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2025-09-21filemap: optimize folio refount update in filemap_map_pagesJinjiang Tu
There are two meaningless folio refcount update for order0 folio in filemap_map_pages(). First, filemap_map_order0_folio() adds folio refcount after the folio is mapped to pte. And then, filemap_map_pages() drops a refcount grabbed by next_uptodate_folio(). We could remain the refcount unchanged in this case. As Matthew metenioned in [1], it is safe to call folio_unlock() before calling folio_put() here, because the folio is in page cache with refcount held, and truncation will wait for the unlock. Optimize filemap_map_folio_range() with the same method too. With this patch, we can get 8% performance gain for lmbench testcase 'lat_pagefault -P 1 file' in order0 folio case, the size of file is 512M. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250904132737.1250368-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aKcU-fzxeW3xT5Wv@casper.infradead.org/ [1] Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: shmem: fix the strategy for the tmpfs 'huge=' optionsBaolin Wang
After commit acd7ccb284b8 ("mm: shmem: add large folio support for tmpfs"), we have extended tmpfs to allow any sized large folios, rather than just PMD-sized large folios. The strategy discussed previously was: : Considering that tmpfs already has the 'huge=' option to control the : PMD-sized large folios allocation, we can extend the 'huge=' option to : allow any sized large folios. The semantics of the 'huge=' mount option : are: : : huge=never: no any sized large folios : huge=always: any sized large folios : huge=within_size: like 'always' but respect the i_size : huge=advise: like 'always' if requested with madvise() : : Note: for tmpfs mmap() faults, due to the lack of a write size hint, still : allocate the PMD-sized huge folios if huge=always/within_size/advise is : set. : : Moreover, the 'deny' and 'force' testing options controlled by : '/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled', still retain the same : semantics. The 'deny' can disable any sized large folios for tmpfs, while : the 'force' can enable PMD sized large folios for tmpfs. This means that when tmpfs is mounted with 'huge=always' or 'huge=within_size', tmpfs will allow getting a highest order hint based on the size of write() and fallocate() paths. It will then try each allowable large order, rather than continually attempting to allocate PMD-sized large folios as before. However, this might break some user scenarios for those who want to use PMD-sized large folios, such as the i915 driver which did not supply a write size hint when allocating shmem [1]. Moreover, Hugh also complained that this will cause a regression in userspace with 'huge=always' or 'huge=within_size'. So, let's revisit the strategy for tmpfs large page allocation. A simple fix would be to always try PMD-sized large folios first, and if that fails, fall back to smaller large folios. This approach differs from the strategy for large folio allocation used by other file systems, however, tmpfs is somewhat different from other file systems, as quoted from David's opinion: : There were opinions in the past that tmpfs should just behave like any : other fs, and I think that's what we tried to satisfy here: use the write : size as an indication. : : I assume there will be workloads where either approach will be beneficial. : I also assume that workloads that use ordinary fs'es could benefit from : the same strategy (start with PMD), while others will clearly not. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/10e7ac6cebe6535c137c064d5c5a235643eebb4a.1756888965.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0d734549d5ed073c80b11601da3abdd5223e1889.1753689802.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com/ [1] Fixes: acd7ccb284b8 ("mm: shmem: add large folio support for tmpfs") Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/show_mem: add trylock while printing alloc infoYueyang Pan
In production, show_mem() can be called concurrently from two different entities, for example one from oom_kill_process() another from __alloc_pages_slowpath from another kthread. This patch adds a spinlock and invokes trylock before printing out the kernel alloc info in show_mem(). This way two alloc info won't interleave with each other, which then makes parsing easier. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ed91296e0c595d945a38458f7a8d9611b0c1e52.1756897825.git.pyyjason@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yueyang Pan <pyyjason@gmail.com> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/show_mem: dump the status of the mem alloc profiling before printingYueyang Pan
This patchset fixes two issues we saw in production rollout. The first issue is that we saw all zero output of memory allocation profiling information from show_mem() if CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING is set and sysctl.vm.mem_profiling=0. This cause ambiguity as we don't know what 0B actually means in the output. It can mean either memory allocation profiling is temporary disabled or the allocation at that position is actually 0. Such ambiguity will make further parsing harder as we cannot differentiate between two case. The second issue is that multiple entities can call show_mem() which messed up the allocation info in dmesg. We saw outputs like this: 327 MiB 83635 mm/compaction.c:1880 func:compaction_alloc 48.4 GiB 12684937 mm/memory.c:1061 func:folio_prealloc 7.48 GiB 10899 mm/huge_memory.c:1159 func:vma_alloc_anon_folio_pmd 298 MiB 95216 kernel/fork.c:318 func:alloc_thread_stack_node 250 MiB 63901 mm/zsmalloc.c:987 func:alloc_zspage 1.42 GiB 372527 mm/memory.c:1063 func:folio_prealloc 1.17 GiB 95693 mm/slub.c:2424 func:alloc_slab_page 651 MiB 166732 mm/readahead.c:270 func:page_cache_ra_unbounded 419 MiB 107261 net/core/page_pool.c:572 func:__page_pool_alloc_pages_slow 404 MiB 103425 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:25 func:pte_alloc_one The above example is because one kthread invokes show_mem() from __alloc_pages_slowpath while kernel itself calls oom_kill_process() This patch (of 2): This patch prints the status of the memory allocation profiling before __show_mem actually prints the detailed allocation info. This way will let us know the `0B` we saw in allocation info is because the profiling is disabled or the allocation is actually 0B. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1756897825.git.pyyjason@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7998ea0ddc2ea1a78bb6e89adf530526f76679a.1756897825.git.pyyjason@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yueyang Pan <pyyjason@gmail.com> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/page_alloc: add kernel-docs for free_pages()Vishal Moola (Oracle)
Patch series "Cleanup free_pages() misuse", v3. free_pages() is supposed to be called when we only have a virtual address. __free_pages() is supposed to be called when we have a page. There are a number of callers that use page_address() to get a page's virtual address then call free_pages() on it when they should just call __free_pages() directly. Add kernel-docs for free_pages() to help callers better understand which function they should be calling, and replace the obvious cases of misuse. This patch (of 7): Add kernel-docs to free_pages(). This will help callers understand when to use it instead of __free_pages(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250903185921.1785167-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250903185921.1785167-2-vishal.moola@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Justin Sanders <justin@coraid.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/filemap: align last_index to folio sizeYouling Tang
On XFS systems with pagesize=4K, blocksize=16K, and CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled, We observed the following readahead behaviors: # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # dd if=test of=/dev/null bs=64k count=1 # ./tools/mm/page-types -r -L -f /mnt/xfs/test foffset offset flags 0 136d4c __RU_l_________H______t_________________F_1 1 136d4d __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 2 136d4e __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 3 136d4f __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 ... c 136bb8 __RU_l_________H______t_________________F_1 d 136bb9 __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 e 136bba __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 f 136bbb __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 <-- first read 10 13c2cc ___U_l_________H______t______________I__F_1 <-- readahead flag 11 13c2cd ___U_l__________T_____t______________I__F_1 12 13c2ce ___U_l__________T_____t______________I__F_1 13 13c2cf ___U_l__________T_____t______________I__F_1 ... 1c 1405d4 ___U_l_________H______t_________________F_1 1d 1405d5 ___U_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 1e 1405d6 ___U_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 1f 1405d7 ___U_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 [ra_size = 32, req_count = 16, async_size = 16] # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # dd if=test of=/dev/null bs=60k count=1 # ./page-types -r -L -f /mnt/xfs/test foffset offset flags 0 136048 __RU_l_________H______t_________________F_1 ... c 110a40 __RU_l_________H______t_________________F_1 d 110a41 __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 e 110a42 __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 <-- first read f 110a43 __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 <-- first readahead flag 10 13e7a8 ___U_l_________H______t_________________F_1 ... 20 137a00 ___U_l_________H______t_______P______I__F_1 <-- second readahead flag (20 - 2f) 21 137a01 ___U_l__________T_____t_______P______I__F_1 ... 3f 10d4af ___U_l__________T_____t_______P_________F_1 [first readahead: ra_size = 32, req_count = 15, async_size = 17] When reading 64k data (same for 61-63k range, where last_index is page-aligned in filemap_get_pages()), 128k readahead is triggered via page_cache_sync_ra() and the PG_readahead flag is set on the next folio (the one containing 0x10 page). When reading 60k data, 128k readahead is also triggered via page_cache_sync_ra(). However, in this case the readahead flag is set on the 0xf page. Although the requested read size (req_count) is 60k, the actual read will be aligned to folio size (64k), which triggers the readahead flag and initiates asynchronous readahead via page_cache_async_ra(). This results in two readahead operations totaling 256k. The root cause is that when the requested size is smaller than the actual read size (due to folio alignment), it triggers asynchronous readahead. By changing last_index alignment from page size to folio size, we ensure the requested size matches the actual read size, preventing the case where a single read operation triggers two readahead operations. After applying the patch: # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # dd if=test of=/dev/null bs=60k count=1 # ./page-types -r -L -f /mnt/xfs/test foffset offset flags 0 136d4c __RU_l_________H______t_________________F_1 1 136d4d __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 2 136d4e __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 3 136d4f __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 ... c 136bb8 __RU_l_________H______t_________________F_1 d 136bb9 __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 e 136bba __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 <-- first read f 136bbb __RU_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 10 13c2cc ___U_l_________H______t______________I__F_1 <-- readahead flag 11 13c2cd ___U_l__________T_____t______________I__F_1 12 13c2ce ___U_l__________T_____t______________I__F_1 13 13c2cf ___U_l__________T_____t______________I__F_1 ... 1c 1405d4 ___U_l_________H______t_________________F_1 1d 1405d5 ___U_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 1e 1405d6 ___U_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 1f 1405d7 ___U_l__________T_____t_________________F_1 [ra_size = 32, req_count = 16, async_size = 16] The same phenomenon will occur when reading from 49k to 64k. Set the readahead flag to the next folio. Because the minimum order of folio in address_space equals the block size (at least in xfs and bcachefs that already support bs > ps), having request_count aligned to block size will not cause overread. [klarasmodin@gmail.com: fix overflow on 32-bit] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/yru7qf5gvyzccq5ohhpylvxug5lr5tf54omspbjh4sm6pcdb2r@fpjgj2pxw7va [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update it for Max's constification efforts] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250711055509.91587-1-youling.tang@linux.dev Co-developed-by: Chi Zhiling <chizhiling@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Chi Zhiling <chizhiling@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Youling Tang <youling.tang@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: constify highmem related functions for improved const-correctnessMax Kellermann
Lots of functions in mm/highmem.c do not write to the given pointers and do not call functions that take non-const pointers and can therefore be constified. This includes functions like kunmap() which might be implemented in a way that writes to the pointer (e.g. to update reference counters or mapping fields), but currently are not. kmap() on the other hand cannot be made const because it calls set_page_address() which is non-const in some architectures/configurations. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: "fix" folio_page() build failure] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-13-max.kellermann@ionos.com Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" <nysal@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: constify arch_pick_mmap_layout() for improved const-correctnessMax Kellermann
This function only reads from the rlimit pointer (but writes to the mm_struct pointer which is kept without `const`). All callees are already const-ified or (internal functions) are being constified by this patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-9-max.kellermann@ionos.com Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" <nysal@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm, s390: constify mapping related test/getter functionsMax Kellermann
For improved const-correctness. We select certain test functions which either invoke each other, functions that are already const-ified, or no further functions. It is therefore relatively trivial to const-ify them, which provides a basis for further const-ification further up the call stack. (Even though seemingly unrelated, this also constifies the pointer parameter of mmap_is_legacy() in arch/s390/mm/mmap.c because a copy of the function exists in mm/util.c.) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-7-max.kellermann@ionos.com Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" <nysal@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: constify process_shares_mm() for improved const-correctnessMax Kellermann
This function only reads from the pointer arguments. Local (loop) variables are also annotated with `const` to clarify that these will not be written to. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-6-max.kellermann@ionos.com Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" <nysal@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: constify shmem related test functions for improved const-correctnessMax Kellermann
Patch series "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters", v6. This series is to improved const-correctness in the low-level memory-management subsystem, which provides a basis for further constification further up the call stack (e.g. filesystems). I started this work when I tried to constify the Ceph filesystem code, but found that to be impossible because many "mm" functions accept non-const pointers, even though they modify nothing. This patch (of 12): We select certain test functions which either invoke each other, functions that are already const-ified, or no further functions. It is therefore relatively trivial to const-ify them, which provides a basis for further const-ification further up the call stack. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-2-max.kellermann@ionos.com Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" <nysal@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: hugeltb: check NUMA_NO_NODE in only_alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio()Kefeng Wang
Move the NUMA_NO_NODE check out of buddy and gigantic folio allocation to cleanup code a bit, also this will avoid NUMA_NO_NODE passed as 'nid' to node_isset() in alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250910133958.301467-6-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: hugetlb: remove struct hstate from init_new_hugetlb_folio()Kefeng Wang
The struct hstate is never used since commit d67e32f26713 ("hugetlb: restructure pool allocations”), remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250910133958.301467-5-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: hugetlb: directly pass order when allocate a hugetlb folioKefeng Wang
Use order instead of struct hstate to remove huge_page_order() call from all hugetlb folio allocation, also order_is_gigantic() is added to check whether it is a gigantic order. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250910133958.301467-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: hugetlb: convert to account_new_hugetlb_folio()Kefeng Wang
In order to avoid the wrong nid passed into the account, and we did make such mistake before, so it's better to move folio_nid() into account_new_hugetlb_folio(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250910133958.301467-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: hugetlb: convert to use more alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio()Kefeng Wang
Patch series "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation", v3. Some cleanups for hugetlb folio allocation. This patch (of 3): Simplify alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio() and convert more functions to use it, which help us to remove prep_new_hugetlb_folio() and __prep_new_hugetlb_folio(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250910133958.301467-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250910133958.301467-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: show_mem: show number of zspages in show_free_areasThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
When OOM is triggered, it will show where the pages might be for each zone. When using zram or zswap, it might look like lots of pages are missing. After this patch, zspages are shown as below. [ 48.792859] Node 0 DMA free:2812kB boost:0kB min:60kB low:72kB high:84kB reserved_highatomic:0KB free_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB zspages:11160kB present:15992kB managed:15360kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB [ 48.792962] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 956 956 956 956 [ 48.792988] Node 0 DMA32 free:3512kB boost:0kB min:3912kB low:4888kB high:5864kB reserved_highatomic:0KB free_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:28kB active_file:8kB inactive_file:16kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB zspages:916780kB present:1032064kB managed:978944kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:500kB local_pcp:248kB free_cma:0kB [ 48.793118] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 0 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250902-show_mem_zspages-v2-1-545daaa8b410@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/hugetlb: retry to allocate for early boot hugepage allocationLi RongQing
In cloud environments with massive hugepage reservations (95%+ of system RAM), single-attempt allocation during early boot often fails due to memory pressure. Commit 91f386bf0772 ("hugetlb: batch freeing of vmemmap pages") intensified this by deferring page frees, increase peak memory usage during allocation. Introduce a retry mechanism that leverages vmemmap optimization reclaim (~1.6% memory) when available. Upon initial allocation failure, the system retries until successful or no further progress is made, ensuring reliable hugepage allocation while preserving batched vmemmap freeing benefits. Testing on a 256G machine allocating 252G of hugepages: Before: 128056/129024 hugepages allocated After: Successfully allocated all 129024 hugepages Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901082052.3247-1-lirongqing@baidu.com Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21kasan: apply write-only mode in kasan kunit testcasesYeoreum Yun
When KASAN is configured in write-only mode, fetch/load operations do not trigger tag check faults. As a result, the outcome of some test cases may differ compared to when KASAN is configured without write-only mode. Therefore, by modifying pre-exist testcases check the write only makes tag check fault (TCF) where writing is perform in "allocated memory" but tag is invalid (i.e) redzone write in atomic_set() testcases. Otherwise check the invalid fetch/read doesn't generate TCF. Also, skip some testcases affected by initial value (i.e) atomic_cmpxchg() testcase maybe successd if it passes valid atomic_t address and invalid oldaval address. In this case, if invalid atomic_t doesn't have the same oldval, it won't trigger write operation so the test will pass. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-3-yeoreum.yun@arm.com Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Hardevsinh Palaniya <hardevsinh.palaniya@siliconsignals.io> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@amd.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21kasan/hw-tags: introduce kasan.write_only optionYeoreum Yun
Patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags", v8. Hardware tag based KASAN is implemented using the Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) feature. MTE is built on top of the ARMv8.0 virtual address tagging TBI (Top Byte Ignore) feature and allows software to access a 4-bit allocation tag for each 16-byte granule in the physical address space. A logical tag is derived from bits 59-56 of the virtual address used for the memory access. A CPU with MTE enabled will compare the logical tag against the allocation tag and potentially raise an tag check fault on mismatch, subject to system registers configuration. Since ARMv8.9, FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY can be used to restrict raise of tag check fault on store operation only. Using this feature (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY), introduce KASAN write-only mode which restricts KASAN check write (store) operation only. This mode omits KASAN check for read (fetch/load) operation. Therefore, it might be used not only debugging purpose but also in normal environment. This patch (of 2): Since Armv8.9, FEATURE_MTE_STORE_ONLY feature is introduced to restrict raise of tag check fault on store operation only. Introduce KASAN write only mode based on this feature. KASAN write only mode restricts KASAN checks operation for write only and omits the checks for fetch/read operations when accessing memory. So it might be used not only debugging enviroment but also normal enviroment to check memory safty. This features can be controlled with "kasan.write_only" arguments. When "kasan.write_only=on", KASAN checks write operation only otherwise KASAN checks all operations. This changes the MTE_STORE_ONLY feature as BOOT_CPU_FEATURE like ARM64_MTE_ASYMM so that makes it initialise in kasan_init_hw_tags() with other function together. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-2-yeoreum.yun@arm.com Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Hardevsinh Palaniya <hardevsinh.palaniya@siliconsignals.io> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: levi.yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@amd.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21kfence: drop nth_page() usageDavid Hildenbrand
We want to get rid of nth_page(), and kfence init code is the last user. Unfortunately, we might actually walk a PFN range where the pages are not contiguous, because we might be allocating an area from memblock that could span memory sections in problematic kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP). We could check whether the page range is contiguous using page_range_contiguous() and failing kfence init, or making kfence incompatible these problemtic kernel configs. Let's keep it simple and simply use pfn_to_page() by iterating PFNs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-36-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/gup: drop nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock()David Hildenbrand
There is the concern that unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() might do some weird merging of PFN ranges -- either now or in the future -- such that PFN range is contiguous but the page range might not be. Let's sanity-check for that and drop the nth_page() usage. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-35-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21scatterlist: disallow non-contigous page ranges in a single SG entryDavid Hildenbrand
The expectation is that there is currently no user that would pass in non-contigous page ranges: no allocator, not even VMA, will hand these out. The only problematic part would be if someone would provide a range obtained directly from memblock, or manually merge problematic ranges. If we find such cases, we should fix them to create separate SG entries. Let's check in sg_set_page() that this is really the case. No need to check in sg_set_folio(), as pages in a folio are guaranteed to be contiguous. As sg_set_page() gets inlined into modules, we have to export the page_range_contiguous() helper -- use EXPORT_SYMBOL, there is nothing special about this helper such that we would want to enforce GPL-only modules. We can now drop the nth_page() usage in sg_page_iter_page(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-25-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/cma: refuse handing out non-contiguous page rangesDavid Hildenbrand
Let's disallow handing out PFN ranges with non-contiguous pages, so we can remove the nth-page usage in __cma_alloc(), and so any callers don't have to worry about that either when wanting to blindly iterate pages. This is really only a problem in configs with SPARSEMEM but without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, and only when we would cross memory sections in some cases. Will this cause harm? Probably not, because it's mostly 32bit that does not support SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. If this ever becomes a problem we could look into allocating the memmap for the memory sections spanned by a single CMA region in one go from memblock. [david@redhat.com: we can have NUMMU configs with SPARSEMEM enabled] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ec933b1-b3f7-41c0-95d8-e518bb87375e@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-23-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/gup: remove record_subpages()David Hildenbrand
We can just cleanup the code by calculating the #refs earlier, so we can just inline what remains of record_subpages(). Calculate the number of references/pages ahead of times, and record them only once all our tests passed. [david@redhat.com: fix `pages' adjustment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cc7f03f8-da8b-407e-a03a-e8e5a9ec5462@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-20-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/gup: drop nth_page() usage within folio when recording subpagesDavid Hildenbrand
nth_page() is no longer required when iterating over pages within a single folio, so let's just drop it when recording subpages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-19-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/pagewalk: drop nth_page() usage within folio in folio_walk_start()David Hildenbrand
It's no longer required to use nth_page() within a folio, so let's just drop the nth_page() in folio_walk_start(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-18-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/mm/percpu-km: drop nth_page() usage within single allocationDavid Hildenbrand
We're allocating a higher-order page from the buddy. For these pages (that are guaranteed to not exceed a single memory section) there is no need to use nth_page(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-15-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb_folio_init_tail_vmemmap()David Hildenbrand
We can now safely iterate over all pages in a folio, so no need for the pfn_to_page(). Also, as we already force the refcount in __init_single_page() to 1 through init_page_count(), we can just set the refcount to 0 and avoid page_ref_freeze() + VM_BUG_ON. Likely, in the future, we would just want to tell __init_single_page() to which value to initialize the refcount. Further, adjust the comments to highlight that we are dealing with an open-coded prep_compound_page() variant, and add another comment explaining why we really need the __init_single_page() only on the tail pages. Note that the current code was likely problematic, but we never ran into it: prep_compound_tail() would have been called with an offset that might exceed a memory section, and prep_compound_tail() would have simply added that offset to the page pointer -- which would not have done the right thing on sparsemem without vmemmap. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-14-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: sanity-check maximum folio size in folio_set_order()David Hildenbrand
Let's sanity-check in folio_set_order() whether we would be trying to create a folio with an order that would make it exceed MAX_FOLIO_ORDER. This will enable the check whenever a folio/compound page is initialized through prepare_compound_head() / prepare_compound_page() with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-11-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/mm_init: make memmap_init_compound() look more like prep_compound_page()David Hildenbrand
Grepping for "prep_compound_page" leaves on clueless how devdax gets its compound pages initialized. Let's add a comment that might help finding this open-coded prep_compound_page() initialization more easily. Further, let's be less smart about the ordering of initialization and just perform the prep_compound_head() call after all tail pages were initialized: just like prep_compound_page() does. No need for a comment to describe the initialization order: again, just like prep_compound_page(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-10-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/hugetlb: check for unreasonable folio sizes when registering hstateDavid Hildenbrand
Let's check that no hstate that corresponds to an unreasonable folio size is registered by an architecture. If we were to succeed registering, we could later try allocating an unsupported gigantic folio size. Further, let's add a BUILD_BUG_ON() for checking that HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER is sane at build time. As HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER is dynamic on powerpc, we have to use a BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID() to make it compile. No existing kernel configuration should be able to trigger this check: either SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP cannot be configured or gigantic folios will not exceed a memory section (the case on sparse). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-9-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/memremap: reject unreasonable folio/compound page sizes in memremap_pages()David Hildenbrand
Let's reject unreasonable folio sizes early, where we can still fail. We'll add sanity checks to prepare_compound_head/prepare_compound_page next. Is there a way to configure a system such that unreasonable folio sizes would be possible? It would already be rather questionable. If so, we'd probably want to bail out earlier, where we can avoid a WARN and just report a proper error message that indicates where something went wrong such that we messed up. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-8-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/page_alloc: reject unreasonable folio/compound page sizes in ↵David Hildenbrand
alloc_contig_range_noprof() Let's reject them early, which in turn makes folio_alloc_gigantic() reject them properly. To avoid converting from order to nr_pages, let's just add MAX_FOLIO_ORDER and calculate MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES based on that. While at it, let's just make the order a "const unsigned order". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-7-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectableDavid Hildenbrand
Patch series "mm: remove nth_page()", v2. As discussed recently with Linus, nth_page() is just nasty and we would like to remove it. To recap, the reason we currently need nth_page() within a folio is because on some kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP), the memmap is allocated per memory section. While buddy allocations cannot cross memory section boundaries, hugetlb and dax folios can. So crossing a memory section means that "page++" could do the wrong thing. Instead, nth_page() on these problematic configs always goes from page->pfn, to the go from (++pfn)->page, which is rather nasty. Likely, many people have no idea when nth_page() is required and when it might be dropped. We refer to such problematic PFN ranges and "non-contiguous pages". If we only deal with "contiguous pages", there is not need for nth_page(). Besides that "obvious" folio case, we might end up using nth_page() within CMA allocations (again, could span memory sections), and in one corner case (kfence) when processing memblock allocations (again, could span memory sections). So let's handle all that, add sanity checks, and remove nth_page(). Patch #1 -> #5 : stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable + cleanups Patch #6 -> #13 : disallow folios to have non-contiguous pages Patch #14 -> #20 : remove nth_page() usage within folios Patch #22 : disallow CMA allocations of non-contiguous pages Patch #23 -> #33 : sanity+check + remove nth_page() usage within SG entry Patch #34 : sanity-check + remove nth_page() usage in unpin_user_page_range_dirty_lock() Patch #35 : remove nth_page() in kfence Patch #36 : adjust stale comment regarding nth_page Patch #37 : mm: remove nth_page() A lot of this is inspired from the discussion at [1] between Linus, Jason and me, so cudos to them. This patch (of 37): In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-2-david@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiCYfNp4AJLBORU-c7ZyRBUp66W2-Et6cdQ4REx-GyQ_A@mail.gmail.com/T/#u [1] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Cc: Alex Willamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Bart van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@amd.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: Damien Le Maol <dlemoal@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Inki Dae <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Cc: Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Maxim Levitky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm/memfd: remove redundant castsJoey Pabalinas
MFD_ALL_FLAGS is already an unsigned int. Remove redundant casts to unsigned int. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/efbbe6093b64a5b19f974871d5262d6e75dff2c0.1756639225.git.joeypabalinas@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: zpdesc: minor naming and comment correctionsJohannes Weiner
zpdesc is the page descriptor used by the zsmalloc backend allocator, which in turn is used by zswap and zram. The zpool layer is gone. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829162212.208258-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: remove unused zpool layerJohannes Weiner
With zswap using zsmalloc directly, there are no more in-tree users of this code. Remove it. With zpool gone, zsmalloc is now always a simple dependency and no longer something the user needs to configure. Hide CONFIG_ZSMALLOC from the user and have zswap and zram pull it in as needed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829162212.208258-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21mm: zswap: interact directly with zsmallocJohannes Weiner
Patch series "mm: remove zpool". zpool is an indirection layer for zswap to switch between multiple allocator backends at runtime. Since 6.15, zsmalloc is the only allocator left in-tree, so there is no point in keeping zpool around. This patch (of 3): zswap goes through the zpool layer to enable runtime-switching of allocator backends for compressed data. However, since zbud and z3fold were removed in 6.15, zsmalloc has been the only option available. As such, the zpool indirection is unnecessary. Make zswap deal with zsmalloc directly. This is comparable to zram, which also directly interacts with zsmalloc and has never supported a different backend. Note that this does not preclude future improvements and experiments with different allocation strategies. Should it become necessary, it's possible to provide an alternate implementation for the zsmalloc API, selectable at compile time. However, zsmalloc is also rather mature and feature rich, with years of widespread production exposure; it's encouraged to make incremental improvements rather than fork it. In any case, the complexity of runtime pluggability seems excessive and unjustified at this time. Switch zswap to zsmalloc to remove the last user of the zpool API. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix default compressr test] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250915153640.GA828739@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829162212.208258-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829162212.208258-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Nacked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.se> Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21kasan: introduce ARCH_DEFER_KASAN and unify static key across modesSabyrzhan Tasbolatov
Patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific implementations", v6. This patch series addresses the fragmentation in KASAN initialization across architectures by introducing a unified approach that eliminates duplicate static keys and arch-specific kasan_arch_is_ready() implementations. The core issue is that different architectures have inconsistent approaches to KASAN readiness tracking: - PowerPC, LoongArch, and UML arch, each implement own kasan_arch_is_ready() - Only HW_TAGS mode had a unified static key (kasan_flag_enabled) - Generic and SW_TAGS modes relied on arch-specific solutions or always-on behavior This patch (of 2): Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_DEFER_KASAN to identify architectures [1] that need to defer KASAN initialization until shadow memory is properly set up, and unify the static key infrastructure across all KASAN modes. [1] PowerPC, UML, LoongArch selects ARCH_DEFER_KASAN. The core issue is that different architectures haveinconsistent approaches to KASAN readiness tracking: - PowerPC, LoongArch, and UML arch, each implement own kasan_arch_is_ready() - Only HW_TAGS mode had a unified static key (kasan_flag_enabled) - Generic and SW_TAGS modes relied on arch-specific solutions or always-on behavior This patch addresses the fragmentation in KASAN initialization across architectures by introducing a unified approach that eliminates duplicate static keys and arch-specific kasan_arch_is_ready() implementations. Let's replace kasan_arch_is_ready() with existing kasan_enabled() check, which examines the static key being enabled if arch selects ARCH_DEFER_KASAN or has HW_TAGS mode support. For other arch, kasan_enabled() checks the enablement during compile time. Now KASAN users can use a single kasan_enabled() check everywhere. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250810125746.1105476-1-snovitoll@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250810125746.1105476-2-snovitoll@gmail.com Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217049 Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovitoll@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> #powerpc Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Qing Zhang <zhangqing@loongson.cn> Cc: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovitoll@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable in order to pick upAndrew Morton
changes required by mm-stable material: hugetlb and damon.
2025-09-19writeback: Avoid contention on wb->list_lock when switching inodesJan Kara
There can be multiple inode switch works that are trying to switch inodes to / from the same wb. This can happen in particular if some cgroup exits which owns many (thousands) inodes and we need to switch them all. In this case several inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() instances will be just spinning on the same wb->list_lock while only one of them makes forward progress. This wastes CPU cycles and quickly leads to softlockup reports and unusable system. Instead of running several inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() instances in parallel switching to the same wb and contending on wb->list_lock, run just one work item per wb and manage a queue of isw items switching to this wb. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2025-09-18arm64: Enable permission change on arm64 kernel block mappingsDev Jain
This patch paves the path to enable huge mappings in vmalloc space and linear map space by default on arm64. For this we must ensure that we can handle any permission games on the kernel (init_mm) pagetable. Previously, __change_memory_common() used apply_to_page_range() which does not support changing permissions for block mappings. We move away from this by using the pagewalk API, similar to what riscv does right now. It is the responsibility of the caller to ensure that the range over which permissions are being changed falls on leaf mapping boundaries. For systems with BBML2, this will be handled in future patches by dyanmically splitting the mappings when required. Unlike apply_to_page_range(), the pagewalk API currently enforces the init_mm.mmap_lock to be held. To avoid the unnecessary bottleneck of the mmap_lock for our usecase, this patch extends this generic API to be used locklessly, so as to retain the existing behaviour for changing permissions. Apart from this reason, it is noted at [1] that KFENCE can manipulate kernel pgtable entries during softirqs. It does this by calling set_memory_valid() -> __change_memory_common(). This being a non-sleepable context, we cannot take the init_mm mmap lock. Add comments to highlight the conditions under which we can use the lockless variant - no underlying VMA, and the user having exclusive control over the range, thus guaranteeing no concurrent access. We require that the start and end of a given range do not partially overlap block mappings, or cont mappings. Return -EINVAL in case a partial block mapping is detected in any of the PGD/P4D/PUD/PMD levels; add a corresponding comment in update_range_prot() to warn that eliminating such a condition is the responsibility of the caller. Note that, the pte level callback may change permissions for a whole contpte block, and that will be done one pte at a time, as opposed to an atomic operation for the block mappings. This is fine as any access will decode either the old or the new permission until the TLBI. apply_to_page_range() currently performs all pte level callbacks while in lazy mmu mode. Since arm64 can optimize performance by batching barriers when modifying kernel pgtables in lazy mmu mode, we would like to continue to benefit from this optimisation. Unfortunately walk_kernel_page_table_range() does not use lazy mmu mode. However, since the pagewalk framework is not allocating any memory, we can safely bracket the whole operation inside lazy mmu mode ourselves. Therefore, wrap the call to walk_kernel_page_table_range() with the lazy MMU helpers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/89d0ad18-4772-4d8f-ae8a-7c48d26a927e@arm.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yshi@os.amperecomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2025-09-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.17-rc7). No conflicts. Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/fs.h 9536fbe10c9d ("net/mlx5e: Add PSP steering in local NIC RX") 7601a0a46216 ("net/mlx5e: Add a miss level for ipsec crypto offload") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-09-17Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-09-17-21-10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or aren't considered necessary for -stable kernels. 13 of these fixes are for MM. The usual shower of singletons, plus - fixes from Hugh to address various misbehaviors in get_user_pages() - patches from SeongJae to address a quite severe issue in DAMON - another series also from SeongJae which completes some fixes for a DAMON startup issue" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-09-17-21-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: zram: fix slot write race condition nilfs2: fix CFI failure when accessing /sys/fs/nilfs2/features/* samples/damon/mtier: avoid starting DAMON before initialization samples/damon/prcl: avoid starting DAMON before initialization samples/damon/wsse: avoid starting DAMON before initialization MAINTAINERS: add Lance Yang as a THP reviewer MAINTAINERS: add Jann Horn as rmap reviewer mm/damon/sysfs: use dynamically allocated repeat mode damon_call_control mm/damon/core: introduce damon_call_control->dealloc_on_cancel mm: folio_may_be_lru_cached() unless folio_test_large() mm: revert "mm: vmscan.c: fix OOM on swap stress test" mm: revert "mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch" mm/gup: local lru_add_drain() to avoid lru_add_drain_all() mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration
2025-09-17kmsan: fix missed kmsan_handle_dma() signature conversionLeon Romanovsky
kmsan_handle_dma_sg() has call to kmsan_handle_dma() function which was missed during conversion to physical addresses. Update that caller too and fix the following compilation error: mm/kmsan/hooks.c:372:6: error: too many arguments to function call, expected 3, have 4 371 | kmsan_handle_dma(sg_page(item), item->offset, item->length, | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 372 | dir); | ^~~ mm/kmsan/hooks.c:362:19: note: 'kmsan_handle_dma' declared here 362 | EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmsan_handle_dma); Fixes: 6eb1e769b2c1 ("kmsan: convert kmsan_handle_dma to use physical addresses") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202509170638.AMGNCMEE-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b2d7d0175b30177733bbbd42bf979d77eb73c29.1758090947.git.leon@kernel.org
2025-09-16slab: mark slab->obj_exts allocation failures unconditionallySuren Baghdasaryan
alloc_slab_obj_exts() should mark failed obj_exts vector allocations independent on whether the vector is being allocated for a new or an existing slab. Current implementation skips doing this for existing slabs. Fix this by marking failed allocations unconditionally. Fixes: 09c46563ff6d ("codetag: debug: introduce OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL to mark failed slab_ext allocations") Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/avhakjldsgczmq356gkwmvfilyvf7o6temvcmtt5lqd4fhp5rk@47gp2ropyixg/ Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+ Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2025-09-16slab: prevent warnings when slab obj_exts vector allocation failsSuren Baghdasaryan
When object extension vector allocation fails, we set slab->obj_exts to OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL to indicate the failure. Later, once the vector is successfully allocated, we will use this flag to mark codetag references stored in that vector as empty to avoid codetag warnings. slab_obj_exts() used to retrieve the slab->obj_exts vector pointer checks slab->obj_exts for being either NULL or a pointer with MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS bit set. However it does not handle the case when slab->obj_exts equals OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL. Add the missing condition to avoid extra warning. Fixes: 09c46563ff6d ("codetag: debug: introduce OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL to mark failed slab_ext allocations") Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/jftidhymri2af5u3xtcqry3cfu6aqzte3uzlznhlaylgrdztsi@5vpjnzpsemf5/ Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10+ Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2025-09-15slab: don't validate slab pointer in free_debug_processing()Vlastimil Babka
The struct slab pointer has been obtained from the object being freed on all the paths that lead to this function. In all cases this already includes the test for slab type of the struct page which struct slab is overlaying. Thus we would not reach this function if it was not a valid slab pointer in the first place. One less obvious case is that kmem_cache_free() trusts virt_to_slab() blindly so it may be NULL if the slab type check is false. But with SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS, cache_from_obj() called also from kmem_cache_free() catches this and returns NULL, which terminates freeing immediately. Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2025-09-15slab: validate slab before using it in alloc_single_from_partial()Vlastimil Babka
We touch slab->freelist and slab->inuse before checking the slab pointer is actually sane. Do that validation first, which will be safer. We can thus also remove the check from alloc_debug_processing(). This adds a new "s->flags & SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS" test but alloc_single_from_partial() is only called for caches with debugging enabled so it's acceptable. In alloc_single_from_new_slab() we just created the struct slab and call alloc_debug_processing() to mainly set up redzones, tracking etc, while not really expecting the consistency checks to fail. Thus don't validate it there. Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>