Merge branch 'linus' into x86/hyperv

Pick up upstream fixes to avoid conflicts.

Merge tag 'v5.4-rc5' into next

Sync up with mainline.

Merge tag 'v5.4-rc3' into spi-5.4

Linux 5.4-rc3

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

Backmerging to pull in HDR DP code:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2019-September/236453.html

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas

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

Backmerging to pull in HDR DP code:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2019-September/236453.html

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

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Merge tag 'fix-missing-panels' into fixes

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

We haven't done any backmerge for a while due to the merge window, and it
starts to become an issue for komeda. Let's bring 5.4-rc1 in.

Signed-off-by: Maxime R

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

We haven't done any backmerge for a while due to the merge window, and it
starts to become an issue for komeda. Let's bring 5.4-rc1 in.

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

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

We haven't backmerged for a while, let's start the -rc period by pulling
rc1.

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

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

- almost all of the rest of -mm

- various other subsystems

Subsystems affected by this patch series:
memcg, mi

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

- almost all of the rest of -mm

- various other subsystems

Subsystems affected by this patch series:
memcg, misc, core-kernel, lib, checkpatch, reiserfs, fat, fork,
cpumask, kexec, uaccess, kconfig, kgdb, bug, ipc, lzo, kasan, madvise,
cleanups, pagemap

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (77 commits)
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h: fix build
mm: treewide: clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming
ntfs: remove (un)?likely() from IS_ERR() conditions
IB/hfi1: remove unlikely() from IS_ERR*() condition
xfs: remove unlikely() from WARN_ON() condition
wimax/i2400m: remove unlikely() from WARN*() condition
fs: remove unlikely() from WARN_ON() condition
xen/events: remove unlikely() from WARN() condition
checkpatch: check for nested (un)?likely() calls
hexagon: drop empty and unused free_initrd_mem
mm: factor out common parts between MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT
mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT
mm: change PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN with PAGE_REFRECLAIM
mm: introduce MADV_COLD
mm: untag user pointers in mmap/munmap/mremap/brk
vfio/type1: untag user pointers in vaddr_get_pfn
tee/shm: untag user pointers in tee_shm_register
media/v4l2-core: untag user pointers in videobuf_dma_contig_user_get
drm/radeon: untag user pointers in radeon_gem_userptr_ioctl
drm/amdgpu: untag user pointers
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mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT

When a process expects no accesses to a certain memory range for a long
time, it could hint kernel that the pages can be reclaimed instantly but
data should be preserved f

mm: introduce MADV_PAGEOUT

When a process expects no accesses to a certain memory range for a long
time, it could hint kernel that the pages can be reclaimed instantly but
data should be preserved for future use. This could reduce workingset
eviction so it ends up increasing performance.

This patch introduces the new MADV_PAGEOUT hint to madvise(2) syscall.
MADV_PAGEOUT can be used by a process to mark a memory range as not
expected to be used for a long time so that kernel reclaims *any LRU*
pages instantly. The hint can help kernel in deciding which pages to
evict proactively.

A note: It doesn't apply SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX LRU page isolation limit
intentionally because it's automatically bounded by PMD size. If PMD
size(e.g., 256) makes some trouble, we could fix it later by limit it to
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX[1].

- man-page material

MADV_PAGEOUT (since Linux x.x)

Do not expect access in the near future so pages in the specified
regions could be reclaimed instantly regardless of memory pressure.
Thus, access in the range after successful operation could cause
major page fault but never lose the up-to-date contents unlike
MADV_DONTNEED. Pages belonging to a shared mapping are only processed
if a write access is allowed for the calling process.

MADV_PAGEOUT cannot be applied to locked pages, Huge TLB pages, or
VM_PFNMAP pages.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190710194719.GS29695@dhcp22.suse.cz/

[minchan@kernel.org: clear PG_active on MADV_PAGEOUT]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190802200643.GA181880@google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: resolve conflicts with hmm.git]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726023435.214162-5-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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mm: introduce MADV_COLD

Patch series "Introduce MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT", v7.

- Background

The Android terminology used for forking a new process and starting an app
from scratch is a cold star

mm: introduce MADV_COLD

Patch series "Introduce MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT", v7.

- Background

The Android terminology used for forking a new process and starting an app
from scratch is a cold start, while resuming an existing app is a hot
start. While we continually try to improve the performance of cold
starts, hot starts will always be significantly less power hungry as well
as faster so we are trying to make hot start more likely than cold start.

To increase hot start, Android userspace manages the order that apps
should be killed in a process called ActivityManagerService.
ActivityManagerService tracks every Android app or service that the user
could be interacting with at any time and translates that into a ranked
list for lmkd(low memory killer daemon). They are likely to be killed by
lmkd if the system has to reclaim memory. In that sense they are similar
to entries in any other cache. Those apps are kept alive for
opportunistic performance improvements but those performance improvements
will vary based on the memory requirements of individual workloads.

- Problem

Naturally, cached apps were dominant consumers of memory on the system.
However, they were not significant consumers of swap even though they are
good candidate for swap. Under investigation, swapping out only begins
once the low zone watermark is hit and kswapd wakes up, but the overall
allocation rate in the system might trip lmkd thresholds and cause a
cached process to be killed(we measured performance swapping out vs.
zapping the memory by killing a process. Unsurprisingly, zapping is 10x
times faster even though we use zram which is much faster than real
storage) so kill from lmkd will often satisfy the high zone watermark,
resulting in very few pages actually being moved to swap.

- Approach

The approach we chose was to use a new interface to allow userspace to
proactively reclaim entire processes by leveraging platform information.
This allowed us to bypass the inaccuracy of the kernel’s LRUs for pages
that are known to be cold from userspace and to avoid races with lmkd by
reclaiming apps as soon as they entered the cached state. Additionally,
it could provide many chances for platform to use much information to
optimize memory efficiency.

To achieve the goal, the patchset introduce two new options for madvise.
One is MADV_COLD which will deactivate activated pages and the other is
MADV_PAGEOUT which will reclaim private pages instantly. These new
options complement MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE by adding non-destructive
ways to gain some free memory space. MADV_PAGEOUT is similar to
MADV_DONTNEED in a way that it hints the kernel that memory region is not
currently needed and should be reclaimed immediately; MADV_COLD is similar
to MADV_FREE in a way that it hints the kernel that memory region is not
currently needed and should be reclaimed when memory pressure rises.

This patch (of 5):

When a process expects no accesses to a certain memory range, it could
give a hint to kernel that the pages can be reclaimed when memory pressure
happens but data should be preserved for future use. This could reduce
workingset eviction so it ends up increasing performance.

This patch introduces the new MADV_COLD hint to madvise(2) syscall.
MADV_COLD can be used by a process to mark a memory range as not expected
to be used in the near future. The hint can help kernel in deciding which
pages to evict early during memory pressure.

It works for every LRU pages like MADV_[DONTNEED|FREE]. IOW, It moves

active file page -> inactive file LRU
active anon page -> inacdtive anon LRU

Unlike MADV_FREE, it doesn't move active anonymous pages to inactive file
LRU's head because MADV_COLD is a little bit different symantic.
MADV_FREE means it's okay to discard when the memory pressure because the
content of the page is *garbage* so freeing such pages is almost zero
overhead since we don't need to swap out and access afterward causes just
minor fault. Thus, it would make sense to put those freeable pages in
inactive file LRU to compete other used-once pages. It makes sense for
implmentaion point of view, too because it's not swapbacked memory any
longer until it would be re-dirtied. Even, it could give a bonus to make
them be reclaimed on swapless system. However, MADV_COLD doesn't mean
garbage so reclaiming them requires swap-out/in in the end so it's bigger
cost. Since we have designed VM LRU aging based on cost-model, anonymous
cold pages would be better to position inactive anon's LRU list, not file
LRU. Furthermore, it would help to avoid unnecessary scanning if system
doesn't have a swap device. Let's start simpler way without adding
complexity at this moment. However, keep in mind, too that it's a caveat
that workloads with a lot of pages cache are likely to ignore MADV_COLD on
anonymous memory because we rarely age anonymous LRU lists.

* man-page material

MADV_COLD (since Linux x.x)

Pages in the specified regions will be treated as less-recently-accessed
compared to pages in the system with similar access frequencies. In
contrast to MADV_FREE, the contents of the region are preserved regardless
of subsequent writes to pages.

MADV_COLD cannot be applied to locked pages, Huge TLB pages, or VM_PFNMAP
pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: resolve conflicts with hmm.git]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726023435.214162-2-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.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 5.4 merge window.

Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge branch 'master' into for-5.4/logitech

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm' into kvm-ppc-next

This merges in fixes for the XIVE interrupt controller which touch both
generic powerpc and PPC KVM code. To avoid mer

Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm' into kvm-ppc-next

This merges in fixes for the XIVE interrupt controller which touch both
generic powerpc and PPC KVM code. To avoid merge conflicts, these
commits will go upstream via the powerpc tree as well as the KVM tree.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

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Merge branch 'ti-sysc-fixes' into fixes

Merge tag 'efi-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi into efi/urgent

Pull a single EFI fix for v5.3 from Ard:

- Fix mixed mode breakage in EFI config table handling for

Merge tag 'efi-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi into efi/urgent

Pull a single EFI fix for v5.3 from Ard:

- Fix mixed mode breakage in EFI config table handling for TPM.

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Merge tag 'v5.3-rc4' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in device_property_count_u32 andother
newer APIs.

Merge tag 'v5.3-rc3' into drm-next-5.4

Linux 5.3-rc3

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm fixes for 5.3

- A bunch of switch/case fall-through annotation, fixing one actual b

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm fixes for 5.3

- A bunch of switch/case fall-through annotation, fixing one actual bug
- Fix PMU reset bug
- Add missing exception class debug strings

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

Catching up with 5.3-rc*

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

Merge branch master from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Pick up the spectre documentation so the Grand Schemozzle can be added.

Merge tag 'v5.3-rc1' into regulator-5.3

Linus 5.3-rc1

Merge tag 'v5.3-rc1' into docs-next

Pull in all of the massive docs changes from elsewhere.

Merge v5.3-rc1 into drm-misc-next

Noralf needs some SPI patches in 5.3 to merge some work on tinydrm.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>

Merge tag 'v5.3-rc1' into patchwork

Linus 5.3-rc1

* tag 'v5.3-rc1': (12816 commits)
Linus 5.3-rc1
iommu/amd: fix a crash in iova_magazine_free_pfns
hexagon: switch to generic version of pte a

Merge tag 'v5.3-rc1' into patchwork

Linus 5.3-rc1

* tag 'v5.3-rc1': (12816 commits)
Linus 5.3-rc1
iommu/amd: fix a crash in iova_magazine_free_pfns
hexagon: switch to generic version of pte allocation
typo fix: it's d_make_root, not d_make_inode...
dt-bindings: pinctrl: stm32: Fix missing 'clocks' property in examples
dt-bindings: iio: ad7124: Fix dtc warnings in example
dt-bindings: iio: avia-hx711: Fix avdd-supply typo in example
dt-bindings: pinctrl: aspeed: Fix AST2500 example errors
dt-bindings: pinctrl: aspeed: Fix 'compatible' schema errors
dt-bindings: riscv: Limit cpus schema to only check RiscV 'cpu' nodes
dt-bindings: Ensure child nodes are of type 'object'
x86/entry/64: Prevent clobbering of saved CR2 value
smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context
KVM: x86: Add fixed counters to PMU filter
KVM: nVMX: do not use dangling shadow VMCS after guest reset
KVM: VMX: dump VMCS on failed entry
KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
KVM: s390: Use kvm_vcpu_wake_up in kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup
KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts
KVM: selftests: Remove superfluous define from vmx.c
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