kernel/linux.git/arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h, branch linux-7.0.y

treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant

2026-01-21T03:24:39+00:00

Patch series "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges", v11. This series adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. The series improves on the current discontiguous clearing approach in two ways: - clear pages in a contiguous fashion. - use batched clearing via clear_pages() wherever exposed. The first is useful because it allows us to make much better use of hardware prefetchers. The second, enables advertising the real extent to the processor. Where specific instructions support it (ex. string instructions on x86; "mops" on arm64 etc), a processor can optimize based on this because, instead of seeing a sequence of 8-byte stores, or a sequence of 4KB pages, it sees a larger unit being operated on. For instance, AMD Zen uarchs (for extents larger than LLC-size) switch to a mode where they start eliding cacheline allocation. This is helpful not just because it results in higher bandwidth, but also because now the cache is not evicting useful cachelines and replacing them with zeroes. Demand faulting a 64GB region shows performance improvement: $ perf bench mem mmap -p $pg-sz -f demand -s 64GB -l 5 baseline +series (GBps +- %stdev) (GBps +- %stdev) pg-sz=2MB 11.76 +- 1.10% 25.34 +- 1.18% [*] +115.47% preempt=* pg-sz=1GB 24.85 +- 2.41% 39.22 +- 2.32% + 57.82% preempt=none|voluntary pg-sz=1GB (similar) 52.73 +- 0.20% [#] +112.19% preempt=full|lazy [*] This improvement is because switching to sequential clearing allows the hardware prefetchers to do a much better job. [#] For pg-sz=1GB a large part of the improvement is because of the cacheline elision mentioned above. preempt=full|lazy improves upon that because, not needing explicit invocations of cond_resched() to ensure reasonable preemption latency, it can clear the full extent as a single unit. In comparison the maximum extent used for preempt=none|voluntary is PROCESS_PAGES_NON_PREEMPT_BATCH (32MB). When provided the full extent the processor forgoes allocating cachelines on this path almost entirely. (The hope is that eventually, in the fullness of time, the lazy preemption model will be able to do the same job that none or voluntary models are used for, allowing us to do away with cond_resched().) Raghavendra also tested previous version of the series on AMD Genoa and sees similar improvement [1] with preempt=lazy. $ perf bench mem map -p $page-size -f populate -s 64GB -l 10 base patched change pg-sz=2MB 12.731939 GB/sec 26.304263 GB/sec 106.6% pg-sz=1GB 26.232423 GB/sec 61.174836 GB/sec 133.2% This patch (of 8): Let's drop all variants that effectively map to clear_page() and provide it in a generic variant instead. We'll use the macro clear_user_page to indicate whether an architecture provides it's own variant. Also, clear_user_page() is only called from the generic variant of clear_user_highpage(), so define it only if the architecture does not provide a clear_user_highpage(). And, for simplicity define it in linux/highmem.h. Note that for parisc, clear_page() and clear_user_page() map to clear_page_asm(), so we can just get rid of the custom clear_user_page() implementation. There is a clear_user_page_asm() function on parisc, that seems to be unused. Not sure what's up with that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Co-developed-by: Ankur Arora Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ankur Arora Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Konrad Rzessutek Wilk Cc: Lance Yang Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Li Zhe Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raghavendra K T Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

alpha: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in the alpha headers

2025-12-08T22:10:30+00:00

While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel. This can be very confusing when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize now on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers. This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement). Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Matt Turner Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251121100044.282684-2-thuth@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings. - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several series which clean up the implementation: - "refine mas_mab_cp()" - "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node" - "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()" - "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()" - "refine storing null" - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390. - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping code. - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of shadow entries. - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag. - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in the hugetlb code. - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults. - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code. - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to do. - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed. - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON splitting. - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature. - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and addresses some potential performance issues. - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations" from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for read-only-execute module text. - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling feature. - The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove most references to page->index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking struct page. - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for DAMON's self testing code. - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for this zswap operation. - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in tests over to the KUnit framework. - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are expected. - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing activity. - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance. - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP from the kernel boot command line. - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests. - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope" from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep is enabled. * tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits) cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem() mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault() zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show() memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite mm: define general function pXd_init() kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols ...

mm: remove unused hugepage for vma_alloc_folio()

2024-11-07T04:11:12+00:00

The hugepage parameter was deprecated since commit ddc1a5cbc05d ("mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma"), for PMD-sized THP, it still tries only preferred node if possible in vma_alloc_folio() by checking the order of the folio allocation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241010061556.1846751-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Barry Song Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Ryan Roberts Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

vdso: Introduce vdso/page.h

2024-10-15T22:13:04+00:00

The VDSO implementation includes headers from outside of the vdso/ namespace. Introduce vdso/page.h to make sure that the generic library uses only the allowed namespace. Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014151340.1639555-3-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com

arch: define CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_*KB on all architectures

2024-03-06T18:29:09+00:00

Most architectures only support a single hardcoded page size. In order to ensure that each one of these sets the corresponding Kconfig symbols, change over the PAGE_SHIFT definition to the common one and allow only the hardware page size to be selected. Acked-by: Guo Ren Acked-by: Heiko Carstens Acked-by: Stafford Horne Acked-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for FLATMEM

2023-02-10T00:51:41+00:00

Every architecture that supports FLATMEM memory model defines its own version of pfn_valid() that essentially compares a pfn to max_mapnr. Use mips/powerpc version implemented as static inline as a generic implementation of pfn_valid() and drop its per-architecture definitions. [rppt@kernel.org: fix the generic pfn_valid()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y9lg7R1Yd931C+y5@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230129124235.209895-5-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Guo Ren [csky] Acked-by: Huacai Chen [LoongArch] Acked-by: Stafford Horne [OpenRISC] Acked-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Tested-by: Conor Dooley Cc: Brian Cain Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio()

2023-02-03T06:33:18+00:00

Replace alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(). The main difference is returning a folio containing a single page instead of returning the page, but take the opportunity to rename the function to match other allocation functions a little better and rewrite the documentation to place more emphasis on the zeroing rather than the highmem aspect. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230116191813.2145215-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

alpha: fix alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable()

2022-05-13T14:20:14+00:00

Due to a typo, the final argument to alloc_page_vma() didn't refer to a real variable. This only affected CONFIG_NUMA, which was marked BROKEN in 2006 and removed from alpha in 2021. Found due to a refactoring patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220504182857.4013401-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reported-by: kernel test robot Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: arch: remove indirection level in alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable()

2021-06-04T18:32:21+00:00

In an upcoming change we would like to add a flag to GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE so that it would no longer be an OR of GFP_HIGHUSER and __GFP_MOVABLE. This poses a problem for alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable() which passes __GFP_MOVABLE into an arch-specific __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() hook which ORs in GFP_HIGHUSER. Since __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is only ever called from alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(), we can remove one level of indirection here. Remove __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage(), make alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable() the hook, and use GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE in the hook implementations so that they will pick up the new flag that we are going to add. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ic6361c657b2cdcd896adbe0cf7cb5a7fbb1ed7bf Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602235230.3928842-2-pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon