kernel/linux.git/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c, branch v6.1.168

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: hugetlb_vmemmap: move vmemmap code related to HugeTLB to hugetlb_vmemmap.c

2022-08-09T01:06:42+00:00

When I first introduced vmemmap manipulation functions related to HugeTLB, I thought those functions may be reused by other modules (e.g. using similar approach to optimize vmemmap pages, unfortunately, the DAX used the same approach but does not use those functions). After two years, we didn't see any other users. So move those functions to hugetlb_vmemmap.c. Code movement without any functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628092235.91270-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xiongchun Duan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-08-05T23:32:45+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Most of the MM queue. A few things are still pending. Liam's maple tree rework didn't make it. This has resulted in a few other minor patch series being held over for next time. Multi-gen LRU still isn't merged as we were waiting for mapletree to stabilize. The current plan is to merge MGLRU into -mm soon and to later reintroduce mapletree, with a view to hopefully getting both into 6.1-rc1. Summary: - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe Lin, Yang Shi, Anshuman Khandual and Mike Rapoport - Some kmemleak fixes from Patrick Wang and Waiman Long - DAMON updates from SeongJae Park - memcg debug/visibility work from Roman Gushchin - vmalloc speedup from Uladzislau Rezki - more folio conversion work from Matthew Wilcox - enhancements for coherent device memory mapping from Alex Sierra - addition of shared pages tracking and CoW support for fsdax, from Shiyang Ruan - hugetlb optimizations from Mike Kravetz - Mel Gorman has contributed some pagealloc changes to improve latency and realtime behaviour. - mprotect soft-dirty checking has been improved by Peter Xu - Many other singleton patches all over the place" [ XFS merge from hell as per Darrick Wong in https://lore.kernel.org/all/YshKnxb4VwXycPO8@magnolia/ ] * tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (282 commits) tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c: fix build mm: Kconfig: fix typo mm: memory-failure: convert to pr_fmt() mm: use is_zone_movable_page() helper hugetlbfs: fix inaccurate comment in hugetlbfs_statfs() hugetlbfs: cleanup some comments in inode.c hugetlbfs: remove unneeded header file hugetlbfs: remove unneeded hugetlbfs_ops forward declaration hugetlbfs: use helper macro SZ_1{K,M} mm: cleanup is_highmem() mm/hmm: add a test for cross device private faults selftests: add soft-dirty into run_vmtests.sh selftests: soft-dirty: add test for mprotect mm/mprotect: fix soft-dirty check in can_change_pte_writable() mm: memcontrol: fix potential oom_lock recursion deadlock mm/gup.c: fix formatting in check_and_migrate_movable_page() xfs: fail dax mount if reflink is enabled on a partition mm/memcontrol.c: remove the redundant updating of stats_flush_threshold userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features hugetlb_cgroup: fix wrong hugetlb cgroup numa stat ...

Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi

2022-08-03T21:38:02+00:00

Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel: - Enable mirrored memory for arm64 - Fix up several abuses of the efivar API - Refactor the efivar API in preparation for moving the 'business logic' part of it into efivarfs - Enable ACPI PRM on arm64 * tag 'efi-next-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (24 commits) ACPI: Move PRM config option under the main ACPI config ACPI: Enable Platform Runtime Mechanism(PRM) support on ARM64 ACPI: PRM: Change handler_addr type to void pointer efi: Simplify arch_efi_call_virt() macro drivers: fix typo in firmware/efi/memmap.c efi: vars: Drop __efivar_entry_iter() helper which is no longer used efi: vars: Use locking version to iterate over efivars linked lists efi: pstore: Omit efivars caching EFI varstore access layer efi: vars: Add thin wrapper around EFI get/set variable interface efi: vars: Don't drop lock in the middle of efivar_init() pstore: Add priv field to pstore_record for backend specific use Input: applespi - avoid efivars API and invoke EFI services directly selftests/kexec: remove broken EFI_VARS secure boot fallback check brcmfmac: Switch to appropriate helper to load EFI variable contents iwlwifi: Switch to proper EFI variable store interface media: atomisp_gmin_platform: stop abusing efivar API efi: efibc: avoid efivar API for setting variables efi: avoid efivars layer when loading SSDTs from variables efi: Correct comment on efi_memmap_alloc memblock: Disable mirror feature if kernelcore is not specified ...

mm: sparsemem: drop unexpected word 'a' in comments

2022-07-04T01:08:50+00:00

there is an unexpected word 'a' in the comments that need to be dropped Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/24fbdae3.c86.1819a0f31b9.Coremail.chenxuebing@jari.cn Signed-off-by: XueBing Chen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: sparsemem: fix missing higher order allocation splitting

2022-07-03T22:42:32+00:00

Higher order allocations for vmemmap pages from buddy allocator must be able to be treated as indepdenent small pages as they can be freed individually by the caller. There is no problem for higher order vmemmap pages allocated at boot time since each individual small page will be initialized at boot time. However, it will be an issue for memory hotplug case since those higher order vmemmap pages are allocated from buddy allocator without initializing each individual small page's refcount. The system will panic in put_page_testzero() when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled if the vmemmap page is freed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220620023019.94257-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Fixes: d8d55f5616cf ("mm: sparsemem: use page table lock to protect kernel pmd operations") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Xiongchun Duan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

docs: rename Documentation/vm to Documentation/mm

2022-06-27T19:52:53+00:00

so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox Tested-by: Ira Weiny Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng

mm/sparse-vmemmap.c: remove unwanted initialization in vmemmap_populate_compound_pages()

2022-06-17T02:48:32+00:00

Remove unnecessary initialization for the variable 'next'. This fixes the clang scan warning: Value stored to 'next' during its initialization is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220612182320.160651-1-gautammenghani201@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Joao Martins Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: use PAGE_ALIGNED instead of IS_ALIGNED

2022-06-17T02:48:27+00:00

already provides the PAGE_ALIGNED macro. Let's use this macro instead of IS_ALIGNED and passing PAGE_SIZE directly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220526140257.1568744-1-bh1scw@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Fanjun Kong Acked-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Limit warning message in vmemmap_verify() to once

2022-06-15T10:14:08+00:00

For a system only have limited mirrored memory or some numa node without mirrored memory, the per node vmemmap page_structs prefer to allocate memory from mirrored region, which will lead to vmemmap_verify() in vmemmap_populate_basepages() report lots of warning message. This patch change the frequency of "potential offnode page_structs" warning messages to only once to avoid a very long print during bootup. Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220614092156.1972846-4-mawupeng1@huawei.com Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel