What happens if a thread is preempted after mapping pages with
kmap_local_page() was questioned recently.[1]
Commit f3ba3c710a ("mm/highmem: Provide kmap_local*") from Thomas
Gleixner explains clearly that on context switch, the maps of an outgoing
task are removed and the map of the incoming task are restored and that
kmap_local_page() can be invoked from both preemptible and atomic
contexts.[2]
Therefore, for the purpose to make it clearer that users can call
kmap_local_page() from contexts that allow preemption, rework a couple of
sentences and add further information in highmem.rst.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5303077.Sb9uPGUboI@opensuse/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201118204007.468533059@linutronix.de/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220728154844.10874-8-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The reasoning for converting kmap() to kmap_local_page() was questioned
recently.[1]
There are two main problems with kmap(): (1) It comes with an overhead as
mapping space is restricted and protected by a global lock for
synchronization and (2) kmap() also requires global TLB invalidation when
its pool wraps and it might block when the mapping space is fully utilized
until a slot becomes available.
Warn users to avoid the use of kmap() and instead use kmap_local_page(),
by designing their code to map pages in the same context the mapping will
be used.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1891319.taCxCBeP46@opensuse/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220728154844.10874-6-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Users of kmap_local_page() must be absolutely sure to not hand kernel
virtual address obtained calling kmap_local_page() on highmem pages to
other contexts because those pointers are thread local, therefore, they
are no longer valid across different contexts.
Extend the documentation of kmap_local_page() to warn users about the
above-mentioned potential invalid use of pointers returned by
kmap_local_page().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220728154844.10874-5-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
There is no need to kmap*() pages which are guaranteed to come from
ZONE_NORMAL (or lower). Linux has currently several call sites of
kmap{,_atomic,_local_page}() on pages which are clearly known which can't
come from ZONE_HIGHMEM.
Therefore, add a paragraph to highmem.rst, to explain better that a plain
page_address() may be used for getting the address of pages which cannot
come from ZONE_HIGHMEM, although it is always safe to use
kmap_local_page() / kunmap_local() also on those pages.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220728154844.10874-4-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
All the comments which explains how HVO works are moved to
vmemmap_dedup.rst since
commit 4917f55b4e ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: improve memory savings for compound devmaps")
except some comments above page_fixed_fake_head(). This commit moves
those comments to vmemmap_dedup.rst and improve vmemmap_dedup.rst as well.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628092235.91270-8-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
It it inconvenient to mention the feature of optimizing vmemmap pages
associated with HugeTLB pages when communicating with others since there
is no specific or abbreviated name for it when it is first introduced.
Let us give it a name HVO (HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization) from now.
This commit also updates the document about "hugetlb_free_vmemmap" by the
way discussed in thread [1].
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/21aae898-d54d-cc4b-a11f-1bb7fddcfffa@redhat.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628092235.91270-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Lin, Yang Shi, Anshuman Khandual and Mike Rapoport
- Some kmemleak fixes from Patrick Wang and Waiman Long
- DAMON updates from SeongJae Park
- memcg debug/visibility work from Roman Gushchin
- vmalloc speedup from Uladzislau Rezki
- more folio conversion work from Matthew Wilcox
- enhancements for coherent device memory mapping from Alex Sierra
- addition of shared pages tracking and CoW support for fsdax, from
Shiyang Ruan
- hugetlb optimizations from Mike Kravetz
- Mel Gorman has contributed some pagealloc changes to improve latency
and realtime behaviour.
- mprotect soft-dirty checking has been improved by Peter Xu
- Many other singleton patches all over the place
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Most of the MM queue. A few things are still pending.
Liam's maple tree rework didn't make it. This has resulted in a few
other minor patch series being held over for next time.
Multi-gen LRU still isn't merged as we were waiting for mapletree to
stabilize. The current plan is to merge MGLRU into -mm soon and to
later reintroduce mapletree, with a view to hopefully getting both
into 6.1-rc1.
Summary:
- The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe
Lin, Yang Shi, Anshuman Khandual and Mike Rapoport
- Some kmemleak fixes from Patrick Wang and Waiman Long
- DAMON updates from SeongJae Park
- memcg debug/visibility work from Roman Gushchin
- vmalloc speedup from Uladzislau Rezki
- more folio conversion work from Matthew Wilcox
- enhancements for coherent device memory mapping from Alex Sierra
- addition of shared pages tracking and CoW support for fsdax, from
Shiyang Ruan
- hugetlb optimizations from Mike Kravetz
- Mel Gorman has contributed some pagealloc changes to improve
latency and realtime behaviour.
- mprotect soft-dirty checking has been improved by Peter Xu
- Many other singleton patches all over the place"
[ XFS merge from hell as per Darrick Wong in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/YshKnxb4VwXycPO8@magnolia/ ]
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (282 commits)
tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c: fix build
mm: Kconfig: fix typo
mm: memory-failure: convert to pr_fmt()
mm: use is_zone_movable_page() helper
hugetlbfs: fix inaccurate comment in hugetlbfs_statfs()
hugetlbfs: cleanup some comments in inode.c
hugetlbfs: remove unneeded header file
hugetlbfs: remove unneeded hugetlbfs_ops forward declaration
hugetlbfs: use helper macro SZ_1{K,M}
mm: cleanup is_highmem()
mm/hmm: add a test for cross device private faults
selftests: add soft-dirty into run_vmtests.sh
selftests: soft-dirty: add test for mprotect
mm/mprotect: fix soft-dirty check in can_change_pte_writable()
mm: memcontrol: fix potential oom_lock recursion deadlock
mm/gup.c: fix formatting in check_and_migrate_movable_page()
xfs: fail dax mount if reflink is enabled on a partition
mm/memcontrol.c: remove the redundant updating of stats_flush_threshold
userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features
hugetlb_cgroup: fix wrong hugetlb cgroup numa stat
...
so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with
Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
