linux-toradex.git/Documentation/vm, branch v5.12-rc8

mm/debug_vm_pgtable/basic: add validation for dirtiness after write protect

2021-02-24T21:38:27+00:00

Patch series "mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Some minor updates", v3.

This series contains some cleanups and new test suggestions from Catalin
from an earlier discussion.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201123142237.GF17833@gaia/

This patch (of 2):

This adds validation tests for dirtiness after write protect conversion
for each page table level.  There are two new separate test types involved
here.

The first test ensures that a given page table entry does not become dirty
after pxx_wrprotect().  This is important for platforms like arm64 which
transfers and drops the hardware dirty bit (!PTE_RDONLY) to the software
dirty bit while making it an write protected one.  This test ensures that
no fresh page table entry could be created with hardware dirty bit set.
The second test ensures that a given page table entry always preserve the
dirty information across pxx_wrprotect().

This adds two previously missing PUD level basic tests and while here
fixes pxx_wrprotect() related typos in the documentation file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611137241-26220-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611137241-26220-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas 
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer  [s390]
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Gerald Schaefer 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Steven Price 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: fix typos in split page table lock description

2021-01-18T20:27:18+00:00

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2338863.uUFqZTUbry@devpool47
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock

2020-12-15T22:48:04+00:00

Since we changed the pgdat->lru_lock to lruvec->lru_lock, it's time to fix
the incorrect comments in code.  Also fixed some zone->lru_lock comment
error from ancient time.  etc.

I struggled to understand the comment above move_pages_to_lru() (surely
it never calls page_referenced()), and eventually realized that most of
it had got separated from shrink_active_list(): move that comment back.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604566549-62481-20-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Alexander Duyck 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: "Chen, Rong A" 
Cc: Daniel Jordan 
Cc: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mika Penttilä 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Shakeel Butt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Wei Yang 
Cc: Yang Shi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL

2020-12-15T20:13:42+00:00

ARM is the only architecture that defines CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
which in turn enables memmap_valid_within() function that is intended to
verify existence  of struct page associated with a pfn when there are holes
in the memory map.

However, the ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL also enables HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
and arch-specific pfn_valid() implementation that also deals with the holes
in the memory map.

The only two users of memmap_valid_within() call this function after
a call to pfn_valid() so the memmap_valid_within() check becomes redundant.

Remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL and memmap_valid_within() and rely
entirely on ARM's implementation of pfn_valid() that is now enabled
unconditionally.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-9-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Meelis Roos 
Cc: Michael Schmitz 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_owner: record timestamp and pid

2020-12-15T20:13:38+00:00

Collect the time for each allocation recorded in page owner so that
allocation "surges" can be measured.

Record the pid for each allocation recorded in page owner so that the
source of allocation "surges" can be better identified.

The above is very useful when doing memory analysis.  On a crash for
example, we can get this information from kdump (or ramdump) and parse it
to figure out memory allocation problems.

Please note that on x86_64 this increases the size of struct page_owner
from 16 bytes to 32.

Vlastimil: it's not a functionality intended for production, so unless
somebody says they need to enable page_owner for debugging and this
increase prevents them from fitting into available memory, let's not
complicate things with making this optional.

[lmark@codeaurora.org: v3]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201210160357.27779-1-georgi.djakov@linaro.org

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201209125153.10533-1-georgi.djakov@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Liam Mark 
Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-10-24T00:13:53+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index
  docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes
  docs: submitting-patches: describe preserving review/test tags
  Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst
  Documentation: x86: fix a missing word in x86_64/mm.rst.
  docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry
  docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details
  docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes
  docs/cpu-load: format the example code.

docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes

2020-10-22T22:11:04+00:00

Fix several spelling mistakes in vm documentation.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201022142653.254429-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm/doc: fix a literal block markup

2020-10-16T05:28:20+00:00

Literal blocks with :: markup should be indented, as otherwise
Sphinx complains:

	Documentation/vm/hmm.rst:363: WARNING: Literal block expected; none found.

Fixes: f7ebd9ed7767 ("mm/doc: add usage description for migrate_vma_*()")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

docs: get rid of :c:type explicit declarations for structs

2020-10-15T05:49:40+00:00

The :c:type:`foo` only works properly with structs before
Sphinx 3.x.

On Sphinx 3.x, structs should now be declared using the
.. c:struct, and referenced via :c:struct tag.

As we now have the automarkup.py macro, that automatically
convert:
	struct foo

into cross-references, let's get rid of that, solving
several warnings when building docs with Sphinx 3.x.

Reviewed-by: André Almeida  # blk-mq.rst
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai  # sound
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

docs/vm: fix 'mm_count' vs 'mm_users' counter confusion

2020-10-14T01:38:32+00:00

In the context of the anonymous address space lifespan description the
'mm_users' reference counter is confused with 'mm_count'.  I.e a "zombie"
mm gets released when "mm_count" becomes zero, not "mm_users".

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1597040695-32633-1-git-send-email-agordeev@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds