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

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

2026-03-25T10:03:14+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. move_hugetlb_page_tables() still uses flush_tlb_range() instead of flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(). 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()

2026-02-06T15:44:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit a8682d500f691b6dfaa16ae1502d990aeb86e8be ] 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/rmap: reject hugetlb folios in folio_make_device_exclusive()

2025-04-25T08:43:42+00:00

commit bc3fe6805cf09a25a086573a17d40e525208c5d8 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/hwpoison: convert TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON to TTU_HWPOISON

2023-03-10T08:34:25+00:00

commit 6da6b1d4a7df8c35770186b53ef65d388398e139 upstream. After a memory error happens on a clean folio, a process unexpectedly receives SIGBUS when it accesses the error page. This SIGBUS killing is pointless and simply degrades the level of RAS of the system, because the clean folio can be dropped without any data lost on memory error handling as we do for a clean pagecache. When memory_failure() is called on a clean folio, try_to_unmap() is called twice (one from split_huge_page() and one from hwpoison_user_mappings()). The root cause of the issue is that pte conversion to hwpoisoned entry is now done in the first call of try_to_unmap() because PageHWPoison is already set at this point, while it's actually expected to be done in the second call. This behavior disturbs the error handling operation like removing pagecache, which results in the malfunction described above. So convert TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON into TTU_HWPOISON and set TTU_HWPOISON only when we really intend to convert pte to hwpoison entry. This can prevent other callers of try_to_unmap() from accidentally converting to hwpoison entries. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230221085905.1465385-1-naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev Fixes: a42634a6c07d ("readahead: Use a folio in read_pages()") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that). - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock contention. Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees. Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up. - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down to the single bit level. KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones. - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of memory into THPs. - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to support file/shmem-backed pages. - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and memory-failure - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages. - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced memory consumption. - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song. - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner. - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :( - migration enhancements from Peter Xu - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM drivers, etc. - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn. - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand. - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging activity. - THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng. - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox. - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov. - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia. - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups. - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song. - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1] * tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits) hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file() mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE ...

hugetlb: use new vma_lock for pmd sharing synchronization

2022-10-03T21:03:17+00:00

The new hugetlb vma lock is used to address this race: Faulting thread Unsharing thread ... ... ptep = huge_pte_offset() or ptep = huge_pte_alloc() ... i_mmap_lock_write lock page table ptep invalid <------------------------ huge_pmd_unshare() Could be in a previously unlock_page_table sharing process or worse i_mmap_unlock_write ... The vma_lock is used as follows: - During fault processing. The lock is acquired in read mode before doing a page table lock and allocation (huge_pte_alloc). The lock is held until code is finished with the page table entry (ptep). - The lock must be held in write mode whenever huge_pmd_unshare is called. Lock ordering issues come into play when unmapping a page from all vmas mapping the page. The i_mmap_rwsem must be held to search for the vmas, and the vma lock must be held before calling unmap which will call huge_pmd_unshare. This is done today in: - try_to_migrate_one and try_to_unmap_ for page migration and memory error handling. In these routines we 'try' to obtain the vma lock and fail to unmap if unsuccessful. Calling routines already deal with the failure of unmapping. - hugetlb_vmdelete_list for truncation and hole punch. This routine also tries to acquire the vma lock. If it fails, it skips the unmapping. However, we can not have file truncation or hole punch fail because of contention. After hugetlb_vmdelete_list, truncation and hole punch call remove_inode_hugepages. remove_inode_hugepages checks for mapped pages and call hugetlb_unmap_file_page to unmap them. hugetlb_unmap_file_page is designed to drop locks and reacquire in the correct order to guarantee unmap success. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914221810.95771-9-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: James Houghton Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mina Almasry Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Prakash Sangappa Cc: Sven Schnelle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

hugetlb: add vma based lock for pmd sharing

2022-10-03T21:03:17+00:00

Allocate a new hugetlb_vma_lock structure and hang off vm_private_data for synchronization use by vmas that could be involved in pmd sharing. This data structure contains a rw semaphore that is the primary tool used for synchronization. This new structure is ref counted, so that it can exist when NOT attached to a vma. This is only helpful in resolving lock ordering issues where code may need to obtain the vma_lock while there are no guarantees the vma may go away. By obtaining a ref on the structure, it can be guaranteed that at least the rw semaphore will not go away. Only add infrastructure for the new lock here. Actual use will be added in subsequent patches. [mike.kravetz@oracle.com: fix build issue for missing hugetlb_vma_lock_release] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YyNUtA1vRASOE4+M@monkey Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914221810.95771-7-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: James Houghton Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mina Almasry Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Prakash Sangappa Cc: Sven Schnelle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

hugetlbfs: revert use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization

2022-10-03T21:03:16+00:00

Commit c0d0381ade79 ("hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization") added code to take i_mmap_rwsem in read mode for the duration of fault processing. However, this has been shown to cause performance/scaling issues. Revert the code and go back to only taking the semaphore in huge_pmd_share during the fault path. Keep the code that takes i_mmap_rwsem in write mode before calling try_to_unmap as this is required if huge_pmd_unshare is called. NOTE: Reverting this code does expose the following race condition. Faulting thread Unsharing thread ... ... ptep = huge_pte_offset() or ptep = huge_pte_alloc() ... i_mmap_lock_write lock page table ptep invalid <------------------------ huge_pmd_unshare() Could be in a previously unlock_page_table sharing process or worse i_mmap_unlock_write ... ptl = huge_pte_lock(ptep) get/update pte set_pte_at(pte, ptep) It is unknown if the above race was ever experienced by a user. It was discovered via code inspection when initially addressed. In subsequent patches, a new synchronization mechanism will be added to coordinate pmd sharing and eliminate this race. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914221810.95771-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: James Houghton Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mina Almasry Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Prakash Sangappa Cc: Sven Schnelle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

rmap: remove page_unlock_anon_vma_read()

2022-10-03T21:02:54+00:00

This was simply an alias for anon_vma_unlock_read() since 2011. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220902194653.1739778-56-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: convert page_get_anon_vma() to folio_get_anon_vma()

2022-10-03T21:02:54+00:00

With all callers now passing in a folio, rename the function and convert all callers. Removes a couple of calls to compound_head() and a reference to page->mapping. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220902194653.1739778-55-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton