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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-01-15 21:37:06 +0300
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parent76fd0285b447991267e838842c0be7395eb454bb (diff)
downloadlinux-f56caedaf94f9ced5dbfcdb0060a3e788d2078af.tar.xz
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "146 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts, ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap, memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and damon)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (146 commits) mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst225
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/index.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/page_migration.rst12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst56
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst153
12 files changed, 464 insertions, 68 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
index 338f2c7d7a1c..0fa724d82abb 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
@@ -29,12 +29,14 @@ Brief summary of control files::
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB usage limit
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.numa_stat # show the numa information of the hugetlb memory charged to this cgroup
For a system supporting three hugepage sizes (64k, 32M and 1G), the control
files include::
hugetlb.1GB.limit_in_bytes
hugetlb.1GB.max_usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.1GB.numa_stat
hugetlb.1GB.usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.1GB.failcnt
hugetlb.1GB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes
@@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ files include::
hugetlb.1GB.rsvd.failcnt
hugetlb.64KB.limit_in_bytes
hugetlb.64KB.max_usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.64KB.numa_stat
hugetlb.64KB.usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.64KB.failcnt
hugetlb.64KB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes
@@ -51,6 +54,7 @@ files include::
hugetlb.64KB.rsvd.failcnt
hugetlb.32MB.limit_in_bytes
hugetlb.32MB.max_usage_in_bytes
+ hugetlb.32MB.numa_stat
hugetlb.32MB.usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.32MB.failcnt
hugetlb.32MB.rsvd.limit_in_bytes
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 2aeb7ae8b393..5aa368d165da 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1268,6 +1268,9 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
The number of processes belonging to this cgroup
killed by any kind of OOM killer.
+ oom_group_kill
+ The number of times a group OOM has occurred.
+
memory.events.local
Similar to memory.events but the fields in the file are local
to the cgroup i.e. not hierarchical. The file modified event
@@ -1311,6 +1314,9 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
sock (npn)
Amount of memory used in network transmission buffers
+ vmalloc (npn)
+ Amount of memory used for vmap backed memory.
+
shmem
Amount of cached filesystem data that is swap-backed,
such as tmpfs, shm segments, shared anonymous mmap()s
@@ -2260,6 +2266,11 @@ HugeTLB Interface Files
are local to the cgroup i.e. not hierarchical. The file modified event
generated on this file reflects only the local events.
+ hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.numa_stat
+ Similar to memory.numa_stat, it shows the numa information of the
+ hugetlb pages of <hugepagesize> in this cgroup. Only active in
+ use hugetlb pages are included. The per-node values are in bytes.
+
Misc
----
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst
index fb9def3a7355..0af51a9705b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim.rst
@@ -208,6 +208,31 @@ PID of the DAMON thread.
If DAMON_RECLAIM is enabled, this becomes the PID of the worker thread. Else,
-1.
+nr_reclaim_tried_regions
+------------------------
+
+Number of memory regions that tried to be reclaimed by DAMON_RECLAIM.
+
+bytes_reclaim_tried_regions
+---------------------------
+
+Total bytes of memory regions that tried to be reclaimed by DAMON_RECLAIM.
+
+nr_reclaimed_regions
+--------------------
+
+Number of memory regions that successfully be reclaimed by DAMON_RECLAIM.
+
+bytes_reclaimed_regions
+-----------------------
+
+Total bytes of memory regions that successfully be reclaimed by DAMON_RECLAIM.
+
+nr_quota_exceeds
+----------------
+
+Number of times that the time/space quota limits have exceeded.
+
Example
=======
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index ed96bbf0daff..59b84904a854 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -7,37 +7,40 @@ Detailed Usages
DAMON provides below three interfaces for different users.
- *DAMON user space tool.*
- This is for privileged people such as system administrators who want a
- just-working human-friendly interface. Using this, users can use the DAMON’s
- major features in a human-friendly way. It may not be highly tuned for
- special cases, though. It supports both virtual and physical address spaces
- monitoring.
+ `This <https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is for privileged people such as
+ system administrators who want a just-working human-friendly interface.
+ Using this, users can use the DAMON’s major features in a human-friendly way.
+ It may not be highly tuned for special cases, though. It supports both
+ virtual and physical address spaces monitoring. For more detail, please
+ refer to its `usage document
+ <https://github.com/awslabs/damo/blob/next/USAGE.md>`_.
- *debugfs interface.*
- This is for privileged user space programmers who want more optimized use of
- DAMON. Using this, users can use DAMON’s major features by reading
- from and writing to special debugfs files. Therefore, you can write and use
- your personalized DAMON debugfs wrapper programs that reads/writes the
- debugfs files instead of you. The DAMON user space tool is also a reference
- implementation of such programs. It supports both virtual and physical
- address spaces monitoring.
+ :ref:`This <debugfs_interface>` is for privileged user space programmers who
+ want more optimized use of DAMON. Using this, users can use DAMON’s major
+ features by reading from and writing to special debugfs files. Therefore,
+ you can write and use your personalized DAMON debugfs wrapper programs that
+ reads/writes the debugfs files instead of you. The `DAMON user space tool
+ <https://github.com/awslabs/damo>`_ is one example of such programs. It
+ supports both virtual and physical address spaces monitoring. Note that this
+ interface provides only simple :ref:`statistics <damos_stats>` for the
+ monitoring results. For detailed monitoring results, DAMON provides a
+ :ref:`tracepoint <tracepoint>`.
- *Kernel Space Programming Interface.*
- This is for kernel space programmers. Using this, users can utilize every
- feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by writing kernel space
- DAMON application programs for you. You can even extend DAMON for various
- address spaces.
+ :doc:`This </vm/damon/api>` is for kernel space programmers. Using this,
+ users can utilize every feature of DAMON most flexibly and efficiently by
+ writing kernel space DAMON application programs for you. You can even extend
+ DAMON for various address spaces. For detail, please refer to the interface
+ :doc:`document </vm/damon/api>`.
-Nevertheless, you could write your own user space tool using the debugfs
-interface. A reference implementation is available at
-https://github.com/awslabs/damo. If you are a kernel programmer, you could
-refer to :doc:`/vm/damon/api` for the kernel space programming interface. For
-the reason, this document describes only the debugfs interface
+
+.. _debugfs_interface:
debugfs Interface
=================
-DAMON exports five files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, ``init_regions``,
-``schemes`` and ``monitor_on`` under its debugfs directory,
-``<debugfs>/damon/``.
+DAMON exports eight files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, ``init_regions``,
+``schemes``, ``monitor_on``, ``kdamond_pid``, ``mk_contexts`` and
+``rm_contexts`` under its debugfs directory, ``<debugfs>/damon/``.
Attributes
@@ -131,24 +134,38 @@ Schemes
For usual DAMON-based data access aware memory management optimizations, users
would simply want the system to apply a memory management action to a memory
-region of a specific size having a specific access frequency for a specific
-time. DAMON receives such formalized operation schemes from the user and
-applies those to the target processes. It also counts the total number and
-size of regions that each scheme is applied. This statistics can be used for
-online analysis or tuning of the schemes.
+region of a specific access pattern. DAMON receives such formalized operation
+schemes from the user and applies those to the target processes.
Users can get and set the schemes by reading from and writing to ``schemes``
debugfs file. Reading the file also shows the statistics of each scheme. To
-the file, each of the schemes should be represented in each line in below form:
+the file, each of the schemes should be represented in each line in below
+form::
+
+ <target access pattern> <action> <quota> <watermarks>
+
+You can disable schemes by simply writing an empty string to the file.
+
+Target Access Pattern
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The ``<target access pattern>`` is constructed with three ranges in below
+form::
+
+ min-size max-size min-acc max-acc min-age max-age
- min-size max-size min-acc max-acc min-age max-age action
+Specifically, bytes for the size of regions (``min-size`` and ``max-size``),
+number of monitored accesses per aggregate interval for access frequency
+(``min-acc`` and ``max-acc``), number of aggregate intervals for the age of
+regions (``min-age`` and ``max-age``) are specified. Note that the ranges are
+closed interval.
-Note that the ranges are closed interval. Bytes for the size of regions
-(``min-size`` and ``max-size``), number of monitored accesses per aggregate
-interval for access frequency (``min-acc`` and ``max-acc``), number of
-aggregate intervals for the age of regions (``min-age`` and ``max-age``), and a
-predefined integer for memory management actions should be used. The supported
-numbers and their meanings are as below.
+Action
+~~~~~~
+
+The ``<action>`` is a predefined integer for memory management actions, which
+DAMON will apply to the regions having the target access pattern. The
+supported numbers and their meanings are as below.
- 0: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_WILLNEED``
- 1: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_COLD``
@@ -157,20 +174,82 @@ numbers and their meanings are as below.
- 4: Call ``madvise()`` for the region with ``MADV_NOHUGEPAGE``
- 5: Do nothing but count the statistics
-You can disable schemes by simply writing an empty string to the file. For
-example, below commands applies a scheme saying "If a memory region of size in
-[4KiB, 8KiB] is showing accesses per aggregate interval in [0, 5] for aggregate
-interval in [10, 20], page out the region", check the entered scheme again, and
-finally remove the scheme. ::
+Quota
+~~~~~
- # cd <debugfs>/damon
- # echo "4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2" > schemes
- # cat schemes
- 4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2 0 0
- # echo > schemes
+Optimal ``target access pattern`` for each ``action`` is workload dependent, so
+not easy to find. Worse yet, setting a scheme of some action too aggressive
+can cause severe overhead. To avoid such overhead, users can limit time and
+size quota for the scheme via the ``<quota>`` in below form::
+
+ <ms> <sz> <reset interval> <priority weights>
+
+This makes DAMON to try to use only up to ``<ms>`` milliseconds for applying
+the action to memory regions of the ``target access pattern`` within the
+``<reset interval>`` milliseconds, and to apply the action to only up to
+``<sz>`` bytes of memory regions within the ``<reset interval>``. Setting both
+``<ms>`` and ``<sz>`` zero disables the quota limits.
+
+When the quota limit is expected to be exceeded, DAMON prioritizes found memory
+regions of the ``target access pattern`` based on their size, access frequency,
+and age. For personalized prioritization, users can set the weights for the
+three properties in ``<priority weights>`` in below form::
+
+ <size weight> <access frequency weight> <age weight>
+
+Watermarks
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Some schemes would need to run based on current value of the system's specific
+metrics like free memory ratio. For such cases, users can specify watermarks
+for the condition.::
+
+ <metric> <check interval> <high mark> <middle mark> <low mark>
+
+``<metric>`` is a predefined integer for the metric to be checked. The
+supported numbers and their meanings are as below.
+
+ - 0: Ignore the watermarks
+ - 1: System's free memory rate (per thousand)
+
+The value of the metric is checked every ``<check interval>`` microseconds.
+
+If the value is higher than ``<high mark>`` or lower than ``<low mark>``, the
+scheme is deactivated. If the value is lower than ``<mid mark>``, the scheme
+is activated.
+
+.. _damos_stats:
+
+Statistics
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+It also counts the total number and bytes of regions that each scheme is tried
+to be applied, the two numbers for the regions that each scheme is successfully
+applied, and the total number of the quota limit exceeds. This statistics can
+be used for online analysis or tuning of the schemes.
+
+The statistics can be shown by reading the ``schemes`` file. Reading the file
+will show each scheme you entered in each line, and the five numbers for the
+statistics will be added at the end of each line.
-The last two integers in the 4th line of above example is the total number and
-the total size of the regions that the scheme is applied.
+Example
+~~~~~~~
+
+Below commands applies a scheme saying "If a memory region of size in [4KiB,
+8KiB] is showing accesses per aggregate interval in [0, 5] for aggregate
+interval in [10, 20], page out the region. For the paging out, use only up to
+10ms per second, and also don't page out more than 1GiB per second. Under the
+limitation, page out memory regions having longer age first. Also, check the
+free memory rate of the system every 5 seconds, start the monitoring and paging
+out when the free memory rate becomes lower than 50%, but stop it if the free
+memory rate becomes larger than 60%, or lower than 30%".::
+
+ # cd <debugfs>/damon
+ # scheme="4096 8192 0 5 10 20 2" # target access pattern and action
+ # scheme+=" 10 $((1024*1024*1024)) 1000" # quotas
+ # scheme+=" 0 0 100" # prioritization weights
+ # scheme+=" 1 5000000 600 500 300" # watermarks
+ # echo "$scheme" > schemes
Turning On/Off
@@ -195,6 +274,54 @@ the monitoring is turned on. If you write to the files while DAMON is running,
an error code such as ``-EBUSY`` will be returned.
+Monitoring Thread PID
+---------------------
+
+DAMON does requested monitoring with a kernel thread called ``kdamond``. You
+can get the pid of the thread by reading the ``kdamond_pid`` file. When the
+monitoring is turned off, reading the file returns ``none``. ::
+
+ # cd <debugfs>/damon
+ # cat monitor_on
+ off
+ # cat kdamond_pid
+ none
+ # echo on > monitor_on
+ # cat kdamond_pid
+ 18594
+
+
+Using Multiple Monitoring Threads
+---------------------------------
+
+One ``kdamond`` thread is created for each monitoring context. You can create
+and remove monitoring contexts for multiple ``kdamond`` required use case using
+the ``mk_contexts`` and ``rm_contexts`` files.
+
+Writing the name of the new context to the ``mk_contexts`` file creates a
+directory of the name on the DAMON debugfs directory. The directory will have
+DAMON debugfs files for the context. ::
+
+ # cd <debugfs>/damon
+ # ls foo
+ # ls: cannot access 'foo': No such file or directory
+ # echo foo > mk_contexts
+ # ls foo
+ # attrs init_regions kdamond_pid schemes target_ids
+
+If the context is not needed anymore, you can remove it and the corresponding
+directory by putting the name of the context to the ``rm_contexts`` file. ::
+
+ # echo foo > rm_contexts
+ # ls foo
+ # ls: cannot access 'foo': No such file or directory
+
+Note that ``mk_contexts``, ``rm_contexts``, and ``monitor_on`` files are in the
+root directory only.
+
+
+.. _tracepoint:
+
Tracepoint for Monitoring Results
=================================
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
index 64fd0ba0d057..5a6afecbb0d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ follows:
Memory Policy APIs
==================
-Linux supports 3 system calls for controlling memory policy. These APIS
+Linux supports 4 system calls for controlling memory policy. These APIS
always affect only the calling task, the calling task's address space, or
some shared object mapped into the calling task's address space.
@@ -460,6 +460,20 @@ requested via the 'flags' argument.
See the mbind(2) man page for more details.
+Set home node for a Range of Task's Address Spacec::
+
+ long sys_set_mempolicy_home_node(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
+ unsigned long home_node,
+ unsigned long flags);
+
+sys_set_mempolicy_home_node set the home node for a VMA policy present in the
+task's address range. The system call updates the home node only for the existing
+mempolicy range. Other address ranges are ignored. A home node is the NUMA node
+closest to which page allocation will come from. Specifying the home node override
+the default allocation policy to allocate memory close to the local node for an
+executing CPU.
+
+
Memory Policy Command Line Interface
====================================
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index 5e795202111f..f4804ce37c58 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ how much memory needs to be free before kswapd goes back to sleep.
The unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 10 means the
distances between watermarks are 0.1% of the available memory in the
-node/system. The maximum value is 1000, or 10% of memory.
+node/system. The maximum value is 3000, or 30% of memory.
A high rate of threads entering direct reclaim (allocstall) or kswapd
going to sleep prematurely (kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly) can indicate
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 8d7f141c6fc7..061744c436d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -426,12 +426,14 @@ with the memory region, as the case would be with BSS (uninitialized data).
The "pathname" shows the name associated file for this mapping. If the mapping
is not associated with a file:
- ======= ====================================
+ ============= ====================================
[heap] the heap of the program
[stack] the stack of the main process
[vdso] the "virtual dynamic shared object",
the kernel system call handler
- ======= ====================================
+ [anon:<name>] an anonymous mapping that has been
+ named by userspace
+ ============= ====================================
or if empty, the mapping is anonymous.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst b/Documentation/vm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst
index 552567d863b8..f8b225fc9190 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst
@@ -66,9 +66,11 @@ PTE Page Table Helpers
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| pte_mknotpresent | Invalidates a mapped PTE |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
-| ptep_get_and_clear | Clears a PTE |
+| ptep_clear | Clears a PTE |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
-| ptep_get_and_clear_full | Clears a PTE |
+| ptep_get_and_clear | Clears and returns PTE |
++---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
+| ptep_get_and_clear_full | Clears and returns PTE (batched PTE unmap) |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| ptep_test_and_clear_young | Clears young from a PTE |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
@@ -247,12 +249,12 @@ SWAP Page Table Helpers
| __swp_to_pmd_entry | Creates a mapped PMD from a swapped entry (arch) |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| is_migration_entry | Tests a migration (read or write) swapped entry |
-+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
-| is_write_migration_entry | Tests a write migration swapped entry |
-+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
-| make_migration_entry_read | Converts into read migration swapped entry |
-+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
-| make_migration_entry | Creates a migration swapped entry (read or write)|
-+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
++-------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
+| is_writable_migration_entry | Tests a write migration swapped entry |
++-------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
+| make_readable_migration_entry | Creates a read migration swapped entry |
++-------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
+| make_writable_migration_entry | Creates a write migration swapped entry |
++-------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20181017020930.GN30832@redhat.com/
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/index.rst
index 6f5ffef4b716..932440805453 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst
@@ -31,10 +31,12 @@ algorithms. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, see the
page_migration
page_frags
page_owner
+ page_table_check
remap_file_pages
slub
split_page_table_lock
transhuge
unevictable-lru
+ vmalloced-kernel-stacks
z3fold
zsmalloc
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_migration.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_migration.rst
index 08810f549f70..8c5cb8147e55 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/page_migration.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/page_migration.rst
@@ -263,15 +263,15 @@ Monitoring Migration
The following events (counters) can be used to monitor page migration.
1. PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS: Normal page migration success. Each count means that a
- page was migrated. If the page was a non-THP page, then this counter is
- increased by one. If the page was a THP, then this counter is increased by
- the number of THP subpages. For example, migration of a single 2MB THP that
- has 4KB-size base pages (subpages) will cause this counter to increase by
- 512.
+ page was migrated. If the page was a non-THP and non-hugetlb page, then
+ this counter is increased by one. If the page was a THP or hugetlb, then
+ this counter is increased by the number of THP or hugetlb subpages.
+ For example, migration of a single 2MB THP that has 4KB-size base pages
+ (subpages) will cause this counter to increase by 512.
2. PGMIGRATE_FAIL: Normal page migration failure. Same counting rules as for
PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS, above: this will be increased by the number of subpages,
- if it was a THP.
+ if it was a THP or hugetlb.
3. THP_MIGRATION_SUCCESS: A THP was migrated without being split.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst
new file mode 100644
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+.. _page_table_check:
+
+================
+Page Table Check
+================
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+Page table check allows to hardern the kernel by ensuring that some types of
+the memory corruptions are prevented.
+
+Page table check performs extra verifications at the time when new pages become
+accessible from the userspace by getting their page table entries (PTEs PMDs
+etc.) added into the table.
+
+In case of detected corruption, the kernel is crashed. There is a small
+performance and memory overhead associated with the page table check. Therefore,
+it is disabled by default, but can be optionally enabled on systems where the
+extra hardening outweighs the performance costs. Also, because page table check
+is synchronous, it can help with debugging double map memory corruption issues,
+by crashing kernel at the time wrong mapping occurs instead of later which is
+often the case with memory corruptions bugs.
+
+Double mapping detection logic
+==============================
+
++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+
+| Current Mapping | New mapping | Permissions | Rule |
++===================+===================+===================+==================+
+| Anonymous | Anonymous | Read | Allow |
++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+
+| Anonymous | Anonymous | Read / Write | Prohibit |
++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+
+| Anonymous | Named | Any | Prohibit |
++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+
+| Named | Anonymous | Any | Prohibit |
++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+
+| Named | Named | Any | Allow |
++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+
+
+Enabling Page Table Check
+=========================
+
+Build kernel with:
+
+- PAGE_TABLE_CHECK=y
+ Note, it can only be enabled on platforms where ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
+ is available.
+
+- Boot with 'page_table_check=on' kernel parameter.
+
+Optionally, build kernel with PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED in order to have page
+table support without extra kernel parameter.
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=====================================
+Virtually Mapped Kernel Stack Support
+=====================================
+
+:Author: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+.. contents:: :local:
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+This is a compilation of information from the code and original patch
+series that introduced the `Virtually Mapped Kernel Stacks feature
+<https://lwn.net/Articles/694348/>`
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Kernel stack overflows are often hard to debug and make the kernel
+susceptible to exploits. Problems could show up at a later time making
+it difficult to isolate and root-cause.
+
+Virtually-mapped kernel stacks with guard pages causes kernel stack
+overflows to be caught immediately rather than causing difficult to
+diagnose corruptions.
+
+HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK and VMAP_STACK configuration options enable
+support for virtually mapped stacks with guard pages. This feature
+causes reliable faults when the stack overflows. The usability of
+the stack trace after overflow and response to the overflow itself
+is architecture dependent.
+
+.. note::
+ As of this writing, arm64, powerpc, riscv, s390, um, and x86 have
+ support for VMAP_STACK.
+
+HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
+--------------------
+
+Architectures that can support Virtually Mapped Kernel Stacks should
+enable this bool configuration option. The requirements are:
+
+- vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. This
+ may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
+- Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
+ vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
+ needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
+ unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
+ most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
+ are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
+- If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
+ should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
+ instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
+
+VMAP_STACK
+----------
+
+VMAP_STACK bool configuration option when enabled allocates virtually
+mapped task stacks. This option depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK.
+
+- Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
+ with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be caught
+ immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose corruption.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Using this feature with KASAN requires architecture support
+ for backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and
+ KASAN_VMALLOC must be enabled.
+
+.. note::
+
+ VMAP_STACK is enabled, it is not possible to run DMA on stack
+ allocated data.
+
+Kernel configuration options and dependencies keep changing. Refer to
+the latest code base:
+
+`Kconfig <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/Kconfig>`
+
+Allocation
+-----------
+
+When a new kernel thread is created, thread stack is allocated from
+virtually contiguous memory pages from the page level allocator. These
+pages are mapped into contiguous kernel virtual space with PAGE_KERNEL
+protections.
+
+alloc_thread_stack_node() calls __vmalloc_node_range() to allocate stack
+with PAGE_KERNEL protections.
+
+- Allocated stacks are cached and later reused by new threads, so memcg
+ accounting is performed manually on assigning/releasing stacks to tasks.
+ Hence, __vmalloc_node_range is called without __GFP_ACCOUNT.
+- vm_struct is cached to be able to find when thread free is initiated
+ in interrupt context. free_thread_stack() can be called in interrupt
+ context.
+- On arm64, all VMAP's stacks need to have the same alignment to ensure
+ that VMAP'd stack overflow detection works correctly. Arch specific
+ vmap stack allocator takes care of this detail.
+- This does not address interrupt stacks - according to the original patch
+
+Thread stack allocation is initiated from clone(), fork(), vfork(),
+kernel_thread() via kernel_clone(). Leaving a few hints for searching
+the code base to understand when and how thread stack is allocated.
+
+Bulk of the code is in:
+`kernel/fork.c <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/fork.c>`.
+
+stack_vm_area pointer in task_struct keeps track of the virtually allocated
+stack and a non-null stack_vm_area pointer serves as a indication that the
+virtually mapped kernel stacks are enabled.
+
+::
+
+ struct vm_struct *stack_vm_area;
+
+Stack overflow handling
+-----------------------
+
+Leading and trailing guard pages help detect stack overflows. When stack
+overflows into the guard pages, handlers have to be careful not overflow
+the stack again. When handlers are called, it is likely that very little
+stack space is left.
+
+On x86, this is done by handling the page fault indicating the kernel
+stack overflow on the double-fault stack.
+
+Testing VMAP allocation with guard pages
+----------------------------------------
+
+How do we ensure that VMAP_STACK is actually allocating with a leading
+and trailing guard page? The following lkdtm tests can help detect any
+regressions.
+
+::
+
+ void lkdtm_STACK_GUARD_PAGE_LEADING()
+ void lkdtm_STACK_GUARD_PAGE_TRAILING()
+
+Conclusions
+-----------
+
+- A percpu cache of vmalloced stacks appears to be a bit faster than a
+ high-order stack allocation, at least when the cache hits.
+- THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK gets rid of arch-specific thread_info entirely and
+ simply embed the thread_info (containing only flags) and 'int cpu' into
+ task_struct.
+- The thread stack can be free'ed as soon as the task is dead (without
+ waiting for RCU) and then, if vmapped stacks are in use, cache the
+ entire stack for reuse on the same cpu.