kernel/linux.git/mm/Makefile, branch v6.18.21

mm: remove unused zpool layer

2025-09-21T21:21:59+00:00

With zswap using zsmalloc directly, there are no more in-tree users of this code. Remove it. With zpool gone, zsmalloc is now always a simple dependency and no longer something the user needs to configure. Hide CONFIG_ZSMALLOC from the user and have zswap and zram pull it in as needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829162212.208258-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: SeongJae Park Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Vitaly Wool Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove mm/io-mapping.c

2025-08-02T19:06:10+00:00

This is dead code, which was used from commit b739f125e4eb ("i915: use io_mapping_map_user") but reverted a month later by commit 0e4fe0c9f2f9 ("Revert "i915: use io_mapping_map_user"") back in 2021. Since then nobody has used it, so remove it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst, per Vlastimil] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250725142901.81502-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: perform VMA allocation, freeing, duplication in mm

2025-05-13T06:50:48+00:00

Right now these are performed in kernel/fork.c which is odd and a violation of separation of concerns, as well as preventing us from integrating this and related logic into userland VMA testing going forward. There is a fly in the ointment - nommu - mmap.c is not compiled if CONFIG_MMU not set, and neither is vma.c. To square the circle, let's add a new file - vma_init.c. This will be compiled for both CONFIG_MMU and nommu builds, and will also form part of the VMA userland testing. This allows us to de-duplicate code, while maintaining separation of concerns and the ability for us to userland test this logic. Update the VMA userland tests accordingly, additionally adding a detach_free_vma() helper function to correctly detach VMAs before freeing them in test code, as this change was triggering the assert for this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray newline, per Liam] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f97b3a85a6da0196b28070df331b99e22b263be8.1745853549.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: establish mm/vma_exec.c for shared exec/mm VMA functionality

2025-05-13T06:50:48+00:00

Patch series "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm", v3. Currently VMA allocation, freeing and duplication exist in kernel/fork.c, which is a violation of separation of concerns, and leaves these functions exposed to the rest of the kernel when they are in fact internal implementation details. Resolve this by moving this logic to mm, and making it internal to vma.c, vma.h. This also allows us, in future, to provide userland testing around this functionality. We additionally abstract dup_mmap() to mm, being careful to ensure kernel/fork.c acceses this via the mm internal header so it is not exposed elsewhere in the kernel. As part of this change, also abstract initial stack allocation performed in __bprm_mm_init() out of fs code into mm via the create_init_stack_vma(), as this code uses vm_area_alloc() and vm_area_free(). In order to do so sensibly, we introduce a new mm/vma_exec.c file, which contains the code that is shared by mm and exec. This file is added to both memory mapping and exec sections in MAINTAINERS so both sets of maintainers can maintain oversight. As part of this change, we also move relocate_vma_down() to mm/vma_exec.c so all shared mm/exec functionality is kept in one place. We add code shared between nommu and mmu-enabled configurations in order to share VMA allocation, freeing and duplication code correctly while also keeping these functions available in userland VMA testing. This is achieved by adding a mm/vma_init.c file which is also compiled by the userland tests. This patch (of 4): There is functionality that overlaps the exec and memory mapping subsystems. While it properly belongs in mm, it is important that exec maintainers maintain oversight of this functionality correctly. We can establish both goals by adding a new mm/vma_exec.c file which contains these 'glue' functions, and have fs/exec.c import them. As a part of this change, to ensure that proper oversight is achieved, add the file to both the MEMORY MAPPING and EXEC & BINFMT API, ELF sections. scripts/get_maintainer.pl can correctly handle files in multiple entries and this neatly handles the cross-over. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/80f0d0c6-0b68-47f9-ab78-0ab7f74677fc@lucifer.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1745853549.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/91f2cee8f17d65214a9d83abb7011aa15f1ea690.1745853549.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: rename GENERIC_PTDUMP and PTDUMP_CORE

2025-03-17T07:05:32+00:00

Platforms subscribe into generic ptdump implementation via GENERIC_PTDUMP. But generic ptdump gets enabled via PTDUMP_CORE. These configs combination is confusing as they sound very similar and does not differentiate between platform's feature subscription and feature enablement for ptdump. Rename the configs as ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP and PTDUMP making it more clear and improve readability. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250226122404.1927473-6-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (powerpc) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Marc Zyngier Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Steven Price Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm, swap: remove swap slot cache

2025-03-17T05:06:43+00:00

Slot cache is no longer needed now, removing it and all related code. - vm-scalability with: `usemem --init-time -O -y -x -R -31 1G`, 12G memory cgroup using simulated pmem as SWAP (32G pmem, 32 CPUs), 16 test runs for each case, measuring the total throughput: Before (KB/s) (stdev) After (KB/s) (stdev) Random (4K): 424907.60 (24410.78) 414745.92 (34554.78) Random (64K): 163308.82 (11635.72) 167314.50 (18434.99) Sequential (4K, !-R): 6150056.79 (103205.90) 6321469.06 (115878.16) The performance changes are below noise level. - Build linux kernel with make -j96, using 4K folio with 1.5G memory cgroup limit and 64K folio with 2G memory cgroup limit, on top of tmpfs, 12 test runs, measuring the system time: Before (s) (stdev) After (s) (stdev) make -j96 (4K): 6445.69 (61.95) 6408.80 (69.46) make -j96 (64K): 6841.71 (409.04) 6437.99 (435.55) Similar to above, 64k mTHP case showed a slight improvement. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313165935.63303-7-ryncsn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song Reviewed-by: Baoquan He Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: Chris Li Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kalesh Singh Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Yosry Ahmed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/hugetlb: move hugetlb CMA code in to its own file

2025-03-17T05:06:31+00:00

hugetlb.c contained a number of CONFIG_CMA ifdefs, and the code inside them was large enough to merit being in its own file, so move it, cleaning up things a bit. Hide some direct variable access behind functions to accommodate the move. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-28-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: zbud: remove zbud

2025-03-17T05:06:01+00:00

The zbud compressed pages allocator is rarely used, most users use zsmalloc. zbud consumes much more memory (only stores 1 or 2 compressed pages per physical page). The only advantage of zbud is a marginal performance improvement that by no means justify the memory overhead. Historically, zsmalloc had significantly worse latency than zbud and z3fold but offered better memory savings. This is no longer the case as shown by a simple recent analysis [1]. In a kernel build test on tmpfs in a limited cgroup, zbud 2-3% less time than zsmalloc, but at the cost of using ~32% more memory (1.5G vs 1.13G). The tradeoff does not make sense for zbud in any practical scenario. The only alleged advantage of zbud is not having the dependency on CONFIG_MMU, but CONFIG_SWAP already depends on CONFIG_MMU anyway, and zbud is only used by zswap. Remove zbud after z3fold's removal, leaving zsmalloc as the one and only zpool allocator. Leave the removal of the zpool API (and its associated config options) to a followup cleanup after no more allocators show up. Deprecating zbud for a few cycles before removing it was initially proposed [2], like z3fold was marked as deprecated for 2 cycles [3]. However, Johannes rightfully pointed out that the 2 cycles is too short for most downstream consumers, and z3fold was deprecated first only as a courtesy anyway. [1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkbRF6od-2x_L8-A1QL3=2Ww13sCj4S3i4bNndqF+3+_Vg@mail.gmail.com/ [2]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z5gdnSX5Lv-nfjQL@google.com/ [3]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240904233343.933462-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129180633.3501650-3-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Nhat Pham Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: WANG Xuerui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: z3fold: remove z3fold

2025-03-17T05:06:01+00:00

Patch series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud", v2. After 2 cycles of deprecating z3fold, remove it as well as zbud (rationale in specific patches). This patch (of 2): Z3fold has been marked as deprecated for 2 cycles and no one complained, as expected. As there are no known users, remove the code now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129180633.3501650-1-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129180633.3501650-2-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Nhat Pham Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: WANG Xuerui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: pgtable: reclaim empty PTE page in madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

2025-01-14T06:40:48+00:00

Now in order to pursue high performance, applications mostly use some high-performance user-mode memory allocators, such as jemalloc or tcmalloc. These memory allocators use madvise(MADV_DONTNEED or MADV_FREE) to release physical memory, but neither MADV_DONTNEED nor MADV_FREE will release page table memory, which may cause huge page table memory usage. The following are a memory usage snapshot of one process which actually happened on our server: VIRT: 55t RES: 590g VmPTE: 110g In this case, most of the page table entries are empty. For such a PTE page where all entries are empty, we can actually free it back to the system for others to use. As a first step, this commit aims to synchronously free the empty PTE pages in madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) case. We will detect and free empty PTE pages in zap_pte_range(), and will add zap_details.reclaim_pt to exclude cases other than madvise(MADV_DONTNEED). Once an empty PTE is detected, we first try to hold the pmd lock within the pte lock. If successful, we clear the pmd entry directly (fast path). Otherwise, we wait until the pte lock is released, then re-hold the pmd and pte locks and loop PTRS_PER_PTE times to check pte_none() to re-detect whether the PTE page is empty and free it (slow path). For other cases such as madvise(MADV_FREE), consider scanning and freeing empty PTE pages asynchronously in the future. The following code snippet can show the effect of optimization: mmap 50G while (1) { for (; i < 1024 * 25; i++) { touch 2M memory madvise MADV_DONTNEED 2M } } As we can see, the memory usage of VmPTE is reduced: before after VIRT 50.0 GB 50.0 GB RES 3.1 MB 3.1 MB VmPTE 102640 KB 240 KB [zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com: fix uninitialized symbol 'ptl'] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241206112348.51570-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/224e6a4e-43b5-4080-bdd8-b0a6fb2f0853@stanley.mountain/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/92aba2b319a734913f18ba41e7d86a265f0b84e2.1733305182.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Zach O'Keefe Cc: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton