Patch series "remove write_cache_pages()".
Kill off write_cache_pages() after converting the last two users to the
iterator.
This patch (of 3):
Stop using the obsolete write_cache_pages and use writeback_iter directly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818061017.1526853-1-hch@lst.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818061017.1526853-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The result of integer comparison already evaluates to bool. No need for
explicit conversion.
No functional impact.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250819070457.486348-1-zhao.xichao@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Xichao Zhao <zhao.xichao@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
As David suggested, currently we don't have a high level test case to
verify the behavior of rmap. This patch introduce the verification on
rmap by migration.
The general idea is if migrate one shared page between processes, this
would be reflected in all related processes. Otherwise, we have problem
in rmap.
Currently it covers following four scenarios:
* anonymous page
* shmem page
* pagecache page
* ksm page
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250819080047.10063-3-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "test that rmap behaves as expected", v4.
As David suggested, currently we don't have a high level test case to
verify the behavior of rmap. This patch set introduce the verification
on rmap by migration.
Patch 1 is a preparation to move ksm related operations into vm_util.
Patch 2 is the new test case for rmap.
Currently it covers following four scenarios:
* anonymous page
* shmem page
* pagecache page
* ksm page
This patch (of 2):
There are some general ksm operations could be used by other related
test cases. Put them into vm_util for common use.
This is a preparation patch for later use.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250819080047.10063-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250819080047.10063-2-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Now tmpfs enables i_version by default and tmpfs does not modify it. But
SB_I_VERSION can also be modified via sb_flags, and reconfigure_super()
always overwrites the existing flags with the latest ones. This means
that if tmpfs is remounted without specifying iversion, the default
i_version will be unexpectedly disabled.
To ensure iversion remains enabled, SB_I_VERSION is now always set for
fc->sb_flags in shmem_init_fs_context(), instead of for sb->s_flags in
shmem_fill_super().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250819061803.1496443-1-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 36f05cab0a ("tmpfs: add support for an i_version counter")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of just checking the existence of PMD folios before and after folio
split tests, use check_folio_orders() to check after-split folio orders.
The split ranges in split_thp_in_pagecache_to_order_at() are changed to
[addr, addr + pagesize) for every pmd_pagesize. It prevents folios within
the range being split multiple times due to debugfs split function always
perform splits with a pagesize step for a given range.
The following tests are not changed:
1. split_pte_mapped_thp: the test already uses kpageflags to check;
2. split_file_backed_thp: no vaddr available.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818184622.1521620-6-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The helper gathers a folio order statistics of folios within a virtual
address range and checks it against a given order list. It aims to provide
a more precise folio order check instead of just checking the existence of
PMD folios.
The helper will be used the upcoming commit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818184622.1521620-5-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
and rename it to is_backed_by_folio().
is_backed_by_folio() checks if the given vaddr is backed a folio with
a given order. It does so by:
1. getting the pfn of the vaddr;
2. checking kpageflags of the pfn;
if order is greater than 0:
3. checking kpageflags of the head pfn;
4. checking kpageflags of all tail pfns.
pmd_order is added to split_huge_page_test.c and replaces max_order.
[ziy@nvidia.com: reduce code duplication, per David]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/F54782D6-65A3-4D35-AE03-8ADE636EE258@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818184622.1521620-4-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
All functions are only used within the file.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818184622.1521620-3-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Better split_huge_page_test result check", v5.
This patchset uses kpageflags to get after-split folio orders for a better
split_huge_page_test result check[1]. The added
gather_after_split_folio_orders() scans through a VPN range and collects
the numbers of folios at different orders.
check_after_split_folio_orders() compares the result of
gather_after_split_folio_orders() to a given list of numbers of different
orders.
This patchset also adds new order and in folio offset to the split huge
page debugfs's pr_debug()s;
This patch (of 5):
They are useful information for debugging split huge page tests.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818184622.1521620-1-ziy@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818184622.1521620-2-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Optimize hugetlb_pages_alloc_boot() to return immediately when
max_huge_pages is 0, avoiding unnecessary CPU cycles and the below log
message when hugepages aren't configured in the kernel command line.
[ 3.702280] HugeTLB: allocation took 0ms with hugepage_allocation_threads=32
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250814102333.4428-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When reading data exceeding the maximum IO size, the operation is split
into multiple IO requests, but the data isn't immediately copied to
userspace after each IO completion.
For example, when reading 2560k data from a device with 1280k maximum IO
size, the following sequence occurs:
1. read 1280k
2. copy 41 pages and issue read ahead for next 1280k
3. copy 31 pages to user buffer
4. wait the next 1280k
5. copy 8 pages to user buffer
6. copy 20 folios(64k) to user buffer
The 8 pages in step 5 are copied after the second 1280k completes(step 4)
due to waiting for a non-uptodate folio in filemap_update_page. We can
copy the 8 pages before the second 1280k completes(step 4) to reduce the
latency of this read operation.
After applying the patch, these 8 pages will be copied before the next IO
completes:
1. read 1280k
2. copy 41 pages and issue read ahead for next 1280k
3. copy 31 pages to user buffer
4. copy 8 pages to user buffer
5. wait the next 1280k
6. copy 20 folios(64k) to user buffer
This patch drops a setting of IOCB_NOWAIT for AIO, which is fine because
filemap_read will set it again for AIO.
The final solution provided by Matthew Wilcox:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/aIDy076Sxt544qja@casper.infradead.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728083952.75518-3-chizhiling@163.com
Signed-off-by: Chi Zhiling <chizhiling@kylinos.cn>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Tiny optimization for large read operations".
This series contains two patches,
1. Skip calling is_partially_uptodate for entire folio to save time, I
have reviewed the mpage and iomap implementations and didn't spot any
issues, but this change likely needs more thorough review.
2. Skip calling filemap_uptodate if there are ready folios in the
batch, This might save a few milliseconds in practice, but I didn't
observe measurable improvements in my tests.
This patch (of 2):
When a folio is marked as non-uptodate, it means the folio contains some
non-uptodate data. Therefore, calling is_partially_uptodate() to recheck
the entire folio is redundant.
If all data in a folio is actually up-to-date but the folio lacks the
uptodate flag, it will still be treated as non-uptodate in many other
places. Thus, there should be no special case handling for filemap.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728083952.75518-1-chizhiling@163.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728083952.75518-2-chizhiling@163.com
Signed-off-by: Chi Zhiling <chizhiling@kylinos.cn>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add unit test to verify that damos_commmit_filter() change dest value
well.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250817021348.570692-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In the zone_reclaimable_pages() function, if the page counts for
NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE, NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE, NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON, and
NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON are all zero, the function returns the number of free
pages as the result.
In this case, when should_reclaim_retry() calculates reclaimable pages, it
will inadvertently double-count the free pages in its accounting.
static inline bool
should_reclaim_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order,
struct alloc_context *ac, int alloc_flags,
bool did_some_progress, int *no_progress_loops)
{
...
available = reclaimable = zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
available += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
This may result in an increase in the number of retries of
__alloc_pages_slowpath(), causing increased kswapd load.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250812070210.1624218-1-liuqiqi@kylinos.cn
Fixes: 6aaced5abd ("mm: vmscan: account for free pages to prevent infinite Loop in throttle_direct_reclaim()")
Signed-off-by: liuqiqi <liuqiqi@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reimplement is_pci_p2pdma_page() in terms of folio_is_pci_p2pdma(). Moves
the page_folio() call from inside page_pgmap() to is_pci_p2pdma_page().
This removes a page_folio() call from try_grab_folio() which already has a
folio and can pass it in.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-12-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For callers of folio_is_fsdax(), we save a folio->page->folio conversion.
Callers of is_fsdax_page() simply move the conversion of page->folio from
the implementation of page_pgmap() to is_fsdax_page().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-11-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For callers of folio_is_device_coherent(), we save a folio->page->folio
conversion. Callers of is_device_coherent_page() simply move the
conversion of page->folio from the implementation of page_pgmap() to
is_device_coherent_page().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-10-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For callers of folio_is_device_private(), we save a folio->page->folio
conversion. Callers of is_device_private_page() simply move the
conversion of page->folio from the implementation of page_pgmap() to
is_device_private_page().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-9-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the conversion from folio to page in folio_is_zone_device() by
introducing memdesc_is_zone_device() which takes a memdesc_flags_t from
either a page or a folio.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-8-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We no longer need to convert from slab to folio to get the nid, we can ask
memdesc_nid() for the nid directly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The slab flags are memdesc flags and contain the same information in the
upper bits as the other memdescs (like node ID).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Remove a conversion from folio to page by passing the folio->flags (which
are a copy of the page->flags) to the new memdesc_zonenum() function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Remove a conversion from folio to page by passing the folio->flags (which
are a copy of the page->flags) to the new memdesc_nid() function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pass in the memdesc_flags_t instead of a pointer to the page. This will
allow us to remove a few conversions to struct page in upcoming patches.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t".
At some point struct page will be separated from struct slab and struct
folio. This is a step towards that by introducing a type for the 'flags'
word of all three structures. This gives us a certain amount of type
safety by establishing that some of these unsigned longs are different
from other unsigned longs in that they contain things like node ID,
section number and zone number in the upper bits. That lets us have
functions that can be easily called by anyone who has a slab, folio or
page (but not easily by anyone else) to get the node or zone.
There's going to be some unusual merge problems with this as some odd bits
of the kernel decide they want to print out the flags value or something
similar by writing page->flags and now they'll need to write page->flags.f
instead. That's most of the churn here. Maybe we should be removing
these things from the debug output?
This patch (of 11):
Wrap the unsigned long flags in a typedef. In upcoming patches, this will
provide a strong hint that you can't just pass a random unsigned long to
functions which take this as an argument.
[willy@infradead.org: s/flags/flags.f/ in several architectures]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aKMgPRLD-WnkPxYm@casper.infradead.org
[nicola.vetrini@gmail.com: mips: fix compilation error]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYvkpmqGr6wjBNHY=dRp71PLCoi2341JxOudi60yqaeUdg@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825214245.1838158-1-nicola.vetrini@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The DAMON_STAT_ENABLED_DEFAULT option is strongly tied to DAMON_STAT
option -- enabling it alone is meaningless. This patch makes
DAMON_STAT_ENABLED_DEFAULT depend on DAMON_STAT, ensuring functional
consistency.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815092110.811757-1-lienze@kylinos.cn
Fixes: 369c415e60 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT module")
Signed-off-by: Enze Li <lienze@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The test will set the global system THP setting to never, madvise or
always depending on the fixture variant and the 2M setting to inherit
before it starts (and reset to original at teardown). The fixture setup
will also test if PR_SET_THP_DISABLE prctl call can be made with
PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED and skip if it fails.
This tests if the process can:
- successfully get the policy to disable THPs expect for madvise.
- get hugepages only on MADV_HUGE and MADV_COLLAPSE if the global policy
is madvise/always and only with MADV_COLLAPSE if the global policy is
never.
- successfully reset the policy of the process.
- after reset, only get hugepages with:
- MADV_COLLAPSE when policy is set to never.
- MADV_HUGE and MADV_COLLAPSE when policy is set to madvise.
- always when policy is set to "always".
- never get a THP with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE.
- repeat the above tests in a forked process to make sure the policy is
carried across forks.
Test results:
./prctl_thp_disable
TAP version 13
1..12
ok 1 prctl_thp_disable_completely.never.nofork
ok 2 prctl_thp_disable_completely.never.fork
ok 3 prctl_thp_disable_completely.madvise.nofork
ok 4 prctl_thp_disable_completely.madvise.fork
ok 5 prctl_thp_disable_completely.always.nofork
ok 6 prctl_thp_disable_completely.always.fork
ok 7 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.never.nofork
ok 8 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.never.fork
ok 9 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.madvise.nofork
ok 10 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.madvise.fork
ok 11 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.always.nofork
ok 12 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.always.fork
[usamaarif642@gmail.com: return after executing test in child process]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3dca2de4-9a6a-4efe-a86c-83f9509831fc@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-8-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The test will set the global system THP setting to never, madvise or
always depending on the fixture variant and the 2M setting to inherit
before it starts (and reset to original at teardown). The fixture setup
will also test if PR_SET_THP_DISABLE prctl call can be made to disable all
THPs and skip if it fails.
This tests if the process can:
- successfully get the policy to disable THPs completely.
- never get a hugepage when the THPs are completely disabled
with the prctl, including with MADV_HUGE and MADV_COLLAPSE.
- successfully reset the policy of the process.
- after reset, only get hugepages with:
- MADV_COLLAPSE when policy is set to never.
- MADV_HUGE and MADV_COLLAPSE when policy is set to madvise.
- always when policy is set to "always".
- never get a THP with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE.
- repeat the above tests in a forked process to make sure
the policy is carried across forks.
[usamaarif642@gmail.com: return after executing test in child process]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2d0ea708-ecba-4021-b6ca-e93f1413d60a@gmail.com
[usamaarif642@gmail.com: include linux/mman.h for prctl_thp_disable]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250910204609.1720498-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c8249725-e91d-4c51-b9bb-40305e61e20d@sirena.org.uk/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-7-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The function already has 2 uses and will have a 3rd one in prctl
selftests. The pagesize argument is added into the function, as it's not
a global variable anymore. No functional change intended with this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-6-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This includes the PR_SET_THP_DISABLE/PR_GET_THP_DISABLE pair of prctl
calls as well the newly introduced PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED flag for
the PR_SET_THP_DISABLE prctl call.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-5-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let's allow for making MADV_COLLAPSE succeed on areas that neither have
VM_HUGEPAGE nor VM_NOHUGEPAGE when we have THP disabled unless explicitly
advised (PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).
MADV_COLLAPSE is a clear advice that we want to collapse.
Note that we still respect the VM_NOHUGEPAGE flag, just like
MADV_COLLAPSE always does. So consequently, MADV_COLLAPSE is now only
refused on VM_NOHUGEPAGE with PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED,
including for shmem.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-4-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Co-developed-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When determining which THP orders are eligible for a VMA mapping, we have
previously specified tva_flags, however it turns out it is really not
necessary to treat these as flags.
Rather, we distinguish between distinct modes.
The only case where we previously combined flags was with
TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS, but we can avoid this by observing that this is the
default, except for MADV_COLLAPSE or an edge cases in
collapse_pte_mapped_thp() and hugepage_vma_revalidate(), and adding a mode
specifically for this case - TVA_FORCED_COLLAPSE.
We have:
* smaps handling for showing "THPeligible"
* Pagefault handling
* khugepaged handling
* Forced collapse handling: primarily MADV_COLLAPSE, but also for
an edge case in collapse_pte_mapped_thp()
Disregarding the edge cases, we only want to ignore sysfs settings only
when we are forcing a collapse through MADV_COLLAPSE, otherwise we want to
enforce it, hence this patch does the following flag to enum conversions:
* TVA_SMAPS | TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_SMAPS
* TVA_IN_PF | TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_PAGEFAULT
* TVA_ENFORCE_SYSFS -> TVA_KHUGEPAGED
* 0 -> TVA_FORCED_COLLAPSE
With this change, we immediately know if we are in the forced collapse
case, which will be valuable next.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-3-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when
advised", v5.
This will allow individual processes to opt-out of THP = "always" into THP
= "madvise", without affecting other workloads on the system. This has
been extensively discussed on the mailing list and has been summarized
very well by David in the first patch which also includes the links to
alternatives, please refer to the first patch commit message for the
motivation for this series.
Patch 1 adds the PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED flag to implement this,
along with the MMF changes.
Patch 2 is a cleanup patch for tva_flags that will allow the forced
collapse case to be transmitted to vma_thp_disabled (which is done in
patch 3).
Patch 4 adds documentation for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE/PR_GET_THP_DISABLE.
Patches 6-7 implement the selftests for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE for completely
disabling THPs (old behaviour) and only enabling it at advise
(PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).
This patch (of 7):
People want to make use of more THPs, for example, moving from the "never"
system policy to "madvise", or from "madvise" to "always".
While this is great news for every THP desperately waiting to get
allocated out there, apparently there are some workloads that require a
bit of care during that transition: individual processes may need to
opt-out from this behavior for various reasons, and this should be
permitted without needing to make all other workloads on the system
similarly opt-out.
The following scenarios are imaginable:
(1) Switch from "none" system policy to "madvise"/"always", but keep THPs
disabled for selected workloads.
(2) Stay at "none" system policy, but enable THPs for selected
workloads, making only these workloads use the "madvise" or "always"
policy.
(3) Switch from "madvise" system policy to "always", but keep the
"madvise" policy for selected workloads: allocate THPs only when
advised.
(4) Stay at "madvise" system policy, but enable THPs even when not advised
for selected workloads -- "always" policy.
Once can emulate (2) through (1), by setting the system policy to
"madvise"/"always" while disabling THPs for all processes that don't want
THPs. It requires configuring all workloads, but that is a user-space
problem to sort out.
(4) can be emulated through (3) in a similar way.
Back when (1) was relevant in the past, as people started enabling THPs,
we added PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, so relevant workloads that were not ready yet
(i.e., used by Redis) were able to just disable THPs completely. Redis
still implements the option to use this interface to disable THPs
completely.
With PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, we added a way to force-disable THPs for a
workload -- a process, including fork+exec'ed process hierarchy. That
essentially made us support (1): simply disable THPs for all workloads
that are not ready for THPs yet, while still enabling THPs system-wide.
The quest for handling (3) and (4) started, but current approaches
(completely new prctl, options to set other policies per process,
alternatives to prctl -- mctrl, cgroup handling) don't look particularly
promising. Likely, the future will use bpf or something similar to
implement better policies, in particular to also make better decisions
about THP sizes to use, but this will certainly take a while as that work
just started.
Long story short: a simple enable/disable is not really suitable for the
future, so we're not willing to add completely new toggles.
While we could emulate (3)+(4) through (1)+(2) by simply disabling THPs
completely for these processes, this is a step backwards, because these
processes can no longer allocate THPs in regions where THPs were
explicitly advised: regions flagged as VM_HUGEPAGE. Apparently, that
imposes a problem for relevant workloads, because "not THPs" is certainly
worse than "THPs only when advised".
Could we simply relax PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, to "disable THPs unless not
explicitly advised by the app through MAD_HUGEPAGE"? *maybe*, but this
would change the documented semantics quite a bit, and the versatility to
use it for debugging purposes, so I am not 100% sure that is what we want
-- although it would certainly be much easier.
So instead, as an easy way forward for (3) and (4), add an option to
make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE disable *less* THPs for a process.
In essence, this patch:
(A) Adds PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED, to be used as a flag in arg3
of prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE) when disabling THPs (arg2 != 0).
prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, 1, PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).
(B) Makes prctl(PR_GET_THP_DISABLE) return 3 if
PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set while disabling.
Previously, it would return 1 if THPs were disabled completely. Now
it returns the set flags as well: 3 if PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED
was set.
(C) Renames MMF_DISABLE_THP to MMF_DISABLE_THP_COMPLETELY, to express
the semantics clearly.
Fortunately, there are only two instances outside of prctl() code.
(D) Adds MMF_DISABLE_THP_EXCEPT_ADVISED to express "no THP except for VMAs
with VM_HUGEPAGE" -- essentially "thp=madvise" behavior
Fortunately, we only have to extend vma_thp_disabled().
(E) Indicates "THP_enabled: 0" in /proc/pid/status only if THPs are
disabled completely
Only indicating that THPs are disabled when they are really disabled
completely, not only partially.
For now, we don't add another interface to obtained whether THPs
are disabled partially (PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set). If
ever required, we could add a new entry.
The documented semantics in the man page for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE "is
inherited by a child created via fork(2) and is preserved across
execve(2)" is maintained. This behavior, for example, allows for
disabling THPs for a workload through the launching process (e.g., systemd
where we fork() a helper process to then exec()).
For now, MADV_COLLAPSE will *fail* in regions without VM_HUGEPAGE and
VM_NOHUGEPAGE. As MADV_COLLAPSE is a clear advise that user space thinks
a THP is a good idea, we'll enable that separately next (requiring a bit
of cleanup first).
There is currently not way to prevent that a process will not issue
PR_SET_THP_DISABLE itself to re-enable THP. There are not really known
users for re-enabling it, and it's against the purpose of the original
interface. So if ever required, we could investigate just forbidding to
re-enable them, or make this somehow configurable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-2-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If two or more threads of an application faulting on the same folio, the
mmap_miss counter can be decreased multiple times. It breaks the
mmap_miss heuristic and keeps the readahead enabled even under extreme
levels of memory pressure.
It happens often if file folios backing a multi-threaded application are
getting evicted and re-faulted.
Fix it by skipping decreasing mmap_miss if the folio is locked.
This change was evaluated on several hundred thousands hosts in Google's
production over a couple of weeks. The number of containers being stuck
in a vicious reclaim cycle for a long time was reduced several fold
(~10-20x), as well as the overall fleet-wide cpu time spent in direct
memory reclaim was meaningfully reduced. No regressions were observed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815183224.62007-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Gracefully skip test if userfaultfd is not supported (ENOSYS) or not
permitted (EPERM), instead of failing. This avoids misleading failures
with clear skip messages.
--------------
Before Patch
--------------
~ running ./hugepage-mremap
...
~ Bail out! userfaultfd: Function not implemented
~ Planned tests != run tests (1 != 0)
~ Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
~ [FAIL]
not ok 4 hugepage-mremap # exit=1
--------------
After Patch
--------------
~ running ./hugepage-mremap
...
~ ok 2 # SKIP userfaultfd is not supported/not enabled.
~ 1 skipped test(s) detected.
~ Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:1 error:0
~ [SKIP]
ok 4 hugepage-mremap # SKIP
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250816040113.760010-8-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Co-developed-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Make thuge-gen skip instead of fail when it can't run due to system
settings. If shmmax is too small or no 1G huge pages are available, the
test now prints a warning and is marked as skipped.
-------------------
Before Patch:
-------------------
~ running ./thuge-gen
~ Bail out! Please do echo 262144 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
~ Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
~ [FAIL]
not ok 28 thuge-gen ~ exit=1
-------------------
After Patch:
-------------------
~ running ./thuge-gen
~ ~ WARNING: shmmax is too small to run this test.
~ ~ Please run the following command to increase shmmax:
~ ~ echo 262144 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
~ 1..0 ~ SKIP Test skipped due to insufficient shmmax value.
~ [SKIP]
ok 29 thuge-gen ~ SKIP
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250816040113.760010-7-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Co-developed-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In ksm_functional_tests, test_child_ksm() returned negative values to
indicate errors. However, when passed to exit(), these were interpreted
as large unsigned values (e.g, -2 became 254), leading to incorrect
handling in the parent process. As a result, some tests appeared to be
skipped or silently failed.
This patch changes test_child_ksm() to return positive error codes (1, 2,
3) and updates test_child_ksm_err() to interpret them correctly.
Additionally, test_prctl_fork_exec() now uses exit(4) after a failed
execv() to clearly signal exec failures. This ensures the parent
accurately detects and reports child process failures.
--------------
Before patch:
--------------
- [RUN] test_unmerge
ok 1 Pages were unmerged
...
- [RUN] test_prctl_fork
- No pages got merged
- [RUN] test_prctl_fork_exec
ok 7 PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE value is inherited
...
Bail out! 1 out of 8 tests failed
- Planned tests != run tests (9 != 8)
- Totals: pass:7 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
--------------
After patch:
--------------
- [RUN] test_unmerge
ok 1 Pages were unmerged
...
- [RUN] test_prctl_fork
- No pages got merged
not ok 7 Merge in child failed
- [RUN] test_prctl_fork_exec
ok 8 PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE value is inherited
...
Bail out! 2 out of 9 tests failed
- Totals: pass:7 fail:2 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250816040113.760010-6-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 6c47de3be3 ("selftest/mm: ksm_functional_tests: extend test case for ksm fork/exec")
Co-developed-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The split_huge_page_test fails on systems with a 64KB base page size.
This is because the order of a 2MB huge page is different:
On 64KB systems, the order is 5.
On 4KB systems, it's 9.
The test currently assumes a maximum huge page order of 9, which is only
valid for 4KB base page systems. On systems with 64KB pages, attempting
to split huge pages beyond their actual order (5) causes the test to fail.
In this patch, we calculate the huge page order based on the system's base
page size. With this change, the tests now run successfully on both 64KB
and 4KB page size systems.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250816040113.760010-5-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: fa6c02315f ("mm: huge_memory: a new debugfs interface for splitting THP tests")
Co-developed-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes 2 issues.
1) After fork() in test_prctl_fork, the child process uses the file
descriptors from the parent process to read ksm_stat and
ksm_merging_pages. This results in incorrect values being read (parent
process ksm_stat and ksm_merging_pages will be read in child), causing
the test to fail.
This patch calls init_global_file_handles() in the child process to
ensure that the current process's file descriptors are used to read
ksm_stat and ksm_merging_pages.
2) All tests currently call ksm_merge to trigger page merging. To
ensure the system remains in a consistent state for subsequent tests,
it is better to call ksm_unmerge during the test cleanup phase
In the test_prctl_fork test, after a fork(), reading
ksm_merging_pages in the child process returns a non-zero value because
a previous test performed a merge, and the child's memory state is
inherited from the parent.
Although the child process calls ksm_unmerge, the ksm_merging_pages
counter in the parent is reset to zero, while the child's counter
remains unchanged. This discrepancy causes the test to fail.
To avoid this issue, each test should call ksm_unmerge during
cleanup to ensure the counter is reset and the system is in a clean
state for subsequent tests.
execv argument is an array of pointers to null-terminated strings. In
this patch we also added NULL in the execv argument.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250816040113.760010-4-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 6c47de3be3 ("selftest/mm: ksm_functional_tests: extend test case for ksm fork/exec")
Co-developed-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
PowerPC64 supports a 4PB virtual address space, but this test was
previously limited to 512TB. This patch extends the coverage up to the
full 4PB VA range on PowerPC64.
Memory from 0 to 128TB is allocated without an address hint, while
allocations from 128TB to 4PB use a hint address.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250816040113.760010-3-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Co-developed-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported
tests", v4.
This patch series addresses false positives in the generic mm selftests
and skips tests that cannot run correctly due to missing features or
system limitations.
This patch (of 7):
In main(), the high address is stored in hptr, but for mark_range(), the
address passed is ptr, not hptr. Fixed this by changing ptr[i] to hptr[i]
in mark_range() function call.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250816040113.760010-1-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250816040113.760010-2-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: b2a79f6213 ("selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation")
Co-developed-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In per_cpu_pages_init(), pcp->free_count is explicitly initialized to 0,
but this is redundant because the entire struct is already zeroed by
memset(pcp, 0, sizeof(*pcp)).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250814071828.12036-1-ye.liu@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the following typos in VMA-related files:
1. "operationr" -> "operation" in mm/vma.h
2. "initialisaing" -> "initializing" in mm/vma_init.c
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250814073800.13617-1-ye.liu@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Use max() to find the maximum lowmem_reserve value and min_t() to cap it
to managed_pages in calculate_totalreserve_pages(), instead of open-coding
the comparisons. No functional change.
[liuye@kylinos.cn: fix layout, use min_t]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815024509.37900-1-ye.liu@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250814090053.22241-1-ye.liu@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Since the time.h header file is not actually needed in this code, we can
safely remove its inclusion.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250814125417.659937-1-lienze@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Enze Li <lienze@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 524c48072e ("mm/page_alloc: rename ALLOC_HIGH to
ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE") is the start of a series that explains how __GFP_HIGH,
which implies ALLOC_MIN_RESERVE, is going to be used instead of
__GFP_ATOMIC for high atomic reserves.
Commit eb2e2b425c ("mm/page_alloc: explicitly record high-order atomic
allocations in alloc_flags") introduced ALLOC_HIGHATOMIC for such
allocations of order higher than 0. It still used __GFP_ATOMIC, though.
Then, commit 1ebbb21811 ("mm/page_alloc: explicitly define how
__GFP_HIGH non-blocking allocations accesses reserves") just turned that
check for !__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, ignoring that high atomic reserves were
expected to test for __GFP_HIGH.
This leads to high atomic reserves being added for high-order GFP_NOWAIT
allocations and others that clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, which is
unexpected. Later, those reserves lead to 0-order allocations going to
the slow path and starting reclaim.
From /proc/pagetypeinfo, without the patch:
Node 0, zone DMA, type HighAtomic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Node 0, zone DMA32, type HighAtomic 1 8 10 9 7 3 0 0 0 0 0
Node 0, zone Normal, type HighAtomic 64 20 12 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
With the patch:
Node 0, zone DMA, type HighAtomic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Node 0, zone DMA32, type HighAtomic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Node 0, zone Normal, type HighAtomic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250814172245.1259625-1-cascardo@igalia.com
Fixes: 1ebbb21811 ("mm/page_alloc: explicitly define how __GFP_HIGH non-blocking allocations accesses reserves")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Tested-by: Helen Koike <koike@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Make sure we return the right pud value and not a value that could have
been overwritten in between by a different core.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250814-dev-alex-thp_pud_xchg-v1-1-b4704dfae206@rivosinc.com
Fixes: c3cc2a4a3a ("riscv: Add support for PUD THP")
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
memcg uses TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to handle reclaiming on exit to user space.
TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is a multiplexing TIF bit, which is utilized by other
entities as well.
This results in a unconditional mem_cgroup_handle_over_high() call for
every invocation of resume_user_mode_work(), which is a pointless exercise
as most of the time there is no reclaim work to do.
Especially since RSEQ is used by glibc, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is raised quite
frequently and the empty calls show up in exit path profiling.
Optimize this by doing a quick check of the reclaim condition before
invoking it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unneeded test of memcg_nr_pages_over_high==0, per Shakeel]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87tt2b6zgs.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Christoph Hellwig
Xichao Zhao
Wei Yang
Baokun Li
Zi Yan
Li RongQing
Chi Zhiling
Sang-Heon Jeon
liuqiqi
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Enze Li
Usama Arif
David Hildenbrand
Roman Gushchin
Aboorva Devarajan
Donet Tom
Ye Liu
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Alexandre Ghiti
Liao Yuanhong
Thomas Gleixner