Similar in nature to ab10727660. glibc-2.42
drops the legacy termio struct, but the ioctls.h header still defines some
TC* constants in terms of termio (via sizeof). Hardcode the values instead.
This fixes building Python for example, which falls over like:
./Modules/termios.c:1119:16: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio'
Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/961769
Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/962600
Co-authored-by: Stian Halseth <stian@itx.no>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
We have an application that uses almost the same code for TCP and
AF_UNIX (SOCK_STREAM).
TCP can use TCP_INQ, but AF_UNIX doesn't have it and requires an
extra syscall, ioctl(SIOCINQ) or getsockopt(SO_MEMINFO) as an
alternative.
Let's introduce the generic version of TCP_INQ.
If SO_INQ is enabled, recvmsg() will put a cmsg of SCM_INQ that
contains the exact value of ioctl(SIOCINQ). The cmsg is also
included when msg->msg_get_inq is non-zero to make sockets
io_uring-friendly.
Note that SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT is flagged only for SOCK_STREAM to
override setsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET.
By having the flag in struct unix_sock, instead of struct sock, we
can later add SO_INQ support for TCP and reuse tcp_sk(sk)->recvmsg_inq.
Note also that supporting custom getsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET will need
preparation for other SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT users (UDP, vsock, MPTCP).
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250702223606.1054680-7-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
"Fix building with gcc-15, formatting fix on unaligned warnings and
replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in headers"
* tag 'parisc-for-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc/unaligned: Fix hex output to show 8 hex chars
parisc: fix building with gcc-15
parisc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers
parisc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers
As long as recvmsg() or recvmmsg() is used with cmsg, it is not
possible to avoid receiving file descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS.
This behaviour has occasionally been flagged as problematic, as
it can be (ab)used to trigger DoS during close(), for example, by
passing a FUSE-controlled fd or a hung NFS fd.
For instance, as noted on the uAPI Group page [0], an untrusted peer
could send a file descriptor pointing to a hung NFS mount and then
close it. Once the receiver calls recvmsg() with msg_control, the
descriptor is automatically installed, and then the responsibility
for the final close() now falls on the receiver, which may result
in blocking the process for a long time.
Regarding this, systemd calls cmsg_close_all() [1] after each
recvmsg() to close() unwanted file descriptors sent via SCM_RIGHTS.
However, this cannot work around the issue at all, because the final
fput() may still occur on the receiver's side once sendmsg() with
SCM_RIGHTS succeeds. Also, even filtering by LSM at recvmsg() does
not work for the same reason.
Thus, we need a better way to refuse SCM_RIGHTS at sendmsg().
Let's introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS to disable SCM_RIGHTS.
Note that this option is enabled by default for backward
compatibility.
Link: https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#disabling-reception-of-scm_rights-for-af_unix-sockets #[0]
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v257.5/src/basic/fd-util.c#L612-L628 #[1]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
__ASSEMBLY__ is only defined by the Makefile of the kernel, so
this is not really useful for uapi headers (unless the userspace
Makefile defines it, too). Let's switch to __ASSEMBLER__ which
gets set automatically by the compiler when compiling assembly
code.
This is almost a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple
"sed -i" statement), except for a manual change in the file
arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/signal.h (where a comment was missing
some underscores).
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.
- Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
series which clean up the implementation:
- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
- "refine storing null"
- The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.
- The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
code.
- The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
shadow entries.
- The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.
- The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
the hugetlb code.
- The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.
- The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.
- The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
do.
- The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.
- The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
splitting.
- The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.
- The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
addresses some potential performance issues.
- The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
read-only-execute module text.
- The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
feature.
- The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
most references to page->index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
struct page.
- The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
DAMON's self testing code.
- The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
this zswap operation.
- The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
tests over to the KUnit framework.
- The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
expected.
- The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
activity.
- The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.
- The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
MaÃra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
from the kernel boot command line.
- The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.
- The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
is enabled.
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
mm: define general function pXd_init()
kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
...
Implement a new lightweight guard page feature, that is regions of
userland virtual memory that, when accessed, cause a fatal signal to
arise.
Currently users must establish PROT_NONE ranges to achieve this.
However this is very costly memory-wise - we need a VMA for each and every
one of these regions AND they become unmergeable with surrounding VMAs.
In addition repeated mmap() calls require repeated kernel context switches
and contention of the mmap lock to install these ranges, potentially also
having to unmap memory if installed over existing ranges.
The lightweight guard approach eliminates the VMA cost altogether - rather
than establishing a PROT_NONE VMA, it operates at the level of page table
entries - establishing PTE markers such that accesses to them cause a
fault followed by a SIGSGEV signal being raised.
This is achieved through the PTE marker mechanism, which we have already
extended to provide PTE_MARKER_GUARD, which we installed via the generic
page walking logic which we have extended for this purpose.
These guard ranges are established with MADV_GUARD_INSTALL. If the range
in which they are installed contain any existing mappings, they will be
zapped, i.e. free the range and unmap memory (thus mimicking the
behaviour of MADV_DONTNEED in this respect).
Any existing guard entries will be left untouched. There is therefore no
nesting of guarded pages.
Guarded ranges are NOT cleared by MADV_DONTNEED nor MADV_FREE (in both
instances the memory range may be reused at which point a user would
expect guards to still be in place), but they are cleared via
MADV_GUARD_REMOVE, process teardown or unmapping of memory ranges.
The guard property can be removed from ranges via MADV_GUARD_REMOVE. The
ranges over which this is applied, should they contain non-guard entries,
will be untouched, with only guard entries being cleared.
We permit this operation on anonymous memory only, and only VMAs which are
non-special, non-huge and not mlock()'d (if we permitted this we'd have to
drop locked pages which would be rather counterintuitive).
Racing page faults can cause repeated attempts to install guard pages that
are interrupted, result in a zap, and this process can end up being
repeated. If this happens more than would be expected in normal
operation, we rescind locks and retry the whole thing, which avoids lock
contention in this scenario.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6aafb5821bf209f277dfae0787abb2ef87a37542.1730123433.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID socket option flag gives a way to correlate TX
timestamps and packets sent via socket. Unfortunately, there is no way
to reliably predict socket timestamp ID value in case of error returned
by sendmsg. For UDP sockets it's impossible because of lockless
nature of UDP transmit, several threads may send packets in parallel. In
case of RAW sockets MSG_MORE option makes things complicated. More
details are in the conversation [1].
This patch adds new control message type to give user-space
software an opportunity to control the mapping between packets and
values by providing ID with each sendmsg for UDP sockets.
The documentation is also added in this patch.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CALCETrU0jB+kg0mhV6A8mrHfTE1D1pr1SD_B9Eaa9aDPfgHdtA@mail.gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadfed@meta.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241001125716.2832769-2-vadfed@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
In tcp_recvmsg_locked(), detect if the skb being received by the user
is a devmem skb. In this case - if the user provided the MSG_SOCK_DEVMEM
flag - pass it to tcp_recvmsg_devmem() for custom handling.
tcp_recvmsg_devmem() copies any data in the skb header to the linear
buffer, and returns a cmsg to the user indicating the number of bytes
returned in the linear buffer.
tcp_recvmsg_devmem() then loops over the unaccessible devmem skb frags,
and returns to the user a cmsg_devmem indicating the location of the
data in the dmabuf device memory. cmsg_devmem contains this information:
1. the offset into the dmabuf where the payload starts. 'frag_offset'.
2. the size of the frag. 'frag_size'.
3. an opaque token 'frag_token' to return to the kernel when the buffer
is to be released.
The pages awaiting freeing are stored in the newly added
sk->sk_user_frags, and each page passed to userspace is get_page()'d.
This reference is dropped once the userspace indicates that it is
done reading this page. All pages are released when the socket is
destroyed.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaiyuan Zhang <kaiyuanz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240910171458.219195-10-almasrymina@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Those return codes are only defined for the parisc architecture and
are leftovers from when we wanted to be HP-UX compatible.
They are not returned by any Linux kernel syscall but do trigger
problems with the glibc strerrorname_np() and strerror() functions as
reported in glibc issue #31080.
There is no need to keep them, so simply remove them.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Closes: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31080
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Adjust some MADV_XXX constants to be in sync what their values are on
all other platforms. There is currently no reason to have an own
numbering on parisc, but it requires workarounds in many userspace
sources (e.g. glibc, qemu, ...) - which are often forgotten and thus
introduce bugs and different behaviour on parisc.
A wrapper avoids an ABI breakage for existing userspace applications by
translating any old values to the new ones, so this change allows us to
move over all programs to the new ABI over time.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Clean up the struct for hardware_path and drop the struct device_path
with a proper assignment of bc[] and mod members as signed chars.
This patch prepares for the kbuild change from Jason A. Donenfeld to
treat char as always unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).
- Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
contention.
Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.
Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.
- Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
to the single bit level.
KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.
- Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
memory into THPs.
- Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
support file/shmem-backed pages.
- userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen
- zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov
- cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
memory-failure
- Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.
- memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
memory consumption.
- memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.
- memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.
- Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions
- Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(
- migration enhancements from Peter Xu
- migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying
- Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
drivers, etc.
- vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.
- NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.
- xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
activity.
- THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.
- more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.
- KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.
- DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.
- DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.
- hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.
- Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer
hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
...
This idea was introduced by David Rientjes[1].
Introduce a new madvise mode, MADV_COLLAPSE, that allows users to request
a synchronous collapse of memory at their own expense.
The benefits of this approach are:
* CPU is charged to the process that wants to spend the cycles for the
THP
* Avoid unpredictable timing of khugepaged collapse
Semantics
This call is independent of the system-wide THP sysfs settings, but will
fail for memory marked VM_NOHUGEPAGE. If the ranges provided span
multiple VMAs, the semantics of the collapse over each VMA is independent
from the others. This implies a hugepage cannot cross a VMA boundary. If
collapse of a given hugepage-aligned/sized region fails, the operation may
continue to attempt collapsing the remainder of memory specified.
The memory ranges provided must be page-aligned, but are not required to
be hugepage-aligned. If the memory ranges are not hugepage-aligned, the
start/end of the range will be clamped to the first/last hugepage-aligned
address covered by said range. The memory ranges must span at least one
hugepage-sized region.
All non-resident pages covered by the range will first be
swapped/faulted-in, before being internally copied onto a freshly
allocated hugepage. Unmapped pages will have their data directly
initialized to 0 in the new hugepage. However, for every eligible
hugepage aligned/sized region to-be collapsed, at least one page must
currently be backed by memory (a PMD covering the address range must
already exist).
Allocation for the new hugepage may enter direct reclaim and/or
compaction, regardless of VMA flags. When the system has multiple NUMA
nodes, the hugepage will be allocated from the node providing the most
native pages. This operation operates on the current state of the
specified process and makes no persistent changes or guarantees on how
pages will be mapped, constructed, or faulted in the future
Return Value
If all hugepage-sized/aligned regions covered by the provided range were
either successfully collapsed, or were already PMD-mapped THPs, this
operation will be deemed successful. On success, process_madvise(2)
returns the number of bytes advised, and madvise(2) returns 0. Else, -1
is returned and errno is set to indicate the error for the most-recently
attempted hugepage collapse. Note that many failures might have occurred,
since the operation may continue to collapse in the event a single
hugepage-sized/aligned region fails.
ENOMEM Memory allocation failed or VMA not found
EBUSY Memcg charging failed
EAGAIN Required resource temporarily unavailable. Try again
might succeed.
EINVAL Other error: No PMD found, subpage doesn't have Present
bit set, "Special" page no backed by struct page, VMA
incorrectly sized, address not page-aligned, ...
Most notable here is ENOMEM and EBUSY (new to madvise) which are intended
to provide the caller with actionable feedback so they may take an
appropriate fallback measure.
Use Cases
An immediate user of this new functionality are malloc() implementations
that manage memory in hugepage-sized chunks, but sometimes subrelease
memory back to the system in native-sized chunks via MADV_DONTNEED;
zapping the pmd. Later, when the memory is hot, the implementation could
madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to re-back the memory by THPs to regain hugepage
coverage and dTLB performance. TCMalloc is such an implementation that
could benefit from this[2].
Only privately-mapped anon memory is supported for now, but additional
support for file, shmem, and HugeTLB high-granularity mappings[2] is
expected. File and tmpfs/shmem support would permit:
* Backing executable text by THPs. Current support provided by
CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS may take a long time on a large system which
might impair services from serving at their full rated load after
(re)starting. Tricks like mremap(2)'ing text onto anonymous memory to
immediately realize iTLB performance prevents page sharing and demand
paging, both of which increase steady state memory footprint. With
MADV_COLLAPSE, we get the best of both worlds: Peak upfront performance
and lower RAM footprints.
* Backing guest memory by hugapages after the memory contents have been
migrated in native-page-sized chunks to a new host, in a
userfaultfd-based live-migration stack.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/d098c392-273a-36a4-1a29-59731cdf5d3d@google.com/
[2] https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/tree/master/tcmalloc
[jrdr.linux@gmail.com: avoid possible memory leak in failure path]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713024109.62810-1-jrdr.linux@gmail.com
[zokeefe@google.com add missing kfree() to madvise_collapse()]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220713024109.62810-1-jrdr.linux@gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713161851.1879439-1-zokeefe@google.com
[zokeefe@google.com: delay computation of hpage boundaries until use]]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220720140603.1958773-4-zokeefe@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220706235936.2197195-10-zokeefe@google.com
Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Souptick Joarder (HPE)" <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Chris Kennelly <ckennelly@google.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>