kernel/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c, branch 0x221E-v0.0.1-v6.19

treewide: include linux/pgalloc.h instead of asm/pgalloc.h

2025-11-17T01:28:25Z

For now, including instead of is technically fine unless the .c file calls p*d_populate_kernel() helper functions. But it is a better practice to always include . Include instead of outside arch/. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024113047.119058-3-harry.yoo@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: fix some typos in mm module

2025-11-17T01:27:52Z

Below are some typos in the code comments: intevals ==> intervals addesses ==> addresses unavaliable ==> unavailable facor ==> factor droping ==> dropping exlusive ==> exclusive decription ==> description confict ==> conflict desriptions ==> descriptions otherwize ==> otherwise vlaue ==> value cheching ==> checking exisitng ==> existing modifed ==> modified differenciate ==> differentiate refernece ==> reference permissons ==> permissions indepdenent ==> independent spliting ==> splitting Just fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250929002608.1633825-1-jianyungao89@gmail.com Signed-off-by: jianyun.gao Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Acked-by: Chris Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/pagewalk: split walk_page_range_novma() into kernel/user parts

2025-07-10T05:42:05Z

walk_page_range_novma() is rather confusing - it supports two modes, one used often, the other used only for debugging. The first mode is the common case of traversal of kernel page tables, which is what nearly all callers use this for. Secondly it provides an unusual debugging interface that allows for the traversal of page tables in a userland range of memory even for that memory which is not described by a VMA. It is far from certain that such page tables should even exist, but perhaps this is precisely why it is useful as a debugging mechanism. As a result, this is utilised by ptdump only. Historically, things were reversed - ptdump was the only user, and other parts of the kernel evolved to use the kernel page table walking here. Since we have some complicated and confusing locking rules for the novma case, it makes sense to separate the two usages into their own functions. Doing this also provide self-documentation as to the intent of the caller - are they doing something rather unusual or are they simply doing a standard kernel page table walk? We therefore establish two separate functions - walk_page_range_debug() for this single usage, and walk_kernel_page_table_range() for general kernel page table walking. The walk_page_range_debug() function is currently used to traverse both userland and kernel mappings, so we maintain this and in the case of kernel mappings being traversed, we have walk_page_range_debug() invoke walk_kernel_page_table_range() internally. We additionally make walk_page_range_debug() internal to mm. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605135104.90720-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Qi Zheng Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Barry Song Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: WANG Xuerui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm, hugetlb: increment the number of pages to be reset on HVO

2025-04-18T03:10:08Z

commit 4eeec8c89a0c ("mm: move hugetlb specific things in folio to page[3]") shifted hugetlb specific stuff, and now mapping overlaps _hugetlb_cgroup field. Upon restoring the vmemmap for HVO, only the first two tail pages are reset, and this causes the check in free_tail_page_prepare() to fail as it finds an unexpected mapping value in some tails. Increment the number of pages to be reset to 4 (head + 3 tail pages) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250415111859.376302-1-osalvador@suse.de Fixes: 4eeec8c89a0c ("mm: move hugetlb specific things in folio to page[3]") Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/hugetlb: do pre-HVO for bootmem allocated pages

2025-03-17T05:06:29Z

For large systems, the overhead of vmemmap pages for hugetlb is substantial. It's about 1.5% of memory, which is about 45G for a 3T system. If you want to configure most of that system for hugetlb (e.g. to use as backing memory for VMs), there is a chance of running out of memory on boot, even though you know that the 45G will become available later. To avoid this scenario, and since it's a waste to first allocate and then free that 45G during boot, do pre-HVO for hugetlb bootmem allocated pages ('gigantic' pages). pre-HVO is done by adding functions that are called from sparse_init_nid_early and sparse_init_nid_late. The first is called before memmap allocation, so it takes care of allocating memmap HVO-style. The second verifies that all bootmem pages look good, specifically it checks that they do not intersect with multiple zones. This can only be done from sparse_init_nid_late path, when zones have been initialized. The hugetlb page size must be aligned to the section size, and aligned to the size of memory described by the number of page structures contained in one PMD (since pre-HVO is not prepared to split PMDs). This should be true for most 'gigantic' pages, it is for 1G pages on x86, where both of these alignment requirements are 128M. This will only have an effect if hugetlb_bootmem_alloc was called early in boot. If not, it won't do anything, and HVO for bootmem hugetlb pages works as before. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-20-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/hugetlb: add pre-HVO framework

2025-03-17T05:06:29Z

Define flags for pre-HVOed bootmem hugetlb pages, and act on them. The most important flag is the HVO flag, signalling that a bootmem allocated gigantic page has already been HVO-ed. If this flag is seen by the hugetlb bootmem gather code, the page is marked as HVO optimized. The HVO code will then not try to optimize it again. Instead, it will just map the tail page mirror pages read-only, completing the HVO steps. No functional change, as nothing sets the flags yet. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-18-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/hugetlb: convert cmdline parameters from setup to early

2025-03-17T05:06:26Z

Convert the cmdline parameters (hugepagesz, hugepages, default_hugepagesz and hugetlb_free_vmemmap) to early parameters. Since parse_early_param might run before MMU setups on some platforms (powerpc), validation of huge page sizes as specified in command line parameters would fail. So instead, for the hstate-related values, just record the them and parse them on demand, from hugetlb_bootmem_alloc. The allocation of hugetlb bootmem pages is now done in hugetlb_bootmem_alloc, which is called explicitly at the start of mm_core_init(). core_initcall would be too late, as that happens with memblock already torn down. This change will allow earlier allocation and initialization of bootmem hugetlb pages later on. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-8-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable

2025-01-28T12:48:37Z

Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net, drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function. Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata. This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the proc_handlers. Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command: Spatch: virtual patch @ depends on !(file in "net") disable optional_qualifier @ identifier table_name != { watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, iwcm_ctl_table, ucma_ctl_table, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table }; @@ + const struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... }; sed: sed --in-place \ -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \ kernel/utsname_sysctl.c Reviewed-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) # for kernel/trace/ Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen # SCSI Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong # xfs Acked-by: Jani Nikula Acked-by: Corey Minyard Acked-by: Wei Liu Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell Acked-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit Acked-by: Anna Schumaker Signed-off-by: Joel Granados

mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: don't synchronize_rcu() without HVO

2024-09-02T03:25:45Z

hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio() and hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio() are wrappers meant to be called regardless of whether HVO is enabled. Therefore, they should not call synchronize_rcu(). Otherwise, it regresses use cases not enabling HVO. So move synchronize_rcu() to __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio() and __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(), and call it once for each batch of folios when HVO is enabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240719042503.2752316-1-yuzhao@google.com Fixes: bd225530a4c7 ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: fix race with speculative PFN walkers") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202407091001.1250ad4a-oliver.sang@intel.com Reported-by: Janosch Frank Tested-by: Marc Hartmayer Acked-by: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: don't account memmap per-node

2024-08-16T05:16:14Z

Fix invalid access to pgdat during hot-remove operation: ndctl users reported a GPF when trying to destroy a namespace: $ ndctl destroy-namespace all -r all -f Segmentation fault dmesg: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000005650: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x000000000002b280-0x000000000002b287] CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 1868 Comm: ndctl Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1 #1 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/08HT8T, BIOS 2.20.1 09/13/2023 RIP: 0010:mod_node_page_state+0x2a/0x110 cxl-test users report a GPF when trying to unload the test module: $ modrpobe -r cxl-test dmesg BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000004200 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1076 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G O N 6.11.0-rc1 #197 Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [N]=TEST Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/15 RIP: 0010:mod_node_page_state+0x6/0x90 Currently, when memory is hot-plugged or hot-removed the accounting is done based on the assumption that memmap is allocated from the same node as the hot-plugged/hot-removed memory, which is not always the case. In addition, there are challenges with keeping the node id of the memory that is being remove to the time when memmap accounting is actually performed: since this is done after remove_pfn_range_from_zone(), and also after remove_memory_block_devices(). Meaning that we cannot use pgdat nor walking though memblocks to get the nid. Given all of that, account the memmap overhead system wide instead. For this we are going to be using global atomic counters, but given that memmap size is rarely modified, and normally is only modified either during early boot when there is only one CPU, or under a hotplug global mutex lock, therefore there is no need for per-cpu optimizations. Also, while we are here rename nr_memmap to nr_memmap_pages, and nr_memmap_boot to nr_memmap_boot_pages to be self explanatory that the units are in page count. [pasha.tatashin@soleen.com: address a few nits from David Hildenbrand] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240808213437.682006-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information") Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reported-by: Yi Zhang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/CAHj4cs9Ax1=CoJkgBGP_+sNu6-6=6v=_L-ZBZY0bVLD3wUWZQg@mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Alison Schofield Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Zq0tPd2h6alFz8XF@aschofie-mobl2/#t Tested-by: Dan Williams Tested-by: Alison Schofield Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: David Rientjes Tested-by: Yi Zhang Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Fan Ni Cc: Joel Granados Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Li Zhijian Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Sourav Panda Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yosry Ahmed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton