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Joanne KoongandAndrew Morton 0437906841 mm: start background writeback based on per-wb threshold for strictlimit BDIs
The proactive nr_dirty > gdtc->bg_thresh check in balance_dirty_pages()
only checks the global dirty threshold to start background writeback while
the writer is still free-running, but for strictlimit BDIs (eg fuse), the
per-wb dirty count can exceed the per-wb background threshold while the
global threshold is not yet exceeded, so background writeback for this
case never gets proactively started.

Add a per-wb threshold check for strictlimit BDIs so that background
writeback is started when wb_dirty exceeds wb_bg_thresh, which drains
dirty pages before the writer hits the throttle wall, matching the
proactive behavior that the global check provides for non-strictlimit
BDIs.

fio runs on fuse show about a 3-4% improvement in perf for buffered
writes:
fio --name=writeback_test --ioengine=psync --rw=write --bs=128k \
    --size=2G --numjobs=4 --ramp_time=10 --runtime=20 \
    --time_based --group_reporting=1 --direct=0

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260326234629.840938-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-27 05:54:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 334fbe734e Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)

   Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
   stack usage and is an improvement.

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)

   Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
   some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.

 - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)

   File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code

 - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
   Chen)

   Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap

 - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)

   Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn

 - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
   Han)

   A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code

 - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)

   Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
   prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently

 - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)

   Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
   metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
   structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel

 - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
   Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)

   Enhance vmscan's tracepointing

 - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
   VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)

   Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
   a generic implementation

 - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area

 - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)

   Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
   which became folio_batch three years ago

 - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
   Shutsemau)

   Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
   pages encode their relationship to the head page

 - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
   filters" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
   efficient when core layer filters are used

 - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
   min_nr_regions user-settable parameter

 - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)

   The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
   simplifications and cleanups ensued

 - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)

   A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
   simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
   zapping functions

 - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)

   Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
   benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64

 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)

   memcg cleanup and robustness improvements

 - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)

   Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
   pages when reporting free memory.

 - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
   a bitmap

 - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
   (SeongJae Park)

   An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
   addr_unit parameter handling

 - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
   overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
   documentation" (SeongJae Park)

   A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON

 - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
   movement was required.

 - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
   improvements in the zram code

 - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
   algorithms that users can select

 - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)

   Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
   reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged

 - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
   code

 - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
   modules" (SeongJae Park)

   Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable

 - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)

   Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
   mTHP support

 - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)

   Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
   CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)

   Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support

 - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)

   Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
   Law and SeongJae Park)

   Fix a few potential DAMON bugs

 - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
   Stoakes)

   Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
   to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
   code.

 - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
   the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
   security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
   mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers

 - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
   vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
  mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
  mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
  mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
  mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
  mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
  mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
  mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
  mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
  mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
  mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
  uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
  drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
  mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
  ...
2026-04-15 12:59:16 -07:00
Joanne KoongandAndrew Morton cece9dc61d mm: reinstate unconditional writeback start in balance_dirty_pages()
Commit 64dd89ae01 ("mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode") removed this
unconditional writeback start from balance_dirty_pages():

       if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(wb)))
	       wb_start_background_writeback(wb);

This logic needs to be reinstated to prevent performance regressions for
strictlimited BDIs and memcg setups.  The problem occurs because:

a) For strictlimited BDIs, throttling is calculated using per-wb
   thresholds.  The per-wb threshold can be exceeded even when the global
   dirty threshold was not exceeded (nr_dirty < gdtc->bg_thresh)

b) For memcg-based throttling, memcg uses its own dirty count /
   thresholds and can trigger throttling even when the global threshold
   isn't exceeded

Without the unconditional writeback start, IO is throttled as it waits for
dirty pages to be written back but there is no writeback running.  This
leads to severe stalls.  On fuse, buffered write performance dropped from
1400 MiB/s to 2000 KiB/s.

Reinstate the unconditional writeback start so that writeback is
guaranteed to be running whenever IO needs to be throttled.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260326215127.3857682-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Fixes: 64dd89ae01 ("mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode")
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-06 11:13:42 -07:00
David Hildenbrand (Arm)andAndrew Morton 32bc7fe4a6 mm: rename zap_vma_pages() to zap_vma()
Let's rename it to an even simpler name.  While at it, add some simplistic
kernel doc.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227200848.114019-13-david@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Arve <arve@android.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkman <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:14 -07:00
Tal ZussmanandAndrew Morton 4e1d77a8f3 folio_batch: rename pagevec.h to folio_batch.h
struct pagevec was removed in commit 1e0877d58b ("mm: remove struct
pagevec").  Rename include/linux/pagevec.h to reflect reality and update
includes tree-wide.  Add the new filename to MAINTAINERS explicitly, as it
no longer matches the "include/linux/page[-_]*" pattern in MEMORY
MANAGEMENT - CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225-pagevec_cleanup-v2-3-716868cc2d11@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:07 -07:00
Johannes WeinerandAndrew Morton 64dd89ae01 mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode
Laptop mode was introduced to save battery, by delaying and consolidating
writes and thereby maximize the time rotating hard drives wouldn't have to
spin.

Luckily, rotating hard drives, with their high spin-up times and power
draw, are a thing of the past for battery-powered devices.  Reclaim has
also since changed to not write single filesystem pages anymore, and
regular filesystem writeback is lumpy by design.

The juice doesn't appear worth the squeeze anymore.  The footprint of the
feature is small, but nevertheless it's a complicating factor in mm,
block, filesystems.  Developers don't think about it, and it likely hasn't
been tested with new reclaim and writeback changes in years.

Let's sunset it.  Keep the sysctl with a deprecation warning around for a
few more cycles, but remove all functionality behind it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 19:24:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 7203ca412f Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

  "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki)
     Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations
     (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT)

  "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin)
     Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not
     inherited across fork/exec

  "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park)
     Some light maintenance work on the zswap code

  "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
     Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding
     unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so
     that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over
     time

  "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn)
     Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature

  "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra)
     Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation

  "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov)

  "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom)
     Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little

  "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang)
     Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting
     code

  "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn)
     Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were
     causing (harmless) softlockup warnings

  "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang)
     Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim

  "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park)
     Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature

  "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan)
     Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace
     configuration

  "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port
     additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare()

  "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu)
     Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU
     code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a
     stale kernel pagetable entry

  "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang)
     Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code

  "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song)
     Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code

  "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park)

  "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park)
     Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the
     middle of the current targets list

  "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo)
     A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion

  "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He)
     improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines

  "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista)
     Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will
     appear in kernel debug info

  "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes)
     Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range

  "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park)
     Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit
     tests

  "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang)
     Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
     writeback-for-eviction code

  "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu)
     Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file

  "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and
     improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs

  "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region
     operations

  "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox)
     Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are
     waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock

  "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park)
     Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)

  "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that
     VMA is merged with another

  "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh)
     Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
     device-private memory

  "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan)

  "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang)
     Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code

  "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the
     concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t

  "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song)
     Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in
     preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
     wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory
     resources

  "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang)
     A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code

  "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
     Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio
     writeback support

  "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt)
     Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats

  "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola)
     Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags

  "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang)
     Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use
     RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension

  "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park)
     Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code

  "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we
     stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit

  "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park)
     Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things
     up a little

[ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu:
  register device memory for poison handling") because it looks
  broken to me, I've asked for clarification   - Linus ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling
  mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate
  mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling
  mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown
  memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers
  selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null
  mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig
  mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type
  tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags
  mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
  mm: declare VMA flags by bit
  zram: fix a spelling mistake
  mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity
  mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted
  pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
  mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments
  mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void
  mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async
  mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational
  ...
2025-12-05 13:52:43 -08:00
Shakeel ButtandAndrew Morton c1bd09994c memcg: remove __lruvec_stat_mod_folio
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() is already safe against irqs, so there is no
need to have a separate interface (i.e.  lruvec_stat_mod_folio) which
wraps calls to it with irq disabling and reenabling.  Let's rename
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() to lruvec_stat_mod_folio().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24 15:08:54 -08:00
Julian SunandChristian Brauner 4952f35f05 fs: Make wbc_to_tag() inline and use it in fs.
The logic in wbc_to_tag() is widely used in file systems, so modify this
function to be inline and use it in file systems.

This patch has only passed compilation tests, but it should be fine.

Signed-off-by: Julian Sun <sunjunchao@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-29 23:33:48 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6238729bfc Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Extend copy_file_range interface to be fully 64bit capable (Miklos)

 - Add selftest for fusectl (Chen Linxuan)

 - Move fuse docs into a separate directory (Bagas Sanjaya)

 - Allow fuse to enter freezable state in some cases (Sergey
   Senozhatsky)

 - Clean up writeback accounting after removing tmp page copies (Joanne)

 - Optimize virtiofs request handling (Li RongQing)

 - Add synchronous FUSE_INIT support (Miklos)

 - Allow server to request prune of unused inodes (Miklos)

 - Fix deadlock with AIO/sync release (Darrick)

 - Add some prep patches for block/iomap support (Darrick)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (26 commits)
  fuse: move CREATE_TRACE_POINTS to a separate file
  fuse: move the backing file idr and code into a new source file
  fuse: enable FUSE_SYNCFS for all fuseblk servers
  fuse: capture the unique id of fuse commands being sent
  fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers
  mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling
  fuse: add prune notification
  fuse: remove redundant calls to fuse_copy_finish() in fuse_notify()
  fuse: fix possibly missing fuse_copy_finish() call in fuse_notify()
  fuse: remove FUSE_NOTIFY_CODE_MAX from <uapi/linux/fuse.h>
  fuse: remove fuse_readpages_end() null mapping check
  fuse: fix references to fuse.rst -> fuse/fuse.rst
  fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT
  fuse: zero initialize inode private data
  fuse: remove unused 'inode' parameter in fuse_passthrough_open
  virtio_fs: fix the hash table using in virtio_fs_enqueue_req()
  mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT
  fuse: use default writeback accounting
  virtio_fs: Remove redundant spinlock in virtio_fs_request_complete()
  fuse: remove unneeded offset assignment when filling write pages
  ...
2025-10-03 12:48:18 -07:00
Kairui SongandAndrew Morton 46afff4599 mm/page-writeback: drop usage of folio_index
folio_index is only needed for mixed usage of page cache and swap cache. 
The remaining three caller in page-writeback are for page cache tag
marking.  Swap cache space doesn't use tag (explicitly sets
mapping_set_no_writeback_tags), so use folio->index here directly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825163721.17734-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13 16:55:17 -07:00
Christoph HellwigandAndrew Morton 7bebb41b96 mm: remove write_cache_pages
No users left.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818061017.1526853-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13 16:55:14 -07:00
Marek SzyprowskiandMiklos Szeredi ebbe7d7bb1 mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling
Commit 2841808f35 ("mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT") removed
BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT flag and refactored code that depend on it.
Unfortunately it also moved some variable intialization out of guarded
scope in writeback handling, what triggers a true lockdep warning. Fix
this by moving initialization to the proper place.

Fixes: 2841808f35 ("mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT")
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2025-09-05 09:11:28 +02:00
Joanne KoongandMiklos Szeredi 2841808f35 mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT
There are no users of BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT now that fuse doesn't do
its own writeback accounting. This commit removes
BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT.

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2025-08-27 14:29:43 +02:00
Vlastimil BabkaandAndrew Morton 8356a5a3b0 mm, vmstat: remove the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP node_stat_item counter
The only user of the counter (FUSE) was removed in commit 0c58a97f91
("fuse: remove tmp folio for writebacks and internal rb tree") so follow
the established pattern of removing the counter and hardcoding 0 in
meminfo output, as done recently with NR_BOUNCE.  Update documentation for
procfs, including for the value for Bounce that was missed when removing
its counter.

Also remove the mention of NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP implications from a comment
in wb_position_ratio(). The rest of the comment there about fuse setting
bdi->max_ratio to 1% is still correct.

[vbabka@suse.cz: v2]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5a848e15-6a57-4ecb-a015-d4f358b8a5d3@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250625-nr_writeback_removal-v1-1-7f2a0df70faa@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19 18:59:47 -07:00
Ingo MolnarandThomas Gleixner 41cb08555c treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com
2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
Linus Torvalds fd1f847350 Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   adds infrastructure for passing algorithm-specific parameters into
   zram. A single parameter `winbits' is implemented at this time.

 - "memcg: nmi-safe kmem charging" from Shakeel Butt makes memcg
   charging nmi-safe, which is required by BFP, which can operate in NMI
   context.

 - "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem" from Kemeng Shi implements
   small fixes and cleanups in the shmem code.

 - "Skip mm selftests instead when kernel features are not present" from
   Zi Yan fixes some issues in the MM selftest code.

 - "mm/damon: build-enable essential DAMON components by default" from
   SeongJae Park reworks DAMON Kconfig to make it easier to enable
   CONFIG_DAMON.

 - "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task migration" from Libo
   Chen adds more info into sysfs and procfs files to improve visibility
   into the NUMA balancer's task migration activity.

 - "selftests/mm: cow and gup_longterm cleanups" from Mark Brown
   provides various updates to some of the MM selftests to make them
   play better with the overall containing framework.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (43 commits)
  mm/khugepaged: clean up refcount check using folio_expected_ref_count()
  selftests/mm: fix test result reporting in gup_longterm
  selftests/mm: report unique test names for each cow test
  selftests/mm: add helper for logging test start and results
  selftests/mm: use standard ksft_finished() in cow and gup_longterm
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: skip testcases if CONFIG_DAMON_SYSFS is disabled
  sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task
  sched/numa: fix task swap by skipping kernel threads
  tools/testing: check correct variable in open_procmap()
  tools/testing/vma: add missing function stub
  mm/gup: update comment explaining why gup_fast() disables IRQs
  selftests/mm: two fixes for the pfnmap test
  mm/khugepaged: fix race with folio split/free using temporary reference
  mm: add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order
  mmu_notifiers: remove leftover stub macros
  selftests/mm: deduplicate test names in madv_populate
  kcov: rust: add flags for KCOV with Rust
  mm: rust: make CONFIG_MMU ifdefs more narrow
  mmu_gather: move tlb flush for VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXEDMAP vmas into free_pgtables()
  mm/damon/Kconfig: enable CONFIG_DAMON by default
  ...
2025-06-02 16:00:26 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)andAndrew Morton acc53a0b4c mm: rename page->index to page->__folio_index
All users of page->index have been converted to not refer to it any more. 
Update a few pieces of documentation that were missed and prevent new
users from appearing (or at least make them easy to grep for).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250514181508.3019795-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-31 22:46:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 00c010e130 Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
   creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
   the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
   this.

 - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
   largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
   and better prepare us for future work.

 - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
   Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
   memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
   block size.

 - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
   Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
   sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
   compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
   memory consumption was dramatic.

 - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
   Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
   this part of our swap handling code.

 - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
   adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
   time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
   strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
   arguments, and syscall return value.

   This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
   branch, but I goofed.

 - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
   Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
   against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
   at the info about guard regions.

 - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
   implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
   validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.

 - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
   Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
   decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
   using more current facilities.

 - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
   Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
   code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
   enabled for ARM.

 - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
   ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
   it already is for user pgtables.

   This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
   to protect page tables". This change does result in various
   architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
   it is anticipated to occur.

 - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
   Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.

 - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
   been missing for 15 years.

 - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
   SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.

   Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
   batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
   was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
   load this particular operation.

 - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
   Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
   preallocation.

   stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
   the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
   reduced.

 - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
   a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.

 - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
   from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
   management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
   leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
   support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.

 - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
   from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
   eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
   for memory tiering.

 - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
   provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
   found via code inspection.

 - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
   changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
   possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
   cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
   settings to violated.

   This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
   certain classes of memory more consistently.

 - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
   pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
   in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.

 - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
   for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.

 - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
   Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
   for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.

   This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
   rather than file-backed folios.

 - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
   first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
   VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
   time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.

 - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
   and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
   ranges of invalid pfns.

 - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
   cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
   when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.

   Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.

 - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
   Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
   using JFS.

 - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
   appropriate mm/vma.c.

 - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
   provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
   function.

 - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.

 - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
   addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
   test_memcontrol selftest.

 - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
   of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().

   The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
   things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.

 - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
   the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.

   This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
   NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.

 - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
   documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
   DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
   documents.

 - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
   stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
   charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.

 - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
   instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
   hugetlb code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
  mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high
  mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
  mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
  memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
  memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
  memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
  memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
  mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
  selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
  alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
  Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
  mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
  mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
  ...
2025-05-31 15:44:16 -07:00
Kairui SongandAndrew Morton 7d0f0f0615 mm: move folio_index to mm/swap.h and remove no longer needed helper
There are no remaining users of folio_index() outside the mm subsystem. 
Move it to mm/swap.h to co-locate it with swap_cache_index(), eliminating
a forward declaration, and a function call overhead.

Also remove the helper that was used to fix circular header dependency
issue.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250430181052.55698-6-ryncsn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-12 23:50:50 -07:00
Jinliang ZhengandAndrew Morton f83f362d40 mm: fix ratelimit_pages update error in dirty_ratio_handler()
In dirty_ratio_handler(), vm_dirty_bytes must be set to zero before
calling writeback_set_ratelimit(), as global_dirty_limits() always
prioritizes the value of vm_dirty_bytes.

It's domain_dirty_limits() that's relevant here, not node_dirty_ok:

  dirty_ratio_handler
    writeback_set_ratelimit
      global_dirty_limits(&dirty_thresh)           <- ratelimit_pages based on dirty_thresh
        domain_dirty_limits
          if (bytes)                               <- bytes = vm_dirty_bytes <--------+
            thresh = f1(bytes)                     <- prioritizes vm_dirty_bytes      |
          else                                                                        |
            thresh = f2(ratio)                                                        |
      ratelimit_pages = f3(dirty_thresh)                                              |
    vm_dirty_bytes = 0                             <- it's late! ---------------------+

This causes ratelimit_pages to still use the value calculated based on
vm_dirty_bytes, which is wrong now.


The impact visible to userspace is difficult to capture directly because
there is no procfs/sysfs interface exported to user space.  However, it
will have a real impact on the balance of dirty pages.

For example:

1. On default, we have vm_dirty_ratio=40, vm_dirty_bytes=0

2. echo 8192 > dirty_bytes, then vm_dirty_bytes=8192,
   vm_dirty_ratio=0, and ratelimit_pages is calculated based on
   vm_dirty_bytes now.

3. echo 20 > dirty_ratio, then since vm_dirty_bytes is not reset to
   zero when writeback_set_ratelimit() -> global_dirty_limits() ->
   domain_dirty_limits() is called, reallimit_pages is still calculated
   based on vm_dirty_bytes instead of vm_dirty_ratio.  This does not
   conform to the actual intent of the user.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250415090232.7544-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com
Fixes: 9d823e8f6b ("writeback: per task dirty rate limit")
Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: MengEn Sun <mengensun@tencent.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Fenggaung Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-05-11 17:48:01 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)andChristian Brauner 8e5ae388f3 writeback: Remove writeback_use_writepage()
The ->writepage operation has been removed from all filesystems but
shmem and swap, neither of which call in here.  Remove this alternative
to calling ->writepages.

Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402150005.2309458-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-04-07 09:36:49 +02:00
Thomas GleixnerandIngo Molnar 8fa7292fee treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
Tang YizhouandAndrew Morton 6cc4c3aa71 writeback: fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb
In the commit dcc25ae76e ("writeback: move global_dirty_limit into
wb_domain") of the cgroup writeback backpressure propagation patchset,
Tejun made some adaptations to trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgroup
writeback.  However, this adaptation was incomplete and Tejun missed
further adaptation in the subsequent patches.

In the cgroup writeback scenario, if sdtc in balance_dirty_pages() is
assigned to mdtc, then upon entering trace_balance_dirty_pages(),
__entry->limit should be assigned based on the dirty_limit of the
corresponding memcg's wb_domain, rather than global_wb_domain.

To address this issue and simplify the implementation, introduce a 'limit'
field in struct dirty_throttle_control to store the hard_limit value
computed in wb_position_ratio() by calling hard_dirty_limit().  This field
will then be used in trace_balance_dirty_pages() to assign the value to
__entry->limit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250304110318.159567-4-yizhou.tang@shopee.com
Fixes: dcc25ae76e ("writeback: move global_dirty_limit into wb_domain")
Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17 00:05:37 -07:00
Tang YizhouandAndrew Morton f1ab2831e2 writeback: let trace_balance_dirty_pages() take struct dtc as parameter
Patch series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb", v2.

In my experiment, I found that the output of trace_balance_dirty_pages()
in the cgroup writeback scenario was strange because
trace_balance_dirty_pages() always uses global_wb_domain.dirty_limit for
related calculations instead of the dirty_limit of the corresponding
memcg's wb_domain.

The basic idea of the fix is to store the hard dirty limit value computed
in wb_position_ratio() into struct dirty_throttle_control and use it for
calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages().


This patch (of 3):

Currently, trace_balance_dirty_pages() already has 12 parameters.  In the
patch #3, I initially attempted to introduce an additional parameter. 
However, in include/linux/trace_events.h, bpf_trace_run12() only supports
up to 12 parameters and bpf_trace_run13() does not exist.

To reduce the number of parameters in trace_balance_dirty_pages(), we can
make it accept a pointer to struct dirty_throttle_control as a parameter. 
To achieve this, we need to move the definition of struct
dirty_throttle_control from mm/page-writeback.c to
include/linux/writeback.h.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250304110318.159567-1-yizhou.tang@shopee.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250304110318.159567-2-yizhou.tang@shopee.com
Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-17 00:05:37 -07:00