This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare"
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
revert-kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f446883d12b8bfa486f7c98d403054d61d38c989 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 20:29:13 -0800
Subject: Revert "kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare"
From: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit f446883d12b8bfa486f7c98d403054d61d38c989 upstream.
This reverts commit 487a32ec24be819e747af8c2ab0d5c515508086a.
should_skip_kasan_poison() reads the PG_skip_kasan_poison flag from
page->flags. However, this line of code in free_pages_prepare():
page->flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP;
clears most of page->flags, including PG_skip_kasan_poison, before calling
should_skip_kasan_poison(), which meant that it would never return true as
a result of the page flag being set. Therefore, fix the code to call
should_skip_kasan_poison() before clearing the flags, as we were doing
before the reverted patch.
This fixes a measurable performance regression introduced in the reverted
commit, where munmap() takes longer than intended if HW tags KASAN is
supported and enabled at runtime. Without this patch, we see a
single-digit percentage performance regression in a particular
mmap()-heavy benchmark when enabling HW tags KASAN, and with the patch,
there is no statistically significant performance impact when enabling HW
tags KASAN.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310042914.3805818-2-pcc@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 487a32ec24be ("kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare")
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ic4f13affeebd20548758438bb9ed9ca40e312b79
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> [arm64]
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [6.1]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1402,6 +1402,7 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_p
unsigned int order, bool check_free, fpi_t fpi_flags)
{
int bad = 0;
+ bool skip_kasan_poison = should_skip_kasan_poison(page, fpi_flags);
bool init = want_init_on_free();
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page), page);
@@ -1476,7 +1477,7 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_p
* With hardware tag-based KASAN, memory tags must be set before the
* page becomes unavailable via debug_pagealloc or arch_free_page.
*/
- if (!should_skip_kasan_poison(page, fpi_flags)) {
+ if (!skip_kasan_poison) {
kasan_poison_pages(page, order, init);
/* Memory is already initialized if KASAN did it internally. */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pcc@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/revert-kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch
