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  1. Sep 15, 2017
  2. Sep 08, 2017
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'powerpc-4.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · bac65d9d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
       "Nothing really major this release, despite quite a lot of activity.
        Just lots of things all over the place.
      
        Some things of note include:
      
         - Access via perf to a new type of PMU (IMC) on Power9, which can
           count both core events as well as nest unit events (Memory
           controller etc).
      
         - Optimisations to the radix MMU TLB flushing, mostly to avoid
           unnecessary Page Walk Cache (PWC) flushes when the structure of the
           tree is not changing.
      
         - Reworks/cleanups of do_page_fault() to modernise it and bring it
           closer to other architectures where possible.
      
         - Rework of our page table walking so that THP updates only need to
           send IPIs to CPUs where the affected mm has run, rather than all
           CPUs.
      
         - The size of our vmalloc area is increased to 56T on 64-bit hash MMU
           systems. This avoids problems with the percpu allocator on systems
           with very sparse NUMA layouts.
      
         - STRICT_KERNEL_RWX support on PPC32.
      
         - A new sched domain topology for Power9, to capture the fact that
           pairs of cores may share an L2 cache.
      
         - Power9 support for VAS, which is a new mechanism for accessing
           coprocessors, and initial support for using it with the NX
           compression accelerator.
      
         - Major work on the instruction emulation support, adding support for
           many new instructions, and reworking it so it can be used to
           implement the emulation needed to fixup alignment faults.
      
         - Support for guests under PowerVM to use the Power9 XIVE interrupt
           controller.
      
        And probably that many things again that are almost as interesting,
        but I had to keep the list short. Plus the usual fixes and cleanups as
        always.
      
        Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab,
        Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arvind Yadav, Balbir Singh,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhumika Goyal, Breno Leitao, Bryant G. Ly,
        Christophe Leroy, Cédric Le Goater, Dan Carpenter, Dou Liyang,
        Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geliang Tang, Geoff Levand, Hannes
        Reinecke, Haren Myneni, Ivan Mikhaylov, John Allen, Julia Lawall,
        LABBE Corentin, Laurentiu Tudor, Madhavan Srinivasan, Markus Elfring,
        Masahiro Yamada, Matt Brown, Michael Neuling, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo,
        Nathan Fontenot, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
        Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Rob Herring, Rui Teng, Sam Bobroff,
        Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Shilpasri G Bhat, Sukadev Bhattiprolu,
        Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tobin C. Harding, Victor Aoqui"
      
      * tag 'powerpc-4.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (321 commits)
        powerpc/xive: Fix section __init warning
        powerpc: Fix kernel crash in emulation of vector loads and stores
        powerpc/xive: improve debugging macros
        powerpc/xive: add XIVE Exploitation Mode to CAS
        powerpc/xive: introduce H_INT_ESB hcall
        powerpc/xive: add the HW IRQ number under xive_irq_data
        powerpc/xive: introduce xive_esb_write()
        powerpc/xive: rename xive_poke_esb() in xive_esb_read()
        powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller
        powerpc/xive: introduce a common routine xive_queue_page_alloc()
        powerpc/sstep: Avoid used uninitialized error
        axonram: Return directly after a failed kzalloc() in axon_ram_probe()
        axonram: Improve a size determination in axon_ram_probe()
        axonram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in axon_ram_probe()
        powerpc/powernv/npu: Move tlb flush before launching ATSD
        powerpc/macintosh: constify wf_sensor_ops structures
        powerpc/iommu: Use permission-specific DEVICE_ATTR variants
        powerpc/eeh: Delete an error out of memory message at init time
        powerpc/mm: Use seq_putc() in two functions
        macintosh: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
        ...
      bac65d9d
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · f92e3da1
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
       "The main changes in this cycle were:
      
         - Transparently fall back to other poweroff method(s) if EFI poweroff
           fails (and returns)
      
         - Use separate PE/COFF section headers for the RX and RW parts of the
           ARM stub loader so that the firmware can use strict mapping
           permissions
      
         - Add support for requesting the firmware to wipe RAM at warm reboot
      
         - Increase the size of the random seed obtained from UEFI so CRNG
           fast init can complete earlier
      
         - Update the EFI framebuffer address if it points to a BAR that gets
           moved by the PCI resource allocation code
      
         - Enable "reset attack mitigation" of TPM environments: this is
           enabled if the kernel is configured with
           CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION=y.
      
         - Clang related fixes
      
         - Misc cleanups, constification, refactoring, etc"
      
      * 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        efi/bgrt: Use efi_mem_type()
        efi: Move efi_mem_type() to common code
        efi/reboot: Make function pointer orig_pm_power_off static
        efi/random: Increase size of firmware supplied randomness
        efi/libstub: Enable reset attack mitigation
        firmware/efi/esrt: Constify attribute_group structures
        firmware/efi: Constify attribute_group structures
        firmware/dcdbas: Constify attribute_group structures
        arm/efi: Split zImage code and data into separate PE/COFF sections
        arm/efi: Replace open coded constants with symbolic ones
        arm/efi: Remove pointless dummy .reloc section
        arm/efi: Remove forbidden values from the PE/COFF header
        drivers/fbdev/efifb: Allow BAR to be moved instead of claiming it
        efi/reboot: Fall back to original power-off method if EFI_RESET_SHUTDOWN returns
        efi/arm/arm64: Add missing assignment of efi.config_table
        efi/libstub/arm64: Set -fpie when building the EFI stub
        efi/libstub/arm64: Force 'hidden' visibility for section markers
        efi/libstub/arm64: Use hidden attribute for struct screen_info reference
        efi/arm: Don't mark ACPI reclaim memory as MEMBLOCK_NOMAP
      f92e3da1
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 57e88b43
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull x86 platform updates from Ingo Molnar:
       "The main changes include various Hyper-V optimizations such as faster
        hypercalls and faster/better TLB flushes - and there's also some
        Intel-MID cleanups"
      
      * 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        tracing/hyper-v: Trace hyperv_mmu_flush_tlb_others()
        x86/hyper-v: Support extended CPU ranges for TLB flush hypercalls
        x86/platform/intel-mid: Make several arrays static, to make code smaller
        MAINTAINERS: Add missed file for Hyper-V
        x86/hyper-v: Use hypercall for remote TLB flush
        hyper-v: Globalize vp_index
        x86/hyper-v: Implement rep hypercalls
        hyper-v: Use fast hypercall for HVCALL_SIGNAL_EVENT
        x86/hyper-v: Introduce fast hypercall implementation
        x86/hyper-v: Make hv_do_hypercall() inline
        x86/hyper-v: Include hyperv/ only when CONFIG_HYPERV is set
        x86/platform/intel-mid: Make 'bt_sfi_data' const
        x86/platform/intel-mid: Make IRQ allocation a bit more flexible
        x86/platform/intel-mid: Group timers callbacks together
      57e88b43
  3. Sep 07, 2017
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata · 3b9f8ed2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
       "Except for the ahci fix that fixes a boot issue, nothing major in this
        pull request. Some new platform controller support and device specific
        changes"
      
      * 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata:
        libata: zpodd: make arrays cdb static, reduces object code size
        ahci: don't use MSI for devices with the silly Intel NVMe remapping scheme
        dt-bindings: ata: add DT bindings for MediaTek SATA controller
        ata: mediatek: add support for MediaTek SATA controller
        pata_octeon_cf: use of_property_read_{bool|u32}()
        cs5536: add support for IDE controller variant
        ata: sata_gemini: Introduce explicit IDE pin control
        ata: sata_gemini: Retire custom pin control
        ata: ahci_platform: Add shutdown handler
        ata: sata_gemini: explicitly request exclusive reset control
        ata: Drop unnecessary static
        ata: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
      3b9f8ed2
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup · 608c1d3c
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
       "Several notable changes this cycle:
      
         - Thread mode was merged. This will be used for cgroup2 support for
           CPU and possibly other controllers. Unfortunately, CPU controller
           cgroup2 support didn't make this pull request but most contentions
           have been resolved and the support is likely to be merged before
           the next merge window.
      
         - cgroup.stat now shows the number of descendant cgroups.
      
         - cpuset now can enable the easier-to-configure v2 behavior on v1
           hierarchy"
      
      * 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits)
        cpuset: Allow v2 behavior in v1 cgroup
        cgroup: Add mount flag to enable cpuset to use v2 behavior in v1 cgroup
        cgroup: remove unneeded checks
        cgroup: misc changes
        cgroup: short-circuit cset_cgroup_from_root() on the default hierarchy
        cgroup: re-use the parent pointer in cgroup_destroy_locked()
        cgroup...
      608c1d3c
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq · 9954d489
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
       "Nothing major. I introduced a flag collsion bug during v4.13 cycle
        which is fixed in this pull request. Fortunately, the flag is for
        debugging / verification and the bug isn't critical"
      
      * 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
        workqueue: Fix flag collision
        workqueue: Use TASK_IDLE
        workqueue: fix path to documentation
        workqueue: doc change for ST behavior on NUMA systems
      9954d489
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu · a7cbfd05
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo:
       "A lot of changes for percpu this time around. percpu inherited the
        same area allocator from the original pre-virtual-address-mapped
        implementation. This was from the time when percpu allocator wasn't
        used all that much and the implementation was focused on simplicity,
        with the unfortunate computational complexity of O(number of areas
        allocated from the chunk) per alloc / free.
      
        With the increase in percpu usage, we're hitting cases where the lack
        of scalability is hurting. The most prominent one right now is bpf
        perpcu map creation / destruction which may allocate and free a lot of
        entries consecutively and it's likely that the problem will become
        more prominent in the future.
      
        To address the issue, Dennis replaced the area allocator with hinted
        bitmap allocator which is more consistent. While the new allocator
        does perform a bit worse in some cases, it outperf...
      a7cbfd05
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) · d34fc1ad
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
      
       - various misc bits
      
       - DAX updates
      
       - OCFS2
      
       - most of MM
      
      * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (119 commits)
        mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK
        x86,mpx: make mpx depend on x86-64 to free up VMA flag
        mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
        mm: hugetlb: clear target sub-page last when clearing huge page
        mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently
        swap: choose swap device according to numa node
        mm: replace TIF_MEMDIE checks by tsk_is_oom_victim
        mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access
        z3fold: use per-cpu unbuddied lists
        mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap
        mm, swap: add sysfs interface for VMA based swap readahead
        mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead
        mm, swap: fix swap readahead marking
        mm, swap: add swap readahead hit statistics
        mm/vmalloc.c: don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
        mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment
        selftests/memfd: add memfd_create hugetlbfs selftest
        mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()
        mm, devm_memremap_pages: use multi-order radix for ZONE_DEVICE lookups
        mm/vmalloc.c: halve the number of comparisons performed in pcpu_get_vm_areas()
        ...
      d34fc1ad
    • Andy Lutomirski's avatar
      x86/mm: Document how CR4.PCIDE restore works · 1c9fe440
      Andy Lutomirski authored
      
      
      While debugging a problem, I thought that using
      cr4_set_bits_and_update_boot() to restore CR4.PCIDE would be
      helpful.  It turns out to be counterproductive.
      
      Add a comment documenting how this works.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1c9fe440
    • Andy Lutomirski's avatar
      x86/mm: Reinitialize TLB state on hotplug and resume · 72c0098d
      Andy Lutomirski authored
      
      
      When Linux brings a CPU down and back up, it switches to init_mm and then
      loads swapper_pg_dir into CR3.  With PCID enabled, this has the side effect
      of masking off the ASID bits in CR3.
      
      This can result in some confusion in the TLB handling code.  If we
      bring a CPU down and back up with any ASID other than 0, we end up
      with the wrong ASID active on the CPU after resume.  This could
      cause our internal state to become corrupt, although major
      corruption is unlikely because init_mm doesn't have any user pages.
      More obviously, if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y, we'll trip over an assertion
      in the next context switch.  The result of *that* is a failure to
      resume from suspend with probability 1 - 1/6^(cpus-1).
      
      Fix it by reinitializing cpu_tlbstate on resume and CPU bringup.
      
      Reported-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
      Fixes: 10af6235
      
       ("x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      72c0098d
    • Rik van Riel's avatar
      mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK · d2cd9ede
      Rik van Riel authored
      Introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK semantics, which result in a VMA being empty
      in the child process after fork.  This differs from MADV_DONTFORK in one
      important way.
      
      If a child process accesses memory that was MADV_WIPEONFORK, it will get
      zeroes.  The address ranges are still valid, they are just empty.
      
      If a child process accesses memory that was MADV_DONTFORK, it will get a
      segmentation fault, since those address ranges are no longer valid in
      the child after fork.
      
      Since MADV_DONTFORK also seems to be used to allow very large programs
      to fork in systems with strict memory overcommit restrictions, changing
      the semantics of MADV_DONTFORK might break existing programs.
      
      MADV_WIPEONFORK only works on private, anonymous VMAs.
      
      The use case is libraries that store or cache information, and want to
      know that they need to regenerate it in the child process after fork.
      
      Examples of this would be:
       - systemd/pulseaudio API checks (fail after fork) (replacing a getpid
         check, which is too slow without a PID cache)
       - PKCS#11 API reinitialization check (mandated by specification)
       - glibc's upcoming PRNG (reseed after fork)
       - OpenSSL PRNG (reseed after fork)
      
      The security benefits of a forking server having a re-inialized PRNG in
      every child process are pretty obvious.  However, due to libraries
      having all kinds of internal state, and programs getting compiled with
      many different versions of each library, it is unreasonable to expect
      calling programs to re-initialize everything manually after fork.
      
      A further complication is the proliferation of clone flags, programs
      bypassing glibc's functions to call clone directly, and programs calling
      unshare, causing the glibc pthread_atfork hook to not get called.
      
      It would be better to have the kernel take care of this automatically.
      
      The patch also adds MADV_KEEPONFORK, to undo the effects of a prior
      MADV_WIPEONFORK.
      
      This is similar to the OpenBSD minherit syscall with MAP_INHERIT_ZERO:
      
          https://man.openbsd.org/minherit.2
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: numerically order arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h #defines]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170811212829.29186-3-riel@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarColm MacCártaigh <colm@allcosts.net>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
      Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d2cd9ede
    • Rik van Riel's avatar
      x86,mpx: make mpx depend on x86-64 to free up VMA flag · df3735c5
      Rik van Riel authored
      Patch series "mm,fork,security: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK", v4.
      
      If a child process accesses memory that was MADV_WIPEONFORK, it will get
      zeroes.  The address ranges are still valid, they are just empty.
      
      If a child process accesses memory that was MADV_DONTFORK, it will get a
      segmentation fault, since those address ranges are no longer valid in
      the child after fork.
      
      Since MADV_DONTFORK also seems to be used to allow very large programs
      to fork in systems with strict memory overcommit restrictions, changing
      the semantics of MADV_DONTFORK might break existing programs.
      
      The use case is libraries that store or cache information, and want to
      know that they need to regenerate it in the child process after fork.
      
      Examples of this would be:
       - systemd/pulseaudio API checks (fail after fork) (replacing a getpid
         check, which is too slow without a PID cache)
       - PKCS#11 API reinitialization check (mandated by specification)
       - glibc's upcoming PRNG (reseed after fork)
       - OpenSSL PRNG (reseed after fork)
      
      The security benefits of a forking server having a re-inialized PRNG in
      every child process are pretty obvious.  However, due to libraries
      having all kinds of internal state, and programs getting compiled with
      many different versions of each library, it is unreasonable to expect
      calling programs to re-initialize everything manually after fork.
      
      A further complication is the proliferation of clone flags, programs
      bypassing glibc's functions to call clone directly, and programs calling
      unshare, causing the glibc pthread_atfork hook to not get called.
      
      It would be better to have the kernel take care of this automatically.
      
      The patchset also adds MADV_KEEPONFORK, to undo the effects of a prior
      MADV_WIPEONFORK.
      
      This is similar to the OpenBSD minherit syscall with MAP_INHERIT_ZERO:
      
          https://man.openbsd.org/minherit.2
      
      This patch (of 2):
      
      MPX only seems to be available on 64 bit CPUs, starting with Skylake and
      Goldmont.  Move VM_MPX into the 64 bit only portion of vma->vm_flags, in
      order to free up a VMA flag.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170811212829.29186-2-riel@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
      Cc: Colm MacCártaigh <colm@allcosts.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      df3735c5
    • Daniel Colascione's avatar
      mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup · 493b0e9d
      Daniel Colascione authored
      /proc/pid/smaps_rollup is a new proc file that improves the performance
      of user programs that determine aggregate memory statistics (e.g., total
      PSS) of a process.
      
      Android regularly "samples" the memory usage of various processes in
      order to balance its memory pool sizes.  This sampling process involves
      opening /proc/pid/smaps and summing certain fields.  For very large
      processes, sampling memory use this way can take several hundred
      milliseconds, due mostly to the overhead of the seq_printf calls in
      task_mmu.c.
      
      smaps_rollup improves the situation.  It contains most of the fields of
      /proc/pid/smaps, but instead of a set of fields for each VMA,
      smaps_rollup instead contains one synthetic smaps-format entry
      representing the whole process.  In the single smaps_rollup synthetic
      entry, each field is the summation of the corresponding field in all of
      the real-smaps VMAs.  Using a common format for smaps_rollup and smaps
      allows userspace parsers to repurpose parsers meant for use with
      non-rollup smaps for smaps_rollup, and it allows userspace to switch
      between smaps_rollup and smaps at runtime (say, based on the
      availability of smaps_rollup in a given kernel) with minimal fuss.
      
      By using smaps_rollup instead of smaps, a caller can avoid the
      significant overhead of formatting, reading, and parsing each of a large
      process's potentially very numerous memory mappings.  For sampling
      system_server's PSS in Android, we measured a 12x speedup, representing
      a savings of several hundred milliseconds.
      
      One alternative to a new per-process proc file would have been including
      PSS information in /proc/pid/status.  We considered this option but
      thought that PSS would be too expensive (by a few orders of magnitude)
      to collect relative to what's already emitted as part of
      /proc/pid/status, and slowing every user of /proc/pid/status for the
      sake of readers that happen to want PSS feels wrong.
      
      The code itself works by reusing the existing VMA-walking framework we
      use for regular smaps generation and keeping the mem_size_stats
      structure around between VMA walks instead of using a fresh one for each
      VMA.  In this way, summation happens automatically.  We let seq_file
      walk over the VMAs just as it does for regular smaps and just emit
      nothing to the seq_file until we hit the last VMA.
      
      Benchmarks:
      
          using smaps:
          iterations:1000 pid:1163 pss:220023808
          0m29.46s real 0m08.28s user 0m20.98s system
      
          using smaps_rollup:
          iterations:1000 pid:1163 pss:220702720
          0m04.39s real 0m00.03s user 0m04.31s system
      
      We're using the PSS samples we collect asynchronously for
      system-management tasks like fine-tuning oom_adj_score, memory use
      tracking for debugging, application-level memory-use attribution, and
      deciding whether we want to kill large processes during system idle
      maintenance windows.  Android has been using PSS for these purposes for
      a long time; as the average process VMA count has increased and and
      devices become more efficiency-conscious, PSS-collection inefficiency
      has started to matter more.  IMHO, it'd be a lot safer to optimize the
      existing PSS-collection model, which has been fine-tuned over the years,
      instead of changing the memory tracking approach entirely to work around
      smaps-generation inefficiency.
      
      Tim said:
      
      : There are two main reasons why Android gathers PSS information:
      :
      : 1. Android devices can show the user the amount of memory used per
      :    application via the settings app.  This is a less important use case.
      :
      : 2. We log PSS to help identify leaks in applications.  We have found
      :    an enormous number of bugs (in the Android platform, in Google's own
      :    apps, and in third-party applications) using this data.
      :
      : To do this, system_server (the main process in Android userspace) will
      : sample the PSS of a process three seconds after it changes state (for
      : example, app is launched and becomes the foreground application) and about
      : every ten minutes after that.  The net result is that PSS collection is
      : regularly running on at least one process in the system (usually a few
      : times a minute while the screen is on, less when screen is off due to
      : suspend).  PSS of a process is an incredibly useful stat to track, and we
      : aren't going to get rid of it.  We've looked at some very hacky approaches
      : using RSS ("take the RSS of the target process, subtract the RSS of the
      : zygote process that is the parent of all Android apps") to reduce the
      : accounting time, but it regularly overestimated the memory used by 20+
      : percent.  Accordingly, I don't think that there's a good alternative to
      : using PSS.
      :
      : We started looking into PSS collection performance after we noticed random
      : frequency spikes while a phone's screen was off; occasionally, one of the
      : CPU clusters would ramp to a high frequency because there was 200-300ms of
      : constant CPU work from a single thread in the main Android userspace
      : process.  The work causing the spike (which is reasonable governor
      : behavior given the amount of CPU time needed) was always PSS collection.
      : As a result, Android is burning more power than we should be on PSS
      : collection.
      :
      : The other issue (and why I'm less sure about improving smaps as a
      : long-term solution) is that the number of VMAs per process has increased
      : significantly from release to release.  After trying to figure out why we
      : were seeing these 200-300ms PSS collection times on Android O but had not
      : noticed it in previous versions, we found that the number of VMAs in the
      : main system process increased by 50% from Android N to Android O (from
      : ~1800 to ~2700) and varying increases in every userspace process.  Android
      : M to N also had an increase in the number of VMAs, although not as much.
      : I'm not sure why this is increasing so much over time, but thinking about
      : ASLR and ways to make ASLR better, I expect that this will continue to
      : increase going forward.  I would not be surprised if we hit 5000 VMAs on
      : the main Android process (system_server) by 2020.
      :
      : If we assume that the number of VMAs is going to increase over time, then
      : doing anything we can do to reduce the overhead of each VMA during PSS
      : collection seems like the right way to go, and that means outputting an
      : aggregate statistic (to avoid whatever overhead there is per line in
      : writing smaps and in reading each line from userspace).
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170812022148.178293-1-dancol@google.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
      Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
      Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      493b0e9d
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      mm: hugetlb: clear target sub-page last when clearing huge page · c79b57e4
      Huang Ying authored
      Huge page helps to reduce TLB miss rate, but it has higher cache
      footprint, sometimes this may cause some issue.  For example, when
      clearing huge page on x86_64 platform, the cache footprint is 2M.  But
      on a Xeon E5 v3 2699 CPU, there are 18 cores, 36 threads, and only 45M
      LLC (last level cache).  That is, in average, there are 2.5M LLC for
      each core and 1.25M LLC for each thread.
      
      If the cache pressure is heavy when clearing the huge page, and we clear
      the huge page from the begin to the end, it is possible that the begin
      of huge page is evicted from the cache after we finishing clearing the
      end of the huge page.  And it is possible for the application to access
      the begin of the huge page after clearing the huge page.
      
      To help the above situation, in this patch, when we clear a huge page,
      the order to clear sub-pages is changed.  In quite some situation, we
      can get the address that the application will access after we clear the
      huge page, for example, in a page fault handler.  Instead of clearing
      the huge page from begin to end, we will clear the sub-pages farthest
      from the the sub-page to access firstly, and clear the sub-page to
      access last.  This will make the sub-page to access most cache-hot and
      sub-pages around it more cache-hot too.  If we cannot know the address
      the application will access, the begin of the huge page is assumed to be
      the the address the application will access.
      
      With this patch, the throughput increases ~28.3% in vm-scalability
      anon-w-seq test case with 72 processes on a 2 socket Xeon E5 v3 2699
      system (36 cores, 72 threads).  The test case creates 72 processes, each
      process mmap a big anonymous memory area and writes to it from the begin
      to the end.  For each process, other processes could be seen as other
      workload which generates heavy cache pressure.  At the same time, the
      cache miss rate reduced from ~33.4% to ~31.7%, the IPC (instruction per
      cycle) increased from 0.56 to 0.74, and the time spent in user space is
      reduced ~7.9%
      
      Christopher Lameter suggests to clear bytes inside a sub-page from end
      to begin too.  But tests show no visible performance difference in the
      tests.  May because the size of page is small compared with the cache
      size.
      
      Thanks Andi Kleen to propose to use address to access to determine the
      order of sub-pages to clear.
      
      The hugetlbfs access address could be improved, will do that in another
      patch.
      
      [ying.huang@intel.com: improve readability of clear_huge_page()]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170830051842.1397-1-ying.huang@intel.com
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170815014618.15842-1-ying.huang@intel.com
      
      
      Suggested-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c79b57e4
    • Andrea Arcangeli's avatar
      mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently · 21292580
      Andrea Arcangeli authored
      This is purely required because exit_aio() may block and exit_mmap() may
      never start, if the oom_reap_task cannot start running on a mm with
      mm_users == 0.
      
      At the same time if the OOM reaper doesn't wait at all for the memory of
      the current OOM candidate to be freed by exit_mmap->unmap_vmas, it would
      generate a spurious OOM kill.
      
      If it wasn't because of the exit_aio or similar blocking functions in
      the last mmput, it would be enough to change the oom_reap_task() in the
      case it finds mm_users == 0, to wait for a timeout or to wait for
      __mmput to set MMF_OOM_SKIP itself, but it's not just exit_mmap the
      problem here so the concurrency of exit_mmap and oom_reap_task is
      apparently warranted.
      
      It's a non standard runtime, exit_mmap() runs without mmap_sem, and
      oom_reap_task runs with the mmap_sem for reading as usual (kind of
      MADV_DONTNEED).
      
      The race between the two is solved with a combination of
      tsk_is_oom_victim() (serialized by task_lock) and MMF_...
      21292580
    • Aaron Lu's avatar
      swap: choose swap device according to numa node · a2468cc9
      Aaron Lu authored
      If the system has more than one swap device and swap device has the node
      information, we can make use of this information to decide which swap
      device to use in get_swap_pages() to get better performance.
      
      The current code uses a priority based list, swap_avail_list, to decide
      which swap device to use and if multiple swap devices share the same
      priority, they are used round robin.  This patch changes the previous
      single global swap_avail_list into a per-numa-node list, i.e.  for each
      numa node, it sees its own priority based list of available swap
      devices.  Swap device's priority can be promoted on its matching node's
      swap_avail_list.
      
      The current swap device's priority is set as: user can set a >=0 value,
      or the system will pick one starting from -1 then downwards.  The
      priority value in the swap_avail_list is the negated value of the swap
      device's due to plist being sorted from low to high.  The new policy
      doesn't change the semantics for priority >=0 cases, the previous
      starting from -1 then downwards now becomes starting from -2 then
      downwards and -1 is reserved as the promoted value.
      
      Take 4-node EX machine as an example, suppose 4 swap devices are
      available, each sit on a different node:
      swapA on node 0
      swapB on node 1
      swapC on node 2
      swapD on node 3
      
      After they are all swapped on in the sequence of ABCD.
      
      Current behaviour:
      their priorities will be:
      swapA: -1
      swapB: -2
      swapC: -3
      swapD: -4
      And their position in the global swap_avail_list will be:
      swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC   -> swapD
      prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:4
      
      New behaviour:
      their priorities will be(note that -1 is skipped):
      swapA: -2
      swapB: -3
      swapC: -4
      swapD: -5
      And their positions in the 4 swap_avail_lists[nid] will be:
      swap_avail_lists[0]: /* node 0's available swap device list */
      swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC   -> swapD
      prio:1     prio:3     prio:4     prio:5
      swap_avali_lists[1]: /* node 1's available swap device list */
      swapB   -> swapA   -> swapC   -> swapD
      prio:1     prio:2     prio:4     prio:5
      swap_avail_lists[2]: /* node 2's available swap device list */
      swapC   -> swapA   -> swapB   -> swapD
      prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:5
      swap_avail_lists[3]: /* node 3's available swap device list */
      swapD   -> swapA   -> swapB   -> swapC
      prio:1     prio:2     prio:3     prio:4
      
      To see the effect of the patch, a test that starts N process, each mmap
      a region of anonymous memory and then continually write to it at random
      position to trigger both swap in and out is used.
      
      On a 2 node Skylake EP machine with 64GiB memory, two 170GB SSD drives
      are used as swap devices with each attached to a different node, the
      result is:
      
      runtime=30m/processes=32/total test size=128G/each process mmap region=4G
      kernel         throughput
      vanilla        13306
      auto-binding   15169 +14%
      
      runtime=30m/processes=64/total test size=128G/each process mmap region=2G
      kernel         throughput
      vanilla        11885
      auto-binding   14879 +25%
      
      [aaron.lu@intel.com: v2]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814053130.GD2369@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816024439.GA10925@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kmalloc_array()]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814053130.GD2369@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816024439.GA10925@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
      Cc: "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a2468cc9
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      mm: replace TIF_MEMDIE checks by tsk_is_oom_victim · da99ecf1
      Michal Hocko authored
      TIF_MEMDIE is set only to the tasks whick were either directly selected
      by the OOM killer or passed through mark_oom_victim from the allocator
      path.  tsk_is_oom_victim is more generic and allows to identify all
      tasks (threads) which share the mm with the oom victim.
      
      Please note that the freezer still needs to check TIF_MEMDIE because we
      cannot thaw tasks which do not participage in oom_victims counting
      otherwise a !TIF_MEMDIE task could interfere after oom_disbale returns.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170810075019.28998-3-mhocko@kernel.org
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      da99ecf1
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access · cd04ae1e
      Michal Hocko authored
      For ages we have been relying on TIF_MEMDIE thread flag to mark OOM
      victims and then, among other things, to give these threads full access
      to memory reserves.  There are few shortcomings of this implementation,
      though.
      
      First of all and the most serious one is that the full access to memory
      reserves is quite dangerous because we leave no safety room for the
      system to operate and potentially do last emergency steps to move on.
      
      Secondly this flag is per task_struct while the OOM killer operates on
      mm_struct granularity so all processes sharing the given mm are killed.
      Giving the full access to all these task_structs could lead to a quick
      memory reserves depletion.  We have tried to reduce this risk by giving
      TIF_MEMDIE only to the main thread and the currently allocating task but
      that doesn't really solve this problem while it surely opens up a room
      for corner cases - e.g.  GFP_NO{FS,IO} requests might loop inside the
      allocator without access to memory reserves because a particular thread
      was not the group leader.
      
      Now that we have the oom reaper and that all oom victims are reapable
      after 1b51e65e ("oom, oom_reaper: allow to reap mm shared by the
      kthreads") we can be more conservative and grant only partial access to
      memory reserves because there are reasonable chances of the parallel
      memory freeing.  We still want some access to reserves because we do not
      want other consumers to eat up the victim's freed memory.  oom victims
      will still contend with __GFP_HIGH users but those shouldn't be so
      aggressive to starve oom victims completely.
      
      Introduce ALLOC_OOM flag and give all tsk_is_oom_victim tasks access to
      the half of the reserves.  This makes the access to reserves independent
      on which task has passed through mark_oom_victim.  Also drop any usage
      of TIF_MEMDIE from the page allocator proper and replace it by
      tsk_is_oom_victim as well which will make page_alloc.c completely
      TIF_MEMDIE free finally.
      
      CONFIG_MMU=n doesn't have oom reaper so let's stick to the original
      ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS approach.
      
      There is a demand to make the oom killer memcg aware which will imply
      many tasks killed at once.  This change will allow such a usecase
      without worrying about complete memory reserves depletion.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170810075019.28998-2-mhocko@kernel.org
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cd04ae1e
    • Vitaly Wool's avatar
      z3fold: use per-cpu unbuddied lists · d30561c5
      Vitaly Wool authored
      It's been noted that z3fold doesn't scale well when it's run in a large
      number of threads on many cores, which can be easily reproduced with fio
      'randrw' test with --numjobs=32.  E.g.  the result for 1 cluster (4 cores)
      is:
      
      Run status group 0 (all jobs):
         READ: io=244785MB, aggrb=496883KB/s, minb=15527KB/s, ...
        WRITE: io=246735MB, aggrb=500841KB/s, minb=15651KB/s, ...
      
      While for 8 cores (2 clusters) the result is:
      
      Run status group 0 (all jobs):
         READ: io=244785MB, aggrb=265942KB/s, minb=8310KB/s, ...
        WRITE: io=246735MB, aggrb=268060KB/s, minb=8376KB/s, ...
      
      The bottleneck here is the pool lock which many threads become waiting
      upon.  To reduce that spin lock contention, z3fold can operate only on
      the lists local to the current CPU whenever possible.  Due to the nature
      of z3fold unbuddied list handling (it only takes the first entry off the
      list on a hot path), if the z3fold pool is big enough and balanced well
      enough, limiting search to only local unbuddied li...
      d30561c5
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap · 81a0298b
      Huang Ying authored
      VMA based swap readahead will readahead the virtual pages that is
      continuous in the virtual address space.  While the original swap
      readahead will readahead the swap slots that is continuous in the swap
      device.  Although VMA based swap readahead is more correct for the swap
      slots to be readahead, it will trigger more small random readings, which
      may cause the performance of HDD (hard disk) to degrade heavily, and may
      finally exceed the benefit.
      
      To avoid the issue, in this patch, if the HDD is used as swap, the VMA
      based swap readahead will be disabled, and the original swap readahead
      will be used instead.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-6-ying.huang@intel.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      81a0298b
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      mm, swap: add sysfs interface for VMA based swap readahead · d9bfcfdc
      Huang Ying authored
      The sysfs interface to control the VMA based swap readahead is added as
      follow,
      
      /sys/kernel/mm/swap/vma_ra_enabled
      
      Enable the VMA based swap readahead algorithm, or use the original
      global swap readahead algorithm.
      
      /sys/kernel/mm/swap/vma_ra_max_order
      
      Set the max order of the readahead window size for the VMA based swap
      readahead algorithm.
      
      The corresponding ABI documentation is added too.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-5-ying.huang@intel.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d9bfcfdc
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead · ec560175
      Huang Ying authored
      The swap readahead is an important mechanism to reduce the swap in
      latency.  Although pure sequential memory access pattern isn't very
      popular for anonymous memory, the space locality is still considered
      valid.
      
      In the original swap readahead implementation, the consecutive blocks in
      swap device are readahead based on the global space locality estimation.
      But the consecutive blocks in swap device just reflect the order of page
      reclaiming, don't necessarily reflect the access pattern in virtual
      memory.  And the different tasks in the system may have different access
      patterns, which makes the global space locality estimation incorrect.
      
      In this patch, when page fault occurs, the virtual pages near the fault
      address will be readahead instead of the swap slots near the fault swap
      slot in swap device.  This avoid to readahead the unrelated swap slots.
      At the same time, the swap readahead is changed to work on per-VMA from
      globally.  So that the different access patterns of the different VMAs
      could be distinguished, and the different readahead policy could be
      applied accordingly.  The original core readahead detection and scaling
      algorithm is reused, because it is an effect algorithm to detect the
      space locality.
      
      The test and result is as follow,
      
      Common test condition
      =====================
      
      Test Machine: Xeon E5 v3 (2 sockets, 72 threads, 32G RAM) Swap device:
      NVMe disk
      
      Micro-benchmark with combined access pattern
      ============================================
      
      vm-scalability, sequential swap test case, 4 processes to eat 50G
      virtual memory space, repeat the sequential memory writing until 300
      seconds.  The first round writing will trigger swap out, the following
      rounds will trigger sequential swap in and out.
      
      At the same time, run vm-scalability random swap test case in
      background, 8 processes to eat 30G virtual memory space, repeat the
      random memory write until 300 seconds.  This will trigger random swap-in
      in the background.
      
      This is a combined workload with sequential and random memory accessing
      at the same time.  The result (for sequential workload) is as follow,
      
      			Base		Optimized
      			----		---------
      throughput		345413 KB/s	414029 KB/s (+19.9%)
      latency.average		97.14 us	61.06 us (-37.1%)
      latency.50th		2 us		1 us
      latency.60th		2 us		1 us
      latency.70th		98 us		2 us
      latency.80th		160 us		2 us
      latency.90th		260 us		217 us
      latency.95th		346 us		369 us
      latency.99th		1.34 ms		1.09 ms
      ra_hit%			52.69%		99.98%
      
      The original swap readahead algorithm is confused by the background
      random access workload, so readahead hit rate is lower.  The VMA-base
      readahead algorithm works much better.
      
      Linpack
      =======
      
      The test memory size is bigger than RAM to trigger swapping.
      
      			Base		Optimized
      			----		---------
      elapsed_time		393.49 s	329.88 s (-16.2%)
      ra_hit%			86.21%		98.82%
      
      The score of base and optimized kernel hasn't visible changes.  But the
      elapsed time reduced and readahead hit rate improved, so the optimized
      kernel runs better for startup and tear down stages.  And the absolute
      value of readahead hit rate is high, shows that the space locality is
      still valid in some practical workloads.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-4-ying.huang@intel.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ec560175
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      mm, swap: fix swap readahead marking · c4fa6309
      Huang Ying authored
      In the original implementation, it is possible that the existing pages
      in the swap cache (not newly readahead) could be marked as the readahead
      pages.  This will cause the statistics of swap readahead be wrong and
      influence the swap readahead algorithm too.
      
      This is fixed via marking a page as the readahead page only if it is
      newly allocated and read from the disk.
      
      When testing with linpack, after the fixing the swap readahead hit rate
      increased from ~66% to ~86%.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-3-ying.huang@intel.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c4fa6309
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      mm, swap: add swap readahead hit statistics · cbc65df2
      Huang Ying authored
      Patch series "mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead", v4.
      
      The swap readahead is an important mechanism to reduce the swap in
      latency.  Although pure sequential memory access pattern isn't very
      popular for anonymous memory, the space locality is still considered
      valid.
      
      In the original swap readahead implementation, the consecutive blocks in
      swap device are readahead based on the global space locality estimation.
      But the consecutive blocks in swap device just reflect the order of page
      reclaiming, don't necessarily reflect the access pattern in virtual
      memory space.  And the different tasks in the system may have different
      access patterns, which makes the global space locality estimation
      incorrect.
      
      In this patchset, when page fault occurs, the virtual pages near the
      fault address will be readahead instead of the swap slots near the fault
      swap slot in swap device.  This avoid to readahead the unrelated swap
      slots.  At the same time, the swap readahead is changed to work on
      per-VMA from globally.  So that the different access patterns of the
      different VMAs could be distinguished, and the different readahead
      policy could be applied accordingly.  The original core readahead
      detection and scaling algorithm is reused, because it is an effect
      algorithm to detect the space locality.
      
      In addition to the swap readahead changes, some new sysfs interface is
      added to show the efficiency of the readahead algorithm and some other
      swap statistics.
      
      This new implementation will incur more small random read, on SSD, the
      improved correctness of estimation and readahead target should beat the
      potential increased overhead, this is also illustrated in the test
      results below.  But on HDD, the overhead may beat the benefit, so the
      original implementation will be used by default.
      
      The test and result is as follow,
      
      Common test condition
      =====================
      
      Test Machine: Xeon E5 v3 (2 sockets, 72 threads, 32G RAM)
      Swap device: NVMe disk
      
      Micro-benchmark with combined access pattern
      ============================================
      
      vm-scalability, sequential swap test case, 4 processes to eat 50G
      virtual memory space, repeat the sequential memory writing until 300
      seconds.  The first round writing will trigger swap out, the following
      rounds will trigger sequential swap in and out.
      
      At the same time, run vm-scalability random swap test case in
      background, 8 processes to eat 30G virtual memory space, repeat the
      random memory write until 300 seconds.  This will trigger random swap-in
      in the background.
      
      This is a combined workload with sequential and random memory accessing
      at the same time.  The result (for sequential workload) is as follow,
      
      			Base		Optimized
      			----		---------
      throughput		345413 KB/s	414029 KB/s (+19.9%)
      latency.average		97.14 us	61.06 us (-37.1%)
      latency.50th		2 us		1 us
      latency.60th		2 us		1 us
      latency.70th		98 us		2 us
      latency.80th		160 us		2 us
      latency.90th		260 us		217 us
      latency.95th		346 us		369 us
      latency.99th		1.34 ms		1.09 ms
      ra_hit%			52.69%		99.98%
      
      The original swap readahead algorithm is confused by the background
      random access workload, so readahead hit rate is lower.  The VMA-base
      readahead algorithm works much better.
      
      Linpack
      =======
      
      The test memory size is bigger than RAM to trigger swapping.
      
      			Base		Optimized
      			----		---------
      elapsed_time		393.49 s	329.88 s (-16.2%)
      ra_hit%			86.21%		98.82%
      
      The score of base and optimized kernel hasn't visible changes.  But the
      elapsed time reduced and readahead hit rate improved, so the optimized
      kernel runs better for startup and tear down stages.  And the absolute
      value of readahead hit rate is high, shows that the space locality is
      still valid in some practical workloads.
      
      This patch (of 5):
      
      The statistics for total readahead pages and total readahead hits are
      recorded and exported via the following sysfs interface.
      
      /sys/kernel/mm/swap/ra_hits
      /sys/kernel/mm/swap/ra_total
      
      With them, the efficiency of the swap readahead could be measured, so
      that the swap readahead algorithm and parameters could be tuned
      accordingly.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't display swap stats if CONFIG_SWAP=n]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807054038.1843-2-ying.huang@intel.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cbc65df2
    • Byungchul Park's avatar
      mm/vmalloc.c: don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API · 894e58c1
      Byungchul Park authored
      Although llist provides proper APIs, they are not used.  Make them used.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502095374-16112-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarByungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
      Cc: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@htc.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
      Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      894e58c1
    • SeongJae Park's avatar
      mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment · f113e641
      SeongJae Park authored
      Comment for pagetypeinfo_showblockcount() is mistakenly duplicated from
      pagetypeinfo_show_free()'s comment.  This commit fixes it.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809185816.11244-1-sj38.park@gmail.com
      Fixes: 467c996c
      
       ("Print out statistics in relation to fragmentation avoidance to /proc/pagetypeinfo")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f113e641
    • Mike Kravetz's avatar
      selftests/memfd: add memfd_create hugetlbfs selftest · 1f522a48
      Mike Kravetz authored
      With the addition of hugetlbfs support in memfd_create, the memfd
      selftests should verify correct functionality with hugetlbfs.
      
      Instead of writing a separate memfd hugetlbfs test, modify the
      memfd_test program to take an optional argument 'hugetlbfs'.  If the
      hugetlbfs argument is specified, basic memfd_create functionality will
      be exercised on hugetlbfs.  If hugetlbfs is not specified, the current
      functionality of the test is unchanged.
      
      Note that many of the tests in memfd_test test file sealing operations.
      hugetlbfs does not support file sealing, therefore for hugetlbfs all
      sealing related tests are skipped.
      
      In order to test on hugetlbfs, there needs to be preallocated huge
      pages.  A new script (run_tests) is added.  This script will first run
      the existing memfd_create tests.  It will then, attempt to allocate the
      required number of huge pages before running the hugetlbfs test.  At the
      end of testing, it will release any huge pages allocated for te...
      1f522a48
    • Mike Kravetz's avatar
      mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create() · 749df87b
      Mike Kravetz authored
      This patch came out of discussions in this e-mail thread:
        http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499357846-7481-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz%40oracle.com
      
      The Oracle JVM team is developing a new garbage collection model.  This
      new model requires multiple mappings of the same anonymous memory.  One
      straight forward way to accomplish this is with memfd_create.  They can
      use the returned fd to create multiple mappings of the same memory.
      
      The JVM today has an option to use (static hugetlb) huge pages.  If this
      option is specified, they would like to use the same garbage collection
      model requiring multiple mappings to the same memory.  Using hugetlbfs,
      it is possible to explicitly mount a filesystem and specify file paths
      in order to get an fd that can be used for multiple mappings.  However,
      this introduces additional system admin work and coordination.
      
      Ideally they would like to get a hugetlbfs fd without requiring explicit
      mounting of a filesystem.  Today, mmap and shmget can make use of
      hugetlbfs without explicitly mounting a filesystem.  The patch adds this
      functionality to memfd_create.
      
      Add a new flag MFD_HUGETLB to memfd_create() that will specify the file
      to be created resides in the hugetlbfs filesystem.  This is the generic
      hugetlbfs filesystem not associated with any specific mount point.  As
      with other system calls that request hugetlbfs backed pages, there is
      the ability to encode huge page size in the flag arguments.
      
      hugetlbfs does not support sealing operations, therefore specifying
      MFD_ALLOW_SEALING with MFD_HUGETLB will result in EINVAL.
      
      Of course, the memfd_man page would need updating if this type of
      functionality moves forward.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502149672-7759-2-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      749df87b
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      mm, devm_memremap_pages: use multi-order radix for ZONE_DEVICE lookups · ab1b597e
      Dan Williams authored
      devm_memremap_pages() records mapped ranges in pgmap_radix with an entry
      per section's worth of memory (128MB).  The key for each of those
      entries is a section number.
      
      This leads to false positives when devm_memremap_pages() is passed a
      section-unaligned range as lookups in the misalignment fail to return
      NULL.  We can close this hole by using the pfn as the key for entries in
      the tree.  The number of entries required to describe a remapped range
      is reduced by leveraging multi-order entries.
      
      In practice this approach usually yields just one entry in the tree if
      the size and starting address are of the same power-of-2 alignment.
      Previously we always needed nr_entries = mapping_size / 128MB.
      
      Link: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2016-August/006666.html
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150215410565.39310.13767886055248249438.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ab1b597e
    • Wei Yang's avatar
      mm/vmalloc.c: halve the number of comparisons performed in pcpu_get_vm_areas() · c568da28
      Wei Yang authored
      In pcpu_get_vm_areas(), it checks each range is not overlapped.  To make
      sure it is, only (N^2)/2 comparison is necessary, while current code
      does N^2 times.  By starting from the next range, it achieves the goal
      and the continue could be removed.
      
      Also,
      
       - the overlap check of two ranges could be done with one clause
      
       - one typo in comment is fixed.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803063822.48702-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c568da28
    • Wen Yang's avatar
      mm/vmstat: fix divide error at __fragmentation_index · 88d6ac40
      Wen Yang authored
      When order is -1 or too big, *1UL << order* will be 0, which will cause
      a divide error.  Although it seems that all callers of
      __fragmentation_index() will only do so with a valid order, the patch
      can make it more robust.
      
      Should prevent reoccurrences of
      https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196555
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501751520-2598-1-git-send-email-wen.yang99@zte.com.cn
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>
      Suggested-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      88d6ac40
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      mm, hugetlb: do not allocate non-migrateable gigantic pages from movable zones · 79b63f12
      Michal Hocko authored
      alloc_gigantic_page doesn't consider movability of the gigantic hugetlb
      when scanning eligible ranges for the allocation.  As 1GB hugetlb pages
      are not movable currently this can break the movable zone assumption
      that all allocations are migrateable and as such break memory hotplug.
      
      Reorganize the code and use the standard zonelist allocations scheme
      that we use for standard hugetbl pages.  htlb_alloc_mask will ensure
      that only migratable hugetlb pages will ever see a movable zone.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803083549.21407-1-mhocko@kernel.org
      Fixes: 944d9fec
      
       ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
      Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      79b63f12
    • Andrea Arcangeli's avatar
      userfaultfd: provide pid in userfault msg - add feat union · a36985d3
      Andrea Arcangeli authored
      No ABI change, but this will make it more explicit to software that ptid
      is only available if requested by passing UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID to
      UFFDIO_API.  The fact it's a union will also self document it shouldn't
      be taken for granted there's a tpid there.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802165145.22628-7-aarcange@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
      Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a36985d3
    • Alexey Perevalov's avatar
      userfaultfd: provide pid in userfault msg · 9d4ac934
      Alexey Perevalov authored
      It could be useful for calculating downtime during postcopy live
      migration per vCPU.  Side observer or application itself will be
      informed about proper task's sleep during userfaultfd processing.
      
      Process's thread id is being provided when user requeste it by setting
      UFFD_FEATURE_THREAD_ID bit into uffdio_api.features.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802165145.22628-6-aarcange@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
      Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9d4ac934
    • Andrea Arcangeli's avatar
      userfaultfd: call userfaultfd_unmap_prep only if __split_vma succeeds · 2376dd7c
      Andrea Arcangeli authored
      A __split_vma is not a worthy event to report, and it's definitely not a
      unmap so it would be incorrect to report unmap for the whole region to
      the userfaultfd manager if a __split_vma fails.
      
      So only call userfaultfd_unmap_prep after the __vma_splitting is over
      and do_munmap cannot fail anymore.
      
      Also add unlikely because it's better to optimize for the vast majority
      of apps that aren't using userfaultfd in a non cooperative way.  Ideally
      we should also find a way to eliminate the branch entirely if
      CONFIG_USERFAULTFD=n, but it would complicate things so stick to
      unlikely for now.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802165145.22628-5-aarcange@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
      Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2376dd7c
    • Andrea Arcangeli's avatar
      userfaultfd: selftest: explicit failure if the SIGBUS test failed · d312cb1e
      Andrea Arcangeli authored
      Showing zero in the output isn't very self explanatory as a successful
      result.  Show a more explicit error output if the test fails.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802165145.22628-4-aarcange@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
      Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d312cb1e
    • Andrea Arcangeli's avatar
      userfaultfd: selftest: exercise UFFDIO_COPY/ZEROPAGE -EEXIST · 67e80328
      Andrea Arcangeli authored
      This will retry the UFFDIO_COPY/ZEROPAGE to verify it returns -EEXIST at
      the first invocation and then later every 10 seconds.
      
      In the filebacked MAP_SHARED case this also verifies the -EEXIST
      triggered in the filesystem pagecache insertion, if the offset in the
      file was not a hole.
      
      shmem MAP_SHARED tries to index the newly allocated pagecache in the
      radix tree before checking the pagetable so it doesn't need any
      assistance to exercise that case.
      
      hugetlbfs checks the pmd to be not none before trying to index the
      hugetlbfs page in the radix tree, so it requires to run UFFDIO_COPY into
      an alias mapping (the alternative would be to use MADV_DONTNEED to only
      zap the pagetables, but that doesn't work on hugetlbfs).
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uffdio_zeropage(), per Mike Kravetz]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802165145.22628-3-aarcange@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>
      Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      67e80328
    • Prakash Sangappa's avatar
      userfaultfd: selftest: add tests for UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS feature · 81aac3a1
      Prakash Sangappa authored
      Add tests for UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS feature.  The tests will verify signal
      delivery instead of userfault events.  Also, test use of UFFDIO_COPY to
      allocate memory and retry accessing monitored area after signal
      delivery.
      
      Also fix a bug in uffd_poll_thread() where 'uffd' is leaked.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501552446-748335-3-git-send-email-prakash.sangappa@oracle.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPrakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
      Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      81aac3a1
    • Prakash Sangappa's avatar
      mm: userfaultfd: add feature to request for a signal delivery · 2d6d6f5a
      Prakash Sangappa authored
      In some cases, userfaultfd mechanism should just deliver a SIGBUS signal
      to the faulting process, instead of the page-fault event.  Dealing with
      page-fault event using a monitor thread can be an overhead in these
      cases.  For example applications like the database could use the
      signaling mechanism for robustness purpose.
      
      Database uses hugetlbfs for performance reason.  Files on hugetlbfs
      filesystem are created and huge pages allocated using fallocate() API.
      Pages are deallocated/freed using fallocate() hole punching support.
      These files are mmapped and accessed by many processes as shared memory.
      The database keeps track of which offsets in the hugetlbfs file have
      pages allocated.
      
      Any access to mapped address over holes in the file, which can occur due
      to bugs in the application, is considered invalid and expect the process
      to simply receive a SIGBUS.  However, currently when a hole in the file
      is accessed via the mapped address, kernel/mm attempts to automatically
      allocate a page at page fault time, resulting in implicitly filling the
      hole in the file.  This may not be the desired behavior for applications
      like the database that want to explicitly manage page allocations of
      hugetlbfs files.
      
      Using userfaultfd mechanism with this support to get a signal, database
      application can prevent pages from being allocated implicitly when
      processes access mapped address over holes in the file.
      
      This patch adds UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS feature to userfaultfd mechnism to
      request for a SIGBUS signal.
      
      See following for previous discussion about the database requirement
      leading to this proposal as suggested by Andrea.
      
      http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg129224.html
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501552446-748335-2-git-send-email-prakash.sangappa@oracle.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPrakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
      Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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