diff options
| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-01-09 11:18:47 -0800 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-01-09 11:18:47 -0800 |
| commit | fb46e22a9e3863e08aef8815df9f17d0f4b9aede (patch) | |
| tree | 83e052911fa8d8d90bcf9de2796e17e19040613f /mm/pagewalk.c | |
| parent | d30e51aa7b1f6fa7dd78d4598d1e4c047fcc3fb9 (diff) | |
| parent | 5e0a760b44417f7cadd79de2204d6247109558a0 (diff) | |
| download | net-fb46e22a9e3863e08aef8815df9f17d0f4b9aede.tar.gz | |
Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
included in this merge do the following:
- Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series
'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers'
'Some cleanups of maple tree'
- In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem'
Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug
and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily
have its memmap placed within that newly added memory.
- Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes)
in the patch series
'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()'
'Make folio_start_writeback return void'
'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages'
'Convert aops->error_remove_page to ->error_remove_folio'
'Finish two folio conversions'
'More swap folio conversions'
- Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series
'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault'
- Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series
'tweak kmemleak report format'.
- In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey
Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction
of no longer needed stack traces.
- Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page
allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm:
page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'.
- Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code
for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series
'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'.
- Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series
'maple_tree: iterator state changes'.
- Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series
'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'.
- DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the
series
'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS'
'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests'
'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8'
- Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm:
memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'.
- In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts
has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which
improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during
anonymous page faults.
- Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance
work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head
cleanups'.
- Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series
'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap
compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than
UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free.
- Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm:
Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning
aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs.
- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use
in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'.
- Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback
code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the
writeback paths'.
- Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free
stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan:
save mempool stack traces'.
- Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series
'kasan: assorted clean-ups'.
- David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more
pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap:
interface overhaul'.
- Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code
in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'.
- Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups
in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'"
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits)
mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting
selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output
selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output
selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output
mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output
mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large
mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state()
mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file()
slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node
slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc()
slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page()
mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions
mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker
kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles
mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty()
...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/pagewalk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/pagewalk.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c index b7d7e4fcfad7aa..f46c80b18ce4fd 100644 --- a/mm/pagewalk.c +++ b/mm/pagewalk.c @@ -539,6 +539,11 @@ int walk_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, * not backed by VMAs. Because 'unusual' entries may be walked this function * will also not lock the PTEs for the pte_entry() callback. This is useful for * walking the kernel pages tables or page tables for firmware. + * + * Note: Be careful to walk the kernel pages tables, the caller may be need to + * take other effective approache (mmap lock may be insufficient) to prevent + * the intermediate kernel page tables belonging to the specified address range + * from being freed (e.g. memory hot-remove). */ int walk_page_range_novma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops, @@ -556,7 +561,29 @@ int walk_page_range_novma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, if (start >= end || !walk.mm) return -EINVAL; - mmap_assert_write_locked(walk.mm); + /* + * 1) For walking the user virtual address space: + * + * The mmap lock protects the page walker from changes to the page + * tables during the walk. However a read lock is insufficient to + * protect those areas which don't have a VMA as munmap() detaches + * the VMAs before downgrading to a read lock and actually tearing + * down PTEs/page tables. In which case, the mmap write lock should + * be hold. + * + * 2) For walking the kernel virtual address space: + * + * The kernel intermediate page tables usually do not be freed, so + * the mmap map read lock is sufficient. But there are some exceptions. + * E.g. memory hot-remove. In which case, the mmap lock is insufficient + * to prevent the intermediate kernel pages tables belonging to the + * specified address range from being freed. The caller should take + * other actions to prevent this race. + */ + if (mm == &init_mm) + mmap_assert_locked(walk.mm); + else + mmap_assert_write_locked(walk.mm); return walk_pgd_range(start, end, &walk); } |