When running hugevm tests in a machine without kernel config present,
e.g., a VM running a kernel without CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC nor
/boot/config-*, skip hugevm tests, which reads kernel config to get page
table level information.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516132938.356627-3-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Adam Sindelar <adam@wowsignal.io>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Skip mm selftests instead when kernel features are not
present", v2.
Two guard_regions tests on userfaultfd fail when userfaultfd is not
present. Skip them instead.
hugevm test reads kernel config to get page table level information and
fails when neither /proc/config.gz nor /boot/config-* is present. Skip it
instead.
This patch (of 2):
When userfaultfd is not compiled into kernel, userfaultfd() returns -1,
causing guard_regions.uffd tests to fail. Skip the tests instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516132938.356627-1-ziy@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516132938.356627-2-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Adam Sindelar <adam@wowsignal.io>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
As only value entry will be added to fbatch in shmem_find_swap_entries(),
there is no need to do xa_is_value() check in shmem_unuse_swap_entries().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-6-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Even if we fail to allocate a swap entry, the inode might have previously
allocated entry and we might take inode containing swap entry off
swaplist. As a result, try_to_unuse() may enter a potential dead loop to
repeatedly look for inode and clean it's swap entry. Only take inode off
swaplist when it's swapped page count is 0 to fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-5-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: b487a2da35 ("mm, swap: simplify folio swap allocation")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202505161438.9009cf47-lkp@intel.com
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If multi shmem_unuse() for different swap type is called concurrently, a
dead loop could occur as following:
shmem_unuse(typeA) shmem_unuse(typeB)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
list_for_each_entry_safe(info, next, ...)
...
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
/* info->swapped may drop to 0 */
shmem_unuse_inode(&info->vfs_inode, type)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
list_for_each_entry(info, next, ...)
if (!info->swapped)
list_del_init(&info->swaplist)
...
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex)
/* iterate with offlist entry and encounter a dead loop */
next = list_next_entry(info, swaplist);
...
Restart the iteration if the inode is already off shmem_swaplist list to
fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-4-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: b56a2d8af9 ("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We will miss shmem_unacct_size() when is_idmapped_mnt() returns a failure.
Move is_idmapped_mnt() before shmem_acct_size() to fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 7a80e5b8c6 ("shmem: support idmapped mounts for tmpfs")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem", v3.
This series contains some simple fixes and cleanup which are made during
learning shmem. More details can be found in respective patches.
This patch (of 5):
If we get a folio from swap_cache_get_folio() successfully but encounter a
failure before the folio is locked, we will unlock the folio which was not
previously locked.
Put the folio and set it to NULL when a failure occurs before the folio is
locked to fix the issue.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-1-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516170939.965736-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 058313515d ("mm: shmem: fix potential data corruption during shmem swapin")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When the number of the monitoring targets in running contexts is reduced,
there may be DAMOS quotas referencing the targets that will be destroyed.
Applying the scheme action for such DAMOS scheme will be skipped forever
looking for the starting part of the region for the destroyed monitoring
target.
To fix this issue, when the monitoring target is destroyed, reset the
starting part for all DAMOS quotas that reference the target.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250517141852.142802-1-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Fixes: da87878010 ("mm/damon/sysfs: support online inputs update")
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently kernel maintains memory related stats updates per-cgroup to
optimize stats flushing. The stats_updates is defined as atomic64_t which
is not nmi-safe on some archs. Actually we don't really need 64bit atomic
as the max value stats_updates can get should be less than nr_cpus *
MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH. A normal atomic_t should suffice.
Also the function cgroup_rstat_updated() is still not nmi-safe but there
is parallel effort to make it nmi-safe, so until then let's ignore it in
the nmi context.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250519063142.111219-6-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The objcg based kmem [un]charging can be called in nmi context and it may
need to update NR_SLAB_[UN]RECLAIMABLE_B stats. So, let's correctly
handle the updates of these stats in the nmi context.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250519063142.111219-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The objcg based kmem charging and uncharging code path needs to update
MEMCG_KMEM appropriately. Let's add support to update MEMCG_KMEM in
nmi-safe way for those code paths.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250519063142.111219-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
There are archs which have NMI but does not support this_cpu_* ops safely
in the nmi context but they support safe atomic ops in nmi context. For
such archs, let's add infra to use atomic ops for the memcg stats which
can be updated in nmi.
At the moment, the memcg stats which get updated in the objcg charging
path are MEMCG_KMEM, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B & NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B.
Rather than adding support for all memcg stats to be nmi safe, let's just
add infra to make these three stats nmi safe which this patch is doing.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250519063142.111219-3-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "memcg: nmi-safe kmem charging", v4.
Users can attached their BPF programs at arbitrary execution points in the
kernel and such BPF programs may run in nmi context. In addition, these
programs can trigger memcg charged kernel allocations in the nmi context.
However memcg charging infra for kernel memory is not equipped to handle
nmi context for all architectures.
This series removes the hurdles to enable kmem charging in the nmi context
for most of the archs. For archs without CONFIG_HAVE_NMI, this series is
a noop. For archs with NMI support and have
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS, the previous work to make memcg
stats re-entrant is sufficient for allowing kmem charging in nmi context.
For archs with NMI support but without
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS and with ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG,
this series added infra to support kmem charging in nmi context. Lastly
those archs with NMI support but without
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS and ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, kmem
charging in nmi context is not supported at all.
Mostly used archs have support for CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS
and this series should be almost a noop (other than making
memcg_rstat_updated nmi safe) for such archs.
This patch (of 5):
The memcg accounting and stats uses this_cpu* and atomic* ops. There are
archs which define CONFIG_HAVE_NMI but does not define
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS and ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, so
memcg accounting for such archs in nmi context is not possible to support.
Let's just disable memcg accounting in nmi context for such archs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250519063142.111219-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250519063142.111219-2-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The thuge-gen test program runs mmap() and shmget() tests for both every
available page size and the default page size, resulting in two tests for
the default size. These tests are distinct since the flags in the default
case do not specify an explicit size, add the flags to the test name that
is logged to deduplicate.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250515-selfests-mm-thuge-gen-dup-v1-1-057d2836553f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The mlock2-tests test_mlock_lock() test reports two test results with an
identical string, one reporitng if it successfully locked a block of
memory and another reporting if the lock is still present after doing an
unlock (following a similar pattern to other tests in the same program).
This confuses test automation since the test string is used to deduplicate
tests, change the post unlock test to report "Unlocked" instead like the
other tests to fix this.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250515-selftest-mm-mlock2-dup-v1-1-963d5d7d243a@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce support of algorithm specific parameters in algorithm_params
device attribute. The expected format is algorithm.param=value.
For starters, add support for deflate.winbits parameter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250514024825.1745489-3-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters".
This patchset adds support for algorithm-specific parameters. For now,
only deflate-specific winbits can be configured, which fixes deflate
support on some s390 setups.
This patch (of 2):
Use more generic name because this will be default "un-set"
value for more params in the future.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250514024825.1745489-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250514024825.1745489-2-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
All callers now use copy_folio_from_iter_atomic(), so convert
copy_page_from_iter_atomic(). While I'm in there, use kmap_local_folio()
and pagefault_disable() instead of kmap_atomic(). That allows preemption
and/or task migration to happen during the copy_from_user(). Also use the
new folio_test_partial_kmap() predicate instead of open-coding it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250514170607.3000994-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the local 'page' variable and do everything in terms of folios.
Removes the last user of copy_page_from_iter_atomic() and a hidden call to
compound_head() in ClearPageDirty().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250514170607.3000994-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
All users of page->index have been converted to not refer to it any more.
Update a few pieces of documentation that were missed and prevent new
users from appearing (or at least make them easy to grep for).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250514181508.3019795-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Switch to using struct ptdesc to store the markbits which will allow us to
remove index from struct page.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516151332.3705351-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The new guard(), scoped_guard() allow for more natural code.
Some of the uses with creative flow control have been left.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Allow btree_trans to be used with CLASS().
Automatic cleanup, instead of manually calling bch2_trans_put().
We don't use DEFINE_CLASS because using a static inline for the
constructor breaks bch2_trans_get()'s use of __func__, so we have to
open code it.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
semaphore" from Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector. The
detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is blocked
on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores.
- The 2 patch series "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state
propagation" from Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in
nilfs2.
- The 2 patch series "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from
Illia Ostapyshyn fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts.
- The 9 patch series "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS
volume keys" from Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.
When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in the
series [0/N] cover letter.
- The 2 patch series "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from
Max Kellermann adds /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
/sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count.
- The 3 patch series "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code"
from Pasha Tatashin implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c.
- The 3 patch series "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on
s390 during early boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in
the gdb scripts.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from
Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector.
The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is
blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores
- "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from
Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2
- "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn
fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts
- "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from
Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.
When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in
the series [0/N] cover letter
- "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds
/sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
/sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
- "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin
implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early
boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb
scripts
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits)
llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline
delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation
squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching
crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in
scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot
scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off()
scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux()
kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments
mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email
nilfs2: remove wbc->for_reclaim handling
fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK
fork: check charging success before zeroing stack
fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code
fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation
kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count
x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible
x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel
Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()"
crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel
...
If we don't finish journal replay we need to keep journal keys around
until the filesystem shuts down - otherwise e.g. -o norecovery, various
tools (dump, list) break, and eventually we'll be doing journal replay
in the background.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
We had a bug report where the errors from btree_node_check_topology()
don't seem to be getting printed; log_fsck_err() does some fancy
ratelimiting-type stuff that we don't want here.
Instead, just use bch2_count_fsck_err(); this is simpler, and modelled
after how we're currently handling bucket ref update errors in
buckets.c.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
More self healing code: readdir will now notice if there are dirents
hashed incorrectly, and it'll repair them if errors=fix_safe.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
We don't track snapshot overwrites outside of fsck, so for this to be
called at runtime outside of fsck we need to create it on demand, when
we have repair to do.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
If snapshot deletion incorrectly missing some keys and leaves keys for
deleted snapshots, that causes a bit of a problem for data move - we
can't move an extent for a nonexistent snapshot, because the extent
might have to be fragmented, and maintaining correct visibility in child
snapshots doesn't work if it doesn't have a snapshot.
Previously we'd just skip these keys, but it turns out that causes
copygc to spin.
So we need runtime self healing, i.e. calling check_key_has_snapshot()
from the data move path.
Snapshot deletion v2 included sentinal values for deleted snapshot
nodes, so this is quite safe.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
simplifies the act of creating a pte which addresses the first page in a
folio and reduces the amount of plumbing which architecture must
implement to provide this.
- The 8 patch series "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox
is a shower of largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which
clean things up and better prepare us for future work.
- The 3 patch series "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment
advisement" from Gregory Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from
leaving physical memory unused when physical address regions are not
aligned to memory block size.
- The 2 patch series "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive
compaction" from Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly,
hard-coded (more sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation
of proactive compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest
VM's memory consumption was dramatic.
- The 8 patch series "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing
code" from Kemeng Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency
improvement to this part of our swap handling code.
- The 6 patch series "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API"
from Dmitry Levin adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls
arguments. At this time we can alter only "system call information that
are used by strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number,
syscall arguments, and syscall return value.
This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
branch, but I goofed.
- The 3 patch series "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report
guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the
PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more
efficiently get at the info about guard regions.
- The 2 patch series "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()"
from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected
because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.
- The 3 patch series "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode()
rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into
the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in
favor of using more current facilities.
- The 3 patch series "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64"
from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the
pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table
Descriptors are enabled for ARM.
- The 12 patch series "Always call constructor for kernel page tables"
from Kevin Brodsky "ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for
kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables". This permits the
addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page
tables". This change does result in various architectures performing
unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur.
- The 9 patch series "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and
mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM
structures.
- The 3 patch series "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges"
from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities
which we've been missing for 15 years.
- The 4 patch series "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED
and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB
flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec,
we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
load this particular operation.
- The 6 patch series "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation
counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit
percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was
dramaticelly reduced.
- The 3 patch series "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from
Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when
reading the code.
- The 3 patch series ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in
weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave
policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling,
fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory
hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to
hit.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups
including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota
goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when
utilizing DAMON for memory tiering.
- The 5 patch series "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from
Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which
Baoquan found via code inspection.
- The 2 patch series "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion"
from Gregory Price "changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective
during demotion when possible". because "presently, reclaim explicitly
ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
settings to violated." "This is useful for isolating workloads on a
multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently."
- The 2 patch series ""Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove
unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and
efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.
- The 3 patch series "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang
creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory
utilization.
- The 4 patch series "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and
lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness="
argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive
reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios.
- The 17 patch series "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike
Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to
maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based
kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.
- The 7 patch series "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David
Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range.
By skipping ranges of invalid pfns.
- The 2 patch series "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to
one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless
VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic
performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.
- The 2 patch series "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for
jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs
during memory compaction when using JFS.
- The 4 patch series "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication
logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c
into the more appropriate mm/vma.c.
- The 6 patch series "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from
Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the
folio_index() function.
- The 2 patch series "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal
Moola does that.
- The 8 patch series "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from
Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by
the test_memcontrol selftest.
- The 3 patch series "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare
hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of
file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new
file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and
prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other
problems, may defeat VMA merging.
- The 4 patch series "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from
Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's
one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.
- The 6 patch series "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code,
tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is "yet another batch of
miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code,
tests and documents."
- The 7 patch series "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel
Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to
making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.
- The 4 patch series "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related
functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio
conversions in the hugetlb code.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
this.
- "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
and better prepare us for future work.
- "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
block size.
- "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
memory consumption was dramatic.
- "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
this part of our swap handling code.
- "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
arguments, and syscall return value.
This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
branch, but I goofed.
- "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
at the info about guard regions.
- "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.
- "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
using more current facilities.
- "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
enabled for ARM.
- "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
it already is for user pgtables.
This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
to protect page tables". This change does result in various
architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
it is anticipated to occur.
- "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.
- "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
been missing for 15 years.
- "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.
Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
load this particular operation.
- "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
preallocation.
stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
reduced.
- "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.
- ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.
- "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
for memory tiering.
- "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
found via code inspection.
- "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
settings to violated.
This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
certain classes of memory more consistently.
- "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.
- "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.
- "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.
This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
rather than file-backed folios.
- "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.
- "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
ranges of invalid pfns.
- "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.
Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.
- "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
using JFS.
- "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
appropriate mm/vma.c.
- "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
function.
- "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.
- "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
test_memcontrol selftest.
- "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().
The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.
- "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.
This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.
- "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
documents.
- "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.
- "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
hugetlb code.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high
mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
...
Explain the restrictions imposed on ublk servers in two cases:
1. When UBLK_F_PER_IO_DAEMON is set (current ublk_drv)
2. When UBLK_F_PER_IO_DAEMON is not set (legacy)
Remove most references to per-queue daemons, as the new
UBLK_F_PER_IO_DAEMON feature renders that concept obsolete.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-9-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add a new test_stress_06 for the per io daemons feature. This is just a
copy of test_stress_01 with the per_io_tasks flag added, with varying
amounts of nthreads. This test is able to reproduce a panic which was
caught manually during development [1]; in the current version of this
patch set, it passes.
Note that this commit also makes all stress tests using the
run_io_and_remove helper more stressful by additionally exercising the
batch submit (queue_rqs) path.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/aDgwGoGCEpwd1mFY@fedora/
Suggested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-8-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add a new test test_generic_12 which:
- sets up a ublk server with per_io_tasks and a different number of ublk
server threads and ublk_queues. This is possible now that these
objects are decoupled
- runs some I/O load from a single CPU
- verifies that all the ublk server threads handle some I/O
Before this changeset, this test fails, since I/O issued from one CPU is
always handled by the one ublk server thread. After this changeset, the
test passes.
In the future, the last check above may be strengthened to "verify that
all ublk server threads handle the same amount of I/O." However, this
requires some adjustments/bugfixes to tag allocation, so this work is
postponed to a followup.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-7-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add support in kublk for decoupled ublk_queues and ublk server threads.
kublk now has two modes of operation:
- (preexisting mode) threads and queues are paired 1:1, and each thread
services all the I/Os of one queue
- (new mode) thread and queue counts are independently configurable.
threads service I/Os in a way that balances load across threads even
if load is not balanced over queues.
The default is the preexisting mode. The new mode is activated by
passing the --per_io_tasks flag.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-6-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Towards the goal of decoupling ublk_queues from ublk server threads,
move resources/data that should be per-thread rather than per-queue out
of ublk_queue and into a new struct ublk_thread.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-5-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently, each ublk server I/O handler thread initializes its own
queue. However, as we move towards decoupled ublk_queues and ublk server
threads, this model does not make sense anymore, as there will no longer
be a concept of a thread having "its own" queue. So lift queue
initialization out of the per-thread ublk_io_handler_fn and into a loop
in ublk_start_daemon (which runs once for each device).
There is a part of ublk_queue_init (ring initialization) which does
actually need to happen on the thread that will use the ring; that is
separated into a separate ublk_thread_init which is still called by each
I/O handler thread.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-4-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We currently have a helper ublk_queue_alloc_sqes which the ublk targets
use to allocate SQEs for their own operations. However, as we move
towards decoupled ublk_queues and ublk server threads, this helper does
not make sense anymore. SQEs are allocated from rings, and we will have
one ring per thread to avoid locking. Change the SQE allocation helper
to ublk_io_alloc_sqes. Currently this still allocates SQEs from the io's
queue's ring, but when we fully decouple threads and queues, it will
allocate from the io's thread's ring instead.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-3-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently, when we process CQEs, we know which ublk_queue we are working
on because we know which ring we are working on, and ublk_queues and
rings are in 1:1 correspondence. However, as we decouple ublk_queues
from ublk server threads, ublk_queues and rings will no longer be in 1:1
correspondence - each ublk server thread will have a ring, and each
thread may issue commands against more than one ublk_queue. So in order
to know which ublk_queue a CQE refers to, plumb that information in the
associated SQE's user_data.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-2-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently, ublk_drv associates to each hardware queue (hctx) a unique
task (called the queue's ubq_daemon) which is allowed to issue
COMMIT_AND_FETCH commands against the hctx. If any other task attempts
to do so, the command fails immediately with EINVAL. When considered
together with the block layer architecture, the result is that for each
CPU C on the system, there is a unique ublk server thread which is
allowed to handle I/O submitted on CPU C. This can lead to suboptimal
performance under imbalanced load generation. For an extreme example,
suppose all the load is generated on CPUs mapping to a single ublk
server thread. Then that thread may be fully utilized and become the
bottleneck in the system, while other ublk server threads are totally
idle.
This issue can also be addressed directly in the ublk server without
kernel support by having threads dequeue I/Os and pass them around to
ensure even load. But this solution requires inter-thread communication
at least twice for each I/O (submission and completion), which is
generally a bad pattern for performance. The problem gets even worse
with zero copy, as more inter-thread communication would be required to
have the buffer register/unregister calls to come from the correct
thread.
Therefore, address this issue in ublk_drv by allowing each I/O to have
its own daemon task. Two I/Os in the same queue are now allowed to be
serviced by different daemon tasks - this was not possible before.
Imbalanced load can then be balanced across all ublk server threads by
having the ublk server threads issue FETCH_REQs in a round-robin manner.
As a small toy example, consider a system with a single ublk device
having 2 queues, each of depth 4. A ublk server having 4 threads could
issue its FETCH_REQs against this device as follows (where each entry is
the qid,tag pair that the FETCH_REQ targets):
ublk server thread: T0 T1 T2 T3
0,0 0,1 0,2 0,3
1,3 1,0 1,1 1,2
This setup allows for load that is concentrated on one hctx/ublk_queue
to be spread out across all ublk server threads, alleviating the issue
described above.
Add the new UBLK_F_PER_IO_DAEMON feature to ublk_drv, which ublk servers
can use to essentially test for the presence of this change and tailor
their behavior accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250529-ublk_task_per_io-v8-1-e9d3b119336a@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
