The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/gup: reintroduce FOLL_NUMA as FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-gup-reintroduce-foll_numa-as-foll_honor_numa_fault.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

------------------------------------------------------ From: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Subject: mm/gup: reintroduce FOLL_NUMA as FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 16:32:02 +0200

Unfortunately commit 474098edac26 ("mm/gup: replace FOLL_NUMA by gup_can_follow_protnone()") missed that follow_page() and follow_trans_huge_pmd() never implicitly set FOLL_NUMA because they really don't want to fail on PROT_NONE-mapped pages -- either due to NUMA hinting or due to inaccessible (PROT_NONE) VMAs.

As spelled out in commit 0b9d705297b2 ("mm: numa: Support NUMA hinting page faults from gup/gup_fast"): "Other follow_page callers like KSM should not use FOLL_NUMA, or they would fail to get the pages if they use follow_page instead of get_user_pages."

liubo reported [1] that smaps_rollup results are imprecise, because they miss accounting of pages that are mapped PROT_NONE. Further, it's easy to reproduce that KSM no longer works on inaccessible VMAs on x86-64, because pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone() also indictaes "true" in inaccessible VMAs, and follow_page() refuses to return such pages right now.

As KVM really depends on these NUMA hinting faults, removing the pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone() handling in GUP code completely is not really an option.

To fix the issues at hand, let's revive FOLL_NUMA as FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT to restore the original behavior for now and add better comments.

Set FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT independent of FOLL_FORCE in is_valid_gup_args(), to add that flag for all external GUP users.

Note that there are three GUP-internal __get_user_pages() users that don't end up calling is_valid_gup_args() and consequently won't get FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT set.

1) get_dump_page(): we really don't want to handle NUMA hinting faults. It specifies FOLL_FORCE and wouldn't have honored NUMA hinting faults already. 2) populate_vma_page_range(): we really don't want to handle NUMA hinting faults. It specifies FOLL_FORCE on accessible VMAs, so it wouldn't have honored NUMA hinting faults already. 3) faultin_vma_page_range(): we similarly don't want to handle NUMA hinting faults.

To make the combination of FOLL_FORCE and FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT work in inaccessible VMAs properly, we have to perform VMA accessibility checks in gup_can_follow_protnone().

As GUP-fast should reject such pages either way in pte_access_permitted()/pmd_access_permitted() -- for example on x86-64 and arm64 that both implement pte_protnone() -- let's just always fallback to ordinary GUP when stumbling over pte_protnone()/pmd_protnone().

As Linus notes [2], honoring NUMA faults might only make sense for selected GUP users.

So we should really see if we can instead let relevant GUP callers specify it manually, and not trigger NUMA hinting faults from GUP as default. Prepare for that by making FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT an external GUP flag and adding appropriate documenation.

While at it, remove a stale comment from follow_trans_huge_pmd(): That comment for pmd_protnone() was added in commit 2b4847e73004 ("mm: numa: serialise parallel get_user_page against THP migration"), which noted:

THP does not unmap pages due to a lack of support for migration entries at a PMD level. This allows races with get_user_pages

Nowadays, we do have PMD migration entries, so the comment no longer applies. Let's drop it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726073409.631838-1-liubo254@huawei.com [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgRiP_9X0rRdZKT8nhemZGNateMtb366t37d8-x7VRs=...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230803143208.383663-2-david@redhat.com Fixes: 474098edac26 ("mm/gup: replace FOLL_NUMA by gup_can_follow_protnone()") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Reported-by: liubo liubo254@huawei.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726073409.631838-1-liubo254@huawei.com Reported-by: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZMKJjDaqZ7FW0jfe@x1n/ Acked-by: Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net Acked-by: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca Cc: John Hubbard jhubbard@nvidia.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@suse.de Cc: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

include/linux/mm.h | 21 +++++++++++++++------ include/linux/mm_types.h | 9 +++++++++ mm/gup.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ mm/huge_memory.c | 3 +-- 4 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-gup-reintroduce-foll_numa-as-foll_honor_numa_fault +++ a/include/linux/mm.h @@ -3421,15 +3421,24 @@ static inline int vm_fault_to_errno(vm_f * Indicates whether GUP can follow a PROT_NONE mapped page, or whether * a (NUMA hinting) fault is required. */ -static inline bool gup_can_follow_protnone(unsigned int flags) +static inline bool gup_can_follow_protnone(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned int flags) { /* - * FOLL_FORCE has to be able to make progress even if the VMA is - * inaccessible. Further, FOLL_FORCE access usually does not represent - * application behaviour and we should avoid triggering NUMA hinting - * faults. + * If callers don't want to honor NUMA hinting faults, no need to + * determine if we would actually have to trigger a NUMA hinting fault. */ - return flags & FOLL_FORCE; + if (!(flags & FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT)) + return true; + + /* + * NUMA hinting faults don't apply in inaccessible (PROT_NONE) VMAs. + * + * Requiring a fault here even for inaccessible VMAs would mean that + * FOLL_FORCE cannot make any progress, because handle_mm_fault() + * refuses to process NUMA hinting faults in inaccessible VMAs. + */ + return !vma_is_accessible(vma); }

typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *data); --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-gup-reintroduce-foll_numa-as-foll_honor_numa_fault +++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -1286,6 +1286,15 @@ enum { FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA = 1 << 10, /* allow interrupts from generic signals */ FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE = 1 << 11, + /* + * Always honor (trigger) NUMA hinting faults. + * + * FOLL_WRITE implicitly honors NUMA hinting faults because a + * PROT_NONE-mapped page is not writable (exceptions with FOLL_FORCE + * apply). get_user_pages_fast_only() always implicitly honors NUMA + * hinting faults. + */ + FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT = 1 << 12,

/* See also internal only FOLL flags in mm/internal.h */ }; --- a/mm/gup.c~mm-gup-reintroduce-foll_numa-as-foll_honor_numa_fault +++ a/mm/gup.c @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(stru pte = ptep_get(ptep); if (!pte_present(pte)) goto no_page; - if (pte_protnone(pte) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(flags)) + if (pte_protnone(pte) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(vma, flags)) goto no_page;

page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pte); @@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ static struct page *follow_pmd_mask(stru if (likely(!pmd_trans_huge(pmdval))) return follow_page_pte(vma, address, pmd, flags, &ctx->pgmap);

- if (pmd_protnone(pmdval) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(flags)) + if (pmd_protnone(pmdval) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(vma, flags)) return no_page_table(vma, flags);

ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd); @@ -851,6 +851,10 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(foll_flags & FOLL_PIN)) return NULL;

+ /* + * We never set FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT because callers don't expect + * to fail on PROT_NONE-mapped pages. + */ page = follow_page_mask(vma, address, foll_flags, &ctx); if (ctx.pgmap) put_dev_pagemap(ctx.pgmap); @@ -2227,6 +2231,13 @@ static bool is_valid_gup_args(struct pag gup_flags |= FOLL_UNLOCKABLE; }

+ /* + * For now, always trigger NUMA hinting faults. Some GUP users like + * KVM require the hint to be as the calling context of GUP is + * functionally similar to a memory reference from task context. + */ + gup_flags |= FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT; + /* FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN are mutually exclusive. */ if (WARN_ON_ONCE((gup_flags & (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET)) == (FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET))) @@ -2551,7 +2562,14 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, pmd_ struct page *page; struct folio *folio;

- if (pte_protnone(pte) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(flags)) + /* + * Always fallback to ordinary GUP on PROT_NONE-mapped pages: + * pte_access_permitted() better should reject these pages + * either way: otherwise, GUP-fast might succeed in + * cases where ordinary GUP would fail due to VMA access + * permissions. + */ + if (pte_protnone(pte)) goto pte_unmap;

if (!pte_access_permitted(pte, flags & FOLL_WRITE)) @@ -2970,8 +2988,8 @@ static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t *pudp, pu

if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(pmd) || pmd_huge(pmd) || pmd_devmap(pmd))) { - if (pmd_protnone(pmd) && - !gup_can_follow_protnone(flags)) + /* See gup_pte_range() */ + if (pmd_protnone(pmd)) return 0;

if (!gup_huge_pmd(pmd, pmdp, addr, next, flags, @@ -3151,7 +3169,7 @@ static int internal_get_user_pages_fast( if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gup_flags & ~(FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_PIN | FOLL_GET | FOLL_FAST_ONLY | FOLL_NOFAULT | - FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA))) + FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA | FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT))) return -EINVAL;

if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-gup-reintroduce-foll_numa-as-foll_honor_numa_fault +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1467,8 +1467,7 @@ struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struc if ((flags & FOLL_DUMP) && is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmd)) return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);

- /* Full NUMA hinting faults to serialise migration in fault paths */ - if (pmd_protnone(*pmd) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(flags)) + if (pmd_protnone(*pmd) && !gup_can_follow_protnone(vma, flags)) return NULL;

if (!pmd_write(*pmd) && gup_must_unshare(vma, flags, page)) _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@redhat.com are

kvm-explicitly-set-foll_honor_numa_fault-in-hva_to_pfn_slow.patch mm-gup-dont-implicitly-set-foll_honor_numa_fault.patch pgtable-improve-pte_protnone-comment.patch selftest-mm-ksm_functional_tests-test-in-mmap_and_merge_range-if-anything-got-merged.patch selftest-mm-ksm_functional_tests-add-prot_none-test.patch selftest-mm-ksm_functional_tests-add-prot_none-test-fix.patch mm-swap-stop-using-page-private-on-tail-pages-for-thp_swap.patch mm-swap-inline-folio_set_swap_entry-and-folio_swap_entry.patch mm-huge_memory-work-on-folio-swap-instead-of-page-private-when-splitting-folio.patch