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2022-02-03Revert "mm/gup: small refactoring: simplify try_grab_page()"John Hubbard1-5/+30
This reverts commit 54d516b1d62ff8f17cee2da06e5e4706a0d00b8a That commit did a refactoring that effectively combined fast and slow gup paths (again). And that was again incorrect, for two reasons: a) Fast gup and slow gup get reference counts on pages in different ways and with different goals: see Linus' writeup in commit cd1adf1b63a1 ("Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly""), and b) try_grab_compound_head() also has a specific check for "FOLL_LONGTERM && !is_pinned(page)", that assumes that the caller can fall back to slow gup. This resulted in new failures, as recently report by Will McVicker [1]. But (a) has problems too, even though they may not have been reported yet. So just revert this. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131203504.3458775-1-willmcvicker@google.com [1] Fixes: 54d516b1d62f ("mm/gup: small refactoring: simplify try_grab_page()") Reported-and-tested-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15 Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15mm/gup.c: stricter check on THP migration entry during follow_pmd_maskLi Xinhai1-4/+9
When BUG_ON check for THP migration entry, the existing code only check thp_migration_supported case, but not for !thp_migration_supported case. If !thp_migration_supported() and !pmd_present(), the original code may dead loop in theory. To make the BUG_ON check consistent, we need catch both cases. Move the BUG_ON check one step earlier, because if the bug happen we should know it instead of depend on FOLL_MIGRATION been used by caller. Because pmdval instead of *pmd is read by the is_pmd_migration_entry() check, the existing code don't help to avoid useless locking within pmd_migration_entry_wait(), so remove that check. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211217062559.737063-1-lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15gup: avoid multiple user access locking/unlocking in fault_in_{read/write}ableChristophe Leroy1-8/+10
fault_in_readable() and fault_in_writeable() perform __get_user() and __put_user() in a loop, implying multiple user access locking/unlocking. To avoid that, use user access blocks. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/720dcf79314acca1a78fae56d478cc851952149d.1637084492.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-4/+1
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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (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 ...
2021-11-06mm/gup: further simplify __gup_device_huge()John Hubbard1-4/+1
Commit 6401c4eb57f9 ("mm: gup: fix potential pgmap refcnt leak in __gup_device_huge()") simplified the return paths, but didn't go quite far enough, as discussed in [1]. Remove the "ret" variable entirely, because there is enough information already available to provide the return value. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgQTRX=5SkCmS+zfmpqubGHGJvXX_HgnPG8JSpHKHBMeg@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210904004224.86391-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-10-24gup: Introduce FOLL_NOFAULT flag to disable page faultsAndreas Gruenbacher1-1/+3
Introduce a new FOLL_NOFAULT flag that causes get_user_pages to return -EFAULT when it would otherwise trigger a page fault. This is roughly similar to FOLL_FAST_ONLY but available on all architectures, and less fragile. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
2021-10-20iov_iter: Introduce fault_in_iov_iter_writeableAndreas Gruenbacher1-0/+63
Introduce a new fault_in_iov_iter_writeable helper for safely faulting in an iterator for writing. Uses get_user_pages() to fault in the pages without actually writing to them, which would be destructive. We'll use fault_in_iov_iter_writeable in gfs2 once we've determined that the iterator passed to .read_iter isn't in memory. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
2021-10-18gup: Turn fault_in_pages_{readable,writeable} into fault_in_{readable,writeable}Andreas Gruenbacher1-0/+72
Turn fault_in_pages_{readable,writeable} into versions that return the number of bytes not faulted in, similar to copy_to_user, instead of returning a non-zero value when any of the requested pages couldn't be faulted in. This supports the existing users that require all pages to be faulted in as well as new users that are happy if any pages can be faulted in. Rename the functions to fault_in_{readable,writeable} to make sure this change doesn't silently break things. Neither of these functions is entirely trivial and it doesn't seem useful to inline them, so move them to mm/gup.c. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
2021-09-07Revert "mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly"Linus Torvalds1-17/+4
This reverts commit 9857a17f206ff374aea78bccfb687f145368be2e. That commit was completely broken, and I should have caught on to it earlier. But happily, the kernel test robot noticed the breakage fairly quickly. The breakage is because "try_get_page()" is about avoiding the page reference count overflow case, but is otherwise the exact same as a plain "get_page()". In contrast, "try_get_compound_head()" is an entirely different beast, and uses __page_cache_add_speculative() because it's not just about the page reference count, but also about possibly racing with the underlying page going away. So all the commentary about how "try_get_page() has fallen a little behind in terms of maintenance, try_get_compound_head() handles speculative page references more thoroughly" was just completely wrong: yes, try_get_compound_head() handles speculative page references, but the point is that try_get_page() does not, and must not. So there's no lack of maintainance - there are fundamentally different semantics. A speculative page reference would be entirely wrong in "get_page()", and it's entirely wrong in "try_get_page()". It's not about speculation, it's purely about "uhhuh, you can't get this page because you've tried to increment the reference count too much already". The reason the kernel test robot noticed this bug was that it hit the VM_BUG_ON() in __page_cache_add_speculative(), which is all about verifying that the context of any speculative page access is correct. But since that isn't what try_get_page() is all about, the VM_BUG_ON() tests things that are not correct to test for try_get_page(). Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm/migrate: enable returning precise migrate_pages() success countYang Shi1-1/+1
Under normal circumstances, migrate_pages() returns the number of pages migrated. In error conditions, it returns an error code. When returning an error code, there is no way to know how many pages were migrated or not migrated. Make migrate_pages() return how many pages are demoted successfully for all cases, including when encountering errors. Page reclaim behavior will depend on this in subsequent patches. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-3-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-4-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Suggested-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> [optional parameter] Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directlyJohn Hubbard1-4/+17
try_get_page() is very similar to try_get_compound_head(), and in fact try_get_page() has fallen a little behind in terms of maintenance: try_get_compound_head() handles speculative page references more thoroughly. There are only two try_get_page() callsites, so just call try_get_compound_head() directly from those, and remove try_get_page() entirely. Also, seeing as how this changes try_get_compound_head() into a non-static function, provide some kerneldoc documentation for it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210813044133.1536842-4-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm/gup: small refactoring: simplify try_grab_page()John Hubbard1-30/+5
try_grab_page() does the same thing as try_grab_compound_head(..., refs=1, ...), just with a different API. So there is a lot of code duplication there. Change try_grab_page() to call try_grab_compound_head(), while keeping the API contract identical for callers. Also, now that try_grab_compound_head() always has a caller, remove the __maybe_unused annotation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210813044133.1536842-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm/gup: documentation corrections for gup/pupJohn Hubbard1-7/+20
Patch series "A few gup refactorings and documentation updates", v3. While reviewing some of the other things going on around gup.c, I noticed that the documentation was wrong for a few of the routines that I wrote. And then I noticed that there was some significant code duplication too. So this fixes those issues. This is not entirely risk-free, but after looking closely at this, I think it's actually a useful improvement, getting rid of the code duplication here. This patch (of 3): The documentation for try_grab_compound_head() and try_grab_page() has fallen a little out of date. Update and clarify a few points. Also make it kerneldoc-correct, by adding @args documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210813044133.1536842-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210813044133.1536842-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm: gup: use helper PAGE_ALIGNED in populate_vma_page_range()Miaohe Lin1-2/+2
Use helper PAGE_ALIGNED to check if address is aligned to PAGE_SIZE. Minor readability improvement. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210807093620.21347-6-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm: gup: fix potential pgmap refcnt leak in __gup_device_huge()Miaohe Lin1-5/+7
When failed to try_grab_page, put_dev_pagemap() is missed. So pgmap refcnt will leak in this case. Also we remove the check for pgmap against NULL as it's also checked inside the put_dev_pagemap(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify, cleanup] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix return value] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210807093620.21347-5-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Fixes: 3faa52c03f44 ("mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages") Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm: gup: remove useless BUG_ON in __get_user_pages()Miaohe Lin1-1/+0
Indeed, this BUG_ON couldn't catch anything useful. We are sure ret == 0 here because we would already bail out if ret != 0 and ret is untouched till here. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210807093620.21347-4-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm: gup: remove unneed local variable orig_refsMiaohe Lin1-3/+1
Remove unneed local variable orig_refs since refs is unchanged now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210807093620.21347-3-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03mm: gup: remove set but unused local variable majorMiaohe Lin1-2/+1
Patch series "Cleanups and fixup for gup". This series contains cleanups to remove unneeded variable, useless BUG_ON and use helper to improve readability. Also we fix a potential pgmap refcnt leak. More details can be found in the respective changelogs. This patch (of 5): Since commit a2beb5f1efed ("mm: clean up the last pieces of page fault accountings"), the local variable major is unused. Remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210807093620.21347-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210807093620.21347-2-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-08-13mm/madvise: report SIGBUS as -EFAULT for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE)David Hildenbrand1-2/+5
Doing some extended tests and polishing the man page update for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE), I realized that we end up converting also SIGBUS (via -EFAULT) to -EINVAL, making it look like yet another madvise() user error. We want to report only problematic mappings and permission problems that the user could have know as -EINVAL. Let's not convert -EFAULT arising due to SIGBUS (or SIGSEGV) to -EINVAL, but instead indicate -EFAULT to user space. While we could also convert it to -ENOMEM, using -EFAULT looks more helpful when user space might want to troubleshoot what's going wrong: MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) is not part of an final Linux release and we can still adjust the behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210726154932.102880-1-david@redhat.com Fixes: 4ca9b3859dac ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-07-08mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areasMike Rapoport1-0/+12
Introduce "memfd_secret" system call with the ability to create memory areas visible only in the context of the owning process and not mapped not only to other processes but in the kernel page tables as well. The secretmem feature is off by default and the user must explicitly enable it at the boot time. Once secretmem is enabled, the user will be able to create a file descriptor using the memfd_secret() system call. The memory areas created by mmap() calls from this file descriptor will be unmapped from the kernel direct map and they will be only mapped in the page table of the processes that have access to the file descriptor. Secretmem is designed to provide the following protections: * Enhanced protection (in conjunction with all the other in-kernel attack prevention systems) against ROP attacks. Seceretmem makes "simple" ROP insufficient to perform exfiltration, which increases the required complexity of the attack. Along with other protections like the kernel stack size limit and address space layout randomization which make finding gadgets is really hard, absence of any in-kernel primitive for accessing secret memory means the one gadget ROP attack can't work. Since the only way to access secret memory is to reconstruct the missing mapping entry, the attacker has to recover the physical page and insert a PTE pointing to it in the kernel and then retrieve the contents. That takes at least three gadgets which is a level of difficulty beyond most standard attacks. * Prevent cross-process secret userspace memory exposures. Once the secret memory is allocated, the user can't accidentally pass it into the kernel to be transmitted somewhere. The secreremem pages cannot be accessed via the direct map and they are disallowed in GUP. * Harden against exploited kernel flaws. In order to access secretmem, a kernel-side attack would need to either walk the page tables and create new ones, or spawn a new privileged uiserspace process to perform secrets exfiltration using ptrace. The file descriptor based memory has several advantages over the "traditional" mm interfaces, such as mlock(), mprotect(), madvise(). File descriptor approach allows explicit and controlled sharing of the memory areas, it allows to seal the operations. Besides, file descriptor based memory paves the way for VMMs to remove the secret memory range from the userspace hipervisor process, for instance QEMU. Andy Lutomirski says: "Getting fd-backed memory into a guest will take some possibly major work in the kernel, but getting vma-backed memory into a guest without mapping it in the host user address space seems much, much worse." memfd_secret() is made a dedicated system call rather than an extension to memfd_create() because it's purpose is to allow the user to create more secure memory mappings rather than to simply allow file based access to the memory. Nowadays a new system call cost is negligible while it is way simpler for userspace to deal with a clear-cut system calls than with a multiplexer or an overloaded syscall. Moreover, the initial implementation of memfd_secret() is completely distinct from memfd_create() so there is no much sense in overloading memfd_create() to begin with. If there will be a need for code sharing between these implementation it can be easily achieved without a need to adjust user visible APIs. The secret memory remains accessible in the process context using uaccess primitives, but it is not exposed to the kernel otherwise; secret memory areas are removed from the direct map and functions in the follow_page()/get_user_page() family will refuse to return a page that belongs to the secret memory area. Once there will be a use case that will require exposing secretmem to the kernel it will be an opt-in request in the system call flags so that user would have to decide what data can be exposed to the kernel. Removing of the pages from the direct map may cause its fragmentation on architectures that use large pages to map the physical memory which affects the system performance. However, the original Kconfig text for CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES said that gigabyte pages in the direct map "... can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit ..." (commit 00d1c5e05736 ("x86: add gbpages switches")) and the recent report [1] showed that "... although 1G mappings are a good default choice, there is no compelling evidence that it must be the only choice". Hence, it is sufficient to have secretmem disabled by default with the ability of a system administrator to enable it at boot time. Pages in the secretmem regions are unevictable and unmovable to avoid accidental exposure of the sensitive data via swap or during page migration. Since the secretmem mappings are locked in memory they cannot exceed RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. Since these mappings are already locked independently from mlock(), an attempt to mlock()/munlock() secretmem range would fail and mlockall()/munlockall() will ignore secretmem mappings. However, unlike mlock()ed memory, secretmem currently behaves more like long-term GUP: secretmem mappings are unmovable mappings directly consumed by user space. With default limits, there is no excessive use of secretmem and it poses no real problem in combination with ZONE_MOVABLE/CMA, but in the future this should be addressed to allow balanced use of large amounts of secretmem along with ZONE_MOVABLE/CMA. A page that was a part of the secret memory area is cleared when it is freed to ensure the data is not exposed to the next user of that page. The following example demonstrates creation of a secret mapping (error handling is omitted): fd = memfd_secret(0); ftruncate(fd, MAP_SIZE); ptr = mmap(NULL, MAP_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/213b4567-46ce-f116-9cdf-bbd0c884eb3c@linux.intel.com/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: suppress Kconfig whine] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210518072034.31572-5-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-30mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tablesDavid Hildenbrand1-0/+58
I. Background: Sparse Memory Mappings When we manage sparse memory mappings dynamically in user space - also sometimes involving MAP_NORESERVE - we want to dynamically populate/ discard memory inside such a sparse memory region. Example users are hypervisors (especially implementing memory ballooning or similar technologies like virtio-mem) and memory allocators. In addition, we want to fail in a nice way (instead of generating SIGBUS) if populating does not succeed because we are out of backend memory (which can happen easily with file-based mappings, especially tmpfs and hugetlbfs). While MADV_DONTNEED, MADV_REMOVE and FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE allow for reliably discarding memory for most mapping types, there is no generic approach to populate page tables and preallocate memory. Although mmap() supports MAP_POPULATE, it is not applicable to the concept of sparse memory mappings, where we want to populate/discard dynamically and avoid expensive/problematic remappings. In addition, we never actually report errors during the final populate phase - it is best-effort only. fallocate() can be used to preallocate file-based memory and fail in a safe way. However, it cannot really be used for any private mappings on anonymous files via memfd due to COW semantics. In addition, fallocate() does not actually populate page tables, so we still always get pagefaults on first access - which is sometimes undesired (i.e., real-time workloads) and requires real prefaulting of page tables, not just a preallocation of backend storage. There might be interesting use cases for sparse memory regions along with mlockall(MCL_ONFAULT) which fallocate() cannot satisfy as it does not prefault page tables. II. On preallcoation/prefaulting from user space Because we don't have a proper interface, what applications (like QEMU and databases) end up doing is touching (i.e., reading+writing one byte to not overwrite existing data) all individual pages. However, that approach 1) Can result in wear on storage backing, because we end up reading/writing each page; this is especially a problem for dax/pmem. 2) Can result in mmap_sem contention when prefaulting via multiple threads. 3) Requires expensive signal handling, especially to catch SIGBUS in case of hugetlbfs/shmem/file-backed memory. For example, this is problematic in hypervisors like QEMU where SIGBUS handlers might already be used by other subsystems concurrently to e.g, handle hardware errors. "Simply" doing preallocation concurrently from other thread is not that easy. III. On MADV_WILLNEED Extending MADV_WILLNEED is not an option because 1. It would change the semantics: "Expect access in the near future." and "might be a good idea to read some pages" vs. "Definitely populate/ preallocate all memory and definitely fail on errors.". 2. Existing users (like virtio-balloon in QEMU when deflating the balloon) don't want populate/prealloc semantics. They treat this rather as a hint to give a little performance boost without too much overhead - and don't expect that a lot of memory might get consumed or a lot of time might be spent. IV. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE Let's introduce MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE, inspired by MAP_POPULATE, with the following semantics: 1. MADV_POPULATE_READ can be used to prefault page tables just like manually reading each individual page. This will not break any COW mappings. The shared zero page might get mapped and no backend storage might get preallocated -- allocation might be deferred to write-fault time. Especially shared file mappings require an explicit fallocate() upfront to actually preallocate backend memory (blocks in the file system) in case the file might have holes. 2. If MADV_POPULATE_READ succeeds, all page tables have been populated (prefaulted) readable once. 3. MADV_POPULATE_WRITE can be used to preallocate backend memory and prefault page tables just like manually writing (or reading+writing) each individual page. This will break any COW mappings -- e.g., the shared zeropage is never populated. 4. If MADV_POPULATE_WRITE succeeds, all page tables have been populated (prefaulted) writable once. 5. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE cannot be applied to special mappings marked with VM_PFNMAP and VM_IO. Also, proper access permissions (e.g., PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE) are required. If any such mapping is encountered, madvise() fails with -EINVAL. 6. If MADV_POPULATE_READ or MADV_POPULATE_WRITE fails, some page tables might have been populated. 7. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE will return -EHWPOISON when encountering a HW poisoned page in the range. 8. Similar to MAP_POPULATE, MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE cannot protect from the OOM (Out Of Memory) handler killing the process. While the use case for MADV_POPULATE_WRITE is fairly obvious (i.e., preallocate memory and prefault page tables for VMs), one issue is that whenever we prefault pages writable, the pages have to be marked dirty, because the CPU could dirty them any time. while not a real problem for hugetlbfs or dax/pmem, it can be a problem for shared file mappings: each page will be marked dirty and has to be written back later when evicting. MADV_POPULATE_READ allows for optimizing this scenario: Pre-read a whole mapping from backend storage without marking it dirty, such that eviction won't have to write it back. As discussed above, shared file mappings might require an explciit fallocate() upfront to achieve preallcoation+prepopulation. Although sparse memory mappings are the primary use case, this will also be useful for other preallocate/prefault use cases where MAP_POPULATE is not desired or the semantics of MAP_POPULATE are not sufficient: as one example, QEMU users can trigger preallocation/prefaulting of guest RAM after the mapping was created -- and don't want errors to be silently suppressed. Looking at the history, MADV_POPULATE was already proposed in 2013 [1], however, the main motivation back than was performance improvements -- which should also still be the case. V. Single-threaded performance comparison I did a short experiment, prefaulting page tables on completely *empty mappings/files* and repeated the experiment 10 times. The results correspond to the shortest execution time. In general, the performance benefit for huge pages is negligible with small mappings. V.1: Private mappings POPULATE_READ and POPULATE_WRITE is fastest. Note that Reading/POPULATE_READ will populate the shared zeropage where applicable -- which result in short population times. The fastest way to allocate backend storage (here: swap or huge pages) and prefault page tables is POPULATE_WRITE. V.2: Shared mappings fallocate() is fastest, however, doesn't prefault page tables. POPULATE_WRITE is faster than simple writes and read/writes. POPULATE_READ is faster than simple reads. Without a fd, the fastest way to allocate backend storage and prefault page tables is POPULATE_WRITE. With an fd, the fastest way is usually FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ or FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE respectively; one exception are actual files: FALLOCATE+Read is slightly faster than FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ. The fastest way to allocate backend storage prefault page tables is FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE -- except when dealing with actual files; then, FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ is fastest and won't directly mark all pages as dirty. v.3: Detailed results ================================================== 2 MiB MAP_PRIVATE: ************************************************** Anon 4 KiB : Read : 0.119 ms Anon 4 KiB : Write : 0.222 ms Anon 4 KiB : Read/Write : 0.380 ms Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.060 ms Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.158 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Read : 0.034 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Write : 0.310 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Read/Write : 0.362 ms Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.039 ms Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.229 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Read : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Write : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Read/Write : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms tmpfs : Read : 0.033 ms tmpfs : Write : 0.313 ms tmpfs : Read/Write : 0.406 ms tmpfs : POPULATE_READ : 0.039 ms tmpfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.285 ms file : Read : 0.033 ms file : Write : 0.351 ms file : Read/Write : 0.408 ms file : POPULATE_READ : 0.039 ms file : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.290 ms hugetlbfs : Read : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : Write : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : Read/Write : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms ************************************************** 4096 MiB MAP_PRIVATE: ************************************************** Anon 4 KiB : Read : 237.940 ms Anon 4 KiB : Write : 708.409 ms Anon 4 KiB : Read/Write : 1054.041 ms Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 124.310 ms Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 572.582 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Read : 136.928 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Write : 963.898 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Read/Write : 1106.561 ms Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 78.450 ms Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 805.881 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Read : 357.116 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Write : 357.210 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Read/Write : 357.606 ms Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 356.094 ms Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 356.937 ms tmpfs : Read : 137.536 ms tmpfs : Write : 954.362 ms tmpfs : Read/Write : 1105.954 ms tmpfs : POPULATE_READ : 80.289 ms tmpfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 822.826 ms file : Read : 137.874 ms file : Write : 987.025 ms file : Read/Write : 1107.439 ms file : POPULATE_READ : 80.413 ms file : POPULATE_WRITE : 857.622 ms hugetlbfs : Read : 355.607 ms hugetlbfs : Write : 355.729 ms hugetlbfs : Read/Write : 356.127 ms hugetlbfs : POPULATE_READ : 354.585 ms hugetlbfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 355.138 ms ************************************************** 2 MiB MAP_SHARED: ************************************************** Anon 4 KiB : Read : 0.394 ms Anon 4 KiB : Write : 0.348 ms Anon 4 KiB : Read/Write : 0.400 ms Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.326 ms Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.273 ms Anon 2 MiB : Read : 0.030 ms Anon 2 MiB : Write : 0.030 ms Anon 2 MiB : Read/Write : 0.030 ms Anon 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms Anon 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Read : 0.412 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Write : 0.372 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Read/Write : 0.419 ms Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.343 ms Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.288 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE : 0.137 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.446 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.330 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.454 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.379 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.268 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Read : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Write : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Read/Write : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.031 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.031 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.031 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms tmpfs : Read : 0.416 ms tmpfs : Write : 0.369 ms tmpfs : Read/Write : 0.425 ms tmpfs : POPULATE_READ : 0.346 ms tmpfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.295 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE : 0.139 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.447 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.333 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.454 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.380 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.272 ms file : Read : 0.191 ms file : Write : 0.511 ms file : Read/Write : 0.524 ms file : POPULATE_READ : 0.196 ms file : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.434 ms file : FALLOCATE : 0.004 ms file : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.197 ms file : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.554 ms file : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.480 ms file : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.201 ms file : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.381 ms hugetlbfs : Read : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : Write : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : Read/Write : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.031 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.031 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms ************************************************** 4096 MiB MAP_SHARED: ************************************************** Anon 4 KiB : Read : 1053.090 ms Anon 4 KiB : Write : 913.642 ms Anon 4 KiB : Read/Write : 1060.350 ms Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 893.691 ms Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 782.885 ms Anon 2 MiB : Read : 358.553 ms Anon 2 MiB : Write : 358.419 ms Anon 2 MiB : Read/Write : 357.992 ms Anon 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 357.533 ms Anon 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 357.808 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Read : 1078.144 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Write : 942.036 ms Memfd 4 KiB : Read/Write : 1100.391 ms Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 925.829 ms Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 804.394 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE : 304.632 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Read : 1163.359 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Write : 933.186 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 1187.304 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 1013.660 ms Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 794.560 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Read : 358.131 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Write : 358.099 ms Memfd 2 MiB : Read/Write : 358.250 ms Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 357.563 ms Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 357.334 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE : 356.735 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Read : 358.152 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Write : 358.331 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 358.018 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 357.286 ms Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 357.523 ms tmpfs : Read : 1087.265 ms tmpfs : Write : 950.840 ms tmpfs : Read/Write : 1107.567 ms tmpfs : POPULATE_READ : 922.605 ms tmpfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 810.094 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE : 306.320 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Read : 1169.796 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Write : 933.730 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 1191.610 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 1020.474 ms tmpfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 798.945 ms file : Read : 654.101 ms file : Write : 1259.142 ms file : Read/Write : 1289.509 ms file : POPULATE_READ : 661.642 ms file : POPULATE_WRITE : 1106.816 ms file : FALLOCATE : 1.864 ms file : FALLOCATE+Read : 656.328 ms file : FALLOCATE+Write : 1153.300 ms file : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 1180.613 ms file : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 668.347 ms file : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 996.143 ms hugetlbfs : Read : 357.245 ms hugetlbfs : Write : 357.413 ms hugetlbfs : Read/Write : 357.120 ms hugetlbfs : POPULATE_READ : 356.321 ms hugetlbfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 356.693 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE : 355.927 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Read : 357.074 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Write : 357.120 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 356.983 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 356.413 ms hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 356.266 ms ************************************************** [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/27/698 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210419135443.12822-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29mm: gup: pack has_pinned in MMF_HAS_PINNEDAndrea Arcangeli1-4/+15
has_pinned 32bit can be packed in the MMF_HAS_PINNED bit as a noop cleanup. Any atomic_inc/dec to the mm cacheline shared by all threads in pin-fast would reintroduce a loss of SMP scalability to pin-fast, so there's no future potential usefulness to keep an atomic in the mm for this. set_bit(MMF_HAS_PINNED) will be theoretically a bit slower than WRITE_ONCE (atomic_set is equivalent to WRITE_ONCE), but the set_bit (just like atomic_set after this commit) has to be still issued only once per "mm", so the difference between the two will be lost in the noise. will-it-scale "mmap2" shows no change in performance with enterprise config as expected. will-it-scale "pin_fast" retains the > 4000% SMP scalability performance improvement against upstream as expected. This is a noop as far as overall performance and SMP scalability are concerned. [peterx@redhat.com: pack has_pinned in MMF_HAS_PINNED] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YJqWESqyxa8OZA+2@t490s [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] [peterx@redhat.com: fix build for task_mmu.c, introduce mm_set_has_pinned_flag, fix comments] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210507150553.208763-4-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29mm: gup: allow FOLL_PIN to scale in SMPAndrea Arcangeli1-2/+2
has_pinned cannot be written by each pin-fast or it won't scale in SMP. This isn't "false sharing" strictly speaking (it's more like "true non-sharing"), but it creates the same SMP scalability bottleneck of "false sharing". To verify the improvement, below test is done on 40 cpus host with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz (must be with CONFIG_GUP_TEST=y): $ sudo chrt -f 1 ./gup_test -a -m 512 -j 40 Where we can get (average value for 40 threads): Old kernel: 477729.97 (+- 3.79%) New kernel: 89144.65 (+-11.76%) On a similar condition with 256 cpus, this commits increases the SMP scalability of pin_user_pages_fast() executed by different threads of the same process by more than 4000%. [peterx@redhat.com: rewrite commit message, add parentheses against "(A & B)"] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210507150553.208763-3-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29mm/gup: fix try_grab_compound_head() race with split_huge_page()Jann Horn1-15/+43
try_grab_compound_head() is used to grab a reference to a page from get_user_pages_fast(), which is only protected against concurrent freeing of page tables (via local_irq_save()), but not against concurrent TLB flushes, freeing of data pages, or splitting of compound pages. Because no reference is held to the page when try_grab_compound_head() is called, the page may have been freed and reallocated by the time its refcount has been elevated; therefore, once we're holding a stable reference to the page, the caller re-checks whether the PTE still points to the same page (with the same access rights). The problem is that try_grab_compound_head() has to grab a reference on the head page; but between the time we look up what the head page is and the time we actually grab a reference on the head page, the compound page may have been split up (either explicitly through split_huge_page() or by freeing the compound page to the buddy allocator and then allocating its individual order-0 pages). If that happens, get_user_pages_fast() may end up returning the right page but lifting the refcount on a now-unrelated page, leading to use-after-free of pages. To fix it: Re-check whether the pages still belong together after lifting the refcount on the head page. Move anything else that checks compound_head(page) below the refcount increment. This can't actually happen on bare-metal x86 (because there, disabling IRQs locks out remote TLB flushes), but it can happen on virtualized x86 (e.g. under KVM) and probably also on arm64. The race window is pretty narrow, and constantly allocating and shattering hugepages isn't exactly fast; for now I've only managed to reproduce this in an x86 KVM guest with an artificially widened timing window (by adding a loop that repeatedly calls `inl(0x3f8 + 5)` in `try_get_compound_head()` to force VM exits, so that PV TLB flushes are used instead of IPIs). As requested on the list, also replace the existing VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() with a warning and bailout. Since the existing code only performed the BUG_ON check on DEBUG_VM kernels, ensure that the new code also only performs the check under that configuration - I don't want to mix two logically separate changes together too much. The macro VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE() doesn't return a value on !DEBUG_VM, so wrap the whole check in an #ifdef block. An alternative would be to change the VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE() definition for !DEBUG_VM such that it always returns false, but since that would differ from the behavior of the normal WARN macros, it might be too confusing for readers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615012014.1100672-1-jannh@google.com Fixes: 7aef4172c795 ("mm: handle PTE-mapped tail pages in gerneric fast gup implementaiton") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-22Revert "mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump."Michal Hocko1-4/+0
While reviewing [1] I came across commit d3378e86d182 ("mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump.") and noticed that this patch is broken in two ways. First it doesn't really prevent hwpoison pages from being dumped because hwpoison pages can be marked asynchornously at any time after the check. Secondly, and more importantly, the patch introduces a ref count leak because get_dump_page takes a reference on the page which is not released. It also seems that the patch was merged incorrectly because there were follow up changes not included as well as discussions on how to address the underlying problem [2] Therefore revert the original patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210429122519.15183-4-david@redhat.com [1] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57ac524c-b49a-99ec-c1e4-ef5027bfb61b@redhat.com [2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505135407.31590-1-mhocko@kernel.org Fixes: d3378e86d182 ("mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump.") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-07mm: fix typos in commentsIngo Molnar1-1/+1
Fix ~94 single-word typos in locking code comments, plus a few very obvious grammar mistakes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322212624.GA1963421@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322205203.GB1959563@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05mm/gup: longterm pin migration cleanupPavel Tatashin1-56/+37
When pages are longterm pinned, we must migrated them out of movable zone. The function that migrates them has a hidden loop with goto. The loop is to retry on isolation failures, and after successful migration. Make this code better by moving this loop to the caller. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-13-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05mm/gup: change index type to long as it counts pagesPavel Tatashin1-1/+1
In __get_user_pages_locked() i counts number of pages which should be long, as long is used in all other places to contain number of pages, and 32-bit becomes increasingly small for handling page count proportional values. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-12-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05mm/gup: migrate pinned pages out of movable zonePavel Tatashin1-33/+34
We should not pin pages in ZONE_MOVABLE. Currently, we do not pin only movable CMA pages. Generalize the function that migrates CMA pages to migrate all movable pages. Use is_pinnable_page() to check which pages need to be migrated Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-10-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05mm cma: rename PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA to PF_MEMALLOC_PINPavel Tatashin1-2/+2
PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA is used ot guarantee that the allocator will not return pages that might belong to CMA region. This is currently used for long term gup to make sure that such pins are not going to be done on any CMA pages. When PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA has been introduced we haven't realized that it is focusing on CMA pages too much and that there is larger class of pages that need the same treatment. MOVABLE zone cannot contain any long term pins as well so it makes sense to reuse and redefine this flag for that usecase as well. Rename the flag to PF_MEMALLOC_PIN which defines an allocation context which can only get pages suitable for long-term pins. Also rename: memalloc_nocma_save()/memalloc_nocma_restore to memalloc_pin_save()/memalloc_pin_restore() and make the new functions common. [rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix renaming of PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA to PF_MEMALLOC_PIN] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210331163816.11517-1-rppt@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-6-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05mm/gup: check for isolation errorsPavel Tatashin1-26/+34
It is still possible that we pin movable CMA pages if there are isolation errors and cma_page_list stays empty when we check again. Check for isolation errors, and return success only when there are no isolation errors, and cma_page_list is empty after checking. Because isolation errors are transient, we retry indefinitely. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-5-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Fixes: 9a4e9f3b2d73 ("mm: update get_user_pages_longterm to migrate pages allocated from CMA region") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05mm/gup: return an error on migration failurePavel Tatashin1-10/+7
When migration failure occurs, we still pin pages, which means that we may pin CMA movable pages which should never be the case. Instead return an error without pinning pages when migration failure happens. No need to retry migrating, because migrate_pages() already retries 10 times. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05mm/gup: check every subpage of a compound page during isolationPavel Tatashin1-12/+7
When pages are isolated in check_and_migrate_movable_pages() we skip compound number of pages at a time. However, as Jason noted, it is not necessary correct that pages[i] corresponds to the pages that we skipped. This is because it is possible that the addresses in this range had split_huge_pmd()/split_huge_pud(), and these functions do not update the compound page metadata. The problem can be reproduced if something like this occurs: 1. User faulted huge pages. 2. split_huge_pmd() was called for some reason 3. User has unmapped some sub-pages in the range 4. User tries to longterm pin the addresses. The resulting pages[i] might end-up having pages which are not compound size page aligned. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Fixes: aa712399c1e8 ("mm/gup: speed up check_and_migrate_cma_pages() on huge page") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05mm/gup: don't pin migrated cma pages in movable zonePavel Tatashin1-1/+1
Patch series "prohibit pinning pages in ZONE_MOVABLE", v11. When page is pinned it cannot be moved and its physical address stays the same until pages is unpinned. This is useful functionality to allows userland to implementation DMA access. For example, it is used by vfio in vfio_pin_pages(). However, this functionality breaks memory hotplug/hotremove assumptions that pages in ZONE_MOVABLE can always be migrated. This patch series fixes this issue by forcing new allocations during page pinning to omit ZONE_MOVABLE, and also to migrate any existing pages from ZONE_MOVABLE during pinning. It uses the same scheme logic that is currently used by CMA, and extends the functionality for all allocations. For more information read the discussion [1] about this problem. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+CK2bBffHBxjmb9jmSKacm0fJMinyt3Nhk8Nx6iudcQSj80_w@mail.gmail.com This patch (of 14): In order not to fragment CMA the pinned pages are migrated. However, they are migrated to ZONE_MOVABLE, which also should not have pinned pages. Remove __GFP_MOVABLE, so pages can be migrated to zones where pinning is allowed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-30mm: gup: remove FOLL_SPLITYang Shi1-26/+2
Since commit 5a52c9df62b4 ("uprobe: use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD instead of FOLL_SPLIT") and commit ba925fa35057 ("s390/gmap: improve THP splitting") FOLL_SPLIT has not been used anymore. Remove the dead code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210330203900.9222-1-shy828301@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-30mm/gup: add a range variant of unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock()Joao Martins1-0/+62
Add an unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() API which takes a starting page and how many consecutive pages we want to unpin and optionally dirty. To that end, define another iterator for_each_compound_range() that operates in page ranges as opposed to page array. For users (like RDMA mr_dereg) where each sg represents a contiguous set of pages, we're able to more efficiently unpin pages without having to supply an array of pages much of what happens today with unpin_user_pages(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210212130843.13865-4-joao.m.martins@oracle.com Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-30mm/gup: decrement head page once for group of subpagesJoao Martins1-18/+11
Rather than decrementing the head page refcount one by one, we walk the page array and checking which belong to the same compound_head. Later on we decrement the calculated amount of references in a single write to the head page. To that end switch to for_each_compound_head() does most of the work. set_page_dirty() needs no adjustment as it's a nop for non-dirty head pages and it doesn't operate on tail pages. This considerably improves unpinning of pages with THP and hugetlbfs: - THP gup_test -t -m 16384 -r 10 [-L|-a] -S -n 512 -w PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK (put values): ~87.6k us -> ~23.2k us - 16G with 1G huge page size gup_test -f /mnt/huge/file -m 16384 -r 10 [-L|-a] -S -n 512 -w PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: (put values): ~87.6k us -> ~27.5k us Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210212130843.13865-3-joao.m.martins@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-30mm/gup: add compound page list iteratorJoao Martins1-0/+26
Patch series "mm/gup: page unpining improvements", v4. This series improves page unpinning, with an eye on improving MR deregistration for big swaths of memory (which is bound by the page unpining), particularly: 1) Decrement the head page by @ntails and thus reducing a lot the number of atomic operations per compound page. This is done by comparing individual tail pages heads, and counting number of consecutive tails on which they match heads and based on that update head page refcount. Should have a visible improvement in all page (un)pinners which use compound pages 2) Introducing a new API for unpinning page ranges (to avoid the trick in the previous item and be based on math), and use that in RDMA ib_mem_release (used for mr deregistration). Performance improvements: unpin_user_pages() for hugetlbfs and THP improves ~3x (through gup_test) and RDMA MR dereg improves ~4.5x with the new API. See patches 2 and 4 for those. This patch (of 4): Add a helper that iterates over head pages in a list of pages. It essentially counts the tails until the next page to process has a different head that the current. This is going to be used by unpin_user_pages() family of functions, to batch the head page refcount updates once for all passed consecutive tail pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210212130843.13865-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210212130843.13865-2-joao.m.martins@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-09mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump.Aili Yao1-0/+4
When we do coredump for user process signal, this may be an SIGBUS signal with BUS_MCEERR_AR or BUS_MCEERR_AO code, which means this signal is resulted from ECC memory fail like SRAR or SRAO, we expect the memory recovery work is finished correctly, then the get_dump_page() will not return the error page as its process pte is set invalid by memory_failure(). But memory_failure() may fail, and the process's related pte may not be correctly set invalid, for current code, we will return the poison page, get it dumped, and then lead to system panic as its in kernel code. So check the poison status in get_dump_page(), and if TRUE, return NULL. There maybe other scenario that is also better to check the posion status and not to panic, so make a wrapper for this check, Thanks to David's suggestion(<david@redhat.com>). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/0/false/] [yaoaili@kingsoft.com: is_page_poisoned() arg cannot be null, per Matthew] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322115233.05e4e82a@alex-virtual-machine Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319104437.6f30e80d@alex-virtual-machine Signed-off-by: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-02-24mm/hugetlb: grab head page refcount once for group of subpagesJoao Martins1-3/+2
Patch series "mm/hugetlb: follow_hugetlb_page() improvements", v2. While looking at ZONE_DEVICE struct page reuse particularly the last patch[0], I found two possible improvements for follow_hugetlb_page() which is solely used for get_user_pages()/pin_user_pages(). The first patch batches page refcount updates while the second tidies up storing the subpages/vmas. Both together bring the cost of slow variant of gup() cost from ~87.6k usecs to ~5.8k usecs. libhugetlbfs tests seem to pass as well gup_test benchmarks with hugetlbfs vmas. This patch (of 2): follow_hugetlb_page() once it locks the pmd/pud, checks all its N subpages in a huge page and grabs a reference for each one. Similar to gup-fast, have follow_hugetlb_page() grab the head page refcount only after counting all its subpages that are part of the just faulted huge page. Consequently we reduce the number of atomics necessary to pin said huge page, which improves non-fast gup() considerably: - 16G with 1G huge page size gup_test -f /mnt/huge/file -m 16384 -r 10 -L -S -n 512 -w PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: ~87.6k us -> ~12.8k us Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210128182632.24562-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210128182632.24562-2-joao.m.martins@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-203/+123
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few random little subsystems - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents get merged up. Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs, ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction, oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc, uaccess, zram, and cleanups). * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits) mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses mm: fix kernel-doc markups zram: break the strict dependency from lzo zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up zram: support page writeback mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage() mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open() userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable ...
2020-12-15mm: fix kernel-doc markupsMauro Carvalho Chehab1-11/+13
Kernel-doc markups should use this format: identifier - description Fix some issues on mm files: 1) The definition for get_user_pages_locked() doesn't follow it. Also, it expects a short descrpition at the header, followed by a long one, after the parameters. Fix it. 2) Kernel-doc requires that a kernel-doc markup to be immediately below the function prototype, as otherwise it will rename it. So, move get_pfnblock_flags_mask() description to the right place. 3) Make invalidate_mapping_pagevec() to also follow the expected kernel-doc format. While here, fix a few minor English syntax issues, as suggested by Matthew: will used -> will be used similar with -> similar to Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/80e85dddc92d333bc2159ee8a2294921612e8745.1605521731.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Mattew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> [English fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15mm/gup: combine put_compound_head() and unpin_user_page()Jason Gunthorpe1-80/+23
These functions accomplish the same thing but have different implementations. unpin_user_page() has a bug where it calls mod_node_page_state() after calling put_page() which creates a risk that the page could have been hot-uplugged from the system. Fix this by using put_compound_head() as the only implementation. __unpin_devmap_managed_user_page() and related can be deleted as well in favour of the simpler, but slower, version in put_compound_head() that has an extra atomic page_ref_sub, but always calls put_page() which internally contains the special devmap code. Move put_compound_head() to be directly after try_grab_compound_head() so people can find it in future. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0-v1-6730d4ee0d32+40e6-gup_combine_put_jgg@nvidia.com Fixes: 1970dc6f5226 ("mm/gup: /proc/vmstat: pin_user_pages (FOLL_PIN) reporting") Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> CC: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> CC: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> CC: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> CC: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> CC: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> CC: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15mm/gup: remove the vma allocation from gup_longterm_locked()Jason Gunthorpe1-68/+15
Long ago there wasn't a FOLL_LONGTERM flag so this DAX check was done by post-processing the VMA list. These days it is trivial to just check each VMA to see if it is DAX before processing it inside __get_user_pages() and return failure if a DAX VMA is encountered with FOLL_LONGTERM. Removing the allocation of the VMA list is a significant speed up for many call sites. Add an IS_ENABLED to vma_is_fsdax so that code generation is unchanged when DAX is compiled out. Remove the dummy version of __gup_longterm_locked() as !CONFIG_CMA already makes memalloc_nocma_save(), check_and_migrate_cma_pages(), and memalloc_nocma_restore() into a NOP. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0-v1-5551df3ed12e+b8-gup_dax_speedup_jgg@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during forkJason Gunthorpe1-0/+18
Since commit 70e806e4e645 ("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes") pages under a FOLL_PIN will not be write protected during COW for fork. This means that pages returned from pin_user_pages(FOLL_WRITE) should not become write protected while the pin is active. However, there is a small race where get_user_pages_fast(FOLL_PIN) can establish a FOLL_PIN at the same time copy_present_page() is write protecting it: CPU 0 CPU 1 get_user_pages_fast() internal_get_user_pages_fast() copy_page_range() pte_alloc_map_lock() copy_present_page() atomic_read(has_pinned) == 0 page_maybe_dma_pinned() == false atomic_set(has_pinned, 1); gup_pgd_range() gup_pte_range() pte_t pte = gup_get_pte(ptep) pte_access_permitted(pte) try_grab_compound_head() pte = pte_wrprotect(pte) set_pte_at(); pte_unmap_unlock() // GUP now returns with a write protected page The first attempt to resolve this by using the write protect caused problems (and was missing a barrrier), see commit f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid early COW write protect games during fork()") Instead wrap copy_p4d_range() with the write side of a seqcount and check the read side around gup_pgd_range(). If there is a collision then get_user_pages_fast() fails and falls back to slow GUP. Slow GUP is safe against this race because copy_page_range() is only called while holding the exclusive side of the mmap_lock on the src mm_struct. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wi=iCnYCARbPGjkVJu9eyYeZ13N64tZYLdOB8CP5Q_PLw@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com Fixes: f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid early COW write protect games during fork()") Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Acked-by: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de> [seqcount_t parts] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15mm/gup: reorganize internal_get_user_pages_fast()Jason Gunthorpe1-45/+54
Patch series "Add a seqcount between gup_fast and copy_page_range()", v4. As discussed and suggested by Linus use a seqcount to close the small race between gup_fast and copy_page_range(). Ahmed confirms that raw_write_seqcount_begin() is the correct API to use in this case and it doesn't trigger any lockdeps. I was able to test it using two threads, one forking and the other using ibv_reg_mr() to trigger GUP fast. Modifying copy_page_range() to sleep made the window large enough to reliably hit to test the logic. This patch (of 2): The next patch in this series makes the lockless flow a little more complex, so move the entire block into a new function and remove a level of indention. Tidy a bit of cruft: - addr is always the same as start, so use start - Use the modern check_add_overflow() for computing end = start + len - nr_pinned/pages << PAGE_SHIFT needs the LHS to be unsigned long to avoid shift overflow, make the variables unsigned long to avoid coding casts in both places. nr_pinned was missing its cast - The handling of ret and nr_pinned can be streamlined a bit No functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-03mm/gup: Provide gup_get_pte() more genericPeter Zijlstra1-57/+1
In order to write another lockless page-table walker, we need gup_get_pte() exposed. While doing that, rename it to ptep_get_lockless() to match the existing ptep_get() naming. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201126121121.036370527@infradead.org
2020-11-14mm/gup: use unpin_user_pages() in __gup_longterm_locked()Jason Gunthorpe1-4/+10
When FOLL_PIN is passed to __get_user_pages() the page list must be put back using unpin_user_pages() otherwise the page pin reference persists in a corrupted state. There are two places in the unwind of __gup_longterm_locked() that put the pages back without checking. Normally on error this function would return the partial page list making this the caller's responsibility, but in these two cases the caller is not allowed to see these pages at all. Fixes: 3faa52c03f44 ("mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages") Reported-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0-v2-3ae7d9d162e2+2a7-gup_cma_fix_jgg@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-16mm/gup: take mmap_lock in get_dump_page()Jann Horn1-6/+10
Properly take the mmap_lock before calling into the GUP code from get_dump_page(); and play nice, allowing the GUP code to drop the mmap_lock if it has to sleep. As Linus pointed out, we don't actually need the VMA because __get_user_pages() will flush the dcache for us if necessary. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-7-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-16binfmt_elf_fdpic: stop using dump_emit() on user pointers on !MMUJann Horn1-29/+28
Patch series "Fix ELF / FDPIC ELF core dumping, and use mmap_lock properly in there", v5. At the moment, we have that rather ugly mmget_still_valid() helper to work around <https://crbug.com/project-zero/1790>: ELF core dumping doesn't take the mmap_sem while traversing the task's VMAs, and if anything (like userfaultfd) then remotely messes with the VMA tree, fireworks ensue. So at the moment we use mmget_still_valid() to bail out in any writers that might be operating on a remote mm's VMAs. With this series, I'm trying to get rid of the need for that as cleanly as possible. ("cleanly" meaning "avoid holding the mmap_lock across unbounded sleeps".) Patches 1, 2, 3 and 4 are relatively unrelated cleanups in the core dumping code. Patches 5 and 6 implement the main change: Instead of repeatedly accessing the VMA list with sleeps in between, we snapshot it at the start with proper locking, and then later we just use our copy of the VMA list. This ensures that the kernel won't crash, that VMA metadata in the coredump is consistent even in the presence of concurrent modifications, and that any virtual addresses that aren't being concurrently modified have their contents show up in the core dump properly. The disadvantage of this approach is that we need a bit more memory during core dumping for storing metadata about all VMAs. At the end of the series, patch 7 removes the old workaround for this issue (mmget_still_valid()). I have tested: - Creating a simple core dump on X86-64 still works. - The created coredump on X86-64 opens in GDB and looks plausible. - X86-64 core dumps contain the first page for executable mappings at offset 0, and don't contain the first page for non-executable file mappings or executable mappings at offset !=0. - NOMMU 32-bit ARM can still generate plausible-looking core dumps through the FDPIC implementation. (I can't test this with GDB because GDB is missing some structure definition for nommu ARM, but I've poked around in the hexdump and it looked decent.) This patch (of 7): dump_emit() is for kernel pointers, and VMAs describe userspace memory. Let's be tidy here and avoid accessing userspace pointers under KERNEL_DS, even if it probably doesn't matter much on !MMU systems - especially given that it looks like we can just use the same get_dump_page() as on MMU if we move it out of the CONFIG_MMU block. One small change we have to make in get_dump_page() is to use __get_user_pages_locked() instead of __get_user_pages(), since the latter doesn't exist on nommu. On mmu builds, __get_user_pages_locked() will just call __get_user_pages() for us. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-1-jannh@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-2-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>