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<entry>
<title>mm/uffd: fix warning without PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP compiled in</title>
<updated>2022-10-24T07:56:48Z</updated>
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<name>Peter Xu</name>
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commit 515778e2d790652a38a24554fdb7f21420d91efc upstream.

When PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP not configured, it's still possible to reach pte
marker code and trigger an warning. Add a few CONFIG_PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP
ifdefs to make sure the code won't be reached when not compiled in.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YzeR+R6b4bwBlBHh@x1n
Fixes: b1f9e876862d ("mm/uffd: enable write protection for shmem &amp; hugetlbfs")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: &lt;syzbot+2b9b4f0895be09a6dec3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: Edward Liaw &lt;edliaw@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liu Shixin &lt;liushixin2@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/mprotect: only reference swap pfn page if type match</title>
<updated>2022-08-31T15:18:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T22:11:38Z</published>
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commit 3d2f78f08cd8388035ac375e731ec1ac1b79b09d upstream.

Yu Zhao reported a bug after the commit "mm/swap: Add swp_offset_pfn() to
fetch PFN from swap entry" added a check in swp_offset_pfn() for swap type [1]:

  kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:117!
  CPU: 46 PID: 5245 Comm: EventManager_De Tainted: G S         O L 6.0.0-dbg-DEV #2
  RIP: 0010:pfn_swap_entry_to_page+0x72/0xf0
  Code: c6 48 8b 36 48 83 fe ff 74 53 48 01 d1 48 83 c1 08 48 8b 09 f6
  c1 01 75 7b 66 90 48 89 c1 48 8b 09 f6 c1 01 74 74 5d c3 eb 9e &lt;0f&gt; 0b
  48 ba ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 eb ae a9 ff 0f 00 00 75 13 48
  RSP: 0018:ffffa59e73fabb80 EFLAGS: 00010282
  RAX: 00000000ffffffe8 RBX: 0c00000000000000 RCX: ffffcd5440000000
  RDX: 1ffffffffff7a80a RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0c0000000000042b
  RBP: ffffa59e73fabb80 R08: ffff9965ca6e8bb8 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: ffffffffa5a2f62d R11: 0000030b372e9fff R12: ffff997b79db5738
  R13: 000000000000042b R14: 0c0000000000042b R15: 1ffffffffff7a80a
  FS:  00007f549d1bb700(0000) GS:ffff99d3cf680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000440d035b3180 CR3: 0000002243176004 CR4: 00000000003706e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   change_pte_range+0x36e/0x880
   change_p4d_range+0x2e8/0x670
   change_protection_range+0x14e/0x2c0
   mprotect_fixup+0x1ee/0x330
   do_mprotect_pkey+0x34c/0x440
   __x64_sys_mprotect+0x1d/0x30

It triggers because pfn_swap_entry_to_page() could be called upon e.g. a
genuine swap entry.

Fix it by only calling it when it's a write migration entry where the page*
is used.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAOUHufaVC2Za-p8m0aiHw6YkheDcrO-C3wRGixwDS32VTS+k1w@mail.gmail.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220823221138.45602-1-peterx@redhat.com
Fixes: 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: handle UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T14:20:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-13T03:22:54Z</published>
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This starts from passing cp_flags into hugetlb_change_protection() so
hugetlb will be able to handle MM_CP_UFFD_WP[_RESOLVE] requests.

huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp() is introduced to handle the case where the
UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT is requested upon migrating huge page entries.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405014906.14708-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/shmem: allows file-back mem to be uffd wr-protected on thps</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T14:20:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-13T03:22:53Z</published>
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We don't have "huge" version of pte markers, instead when necessary we
split the thp.

However split the thp is not enough, because file-backed thp is handled
totally differently comparing to anonymous thps: rather than doing a real
split, the thp pmd will simply got cleared in __split_huge_pmd_locked().

That is not enough if e.g.  when there is a thp covers range [0, 2M) but
we want to wr-protect small page resides in [4K, 8K) range, because after
__split_huge_pmd() returns, there will be a none pmd, and
change_pmd_range() will just skip it right after the split.

Here we leverage the previously introduced change_pmd_prepare() macro so
that we'll populate the pmd with a pgtable page after the pmd split (in
which process the pmd will be cleared for cases like shmem).  Then
change_pte_range() will do all the rest for us by installing the uffd-wp
pte marker at any none pte that we'd like to wr-protect.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405014852.14413-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/shmem: allow uffd wr-protect none pte for file-backed mem</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T14:20:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-13T03:22:53Z</published>
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File-backed memory differs from anonymous memory in that even if the pte
is missing, the data could still resides either in the file or in
page/swap cache.  So when wr-protect a pte, we need to consider none ptes
too.

We do that by installing the uffd-wp pte markers when necessary.  So when
there's a future write to the pte, the fault handler will go the special
path to first fault-in the page as read-only, then report to userfaultfd
server with the wr-protect message.

On the other hand, when unprotecting a page, it's also possible that the
pte got unmapped but replaced by the special uffd-wp marker.  Then we'll
need to be able to recover from a uffd-wp pte marker into a none pte, so
that the next access to the page will fault in correctly as usual when
accessed the next time.

Special care needs to be taken throughout the change_protection_range()
process.  Since now we allow user to wr-protect a none pte, we need to be
able to pre-populate the page table entries if we see (!anonymous &amp;&amp;
MM_CP_UFFD_WP) requests, otherwise change_protection_range() will always
skip when the pgtable entry does not exist.

For example, the pgtable can be missing for a whole chunk of 2M pmd, but
the page cache can exist for the 2M range.  When we want to wr-protect one
4K page within the 2M pmd range, we need to pre-populate the pgtable and
install the pte marker showing that we want to get a message and block the
thread when the page cache of that 4K page is written.  Without
pre-populating the pmd, change_protection() will simply skip that whole
pmd.

Note that this patch only covers the small pages (pte level) but not
covering any of the transparent huge pages yet.  That will be done later,
and this patch will be a preparation for it too.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405014850.14352-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: teach core mm about pte markers</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T14:20:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-13T03:22:52Z</published>
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This patch still does not use pte marker in any way, however it teaches
the core mm about the pte marker idea.

For example, handle_pte_marker() is introduced that will parse and handle
all the pte marker faults.

Many of the places are more about commenting it up - so that we know
there's the possibility of pte marker showing up, and why we don't need
special code for the cases.

[peterx@redhat.com: userfaultfd.c needs swapops.h]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YmRlVj3cdizYJsr0@xz-m1.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405014833.14015-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/mprotect: do not flush when not required architecturally</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T14:20:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nadav Amit</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-10T01:20:50Z</published>
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Currently, using mprotect() to unprotect a memory region or uffd to
unprotect a memory region causes a TLB flush.  However, in such cases the
PTE is often not modified (i.e., remain RO) and therefore not TLB flush is
needed.

Add an arch-specific pte_needs_flush() which tells whether a TLB flush is
needed based on the old PTE and the new one.  Implement an x86
pte_needs_flush().

Always flush the TLB when it is architecturally needed even when skipping
a TLB flush might only result in a spurious page-faults by skipping the
flush.

Even with such conservative manner, we can in the future further refine
the checks to test whether a PTE is present by only considering the
architectural _PAGE_PRESENT flag instead of {pte|pmd}_preesnt().  For not
be careful and use the latter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401180821.1986781-3-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/mprotect: use mmu_gather</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T14:20:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nadav Amit</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-10T01:20:50Z</published>
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Patch series "mm/mprotect: avoid unnecessary TLB flushes", v6.

This patchset is intended to remove unnecessary TLB flushes during
mprotect() syscalls.  Once this patch-set make it through, similar and
further optimizations for MADV_COLD and userfaultfd would be possible.

Basically, there are 3 optimizations in this patch-set:

1. Use TLB batching infrastructure to batch flushes across VMAs and do
   better/fewer flushes.  This would also be handy for later userfaultfd
   enhancements.

2. Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes.  This optimization is the one that
   provides most of the performance benefits.  Unlike previous versions,
   we now only avoid flushes that would not result in spurious
   page-faults.

3. Avoiding TLB flushes on change_huge_pmd() that are only needed to
   prevent the A/D bits from changing.

Andrew asked for some benchmark numbers.  I do not have an easy
determinate macrobenchmark in which it is easy to show benefit.  I
therefore ran a microbenchmark: a loop that does the following on
anonymous memory, just as a sanity check to see that time is saved by
avoiding TLB flushes.  The loop goes:

	mprotect(p, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ)
	mprotect(p, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE)
	*p = 0; // make the page writable

The test was run in KVM guest with 1 or 2 threads (the second thread was
busy-looping).  I measured the time (cycles) of each operation:

		1 thread		2 threads
		mmots	+patch		mmots	+patch
PROT_READ	3494	2725 (-22%)	8630	7788 (-10%)
PROT_READ|WRITE	3952	2724 (-31%)	9075	2865 (-68%)

[ mmots = v5.17-rc6-mmots-2022-03-06-20-38 ]

The exact numbers are really meaningless, but the benefit is clear.  There
are 2 interesting results though.  

(1) PROT_READ is cheaper, while one can expect it not to be affected. 
This is presumably due to TLB miss that is saved

(2) Without memory access (*p = 0), the speedup of the patch is even
greater.  In that scenario mprotect(PROT_READ) also avoids the TLB flush. 
As a result both operations on the patched kernel take roughly ~1500
cycles (with either 1 or 2 threads), whereas on mmotm their cost is as
high as presented in the table.


This patch (of 3):

change_pXX_range() currently does not use mmu_gather, but instead
implements its own deferred TLB flushes scheme.  This both complicates the
code, as developers need to be aware of different invalidation schemes,
and prevents opportunities to avoid TLB flushes or perform them in finer
granularity.

The use of mmu_gather for modified PTEs has benefits in various scenarios
even if pages are not released.  For instance, if only a single page needs
to be flushed out of a range of many pages, only that page would be
flushed.  If a THP page is flushed, on x86 a single TLB invlpg instruction
can be used instead of 512 instructions (or a full TLB flush, which would
Linux would actually use by default).  mprotect() over multiple VMAs
requires a single flush.

Use mmu_gather in change_pXX_range().  As the pages are not released, only
record the flushed range using tlb_flush_pXX_range().

Handle THP similarly and get rid of flush_cache_range() which becomes
redundant since tlb_start_vma() calls it when needed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401180821.1986781-1-namit@vmware.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401180821.1986781-2-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive</title>
<updated>2022-05-10T01:20:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-10T01:20:44Z</published>
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Let's mark exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive as
exclusive, and use that information to make GUP pins reliable and stay
consistent with the page mapped into the page table even if the page table
entry gets write-protected.

With that information at hand, we can extend our COW logic to always reuse
anonymous pages that are exclusive.  For anonymous pages that might be
shared, the existing logic applies.

As already documented, PG_anon_exclusive is usually only expressive in
combination with a page table entry.  Especially PTE vs.  PMD-mapped
anonymous pages require more thought, some examples: due to mremap() we
can easily have a single compound page PTE-mapped into multiple page
tables exclusively in a single process -- multiple page table locks apply.
Further, due to MADV_WIPEONFORK we might not necessarily write-protect
all PTEs, and only some subpages might be pinned.  Long story short: once
PTE-mapped, we have to track information about exclusivity per sub-page,
but until then, we can just track it for the compound page in the head
page and not having to update a whole bunch of subpages all of the time
for a simple PMD mapping of a THP.

For simplicity, this commit mostly talks about "anonymous pages", while
it's for THP actually "the part of an anonymous folio referenced via a
page table entry".

To not spill PG_anon_exclusive code all over the mm code-base, we let the
anon rmap code to handle all PG_anon_exclusive logic it can easily handle.

If a writable, present page table entry points at an anonymous (sub)page,
that (sub)page must be PG_anon_exclusive.  If GUP wants to take a reliably
pin (FOLL_PIN) on an anonymous page references via a present page table
entry, it must only pin if PG_anon_exclusive is set for the mapped
(sub)page.

This commit doesn't adjust GUP, so this is only implicitly handled for
FOLL_WRITE, follow-up commits will teach GUP to also respect it for
FOLL_PIN without FOLL_WRITE, to make all GUP pins of anonymous pages fully
reliable.

Whenever an anonymous page is to be shared (fork(), KSM), or when
temporarily unmapping an anonymous page (swap, migration), the relevant
PG_anon_exclusive bit has to be cleared to mark the anonymous page
possibly shared.  Clearing will fail if there are GUP pins on the page:

* For fork(), this means having to copy the page and not being able to
  share it.  fork() protects against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and
  the src_mm-&gt;write_protect_seq.

* For KSM, this means sharing will fail.  For swap this means, unmapping
  will fail, For migration this means, migration will fail early.  All
  three cases protect against concurrent GUP using the PT lock and a
  proper clear/invalidate+flush of the relevant page table entry.

This fixes memory corruptions reported for FOLL_PIN | FOLL_WRITE, when a
pinned page gets mapped R/O and the successive write fault ends up
replacing the page instead of reusing it.  It improves the situation for
O_DIRECT/vmsplice/...  that still use FOLL_GET instead of FOLL_PIN, if
fork() is *not* involved, however swapout and fork() are still
problematic.  Properly using FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET for these GUP
users will fix the issue for them.

I. Details about basic handling

I.1. Fresh anonymous pages

page_add_new_anon_rmap() and hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap() will mark the
given page exclusive via __page_set_anon_rmap(exclusive=1).  As that is
the mechanism fresh anonymous pages come into life (besides migration code
where we copy the page-&gt;mapping), all fresh anonymous pages will start out
as exclusive.

I.2. COW reuse handling of anonymous pages

When a COW handler stumbles over a (sub)page that's marked exclusive, it
simply reuses it.  Otherwise, the handler tries harder under page lock to
detect if the (sub)page is exclusive and can be reused.  If exclusive,
page_move_anon_rmap() will mark the given (sub)page exclusive.

Note that hugetlb code does not yet check for PageAnonExclusive(), as it
still uses the old COW logic that is prone to the COW security issue
because hugetlb code cannot really tolerate unnecessary/wrong COW as huge
pages are a scarce resource.

I.3. Migration handling

try_to_migrate() has to try marking an exclusive anonymous page shared via
page_try_share_anon_rmap().  If it fails because there are GUP pins on the
page, unmap fails.  migrate_vma_collect_pmd() and
__split_huge_pmd_locked() are handled similarly.

Writable migration entries implicitly point at shared anonymous pages. 
For readable migration entries that information is stored via a new
"readable-exclusive" migration entry, specific to anonymous pages.

When restoring a migration entry in remove_migration_pte(), information
about exlusivity is detected via the migration entry type, and
RMAP_EXCLUSIVE is set accordingly for
page_add_anon_rmap()/hugepage_add_anon_rmap() to restore that information.

I.4. Swapout handling

try_to_unmap() has to try marking the mapped page possibly shared via
page_try_share_anon_rmap().  If it fails because there are GUP pins on the
page, unmap fails.  For now, information about exclusivity is lost.  In
the future, we might want to remember that information in the swap entry
in some cases, however, it requires more thought, care, and a way to store
that information in swap entries.

I.5. Swapin handling

do_swap_page() will never stumble over exclusive anonymous pages in the
swap cache, as try_to_migrate() prohibits that.  do_swap_page() always has
to detect manually if an anonymous page is exclusive and has to set
RMAP_EXCLUSIVE for page_add_anon_rmap() accordingly.

I.6. THP handling

__split_huge_pmd_locked() has to move the information about exclusivity
from the PMD to the PTEs.

a) In case we have a readable-exclusive PMD migration entry, simply
   insert readable-exclusive PTE migration entries.

b) In case we have a present PMD entry and we don't want to freeze
   ("convert to migration entries"), simply forward PG_anon_exclusive to
   all sub-pages, no need to temporarily clear the bit.

c) In case we have a present PMD entry and want to freeze, handle it
   similar to try_to_migrate(): try marking the page shared first.  In
   case we fail, we ignore the "freeze" instruction and simply split
   ordinarily.  try_to_migrate() will properly fail because the THP is
   still mapped via PTEs.

When splitting a compound anonymous folio (THP), the information about
exclusivity is implicitly handled via the migration entries: no need to
replicate PG_anon_exclusive manually.

I.7.  fork() handling fork() handling is relatively easy, because
PG_anon_exclusive is only expressive for some page table entry types.

a) Present anonymous pages

page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared -- which will
fail if the page is pinned.  If it failed, we have to copy (or PTE-map a
PMD to handle it on the PTE level).

Note that device exclusive entries are just a pointer at a PageAnon()
page.  fork() will first convert a device exclusive entry to a present
page table and handle it just like present anonymous pages.

b) Device private entry

Device private entries point at PageAnon() pages that cannot be mapped
directly and, therefore, cannot get pinned.

page_try_dup_anon_rmap() will mark the given subpage shared, which cannot
fail because they cannot get pinned.

c) HW poison entries

PG_anon_exclusive will remain untouched and is stale -- the page table
entry is just a placeholder after all.

d) Migration entries

Writable and readable-exclusive entries are converted to readable entries:
possibly shared.

I.8. mprotect() handling

mprotect() only has to properly handle the new readable-exclusive
migration entry:

When write-protecting a migration entry that points at an anonymous page,
remember the information about exclusivity via the "readable-exclusive"
migration entry type.

II. Migration and GUP-fast

Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive
anonymous page by a migration entry, we have to mark the page possibly
shared and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush
to make the following scenario impossible:

1. try_to_migrate() places a migration entry after checking for GUP pins
   and marks the page possibly shared.

2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization

3. fork() converts the "writable/readable-exclusive" migration entry into a
   readable migration entry

4. Migration fails due to the GUP pin (failing to freeze the refcount)

5. Migration entries are restored. PG_anon_exclusive is lost

-&gt; We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore.

Note that we move information about exclusivity from the page to the
migration entry as it otherwise highly overcomplicates fork() and
PTE-mapping a THP.

III. Swapout and GUP-fast

Whenever replacing a present page table entry that maps an exclusive
anonymous page by a swap entry, we have to mark the page possibly shared
and synchronize against GUP-fast by a proper clear/invalidate+flush to
make the following scenario impossible:

1. try_to_unmap() places a swap entry after checking for GUP pins and
   clears exclusivity information on the page.

2. GUP-fast pins the page due to lack of synchronization.

-&gt; We have a pinned page that is not marked exclusive anymore.

If we'd ever store information about exclusivity in the swap entry,
similar to migration handling, the same considerations as in II would
apply.  This is future work.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428083441.37290-13-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Don Dutile &lt;ddutile@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Liang Zhang &lt;zhangliang5@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes &lt;pedrodemargomes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>memory tiering: skip to scan fast memory</title>
<updated>2022-03-22T22:57:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T21:46:27Z</published>
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If the NUMA balancing isn't used to optimize the page placement among
sockets but only among memory types, the hot pages in the fast memory
node couldn't be migrated (promoted) to anywhere.  So it's unnecessary
to scan the pages in the fast memory node via changing their PTE/PMD
mapping to be PROT_NONE.  So that the page faults could be avoided too.

In the test, if only the memory tiering NUMA balancing mode is enabled,
the number of the NUMA balancing hint faults for the DRAM node is
reduced to almost 0 with the patch.  While the benchmark score doesn't
change visibly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221084529.1052339-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: zhongjiang-ali &lt;zhongjiang-ali@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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