kernel.git/mm/mremap.c, branch linux-4.20.y

mm: mremap: downgrade mmap_sem to read when shrinking

2018-10-26T23:26:35Z

Other than munmap, mremap might be used to shrink memory mapping too. So, it may hold write mmap_sem for long time when shrinking large mapping, as what commit ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap") described. The mremap() will not manipulate vmas anymore after __do_munmap() call for the mapping shrink use case, so it is safe to downgrade to read mmap_sem. So, the same optimization, which downgrades mmap_sem to read for zapping pages, is also feasible and reasonable to this case. The period of holding exclusive mmap_sem for shrinking large mapping would be reduced significantly with this optimization. MREMAP_FIXED and MREMAP_MAYMOVE are more complicated to adopt this optimization since they need manipulate vmas after do_munmap(), downgrading mmap_sem may create race window. Simple mapping shrink is the low hanging fruit, and it may cover the most cases of unmap with munmap together. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment] [yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: fix unsigned compare against 0 issue] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538687672-17795-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538067582-60038-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Laurent Dufour Cc: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mremap: properly flush TLB before releasing the page

2018-10-18T09:30:52Z

Jann Horn points out that our TLB flushing was subtly wrong for the mremap() case. What makes mremap() special is that we don't follow the usual "add page to list of pages to be freed, then flush tlb, and then free pages". No, mremap() obviously just _moves_ the page from one page table location to another. That matters, because mremap() thus doesn't directly control the lifetime of the moved page with a freelist: instead, the lifetime of the page is controlled by the page table locking, that serializes access to the entry. As a result, we need to flush the TLB not just before releasing the lock for the source location (to avoid any concurrent accesses to the entry), but also before we release the destination page table lock (to avoid the TLB being flushed after somebody else has already done something to that page). This also makes the whole "need_flush" logic unnecessary, since we now always end up flushing the TLB for every valid entry. Reported-and-tested-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Will Deacon Tested-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mremap: remove LATENCY_LIMIT from mremap to reduce the number of TLB shootdowns

2018-06-14T22:55:24Z

Commit 5d1904204c99 ("mremap: fix race between mremap() and page cleanning") fixed races between mremap and other operations for both file-backed and anonymous mappings. The file-backed was the most critical as it allowed the possibility that data could be changed on a physical page after page_mkclean returned which could trigger data loss or data integrity issues. A customer reported that the cost of the TLBs for anonymous regressions was excessive and resulting in a 30-50% drop in performance overall since this commit on a microbenchmark. Unfortunately I neither have access to the test-case nor can I describe what it does other than saying that mremap operations dominate heavily. This patch removes the LATENCY_LIMIT to handle TLB flushes on a PMD boundary instead of every 64 pages to reduce the number of TLB shootdowns by a factor of 8 in the ideal case. LATENCY_LIMIT was almost certainly used originally to limit the PTL hold times but the latency savings are likely offset by the cost of IPIs in many cases. This patch is not reported to completely restore performance but gets it within an acceptable percentage. The given metric here is simply described as "higher is better". Baseline that was known good 002: Metric: 91.05 004: Metric: 109.45 008: Metric: 73.08 016: Metric: 58.14 032: Metric: 61.09 064: Metric: 57.76 128: Metric: 55.43 Current 001: Metric: 54.98 002: Metric: 56.56 004: Metric: 41.22 008: Metric: 35.96 016: Metric: 36.45 032: Metric: 35.71 064: Metric: 35.73 128: Metric: 34.96 With patch 001: Metric: 61.43 002: Metric: 81.64 004: Metric: 67.92 008: Metric: 51.67 016: Metric: 50.47 032: Metric: 52.29 064: Metric: 50.01 128: Metric: 49.04 So for low threads, it's not restored but for larger number of threads, it's closer to the "known good" baseline. Using a different mremap-intensive workload that is not representative of the real workload there is little difference observed outside of noise in the headline metrics However, the TLB shootdowns are reduced by 11% on average and at the peak, TLB shootdowns were reduced by 21%. Interrupts were sampled every second while the workload ran to get those figures. It's known that the figures will vary as the non-representative load is non-deterministic. An alternative patch was posted that should have significantly reduced the TLB flushes but unfortunately it does not perform as well as this version on the customer test case. If revisited, the two patches can stack on top of each other. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180606183803.k7qaw2xnbvzshv34@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Aaron Lu Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path

2017-09-09T01:26:45Z

When THP migration is being used, memory management code needs to handle pmd migration entries properly. This patch uses !pmd_present() or is_swap_pmd() (depending on whether pmd_none() needs separate code or not) to check pmd migration entries at the places where a pmd entry is present. Since pmd-related code uses split_huge_page(), split_huge_pmd(), pmd_trans_huge(), pmd_trans_unstable(), or pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), this patch: 1. adds pmd migration entry split code in split_huge_pmd(), 2. takes care of pmd migration entries whenever pmd_trans_huge() is present, 3. makes pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() pmd migration entry aware. Since split_huge_page() uses split_huge_pmd() and pmd_trans_unstable() is equivalent to pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), we do not change them. Until this commit, a pmd entry should be: 1. pointing to a pte page, 2. is_swap_pmd(), 3. pmd_trans_huge(), 4. pmd_devmap(), or 5. pmd_none(). Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Nellans Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mremap: fail map duplication attempts for private mappings

2017-09-07T00:27:26Z

mremap will attempt to create a 'duplicate' mapping if old_size == 0 is specified. In the case of private mappings, mremap will actually create a fresh separate private mapping unrelated to the original. This does not fit with the design semantics of mremap as the intention is to create a new mapping based on the original. Therefore, return EINVAL in the case where an attempt is made to duplicate a private mapping. Also, print a warning message (once) if such an attempt is made. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cb9d9f6a-7095-582f-15a5-62643d65c736@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Aaron Lu Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

userfaultfd: non-cooperative: notify about unmap of destination during mremap

2017-08-02T23:34:46Z

When mremap is called with MREMAP_FIXED it unmaps memory at the destination address without notifying userfaultfd monitor. If the destination were registered with userfaultfd, the monitor has no way to distinguish between the old and new ranges and to properly relate the page faults that would occur in the destination region. Fixes: 897ab3e0c49e ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for memory unmaps") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500276876-3350-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries

2017-08-02T23:34:46Z

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held. He described the race as follows: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- user accesses memory using RW PTE [PTE now cached in TLB] try_to_unmap_one() ==> ptep_get_and_clear() ==> set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending() mprotect(addr, PROT_READ) ==> change_pte_range() ==> [ PTE non-present - no flush ] user writes using cached RW PTE ... try_to_unmap_flush() The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such as munmap, mremap and madvise. For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an mprotect that limits access still allows access. For munmap, it's potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB. However, it's theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes. Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to corruption. In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that are guarded by this patch. Other users such as gup as a race with reclaim looks just at PTEs. huge page variants should be ok as they don't race with reclaim. mincore only looks at PTEs. userfault also should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs triggering a fault. Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13 merge window as expected. His ack is dropped from this version and there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his ack. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de Reported-by: Nadav Amit Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: [v4.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging

2017-03-09T19:48:47Z

Convert all non-architecture-specific code to 5-level paging. It's mostly mechanical adding handling one more page table level in places where we deal with pud_t. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for memory unmaps

2017-02-25T01:46:55Z

When a non-cooperative userfaultfd monitor copies pages in the background, it may encounter regions that were already unmapped. Addition of UFFD_EVENT_UNMAP allows the uffd monitor to track precisely changes in the virtual memory layout. Since there might be different uffd contexts for the affected VMAs, we first should create a temporary representation for the unmap event for each uffd context and then notify them one by one to the appropriate userfault file descriptors. The event notification occurs after the mmap_sem has been released. [arnd@arndb.de: fix nommu build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203165141.3665284-1-arnd@arndb.de [mhocko@suse.com: fix nommu build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170202091503.GA22823@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485542673-24387-3-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Hillf Danton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds