kernel/linux.git/mm/mprotect.c, branch v6.1.174

Revert "mm/mprotect: delete pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge()"

2026-02-06T15:44:22+00:00

This reverts commit 91750c8a4be42d73b6810a1c35d73c8a3cd0b481 which is commit 670ddd8cdcbd1d07a4571266ae3517f821728c3a upstream. While the commit fixes a race condition between NUMA balancing and THP migration, it causes a NULL-pointer-deref when the pmd temporarily transitions from pmd_trans_huge() to pmd_none(). Verifying whether the pmd value has changed under page table lock does not prevent the crash, as it occurs when acquiring the lock. Since the original issue addressed by the commit is quite rare and non-fatal, revert the commit. A better backport solution that more closely matches the upstream semantics will be provided as a follow-up. Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/mprotect: delete pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge()

2026-01-11T14:19:25+00:00

commit 670ddd8cdcbd1d07a4571266ae3517f821728c3a upstream. change_pmd_range() had special pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge(), required to avoid "bad" choices when setting automatic NUMA hinting under mmap_read_lock(); but most of that is already covered in pte_offset_map() now. change_pmd_range() just wants a pmd_none() check before wasting time on MMU notifiers, then checks on the read-once _pmd value to work out what's needed for huge cases. If change_pte_range() returns -EAGAIN to retry if pte_offset_map_lock() fails, nothing more special is needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/725a42a9-91e9-c868-925-e3a5fd40bb4f@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Ralph Campbell Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Song Liu Cc: Steven Price Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Hellström Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zack Rusin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ Background: It was reported that a bad pmd is seen when automatic NUMA balancing is marking page table entries as prot_numa: [2437548.196018] mm/pgtable-generic.c:50: bad pmd 00000000af22fc02(dffffffe71fbfe02) [2437548.235022] Call Trace: [2437548.238234] [2437548.241060] dump_stack_lvl+0x46/0x61 [2437548.245689] panic+0x106/0x2e5 [2437548.249497] pmd_clear_bad+0x3c/0x3c [2437548.253967] change_pmd_range.isra.0+0x34d/0x3a7 [2437548.259537] change_p4d_range+0x156/0x20e [2437548.264392] change_protection_range+0x116/0x1a9 [2437548.269976] change_prot_numa+0x15/0x37 [2437548.274774] task_numa_work+0x1b8/0x302 [2437548.279512] task_work_run+0x62/0x95 [2437548.283882] exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1a4/0x1a9 [2437548.289277] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xf4/0xfc [2437548.294751] ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x81 [2437548.300677] irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x5/0x25 [2437548.306153] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x1b This is due to a race condition between change_prot_numa() and THP migration because the kernel doesn't check is_swap_pmd() and pmd_trans_huge() atomically: change_prot_numa() THP migration ====================================================================== - change_pmd_range() -> is_swap_pmd() returns false, meaning it's not a PMD migration entry. - do_huge_pmd_numa_page() -> migrate_misplaced_page() sets migration entries for the THP. - change_pmd_range() -> pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge() -> pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() returns false - pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge() -> pmd_bad() returns true for the migration entry! The upstream commit 670ddd8cdcbd ("mm/mprotect: delete pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge()") closes this race condition by checking is_swap_pmd() and pmd_trans_huge() atomically. Backporting note: Unlike the mainline, pte_offset_map_lock() does not check if the pmd entry is a migration entry or a hugepage; acquires PTL unconditionally instead of returning failure. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the !is_swap_pmd() && !pmd_trans_huge() && !pmd_devmap() check before acquiring the PTL. After acquiring the lock, open-code the semantics of pte_offset_map_lock() in the mainline kernel; change_pte_range() fails if the pmd value has changed. This requires adding pmd_old parameter (pmd_t value that is read before calling the function) to change_pte_range(). ] Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/mprotect: use long for page accountings and retval

2026-01-11T14:19:25+00:00

commit a79390f5d6a78647fd70856bd42b22d994de0ba2 upstream. Switch to use type "long" for page accountings and retval across the whole procedure of change_protection(). The change should have shrinked the possible maximum page number to be half comparing to previous (ULONG_MAX / 2), but it shouldn't overflow on any system either because the maximum possible pages touched by change protection should be ULONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE. Two reasons to switch from "unsigned long" to "long": 1. It suites better on count_vm_numa_events(), whose 2nd parameter takes a long type. 2. It paves way for returning negative (error) values in the future. Currently the only caller that consumes this retval is change_prot_numa(), where the unsigned long was converted to an int. Since at it, touching up the numa code to also take a long, so it'll avoid any possible overflow too during the int-size convertion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104225207.1066932-3-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Acked-by: Mike Kravetz Acked-by: James Houghton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nadav Amit Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ Adjust context ] Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/uffd: fix warning without PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP compiled in

2022-10-12T22:56:46+00:00

When PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP not configured, it's still possible to reach pte marker code and trigger an warning. Add a few CONFIG_PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP ifdefs to make sure the code won't be reached when not compiled in. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YzeR+R6b4bwBlBHh@x1n Fixes: b1f9e876862d ("mm/uffd: enable write protection for shmem & hugetlbfs") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Reported-by: Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Brian Geffon Cc: Edward Liaw Cc: Liu Shixin Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/mprotect: use maple tree navigation instead of VMA linked list

2022-09-27T02:46:24+00:00

Switch to navigating the VMA list with the maple tree operators in preparation for removing the linked list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-59-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Tested-by: Yu Zhao Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/demotion: update node_is_toptier to work with memory tiers

2022-09-27T02:46:12+00:00

With memory tier support we can have memory only NUMA nodes in the top tier from which we want to avoid promotion tracking NUMA faults. Update node_is_toptier to work with memory tiers. All NUMA nodes are by default top tier nodes. With lower(slower) memory tiers added we consider all memory tiers above a memory tier having CPU NUMA nodes as a top memory tier [sj@kernel.org: include missed header file, memory-tiers.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220820190720.248704-1-sj@kernel.org [akpm@linux-foundation.org: mm/memory.c needs linux/memory-tiers.h] [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: make toptier_distance inclusive upper bound of toptiers] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830081457.118960-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-10-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Acked-by: Wei Xu Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Bharata B Rao Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Hesham Almatary Cc: Jagdish Gediya Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Yang Shi Cc: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

memory tiering: hot page selection with hint page fault latency

2022-09-12T03:25:54+00:00

Patch series "memory tiering: hot page selection", v4. To optimize page placement in a memory tiering system with NUMA balancing, the hot pages in the slow memory nodes need to be identified. Essentially, the original NUMA balancing implementation selects the mostly recently accessed (MRU) pages to promote. But this isn't a perfect algorithm to identify the hot pages. Because the pages with quite low access frequency may be accessed eventually given the NUMA balancing page table scanning period could be quite long (e.g. 60 seconds). So in this patchset, we implement a new hot page identification algorithm based on the latency between NUMA balancing page table scanning and hint page fault. Which is a kind of mostly frequently accessed (MFU) algorithm. In NUMA balancing memory tiering mode, if there are hot pages in slow memory node and cold pages in fast memory node, we need to promote/demote hot/cold pages between the fast and cold memory nodes. A choice is to promote/demote as fast as possible. But the CPU cycles and memory bandwidth consumed by the high promoting/demoting throughput will hurt the latency of some workload because of accessing inflating and slow memory bandwidth contention. A way to resolve this issue is to restrict the max promoting/demoting throughput. It will take longer to finish the promoting/demoting. But the workload latency will be better. This is implemented in this patchset as the page promotion rate limit mechanism. The promotion hot threshold is workload and system configuration dependent. So in this patchset, a method to adjust the hot threshold automatically is implemented. The basic idea is to control the number of the candidate promotion pages to match the promotion rate limit. We used the pmbench memory accessing benchmark tested the patchset on a 2-socket server system with DRAM and PMEM installed. The test results are as follows, pmbench score promote rate (accesses/s) MB/s ------------- ------------ base 146887704.1 725.6 hot selection 165695601.2 544.0 rate limit 162814569.8 165.2 auto adjustment 170495294.0 136.9 From the results above, With hot page selection patch [1/3], the pmbench score increases about 12.8%, and promote rate (overhead) decreases about 25.0%, compared with base kernel. With rate limit patch [2/3], pmbench score decreases about 1.7%, and promote rate decreases about 69.6%, compared with hot page selection patch. With threshold auto adjustment patch [3/3], pmbench score increases about 4.7%, and promote rate decrease about 17.1%, compared with rate limit patch. Baolin helped to test the patchset with MySQL on a machine which contains 1 DRAM node (30G) and 1 PMEM node (126G). sysbench /usr/share/sysbench/oltp_read_write.lua \ ...... --tables=200 \ --table-size=1000000 \ --report-interval=10 \ --threads=16 \ --time=120 The tps can be improved about 5%. This patch (of 3): To optimize page placement in a memory tiering system with NUMA balancing, the hot pages in the slow memory node need to be identified. Essentially, the original NUMA balancing implementation selects the mostly recently accessed (MRU) pages to promote. But this isn't a perfect algorithm to identify the hot pages. Because the pages with quite low access frequency may be accessed eventually given the NUMA balancing page table scanning period could be quite long (e.g. 60 seconds). The most frequently accessed (MFU) algorithm is better. So, in this patch we implemented a better hot page selection algorithm. Which is based on NUMA balancing page table scanning and hint page fault as follows, - When the page tables of the processes are scanned to change PTE/PMD to be PROT_NONE, the current time is recorded in struct page as scan time. - When the page is accessed, hint page fault will occur. The scan time is gotten from the struct page. And The hint page fault latency is defined as hint page fault time - scan time The shorter the hint page fault latency of a page is, the higher the probability of their access frequency to be higher. So the hint page fault latency is a better estimation of the page hot/cold. It's hard to find some extra space in struct page to hold the scan time. Fortunately, we can reuse some bits used by the original NUMA balancing. NUMA balancing uses some bits in struct page to store the page accessing CPU and PID (referring to page_cpupid_xchg_last()). Which is used by the multi-stage node selection algorithm to avoid to migrate pages shared accessed by the NUMA nodes back and forth. But for pages in the slow memory node, even if they are shared accessed by multiple NUMA nodes, as long as the pages are hot, they need to be promoted to the fast memory node. So the accessing CPU and PID information are unnecessary for the slow memory pages. We can reuse these bits in struct page to record the scan time. For the fast memory pages, these bits are used as before. For the hot threshold, the default value is 1 second, which works well in our performance test. All pages with hint page fault latency < hot threshold will be considered hot. It's hard for users to determine the hot threshold. So we don't provide a kernel ABI to set it, just provide a debugfs interface for advanced users to experiment. We will continue to work on a hot threshold automatic adjustment mechanism. The downside of the above method is that the response time to the workload hot spot changing may be much longer. For example, - A previous cold memory area becomes hot - The hint page fault will be triggered. But the hint page fault latency isn't shorter than the hot threshold. So the pages will not be promoted. - When the memory area is scanned again, maybe after a scan period, the hint page fault latency measured will be shorter than the hot threshold and the pages will be promoted. To mitigate this, if there are enough free space in the fast memory node, the hot threshold will not be used, all pages will be promoted upon the hint page fault for fast response. Thanks Zhong Jiang reported and tested the fix for a bug when disabling memory tiering mode dynamically. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713083954.34196-1-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713083954.34196-2-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Tested-by: Baolin Wang Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Wei Xu Cc: osalvador Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Zhong Jiang Cc: Oscar Salvador Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/mprotect: only reference swap pfn page if type match

2022-08-28T21:02:46+00:00

Yu Zhao reported a bug after the commit "mm/swap: Add swp_offset_pfn() to fetch PFN from swap entry" added a check in swp_offset_pfn() for swap type [1]: kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:117! CPU: 46 PID: 5245 Comm: EventManager_De Tainted: G S O L 6.0.0-dbg-DEV #2 RIP: 0010:pfn_swap_entry_to_page+0x72/0xf0 Code: c6 48 8b 36 48 83 fe ff 74 53 48 01 d1 48 83 c1 08 48 8b 09 f6 c1 01 75 7b 66 90 48 89 c1 48 8b 09 f6 c1 01 74 74 5d c3 eb 9e <0f> 0b 48 ba ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 eb ae a9 ff 0f 00 00 75 13 48 RSP: 0018:ffffa59e73fabb80 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 00000000ffffffe8 RBX: 0c00000000000000 RCX: ffffcd5440000000 RDX: 1ffffffffff7a80a RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0c0000000000042b RBP: ffffa59e73fabb80 R08: ffff9965ca6e8bb8 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffffffa5a2f62d R11: 0000030b372e9fff R12: ffff997b79db5738 R13: 000000000000042b R14: 0c0000000000042b R15: 1ffffffffff7a80a FS: 00007f549d1bb700(0000) GS:ffff99d3cf680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000440d035b3180 CR3: 0000002243176004 CR4: 00000000003706e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: change_pte_range+0x36e/0x880 change_p4d_range+0x2e8/0x670 change_protection_range+0x14e/0x2c0 mprotect_fixup+0x1ee/0x330 do_mprotect_pkey+0x34c/0x440 __x64_sys_mprotect+0x1d/0x30 It triggers because pfn_swap_entry_to_page() could be called upon e.g. a genuine swap entry. Fix it by only calling it when it's a write migration entry where the page* is used. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAOUHufaVC2Za-p8m0aiHw6YkheDcrO-C3wRGixwDS32VTS+k1w@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220823221138.45602-1-peterx@redhat.com Fixes: 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Reported-by: Yu Zhao Tested-by: Yu Zhao Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/mprotect: fix soft-dirty check in can_change_pte_writable()

2022-07-30T01:07:18+00:00

Patch series "mm/mprotect: Fix soft-dirty checks", v4. This patch (of 3): The check wanted to make sure when soft-dirty tracking is enabled we won't grant write bit by accident, as a page fault is needed for dirty tracking. The intention is correct but we didn't check it right because VM_SOFTDIRTY set actually means soft-dirty tracking disabled. Fix it. There's another thing tricky about soft-dirty is that, we can't check the vma flag !(vma_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY) directly but only check it after we checked CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY because otherwise VM_SOFTDIRTY will be defined as zero, and !(vma_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY) will constantly return true. To avoid misuse, introduce a helper for checking whether vma has soft-dirty tracking enabled. We can easily verify this with any exclusive anonymous page, like program below: =======8<====== #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define BIT_ULL(nr) (1ULL << (nr)) #define PM_SOFT_DIRTY BIT_ULL(55) unsigned int psize; char *page; uint64_t pagemap_read_vaddr(int fd, void *vaddr) { uint64_t value; int ret; ret = pread(fd, &value, sizeof(uint64_t), ((uint64_t)vaddr >> 12) * sizeof(uint64_t)); assert(ret == sizeof(uint64_t)); return value; } void clear_refs_write(void) { int fd = open("/proc/self/clear_refs", O_RDWR); assert(fd >= 0); write(fd, "4", 2); close(fd); } #define check_soft_dirty(str, expect) do { \ bool dirty = pagemap_read_vaddr(fd, page) & PM_SOFT_DIRTY; \ if (dirty != expect) { \ printf("ERROR: %s, soft-dirty=%d (expect: %d) ", str, dirty, expect); \ exit(-1); \ } \ } while (0) int main(void) { int fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY); assert(fd >= 0); psize = getpagesize(); page = mmap(NULL, psize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0); assert(page != MAP_FAILED); *page = 1; check_soft_dirty("Just faulted in page", 1); clear_refs_write(); check_soft_dirty("Clear_refs written", 0); mprotect(page, psize, PROT_READ); check_soft_dirty("Marked RO", 0); mprotect(page, psize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE); check_soft_dirty("Marked RW", 0); *page = 2; check_soft_dirty("Wrote page again", 1); munmap(page, psize); close(fd); printf("Test passed. "); return 0; } =======8<====== Here we attach a Fixes to commit 64fe24a3e05e only for easy tracking, as this patch won't apply to a tree before that point. However the commit wasn't the source of problem, but instead 64e455079e1b. It's just that after 64fe24a3e05e anonymous memory will also suffer from this problem with mprotect(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220725142048.30450-1-peterx@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220725142048.30450-2-peterx@redhat.com Fixes: 64e455079e1b ("mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared") Fixes: 64fe24a3e05e ("mm/mprotect: try avoiding write faults for exclusive anonymous pages when changing protection") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/mprotect: remove the redundant initialization for error

2022-07-18T00:14:47+00:00

The variable error will be assigned correctly before it is used, the initialization is redundant, so remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220704114112.163112-1-xiujianfeng@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton