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2019-11-12mm: thp: handle page cache THP correctly in PageTransCompoundMapYang Shi1-5/+0
commit 169226f7e0d275c1879551f37484ef6683579a5c upstream. We have a usecase to use tmpfs as QEMU memory backend and we would like to take the advantage of THP as well. But, our test shows the EPT is not PMD mapped even though the underlying THP are PMD mapped on host. The number showed by /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/largepage is much less than the number of PMD mapped shmem pages as the below: 7f2778200000-7f2878200000 rw-s 00000000 00:14 262232 /dev/shm/qemu_back_mem.mem.Hz2hSf (deleted) Size: 4194304 kB [snip] AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 579584 kB [snip] Locked: 0 kB cat /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/largepages 12 And some benchmarks do worse than with anonymous THPs. By digging into the code we figured out that commit 127393fbe597 ("mm: thp: kvm: fix memory corruption in KVM with THP enabled") checks if there is a single PTE mapping on the page for anonymous THP when setting up EPT map. But the _mapcount < 0 check doesn't work for page cache THP since every subpage of page cache THP would get _mapcount inc'ed once it is PMD mapped, so PageTransCompoundMap() always returns false for page cache THP. This would prevent KVM from setting up PMD mapped EPT entry. So we need handle page cache THP correctly. However, when page cache THP's PMD gets split, kernel just remove the map instead of setting up PTE map like what anonymous THP does. Before KVM calls get_user_pages() the subpages may get PTE mapped even though it is still a THP since the page cache THP may be mapped by other processes at the mean time. Checking its _mapcount and whether the THP has PTE mapped or not. Although this may report some false negative cases (PTE mapped by other processes), it looks not trivial to make this accurate. With this fix /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/largepage would show reasonable pages are PMD mapped by EPT as the below: 7fbeaee00000-7fbfaee00000 rw-s 00000000 00:14 275464 /dev/shm/qemu_back_mem.mem.SKUvat (deleted) Size: 4194304 kB [snip] AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 557056 kB [snip] Locked: 0 kB cat /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/largepages 271 And the benchmarks are as same as anonymous THPs. [yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: v4] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571865575-42913-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571769577-89735-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: dd78fedde4b9 ("rmap: support file thp") Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Reported-by: Gang Deng <gavin.dg@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-by: Gang Deng <gavin.dg@linux.alibaba.com> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-08-06coredump: fix race condition between collapse_huge_page() and core dumpingAndrea Arcangeli1-0/+4
commit 59ea6d06cfa9247b586a695c21f94afa7183af74 upstream. When fixing the race conditions between the coredump and the mmap_sem holders outside the context of the process, we focused on mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() callers in 04f5866e41fb70 ("coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping"), but those aren't the only cases where the mmap_sem can be taken outside of the context of the process as Michal Hocko noticed while backporting that commit to older -stable kernels. If mmgrab() is called in the context of the process, but then the mm_count reference is transferred outside the context of the process, that can also be a problem if the mmap_sem has to be taken for writing through that mm_count reference. khugepaged registration calls mmgrab() in the context of the process, but the mmap_sem for writing is taken later in the context of the khugepaged kernel thread. collapse_huge_page() after taking the mmap_sem for writing doesn't modify any vma, so it's not obvious that it could cause a problem to the coredump, but it happens to modify the pmd in a way that breaks an invariant that pmd_trans_huge_lock() relies upon. collapse_huge_page() needs the mmap_sem for writing just to block concurrent page faults that call pmd_trans_huge_lock(). Specifically the invariant that "!pmd_trans_huge()" cannot become a "pmd_trans_huge()" doesn't hold while collapse_huge_page() runs. The coredump will call __get_user_pages() without mmap_sem for reading, which eventually can invoke a lockless page fault which will need a functional pmd_trans_huge_lock(). So collapse_huge_page() needs to use mmget_still_valid() to check it's not running concurrently with the coredump... as long as the coredump can invoke page faults without holding the mmap_sem for reading. This has "Fixes: khugepaged" to facilitate backporting, but in my view it's more a bug in the coredump code that will eventually have to be rewritten to stop invoking page faults without the mmap_sem for reading. So the long term plan is still to drop all mmget_still_valid(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190607161558.32104-1-aarcange@redhat.com Fixes: ba76149f47d8 ("thp: khugepaged") Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [Ajay: Just adjusted to apply on v4.9] Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-08-06coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core ↵Andrea Arcangeli1-0/+20
dumping commit 04f5866e41fb70690e28397487d8bd8eea7d712a upstream. The core dumping code has always run without holding the mmap_sem for writing, despite that is the only way to ensure that the entire vma layout will not change from under it. Only using some signal serialization on the processes belonging to the mm is not nearly enough. This was pointed out earlier. For example in Hugh's post from Jul 2017: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1707191716030.2055@eggly.anvils "Not strictly relevant here, but a related note: I was very surprised to discover, only quite recently, how handle_mm_fault() may be called without down_read(mmap_sem) - when core dumping. That seems a misguided optimization to me, which would also be nice to correct" In particular because the growsdown and growsup can move the vm_start/vm_end the various loops the core dump does around the vma will not be consistent if page faults can happen concurrently. Pretty much all users calling mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and then taking the mmap_sem had the potential to introduce unexpected side effects in the core dumping code. Adding mmap_sem for writing around the ->core_dump invocation is a viable long term fix, but it requires removing all copy user and page faults and to replace them with get_dump_page() for all binary formats which is not suitable as a short term fix. For the time being this solution manually covers the places that can confuse the core dump either by altering the vma layout or the vma flags while it runs. Once ->core_dump runs under mmap_sem for writing the function mmget_still_valid() can be dropped. Allowing mmap_sem protected sections to run in parallel with the coredump provides some minor parallelism advantage to the swapoff code (which seems to be safe enough by never mangling any vma field and can keep doing swapins in parallel to the core dumping) and to some other corner case. In order to facilitate the backporting I added "Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6" however the side effect of this same race condition in /proc/pid/mem should be reproducible since before 2.6.12-rc2 so I couldn't add any other "Fixes:" because there's no hash beyond the git genesis commit. Because find_extend_vma() is the only location outside of the process context that could modify the "mm" structures under mmap_sem for reading, by adding the mmget_still_valid() check to it, all other cases that take the mmap_sem for reading don't need the new check after mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm(). The expand_stack() in page fault context also doesn't need the new check, because all tasks under core dumping are frozen. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325224949.11068-1-aarcange@redhat.com Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization") Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [akaher@vmware.com: stable 4.9 backport - handle binder_update_page_range - mhocko@suse.com] Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-06-11mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicitLinus Torvalds1-1/+5
commit f958d7b528b1b40c44cfda5eabe2d82760d868c3 upstream. We have a VM_BUG_ON() to check that the page reference count doesn't underflow (or get close to overflow) by checking the sign of the count. That's all fine, but we actually want to allow people to use a "get page ref unless it's already very high" helper function, and we want that one to use the sign of the page ref (without triggering this VM_BUG_ON). Change the VM_BUG_ON to only check for small underflows (or _very_ close to overflowing), and ignore overflows which have strayed into negative territory. Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-10mm: add 'try_get_page()' helper functionLinus Torvalds1-0/+9
[ Upstream commit 88b1a17dfc3ed7728316478fae0f5ad508f50397 ] This is the same as the traditional 'get_page()' function, but instead of unconditionally incrementing the reference count of the page, it only does so if the count was "safe". It returns whether the reference count was incremented (and is marked __must_check, since the caller obviously has to be aware of it). Also like 'get_page()', you can't use this function unless you already had a reference to the page. The intent is that you can use this exactly like get_page(), but in situations where you want to limit the maximum reference count. The code currently does an unconditional WARN_ON_ONCE() if we ever hit the reference count issues (either zero or negative), as a notification that the conditional non-increment actually happened. NOTE! The count access for the "safety" check is inherently racy, but that doesn't matter since the buffer we use is basically half the range of the reference count (ie we look at the sign of the count). Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2018-11-21mm: migration: fix migration of huge PMD shared pagesMike Kravetz1-0/+6
commit 017b1660df89f5fb4bfe66c34e35f7d2031100c7 upstream. The page migration code employs try_to_unmap() to try and unmap the source page. This is accomplished by using rmap_walk to find all vmas where the page is mapped. This search stops when page mapcount is zero. For shared PMD huge pages, the page map count is always 1 no matter the number of mappings. Shared mappings are tracked via the reference count of the PMD page. Therefore, try_to_unmap stops prematurely and does not completely unmap all mappings of the source page. This problem can result is data corruption as writes to the original source page can happen after contents of the page are copied to the target page. Hence, data is lost. This problem was originally seen as DB corruption of shared global areas after a huge page was soft offlined due to ECC memory errors. DB developers noticed they could reproduce the issue by (hotplug) offlining memory used to back huge pages. A simple testcase can reproduce the problem by creating a shared PMD mapping (note that this must be at least PUD_SIZE in size and PUD_SIZE aligned (1GB on x86)), and using migrate_pages() to migrate process pages between nodes while continually writing to the huge pages being migrated. To fix, have the try_to_unmap_one routine check for huge PMD sharing by calling huge_pmd_unshare for hugetlbfs huge pages. If it is a shared mapping it will be 'unshared' which removes the page table entry and drops the reference on the PMD page. After this, flush caches and TLB. mmu notifiers are called before locking page tables, but we can not be sure of PMD sharing until page tables are locked. Therefore, check for the possibility of PMD sharing before locking so that notifiers can prepare for the worst possible case. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180823205917.16297-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com [mike.kravetz@oracle.com: make _range_in_vma() a static inline] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6063f215-a5c8-2f0c-465a-2c515ddc952d@oracle.com Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("shared page table for hugetlb page") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-19proc: do not access cmdline nor environ from file-backed areasWilly Tarreau1-0/+1
commit 7f7ccc2ccc2e70c6054685f5e3522efa81556830 upstream. proc_pid_cmdline_read() and environ_read() directly access the target process' VM to retrieve the command line and environment. If this process remaps these areas onto a file via mmap(), the requesting process may experience various issues such as extra delays if the underlying device is slow to respond. Let's simply refuse to access file-backed areas in these functions. For this we add a new FOLL_ANON gup flag that is passed to all calls to access_remote_vm(). The code already takes care of such failures (including unmapped areas). Accesses via /proc/pid/mem were not changed though. This was assigned CVE-2018-1120. Note for stable backports: the patch may apply to kernels prior to 4.11 but silently miss one location; it must be checked that no call to access_remote_vm() keeps zero as the last argument. Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-20mm: Introduce lm_aliasMark Rutland1-0/+4
From: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> commit 568c5fe5a54f2654f5a4c599c45b8a62ed9a2013 upstream. Certain architectures may have the kernel image mapped separately to alias the linear map. Introduce a macro lm_alias to translate a kernel image symbol into its linear alias. This is used in part with work to add CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL support for arm64. Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [v4.9 backport] Tested-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-02-28mm: introduce get_user_pages_longtermDan Williams1-0/+13
commit 2bb6d2837083de722bfdc369cb0d76ce188dd9b4 upstream. Patch series "introduce get_user_pages_longterm()", v2. Here is a new get_user_pages api for cases where a driver intends to keep an elevated page count indefinitely. This is distinct from usages like iov_iter_get_pages where the elevated page counts are transient. The iov_iter_get_pages cases immediately turn around and submit the pages to a device driver which will put_page when the i/o operation completes (under kernel control). In the longterm case userspace is responsible for dropping the page reference at some undefined point in the future. This is untenable for filesystem-dax case where the filesystem is in control of the lifetime of the block / page and needs reasonable limits on how long it can wait for pages in a mapping to become idle. Fixing filesystems to actually wait for dax pages to be idle before blocks from a truncate/hole-punch operation are repurposed is saved for a later patch series. Also, allowing longterm registration of dax mappings is a future patch series that introduces a "map with lease" semantic where the kernel can revoke a lease and force userspace to drop its page references. I have also tagged these for -stable to purposely break cases that might assume that longterm memory registrations for filesystem-dax mappings were supported by the kernel. The behavior regression this policy change implies is one of the reasons we maintain the "dax enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk" notification when mounting a filesystem in dax mode. It is worth noting the device-dax interface does not suffer the same constraints since it does not support file space management operations like hole-punch. This patch (of 4): Until there is a solution to the dma-to-dax vs truncate problem it is not safe to allow long standing memory registrations against filesytem-dax vmas. Device-dax vmas do not have this problem and are explicitly allowed. This is temporary until a "memory registration with layout-lease" mechanism can be implemented for the affected sub-systems (RDMA and V4L2). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kcalloc()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151068939435.7446.13560129395419350737.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com> Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Cc: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@samsung.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-05mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->split() to vm_operations_structDan Williams1-0/+1
commit 31383c6865a578834dd953d9dbc88e6b19fe3997 upstream. Patch series "device-dax: fix unaligned munmap handling" When device-dax is operating in huge-page mode we want it to behave like hugetlbfs and fail attempts to split vmas into unaligned ranges. It would be messy to teach the munmap path about device-dax alignment constraints in the same (hstate) way that hugetlbfs communicates this constraint. Instead, these patches introduce a new ->split() vm operation. This patch (of 2): The device-dax interface has similar constraints as hugetlbfs in that it requires the munmap path to unmap in huge page aligned units. Rather than add more custom vma handling code in __split_vma() introduce a new vm operation to perform this vma specific check. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151130418135.4029.6783191281930729710.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Fixes: dee410792419 ("/dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-24mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmasHugh Dickins1-28/+25
commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream. Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping. But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX] which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN. This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical, unfortunatelly. Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot. One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace, but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong for some special case applications. For now, add a kernel command line option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units). Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page: because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point, a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK and strict non-overcommit mode. Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start (or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(), and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that. Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context] [wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide] Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-06ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mmEric W. Biederman1-0/+2
commit 84d77d3f06e7e8dea057d10e8ec77ad71f721be3 upstream. It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to read the file. This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only executables. As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing began to read the target processes mm. In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by ptrace_access_vm. There remain several ptrace sites that still use access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks. As such it does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls. This bug has always existed in Linux. Fixes: v1.0 Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-10-25mm: unexport __get_user_pages()Lorenzo Stoakes1-4/+0
This patch unexports the low-level __get_user_pages() function. Recent refactoring of the get_user_pages* functions allow flags to be passed through get_user_pages() which eliminates the need for access to this function from its one user, kvm. We can see that the two calls to get_user_pages() which replace __get_user_pages() in kvm_main.c are equivalent by examining their call stacks: get_user_page_nowait(): get_user_pages(start, 1, flags, page, NULL) __get_user_pages_locked(current, current->mm, start, 1, page, NULL, NULL, false, flags | FOLL_TOUCH) __get_user_pages(current, current->mm, start, 1, flags | FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_GET, page, NULL, NULL) check_user_page_hwpoison(): get_user_pages(addr, 1, flags, NULL, NULL) __get_user_pages_locked(current, current->mm, addr, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL, false, flags | FOLL_TOUCH) __get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, 1, flags | FOLL_TOUCH, NULL, NULL, NULL) Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-22Merge branch 'mm-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull vmap stack fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This is fallout from CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK=y on x86: stack accesses that used to be just somewhat questionable are now totally buggy. These changes try to do it without breaking the ABI: the fields are left there, they are just reporting zero, or reporting narrower information (the maps file change)" * 'mm-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: mm: Change vm_is_stack_for_task() to vm_is_stack_for_current() fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat mm/numa: Remove duplicated include from mprotect.c
2016-10-20mm: Change vm_is_stack_for_task() to vm_is_stack_for_current()Andy Lutomirski1-1/+1
Asking for a non-current task's stack can't be done without races unless the task is frozen in kernel mode. As far as I know, vm_is_stack_for_task() never had a safe non-current use case. The __unused annotation is because some KSTK_ESP implementations ignore their parameter, which IMO is further justification for this patch. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c3f68f426e6c061ca98b4fc7ef85ffbb0a25b0c.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-19mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flagsLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+2
This removes the 'write' argument from access_process_vm() and replaces it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag. We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-19mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flagsLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+1
This removes the 'write' argument from access_remote_vm() and replaces it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag. We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-19mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force parameters with gup_flagsLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+1
This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_user_pages_remote() and replaces them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-19mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flagsLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+1
This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_user_pages() and replaces them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-19mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flagsLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+1
This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_vaddr_frames() and replaces them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-19mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() write/force parameters with gup_flagsLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+1
This removes the 'write' and 'force' use from get_user_pages_locked() and replaces them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-19mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flagsLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+1
This removes the 'write' and 'force' use from get_user_pages_unlocked() and replaces them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-19mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()Lorenzo Stoakes1-2/+1
This removes the redundant 'write' and 'force' parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked() to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-19mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a ("Fix get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f404e5 ("fix get_user_pages bug"). In the meantime, the s390 situation has long been fixed, and we can now fix it by checking the pte_dirty() bit properly (and do it better). The s390 dirty bit was implemented in abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits") which made it into v3.9. Earlier kernels will have to look at the page state itself. Also, the VM has become more scalable, and what used a purely theoretical race back then has become easier to trigger. To fix it, we introduce a new internal FOLL_COW flag to mark the "yes, we already did a COW" rather than play racy games with FOLL_WRITE that is very fundamental, and then use the pte dirty flag to validate that the FOLL_COW flag is still valid. Reported-and-tested-by: Phil "not Paul" Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08linux/mm.h: canonicalize macro PAGE_ALIGNED() definitionzijun_hu1-1/+1
The macro PAGE_ALIGNED() is prone to cause error because it doesn't follow convention to parenthesize parameter @addr within macro body, for example unsigned long *ptr = kmalloc(...); PAGE_ALIGNED(ptr + 16); for the left parameter of macro IS_ALIGNED(), (unsigned long)(ptr + 16) is desired but the actual one is (unsigned long)ptr + 16. It is fixed by simply canonicalizing macro PAGE_ALIGNED() definition. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57EA6AE7.7090807@zoho.com Signed-off-by: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@htc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08mm: consolidate warn_alloc_failed usersMichal Hocko1-3/+2
warn_alloc_failed is currently used from the page and vmalloc allocators. This is a good reuse of the code except that vmalloc would appreciate a slightly different warning message. This is already handled by the fmt parameter except that "%s: page allocation failure: order:%u, mode:%#x(%pGg)" is printed anyway. This might be quite misleading because it might be a vmalloc failure which leads to the warning while the page allocator is not the culprit here. Fix this by always using the fmt string and only print the context that makes sense for the particular context (e.g. order makes only very little sense for the vmalloc context). Rename the function to not miss any user and also because a later patch will reuse it also for !failure cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160929084407.7004-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08mm: vma_merge: fix vm_page_prot SMP race condition against rmap_walkAndrea Arcangeli1-2/+8
The rmap_walk can access vm_page_prot (and potentially vm_flags in the pte/pmd manipulations). So it's not safe to wait the caller to update the vm_page_prot/vm_flags after vma_merge returned potentially removing the "next" vma and extending the "current" vma over the next->vm_start,vm_end range, but still with the "current" vma vm_page_prot, after releasing the rmap locks. The vm_page_prot/vm_flags must be transferred from the "next" vma to the current vma while vma_merge still holds the rmap locks. The side effect of this race condition is pte corruption during migrate as remove_migration_ptes when run on a address of the "next" vma that got removed, used the vm_page_prot of the current vma. migrate mprotect ------------ ------------- migrating in "next" vma vma_merge() # removes "next" vma and # extends "current" vma # current vma is not with # vm_page_prot updated remove_migration_ptes read vm_page_prot of current "vma" establish pte with wrong permissions vm_set_page_prot(vma) # too late! change_protection in the old vma range only, next range is not updated This caused segmentation faults and potentially memory corruption in heavy mprotect loads with some light page migration caused by compaction in the background. Hugh Dickins pointed out the comment about the Odd case 8 in vma_merge which confirms the case 8 is only buggy one where the race can trigger, in all other vma_merge cases the above cannot happen. This fix removes the oddness factor from case 8 and it converts it from: AAAA PPPPNNNNXXXX -> PPPPNNNNNNNN to: AAAA PPPPNNNNXXXX -> PPPPXXXXXXXX XXXX has the right vma properties for the whole merged vma returned by vma_adjust, so it solves the problem fully. It has the added benefits that the callers could stop updating vma properties when vma_merge succeeds however the callers are not updated by this patch (there are bits like VM_SOFTDIRTY that still need special care for the whole range, as the vma merging ignores them, but as long as they're not processed by rmap walks and instead they're accessed with the mmap_sem at least for reading, they are fine not to be updated within vma_adjust before releasing the rmap_locks). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474309513-20313-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Aditya Mandaleeka <adityam@microsoft.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08mm: vm_page_prot: update with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCEAndrea Arcangeli1-1/+1
vma->vm_page_prot is read lockless from the rmap_walk, it may be updated concurrently and this prevents the risk of reading intermediate values. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474660305-19222-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08mm: remove page_file_indexHuang Ying1-12/+0
After using the offset of the swap entry as the key of the swap cache, the page_index() becomes exactly same as page_file_index(). So the page_file_index() is removed and the callers are changed to use page_index() instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473270649-27229-2-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08mm, swap: use offset of swap entry as key of swap cacheHuang Ying1-4/+4
This patch is to improve the performance of swap cache operations when the type of the swap device is not 0. Originally, the whole swap entry value is used as the key of the swap cache, even though there is one radix tree for each swap device. If the type of the swap device is not 0, the height of the radix tree of the swap cache will be increased unnecessary, especially on 64bit architecture. For example, for a 1GB swap device on the x86_64 architecture, the height of the radix tree of the swap cache is 11. But if the offset of the swap entry is used as the key of the swap cache, the height of the radix tree of the swap cache is 4. The increased height causes unnecessary radix tree descending and increased cache footprint. This patch reduces the height of the radix tree of the swap cache via using the offset of the swap entry instead of the whole swap entry value as the key of the swap cache. In 32 processes sequential swap out test case on a Xeon E5 v3 system with RAM disk as swap, the lock contention for the spinlock of the swap cache is reduced from 20.15% to 12.19%, when the type of the swap device is 1. Use the whole swap entry as key, perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irq.__add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap.shrink_page_list: 10.37, perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__remove_mapping.shrink_page_list.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_node_memcg: 9.78, Use the swap offset as key, perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irq.__add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap.shrink_page_list: 6.25, perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__remove_mapping.shrink_page_list.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_node_memcg: 5.94, Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473270649-27229-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08mm: introduce arch_reserved_kernel_pages()Srikar Dronamraju1-0/+3
Currently arch specific code can reserve memory blocks but alloc_large_system_hash() may not take it into consideration when sizing the hashes. This can lead to bigger hash than required and lead to no available memory for other purposes. This is specifically true for systems with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT enabled. One approach to solve this problem would be to walk through the memblock regions and calculate the available memory and base the size of hash system on the available memory. The other approach would be to depend on the architecture to provide the number of pages that are reserved. This change provides hooks to allow the architecture to provide the required info. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472476010-4709-2-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-08mm: pagewalk: fix the comment for test_walkJames Morse1-2/+2
Modify the comment describing struct mm_walk->test_walk()s behaviour to match the comment on walk_page_test() and the behaviour of walk_page_vma(). Fixes: fafaa4264eba4 ("pagewalk: improve vma handling") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471622518-21980-1-git-send-email-james.morse@arm.com Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-14x86/arch_prctl/vdso: Add ARCH_MAP_VDSO_*Dmitry Safonov1-0/+2
Add API to change vdso blob type with arch_prctl. As this is usefull only by needs of CRIU, expose this interface under CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org Cc: xemul@virtuozzo.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160905133308.28234-4-dsafonov@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-09-02Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/auditLinus Torvalds1-0/+1
Pull audit fixes from Paul Moore: "Two small patches to fix some bugs with the audit-by-executable functionality we introduced back in v4.3 (both patches are marked for the stable folks)" * 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit: audit: fix exe_file access in audit_exe_compare mm: introduce get_task_exe_file
2016-08-31mm: introduce get_task_exe_fileMateusz Guzik1-0/+1
For more convenient access if one has a pointer to the task. As a minor nit take advantage of the fact that only task lock + rcu are needed to safely grab ->exe_file. This saves mm refcount dance. Use the helper in proc_exe_link. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3.x Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2016-07-29mm, vmstat: add infrastructure for per-node vmstatsMel Gorman1-0/+5
Patchset: "Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9" This series moves LRUs from the zones to the node. While this is a current rebase, the test results were based on mmotm as of June 23rd. Conceptually, this series is simple but there are a lot of details. Some of the broad motivations for this are; 1. The residency of a page partially depends on what zone the page was allocated from. This is partially combatted by the fair zone allocation policy but that is a partial solution that introduces overhead in the page allocator paths. 2. Currently, reclaim on node 0 behaves slightly different to node 1. For example, direct reclaim scans in zonelist order and reclaims even if the zone is over the high watermark regardless of the age of pages in that LRU. Kswapd on the other hand starts reclaim on the highest unbalanced zone. A difference in distribution of file/anon pages due to when they were allocated results can result in a difference in again. While the fair zone allocation policy mitigates some of the problems here, the page reclaim results on a multi-zone node will always be different to a single-zone node. it was scheduled on as a result. 3. kswapd and the page allocator scan zones in the opposite order to avoid interfering with each other but it's sensitive to timing. This mitigates the page allocator using pages that were allocated very recently in the ideal case but it's sensitive to timing. When kswapd is allocating from lower zones then it's great but during the rebalancing of the highest zone, the page allocator and kswapd interfere with each other. It's worse if the highest zone is small and difficult to balance. 4. slab shrinkers are node-based which makes it harder to identify the exact relationship between slab reclaim and LRU reclaim. The reason we have zone-based reclaim is that we used to have large highmem zones in common configurations and it was necessary to quickly find ZONE_NORMAL pages for reclaim. Today, this is much less of a concern as machines with lots of memory will (or should) use 64-bit kernels. Combinations of 32-bit hardware and 64-bit hardware are rare. Machines that do use highmem should have relatively low highmem:lowmem ratios than we worried about in the past. Conceptually, moving to node LRUs should be easier to understand. The page allocator plays fewer tricks to game reclaim and reclaim behaves similarly on all nodes. The series has been tested on a 16 core UMA machine and a 2-socket 48 core NUMA machine. The UMA results are presented in most cases as the NUMA machine behaved similarly. pagealloc --------- This is a microbenchmark that shows the benefit of removing the fair zone allocation policy. It was tested uip to order-4 but only orders 0 and 1 are shown as the other orders were comparable. 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 Min total-odr0-1 490.00 ( 0.00%) 457.00 ( 6.73%) Min total-odr0-2 347.00 ( 0.00%) 329.00 ( 5.19%) Min total-odr0-4 288.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( 5.21%) Min total-odr0-8 251.00 ( 0.00%) 239.00 ( 4.78%) Min total-odr0-16 234.00 ( 0.00%) 222.00 ( 5.13%) Min total-odr0-32 223.00 ( 0.00%) 211.00 ( 5.38%) Min total-odr0-64 217.00 ( 0.00%) 208.00 ( 4.15%) Min total-odr0-128 214.00 ( 0.00%) 204.00 ( 4.67%) Min total-odr0-256 250.00 ( 0.00%) 230.00 ( 8.00%) Min total-odr0-512 271.00 ( 0.00%) 269.00 ( 0.74%) Min total-odr0-1024 291.00 ( 0.00%) 282.00 ( 3.09%) Min total-odr0-2048 303.00 ( 0.00%) 296.00 ( 2.31%) Min total-odr0-4096 311.00 ( 0.00%) 309.00 ( 0.64%) Min total-odr0-8192 316.00 ( 0.00%) 314.00 ( 0.63%) Min total-odr0-16384 317.00 ( 0.00%) 315.00 ( 0.63%) Min total-odr1-1 742.00 ( 0.00%) 712.00 ( 4.04%) Min total-odr1-2 562.00 ( 0.00%) 530.00 ( 5.69%) Min total-odr1-4 457.00 ( 0.00%) 433.00 ( 5.25%) Min total-odr1-8 411.00 ( 0.00%) 381.00 ( 7.30%) Min total-odr1-16 381.00 ( 0.00%) 356.00 ( 6.56%) Min total-odr1-32 372.00 ( 0.00%) 346.00 ( 6.99%) Min total-odr1-64 372.00 ( 0.00%) 343.00 ( 7.80%) Min total-odr1-128 375.00 ( 0.00%) 351.00 ( 6.40%) Min total-odr1-256 379.00 ( 0.00%) 351.00 ( 7.39%) Min total-odr1-512 385.00 ( 0.00%) 355.00 ( 7.79%) Min total-odr1-1024 386.00 ( 0.00%) 358.00 ( 7.25%) Min total-odr1-2048 390.00 ( 0.00%) 362.00 ( 7.18%) Min total-odr1-4096 390.00 ( 0.00%) 362.00 ( 7.18%) Min total-odr1-8192 388.00 ( 0.00%) 363.00 ( 6.44%) This shows a steady improvement throughout. The primary benefit is from reduced system CPU usage which is obvious from the overall times; 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8 User 189.19 191.80 System 2604.45 2533.56 Elapsed 2855.30 2786.39 The vmstats also showed that the fair zone allocation policy was definitely removed as can be seen here; 4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8 DMA32 allocs 28794729769 0 Normal allocs 48432501431 77227309877 Movable allocs 0 0 tiobench on ext4 ---------------- tiobench is a benchmark that artifically benefits if old pages remain resident while new pages get reclaimed. The fair zone allocation policy mitigates this problem so pages age fairly. While the benchmark has problems, it is important that tiobench performance remains constant as it implies that page aging problems that the fair zone allocation policy fixes are not re-introduced. 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 Min PotentialReadSpeed 89.65 ( 0.00%) 90.21 ( 0.62%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-1 82.68 ( 0.00%) 82.01 ( -0.81%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-2 72.76 ( 0.00%) 72.07 ( -0.95%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-4 75.13 ( 0.00%) 74.92 ( -0.28%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-8 64.91 ( 0.00%) 65.19 ( 0.43%) Min SeqRead-MB/sec-16 62.24 ( 0.00%) 62.22 ( -0.03%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-1 0.88 ( 0.00%) 0.88 ( 0.00%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-2 0.95 ( 0.00%) 0.92 ( -3.16%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-4 1.43 ( 0.00%) 1.34 ( -6.29%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-8 1.61 ( 0.00%) 1.60 ( -0.62%) Min RandRead-MB/sec-16 1.80 ( 0.00%) 1.90 ( 5.56%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-1 76.41 ( 0.00%) 76.85 ( 0.58%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-2 74.11 ( 0.00%) 73.54 ( -0.77%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-4 80.05 ( 0.00%) 80.13 ( 0.10%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-8 72.88 ( 0.00%) 73.20 ( 0.44%) Min SeqWrite-MB/sec-16 75.91 ( 0.00%) 76.44 ( 0.70%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-1 1.18 ( 0.00%) 1.14 ( -3.39%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-2 1.02 ( 0.00%) 1.03 ( 0.98%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-4 1.05 ( 0.00%) 0.98 ( -6.67%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-8 0.89 ( 0.00%) 0.92 ( 3.37%) Min RandWrite-MB/sec-16 0.92 ( 0.00%) 0.93 ( 1.09%) 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 approx-v9 User 645.72 525.90 System 403.85 331.75 Elapsed 6795.36 6783.67 This shows that the series has little or not impact on tiobench which is desirable and a reduction in system CPU usage. It indicates that the fair zone allocation policy was removed in a manner that didn't reintroduce one class of page aging bug. There were only minor differences in overall reclaim activity 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8 Minor Faults 645838 647465 Major Faults 573 640 Swap Ins 0 0 Swap Outs 0 0 DMA allocs 0 0 DMA32 allocs 46041453 44190646 Normal allocs 78053072 79887245 Movable allocs 0 0 Allocation stalls 24 67 Stall zone DMA 0 0 Stall zone DMA32 0 0 Stall zone Normal 0 2 Stall zone HighMem 0 0 Stall zone Movable 0 65 Direct pages scanned 10969 30609 Kswapd pages scanned 93375144 93492094 Kswapd pages reclaimed 93372243 93489370 Direct pages reclaimed 10969 30609 Kswapd efficiency 99% 99% Kswapd velocity 13741.015 13781.934 Direct efficiency 100% 100% Direct velocity 1.614 4.512 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% kswapd activity was roughly comparable. There were differences in direct reclaim activity but negligible in the context of the overall workload (velocity of 4 pages per second with the patches applied, 1.6 pages per second in the baseline kernel). pgbench read-only large configuration on ext4 --------------------------------------------- pgbench is a database benchmark that can be sensitive to page reclaim decisions. This also checks if removing the fair zone allocation policy is safe pgbench Transactions 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8 Hmean 1 188.26 ( 0.00%) 189.78 ( 0.81%) Hmean 5 330.66 ( 0.00%) 328.69 ( -0.59%) Hmean 12 370.32 ( 0.00%) 380.72 ( 2.81%) Hmean 21 368.89 ( 0.00%) 369.00 ( 0.03%) Hmean 30 382.14 ( 0.00%) 360.89 ( -5.56%) Hmean 32 428.87 ( 0.00%) 432.96 ( 0.95%) Negligible differences again. As with tiobench, overall reclaim activity was comparable. bonnie++ on ext4 ---------------- No interesting performance difference, negligible differences on reclaim stats. paralleldd on ext4 ------------------ This workload uses varying numbers of dd instances to read large amounts of data from disk. 4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 Amean Elapsd-1 186.04 ( 0.00%) 189.41 ( -1.82%) Amean Elapsd-3 192.27 ( 0.00%) 191.38 ( 0.46%) Amean Elapsd-5 185.21 ( 0.00%) 182.75 ( 1.33%) Amean Elapsd-7 183.71 ( 0.00%) 182.11 ( 0.87%) Amean Elapsd-12 180.96 ( 0.00%) 181.58 ( -0.35%) Amean Elapsd-16 181.36 ( 0.00%) 183.72 ( -1.30%) 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 User 1548.01 1552.44 System 8609.71 8515.08 Elapsed 3587.10 3594.54 There is little or no change in performance but some drop in system CPU usage. 4.7.0-rc3 4.7.0-rc3 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v9 Minor Faults 362662 367360 Major Faults 1204 1143 Swap Ins 22 0 Swap Outs 2855 1029 DMA allocs 0 0 DMA32 allocs 31409797 28837521 Normal allocs 46611853 49231282 Movable allocs 0 0 Direct pages scanned 0 0 Kswapd pages scanned 40845270 40869088 Kswapd pages reclaimed 40830976 40855294 Direct pages reclaimed 0 0 Kswapd efficiency 99% 99% Kswapd velocity 11386.711 11369.769 Direct efficiency 100% 100% Direct velocity 0.000 0.000 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% Page writes by reclaim 2855 1029 Page writes file 0 0 Page writes anon 2855 1029 Page reclaim immediate 771 1628 Sector Reads 293312636 293536360 Sector Writes 18213568 18186480 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 128257 132747 Direct inode steals 181 56 Kswapd inode steals 59 1131 It basically shows that kswapd was active at roughly the same rate in both kernels. There was also comparable slab scanning activity and direct reclaim was avoided in both cases. There appears to be a large difference in numbers of inodes reclaimed but the workload has few active inodes and is likely a timing artifact. stutter ------- stutter simulates a simple workload. One part uses a lot of anonymous memory, a second measures mmap latency and a third copies a large file. The primary metric is checking for mmap latency. stutter 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623 nodelru-v8 Min mmap 16.6283 ( 0.00%) 13.4258 ( 19.26%) 1st-qrtle mmap 54.7570 ( 0.00%) 34.9121 ( 36.24%) 2nd-qrtle mmap 57.3163 ( 0.00%) 46.1147 ( 19.54%) 3rd-qrtle mmap 58.9976 ( 0.00%) 47.1882 ( 20.02%) Max-90% mmap 59.7433 ( 0.00%) 47.4453 ( 20.58%) Max-93% mmap 60.1298 ( 0.00%) 47.6037 ( 20.83%) Max-95% mmap 73.4112 ( 0.00%) 82.8719 (-12.89%) Max-99% mmap 92.8542 ( 0.00%) 88.8870 ( 4.27%) Max mmap 1440.6569 ( 0.00%) 121.4201 ( 91.57%) Mean mmap 59.3493 ( 0.00%) 42.2991 ( 28.73%) Best99%Mean mmap 57.2121 ( 0.00%) 41.8207 ( 26.90%) Best95%Mean mmap 55.9113 ( 0.00%) 39.9620 ( 28.53%) Best90%Mean mmap 55.6199 ( 0.00%) 39.3124 ( 29.32%) Best50%Mean mmap 53.2183 ( 0.00%) 33.1307 ( 37.75%) Best10%Mean mmap 45.9842 ( 0.00%) 20.4040 ( 55.63%) Best5%Mean mmap 43.2256 ( 0.00%) 17.9654 ( 58.44%) Best1%Mean mmap 32.9388 ( 0.00%) 16.6875 ( 49.34%) This shows a number of improvements with the worst-case outlier greatly improved. Some of the vmstats are interesting 4.7.0-rc4 4.7.0-rc4 mmotm-20160623nodelru-v8 Swap Ins 163 502 Swap Outs 0 0 DMA allocs 0 0 DMA32 allocs 618719206 1381662383 Normal allocs 891235743 564138421 Movable allocs 0 0 Allocation stalls 2603 1 Direct pages scanned 216787 2 Kswapd pages scanned 50719775 41778378 Kswapd pages reclaimed 41541765 41777639 Direct pages reclaimed 209159 0 Kswapd efficiency 81% 99% Kswapd velocity 16859.554 14329.059 Direct efficiency 96% 0% Direct velocity 72.061 0.001 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% Page writes by reclaim 6215049 0 Page writes file 6215049 0 Page writes anon 0 0 Page reclaim immediate 70673 90 Sector Reads 81940800 81680456 Sector Writes 100158984 98816036 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 1366954 22683 While this is not guaranteed in all cases, this particular test showed a large reduction in direct reclaim activity. It's also worth noting that no page writes were issued from reclaim context. This series is not without its hazards. There are at least three areas that I'm concerned with even though I could not reproduce any problems in that area. 1. Reclaim/compaction is going to be affected because the amount of reclaim is no longer targetted at a specific zone. Compaction works on a per-zone basis so there is no guarantee that reclaiming a few THP's worth page pages will have a positive impact on compaction success rates. 2. The Slab/LRU reclaim ratio is affected because the frequency the shrinkers are called is now different. This may or may not be a problem but if it is, it'll be because shrinkers are not called enough and some balancing is required. 3. The anon/file reclaim ratio may be affected. Pages about to be dirtied are distributed between zones and the fair zone allocation policy used to do something very similar for anon. The distribution is now different but not necessarily in any way that matters but it's still worth bearing in mind. VM statistic counters for reclaim decisions are zone-based. If the kernel is to reclaim on a per-node basis then we need to track per-node statistics but there is no infrastructure for that. The most notable change is that the old node_page_state is renamed to sum_zone_node_page_state. The new node_page_state takes a pglist_data and uses per-node stats but none exist yet. There is some renaming such as vm_stat to vm_zone_stat and the addition of vm_node_stat and the renaming of mod_state to mod_zone_state. Otherwise, this is mostly a mechanical patch with no functional change. There is a lot of similarity between the node and zone helpers which is unfortunate but there was no obvious way of reusing the code and maintaining type safety. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-2-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm: fix vm-scalability regression in cgroup-aware workingset codeJohannes Weiner1-0/+10
Commit 23047a96d7cf ("mm: workingset: per-cgroup cache thrash detection") added a page->mem_cgroup lookup to the cache eviction, refault, and activation paths, as well as locking to the activation path, and the vm-scalability tests showed a regression of -23%. While the test in question is an artificial worst-case scenario that doesn't occur in real workloads - reading two sparse files in parallel at full CPU speed just to hammer the LRU paths - there is still some optimizations that can be done in those paths. Inline the lookup functions to eliminate calls. Also, page->mem_cgroup doesn't need to be stabilized when counting an activation; we merely need to hold the RCU lock to prevent the memcg from being freed. This cuts down on overhead quite a bit: 23047a96d7cfcfca 063f6715e77a7be5770d6081fe ---------------- -------------------------- %stddev %change %stddev \ | \ 21621405 +- 0% +11.3% 24069657 +- 2% vm-scalability.throughput [linux@roeck-us.net: drop unnecessary include file] [hannes@cmpxchg.org: add WARN_ON_ONCE()s] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707194024.GA26580@cmpxchg.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160624175101.GA3024@cmpxchg.org Reported-by: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm, oom_adj: make sure processes sharing mm have same view of oom_score_adjMichal Hocko1-0/+2
oom_score_adj is shared for the thread groups (via struct signal) but this is not sufficient to cover processes sharing mm (CLONE_VM without CLONE_SIGHAND) and so we can easily end up in a situation when some processes update their oom_score_adj and confuse the oom killer. In the worst case some of those processes might hide from the oom killer altogether via OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN while others are eligible. OOM killer would then pick up those eligible but won't be allowed to kill others sharing the same mm so the mm wouldn't release the mm and so the memory. It would be ideal to have the oom_score_adj per mm_struct because that is the natural entity OOM killer considers. But this will not work because some programs are doing vfork() set_oom_adj() exec() We can achieve the same though. oom_score_adj write handler can set the oom_score_adj for all processes sharing the same mm if the task is not in the middle of vfork. As a result all the processes will share the same oom_score_adj. The current implementation is rather pessimistic and checks all the existing processes by default if there is more than 1 holder of the mm but we do not have any reliable way to check for external users yet. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466426628-15074-5-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-27mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to mapKirill A. Shutemov1-1/+9
The idea (and most of code) is borrowed again: from Hugh's patchset on huge tmpfs[1]. Instead of allocation pte page table upfront, we postpone this until we have page to map in hands. This approach opens possibility to map the page as huge if filesystem supports this. Comparing to Hugh's patch I've pushed page table allocation a bit further: into do_set_pte(). This way we can postpone allocation even in faultaround case without moving do_fault_around() after __do_fault(). do_set_pte() got renamed to alloc_set_pte() as it can allocate page table if required. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1502202015090.14414@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-10-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-27mm: introduce fault_envKirill A. Shutemov1-8/+26
The idea borrowed from Peter's patch from patchset on speculative page faults[1]: Instead of passing around the endless list of function arguments, replace the lot with a single structure so we can change context without endless function signature changes. The changes are mostly mechanical with exception of faultaround code: filemap_map_pages() got reworked a bit. This patch is preparation for the next one. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141020222841.302891540@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-9-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-27mm: do not pass mm_struct into handle_mm_faultKirill A. Shutemov1-5/+4
We always have vma->vm_mm around. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-8-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-27mm/compaction: split freepages without holding the zone lockJoonsoo Kim1-1/+0
We don't need to split freepages with holding the zone lock. It will cause more contention on zone lock so not desirable. [rientjes@google.com: if __isolate_free_page() fails, avoid adding to freelist so we don't call map_pages() with it] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1606211447001.43430@chino.kir.corp.google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464230275-25791-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-27mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migrationMinchan Kim1-0/+1
We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. enhance compaction algorithm, SLUB fallback to 0-order page, reserved memory, vmalloc and so on) but if there are lots of non-movable pages in system, their solutions are void in the long run. So, this patch is to support facility to change non-movable pages with movable. For the feature, this patch introduces functions related to migration to address_space_operations as well as some page flags. If a driver want to make own pages movable, it should define three functions which are function pointers of struct address_space_operations. 1. bool (*isolate_page) (struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode); What VM expects on isolate_page function of driver is to return *true* if driver isolates page successfully. On returing true, VM marks the page as PG_isolated so concurrent isolation in several CPUs skip the page for isolation. If a driver cannot isolate the page, it should return *false*. Once page is successfully isolated, VM uses page.lru fields so driver shouldn't expect to preserve values in that fields. 2. int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage, struct page *oldpage, enum migrate_mode); After isolation, VM calls migratepage of driver with isolated page. The function of migratepage is to move content of the old page to new page and set up fields of struct page newpage. Keep in mind that you should indicate to the VM the oldpage is no longer movable via __ClearPageMovable() under page_lock if you migrated the oldpage successfully and returns 0. If driver cannot migrate the page at the moment, driver can return -EAGAIN. On -EAGAIN, VM will retry page migration in a short time because VM interprets -EAGAIN as "temporal migration failure". On returning any error except -EAGAIN, VM will give up the page migration without retrying in this time. Driver shouldn't touch page.lru field VM using in the functions. 3. void (*putback_page)(struct page *); If migration fails on isolated page, VM should return the isolated page to the driver so VM calls driver's putback_page with migration failed page. In this function, driver should put the isolated page back to the own data structure. 4. non-lru movable page flags There are two page flags for supporting non-lru movable page. * PG_movable Driver should use the below function to make page movable under page_lock. void __SetPageMovable(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) It needs argument of address_space for registering migration family functions which will be called by VM. Exactly speaking, PG_movable is not a real flag of struct page. Rather than, VM reuses page->mapping's lower bits to represent it. #define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2 page->mapping = page->mapping | PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE; so driver shouldn't access page->mapping directly. Instead, driver should use page_mapping which mask off the low two bits of page->mapping so it can get right struct address_space. For testing of non-lru movable page, VM supports __PageMovable function. However, it doesn't guarantee to identify non-lru movable page because page->mapping field is unified with other variables in struct page. As well, if driver releases the page after isolation by VM, page->mapping doesn't have stable value although it has PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE (Look at __ClearPageMovable). But __PageMovable is cheap to catch whether page is LRU or non-lru movable once the page has been isolated. Because LRU pages never can have PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE in page->mapping. It is also good for just peeking to test non-lru movable pages before more expensive checking with lock_page in pfn scanning to select victim. For guaranteeing non-lru movable page, VM provides PageMovable function. Unlike __PageMovable, PageMovable functions validates page->mapping and mapping->a_ops->isolate_page under lock_page. The lock_page prevents sudden destroying of page->mapping. Driver using __SetPageMovable should clear the flag via __ClearMovablePage under page_lock before the releasing the page. * PG_isolated To prevent concurrent isolation among several CPUs, VM marks isolated page as PG_isolated under lock_page. So if a CPU encounters PG_isolated non-lru movable page, it can skip it. Driver doesn't need to manipulate the flag because VM will set/clear it automatically. Keep in mind that if driver sees PG_isolated page, it means the page have been isolated by VM so it shouldn't touch page.lru field. PG_isolated is alias with PG_reclaim flag so driver shouldn't use the flag for own purpose. [opensource.ganesh@gmail.com: mm/compaction: remove local variable is_lru] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160618014841.GA7422@leo-test Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464736881-24886-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: John Einar Reitan <john.reitan@foss.arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-25Revert "mm: make faultaround produce old ptes"Kirill A. Shutemov1-1/+1
This reverts commit 5c0a85fad949212b3e059692deecdeed74ae7ec7. The commit causes ~6% regression in unixbench. Let's revert it for now and consider other solution for reclaim problem later. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465893750-44080-2-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-28mm: remove more IS_ERR_VALUE abusesLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
The do_brk() and vm_brk() return value was "unsigned long" and returned the starting address on success, and an error value on failure. The reasons are entirely historical, and go back to it basically behaving like the mmap() interface does. However, nobody actually wanted that interface, and it causes totally pointless IS_ERR_VALUE() confusion. What every single caller actually wants is just the simpler integer return of zero for success and negative error number on failure. So just convert to that much clearer and more common calling convention, and get rid of all the IS_ERR_VALUE() uses wrt vm_brk(). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-27Merge tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm Pull DAX locking updates from Ross Zwisler: "Filesystem DAX locking for 4.7 - We use a bit in an exceptional radix tree entry as a lock bit and use it similarly to how page lock is used for normal faults. This fixes races between hole instantiation and read faults of the same index. - Filesystem DAX PMD faults are disabled, and will be re-enabled when PMD locking is implemented" * tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: dax: Remove i_mmap_lock protection dax: Use radix tree entry lock to protect cow faults dax: New fault locking dax: Allow DAX code to replace exceptional entries dax: Define DAX lock bit for radix tree exceptional entry dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN dax: Fix condition for filling of PMD holes
2016-05-24mm: make vm_brk killableMichal Hocko1-1/+1
Now that all the callers handle vm_brk failure we can change it wait for mmap_sem killable to help oom_reaper to not get blocked just because vm_brk gets blocked behind mmap_sem readers. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-24mm: make vm_mmap killableMichal Hocko1-1/+1
All the callers of vm_mmap seem to check for the failure already and bail out in one way or another on the error which means that we can change it to use killable version of vm_mmap_pgoff and return -EINTR if the current task gets killed while waiting for mmap_sem. This also means that vm_mmap_pgoff can be killable by default and drop the additional parameter. This will help in the OOM conditions when the oom victim might be stuck waiting for the mmap_sem for write which in turn can block oom_reaper which relies on the mmap_sem for read to make a forward progress and reclaim the address space of the victim. Please note that load_elf_binary is ignoring vm_mmap error for current->personality & MMAP_PAGE_ZERO case but that shouldn't be a problem because the address is not used anywhere and we never return to the userspace if we got killed. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-21mm: page_is_guard(): return false when page_ext arrays are not allocated yetYang Shi1-0/+3
When enabling the below kernel configs: CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION CONFIG_DEBUG_VM kernel bootup may fail due to the following oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff8118d982>] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: CPU: 11 PID: 106 Comm: pgdatinit1 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc5-next-20160427 #26 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S5520HC/S5520HC, BIOS S5500.86B.01.10.0025.030220091519 03/02/2009 task: ffff88017c080040 ti: ffff88017c084000 task.ti: ffff88017c084000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8118d982>] [<ffffffff8118d982>] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0 RSP: 0000:ffff88017c087c48 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000980 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 0000000000660401 RBP: ffff88017c087cd0 R08: 0000000000000401 R09: 0000000000000009 R10: ffff88017c080040 R11: 000000000000000a R12: 0000000000000400 R13: ffffea0019810000 R14: ffffea0019810040 R15: ffff88066cfe6080 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88066cd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000002406000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Call Trace: free_hot_cold_page+0x192/0x1d0 __free_pages+0x5c/0x90 __free_pages_boot_core+0x11a/0x14e deferred_free_range+0x50/0x62 deferred_init_memmap+0x220/0x3c3 kthread+0xf8/0x110 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40 Code: 49 89 d4 48 c1 e0 06 49 01 c5 e9 de fe ff ff 4c 89 f7 44 89 4d b8 4c 89 45 c0 44 89 5d c8 48 89 4d d0 e8 62 c7 07 00 48 8b 4d d0 <48> 8b 00 44 8b 5d c8 4c 8b 45 c0 44 8b 4d b8 a8 02 0f 84 05 ff RIP [<ffffffff8118d982>] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0 RSP <ffff88017c087c48> CR2: 0000000000000000 The problem is lookup_page_ext() returns NULL then page_is_guard() tried to access it in page freeing. page_is_guard() depends on PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD bit of page extension flag, but freeing page might reach here before the page_ext arrays are allocated when feeding a range of pages to the allocator for the first time during bootup or memory hotplug. When it returns NULL, page_is_guard() should just return false instead of checking PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD unconditionally. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463610225-29060-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-21mm: make faultaround produce old ptesKirill A. Shutemov1-1/+1
Currently, faultaround code produces young pte. This can screw up vmscan behaviour[1], as it makes vmscan think that these pages are hot and not push them out on first round. During sparse file access faultaround gets more pages mapped and all of them are young. Under memory pressure, this makes vmscan swap out anon pages instead, or to drop other page cache pages which otherwise stay resident. Modify faultaround to produce old ptes, so they can easily be reclaimed under memory pressure. This can to some extend defeat the purpose of faultaround on machines without hardware accessed bit as it will not help us with reducing the number of minor page faults. We may want to disable faultaround on such machines altogether, but that's subject for separate patchset. Minchan: "I tested 512M mmap sequential word read test on non-HW access bit system (i.e., ARM) and confirmed it doesn't increase minor fault any more. old: 4096 fault_around minor fault: 131291 elapsed time: 6747645 usec new: 65536 fault_around minor fault: 131291 elapsed time: 6709263 usec 0.56% benefit" [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460992636-711-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463488366-47723-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>