kernel/linux.git/mm/Kconfig, branch v6.4

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of switching from a user process to a kernel thread. - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav. - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky. - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the alteration of memcg userspace tunables. - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig: - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page() - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap backing. Use `mount -o noswap'. - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing some scalability benefits. - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its operations O(1) rather than O(n). - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd, permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes. - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its unintuitive meaning. - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature, which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte. - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge(): cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test harness. - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes. - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c. - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more. - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases. - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge(). - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code. - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults. - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to per-VMA locking. - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads. - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig logic. - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a chunk of memory if zswap is not being used. - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing. - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged, userfaultfd and shmem. - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related code paths. - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's testing of our pte state changing. - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it. - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd selftests. - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting. - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the selftests/mm code. - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned pages. - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time. - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a per-process and per-cgroup basis. * tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file() sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area() hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map() maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area() mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs mm: add new api to enable ksm per process mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma() lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper ...

Merge tag 'slab-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab

2023-04-25T20:00:41+00:00

Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka: "The main change is naturally the SLOB removal. Since its deprecation in 6.2 I've seen no complaints so hopefully SLUB_(TINY) works well for everyone and we can proceed. Besides the code cleanup, the main immediate benefit will be allowing kfree() family of function to work on kmem_cache_alloc() objects, which was incompatible with SLOB. This includes kfree_rcu() which had no kmem_cache_free_rcu() counterpart yet and now it shouldn't be necessary anymore. Besides that, there are several small code and comment improvements from Thomas, Thorsten and Vernon" * tag 'slab-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objects mm/slob: remove slob.c mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLOB code from slab common code mm, pagemap: remove SLOB and SLQB from comments and documentation mm, page_flags: remove PG_slob_free mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB mm/slub: fix help comment of SLUB_DEBUG mm: slub: make kobj_type structure constant slab: Adjust comment after refactoring of gfp.h

mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: rename ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP

2023-04-18T23:30:09+00:00

Now we use ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP config option to indicate devdax and hugetlb vmemmap optimization support. Hence rename that to a generic ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230412050025.84346-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Reviewed-by: Muchun Song Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Tarun Sahu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: introduce CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK

2023-04-06T03:02:56+00:00

Patch series "Per-VMA locks", v4. LWN article describing the feature: https://lwn.net/Articles/906852/ Per-vma locks idea that was discussed during SPF [1] discussion at LSF/MM last year [2], which concluded with suggestion that “a reader/writer semaphore could be put into the VMA itself; that would have the effect of using the VMA as a sort of range lock. There would still be contention at the VMA level, but it would be an improvement.” This patchset implements this suggested approach. When handling page faults we lookup the VMA that contains the faulting page under RCU protection and try to acquire its lock. If that fails we fall back to using mmap_lock, similar to how SPF handled this situation. One notable way the implementation deviates from the proposal is the way VMAs are read-locked. During some of mm updates, multiple VMAs need to be locked until the end of the update (e.g. vma_merge, split_vma, etc). Tracking all the locked VMAs, avoiding recursive locks, figuring out when it's safe to unlock previously locked VMAs would make the code more complex. So, instead of the usual lock/unlock pattern, the proposed solution marks a VMA as locked and provides an efficient way to: 1. Identify locked VMAs. 2. Unlock all locked VMAs in bulk. We also postpone unlocking the locked VMAs until the end of the update, when we do mmap_write_unlock. Potentially this keeps a VMA locked for longer than is absolutely necessary but it results in a big reduction of code complexity. Read-locking a VMA is done using two sequence numbers - one in the vm_area_struct and one in the mm_struct. VMA is considered read-locked when these sequence numbers are equal. To read-lock a VMA we set the sequence number in vm_area_struct to be equal to the sequence number in mm_struct. To unlock all VMAs we increment mm_struct's seq number. This allows for an efficient way to track locked VMAs and to drop the locks on all VMAs at the end of the update. The patchset implements per-VMA locking only for anonymous pages which are not in swap and avoids userfaultfs as their implementation is more complex. Additional support for file-back page faults, swapped and user pages can be added incrementally. Performance benchmarks show similar although slightly smaller benefits as with SPF patchset (~75% of SPF benefits). Still, with lower complexity this approach might be more desirable. Since RFC was posted in September 2022, two separate Google teams outside of Android evaluated the patchset and confirmed positive results. Here are the known usecases when per-VMA locks show benefits: Android: Apps with high number of threads (~100) launch times improve by up to 20%. Each thread mmaps several areas upon startup (Stack and Thread-local storage (TLS), thread signal stack, indirect ref table), which requires taking mmap_lock in write mode. Page faults take mmap_lock in read mode. During app launch, both thread creation and page faults establishing the active workinget are happening in parallel and that causes lock contention between mm writers and readers even if updates and page faults are happening in different VMAs. Per-vma locks prevent this contention by providing more granular lock. Google Fibers: We have several dynamically sized thread pools that spawn new threads under increased load and reduce their number when idling. For example, Google's in-process scheduling/threading framework, UMCG/Fibers, is backed by such a thread pool. When idling, only a small number of idle worker threads are available; when a spike of incoming requests arrive, each request is handled in its own "fiber", which is a work item posted onto a UMCG worker thread; quite often these spikes lead to a number of new threads spawning. Each new thread needs to allocate and register an RSEQ section on its TLS, then register itself with the kernel as a UMCG worker thread, and only after that it can be considered by the in-process UMCG/Fiber scheduler as available to do useful work. In short, during an incoming workload spike new threads have to be spawned, and they perform several syscalls (RSEQ registration, UMCG worker registration, memory allocations) before they can actually start doing useful work. Removing any bottlenecks on this thread startup path will greatly improve our services' latencies when faced with request/workload spikes. At high scale, mmap_lock contention during thread creation and stack page faults leads to user-visible multi-second serving latencies in a similar pattern to Android app startup. Per-VMA locking patchset has been run successfully in limited experiments with user-facing production workloads. In these experiments, we observed that the peak thread creation rate was high enough that thread creation is no longer a bottleneck. TCP zerocopy receive: From the point of view of TCP zerocopy receive, the per-vma lock patch is massively beneficial. In today's implementation, a process with N threads where N - 1 are performing zerocopy receive and 1 thread is performing madvise() with the write lock taken (e.g. needs to change vm_flags) will result in all N -1 receive threads blocking until the madvise is done. Conversely, on a busy process receiving a lot of data, an madvise operation that does need to take the mmap lock in write mode will need to wait for all of the receives to be done - a lose:lose proposition. Per-VMA locking _removes_ by definition this source of contention entirely. There are other benefits for receive as well, chiefly a reduction in cacheline bouncing across receiving threads for locking/unlocking the single mmap lock. On an RPC style synthetic workload with 4KB RPCs: 1a) The find+lock+unlock VMA path in the base case, without the per-vma lock patchset, is about 0.7% of cycles as measured by perf. 1b) mmap_read_lock + mmap_read_unlock in the base case is about 0.5% cycles overall - most of this is within the TCP read hotpath (a small fraction is 'other' usage in the system). 2a) The find+lock+unlock VMA path, with the per-vma patchset and a trivial patch written to take advantage of it in TCP, is about 0.4% of cycles (down from 0.7% above) 2b) mmap_read_lock + mmap_read_unlock in the per-vma patchset is < 0.1% cycles and is out of the TCP read hotpath entirely (down from 0.5% before, the remaining usage is the 'other' usage in the system). So, in addition to entirely removing an onerous source of contention, it also reduces the CPU cycles of TCP receive zerocopy by about 0.5%+ (compared to overall cycles in perf) for the 'small' RPC scenario. In https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87fsaqouyd.fsf_-_@stealth, Punit demonstrated throughput improvements of as much as 188% from this patchset. This patch (of 25): This configuration variable will be used to build the support for VMA locking during page fault handling. This is enabled on supported architectures with SMP and MMU set. The architecture support is needed since the page fault handler is called from the architecture's page faulting code which needs modifications to handle faults under VMA lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-1-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-10-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely

2023-04-06T02:42:46+00:00

MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports: user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1. This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over the kernel. Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now. [kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning] [kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

dmapool: add alloc/free performance test

2023-04-06T02:42:38+00:00

Patch series "dmapool enhancements", v4. Time spent in dma_pool alloc/free increases linearly with the number of pages backing the pool. We can reduce this to constant time with minor changes to how free pages are tracked. This patch (of 12): Provide a module that allocates and frees many blocks of various sizes and report how long it takes. This is intended to provide a consistent way to measure how changes to the dma_pool_alloc/free routines affect timing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-1-kbusch@meta.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126215125.4069751-2-kbusch@meta.com Signed-off-by: Keith Busch Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Tony Battersby Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Remove "select SRCU"

2023-04-05T13:47:42+00:00

Now that the SRCU Kconfig option is unconditionally selected, there is no longer any point in selecting it. Therefore, remove the "select SRCU" Kconfig statements. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Reviewed-by: John Ogness Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google)

mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB

2023-03-29T08:31:40+00:00

Remove SLOB from Kconfig and Makefile. Everything under #ifdef CONFIG_SLOB, and mm/slob.c is now dead code. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM)

zsmalloc: set default zspage chain size to 8

2023-02-03T06:33:23+00:00

This changes key characteristics (pages per-zspage and objects per-zspage) of a number of size classes which in results in different pool configuration. With zspage chain size of 8 we have more size clases clusters (123) and higher huge size class watermark (3632 bytes). Please read zsmalloc documentation for more details. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230118005210.2814763-5-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Mike Kravetz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable

2023-02-03T06:33:23+00:00

Remove hard coded limit on the maximum number of physical pages per-zspage. This will allow tuning of zsmalloc pool as zspage chain size changes `pages per-zspage` and `objects per-zspage` characteristics of size classes which also affects size classes clustering (the way size classes are merged). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230118005210.2814763-4-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Mike Kravetz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton