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The commit bc8e51c05ad5 ("mm: memcg: dump memcg protection info on oom or
alloc failures") added functionality to dump memcg protections on OOM or
allocation failures. It uses K() macro to dump the information and passes
bytes to the macro. However the macro take number of pages instead of
bytes. It is defined as:
#define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10))
Let's fix this.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216212054.484079-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Fixes: bc8e51c05ad5 ("mm: memcg: dump memcg protection info on oom or alloc failures")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki)
Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations
(GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT)
"ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin)
Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not
inherited across fork/exec
"mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park)
Some light maintenance work on the zswap code
"mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding
unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so
that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over
time
"mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn)
Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature
"Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra)
Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation
"kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov)
"drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom)
Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little
"mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang)
Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting
code
"mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn)
Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were
causing (harmless) softlockup warnings
"optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang)
Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim
"mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park)
Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature
"mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan)
Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace
configuration
"expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port
additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare()
"Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu)
Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU
code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a
stale kernel pagetable entry
"mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang)
Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code
"mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song)
Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code
"mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park)
"mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park)
Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the
middle of the current targets list
"mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo)
A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion
"mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He)
improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines
"mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista)
Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will
appear in kernel debug info
"ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes)
Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range
"mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park)
Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit
tests
"some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang)
Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
writeback-for-eviction code
"mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu)
Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file
"introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and
improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs
"mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region
operations
"vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox)
Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are
waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock
"mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park)
Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature
"mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
"make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that
VMA is merged with another
"mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh)
Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
device-private memory
"Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan)
"mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang)
Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code
"mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the
concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t
"reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song)
Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in
preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory
resources
"unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang)
A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code
"zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio
writeback support
"memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt)
Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats
"make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola)
Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags
"mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang)
Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use
RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension
"mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park)
Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code
"initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we
stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit
"mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park)
Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things
up a little
[ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu:
register device memory for poison handling") because it looks
broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ]
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling
mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate
mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard
fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling
mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown
memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers
selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null
mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig
mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type
tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags
mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
mm: declare VMA flags by bit
zram: fix a spelling mistake
mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity
mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted
pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments
mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void
mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async
mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational
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__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() is already safe against irqs, so there is no
need to have a separate interface (i.e. lruvec_stat_mod_folio) which
wraps calls to it with irq disabling and reenabling. Let's rename
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() to lruvec_stat_mod_folio().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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__mod_lruvec_state() is already safe against irqs, so there is no need to
have a separate interface (i.e. mod_lruvec_state) which wraps calls to it
with irq disabling and reenabling. Let's rename __mod_lruvec_state() to
mod_lruvec_state().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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__mod_lruvec_kmem_state() is already safe against irqs, so there is no
need to have a separate interface (i.e. mod_lruvec_kmem_state) which
wraps calls to it with irq disabling and reenabling. Let's rename
__mod_lruvec_kmem_state() to mod_lruvec_kmem_state().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-3-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces".
The memcg stats are safe against irq (and nmi) context and thus does not
require disabling irqs. However for some stats which are also maintained
at node level, it is using irq unsafe interface and thus requiring the
users to still disables irqs or use interfaces which explicitly disables
irqs. Let's move memcg code to use irq safe node level stats function
which is already optimized for architectures with HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL (all
major ones), so there will not be any performance penalty for its usage.
This patch (of 4):
The memcg stats are safe against irq (and nmi) context and thus does not
require disabling irqs. However some code paths for memcg stats also
update the node level stats and use irq unsafe interface and thus require
the users to disable irqs. However node level stats, on architectures
with HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL (all major ones), has interface which does not
require irq disabling. Let's move memcg stats code to start using that
interface for node level stats.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-2-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Similar to list_lru, the split queue is relatively independent and does
not need to be reparented along with objcg and LRU folios (holding objcg
lock and lru lock). So let's apply the similar mechanism as list_lru to
reparent the split queue separately when memcg is offine.
This is also a preparation for reparenting LRU folios.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8703f907c4d1f7e8a2ef2bfed3036a84fa53028b.1762762324.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently kernel dumps memory state on oom and allocation failures. One
of the question usually raised on those dumps is why the kernel has not
reclaimed the reclaimable memory instead of triggering oom. One potential
reason is the usage of memory protection provided by memcg. So, let's
also dump the memory protected by the memcg in such reports to ease the
debugging.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251107234041.3632644-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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__memcg_memory_event() has been unnecessarily marked inline even when it
is not really performance critical. It is usually called to track extreme
conditions. Over the time, it has evolved to include more functionality
and inlining it is causing more harm.
Before the patch:
$ size mm/memcontrol.o net/ipv4/tcp_input.o net/ipv4/tcp_output.o
text data bss dec hex filename
35645 10574 4192 50411 c4eb mm/memcontrol.o
54738 1658 0 56396 dc4c net/ipv4/tcp_input.o
34644 1065 0 35709 8b7d net/ipv4/tcp_output.o
After the patch:
$ size mm/memcontrol.o net/ipv4/tcp_input.o net/ipv4/tcp_output.o
text data bss dec hex filename
35137 10446 4192 49775 c26f mm/memcontrol.o
54322 1562 0 55884 da4c net/ipv4/tcp_input.o
34492 1017 0 35509 8ab5 net/ipv4/tcp_output.o
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for __memcg_memory_event, per Michal and Christoph]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251021234425.1885471-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The kernel can throttle network sockets if the memory cgroup associated
with the corresponding socket is under memory pressure. The throttling
actions include clamping the transmit window, failing to expand receive or
send buffers, aggressively prune out-of-order receive queue, FIN deferred
to a retransmitted packet and more. Let's add memcg metric to track such
throttling actions.
At the moment memcg memory pressure is defined through vmpressure and in
future it may be defined using PSI or we may add more flexible way for the
users to define memory pressure, maybe through ebpf. However the
potential throttling actions will remain the same, so this newly
introduced metric will continue to track throttling actions irrespective
of how memcg memory pressure is defined.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251016161035.86161-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Sedlak <daniel.sedlak@cdn77.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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As the subject says.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251003203851.43128-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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In preparation for splitting struct slab from struct page and struct
folio, convert the pointer to a slab rather than a folio. This means
we can end up passing a NULL slab pointer to mem_cgroup_from_obj_slab()
if the pointer is not to a page allocated to slab, and we handle that
appropriately by returning NULL.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113000932.1589073-15-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Generally memcg charging is allowed from all the contexts including NMI
where even spinning on spinlock can cause locking issues. However one
call chain was missed during the addition of memcg charging from any
context support. That is try_charge_memcg() -> memcg_memory_event() ->
cgroup_file_notify().
The possible function call tree under cgroup_file_notify() can acquire
many different spin locks in spinning mode. Some of them are
cgroup_file_kn_lock, kernfs_notify_lock, pool_workqeue's lock. So, let's
just skip cgroup_file_notify() from memcg charging if the context does not
allow spinning.
Alternative approach was also explored where instead of skipping
cgroup_file_notify(), we defer the memcg event processing to irq_work [1].
However it adds complexity and it was decided to keep things simple until
we need more memcg events with !allow_spinning requirement.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5qi2llyzf7gklncflo6gxoozljbm4h3tpnuv4u4ej4ztysvi6f@x44v7nz2wdzd/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922220203.261714-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Fixes: 3ac4638a734a ("memcg: make memcg_rstat_updated nmi safe")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250905061919.439648-1-yepeilin@google.com/
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
...
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mm/memory-failure.c defines and uses hwpoison_filter_* parameters but the
values of those parameters can only be modified via mm/hwpoison-inject.c
from userspace. They have a potentially different life time. Decouple
those parameters from mm/memory-failure.c to fix this broken layering.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250904062258.3336092-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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memcg uses TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to handle reclaiming on exit to user space.
TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is a multiplexing TIF bit, which is utilized by other
entities as well.
This results in a unconditional mem_cgroup_handle_over_high() call for
every invocation of resume_user_mode_work(), which is a pointless exercise
as most of the time there is no reclaim work to do.
Especially since RSEQ is used by glibc, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is raised quite
frequently and the empty calls show up in exit path profiling.
Optimize this by doing a quick check of the reclaim condition before
invoking it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unneeded test of memcg_nr_pages_over_high==0, per Shakeel]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87tt2b6zgs.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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We will store a flag in the lowest bit of sk->sk_memcg.
Then, we cannot pass the raw pointer to mem_cgroup_charge_skmem()
and mem_cgroup_uncharge_skmem().
Let's pass struct sock to the functions.
While at it, they are renamed to match other functions starting
with mem_cgroup_sk_.
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250815201712.1745332-9-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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We will store a flag in the lowest bit of sk->sk_memcg.
Then, directly dereferencing sk->sk_memcg will be illegal, and we
do not want to allow touching the raw sk->sk_memcg in many places.
Let's introduce mem_cgroup_from_sk().
Other places accessing the raw sk->sk_memcg will be converted later.
Note that we cannot define the helper as an inline function in
memcontrol.h as we cannot access any fields of struct sock there
due to circular dependency, so it is placed in sock.h.
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250815201712.1745332-7-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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When sk_alloc() allocates a socket, mem_cgroup_sk_alloc() sets
sk->sk_memcg based on the current task.
MPTCP subflow socket creation is triggered from userspace or
an in-kernel worker.
In the latter case, sk->sk_memcg is not what we want. So, we fix
it up from the parent socket's sk->sk_memcg in mptcp_attach_cgroup().
Although the code is placed under #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG, it is buried
under #ifdef CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA.
The two configs are orthogonal. If CONFIG_MEMCG is enabled without
CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA, the subflow's memory usage is not charged
correctly.
Let's move the code out of the wrong ifdef guard.
Note that sk->sk_memcg is freed in sk_prot_free() and the parent
sk holds the refcnt of memcg->css here, so we don't need to use
css_tryget().
Fixes: 3764b0c5651e3 ("mptcp: attach subflow socket to parent cgroup")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250815201712.1745332-2-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Allow css_rstat_updated() in NMI context to enable memory accounting
for allocations in NMI context.
- /proc/cgroups doesn't contain useful information for cgroup2 and was
updated to only show v1 controllers. This unfortunately broke
something in the wild. Add an option to bring back the old behavior
to ease transition.
- selftest updates and other cleanups.
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: Add compatibility option for content of /proc/cgroups
selftests/cgroup: fix cpu.max tests
cgroup: llist: avoid memory tears for llist_node
selftests: cgroup: Fix missing newline in test_zswap_writeback_one
selftests: cgroup: Allow longer timeout for kmem_dead_cgroups cleanup
memcg: cgroup: call css_rstat_updated irrespective of in_nmi()
cgroup: remove per-cpu per-subsystem locks
cgroup: make css_rstat_updated nmi safe
cgroup: support to enable nmi-safe css_rstat_updated
selftests: cgroup: Fix compilation on pre-cgroupns kernels
selftests: cgroup: Optionally set up v1 environment
selftests: cgroup: Add support for named v1 hierarchies in test_core
selftests: cgroup_util: Add helpers for testing named v1 hierarchies
Documentation: cgroup: add section explaining controller availability
cgroup: Drop sock_cgroup_classid() dummy implementation
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memcg->socket_pressure is initialised with jiffies when the memcg is
created.
Once vmpressure detects that the cgroup is under memory pressure, the
field is updated with jiffies + HZ to signal the fact to the socket layer
and suppress memory allocation for one second.
Otherwise, the field is not updated.
mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure() uses time_before() to check if jiffies
is less than memcg->socket_pressure, and this has a bug on 32-bit kernel.
if (time_before(jiffies, memcg->socket_pressure))
return true;
As time_before() casts the final result to long, the acceptable delta
between two timestamps is 2 ^ (BITS_PER_LONG - 1).
On 32-bit kernel with CONFIG_HZ=1000, this is about 24 days.
>>> (2 ** 31) / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24
24.855134814814818
Once 24 days have passed since the last update of socket_pressure,
mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure() starts to lie until the next 24 days
pass.
We don't need to worry about this on 64-bit machines unless they serve for
300 million years.
>>> (2 ** 63) / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365
292471208.6775361
Let's convert memcg->socket_pressure to u64.
Performance teting:
I don't have a real 32-bit machine so this is a result on QEMU, but
with/without the u64 jiffie patch, the time spent in
mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure() was 1~5us and I didn't see any
measurable delta.
no patch applied:
iperf3 273 [000] 137.296248:
probe:mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure: (c13660d0)
c13660d1 mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure+0x1
([kernel.kallsyms])
iperf3 273 [000] 137.296249:
probe:mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure__return: (c13660d0 <- c1d8fd7f)
iperf3 273 [000] 137.296251:
probe:mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure: (c13660d0)
c13660d1 mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure+0x1
([kernel.kallsyms])
iperf3 273 [000] 137.296253:
probe:mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure__return: (c13660d0 <- c1d8fd7f)
u64 jiffies patch applied:
iperf3 308 [001] 330.669370:
probe:mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure: (c12ddba0)
c12ddba1 mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure+0x1
([kernel.kallsyms])
iperf3 308 [001] 330.669371:
probe:mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure__return: (c12ddba0 <- c1ce98bf)
iperf3 308 [001] 330.669382:
probe:mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure: (c12ddba0)
c12ddba1 mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure+0x1
([kernel.kallsyms])
iperf3 308 [001] 330.669384:
probe:mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure__return: (c12ddba0 <- c1ce98bf)
So the u64 approach is good enough.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250717194645.1096500-1-kuniyu@google.com
Fixes: 8e8ae645249b ("mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressure")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reported-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds a general call for both parsing as well as the common reclaim
semantics. memcg is still the only user and no change in semantics.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250623185851.830632-3-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This reverts commit ad6b26b6a0a79166b53209df2ca1cf8636296382.
This commit introduces per-memcg/task NUMA balance statistics, but
unfortunately it introduced a NULL pointer exception due to the following
race condition: After a swap task candidate was chosen, its mm_struct
pointer was set to NULL due to task exit. Later, when performing the
actual task swapping, the p->mm caused the problem.
CPU0 CPU1
:
...
task_numa_migrate
task_numa_find_cpu
task_numa_compare
# a normal task p is chosen
env->best_task = p
# p exit:
exit_signals(p);
p->flags |= PF_EXITING
exit_mm
p->mm = NULL;
migrate_swap_stop
__migrate_swap_task((arg->src_task, arg->dst_cpu)
count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP)# p->mm is NULL
task_lock() should be held and the PF_EXITING flag needs to be checked to
prevent this from happening. After discussion, the conclusion was that
adding a lock is not worthwhile for some statistics calculations. Revert
the change and rely on the tracepoint for this purpose.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704135620.685752-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250708064917.BBD13C4CEED@smtp.kernel.org
Fixes: ad6b26b6a0a7 ("sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAE4VaGBLJxpd=NeRJXpSCuw=REhC5LWJpC29kDy-Zh2ZDyzQZA@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal <Srikanth.Aithal@amd.com>
Reported-by: Suneeth D <Suneeth.D@amd.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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css_rstat_updated() is nmi safe, so there is no need to avoid it in
in_nmi(), so remove the check.
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Tested-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters" from Sergey Senozhatsky
adds infrastructure for passing algorithm-specific parameters into
zram. A single parameter `winbits' is implemented at this time.
- "memcg: nmi-safe kmem charging" from Shakeel Butt makes memcg
charging nmi-safe, which is required by BFP, which can operate in NMI
context.
- "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem" from Kemeng Shi implements
small fixes and cleanups in the shmem code.
- "Skip mm selftests instead when kernel features are not present" from
Zi Yan fixes some issues in the MM selftest code.
- "mm/damon: build-enable essential DAMON components by default" from
SeongJae Park reworks DAMON Kconfig to make it easier to enable
CONFIG_DAMON.
- "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task migration" from Libo
Chen adds more info into sysfs and procfs files to improve visibility
into the NUMA balancer's task migration activity.
- "selftests/mm: cow and gup_longterm cleanups" from Mark Brown
provides various updates to some of the MM selftests to make them
play better with the overall containing framework.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (43 commits)
mm/khugepaged: clean up refcount check using folio_expected_ref_count()
selftests/mm: fix test result reporting in gup_longterm
selftests/mm: report unique test names for each cow test
selftests/mm: add helper for logging test start and results
selftests/mm: use standard ksft_finished() in cow and gup_longterm
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: skip testcases if CONFIG_DAMON_SYSFS is disabled
sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task
sched/numa: fix task swap by skipping kernel threads
tools/testing: check correct variable in open_procmap()
tools/testing/vma: add missing function stub
mm/gup: update comment explaining why gup_fast() disables IRQs
selftests/mm: two fixes for the pfnmap test
mm/khugepaged: fix race with folio split/free using temporary reference
mm: add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order
mmu_notifiers: remove leftover stub macros
selftests/mm: deduplicate test names in madv_populate
kcov: rust: add flags for KCOV with Rust
mm: rust: make CONFIG_MMU ifdefs more narrow
mmu_gather: move tlb flush for VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXEDMAP vmas into free_pgtables()
mm/damon/Kconfig: enable CONFIG_DAMON by default
...
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On systems with NUMA balancing enabled, it has been found that tracking
task activities resulting from NUMA balancing is beneficial. NUMA
balancing employs two mechanisms for task migration: one is to migrate
a task to an idle CPU within its preferred node, and the other is to
swap tasks located on different nodes when they are on each other's
preferred nodes.
The kernel already provides NUMA page migration statistics in
/sys/fs/cgroup/mytest/memory.stat and /proc/{PID}/sched. However, it
lacks statistics regarding task migration and swapping. Therefore,
relevant counts for task migration and swapping should be added.
The following two new fields:
numa_task_migrated
numa_task_swapped
will be shown in /sys/fs/cgroup/{GROUP}/memory.stat, /proc/{PID}/sched
and /proc/vmstat.
Introducing both per-task and per-memory cgroup (memcg) NUMA balancing
statistics facilitates a rapid evaluation of the performance and
resource utilization of the target workload. For instance, users can
first identify the container with high NUMA balancing activity and then
further pinpoint a specific task within that group, and subsequently
adjust the memory policy for that task. In short, although it is
possible to iterate through /proc/$pid/sched to locate the problematic
task, the introduction of aggregated NUMA balancing activity for tasks
within each memcg can assist users in identifying the task more
efficiently through a divide-and-conquer approach.
As Libo Chen pointed out, the memcg event relies on the text names in
vmstat_text, and /proc/vmstat generates corresponding items based on
vmstat_text. Thus, the relevant task migration and swapping events
introduced in vmstat_text also need to be populated by
count_vm_numa_event(), otherwise these values are zero in /proc/vmstat.
In theory, task migration and swap events are part of the scheduler's
activities. The reason for exposing them through the
memory.stat/vmstat interface is that we already have NUMA balancing
statistics in memory.stat/vmstat, and these events are closely related
to each other. Following Shakeel's suggestion, we describe the
end-to-end flow/story of all these events occurring on a timeline for
future reference:
The goal of NUMA balancing is to co-locate a task and its memory pages
on the same NUMA node. There are two strategies: migrate the pages to
the task's node, or migrate the task to the node where its pages
reside.
Suppose a task p1 is running on Node 0, but its pages are located on
Node 1. NUMA page fault statistics for p1 reveal its "page footprint"
across nodes. If NUMA balancing detects that most of p1's pages are on
Node 1:
1.Page Migration Attempt:
The Numa balance first tries to migrate p1's pages to Nod |
