lwn.git/include/linux/highmem.h, branch docs-5.17-3

mm: Add functions to zero portions of a folio

2021-11-18T20:05:56+00:00

These functions are wrappers around zero_user_segments(), which means that zero_user_segments() can now be called for compound pages even when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is disabled. Use 'xend' as the name of the parameter to indicate that this is an excluded end, not the more usual included end. Excluding the end makes more sense to the callers, but can cause confusion to readers who are more used to seeing included ends. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong

Add linux/cacheflush.h

2021-11-17T15:36:15+00:00

Many architectures do not include asm-generic/cacheflush.h, so turn the includes on their head and add linux/cacheflush.h which includes asm/cacheflush.h. Move the flush_dcache_folio() declaration from asm-generic/cacheflush.h to linux/cacheflush.h and change linux/highmem.h to include linux/cacheflush.h instead of asm/cacheflush.h so that all necessary places will see flush_dcache_folio(). More functions should have their default implementations moved in the future, but those are for follow-on patches. This fixes csky, sparc and sparc64 which were missed in the commit which added flush_dcache_folio(). Fixes: 08b0b0059bf1 ("mm: Add flush_dcache_folio()") Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-11-06T21:08:17+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "257 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools, memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm, vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram, cleanups, kfence, and damon)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (257 commits) mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM) selftests/damon: support watermarks mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes ...

mm/highmem: remove deprecated kmap_atomic

2021-11-06T20:30:43+00:00

kmap_atomic() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page(). Replace the uses of kmap_atomic() within the highmem code. On profiling clear_huge_page() using ftrace an improvement of 62% was observed on the below setup. Setup:- Below data has been collected on Qualcomm's SM7250 SoC THP enabled (kernel v4.19.113) with only CPU-0(Cortex-A55) and CPU-7(Cortex-A76) switched on and set to max frequency, also DDR set to perf governor. FTRACE Data:- Base data:- Number of iterations: 48 Mean of allocation time: 349.5 us std deviation: 74.5 us v4 data:- Number of iterations: 48 Mean of allocation time: 131 us std deviation: 32.7 us The following simple userspace experiment to allocate 100MB(BUF_SZ) of pages and writing to it gave us a good insight, we observed an improvement of 42% in allocation and writing timings. ------------------------------------------------------------- Test code snippet ------------------------------------------------------------- clock_start(); buf = malloc(BUF_SZ); /* Allocate 100 MB of memory */ for(i=0; i < BUF_SZ_PAGES; i++) { *((int *)(buf + (i*PAGE_SIZE))) = 1; } clock_end(); ------------------------------------------------------------- Malloc test timings for 100MB anon allocation:- Base data:- Number of iterations: 100 Mean of allocation time: 31831 us std deviation: 4286 us v4 data:- Number of iterations: 100 Mean of allocation time: 18193 us std deviation: 4915 us [willy@infradead.org: fix zero_user_segments()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YYVhHCJcm2DM2G9u@casper.infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210204073255.20769-2-prathu.baronia@oneplus.com Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny Signed-off-by: Prathu Baronia Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Add kmap_local_folio()

2021-10-18T11:49:38+00:00

This allows us to map a portion of a folio. Callers can only expect to access up to the next page boundary. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka

mm: remove flush_kernel_dcache_page

2021-09-03T16:58:13+00:00

flush_kernel_dcache_page is a rather confusing interface that implements a subset of flush_dcache_page by not being able to properly handle page cache mapped pages. The only callers left are in the exec code as all other previous callers were incorrect as they could have dealt with page cache pages. Replace the calls to flush_kernel_dcache_page with calls to flush_dcache_page, which for all architectures does either exactly the same thing, can contains one or more of the following: 1) an optimization to defer the cache flush for page cache pages not mapped into userspace 2) additional flushing for mapped page cache pages if cache aliases are possible Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210712060928.4161649-7-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Nick Hu Cc: Paul Cercueil Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Ulf Hansson Cc: Vincent Chen Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use kmap_local_page in memzero_page

2021-07-24T00:43:28+00:00

The commit message introducing the global memzero_page explicitly mentions switching to kmap_local_page in the commit log but doesn't actually do that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713055231.137602-3-hch@lst.de Fixes: 28961998f858 ("iov_iter: lift memzero_page() to highmem.h") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: call flush_dcache_page() in memcpy_to_page() and memzero_page()

2021-07-24T00:43:28+00:00

memcpy_to_page and memzero_page can write to arbitrary pages, which could be in the page cache or in high memory, so call flush_kernel_dcache_pages to flush the dcache. This is a problem when using these helpers on dcache challeneged architectures. Right now there are just a few users, chances are no one used the PC floppy driver, the aha1542 driver for an ISA SCSI HBA, and a few advanced and optional btrfs and ext4 features on those platforms yet since the conversion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713055231.137602-2-hch@lst.de Fixes: bb90d4bc7b6a ("mm/highmem: Lift memcpy_[to|from]_page to core") Fixes: 28961998f858 ("iov_iter: lift memzero_page() to highmem.h") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arm64: mte: handle tags zeroing at page allocation time

2021-06-04T18:32:21+00:00

Currently, on an anonymous page fault, the kernel allocates a zeroed page and maps it in user space. If the mapping is tagged (PROT_MTE), set_pte_at() additionally clears the tags. It is, however, more efficient to clear the tags at the same time as zeroing the data on allocation. To avoid clearing the tags on any page (which may not be mapped as tagged), only do this if the vma flags contain VM_MTE. This requires introducing a new GFP flag that is used to determine whether to clear the tags. The DC GZVA instruction with a 0 top byte (and 0 tag) requires top-byte-ignore. Set the TCR_EL1.{TBI1,TBID1} bits irrespective of whether KASAN_HW is enabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Id46dc94e30fe11474f7e54f5d65e7658dbdddb26 Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602235230.3928842-4-pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

mm: arch: remove indirection level in alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable()

2021-06-04T18:32:21+00:00

In an upcoming change we would like to add a flag to GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE so that it would no longer be an OR of GFP_HIGHUSER and __GFP_MOVABLE. This poses a problem for alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable() which passes __GFP_MOVABLE into an arch-specific __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() hook which ORs in GFP_HIGHUSER. Since __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is only ever called from alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(), we can remove one level of indirection here. Remove __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage(), make alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable() the hook, and use GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE in the hook implementations so that they will pick up the new flag that we are going to add. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ic6361c657b2cdcd896adbe0cf7cb5a7fbb1ed7bf Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602235230.3928842-2-pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon