kernel/linux.git/mm/percpu.c, branch v6.1.168

mm, percpu: do not consider sleepable allocations atomic

2025-12-06T21:12:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9a5b183941b52f84c0f9e5f27ce44e99318c9e0f ] 28307d938fb2 ("percpu: make pcpu_alloc() aware of current gfp context") has fixed a reclaim recursion for scoped GFP_NOFS context. It has done that by avoiding taking pcpu_alloc_mutex. This is a correct solution as the worker context with full GFP_KERNEL allocation/reclaim power and which is using the same lock cannot block the NOFS pcpu_alloc caller. On the other hand this is a very conservative approach that could lead to failures because pcpu_alloc lockless implementation is quite limited. We have a bug report about premature failures when scsi array of 193 devices is scanned. Sometimes (not consistently) the scanning aborts because the iscsid daemon fails to create the queue for a random scsi device during the scan. iscsid itself is running with PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER set so all allocations from this process context are GFP_NOIO. This in turn makes any pcpu_alloc lockless (without pcpu_alloc_mutex) which leads to pre-mature failures. It has turned out that iscsid has worked around this by dropping PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER (https://github.com/open-iscsi/open-iscsi/pull/382) when scanning host. But we can do better in this case on the kernel side and use pcpu_alloc_mutex for NOIO resp. NOFS constrained allocation scopes too. We just need the WQ worker to never trigger IO/FS reclaim. Achieve that by enforcing scoped GFP_NOIO for the whole execution of pcpu_balance_workfn (this will imply NOFS constrain as well). This will remove the dependency chain and preserve the full allocation power of the pcpu_alloc call. While at it make is_atomic really test for blockable allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250206122633.167896-1-mhocko@kernel.org Fixes: 28307d938fb2 ("percpu: make pcpu_alloc() aware of current gfp context") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Filipe David Manana Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: chenxin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: introduce and use {pgd,p4d}_populate_kernel()

2025-09-19T14:29:55+00:00

commit f2d2f9598ebb0158a3fe17cda0106d7752e654a2 upstream. Introduce and use {pgd,p4d}_populate_kernel() in core MM code when populating PGD and P4D entries for the kernel address space. These helpers ensure proper synchronization of page tables when updating the kernel portion of top-level page tables. Until now, the kernel has relied on each architecture to handle synchronization of top-level page tables in an ad-hoc manner. For example, see commit 9b861528a801 ("x86-64, mem: Update all PGDs for direct mapping and vmemmap mapping changes"). However, this approach has proven fragile for following reasons: 1) It is easy to forget to perform the necessary page table synchronization when introducing new changes. For instance, commit 4917f55b4ef9 ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps") overlooked the need to synchronize page tables for the vmemmap area. 2) It is also easy to overlook that the vmemmap and direct mapping areas must not be accessed before explicit page table synchronization. For example, commit 8d400913c231 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges")) caused crashes by accessing the vmemmap area before calling sync_global_pgds(). To address this, as suggested by Dave Hansen, introduce _kernel() variants of the page table population helpers, which invoke architecture-specific hooks to properly synchronize page tables. These are introduced in a new header file, include/linux/pgalloc.h, so they can be called from common code. They reuse existing infrastructure for vmalloc and ioremap. Synchronization requirements are determined by ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK, and the actual synchronization is performed by arch_sync_kernel_mappings(). This change currently targets only x86_64, so only PGD and P4D level helpers are introduced. Currently, these helpers are no-ops since no architecture sets PGTBL_{PGD,P4D}_MODIFIED in ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK. In theory, PUD and PMD level helpers can be added later if needed by other architectures. For now, 32-bit architectures (x86-32 and arm) only handle PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED, so p*d_populate_kernel() will never affect them unless we introduce a PMD level helper. [harry.yoo@oracle.com: fix KASAN build error due to p*d_populate_kernel()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822020727.202749-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818020206.4517-3-harry.yoo@oracle.com Fixes: 8d400913c231 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges") Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Suggested-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: bibo mao Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Gwan-gyeong Mun Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ Adjust context ] Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: percpu: use kmemleak_ignore_phys() instead of kmemleak_free()

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

Kmemleak recently added a rbtree to store the objects allocted with physical address. Those objects can't be freed with kmemleak_free(). According to the comments, percpu allocations are tracked by kmemleak separately. Kmemleak_free() was used to avoid the unnecessary tracking. If kmemleak_free() fails, those objects would be scanned by kmemleak, which is unnecessary but shouldn't lead to other effects. Use kmemleak_ignore_phys() instead of kmemleak_free() for those objects. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220705113158.127600-1-patrick.wang.shcn@gmail.com Fixes: 0c24e061196c ("mm: kmemleak: add rbtree and store physical address for objects allocated with PA") Signed-off-by: Patrick Wang Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace

2022-05-13T14:20:18+00:00

Add call_site, bytes_alloc and gfp_flags fields to the output of the percpu_alloc_percpu ftrace event: mkdir-4393 [001] 169.334788: percpu_alloc_percpu: call_site=mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0xa6 reserved=0 is_atomic=0 size=2408 align=8 base_addr=0xffffc7117fc00000 off=402176 ptr=0x3dc867a62300 bytes_alloc=14448 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT This is required to track memcg-accounted percpu allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a07be858-c8a3-7851-9086-e3262cbcf707@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'bitmap-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/norov/linux

2022-01-23T04:20:44+00:00

Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov: - introduce for_each_set_bitrange() - use find_first_*_bit() instead of find_next_*_bit() where possible - unify for_each_bit() macros * tag 'bitmap-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/norov/linux: vsprintf: rework bitmap_list_string lib: bitmap: add performance test for bitmap_print_to_pagebuf bitmap: unify find_bit operations mm/percpu: micro-optimize pcpu_is_populated() Replace for_each_*_bit_from() with for_each_*_bit() where appropriate find: micro-optimize for_each_{set,clear}_bit() include/linux: move for_each_bit() macros from bitops.h to find.h cpumask: replace cpumask_next_* with cpumask_first_* where appropriate tools: sync tools/bitmap with mother linux all: replace find_next{,_zero}_bit with find_first{,_zero}_bit where appropriate cpumask: use find_first_and_bit() lib: add find_first_and_bit() arch: remove GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT entirely include: move find.h from asm_generic to linux bitops: move find_bit_*_le functions from le.h to find.h bitops: protect find_first_{,zero}_bit properly

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2022-01-20T08:41:01+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "55 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: percpu, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, get_maintainer, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, nilfs2, hfs, fat, adfs, panic, delayacct, kconfig, kcov, and ubsan" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (55 commits) lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret ubsan: remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE kcov: fix generic Kconfig dependencies if ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR lib/Kconfig.debug: make TEST_KMOD depend on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB btrfs: use generic Kconfig option for 256kB page size limit arch/Kconfig: split PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB from PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB configs: introduce debug.config for CI-like setup delayacct: track delays from memory compact Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst: add thrashing page cache and direct compact delayacct: cleanup flags in struct task_delay_info and functions use it delayacct: fix incomplete disable operation when switch enable to disable delayacct: support swapin delay accounting for swapping without blkio panic: remove oops_id panic: use error_report_end tracepoint on warnings fs/adfs: remove unneeded variable make code cleaner FAT: use io_schedule_timeout() instead of congestion_wait() hfsplus: use struct_group_attr() for memcpy() region nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used ops structs ...

mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function

2022-01-20T06:52:52+00:00

With NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK enabled, we need a function to populate pte, this patch adds a generic pcpu populate pte function, pcpu_populate_pte(), which is marked __weak and used on most architectures, but it is overridden on x86, which has its own implementation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-5-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_fc_alloc/free funciton

2022-01-20T06:52:52+00:00

With the previous patch, we could add a generic pcpu first chunk allocate and free function to cleanup the duplicated definations on each architecture. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: percpu: add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t typedef

2022-01-20T06:52:52+00:00

Add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t and pass it into pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t, pcpu first chunk allocation will call it to alloc memblock on the corresponding node by it, this is prepare for the next patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bitmap: unify find_bit operations

2022-01-15T16:47:31+00:00

bitmap_for_each_{set,clear}_region() are similar to for_each_bit() macros in include/linux/find.h, but interface and implementation of them are different. This patch adds for_each_bitrange() macros and drops unused bitmap_*_region() API in sake of unification. Signed-off-by: Yury Norov Tested-by: Wolfram Sang Acked-by: Dennis Zhou Acked-by: Ulf Hansson # For MMC