kernel/linux.git/mm/percpu.c, branch v6.6.131

mm, percpu: do not consider sleepable allocations atomic

2025-11-24T09:30:10+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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: chenxin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2025-09-19T14:32:01+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: Introduce flush_cache_vmap_early()

2024-02-16T18:10:52+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7a92fc8b4d20680e4c20289a670d8fca2d1f2c1b ] The pcpu setup when using the page allocator sets up a new vmalloc mapping very early in the boot process, so early that it cannot use the flush_cache_vmap() function which may depend on structures not yet initialized (for example in riscv, we currently send an IPI to flush other cpus TLB). But on some architectures, we must call flush_cache_vmap(): for example, in riscv, some uarchs can cache invalid TLB entries so we need to flush the new established mapping to avoid taking an exception. So fix this by introducing a new function flush_cache_vmap_early() which is called right after setting the new page table entry and before accessing this new mapping. This new function implements a local flush tlb on riscv and is no-op for other architectures (same as today). Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Stable-dep-of: d9807d60c145 ("riscv: mm: execute local TLB flush after populating vmemmap") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm/percpu.c: print error message too if atomic alloc failed

2023-08-25T15:04:59+00:00

The variable 'err' is assgigned to an error message if atomic alloc failed, while it has no chance to be printed if is_atomic is true. Here change to print error message too if atomic alloc failed, while avoid to call dump_stack() if that case. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

mm/percpu.c: optimize the code in pcpu_setup_first_chunk() a little bit

2023-08-25T15:04:59+00:00

This removes the need of local varibale 'chunk', and optimize the code calling pcpu_alloc_first_chunk() to initialize reserved chunk and dynamic chunk to make it simpler. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He [Dennis: reworded first chunk init comment] Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

mm/percpu.c: remove redundant check

2023-08-25T15:04:59+00:00

The conditional check "(ai->dyn_size < PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE) has covered the check '(!ai->dyn_size)'. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

mm/percpu: Remove some local variables in pcpu_populate_pte

2023-08-25T15:04:59+00:00

In function pcpu_populate_pte there are already variable defined, it can be reused for later use, here remove duplicated local variables. Signed-off-by: Bibo Mao Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled()

2023-02-17T04:43:56+00:00

Currently there are two kmem-related helper functions with a confusing semantics: memcg_kmem_enabled() and mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled(). The problem is that an obvious expectation memcg_kmem_enabled() == !mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled(), can be false. mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled() is similar to mem_cgroup_disabled(): it returns true only if CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is not set or the kmem accounting is disabled using a boot time kernel option "cgroup.memory=nokmem". It never changes the value dynamically. memcg_kmem_enabled() is different: it always returns false until the first non-root memory cgroup will get online (assuming the kernel memory accounting is enabled). It's goal is to improve the performance on systems without the cgroupfs mounted/memory controller enabled or on the systems with only the root memory cgroup. To make things more obvious and avoid potential bugs, let's rename memcg_kmem_enabled() to memcg_kmem_online(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230213192922.1146370-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Acked-by: Muchun Song Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Dennis Zhou Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/percpu.c: remove the lcm code since block size is fixed at page size

2022-11-08T06:59:18+00:00

Since commit b239f7daf553 ("percpu: set PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE to PAGE_SIZE"), the PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE has been set to page size fixedly. So the lcm code in pcpu_alloc_first_chunk() doesn't make sense any more, clean it up. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou

mm/percpu: replace the goto with break

2022-11-08T06:59:15+00:00

In function pcpu_reclaim_populated(), the line of goto jumping is unnecessary since the label 'end_chunk' is near the end of the for loop, use break instead. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou