kernel.git/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst, branch linux-6.15.y

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-04-01T17:06:52Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic layers. - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the get_maintainer output. - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the ucount code. - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot. - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to secs_to_jiffies(). - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds some more tests and performs some cleanups. - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task. - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros. - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the individual changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits) mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan() relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES() resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED() resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED() samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap() lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers lib/rbtree: add random seed lib/rbtree: split tests lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 ...

MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry

2025-03-22T05:03:14Z

Commit dcdfdd40fa82 ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory") added a entry to meminfo but did not document it in the proc.rst file. This counter tracks the amount of "Unaccepted" guest memory for some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP. Add the missing entry in the documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250317230403.79632-1-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Jeff Xu Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: xu xin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers

2025-03-22T05:03:13Z

Patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers", v2. This series introduces a way to track memory used by balloon drivers. Add a NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by the balloon drivers. First add the accounting, then updates the balloon drivers (virtio, Hyper-V, VMware, Pseries-cmm, and Xen) to maintain this counter. The virtio, Vmware, and pseries-cmm balloon drivers utilize the balloon_compaction interface to allocate and free balloon pages. Other balloon drivers will have to maintain this counter manually. This makes the information visible in memory reporting interfaces like /proc/meminfo, show_mem, and OOM reporting. This provides admins visibility into their VM balloon sizes without requiring different virtualization tooling. Furthermore, this information is helpful when debugging an OOM inside a VM. This patch (of 4): Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces. [npache@redhat.com: document Balloon Meminfo entry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-1-npache@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-2-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache Cc: Alexander Atanasov Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Juegren Gross Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Michael Kelley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: stop maintaining the per-page mapcount of large folios (CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT)

2025-03-18T05:06:48Z

Everything is in place to stop using the per-page mapcounts in large folios: the mapcount of tail pages will always be logically 0 (-1 value), just like it currently is for hugetlb folios already, and the page mapcount of the head page is either 0 (-1 value) or contains a page type (e.g., hugetlb). Maintaining _nr_pages_mapped without per-page mapcounts is impossible, so that one also has to go with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. There are two remaining implications: (1) Per-node, per-cgroup and per-lruvec stats of "NR_ANON_MAPPED" ("mapped anonymous memory") and "NR_FILE_MAPPED" ("mapped file memory"): As soon as any page of the folio is mapped -- folio_mapped() -- we now account the complete folio as mapped. Once the last page is unmapped -- !folio_mapped() -- we account the complete folio as unmapped. This implies that ... * "AnonPages" and "Mapped" in /proc/meminfo and /sys/devices/system/node/*/meminfo * cgroup v2: "anon" and "file_mapped" in "memory.stat" and "memory.numa_stat" * cgroup v1: "rss" and "mapped_file" in "memory.stat" and "memory.numa_stat ... can now appear higher than before. But note that these folios do consume that memory, simply not all pages are actually currently mapped. It's worth nothing that other accounting in the kernel (esp. cgroup charging on allocation) is not affected by this change. [why oh why is "anon" called "rss" in cgroup v1] (2) Detecting partial mappings Detecting whether anon THPs are partially mapped gets a bit more unreliable. As long as a single MM maps such a large folio ("exclusively mapped"), we can reliably detect it. Especially before fork() / after a short-lived child process quit, we will detect partial mappings reliably, which is the common case. In essence, if the average per-page mapcount in an anon THP is < 1, we know for sure that we have a partial mapping. However, as soon as multiple MMs are involved, we might miss detecting partial mappings: this might be relevant with long-lived child processes. If we have a fully-mapped anon folio before fork(), once our child processes and our parent all unmap (zap/COW) the same pages (but not the complete folio), we might not detect the partial mapping. However, once the child processes quit we would detect the partial mapping. How relevant this case is in practice remains to be seen. Swapout/migration will likely mitigate this. In the future, RMAP walkers could check for that for that case (e.g., when collecting access bits during reclaim) and simply flag them for deferred-splitting. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-21-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michal Koutn Cc: Muchun Song Cc: tejun heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/proc/task_mmu: remove per-page mapcount dependency for smaps/smaps_rollup (CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT)

2025-03-18T05:06:47Z

Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. When computing the output for smaps / smaps_rollups, in particular when calculating the USS (Unique Set Size) and the PSS (Proportional Set Size), we still rely on per-page mapcounts. To determine private vs. shared, we'll use folio_likely_mapped_shared(), similar to how we handle PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE. Similarly, we might now under-estimate the USS and count pages towards "shared" that are actually "private" ("exclusively mapped"). When calculating the PSS, we'll now also use the average per-page mapcount for large folios: this can result in both, an over-estimation and an under-estimation of the PSS. The difference is not expected to matter much in practice, but we'll have to learn as we go. We can now provide folio_precise_page_mapcount() only with CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT, and remove one of the last users of per-page mapcounts when CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT is enabled. Document the new behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-20-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michal Koutn Cc: Muchun Song Cc: tejun heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs/proc/task_mmu: remove per-page mapcount dependency for "mapmax" (CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT)

2025-03-18T05:06:47Z

Let's implement an alternative when per-page mapcounts in large folios are no longer maintained -- soon with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. For calculating "mapmax", we now use the average per-page mapcount in a large folio instead of the per-page mapcount. For hugetlb folios and folios that are not partially mapped into MMs, there is no change. Likely, this change will not matter much in practice, and an alternative might be to simple remove this stat with CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT. However, there might be value to it, so let's keep it like that and document the behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-19-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) Cc: Michal Koutn Cc: Muchun Song Cc: tejun heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

docs,procfs: document /proc/PID/* access permission checks

2025-03-17T05:30:47Z

Add a paragraph explaining what sort of capabilities a process would need to read procfs data for some other process. Also mention that reading data for its own process doesn't require any extra permissions. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129001747.759990-1-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst: fix possessive form of "process"

2025-01-26T04:22:40Z

The possessive form of "process" is "process's". Fix up various misdirected attempts at this. Also reflow some paragraphs. Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Wang Yaxin Cc: xu xin Cc: Yang Yang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ksm: add ksm involvement information for each process

2025-01-26T04:22:40Z

In /proc//ksm_stat, add two extra ksm involvement items including KSM_mergeable and KSM_merge_any. It helps administrators to better know the system's KSM behavior at process level. ksm_merge_any: yes/no whether the process'mm is added by prctl() into the candidate list of KSM or not, and fully enabled at process level. ksm_mergeable: yes/no whether any VMAs of the process'mm are currently applicable to KSM. Purpose ======= These two items are just to improve the observability of KSM at process level, so that users can know if a certain process has enabled KSM. For example, if without these two items, when we look at /proc//ksm_stat and there's no merging pages found, We are not sure whether it is because KSM was not enabled or because KSM did not successfully merge any pages. Although "mg" in /proc//smaps indicate VM_MERGEABLE, it's opaque and not very obvious for non professionals. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: wording tweaks, per David and akpm] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110174034304QOb8eDoqtFkp3_t8mqnqc@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: xu xin Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Tested-by: Mario Casquero Cc: Wang Yaxin Cc: Yang Yang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: Define VM_SHADOW_STACK for arm64 when we support GCS

2024-10-04T11:04:36Z

Use VM_HIGH_ARCH_5 for guarded control stack pages. Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001-arm64-gcs-v13-14-222b78d87eee@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas