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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-05 13:50:15 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-05 13:50:15 -0700 |
commit | 8404c9fbc84b741f66cff7d4934a25dd2c344452 (patch) | |
tree | ad9b31db8b954b89a0984760a57aec7526caa1b5 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | a79cdfba68a13b731004f0aafe1155a83830d472 (diff) | |
parent | 36f0b35d0894576fe63268ede80d9f5aa140be09 (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"The remainder of the main mm/ queue.
143 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series (all mm): pagecache, hugetlb,
userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, migration, cma, ksm, vmstat, mmap,
kconfig, util, memory-hotplug, zswap, zsmalloc, highmem, cleanups, and
kfence"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (143 commits)
kfence: use power-efficient work queue to run delayed work
kfence: maximize allocation wait timeout duration
kfence: await for allocation using wait_event
kfence: zero guard page after out-of-bounds access
mm/process_vm_access.c: remove duplicate include
mm/mempool: minor coding style tweaks
mm/highmem.c: fix coding style issue
btrfs: use memzero_page() instead of open coded kmap pattern
iov_iter: lift memzero_page() to highmem.h
mm/zsmalloc: use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.
mm/zswap.c: switch from strlcpy to strscpy
arm64/Kconfig: introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
x86/Kconfig: introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
mm,memory_hotplug: add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory
acpi,memhotplug: enable MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY when supported
mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range
mm,memory_hotplug: factor out adjusting present pages into adjust_present_page_count()
mm,memory_hotplug: relax fully spanned sections check
drivers/base/memory: introduce memory_block_{online,offline}
mm/memory_hotplug: remove broken locking of zone PCP structures during hot remove
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 107 |
3 files changed, 92 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 0d48fbd9107f..a1266f33d6e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2804,6 +2804,23 @@ seconds. Use this parameter to check at some other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. + memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory + [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. + Format: {on | off (default)} + When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will + allocate its internal metadata (struct pages) + from the hotadded memory which will allow to + hotadd a lot of memory without requiring + additional memory to do so. + This feature is disabled by default because it + has some implication on large (e.g. GB) + allocations in some configurations (e.g. small + memory blocks). + The state of the flag can be read in + /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. + Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where + the feature is not effective. + memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest Format: <integer> default : 0 <disable> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 5307f90738aa..05d51d2d8beb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -357,6 +357,15 @@ creates ZONE_MOVABLE as following. Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block belongs to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD. +.. note:: + Techniques that rely on long-term pinnings of memory (especially, RDMA and + vfio) are fundamentally problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and, therefore, memory + hot remove. Pinned pages cannot reside on ZONE_MOVABLE, to guarantee that + memory can still get hot removed - be aware that pinning can fail even if + there is plenty of free memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. In addition, using + ZONE_MOVABLE might make page pinning more expensive, because pages have to be + migrated off that zone first. + .. _memory_hotplug_how_to_offline_memory: How to offline memory diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst index 65eefa66c0ba..3aa38e8b8361 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst @@ -63,36 +63,36 @@ the generic ioctl available. The ``uffdio_api.features`` bitmask returned by the ``UFFDIO_API`` ioctl defines what memory types are supported by the ``userfaultfd`` and what -events, except page fault notifications, may be generated. - -If the kernel supports registering ``userfaultfd`` ranges on hugetlbfs -virtual memory areas, ``UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS`` will be set in -``uffdio_api.features``. Similarly, ``UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM`` will be -set if the kernel supports registering ``userfaultfd`` ranges on shared -memory (covering all shmem APIs, i.e. tmpfs, ``IPCSHM``, ``/dev/zero``, -``MAP_SHARED``, ``memfd_create``, etc). - -The userland application that wants to use ``userfaultfd`` with hugetlbfs -or shared memory need to set the corresponding flag in -``uffdio_api.features`` to enable those features. - -If the userland desires to receive notifications for events other than -page faults, it has to verify that ``uffdio_api.features`` has appropriate -``UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_*`` bits set. These events are described in more -detail below in `Non-cooperative userfaultfd`_ section. - -Once the ``userfaultfd`` has been enabled the ``UFFDIO_REGISTER`` ioctl should -be invoked (if present in the returned ``uffdio_api.ioctls`` bitmask) to -register a memory range in the ``userfaultfd`` by setting the +events, except page fault notifications, may be generated: + +- The ``UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_*`` flags indicate that various other events + other than page faults are supported. These events are described in more + detail below in the `Non-cooperative userfaultfd`_ section. + +- ``UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS`` and ``UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM`` + indicate that the kernel supports ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING`` + registrations for hugetlbfs and shared memory (covering all shmem APIs, + i.e. tmpfs, ``IPCSHM``, ``/dev/zero``, ``MAP_SHARED``, ``memfd_create``, + etc) virtual memory areas, respectively. + +- ``UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS`` indicates that the kernel supports + ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MINOR`` registration for hugetlbfs virtual memory + areas. + +The userland application should set the feature flags it intends to use +when invoking the ``UFFDIO_API`` ioctl, to request that those features be +enabled if supported. + +Once the ``userfaultfd`` API has been enabled the ``UFFDIO_REGISTER`` +ioctl should be invoked (if present in the returned ``uffdio_api.ioctls`` +bitmask) to register a memory range in the ``userfaultfd`` by setting the uffdio_register structure accordingly. The ``uffdio_register.mode`` bitmask will specify to the kernel which kind of faults to track for -the range (``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING`` would track missing -pages). The ``UFFDIO_REGISTER`` ioctl will return the +the range. The ``UFFDIO_REGISTER`` ioctl will return the ``uffdio_register.ioctls`` bitmask of ioctls that are suitable to resolve userfaults on the range registered. Not all ioctls will necessarily be -supported for all memory types depending on the underlying virtual -memory backend (anonymous memory vs tmpfs vs real filebacked -mappings). +supported for all memory types (e.g. anonymous memory vs. shmem vs. +hugetlbfs), or all types of intercepted faults. Userland can use the ``uffdio_register.ioctls`` to manage the virtual address space in the background (to add or potentially also remove @@ -100,21 +100,46 @@ memory from the ``userfaultfd`` registered range). This means a userfault could be triggering just before userland maps in the background the user-faulted page. -The primary ioctl to resolve userfaults is ``UFFDIO_COPY``. That -atomically copies a page into the userfault registered range and wakes -up the blocked userfaults -(unless ``uffdio_copy.mode & UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_DONTWAKE`` is set). -Other ioctl works similarly to ``UFFDIO_COPY``. They're atomic as in -guaranteeing that nothing can see an half copied page since it'll -keep userfaulting until the copy has finished. +Resolving Userfaults +-------------------- + +There are three basic ways to resolve userfaults: + +- ``UFFDIO_COPY`` atomically copies some existing page contents from + userspace. + +- ``UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE`` atomically zeros the new page. + +- ``UFFDIO_CONTINUE`` maps an existing, previously-populated page. + +These operations are atomic in the sense that they guarantee nothing can +see a half-populated page, since readers will keep userfaulting until the +operation has finished. + +By default, these wake up userfaults blocked on the range in question. +They support a ``UFFDIO_*_MODE_DONTWAKE`` ``mode`` flag, which indicates +that waking will be done separately at some later time. + +Which ioctl to choose depends on the kind of page fault, and what we'd +like to do to resolve it: + +- For ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING`` faults, the fault needs to be + resolved by either providing a new page (``UFFDIO_COPY``), or mapping + the zero page (``UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE``). By default, the kernel would map + the zero page for a missing fault. With userfaultfd, userspace can + decide what content to provide before the faulting thread continues. + +- For ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MINOR`` faults, there is an existing page (in + the page cache). Userspace has the option of modifying the page's + contents before resolving the fault. Once the contents are correct + (modified or not), userspace asks the kernel to map the page and let the + faulting thread continue with ``UFFDIO_CONTINUE``. Notes: -- If you requested ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING`` when registering then - you must provide some kind of page in your thread after reading from - the uffd. You must provide either ``UFFDIO_COPY`` or ``UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE``. - The normal behavior of the OS automatically providing a zero page on - an anonymous mmaping is not in place. +- You can tell which kind of fault occurred by examining + ``pagefault.flags`` within the ``uffd_msg``, checking for the + ``UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_*`` flags. - None of the page-delivering ioctls default to the range that you registered with. You must fill in all fields for the appropriate @@ -122,9 +147,9 @@ Notes: - You get the address of the access that triggered the missing page event out of a struct uffd_msg that you read in the thread from the - uffd. You can supply as many pages as you want with ``UFFDIO_COPY`` or - ``UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE``. Keep in mind that unless you used DONTWAKE then - the first of any of those IOCTLs wakes up the faulting thread. + uffd. You can supply as many pages as you want with these IOCTLs. + Keep in mind that unless you used DONTWAKE then the first of any of + those IOCTLs wakes up the faulting thread. - Be sure to test for all errors including (``pollfd[0].revents & POLLERR``). This can happen, e.g. when ranges |