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# c900529f 12-Sep-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Forwarding to v6.6-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# 12952b6b 08-Sep-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'loongarch-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson

Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:

- Allow usage of LSX/LASX in the kernel, and use them

Merge tag 'loongarch-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson

Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:

- Allow usage of LSX/LASX in the kernel, and use them for
SIMD-optimized RAID5/RAID6 routines

- Add Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) extension support

- Add basic KGDB & KDB support

- Add building with kcov coverage

- Add KFENCE (Kernel Electric-Fence) support

- Add KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) support

- Some bug fixes and other small changes

- Update the default config file

* tag 'loongarch-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson: (25 commits)
LoongArch: Update Loongson-3 default config file
LoongArch: Add KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) support
LoongArch: Simplify the processing of jumping new kernel for KASLR
kasan: Add (pmd|pud)_init for LoongArch zero_(pud|p4d)_populate process
kasan: Add __HAVE_ARCH_SHADOW_MAP to support arch specific mapping
LoongArch: Add KFENCE (Kernel Electric-Fence) support
LoongArch: Get partial stack information when providing regs parameter
LoongArch: mm: Add page table mapped mode support for virt_to_page()
kfence: Defer the assignment of the local variable addr
LoongArch: Allow building with kcov coverage
LoongArch: Provide kaslr_offset() to get kernel offset
LoongArch: Add basic KGDB & KDB support
LoongArch: Add Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) extension support
raid6: Add LoongArch SIMD recovery implementation
raid6: Add LoongArch SIMD syndrome calculation
LoongArch: Add SIMD-optimized XOR routines
LoongArch: Allow usage of LSX/LASX in the kernel
LoongArch: Define symbol 'fault' as a local label in fpu.S
LoongArch: Adjust {copy, clear}_user exception handler behavior
LoongArch: Use static defined zero page rather than allocated
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Revision tags: v6.5.2
# 5aa4ac64 06-Sep-2023 Qing Zhang <zhangqing@loongson.cn>

LoongArch: Add KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) support

1/8 of kernel addresses reserved for shadow memory. But for LoongArch,
There are a lot of holes between different segments and valid address
s

LoongArch: Add KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) support

1/8 of kernel addresses reserved for shadow memory. But for LoongArch,
There are a lot of holes between different segments and valid address
space (256T available) is insufficient to map all these segments to kasan
shadow memory with the common formula provided by kasan core, saying
(addr >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET

So LoongArch has a arch-specific mapping formula, different segments are
mapped individually, and only limited space lengths of these specific
segments are mapped to shadow.

At early boot stage the whole shadow region populated with just one
physical page (kasan_early_shadow_page). Later, this page is reused as
readonly zero shadow for some memory that kasan currently don't track.
After mapping the physical memory, pages for shadow memory are allocated
and mapped.

Functions like memset()/memcpy()/memmove() do a lot of memory accesses.
If bad pointer passed to one of these function it is important to be
caught. Compiler's instrumentation cannot do this since these functions
are written in assembly.

KASan replaces memory functions with manually instrumented variants.
Original functions declared as weak symbols so strong definitions in
mm/kasan/kasan.c could replace them. Original functions have aliases
with '__' prefix in names, so we could call non-instrumented variant
if needed.

Signed-off-by: Qing Zhang <zhangqing@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>

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Revision tags: v6.1.51, v6.5.1, v6.1.50, v6.5, v6.1.49, v6.1.48, v6.1.46, v6.1.45, v6.1.44
# 2612e3bb 07-Aug-2023 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catching-up with drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
It will unblock a code refactor around the platform
definitions (names vs acronyms).

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo V

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catching-up with drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next.
It will unblock a code refactor around the platform
definitions (names vs acronyms).

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

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# 9f771739 07-Aug-2023 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in b3e4aae612ec ("drm/i915/hdcp: Modify hdcp_gsc_message msg sending mechanism") as
a dependency for https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/1

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in b3e4aae612ec ("drm/i915/hdcp: Modify hdcp_gsc_message msg sending mechanism") as
a dependency for https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/121735/

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Revision tags: v6.1.43, v6.1.42, v6.1.41
# 61b73694 24-Jul-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.5-rc2.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v6.1.40, v6.1.39
# 0791faeb 17-Jul-2023 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

ASoC: Merge v6.5-rc2

Get a similar baseline to my other branches, and fixes for people using
the branch.


# 2f98e686 11-Jul-2023 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge v6.5-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

Boris needs 6.5-rc1 in drm-misc-fixes to prevent a conflict.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


Revision tags: v6.1.38, v6.1.37
# 44f10dbe 30-Jun-2023 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable


# 6e17c6de 28-Jun-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:

- Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs

-

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:

- Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs

- Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing

- Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace
with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to
mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability

- Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the
prevalence of page rescanning

- Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the
get_user_pages() interface

- Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the
maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree

- Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code

- David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for
get_user_pages()

- Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization
work for the vmalloc code

- Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups,

- SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code

- Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of
device refcounting

- Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code

- Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some
rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the
provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses

- Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache
and directio access to file mappings

- John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code

- ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign

- Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly
with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock

- Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment
from 128 to 8

- Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by
reorganizing the LRU management

- Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the
buffer_head code

- Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work

- Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their
functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits)
mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool()
mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem()
hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss()
Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one"
mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node
mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim()
mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list()
mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block()
mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads
mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes
mm: remove references to pagevec
mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate
mm: remove struct pagevec
net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch
i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch
pagevec: rename fbatch_count()
mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages()
drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch
i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch
scatterlist: add sg_set_folio()
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Revision tags: v6.1.36, v6.4, v6.1.35
# 8c293a63 20-Jun-2023 Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

kasan, doc: note kasan.fault=panic_on_write behaviour for async modes

Note the behaviour of kasan.fault=panic_on_write for async modes, since
all asynchronous faults will result in panic (even if th

kasan, doc: note kasan.fault=panic_on_write behaviour for async modes

Note the behaviour of kasan.fault=panic_on_write for async modes, since
all asynchronous faults will result in panic (even if they are reads).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZJHfL6vavKUZ3Yd8@elver.google.com
Fixes: 452c03fdbed0 ("kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Taras Madan <tarasmadan@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 452c03fd 14-Jun-2023 Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write

KASAN's boot time kernel parameter 'kasan.fault=' currently supports
'report' and 'panic', which results in either only reporting bugs or also
panic

kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write

KASAN's boot time kernel parameter 'kasan.fault=' currently supports
'report' and 'panic', which results in either only reporting bugs or also
panicking on reports.

However, some users may wish to have more control over when KASAN reports
result in a kernel panic: in particular, KASAN reported invalid _writes_
are of special interest, because they have greater potential to corrupt
random kernel memory or be more easily exploited.

To panic on invalid writes only, introduce 'kasan.fault=panic_on_write',
which allows users to choose to continue running on invalid reads, but
panic only on invalid writes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230614095158.1133673-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Taras Madan <tarasmadan@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.1.34, v6.1.33, v6.1.32, v6.1.31, v6.1.30, v6.1.29, v6.1.28
# 9a87ffc9 01-May-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.4 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.1.27
# cdc780f0 26-Apr-2023 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Merge branch 'for-6.4/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- assorted functional fixes for amd-sfh driver (Basavaraj Natikar)


Revision tags: v6.1.26, v6.3, v6.1.25, v6.1.24
# ea68a3e9 11-Apr-2023 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to merge following patch to drm-intel-gt-next:

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/530942/?series=114925&rev=6

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Revision tags: v6.1.23, v6.1.22
# cecdd52a 28-Mar-2023 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catch up with 6.3-rc cycle...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>


Revision tags: v6.1.21
# e752ab11 20-Mar-2023 Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <ro

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

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# d26a3a6c 17-Mar-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.3-rc2' into next

Merge with mainline to get of_property_present() and other newer APIs.


Revision tags: v6.1.20, v6.1.19
# b3c9a041 13-Mar-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# a1eccc57 13-Mar-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.3-rc1 and sync with the other DRM trees.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v6.1.18, v6.1.17
# b8fa3e38 10-Mar-2023 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'acme/perf-tools' into perf-tools-next

To pick up perf-tools fixes just merged upstream.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


Revision tags: v6.1.16, v6.1.15, v6.1.14
# 3822a7c4 23-Feb-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add
F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at
memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X
bit.

- Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset()
thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition
related to PMD unsharing.

- Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal
Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes

- Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()")
which does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work.

- SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series
"mm/damon/core: implement damos filter".

These filters provide users with finer-grained control over DAMOS's
actions. SeongJae has also done some DAMON cleanup work.

- Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap").

- Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple
tree".

- Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It
adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global
reclaim.

- David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the
series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups".

- Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library
function in the series "remove generic_writepages".

- Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in
his series "Some small improvements for compaction".

- Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his
series "Get rid of tail page fields".

- David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and
generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series
"mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with
swap PTEs".

- Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation
flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC".

- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with
his series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable".

- Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of
writeable+executable mappings.

The previous BPF-based approach had shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel
support for memory-deny-write-execute (MDWE)".

- Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series
"mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() & fix UAF".

- T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series
"mm: multi-gen LRU: improve".

- Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error
statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a
per-node basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error
statistics".

- Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog
regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage
during compaction".

- Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series
"cleanup vfree and vunmap".

- Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in
ths series "remove ->rw_page".

- We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's
series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()".

- Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our
vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier
functions".

- Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's
series "mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for
FLATMEM" and "fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()"

- Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and
/proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series
"mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas".

- Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest
of the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for
GUP".

- SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface
over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be
printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the
series "mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface".

- Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes
and clean-ups" series.

- Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush
IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing".

- Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes".

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (505 commits)
include/linux/migrate.h: remove unneeded externs
mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range()
mm/uffd: fix comment in handling pte markers
mm: change to return bool for isolate_movable_page()
mm: hugetlb: change to return bool for isolate_hugetlb()
mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page()
mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru()
objtool: add UACCESS exceptions for __tsan_volatile_read/write
kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code
kasan: mark addr_has_metadata __always_inline
mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled()
sh: initialize max_mapnr
m68k/nommu: add missing definition of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET
mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size()
maple_tree: reduce stack usage with gcc-9 and earlier
mm: page_alloc: call panic() when memoryless node allocation fails
mm: multi-gen LRU: avoid futile retries
migrate_pages: move THP/hugetlb migration support check to simplify code
migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB
migrate_pages: share more code between _unmap and _move
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Revision tags: v6.1.13, v6.2, v6.1.12, v6.1.11, v6.1.10, v6.1.9, v6.1.8, v6.1.7, v6.1.6, v6.1.5, v6.0.19, v6.0.18, v6.1.4, v6.1.3, v6.0.17, v6.1.2, v6.0.16, v6.1.1, v6.0.15
# 44383cef 19-Dec-2022 Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>

kasan: allow sampling page_alloc allocations for HW_TAGS

As Hardware Tag-Based KASAN is intended to be used in production, its
performance impact is crucial. As page_alloc allocations tend to be bi

kasan: allow sampling page_alloc allocations for HW_TAGS

As Hardware Tag-Based KASAN is intended to be used in production, its
performance impact is crucial. As page_alloc allocations tend to be big,
tagging and checking all such allocations can introduce a significant
slowdown.

Add two new boot parameters that allow to alleviate that slowdown:

- kasan.page_alloc.sample, which makes Hardware Tag-Based KASAN tag only
every Nth page_alloc allocation with the order configured by the second
added parameter (default: tag every such allocation).

- kasan.page_alloc.sample.order, which makes sampling enabled by the first
parameter only affect page_alloc allocations with the order equal or
greater than the specified value (default: 3, see below).

The exact performance improvement caused by using the new parameters
depends on their values and the applied workload.

The chosen default value for kasan.page_alloc.sample.order is 3, which
matches both PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER and SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER. This is
done for two reasons:

1. PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER is "the order at which allocations are deemed
costly to service", which corresponds to the idea that only large and
thus costly allocations are supposed to sampled.

2. One of the workloads targeted by this patch is a benchmark that sends
a large amount of data over a local loopback connection. Most multi-page
data allocations in the networking subsystem have the order of
SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER (or PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER).

When running a local loopback test on a testing MTE-enabled device in sync
mode, enabling Hardware Tag-Based KASAN introduces a ~50% slowdown.
Applying this patch and setting kasan.page_alloc.sampling to a value
higher than 1 allows to lower the slowdown. The performance improvement
saturates around the sampling interval value of 10 with the default
sampling page order of 3. This lowers the slowdown to ~20%. The slowdown
in real scenarios involving the network will likely be better.

Enabling page_alloc sampling has a downside: KASAN misses bad accesses to
a page_alloc allocation that has not been tagged. This lowers the value
of KASAN as a security mitigation.

However, based on measuring the number of page_alloc allocations of
different orders during boot in a test build, sampling with the default
kasan.page_alloc.sample.order value affects only ~7% of allocations. The
rest ~93% of allocations are still checked deterministically.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/129da0614123bb85ed4dd61ae30842b2dd7c903f.1671471846.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Mark Brand <markbrand@google.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.0.14, v6.0.13
# 4f2c0a4a 13-Dec-2022 Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>

Merge branch 'main' into zstd-linus


# cfd1f6c1 13-Dec-2022 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Merge branch 'for-6.2/apple' into for-linus

- new quirks for select Apple keyboards (Kerem Karabay, Aditya Garg)


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