space

Because we don't have a proper interface, what applications (like QEMU and
databases) end up doing is touching (i.e., reading+writing one byte to not
overwrite existing data) all individual pages.

However, that approach
1) Can result in wear on storage backing, because we end up reading/writing
   each page; this is especially a problem for dax/pmem.
2) Can result in mmap_sem contention when prefaulting via multiple
   threads.
3) Requires expensive signal handling, especially to catch SIGBUS in case
   of hugetlbfs/shmem/file-backed memory. For example, this is
   problematic in hypervisors like QEMU where SIGBUS handlers might already
   be used by other subsystems concurrently to e.g, handle hardware errors.
   "Simply" doing preallocation concurrently from other thread is not that
   easy.

III. On MADV_WILLNEED

Extending MADV_WILLNEED is not an option because
1. It would change the semantics: "Expect access in the near future." and
   "might be a good idea to read some pages" vs. "Definitely populate/
   preallocate all memory and definitely fail on errors.".
2. Existing users (like virtio-balloon in QEMU when deflating the balloon)
   don't want populate/prealloc semantics. They treat this rather as a hint
   to give a little performance boost without too much overhead - and don't
   expect that a lot of memory might get consumed or a lot of time
   might be spent.

IV. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE

Let's introduce MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE, inspired by
MAP_POPULATE, with the following semantics:
1. MADV_POPULATE_READ can be used to prefault page tables just like
   manually reading each individual page. This will not break any COW
   mappings. The shared zero page might get mapped and no backend storage
   might get preallocated -- allocation might be deferred to
   write-fault time. Especially shared file mappings require an explicit
   fallocate() upfront to actually preallocate backend memory (blocks in
   the file system) in case the file might have holes.
2. If MADV_POPULATE_READ succeeds, all page tables have been populated
   (prefaulted) readable once.
3. MADV_POPULATE_WRITE can be used to preallocate backend memory and
   prefault page tables just like manually writing (or
   reading+writing) each individual page. This will break any COW
   mappings -- e.g., the shared zeropage is never populated.
4. If MADV_POPULATE_WRITE succeeds, all page tables have been populated
   (prefaulted) writable once.
5. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE cannot be applied to special
   mappings marked with VM_PFNMAP and VM_IO. Also, proper access
   permissions (e.g., PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE) are required. If any such
   mapping is encountered, madvise() fails with -EINVAL.
6. If MADV_POPULATE_READ or MADV_POPULATE_WRITE fails, some page tables
   might have been populated.
7. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE will return -EHWPOISON
   when encountering a HW poisoned page in the range.
8. Similar to MAP_POPULATE, MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE
   cannot protect from the OOM (Out Of Memory) handler killing the
   process.

While the use case for MADV_POPULATE_WRITE is fairly obvious (i.e.,
preallocate memory and prefault page tables for VMs), one issue is that
whenever we prefault pages writable, the pages have to be marked dirty,
because the CPU could dirty them any time.  while not a real problem for
hugetlbfs or dax/pmem, it can be a problem for shared file mappings: each
page will be marked dirty and has to be written back later when evicting.

MADV_POPULATE_READ allows for optimizing this scenario: Pre-read a whole
mapping from backend storage without marking it dirty, such that eviction
won't have to write it back.  As discussed above, shared file mappings
might require an explciit fallocate() upfront to achieve
preallcoation+prepopulation.

Although sparse memory mappings are the primary use case, this will also
be useful for other preallocate/prefault use cases where MAP_POPULATE is
not desired or the semantics of MAP_POPULATE are not sufficient: as one
example, QEMU users can trigger preallocation/prefaulting of guest RAM
after the mapping was created -- and don't want errors to be silently
suppressed.

Looking at the history, MADV_POPULATE was already proposed in 2013 [1],
however, the main motivation back than was performance improvements --
which should also still be the case.

V. Single-threaded performance comparison

I did a short experiment, prefaulting page tables on completely *empty
mappings/files* and repeated the experiment 10 times.  The results
correspond to the shortest execution time.  In general, the performance
benefit for huge pages is negligible with small mappings.

V.1: Private mappings

POPULATE_READ and POPULATE_WRITE is fastest.  Note that
Reading/POPULATE_READ will populate the shared zeropage where applicable
-- which result in short population times.

The fastest way to allocate backend storage (here: swap or huge pages) and
prefault page tables is POPULATE_WRITE.

V.2: Shared mappings

fallocate() is fastest, however, doesn't prefault page tables.
POPULATE_WRITE is faster than simple writes and read/writes.
POPULATE_READ is faster than simple reads.

Without a fd, the fastest way to allocate backend storage and prefault
page tables is POPULATE_WRITE.  With an fd, the fastest way is usually
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ or FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE respectively; one
exception are actual files: FALLOCATE+Read is slightly faster than
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ.

The fastest way to allocate backend storage prefault page tables is
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE -- except when dealing with actual files; then,
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ is fastest and won't directly mark all pages as
dirty.

v.3: Detailed results

==================================================
2 MiB MAP_PRIVATE:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :     0.119 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :     0.222 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :     0.380 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.060 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.158 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :     0.034 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :     0.310 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :     0.362 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.229 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :     0.033 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :     0.313 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :     0.406 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.285 ms
file           : Read                     :     0.033 ms
file           : Write                    :     0.351 ms
file           : Read/Write               :     0.408 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :     0.039 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.290 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
**************************************************
4096 MiB MAP_PRIVATE:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :   237.940 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :   708.409 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :  1054.041 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   124.310 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   572.582 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :   136.928 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :   963.898 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :  1106.561 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :    78.450 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   805.881 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :   357.116 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :   357.210 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :   357.606 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   356.094 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   356.937 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :   137.536 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :   954.362 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :  1105.954 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :    80.289 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :   822.826 ms
file           : Read                     :   137.874 ms
file           : Write                    :   987.025 ms
file           : Read/Write               :  1107.439 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :    80.413 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :   857.622 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :   355.607 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :   355.729 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :   356.127 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :   354.585 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :   355.138 ms
**************************************************
2 MiB MAP_SHARED:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :     0.394 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :     0.348 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :     0.400 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.326 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.273 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :     0.412 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :     0.372 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :     0.419 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.343 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.288 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE                :     0.137 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.446 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.330 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.454 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.379 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.268 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE                :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.030 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :     0.416 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :     0.369 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :     0.425 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :     0.346 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.295 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE                :     0.139 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.447 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.333 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.454 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.380 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.272 ms
file           : Read                     :     0.191 ms
file           : Write                    :     0.511 ms
file           : Read/Write               :     0.524 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :     0.196 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.434 ms
file           : FALLOCATE                :     0.004 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.197 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.554 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.480 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.201 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.381 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE                :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read           :     0.031 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Write          :     0.031 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :     0.030 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :     0.030 ms
**************************************************
4096 MiB MAP_SHARED:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB     : Read                     :  1053.090 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Write                    :   913.642 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : Read/Write               :  1060.350 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   893.691 ms
Anon 4 KiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   782.885 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read                     :   358.553 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Write                    :   358.419 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : Read/Write               :   357.992 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_READ            :   357.533 ms
Anon 2 MiB     : POPULATE_WRITE           :   357.808 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read                     :  1078.144 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Write                    :   942.036 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : Read/Write               :  1100.391 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   925.829 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   804.394 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE                :   304.632 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :  1163.359 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :   933.186 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1187.304 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :  1013.660 ms
Memfd 4 KiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   794.560 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read                     :   358.131 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Write                    :   358.099 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : Read/Write               :   358.250 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_READ            :   357.563 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : POPULATE_WRITE           :   357.334 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE                :   356.735 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read           :   358.152 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Write          :   358.331 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :   358.018 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   357.286 ms
Memfd 2 MiB    : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   357.523 ms
tmpfs          : Read                     :  1087.265 ms
tmpfs          : Write                    :   950.840 ms
tmpfs          : Read/Write               :  1107.567 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_READ            :   922.605 ms
tmpfs          : POPULATE_WRITE           :   810.094 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE                :   306.320 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read           :  1169.796 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Write          :   933.730 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1191.610 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :  1020.474 ms
tmpfs          : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   798.945 ms
file           : Read                     :   654.101 ms
file           : Write                    :  1259.142 ms
file           : Read/Write               :  1289.509 ms
file           : POPULATE_READ            :   661.642 ms
file           : POPULATE_WRITE           :  1106.816 ms
file           : FALLOCATE                :     1.864 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read           :   656.328 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Write          :  1153.300 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :  1180.613 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   668.347 ms
file           : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   996.143 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read                     :   357.245 ms
hugetlbfs      : Write                    :   357.413 ms
hugetlbfs      : Read/Write               :   357.120 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_READ            :   356.321 ms
hugetlbfs      : POPULATE_WRITE           :   356.693 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE                :   355.927 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read           :   357.074 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Write          :   357.120 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+Read/Write     :   356.983 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ  :   356.413 ms
hugetlbfs      : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE :   356.266 ms
**************************************************

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/27/698

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210419135443.12822-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eike-kernel@sf-tec.de&gt;
Cc: Ram Pai &lt;linuxram@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2021-06-30T22:51:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-30T22:51:09+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - BPF:
      - add syscall program type and libbpf support for generating
        instructions and bindings for in-kernel BPF loaders (BPF loaders
        for BPF), this is a stepping stone for signed BPF programs
      - infrastructure to migrate TCP child sockets from one listener to
        another in the same reuseport group/map to improve flexibility
        of service hand-off/restart
      - add broadcast support to XDP redirect

   - allow bypass of the lockless qdisc to improving performance (for
     pktgen: +23% with one thread, +44% with 2 threads)

   - add a simpler version of "DO_ONCE()" which does not require jump
     labels, intended for slow-path usage

   - virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support

   - add getsocketopt to retrieve netns cookie

   - ip: treat lowest address of a IPv4 subnet as ordinary unicast
     address allowing reclaiming of precious IPv4 addresses

   - ipv6: use prandom_u32() for ID generation

   - ip: add support for more flexible field selection for hashing
     across multi-path routes (w/ offload to mlxsw)

   - icmp: add support for extended RFC 8335 PROBE (ping)

   - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT46 behavior

   - mptcp:
      - DSS checksum support (RFC 8684) to detect middlebox meddling
      - support Connection-time 'C' flag
      - time stamping support

   - sctp: packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (RFC 8899)

   - xfrm: speed up state addition with seq set

   - WiFi:
      - hidden AP discovery on 6 GHz and other HE 6 GHz improvements
      - aggregation handling improvements for some drivers
      - minstrel improvements for no-ack frames
      - deferred rate control for TXQs to improve reaction times
      - switch from round robin to virtual time-based airtime scheduler

   - add trace points:
      - tcp checksum errors
      - openvswitch - action execution, upcalls
      - socket errors via sk_error_report

  Device APIs:

   - devlink: add rate API for hierarchical control of max egress rate
     of virtual devices (VFs, SFs etc.)

   - don't require RCU read lock to be held around BPF hooks in NAPI
     context

   - page_pool: generic buffer recycling

  New hardware/drivers:

   - mobile:
      - iosm: PCIe Driver for Intel M.2 Modem
      - support for Qualcomm MSM8998 (ipa)

   - WiFi: Qualcomm QCN9074 and WCN6855 PCI devices

   - sparx5: Microchip SparX-5 family of Enterprise Ethernet switches

   - Mellanox BlueField Gigabit Ethernet (control NIC of the DPU)

   - NXP SJA1110 Automotive Ethernet 10-port switch

   - Qualcomm QCA8327 switch support (qca8k)

   - Mikrotik 10/25G NIC (atl1c)

  Driver changes:

   - ACPI support for some MDIO, MAC and PHY devices from Marvell and
     NXP (our first foray into MAC/PHY description via ACPI)

   - HW timestamping (PTP) support: bnxt_en, ice, sja1105, hns3, tja11xx

   - Mellanox/Nvidia NIC (mlx5)
      - NIC VF offload of L2 bridging
      - support IRQ distribution to Sub-functions

   - Marvell (prestera):
      - add flower and match all
      - devlink trap
      - link aggregation

   - Netronome (nfp): connection tracking offload

   - Intel 1GE (igc): add AF_XDP support

   - Marvell DPU (octeontx2): ingress ratelimit offload

   - Google vNIC (gve): new ring/descriptor format support

   - Qualcomm mobile (rmnet &amp; ipa): inline checksum offload support

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
      - mt7915 MSI support
      - mt7915 Tx status reporting
      - mt7915 thermal sensors support
      - mt7921 decapsulation offload
      - mt7921 enable runtime pm and deep sleep

   - Realtek WiFi (rtw88)
      - beacon filter support
      - Tx antenna path diversity support
      - firmware crash information via devcoredump

   - Qualcomm WiFi (wcn36xx)
      - Wake-on-WLAN support with magic packets and GTK rekeying

   - Micrel PHY (ksz886x/ksz8081): add cable test support"

* tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2168 commits)
  tcp: change ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE definition
  tcp_yeah: check struct yeah size at compile time
  gve: DQO: Fix off by one in gve_rx_dqo()
  stmmac: intel: set PCI_D3hot in suspend
  stmmac: intel: Enable PHY WOL option in EHL
  net: stmmac: option to enable PHY WOL with PMT enabled
  net: say "local" instead of "static" addresses in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
  net: use netdev_info in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
  ptp: Set lookup cookie when creating a PTP PPS source.
  net: sock: add trace for socket errors
  net: sock: introduce sk_error_report
  net: dsa: replay the local bridge FDB entries pointing to the bridge dev too
  net: dsa: ensure during dsa_fdb_offload_notify that dev_hold and dev_put are on the same dev
  net: dsa: include fdb entries pointing to bridge in the host fdb list
  net: dsa: include bridge addresses which are local in the host fdb list
  net: dsa: sync static FDB entries on foreign interfaces to hardware
  net: dsa: install the host MDB and FDB entries in the master's RX filter
  net: dsa: reference count the FDB addresses at the cross-chip notifier level
  net: dsa: introduce a separate cross-chip notifier type for host FDBs
  net: dsa: reference count the MDB entries at the cross-chip notifier level
  ...
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