kernel/include/linux/gfp.h, branch linux-5.17.y

include/linux/gfp.h: further document GFP_DMA32

2022-01-15T14:30:29Z

kmalloc(..., GFP_DMA32) does not return DMA32 memory because the DMA32 kmalloc cache array is not implemented. (Reason: there is no such user in kernel). Put a short comment about this so people can understand this by reading the comment. [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2018-December/031696.html Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211207093610.6406-1-miles.chen@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Miles Chen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: drop node from alloc_pages_vma

2022-01-15T14:30:29Z

alloc_pages_vma is meant to allocate a page with a vma specific memory policy. The initial node parameter is always a local node so it is pointless to waste a function argument for this. Drop the parameter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YaSnlv4QpryEpesG@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Ben Widawsky Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Feng Tang Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dan Williams Cc: "Huang, Ying" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc: fix __alloc_size attribute for alloc_pages_exact_nid

2021-12-25T20:20:56Z

The second parameter of alloc_pages_exact_nid is the one indicating the size of memory pointed by the returned pointer. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YbjEgwhn4bGblp//@coeus Fixes: abd58f38dfb4 ("mm/page_alloc: add __alloc_size attributes for better bounds checking") Signed-off-by: Thibaut Sautereau Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Daniel Micay Cc: Levente Polyak Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-11-06T21:08:17Z

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "257 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools, memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm, vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram, cleanups, kfence, and damon)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (257 commits) mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM) selftests/damon: support watermarks mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes ...

mm/vmalloc: introduce alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy to accelerate memory allocation

2021-11-06T20:30:37Z

Commit ffb29b1c255a ("mm/vmalloc: fix numa spreading for large hash tables") can cause significant performance regressions in some situations as Andrew mentioned in [1]. The main situation is vmalloc, vmalloc will allocate pages with NUMA_NO_NODE by default, that will result in alloc page one by one; In order to solve this, __alloc_pages_bulk and mempolicy should be considered at the same time. 1) If node is specified in memory allocation request, it will alloc all pages by __alloc_pages_bulk. 2) If interleaving allocate memory, it will cauculate how many pages should be allocated in each node, and use __alloc_pages_bulk to alloc pages in each node. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALvZod4G3SzP3kWxQYn0fj+VgG-G3yWXz=gz17+3N57ru1iajw@mail.gmail.com/t/#m750c8e3231206134293b089feaa090590afa0f60 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make two functions static] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021080744.874701-3-chenwandun@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Hanjun Guo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc: add __alloc_size attributes for better bounds checking

2021-11-06T20:30:34Z

As already done in GrapheneOS, add the __alloc_size attribute for appropriate page allocator interfaces, to provide additional hinting for better bounds checking, assisting CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE and other compiler optimizations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930222704.2631604-8-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Co-developed-by: Daniel Micay Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Alexandre Bounine Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jing Xiangfeng Cc: John Hubbard Cc: kernel test robot Cc: Matt Porter Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Souptick Joarder Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc: Add folio allocation functions

2021-10-18T11:49:40Z

The __folio_alloc(), __folio_alloc_node() and folio_alloc() functions are mostly for type safety, but they also ensure that the page allocator allocates a compound page and initialises the deferred list if the page is large enough to have one. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka

mm: Add arch_make_folio_accessible()

2021-10-18T11:49:39Z

As a default implementation, call arch_make_page_accessible n times. If an architecture can do better, it can override this. Also move the default implementation of arch_make_page_accessible() from gfp.h to mm.h. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: David Howells Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-06-30T00:29:11Z

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "191 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts, ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab, slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization, pagealloc, and memory-failure)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (191 commits) mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page() mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed ...

arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM

2021-06-29T17:53:55Z

There are several places that mention DISCONIGMEM in comments or have stale code guarded by CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM. Remove the dead code and update the comments. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608091316.3622-7-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Vineet Gupta Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds