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<title>linux-toradex.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v5.7-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'for-5.7/dm-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2020-04-30T23:45:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-30T23:45:08+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:

 - Document DM integrity allow_discard feature that was added during 5.7
   merge window.

 - Fix potential for DM writecache data corruption during DM table
   reloads.

 - Fix DM verity's FEC support's hash block number calculation in
   verity_fec_decode().

 - Fix bio-based DM multipath crash due to use of stale copy of
   MPATHF_QUEUE_IO flag state in __map_bio().

* tag 'for-5.7/dm-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm multipath: use updated MPATHF_QUEUE_IO on mapping for bio-based mpath
  dm verity fec: fix hash block number in verity_fec_decode
  dm writecache: fix data corruption when reloading the target
  dm integrity: document allow_discard option
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Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:

 - Document DM integrity allow_discard feature that was added during 5.7
   merge window.

 - Fix potential for DM writecache data corruption during DM table
   reloads.

 - Fix DM verity's FEC support's hash block number calculation in
   verity_fec_decode().

 - Fix bio-based DM multipath crash due to use of stale copy of
   MPATHF_QUEUE_IO flag state in __map_bio().

* tag 'for-5.7/dm-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm multipath: use updated MPATHF_QUEUE_IO on mapping for bio-based mpath
  dm verity fec: fix hash block number in verity_fec_decode
  dm writecache: fix data corruption when reloading the target
  dm integrity: document allow_discard option
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'usb-5.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb</title>
<updated>2020-04-26T18:22:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-26T18:22:01+00:00</published>
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Pull USB fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are a number of USB driver fixes for 5.7-rc3.

  Nothing huge, just the usual collection of:

   - xhci fixes

   - gadget driver fixes

   - syzkaller fuzzing fixes

   - new device ids and DT bindings

   - new quirks added for broken devices

  A few of the gadget driver fixes show up twice here as they were
  applied to my branch, and also by Felipe to his branch which I then
  pulled in as we got out of sync a bit.

  All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'usb-5.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (33 commits)
  USB: sisusbvga: Change port variable from signed to unsigned
  usb-storage: Add unusual_devs entry for JMicron JMS566
  USB: hub: Revert commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")
  USB: hub: Fix handling of connect changes during sleep
  usb: typec: altmode: Fix typec_altmode_get_partner sometimes returning an invalid pointer
  xhci: Don't clear hub TT buffer on ep0 protocol stall
  xhci: prevent bus suspend if a roothub port detected a over-current condition
  xhci: Fix handling halted endpoint even if endpoint ring appears empty
  usb: raw-gadget: Fix copy_to/from_user() checks
  usb: raw-gadget: fix raw_event_queue_fetch locking
  usb: gadget: udc: atmel: Fix vbus disconnect handling
  usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix request completion check
  USB: Add USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG and USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT for Corsair K70 RGB RAPIDFIRE
  phy: tegra: Select USB_COMMON for usb_get_maximum_speed()
  usb: typec: tcpm: Ignore CC and vbus changes in PORT_RESET change
  usb: f_fs: Clear OS Extended descriptor counts to zero in ffs_data_reset()
  cdc-acm: introduce a cool down
  cdc-acm: close race betrween suspend() and acm_softint
  UAS: fix deadlock in error handling and PM flushing work
  UAS: no use logging any details in case of ENODEV
  ...
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<pre>
Pull USB fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are a number of USB driver fixes for 5.7-rc3.

  Nothing huge, just the usual collection of:

   - xhci fixes

   - gadget driver fixes

   - syzkaller fuzzing fixes

   - new device ids and DT bindings

   - new quirks added for broken devices

  A few of the gadget driver fixes show up twice here as they were
  applied to my branch, and also by Felipe to his branch which I then
  pulled in as we got out of sync a bit.

  All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'usb-5.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (33 commits)
  USB: sisusbvga: Change port variable from signed to unsigned
  usb-storage: Add unusual_devs entry for JMicron JMS566
  USB: hub: Revert commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")
  USB: hub: Fix handling of connect changes during sleep
  usb: typec: altmode: Fix typec_altmode_get_partner sometimes returning an invalid pointer
  xhci: Don't clear hub TT buffer on ep0 protocol stall
  xhci: prevent bus suspend if a roothub port detected a over-current condition
  xhci: Fix handling halted endpoint even if endpoint ring appears empty
  usb: raw-gadget: Fix copy_to/from_user() checks
  usb: raw-gadget: fix raw_event_queue_fetch locking
  usb: gadget: udc: atmel: Fix vbus disconnect handling
  usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix request completion check
  USB: Add USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG and USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT for Corsair K70 RGB RAPIDFIRE
  phy: tegra: Select USB_COMMON for usb_get_maximum_speed()
  usb: typec: tcpm: Ignore CC and vbus changes in PORT_RESET change
  usb: f_fs: Clear OS Extended descriptor counts to zero in ffs_data_reset()
  cdc-acm: introduce a cool down
  cdc-acm: close race betrween suspend() and acm_softint
  UAS: fix deadlock in error handling and PM flushing work
  UAS: no use logging any details in case of ENODEV
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: hub: Revert commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")</title>
<updated>2020-04-23T13:22:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-22T20:13:08+00:00</published>
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Commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for
high speed devices") changed the way the hub driver enumerates
high-speed devices.  Instead of using the "new" enumeration scheme
first and switching to the "old" scheme if that doesn't work, we start
with the "old" scheme.  In theory this is better because the "old"
scheme is slightly faster -- it involves resetting the device only
once instead of twice.

However, for a long time Windows used only the "new" scheme.  Zeng Tao
said that Windows 8 and later use the "old" scheme for high-speed
devices, but apparently there are some devices that don't like it.
William Bader reports that the Ricoh webcam built into his Sony Vaio
laptop not only doesn't enumerate under the "old" scheme, it gets hung
up so badly that it won't then enumerate under the "new" scheme!  Only
a cold reset will fix it.

Therefore we will revert the commit and go back to trying the "new"
scheme first for high-speed devices.

Reported-and-tested-by: William Bader &lt;williambader@hotmail.com&gt;
Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207219
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Fixes: bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")
CC: Zeng Tao &lt;prime.zeng@hisilicon.com&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2004221611230.11262-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for
high speed devices") changed the way the hub driver enumerates
high-speed devices.  Instead of using the "new" enumeration scheme
first and switching to the "old" scheme if that doesn't work, we start
with the "old" scheme.  In theory this is better because the "old"
scheme is slightly faster -- it involves resetting the device only
once instead of twice.

However, for a long time Windows used only the "new" scheme.  Zeng Tao
said that Windows 8 and later use the "old" scheme for high-speed
devices, but apparently there are some devices that don't like it.
William Bader reports that the Ricoh webcam built into his Sony Vaio
laptop not only doesn't enumerate under the "old" scheme, it gets hung
up so badly that it won't then enumerate under the "new" scheme!  Only
a cold reset will fix it.

Therefore we will revert the commit and go back to trying the "new"
scheme first for high-speed devices.

Reported-and-tested-by: William Bader &lt;williambader@hotmail.com&gt;
Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207219
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Fixes: bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")
CC: Zeng Tao &lt;prime.zeng@hisilicon.com&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2004221611230.11262-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: admin-guide: merge sections for the kernel.modprobe sysctl</title>
<updated>2020-04-15T20:50:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-14T17:24:30+00:00</published>
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Documentation for the kernel.modprobe sysctl was added both by
commit 0317c5371e6a ("docs: merge debugging-modules.txt into
sysctl/kernel.rst") and by commit 6e7158250625 ("docs: admin-guide:
document the kernel.modprobe sysctl"), resulting in the same sysctl
being documented in two places.  Merge these into one place.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200414172430.230293-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Documentation for the kernel.modprobe sysctl was added both by
commit 0317c5371e6a ("docs: merge debugging-modules.txt into
sysctl/kernel.rst") and by commit 6e7158250625 ("docs: admin-guide:
document the kernel.modprobe sysctl"), resulting in the same sysctl
being documented in two places.  Merge these into one place.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200414172430.230293-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm integrity: document allow_discard option</title>
<updated>2020-04-14T17:54:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milan Broz</name>
<email>gmazyland@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-08T21:40:08+00:00</published>
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Add decription of the allow_discard option added in commit
84597a44a9d86ac949900441cea7da0af0f2f473.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Add decription of the allow_discard option added in commit
84597a44a9d86ac949900441cea7da0af0f2f473.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz &lt;gmazyland@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2020-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-04-12T17:13:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-12T17:13:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=0785249f8b93836986e9d1bdeefd2a2c13f160af'/>
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Pull time(keeping) updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Fix the time_for_children symlink in /proc/$PID/ so it properly
   reflects that it part of the 'time' namespace

 - Add the missing userns limit for the allowed number of time
   namespaces, which was half defined but the actual array member was
   not added. This went unnoticed as the array has an exessive empty
   member at the end but introduced a user visible regression as the
   output was corrupted.

 - Prevent further silent ucount corruption by adding a BUILD_BUG_ON()
   to catch half updated data.

* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ucount: Make sure ucounts in /proc/sys/user don't regress again
  time/namespace: Add max_time_namespaces ucount
  time/namespace: Fix time_for_children symlink
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<pre>
Pull time(keeping) updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Fix the time_for_children symlink in /proc/$PID/ so it properly
   reflects that it part of the 'time' namespace

 - Add the missing userns limit for the allowed number of time
   namespaces, which was half defined but the actual array member was
   not added. This went unnoticed as the array has an exessive empty
   member at the end but introduced a user visible regression as the
   output was corrupted.

 - Prevent further silent ucount corruption by adding a BUILD_BUG_ON()
   to catch half updated data.

* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ucount: Make sure ucounts in /proc/sys/user don't regress again
  time/namespace: Add max_time_namespaces ucount
  time/namespace: Fix time_for_children symlink
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-04-11T00:57:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-11T00:57:48+00:00</published>
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Almost all of the rest of MM (memcg, slab-generic, slab, pagealloc,
   gup, hugetlb, pagemap, memremap)

 - Various other things (hfs, ocfs2, kmod, misc, seqfile)

* akpm: (34 commits)
  ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index
  kernel/gcov/fs.c: gcov_seq_next() should increase position index
  fs/seq_file.c: seq_read(): add info message about buggy .next functions
  drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c: fix platform_get_irq.cocci warnings
  change email address for Pali Rohár
  selftests: kmod: test disabling module autoloading
  selftests: kmod: fix handling test numbers above 9
  docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl
  fs/filesystems.c: downgrade user-reachable WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once()
  kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled
  mm/memremap: set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC
  mm/memory_hotplug: add pgprot_t to mhp_params
  powerpc/mm: thread pgprot_t through create_section_mapping()
  x86/mm: introduce __set_memory_prot()
  x86/mm: thread pgprot_t through init_memory_mapping()
  mm/memory_hotplug: rename mhp_restrictions to mhp_params
  mm/memory_hotplug: drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions
  mm/special: create generic fallbacks for pte_special() and pte_mkspecial()
  mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS
  mm/vma: define a default value for VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS
  ...
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Almost all of the rest of MM (memcg, slab-generic, slab, pagealloc,
   gup, hugetlb, pagemap, memremap)

 - Various other things (hfs, ocfs2, kmod, misc, seqfile)

* akpm: (34 commits)
  ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index
  kernel/gcov/fs.c: gcov_seq_next() should increase position index
  fs/seq_file.c: seq_read(): add info message about buggy .next functions
  drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c: fix platform_get_irq.cocci warnings
  change email address for Pali Rohár
  selftests: kmod: test disabling module autoloading
  selftests: kmod: fix handling test numbers above 9
  docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl
  fs/filesystems.c: downgrade user-reachable WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once()
  kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled
  mm/memremap: set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC
  mm/memory_hotplug: add pgprot_t to mhp_params
  powerpc/mm: thread pgprot_t through create_section_mapping()
  x86/mm: introduce __set_memory_prot()
  x86/mm: thread pgprot_t through init_memory_mapping()
  mm/memory_hotplug: rename mhp_restrictions to mhp_params
  mm/memory_hotplug: drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions
  mm/special: create generic fallbacks for pte_special() and pte_mkspecial()
  mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS
  mm/vma: define a default value for VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2020-04-11T00:53:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-11T00:53:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ca6151a9788e2cbb1a7b5d320dcf4f16a3b64477'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull Documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree"

* tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Documentation: android: binderfs: add 'stats' mount option
  Documentation: driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst Updates documentation links
  docs: driver-api: address duplicate label warning
  Documentation: sysrq: fix RST formatting
  docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken references
  docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompx
  docs: filesystems: fix typo in qnx6.rst
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Pull Documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree"

* tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Documentation: android: binderfs: add 'stats' mount option
  Documentation: driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst Updates documentation links
  docs: driver-api: address duplicate label warning
  Documentation: sysrq: fix RST formatting
  docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken references
  docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompx
  docs: filesystems: fix typo in qnx6.rst
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl</title>
<updated>2020-04-10T22:36:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-10T21:33:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6e71582506258c9b2efd8f164706f2af2256cf16'/>
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<content type='text'>
Document the kernel.modprobe sysctl in the same place that all the other
kernel.* sysctls are documented.  Make sure to mention how to use this
sysctl to completely disable module autoloading, and how this sysctl
relates to CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER.

[ebiggers@google.com: v5]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318230515.171692-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep &lt;jeffv@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312202552.241885-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Document the kernel.modprobe sysctl in the same place that all the other
kernel.* sysctls are documented.  Make sure to mention how to use this
sysctl to completely disable module autoloading, and how this sysctl
relates to CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER.

[ebiggers@google.com: v5]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318230515.171692-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep &lt;jeffv@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312202552.241885-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cma</title>
<updated>2020-04-10T22:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
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<published>2020-04-10T21:32:45+00:00</published>
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Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation
at runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages.

However it actually works only at early stages of the system loading,
when the majority of memory is free.  After some time the memory gets
fragmented by non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1GB
block are getting close to zero.  Even dropping caches manually doesn't
help a lot.

At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages
is quite expensive and complex.  At the same time keeping some constant
percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't
using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB
pages.

The following solution can solve the problem:
1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed
   as a kernel argument.
2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the
   cma allocator and the dedicated cma area

In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a
high probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody
is using 1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs,
etc.

* On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node.
  Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available
  numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user.

Usage:
1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations:
   pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument

2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g.
   echo 10 &gt; /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed,
the current behavior of the system is preserved.

x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be
trivially added later.

The patch contains clean-ups and fixes proposed and implemented by Aslan
Bakirov and Randy Dunlap.  It also contains ideas and suggestions
proposed by Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko and Mike Kravetz.  Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler &lt;andreas.schaufler@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Aslan Bakirov &lt;aslan@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;js1304@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407163840.92263-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation
at runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages.

However it actually works only at early stages of the system loading,
when the majority of memory is free.  After some time the memory gets
fragmented by non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1GB
block are getting close to zero.  Even dropping caches manually doesn't
help a lot.

At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages
is quite expensive and complex.  At the same time keeping some constant
percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't
using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB
pages.

The following solution can solve the problem:
1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed
   as a kernel argument.
2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the
   cma allocator and the dedicated cma area

In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a
high probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody
is using 1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs,
etc.

* On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node.
  Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available
  numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user.

Usage:
1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations:
   pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument

2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g.
   echo 10 &gt; /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed,
the current behavior of the system is preserved.

x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be
trivially added later.

The patch contains clean-ups and fixes proposed and implemented by Aslan
Bakirov and Randy Dunlap.  It also contains ideas and suggestions
proposed by Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko and Mike Kravetz.  Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler &lt;andreas.schaufler@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Aslan Bakirov &lt;aslan@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;js1304@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407163840.92263-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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