kernel/linux.git/include/linux/dax.h, branch v6.19.11

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets. 21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up", "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc. I never knew the MM code was so dirty. "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent VMAs. "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park) adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production environments. "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig) is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control. "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom) contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and management code. "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman) does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code. "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts) implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading into order>0 folios. "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown) provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the selftests code. "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain) does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark. "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox) expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page(). "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand) addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be causing any issues at this time. "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park) provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON. "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes) uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other types. "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy) increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd code. "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple) removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags. "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park) implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON sysfs layer. "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes) does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code. "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka) provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort. "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador) creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes. Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline notifier. "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan) cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice. "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park) adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite. "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador) fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and follows that fix with a series of cleanups. "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport) rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator. "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code. "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park) adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code. "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park) does that. "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) also does what it claims. "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand) cleans up the large folio PTE batching code. "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park) facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy. "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola) provides a couple of page->folio conversions. "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso) implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the current memcg-based implementation. "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park) replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface. "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed reliably. "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga) switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range(). "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park) augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update interval. "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi) does what is claims. "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand) provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe directly. "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface. "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan) cleans up __folio_split()! "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain) provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing with large folios. "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian) does some cleanup work in the selftests code. "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes) extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" feature. "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park) extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal subset" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits) MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info() selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment ...

mm: remove callers of pfn_t functionality

2025-07-10T05:42:19+00:00

All PFN_* pfn_t flags have been removed. Therefore there is no longer a need for the pfn_t type and all uses can be replaced with normal pfns. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bbedfa576c9822f8032494efbe43544628698b1f.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Inki Dae Cc: John Groves Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/dax: make it possible to check dev dax support without a VMA

2025-06-17T11:47:44+00:00

This is a prerequisite for adapting those filesystems to use the .mmap_prepare() hook for mmap()'ing which invoke this check as this hook does not have access to a VMA pointer. To effect this, change the signature of daxdev_mapping_supported() and update its callers (ext4 and xfs mmap()'ing hook code). Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Link: https://lore.kernel.org/b09de1e8544384074165d92d048e80058d971286.1750099179.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs/dax: properly refcount fs dax pages

2025-03-18T05:06:41+00:00

Currently fs dax pages are considered free when the refcount drops to one and their refcounts are not increased when mapped via PTEs or decreased when unmapped. This requires special logic in mm paths to detect that these pages should not be properly refcounted, and to detect when the refcount drops to one instead of zero. On the other hand get_user_pages(), etc. will properly refcount fs dax pages by taking a reference and dropping it when the page is unpinned. Tracking this special behaviour requires extra PTE bits (eg. pte_devmap) and introduces rules that are potentially confusing and specific to FS DAX pages. To fix this, and to possibly allow removal of the special PTE bits in future, convert the fs dax page refcounts to be zero based and instead take a reference on the page each time it is mapped as is currently the case for normal pages. This may also allow a future clean-up to remove the pgmap refcounting that is currently done in mm/gup.c. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c7d886ad7468a20452ef6e0ddab6cfe220874e7c.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Tested-by: Alison Schofield Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Asahi Lina Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Hubbard Cc: linmiaohe Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/dax: ensure all pages are idle prior to filesystem unmount

2025-03-18T05:06:38+00:00

File systems call dax_break_mapping() prior to reallocating file system blocks to ensure the page is not undergoing any DMA or other accesses. Generally this is needed when a file is truncated to ensure that if a block is reallocated nothing is writing to it. However filesystems currently don't call this when an FS DAX inode is evicted. This can cause problems when the file system is unmounted as a page can continue to be under going DMA or other remote access after unmount. This means if the file system is remounted any truncate or other operation which requires the underlying file system block to be freed will not wait for the remote access to complete. Therefore a busy block may be reallocated to a new file leading to corruption. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2d3cf575bbd095084993154be2f0aa7442e5cd28.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Tested-by: Alison Schofield Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Asahi Lina Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Dan Wiliams Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Hubbard Cc: linmiaohe Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/dax: always remove DAX page-cache entries when breaking layouts

2025-03-18T05:06:37+00:00

Prior to any truncation operations file systems call dax_break_mapping() to ensure pages in the range are not under going DMA. Later DAX page-cache entries will be removed by truncate_folio_batch_exceptionals() in the generic page-cache code. However this makes it possible for folios to be removed from the page-cache even though they are still DMA busy if the file-system hasn't called dax_break_mapping(). It also means they can never be waited on in future because FS DAX will lose track of them once the page-cache entry has been deleted. Instead it is better to delete the FS DAX entry when the file-system calls dax_break_mapping() as part of it's truncate operation. This ensures only idle pages can be removed from the FS DAX page-cache and makes it easy to detect if a file-system hasn't called dax_break_mapping() prior to a truncate operation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3be6115eaaa8d28fee37fcba3287be4f226a7d24.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Tested-by: Alison Schofield Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Asahi Lina Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Hubbard Cc: linmiaohe Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/dax: create a common implementation to break DAX layouts

2025-03-18T05:06:37+00:00

Prior to freeing a block file systems supporting FS DAX must check that the associated pages are both unmapped from user-space and not undergoing DMA or other access from eg. get_user_pages(). This is achieved by unmapping the file range and scanning the FS DAX page-cache to see if any pages within the mapping have an elevated refcount. This is done using two functions - dax_layout_busy_page_range() which returns a page to wait for the refcount to become idle on. Rather than open-code this introduce a common implementation to both unmap and wait for the page to become idle. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c4d381e41fc618296cee2820403c166d80599d5c.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Tested-by: Alison Schofield Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Asahi Lina Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Hubbard Cc: linmiaohe Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/dax: refactor wait for dax idle page

2025-03-18T05:06:37+00:00

A FS DAX page is considered idle when its refcount drops to one. This is currently open-coded in all file systems supporting FS DAX. Move the idle detection to a common function to make future changes easier. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c2c9d269110b90224eeb1dc661ffbc1d82aa20c9.1740713401.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o Tested-by: Alison Schofield Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Asahi Lina Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Hubbard Cc: linmiaohe Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michael "Camp Drill Sergeant" Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

dax: Remove an unused field in struct dax_operations

2024-11-13T19:00:35+00:00

.dax_supported() was apparently removed by commit 7b0800d00dae ("dax: remove dax_capable") on 2021-11. Remove the now unused function pointer from the struct dax_operations. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/56b92b722ca0a6fd1387c871a6ec01bcb9bd525e.1725203804.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

dax: alloc_dax() return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP) for CONFIG_DAX=n

2024-02-22T23:27:19+00:00

Change the return value from NULL to PTR_ERR(-EOPNOTSUPP) for CONFIG_DAX=n to be consistent with the fact that CONFIG_DAX=y never returns NULL. This is done in preparation for using cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() in a following change which will properly support architectures which detect data cache aliasing at runtime. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215144633.96437-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Fixes: 4e4ced93794a ("dax: Move mandatory ->zero_page_range() check in alloc_dax()") Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Russell King Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: kernel test robot Cc: Michael Sclafani Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton