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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.
- More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
Raghav.
- zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.
- Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
alteration of memcg userspace tunables.
- VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
- removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
- make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful
- Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.
- Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
some scalability benefits.
- Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
operations O(1) rather than O(n).
- Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.
- Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
caused by its unintuitive meaning.
- Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.
- Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
harness.
- Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.
- Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.
- Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.
- Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.
- Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().
- Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.
- Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.
- Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
per-VMA locking.
- Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.
- Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
logic.
- Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.
- Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
flushing.
- David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
userfaultfd and shmem.
- Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
code paths.
- David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
testing of our pte state changing.
- Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.
- Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
selftests.
- Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
accounting.
- Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
selftests/mm code.
- Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
pages.
- Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.
- Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
per-process and per-cgroup basis.
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 66 |
3 files changed, 65 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index 7de7a7272a5e..aa1a233b0fa8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ ops mmap_lock PageLocked(page) open: yes close: yes fault: yes can return with page locked -map_pages: yes +map_pages: read page_mkwrite: yes can return with page locked pfn_mkwrite: yes access: yes @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ locked. The VM will unlock the page. ->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages. Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff" -till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must +till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with the RCU lock held and must not block. If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking, filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 59db0bed35e1..8e02ebe093ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -996,6 +996,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of these fields. VmallocUsed: 40444 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB Percpu: 29312 kB + EarlyMemtestBad: 0 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 4149248 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB @@ -1146,6 +1147,13 @@ VmallocChunk Percpu Memory allocated to the percpu allocator used to back percpu allocations. This stat excludes the cost of metadata. +EarlyMemtestBad + The amount of RAM/memory in kB, that was identified as corrupted + by early memtest. If memtest was not run, this field will not + be displayed at all. Size is never rounded down to 0 kB. + That means if 0 kB is reported, you can safely assume + there was at least one pass of memtest and none of the passes + found a single faulty byte of RAM. HardwareCorrupted The amount of RAM/memory in KB, the kernel identifies as corrupted. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst index 0408c245785e..f18f46be5c0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst @@ -13,17 +13,29 @@ everything stored therein is lost. tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap -unneeded pages out to swap space. It has maximum size limits which can -be adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...' - -If you compare it to ramfs (which was the template to create tmpfs) -you gain swapping and limit checking. Another similar thing is the RAM -disk (/dev/ram*), which simulates a fixed size hard disk in physical -RAM, where you have to create an ordinary filesystem on top. Ramdisks -cannot swap and you do not have the possibility to resize them. - -Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and on swap, all tmpfs -pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in +unneeded pages out to swap space, if swap was enabled for the tmpfs +mount. tmpfs also supports THP. + +tmpfs extends ramfs with a few userspace configurable options listed and +explained further below, some of which can be reconfigured dynamically on the +fly using a remount ('mount -o remount ...') of the filesystem. A tmpfs +filesystem can be resized but it cannot be resized to a size below its current +usage. tmpfs also supports POSIX ACLs, and extended attributes for the +trusted.* and security.* namespaces. ramfs does not use swap and you cannot +modify any parameter for a ramfs filesystem. The size limit of a ramfs +filesystem is how much memory you have available, and so care must be taken if +used so to not run out of memory. + +An alternative to tmpfs and ramfs is to use brd to create RAM disks +(/dev/ram*), which allows you to simulate a block device disk in physical RAM. +To write data you would just then need to create an regular filesystem on top +this ramdisk. As with ramfs, brd ramdisks cannot swap. brd ramdisks are also +configured in size at initialization and you cannot dynamically resize them. +Contrary to brd ramdisks, tmpfs has its own filesystem, it does not rely on the +block layer at all. + +Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and optionally on swap, +all tmpfs pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in free(1). Notice that these counters also include shared memory (shmem, see ipcs(1)). The most reliable way to get the count is using df(1) and du(1). @@ -72,6 +84,8 @@ nr_inodes The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages, whichever is the lower. +noswap Disables swap. Remounts must respect the original settings. + By default swap is enabled. ========= ============================================================ These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and @@ -85,6 +99,36 @@ mount with such options, since it allows any user with write access to use up all the memory on the machine; but enhances the scalability of that instance in a system with many CPUs making intensive use of it. +tmpfs also supports Transparent Huge Pages which requires a kernel +configured with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE and with huge supported for +your system (has_transparent_hugepage(), which is architecture specific). +The mount options for this are: + +====== ============================================================ +huge=0 never: disables huge pages for the mount +huge=1 always: enables huge pages for the mount +huge=2 within_size: only allocate huge pages if the page will be + fully within i_size, also respect fadvise()/madvise() hints. +huge=3 advise: only allocate huge pages if requested with + fadvise()/madvise() +====== ============================================================ + +There is a sysfs file which you can also use to control system wide THP +configuration for all tmpfs mounts, the file is: + +/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled + +This sysfs file is placed on top of THP sysfs directory and so is registered +by THP code. It is however only used to control all tmpfs mounts with one +single knob. Since it controls all tmpfs mounts it should only be used either +for emergency or testing purposes. The values you can set for shmem_enabled are: + +== ============================================================ +-1 deny: disables huge on shm_mnt and all mounts, for + emergency use +-2 force: enables huge on shm_mnt and all mounts, w/o needing + option, for testing +== ============================================================ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be |