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David Hildenbrand 93fb70aa59 selftests/vm: add KSM unmerge tests
Patch series "mm/ksm: break_ksm() cleanups and fixes", v2.

This series cleans up and fixes break_ksm().  In summary, we no longer use
fake write faults to break COW but instead FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE.  Further,
we move away from using follow_page() --- that we can hopefully remove
completely at one point --- and use new walk_page_range_vma() instead.

Fortunately, we can get rid of VM_FAULT_WRITE and FOLL_MIGRATION in common
code now.

Extend the existing ksm tests by an unmerge benchmark, and a some new
unmerge tests.

Also, add a selftest to measure MADV_UNMERGEABLE performance.  In my setup
(AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), running the KSM selftest to test unmerge performance
on 2 GiB (taskset 0x8 ./ksm_tests -D -s 2048), this results in a
performance degradation of ~6% -- 7% (old: ~5250 MiB/s, new: ~4900 MiB/s).
I don't think we particularly care for now, but it's good to be aware of
the implication.


This patch (of 9):

Let's add three unmerge tests (MADV_UNMERGEABLE unmerging all pages in the
range).

test_unmerge(): basic unmerge tests
test_unmerge_discarded(): have some pte_none() entries in the range
test_unmerge_uffd_wp(): protect the merged pages using uffd-wp

ksm_tests.c currently contains a mixture of benchmarks and tests, whereby
each test is carried out by executing the ksm_tests binary with specific
parameters.  Let's add new ksm_functional_tests.c that performs multiple,
smaller functional tests all at once.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021101141.84170-5-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-12-11 18:12:07 -08:00
arch s390/mm: use pmd_pgtable_page() helper in __gmap_segment_gaddr() 2022-11-30 15:59:07 -08:00
block block-6.1-2022-11-05 2022-11-05 09:02:28 -07:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible 2022-10-11 17:42:58 -06:00
Documentation documentation/mm: update pmd_present() in arch_pgtable_helpers.rst 2022-11-30 15:59:07 -08:00
drivers zram: remove unused stats fields 2022-11-30 15:59:01 -08:00
fs ext4: convert move_extent_per_page() to use folios 2022-11-30 15:59:02 -08:00
include Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-12-09 19:31:11 -08:00
init init: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "satify" -> "satisfy" 2022-10-20 21:27:22 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: unlock if __io_run_local_work locked inside 2022-10-27 09:52:12 -06:00
ipc ipc/shm: call underlying open/close vm_ops 2022-11-22 18:50:42 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-12-09 19:31:11 -08:00
lib maple_tree: allow TEST_MAPLE_TREE only when DEBUG_KERNEL is set 2022-11-30 15:59:03 -08:00
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rust Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
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scripts kconfig: fix segmentation fault in menuconfig search 2022-11-02 17:32:05 +09:00
security lsm/stable-6.1 PR 20221031 2022-10-31 12:09:42 -07:00
sound ALSA: aoa: Fix I2S device accounting 2022-10-27 08:53:08 +02:00
tools selftests/vm: add KSM unmerge tests 2022-12-11 18:12:07 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
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CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-12-09 19:31:11 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.1-rc4 2022-11-06 15:07:11 -08:00
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