- 06 Sep, 2015 1 commit
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git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields: "Nothing major, but: - Add Jeff Layton as an nfsd co-maintainer: no change to existing practice, just an acknowledgement of the status quo. - Two patches ("nfsd: ensure that...") for a race overlooked by the state locking rewrite, causing a crash noticed by multiple users. - Lots of smaller bugfixes all over from Kinglong Mee. - From Jeff, some cleanup of server rpc code in preparation for possible shift of nfsd threads to workqueues" * tag 'nfsd-4.3' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (52 commits) nfsd: deal with DELEGRETURN racing with CB_RECALL nfsd: return CLID_INUSE for unexpected SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM case nfsd: ensure that delegation stateid hash references are only put once nfsd: ensure that the ol stateid hash reference is only put once net: sunrpc: fix tracepoint Warning: unknown op '->' nfsd: allow more than one laundry job to run at a time nfsd: don't WARN/backtrace for invalid container deployment. fs: fix fs/locks.c kernel-doc warning nfsd: Add Jeff Layton as co-maintainer NFSD: Return word2 bitmask if setting security label in OPEN/CREATE NFSD: Set the attributes used to store the verifier for EXCLUSIVE4_1 nfsd: SUPPATTR_EXCLCREAT must be encoded before SECURITY_LABEL. nfsd: Fix an FS_LAYOUT_TYPES/LAYOUT_TYPES encode bug NFSD: Store parent's stat in a separate value nfsd: Fix two typos in comments lockd: NLM grace period shouldn't block NFSv4 opens nfsd: include linux/nfs4.h in export.h sunrpc: Switch to using hash list instead single list sunrpc/nfsd: Remove redundant code by exports seq_operations functions sunrpc: Store cache_detail in seq_file's private directly ...
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- 05 Sep, 2015 3 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason: "This has Jeff Mahoney's long standing trim patch that fixes corners where trims were missing. Omar has some raid5/6 fixes, especially for using scrub and device replace when devices are missing. Zhao Lie continues cleaning and fixing things, this series fixes some really hard to hit corners in xfstests. I had to pull it last merge window due to some deadlocks, but those are now resolved. I added support for Tejun's new blkio controllers. It seems to work well for single devices, we'll expand to multi-device as well" * 'for-linus-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (47 commits) btrfs: fix compile when block cgroups are not enabled Btrfs: fix file read corruption after extent cloning and fsync Btrfs: check if previous transaction aborted to avoid fs corruption btrfs: use __GFP_NOFAIL in alloc_btrfs_bio btrfs: Prevent from early transaction abort btrfs: Remove unused arguments in tree-log.c btrfs: Remove useless condition in start_log_trans() Btrfs: add support for blkio controllers Btrfs: remove unused mutex from struct 'btrfs_fs_info' Btrfs: fix parity scrub of RAID 5/6 with missing device Btrfs: fix device replace of a missing RAID 5/6 device Btrfs: add RAID 5/6 BTRFS_RBIO_REBUILD_MISSING operation Btrfs: count devices correctly in readahead during RAID 5/6 replace Btrfs: remove misleading handling of missing device scrub btrfs: fix clone / extent-same deadlocks Btrfs: fix defrag to merge tail file extent Btrfs: fix warning in backref walking btrfs: Add WARN_ON() for double lock in btrfs_tree_lock() btrfs: Remove root argument in extent_data_ref_count() btrfs: Fix wrong comment of btrfs_alloc_tree_block() ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - Andy's "ambient capabilities" - fs/nofity updates - the ocfs2 queue - kernel/watchdog.c updates and feature work. - some of MM. Includes Andrea's userfaultfd feature. [ Hadn't noticed that userfaultfd was 'default y' when applying the patches, so that got fixed in this merge instead. We do _not_ mark new features that nobody uses yet 'default y' - Linus ] * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits) mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_has_reserves() return bool mm/madvise.c: make madvise_behaviour_valid() return bool mm/memory.c: make tlb_next_batch() return bool mm/dmapool.c: change is_page_busy() return from int to bool mm: remove struct node_active_region mremap: simplify the "overlap" check in mremap_to() mremap: don't do uneccesary checks if new_len == old_len mremap: don't do mm_populate(new_addr) on failure mm: move ->mremap() from file_operations to vm_operations_struct mremap: don't leak new_vma if f_op->mremap() fails mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_shareable() return bool mm: make GUP handle pfn mapping unless FOLL_GET is requested mm: fix status code which move_pages() returns for zero page mm: memcontrol: bring back the VM_BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_swapout() genalloc: add support of multiple gen_pools per device genalloc: add name arg to gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create() mm/memblock: WARN_ON when nid differs from overlap region Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status for batched TLB flush after unmap mm: defer flush of writable TLB entries mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages ...
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Eric Dumazet authored
In commit f341861f ("task_work: add a scheduling point in task_work_run()") I fixed a latency problem adding a cond_resched() call. Later, commit ac3d0da8 added yet another loop to reverse a list, bringing back the latency spike : I've seen in some cases this loop taking 275 ms, if for example a process with 2,000,000 files is killed. We could add yet another cond_resched() in the reverse loop, or we can simply remove the reversal, as I do not think anything would depend on order of task_work_add() submitted works. Fixes: ac3d0da8 ("task_work: Make task_work_add() lockless") Signed-off-by:
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by:
Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Acked-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 04 Sep, 2015 36 commits
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Nicholas Krause authored
This makes vma_has_reserves() return bool due to this particular function only returning either one or zero as its return value. Signed-off-by:
Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Nicholas Krause authored
This makes the madvise_bahaviour_valid() function return bool due to this particular function always returning the value of either one or zero as its return value. Signed-off-by:
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Nicholas Krause authored
This makes the tlb_next_batch() bool due to this particular function only ever returning either one or zero as its return value. Signed-off-by:
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Nicholas Krause authored
This makes the function is_page_busy() return bool rather then an int now due to this particular function's single return statement only ever evaulating to either one or zero. Signed-off-by:
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minkyung88.kim authored
struct node_active_region is not used anymore. Remove it. Signed-off-by:
minkyung88.kim <minkyung88.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Minor, but this check is overcomplicated. Two half-intervals do NOT overlap if END1 <= START2 || END2 <= START1, mremap_to() just needs to negate this check. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The "new_len > old_len" branch in vma_to_resize() looks very confusing. It only covers the VM_DONTEXPAND/pgoff checks but everything below is equally unneeded if new_len == old_len. Change this code to return if "new_len == old_len", new_len < old_len is not possible, otherwise the code below is wrong anyway. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
move_vma() sets *locked even if move_page_tables() or ->mremap() fails, change sys_mremap() to check "ret & ~PAGE_MASK". I think we should simply remove the VM_LOCKED code in move_vma(), that is why this patch doesn't change move_vma(). But this needs more cleanups. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
vma->vm_ops->mremap() looks more natural and clean in move_vma(), and this way ->mremap() can have more users. Say, vdso. While at it, s/aio_ring_remap/aio_ring_mremap/. Note: this is the minimal change before ->mremap() finds another user in file_operations; this method should have more arguments, and it can be used to kill arch_remap(). Signed-off-by:
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
move_vma() can't just return if f_op->mremap() fails, we should unmap the new vma like we do if move_page_tables() fails. To avoid the code duplication this patch moves the "move entries back" under the new "if (err)" branch. Signed-off-by:
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Nicholas Krause authored
This makes vma_shareable() return bool now due to this particular function only ever returning either one or zero as its return value. Signed-off-by:
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by:
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
With DAX, pfn mapping becoming more common. The patch adjusts GUP code to cover pfn mapping for cases when we don't need struct page to proceed. To make it possible, let's change follow_page() code to return -EEXIST error code if proper page table entry exists, but no corresponding struct page. __get_user_page() would ignore the error code and move to the next page frame. The immediate effect of the change is working MAP_POPULATE and mlock() on DAX mappings. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm64 build] Signed-off-by:
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Acked-by:
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
The manpage for move_pages(2) specifies that status code for zero page is supposed to be -EFAULT. Currently kernel return -ENOENT in this case. follow_page() can do it for us, if we would ask for FOLL_DUMP. The use of FOLL_DUMP also means that the upper layer page tables pages are no longer allocated. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
Clark stumbled over a VM_BUG_ON() in -RT which was then was removed by Johannes in commit f371763a ("mm: memcontrol: fix false-positive VM_BUG_ON() on -rt"). The comment before that patch was a tiny bit better than it is now. While the patch claimed to fix a false-postive on -RT this was not the case. None of the -RT folks ACKed it and it was not a false positive report. That was a *real* problem. This patch updates the comment that is improper because it refers to "disabled preemption" as a consequence of that lock being taken. A spin_lock() disables preemption, true, but in this case the code relies on the fact that the lock _also_ disables interrupts once it is acquired. And this is the important detail (which was checked the VM_BUG_ON()) which needs to be pointed out. This is the hint one needs while looking at the code. It was explained by Johannes on the list that the per-CPU variables are protected by local_irq_save(). The BUG_ON() was helpful. This code has been workarounded in -RT in the meantime. I wouldn't mind running into more of those if the code in question uses *special* kind of locking since now there is no verification (in terms of lockdep or BUG_ON()) and therefore I bring the VM_BUG_ON() check back in. The two functions after the comment could also have a "local_irq_save()" dance around them in order to serialize access to the per-CPU variables. This has been avoided because the interrupts should be off. Signed-off-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Zapolskiy authored
This change fills devm_gen_pool_create()/gen_pool_get() "name" argument stub with contents and extends of_gen_pool_get() functionality on this basis. If there is no associated platform device with a device node passed to of_gen_pool_get(), the function attempts to get a label property or device node name (= repeats MTD OF partition standard) and seeks for a named gen_pool registered by device of the parent device node. The main idea of the change is to allow registration of independent gen_pools under the same umbrella device, say "partitions" on "storage device", the original functionality of one "partition" per "storage device" is untouched. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix constness in devres_find()] [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: freeing const data pointers] Signed-off-by:
Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Zapolskiy authored
This change modifies gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create() client interfaces adding one more argument "name" of a gen_pool object. Due to implementation gen_pool_get() is capable to retrieve only one gen_pool associated with a device even if multiple gen_pools are created, fortunately right at the moment it is sufficient for the clients, hence provide NULL as a valid argument on both producer devm_gen_pool_create() and consumer gen_pool_get() sides. Because only one created gen_pool per device is addressable, explicitly add a restriction to devm_gen_pool_create() to create only one gen_pool per device, this implies two possible error codes returned by the function, account it on client side (only misc/sram). This completes client side changes related to genalloc updates. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: gen_pool_get() cleanup] Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
Each memblock_region has nid to indicates the Node ID of this range. For the overlap case, memblock_add_range() inserts the lower part and leave the upper part as indicated in the overlapped region. If the nid of the new range differs from the overlapped region, the information recorded is not correct. This patch adds a WARN_ON when the nid of the new range differs from the overlapped region. Signed-off-by:
Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status for batched TLB flush after unmap Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
If a PTE is unmapped and it's dirty then it was writable recently. Due to deferred TLB flushing, it's best to assume a writable TLB cache entry exists. With that assumption, the TLB must be flushed before any IO can start or the page is freed to avoid lost writes or data corruption. This patch defers flushing of potentially writable TLBs as long as possible. Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
An IPI is sent to flush remote TLBs when a page is unmapped that was potentially accesssed by other CPUs. There are many circumstances where this happens but the obvious one is kswapd reclaiming pages belonging to a running process as kswapd and the task are likely running on separate CPUs. On small machines, this is not a significant problem but as machine gets larger with more cores and more memory, the cost of these IPIs can be high. This patch uses a simple structure that tracks CPUs that potentially have TLB entries for pages being unmapped. When the unmapping is complete, the full TLB is flushed on the assumption that a refill cost is lower than flushing individual entries. Architectures wishing to do this must give the following guarantee. If a clean page is unmapped and not immediately flushed, the architecture must guarantee that a write to that linear address from a CPU with a cached TLB entry will trap a page fault. This is essentially what the kernel already depends on but the window is much larger with this patch applied and is worth highlighting. The architecture should consider whether the cost of the full TLB flush is higher than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry. An additional architecture helper called flush_tlb_local is required. It's a trivial wrapper with some accounting in the x86 case. The impact of this patch depends on the workload as measuring any benefit requires both mapped pages co-located on the LRU and memory pressure. The case with the biggest impact is multiple processes reading mapped pages taken from the vm-scalability test suite. The test case uses NR_CPU readers of mapped files that consume 10*RAM. Linear mapped reader on a 4-node machine with 64G RAM and 48 CPUs 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed 159.62 ( 0.00%) 120.68 ( 24.40%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range 30.59 ( 0.00%) 2.80 ( 90.85%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv 6.70 ( 0.00%) 0.64 ( 90.38%) 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 User 581.00 611.43 System 5804.93 4111.76 Elapsed 161.03 122.12 This is showing that the readers completed 24.40% faster with 29% less system CPU time. From vmstats, it is known that the vanilla kernel was interrupted roughly 900K times per second during the steady phase of the test and the patched kernel was interrupts 180K times per second. The impact is lower on a single socket machine. 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed 25.33 ( 0.00%) 20.38 ( 19.54%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range 0.91 ( 0.00%) 1.44 (-58.24%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv 0.28 ( 0.00%) 0.47 (-65.34%) 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 User 58.09 57.64 System 111.82 76.56 Elapsed 27.29 22.55 It's still a noticeable improvement with vmstat showing interrupts went from roughly 500K per second to 45K per second. The patch will have no impact on workloads with no memory pressure or have relatively few mapped pages. It will have an unpredictable impact on the workload running on the CPU being flushed as it'll depend on how many TLB entries need to be refilled and how long that takes. Worst case, the TLB will be completely cleared of active entries when the target PFNs were not resident at all. [sasha.levin@oracle.com: trace tlb flush after disabling preemption in try_to_unmap_flush] Signed-off-by:Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
When unmapping pages it is necessary to flush the TLB. If that page was accessed by another CPU then an IPI is used to flush the remote CPU. That is a lot of IPIs if kswapd is scanning and unmapping >100K pages per second. There already is a window between when a page is unmapped and when it is TLB flushed. This series increases the window so multiple pages can be flushed using a single IPI. This should be safe or the kernel is hosed already. Patch 1 simply made the rest of the series easier to write as ftrace could identify all the senders of TLB flush IPIS. Patch 2 tracks what CPUs potentially map a PFN and then sends an IPI to flush the entire TLB. Patch 3 tracks when there potentially are writable TLB entries that need to be batched differently Patch 4 increases SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX to further batch flushes The performance impact is documented in the changelogs but in the optimistic case on a 4-socket machine the full series reduces interrupts from 900K interrupts/second to 60K interrupts/second. This patch (of 4): It is easy to trace when an IPI is received to flush a TLB but harder to detect what event sent it. This patch makes it easy to identify the source of IPIs being transmitted for TLB flushes on x86. Signed-off-by:Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This test allocates two virtual areas and bounces the physical memory across the two virtual areas using only userfaultfd. Signed-off-by:
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
During the refile in userfaultfd_read both waitqueues could look empty to the lockless wake_userfault(). Use a seqcount to prevent this false negative that could leave an userfault blocked. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
The THP faults were not propagating the original fault address. The latest version of the API with uffd.arg.pagefault.address is supposed to propagate the full address through THP faults. This was not a kernel crashing bug and it wouldn't risk to corrupt user memory, but it would cause a SIGBUS failure because the wrong page was being copied. For various reasons this wasn't easily reproducible in the qemu workload, but the strestest exposed the problem immediately. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This is only simple to achieve if the userfault is going to return to userland (not to the kernel) because we can avoid returning VM_FAULT_RETRY despite we temporarily released the mmap_sem. The fault would just be retried by userland then. This is safe at least on x86 and powerpc (the two archs with the syscall implemented so far). Hint to verify for which archs this is safe: after handle_mm_fault returns, no access to data structures protected by the mmap_sem must be done by the fault code in arch/*/mm/fault.c until up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) is called. This has two main benefits: signals can run with lower latency in production (signals aren't blocked by userfaults and userfaults are immediately repeated after signal processing) and gdb can then trivially debug the threads blocked in this kind of userfaults coming directly from userland. On a side note: while gdb has a need to get signal processed, coredumps always worked perfectly with userfaults, no matter if the userfault is triggered by GUP a kernel copy_user or directly from userland. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
UFFDIO_API was already forced before read/poll could work. This makes the code more strict to force it also for all other ioctls. All users would already have been required to call UFFDIO_API before invoking other ioctls but this makes it more explicit. This will ensure we can change all ioctls (all but UFFDIO_API/struct uffdio_api) with a bump of uffdio_api.api. There's no actual plan or need to change the API or the ioctl, the current API already should cover fine even the non cooperative usage, but this is just for the longer term future just in case. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
These two ioctl allows to either atomically copy or to map zeropages into the virtual address space. This is used by the thread that opened the userfaultfd to resolve the userfaults. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
If the rwsem starves writers it wasn't strictly a bug but lockdep doesn't like it and this avoids depending on lowlevel implementation details of the lock. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: delete weird BUILD_BUG_ON()] Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This implements mcopy_atomic and mfill_zeropage that are the lowlevel VM methods that are invoked respectively by the UFFDIO_COPY and UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE userfaultfd commands. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This implements the uABI of UFFDIO_COPY and UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This activates the userfaultfd syscall. [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: activate syscall fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't enable userfaultfd on powerpc] Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This allows to select the userfaultfd during configuration to build it. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Solve in-kernel the race between UFFDIO_COPY|ZEROPAGE and userfaultfd_read if they are run on different threads simultaneously. Until now qemu solved the race in userland: the race was explicitly and intentionally left for userland to solve. However we can also solve it in kernel. Requiring all users to solve this race if they use two threads (one for the background transfer and one for the userfault reads) isn't very attractive from an API prospective, furthermore this allows to remove a whole bunch of mutex and bitmap code from qemu, making it faster. The cost of __get_user_pages_fast should be insignificant considering it scales perfectly and the pagetables are already hot in the CPU cache, compared to the overhead in userland to maintain those structures. Applying this patch is backwards compatible with respect to the userfaultfd userland API, however reverting this change wouldn't be backwards compatible anymore. Without this patch qemu in the background transfer thread, has to read the old state, and do UFFDIO_WAKE if old_state is missing but it become REQUESTED by the time it tries to set it to RECEIVED (signaling the other side received an userfault). vcpu background_thr userfault_thr ----- ----- ----- vcpu0 handle_mm_fault() postcopy_place_page read old_state -> MISSING UFFDIO_COPY 0x7fb76a139000 (no wakeup, still pending) vcpu0 fault at 0x7fb76a139000 enters handle_userfault poll() is kicked poll() -> POLLIN read() -> 0x7fb76a139000 postcopy_pmi_change_state(MISSING, REQUESTED) -> REQUESTED tmp_state = postcopy_pmi_change_state(old_state, RECEIVED) -> REQUESTED /* check that no userfault raced with UFFDIO_COPY */ if (old_state == MISSING && tmp_state == REQUESTED) UFFDIO_WAKE from background thread And a second case where a UFFDIO_WAKE would be needed is in the userfault thread: vcpu background_thr userfault_thr ----- ----- ----- vcpu0 handle_mm_fault() postcopy_place_page read old_state -> MISSING UFFDIO_COPY 0x7fb76a139000 (no wakeup, still pending) tmp_state = postcopy_pmi_change_state(old_state, RECEIVED) -> RECEIVED vcpu0 fault at 0x7fb76a139000 enters handle_userfault poll() is kicked poll() -> POLLIN read() -> 0x7fb76a139000 if (postcopy_pmi_change_state(MISSING, REQUESTED) == RECEIVED) UFFDIO_WAKE from userfault thread This patch removes the need of both UFFDIO_WAKE and of the associated per-page tristate as well. Signed-off-by: -
Andrea Arcangeli authored
Use proper slab to guarantee alignment. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This makes read O(1) and poll that was already O(1) becomes lockless. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This is an optimization but it's a userland visible one and it affects the API. The downside of this optimization is that if you call poll() and you get POLLIN, read(ufd) may still return -EAGAIN. The blocked userfault may be waken by a different thread, before read(ufd) comes around. This in short means that poll() isn't really usable if the userfaultfd is opened in blocking mode. userfaults won't wait in "pending" state to be read anymore and any UFFDIO_WAKE or similar operations that has the objective of waking userfaults after their resolution, will wake all blocked userfaults for the resolved range, including those that haven't been read() by userland yet. The behavior of poll() becomes not standard, but this obviates the need of "spurious" UFFDIO_WAKE and it lets the userland threads to restart immediately without requiring an UFFDIO_WAKE. This is even more significant in case of repeated faults on the same address from multiple threads. This optimization is justified by the measurement that the number of spurious UFFDIO_WAKE accounts for 5% and 10% of the total userfaults for heavy workloads, so it's worth optimizing those away. Signed-off-by:
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