kernel/linux.git/mm/rmap.c, branch v5.15.209

mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather

2026-04-18T08:33:18+00:00

commit 8ce720d5bd91e9dc16db3604aa4b1bf76770a9a1 upstream. As reported, ever since commit 1013af4f585f ("mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race") we can end up in some situations where we perform so many IPI broadcasts when unsharing hugetlb PMD page tables that it severely regresses some workloads. In particular, when we fork()+exit(), or when we munmap() a large area backed by many shared PMD tables, we perform one IPI broadcast per unshared PMD table. There are two optimizations to be had: (1) When we process (unshare) multiple such PMD tables, such as during exit(), it is sufficient to send a single IPI broadcast (as long as we respect locking rules) instead of one per PMD table. Locking prevents that any of these PMD tables could get reused before we drop the lock. (2) When we are not the last sharer (> 2 users including us), there is no need to send the IPI broadcast. The shared PMD tables cannot become exclusive (fully unshared) before an IPI will be broadcasted by the last sharer. Concurrent GUP-fast could walk into a PMD table just before we unshared it. It could then succeed in grabbing a page from the shared page table even after munmap() etc succeeded (and supressed an IPI). But there is not difference compared to GUP-fast just sleeping for a while after grabbing the page and re-enabling IRQs. Most importantly, GUP-fast will never walk into page tables that are no-longer shared, because the last sharer will issue an IPI broadcast. (if ever required, checking whether the PUD changed in GUP-fast after grabbing the page like we do in the PTE case could handle this) So let's rework PMD sharing TLB flushing + IPI sync to use the mmu_gather infrastructure so we can implement these optimizations and demystify the code at least a bit. Extend the mmu_gather infrastructure to be able to deal with our special hugetlb PMD table sharing implementation. To make initialization of the mmu_gather easier when working on a single VMA (in particular, when dealing with hugetlb), provide tlb_gather_mmu_vma(). We'll consolidate the handling for (full) unsharing of PMD tables in tlb_unshare_pmd_ptdesc() and tlb_flush_unshared_tables(), and track in "struct mmu_gather" whether we had (full) unsharing of PMD tables. Because locking is very special (concurrent unsharing+reuse must be prevented), we disallow deferring flushing to tlb_finish_mmu() and instead require an explicit earlier call to tlb_flush_unshared_tables(). From hugetlb code, we call huge_pmd_unshare_flush() where we make sure that the expected lock protecting us from concurrent unsharing+reuse is still held. Check with a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() in tlb_finish_mmu() that tlb_flush_unshared_tables() was properly called earlier. Document it all properly. Notes about tlb_remove_table_sync_one() interaction with unsharing: There are two fairly tricky things: (1) tlb_remove_table_sync_one() is a NOP on architectures without CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE. Here, the assumption is that the previous TLB flush would send an IPI to all relevant CPUs. Careful: some architectures like x86 only send IPIs to all relevant CPUs when tlb->freed_tables is set. The relevant architectures should be selecting MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE, but x86 might not do that in stable kernels and it might have been problematic before this patch. Also, the arch flushing behavior (independent of IPIs) is different when tlb->freed_tables is set. Do we have to enlighten them to also take care of tlb->unshared_tables? So far we didn't care, so hopefully we are fine. Of course, we could be setting tlb->freed_tables as well, but that might then unnecessarily flush too much, because the semantics of tlb->freed_tables are a bit fuzzy. This patch changes nothing in this regard. (2) tlb_remove_table_sync_one() is not a NOP on architectures with CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE that actually don't need a sync. Take x86 as an example: in the common case (!pv, !X86_FEATURE_INVLPGB) we still issue IPIs during TLB flushes and don't actually need the second tlb_remove_table_sync_one(). This optimized can be implemented on top of this, by checking e.g., in tlb_remove_table_sync_one() whether we really need IPIs. But as described in (1), it really must honor tlb->freed_tables then to send IPIs to all relevant CPUs. Notes on TLB flushing changes: (1) Flushing for non-shared PMD tables We're converting from flush_hugetlb_tlb_range() to tlb_remove_huge_tlb_entry(). Given that we properly initialize the MMU gather in tlb_gather_mmu_vma() to be hugetlb aware, similar to __unmap_hugepage_range(), that should be fine. (2) Flushing for shared PMD tables We're converting from various things (flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(), tlb_flush_pmd_range(), flush_tlb_range()) to tlb_flush_pmd_range(). tlb_flush_pmd_range() achieves the same that tlb_remove_huge_tlb_entry() would achieve in these scenarios. Note that tlb_remove_huge_tlb_entry() also calls __tlb_remove_tlb_entry(), however that is only implemented on powerpc, which does not support PMD table sharing. Similar to (1), tlb_gather_mmu_vma() should make sure that TLB flushing keeps on working as expected. Further, note that the ptdesc_pmd_pts_dec() in huge_pmd_share() is not a concern, as we are holding the i_mmap_lock the whole time, preventing concurrent unsharing. That ptdesc_pmd_pts_dec() usage will be removed separately as a cleanup later. There are plenty more cleanups to be had, but they have to wait until this is fixed. [david@kernel.org: fix kerneldoc] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f223dd74-331c-412d-93fc-69e360a5006c@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251223214037.580860-5-david@kernel.org Fixes: 1013af4f585f ("mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reported-by: "Uschakow, Stanislav" Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4d3878531c76479d9f8ca9789dc6485d@amazon.de/ Tested-by: Laurence Oberman Acked-by: Harry Yoo Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liu Shixin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ David: We don't have ptdesc and the wrappers, so work directly on page->pt_share_count and pass "struct page" instead of "struct ptdesc". CONFIG_HUGETLB_PMD_PAGE_TABLE_SHARING is still called CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE and is set even without CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE. We don't have 550a7d60bd5e ("mm, hugepages: add mremap() support for hugepage backed vma"), so move_hugetlb_page_tables() does not exist. We don't have 40549ba8f8e0 ("hugetlb: use new vma_lock for pmd sharing synchronization") so changes in mm/rmap.c looks quite different. We don't have 4ddb4d91b82f ("hugetlb: do not update address in huge_pmd_unshare"), so huge_pmd_unshare() still gets a pointer to an address. Some smaller contextual stuff. ] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/rmap: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare()

2026-04-18T08:33:18+00:00

commit a8682d500f691b6dfaa16ae1502d990aeb86e8be upstream. PMD page table unsharing no longer touches the refcount of a PMD page table. Also, it is not about dropping the refcount of a "PMD page" but the "PMD page table". Let's just simplify by saying that the PMD page table was unmapped, consequently also unmapping the folio that was mapped into this page. This code should be deduplicated in the future. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251223214037.580860-4-david@kernel.org Fixes: 59d9094df3d7 ("mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Tested-by: Laurence Oberman Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Liu Shixin Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Lance Yang Cc: "Uschakow, Stanislav" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ David: We don't have 40549ba8f8e0 ("hugetlb: use new vma_lock for pmd sharing synchronization") so there are some contextual differences. ] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/rmap: reject hugetlb folios in folio_make_device_exclusive()

2025-10-02T11:38:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit bc3fe6805cf09a25a086573a17d40e525208c5d8 ] Even though FOLL_SPLIT_PMD on hugetlb now always fails with -EOPNOTSUPP, let's add a safety net in case FOLL_SPLIT_PMD usage would ever be reworked. In particular, before commit 9cb28da54643 ("mm/gup: handle hugetlb in the generic follow_page_mask code"), GUP(FOLL_SPLIT_PMD) would just have returned a page. In particular, hugetlb folios that are not PMD-sized would never have been prone to FOLL_SPLIT_PMD. hugetlb folios can be anonymous, and page_make_device_exclusive_one() is not really prepared for handling them at all. So let's spell that out. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210193801.781278-3-david@redhat.com Fixes: b756a3b5e7ea ("mm: device exclusive memory access") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple Tested-by: Alistair Popple Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Karol Herbst Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Lyude Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Simona Vetter Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yanteng Si Cc: Barry Song Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ folio_test_hugetlb() => PageHuge() ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/rmap: Fix anon_vma->degree ambiguity leading to double-reuse

2022-09-05T08:30:07+00:00

commit 2555283eb40df89945557273121e9393ef9b542b upstream. anon_vma->degree tracks the combined number of child anon_vmas and VMAs that use the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma. anon_vma_clone() then assumes that for any anon_vma attached to src->anon_vma_chain other than src->anon_vma, it is impossible for it to be a leaf node of the VMA tree, meaning that for such VMAs ->degree is elevated by 1 because of a child anon_vma, meaning that if ->degree equals 1 there are no VMAs that use the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma. This assumption is wrong because the ->degree optimization leads to leaf nodes being abandoned on anon_vma_clone() - an existing anon_vma is reused and no new parent-child relationship is created. So it is possible to reuse an anon_vma for one VMA while it is still tied to another VMA. This is an issue because is_mergeable_anon_vma() and its callers assume that if two VMAs have the same ->anon_vma, the list of anon_vmas attached to the VMAs is guaranteed to be the same. When this assumption is violated, vma_merge() can merge pages into a VMA that is not attached to the corresponding anon_vma, leading to dangling page->mapping pointers that will be dereferenced during rmap walks. Fix it by separately tracking the number of child anon_vmas and the number of VMAs using the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma. Fixes: 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy") Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix race between MADV_FREE reclaim and blkdev direct IO read

2022-04-13T18:59:14+00:00

commit 6c8e2a256915a223f6289f651d6b926cd7135c9e upstream. Problem: ======= Userspace might read the zero-page instead of actual data from a direct IO read on a block device if the buffers have been called madvise(MADV_FREE) on earlier (this is discussed below) due to a race between page reclaim on MADV_FREE and blkdev direct IO read. - Race condition: ============== During page reclaim, the MADV_FREE page check in try_to_unmap_one() checks if the page is not dirty, then discards its rmap PTE(s) (vs. remap back if the page is dirty). However, after try_to_unmap_one() returns to shrink_page_list(), it might keep the page _anyway_ if page_ref_freeze() fails (it expects exactly _one_ page reference, from the isolation for page reclaim). Well, blkdev_direct_IO() gets references for all pages, and on READ operations it only sets them dirty _later_. So, if MADV_FREE'd pages (i.e., not dirty) are used as buffers for direct IO read from block devices, and page reclaim happens during __blkdev_direct_IO[_simple]() exactly AFTER bio_iov_iter_get_pages() returns, but BEFORE the pages are set dirty, the situation happens. The direct IO read eventually completes. Now, when userspace reads the buffers, the PTE is no longer there and the page fault handler do_anonymous_page() services that with the zero-page, NOT the data! A synthetic reproducer is provided. - Page faults: =========== If page reclaim happens BEFORE bio_iov_iter_get_pages() the issue doesn't happen, because that faults-in all pages as writeable, so do_anonymous_page() sets up a new page/rmap/PTE, and that is used by direct IO. The userspace reads don't fault as the PTE is there (thus zero-page is not used/setup). But if page reclaim happens AFTER it / BEFORE setting pages dirty, the PTE is no longer there; the subsequent page faults can't help: The data-read from the block device probably won't generate faults due to DMA (no MMU) but even in the case it wouldn't use DMA, that happens on different virtual addresses (not user-mapped addresses) because `struct bio_vec` stores `struct page` to figure addresses out (which are different from user-mapped addresses) for the read. Thus userspace reads (to user-mapped addresses) still fault, then do_anonymous_page() gets another `struct page` that would address/ map to other memory than the `struct page` used by `struct bio_vec` for the read. (The original `struct page` is not available, since it wasn't freed, as page_ref_freeze() failed due to more page refs. And even if it were available, its data cannot be trusted anymore.) Solution: ======== One solution is to check for the expected page reference count in try_to_unmap_one(). There should be one reference from the isolation (that is also checked in shrink_page_list() with page_ref_freeze()) plus one or more references from page mapping(s) (put in discard: label). Further references mean that rmap/PTE cannot be unmapped/nuked. (Note: there might be more than one reference from mapping due to fork()/clone() without CLONE_VM, which use the same `struct page` for references, until the copy-on-write page gets copied.) So, additional page references (e.g., from direct IO read) now prevent the rmap/PTE from being unmapped/dropped; similarly to the page is not freed per shrink_page_list()/page_ref_freeze()). - Races and Barriers: ================== The new check in try_to_unmap_one() should be safe in races with bio_iov_iter_get_pages() in get_user_pages() fast and slow paths, as it's done under the PTE lock. The fast path doesn't take the lock, but it checks if the PTE has changed and if so, it drops the reference and leaves the page for the slow path (which does take that lock). The fast path requires synchronization w/ full memory barrier: it writes the page reference count first then it reads the PTE later, while try_to_unmap() writes PTE first then it reads page refcount. And a second barrier is needed, as the page dirty flag should not be read before the page reference count (as in __remove_mapping()). (This can be a load memory barrier only; no writes are involved.) Call stack/comments: - try_to_unmap_one() - page_vma_mapped_walk() - map_pte() # see pte_offset_map_lock(): pte_offset_map() spin_lock() - ptep_get_and_clear() # write PTE - smp_mb() # (new barrier) GUP fast path - page_ref_count() # (new check) read refcount - page_vma_mapped_walk_done() # see pte_unmap_unlock(): pte_unmap() spin_unlock() - bio_iov_iter_get_pages() - __bio_iov_iter_get_pages() - iov_iter_get_pages() - get_user_pages_fast() - internal_get_user_pages_fast() # fast path - lockless_pages_from_mm() - gup_{pgd,p4d,pud,pmd,pte}_range() ptep = pte_offset_map() # not _lock() pte = ptep_get_lockless(ptep) page = pte_page(pte) try_grab_compound_head(page) # inc refcount # (RMW/barrier # on success) if (pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep)) # read PTE put_compound_head(page) # dec refcount # go slow path # slow path - __gup_longterm_unlocked() - get_user_pages_unlocked() - __get_user_pages_locked() - __get_user_pages() - follow_{page,p4d,pud,pmd}_mask() - follow_page_pte() ptep = pte_offset_map_lock() pte = *ptep page = vm_normal_page(pte) try_grab_page(page) # inc refcount pte_unmap_unlock() - Huge Pages: ========== Regarding transparent hugepages, that logic shouldn't change, as MADV_FREE (aka lazyfree) pages are PageAnon() && !PageSwapBacked() (madvise_free_pte_range() -> mark_page_lazyfree() -> lru_lazyfree_fn()) thus should reach shrink_page_list() -> split_huge_page_to_list() before try_to_unmap[_one](), so it deals with normal pages only. (And in case unlikely/TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD/split_huge_pmd_address() happens, which should not or be rare, the page refcount should be greater than mapcount: the head page is referenced by tail pages. That also prevents checking the head `page` then incorrectly call page_remove_rmap(subpage) for a tail page, that isn't even in the shrink_page_list()'s page_list (an effect of split huge pmd/pmvw), as it might happen today in this unlikely scenario.) MADV_FREE'd buffers: =================== So, back to the "if MADV_FREE pages are used as buffers" note. The case is arguable, and subject to multiple interpretations. The madvise(2) manual page on the MADV_FREE advice value says: 1) 'After a successful MADV_FREE ... data will be lost when the kernel frees the pages.' 2) 'the free operation will be canceled if the caller writes into the page' / 'subsequent writes ... will succeed and then [the] kernel cannot free those dirtied pages' 3) 'If there is no subsequent write, the kernel can free the pages at any time.' Thoughts, questions, considerations... respectively: 1) Since the kernel didn't actually free the page (page_ref_freeze() failed), should the data not have been lost? (on userspace read.) 2) Should writes performed by the direct IO read be able to cancel the free operation? - Should the direct IO read be considered as 'the caller' too, as it's been requested by 'the caller'? - Should the bio technique to dirty pages on return to userspace (bio_check_pages_dirty() is called/used by __blkdev_direct_IO()) be considered in another/special way here? 3) Should an upcoming write from a previously requested direct IO read be considered as a subsequent write, so the kernel should not free the pages? (as it's known at the time of page reclaim.) And lastly: Technically, the last point would seem a reasonable consideration and balance, as the madvise(2) manual page apparently (and fairly) seem to assume that 'writes' are memory access from the userspace process (not explicitly considering writes from the kernel or its corner cases; again, fairly).. plus the kernel fix implementation for the corner case of the largely 'non-atomic write' encompassed by a direct IO read operation, is relatively simple; and it helps. Reproducer: ========== @ test.c (simplified, but works) #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include int main() { int fd, i; char *buf; fd = open(DEV, O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT); buf = mmap(NULL, BUF_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); for (i = 0; i < BUF_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE) buf[i] = 1; // init to non-zero madvise(buf, BUF_SIZE, MADV_FREE); read(fd, buf, BUF_SIZE); for (i = 0; i < BUF_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE) printf("%p: 0x%x\n", &buf[i], buf[i]); return 0; } @ block/fops.c (formerly fs/block_dev.c) +#include ... ... __blkdev_direct_IO[_simple](...) { ... + if (!strcmp(current->comm, "good")) + shrink_all_memory(ULONG_MAX); + ret = bio_iov_iter_get_pages(...); + + if (!strcmp(current->comm, "bad")) + shrink_all_memory(ULONG_MAX); ... } @ shell # NUM_PAGES=4 # PAGE_SIZE=$(getconf PAGE_SIZE) # yes | dd of=test.img bs=${PAGE_SIZE} count=${NUM_PAGES} # DEV=$(losetup -f --show test.img) # gcc -DDEV=\"$DEV\" \ -DBUF_SIZE=$((PAGE_SIZE * NUM_PAGES)) \ -DPAGE_SIZE=${PAGE_SIZE} \ test.c -o test # od -tx1 $DEV 0000000 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a * 0040000 # mv test good # ./good 0x7f7c10418000: 0x79 0x7f7c10419000: 0x79 0x7f7c1041a000: 0x79 0x7f7c1041b000: 0x79 # mv good bad # ./bad 0x7fa1b8050000: 0x0 0x7fa1b8051000: 0x0 0x7fa1b8052000: 0x0 0x7fa1b8053000: 0x0 Note: the issue is consistent on v5.17-rc3, but it's intermittent with the support of MADV_FREE on v4.5 (60%-70% error; needs swap). [wrap do_direct_IO() in do_blockdev_direct_IO() @ fs/direct-io.c]. - v5.17-rc3: # for i in {1..1000}; do ./good; done \ | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c 4000 0x79 # mv good bad # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \ | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c 4000 0x0 # free | grep Swap Swap: 0 0 0 - v4.5: # for i in {1..1000}; do ./good; done \ | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c 4000 0x79 # mv good bad # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \ | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c 2702 0x0 1298 0x79 # swapoff -av swapoff /swap # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \ | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c 4000 0x79 Ceph/TCMalloc: ============= For documentation purposes, the use case driving the analysis/fix is Ceph on Ubuntu 18.04, as the TCMalloc library there still uses MADV_FREE to release unused memory to the system from the mmap'ed page heap (might be committed back/used again; it's not munmap'ed.) - PageHeap::DecommitSpan() -> TCMalloc_SystemRelease() -> madvise() - PageHeap::CommitSpan() -> TCMalloc_SystemCommit() -> do nothing. Note: TCMalloc switched back to MADV_DONTNEED a few commits after the release in Ubuntu 18.04 (google-perftools/gperftools 2.5), so the issue just 'disappeared' on Ceph on later Ubuntu releases but is still present in the kernel, and can be hit by other use cases. The observed issue seems to be the old Ceph bug #22464 [1], where checksum mismatches are observed (and instrumentation with buffer dumps shows zero-pages read from mmap'ed/MADV_FREE'd page ranges). The issue in Ceph was reasonably deemed a kernel bug (comment #50) and mostly worked around with a retry mechanism, but other parts of Ceph could still hit that (rocksdb). Anyway, it's less likely to be hit again as TCMalloc switched out of MADV_FREE by default. (Some kernel versions/reports from the Ceph bug, and relation with the MADV_FREE introduction/changes; TCMalloc versions not checked.) - 4.4 good - 4.5 (madv_free: introduction) - 4.9 bad - 4.10 good? maybe a swapless system - 4.12 (madv_free: no longer free instantly on swapless systems) - 4.13 bad [1] https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/22464 Thanks: ====== Several people contributed to analysis/discussions/tests/reproducers in the first stages when drilling down on ceph/tcmalloc/linux kernel: - Dan Hill - Dan Streetman - Dongdong Tao - Gavin Guo - Gerald Yang - Heitor Alves de Siqueira - Ioanna Alifieraki - Jay Vosburgh - Matthew Ruffell - Ponnuvel Palaniyappan Reviews, suggestions, corrections, comments: - Minchan Kim - Yu Zhao - Huang, Ying - John Hubbard - Christoph Hellwig [mfo@canonical.com: v4] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220209202659.183418-1-mfo@canonical.comLink: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220131230255.789059-1-mfo@canonical.com Fixes: 802a3a92ad7a ("mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages") Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Dan Hill Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Dongdong Tao Cc: Gavin Guo Cc: Gerald Yang Cc: Heitor Alves de Siqueira Cc: Ioanna Alifieraki Cc: Jay Vosburgh Cc: Matthew Ruffell Cc: Ponnuvel Palaniyappan Cc: Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [mfo: backport: replace folio/test_flag with page/flag equivalents; real Fixes: 854e9ed09ded ("mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)") in v4.] Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-09-08T19:55:35+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap, ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan), alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig, selftests, ipc, and scripts" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (94 commits) scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc() selftests/memfd: remove unused variable Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init(). kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot() fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group trap: cleanup trap_init() init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() ...

mm: remove redundant compound_head() calling

2021-09-08T18:50:23+00:00

There is a READ_ONCE() in the macro of compound_head(), which will prevent compiler from optimizing the code when there are more than once calling of it in a function. Remove the redundant calling of compound_head() from page_to_index() and page_add_file_rmap() for better code generation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210811101431.83940-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: David Howells Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: William Kucharski Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'hole_punch_for_v5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

2021-08-30T17:24:50+00:00

Pull fs hole punching vs cache filling race fixes from Jan Kara: "Fix races leading to possible data corruption or stale data exposure in multiple filesystems when hole punching races with operations such as readahead. This is the series I was sending for the last merge window but with your objection fixed - now filemap_fault() has been modified to take invalidate_lock only when we need to create new page in the page cache and / or bring it uptodate" * tag 'hole_punch_for_v5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: filesystems/locking: fix Malformed table warning cifs: Fix race between hole punch and page fault ceph: Fix race between hole punch and page fault fuse: Convert to using invalidate_lock f2fs: Convert to using invalidate_lock zonefs: Convert to using invalidate_lock xfs: Convert double locking of MMAPLOCK to use VFS helpers xfs: Convert to use invalidate_lock xfs: Refactor xfs_isilocked() ext2: Convert to using invalidate_lock ext4: Convert to use mapping->invalidate_lock mm: Add functions to lock invalidate_lock for two mappings mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock documentation: Sync file_operations members with reality mm: Fix comments mentioning i_mutex

mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock

2021-07-13T11:14:27+00:00

Currently, serializing operations such as page fault, read, or readahead against hole punching is rather difficult. The basic race scheme is like: fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) read / fault / .. truncate_inode_pages_range() Now the problem is in this way read / page fault / readahead can instantiate pages in page cache with potentially stale data (if blocks get quickly reused). Avoiding this race is not simple - page locks do not work because we want to make sure there are *no* pages in given range. inode->i_rwsem does not work because page fault happens under mmap_sem which ranks below inode->i_rwsem. Also using it for reads makes the performance for mixed read-write workloads suffer. So create a new rw_semaphore in the address_space - invalidate_lock - that protects adding of pages to page cache for page faults / reads / readahead. Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

mm/rmap: fix munlocking Anon THP with mlocked ptes

2021-07-12T18:30:56+00:00

Many thanks to Kirill for reminding that PageDoubleMap cannot be relied on to warn of pte mappings in the Anon THP case; and a scan of subpages does not seem appropriate here. Note how follow_trans_huge_pmd() does not even mark an Anon THP as mlocked when compound_mapcount != 1: multiple mlocking of Anon THP is avoided, so simply return from page_mlock() in this case. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cfa154c-d595-406-eb7d-eb9df730f944@google.com/ Fixes: d9770fcc1c0c ("mm/rmap: fix old bug: munlocking THP missed other mlocks") Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Ralph Campbell Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Shakeel Butt Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds