kernel/linux.git/Documentation/mm, branch v6.1.168

mm: fix race between __split_huge_pmd_locked() and GUP-fast

2024-06-16T11:41:38+00:00

commit 3a5a8d343e1cf96eb9971b17cbd4b832ab19b8e7 upstream. __split_huge_pmd_locked() can be called for a present THP, devmap or (non-present) migration entry. It calls pmdp_invalidate() unconditionally on the pmdp and only determines if it is present or not based on the returned old pmd. This is a problem for the migration entry case because pmd_mkinvalid(), called by pmdp_invalidate() must only be called for a present pmd. On arm64 at least, pmd_mkinvalid() will mark the pmd such that any future call to pmd_present() will return true. And therefore any lockless pgtable walker could see the migration entry pmd in this state and start interpretting the fields as if it were present, leading to BadThings (TM). GUP-fast appears to be one such lockless pgtable walker. x86 does not suffer the above problem, but instead pmd_mkinvalid() will corrupt the offset field of the swap entry within the swap pte. See link below for discussion of that problem. Fix all of this by only calling pmdp_invalidate() for a present pmd. And for good measure let's add a warning to all implementations of pmdp_invalidate[_ad](). I've manually reviewed all other pmdp_invalidate[_ad]() call sites and believe all others to be conformant. This is a theoretical bug found during code review. I don't have any test case to trigger it in practice. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240501143310.1381675-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0dd7827a-6334-439a-8fd0-43c98e6af22b@arm.com/ Fixes: 84c3fc4e9c56 ("mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path") Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: multi-gen LRU: rename lrugen->lists[] to lrugen->folios[]

2023-09-19T10:27:54+00:00

commit 6df1b2212950aae2b2188c6645ea18e2a9e3fdd5 upstream. lru_gen_folio will be chained into per-node lists by the coming lrugen->list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-3-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Michael Larabel Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: page_table_check: Make it dependent on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM

2023-06-14T09:15:29+00:00

commit 81a31a860bb61d54eb688af2568d9332ed9b8942 upstream. Without EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM, users are allowed to map arbitrary physical memory regions into the userspace via /dev/mem. At the same time, pages may change their properties (e.g., from anonymous pages to named pages) while they are still being mapped in the userspace, leading to "corruption" detected by the page table check. To avoid these false positives, this patch makes PAGE_TABLE_CHECK depends on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM. This dependency is understandable because PAGE_TABLE_CHECK is a hardening technique but /dev/mem without STRICT_DEVMEM (i.e., !EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM) is itself a security problem. Even with EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM, I/O pages may be still allowed to be mapped via /dev/mem. However, these pages are always considered as named pages, so they won't break the logic used in the page table check. Cc: # 5.17 Signed-off-by: Ruihan Li Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Pasha Tatashin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515130958.32471-4-lrh2000@pku.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

zsmalloc: document freeable stats

2023-04-13T14:55:35+00:00

commit 618a8a917dbf5830e2064d2fa0568940eb5d2584 upstream. When freeable class stat was added to classes file (back in 2016) we forgot to update zsmalloc documentation. Fix that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230325024631.2817153-3-senozhatsky@chromium.org Fixes: 1120ed548394 ("mm/zsmalloc: add `freeable' column to pool stat") Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'docs-6.1-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2022-10-13T17:58:32+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of patches catching the Chinese translation up with the front-page rework" * tag 'docs-6.1-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation: rtla: Correct command line example docs/zh_CN: add a man-pages link to zh_CN/index.rst docs/zh_CN: Rewrite the Chinese translation front page docs/zh_CN: add zh_CN/arch.rst docs/zh_CN: promote the title of zh_CN/process/index.rst docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of page_owner to 6.0-rc7 docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of ksm to 6.0-rc7 docs/howto: Replace abundoned URL of gmane.org Documentation: ubifs: Fix compression idiom Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst: delete frequently changing experimental data docs/zh_CN: Fix build warning docs: ftrace: Correct access mode

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that). - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock contention. Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees. Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up. - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down to the single bit level. KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones. - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of memory into THPs. - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to support file/shmem-backed pages. - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and memory-failure - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages. - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced memory consumption. - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song. - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner. - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :( - migration enhancements from Peter Xu - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM drivers, etc. - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn. - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand. - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging activity. - THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng. - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox. - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov. - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia. - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups. - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song. - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1] * tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits) hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file() mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE ...

Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst: delete frequently changing experimental data

2022-10-10T18:54:11+00:00

The kernel size changes due to many factors, such as compiler version, configuration, and the build environment. This makes size comparison figures irrelevant to reader's setup. Remove these figures and describe the effects of page owner to the kernel size in general instead. Thanks for Jonathan Corbet, Bagas Sanjaya and Mike Rapoport's constructive suggestions. Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221005145525.10359-1-caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'slab-for-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab

2022-10-10T17:21:22+00:00

Pull slab fixes from Vlastimil Babka: - The "common kmalloc v4" series [1] by Hyeonggon Yoo. While the plan after LPC is to try again if it's possible to get rid of SLOB and SLAB (and if any critical aspect of those is not possible to achieve with SLUB today, modify it accordingly), it will take a while even in case there are no objections. Meanwhile this is a nice cleanup and some parts (e.g. to the tracepoints) will be useful even if we end up with a single slab implementation in the future: - Improves the mm/slab_common.c wrappers to allow deleting duplicated code between SLAB and SLUB. - Large kmalloc() allocations in SLAB are passed to page allocator like in SLUB, reducing number of kmalloc caches. - Removes the {kmem_cache_alloc,kmalloc}_node variants of tracepoints, node id parameter added to non-_node variants. - Addition of kmalloc_size_roundup() The first two patches from a series by Kees Cook [2] that introduce kmalloc_size_roundup(). This will allow merging of per-subsystem patches using the new function and ultimately stop (ab)using ksize() in a way that causes ongoing trouble for debugging functionality and static checkers. - Wasted kmalloc() memory tracking in debugfs alloc_traces A patch from Feng Tang that enhances the existing debugfs alloc_traces file for kmalloc caches with information about how much space is wasted by allocations that needs less space than the particular kmalloc cache provides. - My series [3] to fix validation races for caches with enabled debugging: - By decoupling the debug cache operation more from non-debug fastpaths, extra locking simplifications were possible and thus done afterwards. - Additional cleanup of PREEMPT_RT specific code on top, by Thomas Gleixner. - A late fix for slab page leaks caused by the series, by Feng Tang. - Smaller fixes and cleanups: - Unneeded variable removals, by ye xingchen - A cleanup removing a BUG_ON() in create_unique_id(), by Chao Yu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220817101826.236819-1-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220923202822.2667581-1-keescook@chromium.org/ [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220823170400.26546-1-vbabka@suse.cz/ [3] * tag 'slab-for-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (30 commits) mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup() slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions mm/slub: clean up create_unique_id() mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc slub: Make PREEMPT_RT support less convoluted mm/slub: simplify __cmpxchg_double_slab() and slab_[un]lock() mm/slub: convert object_map_lock to non-raw spinlock mm/slub: remove slab_lock() usage for debug operations mm/slub: restrict sysfs validation to debug caches and make it safe mm/sl[au]b: check if large object is valid in __ksize() mm/slab_common: move declaration of __ksize() to mm/slab.h mm/slab_common: drop kmem_alloc & avoid dereferencing fields when not using mm/slab_common: unify NUMA and UMA version of tracepoints mm/sl[au]b: cleanup kmem_cache_alloc[_node]_trace() mm/sl[au]b: generalize kmalloc subsystem mm/slub: move free_debug_processing() further mm/sl[au]b: introduce common alloc/free functions without tracepoint mm/slab: kmalloc: pass requests larger than order-1 page to page allocator mm/slab_common: cleanup kmalloc_large() ...

ksm: add the ksm prefix to the names of the ksm private structures

2022-10-03T21:02:43+00:00

In order to prevent the name of the private structure of ksm from being the same as the name of the common structure used in subsequent patches, prefix their names with ksm in advance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220831031951.43152-5-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Documentation/mm: modify page_referenced to folio_referenced

2022-09-29T19:16:08+00:00

Since commit b3ac04132c4b ("mm/rmap: Turn page_referenced() into folio_referenced()") the page_referenced function name was modified, so fix it up to use the correct one. Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926152032.74621-1-vernon2gm@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet