kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/mm, branch v6.6.131

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file

2024-05-25T14:22:55+00:00

commit da2a061888883e067e8e649d086df35c92c760a7 upstream. The example usage of DAMOS filter sysfs files, specifically the part of 'matching' file writing for memcg type filter, is wrong. The intention is to exclude pages of a memcg that already getting enough care from a given scheme, but the example is setting the filter to apply the scheme to only the pages of the memcg. Fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-7-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 9b7f9322a530 ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMOS filters of sysfs") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240317191358.97578-1-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: [6.3.x] Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2023-08-31T03:05:42+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes: - Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there - Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/ - Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub ... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes" * tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits) Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add() Documentation: Fix typos Documentation/ABI: Fix typos scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN] Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function doc: update params of memhp_default_state= docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines docs: move mips under arch docs: move loongarch under arch ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-08-29T21:53:51+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options") - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a couple of macros to args.h") - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper commands") - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions") - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot un/plug") - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits) document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread() drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array x86/crash: optimize CPU changes crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu() crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug kstrtox: consistently use _tolower() kill do_each_thread() nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED lockdep: fix static memory detection even more lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition ...

crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes

2023-08-24T23:25:14+00:00

Introduce the crash_hotplug attribute for memory and CPUs for use by userspace. These attributes directly facilitate the udev rule for managing userspace re-loading of the crash kernel upon hot un/plug changes. For memory, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the /sys/devices/system/memory directory. For example: # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/memory/memory81 looking at device '/devices/system/memory/memory81': KERNEL=="memory81" SUBSYSTEM=="memory" DRIVER=="" ATTR{online}=="1" ATTR{phys_device}=="0" ATTR{phys_index}=="00000051" ATTR{removable}=="1" ATTR{state}=="online" ATTR{valid_zones}=="Movable" looking at parent device '/devices/system/memory': KERNELS=="memory" SUBSYSTEMS=="" DRIVERS=="" ATTRS{auto_online_blocks}=="offline" ATTRS{block_size_bytes}=="8000000" ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1" For CPUs, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the /sys/devices/system/cpu directory. For example: # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0 looking at device '/devices/system/cpu/cpu0': KERNEL=="cpu0" SUBSYSTEM=="cpu" DRIVER=="processor" ATTR{crash_notes}=="277c38600" ATTR{crash_notes_size}=="368" ATTR{online}=="1" looking at parent device '/devices/system/cpu': KERNELS=="cpu" SUBSYSTEMS=="" DRIVERS=="" ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1" ATTRS{isolated}=="" ATTRS{kernel_max}=="8191" ATTRS{nohz_full}==" (null)" ATTRS{offline}=="4-7" ATTRS{online}=="0-3" ATTRS{possible}=="0-7" ATTRS{present}=="0-3" With these sysfs attributes in place, it is possible to efficiently instruct the udev rule to skip crash kernel reloading for kernels configured with crash hotplug support. For example, the following is the proposed udev rule change for RHEL system 98-kexec.rules (as the first lines of the rule file): # The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end" When examined in the context of 98-kexec.rules, the above rules test if crash_hotplug is set, and if so, the userspace initiated unload-then-reload of the crash kernel is skipped. CPU and memory checks are separated in accordance with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG kernel config options. If an architecture supports, for example, memory hotplug but not CPU hotplug, then the /sys/devices/system/memory/crash_hotplug attribute file is present, but the /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug attribute file will NOT be present. Thus the udev rule skips userspace processing of memory hot un/plug events, but the udev rule will evaluate false for CPU events, thus allowing userspace to process CPU hot un/plug events (ie the unload-then-reload of the kdump capture kernel). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-5-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain Acked-by: Hari Bathini Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Akhil Raj Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Young Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Mimi Zohar Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Valentin Schneider Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/ksm: add pages scanned metric

2023-08-21T20:38:02+00:00

ksm currently maintains several statistics, which let you determine how successful KSM is at sharing pages. However it does not contain a metric to determine how much work it does. This commit adds the pages scanned metric. This allows the administrator to determine how many pages have been scanned over a period of time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230811193655.2518943-1-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/memory_hotplug: support memmap_on_memory when memmap is not aligned to pageblocks

2023-08-21T20:37:49+00:00

Currently, memmap_on_memory feature is only supported with memory block sizes that result in vmemmap pages covering full page blocks. This is because memory onlining/offlining code requires applicable ranges to be pageblock-aligned, for example, to set the migratetypes properly. This patch helps to lift that restriction by reserving more pages than required for vmemmap space. This helps the start address to be page block aligned with different memory block sizes. Using this facility implies the kernel will be reserving some pages for every memoryblock. This allows the memmap on memory feature to be widely useful with different memory block size values. For ex: with 64K page size and 256MiB memory block size, we require 4 pages to map vmemmap pages, To align things correctly we end up adding a reserve of 28 pages. ie, for every 4096 pages 28 pages get reserved. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230808091501.287660-5-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Vishal Verma Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for DAMON monitoring target type DAMOS filter

2023-08-21T20:37:38+00:00

Update DAMON usage document for newly added DAMON monitoring target type DAMOS filter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802214312.110532-14-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for address range type DAMOS filter

2023-08-21T20:37:36+00:00

Update DAMON usage document for the newly added address range type DAMOS filter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802214312.110532-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for tried_regions/total_bytes

2023-08-21T20:37:35+00:00

Update the DAMON usage document for newly added schemes/.../tried_regions/total_bytes file and the update_schemes_tried_bytes command. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802213222.109841-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kill frontswap

2023-08-21T20:37:26+00:00

The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long time. Have swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: remove obsolete comment, per Yosry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719142832.GA932528@cmpxchg.org [fengwei.yin@intel.com: don't warn if none swapcache folio is passed to zswap_load] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810095652.3905184-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717160227.GA867137@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Acked-by: Nhat Pham Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton