blackbird-op-linux/mm/Makefile, branch master

mm: add generic ptdump

2020-02-04T03:05:25+00:00

Add a generic version of page table dumping that architectures can opt-in to. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191218162402.45610-20-steven.price@arm.com Signed-off-by: Steven Price Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Hogan Cc: James Morse Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: "Liang, Kan" Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Paul Burton Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Zong Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kcov: ignore fault-inject and stacktrace

2020-01-31T18:30:41+00:00

Don't instrument 3 more files that contain debugging facilities and produce large amounts of uninteresting coverage for every syscall. The following snippets are sprinkled all over the place in kcov traces in a debugging kernel. We already try to disable instrumentation of stack unwinding code and of most debug facilities. I guess we did not use fault-inject.c at the time, and stacktrace.c was somehow missed (or something has changed in kernel/configs). This change both speeds up kcov (kernel doesn't need to store these PCs, user-space doesn't need to process them) and frees trace buffer capacity for more useful coverage. should_fail lib/fault-inject.c:149 fail_dump lib/fault-inject.c:45 stack_trace_save kernel/stacktrace.c:124 stack_trace_consume_entry kernel/stacktrace.c:86 stack_trace_consume_entry kernel/stacktrace.c:89 ... a hundred frames skipped ... stack_trace_consume_entry kernel/stacktrace.c:93 stack_trace_consume_entry kernel/stacktrace.c:86 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116111449.217744-1-dvyukov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Add write-protect and clean utilities for address space ranges

2019-11-06T12:03:36+00:00

Add two utilities to 1) write-protect and 2) clean all ptes pointing into a range of an address space. The utilities are intended to aid in tracking dirty pages (either driver-allocated system memory or pci device memory). The write-protect utility should be used in conjunction with page_mkwrite() and pfn_mkwrite() to trigger write page-faults on page accesses. Typically one would want to use this on sparse accesses into large memory regions. The clean utility should be used to utilize hardware dirtying functionality and avoid the overhead of page-faults, typically on large accesses into small memory regions. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom Acked-by: Andrew Morton

mm: silence -Woverride-init/initializer-overrides

2019-09-24T22:54:10+00:00

When compiling a kernel with W=1, there are several of those warnings due to arm64 overriding a field on purpose. Just disable those warnings for both GCC and Clang of this file, so it will help dig "gems" hidden in the W=1 warnings by reducing some noises. mm/init-mm.c:39:2: warning: initializer overrides prior initialization of this subobject [-Winitializer-overrides] INIT_MM_CONTEXT(init_mm) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h:133:9: note: expanded from macro 'INIT_MM_CONTEXT' .pgd = init_pg_dir, ^~~~~~~~~~~ mm/init-mm.c:30:10: note: previous initialization is here .pgd = swapper_pg_dir, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note: there is a side project trying to support explicitly allowing specific initializer overrides in Clang, but there is no guarantee it will happen or not. https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/639 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566920867-27453-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw Signed-off-by: Qian Cai Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove quicklist page table caches

2019-09-24T22:54:09+00:00

Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches". A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1]. I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to use generic versions of PTE allocation. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com This patch (of 3): Remove page table allocator "quicklists". These have been around for a long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only used on ia64 and sh architectures. The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't apply anymore. If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator behaviour for minor archs. Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page allocator if this is still so slow. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memremap: move from kernel/ to mm/

2019-08-03T14:02:01+00:00

memremap.c implements MM functionality for ZONE_DEVICE, so it really should be in the mm/ directory, not the kernel/ one. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722094143.18387-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Acked-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma

2019-07-15T02:42:11+00:00

Pull HMM updates from Jason Gunthorpe: "Improvements and bug fixes for the hmm interface in the kernel: - Improve clarity, locking and APIs related to the 'hmm mirror' feature merged last cycle. In linux-next we now see AMDGPU and nouveau to be using this API. - Remove old or transitional hmm APIs. These are hold overs from the past with no users, or APIs that existed only to manage cross tree conflicts. There are still a few more of these cleanups that didn't make the merge window cut off. - Improve some core mm APIs: - export alloc_pages_vma() for driver use - refactor into devm_request_free_mem_region() to manage DEVICE_PRIVATE resource reservations - refactor duplicative driver code into the core dev_pagemap struct - Remove hmm wrappers of improved core mm APIs, instead have drivers use the simplified API directly - Remove DEVICE_PUBLIC - Simplify the kconfig flow for the hmm users and core code" * tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (42 commits) mm: don't select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER from HMM_MIRROR mm: remove the HMM config option mm: sort out the DEVICE_PRIVATE Kconfig mess mm: simplify ZONE_DEVICE page private data mm: remove hmm_devmem_add mm: remove hmm_vma_alloc_locked_page nouveau: use devm_memremap_pages directly nouveau: use alloc_page_vma directly PCI/P2PDMA: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount device-dax: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount memremap: provide an optional internal refcount in struct dev_pagemap memremap: replace the altmap_valid field with a PGMAP_ALTMAP_VALID flag memremap: remove the data field in struct dev_pagemap memremap: add a migrate_to_ram method to struct dev_pagemap_ops memremap: lift the devmap_enable manipulation into devm_memremap_pages memremap: pass a struct dev_pagemap to ->kill and ->cleanup memremap: move dev_pagemap callbacks into a separate structure memremap: validate the pagemap type passed to devm_memremap_pages mm: factor out a devm_request_free_mem_region helper mm: export alloc_pages_vma ...

mm: consolidate the get_user_pages* implementations

2019-07-12T18:05:45+00:00

Always build mm/gup.c so that we don't have to provide separate nommu stubs. Also merge the get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast stubs when HAVE_FAST_GUP into the main implementations, which will never call the fast path if HAVE_FAST_GUP is not set. This also ensures the new put_user_pages* helpers are available for nommu, as those are currently missing, which would create a problem as soon as we actually grew users for it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625143715.1689-13-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Miller Cc: James Hogan Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Khalid Aziz Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Burton Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove the HMM config option

2019-07-02T17:32:45+00:00

All the mm/hmm.c code is better keyed off HMM_MIRROR. Also let nouveau depend on it instead of the mix of a dummy dependency symbol plus the actually selected one. Drop various odd dependencies, as the code is pretty portable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe

mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve memory-side-cache utilization

2019-05-15T02:52:48+00:00

Patch series "mm: Randomize free memory", v10. This patch (of 3): Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. Memory side caching is a platform capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC (high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms. In that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM. Now, this capability is going to be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in front of higher latency persistent memory [1]. Robert offered an explanation of the state of the art of Linux interactions with memory-side-caches [2], and I copy it here: It's been a problem in the HPC space: http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/knl-cache-mode-performance-coe/ A kernel module called zonesort is available to try to help: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xeon-phi-software and this abandoned patch series proposed that for the kernel: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823100205.17311-1-lukasz.daniluk@intel.com Dan's patch series doesn't attempt to ensure buffers won't conflict, but also reduces the chance that the buffers will. This will make performance more consistent, albeit slower than "optimal" (which is near impossible to attain in a general-purpose kernel). That's better than forcing users to deploy remedies like: "To eliminate this gradual degradation, we have added a Stream measurement to the Node Health Check that follows each job; nodes are rebooted whenever their measured memory bandwidth falls below 300 GB/s." A replacement for zonesort was merged upstream in commit cc9aec03e58f ("x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability"). With this numa_emulation capability, memory can be split into cache sized ("near-memory" sized) numa nodes. A bind operation to such a node, and disabling workloads on other nodes, enables full cache performance. However, once the workload exceeds the cache size then cache conflicts are unavoidable. While HPC environments might be able to tolerate time-scheduling of cache sized workloads, for general purpose server platforms, the oversubscribed cache case will be the common case. The worst case scenario is that a server system owner benchmarks a workload at boot with an un-contended cache only to see that performance degrade over time, even below the average cache performance due to excessive conflicts. Randomization clips the peaks and fills in the valleys of cache utilization to yield steady average performance. Here are some performance impact details of the patches: 1/ An Intel internal synthetic memory bandwidth measurement tool, saw a 3X speedup in a contrived case that tries to force cache conflicts. The contrived cased used the numa_emulation capability to force an instance of the benchmark to be run in two of the near-memory sized numa nodes. If both instances were placed on the same emulated they would fit and cause zero conflicts. While on separate emulated nodes without randomization they underutilized the cache and conflicted unnecessarily due to the in-order allocation per node. 2/ A well known Java server application benchmark was run with a heap size that exceeded cache size by 3X. The cache conflict rate was 8% for the first run and degraded to 21% after page allocator aging. With randomization enabled the rate levelled out at 11%. 3/ A MongoDB workload did not observe measurable difference in cache-conflict rates, but the overall throughput dropped by 7% with randomization in one case. 4/ Mel Gorman ran his suite of performance workloads with randomization enabled on platforms without a memory-side-cache and saw a mix of some improvements and some losses [3]. While there is potentially significant improvement for applications that depend on low latency access across a wide working-set, the performance may be negligible to negative for other workloads. For this reason the shuffle capability defaults to off unless a direct-mapped memory-side-cache is detected. Even then, the page_alloc.shuffle=0 parameter can be specified to disable the randomization on those systems. Outside of memory-side-cache utilization concerns there is potentially security benefit from randomization. Some data exfiltration and return-oriented-programming attacks rely on the ability to infer the location of sensitive data objects. The kernel page allocator, especially early in system boot, has predictable first-in-first out behavior for physical pages. Pages are freed in physical address order when first onlined. Quoting Kees: "While we already have a base-address randomization (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY), attacks against the same hardware and memory layouts would certainly be using the predictability of allocation ordering (i.e. for attacks where the base address isn't important: only the relative positions between allocated memory). This is common in lots of heap-style attacks. They try to gain control over ordering by spraying allocations, etc. I'd really like to see this because it gives us something similar to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM but for the page allocator." While SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM reduces the predictability of some local slab caches it leaves vast bulk of memory to be predictably in order allocated. However, it should be noted, the concrete security benefits are hard to quantify, and no known CVE is mitigated by this randomization. Introduce shuffle_free_memory(), and its helper shuffle_zone(), to perform a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the page allocator 'free_area' lists when they are initially populated with free memory at boot and at hotplug time. Do this based on either the presence of a page_alloc.shuffle=Y command line parameter, or autodetection of a memory-side-cache (to be added in a follow-on patch). The shuffling is done in terms of CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER sized free pages where the default CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER is MAX_ORDER-1 i.e. 10, 4MB this trades off randomization granularity for time spent shuffling. MAX_ORDER-1 was chosen to be minimally invasive to the page allocator while still showing memory-side cache behavior improvements, and the expectation that the security implications of finer granularity randomization is mitigated by CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM. The performance impact of the shuffling appears to be in the noise compared to other memory initialization work. This initial randomization can be undone over time so a follow-on patch is introduced to inject entropy on page free decisions. It is reasonable to ask if the page free entropy is sufficient, but it is not enough due to the in-order initial freeing of pages. At the start of that process putting page1 in front or behind page0 still keeps them close together, page2 is still near page1 and has a high chance of being adjacent. As more pages are added ordering diversity improves, but there is still high page locality for the low address pages and this leads to no significant impact to the cache conflict rate. [1]: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-operating-modes/ [2]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/AT5PR8401MB1169D656C8B5E121752FC0F8AB120@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM [3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/309 [dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix shuffle enable] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154943713038.3858443.4125180191382062871.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com [cai@lca.pw: fix SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR help texts] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425201300.75650-1-cai@lca.pw Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Qian Cai Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Robert Elliott Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds