mm: madvise: MADV_DONTNEED_LOCKED

MADV_DONTNEED historically rejects mlocked ranges, but with MLOCK_ONFAULT
and MCL_ONFAULT allowing to mlock without populating, there are valid use
cases for depopu

mm: madvise: MADV_DONTNEED_LOCKED

MADV_DONTNEED historically rejects mlocked ranges, but with MLOCK_ONFAULT
and MCL_ONFAULT allowing to mlock without populating, there are valid use
cases for depopulating locked ranges as well.

Users mlock memory to protect secrets. There are allocators for secure
buffers that want in-use memory generally mlocked, but cleared and
invalidated memory to give up the physical pages. This could be done with
explicit munlock -> mlock calls on free -> alloc of course, but that adds
two unnecessary syscalls, heavy mmap_sem write locks, vma splits and
re-merges - only to get rid of the backing pages.

Users also mlockall(MCL_ONFAULT) to suppress sustained paging, but are
okay with on-demand initial population. It seems valid to selectively
free some memory during the lifetime of such a process, without having to
mess with its overall policy.

Why add a separate flag? Isn't this a pretty niche usecase?

- MADV_DONTNEED has been bailing on locked vmas forever. It's at least
conceivable that someone, somewhere is relying on mlock to protect
data from perhaps broader invalidation calls. Changing this behavior
now could lead to quiet data corruption.

- It also clarifies expectations around MADV_FREE and maybe
MADV_REMOVE. It avoids the situation where one quietly behaves
different than the others. MADV_FREE_LOCKED can be added later.

- The combination of mlock() and madvise() in the first place is
probably niche. But where it happens, I'd say that dropping pages
from a locked region once they don't contain secrets or won't page
anymore is much saner than relying on mlock to protect memory from
speculative or errant invalidation calls. It's just that we can't
change the default behavior because of the two previous points.

Given that, an explicit new flag seems to make the most sense.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix mips build]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220304171912.305060-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.17 merge window.

Merge tag 'v5.15' into next

Sync up with the mainline to get the latest APIs and DT bindings.

Merge branch 'for-5.15-printk-index' into for-linus

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v5.14-rc6' into locking/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Backmerge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

Required bump from v5.13-rc3 to v5.14-rc3, and to pick up sysfb compilation fixes.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankh

Backmerge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

Required bump from v5.13-rc3 to v5.14-rc3, and to pick up sysfb compilation fixes.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

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Merge branch 'fixes-v5.14' into fixes

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

Catching up with 5.14-rc1 and also preparing for a
needed common topic branch for the "Minor revid/stepping
and workaround cleanup"

Reference: https://patc

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

Catching up with 5.14-rc1 and also preparing for a
needed common topic branch for the "Minor revid/stepping
and workaround cleanup"

Reference: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/92299/
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

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

Catching up with 5.14-rc1

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

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"190 patches.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"190 patches.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (190 commits)
ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
init: print out unknown kernel parameters
checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
checkpatch: improve the indented label test
checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
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mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables

I. Background: Sparse Memory Mappings

When we manage sparse memory mappings dynamically in user space - also
sometimes invol

mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault page tables

I. Background: Sparse Memory Mappings

When we manage sparse memory mappings dynamically in user space - also
sometimes involving MAP_NORESERVE - we want to dynamically populate/
discard memory inside such a sparse memory region. Example users are
hypervisors (especially implementing memory ballooning or similar
technologies like virtio-mem) and memory allocators. In addition, we want
to fail in a nice way (instead of generating SIGBUS) if populating does
not succeed because we are out of backend memory (which can happen easily
with file-based mappings, especially tmpfs and hugetlbfs).

While MADV_DONTNEED, MADV_REMOVE and FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE allow for
reliably discarding memory for most mapping types, there is no generic
approach to populate page tables and preallocate memory.

Although mmap() supports MAP_POPULATE, it is not applicable to the concept
of sparse memory mappings, where we want to populate/discard dynamically
and avoid expensive/problematic remappings. In addition, we never
actually report errors during the final populate phase - it is best-effort
only.

fallocate() can be used to preallocate file-based memory and fail in a
safe way. However, it cannot really be used for any private mappings on
anonymous files via memfd due to COW semantics. In addition, fallocate()
does not actually populate page tables, so we still always get pagefaults
on first access - which is sometimes undesired (i.e., real-time workloads)
and requires real prefaulting of page tables, not just a preallocation of
backend storage. There might be interesting use cases for sparse memory
regions along with mlockall(MCL_ONFAULT) which fallocate() cannot satisfy
as it does not prefault page tables.

II. On preallcoation/prefaulting from user space

Because we don't have a proper interface, what applications (like QEMU and
databases) end up doing is touching (i.e., reading+writing one byte to not
overwrite existing data) all individual pages.

However, that approach
1) Can result in wear on storage backing, because we end up reading/writing
each page; this is especially a problem for dax/pmem.
2) Can result in mmap_sem contention when prefaulting via multiple
threads.
3) Requires expensive signal handling, especially to catch SIGBUS in case
of hugetlbfs/shmem/file-backed memory. For example, this is
problematic in hypervisors like QEMU where SIGBUS handlers might already
be used by other subsystems concurrently to e.g, handle hardware errors.
"Simply" doing preallocation concurrently from other thread is not that
easy.

III. On MADV_WILLNEED

Extending MADV_WILLNEED is not an option because
1. It would change the semantics: "Expect access in the near future." and
"might be a good idea to read some pages" vs. "Definitely populate/
preallocate all memory and definitely fail on errors.".
2. Existing users (like virtio-balloon in QEMU when deflating the balloon)
don't want populate/prealloc semantics. They treat this rather as a hint
to give a little performance boost without too much overhead - and don't
expect that a lot of memory might get consumed or a lot of time
might be spent.

IV. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE

Let's introduce MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE, inspired by
MAP_POPULATE, with the following semantics:
1. MADV_POPULATE_READ can be used to prefault page tables just like
manually reading each individual page. This will not break any COW
mappings. The shared zero page might get mapped and no backend storage
might get preallocated -- allocation might be deferred to
write-fault time. Especially shared file mappings require an explicit
fallocate() upfront to actually preallocate backend memory (blocks in
the file system) in case the file might have holes.
2. If MADV_POPULATE_READ succeeds, all page tables have been populated
(prefaulted) readable once.
3. MADV_POPULATE_WRITE can be used to preallocate backend memory and
prefault page tables just like manually writing (or
reading+writing) each individual page. This will break any COW
mappings -- e.g., the shared zeropage is never populated.
4. If MADV_POPULATE_WRITE succeeds, all page tables have been populated
(prefaulted) writable once.
5. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE cannot be applied to special
mappings marked with VM_PFNMAP and VM_IO. Also, proper access
permissions (e.g., PROT_READ, PROT_WRITE) are required. If any such
mapping is encountered, madvise() fails with -EINVAL.
6. If MADV_POPULATE_READ or MADV_POPULATE_WRITE fails, some page tables
might have been populated.
7. MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE will return -EHWPOISON
when encountering a HW poisoned page in the range.
8. Similar to MAP_POPULATE, MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE
cannot protect from the OOM (Out Of Memory) handler killing the
process.

While the use case for MADV_POPULATE_WRITE is fairly obvious (i.e.,
preallocate memory and prefault page tables for VMs), one issue is that
whenever we prefault pages writable, the pages have to be marked dirty,
because the CPU could dirty them any time. while not a real problem for
hugetlbfs or dax/pmem, it can be a problem for shared file mappings: each
page will be marked dirty and has to be written back later when evicting.

MADV_POPULATE_READ allows for optimizing this scenario: Pre-read a whole
mapping from backend storage without marking it dirty, such that eviction
won't have to write it back. As discussed above, shared file mappings
might require an explciit fallocate() upfront to achieve
preallcoation+prepopulation.

Although sparse memory mappings are the primary use case, this will also
be useful for other preallocate/prefault use cases where MAP_POPULATE is
not desired or the semantics of MAP_POPULATE are not sufficient: as one
example, QEMU users can trigger preallocation/prefaulting of guest RAM
after the mapping was created -- and don't want errors to be silently
suppressed.

Looking at the history, MADV_POPULATE was already proposed in 2013 [1],
however, the main motivation back than was performance improvements --
which should also still be the case.

V. Single-threaded performance comparison

I did a short experiment, prefaulting page tables on completely *empty
mappings/files* and repeated the experiment 10 times. The results
correspond to the shortest execution time. In general, the performance
benefit for huge pages is negligible with small mappings.

V.1: Private mappings

POPULATE_READ and POPULATE_WRITE is fastest. Note that
Reading/POPULATE_READ will populate the shared zeropage where applicable
-- which result in short population times.

The fastest way to allocate backend storage (here: swap or huge pages) and
prefault page tables is POPULATE_WRITE.

V.2: Shared mappings

fallocate() is fastest, however, doesn't prefault page tables.
POPULATE_WRITE is faster than simple writes and read/writes.
POPULATE_READ is faster than simple reads.

Without a fd, the fastest way to allocate backend storage and prefault
page tables is POPULATE_WRITE. With an fd, the fastest way is usually
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ or FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE respectively; one
exception are actual files: FALLOCATE+Read is slightly faster than
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ.

The fastest way to allocate backend storage prefault page tables is
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE -- except when dealing with actual files; then,
FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ is fastest and won't directly mark all pages as
dirty.

v.3: Detailed results

==================================================
2 MiB MAP_PRIVATE:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB : Read : 0.119 ms
Anon 4 KiB : Write : 0.222 ms
Anon 4 KiB : Read/Write : 0.380 ms
Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.060 ms
Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.158 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Read : 0.034 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Write : 0.310 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Read/Write : 0.362 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.039 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.229 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Read : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Write : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Read/Write : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms
tmpfs : Read : 0.033 ms
tmpfs : Write : 0.313 ms
tmpfs : Read/Write : 0.406 ms
tmpfs : POPULATE_READ : 0.039 ms
tmpfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.285 ms
file : Read : 0.033 ms
file : Write : 0.351 ms
file : Read/Write : 0.408 ms
file : POPULATE_READ : 0.039 ms
file : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.290 ms
hugetlbfs : Read : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : Write : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : Read/Write : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms
**************************************************
4096 MiB MAP_PRIVATE:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB : Read : 237.940 ms
Anon 4 KiB : Write : 708.409 ms
Anon 4 KiB : Read/Write : 1054.041 ms
Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 124.310 ms
Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 572.582 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Read : 136.928 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Write : 963.898 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Read/Write : 1106.561 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 78.450 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 805.881 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Read : 357.116 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Write : 357.210 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Read/Write : 357.606 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 356.094 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 356.937 ms
tmpfs : Read : 137.536 ms
tmpfs : Write : 954.362 ms
tmpfs : Read/Write : 1105.954 ms
tmpfs : POPULATE_READ : 80.289 ms
tmpfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 822.826 ms
file : Read : 137.874 ms
file : Write : 987.025 ms
file : Read/Write : 1107.439 ms
file : POPULATE_READ : 80.413 ms
file : POPULATE_WRITE : 857.622 ms
hugetlbfs : Read : 355.607 ms
hugetlbfs : Write : 355.729 ms
hugetlbfs : Read/Write : 356.127 ms
hugetlbfs : POPULATE_READ : 354.585 ms
hugetlbfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 355.138 ms
**************************************************
2 MiB MAP_SHARED:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB : Read : 0.394 ms
Anon 4 KiB : Write : 0.348 ms
Anon 4 KiB : Read/Write : 0.400 ms
Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.326 ms
Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.273 ms
Anon 2 MiB : Read : 0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB : Write : 0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB : Read/Write : 0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms
Anon 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Read : 0.412 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Write : 0.372 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Read/Write : 0.419 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.343 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.288 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE : 0.137 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.446 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.330 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.454 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.379 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.268 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Read : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Write : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Read/Write : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.031 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms
tmpfs : Read : 0.416 ms
tmpfs : Write : 0.369 ms
tmpfs : Read/Write : 0.425 ms
tmpfs : POPULATE_READ : 0.346 ms
tmpfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.295 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE : 0.139 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.447 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.333 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.454 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.380 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.272 ms
file : Read : 0.191 ms
file : Write : 0.511 ms
file : Read/Write : 0.524 ms
file : POPULATE_READ : 0.196 ms
file : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.434 ms
file : FALLOCATE : 0.004 ms
file : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.197 ms
file : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.554 ms
file : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.480 ms
file : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.201 ms
file : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.381 ms
hugetlbfs : Read : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : Write : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : Read/Write : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Read : 0.031 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Write : 0.031 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 0.030 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 0.030 ms
**************************************************
4096 MiB MAP_SHARED:
**************************************************
Anon 4 KiB : Read : 1053.090 ms
Anon 4 KiB : Write : 913.642 ms
Anon 4 KiB : Read/Write : 1060.350 ms
Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 893.691 ms
Anon 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 782.885 ms
Anon 2 MiB : Read : 358.553 ms
Anon 2 MiB : Write : 358.419 ms
Anon 2 MiB : Read/Write : 357.992 ms
Anon 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 357.533 ms
Anon 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 357.808 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Read : 1078.144 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Write : 942.036 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : Read/Write : 1100.391 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_READ : 925.829 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 804.394 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE : 304.632 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Read : 1163.359 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Write : 933.186 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 1187.304 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 1013.660 ms
Memfd 4 KiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 794.560 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Read : 358.131 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Write : 358.099 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : Read/Write : 358.250 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_READ : 357.563 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : POPULATE_WRITE : 357.334 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE : 356.735 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Read : 358.152 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Write : 358.331 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 358.018 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 357.286 ms
Memfd 2 MiB : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 357.523 ms
tmpfs : Read : 1087.265 ms
tmpfs : Write : 950.840 ms
tmpfs : Read/Write : 1107.567 ms
tmpfs : POPULATE_READ : 922.605 ms
tmpfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 810.094 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE : 306.320 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Read : 1169.796 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Write : 933.730 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 1191.610 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 1020.474 ms
tmpfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 798.945 ms
file : Read : 654.101 ms
file : Write : 1259.142 ms
file : Read/Write : 1289.509 ms
file : POPULATE_READ : 661.642 ms
file : POPULATE_WRITE : 1106.816 ms
file : FALLOCATE : 1.864 ms
file : FALLOCATE+Read : 656.328 ms
file : FALLOCATE+Write : 1153.300 ms
file : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 1180.613 ms
file : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 668.347 ms
file : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 996.143 ms
hugetlbfs : Read : 357.245 ms
hugetlbfs : Write : 357.413 ms
hugetlbfs : Read/Write : 357.120 ms
hugetlbfs : POPULATE_READ : 356.321 ms
hugetlbfs : POPULATE_WRITE : 356.693 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE : 355.927 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Read : 357.074 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Write : 357.120 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+Read/Write : 356.983 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_READ : 356.413 ms
hugetlbfs : FALLOCATE+POPULATE_WRITE : 356.266 ms
**************************************************

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/27/698

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210419135443.12822-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.8 merge window.

Merge tag 'v5.6' into next

Sync up with mainline to get device tree and other changes.

Merge branch 'x86/kdump' into locking/kcsan, to resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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

Some DSI and VBT pending patches from Hans will apply
cleanly and with less ugly conflicts if they are rebuilt
on top of other patches that recently lan

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

Some DSI and VBT pending patches from Hans will apply
cleanly and with less ugly conflicts if they are rebuilt
on top of other patches that recently landed on drm-next.

Reference: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/70952/
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com

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Merge tag 'v5.6-rc3' into sched/core, to pick up fixes and dependent patches

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge v5.6-rc2 into drm-misc-next

Lyude needs some patches in 5.6-rc2 and we didn't bring drm-misc-next
forward yet, so it looks like a good occasion.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tec

Merge v5.6-rc2 into drm-misc-next

Lyude needs some patches in 5.6-rc2 and we didn't bring drm-misc-next
forward yet, so it looks like a good occasion.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

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Merge v5.6-rc1 into drm-misc-fixes

We're based on v5.6, need v5.6-rc1 at least. :)

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"The changes are a real mixed bag this time around.

The only scary lo

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"The changes are a real mixed bag this time around.

The only scary looking one from the diffstat is the uapi change to
asm-generic/mman-common.h, but this has been acked by Arnd and is
actually just adding a pair of comments in an attempt to prevent
allocation of some PROT values which tend to get used for
arch-specific purposes. We'll be using them for Branch Target
Identification (a CFI-like hardening feature), which is currently
under review on the mailing list.

New architecture features:

- Support for Armv8.5 E0PD, which benefits KASLR in the same way as
KPTI but without the overhead. This allows KPTI to be disabled on
CPUs that are not affected by Meltdown, even is KASLR is enabled.

- Initial support for the Armv8.5 RNG instructions, which claim to
provide access to a high bandwidth, cryptographically secure
hardware random number generator. As well as exposing these to
userspace, we also use them as part of the KASLR seed and to seed
the crng once all CPUs have come online.

- Advertise a bunch of new instructions to userspace, including
support for Data Gathering Hint, Matrix Multiply and 16-bit
floating point.

Kexec:

- Cleanups in preparation for relocating with the MMU enabled

- Support for loading crash dump kernels with kexec_file_load()

Perf and PMU drivers:

- Cleanups and non-critical fixes for a couple of system PMU drivers

FPU-less (aka broken) CPU support:

- Considerable fixes to support CPUs without the FP/SIMD extensions,
including their presence in heterogeneous systems. Good luck
finding a 64-bit userspace that handles this.

Modern assembly function annotations:

- Start migrating our use of ENTRY() and ENDPROC() over to the
new-fangled SYM_{CODE,FUNC}_{START,END} macros, which are intended
to aid debuggers

Kbuild:

- Cleanup detection of LSE support in the assembler by introducing
'as-instr'

- Remove compressed Image files when building clean targets

IP checksumming:

- Implement optimised IPv4 checksumming routine when hardware offload
is not in use. An IPv6 version is in the works, pending testing.

Hardware errata:

- Work around Cortex-A55 erratum #1530923

Shadow call stack:

- Work around some issues with Clang's integrated assembler not
liking our perfectly reasonable assembly code

- Avoid allocating the X18 register, so that it can be used to hold
the shadow call stack pointer in future

ACPI:

- Fix ID count checking in IORT code. This may regress broken
firmware that happened to work with the old implementation, in
which case we'll have to revert it and try something else

- Fix DAIF corruption on return from GHES handler with pseudo-NMIs

Miscellaneous:

- Whitelist some CPUs that are unaffected by Spectre-v2

- Reduce frequency of ASID rollover when KPTI is compiled in but
inactive

- Reserve a couple of arch-specific PROT flags that are already used
by Sparc and PowerPC and are planned for later use with BTI on
arm64

- Preparatory cleanup of our entry assembly code in preparation for
moving more of it into C later on

- Refactoring and cleanup"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (73 commits)
arm64: acpi: fix DAIF manipulation with pNMI
arm64: kconfig: Fix alignment of E0PD help text
arm64: Use v8.5-RNG entropy for KASLR seed
arm64: Implement archrandom.h for ARMv8.5-RNG
arm64: kbuild: remove compressed images on 'make ARCH=arm64 (dist)clean'
arm64: entry: Avoid empty alternatives entries
arm64: Kconfig: select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG
arm64: csum: Fix pathological zero-length calls
arm64: entry: cleanup sp_el0 manipulation
arm64: entry: cleanup el0 svc handler naming
arm64: entry: mark all entry code as notrace
arm64: assembler: remove smp_dmb macro
arm64: assembler: remove inherit_daif macro
ACPI/IORT: Fix 'Number of IDs' handling in iort_id_map()
mm: Reserve asm-generic prot flags 0x10 and 0x20 for arch use
arm64: Use macros instead of hard-coded constants for MAIR_EL1
arm64: Add KRYO{3,4}XX CPU cores to spectre-v2 safe list
arm64: kernel: avoid x18 in __cpu_soft_restart
arm64: kvm: stop treating register x18 as caller save
arm64/lib: copy_page: avoid x18 register in assembler code
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Merge branches 'for-next/acpi', 'for-next/cpufeatures', 'for-next/csum', 'for-next/e0pd', 'for-next/entry', 'for-next/kbuild', 'for-next/kexec/cleanup', 'for-next/kexec/file-kdump', 'for-next/misc',

Merge branches 'for-next/acpi', 'for-next/cpufeatures', 'for-next/csum', 'for-next/e0pd', 'for-next/entry', 'for-next/kbuild', 'for-next/kexec/cleanup', 'for-next/kexec/file-kdump', 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/nofpsimd', 'for-next/perf' and 'for-next/scs' into for-next/core

* for-next/acpi:
ACPI/IORT: Fix 'Number of IDs' handling in iort_id_map()

* for-next/cpufeatures: (2 commits)
arm64: Introduce ID_ISAR6 CPU register
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* for-next/csum: (2 commits)
arm64: csum: Fix pathological zero-length calls
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* for-next/e0pd: (7 commits)
arm64: kconfig: Fix alignment of E0PD help text
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* for-next/entry: (5 commits)
arm64: entry: cleanup sp_el0 manipulation
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* for-next/kbuild: (4 commits)
arm64: kbuild: remove compressed images on 'make ARCH=arm64 (dist)clean'
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* for-next/kexec/cleanup: (11 commits)
Revert "arm64: kexec: make dtb_mem always enabled"
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* for-next/kexec/file-kdump: (2 commits)
arm64: kexec_file: add crash dump support
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* for-next/misc: (12 commits)
arm64: entry: Avoid empty alternatives entries
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* for-next/nofpsimd: (7 commits)
arm64: nofpsmid: Handle TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE flag cleanly
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* for-next/perf: (2 commits)
perf/imx_ddr: Fix cpu hotplug state cleanup
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* for-next/scs: (6 commits)
arm64: kernel: avoid x18 in __cpu_soft_restart
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mm: Reserve asm-generic prot flags 0x10 and 0x20 for arch use

The asm-generic/mman.h definitions are used by a few architectures that
also define arch-specific PROT flags with value 0x10 and 0x20. T

mm: Reserve asm-generic prot flags 0x10 and 0x20 for arch use

The asm-generic/mman.h definitions are used by a few architectures that
also define arch-specific PROT flags with value 0x10 and 0x20. This
currently applies to sparc and powerpc for 0x10, while arm64 will soon
join with 0x10 and 0x20.

To help future maintainers, document the use of this flag in the
asm-generic header too.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: reserve 0x20 as well]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'for-5.5/core' into for-linus

- hid_have_special_driver[] cleanup for LED devices (Heiner Kallweit)
- HID parser improvements (Blaž Hrastnik, Candle Sun)

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.5 merge window.

Merge tag 'v5.4-rc8' into WIP.x86/mm, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>