This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kmemcheck: remove whats left of NOTRACK flags
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: kmemcheck-remove-whats-left-of-notrack-flags.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From d8be75663cec0069b85f80191abd2682ce4a512f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" alexander.levin@verizon.com Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:35:58 -0800 Subject: kmemcheck: remove whats left of NOTRACK flags
From: Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) alexander.levin@verizon.com
commit d8be75663cec0069b85f80191abd2682ce4a512f upstream.
Now that kmemcheck is gone, we don't need the NOTRACK flags.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-5-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Cc: Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com Cc: Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org Cc: Pekka Enberg penberg@kernel.org Cc: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Tim Hansen devtimhansen@gmail.com Cc: Vegard Nossum vegardno@ifi.uio.no Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 ----- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 13 ------------- include/linux/gfp.h | 9 --------- include/linux/slab.h | 6 ------ include/trace/events/mmflags.h | 1 - mm/slub.c | 2 -- tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c | 1 - 7 files changed, 37 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -668,11 +668,6 @@ static inline bool pte_accessible(struct return false; }
-static inline int pte_hidden(pte_t pte) -{ - return pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_HIDDEN; -} - static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd) { /* --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
#define _PAGE_BIT_SPECIAL _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW1 #define _PAGE_BIT_CPA_TEST _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW1 -#define _PAGE_BIT_HIDDEN _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW3 /* hidden by kmemcheck */ #define _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW3 /* software dirty tracking */ #define _PAGE_BIT_DEVMAP _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW4
@@ -79,18 +78,6 @@ #define _PAGE_KNL_ERRATUM_MASK 0 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK -#define _PAGE_HIDDEN (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_HIDDEN) -#else -#define _PAGE_HIDDEN (_AT(pteval_t, 0)) -#endif - -/* - * The same hidden bit is used by kmemcheck, but since kmemcheck - * works on kernel pages while soft-dirty engine on user space, - * they do not conflict with each other. - */ - #ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY #define _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY) #else --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct; #define ___GFP_THISNODE 0x40000u #define ___GFP_ATOMIC 0x80000u #define ___GFP_ACCOUNT 0x100000u -#define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0x200000u #define ___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM 0x400000u #define ___GFP_WRITE 0x800000u #define ___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM 0x1000000u @@ -201,19 +200,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct; * __GFP_COMP address compound page metadata. * * __GFP_ZERO returns a zeroed page on success. - * - * __GFP_NOTRACK avoids tracking with kmemcheck. - * - * __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE is an alias of __GFP_NOTRACK. It's a means of - * distinguishing in the source between false positives and allocations that - * cannot be supported (e.g. page tables). */ #define __GFP_COLD ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COLD) #define __GFP_NOWARN ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOWARN) #define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP) #define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ZERO) -#define __GFP_NOTRACK ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOTRACK) -#define __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE (__GFP_NOTRACK)
/* Disable lockdep for GFP context tracking */ #define __GFP_NOLOCKDEP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOLOCKDEP) --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -78,12 +78,6 @@
#define SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE 0x00800000UL /* Avoid kmemleak tracing */
-/* Don't track use of uninitialized memory */ -#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK -# define SLAB_NOTRACK 0x01000000UL -#else -# define SLAB_NOTRACK 0x00000000UL -#endif #ifdef CONFIG_FAILSLAB # define SLAB_FAILSLAB 0x02000000UL /* Fault injection mark */ #else --- a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h +++ b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ {(unsigned long)__GFP_RECLAIMABLE, "__GFP_RECLAIMABLE"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_MOVABLE, "__GFP_MOVABLE"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_ACCOUNT, "__GFP_ACCOUNT"}, \ - {(unsigned long)__GFP_NOTRACK, "__GFP_NOTRACK"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_WRITE, "__GFP_WRITE"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_RECLAIM, "__GFP_RECLAIM"}, \ {(unsigned long)__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM, "__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM"},\ --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -5633,8 +5633,6 @@ static char *create_unique_id(struct kme *p++ = 'a'; if (s->flags & SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS) *p++ = 'F'; - if (!(s->flags & SLAB_NOTRACK)) - *p++ = 't'; if (s->flags & SLAB_ACCOUNT) *p++ = 'A'; if (p != name + 1) --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c @@ -655,7 +655,6 @@ static const struct { { "__GFP_RECLAIMABLE", "RC" }, { "__GFP_MOVABLE", "M" }, { "__GFP_ACCOUNT", "AC" }, - { "__GFP_NOTRACK", "NT" }, { "__GFP_WRITE", "WR" }, { "__GFP_RECLAIM", "R" }, { "__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM", "DR" },
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.levin@verizon.com are
queue-4.14/kmemcheck-remove-annotations.patch queue-4.14/kmemcheck-remove-whats-left-of-notrack-flags.patch queue-4.14/kmemcheck-stop-using-gfp_notrack-and-slab_notrack.patch queue-4.14/kmemcheck-rip-it-out.patch