kernel/linux.git/Documentation/vm, branch v5.10.257

arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL

2022-05-15T18:00:09+00:00

commit 5e545df3292fbd3d5963c68980f1527ead2a2b3f upstream. ARM is the only architecture that defines CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL which in turn enables memmap_valid_within() function that is intended to verify existence of struct page associated with a pfn when there are holes in the memory map. However, the ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL also enables HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID and arch-specific pfn_valid() implementation that also deals with the holes in the memory map. The only two users of memmap_valid_within() call this function after a call to pfn_valid() so the memmap_valid_within() check becomes redundant. Remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL and memmap_valid_within() and rely entirely on ARM's implementation of pfn_valid() that is now enabled unconditionally. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-9-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Meelis Roos Cc: Michael Schmitz Cc: Russell King Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Reported-by: kernel test robot Fixes: 8dd559d53b3b ("arm: ioremap: don't abuse pfn_valid() to check if pfn is in RAM") Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/debug_vm_pgtable/basic: add validation for dirtiness after write protect

2021-07-14T14:56:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit bb5c47ced46797409f4791d0380db3116d93134c ] Patch series "mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Some minor updates", v3. This series contains some cleanups and new test suggestions from Catalin from an earlier discussion. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201123142237.GF17833@gaia/ This patch (of 2): This adds validation tests for dirtiness after write protect conversion for each page table level. There are two new separate test types involved here. The first test ensures that a given page table entry does not become dirty after pxx_wrprotect(). This is important for platforms like arm64 which transfers and drops the hardware dirty bit (!PTE_RDONLY) to the software dirty bit while making it an write protected one. This test ensures that no fresh page table entry could be created with hardware dirty bit set. The second test ensures that a given page table entry always preserve the dirty information across pxx_wrprotect(). This adds two previously missing PUD level basic tests and while here fixes pxx_wrprotect() related typos in the documentation file. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611137241-26220-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611137241-26220-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer [s390] Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Steven Price Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm/slub: clarify verification reporting

2021-06-23T12:42:53+00:00

commit 8669dbab2ae56085c128894b181c2aa50f97e368 upstream. Patch series "Actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning", v4. This fixes redzoning vs the freelist pointer (both for middle-position and very small caches). Both are "theoretical" fixes, in that I see no evidence of such small-sized caches actually be used in the kernel, but that's no reason to let the bugs continue to exist, especially since people doing local development keep tripping over it. :) This patch (of 3): Instead of repeating "Redzone" and "Poison", clarify which sides of those zones got tripped. Additionally fix column alignment in the trailer. Before: BUG test (Tainted: G B ): Redzone overwritten ... Redzone (____ptrval____): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ........ Object (____ptrval____): f6 f4 a5 40 1d e8 ...@.. Redzone (____ptrval____): 1a aa .. Padding (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ After: BUG test (Tainted: G B ): Right Redzone overwritten ... Redzone (____ptrval____): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ........ Object (____ptrval____): f6 f4 a5 40 1d e8 ...@.. Redzone (____ptrval____): 1a aa .. Padding (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ The earlier commits that slowly resulted in the "Before" reporting were: d86bd1bece6f ("mm/slub: support left redzone") ffc79d288000 ("slub: use print_hex_dump") 2492268472e7 ("SLUB: change error reporting format to follow lockdep loosely") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608183955.280836-1-keescook@chromium.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608183955.280836-2-keescook@chromium.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cfdb11d7-fb8e-e578-c939-f7f5fb69a6bd@suse.cz/ Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Marco Elver Cc: "Lin, Zhenpeng" Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-10-24T00:13:53+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes docs: submitting-patches: describe preserving review/test tags Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst Documentation: x86: fix a missing word in x86_64/mm.rst. docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes docs/cpu-load: format the example code.

docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes

2020-10-22T22:11:04+00:00

Fix several spelling mistakes in vm documentation. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201022142653.254429-1-colin.king@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm/doc: fix a literal block markup

2020-10-16T05:28:20+00:00

Literal blocks with :: markup should be indented, as otherwise Sphinx complains: Documentation/vm/hmm.rst:363: WARNING: Literal block expected; none found. Fixes: f7ebd9ed7767 ("mm/doc: add usage description for migrate_vma_*()") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

docs: get rid of :c:type explicit declarations for structs

2020-10-15T05:49:40+00:00

The :c:type:`foo` only works properly with structs before Sphinx 3.x. On Sphinx 3.x, structs should now be declared using the .. c:struct, and referenced via :c:struct tag. As we now have the automarkup.py macro, that automatically convert: struct foo into cross-references, let's get rid of that, solving several warnings when building docs with Sphinx 3.x. Reviewed-by: André Almeida # blk-mq.rst Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai # sound Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

docs/vm: fix 'mm_count' vs 'mm_users' counter confusion

2020-10-14T01:38:32+00:00

In the context of the anonymous address space lifespan description the 'mm_users' reference counter is confused with 'mm_count'. I.e a "zombie" mm gets released when "mm_count" becomes zero, not "mm_users". Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1597040695-32633-1-git-send-email-agordeev@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/doc: add usage description for migrate_vma_*()

2020-09-16T18:19:51+00:00

The migrate_vma_setup(), migrate_vma_pages(), and migrate_vma_finalize() API usage by device drivers is not well documented. Add a description for how device drivers are expected to use it. Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909212956.20104-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: add some new files to their respective index.rst files

2020-09-10T16:48:20+00:00

There were some new file additions for Kernel 5.7 and 5.8 that weren't added at the corresponding index file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fd4d04f0d122ff38b5342a0098d99cc2f546652.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet