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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst | 86 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst | 1 |
7 files changed, 82 insertions, 69 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..77e559d4ed80 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/mm/numa/ +Date: June 2021 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: Interface for NUMA + +What: /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled +Date: June 2021 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: Enable/disable demoting pages during reclaim + + Page migration during reclaim is intended for systems + with tiered memory configurations. These systems have + multiple types of memory with varied performance + characteristics instead of plain NUMA systems where + the same kind of memory is found at varied distances. + Allowing page migration during reclaim enables these + systems to migrate pages from fast tiers to slow tiers + when the fast tier is under pressure. This migration + is performed before swap. It may move data to a NUMA + node that does not fall into the cpuset of the + allocating process which might be construed to violate + the guarantees of cpusets. This should not be enabled + on systems which need strict cpuset location + guarantees. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst index 067a90a1499c..64fd0ba0d057 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst @@ -245,6 +245,13 @@ MPOL_INTERLEAVED address range or file. During system boot up, the temporary interleaved system default policy works in this mode. +MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY + This mode specifices that the allocation should be preferrably + satisfied from the nodemask specified in the policy. If there is + a memory pressure on all nodes in the nodemask, the allocation + can fall back to all existing numa nodes. This is effectively + MPOL_PREFERRED allowed for a mask rather than a single node. + NUMA memory policy supports the following optional mode flags: MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES @@ -253,10 +260,10 @@ MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES nodes changes after the memory policy has been defined. Without this flag, any time a mempolicy is rebound because of a - change in the set of allowed nodes, the node (Preferred) or - nodemask (Bind, Interleave) is remapped to the new set of - allowed nodes. This may result in nodes being used that were - previously undesired. + change in the set of allowed nodes, the preferred nodemask (Preferred + Many), preferred node (Preferred) or nodemask (Bind, Interleave) is + remapped to the new set of allowed nodes. This may result in nodes + being used that were previously undesired. With this flag, if the user-specified nodes overlap with the nodes allowed by the task's cpuset, then the memory policy is diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index 003d5cc3751b..5e795202111f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ compaction_proactiveness This tunable takes a value in the range [0, 100] with a default value of 20. This tunable determines how aggressively compaction is done in the -background. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. +background. Write of a non zero value to this tunable will immediately +trigger the proactive compaction. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. Note that compaction has a non-trivial system-wide impact as pages belonging to different processes are moved around, which could also lead diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst b/Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst index fe4290e26729..8aed9103e48a 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst @@ -271,10 +271,15 @@ maps this page at its virtual address. ``void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)`` - Any time the kernel writes to a page cache page, _OR_ - the kernel is about to read from a page cache page and - user space shared/writable mappings of this page potentially - exist, this routine is called. + This routines must be called when: + + a) the kernel did write to a page that is in the page cache page + and / or in high memory + b) the kernel is about to read from a page cache page and user space + shared/writable mappings of this page potentially exist. Note + that {get,pin}_user_pages{_fast} already call flush_dcache_page + on any page found in the user address space and thus driver + code rarely needs to take this into account. .. note:: @@ -284,38 +289,34 @@ maps this page at its virtual address. handling vfs symlinks in the page cache need not call this interface at all. - The phrase "kernel writes to a page cache page" means, - specifically, that the kernel executes store instructions - that dirty data in that page at the page->virtual mapping - of that page. It is important to flush here to handle - D-cache aliasing, to make sure these kernel stores are - visible to user space mappings of that page. - - The corollary case is just as important, if there are users - which have shared+writable mappings of this file, we must make - sure that kernel reads of these pages will see the most recent - stores done by the user. - - If D-cache aliasing is not an issue, this routine may - simply be defined as a nop on that architecture. - - There is a bit set aside in page->flags (PG_arch_1) as - "architecture private". The kernel guarantees that, - for pagecache pages, it will clear this bit when such - a page first enters the pagecache. - - This allows these interfaces to be implemented much more - efficiently. It allows one to "defer" (perhaps indefinitely) - the actual flush if there are currently no user processes - mapping this page. See sparc64's flush_dcache_page and - update_mmu_cache implementations for an example of how to go - about doing this. - - The idea is, first at flush_dcache_page() time, if - page->mapping->i_mmap is an empty tree, just mark the architecture - private page flag bit. Later, in update_mmu_cache(), a check is - made of this flag bit, and if set the flush is done and the flag - bit is cleared. + The phrase "kernel writes to a page cache page" means, specifically, + that the kernel executes store instructions that dirty data in that + page at the page->virtual mapping of that page. It is important to + flush here to handle D-cache aliasing, to make sure these kernel stores + are visible to user space mappings of that page. + + The corollary case is just as important, if there are users which have + shared+writable mappings of this file, we must make sure that kernel + reads of these pages will see the most recent stores done by the user. + + If D-cache aliasing is not an issue, this routine may simply be defined + as a nop on that architecture. + + There is a bit set aside in page->flags (PG_arch_1) as "architecture + private". The kernel guarantees that, for pagecache pages, it will + clear this bit when such a page first enters the pagecache. + + This allows these interfaces to be implemented much more efficiently. + It allows one to "defer" (perhaps indefinitely) the actual flush if + there are currently no user processes mapping this page. See sparc64's + flush_dcache_page and update_mmu_cache implementations for an example + of how to go about doing this. + + The idea is, first at flush_dcache_page() time, if page_file_mapping() + returns a mapping, and mapping_mapped on that mapping returns %false, + just mark the architecture private page flag bit. Later, in + update_mmu_cache(), a check is made of this flag bit, and if set the + flush is done and the flag bit is cleared. .. important:: @@ -351,19 +352,6 @@ maps this page at its virtual address. architectures). For incoherent architectures, it should flush the cache of the page at vmaddr. - ``void flush_kernel_dcache_page(struct page *page)`` - - When the kernel needs to modify a user page is has obtained - with kmap, it calls this function after all modifications are - complete (but before kunmapping it) to bring the underlying - page up to date. It is assumed here that the user has no - incoherent cached copies (i.e. the original page was obtained - from a mechanism like get_user_pages()). The default - implementation is a nop and should remain so on all coherent - architectures. On incoherent architectures, this should flush - the kernel cache for page (using page_address(page)). - - ``void flush_icache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)`` When the kernel stores into addresses that it will execute diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index 83ec4a556c19..21dc03bc10a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -181,9 +181,16 @@ By default, KASAN prints a bug report only for the first invalid memory access. With ``kasan_multi_shot``, KASAN prints a report on every invalid access. This effectively disables ``panic_on_warn`` for KASAN reports. +Alternatively, independent of ``panic_on_warn`` the ``kasan.fault=`` boot +parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour: + +- ``kasan.fault=report`` or ``=panic`` controls whether to only print a KASAN + report or also panic the kernel (default: ``report``). The panic happens even + if ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. + Hardware tag-based KASAN mode (see the section about various modes below) is intended for use in production as a security mitigation. Therefore, it supports -boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling its features. +additional boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling features: - ``kasan=off`` or ``=on`` controls whether KASAN is enabled (default: ``on``). @@ -199,10 +206,6 @@ boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling its features. - ``kasan.stacktrace=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables alloc and free stack traces collection (default: ``on``). -- ``kasan.fault=report`` or ``=panic`` controls whether to only print a KASAN - report or also panic the kernel (default: ``report``). The panic happens even - if ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. - Implementation details ---------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst index 8376485a534d..55827b8a7c53 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst @@ -298,15 +298,6 @@ HyperSparc cpu就是这样一个具有这种属性的cpu。 用。默认的实现是nop（对于所有相干的架构应该保持这样）。对于不一致性 的架构，它应该刷新vmaddr处的页面缓存。 - ``void flush_kernel_dcache_page(struct page *page)`` - - 当内核需要修改一个用kmap获得的用户页时，它会在所有修改完成后（但在 - kunmapping之前）调用这个函数，以使底层页面达到最新状态。这里假定用 - 户没有不一致性的缓存副本（即原始页面是从类似get_user_pages()的机制 - 中获得的）。默认的实现是一个nop，在所有相干的架构上都应该如此。在不 - 一致性的架构上，这应该刷新内核缓存中的页面（使用page_address(page)）。 - - ``void flush_icache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)`` 当内核存储到它将执行的地址中时（例如在加载模块时），这个函数被调用。 diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst index a5c884293dac..89b5f7a52077 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst @@ -180,7 +180,6 @@ Limitations =========== - Not all page types are supported and never will. Most kernel internal objects cannot be recovered, only LRU pages for now. -- Right now hugepage support is missing. --- Andi Kleen, Oct 2009 |