kernel/linux.git/fs/aio.c, branch v6.18.21

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of /proc/pid/maps - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount falls to zero - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's needs - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap code - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the system". It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap selftests - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that function and converts its two remaining callers - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD selftests issues - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator code - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under tools/testing/ - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing (zsmalloc) - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs __free_pages() - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to the thp selftesting code - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory allocation profiling feature - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting arm highmem - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so they can release resources - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling * tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits) mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node() mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc() mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially' mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault() mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one() mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one() ...

fs: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

2025-09-19T14:15:07+00:00

Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API. system_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make it clear by adding a system_percpu_wq to all the fs subsystem. The old wq will be kept for a few release cylces. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250916082906.77439-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

treewide: remove MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS

2025-09-13T23:54:50+00:00

At this point MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS is misnamed for all folio users, and now that we remove MIGRATEPAGE_UNMAP, it's really the only "success" return value that the code uses and expects. Let's just get rid of MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS completely and just use "0" for success. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250811143949.1117439-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Zi Yan [mm] Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp [jfs] Acked-by: David Sterba [btrfs] Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Byungchul Park Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Al Viro Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Eugenio Pé rez Cc: Gregory Price Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Jerrin Shaji George Cc: Josef Bacik Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mathew Brost Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Xuan Zhuo Cc: Lance Yang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings

2025-06-19T11:56:59+00:00

Since commit c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback"), the f_op->mmap() hook has been deprecated in favour of f_op->mmap_prepare(). This callback is invoked in the mmap() logic far earlier, so error handling can be performed more safely without complicated and bug-prone state unwinding required should an error arise. This hook also avoids passing a pointer to a not-yet-correctly-established VMA avoiding any issues with referencing this data structure. It rather provides a pointer to the new struct vm_area_desc descriptor type which contains all required state and allows easy setting of required parameters without any consideration needing to be paid to locking or reference counts. Note that nested filesystems like overlayfs are compatible with an .mmap_prepare() callback since commit bb666b7c2707 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for nested file systems"). In this patch we apply this change to file systems with relatively simple mmap() hook logic - exfat, ceph, f2fs, bcachefs, zonefs, btrfs, ocfs2, orangefs, nilfs2, romfs, ramfs and aio. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Link: https://lore.kernel.org/f528ac4f35b9378931bd800920fee53fc0c5c74d.1750099179.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Acked-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: aio: initialize .ki_write_stream of read-write request

2025-05-07T14:00:11+00:00

AIO needs to initialize .ki_write_stream explicitly for read/write request, otherwise random .ki_write_stream is used, and cause -EINVAL returned for aio write randomly. Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Kanchan Joshi Fixes: c27683da6406 ("block: expose write streams for block device nodes") Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Reviewed-by: Keith Busch Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507133328.3040255-1-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable

2025-01-28T12:48:37+00:00

Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net, drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function. Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata. This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the proc_handlers. Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command: Spatch: virtual patch @ depends on !(file in "net") disable optional_qualifier @ identifier table_name != { watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, iwcm_ctl_table, ucma_ctl_table, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table }; @@ + const struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... }; sed: sed --in-place \ -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \ kernel/utsname_sysctl.c Reviewed-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) # for kernel/trace/ Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen # SCSI Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong # xfs Acked-by: Jani Nikula Acked-by: Corey Minyard Acked-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell Acked-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit Acked-by: Anna Schumaker Signed-off-by: Joel Granados

Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2024-11-20T00:35:06+00:00

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather large update for timekeeping and timers: - The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored. This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life time rules. Cure this by: - Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a always valid container_of() now. - Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list. - Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered. - Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal delivery code to rearm the timer. This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they are consistent across all situations. With that all self test scenarios finally succeed. - Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode attributes are actively observed via getattr(). These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top. - Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure - Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file - Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper defines. - Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account. Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings. - Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions and fix up stale documentation links all over the place - Fixup a few usage sites - Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP clocks A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the various user space daemons through adjtimex(2). The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited. They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself. As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks. The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2) infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc. Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using static variables. This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step. - Consolidate hrtimer initialization hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons. That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less straight forward than it should be. Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used interfaces over. The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window. - Drivers: - Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems. Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with other clusters. - Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement" * tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits) posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit() clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack() alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack() io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack() sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack() hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack() wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() ...

fs:aio: Remove TODO comment suggesting hash or array usage in io_cancel()

2024-11-12T13:36:45+00:00

The comment suggests a hash or array approach to store the active requests. Currently it iterates through all the active requests and when found deletes the requested request, in the linked list. However io_cancel() isn’t a frequently used operation, and optimizing it wouldn’t bring a substantial benefit to real users and the increased complexity of maintaining a hashtable for this would be significant and will slow down other operation. Therefore remove this TODO to avoid people spending time improving this. Signed-off-by: Mohammed Anees Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241112113906.15825-1-pvmohammedanees2003@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()

2024-11-07T01:47:06+00:00

hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack() replaces hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack() to keep the naming convention consistent. Convert the usage site over to it. The conversion was done with Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5f10c259fa43ba2fe774de5b2cedc22f5e9cfd2d.1730386209.git.namcao@linutronix.de

fs/aio: Fix __percpu annotation of *cpu pointer in struct kioctx

2024-08-19T11:45:03+00:00

__percpu annotation of *cpu pointer in struct kioctx is put at the wrong place, resulting in several sparse warnings: aio.c:623:24: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) aio.c:623:24: expected void [noderef] __percpu *__pdata aio.c:623:24: got struct kioctx_cpu *cpu aio.c:788:18: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces) aio.c:788:18: expected struct kioctx_cpu *cpu aio.c:788:18: got struct kioctx_cpu [noderef] __percpu * aio.c:835:24: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) aio.c:835:24: expected void [noderef] __percpu *__pdata aio.c:835:24: got struct kioctx_cpu *cpu aio.c:940:16: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) aio.c:940:16: expected void const [noderef] __percpu *__vpp_verify aio.c:940:16: got struct kioctx_cpu * aio.c:958:16: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) aio.c:958:16: expected void const [noderef] __percpu *__vpp_verify aio.c:958:16: got struct kioctx_cpu * Put __percpu annotation at the right place to fix these warnings. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240730121915.4514-1-ubizjak@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner