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commit 3f259d0 upstream. The reiserfs mutex already depends on the inode mutex, so we can't lock the inode mutex in reiserfs_unpack() without using the safe locking API, because reiserfs_unpack() is always called with the reiserfs mutex locked. This fixes: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.35c torvalds#13 ------------------------------------------------------- lilo/1606 is trying to acquire lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){+.+.+.}, at: [<d0329450>] reiserfs_unpack+0x60/0x110 [reiserfs] but task is already holding lock: (&REISERFS_SB(s)->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<d032a268>] reiserfs_write_lock+0x28/0x40 [reiserfs] which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&REISERFS_SB(s)->lock){+.+.+.}: [<c1056347>] lock_acquire+0x67/0x80 [<c12f083d>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4d/0x410 [<c12f0c58>] mutex_lock_nested+0x18/0x20 [<d032a268>] reiserfs_write_lock+0x28/0x40 [reiserfs] [<d0329e9a>] reiserfs_lookup_privroot+0x2a/0x90 [reiserfs] [<d0316b81>] reiserfs_fill_super+0x941/0xe60 [reiserfs] [<c10b7d17>] get_sb_bdev+0x117/0x170 [<d0313e21>] get_super_block+0x21/0x30 [reiserfs] [<c10b74ba>] vfs_kern_mount+0x6a/0x1b0 [<c10b7659>] do_kern_mount+0x39/0xe0 [<c10cebe0>] do_mount+0x340/0x790 [<c10cf0b4>] sys_mount+0x84/0xb0 [<c12f25cd>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb -> #0 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){+.+.+.}: [<c1056186>] __lock_acquire+0x1026/0x1180 [<c1056347>] lock_acquire+0x67/0x80 [<c12f083d>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4d/0x410 [<c12f0c58>] mutex_lock_nested+0x18/0x20 [<d0329450>] reiserfs_unpack+0x60/0x110 [reiserfs] [<d0329772>] reiserfs_ioctl+0x272/0x320 [reiserfs] [<c10c3228>] vfs_ioctl+0x28/0xa0 [<c10c3c5d>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x32d/0x5c0 [<c10c3f53>] sys_ioctl+0x63/0x70 [<c12f25cd>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by lilo/1606: #0: (&REISERFS_SB(s)->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<d032a268>] reiserfs_write_lock+0x28/0x40 [reiserfs] stack backtrace: Pid: 1606, comm: lilo Not tainted 2.6.35c torvalds#13 Call Trace: [<c1056186>] __lock_acquire+0x1026/0x1180 [<c1056347>] lock_acquire+0x67/0x80 [<c12f083d>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4d/0x410 [<c12f0c58>] mutex_lock_nested+0x18/0x20 [<d0329450>] reiserfs_unpack+0x60/0x110 [reiserfs] [<d0329772>] reiserfs_ioctl+0x272/0x320 [reiserfs] [<c10c3228>] vfs_ioctl+0x28/0xa0 [<c10c3c5d>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x32d/0x5c0 [<c10c3f53>] sys_ioctl+0x63/0x70 [<c12f25cd>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Reported-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch changes tcm_qla2xxx_drop_tpg() to check for tgt_stop instead of tgt_stopped usage, as tgt_stopped = 1 is expected to be set during normal endpoint shutdown usage. This addresses the following dump_stack() warning during shutdown: [51024.579296] Already in tgt->tgt_stop or tgt_stopped state [51024.585316] Pid: 22371, comm: rmdir Not tainted 2.6.38.3+ torvalds#13 [51024.591754] Call Trace: [51024.594489] [<ffffffffa0308150>] ? qla_tgt_stop_phase1+0x3a/0x27c [qla2xxx] [51024.602350] [<ffffffff810bf56c>] ? free_debug_processing+0x1bd/0x200 [51024.609530] [<ffffffff810d5d5d>] ? dput+0x30/0x14d [51024.614969] [<ffffffffa018dfc5>] ? tcm_qla2xxx_drop_tpg+0x3d/0x6b [tcm_qla2xxx] [51024.623208] [<ffffffffa0105ef2>] ? target_fabric_tpg_release+0x1b/0x1d [target_core_mod] [51024.632327] [<ffffffffa005bd35>] ? config_item_release+0x5a/0x80 [configfs] [51024.640184] [<ffffffffa005bcdb>] ? config_item_release+0x0/0x80 [configfs] [51024.647951] [<ffffffff811aa416>] ? kref_put+0x43/0x4d [51024.653678] [<ffffffffa005bcd9>] ? config_item_put+0x19/0x1b [configfs] [51024.661152] [<ffffffffa005a743>] ? configfs_rmdir+0x1ca/0x231 [configfs] [51024.668712] [<ffffffff810cdcfd>] ? vfs_rmdir+0x7d/0xcb [51024.674540] [<ffffffff810cfce5>] ? do_rmdir+0xa9/0xf8 [51024.680258] [<ffffffff810cfd6b>] ? sys_rmdir+0x11/0x13 [51024.686085] [<ffffffff81002992>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Reported-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Madhuranath Iyengar <mni@risingtidesystems.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
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Overly indented code should be refactored. Suggest refactoring excessive indentation of of if/else/for/do/while/switch statements. For example: $ cat t.c #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (1) if (2) if (3) if (4) if (5) if (6) if (7) if (8) ; return 0; } $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f t.c WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring #12: FILE: t.c:12: + if (6) WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring #13: FILE: t.c:13: + if (7) WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring #14: FILE: t.c:14: + if (8) total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 17 lines checked t.c has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If the netdev is already in NETREG_UNREGISTERING/_UNREGISTERED state, do not update the real num tx queues. netdev_queue_update_kobjects() is already called via remove_queue_kobjects() at NETREG_UNREGISTERING time. So, when upper layer driver, e.g., FCoE protocol stack is monitoring the netdev event of NETDEV_UNREGISTER and calls back to LLD ndo_fcoe_disable() to remove extra queues allocated for FCoE, the associated txq sysfs kobjects are already removed, and trying to update the real num queues would cause something like below: ... PID: 25138 TASK: ffff88021e64c440 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "kworker/3:3" #0 [ffff88021f007760] machine_kexec at ffffffff810226d9 #1 [ffff88021f0077d0] crash_kexec at ffffffff81089d2d #2 [ffff88021f0078a0] oops_end at ffffffff813bca78 #3 [ffff88021f0078d0] no_context at ffffffff81029e72 #4 [ffff88021f007920] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102a155 #5 [ffff88021f0079f0] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102a23e torvalds#6 [ffff88021f007a00] do_page_fault at ffffffff813bf32e torvalds#7 [ffff88021f007b10] page_fault at ffffffff813bc045 [exception RIP: sysfs_find_dirent+17] RIP: ffffffff81178611 RSP: ffff88021f007bc0 RFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff88021e64c440 RBX: ffffffff8156cc63 RCX: 0000000000000004 RDX: ffffffff8156cc63 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88021f007be0 R8: 0000000000000004 R9: 0000000000000008 R10: ffffffff816fed00 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffffff8156cc63 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8802222a0000 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 torvalds#8 [ffff88021f007be8] sysfs_get_dirent at ffffffff81178c07 torvalds#9 [ffff88021f007c18] sysfs_remove_group at ffffffff8117ac27 torvalds#10 [ffff88021f007c48] netdev_queue_update_kobjects at ffffffff813178f9 torvalds#11 [ffff88021f007c88] netif_set_real_num_tx_queues at ffffffff81303e38 torvalds#12 [ffff88021f007cc8] ixgbe_set_num_queues at ffffffffa0249763 [ixgbe] torvalds#13 [ffff88021f007cf8] ixgbe_init_interrupt_scheme at ffffffffa024ea89 [ixgbe] torvalds#14 [ffff88021f007d48] ixgbe_fcoe_disable at ffffffffa0267113 [ixgbe] torvalds#15 [ffff88021f007d68] vlan_dev_fcoe_disable at ffffffffa014fef5 [8021q] torvalds#16 [ffff88021f007d78] fcoe_interface_cleanup at ffffffffa02b7dfd [fcoe] torvalds#17 [ffff88021f007df8] fcoe_destroy_work at ffffffffa02b7f08 [fcoe] torvalds#18 [ffff88021f007e18] process_one_work at ffffffff8105d7ca torvalds#19 [ffff88021f007e68] worker_thread at ffffffff81060513 torvalds#20 [ffff88021f007ee8] kthread at ffffffff810648b6 torvalds#21 [ffff88021f007f48] kernel_thread_helper at ffffffff813c40f4 Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com> Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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If the netdev is already in NETREG_UNREGISTERING/_UNREGISTERED state, do not update the real num tx queues. netdev_queue_update_kobjects() is already called via remove_queue_kobjects() at NETREG_UNREGISTERING time. So, when upper layer driver, e.g., FCoE protocol stack is monitoring the netdev event of NETDEV_UNREGISTER and calls back to LLD ndo_fcoe_disable() to remove extra queues allocated for FCoE, the associated txq sysfs kobjects are already removed, and trying to update the real num queues would cause something like below: ... PID: 25138 TASK: ffff88021e64c440 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "kworker/3:3" #0 [ffff88021f007760] machine_kexec at ffffffff810226d9 #1 [ffff88021f0077d0] crash_kexec at ffffffff81089d2d #2 [ffff88021f0078a0] oops_end at ffffffff813bca78 #3 [ffff88021f0078d0] no_context at ffffffff81029e72 #4 [ffff88021f007920] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102a155 #5 [ffff88021f0079f0] bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102a23e torvalds#6 [ffff88021f007a00] do_page_fault at ffffffff813bf32e torvalds#7 [ffff88021f007b10] page_fault at ffffffff813bc045 [exception RIP: sysfs_find_dirent+17] RIP: ffffffff81178611 RSP: ffff88021f007bc0 RFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff88021e64c440 RBX: ffffffff8156cc63 RCX: 0000000000000004 RDX: ffffffff8156cc63 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88021f007be0 R8: 0000000000000004 R9: 0000000000000008 R10: ffffffff816fed00 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffffff8156cc63 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8802222a0000 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 torvalds#8 [ffff88021f007be8] sysfs_get_dirent at ffffffff81178c07 torvalds#9 [ffff88021f007c18] sysfs_remove_group at ffffffff8117ac27 torvalds#10 [ffff88021f007c48] netdev_queue_update_kobjects at ffffffff813178f9 torvalds#11 [ffff88021f007c88] netif_set_real_num_tx_queues at ffffffff81303e38 torvalds#12 [ffff88021f007cc8] ixgbe_set_num_queues at ffffffffa0249763 [ixgbe] torvalds#13 [ffff88021f007cf8] ixgbe_init_interrupt_scheme at ffffffffa024ea89 [ixgbe] torvalds#14 [ffff88021f007d48] ixgbe_fcoe_disable at ffffffffa0267113 [ixgbe] torvalds#15 [ffff88021f007d68] vlan_dev_fcoe_disable at ffffffffa014fef5 [8021q] torvalds#16 [ffff88021f007d78] fcoe_interface_cleanup at ffffffffa02b7dfd [fcoe] torvalds#17 [ffff88021f007df8] fcoe_destroy_work at ffffffffa02b7f08 [fcoe] torvalds#18 [ffff88021f007e18] process_one_work at ffffffff8105d7ca torvalds#19 [ffff88021f007e68] worker_thread at ffffffff81060513 torvalds#20 [ffff88021f007ee8] kthread at ffffffff810648b6 torvalds#21 [ffff88021f007f48] kernel_thread_helper at ffffffff813c40f4 Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com> Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 torvalds#6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a torvalds#7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb torvalds#8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d torvalds#9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 torvalds#6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a torvalds#7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb torvalds#8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d torvalds#9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/931719 commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 torvalds#6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a torvalds#7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb torvalds#8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d torvalds#9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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…S block during isolation for migration commit 0bf380b upstream. When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone which is not necessarily pageblock aligned. Further, it stops isolating when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally not aligned. This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on an invalid PFN which can result in a crash. This was originally reported against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump. PID: 9902 TASK: d47aecd0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "memcg_process_s" #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72e #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000c0000 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000807 EBP: 000c0000 DS: 007b ESI: 00000001 ES: 007b EDI: f3000a80 GS: 6f50 CS: 0060 EIP: c030b15a ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010002 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8d #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1 torvalds#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84 torvalds#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7 torvalds#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7 torvalds#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97 torvalds#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845 torvalds#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb torvalds#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6 torvalds#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed torvalds#18 [d72d3fb] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4 EAX: b71ff000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00001600 EDX: 00000431 DS: 007b ESI: 08048950 ES: 007b EDI: bfaa3788 SS: 007b ESP: bfaa36e0 EBP: bfaa3828 GS: 6f50 CS: 0073 EIP: 080487c8 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010202 It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel with the following snippet from the console log. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008 IP: [<c0522399>] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390 *pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000 It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline. The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned. Lets say we have a case like this H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary | = pageblock boundary m = cc->migrate_pfn f = cc->free_pfn o = memory hole H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond the hole. When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole. It checks pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are not necessarily valid struct pages. This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when necessary. Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Cc: Alex Willamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Bart van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@amd.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: Damien Le Maol <dlemoal@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Inki Dae <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jason A. 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In November last year, I sent an RFC to introduce CAN XL [1]. That RFC, despite positive feedback, was put on hold due to some unanswered question concerning the PWM encoding [2]. While stuck, some small preparation work was done in parallel in [3] by refactoring the struct can_priv and doing some trivial clean-up and renaming. [3] received zero feedback but was eventually merged after splitting it in smaller parts and resending it. Finally, in July this year, we clarified the remaining mysteries about PWM calculation, thus unlocking the series. Summer being a bit busy because of some personal matters brings us to now. After doing all the refactoring and adding all the CAN XL features, the final result is roughly 30 patches, probably too much for a single series. So I am splitting it in two: - preparation (this series) - CAN XL And so, this series continues and finishes the preparation work done in [3]. It contains all the refactoring needed to smoothly introduce CAN XL. The goal is to: - split the function in smaller pieces: CAN XL will introduce a fair amount of code. And some functions which are already fairly long (86 lines for can_validate(), 216 lines for can_changelink()) would grow to disproportionate sizes if the CAN XL logic were to be inlined in those functions. - repurpose the existing code to handle both CAN FD and CAN XL: a huge part of CAN XL simply reuses the CAN FD logic. All the existing CAN FD logic is made more generic to handle both CAN FD and XL. In more details: - Patch #1 moves struct data_bittiming_params from dev.h to bittiming.h and patch #2 makes can_get_relative_tdco() FD agnostic before also moving it to bittiming.h. - Patch #3 adds some comments to netlink.h tagging which IFLA symbols are FD specific. - Patch #4 to torvalds#6 are refactoring can_validate() and can_validate_bittiming(). - Patch torvalds#7 to torvalds#11 are refactoring can_changelink() and can_tdc_changelink(). - Patch torvalds#12 and torvalds#13 are refactoring can_get_size() and can_tdc_get_size(). - Patch torvalds#14 to torvalds#17 are refactoring can_fill_info() and can_tdc_fill_info(). - Patch torvalds#18 makes can_calc_tdco() FD agnostic. - Patch torvalds#19 adds can_get_ctrlmode_str() which converts control mode flags into strings. This is done in preparation of patch torvalds#20. - Patch torvalds#20 is the final patch and improves the user experience by providing detailed error messages whenever invalid parameters are provided. All those error messages came into handy when debugging the upcoming CAN XL patches. Aside from the last patch, the other changes do not impact any of the existing functionalities. The follow up series which introduces CAN XL is nearly completed but will be sent only once this one is approved: one thing at a time, I do not want to overwhelm people (including myself). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/c4771c16-c578-4a6d-baee-918fe276dbe9@wanadoo.fr/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Cc: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org> Cc: Stéphane Grosjean <stephane.grosjean@hms-networks.com> Cc: Robert Nawrath <mbro1689@gmail.com> Cc: Minh Le <minh.le.aj@renesas.com> Cc: Duy Nguyen <duy.nguyen.rh@renesas.com> Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org> --- Changes in v2: - Move can_validate()'s comment block to can_validate_databittiming(). Consequently, [PATCH 07/21] can: netlink: remove comment in can_validate() from v1 is removed. - Change any occurrences of WARN_ON(1) into return -EOPNOTSUPP to suppress the three gcc warnings which were reported by the kernel test robot: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050259.NjPdQyAD-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050404.ZLQknagH-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050541.1FKRbqOi-lkp@intel.com/ - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250903-canxl-netlink-prep-v1-0-904bd6037cd9@kernel.org --- b4-submit-tracking --- { "series": { "revision": 2, "change-id": "20250831-canxl-netlink-prep-9dbf8498fd9d", "prefixes": [], "prerequisites": [ "base-commit: net-next/main" ], "history": { "v1": [ "20250903-canxl-netlink-prep-v1-0-904bd6037cd9@kernel.org" ] } } }
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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-2-david@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiCYfNp4AJLBORU-c7ZyRBUp66W2-Et6cdQ4REx-GyQ_A@mail.gmail.com/T/#u [1] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-2-david@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiCYfNp4AJLBORU-c7ZyRBUp66W2-Et6cdQ4REx-GyQ_A@mail.gmail.com/T/#u [1] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-2-david@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiCYfNp4AJLBORU-c7ZyRBUp66W2-Et6cdQ4REx-GyQ_A@mail.gmail.com/T/#u [1] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-2-david@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiCYfNp4AJLBORU-c7ZyRBUp66W2-Et6cdQ4REx-GyQ_A@mail.gmail.com/T/#u [1] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-2-david@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiCYfNp4AJLBORU-c7ZyRBUp66W2-Et6cdQ4REx-GyQ_A@mail.gmail.com/T/#u [1] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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In November last year, I sent an RFC to introduce CAN XL [1]. That RFC, despite positive feedback, was put on hold due to some unanswered question concerning the PWM encoding [2]. While stuck, some small preparation work was done in parallel in [3] by refactoring the struct can_priv and doing some trivial clean-up and renaming. Initially, [3] received zero feedback but was eventually merged after splitting it in smaller parts and resending it. Finally, in July this year, we clarified the remaining mysteries about PWM calculation, thus unlocking the series. Summer being a bit busy because of some personal matters brings us to now. After doing all the refactoring and adding all the CAN XL features, the final result is roughly 30 patches, probably too much for a single series. So I am splitting it in two: - preparation (this series) - CAN XL (will come later, after this series get ACK-ed) And so, this series continues and finishes the preparation work done in [3]. It contains all the refactoring needed to smoothly introduce CAN XL. The goal is to: - split the functions in smaller pieces: CAN XL will introduce a fair amount of code. And some functions which are already fairly long (86 lines for can_validate(), 216 lines for can_changelink()) would grow to disproportionate sizes if the CAN XL logic were to be inlined in those functions. - repurpose the existing code to handle both CAN FD and CAN XL: a huge part of CAN XL simply reuses the CAN FD logic. All the existing CAN FD logic is made more generic to handle both CAN FD and XL. In more details: - Patch #1 moves struct data_bittiming_params from dev.h to bittiming.h and patch #2 makes can_get_relative_tdco() FD agnostic before also moving it to bittiming.h. - Patch #3 adds some comments to netlink.h tagging which IFLA symbols are FD specific. - Patches #4 to torvalds#6 are refactoring can_validate() and can_validate_bittiming(). - Patches torvalds#7 to torvalds#11 are refactoring can_changelink() and can_tdc_changelink(). - Patches torvalds#12 and torvalds#13 are refactoring can_get_size() and can_tdc_get_size(). - Patches torvalds#14 to torvalds#17 are refactoring can_fill_info() and can_tdc_fill_info(). - Patch torvalds#18 makes can_calc_tdco() FD agnostic. - Patch torvalds#19 adds can_get_ctrlmode_str() which converts control mode flags into strings. This is done in preparation of patch torvalds#20. - Patch torvalds#20 is the final patch and improves the user experience by providing detailed error messages whenever invalid parameters are provided. All those error messages came into handy when debugging the upcoming CAN XL patches. Aside from the last patch, the other changes do not impact any of the existing functionalities. The follow up series which introduces CAN XL is nearly completed but will be sent only once this one is approved: one thing at a time, I do not want to overwhelm people (including myself). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/c4771c16-c578-4a6d-baee-918fe276dbe9@wanadoo.fr/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Cc: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org> Cc: Stéphane Grosjean <stephane.grosjean@hms-networks.com> Cc: Robert Nawrath <mbro1689@gmail.com> Cc: Minh Le <minh.le.aj@renesas.com> Cc: Duy Nguyen <duy.nguyen.rh@renesas.com> Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org> --- Changes in v3: - Add a static_assert() in can_validate_databittiming() to prove that the nla attributes were already correctly aligned. Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250910-canxl-netlink-prep-v2-0-f128d4083721@kernel.org Changes in v2: - Move can_validate()'s comment block to can_validate_databittiming(). Consequently, [PATCH 07/21] can: netlink: remove comment in can_validate() from v1 is removed. - Change any occurrences of WARN_ON(1) into return -EOPNOTSUPP to suppress the three gcc warnings which were reported by the kernel test robot: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050259.NjPdQyAD-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050404.ZLQknagH-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/202509050541.1FKRbqOi-lkp@intel.com/ - Small rewrite of patch torvalds#12 "can: netlink: make can_tdc_get_size() FD agnostic" description to add more details. Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250903-canxl-netlink-prep-v1-0-904bd6037cd9@kernel.org --- b4-submit-tracking --- { "series": { "revision": 3, "change-id": "20250831-canxl-netlink-prep-9dbf8498fd9d", "prefixes": [], "prerequisites": [ "base-commit: net-next/main" ], "history": { "v1": [ "20250903-canxl-netlink-prep-v1-0-904bd6037cd9@kernel.org" ], "v2": [ "20250910-canxl-netlink-prep-v2-0-f128d4083721@kernel.org" ] } } }
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Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch torvalds#6 -> torvalds#13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#14 -> torvalds#20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch torvalds#22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch torvalds#23 -> torvalds#33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch torvalds#34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch torvalds#35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch torvalds#36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch torvalds#37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). 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…CAN XL step 3/3" Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org> says: In November last year, I sent an RFC to introduce CAN XL [1]. That RFC, despite positive feedback, was put on hold due to some unanswered question concerning the PWM encoding [2]. While stuck, some small preparation work was done in parallel in [3] by refactoring the struct can_priv and doing some trivial clean-up and renaming. Initially, [3] received zero feedback but was eventually merged after splitting it in smaller parts and resending it. Finally, in July this year, we clarified the remaining mysteries about PWM calculation, thus unlocking the series. Summer being a bit busy because of some personal matters brings us to now. After doing all the refactoring and adding all the CAN XL features, the final result is more than 30 patches, definitively too much for a single series. So I am splitting the remaining changes three: - can: rework the CAN MTU logic [4] - can: netlink: preparation before introduction of CAN XL (this series) - CAN XL (will come right after the two preparation series get merged) And thus, this series continues and finishes the preparation work done in [3] and [4]. It contains all the refactoring needed to smoothly introduce CAN XL. The goal is to: - split the functions in smaller pieces: CAN XL will introduce a fair amount of code. And some functions which are already fairly long (86 lines for can_validate(), 215 lines for can_changelink()) would grow to disproportionate sizes if the CAN XL logic were to be inlined in those functions. - repurpose the existing code to handle both CAN FD and CAN XL: a huge part of CAN XL simply reuses the CAN FD logic. All the existing CAN FD logic is made more generic to handle both CAN FD and XL. In more details: - Patch #1 moves struct data_bittiming_params from dev.h to bittiming.h and patch #2 makes can_get_relative_tdco() FD agnostic before also moving it to bittiming.h. - Patch #3 adds some comments to netlink.h tagging which IFLA symbols are FD specific. - Patches #4 to torvalds#6 are refactoring can_validate() and can_validate_bittiming(). - Patches torvalds#7 to torvalds#11 are refactoring can_changelink() and can_tdc_changelink(). - Patches torvalds#12 and torvalds#13 are refactoring can_get_size() and can_tdc_get_size(). - Patches torvalds#14 to torvalds#17 are refactoring can_fill_info() and can_tdc_fill_info(). - Patch torvalds#18 makes can_calc_tdco() FD agnostic. - Patch torvalds#19 adds can_get_ctrlmode_str() which converts control mode flags into strings. This is done in preparation of patch torvalds#20. - Patch torvalds#20 is the final patch and improves the user experience by providing detailed error messages whenever invalid parameters are provided. All those error messages came into handy when debugging the upcoming CAN XL patches. Aside from the last patch, the other changes do not impact any of the existing functionalities. The follow up series which introduces CAN XL is nearly completed but will be sent only once this one is approved: one thing at a time, I do not want to overwhelm people (including myself). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/c4771c16-c578-4a6d-baee-918fe276dbe9@wanadoo.fr/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20250923-can-fix-mtu-v2-0-984f9868db69@kernel.org/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923-canxl-netlink-prep-v4-0-e720d28f66fe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
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…CAN XL step 3/3" Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org> says: In November last year, I sent an RFC to introduce CAN XL [1]. That RFC, despite positive feedback, was put on hold due to some unanswered question concerning the PWM encoding [2]. While stuck, some small preparation work was done in parallel in [3] by refactoring the struct can_priv and doing some trivial clean-up and renaming. Initially, [3] received zero feedback but was eventually merged after splitting it in smaller parts and resending it. Finally, in July this year, we clarified the remaining mysteries about PWM calculation, thus unlocking the series. Summer being a bit busy because of some personal matters brings us to now. After doing all the refactoring and adding all the CAN XL features, the final result is more than 30 patches, definitively too much for a single series. So I am splitting the remaining changes three: - can: rework the CAN MTU logic [4] - can: netlink: preparation before introduction of CAN XL (this series) - CAN XL (will come right after the two preparation series get merged) And thus, this series continues and finishes the preparation work done in [3] and [4]. It contains all the refactoring needed to smoothly introduce CAN XL. The goal is to: - split the functions in smaller pieces: CAN XL will introduce a fair amount of code. And some functions which are already fairly long (86 lines for can_validate(), 215 lines for can_changelink()) would grow to disproportionate sizes if the CAN XL logic were to be inlined in those functions. - repurpose the existing code to handle both CAN FD and CAN XL: a huge part of CAN XL simply reuses the CAN FD logic. All the existing CAN FD logic is made more generic to handle both CAN FD and XL. In more details: - Patch #1 moves struct data_bittiming_params from dev.h to bittiming.h and patch #2 makes can_get_relative_tdco() FD agnostic before also moving it to bittiming.h. - Patch #3 adds some comments to netlink.h tagging which IFLA symbols are FD specific. - Patches #4 to torvalds#6 are refactoring can_validate() and can_validate_bittiming(). - Patches torvalds#7 to torvalds#11 are refactoring can_changelink() and can_tdc_changelink(). - Patches torvalds#12 and torvalds#13 are refactoring can_get_size() and can_tdc_get_size(). - Patches torvalds#14 to torvalds#17 are refactoring can_fill_info() and can_tdc_fill_info(). - Patch torvalds#18 makes can_calc_tdco() FD agnostic. - Patch torvalds#19 adds can_get_ctrlmode_str() which converts control mode flags into strings. This is done in preparation of patch torvalds#20. - Patch torvalds#20 is the final patch and improves the user experience by providing detailed error messages whenever invalid parameters are provided. All those error messages came into handy when debugging the upcoming CAN XL patches. Aside from the last patch, the other changes do not impact any of the existing functionalities. The follow up series which introduces CAN XL is nearly completed but will be sent only once this one is approved: one thing at a time, I do not want to overwhelm people (including myself). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/c4771c16-c578-4a6d-baee-918fe276dbe9@wanadoo.fr/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20241110155902.72807-16-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20250923-can-fix-mtu-v2-0-984f9868db69@kernel.org/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923-canxl-netlink-prep-v4-0-e720d28f66fe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
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…ge_order() Patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT", v3. Let's add an "easy" way to decide -- without false positives, without page-mapcounts and without page table/rmap scanning -- whether a large folio is "certainly mapped exclusively" into a single MM, or whether it "maybe mapped shared" into multiple MMs. Use that information to implement Copy-on-Write reuse, to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_share(), and to introduce a kernel config option that lets us not use+maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. The bigger picture was presented at LSF/MM [1]. This series is effectively a follow-up on my early work [2], which implemented a more precise, but also more complicated, way to identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" into multiple MMs or "mapped exclusively" into a single MM. 1 Patch Organization ==================== Patch #1 -> torvalds#6: make more room in order-1 folios, so we have two "unsigned long" available for our purposes Patch torvalds#7 -> torvalds#11: preparations Patch torvalds#12: MM owner tracking for large folios Patch torvalds#13: COW reuse for PTE-mapped anon THP Patch torvalds#14: folio_maybe_mapped_shared() Patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20: introduce and implement CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 2 MM owner tracking =================== We assign each MM a unique ID ("MM ID"), to be able to squeeze more information in our folios. On 32bit we use 15-bit IDs, on 64bit we use 31-bit IDs. For each large folios, we now store two MM-ID+mapcount ("slot") combinations: * mm0_id + mm0_mapcount * mm1_id + mm1_mapcount On 32bit, we use a 16-bit per-MM mapcount, on 64bit an ordinary 32bit mapcount. This way, we require 2x "unsigned long" on 32bit and 64bit for both slots. Paired with the large mapcount, we can reliably identify whether one of these MMs is the current owner (-> owns all mappings) or even holds all folio references (-> owns all mappings, and all references are from mappings). As long as only two MMs map folio pages at a time, we can reliably and precisely identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" or "mapped exclusively". Any additional MM that starts mapping the folio while there are no free slots becomes an "untracked MM". If one such "untracked MM" is the last one mapping a folio exclusively, we will not detect the folio as "mapped exclusively" but instead as "maybe mapped shared". (exception: only a single mapping remains) So that's where the approach gets imprecise. For now, we use a bit-spinlock to sync the large mapcount + slots, and make sure we do keep the machinery fast, to not degrade (un)map performance drastically: for example, we make sure to only use a single atomic (when grabbing the bit-spinlock), like we would already perform when updating the large mapcount. 3 CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT ========================= patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20 spell out and document what exactly is affected when not maintaining the per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. Most importantly, as we cannot maintain folio->_nr_pages_mapped anymore when (un)mapping pages, we'll account a complete folio as mapped if a single page is mapped. In addition, we'll not detect partially mapped anonymous folios as such in all cases yet. Likely less relevant changes include that we might now under-estimate the USS (Unique Set Size) of a process, but never over-estimate it. The goal is to make CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT the default at some point, to then slowly make it the only option, as we learn about real-life impacts and possible ways to mitigate them. 4 Performance ============= Detailed performance numbers were included in v1 [3], and not that much changed between v1 and v2. I did plenty of measurements on different systems in the meantime, that all revealed slightly different results. The pte-mapped-folio micro-benchmarks [4] are fairly sensitive to code layout changes on some systems. Especially the fork() benchmark started being more-shaky-than-before on recent kernels for some reason. In summary, with my micro-benchmarks: * Small folios are not impacted. * CoW performance seems to be mostly unchanged across all folios sizes. * CoW reuse performance of large folios now matches CoW reuse performance of small folios, because we now actually implement the CoW reuse optimization. On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R I measured a ~65% reduction in runtime, on an arm64 system I measured ~54% reduction. * munmap() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~30% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~70% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * munmao() performance very slightly (couple percent) degrades without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT for smaller folios. For larger folios, there seems to be no change at all. * fork() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~20% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~10% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * While fork() performance without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT seems to be almost unchanged on some systems, I saw some degradation for smaller folios on the AmpereOne A192-32X. I did not investigate the details yet, but I suspect code layout changes or suboptimal code placement / inlining. I'm not to worried about the fork() micro-benchmarks for smaller folios given how shaky the results are lately and by how much we improved fork() performance recently. I also ran case-anon-cow-rand and case-anon-cow-seq part of vm-scalability, to assess the scalability and the impact of the bit-spinlock. My measurements on a two 2-socket 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU revealed no significant changes. Similarly, running these benchmarks with 2 MiB THPs enabled on the AmpereOne A192-32X with 192 cores, I got < 1% difference with < 1% stdev, which is nice. So far, I did not get my hands on a similarly large system with multiple sockets. I found no other fitting scalability benchmarks that seem to really hammer on concurrent mapping/unmapping of large folio pages like case-anon-cow-seq does. 5 Concerns ========== 5.1 Bit spinlock ---------------- I'm not quite happy about the bit-spinlock, but so far it does not seem to affect scalability in my measurements. If it ever becomes a problem we could either investigate improving the locking, or simply stopping the MM tracking once there are "too many mappings" and simply assume that the folio is "mapped shared" until it was freed. This would be similar (but slightly different) to the "0,1,2,stopped" counting idea Willy had at some point. Adding that logic to "stop tracking" adds more code to the hot path, so I avoided that for now. 5.2 folio_maybe_mapped_shared() ------------------------------- I documented the change from folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() quite extensively. If we run into surprises, I have some ideas on how to resolve them. For now, I think we should be fine. 5.3 Added code to map/unmap hot path ------------------------------------ So far, it looks like the added code on the rmap hot path does not really seem to matter much in the bigger picture. I'd like to further reduce it (and possibly improve fork() performance further), but I don't easily see how right now. Well, and I am out of puff 🙂 Having that said, alternatives I considered (e.g., per-MM per-folio mapcount) would add a lot more overhead to these hot paths. 6 Future Work ============= 6.1 Large mapcount ------------------ It would be very handy if the large mapcount would count how often folio pages are actually mapped into page tables: a PMD on x86-64 would count 512 times. Calculating the average per-page mapcount will be easy, and remapping (PMD->PTE) folios would get even faster. That would also remove the need for the entire mapcount (except for PMD-sized folios for memory statistics reasons ...), and allow for mapping folios larger than PMDs (e.g., 4 MiB) easily. We likely would also have to take the same number of folio references to make our folio_mapcount() == folio_ref_count() work, and we'd want to be able to avoid mapcount+refcount overflows: this could already become an issue with pte-mapped PUD-sized folios (fsdax). One approach we discussed in the THP cabal meeting is (1) extending the mapcount for large folios to 64bit (at least on 64bit systems) and (2) keeping the refcount at 32bit, but (3) having exactly one reference if the the mapcount != 0. It should be doable, but there are some corner cases to consider on the unmap path; it is something that I will be looking into next. 6.2 hugetlb ----------- I'd love to make use of the same tracking also for hugetlb. The real problem is PMD table sharing: getting a page mapped by MM X and unmapped by MM Y will not work. With mshare, that problem should not exist (all mapping/unmapping will be routed through the mshare MM). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974223/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a9922f58-8129-4f15-b160-e0ace581bcbe@redhat.com/T/ [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240829165627.2256514-1-david@redhat.com [4] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/pte-mapped-folio-benchmarks.c This patch (of 20): Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. Maybe in the future we'll have the order readily available for small and large folios; in that case, folio_large_order() would simply translate to folio_order(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. 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…ge_order() Patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT", v3. Let's add an "easy" way to decide -- without false positives, without page-mapcounts and without page table/rmap scanning -- whether a large folio is "certainly mapped exclusively" into a single MM, or whether it "maybe mapped shared" into multiple MMs. Use that information to implement Copy-on-Write reuse, to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_share(), and to introduce a kernel config option that lets us not use+maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. The bigger picture was presented at LSF/MM [1]. This series is effectively a follow-up on my early work [2], which implemented a more precise, but also more complicated, way to identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" into multiple MMs or "mapped exclusively" into a single MM. 1 Patch Organization ==================== Patch #1 -> torvalds#6: make more room in order-1 folios, so we have two "unsigned long" available for our purposes Patch torvalds#7 -> torvalds#11: preparations Patch torvalds#12: MM owner tracking for large folios Patch torvalds#13: COW reuse for PTE-mapped anon THP Patch torvalds#14: folio_maybe_mapped_shared() Patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20: introduce and implement CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 2 MM owner tracking =================== We assign each MM a unique ID ("MM ID"), to be able to squeeze more information in our folios. On 32bit we use 15-bit IDs, on 64bit we use 31-bit IDs. For each large folios, we now store two MM-ID+mapcount ("slot") combinations: * mm0_id + mm0_mapcount * mm1_id + mm1_mapcount On 32bit, we use a 16-bit per-MM mapcount, on 64bit an ordinary 32bit mapcount. This way, we require 2x "unsigned long" on 32bit and 64bit for both slots. Paired with the large mapcount, we can reliably identify whether one of these MMs is the current owner (-> owns all mappings) or even holds all folio references (-> owns all mappings, and all references are from mappings). As long as only two MMs map folio pages at a time, we can reliably and precisely identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" or "mapped exclusively". Any additional MM that starts mapping the folio while there are no free slots becomes an "untracked MM". If one such "untracked MM" is the last one mapping a folio exclusively, we will not detect the folio as "mapped exclusively" but instead as "maybe mapped shared". (exception: only a single mapping remains) So that's where the approach gets imprecise. For now, we use a bit-spinlock to sync the large mapcount + slots, and make sure we do keep the machinery fast, to not degrade (un)map performance drastically: for example, we make sure to only use a single atomic (when grabbing the bit-spinlock), like we would already perform when updating the large mapcount. 3 CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT ========================= patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20 spell out and document what exactly is affected when not maintaining the per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. Most importantly, as we cannot maintain folio->_nr_pages_mapped anymore when (un)mapping pages, we'll account a complete folio as mapped if a single page is mapped. In addition, we'll not detect partially mapped anonymous folios as such in all cases yet. Likely less relevant changes include that we might now under-estimate the USS (Unique Set Size) of a process, but never over-estimate it. The goal is to make CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT the default at some point, to then slowly make it the only option, as we learn about real-life impacts and possible ways to mitigate them. 4 Performance ============= Detailed performance numbers were included in v1 [3], and not that much changed between v1 and v2. I did plenty of measurements on different systems in the meantime, that all revealed slightly different results. The pte-mapped-folio micro-benchmarks [4] are fairly sensitive to code layout changes on some systems. Especially the fork() benchmark started being more-shaky-than-before on recent kernels for some reason. In summary, with my micro-benchmarks: * Small folios are not impacted. * CoW performance seems to be mostly unchanged across all folios sizes. * CoW reuse performance of large folios now matches CoW reuse performance of small folios, because we now actually implement the CoW reuse optimization. On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R I measured a ~65% reduction in runtime, on an arm64 system I measured ~54% reduction. * munmap() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~30% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~70% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * munmao() performance very slightly (couple percent) degrades without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT for smaller folios. For larger folios, there seems to be no change at all. * fork() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~20% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~10% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * While fork() performance without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT seems to be almost unchanged on some systems, I saw some degradation for smaller folios on the AmpereOne A192-32X. I did not investigate the details yet, but I suspect code layout changes or suboptimal code placement / inlining. I'm not to worried about the fork() micro-benchmarks for smaller folios given how shaky the results are lately and by how much we improved fork() performance recently. I also ran case-anon-cow-rand and case-anon-cow-seq part of vm-scalability, to assess the scalability and the impact of the bit-spinlock. My measurements on a two 2-socket 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU revealed no significant changes. Similarly, running these benchmarks with 2 MiB THPs enabled on the AmpereOne A192-32X with 192 cores, I got < 1% difference with < 1% stdev, which is nice. So far, I did not get my hands on a similarly large system with multiple sockets. I found no other fitting scalability benchmarks that seem to really hammer on concurrent mapping/unmapping of large folio pages like case-anon-cow-seq does. 5 Concerns ========== 5.1 Bit spinlock ---------------- I'm not quite happy about the bit-spinlock, but so far it does not seem to affect scalability in my measurements. If it ever becomes a problem we could either investigate improving the locking, or simply stopping the MM tracking once there are "too many mappings" and simply assume that the folio is "mapped shared" until it was freed. This would be similar (but slightly different) to the "0,1,2,stopped" counting idea Willy had at some point. Adding that logic to "stop tracking" adds more code to the hot path, so I avoided that for now. 5.2 folio_maybe_mapped_shared() ------------------------------- I documented the change from folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() quite extensively. If we run into surprises, I have some ideas on how to resolve them. For now, I think we should be fine. 5.3 Added code to map/unmap hot path ------------------------------------ So far, it looks like the added code on the rmap hot path does not really seem to matter much in the bigger picture. I'd like to further reduce it (and possibly improve fork() performance further), but I don't easily see how right now. Well, and I am out of puff 🙂 Having that said, alternatives I considered (e.g., per-MM per-folio mapcount) would add a lot more overhead to these hot paths. 6 Future Work ============= 6.1 Large mapcount ------------------ It would be very handy if the large mapcount would count how often folio pages are actually mapped into page tables: a PMD on x86-64 would count 512 times. Calculating the average per-page mapcount will be easy, and remapping (PMD->PTE) folios would get even faster. That would also remove the need for the entire mapcount (except for PMD-sized folios for memory statistics reasons ...), and allow for mapping folios larger than PMDs (e.g., 4 MiB) easily. We likely would also have to take the same number of folio references to make our folio_mapcount() == folio_ref_count() work, and we'd want to be able to avoid mapcount+refcount overflows: this could already become an issue with pte-mapped PUD-sized folios (fsdax). One approach we discussed in the THP cabal meeting is (1) extending the mapcount for large folios to 64bit (at least on 64bit systems) and (2) keeping the refcount at 32bit, but (3) having exactly one reference if the the mapcount != 0. It should be doable, but there are some corner cases to consider on the unmap path; it is something that I will be looking into next. 6.2 hugetlb ----------- I'd love to make use of the same tracking also for hugetlb. The real problem is PMD table sharing: getting a page mapped by MM X and unmapped by MM Y will not work. With mshare, that problem should not exist (all mapping/unmapping will be routed through the mshare MM). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974223/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a9922f58-8129-4f15-b160-e0ace581bcbe@redhat.com/T/ [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240829165627.2256514-1-david@redhat.com [4] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/pte-mapped-folio-benchmarks.c This patch (of 20): Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. Maybe in the future we'll have the order readily available for small and large folios; in that case, folio_large_order() would simply translate to folio_order(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. 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…ge_order() Patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT", v3. Let's add an "easy" way to decide -- without false positives, without page-mapcounts and without page table/rmap scanning -- whether a large folio is "certainly mapped exclusively" into a single MM, or whether it "maybe mapped shared" into multiple MMs. Use that information to implement Copy-on-Write reuse, to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_share(), and to introduce a kernel config option that lets us not use+maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. The bigger picture was presented at LSF/MM [1]. This series is effectively a follow-up on my early work [2], which implemented a more precise, but also more complicated, way to identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" into multiple MMs or "mapped exclusively" into a single MM. 1 Patch Organization ==================== Patch #1 -> torvalds#6: make more room in order-1 folios, so we have two "unsigned long" available for our purposes Patch torvalds#7 -> torvalds#11: preparations Patch torvalds#12: MM owner tracking for large folios Patch torvalds#13: COW reuse for PTE-mapped anon THP Patch torvalds#14: folio_maybe_mapped_shared() Patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20: introduce and implement CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 2 MM owner tracking =================== We assign each MM a unique ID ("MM ID"), to be able to squeeze more information in our folios. On 32bit we use 15-bit IDs, on 64bit we use 31-bit IDs. For each large folios, we now store two MM-ID+mapcount ("slot") combinations: * mm0_id + mm0_mapcount * mm1_id + mm1_mapcount On 32bit, we use a 16-bit per-MM mapcount, on 64bit an ordinary 32bit mapcount. This way, we require 2x "unsigned long" on 32bit and 64bit for both slots. Paired with the large mapcount, we can reliably identify whether one of these MMs is the current owner (-> owns all mappings) or even holds all folio references (-> owns all mappings, and all references are from mappings). As long as only two MMs map folio pages at a time, we can reliably and precisely identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" or "mapped exclusively". Any additional MM that starts mapping the folio while there are no free slots becomes an "untracked MM". If one such "untracked MM" is the last one mapping a folio exclusively, we will not detect the folio as "mapped exclusively" but instead as "maybe mapped shared". (exception: only a single mapping remains) So that's where the approach gets imprecise. For now, we use a bit-spinlock to sync the large mapcount + slots, and make sure we do keep the machinery fast, to not degrade (un)map performance drastically: for example, we make sure to only use a single atomic (when grabbing the bit-spinlock), like we would already perform when updating the large mapcount. 3 CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT ========================= patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20 spell out and document what exactly is affected when not maintaining the per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. Most importantly, as we cannot maintain folio->_nr_pages_mapped anymore when (un)mapping pages, we'll account a complete folio as mapped if a single page is mapped. In addition, we'll not detect partially mapped anonymous folios as such in all cases yet. Likely less relevant changes include that we might now under-estimate the USS (Unique Set Size) of a process, but never over-estimate it. The goal is to make CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT the default at some point, to then slowly make it the only option, as we learn about real-life impacts and possible ways to mitigate them. 4 Performance ============= Detailed performance numbers were included in v1 [3], and not that much changed between v1 and v2. I did plenty of measurements on different systems in the meantime, that all revealed slightly different results. The pte-mapped-folio micro-benchmarks [4] are fairly sensitive to code layout changes on some systems. Especially the fork() benchmark started being more-shaky-than-before on recent kernels for some reason. In summary, with my micro-benchmarks: * Small folios are not impacted. * CoW performance seems to be mostly unchanged across all folios sizes. * CoW reuse performance of large folios now matches CoW reuse performance of small folios, because we now actually implement the CoW reuse optimization. On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R I measured a ~65% reduction in runtime, on an arm64 system I measured ~54% reduction. * munmap() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~30% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~70% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * munmao() performance very slightly (couple percent) degrades without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT for smaller folios. For larger folios, there seems to be no change at all. * fork() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~20% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~10% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * While fork() performance without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT seems to be almost unchanged on some systems, I saw some degradation for smaller folios on the AmpereOne A192-32X. I did not investigate the details yet, but I suspect code layout changes or suboptimal code placement / inlining. I'm not to worried about the fork() micro-benchmarks for smaller folios given how shaky the results are lately and by how much we improved fork() performance recently. I also ran case-anon-cow-rand and case-anon-cow-seq part of vm-scalability, to assess the scalability and the impact of the bit-spinlock. My measurements on a two 2-socket 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU revealed no significant changes. Similarly, running these benchmarks with 2 MiB THPs enabled on the AmpereOne A192-32X with 192 cores, I got < 1% difference with < 1% stdev, which is nice. So far, I did not get my hands on a similarly large system with multiple sockets. I found no other fitting scalability benchmarks that seem to really hammer on concurrent mapping/unmapping of large folio pages like case-anon-cow-seq does. 5 Concerns ========== 5.1 Bit spinlock ---------------- I'm not quite happy about the bit-spinlock, but so far it does not seem to affect scalability in my measurements. If it ever becomes a problem we could either investigate improving the locking, or simply stopping the MM tracking once there are "too many mappings" and simply assume that the folio is "mapped shared" until it was freed. This would be similar (but slightly different) to the "0,1,2,stopped" counting idea Willy had at some point. Adding that logic to "stop tracking" adds more code to the hot path, so I avoided that for now. 5.2 folio_maybe_mapped_shared() ------------------------------- I documented the change from folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() quite extensively. If we run into surprises, I have some ideas on how to resolve them. For now, I think we should be fine. 5.3 Added code to map/unmap hot path ------------------------------------ So far, it looks like the added code on the rmap hot path does not really seem to matter much in the bigger picture. I'd like to further reduce it (and possibly improve fork() performance further), but I don't easily see how right now. Well, and I am out of puff 🙂 Having that said, alternatives I considered (e.g., per-MM per-folio mapcount) would add a lot more overhead to these hot paths. 6 Future Work ============= 6.1 Large mapcount ------------------ It would be very handy if the large mapcount would count how often folio pages are actually mapped into page tables: a PMD on x86-64 would count 512 times. Calculating the average per-page mapcount will be easy, and remapping (PMD->PTE) folios would get even faster. That would also remove the need for the entire mapcount (except for PMD-sized folios for memory statistics reasons ...), and allow for mapping folios larger than PMDs (e.g., 4 MiB) easily. We likely would also have to take the same number of folio references to make our folio_mapcount() == folio_ref_count() work, and we'd want to be able to avoid mapcount+refcount overflows: this could already become an issue with pte-mapped PUD-sized folios (fsdax). One approach we discussed in the THP cabal meeting is (1) extending the mapcount for large folios to 64bit (at least on 64bit systems) and (2) keeping the refcount at 32bit, but (3) having exactly one reference if the the mapcount != 0. It should be doable, but there are some corner cases to consider on the unmap path; it is something that I will be looking into next. 6.2 hugetlb ----------- I'd love to make use of the same tracking also for hugetlb. The real problem is PMD table sharing: getting a page mapped by MM X and unmapped by MM Y will not work. With mshare, that problem should not exist (all mapping/unmapping will be routed through the mshare MM). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974223/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a9922f58-8129-4f15-b160-e0ace581bcbe@redhat.com/T/ [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240829165627.2256514-1-david@redhat.com [4] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/pte-mapped-folio-benchmarks.c This patch (of 20): Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. Maybe in the future we'll have the order readily available for small and large folios; in that case, folio_large_order() would simply translate to folio_order(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. 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…ge_order() Patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT", v3. Let's add an "easy" way to decide -- without false positives, without page-mapcounts and without page table/rmap scanning -- whether a large folio is "certainly mapped exclusively" into a single MM, or whether it "maybe mapped shared" into multiple MMs. Use that information to implement Copy-on-Write reuse, to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_share(), and to introduce a kernel config option that lets us not use+maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. The bigger picture was presented at LSF/MM [1]. This series is effectively a follow-up on my early work [2], which implemented a more precise, but also more complicated, way to identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" into multiple MMs or "mapped exclusively" into a single MM. 1 Patch Organization ==================== Patch #1 -> torvalds#6: make more room in order-1 folios, so we have two "unsigned long" available for our purposes Patch torvalds#7 -> torvalds#11: preparations Patch torvalds#12: MM owner tracking for large folios Patch torvalds#13: COW reuse for PTE-mapped anon THP Patch torvalds#14: folio_maybe_mapped_shared() Patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20: introduce and implement CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 2 MM owner tracking =================== We assign each MM a unique ID ("MM ID"), to be able to squeeze more information in our folios. On 32bit we use 15-bit IDs, on 64bit we use 31-bit IDs. For each large folios, we now store two MM-ID+mapcount ("slot") combinations: * mm0_id + mm0_mapcount * mm1_id + mm1_mapcount On 32bit, we use a 16-bit per-MM mapcount, on 64bit an ordinary 32bit mapcount. This way, we require 2x "unsigned long" on 32bit and 64bit for both slots. Paired with the large mapcount, we can reliably identify whether one of these MMs is the current owner (-> owns all mappings) or even holds all folio references (-> owns all mappings, and all references are from mappings). As long as only two MMs map folio pages at a time, we can reliably and precisely identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" or "mapped exclusively". Any additional MM that starts mapping the folio while there are no free slots becomes an "untracked MM". If one such "untracked MM" is the last one mapping a folio exclusively, we will not detect the folio as "mapped exclusively" but instead as "maybe mapped shared". (exception: only a single mapping remains) So that's where the approach gets imprecise. For now, we use a bit-spinlock to sync the large mapcount + slots, and make sure we do keep the machinery fast, to not degrade (un)map performance drastically: for example, we make sure to only use a single atomic (when grabbing the bit-spinlock), like we would already perform when updating the large mapcount. 3 CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT ========================= patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20 spell out and document what exactly is affected when not maintaining the per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. Most importantly, as we cannot maintain folio->_nr_pages_mapped anymore when (un)mapping pages, we'll account a complete folio as mapped if a single page is mapped. In addition, we'll not detect partially mapped anonymous folios as such in all cases yet. Likely less relevant changes include that we might now under-estimate the USS (Unique Set Size) of a process, but never over-estimate it. The goal is to make CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT the default at some point, to then slowly make it the only option, as we learn about real-life impacts and possible ways to mitigate them. 4 Performance ============= Detailed performance numbers were included in v1 [3], and not that much changed between v1 and v2. I did plenty of measurements on different systems in the meantime, that all revealed slightly different results. The pte-mapped-folio micro-benchmarks [4] are fairly sensitive to code layout changes on some systems. Especially the fork() benchmark started being more-shaky-than-before on recent kernels for some reason. In summary, with my micro-benchmarks: * Small folios are not impacted. * CoW performance seems to be mostly unchanged across all folios sizes. * CoW reuse performance of large folios now matches CoW reuse performance of small folios, because we now actually implement the CoW reuse optimization. On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R I measured a ~65% reduction in runtime, on an arm64 system I measured ~54% reduction. * munmap() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~30% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~70% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * munmao() performance very slightly (couple percent) degrades without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT for smaller folios. For larger folios, there seems to be no change at all. * fork() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~20% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~10% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * While fork() performance without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT seems to be almost unchanged on some systems, I saw some degradation for smaller folios on the AmpereOne A192-32X. I did not investigate the details yet, but I suspect code layout changes or suboptimal code placement / inlining. I'm not to worried about the fork() micro-benchmarks for smaller folios given how shaky the results are lately and by how much we improved fork() performance recently. I also ran case-anon-cow-rand and case-anon-cow-seq part of vm-scalability, to assess the scalability and the impact of the bit-spinlock. My measurements on a two 2-socket 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU revealed no significant changes. Similarly, running these benchmarks with 2 MiB THPs enabled on the AmpereOne A192-32X with 192 cores, I got < 1% difference with < 1% stdev, which is nice. So far, I did not get my hands on a similarly large system with multiple sockets. I found no other fitting scalability benchmarks that seem to really hammer on concurrent mapping/unmapping of large folio pages like case-anon-cow-seq does. 5 Concerns ========== 5.1 Bit spinlock ---------------- I'm not quite happy about the bit-spinlock, but so far it does not seem to affect scalability in my measurements. If it ever becomes a problem we could either investigate improving the locking, or simply stopping the MM tracking once there are "too many mappings" and simply assume that the folio is "mapped shared" until it was freed. This would be similar (but slightly different) to the "0,1,2,stopped" counting idea Willy had at some point. Adding that logic to "stop tracking" adds more code to the hot path, so I avoided that for now. 5.2 folio_maybe_mapped_shared() ------------------------------- I documented the change from folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() quite extensively. If we run into surprises, I have some ideas on how to resolve them. For now, I think we should be fine. 5.3 Added code to map/unmap hot path ------------------------------------ So far, it looks like the added code on the rmap hot path does not really seem to matter much in the bigger picture. I'd like to further reduce it (and possibly improve fork() performance further), but I don't easily see how right now. Well, and I am out of puff 🙂 Having that said, alternatives I considered (e.g., per-MM per-folio mapcount) would add a lot more overhead to these hot paths. 6 Future Work ============= 6.1 Large mapcount ------------------ It would be very handy if the large mapcount would count how often folio pages are actually mapped into page tables: a PMD on x86-64 would count 512 times. Calculating the average per-page mapcount will be easy, and remapping (PMD->PTE) folios would get even faster. That would also remove the need for the entire mapcount (except for PMD-sized folios for memory statistics reasons ...), and allow for mapping folios larger than PMDs (e.g., 4 MiB) easily. We likely would also have to take the same number of folio references to make our folio_mapcount() == folio_ref_count() work, and we'd want to be able to avoid mapcount+refcount overflows: this could already become an issue with pte-mapped PUD-sized folios (fsdax). One approach we discussed in the THP cabal meeting is (1) extending the mapcount for large folios to 64bit (at least on 64bit systems) and (2) keeping the refcount at 32bit, but (3) having exactly one reference if the the mapcount != 0. It should be doable, but there are some corner cases to consider on the unmap path; it is something that I will be looking into next. 6.2 hugetlb ----------- I'd love to make use of the same tracking also for hugetlb. The real problem is PMD table sharing: getting a page mapped by MM X and unmapped by MM Y will not work. With mshare, that problem should not exist (all mapping/unmapping will be routed through the mshare MM). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974223/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a9922f58-8129-4f15-b160-e0ace581bcbe@redhat.com/T/ [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240829165627.2256514-1-david@redhat.com [4] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/pte-mapped-folio-benchmarks.c This patch (of 20): Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. Maybe in the future we'll have the order readily available for small and large folios; in that case, folio_large_order() would simply translate to folio_order(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. 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…ge_order() Patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT", v3. Let's add an "easy" way to decide -- without false positives, without page-mapcounts and without page table/rmap scanning -- whether a large folio is "certainly mapped exclusively" into a single MM, or whether it "maybe mapped shared" into multiple MMs. Use that information to implement Copy-on-Write reuse, to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_share(), and to introduce a kernel config option that lets us not use+maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. The bigger picture was presented at LSF/MM [1]. This series is effectively a follow-up on my early work [2], which implemented a more precise, but also more complicated, way to identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" into multiple MMs or "mapped exclusively" into a single MM. 1 Patch Organization ==================== Patch #1 -> torvalds#6: make more room in order-1 folios, so we have two "unsigned long" available for our purposes Patch torvalds#7 -> torvalds#11: preparations Patch torvalds#12: MM owner tracking for large folios Patch torvalds#13: COW reuse for PTE-mapped anon THP Patch torvalds#14: folio_maybe_mapped_shared() Patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20: introduce and implement CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 2 MM owner tracking =================== We assign each MM a unique ID ("MM ID"), to be able to squeeze more information in our folios. On 32bit we use 15-bit IDs, on 64bit we use 31-bit IDs. For each large folios, we now store two MM-ID+mapcount ("slot") combinations: * mm0_id + mm0_mapcount * mm1_id + mm1_mapcount On 32bit, we use a 16-bit per-MM mapcount, on 64bit an ordinary 32bit mapcount. This way, we require 2x "unsigned long" on 32bit and 64bit for both slots. Paired with the large mapcount, we can reliably identify whether one of these MMs is the current owner (-> owns all mappings) or even holds all folio references (-> owns all mappings, and all references are from mappings). As long as only two MMs map folio pages at a time, we can reliably and precisely identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" or "mapped exclusively". Any additional MM that starts mapping the folio while there are no free slots becomes an "untracked MM". If one such "untracked MM" is the last one mapping a folio exclusively, we will not detect the folio as "mapped exclusively" but instead as "maybe mapped shared". (exception: only a single mapping remains) So that's where the approach gets imprecise. For now, we use a bit-spinlock to sync the large mapcount + slots, and make sure we do keep the machinery fast, to not degrade (un)map performance drastically: for example, we make sure to only use a single atomic (when grabbing the bit-spinlock), like we would already perform when updating the large mapcount. 3 CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT ========================= patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20 spell out and document what exactly is affected when not maintaining the per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. Most importantly, as we cannot maintain folio->_nr_pages_mapped anymore when (un)mapping pages, we'll account a complete folio as mapped if a single page is mapped. In addition, we'll not detect partially mapped anonymous folios as such in all cases yet. Likely less relevant changes include that we might now under-estimate the USS (Unique Set Size) of a process, but never over-estimate it. The goal is to make CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT the default at some point, to then slowly make it the only option, as we learn about real-life impacts and possible ways to mitigate them. 4 Performance ============= Detailed performance numbers were included in v1 [3], and not that much changed between v1 and v2. I did plenty of measurements on different systems in the meantime, that all revealed slightly different results. The pte-mapped-folio micro-benchmarks [4] are fairly sensitive to code layout changes on some systems. Especially the fork() benchmark started being more-shaky-than-before on recent kernels for some reason. In summary, with my micro-benchmarks: * Small folios are not impacted. * CoW performance seems to be mostly unchanged across all folios sizes. * CoW reuse performance of large folios now matches CoW reuse performance of small folios, because we now actually implement the CoW reuse optimization. On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R I measured a ~65% reduction in runtime, on an arm64 system I measured ~54% reduction. * munmap() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~30% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~70% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * munmao() performance very slightly (couple percent) degrades without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT for smaller folios. For larger folios, there seems to be no change at all. * fork() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~20% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~10% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * While fork() performance without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT seems to be almost unchanged on some systems, I saw some degradation for smaller folios on the AmpereOne A192-32X. I did not investigate the details yet, but I suspect code layout changes or suboptimal code placement / inlining. I'm not to worried about the fork() micro-benchmarks for smaller folios given how shaky the results are lately and by how much we improved fork() performance recently. I also ran case-anon-cow-rand and case-anon-cow-seq part of vm-scalability, to assess the scalability and the impact of the bit-spinlock. My measurements on a two 2-socket 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU revealed no significant changes. Similarly, running these benchmarks with 2 MiB THPs enabled on the AmpereOne A192-32X with 192 cores, I got < 1% difference with < 1% stdev, which is nice. So far, I did not get my hands on a similarly large system with multiple sockets. I found no other fitting scalability benchmarks that seem to really hammer on concurrent mapping/unmapping of large folio pages like case-anon-cow-seq does. 5 Concerns ========== 5.1 Bit spinlock ---------------- I'm not quite happy about the bit-spinlock, but so far it does not seem to affect scalability in my measurements. If it ever becomes a problem we could either investigate improving the locking, or simply stopping the MM tracking once there are "too many mappings" and simply assume that the folio is "mapped shared" until it was freed. This would be similar (but slightly different) to the "0,1,2,stopped" counting idea Willy had at some point. Adding that logic to "stop tracking" adds more code to the hot path, so I avoided that for now. 5.2 folio_maybe_mapped_shared() ------------------------------- I documented the change from folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() quite extensively. If we run into surprises, I have some ideas on how to resolve them. For now, I think we should be fine. 5.3 Added code to map/unmap hot path ------------------------------------ So far, it looks like the added code on the rmap hot path does not really seem to matter much in the bigger picture. I'd like to further reduce it (and possibly improve fork() performance further), but I don't easily see how right now. Well, and I am out of puff 🙂 Having that said, alternatives I considered (e.g., per-MM per-folio mapcount) would add a lot more overhead to these hot paths. 6 Future Work ============= 6.1 Large mapcount ------------------ It would be very handy if the large mapcount would count how often folio pages are actually mapped into page tables: a PMD on x86-64 would count 512 times. Calculating the average per-page mapcount will be easy, and remapping (PMD->PTE) folios would get even faster. That would also remove the need for the entire mapcount (except for PMD-sized folios for memory statistics reasons ...), and allow for mapping folios larger than PMDs (e.g., 4 MiB) easily. We likely would also have to take the same number of folio references to make our folio_mapcount() == folio_ref_count() work, and we'd want to be able to avoid mapcount+refcount overflows: this could already become an issue with pte-mapped PUD-sized folios (fsdax). One approach we discussed in the THP cabal meeting is (1) extending the mapcount for large folios to 64bit (at least on 64bit systems) and (2) keeping the refcount at 32bit, but (3) having exactly one reference if the the mapcount != 0. It should be doable, but there are some corner cases to consider on the unmap path; it is something that I will be looking into next. 6.2 hugetlb ----------- I'd love to make use of the same tracking also for hugetlb. The real problem is PMD table sharing: getting a page mapped by MM X and unmapped by MM Y will not work. With mshare, that problem should not exist (all mapping/unmapping will be routed through the mshare MM). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974223/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a9922f58-8129-4f15-b160-e0ace581bcbe@redhat.com/T/ [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240829165627.2256514-1-david@redhat.com [4] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/pte-mapped-folio-benchmarks.c This patch (of 20): Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. Maybe in the future we'll have the order readily available for small and large folios; in that case, folio_large_order() would simply translate to folio_order(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. 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…ge_order() Patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT", v3. Let's add an "easy" way to decide -- without false positives, without page-mapcounts and without page table/rmap scanning -- whether a large folio is "certainly mapped exclusively" into a single MM, or whether it "maybe mapped shared" into multiple MMs. Use that information to implement Copy-on-Write reuse, to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_share(), and to introduce a kernel config option that lets us not use+maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. The bigger picture was presented at LSF/MM [1]. This series is effectively a follow-up on my early work [2], which implemented a more precise, but also more complicated, way to identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" into multiple MMs or "mapped exclusively" into a single MM. 1 Patch Organization ==================== Patch #1 -> torvalds#6: make more room in order-1 folios, so we have two "unsigned long" available for our purposes Patch torvalds#7 -> torvalds#11: preparations Patch torvalds#12: MM owner tracking for large folios Patch torvalds#13: COW reuse for PTE-mapped anon THP Patch torvalds#14: folio_maybe_mapped_shared() Patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20: introduce and implement CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 2 MM owner tracking =================== We assign each MM a unique ID ("MM ID"), to be able to squeeze more information in our folios. On 32bit we use 15-bit IDs, on 64bit we use 31-bit IDs. For each large folios, we now store two MM-ID+mapcount ("slot") combinations: * mm0_id + mm0_mapcount * mm1_id + mm1_mapcount On 32bit, we use a 16-bit per-MM mapcount, on 64bit an ordinary 32bit mapcount. This way, we require 2x "unsigned long" on 32bit and 64bit for both slots. Paired with the large mapcount, we can reliably identify whether one of these MMs is the current owner (-> owns all mappings) or even holds all folio references (-> owns all mappings, and all references are from mappings). As long as only two MMs map folio pages at a time, we can reliably and precisely identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" or "mapped exclusively". Any additional MM that starts mapping the folio while there are no free slots becomes an "untracked MM". If one such "untracked MM" is the last one mapping a folio exclusively, we will not detect the folio as "mapped exclusively" but instead as "maybe mapped shared". (exception: only a single mapping remains) So that's where the approach gets imprecise. For now, we use a bit-spinlock to sync the large mapcount + slots, and make sure we do keep the machinery fast, to not degrade (un)map performance drastically: for example, we make sure to only use a single atomic (when grabbing the bit-spinlock), like we would already perform when updating the large mapcount. 3 CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT ========================= patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20 spell out and document what exactly is affected when not maintaining the per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. Most importantly, as we cannot maintain folio->_nr_pages_mapped anymore when (un)mapping pages, we'll account a complete folio as mapped if a single page is mapped. In addition, we'll not detect partially mapped anonymous folios as such in all cases yet. Likely less relevant changes include that we might now under-estimate the USS (Unique Set Size) of a process, but never over-estimate it. The goal is to make CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT the default at some point, to then slowly make it the only option, as we learn about real-life impacts and possible ways to mitigate them. 4 Performance ============= Detailed performance numbers were included in v1 [3], and not that much changed between v1 and v2. I did plenty of measurements on different systems in the meantime, that all revealed slightly different results. The pte-mapped-folio micro-benchmarks [4] are fairly sensitive to code layout changes on some systems. Especially the fork() benchmark started being more-shaky-than-before on recent kernels for some reason. In summary, with my micro-benchmarks: * Small folios are not impacted. * CoW performance seems to be mostly unchanged across all folios sizes. * CoW reuse performance of large folios now matches CoW reuse performance of small folios, because we now actually implement the CoW reuse optimization. On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R I measured a ~65% reduction in runtime, on an arm64 system I measured ~54% reduction. * munmap() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~30% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~70% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * munmao() performance very slightly (couple percent) degrades without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT for smaller folios. For larger folios, there seems to be no change at all. * fork() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~20% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~10% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * While fork() performance without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT seems to be almost unchanged on some systems, I saw some degradation for smaller folios on the AmpereOne A192-32X. I did not investigate the details yet, but I suspect code layout changes or suboptimal code placement / inlining. I'm not to worried about the fork() micro-benchmarks for smaller folios given how shaky the results are lately and by how much we improved fork() performance recently. I also ran case-anon-cow-rand and case-anon-cow-seq part of vm-scalability, to assess the scalability and the impact of the bit-spinlock. My measurements on a two 2-socket 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU revealed no significant changes. Similarly, running these benchmarks with 2 MiB THPs enabled on the AmpereOne A192-32X with 192 cores, I got < 1% difference with < 1% stdev, which is nice. So far, I did not get my hands on a similarly large system with multiple sockets. I found no other fitting scalability benchmarks that seem to really hammer on concurrent mapping/unmapping of large folio pages like case-anon-cow-seq does. 5 Concerns ========== 5.1 Bit spinlock ---------------- I'm not quite happy about the bit-spinlock, but so far it does not seem to affect scalability in my measurements. If it ever becomes a problem we could either investigate improving the locking, or simply stopping the MM tracking once there are "too many mappings" and simply assume that the folio is "mapped shared" until it was freed. This would be similar (but slightly different) to the "0,1,2,stopped" counting idea Willy had at some point. Adding that logic to "stop tracking" adds more code to the hot path, so I avoided that for now. 5.2 folio_maybe_mapped_shared() ------------------------------- I documented the change from folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() quite extensively. If we run into surprises, I have some ideas on how to resolve them. For now, I think we should be fine. 5.3 Added code to map/unmap hot path ------------------------------------ So far, it looks like the added code on the rmap hot path does not really seem to matter much in the bigger picture. I'd like to further reduce it (and possibly improve fork() performance further), but I don't easily see how right now. Well, and I am out of puff 🙂 Having that said, alternatives I considered (e.g., per-MM per-folio mapcount) would add a lot more overhead to these hot paths. 6 Future Work ============= 6.1 Large mapcount ------------------ It would be very handy if the large mapcount would count how often folio pages are actually mapped into page tables: a PMD on x86-64 would count 512 times. Calculating the average per-page mapcount will be easy, and remapping (PMD->PTE) folios would get even faster. That would also remove the need for the entire mapcount (except for PMD-sized folios for memory statistics reasons ...), and allow for mapping folios larger than PMDs (e.g., 4 MiB) easily. We likely would also have to take the same number of folio references to make our folio_mapcount() == folio_ref_count() work, and we'd want to be able to avoid mapcount+refcount overflows: this could already become an issue with pte-mapped PUD-sized folios (fsdax). One approach we discussed in the THP cabal meeting is (1) extending the mapcount for large folios to 64bit (at least on 64bit systems) and (2) keeping the refcount at 32bit, but (3) having exactly one reference if the the mapcount != 0. It should be doable, but there are some corner cases to consider on the unmap path; it is something that I will be looking into next. 6.2 hugetlb ----------- I'd love to make use of the same tracking also for hugetlb. The real problem is PMD table sharing: getting a page mapped by MM X and unmapped by MM Y will not work. With mshare, that problem should not exist (all mapping/unmapping will be routed through the mshare MM). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974223/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a9922f58-8129-4f15-b160-e0ace581bcbe@redhat.com/T/ [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240829165627.2256514-1-david@redhat.com [4] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/pte-mapped-folio-benchmarks.c This patch (of 20): Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. Maybe in the future we'll have the order readily available for small and large folios; in that case, folio_large_order() would simply translate to folio_order(). 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…ge_order() Patch series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT", v3. Let's add an "easy" way to decide -- without false positives, without page-mapcounts and without page table/rmap scanning -- whether a large folio is "certainly mapped exclusively" into a single MM, or whether it "maybe mapped shared" into multiple MMs. Use that information to implement Copy-on-Write reuse, to convert folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_share(), and to introduce a kernel config option that lets us not use+maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. The bigger picture was presented at LSF/MM [1]. This series is effectively a follow-up on my early work [2], which implemented a more precise, but also more complicated, way to identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" into multiple MMs or "mapped exclusively" into a single MM. 1 Patch Organization ==================== Patch #1 -> torvalds#6: make more room in order-1 folios, so we have two "unsigned long" available for our purposes Patch torvalds#7 -> torvalds#11: preparations Patch torvalds#12: MM owner tracking for large folios Patch torvalds#13: COW reuse for PTE-mapped anon THP Patch torvalds#14: folio_maybe_mapped_shared() Patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20: introduce and implement CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT 2 MM owner tracking =================== We assign each MM a unique ID ("MM ID"), to be able to squeeze more information in our folios. On 32bit we use 15-bit IDs, on 64bit we use 31-bit IDs. For each large folios, we now store two MM-ID+mapcount ("slot") combinations: * mm0_id + mm0_mapcount * mm1_id + mm1_mapcount On 32bit, we use a 16-bit per-MM mapcount, on 64bit an ordinary 32bit mapcount. This way, we require 2x "unsigned long" on 32bit and 64bit for both slots. Paired with the large mapcount, we can reliably identify whether one of these MMs is the current owner (-> owns all mappings) or even holds all folio references (-> owns all mappings, and all references are from mappings). As long as only two MMs map folio pages at a time, we can reliably and precisely identify whether a large folio is "mapped shared" or "mapped exclusively". Any additional MM that starts mapping the folio while there are no free slots becomes an "untracked MM". If one such "untracked MM" is the last one mapping a folio exclusively, we will not detect the folio as "mapped exclusively" but instead as "maybe mapped shared". (exception: only a single mapping remains) So that's where the approach gets imprecise. For now, we use a bit-spinlock to sync the large mapcount + slots, and make sure we do keep the machinery fast, to not degrade (un)map performance drastically: for example, we make sure to only use a single atomic (when grabbing the bit-spinlock), like we would already perform when updating the large mapcount. 3 CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT ========================= patch torvalds#15 -> torvalds#20 spell out and document what exactly is affected when not maintaining the per-page mapcounts in large folios anymore. Most importantly, as we cannot maintain folio->_nr_pages_mapped anymore when (un)mapping pages, we'll account a complete folio as mapped if a single page is mapped. In addition, we'll not detect partially mapped anonymous folios as such in all cases yet. Likely less relevant changes include that we might now under-estimate the USS (Unique Set Size) of a process, but never over-estimate it. The goal is to make CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT the default at some point, to then slowly make it the only option, as we learn about real-life impacts and possible ways to mitigate them. 4 Performance ============= Detailed performance numbers were included in v1 [3], and not that much changed between v1 and v2. I did plenty of measurements on different systems in the meantime, that all revealed slightly different results. The pte-mapped-folio micro-benchmarks [4] are fairly sensitive to code layout changes on some systems. Especially the fork() benchmark started being more-shaky-than-before on recent kernels for some reason. In summary, with my micro-benchmarks: * Small folios are not impacted. * CoW performance seems to be mostly unchanged across all folios sizes. * CoW reuse performance of large folios now matches CoW reuse performance of small folios, because we now actually implement the CoW reuse optimization. On an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R I measured a ~65% reduction in runtime, on an arm64 system I measured ~54% reduction. * munmap() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~30% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~70% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * munmao() performance very slightly (couple percent) degrades without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT for smaller folios. For larger folios, there seems to be no change at all. * fork() performance improves with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. I saw double-digit % reduction (up to ~20% on an Intel Xeon Silver 4210R and up to ~10% on an AmpereOne A192-32X) with larger folios. The larger the folios, the larger the performance improvement. * While fork() performance without CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT seems to be almost unchanged on some systems, I saw some degradation for smaller folios on the AmpereOne A192-32X. I did not investigate the details yet, but I suspect code layout changes or suboptimal code placement / inlining. I'm not to worried about the fork() micro-benchmarks for smaller folios given how shaky the results are lately and by how much we improved fork() performance recently. I also ran case-anon-cow-rand and case-anon-cow-seq part of vm-scalability, to assess the scalability and the impact of the bit-spinlock. My measurements on a two 2-socket 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4210R CPU revealed no significant changes. Similarly, running these benchmarks with 2 MiB THPs enabled on the AmpereOne A192-32X with 192 cores, I got < 1% difference with < 1% stdev, which is nice. So far, I did not get my hands on a similarly large system with multiple sockets. I found no other fitting scalability benchmarks that seem to really hammer on concurrent mapping/unmapping of large folio pages like case-anon-cow-seq does. 5 Concerns ========== 5.1 Bit spinlock ---------------- I'm not quite happy about the bit-spinlock, but so far it does not seem to affect scalability in my measurements. If it ever becomes a problem we could either investigate improving the locking, or simply stopping the MM tracking once there are "too many mappings" and simply assume that the folio is "mapped shared" until it was freed. This would be similar (but slightly different) to the "0,1,2,stopped" counting idea Willy had at some point. Adding that logic to "stop tracking" adds more code to the hot path, so I avoided that for now. 5.2 folio_maybe_mapped_shared() ------------------------------- I documented the change from folio_likely_mapped_shared() to folio_maybe_mapped_shared() quite extensively. If we run into surprises, I have some ideas on how to resolve them. For now, I think we should be fine. 5.3 Added code to map/unmap hot path ------------------------------------ So far, it looks like the added code on the rmap hot path does not really seem to matter much in the bigger picture. I'd like to further reduce it (and possibly improve fork() performance further), but I don't easily see how right now. Well, and I am out of puff 🙂 Having that said, alternatives I considered (e.g., per-MM per-folio mapcount) would add a lot more overhead to these hot paths. 6 Future Work ============= 6.1 Large mapcount ------------------ It would be very handy if the large mapcount would count how often folio pages are actually mapped into page tables: a PMD on x86-64 would count 512 times. Calculating the average per-page mapcount will be easy, and remapping (PMD->PTE) folios would get even faster. That would also remove the need for the entire mapcount (except for PMD-sized folios for memory statistics reasons ...), and allow for mapping folios larger than PMDs (e.g., 4 MiB) easily. We likely would also have to take the same number of folio references to make our folio_mapcount() == folio_ref_count() work, and we'd want to be able to avoid mapcount+refcount overflows: this could already become an issue with pte-mapped PUD-sized folios (fsdax). One approach we discussed in the THP cabal meeting is (1) extending the mapcount for large folios to 64bit (at least on 64bit systems) and (2) keeping the refcount at 32bit, but (3) having exactly one reference if the the mapcount != 0. It should be doable, but there are some corner cases to consider on the unmap path; it is something that I will be looking into next. 6.2 hugetlb ----------- I'd love to make use of the same tracking also for hugetlb. The real problem is PMD table sharing: getting a page mapped by MM X and unmapped by MM Y will not work. With mshare, that problem should not exist (all mapping/unmapping will be routed through the mshare MM). [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/974223/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a9922f58-8129-4f15-b160-e0ace581bcbe@redhat.com/T/ [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240829165627.2256514-1-david@redhat.com [4] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/pte-mapped-folio-benchmarks.c This patch (of 20): Let's factor it out into a simple helper function. This helper will also come in handy when working with code where we know that our folio is large. Maybe in the future we'll have the order readily available for small and large folios; in that case, folio_large_order() would simply translate to folio_order(). 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Petr Machata says: ==================== selftests: Mark auto-deferring functions clearly selftests/net/lib.sh contains a suite of iproute2 wrappers that automatically schedule the corresponding cleanup through defer. The fact they do so is however not immediately obvious, one needs to know which functions are handling the deferral behind the scenes, and which expect the caller to handle cleanups themselves. A convention for these auto-deferring functions would help both writing and patch review. This patchset does so by marking these functions with an adf_ prefix. We already have a few such functions: forwarding/lib.sh has adf_mcd_start() and a few selftests add private helpers that conform to this convention. Patches #1 to torvalds#8 gradually convert individual functions, one per patch. Patch torvalds#9 renames an auto-deferring private helpers named dfr_* to adf_*. The plan is not to retro-rename all private helpers, but I happened to know about this one. Patches torvalds#10 to torvalds#12 introduce several autodefer helpers for commonly used forwarding/lib.sh functions, and opportunistically convert straightforward instances of 'action; defer counteraction' to the new helpers. Patch torvalds#13 adds some README verbiage to pitch defer and the adf_* convention. ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cover.1758821127.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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The test starts a workload and then opens events. If the events fail to open, for example because of perf_event_paranoid, the gopipe of the workload is leaked and the file descriptor leak check fails when the test exits. To avoid this cancel the workload when opening the events fails. Before: ``` $ perf test -vv 7 7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields: --- start --- test child forked, pid 1189568 Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-B7-1 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 exclude_kernel 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 3 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) config 0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/) disabled 1 exclude_kernel 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 0 cpu -1 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 3 Attempt to add: software/cpu-clock/ ..after resolving event: software/config=0/ cpu-clock -> software/cpu-clock/ ------------------------------------------------------------ perf_event_attr: type 1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE) size 136 config 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY) sample_type IP|TID|TIME|CPU read_format ID|LOST disabled 1 inherit 1 mmap 1 comm 1 enable_on_exec 1 task 1 sample_id_all 1 mmap2 1 comm_exec 1 ksymbol 1 bpf_event 1 { wakeup_events, wakeup_watermark } 1 ------------------------------------------------------------ sys_perf_event_open: pid 1189569 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13 perf_evlist__open: Permission denied ---- end(-2) ---- Leak of file descriptor 6 that opened: 'pipe:[14200347]' ---- unexpected signal (6) ---- iFailed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon Failed to read build ID for //anon #0 0x565358f6666e in child_test_sig_handler builtin-test.c:311 #1 0x7f29ce849df0 in __restore_rt libc_sigaction.c:0 #2 0x7f29ce89e95c in __pthread_kill_implementation pthread_kill.c:44 #3 0x7f29ce849cc2 in raise raise.c:27 #4 0x7f29ce8324ac in abort abort.c:81 #5 0x565358f662d4 in check_leaks builtin-test.c:226 torvalds#6 0x565358f6682e in run_test_child builtin-test.c:344 torvalds#7 0x565358ef7121 in start_command run-command.c:128 torvalds#8 0x565358f67273 in start_test builtin-test.c:545 torvalds#9 0x565358f6771d in __cmd_test builtin-test.c:647 torvalds#10 0x565358f682bd in cmd_test builtin-test.c:849 torvalds#11 0x565358ee5ded in run_builtin perf.c:349 torvalds#12 0x565358ee6085 in handle_internal_command perf.c:401 torvalds#13 0x565358ee61de in run_argv perf.c:448 torvalds#14 0x565358ee6527 in main perf.c:555 torvalds#15 0x7f29ce833ca8 in __libc_start_call_main libc_start_call_main.h:74 torvalds#16 0x7f29ce833d65 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 libc-start.c:128 torvalds#17 0x565358e391c1 in _start perf[851c1] 7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : FAILED! 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DEPT(Dependency Tracker) reported a deadlock: =================================================== DEPT: Circular dependency has been detected. 6.15.11-00046-g2c223fa7bd9a-dirty torvalds#13 Not tainted --------------------------------------------------- summary --------------------------------------------------- *** DEADLOCK *** context A [S] (unknown)(pg_locked_map:0) [W] dept_page_wait_on_bit(pg_writeback_map:0) [E] dept_page_clear_bit(pg_locked_map:0) context B [S] (unknown)(pg_writeback_map:0) [W] dept_page_wait_on_bit(pg_locked_map:0) [E] dept_page_clear_bit(pg_writeback_map:0) [S]: start of the event context [W]: the wait blocked [E]: the event not reachable --------------------------------------------------- context A's detail --------------------------------------------------- context A [S] (unknown)(pg_locked_map:0) [W] dept_page_wait_on_bit(pg_writeback_map:0) [E] dept_page_clear_bit(pg_locked_map:0) [S] (unknown)(pg_locked_map:0): (N/A) [W] dept_page_wait_on_bit(pg_writeback_map:0): [<ffff800080589c94>] folio_wait_bit+0x2c/0x38 stacktrace: folio_wait_bit_common+0x824/0x8b8 folio_wait_bit+0x2c/0x38 folio_wait_writeback+0x5c/0xa4 migrate_pages_batch+0x5e4/0x1788 migrate_pages+0x15c4/0x1840 compact_zone+0x9c8/0x1d20 compact_node+0xd4/0x27c sysctl_compaction_handler+0x104/0x194 proc_sys_call_handler+0x25c/0x3f8 proc_sys_write+0x20/0x2c do_iter_readv_writev+0x350/0x448 vfs_writev+0x1ac/0x44c do_pwritev+0x100/0x15c __arm64_sys_pwritev2+0x6c/0xcc invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x64/0x18c el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x80/0x198 [E] dept_page_clear_bit(pg_locked_map:0): [<ffff800080700914>] migrate_folio_undo_src+0x1b4/0x200 stacktrace: migrate_folio_undo_src+0x1b4/0x200 migrate_pages_batch+0x1578/0x1788 migrate_pages+0x15c4/0x1840 compact_zone+0x9c8/0x1d20 compact_node+0xd4/0x27c sysctl_compaction_handler+0x104/0x194 proc_sys_call_handler+0x25c/0x3f8 proc_sys_write+0x20/0x2c do_iter_readv_writev+0x350/0x448 vfs_writev+0x1ac/0x44c do_pwritev+0x100/0x15c __arm64_sys_pwritev2+0x6c/0xcc invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x64/0x18c el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x80/0x198 do_el0_svc+0x28/0x3c el0_svc+0x50/0x220 --------------------------------------------------- context B's detail --------------------------------------------------- context B [S] (unknown)(pg_writeback_map:0) [W] dept_page_wait_on_bit(pg_locked_map:0) [E] dept_page_clear_bit(pg_writeback_map:0) [S] (unknown)(pg_writeback_map:0): (N/A) [W] dept_page_wait_on_bit(pg_locked_map:0): [<ffff80008081e478>] bdev_getblk+0x58/0x120 stacktrace: find_get_block_common+0x224/0xbc4 bdev_getblk+0x58/0x120 __ext4_get_inode_loc+0x194/0x98c ext4_get_inode_loc+0x4c/0xcc ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x74/0x158 __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xd4/0x4e0 __ext4_ext_dirty+0x118/0x164 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1578/0x2ca8 ext4_map_blocks+0x2a4/0xa60 ext4_convert_unwritten_extents+0x1b0/0x3c0 ext4_convert_unwritten_io_end_vec+0x90/0x1a0 ext4_end_io_end+0x58/0x194 ext4_end_io_rsv_work+0xc4/0x150 process_one_work+0x3b4/0xac0 worker_thread+0x2b0/0x53c kthread+0x1a0/0x33c [E] dept_page_clear_bit(pg_writeback_map:0): [<ffff8000809dfc5c>] ext4_finish_bio+0x638/0x820 stacktrace: folio_end_writeback+0x140/0x488 ext4_finish_bio+0x638/0x820 ext4_release_io_end+0x74/0x188 ext4_end_io_end+0xa0/0x194 ext4_end_io_rsv_work+0xc4/0x150 process_one_work+0x3b4/0xac0 worker_thread+0x2b0/0x53c kthread+0x1a0/0x33c ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 To simplify the scenario: context X (wq worker) context Y (process context) migrate_pages_batch() ext4_end_io_end() ... ... migrate_folio_unmap() ext4_get_inode_loc() ... ... folio_lock() // hold the folio lock bdev_getblk() ... ... folio_wait_writeback() // wait forever __find_get_block_slow() ... ... folio_lock() // wait forever folio_unlock() migrate_folio_undo_src() ... ... folio_unlock() // never reachable ext4_finish_bio() ... folio_end_writeback() // never reachable context X is waiting for the folio lock to be released by context Y, while context Y is waiting for the writeback to end in context X. Ultimately, two contexts are waiting for the event that will never happen, say, deadlock. *Only one* of the following two conditions should be allowed, or we cannot avoid this kind of deadlock: 1. while holding a folio lock (and heading for folio_unlock()), waiting for a writeback to end, 2. while heading for the writeback end, waiting for the folio lock to be released, Since allowing 2 and avoiding 1 sound more sensible than the other, remove the first condition by making sure folio_unlock() before folio_wait_writeback() in migrate_folio_unmap(). Fixes: 49d2e9c ("[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: migrate_pages() function") Reported-by: Yunseong Kim <ysk@kzalloc.com> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Tested-by: Yunseong Kim <ysk@kzalloc.com>
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