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<updated>2022-10-11T00:53:04Z</updated>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
   linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
   negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

 - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
   tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
   right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
   contention.

   Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
   could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

   Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
   at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
   timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

 - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
   clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
   to the single bit level.

   KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

 - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
   memory into THPs.

 - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   support file/shmem-backed pages.

 - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

 - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

 - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
   memory-failure

 - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
   page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

 - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
   memory consumption.

 - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

 - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

 - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

 - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

 - migration enhancements from Peter Xu

 - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

 - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
   tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
   drivers, etc.

 - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

 - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

 - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
   activity.

 - THP &amp; KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

 - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

 - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

 - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

 - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

 - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

 - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
  hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
  hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock-&gt;vma pointer
  hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
  mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
  mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
  mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
  mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
  mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
  mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
  mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
  mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
  mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
  selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
  selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
  selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
  selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
  mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
  mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: multi-gen LRU: admin guide</title>
<updated>2022-09-27T02:46:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Zhao</name>
<email>yuzhao@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-18T08:00:10Z</published>
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Add an admin guide.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-14-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) &lt;heftig@archlinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Barrett &lt;steven@liquorix.net&gt;
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne &lt;djbyrne@mtu.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Donald Carr &lt;d@chaos-reins.com&gt;
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov &lt;Hi-Angel@yandex.ru&gt;
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai &lt;szhai2@cs.rochester.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh &lt;sofia.trinh@edi.works&gt;
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Larabel &lt;Michael@MichaelLarabel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: multi-gen LRU: kill switch</title>
<updated>2022-09-27T02:46:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Zhao</name>
<email>yuzhao@google.com</email>
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<published>2022-09-18T08:00:07Z</published>
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Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled as a kill switch. Components that
can be disabled include:
  0x0001: the multi-gen LRU core
  0x0002: walking page table, when arch_has_hw_pte_young() returns
          true
  0x0004: clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries, when
          CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y
  [yYnN]: apply to all the components above
E.g.,
  echo y &gt;/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  0x0007
  echo 5 &gt;/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  0x0005

NB: the page table walks happen on the scale of seconds under heavy memory
pressure, in which case the mmap_lock contention is a lesser concern,
compared with the LRU lock contention and the I/O congestion.  So far the
only well-known case of the mmap_lock contention happens on Android, due
to Scudo [1] which allocates several thousand VMAs for merely a few
hundred MBs.  The SPF and the Maple Tree also have provided their own
assessments [2][3].  However, if walking page tables does worsen the
mmap_lock contention, the kill switch can be used to disable it.  In this
case the multi-gen LRU will suffer a minor performance degradation, as
shown previously.

Clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries can also be disabled,
since this behavior was not tested on x86 varieties other than Intel and
AMD.

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/scudo
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220128131006.67712-1-michel@lespinasse.org/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220426150616.3937571-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-11-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) &lt;heftig@archlinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Barrett &lt;steven@liquorix.net&gt;
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne &lt;djbyrne@mtu.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Donald Carr &lt;d@chaos-reins.com&gt;
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov &lt;Hi-Angel@yandex.ru&gt;
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai &lt;szhai2@cs.rochester.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh &lt;sofia.trinh@edi.works&gt;
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Larabel &lt;Michael@MichaelLarabel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation</title>
<updated>2022-09-27T02:46:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Zhao</name>
<email>yuzhao@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-18T08:00:03Z</published>
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To avoid confusion, the terms "promotion" and "demotion" will be applied
to the multi-gen LRU, as a new convention; the terms "activation" and
"deactivation" will be applied to the active/inactive LRU, as usual.

The aging produces young generations.  Given an lruvec, it increments
max_seq when max_seq-min_seq+1 approaches MIN_NR_GENS.  The aging promotes
hot pages to the youngest generation when it finds them accessed through
page tables; the demotion of cold pages happens consequently when it
increments max_seq.  Promotion in the aging path does not involve any LRU
list operations, only the updates of the gen counter and
lrugen-&gt;nr_pages[]; demotion, unless as the result of the increment of
max_seq, requires LRU list operations, e.g., lru_deactivate_fn().  The
aging has the complexity O(nr_hot_pages), since it is only interested in
hot pages.

The eviction consumes old generations.  Given an lruvec, it increments
min_seq when lrugen-&gt;lists[] indexed by min_seq%MAX_NR_GENS becomes empty.
A feedback loop modeled after the PID controller monitors refaults over
anon and file types and decides which type to evict when both types are
available from the same generation.

The protection of pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors
takes place in the eviction path.  Each generation is divided into
multiple tiers.  A page accessed N times through file descriptors is in
tier order_base_2(N).  Tiers do not have dedicated lrugen-&gt;lists[], only
bits in folio-&gt;flags.  The aforementioned feedback loop also monitors
refaults over all tiers and decides when to protect pages in which tiers
(N&gt;1), using the first tier (N=0,1) as a baseline.  The first tier
contains single-use unmapped clean pages, which are most likely the best
choices.  In contrast to promotion in the aging path, the protection of a
page in the eviction path is achieved by moving this page to the next
generation, i.e., min_seq+1, if the feedback loop decides so.  This
approach has the following advantages:

1. It removes the cost of activation in the buffered access path by
   inferring whether pages accessed multiple times through file
   descriptors are statistically hot and thus worth protecting in the
   eviction path.
2. It takes pages accessed through page tables into account and avoids
   overprotecting pages accessed multiple times through file
   descriptors. (Pages accessed through page tables are in the first
   tier, since N=0.)
3. More tiers provide better protection for pages accessed more than
   twice through file descriptors, when under heavy buffered I/O
   workloads.

Server benchmark results:
  Single workload:
    fio (buffered I/O): +[30, 32]%
                IOPS         BW
      5.19-rc1: 2673k        10.2GiB/s
      patch1-6: 3491k        13.3GiB/s

  Single workload:
    memcached (anon): -[4, 6]%
                Ops/sec      KB/sec
      5.19-rc1: 1161501.04   45177.25
      patch1-6: 1106168.46   43025.04

  Configurations:
    CPU: two Xeon 6154
    Mem: total 256G

    Node 1 was only used as a ram disk to reduce the variance in the
    results.

    patch drivers/block/brd.c &lt;&lt;EOF
    99,100c99,100
    &lt; 	gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
    &lt; 	page = alloc_page(gfp_flags);
    ---
    &gt; 	gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_THISNODE;
    &gt; 	page = alloc_pages_node(1, gfp_flags, 0);
    EOF

    cat &gt;&gt;/etc/systemd/system.conf &lt;&lt;EOF
    CPUAffinity=numa
    NUMAPolicy=bind
    NUMAMask=0
    EOF

    cat &gt;&gt;/etc/memcached.conf &lt;&lt;EOF
    -m 184320
    -s /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock
    -a 0766
    -t 36
    -B binary
    EOF

    cat fio.sh
    modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=113246208
    swapoff -a
    mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram0
    mount -t ext4 /dev/ram0 /mnt

    mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/test
    echo 38654705664 &gt;/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/test/memory.max
    echo $$ &gt;/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/test/cgroup.procs
    fio -name=mglru --numjobs=72 --directory=/mnt --size=1408m \
      --buffered=1 --ioengine=io_uring --iodepth=128 \
      --iodepth_batch_submit=32 --iodepth_batch_complete=32 \
      --rw=randread --random_distribution=random --norandommap \
      --time_based --ramp_time=10m --runtime=5m --group_reporting

    cat memcached.sh
    modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=113246208
    swapoff -a
    mkswap /dev/ram0
    swapon /dev/ram0

    memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \
      -P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \
      --key-maximum=65000000 --key-pattern=P:P -c 1 -t 36 \
      --ratio 1:0 --pipeline 8 -d 2000

    memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \
      -P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \
      --key-maximum=65000000 --key-pattern=R:R -c 1 -t 36 \
      --ratio 0:1 --pipeline 8 --randomize --distinct-client-seed

Client benchmark results:
  kswapd profiles:
    5.19-rc1
      40.33%  page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
      21.80%  lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
       7.53%  do_raw_spin_lock
       3.95%  _raw_spin_unlock_irq
       2.52%  vma_interval_tree_iter_next
       2.37%  folio_referenced_one
       2.28%  vma_interval_tree_subtree_search
       1.97%  anon_vma_interval_tree_iter_first
       1.60%  ptep_clear_flush
       1.06%  __zram_bvec_write

    patch1-6
      39.03%  lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
      18.47%  page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
       6.74%  _raw_spin_unlock_irq
       3.97%  do_raw_spin_lock
       2.49%  ptep_clear_flush
       2.48%  anon_vma_interval_tree_iter_first
       1.92%  folio_referenced_one
       1.88%  __zram_bvec_write
       1.48%  memmove
       1.31%  vma_interval_tree_iter_next

  Configurations:
    CPU: single Snapdragon 7c
    Mem: total 4G

    ChromeOS MemoryPressure [1]

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/tast-tests/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-7-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) &lt;heftig@archlinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Barrett &lt;steven@liquorix.net&gt;
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne &lt;djbyrne@mtu.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Donald Carr &lt;d@chaos-reins.com&gt;
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov &lt;Hi-Angel@yandex.ru&gt;
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai &lt;szhai2@cs.rochester.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh &lt;sofia.trinh@edi.works&gt;
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Larabel &lt;Michael@MichaelLarabel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork</title>
<updated>2022-09-27T02:46:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Zhao</name>
<email>yuzhao@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-18T08:00:02Z</published>
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Evictable pages are divided into multiple generations for each lruvec.
The youngest generation number is stored in lrugen-&gt;max_seq for both
anon and file types as they are aged on an equal footing. The oldest
generation numbers are stored in lrugen-&gt;min_seq[] separately for anon
and file types as clean file pages can be evicted regardless of swap
constraints. These three variables are monotonically increasing.

Generation numbers are truncated into order_base_2(MAX_NR_GENS+1) bits
in order to fit into the gen counter in folio-&gt;flags. Each truncated
generation number is an index to lrugen-&gt;lists[]. The sliding window
technique is used to track at least MIN_NR_GENS and at most
MAX_NR_GENS generations. The gen counter stores a value within [1,
MAX_NR_GENS] while a page is on one of lrugen-&gt;lists[]. Otherwise it
stores 0.

There are two conceptually independent procedures: "the aging", which
produces young generations, and "the eviction", which consumes old
generations.  They form a closed-loop system, i.e., "the page reclaim". 
Both procedures can be invoked from userspace for the purposes of working
set estimation and proactive reclaim.  These techniques are commonly used
to optimize job scheduling (bin packing) in data centers [1][2].

To avoid confusion, the terms "hot" and "cold" will be applied to the
multi-gen LRU, as a new convention; the terms "active" and "inactive" will
be applied to the active/inactive LRU, as usual.

The protection of hot pages and the selection of cold pages are based
on page access channels and patterns. There are two access channels:
one through page tables and the other through file descriptors. The
protection of the former channel is by design stronger because:
1. The uncertainty in determining the access patterns of the former
   channel is higher due to the approximation of the accessed bit.
2. The cost of evicting the former channel is higher due to the TLB
   flushes required and the likelihood of encountering the dirty bit.
3. The penalty of underprotecting the former channel is higher because
   applications usually do not prepare themselves for major page
   faults like they do for blocked I/O. E.g., GUI applications
   commonly use dedicated I/O threads to avoid blocking rendering
   threads.

There are also two access patterns: one with temporal locality and the
other without.  For the reasons listed above, the former channel is
assumed to follow the former pattern unless VM_SEQ_READ or VM_RAND_READ is
present; the latter channel is assumed to follow the latter pattern unless
outlying refaults have been observed [3][4].

The next patch will address the "outlying refaults".  Three macros, i.e.,
LRU_REFS_WIDTH, LRU_REFS_PGOFF and LRU_REFS_MASK, used later are added in
this patch to make the entire patchset less diffy.

A page is added to the youngest generation on faulting.  The aging needs
to check the accessed bit at least twice before handing this page over to
the eviction.  The first check takes care of the accessed bit set on the
initial fault; the second check makes sure this page has not been used
since then.  This protocol, AKA second chance, requires a minimum of two
generations, hence MIN_NR_GENS.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297858.3304053
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3503222.3507731
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/495543/
[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/815342/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-6-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) &lt;heftig@archlinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Barrett &lt;steven@liquorix.net&gt;
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne &lt;djbyrne@mtu.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Donald Carr &lt;d@chaos-reins.com&gt;
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov &lt;Hi-Angel@yandex.ru&gt;
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai &lt;szhai2@cs.rochester.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh &lt;sofia.trinh@edi.works&gt;
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Larabel &lt;Michael@MichaelLarabel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/compaction: Get rid of RT ifdeffery</title>
<updated>2022-09-19T12:35:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-25T16:41:29Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/commit/?id=c7e0b3d088717d148707cd6fcb12f97c6fd961c1'/>
<id>urn:sha1:c7e0b3d088717d148707cd6fcb12f97c6fd961c1</id>
<content type='text'>
Move the RT dependency for the initial value of
sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed into Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825164131.402717-7-bigeasy@linutronix.de

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove EXPERIMENTAL flag for zswap</title>
<updated>2022-09-12T03:26:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Heidelberg</name>
<email>david@ixit.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T15:20:33Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/commit/?id=fcab9b441d2d0e08f55654a4adf2d51cd4680469'/>
<id>urn:sha1:fcab9b441d2d0e08f55654a4adf2d51cd4680469</id>
<content type='text'>
zswap has been with us since 2013, and it's widely used in many products.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220823152033.66682-1-david@ixit.cz
Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg &lt;david@ixit.cz&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitaly.wool@konsulko.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjenning@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cxl-for-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl</title>
<updated>2022-08-10T18:07:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-10T18:07:26Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/commit/?id=c235698355fa94df7073b51befda7d4be00a0e23'/>
<id>urn:sha1:c235698355fa94df7073b51befda7d4be00a0e23</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull cxl updates from Dan Williams:
 "Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for 6.0:

   - Introduce a 'struct cxl_region' object with support for
     provisioning and assembling persistent memory regions.

   - Introduce alloc_free_mem_region() to accompany the existing
     request_free_mem_region() as a method to allocate physical memory
     capacity out of an existing resource.

   - Export insert_resource_expand_to_fit() for the CXL subsystem to
     late-publish CXL platform windows in iomem_resource.

   - Add a polled mode PCI DOE (Data Object Exchange) driver service and
     use it in cxl_pci to retrieve the CDAT (Coherent Device Attribute
     Table)"

* tag 'cxl-for-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: (74 commits)
  cxl/hdm: Fix skip allocations vs multiple pmem allocations
  cxl/region: Disallow region granularity != window granularity
  cxl/region: Fix x1 interleave to greater than x1 interleave routing
  cxl/region: Move HPA setup to cxl_region_attach()
  cxl/region: Fix decoder interleave programming
  Documentation: cxl: remove dangling kernel-doc reference
  cxl/region: describe targets and nr_targets members of cxl_region_params
  cxl/regions: add padding for cxl_rr_ep_add nested lists
  cxl/region: Fix IS_ERR() vs NULL check
  cxl/region: Fix region reference target accounting
  cxl/region: Fix region commit uninitialized variable warning
  cxl/region: Fix port setup uninitialized variable warnings
  cxl/region: Stop initializing interleave granularity
  cxl/hdm: Fix DPA reservation vs cxl_endpoint_decoder lifetime
  cxl/acpi: Minimize granularity for x1 interleaves
  cxl/region: Delete 'region' attribute from root decoders
  cxl/acpi: Autoload driver for 'cxl_acpi' test devices
  cxl/region: decrement -&gt;nr_targets on error in cxl_region_attach()
  cxl/region: prevent underflow in ways_to_cxl()
  cxl/region: uninitialized variable in alloc_hpa()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-08-05T23:32:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-05T23:32:45Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/commit/?id=6614a3c3164a5df2b54abb0b3559f51041cf705b'/>
<id>urn:sha1:6614a3c3164a5df2b54abb0b3559f51041cf705b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of the MM queue. A few things are still pending.

  Liam's maple tree rework didn't make it. This has resulted in a few
  other minor patch series being held over for next time.

  Multi-gen LRU still isn't merged as we were waiting for mapletree to
  stabilize. The current plan is to merge MGLRU into -mm soon and to
  later reintroduce mapletree, with a view to hopefully getting both
  into 6.1-rc1.

  Summary:

   - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe
     Lin, Yang Shi, Anshuman Khandual and Mike Rapoport

   - Some kmemleak fixes from Patrick Wang and Waiman Long

   - DAMON updates from SeongJae Park

   - memcg debug/visibility work from Roman Gushchin

   - vmalloc speedup from Uladzislau Rezki

   - more folio conversion work from Matthew Wilcox

   - enhancements for coherent device memory mapping from Alex Sierra

   - addition of shared pages tracking and CoW support for fsdax, from
     Shiyang Ruan

   - hugetlb optimizations from Mike Kravetz

   - Mel Gorman has contributed some pagealloc changes to improve
     latency and realtime behaviour.

   - mprotect soft-dirty checking has been improved by Peter Xu

   - Many other singleton patches all over the place"

 [ XFS merge from hell as per Darrick Wong in

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/YshKnxb4VwXycPO8@magnolia/ ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (282 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c: fix build
  mm: Kconfig: fix typo
  mm: memory-failure: convert to pr_fmt()
  mm: use is_zone_movable_page() helper
  hugetlbfs: fix inaccurate comment in hugetlbfs_statfs()
  hugetlbfs: cleanup some comments in inode.c
  hugetlbfs: remove unneeded header file
  hugetlbfs: remove unneeded hugetlbfs_ops forward declaration
  hugetlbfs: use helper macro SZ_1{K,M}
  mm: cleanup is_highmem()
  mm/hmm: add a test for cross device private faults
  selftests: add soft-dirty into run_vmtests.sh
  selftests: soft-dirty: add test for mprotect
  mm/mprotect: fix soft-dirty check in can_change_pte_writable()
  mm: memcontrol: fix potential oom_lock recursion deadlock
  mm/gup.c: fix formatting in check_and_migrate_movable_page()
  xfs: fail dax mount if reflink is enabled on a partition
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove the redundant updating of stats_flush_threshold
  userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features
  hugetlb_cgroup: fix wrong hugetlb cgroup numa stat
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Kconfig: fix typo</title>
<updated>2022-07-30T01:07:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sophia Gabriella</name>
<email>sophia.gabriellla@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-28T16:51:39Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/commit/?id=1a44131d4f524e18d873bbe363598e39841001bf'/>
<id>urn:sha1:1a44131d4f524e18d873bbe363598e39841001bf</id>
<content type='text'>
Fixes a typo in the help section for ZSWAP.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Message-ID:
Signed-off-by: Sophia Gabriella &lt;sophia.gabriellla@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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