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2025-11-29mm: declare VMA flags by bitLorenzo Stoakes
Patch series "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap", v3. We are in the rather silly situation that we are running out of VMA flags as they are currently limited to a system word in size. This leads to absurd situations where we limit features to 64-bit architectures only because we simply do not have the ability to add a flag for 32-bit ones. This is very constraining and leads to hacks or, in the worst case, simply an inability to implement features we want for entirely arbitrary reasons. This also of course gives us something of a Y2K type situation in mm where we might eventually exhaust all of the VMA flags even on 64-bit systems. This series lays the groundwork for getting away from this limitation by establishing VMA flags as a bitmap whose size we can increase in future beyond 64 bits if required. This is necessarily a highly iterative process given the extensive use of VMA flags throughout the kernel, so we start by performing basic steps. Firstly, we declare VMA flags by bit number rather than by value, retaining the VM_xxx fields but in terms of these newly introduced VMA_xxx_BIT fields. While we are here, we use sparse annotations to ensure that, when dealing with VMA bit number parameters, we cannot be passed values which are not declared as such - providing some useful type safety. We then introduce an opaque VMA flag type, much like the opaque mm_struct flag type introduced in commit bb6525f2f8c4 ("mm: add bitmap mm->flags field"), which we establish in union with vma->vm_flags (but still set at system word size meaning there is no functional or data type size change). We update the vm_flags_xxx() helpers to use this new bitmap, introducing sensible helpers to do so. This series lays the foundation for further work to expand the use of bitmap VMA flags and eventually eliminate these arbitrary restrictions. This patch (of 4): In order to lay the groundwork for VMA flags being a bitmap rather than a system word in size, we need to be able to consistently refer to VMA flags by bit number rather than value. Take this opportunity to do so in an enum which we which is additionally useful for tooling to extract metadata from. This additionally makes it very clear which bits are being used for what at a glance. We use the VMA_ prefix for the bit values as it is logical to do so since these reference VMAs. We consistently suffix with _BIT to make it clear what the values refer to. We declare bit values even when the flags that use them would not be enabled by config options as this is simply clearer and clearly defines what bit numbers are used for what, at no additional cost. We declare a sparse-bitwise type vma_flag_t which ensures that users can't pass around invalid VMA flags by accident and prepares for future work towards VMA flags being a bitmap where we want to ensure bit values are type safe. To make life easier, we declare some macro helpers - DECLARE_VMA_BIT() allows us to avoid duplication in the enum bit number declarations (and maintaining the sparse __bitwise attribute), and INIT_VM_FLAG() is used to assist with declaration of flags. Unfortunately we can't declare both in the enum, as we run into issue with logic in the kernel requiring that flags are preprocessor definitions, and additionally we cannot have a macro which declares another macro so we must define each flag macro directly. Additionally, update the VMA userland testing vma_internal.h header to include these changes. We also have to fix the parameters to the vma_flag_*_atomic() functions since VMA_MAYBE_GUARD_BIT is now of type vma_flag_t and sparse will complain otherwise. We have to update some rather silly if-deffery found in mm/task_mmu.c which would otherwise break. Finally, we update the rust binding helper as now it cannot auto-detect the flags at all. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1764064556.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a35e5a0bcfa00e84af24cbafc0653e74deda64a.1764064556.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Acked-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> [rust] Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24memcg: remove __lruvec_stat_mod_folioShakeel Butt
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() is already safe against irqs, so there is no need to have a separate interface (i.e. lruvec_stat_mod_folio) which wraps calls to it with irq disabling and reenabling. Let's rename __lruvec_stat_mod_folio() to lruvec_stat_mod_folio(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm/khugepaged: unify SCAN_PMD_NONE and SCAN_PMD_NULL into SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLEWei Yang
The current hugepage collapse scan results include two separate values, SCAN_PMD_NONE and SCAN_PMD_NULL, which are handled identically by the consuming code. To reduce confusion and improve long-term maintenance, this commit merges these two functionally equivalent states into a single, clearer identifier: SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114030028.7035-4-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Suggested-by: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm/khugepaged: continue to collapse on SCAN_PMD_NONEWei Yang
SCAN_PMD_NONE means current pmd is empty, but we can still continue collapse next pmd range. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114030028.7035-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm/khugepaged: remove redundant clearing of struct collapse_controlWei Yang
Patch series "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup", v2. This small series addresses two minor cleanup opportunities in the hugepage collapse logic. The initial motivation arose during a code review of madvise_collapse(), where it was noted that the function was missing a handler for SCAN_PMD_NONE. This oversight exposed the inconsistent handling of SCAN_PMD_NULL and SCAN_PMD_NONE. Since both scan results are functionally identical (they indicate the absence of a PTE table), the primary patch unifies them into a single, clearer identifier, SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE. The series also takes the opportunity to remove a redundant clearing of the struct collapse_control. This patch (of 3): The structure struct collapse_control is being unnecessarily cleared twice during the huge page collapse process. Both hpage_collapse_scan_file() and hpage_collapse_scan_pmd() currently perform a clear operation on this structure. Remove the redundant clear operation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114030028.7035-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114030028.7035-2-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm: replace pmd_to_swp_entry() with softleaf_from_pmd()Lorenzo Stoakes
Introduce softleaf_from_pmd() to do the equivalent operation for PMDs that softleaf_from_pte() fulfils, and cascade changes through code base accordingly, introducing helpers as necessary. We are then able to eliminate pmd_to_swp_entry(), is_pmd_migration_entry(), is_pmd_device_private_entry() and is_pmd_non_present_folio_entry(). This further establishes the use of leaf operations throughout the code base and further establishes the foundations for eliminating is_swap_pmd(). No functional change intended. [lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: check writable, not readable/writable, per Vlastimil] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cd97b6ec-00f9-45a4-9ae0-8f009c212a94@lucifer.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3fb431699639ded8fdc63d2210aa77a38c8891f1.1762812360.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>\ Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm: avoid unnecessary uses of is_swap_pte()Lorenzo Stoakes
There's an established convention in the kernel that we treat PTEs as containing swap entries (and the unfortunately named non-swap swap entries) should they be neither empty (i.e. pte_none() evaluating true) nor present (i.e. pte_present() evaluating true). However, there is some inconsistency in how this is applied, as we also have the is_swap_pte() helper which explicitly performs this check: /* check whether a pte points to a swap entry */ static inline int is_swap_pte(pte_t pte) { return !pte_none(pte) && !pte_present(pte); } As this represents a predicate, and it's logical to assume that in order to establish that a PTE entry can correctly be manipulated as a swap/non-swap entry, this predicate seems as if it must first be checked. But we instead, we far more often utilise the established convention of checking pte_none() / pte_present() before operating on entries as if they were swap/non-swap. This patch works towards correcting this inconsistency by removing all uses of is_swap_pte() where we are already in a position where we perform pte_none()/pte_present() checks anyway or otherwise it is clearly logical to do so. We also take advantage of the fact that pte_swp_uffd_wp() is only set on swap entries. Additionally, update comments referencing to is_swap_pte() and non_swap_entry(). No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/17fd6d7f46a846517fd455fadd640af47fcd7c55.1762812360.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm/khugepaged: unify pmd folio installation with map_anon_folio_pmd()Wei Yang
Currently we install pmd folio with map_anon_folio_pmd() in __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() and do_huge_zero_wp_pmd(). While in collapse_huge_page(), it is done with identical code except statistics adjustment. Unify the process with map_anon_folio_pmd() to install pmd folio. Split it to map_anon_folio_pmd_pf() and map_anon_folio_pmd_nopf() to be used in page fault or not respectively. No functional change is intended. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded map_anon_folio_pmd_nopf() stub, per Wei & David] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251008095453.18772-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20mm: set the VM_MAYBE_GUARD flag on guard region installLorenzo Stoakes
Now we have established the VM_MAYBE_GUARD flag and added the capacity to set it atomically, do so upon MADV_GUARD_INSTALL. The places where this flag is used currently and matter are: * VMA merge - performed under mmap/VMA write lock, therefore excluding racing writes. * /proc/$pid/smaps - can race the write, however this isn't meaningful as the flag write is performed at the point of the guard region being established, and thus an smaps reader can't reasonably expect to avoid races. Due to atomicity, a reader will observe either the flag being set or not. Therefore consistency will be maintained. In all other cases the flag being set is irrelevant and atomicity guarantees other flags will be read correctly. Note that non-atomic updates of unrelated flags do not cause an issue with this flag being set atomically, as writes of other flags are performed under mmap/VMA write lock, and these atomic writes are performed under mmap/VMA read lock, which excludes the write, avoiding RMW races. Note that we do not encounter issues with KCSAN by adjusting this flag atomically, as we are only updating a single bit in the flag bitmap and therefore we do not need to annotate these changes. We intentionally set this flag in advance of actually updating the page tables, to ensure that any racing atomic read of this flag will only return false prior to page tables being updated, to allow for serialisation via page table locks. Note that we set vma->anon_vma for anonymous mappings. This is because the expectation for anonymous mappings is that an anon_vma is established should they possess any page table mappings. This is also consistent with what we were doing prior to this patch (unconditionally setting anon_vma on guard region installation). We also need to update retract_page_tables() to ensure that madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE) doesn't incorrectly collapse file-backed ranges contain guard regions. This was previously guarded by anon_vma being set to catch MAP_PRIVATE cases, but the introduction of VM_MAYBE_GUARD necessitates that we check this flag instead. We utilise vma_flag_test_atomic() to do so - we first perform an optimistic check, then after the PTE page table lock is held, we can check again safely, as upon guard marker install the flag is set atomically prior to the page table lock being taken to actually apply it. So if the initial check fails either: * Page table retraction acquires page table lock prior to VM_MAYBE_GUARD being set - guard marker installation will be blocked until page table retraction is complete. OR: * Guard marker installation acquires page table lock after setting VM_MAYBE_GUARD, which raced and didn't pick this up in the initial optimistic check, blocking page table retraction until the guard regions are installed - the second VM_MAYBE_GUARD check will prevent page table retraction. Either way we're safe. We refactor the retraction checks into a single file_backed_vma_is_retractable(), there doesn't seem to be any reason that the checks were separated as before. Note that VM_MAYBE_GUARD being set atomically remains correct as vma_needs_copy() is invoked with the mmap and VMA write locks held, excluding any race with madvise_guard_install(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9e9ce95b6ac17497de7f60fc110c7dd9e489e8d.1763460113.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16treewide: include linux/pgalloc.h instead of asm/pgalloc.hHarry Yoo
For now, including <asm/pgalloc.h> instead of <linux/pgalloc.h> is technically fine unless the .c file calls p*d_populate_kernel() helper functions. But it is a better practice to always include <linux/pgalloc.h>. Include <linux/pgalloc.h> instead of <asm/pgalloc.h> outside arch/. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024113047.119058-3-harry.yoo@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm/khugepaged: factor out common logic in [scan,alloc]_sleep_millisecs_store()Leon Hwang
Both scan_sleep_millisecs_store() and alloc_sleep_millisecs_store() perform the same operations: parse the input value, update their respective sleep interval, reset khugepaged_sleep_expire, and wake up the khugepaged thread. Factor out this duplicated logic into a helper function __sleep_millisecs_store(), and simplify both store functions. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251021134431.26488-1-leon.hwang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm/khugepaged: guard is_zero_pfn() calls with pte_present()Lance Yang
A non-present entry, like a swap PTE, contains completely different data (swap type and offset). pte_pfn() doesn't know this, so if we feed it a non-present entry, it will spit out a junk PFN. What if that junk PFN happens to match the zeropage's PFN by sheer chance? While really unlikely, this would be really bad if it did. So, let's fix this potential bug by ensuring all calls to is_zero_pfn() in khugepaged.c are properly guarded by a pte_present() check. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251020151111.53561-1-lance.yang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm/khugepaged: fix comment for default scan sleep durationwang lian
The comment for khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs incorrectly states the default scan period is 30 seconds. The actual default value in the code is 10000ms (10 seconds). This patch corrects the comment to match the code, preventing potential confusion. The incorrect comment has existed since the feature was first introduced. While at it, replace the magic value 512 by HPAGE_PMD_NR and use 'ptes'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015092957.37432-1-lianux.mm@gmail.com Signed-off-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-10-03mm/khugepaged: use KMEM_CACHE()Wei Yang
We got some late review commits during review of commit b4c9ffb54b32 ("mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot"). No need to keep the old cache name "khugepaged_mm_slot", let's simply use KMEM_CACHE(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001091900.20041-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Fixes: b4c9ffb54b32 ("mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot") Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com> Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-28mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readabilityWei Yang
When collapsing a pmd, there are two address in use: * address points to the start of pmd * address points to each individual page Current naming makes it difficult to distinguish these two and is hence error prone. Considering the plan to collapse mTHP, name the first one `start_addr' and the second `addr' for better readability and consistency. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922140938.27343-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-28mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slotWei Yang
Current code is not correct to get struct khugepaged_mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() without checking mm_slot is !NULL. There is no problem reported since slot is the first element of struct khugepaged_mm_slot. While struct khugepaged_mm_slot is just a wrapper of struct mm_slot, there is no need to define it. Remove the definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot, so there is not chance to miss use mm_slot_entry(). [richard.weiyang@gmail.com: fix use-after-free crash] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922002834.vz6ntj36e75ehkyp@master Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250919071244.17020-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-23mm/khugepaged: do not fail collapse_pte_mapped_thp() on SCAN_PMD_NULLKiryl Shutsemau
MADV_COLLAPSE on a file mapping behaves inconsistently depending on if PMD page table is installed or not. Consider following example: p = mmap(NULL, 2UL << 20, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); err = madvise(p, 2UL << 20, MADV_COLLAPSE); fd is a populated tmpfs file. The result depends on the address that the kernel returns on mmap(). If it is located in an existing PMD table, the madvise() will succeed. However, if the table does not exist, it will fail with -EINVAL. This occurs because find_pmd_or_thp_or_none() returns SCAN_PMD_NULL when a page table is missing, which causes collapse_pte_mapped_thp() to fail. SCAN_PMD_NULL and SCAN_PMD_NONE should be treated the same in collapse_pte_mapped_thp(): install the PMD leaf entry and allocate page tables as needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/v5ivpub6z2n2uyemlnxgbilzs52ep4lrary7lm7o6axxoneb75@yfacfl5rkzeh Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: drop all references of writable and SCAN_PAGE_RODev Jain
Now that all actionable outcomes from checking pte_write() are gone, drop the related references. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250908075028.38431-3-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: enable khugepaged anonymous collapse on non-writable regionsDev Jain
Patch series "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse", v2. Currently khugepaged does not collapse an anonymous region which does not have a single writable pte. This is wasteful since a region mapped with non-writable ptes, for example, non-writable VMAs mapped by the application, won't benefit from THP collapse. An additional consequence of this constraint is that MADV_COLLAPSE does not perform a collapse on a non-writable VMA, and this restriction is nowhere to be found on the manpage - the restriction itself sounds wrong to me since the user knows the protection of the memory it has mapped, so collapsing read-only memory via madvise() should be a choice of the user which shouldn't be overridden by the kernel. Therefore, remove this constraint. On an arm64 bare metal machine, comparing with vanilla 6.17-rc2, an average of 5% improvement is seen on some mmtests benchmarks, particularly hackbench, with a maximum improvement of 12%. In the following table, (I) denotes statistically significant improvement, (R) denotes statistically significant regression. +-------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------+ | mmtests/hackbench | process-pipes-1 (seconds) | -0.06% | | | process-pipes-4 (seconds) | -0.27% | | | process-pipes-7 (seconds) | (I) -12.13% | | | process-pipes-12 (seconds) | (I) -5.32% | | | process-pipes-21 (seconds) | (I) -2.87% | | | process-pipes-30 (seconds) | (I) -3.39% | | | process-pipes-48 (seconds) | (I) -5.65% | | | process-pipes-79 (seconds) | (I) -6.74% | | | process-pipes-110 (seconds) | (I) -6.26% | | | process-pipes-141 (seconds) | (I) -4.99% | | | process-pipes-172 (seconds) | (I) -4.45% | | | process-pipes-203 (seconds) | (I) -3.65% | | | process-pipes-234 (seconds) | (I) -3.45% | | | process-pipes-256 (seconds) | (I) -3.47% | | | process-sockets-1 (seconds) | 2.13% | | | process-sockets-4 (seconds) | 1.02% | | | process-sockets-7 (seconds) | -0.26% | | | process-sockets-12 (seconds) | -1.24% | | | process-sockets-21 (seconds) | 0.01% | | | process-sockets-30 (seconds) | -0.15% | | | process-sockets-48 (seconds) | 0.15% | | | process-sockets-79 (seconds) | 1.45% | | | process-sockets-110 (seconds) | -1.64% | | | process-sockets-141 (seconds) | (I) -4.27% | | | process-sockets-172 (seconds) | 0.30% | | | process-sockets-203 (seconds) | -1.71% | | | process-sockets-234 (seconds) | -1.94% | | | process-sockets-256 (seconds) | -0.71% | | | thread-pipes-1 (seconds) | 0.66% | | | thread-pipes-4 (seconds) | 1.66% | | | thread-pipes-7 (seconds) | -0.17% | | | thread-pipes-12 (seconds) | (I) -4.12% | | | thread-pipes-21 (seconds) | (I) -2.13% | | | thread-pipes-30 (seconds) | (I) -3.78% | | | thread-pipes-48 (seconds) | (I) -5.77% | | | thread-pipes-79 (seconds) | (I) -5.31% | | | thread-pipes-110 (seconds) | (I) -6.12% | | | thread-pipes-141 (seconds) | (I) -4.00% | | | thread-pipes-172 (seconds) | (I) -3.01% | | | thread-pipes-203 (seconds) | (I) -2.62% | | | thread-pipes-234 (seconds) | (I) -2.00% | | | thread-pipes-256 (seconds) | (I) -2.30% | | | thread-sockets-1 (seconds) | (R) 2.39% | +-------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------+ +-------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | mmtests/sysbench-mutex | sysbenchmutex-1 (usec) | -0.02% | | | sysbenchmutex-4 (usec) | -0.02% | | | sysbenchmutex-7 (usec) | 0.00% | | | sysbenchmutex-12 (usec) | 0.12% | | | sysbenchmutex-21 (usec) | -0.40% | | | sysbenchmutex-30 (usec) | 0.08% | | | sysbenchmutex-48 (usec) | 2.59% | | | sysbenchmutex-79 (usec) | -0.80% | | | sysbenchmutex-110 (usec) | -3.87% | | | sysbenchmutex-128 (usec) | (I) -4.46% | +-------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------+ This patch (of 2): Currently khugepaged does not collapse an anonymous region which does not have a single writable pte. This is wasteful since a region mapped with non-writable ptes, for example, non-writable VMAs mapped by the application, won't benefit from THP collapse. An additional consequence of this constraint is that MADV_COLLAPSE does not perform a collapse on a non-writable VMA, and this restriction is nowhere to be found on the manpage - the restriction itself sounds wrong to me since the user knows the protection of the memory it has mapped, so collapsing read-only memory via madvise() should be a choice of the user which shouldn't be overridden by the kernel. Therefore, remove this restriction by not honouring SCAN_PAGE_RO. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250908075028.38431-1-dev.jain@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250908075028.38431-2-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable in order to pick upAndrew Morton
changes required by mm-stable material: hugetlb and damon.
2025-09-13mm/khugepaged: use list_xxx() helper to improve readabilityWei Yang
In general, khugepaged_scan_mm_slot() iterates khugepaged_scan.mm_head list to get a mm_struct for collapse memory. Use list_xxx() helper would be more obvious to the list iteration operation. No functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822025732.9025-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13mm/huge_memory: convert "tva_flags" to "enum tva_type"David Hildenbrand
When determining which THP orders are eligible for a VMA mapping, we have previously specified tva_flags, however it turns out it is really not necessary to treat these as flags. Rather, we distinguish between distinct modes. The only case where we previously combined flags was with TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS, but we can avoid this by observing that this is the default, except for MADV_COLLAPSE or an edge cases in collapse_pte_mapped_thp() and hugepage_vma_revalidate(), and adding a mode specifically for this case - TVA_FORCED_COLLAPSE. We have: * smaps handling for showing "THPeligible" * Pagefault handling * khugepaged handling * Forced collapse handling: primarily MADV_COLLAPSE, but also for an edge case in collapse_pte_mapped_thp() Disregarding the edge cases, we only want to ignore sysfs settings only when we are forcing a collapse through MADV_COLLAPSE, otherwise we want to enforce it, hence this patch does the following flag to enum conversions: * TVA_SMAPS | TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_SMAPS * TVA_IN_PF | TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_PAGEFAULT * TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_KHUGEPAGED * 0 -> TVA_FORCED_COLLAPSE With this change, we immediately know if we are in the forced collapse case, which will be valuable next. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-3-usamaarif642@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to optionally exclude VM_HUGEPAGEDavid Hildenbrand
Patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised", v5. This will allow individual processes to opt-out of THP = "always" into THP = "madvise", without affecting other workloads on the system. This has been extensively discussed on the mailing list and has been summarized very well by David in the first patch which also includes the links to alternatives, please refer to the first patch commit message for the motivation for this series. Patch 1 adds the PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED flag to implement this, along with the MMF changes. Patch 2 is a cleanup patch for tva_flags that will allow the forced collapse case to be transmitted to vma_thp_disabled (which is done in patch 3). Patch 4 adds documentation for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE/PR_GET_THP_DISABLE. Patches 6-7 implement the selftests for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE for completely disabling THPs (old behaviour) and only enabling it at advise (PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED). This patch (of 7): People want to make use of more THPs, for example, moving from the "never" system policy to "madvise", or from "madvise" to "always". While this is great news for every THP desperately waiting to get allocated out there, apparently there are some workloads that require a bit of care during that transition: individual processes may need to opt-out from this behavior for various reasons, and this should be permitted without needing to make all other workloads on the system similarly opt-out. The following scenarios are imaginable: (1) Switch from "none" system policy to "madvise"/"always", but keep THPs disabled for selected workloads. (2) Stay at "none" system policy, but enable THPs for selected workloads, making only these workloads use the "madvise" or "always" policy. (3) Switch from "madvise" system policy to "always", but keep the "madvise" policy for selected workloads: allocate THPs only when advised. (4) Stay at "madvise" system policy, but enable THPs even when not advised for selected workloads -- "always" policy. Once can emulate (2) through (1), by setting the system policy to "madvise"/"always" while disabling THPs for all processes that don't want THPs. It requires configuring all workloads, but that is a user-space problem to sort out. (4) can be emulated through (3) in a similar way. Back when (1) was relevant in the past, as people started enabling THPs, we added PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, so relevant workloads that were not ready yet (i.e., used by Redis) were able to just disable THPs completely. Redis still implements the option to use this interface to disable THPs completely. With PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, we added a way to force-disable THPs for a workload -- a process, including fork+exec'ed process hierarchy. That essentially made us support (1): simply disable THPs for all workloads that are not ready for THPs yet, while still enabling THPs system-wide. The quest for handling (3) and (4) started, but current approaches (completely new prctl, options to set other policies per process, alternatives to prctl -- mctrl, cgroup handling) don't look particularly promising. Likely, the future will use bpf or something similar to implement better policies, in particular to also make better decisions about THP sizes to use, but this will certainly take a while as that work just started. Long story short: a simple enable/disable is not really suitable for the future, so we're not willing to add completely new toggles. While we could emulate (3)+(4) through (1)+(2) by simply disabling THPs completely for these processes, this is a step backwards, because these processes can no longer allocate THPs in regions where THPs were explicitly advised: regions flagged as VM_HUGEPAGE. Apparently, that imposes a problem for relevant workloads, because "not THPs" is certainly worse than "THPs only when advised". Could we simply relax PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, to "disable THPs unless not explicitly advised by the app through MAD_HUGEPAGE"? *maybe*, but this would change the documented semantics quite a bit, and the versatility to use it for debugging purposes, so I am not 100% sure that is what we want -- although it would certainly be much easier. So instead, as an easy way forward for (3) and (4), add an option to make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE disable *less* THPs for a process. In essence, this patch: (A) Adds PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED, to be used as a flag in arg3 of prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE) when disabling THPs (arg2 != 0). prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, 1, PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED). (B) Makes prctl(PR_GET_THP_DISABLE) return 3 if PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set while disabling. Previously, it would return 1 if THPs were disabled completely. Now it returns the set flags as well: 3 if PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set. (C) Renames MMF_DISABLE_THP to MMF_DISABLE_THP_COMPLETELY, to express the semantics clearly. Fortunately, there are only two instances outside of prctl() code. (D) Adds MMF_DISABLE_THP_EXCEPT_ADVISED to express "no THP except for VMAs with VM_HUGEPAGE" -- essentially "thp=madvise" behavior Fortunately, we only have to extend vma_thp_disabled(). (E) Indicates "THP_enabled: 0" in /proc/pid/status only if THPs are disabled completely Only indicating that THPs are disabled when they are really disabled completely, not only partially. For now, we don't add another interface to obtained whether THPs are disabled partially (PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set). If ever required, we could add a new entry. The documented semantics in the man page for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE "is inherited by a child created via fork(2) and is preserved across execve(2)" is maintained. This behavior, for example, allows for disabling THPs for a workload through the launching process (e.g., systemd where we fork() a helper process to then exec()). For now, MADV_COLLAPSE will *fail* in regions without VM_HUGEPAGE and VM_NOHUGEPAGE. As MADV_COLLAPSE is a clear advise that user space thinks a THP is a good idea, we'll enable that separately next (requiring a bit of cleanup first). There is currently not way to prevent that a process will not issue PR_SET_THP_DISABLE itself to re-enable THP. There are not really known users for re-enabling it, and it's against the purpose of the original interface. So if ever required, we could investigate just forbidding to re-enable them, or make this somehow configurable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-2-usamaarif642@gmail.com Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Tested-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13mm: convert core mm to mm_flags_*() accessorsLorenzo Stoakes
As part of the effort to move to mm->flags becoming a bitmap field, convert existing users to making use of the mm_flags_*() accessors which will, when the conversion is complete, be the only means of accessing mm_struct flags. This will result in the debug output being that of a bitmap output, which will result in a minor change here, but since this is for debug only, this should have no bearing. Otherwise, no functional changes intended. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1eb2266f4408798a55bda00cb04545a3203aa572.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-03mm/khugepaged: fix the address passed to notifier on testing youngWei Yang
Commit 8ee53820edfd ("thp: mmu_notifier_test_young") introduced mmu_notifier_test_young(), but we are passing the wrong address. In xxx_scan_pmd(), the actual iteration address is "_address" not "address". We seem to misuse the variable on the very beginning. Change it to the right one. [akpm@linux-foundation.org fix whitespace, per everyone] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822063318.11644-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Fixes: 8ee53820edfd ("thp: mmu_notifier_test_young") Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-05mm: fix the race between collapse and PT_RECLAIM under per-vma lockBarry Song
The check_pmd_still_valid() call during collapse is currently only protected by the mmap_lock in write mode, which was sufficient when pt_reclaim always ran under mmap_lock in read mode. However, since madvise_dontneed can now execute under a per-VMA lock, this assumption is no longer valid. As a result, a race condition can occur between collapse and PT_RECLAIM, potentially leading to a kernel panic. [ 38.151897] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] SMP KASI [ 38.153519] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] [ 38.154605] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 721 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-next-20250801-next-2025080 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 38.155929] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org4 [ 38.157418] RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x15/0x30 [ 38.158125] Code: 03 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 66 0f 1f 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc0 [ 38.160461] RSP: 0018:ffff88800feef678 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 38.161220] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 1ffffffff0dde60c [ 38.162232] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff85da1e18 RDI: dffffc0000000003 [ 38.163176] RBP: ffff88800feef698 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 38.164195] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff888016a8ba58 R12: 0000000000000018 [ 38.165189] R13: 0000000000000018 R14: ffffffff85da1e18 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 38.166100] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880e3b40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 38.167137] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 38.167891] CR2: 00007f97fadfe504 CR3: 0000000007088005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 [ 38.168812] PKRU: 55555554 [ 38.169275] Call Trace: [ 38.169647] <TASK> [ 38.169975] ? __kasan_check_byte+0x19/0x50 [ 38.170581] lock_acquire+0xea/0x310 [ 38.171083] ? rcu_is_watching+0x19/0xc0 [ 38.171615] ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x1a/0x20 [ 38.172343] ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp8+0x1c/0x30 [ 38.173130] _raw_spin_lock+0x38/0x50 [ 38.173707] ? __pte_offset_map_lock+0x1a2/0x3c0 [ 38.174390] __pte_offset_map_lock+0x1a2/0x3c0 [ 38.174987] ? __pfx___pte_offset_map_lock+0x10/0x10 [ 38.175724] ? __pfx_pud_val+0x10/0x10 [ 38.176308] ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp1+0x1e/0x30 [ 38.177183] unmap_page_range+0xb60/0x43e0 [ 38.177824] ? __pfx_unmap_page_range+0x10/0x10 [ 38.178485] ? mas_next_slot+0x133a/0x1a50 [ 38.179079] unmap_single_vma.constprop.0+0x15b/0x250 [ 38.179830] unmap_vmas+0x1fa/0x460 [ 38.180373] ? __pfx_unmap_vmas+0x10/0x10 [ 38.180994] ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x1a/0x20 [ 38.181877] exit_mmap+0x1a2/0xb40 [ 38.182396] ? lock_release+0x14f/0x2c0 [ 38.182929] ? __pfx_exit_mmap+0x10/0x10 [ 38.183474] ? __pfx___mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10/0x10 [ 38.184188] ? mutex_unlock+0x16/0x20 [ 38.184704] mmput+0x132/0x370 [ 38.185208] do_exit+0x7e7/0x28c0 [ 38.185682] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x21/0x30 [ 38.186328] ? do_group_exit+0x1d8/0x2c0 [ 38.186873] ? __pfx_do_exit+0x10/0x10 [ 38.187401] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x21/0x30 [ 38.188036] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x60 [ 38.188634] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x89/0x110 [ 38.189313] do_group_exit+0xe4/0x2c0 [ 38.189831] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x4d/0x60 [ 38.190413] x64_sys_call+0x2174/0x2180 [ 38.190935] do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x2e0 [ 38.191449] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e This patch moves the vma_start_write() call to precede check_pmd_still_valid(), ensuring that the check is also properly protected by the per-VMA lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805035447.7958-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Fixes: a6fde7add78d ("mm: use per_vma lock for MADV_DONTNEED") Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Tested-by: "Lai, Yi" <yi1.lai@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: "Lai, Yi" <yi1.lai@linux.intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aJAFrYfyzGpbm+0m@ly-workstation/ Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Cc: Tangquan Zheng <zhengtangquan@oppo.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-02khugepaged: optimize collapse_pte_mapped_thp() by PTE batchingDev Jain
Use PTE batching to batch process PTEs mapping the same large folio. An improvement is expected due to batching mapcount manipulation on the folios, and for arm64 which supports contig mappings, the number of TLB flushes is also reduced. Note that we do not need to make a change to the check "if (folio_page(folio, i) != page)"; if i'th page of the folio is equal to the first page of our batch, then i + 1, .... i + nr_batch_ptes - 1 pages of the folio will be equal to the corresponding pages of our batch mapping consecutive pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250724052301.23844-4-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-02khugepaged: optimize __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded() by PTE batchingDev Jain
Use PTE batching to batch process PTEs mapping the same large folio. An improvement is expected due to batching refcount-mapcount manipulation on the folios, and for arm64 which supports contig mappings, the number of TLB flushes is also reduced. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250724052301.23844-3-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-13khugepaged: reduce race probability between migration and khugepagedDev Jain
Suppose a folio is under migration, and khugepaged is also trying to collapse it. collapse_pte_mapped_thp() will retrieve the folio from the page cache via filemap_lock_folio(), thus taking a reference on the folio and sleeping on the folio lock, since the lock is held by the migration path. Migration will then fail in __folio_migrate_mapping -> folio_ref_freeze. Reduce the probability of such a race happening (leading to migration failure) by bailing out if we detect a PMD is marked with a migration entry. This fixes the migration-shared-anon-thp testcase failure on Apple M3. Note that, this is not a "fix" since it only reduces the chance of interference of khugepaged with migration, wherein both the kernel functionalities are deemed "best-effort". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704040417.63826-1-dev.jain@arm.com Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-13mm/madvise: eliminate very confusing manipulation of prev VMALorenzo Stoakes
The madvise code has for the longest time had very confusing code around the 'prev' VMA pointer passed around various functions which, in all cases except madvise_update_vma(), is unused and instead simply updated as soon as the function is invoked. To compound the confusion, the prev pointer is also used to indicate to the caller that the mmap lock has been dropped and that we can therefore not safely access the end of the current VMA (which might have been updated by madvise_update_vma()). Clear up this confusion by not setting prev = vma anywhere except in madvise_walk_vmas(), update all references to prev which will always be equal to vma after madvise_vma_behavior() is invoked, and adding a flag to indicate that the lock has been dropped to make this explicit. Additionally, drop a redundant BUG_ON() from madvise_collapse(), which is simply reiterating the BUG_ON(mmap_locked) above it (note that BUG_ON() is not appropriate here, but we leave existing code as-is). We finally adjust the madvise_walk_vmas() logic to be a little clearer - delaying the assignment of the end of the range to the start of the new range until the last moment and handling the lock being dropped scenario immediately. Additionally add some explanatory comments. [lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: fix very subtle bug] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dca94cde-8afb-4eab-8e57-3f508624d670@lucifer.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/63d281c5df2e64225ab5b4bda398b45e22818701.1750433500.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm/khugepaged: remove redundant pmd_devmap() checkAlistair Popple
The pmd_devmap() check in check_pmd_state() is redundant because the only user of pmd_devmap were device dax and fs dax. However all callers of check_pmd_state() first call thp_vma_allowable_order() to check if the vma should be scanned. Except when called from a page fault this always returns 0 for dax vma's, hence we would never expect to see a pmd_devmap entry. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a68175fd3a37e9b72cc82c1d63fd8b69691a85b5.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org> Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Inki Dae <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: John Groves <john@groves.net> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09mm: update core kernel code to use vm_flags_t consistentlyLorenzo Stoakes
The core kernel code is currently very inconsistent in its use of vm_flags_t vs. unsigned long. This prevents us from changing the type of vm_flags_t in the future and is simply not correct, so correct this. While this results in rather a lot of churn, it is a critical pre-requisite for a future planned change to VMA flag type. Additionally, update VMA userland tests to account for the changes. To make review easier and to break things into smaller parts, driver and architecture-specific changes is left for a subsequent commit. The code has been adjusted to cascade the changes across all calling code as far as is needed. We will adjust architecture-specific and driver code in a subsequent patch. Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d1588e7bb96d1ea3fe7b9df2c699d5b4592d901d.1750274467.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-31mm/khugepaged: clean up refcount check using folio_expected_ref_count()Shivank Garg
Use folio_expected_ref_count() instead of open-coded logic in is_refcount_suitable(). This avoids code duplication and improves clarity. Drop is_refcount_suitable() as it is no longer needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250526182818.37978-2-shivankg@amd.com Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Fengwei Yin <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-31mm/khugepaged: fix race with folio split/free using temporary referenceShivank Garg
hpage_collapse_scan_file() calls is_refcount_suitable(), which in turn calls folio_mapcount(). folio_mapcount() checks folio_test_large() before proceeding to folio_large_mapcount(), but there is a race window where the folio may get split/freed between these checks, triggering: VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_large(folio), folio) Take a temporary reference to the folio in hpage_collapse_scan_file(). This stabilizes the folio during refcount check and prevents incorrect large folio detection due to concurrent split/free. Use helper folio_expected_ref_count() + 1 to compare with folio_ref_count() instead of using is_refcount_suitable(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250526182818.37978-1-shivankg@amd.com Fixes: 05c5323b2a34 ("mm: track mapcount of large folios in single value") Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reported-by: syzbot+2b99589e33edbe9475ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6828470d.a70a0220.38f255.000c.GAE@google.com Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Fengwei Yin <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-22mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapseBaolin Wang
Originally, the file pages collapse was intended for tmpfs/shmem to merge into THP in the background. However, now not only tmpfs/shmem can support large folios, but some other file systems (such as XFS, erofs ...) also support large folios. Therefore, it is time to decouple the support of file folios collapse from SHMEM. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce5c2314e0368cf34bda26f9bacf01c982d4da17.1747119309.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-22mm: convert do_set_pmd() to take a folioBaolin Wang
In do_set_pmd(), we always use the folio->page to build PMD mappings for the entire folio. Since all callers of do_set_pmd() already hold a stable folio, converting do_set_pmd() to take a folio is safe and more straightforward. In addition, to ensure the extensibility of do_set_pmd() for supporting larger folios beyond PMD size, we keep the 'page' parameter to specify which page within the folio should be mapped. No functional changes expected. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b488f4ecb4d3fd8634e3d448dd0ed6964482480.1747017104.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-22mm: khugepaged: convert set_huge_pmd() to take a folioBaolin Wang
We've already gotten the stable locked folio in collapse_pte_mapped_thp(), so just use folio for set_huge_pmd() to set the PMD entry, which is more straightforward. Moreover, we will check the folio size in do_set_pmd(), so we can remove the unnecessary VM_BUG_ON() in set_huge_pmd(). While we are at it, we can also remove the PageTransHuge(), as it currently has no callers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/110c3e1ec5fe7854a0e2c95ffcbc985817180ed7.1747017104.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-12khugepaged: pass folio instead of head page to trace eventsFan Ni
The trace functions trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate() and trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd() each have a single user, which always passes in the head page of a folio. Refactor both functions to take a folio directly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250425002425.533698-1-nifan.cxl@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com> Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: convert free_page_and_swap_cache() to free_folio_and_swap_cache()Fan Ni
free_page_and_swap_cache() takes a struct page pointer as input parameter, but it will immediately convert it to folio and all operations following within use folio instead of page. It makes more sense to pass in folio directly. Convert free_page_and_swap_cache() to free_folio_and_swap_cache() to consume folio directly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250416201720.41678-1-nifan.cxl@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@samsung.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11mm: add folio_mk_pmd()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Removes five conversions from folio to page. Also removes both callers of mk_pmd() that aren't part of mk_huge_pmd(), getting us a step closer to removing the confusion between mk_pmd(), mk_huge_pmd() and pmd_mkhuge(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-11-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17mm: convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared()David Hildenbrand
Let's reuse our new MM ownership tracking infrastructure for large folios to make folio_likely_mapped_shared() never return false negatives -- never indicating "not mapped shared" although the folio *is* mapped shared. With that, we can rename it to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() and get rid of the dependency on the mapcount of the first folio page. The semantics are now arguably clearer: no mixture of "false negatives" and "false positives", only the remaining possibility for "false positives". Thoroughly document the new semantics. We might now detect that a large folio is "maybe mapped shared" although it *no longer* is -- but once was. Now, if more than two MMs mapped a folio at the same time, and the MM mapping the folio exclusively at the end is not one tracked in the two folio MM slots, we will detect the folio as "maybe mapped shared". For anonymous folios, usually (except weird corner cases) all PTEs that target a "maybe mapped shared" folio are R/O. As soon as a child process would write to them (iow, actively use them), we would CoW and effectively replace these PTEs. Most cases (below) are not expected to really matter with large anonymous folios for this reason. Most importantly, there will be no change at all for: * small folios * hugetlb folios * PMD-mapped PMD-sized THPs (single mapping) This change has the potential to affect existing callers of folio_likely_mapped_shared() -> folio_maybe_mapped_shared(): (1) fs/proc/task_mmu.c: no change (hugetlb) (2) khugepaged counts PTEs that target shared folios towards max_ptes_shared (default: HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2), meaning we could skip a collapse where we would have previously collapsed. This only applies to anonymous folios and is not expected to matter in practice. Worth noting that this change sorts out case (A) documented in commit 1bafe96e89f0 ("mm/khugepaged: replace page_mapcount() check by folio_likely_mapped_shared()") by removing the possibility for "false negatives". (3) MADV_COLD / MADV_PAGEOUT / MADV_FREE will not try splitting PTE-mapped THPs that are considered shared but not fully covered by the requested range, consequently not processing them. PMD-mapped PMD-sized THP are not affected, or when all PTEs are covered. These functions are usually only called on anon/file folios that are exclusively mapped most of the time (no other file mappings or no fork()), so the "false negatives" are not expected to matter in practice. (4) mbind() / migrate_pages() / move_pages() will refuse to migrate shared folios unless MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is effective (requires CAP_SYS_NICE). We will now reject some folios that could be migrated. Similar to (3), especially with MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, so this is not expected to matter in practice. Note that cpuset_migrate_mm_workfn() calls do_migrate_pages() with MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL. (5) NUMA hinting mm/migrate.c:migrate_misplaced_folio_prepare() will skip file folios that are probably shared libraries (-> "mapped shared" and executable). This check would have detected it as a shared library at some point (at least 3 MMs mapping it), so detecting it afterwards does not sound wrong (still a shared library). Not expected to matter. mm/memory.c:numa_migrate_check() will indicate TNF_SHARED in MAP_SHARED file mappings when encountering a shared folio. Similar reasoning, not expected to matter. mm/mprotect.c:change_pte_range() will skip folios detected as shared in CoW mappings. Similarly, this is not expected to matter in practice, but if it would ever be a problem we could relax that check a bit (e.g., basing it on the average page-mapcount in a folio), because it was only an optimization when many (e.g., 288) processes were mapping the same folios -- see commit 859d4adc3415 ("mm: numa: do not trap faults on shared data section pages.") (6) mm/rmap.c:folio_referenced_one() will skip exclusive swapbacked folios in dying processes. Applies to anonymous folios only. Without "false negatives", we'll now skip all actually shared ones. Skipping ones that are actually exclusive won't really matter, it's a pure optimization, and is not expected to matter in practice. In theory, one can detect the problematic scenario: folio_mapcount() > 0 and no folio MM slot is occupied ("state unknown"). One could reset the MM slots while doing an rmap walk, which migration / folio split already do when setting everything up. Further, when batching PTEs we might naturally learn about a owner (e.g., folio_mapcount() == nr_ptes) and could update the owner. However, we'll defer that until the scenarios where it would really matter are clear. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-15-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-26Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs. - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a refcount inc & dec - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to use large folios other than PMD-sized ones - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part of the mapletree code - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a few minor code cleanups - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and a test for the mapletree code - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the (relatively) new mm/vma.c - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the page allocator - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue. It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are accumulated: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests code when optional compiler warnings are enabled - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of __GFP_HARDWALL - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly pertaining to the pkeys tests - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to estimate application working set size - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare use-after-free race is fixed - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging logic - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in improvements in accounting accuracy - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes DAMON's sysfs file interface logic - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is presented in response to DAMOS actions - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the migration to sysfs is completed - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation accounting - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting), but also inclusion (allowing) behavior - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of memory descriptors - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel build time with swap-on-zram - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal" from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that mmap_region() can be made MM-internal - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae Park updates DAMON documentation - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb folios, THP folios and migration - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when reading/writing fast devices - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags() tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us() seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin() mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page() mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch() mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type() selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy() kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags() selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue ...
2025-01-15mm: khugepaged: fix call hpage_collapse_scan_file() for anonymous vmaLiu Shixin
syzkaller reported such a BUG_ON(): ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/khugepaged.c:1835! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP ... CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 8009 Comm: syz.15.106 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.13.0-rc6 #22 Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 pstate: 00400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : collapse_file+0xa44/0x1400 lr : collapse_file+0x88/0x1400 sp : ffff80008afe3a60 ... Call trace: collapse_file+0xa44/0x1400 (P) hpage_collapse_scan_file+0x278/0x400 madvise_collapse+0x1bc/0x678 madvise_vma_behavior+0x32c/0x448 madvise_walk_vmas.constprop.0+0xbc/0x140 do_madvise.part.0+0xdc/0x2c8 __arm64_sys_madvise+0x68/0x88 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x34/0x128 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xd0 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198 This indicates that the pgoff is unaligned. After analysis, I confirm the vma is mapped to /dev/zero. Such a vma certainly has vm_file, but it is set to anonymous by mmap_zero(). So even if it's mmapped by 2m-unaligned, it can pass the check in thp_vma_allowable_order() as it is an anonymous-mmap, but then be collapsed as a file-mmap. It seems the problem has existed for a long time, but actually, since we have khugepaged_max_ptes_none check before, we will skip collapse it as it is /dev/zero and so has no present page. But commit d8ea7cc8547c limit the check for only khugepaged, so the BUG_ON() can be triggered by madvise_collapse(). Add vma_is_anonymous() check to make such vma be processed by hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250111034511.2223353-1-liushixin2@huawei.com Fixes: d8ea7cc8547c ("mm/khugepaged: add flag to predicate khugepaged-only behavior") Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Mattew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-13mm: khugepaged: recheck pmd state in retract_page_tables()Qi Zheng
Patch series "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages", v4. Previously, we tried to use a completely asynchronous method to reclaim empty user PTE pages [1]. After discussing with David Hildenbrand, we decided to implement synchronous reclaimation in the case of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) as the first step. So this series aims to synchronously free the empty PTE pages in madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) case. We will detect and free empty PTE pages in zap_pte_range(), and will add zap_details.reclaim_pt to exclude cases other than madvise(MADV_DONTNEED). In zap_pte_range(), mmu_gather is used to perform batch tlb flushing and page freeing operations. Therefore, if we want to free the empty PTE page in this path, the most natural way is to add it to mmu_gather as well. Now, if CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE is selected, mmu_gather will free page table pages by semi RCU: - batch table freeing: asynchronous free by RCU - single table freeing: IPI + synchronous free But this is not enough to free the empty PTE page table pages in paths other that munmap and exit_mmap path, because IPI cannot be synchronized with rcu_read_lock() in pte_offset_map{_lock}(). So we should let single table also be freed by RCU like batch table freeing. As a first step, we supported this feature on x86_64 and selectd the newly introduced CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM. For other cases such as madvise(MADV_FREE), consider scanning and freeing empty PTE pages asynchronously in the future. Note: issues related to TLB flushing are not new to this series and are tracked in the separate RFC patch [3]. And more context please refer to this thread [4]. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1727332572.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ [3]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240815120715.14516-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ [4]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6f38cb19-9847-4f70-bbe7-06881bb016be@bytedance.com/ This patch (of 11): In retract_page_tables(), the lock of new_folio is still held, we will be blocked in the page fault path, which prevents the pte entries from being set again. So even though the old empty PTE page may be concurrently freed and a new PTE page is filled into the pmd entry, it is still empty and can be removed. So just refactor the retract_page_tables() a little bit and recheck the pmd state after holding the pmd lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1733305182.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/70a51804cd19d44ccaf031825d9fb6eaf92f2bad.1733305182.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-12-30mm, madvise: fix potential workingset node list_lru leaksKairui Song
Since commit 5abc1e37afa0 ("mm: list_lru: allocate list_lru_one only when needed"), all list_lru users need to allocate the items using the new infrastructure that provides list_lru info for slab allocation, ensuring that the corresponding memcg list_lru is allocated before use. For workingset shadow nodes (which are xa_node), users are converted to use the new infrastructure by commit 9bbdc0f32409 ("xarray: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru to allocate xa_node"). The xas->xa_lru will be set correctly for filemap users. However, there is a missing case: xa_node allocations caused by madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE). madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE) will also read in the absent parts of file map, and there will be xa_nodes allocated for the caller's memcg (assuming it's not rootcg). However, these allocations won't trigger memcg list_lru allocation because the proper xas info was not set. If nothing else has allocated other xa_nodes for that memcg to trigger list_lru creation, and memory pressure starts to evict file pages, workingset_update_node will try to add these xa_nodes to their corresponding memcg list_lru, and it does not exist (NULL). So they will be added to rootcg's list_lru instead. This shouldn't be a significant issue in practice, but it is indeed unexpected behavior, and these xa_nodes will not be reclaimed effectively. And may lead to incorrect counting of the list_lru->nr_items counter. This problem wasn't exposed until recent commit 28e98022b31ef ("mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation") added a sanity check: only dying memcg could have a NULL list_lru when list_lru_{add,del} is called. This problem triggered this WARNING. So make madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE) also call xas_set_lru() to pass the list_lru which we may want to insert xa_node into later. And move mapping_set_update to mm/internal.h, and turn into a macro to avoid including extra headers in mm/internal.h. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241222122936.67501-1-ryncsn@gmail.com Fixes: 9bbdc0f32409 ("xarray: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru to allocate xa_node") Reported-by: syzbot+38a0cbd267eff2d286ff@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/675d01e9.050a0220.37aaf.00be.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05mm: khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() use pte_offset_map_rw_nolock()Qi Zheng
In collapse_pte_mapped_thp(), we may modify the pte and pmd entry after acquiring the ptl, so convert it to using pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(). At this time, the pte_same() check is not performed after the PTL held. So we should get pgt_pmd and do pmd_same() check after the ptl held. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/055e42db68da00ac8ecab94bd2633c7cd965eb1c.1727332572.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05mm: khugepaged: __collapse_huge_page_swapin() use pte_offset_map_ro_nolock()Qi Zheng
In __collapse_huge_page_swapin(), we just use the ptl for pte_same() check in do_swap_page(). In other places, we directly use pte_offset_map_lock(), so convert it to using pte_offset_map_ro_nolock(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc97a6c3cb9ea80cab30c5626eeea79959d93258.1727332572.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05mm: move mm flags to mm_types.hNanyong Sun
The types of mm flags are now far beyond the core dump related features. This patch moves mm flags from linux/sched/coredump.h to linux/mm_types.h. The linux/sched/coredump.h has include the mm_types.h, so the C files related to coredump does not need to change head file inclusion. In addition, the inclusion of sched/coredump.h now can be deleted from the C files that irrelevant to core dump. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240926074922.2721274-1-sunnanyong@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05mm: shmem: fix khugepaged activation policy for shmemBaolin Wang
Shmem has a separate interface (different from anonymous pages) to control huge page allocation, that means shmem THP can be enabled while anonymous THP is disabled. However, in this case, khugepaged will not start to collapse shmem THP, which is unreasonable. To fix this issue, we should call start_stop_khugepaged() to activate or deactivate the khugepaged thread when setting shmem mTHP interfaces. Moreover, add a new helper shmem_hpage_pmd_enabled() to help to check whether shmem THP is enabled, which will determine if khugepaged should be activated. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b9c6cbc4499bf44c6455367fd9e0f6036525680.1726978977.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reported-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-10-17mm: khugepaged: fix the incorrect statistics when collapsing large file foliosBaolin Wang
Khugepaged already supports collapsing file large folios (including shmem mTHP) by commit 7de856ffd007 ("mm: khugepaged: support shmem mTHP collapse"), and the control parameters in khugepaged: 'khugepaged_max_ptes_swap' and 'khugepaged_max_ptes_none', still compare based on PTE granularity to determine whether a file collapse is needed. However, the statistics for 'present' and 'swap' in hpage_collapse_scan_file() do not take into account the large folios, which may lead to incorrect judgments regarding the khugepaged_max_ptes_swap/none parameters, resulting in unnecessary file collapses. To fix this issue, take into account the large folios' statistics for 'present' and 'swap' variables in the hpage_collapse_scan_file(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c76305d96d12d030a1a346b50503d148364246d2.1728901391.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: 7de856ffd007 ("mm: khugepaged: support shmem mTHP collapse") Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>