Everything:
Total patches: 368
Reviews/patch: 1.56
Reviewed rate: 74%
Excluding DAMON:
Total patches: 316
Reviews/patch: 1.77
Reviewed rate: 81%
Excluding DAMON and zram:
Total patches: 306
Reviews/patch: 1.81
Reviewed rate: 82%
Excluding DAMON, zram and maple_tree:
Total patches: 276
Reviews/patch: 2.01
Reviewed rate: 91%
Significant patch series in this merge:
- The 30 patch series "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy"
from Liam Howlett is mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development
but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement.
- The 12 patch series "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map"
from Kairui Song offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map.
It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.
- The 2 patch series "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" from Pratyush
Yadav adds file seal preservation to LUO's memfd code.
- The 2 patch series "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible
pages" from Jiayuan Chen adds additional userspace stats reportng to
zswap.
- The 4 patch series "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" from Mike
Rapoport implements some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and
zero_pfn.
- The 2 patch series "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop()
implementation" from Zhongqiu Han provides an robustness improvement and
some cleanups in the kmemleak code.
- The 4 patch series "Improve khugepaged scan logic" from Vernon Yang
"improves the khugepaged scan logic and reduces CPU consumption by
prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently".
- The 2 patch series "Make KHO Stateless" from Jason Miu simplifies
Kexec Handover by "transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata
tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that
can be passed directly to the next kernel"
- The 3 patch series "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan
tracepoints" from Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt enhances vmscan's
tracepointing.
- The 5 patch series "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper
and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" from Catalin Marinas is a cleanup for the shadow
stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation.
- The 2 patch series "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc
regions" from Pasha Tatashin fixes a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO
restores a vmalloc area.
- The 4 patch series "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" from Tal
Zussman provides several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct
pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago.
- The 17 patch series "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap
optimization" from Kiryl Shutsemau simplifies the HugeTLB vmemmap
optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship
to the head page.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for
core layer filters" from SeongJae Park improves two problematic
behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters
are used.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" from
SeongJae Park improves DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
min_nr_regions user-settable parameter.
- The 3 patch series "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" from Vlastimil
Babka is a proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
simplifications and cleanups ennsed.
- The 16 patch series "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" from
David Hildenbrand implements "a bunch of cleanups around unmapping and
zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and
renaming of zapping functions".
- The 6 patch series "support batched checking of the young flag for
MGLRU" from Baolin Wang supports batched checking of the young flag for
MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance
benefits for arm64.
- The 5 patch series "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups"
from Johannes Weiner provides memcg cleanup and robustness improvements.
- The 5 patch series "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" from
Yuvraj Sakshith enhances page_reporting's free page reporting - it is
presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory.
- The 6 patch series "mm: vma flag tweaks" from Lorenzo Stoakes is
cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a
bitmap.
- The 10 patch series "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity
checks" from SeongJae Park adds some more developer-facing debug checks
into DAMON core.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2
min_region_sz requirement" from SeongJae Park adds an additional DAMON
kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter
handling.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals
comparisons overflow-safe" from SeongJae Park fixes a hard-to-hit time
overflow issue in DAMON core.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation,
test and documentation" from SeongJae Park is a "batch of misc/minor
improvements and fixups" for DAMON.
- The 4 patch series "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of
hugetlb.c" from David Hildenbrand fixes a possible issue with dax-device
when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required.
- The 6 patch series "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" from
Sergey Senozhatsky provides "a somewhat random mix of fixups,
recompression cleanups and improvements" in the zram code.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota
tuning algorithms" from SeongJae Park extend DAMOS quotas goal
auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select.
- The 4 patch series "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary
start_stop_khugepaged()" from Breno Leitao fixes the khugpaged sysfs
handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when
starting/stopping khugepaged.
- The 3 patch series "mm: improve map count checks" from Lorenzo Stoakes
provides some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
code.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring
targets for modules" from SeongJae Park extends the use of DAMON core's
addr_unit tunable.
- The 5 patch series "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites"
from Nico Pache provides cleanups in the khugepaged and is a base for
Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support.
- The 15 patch series "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups"
from David Hildenbrand implements code movement and cleanups in the
memhotplug and sparsemem code.
- The 2 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and
cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" from David Hildenbrand rationalizes some
memhotplug Kconfig support.
- The 6 patch series "change young flag check functions to return bool"
from Baolin Wang is "a cleanup patchset to change all young flag check
functions to return bool".
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL
dereference issues" from Josh Law and SeongJae Park fixes a few
potential DAMON bugs.
- The 25 patch series "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma
code" from "converts a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t
data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it". Mainly in the
vma code.
- The 21 patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage"
from Lorenzo Stoakes "expands the mmap_prepare functionality, which is
intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the
source of bugs and security issues for some time". Cleanups,
documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers.
- The 13 patch series "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" from
Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional
cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are
performed.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)
Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
stack usage and is an improvement.
- "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)
Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.
- "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)
File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code
- "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
Chen)
Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap
- "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)
Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn
- "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
Han)
A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code
- "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)
Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently
- "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)
Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel
- "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)
Enhance vmscan's tracepointing
- "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)
Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
a generic implementation
- "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)
Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area
- "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)
Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
which became folio_batch three years ago
- "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
Shutsemau)
Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
pages encode their relationship to the head page
- "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
filters" (SeongJae Park)
Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
efficient when core layer filters are used
- "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)
Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
min_nr_regions user-settable parameter
- "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)
The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
simplifications and cleanups ensued
- "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)
A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
zapping functions
- "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)
Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64
- "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)
memcg cleanup and robustness improvements
- "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)
Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
pages when reporting free memory.
- "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
a bitmap
- "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
Park)
Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core
- "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
(SeongJae Park)
An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
addr_unit parameter handling
- "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)
Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core
- "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
documentation" (SeongJae Park)
A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON
- "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
Hildenbrand)
Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
movement was required.
- "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
improvements in the zram code
- "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
(SeongJae Park)
Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
algorithms that users can select
- "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)
Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged
- "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
code
- "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
modules" (SeongJae Park)
Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable
- "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)
Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
mTHP support
- "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)
Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code
- "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)
Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support
- "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)
Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool
- "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
Law and SeongJae Park)
Fix a few potential DAMON bugs
- "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
Stoakes)
Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
code.
- "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers
- "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm
mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
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Merge tag 'for-7.1/block-20260411' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Add shared memory zero-copy I/O support for ublk, bypassing per-I/O
copies between kernel and userspace by matching registered buffer
PFNs at I/O time. Includes selftests.
- Refactor bio integrity to support filesystem initiated integrity
operations and arbitrary buffer alignment.
- Clean up bio allocation, splitting bio_alloc_bioset() into clear fast
and slow paths. Add bio_await() and bio_submit_or_kill() helpers,
unify synchronous bi_end_io callbacks.
- Fix zone write plug refcount handling and plug removal races. Add
support for serializing zone writes at QD=1 for rotational zoned
devices, yielding significant throughput improvements.
- Add SED-OPAL ioctls for Single User Mode management and a STACK_RESET
command.
- Add io_uring passthrough (uring_cmd) support to the BSG layer.
- Replace pp_buf in partition scanning with struct seq_buf.
- zloop improvements and cleanups.
- drbd genl cleanup, switching to pre_doit/post_doit.
- NVMe pull request via Keith:
- Fabrics authentication updates
- Enhanced block queue limits support
- Workqueue usage updates
- A new write zeroes device quirk
- Tagset cleanup fix for loop device
- MD pull requests via Yu Kuai:
- Fix raid5 soft lockup in retry_aligned_read()
- Fix raid10 deadlock with check operation and nowait requests
- Fix raid1 overlapping writes on writemostly disks
- Fix sysfs deadlock on array_state=clear
- Proactive RAID-5 parity building with llbitmap, with
write_zeroes_unmap optimization for initial sync
- Fix llbitmap barrier ordering, rdev skipping, and bitmap_ops
version mismatch fallback
- Fix bcache use-after-free and uninitialized closure
- Validate raid5 journal metadata payload size
- Various cleanups
- Various other fixes, improvements, and cleanups
* tag 'for-7.1/block-20260411' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (146 commits)
ublk: fix tautological comparison warning in ublk_ctrl_reg_buf
scsi: bsg: fix buffer overflow in scsi_bsg_uring_cmd()
block: refactor blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl
MAINTAINERS: update ublk driver maintainer email
Documentation: ublk: address review comments for SHMEM_ZC docs
ublk: allow buffer registration before device is started
ublk: replace xarray with IDA for shmem buffer index allocation
ublk: simplify PFN range loop in __ublk_ctrl_reg_buf
ublk: verify all pages in multi-page bvec fall within registered range
ublk: widen ublk_shmem_buf_reg.len to __u64 for 4GB buffer support
xfs: use bio_await in xfs_zone_gc_reset_sync
block: add a bio_submit_or_kill helper
block: factor out a bio_await helper
block: unify the synchronous bi_end_io callbacks
xfs: fix number of GC bvecs
selftests/ublk: add read-only buffer registration test
selftests/ublk: add filesystem fio verify test for shmem_zc
selftests/ublk: add hugetlbfs shmem_zc test for loop target
selftests/ublk: add shared memory zero-copy test
selftests/ublk: add UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC support for loop target
...
Chained recompression has unpredictable behavior and is not useful in
practice.
First, systems usually configure just one alternative recompression
algorithm, which has slower compression/decompression but better
compression ratio. A single alternative algorithm doesn't need chaining.
Second, even with multiple recompression algorithms, chained recompression
is suboptimal. If a lower priority algorithm succeeds, the page is never
attempted with a higher priority algorithm, leading to worse memory
savings. If a lower priority algorithm fails, the page is still attempted
with a higher priority algorithm, wasting resources on the failed lower
priority attempt.
In either case, the system would be better off targeting a specific
priority directly.
Chained recompression also significantly complicates the code. Remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260311084312.1766036-6-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: gao xu <gaoxu2@honor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Emphasize usage of the `priority` parameter for recompression and explain
why `algo` parameter can lead to unexpected behavior and thus is not
recommended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260311084312.1766036-5-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: gao xu <gaoxu2@honor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce the new max_open_zones option to allow specifying a limit on
the maximum number of open zones of a zloop device. This change allows
creating a zloop device that can more closely mimick the characteristics
of a physical SMR drive.
When set to a non zero value, only up to max_open_zones zones can be in
the implicit open (BLK_ZONE_COND_IMP_OPEN) and explicit open
(BLK_ZONE_COND_EXP_OPEN) conditions at any time. The transition to the
implicit open condition of a zone on a write operation can result in an
implicit close of an already implicitly open zone. This is handled in
the function zloop_do_open_zone(). This function also handles
transitions to the explicit open condition. Implicit close transitions
are handled using an LRU ordered list of open zones which is managed
using the helper functions zloop_lru_rotate_open_zone() and
zloop_lru_remove_open_zone().
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326203245.946830-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add a new options that causes zloop to truncate the zone files to the
write pointer value recorded at the last cache flush to simulate
unclean shutdowns.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323071156.2940772-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Rename writeback_compressed attr to compressed_writeback to avoid possible
confusion and have more natural naming. writeback_compressed may look
like an alternative version of writeback while in fact
writeback_compressed only sets a writeback property. Make this
distinction more clear with a new compressed_writeback name.
This updates a feature which is new in 7.0-rcX.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260226025429.1042083-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Fixes: 4c1d61389e ("zram: introduce writeback_compressed device attribute")
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: "Christoph Böhmwalder" <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The "zone_capacity=%umb" option is no longer used. The effective option
is now "zone_capacity_mb=%u", so update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst, add the
description of the zone_append and ordered_zone_append configuration
arguments of zloop "add" command (device creation).
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
- Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal
include" mode.
- Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
converted to Python and updated for current systems.
- A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML
redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the
rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.
- Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol.
- A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.
...and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
over:
- Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
"literal include" mode.
- Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
converted to Python and updated for current systems.
- A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.
- Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
protocol.
- A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.
... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
etc"
* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
docs: remove cdomain.py
Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
...
simplifies the act of creating a pte which addresses the first page in a
folio and reduces the amount of plumbing which architecture must
implement to provide this.
- The 8 patch series "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox
is a shower of largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which
clean things up and better prepare us for future work.
- The 3 patch series "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment
advisement" from Gregory Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from
leaving physical memory unused when physical address regions are not
aligned to memory block size.
- The 2 patch series "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive
compaction" from Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly,
hard-coded (more sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation
of proactive compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest
VM's memory consumption was dramatic.
- The 8 patch series "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing
code" from Kemeng Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency
improvement to this part of our swap handling code.
- The 6 patch series "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API"
from Dmitry Levin adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls
arguments. At this time we can alter only "system call information that
are used by strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number,
syscall arguments, and syscall return value.
This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
branch, but I goofed.
- The 3 patch series "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report
guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the
PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more
efficiently get at the info about guard regions.
- The 2 patch series "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()"
from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected
because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.
- The 3 patch series "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode()
rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into
the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in
favor of using more current facilities.
- The 3 patch series "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64"
from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the
pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table
Descriptors are enabled for ARM.
- The 12 patch series "Always call constructor for kernel page tables"
from Kevin Brodsky "ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for
kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables". This permits the
addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page
tables". This change does result in various architectures performing
unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur.
- The 9 patch series "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and
mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM
structures.
- The 3 patch series "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges"
from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities
which we've been missing for 15 years.
- The 4 patch series "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED
and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB
flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec,
we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
load this particular operation.
- The 6 patch series "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation
counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit
percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was
dramaticelly reduced.
- The 3 patch series "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from
Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when
reading the code.
- The 3 patch series ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in
weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave
policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling,
fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory
hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to
hit.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups
including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota
goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when
utilizing DAMON for memory tiering.
- The 5 patch series "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from
Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which
Baoquan found via code inspection.
- The 2 patch series "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion"
from Gregory Price "changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective
during demotion when possible". because "presently, reclaim explicitly
ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
settings to violated." "This is useful for isolating workloads on a
multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently."
- The 2 patch series ""Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove
unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and
efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.
- The 3 patch series "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang
creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory
utilization.
- The 4 patch series "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and
lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness="
argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive
reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios.
- The 17 patch series "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike
Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to
maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based
kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.
- The 7 patch series "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David
Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range.
By skipping ranges of invalid pfns.
- The 2 patch series "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to
one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless
VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic
performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.
- The 2 patch series "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for
jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs
during memory compaction when using JFS.
- The 4 patch series "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication
logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c
into the more appropriate mm/vma.c.
- The 6 patch series "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from
Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the
folio_index() function.
- The 2 patch series "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal
Moola does that.
- The 8 patch series "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from
Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by
the test_memcontrol selftest.
- The 3 patch series "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare
hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of
file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new
file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and
prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other
problems, may defeat VMA merging.
- The 4 patch series "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from
Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's
one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.
- The 6 patch series "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code,
tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is "yet another batch of
miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code,
tests and documents."
- The 7 patch series "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel
Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to
making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.
- The 4 patch series "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related
functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio
conversions in the hugetlb code.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
this.
- "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
and better prepare us for future work.
- "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
block size.
- "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
memory consumption was dramatic.
- "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
this part of our swap handling code.
- "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
arguments, and syscall return value.
This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
branch, but I goofed.
- "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
at the info about guard regions.
- "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.
- "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
using more current facilities.
- "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
enabled for ARM.
- "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
it already is for user pgtables.
This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
to protect page tables". This change does result in various
architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
it is anticipated to occur.
- "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.
- "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
been missing for 15 years.
- "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.
Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
load this particular operation.
- "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
preallocation.
stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
reduced.
- "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.
- ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.
- "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
for memory tiering.
- "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
found via code inspection.
- "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
settings to violated.
This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
certain classes of memory more consistently.
- "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.
- "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.
- "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.
This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
rather than file-backed folios.
- "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.
- "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
ranges of invalid pfns.
- "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.
Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.
- "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
using JFS.
- "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
appropriate mm/vma.c.
- "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
function.
- "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.
- "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
test_memcontrol selftest.
- "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().
The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.
- "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.
This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.
- "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
documents.
- "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.
- "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
hugetlb code.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high
mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
...
Move IDLE pages tracking into a separate chapter because there are
multiple features that use (or depend on) it either in built-in variant
("mark all") or in extended variant (ac-time tracking).
In addition, recompression doesn't require memory tracking to be enabled
in order to be able to perform idle recompression.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250416042833.3858827-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Shin Kawamura <kawasin@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The writeback interface supports a page_index=N parameter which performs
writeback of the given page. Since we rarely need to writeback just one
single page, the typical use case involves a number of writeback calls,
each performing writeback of one page:
echo page_index=100 > zram0/writeback
...
echo page_index=200 > zram0/writeback
echo page_index=500 > zram0/writeback
...
echo page_index=700 > zram0/writeback
One obvious downside of this is that it increases the number of syscalls.
Less obvious, but a significantly more important downside, is that when
given only one page to post-process zram cannot perform an optimal target
selection. This becomes a critical limitation when writeback_limit is
enabled, because under writeback_limit we want to guarantee the highest
memory savings hence we first need to writeback pages that release the
highest amount of zsmalloc pool memory.
This patch adds page_indexes=LOW-HIGH parameter to the writeback
interface:
echo page_indexes=100-200 page_indexes=500-700 > zram0/writeback
This gives zram a chance to apply an optimal target selection strategy on
each iteration of the writeback loop.
We also now permit multiple page_index parameters per call (previously
zram would recognize only one page_index) and a mix or single pages and
page ranges:
echo page_index=42 page_index=99 page_indexes=100-200 \
page_indexes=500-700 > zram0/writeback
Apart from that the patch also unifies parameters passing and resembles
other "modern" zram device attributes (e.g. recompression), while the old
interface used a mixed scheme: values-less parameters for mode and a
key=value format for page_index. We still support the "old" value-less
format for compatibility reasons.
[senozhatsky@chromium.org: simplify parse_page_index() range checks, per Brian]
nk: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250404015327.2427684-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
[sozhatsky@chromium.org: fix uninitialized variable in zram_writeback_slots(), per Dan]
nk: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250409112611.1154282-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250327015818.4148660-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce the zoned_loop.rst documentation file under
admin-guide/blockdev to document the zoned loop block device driver.
An overview of the driver is provided and its usage to create and delete
zoned devices described.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250407075222.170336-3-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
max_comp_streams device attribute has been defunct since May 2016 when
zram switched to per-CPU compression streams, remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303022425.285971-5-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes a typo in the ZRAM documentation where 'dictioary' was
misspelled. Corrected it to 'dictionary' in the example usage
of 'algorithm_params'.
Signed-off-by: Sarveshwaar SS <sarvesh20123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125165122.17521-1-sarvesh20123@gmail.com
Both recompress and writeback soon will unlock slots during processing,
which makes things too complex wrt possible race-conditions. We still
want to clear PP_SLOT in slot_free, because this is how we figure out that
slot that was selected for post-processing has been released under us and
when we start post-processing we check if slot still has PP_SLOT set. At
the same time, theoretically, we can have something like this:
CPU0 CPU1
recompress
scan slots
set PP_SLOT
unlock slot
slot_free
clear PP_SLOT
allocate PP_SLOT
writeback
scan slots
set PP_SLOT
unlock slot
select PP-slot
test PP_SLOT
So recompress will not detect that slot has been re-used and re-selected
for concurrent writeback post-processing.
Make sure that we only permit on post-processing operation at a time. So
now recompress and writeback post-processing don't race against each
other, we only need to handle slot re-use (slot_free and write), which is
handled individually by each pp operation.
Having recompress and writeback competing for the same slots is not
exactly good anyway (can't imagine anyone doing that).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240917021020.883356-3-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
recompress device attribute supports alg=NAME parameter so that we can
specify only one particular algorithm we want to perform recompression
with. However, with algo params we now can have several exactly same
secondary algorithms but each with its own params tuning (e.g. priority 1
configured to use more aggressive level, and priority 2 configured to use
a pre-trained dictionary). Support priority=NUM parameter so that we can
correctly determine which secondary algorithm we want to use.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902105656.1383858-25-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This attribute is used to setup compression algorithms' parameters, so we
can tweak algorithms' characteristics. At this point only 'level' is
supported (to be extended in the future).
Each call sets up parameters for one particular algorithm, which should be
specified either by the algorithm's priority or algo name. This is
expected to be called after corresponding algorithm is selected via
comp_algorithm or recomp_algorithm.
echo "priority=0 level=1" > /sys/block/zram0/algorithm_params
or
echo "algo=zstd level=1" > /sys/block/zram0/algorithm_params
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902105656.1383858-16-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Moving to custom backends implementation gives us ability to have our own
minimalistic and extendable API, and algorithms tunings becomes possible.
The list of compression backends is empty at this point, we will add
backends in the followup patches.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902105656.1383858-5-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce "max_pages" param to recompress device attribute which sets an
upper limit on the number of entries (pages) zram attempts to recompress
(in this particular recompression call). S/W recompression can be quite
expensive so limiting the number of pages recompress touches can be quite
helpful.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329094050.2815699-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING enables two features:
- per-entry ac-time tracking
- debugfs interface
The latter one is the reason why memory-tracking depends on DEBUG_FS,
while the former one is used far beyond debugging these days. Namely
ac-time is used for fine grained writeback of idle entries (pages).
Move ac-time tracking under its own config option so that it can be
enabled (along with writeback) on systems without DEBUG_FS.
[senozhatsky@chromium.org: ifdef fixup, per Dmytro]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231117013543.540280-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231115024223.4133148-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
While the sourceforge site for userspace NBD still exists, the code
repository moved to github several years ago. Then with a recent
patch[1], the github landing page contains just as much information as
the sourceforge page, so we might as well point to a single location
that also provides the code.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/nbd/2023/03/msg00051.html
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230410180611.1051618-5-eblake@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Remove PARIDE core and high level protocols, taking care not to break
low-level drivers (used by pata_parport). Also update documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
The pata_parport is a libata-based replacement of the old PARIDE
subsystem - driver for parallel port IDE devices.
It uses the original paride low-level protocol drivers but does not
need the high-level drivers (pd, pcd, pf, pt, pg). The IDE devices
behind parallel port adapters are handled by the ATA layer.
This will allow paride and its high-level drivers to be removed.
Unfortunately, libata drivers cannot sleep so pata_parport claims
parport before activating the ata host and keeps it claimed (and
protocol connected) until the ata host is removed. This means that
no devices can be chained (neither other pata_parport devices nor
a printer).
paride and pata_parport are mutually exclusive because the compiled
protocol drivers are incompatible.
Tested with:
- Imation SuperDisk LS-120 and HP C4381A (EPAT)
- Freecom Parallel CD (FRPW)
- Toshiba Mobile CD-RW 2793008 w/Freecom Parallel Cable rev.903 (FRIQ)
- Backpack CD-RW 222011 and CD-RW 19350 (BPCK6)
The following bugs in low-level protocol drivers were found and will
be fixed later:
Note: EPP-32 mode is buggy in EPAT - and also in all other protocol
drivers - they don't handle non-multiple-of-4 block transfers
correctly. This causes problems with LS-120 drive.
There is also another bug in EPAT: EPP modes don't work unless a 4-bit
or 8-bit mode is used first (probably some initialization missing?).
Once the device is initialized, EPP works until power cycle.
So after device power on, you have to:
echo "parport0 epat 0" >/sys/bus/pata_parport/new_device
echo pata_parport.0 >/sys/bus/pata_parport/delete_device
echo "parport0 epat 4" >/sys/bus/pata_parport/new_device
(autoprobe will initialize correctly as it tries the slowest modes
first but you'll get the broken EPP-32 mode)
Note: EPP modes are buggy in FRPW, only modes 0 and 1 work.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Add a new flag to zram block state that shows if the page is
incompressible: that none of the algorithm (including secondary ones)
could compress it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109115047.2921851-14-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Romanov <avromanov@sberdevices.ru>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new flag to zram block state that shows if the page was recompressed
(using alternative compression algorithm).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109115047.2921851-6-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Romanov <avromanov@sberdevices.ru>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
tux logo which, I'm assured, we're going to want.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.19-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes and the addition of an
SVG tux logo which, I'm assured, we're going to want"
* tag 'docs-5.19-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
documentation: Format button_dev as a pointer.
docs: add SVG version of the Linux logo
docs: move Linux logo into a new `images` folder
docs: blockdev: change title to match section content
docs/conf.py: Cope with removal of language=None in Sphinx 5.0.0
This index.rst was added in commit
39443104c7 docs: blockdev: convert to ReST
It appears that the title from the RapidIO index page was copied. This
title does not match the content of this directory. Change it to match.
Signed-off-by: Joel Colledge <joel.colledge@linbit.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220530142849.717-1-joel.colledge@linbit.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Today it's only possible to write back as a page, idle, or huge. A user
might want to writeback pages which are huge and idle first as these idle
pages do not require decompression and make a good first pass for
writeback.
Idle writeback specifically has the advantage that a refault is unlikely
given that the page has been swapped for some amount of time without being
refaulted.
Huge writeback has the advantage that you're guaranteed to get the maximum
benefit from a single page writeback, that is, you're reclaiming one full
page of memory. Pages which are compressed in zram being written back
result in some benefit which is always less than a page size because of
the fact that it was compressed.
The primary use of this is for minimizing refaults in situations where the
device has to be sensitive to storage endurance. On ChromeOS we have
devices with slow eMMC and repeated writes and refaults can negatively
affect performance and endurance.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322215821.1196994-1-bgeffon@google.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes some simple grammar errors in the documentation for zram,
specifically errors in the optional feature section of the zram
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Dye <mrtops03@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207235442.95090-1-mrtops03@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
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>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few random little subsystems
- almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
get merged up.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
mm: fix kernel-doc markups
zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
zram: support page writeback
mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
...
Currently, zram supports the stat via /sys/block/zram/mm_stat to represent
how many of incompressible pages are stored at the moment but it couldn't
show how many times incompressible pages were wrote down since zram set
up. It's also good indication to see how zram is effective in the system.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201130201907.1284910-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is demand to writeback specific process pages to backing store
instead of all idles pages in the system due to storage wear out concerns
and to launching latency of apps which are most of the time idle but are
critical for resume latency.
This patch extends the writeback knob to support a specific page
writeback.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020190506.3758660-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
If not .svg:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627103111.71771-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
sysfs node for huge page writeback is writeback rather than write.
Signed-off-by: Yue Hu <huyue2@yulong.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120102949.12132-1-zbestahu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All those new files I added are under GPL v2.0 license.
Add the corresponding SPDX headers to them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
