lwn.git/mm/Makefile, branch standardize-docs

percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs

2017-06-20T19:31:38+00:00

There is limited visibility into the use of percpu memory leaving us unable to reason about correctness of parameters and overall use of percpu memory. These counters and statistics aim to help understand basic statistics about percpu memory such as number of allocations over the lifetime, allocation sizes, and fragmentation. New Config: PERCPU_STATS Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA

2017-02-28T02:43:48+00:00

This patch makes arch-independent testcases for RODATA. Both x86 and x86_64 already have testcases for RODATA, But they are arch-specific because using inline assembly directly. And cacheflush.h is not a suitable location for rodata-test related things. Since they were in cacheflush.h, If someone change the state of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST, It cause overhead of kernel build. To solve the above issues, write arch-independent testcases and move it to shared location. [jinb.park7@gmail.com: fix config dependency] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170209131625.GA16954@pjb1027-Latitude-E5410 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170129105436.GA9303@pjb1027-Latitude-E5410 Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Russell King Cc: Valentin Rothberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce page_vma_mapped_walk()

2017-02-25T01:46:55+00:00

Introduce a new interface to check if a page is mapped into a vma. It aims to address shortcomings of page_check_address{,_transhuge}. Existing interface is not able to handle PTE-mapped THPs: it only finds the first PTE. The rest lefted unnoticed. page_vma_mapped_walk() iterates over all possible mapping of the page in the vma. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170129173858.45174-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/swap: add cache for swap slots allocation

2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00

We add per cpu caches for swap slots that can be allocated and freed quickly without the need to touch the swap info lock. Two separate caches are maintained for swap slots allocated and swap slots returned. This is to allow the swap slots to be returned to the global pool in a batch so they will have a chance to be coaelesced with other slots in a cluster. We do not reuse the slots that are returned right away, as it may increase fragmentation of the slots. The swap allocation cache is protected by a mutex as we may sleep when searching for empty slots in cache. The swap free cache is protected by a spin lock as we cannot sleep in the free path. We refill the swap slots cache when we run out of slots, and we disable the swap slots cache and drain the slots if the global number of slots fall below a low watermark threshold. We re-enable the cache agian when the slots available are above a high watermark. [ying.huang@intel.com: use raw_cpu_ptr over this_cpu_ptr for swap slots access] [tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com: add comments on locks in swap_slots.h] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118180327.GA24225@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/35de301a4eaa8daa2977de6e987f2c154385eb66.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tim Chen Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Aaron Lu Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet escreveu: Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Disable the __builtin_return_address() warning globally after all

2016-10-12T17:23:41+00:00

This affectively reverts commit 377ccbb48373 ("Makefile: Mute warning for __builtin_return_address(>0) for tracing only") because it turns out that it really isn't tracing only - it's all over the tree. We already also had the warning disabled separately for mm/usercopy.c (which this commit also removes), and it turns out that we will also want to disable it for get_lock_parent_ip(), that is used for at least TRACE_IRQFLAGS. Which (when enabled) ends up being all over the tree. Steven Rostedt had a patch that tried to limit it to just the config options that actually triggered this, but quite frankly, the extra complexity and abstraction just isn't worth it. We have never actually had a case where the warning is actually useful, so let's just disable it globally and not worry about it. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-08-08T21:48:14+00:00

Pull usercopy protection from Kees Cook: "Tbhis implements HARDENED_USERCOPY verification of copy_to_user and copy_from_user bounds checking for most architectures on SLAB and SLUB" * tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support mm: SLAB hardened usercopy support s390/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy sparc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy powerpc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy ia64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy arm64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy ARM: uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy mm: Hardened usercopy mm: Implement stack frame object validation mm: Add is_migrate_cma_page

thp: extract khugepaged from mm/huge_memory.c

2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00

khugepaged implementation grew to the point when it deserve separate file in source. Let's move it to mm/khugepaged.c. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-32-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Hardened usercopy

2016-07-26T21:41:47+00:00

This is the start of porting PAX_USERCOPY into the mainline kernel. This is the first set of features, controlled by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. The work is based on code by PaX Team and Brad Spengler, and an earlier port from Casey Schaufler. Additional non-slab page tests are from Rik van Riel. This patch contains the logic for validating several conditions when performing copy_to_user() and copy_from_user() on the kernel object being copied to/from: - address range doesn't wrap around - address range isn't NULL or zero-allocated (with a non-zero copy size) - if on the slab allocator: - object size must be less than or equal to copy size (when check is implemented in the allocator, which appear in subsequent patches) - otherwise, object must not span page allocations (excepting Reserved and CMA ranges) - if on the stack - object must not extend before/after the current process stack - object must be contained by a valid stack frame (when there is arch/build support for identifying stack frames) - object must not overlap with kernel text Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks Tested-by: Michael Ellerman

z3fold: the 3-fold allocator for compressed pages

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

This patch introduces z3fold, a special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical page. It is a ZBUD derivative which allows for higher compression ratio keeping the simplicity and determinism of its predecessor. This patch comes as a follow-up to the discussions at the Embedded Linux Conference in San-Diego related to the talk [1]. The outcome of these discussions was that it would be good to have a compressed page allocator as stable and deterministic as zbud with with higher compression ratio. To keep the determinism and simplicity, z3fold, just like zbud, always stores an integral number of compressed pages per page, but it can store up to 3 pages unlike zbud which can store at most 2. Therefore the compression ratio goes to around 2.6x while zbud's one is around 1.7x. The patch is based on the latest linux.git tree. This version has been updated after testing on various simulators (e.g. ARM Versatile Express, MIPS Malta, x86_64/Haswell) and basing on comments from Dan Streetman [3]. [1] https://openiotelc2016.sched.org/event/6DAC/swapping-and-embedded-compression-relieves-the-pressure-vitaly-wool-softprise-consulting-ou [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/21/799 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/4/852 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160509151753.ec3f9fda3c9898d31ff52a32@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, kasan: SLAB support

2016-03-25T23:37:42+00:00

Add KASAN hooks to SLAB allocator. This patch is based on the "mm: kasan: unified support for SLUB and SLAB allocators" patch originally prepared by Dmitry Chernenkov. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Konstantin Serebryany Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds