kernel/fs/direct-io.c, branch 0x221E-v0.0.1-v6.19

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-07-31T21:57:54Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets. 21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up", "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc. I never knew the MM code was so dirty. "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent VMAs. "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park) adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production environments. "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig) is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control. "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom) contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and management code. "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman) does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code. "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts) implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading into order>0 folios. "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown) provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the selftests code. "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain) does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark. "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox) expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page(). "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand) addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be causing any issues at this time. "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park) provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON. "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes) uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other types. "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy) increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd code. "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple) removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags. "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park) implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON sysfs layer. "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes) does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code. "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka) provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort. "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador) creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes. Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline notifier. "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan) cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice. "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park) adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite. "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador) fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and follows that fix with a series of cleanups. "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport) rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator. "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code. "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park) adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code. "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park) does that. "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) also does what it claims. "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand) cleans up the large folio PTE batching code. "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park) facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy. "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola) provides a couple of page->folio conversions. "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso) implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the current memcg-based implementation. "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park) replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface. "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed reliably. "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga) switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range(). "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park) augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update interval. "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi) does what is claims. "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand) provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe directly. "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface. "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan) cleans up __folio_split()! "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain) provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing with large folios. "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian) does some cleanup work in the selftests code. "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes) extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" feature. "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park) extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal subset" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits) MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info() selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment ...

direct-io: use memzero_page()

2025-07-10T05:42:08Z

memzero_page() is the new name for zero_user(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250612143443.2848197-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Alex Markuze Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ilya Dryomov Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Xiubo Li Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Viacheslav Dubeyko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem

2025-06-23T10:17:33Z

VFS has switched to i_rwsem for ten years now (9902af79c01a: parallel lookups actual switch to rwsem), but the VFS documentation and comments still has references to i_mutex. Signed-off-by: Junxuan Liao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/72223729-5471-474a-af3c-f366691fba82@cs.wisc.edu Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs/direct-io: Remove linux/prefetch.h include

2024-08-19T11:45:02Z

After commit c22198e78d52 ("direct-io: remove random prefetches"), Nothing in this file needs anything from `linux/prefetch.h`. Signed-off-by: Youling Tang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240603014834.45294-1-youling.tang@linux.dev Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs/direct-io: remove redundant assignment to variable retval

2024-04-11T08:21:24Z

The variable retval is being assigned a value that is not being read, it is being re-assigned later on in the function. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: fs/direct-io.c:1220:2: warning: Value stored to 'retval' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240410162221.292485-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

block, fs: Restore the per-bio/request data lifetime fields

2024-02-06T13:31:05Z

Restore support for passing data lifetime information from filesystems to block drivers. This patch reverts commit b179c98f7697 ("block: Remove request.write_hint") and commit c75e707fe1aa ("block: remove the per-bio/request write hint"). This patch does not modify the size of struct bio because the new bi_write_hint member fills a hole in struct bio. pahole reports the following for struct bio on an x86_64 system with this patch applied: /* size: 112, cachelines: 2, members: 20 */ /* sum members: 110, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */ /* last cacheline: 48 bytes */ Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202203926.2478590-7-bvanassche@acm.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs : Fix warning using plain integer as NULL

2023-11-18T14:00:01Z

Sparse static analysis tools generate a warning with this message "Using plain integer as NULL pointer". In this case this warning is being shown because we are trying to initialize pointer to NULL using integer value 0. Signed-off-by: Abhinav Singh Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231108044550.1006555-1-singhabhinav9051571833@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init

2023-10-18T21:43:23Z

__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked __read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1. Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-06-28T17:28:11Z

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton: - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs - Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing - Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability - Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the prevalence of page rescanning - Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the get_user_pages() interface - Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree - Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code - David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for get_user_pages() - Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization work for the vmalloc code - Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups, - SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code - Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of device refcounting - Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code - Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses - Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache and directio access to file mappings - John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code - ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign - Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock - Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment from 128 to 8 - Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by reorganizing the LRU management - Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the buffer_head code - Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work - Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch * tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits) mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool() mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem() hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss() Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one" mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim() mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list() mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block() mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes mm: remove references to pagevec mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate mm: remove struct pagevec net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch pagevec: rename fbatch_count() mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages() drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch scatterlist: add sg_set_folio() ...

block: Fix dio_cleanup() to advance the head index

2023-06-14T12:58:18Z

Fix dio_bio_cleanup() to advance the head index into the list of pages past the pages it has released, as __blockdev_direct_IO() will call it twice if do_direct_IO() fails. The issue was causing: WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 2220 at mm/gup.c:76 try_get_folio This can be triggered by setting up a clean pair of UDF filesystems on loopback devices and running the generic/451 xfstest with them as the scratch and test partitions. Something like the following: fallocate /mnt2/udf_scratch -l 1G fallocate /mnt2/udf_test -l 1G mknod /dev/lo0 b 7 0 mknod /dev/lo1 b 7 1 losetup lo0 /mnt2/udf_scratch losetup lo1 /mnt2/udf_test mkfs -t udf /dev/lo0 mkfs -t udf /dev/lo1 cd xfstests ./check generic/451 with xfstests configured by putting the following into local.config: export FSTYP=udf export DISABLE_UDF_TEST=1 export TEST_DEV=/dev/lo1 export TEST_DIR=/xfstest.test export SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/lo0 export SCRATCH_MNT=/xfstest.scratch Fixes: 1ccf164ec866 ("block: Use iov_iter_extract_pages() and page pinning in direct-io.c") Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202306120931.a9606b88-oliver.sang@intel.com Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Christoph Hellwig cc: David Hildenbrand cc: Andrew Morton cc: Jens Axboe cc: Al Viro cc: Matthew Wilcox cc: Jan Kara cc: Jeff Layton cc: Jason Gunthorpe cc: Logan Gunthorpe cc: Hillf Danton cc: Christian Brauner cc: Linus Torvalds cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1193485.1686693279@warthog.procyon.org.uk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe