kernel/linux.git/mm/readahead.c, branch v7.0.10

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T19:32:37+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari) - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky) - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang) - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code (SeongJae Park) - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc" performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park) - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui Song) - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits) mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table() mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles zsmalloc: make common caches global mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers mm/readahead: fix typo in comment mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file() mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area ...

mm/readahead: fix typo in comment

2026-02-06T23:47:16+00:00

Fix a typo in a comment: max_readhead -> max_readahead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260127152535.321951-1-cheng20011202@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wilson Zeng Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

readahead: push invalidate_lock out of page_cache_ra_unbounded

2026-02-02T20:38:13+00:00

Require the invalidate_lock to be held over calls to page_cache_ra_unbounded instead of acquiring it in this function. This prepares for calling page_cache_ra_unbounded from ->readahead for fsverity read-ahead. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260202060754.270269-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers

mm/filemap: Add NUMA mempolicy support to filemap_alloc_folio()

2025-10-20T13:30:25+00:00

Add a mempolicy parameter to filemap_alloc_folio() to enable NUMA-aware page cache allocations. This will be used by upcoming changes to support NUMA policies in guest-memfd, where guest_memory need to be allocated NUMA policy specified by VMM. All existing users pass NULL maintaining current behavior. Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg Tested-by: Ashish Kalra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250827175247.83322-4-shivankg@amd.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson

readahead: add trace points

2025-09-21T21:22:28+00:00

Add a couple of trace points to make debugging readahead logic easier. [jack@suse.cz: v2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250909145849.5090-2-jack@suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250908145533.31528-2-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Tested-by: Pankaj Raghav Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

readahead: use folio_nr_pages() instead of shift operation

2025-07-20T01:59:53+00:00

folio_nr_pages() is faster helper function to get the number of pages when NR_PAGES_IN_LARGE_FOLIO is enabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250710060451.3535957-1-chizhiling@163.com Signed-off-by: Chi Zhiling Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/readahead: store folio order in struct file_ra_state

2025-07-10T05:42:03+00:00

Previously the folio order of the previous readahead request was inferred from the folio who's readahead marker was hit. But due to the way we have to round to non-natural boundaries sometimes, this first folio in the readahead block is often smaller than the preferred order for that request. This means that for cases where the initial sync readahead is poorly aligned, the folio order will ramp up much more slowly. So instead, let's store the order in struct file_ra_state so we are not affected by any required alignment. We previously made enough room in the struct for a 16 order field. This should be plenty big enough since we are limited to MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER anyway, which is certainly never larger than ~20. Since we now pass order in struct file_ra_state, page_cache_ra_order() no longer needs it's new_order parameter, so let's remove that. Worked example: Here we are touching pages 17-256 sequentially just as we did in the previous commit, but now that we are remembering the preferred order explicitly, we no longer have the slow ramp up problem. Note specifically that we no longer have 2 rounds (2x ~128K) of order-2 folios: TYPE STARTOFFS ENDOFFS SIZE STARTPG ENDPG NRPG ORDER RA ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -- HOLE 0x00000000 0x00001000 4096 0 1 1 FOLIO 0x00001000 0x00002000 4096 1 2 1 0 FOLIO 0x00002000 0x00003000 4096 2 3 1 0 FOLIO 0x00003000 0x00004000 4096 3 4 1 0 FOLIO 0x00004000 0x00005000 4096 4 5 1 0 FOLIO 0x00005000 0x00006000 4096 5 6 1 0 FOLIO 0x00006000 0x00007000 4096 6 7 1 0 FOLIO 0x00007000 0x00008000 4096 7 8 1 0 FOLIO 0x00008000 0x00009000 4096 8 9 1 0 FOLIO 0x00009000 0x0000a000 4096 9 10 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000a000 0x0000b000 4096 10 11 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000b000 0x0000c000 4096 11 12 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000c000 0x0000d000 4096 12 13 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000d000 0x0000e000 4096 13 14 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000e000 0x0000f000 4096 14 15 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000f000 0x00010000 4096 15 16 1 0 FOLIO 0x00010000 0x00011000 4096 16 17 1 0 FOLIO 0x00011000 0x00012000 4096 17 18 1 0 FOLIO 0x00012000 0x00013000 4096 18 19 1 0 FOLIO 0x00013000 0x00014000 4096 19 20 1 0 FOLIO 0x00014000 0x00015000 4096 20 21 1 0 FOLIO 0x00015000 0x00016000 4096 21 22 1 0 FOLIO 0x00016000 0x00017000 4096 22 23 1 0 FOLIO 0x00017000 0x00018000 4096 23 24 1 0 FOLIO 0x00018000 0x00019000 4096 24 25 1 0 FOLIO 0x00019000 0x0001a000 4096 25 26 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001a000 0x0001b000 4096 26 27 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001b000 0x0001c000 4096 27 28 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001c000 0x0001d000 4096 28 29 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001d000 0x0001e000 4096 29 30 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001e000 0x0001f000 4096 30 31 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001f000 0x00020000 4096 31 32 1 0 FOLIO 0x00020000 0x00021000 4096 32 33 1 0 FOLIO 0x00021000 0x00022000 4096 33 34 1 0 FOLIO 0x00022000 0x00024000 8192 34 36 2 1 FOLIO 0x00024000 0x00028000 16384 36 40 4 2 FOLIO 0x00028000 0x0002c000 16384 40 44 4 2 FOLIO 0x0002c000 0x00030000 16384 44 48 4 2 FOLIO 0x00030000 0x00034000 16384 48 52 4 2 FOLIO 0x00034000 0x00038000 16384 52 56 4 2 FOLIO 0x00038000 0x0003c000 16384 56 60 4 2 FOLIO 0x0003c000 0x00040000 16384 60 64 4 2 FOLIO 0x00040000 0x00050000 65536 64 80 16 4 FOLIO 0x00050000 0x00060000 65536 80 96 16 4 FOLIO 0x00060000 0x00080000 131072 96 128 32 5 FOLIO 0x00080000 0x000a0000 131072 128 160 32 5 FOLIO 0x000a0000 0x000c0000 131072 160 192 32 5 FOLIO 0x000c0000 0x000e0000 131072 192 224 32 5 FOLIO 0x000e0000 0x00100000 131072 224 256 32 5 FOLIO 0x00100000 0x00120000 131072 256 288 32 5 FOLIO 0x00120000 0x00140000 131072 288 320 32 5 Y HOLE 0x00140000 0x00800000 7077888 320 2048 1728 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250609092729.274960-5-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Chaitanya S Prakash Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/readahead: terminate async readahead on natural boundary

2025-07-10T05:42:02+00:00

Previously asynchonous readahead would read ra_pages (usually 128K) directly after the end of the synchonous readahead and given the synchronous readahead portion had no alignment guarantees (beyond page boundaries) it is possible (and likely) that the end of the initial 128K region would not fall on a natural boundary for the folio size being used. Therefore smaller folios were used to align down to the required boundary, both at the end of the previous readahead block and at the start of the new one. In the worst cases, this can result in never properly ramping up the folio size, and instead getting stuck oscillating between order-0, -1 and -2 folios. The next readahead will try to use folios whose order is +2 bigger than the folio that had the readahead marker. But because of the alignment requirements, that folio (the first one in the readahead block) can end up being order-0 in some cases. There will be 2 modifications to solve this issue: 1) Calculate the readahead size so the end is aligned to a folio boundary. This prevents needing to allocate small folios to align down at the end of the window and fixes the oscillation problem. 2) Remember the "preferred folio order" in the ra state instead of inferring it from the folio with the readahead marker. This solves the slow ramp up problem (discussed in a subsequent patch). This patch addresses (1) only. A subsequent patch will address (2). Worked example: The following shows the previous pathalogical behaviour when the initial synchronous readahead is unaligned. We start reading at page 17 in the file and read sequentially from there. I'm showing a dump of the pages in the page cache just after we read the first page of the folio with the readahead marker. Initially there are no pages in the page cache: TYPE STARTOFFS ENDOFFS SIZE STARTPG ENDPG NRPG ORDER RA ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -- HOLE 0x00000000 0x00800000 8388608 0 2048 2048 Then we access page 17, causing synchonous read-around of 128K with a readahead marker set up at page 25. So far, all as expected: TYPE STARTOFFS ENDOFFS SIZE STARTPG ENDPG NRPG ORDER RA ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -- HOLE 0x00000000 0x00001000 4096 0 1 1 FOLIO 0x00001000 0x00002000 4096 1 2 1 0 FOLIO 0x00002000 0x00003000 4096 2 3 1 0 FOLIO 0x00003000 0x00004000 4096 3 4 1 0 FOLIO 0x00004000 0x00005000 4096 4 5 1 0 FOLIO 0x00005000 0x00006000 4096 5 6 1 0 FOLIO 0x00006000 0x00007000 4096 6 7 1 0 FOLIO 0x00007000 0x00008000 4096 7 8 1 0 FOLIO 0x00008000 0x00009000 4096 8 9 1 0 FOLIO 0x00009000 0x0000a000 4096 9 10 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000a000 0x0000b000 4096 10 11 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000b000 0x0000c000 4096 11 12 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000c000 0x0000d000 4096 12 13 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000d000 0x0000e000 4096 13 14 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000e000 0x0000f000 4096 14 15 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000f000 0x00010000 4096 15 16 1 0 FOLIO 0x00010000 0x00011000 4096 16 17 1 0 FOLIO 0x00011000 0x00012000 4096 17 18 1 0 FOLIO 0x00012000 0x00013000 4096 18 19 1 0 FOLIO 0x00013000 0x00014000 4096 19 20 1 0 FOLIO 0x00014000 0x00015000 4096 20 21 1 0 FOLIO 0x00015000 0x00016000 4096 21 22 1 0 FOLIO 0x00016000 0x00017000 4096 22 23 1 0 FOLIO 0x00017000 0x00018000 4096 23 24 1 0 FOLIO 0x00018000 0x00019000 4096 24 25 1 0 FOLIO 0x00019000 0x0001a000 4096 25 26 1 0 Y FOLIO 0x0001a000 0x0001b000 4096 26 27 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001b000 0x0001c000 4096 27 28 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001c000 0x0001d000 4096 28 29 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001d000 0x0001e000 4096 29 30 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001e000 0x0001f000 4096 30 31 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001f000 0x00020000 4096 31 32 1 0 FOLIO 0x00020000 0x00021000 4096 32 33 1 0 HOLE 0x00021000 0x00800000 8253440 33 2048 2015 Now access pages 18-25 inclusive. This causes an asynchronous 128K readahead starting at page 33. But since we are unaligned, even though the preferred folio order is 2, the first folio in this batch (the one with the new readahead marker) is order-0: TYPE STARTOFFS ENDOFFS SIZE STARTPG ENDPG NRPG ORDER RA ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -- HOLE 0x00000000 0x00001000 4096 0 1 1 FOLIO 0x00001000 0x00002000 4096 1 2 1 0 FOLIO 0x00002000 0x00003000 4096 2 3 1 0 FOLIO 0x00003000 0x00004000 4096 3 4 1 0 FOLIO 0x00004000 0x00005000 4096 4 5 1 0 FOLIO 0x00005000 0x00006000 4096 5 6 1 0 FOLIO 0x00006000 0x00007000 4096 6 7 1 0 FOLIO 0x00007000 0x00008000 4096 7 8 1 0 FOLIO 0x00008000 0x00009000 4096 8 9 1 0 FOLIO 0x00009000 0x0000a000 4096 9 10 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000a000 0x0000b000 4096 10 11 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000b000 0x0000c000 4096 11 12 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000c000 0x0000d000 4096 12 13 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000d000 0x0000e000 4096 13 14 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000e000 0x0000f000 4096 14 15 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000f000 0x00010000 4096 15 16 1 0 FOLIO 0x00010000 0x00011000 4096 16 17 1 0 FOLIO 0x00011000 0x00012000 4096 17 18 1 0 FOLIO 0x00012000 0x00013000 4096 18 19 1 0 FOLIO 0x00013000 0x00014000 4096 19 20 1 0 FOLIO 0x00014000 0x00015000 4096 20 21 1 0 FOLIO 0x00015000 0x00016000 4096 21 22 1 0 FOLIO 0x00016000 0x00017000 4096 22 23 1 0 FOLIO 0x00017000 0x00018000 4096 23 24 1 0 FOLIO 0x00018000 0x00019000 4096 24 25 1 0 FOLIO 0x00019000 0x0001a000 4096 25 26 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001a000 0x0001b000 4096 26 27 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001b000 0x0001c000 4096 27 28 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001c000 0x0001d000 4096 28 29 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001d000 0x0001e000 4096 29 30 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001e000 0x0001f000 4096 30 31 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001f000 0x00020000 4096 31 32 1 0 FOLIO 0x00020000 0x00021000 4096 32 33 1 0 FOLIO 0x00021000 0x00022000 4096 33 34 1 0 Y FOLIO 0x00022000 0x00024000 8192 34 36 2 1 FOLIO 0x00024000 0x00028000 16384 36 40 4 2 FOLIO 0x00028000 0x0002c000 16384 40 44 4 2 FOLIO 0x0002c000 0x00030000 16384 44 48 4 2 FOLIO 0x00030000 0x00034000 16384 48 52 4 2 FOLIO 0x00034000 0x00038000 16384 52 56 4 2 FOLIO 0x00038000 0x0003c000 16384 56 60 4 2 FOLIO 0x0003c000 0x00040000 16384 60 64 4 2 FOLIO 0x00040000 0x00041000 4096 64 65 1 0 HOLE 0x00041000 0x00800000 8122368 65 2048 1983 Which means that when we now read pages 26-33 and readahead is kicked off again, the new preferred order is 2 (0 + 2), not 4 as we intended: TYPE STARTOFFS ENDOFFS SIZE STARTPG ENDPG NRPG ORDER RA ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -- HOLE 0x00000000 0x00001000 4096 0 1 1 FOLIO 0x00001000 0x00002000 4096 1 2 1 0 FOLIO 0x00002000 0x00003000 4096 2 3 1 0 FOLIO 0x00003000 0x00004000 4096 3 4 1 0 FOLIO 0x00004000 0x00005000 4096 4 5 1 0 FOLIO 0x00005000 0x00006000 4096 5 6 1 0 FOLIO 0x00006000 0x00007000 4096 6 7 1 0 FOLIO 0x00007000 0x00008000 4096 7 8 1 0 FOLIO 0x00008000 0x00009000 4096 8 9 1 0 FOLIO 0x00009000 0x0000a000 4096 9 10 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000a000 0x0000b000 4096 10 11 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000b000 0x0000c000 4096 11 12 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000c000 0x0000d000 4096 12 13 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000d000 0x0000e000 4096 13 14 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000e000 0x0000f000 4096 14 15 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000f000 0x00010000 4096 15 16 1 0 FOLIO 0x00010000 0x00011000 4096 16 17 1 0 FOLIO 0x00011000 0x00012000 4096 17 18 1 0 FOLIO 0x00012000 0x00013000 4096 18 19 1 0 FOLIO 0x00013000 0x00014000 4096 19 20 1 0 FOLIO 0x00014000 0x00015000 4096 20 21 1 0 FOLIO 0x00015000 0x00016000 4096 21 22 1 0 FOLIO 0x00016000 0x00017000 4096 22 23 1 0 FOLIO 0x00017000 0x00018000 4096 23 24 1 0 FOLIO 0x00018000 0x00019000 4096 24 25 1 0 FOLIO 0x00019000 0x0001a000 4096 25 26 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001a000 0x0001b000 4096 26 27 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001b000 0x0001c000 4096 27 28 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001c000 0x0001d000 4096 28 29 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001d000 0x0001e000 4096 29 30 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001e000 0x0001f000 4096 30 31 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001f000 0x00020000 4096 31 32 1 0 FOLIO 0x00020000 0x00021000 4096 32 33 1 0 FOLIO 0x00021000 0x00022000 4096 33 34 1 0 FOLIO 0x00022000 0x00024000 8192 34 36 2 1 FOLIO 0x00024000 0x00028000 16384 36 40 4 2 FOLIO 0x00028000 0x0002c000 16384 40 44 4 2 FOLIO 0x0002c000 0x00030000 16384 44 48 4 2 FOLIO 0x00030000 0x00034000 16384 48 52 4 2 FOLIO 0x00034000 0x00038000 16384 52 56 4 2 FOLIO 0x00038000 0x0003c000 16384 56 60 4 2 FOLIO 0x0003c000 0x00040000 16384 60 64 4 2 FOLIO 0x00040000 0x00041000 4096 64 65 1 0 FOLIO 0x00041000 0x00042000 4096 65 66 1 0 Y FOLIO 0x00042000 0x00044000 8192 66 68 2 1 FOLIO 0x00044000 0x00048000 16384 68 72 4 2 FOLIO 0x00048000 0x0004c000 16384 72 76 4 2 FOLIO 0x0004c000 0x00050000 16384 76 80 4 2 FOLIO 0x00050000 0x00054000 16384 80 84 4 2 FOLIO 0x00054000 0x00058000 16384 84 88 4 2 FOLIO 0x00058000 0x0005c000 16384 88 92 4 2 FOLIO 0x0005c000 0x00060000 16384 92 96 4 2 FOLIO 0x00060000 0x00061000 4096 96 97 1 0 HOLE 0x00061000 0x00800000 7991296 97 2048 1951 This ramp up from order-0 with smaller orders at the edges for alignment cycle continues all the way to the end of the file (not shown). After the change, we round down the end boundary to the order boundary so we no longer get stuck in the cycle and can ramp up the order over time. Note that the rate of the ramp up is still not as we would expect it. We will fix that next. Here we are touching pages 17-256 sequentially: TYPE STARTOFFS ENDOFFS SIZE STARTPG ENDPG NRPG ORDER RA ----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------- ------- ----- ----- -- HOLE 0x00000000 0x00001000 4096 0 1 1 FOLIO 0x00001000 0x00002000 4096 1 2 1 0 FOLIO 0x00002000 0x00003000 4096 2 3 1 0 FOLIO 0x00003000 0x00004000 4096 3 4 1 0 FOLIO 0x00004000 0x00005000 4096 4 5 1 0 FOLIO 0x00005000 0x00006000 4096 5 6 1 0 FOLIO 0x00006000 0x00007000 4096 6 7 1 0 FOLIO 0x00007000 0x00008000 4096 7 8 1 0 FOLIO 0x00008000 0x00009000 4096 8 9 1 0 FOLIO 0x00009000 0x0000a000 4096 9 10 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000a000 0x0000b000 4096 10 11 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000b000 0x0000c000 4096 11 12 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000c000 0x0000d000 4096 12 13 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000d000 0x0000e000 4096 13 14 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000e000 0x0000f000 4096 14 15 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000f000 0x00010000 4096 15 16 1 0 FOLIO 0x00010000 0x00011000 4096 16 17 1 0 FOLIO 0x00011000 0x00012000 4096 17 18 1 0 FOLIO 0x00012000 0x00013000 4096 18 19 1 0 FOLIO 0x00013000 0x00014000 4096 19 20 1 0 FOLIO 0x00014000 0x00015000 4096 20 21 1 0 FOLIO 0x00015000 0x00016000 4096 21 22 1 0 FOLIO 0x00016000 0x00017000 4096 22 23 1 0 FOLIO 0x00017000 0x00018000 4096 23 24 1 0 FOLIO 0x00018000 0x00019000 4096 24 25 1 0 FOLIO 0x00019000 0x0001a000 4096 25 26 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001a000 0x0001b000 4096 26 27 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001b000 0x0001c000 4096 27 28 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001c000 0x0001d000 4096 28 29 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001d000 0x0001e000 4096 29 30 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001e000 0x0001f000 4096 30 31 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001f000 0x00020000 4096 31 32 1 0 FOLIO 0x00020000 0x00021000 4096 32 33 1 0 FOLIO 0x00021000 0x00022000 4096 33 34 1 0 FOLIO 0x00022000 0x00024000 8192 34 36 2 1 FOLIO 0x00024000 0x00028000 16384 36 40 4 2 FOLIO 0x00028000 0x0002c000 16384 40 44 4 2 FOLIO 0x0002c000 0x00030000 16384 44 48 4 2 FOLIO 0x00030000 0x00034000 16384 48 52 4 2 FOLIO 0x00034000 0x00038000 16384 52 56 4 2 FOLIO 0x00038000 0x0003c000 16384 56 60 4 2 FOLIO 0x0003c000 0x00040000 16384 60 64 4 2 FOLIO 0x00040000 0x00044000 16384 64 68 4 2 FOLIO 0x00044000 0x00048000 16384 68 72 4 2 FOLIO 0x00048000 0x0004c000 16384 72 76 4 2 FOLIO 0x0004c000 0x00050000 16384 76 80 4 2 FOLIO 0x00050000 0x00054000 16384 80 84 4 2 FOLIO 0x00054000 0x00058000 16384 84 88 4 2 FOLIO 0x00058000 0x0005c000 16384 88 92 4 2 FOLIO 0x0005c000 0x00060000 16384 92 96 4 2 FOLIO 0x00060000 0x00070000 65536 96 112 16 4 FOLIO 0x00070000 0x00080000 65536 112 128 16 4 FOLIO 0x00080000 0x000a0000 131072 128 160 32 5 FOLIO 0x000a0000 0x000c0000 131072 160 192 32 5 FOLIO 0x000c0000 0x000e0000 131072 192 224 32 5 FOLIO 0x000e0000 0x00100000 131072 224 256 32 5 FOLIO 0x00100000 0x00120000 131072 256 288 32 5 FOLIO 0x00120000 0x00140000 131072 288 320 32 5 Y HOLE 0x00140000 0x00800000 7077888 320 2048 1728 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250609092729.274960-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Chaitanya S Prakash Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/readahead: honour new_order in page_cache_ra_order()

2025-07-10T05:42:02+00:00

Patch series "Readahead tweaks for larger folios", v5. This series adds some tweaks to readahead so that it does a better job of ramping up folio sizes as readahead extends further into the file. And it additionally special-cases executable mappings to allow the arch to request a preferred folio size for text. This patch (of 5): page_cache_ra_order() takes a parameter called new_order, which is intended to express the preferred order of the folios that will be allocated for the readahead operation. Most callers indeed call this with their preferred new order. But page_cache_async_ra() calls it with the preferred order of the previous readahead request (actually the order of the folio that had the readahead marker, which may be smaller when alignment comes into play). And despite the parameter name, page_cache_ra_order() always treats it at the old order, adding 2 to it on entry. As a result, a cold readahead always starts with order-2 folios. Let's fix this behaviour by always passing in the *new* order. Worked example: Prior to the change, mmaping an 8MB file and touching each page sequentially, resulted in the following, where we start with order-2 folios for the first 128K then ramp up to order-4 for the next 128K, then get clamped to order-5 for the rest of the file because pa_pages is limited to 128K: TYPE STARTOFFS ENDOFFS SIZE STARTPG ENDPG NRPG ORDER ----- ---------- ---------- --------- ------- ------- ----- ----- FOLIO 0x00000000 0x00004000 16384 0 4 4 2 FOLIO 0x00004000 0x00008000 16384 4 8 4 2 FOLIO 0x00008000 0x0000c000 16384 8 12 4 2 FOLIO 0x0000c000 0x00010000 16384 12 16 4 2 FOLIO 0x00010000 0x00014000 16384 16 20 4 2 FOLIO 0x00014000 0x00018000 16384 20 24 4 2 FOLIO 0x00018000 0x0001c000 16384 24 28 4 2 FOLIO 0x0001c000 0x00020000 16384 28 32 4 2 FOLIO 0x00020000 0x00030000 65536 32 48 16 4 FOLIO 0x00030000 0x00040000 65536 48 64 16 4 FOLIO 0x00040000 0x00060000 131072 64 96 32 5 FOLIO 0x00060000 0x00080000 131072 96 128 32 5 FOLIO 0x00080000 0x000a0000 131072 128 160 32 5 FOLIO 0x000a0000 0x000c0000 131072 160 192 32 5 ... After the change, the same operation results in the first 128K being order-0, then we start ramping up to order-2, -4, and finally get clamped at order-5: TYPE STARTOFFS ENDOFFS SIZE STARTPG ENDPG NRPG ORDER ----- ---------- ---------- --------- ------- ------- ----- ----- FOLIO 0x00000000 0x00001000 4096 0 1 1 0 FOLIO 0x00001000 0x00002000 4096 1 2 1 0 FOLIO 0x00002000 0x00003000 4096 2 3 1 0 FOLIO 0x00003000 0x00004000 4096 3 4 1 0 FOLIO 0x00004000 0x00005000 4096 4 5 1 0 FOLIO 0x00005000 0x00006000 4096 5 6 1 0 FOLIO 0x00006000 0x00007000 4096 6 7 1 0 FOLIO 0x00007000 0x00008000 4096 7 8 1 0 FOLIO 0x00008000 0x00009000 4096 8 9 1 0 FOLIO 0x00009000 0x0000a000 4096 9 10 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000a000 0x0000b000 4096 10 11 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000b000 0x0000c000 4096 11 12 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000c000 0x0000d000 4096 12 13 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000d000 0x0000e000 4096 13 14 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000e000 0x0000f000 4096 14 15 1 0 FOLIO 0x0000f000 0x00010000 4096 15 16 1 0 FOLIO 0x00010000 0x00011000 4096 16 17 1 0 FOLIO 0x00011000 0x00012000 4096 17 18 1 0 FOLIO 0x00012000 0x00013000 4096 18 19 1 0 FOLIO 0x00013000 0x00014000 4096 19 20 1 0 FOLIO 0x00014000 0x00015000 4096 20 21 1 0 FOLIO 0x00015000 0x00016000 4096 21 22 1 0 FOLIO 0x00016000 0x00017000 4096 22 23 1 0 FOLIO 0x00017000 0x00018000 4096 23 24 1 0 FOLIO 0x00018000 0x00019000 4096 24 25 1 0 FOLIO 0x00019000 0x0001a000 4096 25 26 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001a000 0x0001b000 4096 26 27 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001b000 0x0001c000 4096 27 28 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001c000 0x0001d000 4096 28 29 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001d000 0x0001e000 4096 29 30 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001e000 0x0001f000 4096 30 31 1 0 FOLIO 0x0001f000 0x00020000 4096 31 32 1 0 FOLIO 0x00020000 0x00024000 16384 32 36 4 2 FOLIO 0x00024000 0x00028000 16384 36 40 4 2 FOLIO 0x00028000 0x0002c000 16384 40 44 4 2 FOLIO 0x0002c000 0x00030000 16384 44 48 4 2 FOLIO 0x00030000 0x00034000 16384 48 52 4 2 FOLIO 0x00034000 0x00038000 16384 52 56 4 2 FOLIO 0x00038000 0x0003c000 16384 56 60 4 2 FOLIO 0x0003c000 0x00040000 16384 60 64 4 2 FOLIO 0x00040000 0x00050000 65536 64 80 16 4 FOLIO 0x00050000 0x00060000 65536 80 96 16 4 FOLIO 0x00060000 0x00080000 131072 96 128 32 5 FOLIO 0x00080000 0x000a0000 131072 128 160 32 5 FOLIO 0x000a0000 0x000c0000 131072 160 192 32 5 FOLIO 0x000c0000 0x000e0000 131072 192 224 32 5 ... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250609092729.274960-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250609092729.274960-2-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Tested-by: Chaitanya S Prakash Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs: add S_ANON_INODE

2025-04-21T11:20:14+00:00

This makes it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead(). Readahead on anonymous inodes didn't work because they didn't have a proper mode. Now that they have we need to retain EINVAL being returned otherwise LTP will fail. We also need to ensure that ioctls aren't simply fired like they are for regular files so things like inotify inodes continue to correctly call their own ioctl handlers as in [1]. Reported-by: Xilin Wu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3A9139D5CD543962+89831381-31b9-4392-87ec-a84a5b3507d8@radxa.com [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/7a1a7076-ff6b-4cb0-94e7-7218a0a44028@sirena.org.uk Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner