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'fixes.2021.11.30c', 'nocb.2021.12.09a', 'nolibc.2021.11.30c', 'tasks.2021.12.09a', 'torture.2021.12.07a' and 'torturescript.2021.11.30c' into HEAD
doc.2021.11.30c: Documentation updates.
exp.2021.12.07a: Expedited-grace-period fixes.
fastnohz.2021.11.30c: Remove CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ.
fixes.2021.11.30c: Miscellaneous fixes.
nocb.2021.12.09a: No-CB CPU updates.
nolibc.2021.11.30c: Tiny in-kernel library updates.
tasks.2021.12.09a: RCU-tasks updates, including update-side scalability.
torture.2021.12.07a: Torture-test in-kernel module updates.
torturescript.2021.11.30c: Torture-test scripting updates.
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Allow the rcu_nocbs kernel parameter to be specified just by itself,
without specifying any CPUs. This allows systems administrators to use
"rcu_nocbs" to specify that none of the CPUs are to be offloaded at boot
time, but than any of them may be offloaded at runtime via cpusets.
In contrast, if the "rcu_nocbs" or "nohz_full" kernel parameters are not
specified at all, then not only are none of the CPUs offloaded at boot,
none of them can be offloaded at runtime, either.
While in the area, modernize the description of the "rcuo" kthreads'
naming scheme.
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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By default, when lock contention is encountered, the RCU Tasks flavors
of RCU switch to using per-CPU queueing. However, if the callback
flood ends, per-CPU queueing continues to be used, which introduces
significant additional overhead, especially for callback invocation,
which fans out a series of workqueue handlers.
This commit therefore switches back to single-queue operation if at the
beginning of a grace period there are very few callbacks. The definition
of "very few" is set by the rcupdate.rcu_task_collapse_lim module
parameter, which defaults to 10. This switch happens in two phases,
with the first phase causing future callbacks to be enqueued on CPU 0's
queue, but with all queues continuing to be checked for grace periods
and callback invocation. The second phase checks to see if an RCU grace
period has elapsed and if all remaining RCU-Tasks callbacks are queued
on CPU 0. If so, only CPU 0 is checked for future grace periods and
callback operation.
Of course, the return of contention anywhere during this process will
result in returning to per-CPU callback queueing.
Reported-by: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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The rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim module parameter allows system
administrators to tune the number of callback queues used by the RCU
Tasks flavors. However if callback storms are infrequent, it would
be better to operate with a single queue on a given system unless and
until that system actually needed more queues. Systems not needing
more queues can then avoid the overhead of checking the extra queues
and especially avoid the overhead of fanning workqueue handlers out to
all CPUs to invoke callbacks.
This commit therefore switches to using all the CPUs' callback queues if
call_rcu_tasks_generic() encounters too much lock contention. The amount
of lock contention to tolerate defaults to 100 contended lock acquisitions
per jiffy, and can be adjusted using the new rcupdate.rcu_task_contend_lim
module parameter.
Such switching is undertaken only if the rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim
module parameter is negative, which is its default value (-1).
This allows savvy systems administrators to set the number of queues
to some known good value and to not have to worry about the kernel doing
any second guessing.
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Guillaume Tucker and kernelci. ]
Reported-by: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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This commit adds a rcupdate.rcu_task_enqueue_lim module parameter that
sets the initial number of callback queues to use for the RCU Tasks
family of RCU implementations. This parameter allows testing of various
fanout values.
Reported-by: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Deactivating KUEP at boot time is unrelevant for PPC32 and BOOK3E/64.
Remove it.
It allows to refactor setup_kuep() via a __weak function
that only PPC64s will overide for now.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
[mpe: Fix CONFIG_PPC_BOOKS_64 -> CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 typo]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4c36df18b41c988c4512f45d96220486adbe4c99.1634627931.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-next
drm-misc-next for 5.17:
UAPI Changes:
Cross-subsystem Changes:
* Move 'nomodeset' kernel boot option into DRM subsystem
Core Changes:
* Replace several DRM_*() logging macros with drm_*() equivalents
* panel: Add quirk for Lenovo Yoga Book X91F/L
* ttm: Documentation fixes
Driver Changes:
* Cleanup nomodeset handling in drivers
* Fixes
* bridge/anx7625: Fix reading EDID; Fix error code
* bridge/megachips: Probe both bridges before registering
* vboxvideo: Fix ERR_PTR usage
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/YaSVz15Q7dAlEevU@linux-uq9g.fritz.box
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Theoretically, when the hardware signature in FACS changes, the OS
is supposed to gracefully decline to attempt to resume from S4:
"If the signature has changed, OSPM will not restore the system
context and can boot from scratch"
In practice, Windows doesn't do this and many laptop vendors do allow
the signature to change especially when docking/undocking, so it would
be a bad idea to simply comply with the specification by default in the
general case.
However, there are use cases where we do want the compliant behaviour
and we know it's safe. Specifically, when resuming virtual machines where
we know the hypervisor has changed sufficiently that resume will fail.
We really want to be able to *tell* the guest kernel not to try, so it
boots cleanly and doesn't just crash. This patch provides a way to opt
in to the spec-compliant behaviour on the command line.
A follow-up patch may do this automatically for certain "known good"
machines based on a DMI match, or perhaps just for all hypervisor
guests since there's no good reason a hypervisor would change the
hardware_signature that it exposes to guests *unless* it wants them
to obey the ACPI specification.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This commit converts the rcutorture.fwd_progress module parameter from
bool to int, so that it specifies the number of callback-flood kthreads.
Values less than zero specify one kthread per CPU, however, the number of
kthreads executing concurrently is limited to the number of online CPUs.
This commit also reverse the order of the need-resched and callback-flood
operations to cause the callback flooding to happen more nearly at the
same time.
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Linux 5.16-rc4
* tag 'v5.16-rc4': (984 commits)
Linux 5.16-rc4
KVM: SVM: Do not terminate SEV-ES guests on GHCB validation failure
KVM: SEV: Fall back to vmalloc for SEV-ES scratch area if necessary
KVM: SEV: Return appropriate error codes if SEV-ES scratch setup fails
parisc: Mark cr16 CPU clocksource unstable on all SMP machines
parisc: Fix "make install" on newer debian releases
sched/uclamp: Fix rq->uclamp_max not set on first enqueue
preempt/dynamic: Fix setup_preempt_mode() return value
cifs: avoid use of dstaddr as key for fscache client cookie
cifs: add server conn_id to fscache client cookie
cifs: wait for tcon resource_id before getting fscache super
cifs: fix missed refcounting of ipc tcon
x86/xen: Add xenpv_restore_regs_and_return_to_usermode()
x86/entry: Use the correct fence macro after swapgs in kernel CR3
fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it
x86/entry: Add a fence for kernel entry SWAPGS in paranoid_entry()
x86/sev: Fix SEV-ES INS/OUTS instructions for word, dword, and qword
powercap: DTPM: Drop unused local variable from init_dtpm()
io-wq: don't retry task_work creation failure on fatal conditions
serial: 8250_bcm7271: UART errors after resuming from S2
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Stephen Rothwell reported the following warning caused by commit
f1045056c726 ("topology/sysfs: rework book and drawer topology
ifdefery"):
Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst:49: WARNING: Block quote
ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
To fix this remove the extra indentation again.
Fixes: f1045056c726 ("topology/sysfs: rework book and drawer topology ifdefery")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ya4Ht2K9x2+lUtuR@osiris
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A few important documentation fixes, including breakage that comes
with v1.0 of the ReadTheDocs theme"
* tag 'docs-5.16-3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation: Add minimum pahole version
Documentation/process: fix self reference
docs: admin-guide/blockdev: Remove digraph of node-states
docs: conf.py: fix support for Readthedocs v 1.0.0
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Provide default defines for the topology_book_[id|cpumask] and
topology_drawer_[id|cpumask] macros just like for each other topology
level.
This way all topology levels are handled in a similar way. Still the
the book and drawer levels are only used on s390, and also the sysfs
attributes are only created on s390. However other architectures may
opt in if wanted.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-4-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The cluster_id and cluster_cpus topology sysfs attributes have been
added with commit c5e22feffdd7 ("topology: Represent clusters of CPUs
within a die").
They are currently only used for x86, arm64, and riscv (via generic
arch topology), however they are still present with bogus default
values for all other architectures. Instead of enforcing such new
sysfs attributes to all architectures, make them only optional visible
if an architecture opts in by defining both the topology_cluster_id
and topology_cluster_cpumask attributes.
This is similar to what was done when the book and drawer topology
levels were introduced: avoid useless and therefore confusing sysfs
attributes for architectures which cannot make use of them.
This should not break any existing applications, since this is a
new interface introduced with the v5.16 merge window.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-3-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The die_id and die_cpus topology sysfs attributes have been added with
commit 0e344d8c709f ("cpu/topology: Export die_id") and commit
2e4c54dac7b3 ("topology: Create core_cpus and die_cpus sysfs attributes").
While they are currently only used and useful for x86 they are still
present with bogus default values for all architectures. Instead of
enforcing such new sysfs attributes to all architectures, make them
only optional visible if an architecture opts in by defining both the
topology_die_id and topology_die_cpumask attributes.
This is similar to what was done when the book and drawer topology
levels were introduced: avoid useless and therefore confusing sysfs
attributes for architectures which cannot make use of them.
This should not break any existing applications, since this is a
rather new interface and applications should be able to handle also
older kernel versions without such attributes - besides that they
contain only useful information for x86.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-2-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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All of the uses of CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y that I have seen involve
systems with RCU callbacks offloaded. In this situation, all that this
Kconfig option does is slow down idle entry/exit with an additional
allways-taken early exit. If this is the only use case, then this
Kconfig option nothing but an attractive nuisance that needs to go away.
This commit therefore removes the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ Kconfig option.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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This document advises building with both CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and
CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y. However, CONFIG_NO_HZ=y offloads callbacks from
all nohz_full CPUs, and CPUs with offloaded callbacks do not benefit from
CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y. Quite the opposite: CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y
simply adds a bit of idle entry/exit overhead.
This commit therefore changes that advice to only CONFIG_NO_HZ=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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With the previous patch, there is an extra watchdog read in each retry.
Now the total number of clocksource reads is increased to 4 per iteration.
In order to avoid increasing the clock skew check overhead, the default
maximum number of retries is reduced from 3 to 2 to maintain the same 12
clocksource reads in the worst case.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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While node-states-8.dot has two digraphs, the dot(1) command can
not properly handle multiple graphs in a DOT file and the
kernel-doc page at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/blockdev/drbd/figures.html
fails to render the graphs.
It turned out that the digraph of node_states can be removed.
Quote from Joel's reflection:
On reflection, the digraph node_states can be removed entirely.
It is too basic to contain any useful information. In addition
it references "ioctl_set_state". The ioctl configuration
interface for DRBD has long been removed. In fact, it was never
in the upstream version of DRBD.
Remove node_states and rename the DOT file peer_states-8.dot.
Suggested-by: Joel Colledge <joel.colledge@linbit.com>
Acked-by: Joel Colledge <joel.colledge@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7df04f45-8746-e666-1a9d-a998f1ab1f91@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Enable the memtest functionality and rearrange some code to prevent it
from clobbering the initrd.
The code to implement CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD was conditional on
!defined(CONFIG_SUN3). For simplicity, remove that test on the basis
that m68k_ramdisk.size == 0 on Sun 3. The SLIME source code at
http://sammy.net/sun3/ftp/pub/m68k/sun3/slime/slime-2.0.tar.gz
indicates that no BI_RAMDISK entry is ever passed to the kernel due
to #ifdef 0 around the relevant code.
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Sam Creasey <sammy@sammy.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8170fe1d1c62426d82275d36ba409ecc18754292.1637274578.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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We've got a bug report about the non-working keyboard on ASUS ZenBook
UX425UA. It seems that the PS/2 device isn't ready immediately at
boot but takes some seconds to get ready. Until now, the only
workaround is to defer the probe, but it's available only when the
driver is a module. However, many distros, including openSUSE as in
the original report, build the PS/2 input drivers into kernel, hence
it won't work easily.
This patch adds the support for the deferred probe for i8042 stuff as
a workaround of the problem above. When the deferred probe mode is
enabled and the device couldn't be probed, it'll be repeated with the
standard deferred probe mechanism.
The deferred probe mode is enabled either via the new option
i8042.probe_defer or via the quirk table entry. As of this patch, the
quirk table contains only ASUS ZenBook UX425UA.
The deferred probe part is based on Fabio's initial work.
BugLink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190256
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Samuel Čavoj <samuel@cavoj.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117063757.11380-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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The nomodeset kernel command line parameter is not documented. Its name
is quite vague and is not intuitive what's the behaviour when it is set.
Document in kernel-parameters.txt what actually happens when nomodeset
is used. That way, users could know if they want to enable this option.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211112133230.1595307-6-javierm@redhat.com
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StoreEOI is activated by default on platforms supporting the feature
(POWER10) and will be used as soon as firmware advertises its
availability. The kernel parameter provides a way to deactivate its
use. It can be still be reactivated through debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211105102636.1016378-10-clg@kaod.org
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It can be useful in simulators (with very constrained environments)
to allow some PMCs to run from boot so they can be sampled directly
by a test harness, rather than having to run perf.
A previous change freezes counters at boot by default, so provide
a boot time option to un-freeze (plus a bit more flexibility).
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211123095231.1036501-13-npiggin@gmail.com
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86
Pull x86 platform driver fixes from Hans de Goede:
"Various build- and bug-fixes as well as one hardware-id addition"
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86:
platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: fix documentation for adaptive keyboard
platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Fix WWAN device disabled issue after S3 deep
platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add support for dual fan control
platform/x86: think-lmi: Abort probe on analyze failure
platform/x86: dell-wmi-descriptor: disable by default
platform/x86: samsung-laptop: Fix typo in a comment
platform/x86: hp_accel: Fix an error handling path in 'lis3lv02d_probe()'
platform/x86: amd-pmc: Make CONFIG_AMD_PMC depend on RTC_CLASS
platform/mellanox: mlxreg-lc: fix error code in mlxreg_lc_create_static_devices()
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The file name: accounting/delay-accounting.rst
should be, instead: Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst.
Also, there's no need to use doc:`foo`, as automarkup.py will
automatically handle plain text mentions to Documentation/
files.
So, update its cross-reference accordingly.
Fixes: fcb501704554 ("delayacct: Document task_delayacct sysctl")
Fixes: c3123552aad3 ("docs: accounting: convert to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The different values were offset by 1. 0 is for "home mode", 1 for
"web-browser mode", etc. Moreover, the URL to the laptop's user guide
did not work anymore.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211109195209.176905-1-vincent@bernat.ch
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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add stm32-dma2d description for dma2d driver
Signed-off-by: Dillon Min <dillon.minfei@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
"A slow cycle for nfsd: mainly cleanup, including Neil's patch dropping
support for a filehandle format deprecated 20 years ago, and further
xdr-related cleanup from Chuck"
* tag 'nfsd-5.16' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (26 commits)
nfsd4: remove obselete comment
nfsd: document server-to-server-copy parameters
NFSD:fix boolreturn.cocci warning
nfsd: update create verifier comment
SUNRPC: Change return value type of .pc_encode
SUNRPC: Replace the "__be32 *p" parameter to .pc_encode
NFSD: Save location of NFSv4 COMPOUND status
SUNRPC: Change return value type of .pc_decode
SUNRPC: Replace the "__be32 *p" parameter to .pc_decode
SUNRPC: De-duplicate .pc_release() call sites
SUNRPC: Simplify the SVC dispatch code path
SUNRPC: Capture value of xdr_buf::page_base
SUNRPC: Add trace event when alloc_pages_bulk() makes no progress
svcrdma: Split svcrmda_wc_{read,write} tracepoints
svcrdma: Split the svcrdma_wc_send() tracepoint
svcrdma: Split the svcrdma_wc_receive() tracepoint
NFSD: Have legacy NFSD WRITE decoders use xdr_stream_subsegment()
SUNRPC: xdr_stream_subsegment() must handle non-zero page_bases
NFSD: Initialize pointer ni with NULL and not plain integer 0
NFSD: simplify struct nfsfh
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull prctl updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the missing prctl uapi pieces for PR_SCHED_CORE.
In order to activate core scheduling the caller is expected to specify
the scope of the new core scheduling domain.
For example, passing 2 in the 4th argument of
prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE, <pid>, 2, 0);
would indicate that the new core scheduling domain encompasses all
tasks in the process group of <pid>. Specifying 0 would only create a
core scheduling domain for the thread identified by <pid> and 2 would
encompass the whole thread-group of <pid>.
Note, the values 0, 1, and 2 correspond to PIDTYPE_PID, PIDTYPE_TGID,
and PIDTYPE_PGID. A first version tried to expose those values
directly to which I objected because:
- PIDTYPE_* is an enum that is kernel internal which we should not
expose to userspace directly.
- PIDTYPE_* indicates what a given struct pid is used for it doesn't
express a scope.
But what the 4th argument of PR_SCHED_CORE prctl() expresses is the
scope of the operation, i.e. the scope of the core scheduling domain
at creation time. So Eugene's patch now simply introduces three new
defines PR_SCHED_CORE_SCOPE_THREAD, PR_SCHED_CORE_SCOPE_THREAD_GROUP,
and PR_SCHED_CORE_SCOPE_PROCESS_GROUP. They simply express what
happens.
This has been on the mailing list for quite a while with all relevant
scheduler folks Cced. I announced multiple times that I'd pick this up
if I don't see or her anyone else doing it. None of this touches
proper scheduler code but only concerns uapi so I think this is fine.
With core scheduling being quite common now for vm managers (e.g.
moving individual vcpu threads into their own core scheduling domain)
and container managers (e.g. moving the init process into its own core
scheduling domain and letting all created children inherit it) having
to rely on raw numbers passed as the 4th argument in prctl() is a bit
annoying and everyone is starting to come up with their own defines"
* tag 'kernel.sys.v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
uapi/linux/prctl: provide macro definitions for the PR_SCHED_CORE type argument
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- a series to speed up the boot of Xen PV guests
- some cleanups in Xen related code
- replacement of license texts with the appropriate SPDX headers and
fixing of wrong SPDX headers in Xen header files
- a small series making paravirtualized interrupt masking much simpler
and at the same time removing complaints of objtool
- a fix for Xen ballooning hogging workqueues for too long
- enablement of the Xen pciback driver for Arm
- some further small fixes/enhancements
* tag 'for-linus-5.16b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (22 commits)
xen/balloon: fix unused-variable warning
xen/balloon: rename alloc/free_xenballooned_pages
xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done
x86/xen: remove 32-bit awareness from startup_xen
xen: remove highmem remnants
xen: allow pv-only hypercalls only with CONFIG_XEN_PV
x86/xen: remove 32-bit pv leftovers
xen-pciback: allow compiling on other archs than x86
x86/xen: switch initial pvops IRQ functions to dummy ones
x86/xen: remove xen_have_vcpu_info_placement flag
x86/pvh: add prototype for xen_pvh_init()
xen: Fix implicit type conversion
xen: fix wrong SPDX headers of Xen related headers
xen/pvcalls-back: Remove redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls
x86/xen: Remove redundant irq_enter/exit() invocations
xen-pciback: Fix return in pm_ctrl_init()
xen/x86: restrict PV Dom0 identity mapping
xen/x86: there's no highmem anymore in PV mode
xen/x86: adjust handling of the L3 user vsyscall special page table
xen/x86: adjust xen_set_fixmap()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:
"Support for reporting filesystem errors through fanotify so that
system health monitoring daemons can watch for these and act instead
of scraping system logs"
* tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (34 commits)
samples: remove duplicate include in fs-monitor.c
samples: Fix warning in fsnotify sample
docs: Fix formatting of literal sections in fanotify docs
samples: Make fs-monitor depend on libc and headers
docs: Document the FAN_FS_ERROR event
samples: Add fs error monitoring example
ext4: Send notifications on error
fanotify: Allow users to request FAN_FS_ERROR events
fanotify: Emit generic error info for error event
fanotify: Report fid info for file related file system errors
fanotify: WARN_ON against too large file handles
fanotify: Add helpers to decide whether to report FID/DFID
fanotify: Wrap object_fh inline space in a creator macro
fanotify: Support merging of error events
fanotify: Support enqueueing of error events
fanotify: Pre-allocate pool of error events
fanotify: Reserve UAPI bits for FAN_FS_ERROR
fsnotify: Support FS_ERROR event type
fanotify: Require fid_mode for any non-fd event
fanotify: Encode empty file handle when no inode is provided
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:
- Add support for ftrace with direct call and ftrace direct call
samples.
- Add support for kernel command lines longer than current 896 bytes
and make its length configurable.
- Add support for BEAR enhancement facility to improve last breaking
event instruction tracking.
- Add kprobes sanity checks and testcases to prevent kprobe in the mid
of an instruction.
- Allow concurrent access to /dev/hwc for the CPUMF users.
- Various ftrace / jump label improvements.
- Convert unwinder tests to KUnit.
- Add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter to tweak the limits on
concurrently usable DMA mappings.
- Add ap.useirq AP module option which can be used to disable interrupt
use.
- Add add_disk() error handling support to block device drivers.
- Drop arch specific and use generic implementation of strlcpy and
strrchr.
- Several __pa/__va usages fixes.
- Various cio, crypto, pci, kernel doc and other small fixes and
improvements all over the code.
[ Merge fixup as per https://lore.kernel.org/all/YXAqZ%2FEszRisunQw@osiris/ ]
* tag 's390-5.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (63 commits)
s390: make command line configurable
s390: support command lines longer than 896 bytes
s390/kexec_file: move kernel image size check
s390/pci: add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter
s390/spinlock: remove incorrect kernel doc indicator
s390/string: use generic strlcpy
s390/string: use generic strrchr
s390/ap: function rework based on compiler warning
s390/cio: make ccw_device_dma_* more robust
s390/vfio-ap: s390/crypto: fix all kernel-doc warnings
s390/hmcdrv: fix kernel doc comments
s390/ap: new module option ap.useirq
s390/cpumf: Allow multiple processes to access /dev/hwc
s390/bitops: return true/false (not 1/0) from bool functions
s390: add support for BEAR enhancement facility
s390: introduce nospec_uses_trampoline()
s390: rename last_break to pgm_last_break
s390/ptrace: add last_break member to pt_regs
s390/sclp: sort out physical vs virtual pointers usage
s390/setup: convert start and end initrd pointers to virtual
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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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (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
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Some descriptions of page flags in 'pagemap.rst' are written in
assumption of none-rst, which respects every new line, as below:
7 - SLAB
page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator
When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
Because rst ignores the new line between the first sentence and second
sentence, resulting html looks a little bit weird, as below.
7 - SLAB
page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator When
^
compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
page; SLOB will not flag it at all.
This change makes it more natural and consistent with other parts in the
rendered version.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022090311.3856-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Information in 'TL; DR' section of 'Getting Started' is duplicated in
other parts of the doc. It is also asking readers to visit the access
pattern visualizations gallery web site to show the results of example
visualization commands, while the users of the commands can use terminal
output.
To make the doc simple, this removes the duplicated 'TL; DR' section and
replaces the visualization example commands with versions using terminal
outputs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022090311.3856-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The 'Getting Started' of DAMON is providing a link to DAMON's user
interface document while saying about its user space tool's detailed
usages. This fixes the link.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022090311.3856-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Fix trivial nits in Documentation/admin-guide/mm".
This patchset fixes trivial nits in admin guide documents for DAMON and
pagemap.
This patch (of 4):
Some of the example commands in DAMON getting started guide are
outdated, missing sudo, or just wrong. This fixes those.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022090311.3856-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds an admin-guide document for DAMON-based Reclamation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019150731.16699-16-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This updates the DAMON documents for the physical memory address space
monitoring support.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211012205711.29216-8-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rienjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds description of the 'init_regions' feature in the DAMON usage
document.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211012205711.29216-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rienjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds the description of DAMON-based operation schemes in the DAMON
documents.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211001125604.29660-8-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rienjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Most memory management user guide documents are in 'admin-guide/mm/',
but two of those are in 'vm/'. This moves the two docs into
'admin-guide/mm' for easier documents finding.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210917123958.3819-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This change introduces an aged idle interface to the existing idle sysfs
file for zram.
When CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING is enabled the idle file now also
accepts an integer argument. This integer is the age (in seconds) of
pages to mark as idle. The idle file still supports 'all' as it always
has. This new approach allows for much more control over which pages
get marked as idle.
[bgeffon@google.com: use IS_ENABLED and cleanup comment]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210924161128.1508015-1-bgeffon@google.com
[bgeffon@google.com: Sergey's cleanup suggestions]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210929143056.13067-1-bgeffon@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923130115.1344361-1-bgeffon@google.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jsbarnes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit e83a437faa62 ("mm/memory_hotplug: introduce "auto-movable" online
policy") introduced a new memory online policy to automatically select a
zone for memory blocks to be onlined. It added a way to set the active
online policy and tunables for the auto-movable online policy.
Follow-up commits tweaked the "auto-movable" policy to also consider
memory device details when selecting zones for memory blocks to be
onlined.
Let's document the new toggles and how the two online policies we have
work.
[david@redhat.com: updates]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211011082058.6076-4-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930144117.23641-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We accidentially added a superfluous "s".
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930144117.23641-3-david@redhat.com
Fixes: ac3332c44767 ("memory-hotplug.rst: complete admin-guide overhaul")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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"movable_node"
Patch series "memory-hotplug.rst: document the "auto-movable" online
policy".
Now that the memory-hotplug.rst overhaul is upstream, proper
documentation for the "auto-movable" online policy, documenting all new
toggles and options. Along, two fixes for the original overhaul.
This patch (of 3):
We really want to refer to the "movable_node" kernel command line
parameter here.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930144117.23641-2-david@redhat.com
Fixes: ac3332c44767 ("memory-hotplug.rst: complete admin-guide overhaul")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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allocation
We can specify the number of hugepages to allocate at boot. But the
hugepages is balanced in all nodes at present. In some scenarios, we
only need hugepages in one node. For example: DPDK needs hugepages
which are in the same node as NIC.
If DPDK needs four hugepages of 1G size in node1 and system has 16 numa
nodes we must reserve 64 hugepages on the kernel cmdline. But only four
hugepages are used. The others should be free after boot. If the
system memory is low(for example: 64G), it will be an impossible task.
So extend the hugepages parameter to support specifying hugepages on a
specific node. For example add following parameter:
hugepagesz=1G hugepages=0:1,1:3
It will allocate 1 hugepage in node0 and 3 hugepages in node1.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005054729.86457-1-yaozhenguo1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhenguo Yao <yaozhenguo1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Zhenguo Yao <yaozhenguo1@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now the size of CMA area for gigantic hugepages runtime allocation is
balanced for all online nodes, but we also want to specify the size of
CMA per-node, or only one node in some cases, which are similar with
patch [1].
For example, on some multi-nodes systems, each node's memory can be
different, allocating the same size of CMA for each node is not suitable
for the low-memory nodes. Meanwhile some workloads like DPDK mentioned
by Zhenguo in patch [1] only need hugepages in one node.
On the other hand, we have some machines with multiple types of memory,
like DRAM and PMEM (persistent memory). On this system, we may want to
specify all the hugepages only on DRAM node, or specify the proportion
of DRAM node and PMEM node, to tuning the performance of the workloads.
Thus this patch adds node format for 'hugetlb_cma' parameter to support
specifying the size of CMA per-node. An example is as follows:
hugetlb_cma=0:5G,2:5G
which means allocating 5G size of CMA area on node 0 and node 2
respectively. And the users should use the node specific sysfs file to
allocate the gigantic hugepages if specified the CMA size on that node.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005054729.86457-1-yaozhenguo1@gmail.com [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bb790775ca60bb8f4b26956bb3f6988f74e075c7.1634261144.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "hugetlb: add demote/split page functionality", v4.
The concurrent use of multiple hugetlb page sizes on a single system is
becoming more common. One of the reasons is better TLB support for
gigantic page sizes on x86 hardware. In addition, hugetlb pages are
being used to back VMs in hosting environments.
When using hugetlb pages to back VMs, it is often desirable to
preallocate hugetlb pools. This avoids the delay and uncertainty of
allocating hugetlb pages at VM startup. In addition, preallocating huge
pages minimizes the issue of memory fragmentation that increases the
longer the system is up and running.
In such environments, a combination of larger and smaller hugetlb pages
are preallocated in anticipation of backing VMs of various sizes. Over
time, the preallocated pool of smaller hugetlb pages may become depleted
while larger hugetlb pages still remain. In such situations, it is
desirable to convert larger hugetlb pages to smaller hugetlb pages.
Converting larger to smaller hugetlb pages can be accomplished today by
first freeing the larger page to the buddy allocator and then allocating
the smaller pages. For example, to convert 50 GB pages on x86:
gb_pages=`cat .../hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages`
m2_pages=`cat .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages`
echo $(($gb_pages - 50)) > .../hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
echo $(($m2_pages + 25600)) > .../hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
On an idle system this operation is fairly reliable and results are as
expected. The number of 2MB pages is increased as expected and the time
of the operation is a second or two.
However, when there is activity on the system the following issues
arise:
1) This process can take quite some time, especially if allocation of
the smaller pages is not immediate and requires migration/compaction.
2) There is no guarantee that the total size of smaller pages allocated
will match the size of the larger page which was freed. This is
because the area freed by the larger page could quickly be
fragmented.
In a test environment with a load that continually fills the page cache
with clean pages, results such as the following can be observed:
Unexpected number of 2MB pages allocated: Expected 25600, have 19944
real 0m42.092s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m41.467s
To address these issues, introduce the concept of hugetlb page demotion.
Demotion provides a means of 'in place' splitting of a hugetlb page to
pages of a smaller size. This avoids freeing pages to buddy and then
trying to allocate from buddy.
Page demotion is controlled via sysfs files that reside in the per-hugetlb
page size and per node directories.
- demote_size
Target page size for demotion, a smaller huge page size. File
can be written to chose a smaller huge page size if multiple are
available.
- demote
Writable number of hugetlb pages to be demoted
To demote 50 GB huge pages, one would:
cat .../hugepages-1048576kB/free_hugepages /* optional, verify free pages */
cat .../hugepages-1048576kB/demote_size /* optional, verify target size */
echo 50 > .../hugepages-1048576kB/demote
Only hugetlb pages which are free at the time of the request can be
demoted. Demotion does not add to the complexity of surplus pages and
honors reserved huge pages. Therefore, when a value is written to the
sysfs demote file, that value is only the maximum number of pages which
will be demoted. It is possible fewer will actually be demoted. The
recently introduced per-hstate mutex is used to synchronize demote
operations with other operations that modify hugetlb pools.
Real world use cases
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The above scenario describes a real world use case where hugetlb pages
are used to back VMs on x86. Both issues of long allocation times and
not necessarily getting the expected number of smaller huge pages after
a free and allocate cycle have been experienced. The occurrence of
these issues is dependent on other activity within the host and can not
be predicted.
This patch (of 5):
Two new sysfs files are added to demote hugtlb pages. These files are
both per-hugetlb page size and per node. Files are:
demote_size - The size in Kb that pages are demoted to. (read-write)
demote - The number of huge pages to demote. (write-only)
By default, demote_size is the next smallest huge page size. Valid huge
page sizes less than huge page size may be written to this file. When
huge pages are demoted, they are demoted to this size.
Writing a value to demote will result in an attempt to demote that
number of hugetlb pages to an appropriate number of demote_size pages.
NOTE: Demote interfaces are only provided for huge page sizes if there
is a smaller target demote huge page size. For example, on x86 1GB huge
pages will have demote interfaces. 2MB huge pages will not have demote
interfaces.
This patch does not provide full demote functionality. It only provides
the sysfs interfaces.
It also provides documentation for the new interfaces.
[mike.kravetz@oracle.com: n_mask initialization does not need to be protected by the mutex]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0530e4ef-2492-5186-f919-5db68edea654@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211007181918.136982-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nghia Le <nghialm78@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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