linux-toradex.git/mm/mempolicy.c, branch v4.6-rc1

Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-03-21T02:08:56+00:00

Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature
  that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys).

  There's a background article at LWN.net:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/

  The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of
  user-controllable permission masks in the pte.  So instead of having a
  fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change
  and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of)
  protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively
  cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected
  virtual memory range.

  This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large
  amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions.  It also
  allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the
  executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that
  below).

  This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for
  that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys -
  if a user-space application calls:

        mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);

  or

        mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC);

  (note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice
  this special case, and will set a special protection key on this
  memory range.  It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection
  Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable
  and unwritable.

  So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true'
  PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies
  PROT_READ as well.  Unreadable executable mappings have security
  advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out
  ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they
  cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either.

  We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC
  mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new
  feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion.

  There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system
  call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this
  pull request.

  Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature
  (CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled
  (like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime
  overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment.  If there's
  any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or
  flip the default"

* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits
  mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support
  x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags
  x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register
  x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state
  x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey()
  mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits()
  x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU
  x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches
  x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error()
  mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access
  um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods
  mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys
  x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling
  ...

mm: coalesce split strings

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

Kernel style prefers a single string over split strings when the string is
'user-visible'.

Miscellanea:

 - Add a missing newline
 - Realign arguments

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 	[percpu]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mempolicy.c: skip VM_HUGETLB and VM_MIXEDMAP VMA for lazy mbind

2016-03-15T23:55:16+00:00

VM_HUGETLB and VM_MIXEDMAP vma needs to be excluded to avoid compound
pages being marked for migration and unexpected COWs when handling
hugetlb fault.

Thanks to Naoya Horiguchi for reminding me on these checks.

Signed-off-by: Liang Chen 
Signed-off-by: Gavin Guo 
Suggested-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: SeongJae Park 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, thp: fix migration of PTE-mapped transparent huge pages

2016-03-09T23:43:42+00:00

We don't have native support of THP migration, so we have to split huge
page into small pages in order to migrate it to different node.  This
includes PTE-mapped huge pages.

I made mistake in refcounting patchset: we don't actually split
PTE-mapped huge page in queue_pages_pte_range(), if we step on head
page.

The result is that the head page is queued for migration, but none of
tail pages: putting head page on queue takes pin on the page and any
subsequent attempts of split_huge_pages() would fail and we skip queuing
tail pages.

unmap_and_move_huge_page() will eventually split the huge pages, but
only one of 512 pages would get migrated.

Let's fix the situation.

Fixes: 248db92da13f2507 ("migrate_pages: try to split pages on queuing")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/gup: Switch all callers of get_user_pages() to not pass tsk/mm

2016-02-16T09:11:12+00:00

We will soon modify the vanilla get_user_pages() so it can no
longer be used on mm/tasks other than 'current/current->mm',
which is by far the most common way it is called.  For now,
we allow the old-style calls, but warn when they are used.
(implemented in previous patch)

This patch switches all callers of:

	get_user_pages()
	get_user_pages_unlocked()
	get_user_pages_locked()

to stop passing tsk/mm so they will no longer see the warnings.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: jack@suse.cz
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210156.113E9407@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mempolicy: do not try to queue pages from !vma_migratable()

2016-02-06T02:10:40+00:00

Maybe I miss some point, but I don't see a reason why we try to queue
pages from non migratable VMAs.

This testcase steps on VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() in isolate_lru_page():

    #include 
    #include 
    #include 
    #include 
    #include 

    #define SIZE 0x2000

    int foo;

    int main()
    {
        int fd;
        char *p;
        unsigned long mask = 2;

        fd = open("/dev/sg0", O_RDWR);
        p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
        /* Faultin pages */
        foo = p[0] + p[0x1000];
        mbind(p, SIZE, MPOL_BIND, &mask, 4, MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_STRICT);
        return 0;
    }

The only case when we can queue pages from such VMA is MPOL_MF_STRICT
plus MPOL_MF_MOVE or MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL for VMA which has pages on LRU,
but gfp mask is not sutable for migaration (see mapping_gfp_mask() check
in vma_migratable()).  That's looks like a bug to me.

Let's filter out non-migratable vma at start of queue_pages_test_walk()
and go to queue_pages_pte_range() only if MPOL_MF_MOVE or
MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: mempolicy: skip non-migratable VMAs when setting MPOL_MF_LAZY

2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00

MPOL_MF_LAZY is not visible from userspace since a720094ded8c ("mm:
mempolicy: Hide MPOL_NOOP and MPOL_MF_LAZY from userspace for now"), but
it should still skip non-migratable VMAs such as VM_IO, VM_PFNMAP, and
VM_HUGETLB VMAs, and avoid useless overhead of minor faults.

Signed-off-by: Liang Chen 
Signed-off-by: Gavin Guo 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

migrate_pages: try to split pages on queuing

2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00

We are not able to migrate THPs.  It means it's not enough to split only
PMD on migration -- we need to split compound page under it too.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Steve Capper 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: rename split_huge_page_pmd() to split_huge_pmd()

2016-01-16T01:56:32+00:00

We are going to decouple splitting THP PMD from splitting underlying
compound page.

This patch renames split_huge_page_pmd*() functions to split_huge_pmd*()
to reflect the fact that it doesn't imply page splitting, only PMD.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Tested-by: Sasha Levin 
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Steve Capper 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mempolicy.c: convert the shared_policy lock to a rwlock

2016-01-15T00:00:49+00:00

When running the SPECint_rate gcc on some very large boxes it was
noticed that the system was spending lots of time in
mpol_shared_policy_lookup().  The gamess benchmark can also show it and
is what I mostly used to chase down the issue since the setup for that I
found to be easier.

To be clear the binaries were on tmpfs because of disk I/O requirements.
We then used text replication to avoid icache misses and having all the
copies banging on the memory where the instruction code resides.  This
results in us hitting a bottleneck in mpol_shared_policy_lookup() since
lookup is serialised by the shared_policy lock.

I have only reproduced this on very large (3k+ cores) boxes.  The
problem starts showing up at just a few hundred ranks getting worse
until it threatens to livelock once it gets large enough.  For example
on the gamess benchmark at 128 ranks this area consumes only ~1% of
time, at 512 ranks it consumes nearly 13%, and at 2k ranks it is over
90%.

To alleviate the contention in this area I converted the spinlock to an
rwlock.  This allows a large number of lookups to happen simultaneously.
The results were quite good reducing this consumtion at max ranks to
around 2%.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up code comments]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Nadia Yvette Chambers 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds