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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/mman.h, branch v5.19-rc8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mm/mmap: drop arch_vm_get_page_pgprot()</title>
<updated>2022-04-29T06:16:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T06:16:14+00:00</published>
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There are no platforms left which use arch_vm_get_page_prot(). Just drop
generic arch_vm_get_page_prot().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414062125.609297-8-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There are no platforms left which use arch_vm_get_page_prot(). Just drop
generic arch_vm_get_page_prot().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414062125.609297-8-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: ignore MAP_DENYWRITE in ksys_mmap_pgoff()</title>
<updated>2021-09-03T16:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-23T07:38:14+00:00</published>
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Let's also remove masking off MAP_DENYWRITE from ksys_mmap_pgoff():
the last in-tree occurrence of MAP_DENYWRITE is now in LEGACY_MAP_MASK,
which accepts the flag e.g., for MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE; however, the flag
is ignored throughout the kernel now.

Add a comment to LEGACY_MAP_MASK stating that MAP_DENYWRITE is ignored.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
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Let's also remove masking off MAP_DENYWRITE from ksys_mmap_pgoff():
the last in-tree occurrence of MAP_DENYWRITE is now in LEGACY_MAP_MASK,
which accepts the flag e.g., for MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE; however, the flag
is ignored throughout the kernel now.

Add a comment to LEGACY_MAP_MASK stating that MAP_DENYWRITE is ignored.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove VM_DENYWRITE</title>
<updated>2021-09-03T16:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-22T10:08:20+00:00</published>
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All in-tree users of MAP_DENYWRITE are gone. MAP_DENYWRITE cannot be
set from user space, so all users are gone; let's remove it.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
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All in-tree users of MAP_DENYWRITE are gone. MAP_DENYWRITE cannot be
set from user space, so all users are gone; let's remove it.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: ignore MAP_EXECUTABLE in ksys_mmap_pgoff()</title>
<updated>2021-06-29T17:53:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-29T02:38:35+00:00</published>
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Let's also remove masking off MAP_EXECUTABLE from ksys_mmap_pgoff(): the
last in-tree occurrence of MAP_EXECUTABLE is now in LEGACY_MAP_MASK, which
accepts the flag e.g., for MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE; however, the flag is
ignored throughout the kernel now.

Add a comment to LEGACY_MAP_MASK stating that MAP_EXECUTABLE is ignored.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421093453.6904-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;Kevin.Brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Let's also remove masking off MAP_EXECUTABLE from ksys_mmap_pgoff(): the
last in-tree occurrence of MAP_EXECUTABLE is now in LEGACY_MAP_MASK, which
accepts the flag e.g., for MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE; however, the flag is
ignored throughout the kernel now.

Add a comment to LEGACY_MAP_MASK stating that MAP_EXECUTABLE is ignored.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421093453.6904-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;Kevin.Brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Introduce arch_validate_flags()</title>
<updated>2020-09-04T11:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-25T17:27:06+00:00</published>
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Similarly to arch_validate_prot() called from do_mprotect_pkey(), an
architecture may need to sanity-check the new vm_flags.

Define a dummy function always returning true. In addition to
do_mprotect_pkey(), also invoke it from mmap_region() prior to updating
vma-&gt;vm_page_prot to allow the architecture code to veto potentially
inconsistent vm_flags.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Similarly to arch_validate_prot() called from do_mprotect_pkey(), an
architecture may need to sanity-check the new vm_flags.

Define a dummy function always returning true. In addition to
do_mprotect_pkey(), also invoke it from mmap_region() prior to updating
vma-&gt;vm_page_prot to allow the architecture code to veto potentially
inconsistent vm_flags.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Introduce arch_calc_vm_flag_bits()</title>
<updated>2020-09-04T11:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Brodsky</name>
<email>Kevin.Brodsky@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-25T17:27:06+00:00</published>
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Similarly to arch_calc_vm_prot_bits(), introduce a dummy
arch_calc_vm_flag_bits() invoked from calc_vm_flag_bits(). This macro
can be overridden by architectures to insert specific VM_* flags derived
from the mmap() MAP_* flags.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;Kevin.Brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Similarly to arch_calc_vm_prot_bits(), introduce a dummy
arch_calc_vm_flag_bits() invoked from calc_vm_flag_bits(). This macro
can be overridden by architectures to insert specific VM_* flags derived
from the mmap() MAP_* flags.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;Kevin.Brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policy</title>
<updated>2020-08-07T18:33:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Feng Tang</name>
<email>feng.tang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-07T06:23:15+00:00</published>
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When checking a performance change for will-it-scale scalability mmap test
[1], we found very high lock contention for spinlock of percpu counter
'vm_committed_as':

    94.14%     0.35%  [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    48.21% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__vm_enough_memory;mmap_region;do_mmap;
    45.91% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__do_munmap;

Actually this heavy lock contention is not always necessary.  The
'vm_committed_as' needs to be very precise when the strict
OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy is set, which requires a rather small batch number
for the percpu counter.

So keep 'batch' number unchanged for strict OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy, and
lift it to 64X for OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and OVERCOMMIT_GUESS policies.  Also
add a sysctl handler to adjust it when the policy is reconfigured.

Benchmark with the same testcase in [1] shows 53% improvement on a 8C/16T
desktop, and 2097%(20X) on a 4S/72C/144T server.  We tested with test
platforms in 0day (server, desktop and laptop), and 80%+ platforms shows
improvements with that test.  And whether it shows improvements depends on
if the test mmap size is bigger than the batch number computed.

And if the lift is 16X, 1/3 of the platforms will show improvements,
though it should help the mmap/unmap usage generally, as Michal Hocko
mentioned:

: I believe that there are non-synthetic worklaods which would benefit from
: a larger batch.  E.g.  large in memory databases which do large mmaps
: during startups from multiple threads.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200305062138.GI5972@shao2-debian/

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi.kleen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1589611660-89854-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1592725000-73486-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594389708-60781-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When checking a performance change for will-it-scale scalability mmap test
[1], we found very high lock contention for spinlock of percpu counter
'vm_committed_as':

    94.14%     0.35%  [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    48.21% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__vm_enough_memory;mmap_region;do_mmap;
    45.91% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__do_munmap;

Actually this heavy lock contention is not always necessary.  The
'vm_committed_as' needs to be very precise when the strict
OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy is set, which requires a rather small batch number
for the percpu counter.

So keep 'batch' number unchanged for strict OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy, and
lift it to 64X for OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and OVERCOMMIT_GUESS policies.  Also
add a sysctl handler to adjust it when the policy is reconfigured.

Benchmark with the same testcase in [1] shows 53% improvement on a 8C/16T
desktop, and 2097%(20X) on a 4S/72C/144T server.  We tested with test
platforms in 0day (server, desktop and laptop), and 80%+ platforms shows
improvements with that test.  And whether it shows improvements depends on
if the test mmap size is bigger than the batch number computed.

And if the lift is 16X, 1/3 of the platforms will show improvements,
though it should help the mmap/unmap usage generally, as Michal Hocko
mentioned:

: I believe that there are non-synthetic worklaods which would benefit from
: a larger batch.  E.g.  large in memory databases which do large mmaps
: during startups from multiple threads.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200305062138.GI5972@shao2-debian/

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi.kleen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1589611660-89854-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1592725000-73486-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594389708-60781-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Add address parameter to arch_validate_prot()</title>
<updated>2018-03-18T14:38:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Khalid Aziz</name>
<email>khalid.aziz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-21T17:15:49+00:00</published>
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A protection flag may not be valid across entire address space and
hence arch_validate_prot() might need the address a protection bit is
being set on to ensure it is a valid protection flag. For example, sparc
processors support memory corruption detection (as part of ADI feature)
flag on memory addresses mapped on to physical RAM but not on PFN mapped
pages or addresses mapped on to devices. This patch adds address to the
parameters being passed to arch_validate_prot() so protection bits can
be validated in the relevant context.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid@gonehiking.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga &lt;anthony.yznaga@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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A protection flag may not be valid across entire address space and
hence arch_validate_prot() might need the address a protection bit is
being set on to ensure it is a valid protection flag. For example, sparc
processors support memory corruption detection (as part of ADI feature)
flag on memory addresses mapped on to physical RAM but not on PFN mapped
pages or addresses mapped on to devices. This patch adds address to the
parameters being passed to arch_validate_prot() so protection bits can
be validated in the relevant context.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid@gonehiking.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga &lt;anthony.yznaga@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's -&gt;mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;

   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's -&gt;mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;

   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T13:26:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T15:36:41+00:00</published>
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Define new MAP_SYNC flag and corresponding VMA VM_SYNC flag. As the
MAP_SYNC flag is not part of LEGACY_MAP_MASK, currently it will be
refused by all MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE map attempts and silently ignored for
everything else.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Define new MAP_SYNC flag and corresponding VMA VM_SYNC flag. As the
MAP_SYNC flag is not part of LEGACY_MAP_MASK, currently it will be
refused by all MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE map attempts and silently ignored for
everything else.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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