linux/mm
Linus Torvalds 888d3c9f7f sysctl-6.4-rc1
This pull request goes with only a few sysctl moves from the
 kernel/sysctl.c file, the rest of the work has been put towards
 deprecating two API calls which incur recursion and prevent us
 from simplifying the registration process / saving memory per
 move. Most of the changes have been soaking on linux-next since
 v6.3-rc3.
 
 I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's
 feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these
 moves instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more
 memory since when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its
 own file we end up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register
 it. To achieve saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed
 without requiring the end element being empty, and just have our
 registration process rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting
 both styles of sysctls would make the sysctl registration pretty
 brittle, hard to read and maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's
 efforts to do just this [0]. Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE()
 for all sysctl registrations also implies doing the work to deprecate
 two API calls which use recursion in order to support sysctl
 declarations with subdirectories.
 
 And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into
 this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are
 deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove them:
 
   * register_sysctl_table()
   * register_sysctl_paths()
 
 During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport
 register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end
 of this merge window.
 
 Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but
 this pull request goes with a few example of how to do this.
 
 As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of
 these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these
 changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot.
 
 The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it
 gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the
 generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes.
 
 Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths()
 does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport
 you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've
 just kept the stragglers after rc3.
 
 Most of these changes have been soaking on linux-next since around rc3.
 
 [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org
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Merge tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "This only does a few sysctl moves from the kernel/sysctl.c file, the
  rest of the work has been put towards deprecating two API calls which
  incur recursion and prevent us from simplifying the registration
  process / saving memory per move. Most of the changes have been
  soaking on linux-next since v6.3-rc3.

  I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's
  feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these moves
  instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more memory since
  when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its own file we end
  up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register it. To achieve
  saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed without requiring
  the end element being empty, and just have our registration process
  rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting both styles of sysctls
  would make the sysctl registration pretty brittle, hard to read and
  maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's efforts to do just this [0].
  Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE() for all sysctl registrations
  also implies doing the work to deprecate two API calls which use
  recursion in order to support sysctl declarations with subdirectories.

  And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into
  this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are
  deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove
  them:

   - register_sysctl_table()
   - register_sysctl_paths()

  During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport
  register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end of
  this merge window.

  Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but this
  pull request goes with a few example of how to do this.

  As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of
  these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these
  changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot.

  The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it
  gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the
  generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes.

  Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths()
  does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport
  you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've
  just kept the stragglers after rc3"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org [0]

* tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (29 commits)
  fs: fix sysctls.c built
  mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks
  mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file
  mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file
  arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars
  ia64: simplify one-level sysctl registration for kdump_ctl_table
  utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table
  ntfs: simplfy one-level sysctl registration for ntfs_sysctls
  coda: simplify one-level sysctl registration for coda_table
  fs/cachefiles: simplify one-level sysctl registration for cachefiles_sysctls
  xfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for xfs_table
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs_cb_sysctls
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs4_cb_sysctls
  lockd: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nlm_sysctls
  proc_sysctl: enhance documentation
  xen: simplify sysctl registration for balloon
  md: simplify sysctl registration
  hv: simplify sysctl registration
  scsi: simplify sysctl registration with register_sysctl()
  csky: simplify alignment sysctl registration
  ...
2023-04-27 16:52:33 -07:00
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damon mm/damon/paddr: fix folio_nr_pages() after folio_put() in damon_pa_mark_accessed_or_deactivate() 2023-03-07 17:04:55 -08:00
kasan kasan: test: fix test for new meminstrinsic instrumentation 2023-03-02 21:54:22 -08:00
kfence arm64 updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:39:01 -07:00
kmsan mm: kmsan: handle alloc failures in kmsan_ioremap_page_range() 2023-04-18 14:22:13 -07:00
backing-dev.c Driver core changes for 6.4-rc1 2023-04-27 11:53:57 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: Convert all PageMovable users to movable_operations 2022-08-02 12:34:03 -04:00
bootmem_info.c bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem 2022-08-28 14:02:45 -07:00
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug: show complete cma name in debugfs directories 2022-09-11 20:25:50 -07:00
cma_sysfs.c
cma.c mm/cma: fix potential memory loss on cma_declare_contiguous_nid 2023-02-02 22:33:24 -08:00
cma.h mm/cma: provide option to opt out from exposing pages on activation failure 2022-03-22 15:57:09 -07:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks 2023-04-13 11:49:35 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug_vm_pgtable.c mm: remove __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE 2023-02-02 22:33:11 -08:00
debug.c mm: export dump_mm() 2023-02-09 16:51:40 -08:00
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap: declare early_memremap_pgprot_adjust() 2022-03-22 15:57:11 -07:00
fadvise.c mm: support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE 2023-01-18 17:12:57 -08:00
failslab.c mm: fix unexpected changes to {failslab|fail_page_alloc}.attr 2022-11-22 18:50:44 -08:00
filemap.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
folio-compat.c fs: Add FGP_WRITEBEGIN 2023-04-06 13:39:50 -04:00
frontswap.c frontswap: don't call ->init if no ops are registered 2022-09-26 12:14:34 -07:00
gup_test.c mm/gup_test: free memory allocated via kvcalloc() using kvfree() 2022-12-15 16:37:48 -08:00
gup_test.h mm/gup_test: start/stop/read functionality for PIN LONGTERM test 2022-11-08 17:37:15 -08:00
gup.c mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru() 2023-02-20 12:46:17 -08:00
highmem.c highmem: fix kmap_to_page() for kmap_local_page() addresses 2022-10-12 18:51:51 -07:00
hmm.c mm/hugetlb: make walk_hugetlb_range() safe to pmd unshare 2023-01-18 17:12:39 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm/huge_memory.c: warn with pr_warn_ratelimited instead of VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO 2023-04-16 10:41:25 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm/hugetlb: increase use of folios in alloc_huge_page() 2023-02-13 15:54:27 -08:00
hugetlb_vmemmap.c sysctl: fix proc_dobool() usability 2023-02-21 13:34:07 -08:00
hugetlb_vmemmap.h mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: improve hugetlb_vmemmap code readability 2022-08-08 18:06:43 -07:00
hugetlb.c sysctl-6.4-rc1 2023-04-27 16:52:33 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison: add __init/__exit annotations to module init/exit funcs 2022-10-03 14:03:05 -07:00
init-mm.c mm: remove rb tree. 2022-09-26 19:46:16 -07:00
internal.h - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
interval_tree.c
io-mapping.c
ioremap.c mm: ioremap: Add ioremap/iounmap_allowed() 2022-06-27 12:22:31 +01:00
Kconfig slab changes for 6.4 2023-04-25 13:00:41 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm/slub: fix help comment of SLUB_DEBUG 2023-03-17 12:02:34 +01:00
khugepaged.c mm/khugepaged: check again on anon uffd-wp during isolation 2023-04-16 10:41:24 -07:00
kmemleak.c lib/stackdepot, mm: rename stack_depot_want_early_init 2023-02-16 20:43:49 -08:00
ksm.c mm/ksm: fix race with VMA iteration and mm_struct teardown 2023-03-23 17:18:33 -07:00
list_lru.c mm: kmem: make mem_cgroup_from_obj() vmalloc()-safe 2022-06-16 19:48:31 -07:00
maccess.c mm: Fix copy_from_user_nofault(). 2023-04-12 17:36:23 -07:00
madvise.c iov_iter: add iter_iov_addr() and iter_iov_len() helpers 2023-03-30 08:12:29 -06:00
Makefile mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB 2023-03-29 10:31:40 +02:00
mapping_dirty_helpers.c mm/mmu_notifier: remove unused mmu_notifier_range_update_to_read_only export 2023-02-02 22:32:54 -08:00
memblock.c memblock: small optimizations 2023-02-27 09:34:53 -08:00
memcontrol.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
memfd.c mm/memfd: add write seals when apply SEAL_EXEC to executable memfd 2023-01-18 17:12:37 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range() 2023-02-20 12:46:18 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file 2023-04-13 11:49:35 -07:00
memory-tiers.c memory tier: release the new_memtier in find_create_memory_tier() 2023-02-09 16:51:40 -08:00
memory.c mm: take a page reference when removing device exclusive entries 2023-04-05 18:06:24 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy: fix use-after-free of VMA iterator 2023-04-16 10:41:25 -07:00
mempool.c mempool: do not use ksize() for poisoning 2022-11-30 15:58:41 -08:00
memremap.c mm/memremap.c: fix outdated comment in devm_memremap_pages 2023-02-09 16:51:46 -08:00
memtest.c
migrate_device.c mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page() 2023-02-20 12:46:17 -08:00
migrate.c migrate_pages: try migrate in batch asynchronously firstly 2023-03-07 17:04:54 -08:00
mincore.c mm: teach mincore_hugetlb about pte markers 2023-03-07 17:04:53 -08:00
mlock.c mm: introduce vm_flags_reset_once to replace WRITE_ONCE vm_flags updates 2023-02-09 16:51:41 -08:00
mm_init.c memory: move hotplug memory notifier priority to same file for easy sorting 2022-11-08 17:37:17 -08:00
mm_slot.h mm: introduce common struct mm_slot 2022-10-03 14:02:43 -07:00
mmap_lock.c
mmap.c mm/mremap: fix vm_pgoff in vma_merge() case 3 2023-04-27 08:11:26 -07:00
mmu_gather.c mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps 2022-12-11 18:12:21 -08:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: remove unused mmu_notifier_range_update_to_read_only export 2023-02-02 22:32:54 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
mprotect.c mm/mprotect: fix do_mprotect_pkey() return on error 2023-04-16 10:41:24 -07:00
mremap.c mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-02-09 16:51:39 -08:00
msync.c mm/msync: use vma_find() instead of vma linked list 2022-09-26 19:46:25 -07:00
nommu.c mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls 2023-02-09 16:51:39 -08:00
oom_kill.c mm/mmu_notifier: remove unused mmu_notifier_range_update_to_read_only export 2023-02-02 22:32:54 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: page_alloc: skip regions with hugetlbfs pages when allocating 1G pages 2023-04-18 14:22:14 -07:00
page_counter.c mm: page_counter: remove unneeded atomic ops for low/min 2022-09-11 20:26:01 -07:00
page_ext.c mm/page_ext: init page_ext early if there are no deferred struct pages 2023-02-02 22:33:22 -08:00
page_idle.c mm: page_idle: convert page idle to use a folio 2023-01-18 17:12:52 -08:00
page_io.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
page_isolation.c mm/page_isolation: fix clang deadcode warning 2022-10-28 13:37:22 -07:00
page_owner.c lib/stackdepot, mm: rename stack_depot_want_early_init 2023-02-16 20:43:49 -08:00
page_poison.c
page_reporting.c mm/page_reporting: replace rcu_access_pointer() with rcu_dereference_protected() 2023-01-18 17:12:50 -08:00
page_reporting.h
page_table_check.c mm/page_ext: do not allocate space for page_ext->flags if not needed 2023-02-02 22:33:11 -08:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/hugetlb: introduce hugetlb_walk() 2023-01-18 17:12:39 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm,jfs: move write_one_page/folio_write_one to jfs 2023-03-12 20:00:42 -04:00
pagewalk.c mm/hugetlb: introduce hugetlb_walk() 2023-01-18 17:12:39 -08:00
percpu-internal.h mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size() 2023-02-16 20:43:55 -08:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled() 2023-02-16 20:43:56 -08:00
pgalloc-track.h
pgtable-generic.c mm: avoid unnecessary flush on change_huge_pmd() 2022-05-13 07:20:05 -07:00
process_vm_access.c use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2022-11-25 13:01:55 -05:00
ptdump.c mm: pagewalk: Fix race between unmap and page walker 2022-09-03 10:13:13 -07:00
readahead.c readahead: convert readahead_expand() to use a folio 2023-02-02 22:33:21 -08:00
rmap.c mm/hwpoison: convert TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON to TTU_HWPOISON 2023-02-27 17:00:14 -08:00
rodata_test.c mm/rodata_test: use PAGE_ALIGNED() helper 2022-10-03 14:03:05 -07:00
secretmem.c - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
shmem.c fs: drop unused posix acl handlers 2023-03-06 09:57:12 +01:00
shrinker_debug.c mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs 2023-02-09 15:56:51 -08:00
shuffle.c mm/shuffle: convert module_param_call to module_param_cb 2022-10-03 14:03:07 -07:00
shuffle.h
slab_common.c mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objects 2023-03-29 10:35:41 +02:00
slab.c slab fix for 6.3-rc4 2023-03-24 10:12:14 -07:00
slab.h mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLOB code from slab common code 2023-03-29 10:32:22 +02:00
slub.c mm: slub: make kobj_type structure constant 2023-03-13 17:21:13 +01:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse-vmemmap: generalise vmemmap_populate_hugepages() 2022-12-11 18:12:12 -08:00
sparse.c mm/sparse: fix "unused function 'pgdat_to_phys'" warning 2023-02-02 22:33:29 -08:00
swap_cgroup.c mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled 2022-10-03 14:03:36 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap: convert put_swap_page() to put_swap_folio() 2022-10-03 14:02:46 -07:00
swap_state.c swap_state: update shadow_nodes for anonymous page 2023-02-02 22:33:24 -08:00
swap.c mm: swap: fix performance regression on sparsetruncate-tiny 2023-04-16 10:41:24 -07:00
swap.h mm: remove the __swap_writepage return value 2023-02-02 22:33:33 -08:00
swapfile.c mm/swap: fix swap_info_struct race between swapoff and get_swap_pages() 2023-04-05 18:06:24 -07:00
truncate.c folio-compat: remove lru_cache_add() 2022-12-11 18:12:13 -08:00
usercopy.c mm: Fix copy_from_user_nofault(). 2023-04-12 17:36:23 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm/uffd: detect pgtable allocation failures 2023-01-18 17:12:53 -08:00
util.c mm: fix typo in __vm_enough_memory warning 2023-02-13 15:54:33 -08:00
vmalloc.c mm: kmsan: handle alloc failures in kmsan_ioremap_page_range() 2023-04-18 14:22:13 -07:00
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c fork/vm: Move common PF_IO_WORKER behavior to new flag 2023-03-12 10:54:43 +01:00
vmstat.c mm: vmscan: split khugepaged stats from direct reclaim stats 2022-11-30 15:58:41 -08:00
workingset.c swap_state: update shadow_nodes for anonymous page 2023-02-02 22:33:24 -08:00
z3fold.c mm: remove PageMovable export 2023-01-18 17:12:57 -08:00
zbud.c zpool: clean out dead code 2022-12-11 18:12:10 -08:00
zpool.c zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules 2023-04-13 13:13:54 -07:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable 2023-02-02 22:33:23 -08:00
zswap.c zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules 2023-04-13 13:13:54 -07:00