kernel.git/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst, branch linux-6.4.y

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-04-28T02:57:00Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Mainly singleton patches all over the place. Series of note are: - updates to scripts/gdb from Glenn Washburn - kexec cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (50 commits) mailmap: add entries for Paul Mackerras libgcc: add forward declarations for generic library routines mailmap: add entry for Oleksandr ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status ia64: fix an addr to taddr in huge_pte_offset() checkpatch: introduce proper bindings license check epoll: rename global epmutex scripts/gdb: add GDB convenience functions $lx_dentry_name() and $lx_i_dentry() scripts/gdb: create linux/vfs.py for VFS related GDB helpers uapi/linux/const.h: prefer ISO-friendly __typeof__ delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ scripts/gdb: timerlist: convert int chunks to str scripts/gdb: print interrupts scripts/gdb: raise error with reduced debugging information scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser lib/rbtree: use '+' instead of '|' for setting color. proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time() checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-04-28T02:42:02Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of switching from a user process to a kernel thread. - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav. - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky. - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the alteration of memcg userspace tunables. - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig: - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page() - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap backing. Use `mount -o noswap'. - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing some scalability benefits. - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its operations O(1) rather than O(n). - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd, permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes. - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its unintuitive meaning. - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature, which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte. - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge(): cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test harness. - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes. - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c. - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more. - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases. - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge(). - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code. - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults. - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to per-VMA locking. - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads. - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig logic. - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a chunk of memory if zswap is not being used. - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing. - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged, userfaultfd and shmem. - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related code paths. - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's testing of our pte state changing. - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it. - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd selftests. - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting. - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the selftests/mm code. - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned pages. - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time. - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a per-process and per-cgroup basis. * tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file() sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area() hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map() maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area() mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs mm: add new api to enable ksm per process mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma() lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper ...

fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status

2023-04-21T21:54:34Z

The command `ps -ef ` and `top -c` mark kernel thread by '[' and ']', but sometimes the result is not correct. The task->flags in /proc/$pid/stat is good, but we need remember the value of PF_KTHREAD is 0x00200000 and convert dec to hex. If we have no binary program and shell script which read /proc/$pid/stat, we can know it directly by `cat /proc/$pid/status`. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230416052404.2920-1-fullspring2018@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Chunguang Wu Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/memtest: add results of early memtest to /proc/meminfo

2023-04-06T02:42:55Z

Currently the memtest results were only presented in dmesg. When running a large fleet of devices without ECC RAM it's currently not easy to do bulk monitoring for memory corruption. You have to parse dmesg, but that's a ring buffer so the error might disappear after some time. In general I do not consider dmesg to be a great API to query RAM status. In several companies I've seen such errors remain undetected and cause issues for way too long. So I think it makes sense to provide a monitoring API, so that we can safely detect and act upon them. This adds /proc/meminfo entry which can be easily used by scripts. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321103430.7130-1-tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Mudrunka Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Documentation: fs/proc: corrections and update

2023-03-14T17:38:13Z

Update URL for the latest online version of this document. Correct "files" to "fields" in a few places. Update /proc/scsi, /proc/stat, and /proc/fs/ext4 information. Drop /usr/src/ from the location of the kernel source tree. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230314060347.605-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: proc.rst: add softnet_stat to /proc/net table

2023-01-02T23:28:24Z

/proc/net/softnet_stat exists for a long time, but proc.rst miss it. Softnet_stat shows some statistics of struct softnet_data of online CPUs. Struct softnet_data manages incoming and output packets on per-CPU queues. Note that fastroute and cpu_collision in softnet_stat are obsolete and their value is always 0. Signed-off-by: Yang Yang Reviewed-by: xu xin Reviewed-by: Zhang Yunkai Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202212091421536982085@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-12-14T03:29:45Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu - Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying - Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola - David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW handling - Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin - Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki - Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew Wilcox - A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use it - Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the __no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword. This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad - Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and memory section removal for huge pages - DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park - Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages - Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors - Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it and making it more efficient - Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and David Hildenbrand - zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky - David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which didn't work very well anyway - Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain enabled during per-cpu page allocations - Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper - Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of pagecache - David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW breaking - Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's zsmalloc backend - Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in file[map]_write_and_wait_range() - sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang Chen - Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect - Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several filesystems. They only need .writepages() - Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target beancounting - David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit machines - Many singleton patches, as usual * tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits) mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment kmsan: fix memcpy tests mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry() mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until() mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure omfs: remove ->writepage jfs: remove ->writepage ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-12-13T01:28:58Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - A ptrace API cleanup series from Sergey Shtylyov - Fixes and cleanups for kexec from ye xingchen - nilfs2 updates from Ryusuke Konishi - squashfs feature work from Xiaoming Ni: permit configuration of the filesystem's compression concurrency from the mount command line - A series from Akinobu Mita which addresses bound checking errors when writing to debugfs files - A series from Yang Yingliang to address rapidio memory leaks - A series from Zheng Yejian to address possible overflow errors in encode_comp_t() - And a whole shower of singleton patches all over the place * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (79 commits) ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() hfsplus: fix bug causing custom uid and gid being unable to be assigned with mount rapidio: devices: fix missing put_device in mport_cdev_open kcov: fix spelling typos in comments hfs: Fix OOB Write in hfs_asc2mac hfs: fix OOB Read in __hfs_brec_find relay: fix type mismatch when allocating memory in relay_create_buf() ocfs2: always read both high and low parts of dinode link count io-mapping: move some code within the include guarded section kernel: kcsan: kcsan_test: build without structleak plugin mailmap: update email for Iskren Chernev eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal() ifndef CONFIG_EVENTFD rapidio: fix possible UAF when kfifo_alloc() fails relay: use strscpy() is more robust and safer cpumask: limit visibility of FORCE_NR_CPUS acct: fix potential integer overflow in encode_comp_t() acct: fix accuracy loss for input value of encode_comp_t() linux/init.h: include and rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport() rapidio: fix possible name leaks when rio_add_device() fails ...

mm: anonymous shared memory naming

2022-11-30T23:58:55Z

Since commit 9a10064f5625 ("mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory"), name for private anonymous memory, but not shared anonymous, can be set. However, naming shared anonymous memory just as useful for tracking purposes. Extend the functionality to be able to set names for shared anon. There are two ways to create anonymous shared memory, using memfd or directly via mmap(): 1. fd = memfd_create(...) mem = mmap(..., MAP_SHARED, fd, ...) 2. mem = mmap(..., MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, ...) In both cases the anonymous shared memory is created the same way by mapping an unlinked file on tmpfs. The memfd way allows to give a name for anonymous shared memory, but not useful when parts of shared memory require to have distinct names. Example use case: The VMM maps VM memory as anonymous shared memory (not private because VMM is sandboxed and drivers are running in their own processes). However, the VM tells back to the VMM how parts of the memory are actually used by the guest, how each of the segments should be backed (i.e. 4K pages, 2M pages), and some other information about the segments. The naming allows us to monitor the effective memory footprint for each of these segments from the host without looking inside the guest. Sample output: /* Create shared anonymous segmenet */ anon_shmem = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); /* Name the segment: "MY-NAME" */ rv = prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, anon_shmem, SIZE, "MY-NAME"); cat /proc//maps (and smaps): 7fc8e2b4c000-7fc8f2b4c000 rw-s 00000000 00:01 1024 [anon_shmem:MY-NAME] If the segment is not named, the output is: 7fc8e2b4c000-7fc8f2b4c000 rw-s 00000000 00:01 1024 /dev/zero (deleted) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221115020602.804224-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Colin Cross Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Vincent Whitchurch Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: xu xin Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

proc: report open files as size in stat() for /proc/pid/fd

2022-11-18T21:55:07Z

Many monitoring tools include open file count as a metric. Currently the only way to get this number is to enumerate the files in /proc/pid/fd. The problem with the current approach is that it does many things people generally don't care about when they need one number for a metric. In our tests for cadvisor, which reports open file counts per cgroup, we observed that reading the number of open files is slow. Out of 35.23% of CPU time spent in `proc_readfd_common`, we see 29.43% spent in `proc_fill_cache`, which is responsible for filling dentry info. Some of this extra time is spinlock contention, but it's a contention for the lock we don't want to take to begin with. We considered putting the number of open files in /proc/pid/status. Unfortunately, counting the number of fds involves iterating the open_files bitmap, which has a linear complexity in proportion with the number of open files (bitmap slots really, but it's close). We don't want to make /proc/pid/status any slower, so instead we put this info in /proc/pid/fd as a size member of the stat syscall result. Previously the reported number was zero, so there's very little risk of breaking anything, while still providing a somewhat logical way to count the open files with a fallback if it's zero. RFC for this patch included iterating open fds under RCU. Thanks to Frank Hofmann for the suggestion to use the bitmap instead. Previously: ``` $ sudo stat /proc/1/fd | head -n2 File: /proc/1/fd Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 directory ``` With this patch: ``` $ sudo stat /proc/1/fd | head -n2 File: /proc/1/fd Size: 65 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 directory ``` Correctness check: ``` $ sudo ls /proc/1/fd | wc -l 65 ``` I added the docs for /proc//fd while I'm at it. [ivan@cloudflare.com: use bitmap_weight() to count the bits] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018045844.37697-1-ivan@cloudflare.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: include linux/bitmap.h for bitmap_weight()] [ivan@cloudflare.com: return errno from proc_fd_getattr() instead of setting negative size] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221024173140.30673-1-ivan@cloudflare.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220922224027.59266-1-ivan@cloudflare.com Signed-off-by: Ivan Babrou Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Anton Mitterer Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Laight Cc: Ivan Babrou Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kalesh Singh Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton