Merge tag 'v5.10-rc1' into asoc-5.10

Linux 5.10-rc1

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
"Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memcg, migration,
pagemap, gup, madvise, vmalloc), ia64, and mi

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
"Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memcg, migration,
pagemap, gup, madvise, vmalloc), ia64, and misc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (31 commits)
mm: remove duplicate include statement in mmu.c
mm: remove the filename in the top of file comment in vmalloc.c
mm: cleanup the gfp_mask handling in __vmalloc_area_node
mm: remove alloc_vm_area
x86/xen: open code alloc_vm_area in arch_gnttab_valloc
xen/xenbus: use apply_to_page_range directly in xenbus_map_ring_pv
drm/i915: use vmap in i915_gem_object_map
drm/i915: stop using kmap in i915_gem_object_map
drm/i915: use vmap in shmem_pin_map
zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area
mm: allow a NULL fn callback in apply_to_page_range
mm: add a vmap_pfn function
mm: add a VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES flag for vmap
mm: update the documentation for vfree
mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API
pid: move pidfd_get_pid() to pid.c
mm/madvise: pass mm to do_madvise
selftests/vm: 10x speedup for hmm-tests
binfmt_elf: take the mmap lock around find_extend_vma()
mm/gup_benchmark: take the mmap lock around GUP
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mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API

There is usecase that System Management Software(SMS) want to give a
memory hint like MADV_[COLD|PAGEEOUT] to other pr

mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API

There is usecase that System Management Software(SMS) want to give a
memory hint like MADV_[COLD|PAGEEOUT] to other processes and in the
case of Android, it is the ActivityManagerService.

The information required to make the reclaim decision is not known to the
app. Instead, it is known to the centralized userspace
daemon(ActivityManagerService), and that daemon must be able to initiate
reclaim on its own without any app involvement.

To solve the issue, this patch introduces a new syscall
process_madvise(2). It uses pidfd of an external process to give the
hint. It also supports vector address range because Android app has
thousands of vmas due to zygote so it's totally waste of CPU and power if
we should call the syscall one by one for each vma.(With testing 2000-vma
syscall vs 1-vector syscall, it showed 15% performance improvement. I
think it would be bigger in real practice because the testing ran very
cache friendly environment).

Another potential use case for the vector range is to amortize the cost
ofTLB shootdowns for multiple ranges when using MADV_DONTNEED; this could
benefit users like TCP receive zerocopy and malloc implementations. In
future, we could find more usecases for other advises so let's make it
happens as API since we introduce a new syscall at this moment. With
that, existing madvise(2) user could replace it with process_madvise(2)
with their own pid if they want to have batch address ranges support
feature.

ince it could affect other process's address range, only privileged
process(PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS) or something else(e.g., being the same
UID) gives it the right to ptrace the process could use it successfully.
The flag argument is reserved for future use if we need to extend the API.

I think supporting all hints madvise has/will supported/support to
process_madvise is rather risky. Because we are not sure all hints make
sense from external process and implementation for the hint may rely on
the caller being in the current context so it could be error-prone. Thus,
I just limited hints as MADV_[COLD|PAGEOUT] in this patch.

If someone want to add other hints, we could hear the usecase and review
it for each hint. It's safer for maintenance rather than introducing a
buggy syscall but hard to fix it later.

So finally, the API is as follows,

ssize_t process_madvise(int pidfd, const struct iovec *iovec,
unsigned long vlen, int advice, unsigned int flags);

DESCRIPTION
The process_madvise() system call is used to give advice or directions
to the kernel about the address ranges from external process as well as
local process. It provides the advice to address ranges of process
described by iovec and vlen. The goal of such advice is to improve
system or application performance.

The pidfd selects the process referred to by the PID file descriptor
specified in pidfd. (See pidofd_open(2) for further information)

The pointer iovec points to an array of iovec structures, defined in
<sys/uio.h> as:

struct iovec {
void *iov_base; /* starting address */
size_t iov_len; /* number of bytes to be advised */
};

The iovec describes address ranges beginning at address(iov_base)
and with size length of bytes(iov_len).

The vlen represents the number of elements in iovec.

The advice is indicated in the advice argument, which is one of the
following at this moment if the target process specified by pidfd is
external.

MADV_COLD
MADV_PAGEOUT

Permission to provide a hint to external process is governed by a
ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2).

The process_madvise supports every advice madvise(2) has if target
process is in same thread group with calling process so user could
use process_madvise(2) to extend existing madvise(2) to support
vector address ranges.

RETURN VALUE
On success, process_madvise() returns the number of bytes advised.
This return value may be less than the total number of requested
bytes, if an error occurred. The caller should check return value
to determine whether a partial advice occurred.

FAQ:

Q.1 - Why does any external entity have better knowledge?

Quote from Sandeep

"For Android, every application (including the special SystemServer)
are forked from Zygote. The reason of course is to share as many
libraries and classes between the two as possible to benefit from the
preloading during boot.

After applications start, (almost) all of the APIs end up calling into
this SystemServer process over IPC (binder) and back to the
application.

In a fully running system, the SystemServer monitors every single
process periodically to calculate their PSS / RSS and also decides
which process is "important" to the user for interactivity.

So, because of how these processes start _and_ the fact that the
SystemServer is looping to monitor each process, it does tend to *know*
which address range of the application is not used / useful.

Besides, we can never rely on applications to clean things up
themselves. We've had the "hey app1, the system is low on memory,
please trim your memory usage down" notifications for a long time[1].
They rely on applications honoring the broadcasts and very few do.

So, if we want to avoid the inevitable killing of the application and
restarting it, some way to be able to tell the OS about unimportant
memory in these applications will be useful.

- ssp

Q.2 - How to guarantee the race(i.e., object validation) between when
giving a hint from an external process and get the hint from the target
process?

process_madvise operates on the target process's address space as it
exists at the instant that process_madvise is called. If the space
target process can run between the time the process_madvise process
inspects the target process address space and the time that
process_madvise is actually called, process_madvise may operate on
memory regions that the calling process does not expect. It's the
responsibility of the process calling process_madvise to close this
race condition. For example, the calling process can suspend the
target process with ptrace, SIGSTOP, or the freezer cgroup so that it
doesn't have an opportunity to change its own address space before
process_madvise is called. Another option is to operate on memory
regions that the caller knows a priori will be unchanged in the target
process. Yet another option is to accept the race for certain
process_madvise calls after reasoning that mistargeting will do no
harm. The suggested API itself does not provide synchronization. It
also apply other APIs like move_pages, process_vm_write.

The race isn't really a problem though. Why is it so wrong to require
that callers do their own synchronization in some manner? Nobody
objects to write(2) merely because it's possible for two processes to
open the same file and clobber each other's writes --- instead, we tell
people to use flock or something. Think about mmap. It never
guarantees newly allocated address space is still valid when the user
tries to access it because other threads could unmap the memory right
before. That's where we need synchronization by using other API or
design from userside. It shouldn't be part of API itself. If someone
needs more fine-grained synchronization rather than process level,
there were two ideas suggested - cookie[2] and anon-fd[3]. Both are
applicable via using last reserved argument of the API but I don't
think it's necessary right now since we have already ways to prevent
the race so don't want to add additional complexity with more
fine-grained optimization model.

To make the API extend, it reserved an unsigned long as last argument
so we could support it in future if someone really needs it.

Q.3 - Why doesn't ptrace work?

Injecting an madvise in the target process using ptrace would not work
for us because such injected madvise would have to be executed by the
target process, which means that process would have to be runnable and
that creates the risk of the abovementioned race and hinting a wrong
VMA. Furthermore, we want to act the hint in caller's context, not the
callee's, because the callee is usually limited in cpuset/cgroups or
even freezed state so they can't act by themselves quick enough, which
causes more thrashing/kill. It doesn't work if the target process are
ptraced(e.g., strace, debugger, minidump) because a process can have at
most one ptracer.

[1] https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/memory"

[2] process_getinfo for getting the cookie which is updated whenever
vma of process address layout are changed - Daniel Colascione -
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190520035254.57579-1-minchan@kernel.org/T/#m7694416fd179b2066a2c62b5b139b14e3894e224

[3] anonymous fd which is used for the object(i.e., address range)
validation - Michal Hocko -
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120112722.GY18451@dhcp22.suse.cz/

[minchan@kernel.org: fix process_madvise build break for arm64]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303145756.GA219683@google.com
[minchan@kernel.org: fix build error for mips of process_madvise]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508052517.GA197378@google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix patch ordering issue]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm64 whoops]
[minchan@kernel.org: make process_madvise() vlen arg have type size_t, per Florian]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 build]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix syscall numbering]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200905142639.49fc3f1a@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: madvise.c needs compat.h]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908204547.285646b4@canb.auug.org.au
[minchan@kernel.org: fix mips build]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200909173655.GC2435453@google.com
[yuehaibing@huawei.com: remove duplicate header which is included twice]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915121550.30584-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
[minchan@kernel.org: do not use helper functions for process_madvise]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921175539.GB387368@google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: pidfd_get_pid() gained an argument]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix up for "iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec"]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200928212542.468e1fef@canb.auug.org.au

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302193630.68771-3-minchan@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508183320.GA125527@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622192900.22757-4-minchan@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200901000633.1920247-4-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'for-5.10/core' into for-linus

- nonblocking read semantics fix for hid-debug

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

Sync drm-intel-gt-next here so we can have an unified fixes flow.

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

Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next

Back-merge to apply the tasklet conversion patches that are based
on the already applied tasklet API changes on 5.9-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@su

Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next

Back-merge to apply the tasklet conversion patches that are based
on the already applied tasklet API changes on 5.9-rc4.

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

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Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Sync with Linus' branch in order to be able to apply fixups
of more recent patches.

Merge v5.9-rc1 into drm-misc-next

Sam needs 5.9-rc1 to have dev_err_probe in to merge some patches.

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

Merge branch 'linus' into smp/urgent

Ensure that all usage sites of get/put_online_cpus() except for the
struggler in drivers/thermal are gone. So the last user and the deprecated
inlines can be rem

Merge branch 'linus' into smp/urgent

Ensure that all usage sites of get/put_online_cpus() except for the
struggler in drivers/thermal are gone. So the last user and the deprecated
inlines can be removed.

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.15 merge window.

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"173 patches.

Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug,
pagecache, gup, swap, shme

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"173 patches.

Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug,
pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap,
bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure,
hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock,
oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (173 commits)
mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise()
mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value
mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation
mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments
mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated()
selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages
selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test
mm: KSM: fix data type
selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test
selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test
selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test
selftests: vm: add KSM merge test
mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation
mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease
mm: introduce process_mrelease system call
memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private
mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node()
mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies
mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
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mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease

Split off from prev patch in the series that implements the syscall.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809185259.405936-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Su

mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease

Split off from prev patch in the series that implements the syscall.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809185259.405936-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull exit cleanups from Eric Biederman:
"In preparation of doing something about PTRA

Merge branch 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull exit cleanups from Eric Biederman:
"In preparation of doing something about PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT I have
started cleaning up various pieces of code related to do_exit. Most of
that code I did not manage to get tested and reviewed before the merge
window opened but a handful of very useful cleanups are ready to be
merged.

The first change is simply the removal of the bdflush system call. The
code has now been disabled long enough that even the oldest userspace
working userspace setups anyone can find to test are fine with the
bdflush system call being removed.

Changing m68k fsp040_die to use force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) instead of
calling do_exit directly is interesting only in that it is nearly the
most difficult of the incorrect uses of do_exit to remove.

The change to the seccomp code to simply send a signal instead of
calling do_coredump directly is a very nice little cleanup made
possible by realizing the existing signal sending helpers were missing
a little bit of functionality that is easy to provide"

* 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
signal/seccomp: Dump core when there is only one live thread
signal/seccomp: Refactor seccomp signal and coredump generation
signal/m68k: Use force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) in fpsp040_die
exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Merge branch 'fixes-v5.14' into fixes

Merge tag 'v5.13' into next

Sync up with the mainline to get the latest parport API.

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

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

Reference: https://patc

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

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

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

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

Catching up with 5.14-rc1

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

exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call

The bdflush system call has been deprecated for a very long time.
Recently Michael Schmitz tested[1] and found that the last known
caller of o

exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call

The bdflush system call has been deprecated for a very long time.
Recently Michael Schmitz tested[1] and found that the last known
caller of of the bdflush system call is unaffected by it's removal.

Since the code is not needed delete it.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36123b5d-daa0-6c2b-f2d4-a942f069fd54@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87sg10quue.fsf_-_@disp2133
Tested-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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Merge tag 'fs_for_v5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

Pull misc fs updates from Jan Kara:
"The new quotactl_fd() syscall (remake of quotactl_path() syscall tha

Merge tag 'fs_for_v5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

Pull misc fs updates from Jan Kara:
"The new quotactl_fd() syscall (remake of quotactl_path() syscall that
got introduced & disabled in 5.13 cycle), and couple of udf, reiserfs,
isofs, and writeback fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'fs_for_v5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
writeback: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg css
quota: remove unnecessary oom message
isofs: remove redundant continue statement
quota: Wire up quotactl_fd syscall
quota: Change quotactl_path() systcall to an fd-based one
reiserfs: Remove unneed check in reiserfs_write_full_page()
udf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in udf_symlink function
reiserfs: add check for invalid 1st journal block

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

Bring drm-intel-next closer to drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next for a more
feasible baseline for topic branches.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.c

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

Bring drm-intel-next closer to drm-next and drm-intel-gt-next for a more
feasible baseline for topic branches.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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Merge branch 'cpufreq/cppc-fie' into cpufreq/arm/linux-next