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2026-08-04mm/slab, kfence, memcg: completely remove obj_ext for kfence objectsVlastimil Babka (SUSE)
We have already disabled memory allocation profiling for objects allocated for KFENCE to avoid complexity. KFENCE allocations are rare and there can be only CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS (default to 255) outstanding ones at any time, so they are among noise in the profiling stats. For the same reasons, we can stop memcg_kmem accounting of kfence objects as their memory usage will be negligible wrt any practical memcg limits. This allows us simplifying the code and getting rid of is_kfence_address() checks in various places, including slab_obj_ext()'s usage of obj_to_index(). Instead we rely on the fact that slab_obj_exts() will now always return 0 for a kfence object's fake slab, which makes those places unreachable. All we need to do to keep this assumption valid is not to allocate obj_exts for kfence objects, so the checks need to guard alloc_slab_obj_exts() where necessary. Suggested-by: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727-b4-objext_split-v3-13-c29ef0f1f257@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-08-04mm/slab: add cache_ and slab_needs_objcg() helpersVlastimil Babka (SUSE)
Slabs of some caches never need the objcg part of struct slabobj_ext. Introduce helpers to query this for a cache or a slab. Introduce SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT flag that is currently only internal and all caches have it set except: - KMALLOC_NORMAL caches, as long as KMALLOC_RECLAIM caches are separate - KMALLOC_NO_OBJ_EXT caches, if they exist For named caches we currently can't derive SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT from SLAB_ACCOUNT because some caches might be created without SLAB_ACCOUNT and then used both with and without __GFP_ACCOUNT concurrently, allocating obj_ext arrays on demand. So just add the SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT to all kmem caches, unless kmem accounting is disabled. This can be improved later by finding out all caches used with __GFP_ACCOUNT, creating them with the SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT flag explicitly, and then ignoring __GFP_ACCOUNT for all other caches (possibly with a warning). To make the evaluation of slab_needs_objcg() faster in the allocation and free fast paths, add a obj_exts_needs_objcg flag into slab itself. This optimization is only available on 64bit architectures where free bits are available for the flag. Reviewed-by: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727-b4-objext_split-v3-11-c29ef0f1f257@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-07-31mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.objcg accessVlastimil Babka (SUSE)
In preparation for changes to the structure, abstract getting and setting the objcg field with slab_obj_ext_objcg() and slab_obj_ext_set_objcg(). Rename the field to _objcg to make an unexpected direct access a compile error. The helpers take a slab pointer, which is currently unused, but will be used by a debug check later. Since there is no slab pointer easily available in __kfence_free(), just drop the debug check there. The whole memcg_kmem accounting in kfence is to be removed later anyway. Otherwise, no functional change intended. Reviewed-by: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727-b4-objext_split-v3-5-c29ef0f1f257@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-07-31mm/slab: remove objs_per_slab()Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
The function has an unused kmem_cache argument and almost nothing uses it anyway; doing slab->objects is simpler. Remove it with the last two users. KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ() needs a cast to avoid "error: ‘typeof’ applied to a bit-field" but we don't need to keep a wrapper just for that. Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727-b4-objext_split-v3-2-c29ef0f1f257@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-06-22Merge tag 'slab-for-7.2-part2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab Pull more slab updates from Vlastimil Babka: - Introduce and wire up a new alloc_flags parameter for modifying slab-specific behavior without adding or reusing gfp flags. Also introduce slab_alloc_context to keep function parameter bloat in check. Both are similar to what the page allocator does. kmalloc_flags() exposes alloc_flags for mm-internal users. - SLAB_ALLOC_NOLOCK flag is used to implement kmalloc_nolock() behavior without relying on lack of __GFP_RECLAIM, which caused false positives with workarounds like fd3634312a04 ("debugobject: Make it work with deferred page initialization - again"). - SLAB_ALLOC_NO_RECURSE replaces __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT, which could have been removed, but pending memory allocation profiling changes in mm tree have grown a new user - there is however a work ongoing to replace that too, so __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT should eventually be removed. (Vlastimil Babka) - Add kmem_buckets_alloc_track_caller() with a user to be added in the net tree (Pedro Falcato) - Fixes for kernel-doc and slabinfo (Randy Dunlap, Yichong Chen) * tag 'slab-for-7.2-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: tools/mm/slabinfo: fix total_objects attribute name slab: recognize @GFP parameter as optional in kernel-doc mm/slab: add a node-track-caller variant for kmem buckets allocation mm/slab: replace __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT with SLAB_ALLOC_NO_RECURSE for sheaves mm/slab: remove __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT usage from alloc_slab_obj_exts() mm/slab: introduce kmalloc_flags() mm/slab: allow __GFP_NOMEMALLOC and __GFP_NOWARN for kmalloc_nolock() mm/slab: pass slab_alloc_context to __do_kmalloc_node() mm/slab: allow kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() with any gfp flags mm/slab: replace slab_alloc_node() parameters with slab_alloc_context mm/slab: pass alloc_flags through slab_post_alloc_hook() chain mm/slab: pass alloc_flags to new slab allocation mm/slab: add alloc_flags to slab_alloc_context mm/slab: replace struct partial_context with slab_alloc_context mm/slab: introduce alloc_flags and SLAB_ALLOC_NOLOCK mm/slab: introduce slab_alloc_context mm/slab: stop inlining __slab_alloc_node() mm/slab: do not init any kfence objects on allocation
2026-06-21Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-06-21-10-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "taskstats: fix TGID dead-thread stat retention" (Yiyang Chen) Fix a taskstats TGID aggregation bug where fields added in the TGID query path were not preserved after thread exit, and adds a kselftest covering the regression. - "lib/tests: string_helpers: Slight improvements" (Andy Shevchenko) Improve lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c a little - "lib/base64: decode fixes" (Josh Law) Address minor issues in lib/base64.c - "selftests/filelock: Make output more kselftestish" (Mark Brown) Make the output from the ofdlocks test a bit easier for tooling to work with. Also ignore the generated file - "uaccess: unify inline vs outline copy_{from,to}_user() selection" (Yury Norov) Simplify the usercopy code by removing the selectability of inlining copy_{from,to}_user(). - "ocfs2: validate inline xattr header consumers" (ZhengYuan Huang) Fix a number of possible issues in the ocfs2 xattr code - "lib and lib/cmdline enhancements" (Dmitry Antipov) Provide additional robustness checking in the cmdline handling code and its in-kernel testing and selftests - "cleanup the RAID6 P/Q library" (Christoph Hellwig) Clean up the RAID6 P/Q library to match the recent updates to the RAID 5 XOR library and other CRC/crypto libraries - "ocfs2: harden inode validators against forged metadata" (Michael Bommarito) Add three structural checks to OCFS2 dinode validation so malformed on-disk fields are rejected before ocfs2_populate_inode() copies them into the in-core inode - "lib/raid: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc()" (Mike Rapoport) Clean up the lib/raid code by using kmalloc() in more places * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-06-21-10-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (108 commits) ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_dio_end_io_write ocfs2: fix NULL h_transaction deref in ocfs2_assure_trans_credits lib: interval_tree_test: validate benchmark parameters ocfs2: avoid moving extents to occupied clusters treewide: fix transposed "sign" typos and update spelling.txt ocfs2: fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds in ocfs2_sum_rightmost_rec fat: reject BPB volumes whose data area starts beyond total sectors selftests/uevent: increase __UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE to avoid ENOBUFS on busy systems lib/test_firmware: allocate the configured into_buf size fs: efs: remove unneeded debug prints checkpatch: cuppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link: MAINTAINERS: add Alexander as a kcov reviewer mailmap: update Alexander Sverdlin's Email addresses fs: fat: inode: replace sprintf() with scnprintf() ocfs2: fix out-of-bounds write in ocfs2_remove_refcount_extent ocfs2: fix race between ocfs2_control_install_private() and ocfs2_control_release() ocfs2/dlm: require a ref for locking_state debugfs open ocfs2: reject FITRIM ranges shorter than a cluster ocfs2: validate fast symlink target during inode read ocfs2: add journal NULL check in ocfs2_checkpoint_inode() ...
2026-06-19Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity" (Li Wang) Remove some noise from the MM selftests build - "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently" (Ryan Roberts) Speed up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by first scanning them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to vfree() and to the releasing of frozen pages - "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota charge ratio" (SeongJae Park) Address a DAMOS usability issue: The DAMOS quota often exhausts prematurely because it charges for all memory attempted, causing slow and inconsistent performance when actions fail on unreclaimable memory. To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions. Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing - "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large page sizes" (Li Wang) Fix various spurious failures and improves the overall robustness of the cgroup zswap selftests - "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" (Anthony Yznaga) Fix an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32 - "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with shared" (Breno Leitao) Some maintenance work in the huge_memory code - "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" (Brendan Jackman) Use the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places - "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization" (Muchun Song) Fix several bugs in the vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect page accounting and memmap initialization in the DAX and memory hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages - "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in damon/next tree" A sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for DAMON - "mm: remove page_mapped()" (David Hildenbrand) Remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped() - "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" (SeongJae Park) Allow DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its current state - "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables" (Muhammad Usama Anjum) Simplify and speed up kasan by removing its ineffective tagging of stacks and page tables - "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default" (SeongJae Park) Simplify deployment on diverse hardware like NUMA systems by updating DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to automatically monitor the physical address range covering all System RAM areas by default, replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only targeted the single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead - "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated" (SeongJae Park) Update some DAMON docs - "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" (Dmitry Ilvokhin) Switch zone->lock handling over to using the guard() mechanisms - "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" (fujunjie) Fix a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page cache hits during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O, drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse random or strided memory access workloads - "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic" (Li Wang) Fix a couple of false-positives in the cgroup kmem selftests - "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning" (SeongJae Park) Add a new parameter to DAMON permitting DAMON_RECLAIM to automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation intervals - "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" (SeongJae Park) Change DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond - "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" (Breno Leitao) Remove large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the verbose-mode kmemleak output - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) Reduce our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, with a view to removing it entirely in a later series - "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of 2" (Liew Rui Yan) Prevent users from passing a non-power-of-2 value of `addr_unit', as this later results in undesirable behavior - "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" (Frederick Mayle) - "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" (Ye Liu) Fix three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c - "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" (Brendan Jackman) Implement several cleanups in the page allocator and related code - "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation" (Kairui Song) Unify the allocation and charging of anon and shmem swap in folios, provides better synchronization, consolidates the metadata management, hence dropping the static array and map, and improves performance - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring" (SeongJae Park( Extend DAMON to monitor general data attributes other than accesses - "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink" (Shivam Kalra) Implement the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when shrinking across a page boundary - "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" (niecheng) - "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Eliminate custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the problematic success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access uninitialized VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code field and updates the memory char driver accordingly - "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability and tests" (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc" (Maksym Shcherba) - "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c" (Mike Rapoport) - "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio" (Kairui Song and others) Clean up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop and dirty writeback handling. Large performance improvements are measured - "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps} reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) Use per-vma locks when reading /proc/pid/smaps and numa_maps similar to reduce contention on central mmap_lock - "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()" (Ran Xiaokai) Some cleanup work in the THP code - "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" (Konstantin Khorenko) Fix a few build glitches in the memfd selftest code. - "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs" (Shakeel Butt) Resolve a 68% performance regression caused by NUMA-node cache thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking its existing fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches up to five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of the same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line. - "zram: writeback fixes" (Sergey Senozhatsky) address a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues - "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" (Johannes Weiner) Resolve NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite interaction by refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely replace the complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent Huge Pages - "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory" (Usama Arif) Improve large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page arm64 by preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large maximum folio order under the cache cap. - "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Fix a bunch of minor issues in the userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which were flagged by Sashiko review of proposed new material - "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()" (Muchun Song) Provide generic versions of these two functions so the four arch-specific implementations can be removed. - "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device" (Youngjun Park) Address a uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device reference taking/releasing frequency. - "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" (Dev Jain) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry lib/test_hmm: check alloc_page_vma() return value and handle OOM mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX mm/swap: remove redundant swap device reference in alloc/free mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device mm/filemap: use folio_next_index() for start vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages() sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code loongarch/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code riscv/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code arm64/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code mm/sparse-vmemmap: provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd() rust: page: mark Page::nid as inline userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masks userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present() mm/huge_memory: preserve pmd_swp_uffd_wp on device-private PMD downgrade fs/proc/task_mmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemap_scan_pte_hole() fs/proc/task_mmu: use huge_page_size() in pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry() fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race ...
2026-06-15mm/slab: do not init any kfence objects on allocationVlastimil Babka (SUSE)
When init (zeroing) on allocation is requested, for kmalloc() we generally have to zero the full object size even if a smaller size is requested, in order to provide krealloc()'s __GFP_ZERO guarantees. When we end up allocating a kfence object, kfence performs the zeroing on its own because it has its own redzone beyond the requested size. Thus slab_post_alloc_hook() has an 'init' parameter which has to be evaluated in all callers (via slab_want_init_on_alloc()) and should be false for kfence allocations. For kfence allocations in slab_alloc_node() this is achieved by subtly skipping over the slab_want_init_on_alloc() call. Other callers (i.e. kmem_cache_alloc_bulk_noprof()) however evaluate it unconditionally even if they do end up with a kfence allocation. This is only subtly not a problem, as those are not kmalloc allocations and thus the "requested size" equals s->object_size and thus it cannot interfere with kfence's redzone. There's just a unnecessary double zeroing (in both kfence and slab_post_alloc_hook()), but it's all very fragile and contradicts the comment in kfence_guarded_alloc(). Remove this subtlety and simplify the code by eliminating the init parameter from slab_post_alloc_hook() and make it call slab_want_init_on_alloc() itself. Instead add a is_kfence_address() check before performing the memset, which will start doing the right thing for all callers of slab_post_alloc_hook(). This potentially adds overhead of the is_kfence_address() check to allocation hotpath, but that one is designed to be as small as possible, and it's only evaluated if zeroing is about to happen. This means (aside from init_on_alloc hardening) only for __GFP_ZERO allocations, and the zeroing itself comes with an overhead likely larger than the added check. While at it, refactor the handling of evaluating when KASAN does the init instead of SLUB, with no intended functional changes. A non-functional change is that we don't pass kasan_init as true to kasan_slab_alloc() if kasan has no integrated init, but then the value is ignored anyway, so it's theoretically more correct. Thanks to Harry Yoo for the initial refactoring attempt, and for updated comments that are used here. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610-slab_alloc_flags-v2-2-7190909db118@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-06-12Merge branch 'slab/for-7.2/alloc_token' into slab/for-nextVlastimil Babka (SUSE)
Merge series "slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning" from Marco Elver. From the cover letter [6]: Rework the general infrastructure around RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES into more flexible KMALLOC_PARTITION_CACHES, with the former being a partitioning mode of the latter. Introduce a new mode, KMALLOC_PARTITION_TYPED, which leverages a feature available in Clang 22 and later, called "allocation tokens" via __builtin_infer_alloc_token() [1]. Unlike KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM (formerly RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES), this mode deterministically assigns a slab cache to an allocation of type T, regardless of allocation site. The builtin __builtin_infer_alloc_token(<malloc-args>, ...) instructs the compiler to infer an allocation type from arguments commonly passed to memory-allocating functions and returns a type-derived token ID. The implementation passes kmalloc-args to the builtin: the compiler performs best-effort type inference, and then recognizes common patterns such as `kmalloc(sizeof(T), ...)`, `kmalloc(sizeof(T) * n, ...)`, but also `(T *)kmalloc(...)`. Where the compiler fails to infer a type the fallback token (default: 0) is chosen. Note: kmalloc_obj(..) APIs fix the pattern how size and result type are expressed, and therefore ensures there's not much drift in which patterns the compiler needs to recognize. Specifically, kmalloc_obj() and friends expand to `(TYPE *)KMALLOC(__obj_size, GFP)`, which the compiler recognizes via the cast to TYPE*. Clang's default token ID calculation is described as [1]: typehashpointersplit: This mode assigns a token ID based on the hash of the allocated type's name, where the top half ID-space is reserved for types that contain pointers and the bottom half for types that do not contain pointers. Separating pointer-containing objects from pointerless objects and data allocations can help mitigate certain classes of memory corruption exploits [2]: attackers who gains a buffer overflow on a primitive buffer cannot use it to directly corrupt pointers or other critical metadata in an object residing in a different, isolated heap region. It is important to note that heap isolation strategies offer a best-effort approach, and do not provide a 100% security guarantee, albeit achievable at relatively low performance cost. Note that this also does not prevent cross-cache attacks: while waiting for future features like SLAB_VIRTUAL [3] to provide physical page isolation, this feature should be deployed alongside SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR and init_on_free=1 to mitigate cross-cache attacks and page-reuse attacks as much as possible today. With all that, my kernel (x86 defconfig) shows me a histogram of slab cache object distribution per /proc/slabinfo (after boot): <slab cache> <objs> <hist> kmalloc-part-15 1465 ++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-14 2988 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-13 1656 ++++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-12 1045 ++++++++++ kmalloc-part-11 1697 ++++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-10 1489 ++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-09 965 +++++++++ kmalloc-part-08 710 +++++++ kmalloc-part-07 100 + kmalloc-part-06 217 ++ kmalloc-part-05 105 + kmalloc-part-04 4047 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-03 183 + kmalloc-part-02 283 ++ kmalloc-part-01 316 +++ kmalloc 1422 ++++++++++++++ The above /proc/slabinfo snapshot shows me there are 6673 allocated objects (slabs 00 - 07) that the compiler claims contain no pointers or it was unable to infer the type of, and 12015 objects that contain pointers (slabs 08 - 15). On a whole, this looks relatively sane. Additionally, when I compile my kernel with -Rpass=alloc-token, which provides diagnostics where (after dead-code elimination) type inference failed, I see 186 allocation sites where the compiler failed to identify a type (down from 966 when I sent the RFC [4]). Some initial review confirms these are mostly variable sized buffers, but also include structs with trailing flexible length arrays. Link: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AllocToken.html [1] Link: https://blog.dfsec.com/ios/2025/05/30/blasting-past-ios-18/ [2] Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/944647/ [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250825154505.1558444-1-elver@google.com/ [4] Link: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-a-framework-for-allocator-partitioning-hints/87434 [5] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260511200136.3201646-1-elver@google.com/ [6]
2026-06-03mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulkChristoph Hellwig
The kmem_cache_alloc_bulk return value is weird. It returns the number of allocated objects, but that must always be 0 or the requested number based on the implementations and the handling in the callers, but that assumption is not actually documented anywhere, which confuses automated review tools. Fix this by returning a bool if the allocation succeeded and adding a kerneldoc comment explaining the API. [rob.clark@oss.qualcomm.com: fixups in msm_iommu_pagetable_prealloc_allocate() ] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> # skbuff Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528093437.2519248-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-05-28kfence: fix KASAN HW tags bypass via runtime sample_interval changeAlexander Potapenko
If a user writes a non-zero value to the sample_interval module parameter at runtime, the missing KASAN HW tags check in the late init path allows KFENCE to be enabled alongside KASAN HW tags, bypassing the boot restriction. This patch adds the missing check to param_set_sample_interval() to reject the parameter change if KASAN HW tags are enabled. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260507095237.741017-1-glider@google.com Fixes: 09833d99db36 ("mm/kfence: disable KFENCE upon KASAN HW tags enablement") Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Pimyn Girgis <pimyn@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-28mm/kfence: use special gfp_t format specifierBrendan Jackman
%pGg produces nice readable output and decouples the format string from the size of gfp_t. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260326-gfp64-v2-3-d916021cecdf@google.com Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Allison Collins <allison.henderson@oracle.com> Cc: Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl> Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-05-14slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioningMarco Elver
Rework the general infrastructure around RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES into more flexible KMALLOC_PARTITION_CACHES, with the former being a partitioning mode of the latter. Introduce a new mode, KMALLOC_PARTITION_TYPED, which leverages a feature available in Clang 22 and later, called "allocation tokens" via __builtin_infer_alloc_token() [1]. Unlike KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM (formerly RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES), this mode deterministically assigns a slab cache to an allocation of type T, regardless of allocation site. The builtin __builtin_infer_alloc_token(<malloc-args>, ...) instructs the compiler to infer an allocation type from arguments commonly passed to memory-allocating functions and returns a type-derived token ID. The implementation passes kmalloc-args to the builtin: the compiler performs best-effort type inference, and then recognizes common patterns such as `kmalloc(sizeof(T), ...)`, `kmalloc(sizeof(T) * n, ...)`, but also `(T *)kmalloc(...)`. Where the compiler fails to infer a type the fallback token (default: 0) is chosen. Note: kmalloc_obj(..) APIs fix the pattern how size and result type are expressed, and therefore ensures there's not much drift in which patterns the compiler needs to recognize. Specifically, kmalloc_obj() and friends expand to `(TYPE *)KMALLOC(__obj_size, GFP)`, which the compiler recognizes via the cast to TYPE*. Clang's default token ID calculation is described as [1]: typehashpointersplit: This mode assigns a token ID based on the hash of the allocated type's name, where the top half ID-space is reserved for types that contain pointers and the bottom half for types that do not contain pointers. Separating pointer-containing objects from pointerless objects and data allocations can help mitigate certain classes of memory corruption exploits [2]: attackers who gains a buffer overflow on a primitive buffer cannot use it to directly corrupt pointers or other critical metadata in an object residing in a different, isolated heap region. It is important to note that heap isolation strategies offer a best-effort approach, and do not provide a 100% security guarantee, albeit achievable at relatively low performance cost. Note that this also does not prevent cross-cache attacks: while waiting for future features like SLAB_VIRTUAL [3] to provide physical page isolation, this feature should be deployed alongside SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR and init_on_free=1 to mitigate cross-cache attacks and page-reuse attacks as much as possible today. With all that, my kernel (x86 defconfig) shows me a histogram of slab cache object distribution per /proc/slabinfo (after boot): <slab cache> <objs> <hist> kmalloc-part-15 1465 ++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-14 2988 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-13 1656 ++++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-12 1045 ++++++++++ kmalloc-part-11 1697 ++++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-10 1489 ++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-09 965 +++++++++ kmalloc-part-08 710 +++++++ kmalloc-part-07 100 + kmalloc-part-06 217 ++ kmalloc-part-05 105 + kmalloc-part-04 4047 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kmalloc-part-03 183 + kmalloc-part-02 283 ++ kmalloc-part-01 316 +++ kmalloc 1422 ++++++++++++++ The above /proc/slabinfo snapshot shows me there are 6673 allocated objects (slabs 00 - 07) that the compiler claims contain no pointers or it was unable to infer the type of, and 12015 objects that contain pointers (slabs 08 - 15). On a whole, this looks relatively sane. Additionally, when I compile my kernel with -Rpass=alloc-token, which provides diagnostics where (after dead-code elimination) type inference failed, I see 186 allocation sites where the compiler failed to identify a type (down from 966 when I sent the RFC [4]). Some initial review confirms these are mostly variable sized buffers, but also include structs with trailing flexible length arrays. Link: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AllocToken.html [1] Link: https://blog.dfsec.com/ios/2025/05/30/blasting-past-ios-18/ [2] Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/944647/ [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250825154505.1558444-1-elver@google.com/ [4] Link: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-a-framework-for-allocator-partitioning-hints/87434 Acked-by: GONG Ruiqi <gongruiqi1@huawei.com> Co-developed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511200136.3201646-1-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-04-18Merge tag 'memblock-v7.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock Pull memblock updates from Mike Rapoport: - improve debuggability of reserve_mem kernel parameter handling with print outs in case of a failure and debugfs info showing what was actually reserved - Make memblock_free_late() and free_reserved_area() use the same core logic for freeing the memory to buddy and ensure it takes care of updating memblock arrays when ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK is enabled. * tag 'memblock-v7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock: x86/alternative: delay freeing of smp_locks section memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing memblock: make free_reserved_area() update memblock if ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK=y memblock: extract page freeing from free_reserved_area() into a helper memblock: make free_reserved_area() more robust mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c powerpc: opal-core: pair alloc_pages_exact() with free_pages_exact() powerpc: fadump: pair alloc_pages_exact() with free_pages_exact() memblock: reserve_mem: fix end caclulation in reserve_mem_release_by_name() memblock: move reserve_bootmem_range() to memblock.c and make it static memblock: Add reserve_mem debugfs info memblock: Print out errors on reserve_mem parser
2026-04-05kfence: add kfence.fault parameterMarco Elver
Add kfence.fault parameter to control the behavior when a KFENCE error is detected (similar in spirit to kasan.fault=<mode>). The supported modes for kfence.fault=<mode> are: - report: print the error report and continue (default). - oops: print the error report and oops. - panic: print the error report and panic. In particular, the 'oops' mode offers a trade-off between no mitigation on report and panicking outright (if panic_on_oops is not set). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225203639.3159463-1-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-01memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeingMike Rapoport (Microsoft)
It shouldn't be responsibility of memblock users to detect if they free memory allocated from memblock late and should use memblock_free_late(). Make memblock_free() and memblock_phys_free() take care of late memory freeing and drop memblock_free_late(). Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323074836.3653702-9-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-02-24mm/kfence: fix KASAN hardware tag faults during late enablementAlexander Potapenko
When KASAN hardware tags are enabled, re-enabling KFENCE late (via /sys/module/kfence/parameters/sample_interval) causes KASAN faults. This happens because the KFENCE pool and metadata are allocated via the page allocator, which tags the memory, while KFENCE continues to access it using untagged pointers during initialization. Use __GFP_SKIP_KASAN for late KFENCE pool and metadata allocations to ensure the memory remains untagged, consistent with early allocations from memblock. To support this, add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN to the allowlist in __alloc_contig_verify_gfp_mask(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260220144940.2779209-1-glider@google.com Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Suggested-by: Ernesto Martinez Garcia <ernesto.martinezgarcia@tugraz.at> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-24mm/kfence: disable KFENCE upon KASAN HW tags enablementAlexander Potapenko
KFENCE does not currently support KASAN hardware tags. As a result, the two features are incompatible when enabled simultaneously. Given that MTE provides deterministic protection and KFENCE is a sampling-based debugging tool, prioritize the stronger hardware protections. Disable KFENCE initialization and free the pre-allocated pool if KASAN hardware tags are detected to ensure the system maintains the security guarantees provided by MTE. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260213095410.1862978-1-glider@google.com Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ernesto Martinez Garcia <ernesto.martinezgarcia@tugraz.at> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari) - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky) - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang) - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code (SeongJae Park) - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc" performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park) - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui Song) - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits) mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table() mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles zsmalloc: make common caches global mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers mm/readahead: fix typo in comment mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file() mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area ...
2026-02-10Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "Lock debugging: - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features (Marco Elver) We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code. Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited in distribution, admittedly) Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives. ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back, if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. ) Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng) - Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool> - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for helper LTO - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function calls WW mutexes: - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz) Misc fixes and cleanups: - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd Bergmann) - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra) - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap) - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir Duberstein)" * tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits) locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers tomoyo: Use scoped init guard crypto: Use scoped init guard kcov: Use scoped init guard compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers ...
2026-01-31Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable to pick up changesAndrew Morton
required to merge "kho: use unsigned long for nr_pages".
2026-01-31mm: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wqMarco Crivellari
Patch series "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users", v2. This series continues the effort to refactor the Workqueue API. No behavior changes are introduced by this series. === Recent changes to the WQ API === The following, address the recent changes in the Workqueue API: - commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq") - commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag") The old workqueues will be removed in a future release cycle and unbound will become the implicit default. === Introduced Changes by this series === 1) [P 1-2] Replace use of system_wq and system_unbound_wq Workqueue users converted to the better named new workqueues: system_wq -> system_percpu_wq system_unbound_wq -> system_dfl_wq This way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be removed in the future. 2) [P 3] add WQ_PERCPU to remaining alloc_workqueue() users With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND), any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND must now use WQ_PERCPU. WQ_UNBOUND will be removed in future. For more information: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/ This patch (of 3): This patch continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which has begun with the changes introducing new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag: commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq") commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag") The point of the refactoring is to eventually alter the default behavior of workqueues to become unbound by default so that their workload placement is optimized by the scheduler. Before that to happen, workqueue users must be converted to the better named new workqueues with no intended behaviour changes: system_wq -> system_percpu_wq system_unbound_wq -> system_dfl_wq This way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be removed in the future. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113114630.152942-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113114630.152942-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lai jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26mm/kfence: randomize the freelist on initializationPimyn Girgis
Randomize the KFENCE freelist during pool initialization to make allocation patterns less predictable. This is achieved by shuffling the order in which metadata objects are added to the freelist using get_random_u32_below(). Additionally, ensure the error path correctly calculates the address range to be reset if initialization fails, as the address increment logic has been moved to a separate loop. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260120161510.3289089-1-pimyn@google.com Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Pimyn Girgis <pimyn@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Ernesto Martnez Garca <ernesto.martinezgarcia@tugraz.at> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20mm: fix benign off-by-one bugsAlejandro Colomar
We were wasting a byte due to an off-by-one bug. s[c]nprintf() doesn't write more than $2 bytes including the null byte, so trying to pass 'size-1' there is wasting one byte. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9c38dd009c17b0219889c7089d9bdde5aaf28a8e.1765449750.git.alx@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Christopher Bazley <chris.bazley.wg14@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20mm/kfence: fix potential deadlock in reboot notifierBreno Leitao
The reboot notifier callback can deadlock when calling cancel_delayed_work_sync() if toggle_allocation_gate() is blocked in wait_event_idle() waiting for allocations, that might not happen on shutdown path. The issue is that cancel_delayed_work_sync() waits for the work to complete, but the work is waiting for kfence_allocation_gate > 0 which requires allocations to happen (each allocation is increased by 1) - allocations that may have stopped during shutdown. Fix this by: 1. Using cancel_delayed_work() (non-sync) to avoid blocking. Now the callback succeeds and return. 2. Adding wake_up() to unblock any waiting toggle_allocation_gate() 3. Adding !kfence_enabled to the wait condition so the wake succeeds The static_branch_disable() IPI will still execute after the wake, but at this early point in shutdown (reboot notifier runs with INT_MAX priority), the system is still functional and CPUs can respond to IPIs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116-kfence_fix-v1-1-4165a055933f@debian.org Fixes: ce2bba89566b ("mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260113140234.677117-1-clm@meta.com/ Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-05kfence: Enable context analysisMarco Elver
Enable context analysis for the KFENCE subsystem. Notable, kfence_handle_page_fault() required minor restructure, which also fixed a subtle race; arguably that function is more readable now. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-29-elver@google.com
2025-12-05Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki) Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT) "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin) Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited across fork/exec "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park) Some light maintenance work on the zswap code "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over time "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn) Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra) Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov) "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom) Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang) Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting code "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn) Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were causing (harmless) softlockup warnings "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang) Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park) Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan) Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare() "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu) Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a stale kernel pagetable entry "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang) Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song) Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park) "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park) Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the middle of the current targets list "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo) A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He) improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista) Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes) Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park) Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit tests "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang) Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's writeback-for-eviction code "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu) Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region operations "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox) Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park) Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that VMA is merged with another "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh) Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone device-private memory "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan) "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang) Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song) Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem, wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang) A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio writeback support "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt) Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola) Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang) Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park) Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park) Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things up a little [ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu: register device memory for poison handling") because it looks broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity mm: declare VMA flags by bit zram: fix a spelling mistake mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational ...
2025-11-29mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdownBreno Leitao
During system shutdown, KFENCE can cause IPI synchronization issues if it remains active through the reboot process. To prevent this, register a reboot notifier that disables KFENCE and cancels any pending timer work early in the shutdown sequence. This is only necessary when CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS is enabled, as this configuration sends IPIs that can interfere with shutdown. Without static keys, no IPIs are generated and KFENCE can safely remain active. The notifier uses maximum priority (INT_MAX) to ensure KFENCE shuts down before other subsystems that might still depend on stable memory allocation behavior. This fixes a late kexec CSD lockup[1] when kfence is trying to IPI a CPU that is busy in a IRQ-disabled context printing characters to the console. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251127-kfence-v2-1-daeccb5ef9aa@debian.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251126-kfence-v1-1-5a6e1d7c681c@debian.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/sqwajvt7utnt463tzxgwu2yctyn5m6bjwrslsnupfexeml6hkd@v6sqmpbu3vvu/ [1] Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-13slab: Reimplement page_slab()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
In order to separate slabs from folios, we need to convert from any page in a slab to the slab directly without going through a page to folio conversion first. Up to this point, page_slab() has followed the example of other memdesc converters (page_folio(), page_ptdesc() etc) and just cast the pointer to the requested type, regardless of whether the pointer is actually a pointer to the correct type or not. That changes with this commit; we check that the page actually belongs to a slab and return NULL if it does not. Other memdesc converters will adopt this convention in future. kfence was the only user of page_slab(), so adjust it to the new way of working. It will need to be touched again when we separate slab from page. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113000932.1589073-2-willy@infradead.org Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2025-09-21kfence: drop nth_page() usageDavid Hildenbrand
We want to get rid of nth_page(), and kfence init code is the last user. Unfortunately, we might actually walk a PFN range where the pages are not contiguous, because we might be allocating an area from memblock that could span memory sections in problematic kernel configs (SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP). We could check whether the page range is contiguous using page_range_contiguous() and failing kfence init, or making kfence incompatible these problemtic kernel configs. Let's keep it simple and simply use pfn_to_page() by iterating PFNs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-36-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-23kfence: Remove mention of PG_slabMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Improve the documentation slightly, assuming I understood it correctly. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250611155916.2579160-10-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2025-02-01kfence: skip __GFP_THISNODE allocations on NUMA systemsMarco Elver
On NUMA systems, __GFP_THISNODE indicates that an allocation _must_ be on a particular node, and failure to allocate on the desired node will result in a failed allocation. Skip __GFP_THISNODE allocations if we are running on a NUMA system, since KFENCE can't guarantee which node its pool pages are allocated on. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250124120145.410066-1-elver@google.com Fixes: 236e9f153852 ("kfence: skip all GFP_ZONEMASK allocations") Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Chistoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-25mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()Thorsten Blum
Remove hard-coded strings by using the str_write_read() helper function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250115155511.954535-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-14mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()Nirjhar Roy
Faults from copy_from_kernel_nofault() need to be handled by fixup table and should not be handled by kfence. Otherwise while reading /proc/kcore which uses copy_from_kernel_nofault(), kfence can generate false negatives. This can happen when /proc/kcore ends up reading an unmapped address from kfence pool. Let's add a testcase to cover this case. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/210e561f7845697a32de44b643393890f180069f.1729272697.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nirjhar Roy <nirjhar@linux.ibm.com> Co-developed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-26mm: kfence: fix elapsed time for allocated/freed trackqiwu.chen
Fix elapsed time for the allocated/freed track introduced by commit 62e73fd85d7bf. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240924085004.75401-1-qiwu.chen@transsion.com Fixes: 62e73fd85d7b ("mm: kfence: print the elapsed time for allocated/freed track") Signed-off-by: qiwu.chen <qiwu.chen@transsion.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01kfence: save freeing stack trace at calling time instead of freeing timeTianchen Ding
For kmem_cache with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, the freeing trace stack at calling kmem_cache_free() is more useful. While the following stack is meaningless and provides no help: freed by task 46 on cpu 0 at 656.840729s: rcu_do_batch+0x1ab/0x540 nocb_cb_wait+0x8f/0x260 rcu_nocb_cb_kthread+0x25/0x80 kthread+0xd2/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812095517.2357-1-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01mm: kfence: print the elapsed time for allocated/freed trackqiwu.chen
Print the elapsed time for the allocated or freed track, which can be useful in some debugging scenarios. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807025627.37419-1-qiwu.chen@transsion.com Signed-off-by: qiwu.chen <qiwu.chen@transsion.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: chenqiwu <qiwu.chen@transsion.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-01kfence: introduce burst modeMarco Elver
Introduce burst mode, which can be configured with kfence.burst=$count, where the burst count denotes the additional successive slab allocations to be allocated through KFENCE for each sample interval. The idea is that this can give developers an additional knob to make KFENCE more aggressive when debugging specific issues of systems where either rebooting or recompiling the kernel with KASAN is not possible. Experiment: To assess the effectiveness of the new option, we randomly picked a recent out-of-bounds [1] and use-after-free bug [2], each with a reproducer provided by syzbot, that initially detected these bugs with KASAN. We then tried to reproduce the bugs with KFENCE below. [1] Fixed by: 7c55b78818cf ("jfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattr") https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=9d1b59d4718239da6f6069d3891863c25f9f24a2 [2] Fixed by: f8ad00f3fb2a ("l2tp: fix possible UAF when cleaning up tunnels") https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=4f34adc84f4a3b080187c390eeef60611fd450e1 The following KFENCE configs were compared. A pool size of 1023 objects was used for all configurations. Baseline kfence.sample_interval=100 kfence.skip_covered_thresh=75 kfence.burst=0 Aggressive kfence.sample_interval=1 kfence.skip_covered_thresh=10 kfence.burst=0 AggressiveBurst kfence.sample_interval=1 kfence.skip_covered_thresh=10 kfence.burst=1000 Each reproducer was run 10 times (after a fresh reboot), with the following detection counts for each KFENCE config: | Detection Count out of 10 | | OOB [1] | UAF [2] | ------------------+-------------+-------------+ Default | 0/10 | 0/10 | Aggressive | 0/10 | 0/10 | AggressiveBurst | 8/10 | 8/10 | With the Default and even the Aggressive configs the results are unsurprising, given KFENCE has not been designed for deterministic bug detection of small test cases. However, when enabling burst mode with relatively large burst count, KFENCE can start to detect heap memory-safety bugs even in simpler test cases with high probability (in the above cases with ~80% probability). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240805124203.2692278-1-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-10mm: remove CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEMJohannes Weiner
CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM used to be a user-visible option for whether slab tracking is enabled. It has been default-enabled and equivalent to CONFIG_MEMCG for almost a decade. We've only grown more kernel memory accounting sites since, and there is no imaginable cgroup usecase going forward that wants to track user pages but not the multitude of user-drivable kernel allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240701153148.452230-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-03mm: kfence: disable KMSAN when checking the canaryIlya Leoshkevich
KMSAN warns about check_canary() accessing the canary. The reason is that, even though set_canary() is properly instrumented and sets shadow, slub explicitly poisons the canary's address range afterwards. Unpoisoning the canary is not the right thing to do: only check_canary() is supposed to ever touch it. Instead, disable KMSAN checks around canary read accesses. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240621113706.315500-20-iii@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-03mm/kfence: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION()Jeff Johnson
Fix the 'make W=1' warning: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in mm/kfence/kfence_test.o Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240513-mm-md-v1-3-8c20e7d26842@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensionsSuren Baghdasaryan
Currently slab pages can store only vectors of obj_cgroup pointers in page->memcg_data. Introduce slabobj_ext structure to allow more data to be stored for each slab object. Wrap obj_cgroup into slabobj_ext to support current functionality while allowing to extend slabobj_ext in the future. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-7-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-05KFENCE: cleanup kfence_guarded_alloc() after CONFIG_SLAB removalVlastimil Babka
Some struct slab fields are initialized differently for SLAB and SLUB so we can simplify with SLUB being the only remaining allocator. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2023-09-08Merge tag 'loongarch-6.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 ...
2023-09-06kfence: Defer the assignment of the local variable addrEnze Li
The LoongArch architecture is different from other architectures. It needs to update __kfence_pool during arch_kfence_init_pool(). This patch modifies the assignment location of the local variable addr in the kfence_init_pool() function to support the case of updating __kfence_pool in arch_kfence_init_pool(). Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Enze Li <lienze@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
2023-08-29Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options") - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a couple of macros to args.h") - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper commands") - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions") - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot un/plug") - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits) document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread() drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array x86/crash: optimize CPU changes crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu() crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug kstrtox: consistently use _tolower() kill do_each_thread() nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED lockdep: fix static memory detection even more lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition ...
2023-08-29Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages. - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path of mas_store()"). - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements"). - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program"). - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages"). - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED"). - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache"). - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with UFFD"). - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge() check"). - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup"). - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU"). - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages"). - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check"). - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a folio"). - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext"). - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way"). - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration"). - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree"). - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation, from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission upgrade"). - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes for arm64"). - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code ("Two minor cleanups for compaction"). - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle most file-backed faults under the VMA lock"). - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap optimization for ppc64"). - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header"). - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three cleanups"). - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan"). - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to vma_is_initial_heap/stack()"). - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets"). - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction"). - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy"). - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely ("cleanup with helper macro K()"). - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for memmap on memory feature on ppc64"). - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock migratetype"). - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking, "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page"). - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups for vm.memfd_noexec"). - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h"). - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text output"). - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized"). - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor and _folio_order"). - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults"). - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table range API"). - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups"). - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault"). - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation"). * tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits) maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append() secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem() nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize() mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files. mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps() mm: remove enum page_entry_size mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h mm: remove checks for pte_index memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry() mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0 selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check ...
2023-08-21lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.hAndy Shevchenko
Sparse is not happy to see non-static variable without declaration: lib/vsprintf.c:61:6: warning: symbol 'no_hash_pointers' was not declared. Should it be static? Declare respective variable in the sprintf.h. With this, add a comment to discourage its use if no real need. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814163344.17429-3-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-18mm: kfence: allocate kfence_metadata at runtimePeng Zhang
kfence_metadata is currently a static array. For the purpose of allocating scalable __kfence_pool, we first change it to runtime allocation of metadata. Since the size of an object of kfence_metadata is 1160 bytes, we can save at least 72 pages (with default 256 objects) without enabling kfence. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore newline, per Marco] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230718073019.52513-1-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>