Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
...
Bulk insert mode was added to facilitate forking faster, but forking now
uses __mt_dup() to duplicate the tree.
The addition of sheaves has made the bulk allocations difficult to
maintain - since the expected entries would preallocate into the maple
state. A big part of the maple state node allocation was the ability to
push nodes back onto the state for later use, which was essential to the
bulk insert algorithm.
Remove mas_expected_entries() and mas_destroy_rebalance() functions as
well as the MA_STATE_BULK and MA_STATE_REBALANCE maple state flags since
there are no users anymore. Drop the associated testing as well.
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Since the pivot being set is now reliable, the optimized loop no longer
needs to find the node end. The redundant check for a dead node can also
be avoided as there is no danger of using the wrong pivot since the
results will be thrown out in the case of a dead node by the later check.
This patch also adds a benchmark test for the function to the maple tree
test framework. The benchmark shows an average increase performance of
5.98% over 3 runs with this commit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231101171629.3612299-12-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Users complained about OOM errors during fork without triggering
compaction. This can be fixed by modifying the flags used in
mas_expected_entries() so that the compaction will be triggered in low
memory situations. Since mas_expected_entries() is only used during fork,
the extra argument does not need to be passed through.
Additionally, the two test_maple_tree test cases and one benchmark test
were altered to use the correct locking type so that allocations would not
trigger sleeping and thus fail. Testing was completed with lockdep atomic
sleep detection.
The additional locking change requires rwsem support additions to the
tools/ directory through the use of pthreads pthread_rwlock_t. With this
change test_maple_tree works in userspace, as a module, and in-kernel.
Users may notice that the system gave up early on attempting to start new
processes instead of attempting to reclaim memory.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915093243epcms1p46fa00bbac1ab7b7dca94acb66c44c456@epcms1p4
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231012155233.2272446-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Fixes: 54a611b605 ("Maple Tree: add new data structure")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Cc: <jason.sim@samsung.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When updating the maple tree iterator to avoid rewalks, an issue was
introduced when shifting beyond the limits. This can be seen by trying to
go to the previous address of 0, which would set the maple node to
MAS_NONE and keep the range as the last entry.
Subsequent calls to mas_find() would then search upwards from mas->last
and skip the value at mas->index/mas->last. This showed up as a bug in
mprotect which skips the actual VMA at the current range after attempting
to go to the previous VMA from 0.
Since MAS_NONE may already be set when searching for a value that isn't
contained within a node, changing the handling of MAS_NONE in mas_find()
would make the code more complicated and error prone. Furthermore, there
was no way to tell which limit was hit, and thus which action to take
(next or the entry at the current range).
This solution is to add two states to track what happened with the
previous iterator action. This allows for the expected behaviour of the
next command to return the correct item (either the item at the range
requested, or the next/previous).
Tests are also added and updated accordingly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230921181236.509072-3-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Link: https://gist.github.com/heatd/85d2971fae1501b55b6ea401fbbe485b
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230921181236.509072-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com/
Fixes: 39193685d5 ("maple_tree: try harder to keep active node with mas_prev()")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@gmail.com>
Closes: https://gist.github.com/heatd/85d2971fae1501b55b6ea401fbbe485b
Closes: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/79656
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Reduce preallocations for maple tree", v3.
Initial work on preallocations showed no regression in performance during
testing, but recently some users (both on [1] and off [android] list) have
reported that preallocating the worst-case number of nodes has caused some
slow down. This patch set addresses the number of allocations in a few
ways.
During munmap() most munmap() operations will remove a single VMA, so
leverage the fact that the maple tree can place a single pointer at range
0 - 0 without allocating. This is done by changing the index of the VMAs
to be indexed by the count, starting at 0.
Re-introduce the entry argument to mas_preallocate() so that a more
intelligent guess of the node count can be made.
Implement the more intelligent guess of the node count, although there is
more work to be done.
During development of v2 of this patch set, I also noticed that the number
of nodes being allocated for a rebalance was beyond what could possibly be
needed. This is addressed in patch 0008.
This patch (of 15):
Add a way to test the speed of mas_for_each() to the testing code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724183157.3939892-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724183157.3939892-2-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Along the development cycle, the testing code support for module/in-kernel
compiles was removed. Restore this functionality by moving any internal
API tests to the userspace side, as well as threading tests. Fix the
lockdep issues and add a way to reduce memory usage so the tests can
complete with KASAN + memleak detection. Make the tests work on 32 bit
hosts where possible and detect 32 bit hosts in the radix test suite.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix module export]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it some more]
[liam.howlett@oracle.com: fix compile warnings on 32bit build in check_find()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221107203816.1260327-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221028180415.3074673-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This is a test suite that uses the radix test infrastructure. It has been
split into its own commit to allow for easier review of the maple tree
code.
The testing includes:
- Allocation of nodes
- gfp flag allocation checks
- Expansion & contraction of tree
- preallocation checks
- tree navigation by next/prev
- tree navigation by iterators (mas_for_each, etc)
- Number of nodes for a given number of entries
- Generic tree construction tests
- Addition and removal of entries in forward and reverse numerical indexes
- gap searching both forward and reverse
- Combining gaps by overwriting entries in different ways
- splitting right-most node
- splitting left-most node
- overwriting multiple slots
- overwriting across different levels of the tree
- overwriting the middle of a tree
- causing a 3-way split up to the root by overwriting the last slot and
first slot of different nodes and spanning different levels
- RCU stress testing of the tree with threads
- Duplication of the tree by entry count
- Tests which were generated by fuzzers have been added.
- A large number of tests which come from recording crashing in a VM and
reconstructing the tree (see check_erase2_set())
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-8-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>