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Karl Mehltretter
353a95f1cd syscall_user_dispatch: Use CONFIG_SYSCTL for sysctl guard
Commit 8d75c338f0 ("sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors
CONFIG_SYSCTL") removed CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, but the sysctl added by
commit 5b6e32ba7b ("syscall_user_dispatch: Add
kernel.syscall_user_dispatch sysctl") is still guarded by it. Now that
both commits are merged, kernel.syscall_user_dispatch is no longer
registered.

syscall_user_dispatch_allowed defaults to true. SUD therefore remains
available, but administrators cannot disable new activations.

Use CONFIG_SYSCTL for the guard and documentation.

Fixes: 5b6e32ba7b ("syscall_user_dispatch: Add kernel.syscall_user_dispatch sysctl")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-09-07 14:00:56 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ed3b875bea mm.git review status for mm-hotfixes-stable..mm-stable
Everything:
 
 Total patches:       501
 Reviews/patch:       1.66
 Reviewed rate:       70%
 
 Excluding DAMON:
 
 Total patches:       356
 Reviews/patch:       2.26
 Reviewed rate:       90%
 
 Excluding DAMON and selftests:
 
 Total patches:       329
 Reviews/patch:       2.31
 Reviewed rate:       92%
 
 Excluding DAMON, selftests and maple_tree:
 
 Total patches:       328
 Reviews/patch:       2.31
 Reviewed rate:       92%
 
 Summary of patch series in this merge:
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: drop "sub" prefix from various places" from
   Dev Jain implements some page->folio conversion and a naming cleanup.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/kasan: remove redundant initialization for
   kasan_flag_write_only" from Igor Putko provides some KASAN cleanup work.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/filemap: reduce unnecessary xarray lookups"
   from Chi Zhiling provides a small speedup in the pagecaache read code.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/percpu: Fix possible NOFS/NOIO reclaim
   recursion" from Kaitao Cheng improves a few things in the vmalloc code -
   mainly the avoidance of GFP_KERNEL allocations when the caller asked for
   GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task
   stacks" from Breno Leitao avoids a soft lockup watchdog trigger from the
   kmemleak scanning code in extreme situations.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm/page_owner: misc cleanups" from Ye Liu is a
   collection of unrelated cleanups to the page_owner code.  For some
   reason lots of people have been working on the page_owner code this
   cycle.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: convert to walk_page_range_vma() to eliminate
   find_vma()" from Kefeng Wang simplifies and accelerates the page walking
   library function.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/migrate: preparatory cleanups for batch copy
   and offload" from Shivank Garg implements cleanups in the migration
   code.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/page_owner: add per-fd filter infrastructure
   for print_mode and NUMA filtering" from Zhen Ni provides per-fd
   filtering to page_owner in order to reduce the sometimes vast amount of
   output it can produce.
 
 - The 19 patch series "mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage
   allocation" from Muchun Song is a "set of fixes and preparatory cleanups
   around bootmem HugeTLB handling, sparse initialization ordering, and
   related vmemmap setup".
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/zsmalloc: reduce lock contention in zs_free()"
   from Wenchao Hao reduces lock contention in zs_free(), which dominates
   the unmap path under memory pressure on Android (LMK kills) and on x86
   servers running zswap-heavy workloads.  Up to 1.83x improvement in
   microbenchmarking.
 
 - The 2 patch series "move alloc_tag.c file under mm/" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan does that.
 
 - The 6 patch series "samples/damon: handle damon_{start,stop}()
   failures" from SJ Park fixes improper handling of damon_start(),
   damon_stop(), and damon_call() failures across DAMON sample modules to
   prevent potential memory leaks, operation disruptions and use-after-free
   bugs.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: kobject_del() directories that
   users can create/remove" from SJ Park resolves an issue where delayed
   sysfs directory removal under CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE causes
   creation failures due to duplicate directory names by adding missing
   kobject_del() calls before creating new directories.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()" from
   David Hildenbrand cleans up the core pte handling code.
 
 - The 3 patch series "selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs" from
   Kunwu Chan fixes several bugs in the DAMON selftests.
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/damon: fix memcg_path staging handling"
   from Cheng Nie fixes a bug in _damon_sysfs.py for damos_filter
   memcg_path setup, and adds a test case for it in sysfs.py.
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/damon: test kdamond refresh_ms" from
   Ruslan Valiyev introduces selftest coverage for DAMON's refresh_ms sysfs
   feature by updating the test control module and verifying that scheme
   stats update automatically without manual intervention.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/damon: five misc fixups" from Akinobu Mita
   contains miscellaneous DAMON fixups.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: detect internal variation above
   max_nr_regions/2" from Jiayuan Chen fixes DAMON's region splitting
   behavior when region counts exceed half the maximum budget by
   dynamically scaling down the split fraction as the limit approaches,
   preventing large regions from staying un-split, and adds corresponding
   KUnit test coverage.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap
   entries" from Usama Arif refactors and cleans up PMD softleaf helpers,
   call sites, and architecture flags to lay the groundwork for a follow-up
   series that introduces PMD page table swap entries.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon: update, optimize, and clean up doc,
   tests, and code" from SJ Park updates DAMON design and ABI
   documentation, expands unit and selftest coverage, optimizes
   damon_commit_target_regions(), and cleans up recently added sysfs
   interface code for better readability.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code
   overhead on cgroup v2" from Usama Arif optimizes vmpressure() by
   skipping unnecessary work on cgroup v2 for userspace event notifications
   and refactors v1-only eventfd handling into mm/memcontrol-v1.c to reduce
   memory overhead and code complexity.
 
 - The 10 patch series "selftests/mm: refactor pkey helpers and fix mmap
   error handling" from Hongfu Li refactors pkeys shared tracing and
   assertion helpers into a common file, unifies protection key selftests
   to use consistent diagnostic logging and assertions, and enforces
   standardized MAP_FAILED return checks for mmap() calls across the tests.
 
 - The 18 patch series "mm/damon: optimize out nr_accesses_bp" from SJ
   Park replaces the error-prone, continuously updated nr_accesses_bp field
   in damon_region with an on-demand moving sum function
   (damon_nr_accesses_mvsum()), reducing structure memory overhead and
   avoiding state corruption bugs.
 
 - The 6 patch series "Open HugeTLB allocation routine for more generic
   use" from Ackerley Tng decouples HugeTLB folio allocation from VMA
   dependencies by introducing hugetlb_alloc_folio(), enabling subsystems
   like guest_memfd to allocate HugeTLB folios without standard VMA
   reservations or pseudo-VMAs.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/damon: provide pseudo moving sum probe_hits"
   from SJ Park integrates DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter into the
   pseudo moving sum infrastructure, enabling real-time, online monitoring
   without waiting for full aggregation intervals.
 
 - The 18 patch series "mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs" from
   Brendan Jackman simplifies and refactors the page allocator entry points
   and flags by unifying allocation paths, adding internal alloc_flags
   arguments, and eliminating redundant __ prefixed alloc_pages variants.
 
 - The 5 patch series "Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries" from
   Dev Jain enforces the consistent use of huge_ptep_get() instead of
   ptep_get() for HugeTLB entries and fixes an unaligned address issue in
   arm64's huge_ptep_get() implementation.
 
 - The 8 patch series "mm/damon: validate all parameters in the core"
   from SJ Park consolidates parameter validation into the DAMON core
   specifically within damon_start() and damon_commit_ctx() to centralize
   error checking, eliminate caller-side redundant checks and to improve
   maintenance efficiency.
 
 - The 3 patch series "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix filtering and
   cleanup issues" from Yichong Chen renames is_need() to filter_record()
   for clearer return semantics, fixes per-record allocation memory leaks
   and bounds output copies in search_pattern() to address an existing
   buffer issue.
 
 - The 4 patch series "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying" from
   Jiayuan Chen mitigates a system-wide stall which occurs when a cgroup is
   removed while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous
   reclaim.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for
   unrecoverable pages" from Breno Leitao introduces an opt-in
   vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl that immediately panics
   the kernel on unrecoverable memory errors in kernel-owned pages to
   preserve error context and prevent delayed, silent data corruption.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}()
   for simple error handling" from SJ Park refactors the DAMON core API
   functions to guarantee that all contexts are fully stopped when
   damon_start(), damon_stop(), or damon_commit() fail, eliminating the
   need for complex and error-prone caller-side cleanup code.
 
 - The 5 patch series "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio
   split" from Zi Yan adds checks to ensure tail_page->private is zero when
   freeing compound or high-order pages and when promoting tail pages
   during large folio splits.  By validating these fields at free and split
   time, it allows the removal of redundant private field clearing inside
   prep_compound_tail().
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio
   reuse paths" from Barry Song eliminates redundant lru_add_drain() calls
   in wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page() to reduce LRU lock
   contention and system overhead.
 
   By validating folio refcounts against the LRU cache before draining
   and removing unnecessary drains in the swap path, it achieves up to a
   30.5% reduction in drain calls during heavy swap workloads.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations" from
   Jianyue Wu reorganizes folio LRU and swap code by relocating
   page-cluster state to mm/swap_state.c, renaming mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c,
   and moving MM-internal reclaim declarations into mm/internal.h.
 
 - The 15 patch series "userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest
   memory" from Kiryl Shutsemau adds userfaultfd support for tracking the
   working set of VM guest memory, so a VMM can identify hot pages and
   reclaim cold ones to tiered or remote storage.
 
 - The 10 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part
   2)" from David Hildenbrand removes the remaining pieces of
   CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, performing some smaller cleanups around
   freeing of reserved vmemmap pages on the way.
 
 - The 7 patch series "mm/damon: update probe hits for runtime parameter
   commits" from SJ Park ensures that DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter
   is properly updated when monitoring intervals are changed at runtime,
   matching the behavior of nr_accesses.  To achieve this, it refactors and
   renames existing helper functions for shared use, applies the updates to
   probe_hits, and handles edge cases in damon_probe_hits_mvsum() to
   maintain measurement accuracy.
 
 - The 3 patch series "KSM: performance optimizations for rmap_walk_ksm"
   from xu xin resolves a severe KSM reverse-mapping performance bottleneck
   where thousands of split VMAs sharing a single anon_vma cause extended
   lock contention.  By adding an interval-filtering check during the rmap
   walk, it reduces worst-case anon_vma lock hold times from over 500ms
   down to under 2ms, preventing application freezes and latency spikes
   under memory pressure.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h"
   from Mike Rapoport splits declarations related to mm_init, memblock,
   vmalloc and sparse into new headers.
 
 - The 2 patch series "KSM: use linear_page_index in collect_procs_ksm()"
   from xu xin applies the interval tree optimization from rmap_walk_ksm()
   to collect_procs_ksm() to avoid iterating over non-matching VMAs during
   KSM memory error handling.  It hoists loop-invariant address
   initialization and restricts the anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach walk to
   a targeted page offset range, reducing redundant checks and improving
   lookup efficiency.
 
 - The 3 patch series "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and
   KSM tests" from Sayali Patil fixes issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM
   selftest categories that can report failures when the prerequisites for
   the tests are not satisfied.
 
 - The 19 patch series "mm/damon: introduce data attributes only
   monitoring" from SJ Park introduces attribute-weighted region management
   in DAMON, allowing users to prioritize specific data attributes (such as
   page sizes or cgroups) over or instead of access monitoring.
 
   By assigning weights to attribute probes, DAMON can completely disable
   access tracking and adjust monitoring regions based on weighted
   probe-hit counters to optimize monitoring quality for attribute-focused
   workloads.
 
 - The 8 patch series "mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for
   userfaultfd-backed mappings" from Stanislav Kinsburskii extends
   hmm_range_fault() to support userfaultfd-backed regions by allowing the
   mmap lock to be dropped during fault handling via a new
   hmm_range_fault_locked() helper.
 
   By accepting a locked pointer and signaling retry status when lock
   release occurs, it enables page fault resolution in userfaultfd regions
   while preserving backward compatibility for existing callers.
 
 - The 33 patch series "mm: make VMA page offset handling more
   consistent" from Lorenzo Stoakes cleans up and standardizes how
   vma->vm_pgoff is accessed and manipulated across file-backed and
   anonymous mappings in the kernel.
 
   It introduces dedicated helper functions such as vma_start_pgoff(),
   vma_end_pgoff(), vma_set_pgoff() and linear_page_delta() while renaming
   rmap interval tree helpers to better reflect their functionality.
 
   These changes establish a cleaner foundation for future work that will
   unify virtual page offset indexing for all anonymous and CoW'd folios.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks"
   from Usama Arif addresses kernel panics and state corruption caused by
   MM walk callbacks reaching non-present device-private PMD swap entries
   created during HMM migrations.
 
   It ensures that functions which acquire pmd_trans_huge_lock() properly
   recognize device-private PMDs instead of assuming a present THP or a
   standard migration entry.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one" from Dev Jain
   refactors try_to_unmap_one by modularizing Hugetlb, anonymous-lazyfree,
   and anonymous-swapbacked logic into dedicated functions, laying the
   structural groundwork for batched anonymous large folio unmapping.
 
 - The 4 patch series "Docs/ABI/damon: sysfs ABI document fixes and
   additions" from Song Hu fixes typos and fills in missing entries in the
   DAMON sysfs ABI document.
 
 - The 10 patch series "dax/kmem: atomic whole-device hotplug via sysfs"
   from Gregory Price introduces an atomic sysfs state attribute and
   supporting DAX/MM infrastructure to prevent userland races when
   offlining and removing entire memory regions.
 
   By adding an unplugged state alongside standard online modes, it
   enables whole-device atomic hotplug control while preserving backward
   compatibility.
 
 - The 13 patch series "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes continues transitioning the kernel from the
   deprecated vm_flags_t type to vma_flags_t across core memory management
   infrastructure.
 
   It replaces legacy type usage in core functions such as do_mmap(),
   unmapped area allocation, mm->def_vma_flags, and VMA operations like
   mlock, mprotect, and mremap.
 
 - The 2 patch series "Two small patches to clean up mm/mm_slot.h" from
   xu xin refactors mm_slot.h by introducing mm_slot_remove() to unify
   duplicate slot deletion sequences in khugepaged and KSM.  It also adds
   code documentation explaining why mm_slot_lookup and mm_slot_insert must
   remain as preprocessor macros rather than static inline functions.
 
 - The 10 patch series "mm/damon/core: hide core-private struct fields"
   from SJ Park cleans up DAMON core structures by consistently marking
   internal-only fields with private: comment tags to prevent improper
   direct access from outer layers.
 
   It enforces encapsulation across core structures including
   damon_region, damon_target, and damon_ctx and updates DAMON_SYSFS to
   interact through approved access APIs instead of exposing raw struct
   members.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL
   de-ref and races" from SJ Park addresses potential infinite loops, NULL
   dereferences, and race conditions identified in DAMON.
 
   It fixes an infinite loop triggered by extreme user configurations, a
   NULL pointer dereference within unit tests and minor monitoring
   accuracy degradation caused by subtle runtime races.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on
   RT/UP" from Brendan Jackman fixes an NMI safety flaw in
   __free_frozen_pages() where freeing pages on non-SMP or PREEMPT_RT
   kernels can bypass can_spin_trylock() checks via non-PCP or isolated
   migration paths.
 
   It also resolves potential kernel crashes and privilege escalation
   risks triggered when BPF tracing runs in NMI context alongside memory
   hotplug or large allocation frees.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent
   cleanups" from Brendan Jackman cleans up and updates page allocator
   nomenclature, documentation, and debug assertions.
 
   It aligns internal FPI_ flags with the public "nolock" naming
   convention, removes outdated internal implementation details from
   high-level page allocator comments, and eliminates obsolete VM_BUG_ON()
   assertions in allocation paths.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/mseal: further cleanups" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   refactors and simplifies the mseal implementation by clarifying API
   boundaries and removing unnecessary code complexity.
 
   It replaces generic do_mseal() usage outside the syscall with a
   dedicated mseal_mmap_page_zero() helper for MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, eliminates
   mm_struct parameters to enforce that sealing applies only to
   current->mm, and streamlines overall logic and comments with no
   functional changes intended.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up
   per-node proactive reclaim" from Ridong Chen resolves reclaim behavior
   bugs and cleans up function parameters across memory reclaim paths.
 
   It fixes swappiness=max in both standard reclaim and MGLRU so
   unswappable anonymous memory no longer falls back to evicting page
   cache, ensures reclaim_store() returns accurate error codes instead of
   collapsing all failures into -EAGAIN, and removes the obsolete gfp_mask
   parameter from __node_reclaim().
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm: mincore: misc cleanups" from Kefeng Wang
   cleans up and simplifies the mincore code.  Most importantly, it removes
   the historical special behavior that always reports VM_PFNMAP pages as
   non-resident.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/huge_memory: drop dead split helper variants"
   from Kiryl Shutsemau implements two trivial cleanups in the folio split
   API.
 
 - The 7 patch series "mm/damon: fix uninitialized DAMOS field and kunit
   exec expectation bugs" from SJ Park resolves minor operational and
   testing bugs in DAMON identified by Sashiko.  It initializes the
   damos->last_applied field to prevent occasional efficiency degradation
   and fixes invalid memory accesses in DAMON KUnit tests during test
   failure handling.
 
 - The 3 patch series "cleanup for stable_page_flags()" from Jinjiang Tu
   cleans up and refactors stable_page_flags() used by /proc/kpageflags
   without altering functionality.
 
   It uses BIT_ULL() to prevent shift-overflow warnings on 64-bit flag
   bits, converts folio-specific flag checks to standard folio_test_*()
   helpers, and removes redundant CONFIG_PAGE_IDLE_FLAG handling.
 
 - The 3 patch series "Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios" from Dev Jain
   extends batched folio unmapping support to file folios within
   userfaultfd write-protect (uffd-wp) VMAs by adding batching capabilities
   to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed().
 
   This removes special-case restrictions on uffd-wp VMAs in
   try_to_unmap_one(), significantly simplifying the function's control
   flow and complexity.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/early_ioremap: clarify and clean up
   early_ioremap_reset()" from Sang-Heon Jeon clarifies and cleans up the
   architecture-specific usage of __late_set_fixmap() and
   __late_clear_fixmap() after early_ioremap_reset().
 
   It adds explicit documentation regarding when early_ioremap_reset()
   must be called and removes redundant macro definitions and reset calls
   in the RISC-V and ARM64 architectures.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: fix reclaim storms in defrag_mode" from
   Johannes Weiner addresses severe performance regressions, swap storms,
   and spurious OOMs caused by vm.defrag_mode=1 under high memory pressure
   in Meta production.
 
   It updates the page allocator slowpath so non-movable allocation
   requests actively trigger direct reclaim and direct compaction at
   pageblock_order scale, allowing them to claim whole pageblocks rather
   than spinning unproductively.
 
 - The 2 patch series "zram: lockmap tweaks" from Sebastian Siewior
   optimizes and fixes lockdep tracking for zram devices by consolidating
   per-entry lockmaps and isolating lock classes across multiple instances.
 
   It reduces memory overhead by replacing per-entry lockdep_map instances
   with a single map per struct zram, and assigns a dynamic lock_class_key
   to each instance to prevent false deadlock reports when different zram
   devices are backed by distinct filesystems.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm: drop "sub" prefix from various places" (Dev Jain)

   page->folio conversion and a naming cleanup

 - "mm/kasan: remove redundant initialization for kasan_flag_write_only"
   (Igor Putko)

   KASAN cleanup work

 - "mm/filemap: reduce unnecessary xarray lookups" (Chi Zhiling)

   Small speedup in the pagecaache read code

 - "mm/percpu: Fix possible NOFS/NOIO reclaim recursion" (Kaitao Cheng)

   Improve the vmalloc code - mainly the avoidance of GFP_KERNEL
   allocations when the caller asked for GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO

 - "mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task stacks" (Breno
   Leitao)

   Avoid a soft lockup watchdog trigger from the kmemleak scanning code
   in extreme situations

 - "mm/page_owner: misc cleanups" (Ye Liu)

   Cleanups to the page_owner code. For some reason lots of people have
   been working on the page_owner code this cycle.

 - "mm: convert to walk_page_range_vma() to eliminate find_vma()"
   (Kefeng Wang)

   Simplify and accelerate the page walking library function

 - "mm/migrate: preparatory cleanups for batch copy and offload"
   (Shivank Garg)

   Cleanups in the migration code

 - "mm/page_owner: add per-fd filter infrastructure for print_mode and
   NUMA filtering" (Zhen Ni)

   Per-fd filtering to page_owner in order to reduce the sometimes vast
   amount of output it can produce

 - "mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage allocation" (Muchun Song)

   Fixes and preparatory cleanups around bootmem HugeTLB handling,
   sparse initialization ordering, and related vmemmap setup

 - "mm/zsmalloc: reduce lock contention in zs_free()" (Wenchao Hao)

   Reduce lock contention in zs_free(), which dominates the unmap path
   under memory pressure on Android (LMK kills) and on x86 servers
   running zswap-heavy workloads.

   Up to 1.83x improvement in microbenchmarking.

 - "move alloc_tag.c file under mm/" (Suren Baghdasaryan)

 - "samples/damon: handle damon_{start,stop}() failures" (SJ Park)

   Fix improper handling of damon_start(), damon_stop(), and
   damon_call() failures across DAMON sample modules to prevent
   potential memory leaks, operation disruptions and use-after-free
   bugs

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: kobject_del() directories that users can
   create/remove" (SJ Park)

   Fix delayed sysfs directory removal under DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
   causeing creation failures due to duplicate directory names by adding
   missing kobject_del() calls before creating new directories

 - "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()" (David Hildenbrand)

   Clean up the core pte handling code

 - "selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs" (Kunwu Chan)

   Fix several bugs in the DAMON selftests

 - "selftests/damon: fix memcg_path staging handling" (Cheng Nie)

   Fix a bug in _damon_sysfs.py for damos_filter memcg_path setup, and
   add a test case for it in sysfs.py.

 - "selftests/damon: test kdamond refresh_ms" (Ruslan Valiyev)

   Selftest coverage for DAMON's refresh_ms sysfs feature by updating
   the test control module and verifying that scheme stats update
   automatically without manual intervention

 - "mm/damon: five misc fixups" (Akinobu Mita)

   Miscellaneous DAMON fixups.

 - "mm/damon/core: detect internal variation above max_nr_regions/2"
   (Jiayuan Chen)

   Fix DAMON's region splitting behavior when region counts exceed half
   the maximum budget by dynamically scaling down the split fraction as
   the limit approaches, preventing large regions from staying un-split,
   and add corresponding KUnit test coverage

 - "mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries" (Usama Arif)

   Refactor and clean up PMD softleaf helpers, call sites, and
   architecture flags to lay the groundwork for a follow-up series that
   introduces PMD page table swap entries

 - "mm/damon: update, optimize, and clean up doc, tests, and code" (SJ
   Park)

   Update DAMON design and ABI documentation, expands unit and selftest
   coverage, optimize damon_commit_target_regions(), and clean up
   recently added sysfs interface code for better readability

 - "mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code overhead on cgroup v2"
   (Usama Arif)

   Optimize vmpressure() by skipping unnecessary work on cgroup v2 for
   userspace event notifications and refactor v1-only eventfd handling
   into mm/memcontrol-v1.c to reduce memory overhead and code complexity

 - "selftests/mm: refactor pkey helpers and fix mmap error handling"
   (Hongfu Li)

   Refactor pkeys shared tracing and assertion helpers into a common
   file, unify protection key selftests to use consistent diagnostic
   logging and assertions, and enforce standardized MAP_FAILED return
   checks for mmap() calls across the tests

 - "mm/damon: optimize out nr_accesses_bp" (SJ Park)

   Replace the error-prone, continuously updated nr_accesses_bp field in
   damon_region with an on-demand moving sum function, reducing
   structure memory overhead and avoiding state corruption bugs

 - "Open HugeTLB allocation routine for more generic use" (Ackerley Tng)

   Decouple HugeTLB folio allocation from VMA dependencies by
   introducing hugetlb_alloc_folio(), enabling subsystems like
   guest_memfd to allocate HugeTLB folios without standard VMA
   reservations or pseudo-VMAs

 - "mm/damon: provide pseudo moving sum probe_hits" (SJ Park)

   Integrate DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter into the pseudo moving
   sum infrastructure, enabling real-time, online monitoring without
   waiting for full aggregation intervals

 - "mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs" (Brendan Jackman)

   Simplify and refactor the page allocator entry points and flags by
   unifying allocation paths, adding internal alloc_flags arguments, and
   eliminating redundant __ prefixed alloc_pages variants.

 - "Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries" (Dev Jain)

   Enforce the consistent use of huge_ptep_get() instead of ptep_get()
   for HugeTLB entries and fixes an unaligned address issue in arm64's
   huge_ptep_get() implementation

 - "mm/damon: validate all parameters in the core" (SJ Park)

   Consolidate parameter validation into the DAMON core specifically
   within damon_start() and damon_commit_ctx() to centralize error
   checking, eliminate caller-side redundant checks and to improve
   maintenance efficiency

 - "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix filtering and cleanup issues" (Yichong
   Chen)

   Rename is_need() to filter_record() for clearer return semantics, fix
   per-record allocation memory leaks and bound output copies in
   search_pattern() to address an existing buffer issue

 - "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying" (Jiayuan Chen)

   Mitigate a system-wide stall which occurs when a cgroup is removed
   while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous reclaim

 - "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages" (Breno
   Leitao)

   Introduce an opt-in vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl
   that immediately panics the kernel on unrecoverable memory errors in
   kernel-owned pages to preserve error context and prevent delayed,
   silent data corruption

 - "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}() for simple error
   handling" (SJ Park)

   Refactor the DAMON core API functions to guarantee that all contexts
   are fully stopped when damon_start(), damon_stop(), or damon_commit()
   fail, eliminating the need for complex and error-prone caller-side
   cleanup code

 - "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split" (Zi Yan)

   Add checks to ensure tail_page->private is zero when freeing compound
   or high-order pages and when promoting tail pages during large folio
   splits. By validating these fields at free and split time, it allows
   the removal of redundant private field clearing inside
   prep_compound_tail()

 - "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio reuse paths" (Barry
   Song)

   Eliminate redundant lru_add_drain() calls in
   wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page() to reduce LRU lock
   contention and system overhead

   By validating folio refcounts against the LRU cache before draining
   and removing unnecessary drains in the swap path, it achieves up to a
   30.5% reduction in drain calls during heavy swap workloads

 - "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations" (Jianyue Wu)

   Reorganize folio LRU and swap code by relocating page-cluster state
   to mm/swap_state.c, renaming mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c, and moving
   MM-internal reclaim declarations into mm/internal.h.

 - "userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory" (Kiryl
   Shutsemau)

   Add userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of VM guest
   memory, so a VMM can identify hot pages and reclaim cold ones to
   tiered or remote storage

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 2)" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Remove the remaining pieces of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE,
   performing some smaller cleanups around freeing of reserved vmemmap
   pages on the way.

 - "mm/damon: update probe hits for runtime parameter commits" (SJ Park)

   Ensure that DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter is properly updated
   when monitoring intervals are changed at runtime, matching the
   behavior of nr_accesses. To achieve this, it refactors and renames
   existing helper functions for shared use, applies the updates to
   probe_hits, and handles edge cases in damon_probe_hits_mvsum() to
   maintain measurement accuracy.

 - "KSM: performance optimizations for rmap_walk_ksm" (xu xin)

   Resolve a severe KSM reverse-mapping performance bottleneck where
   thousands of split VMAs sharing a single anon_vma cause extended lock
   contention.

   By adding an interval-filtering check during the rmap walk, it
   reduces worst-case anon_vma lock hold times from over 500ms down to
   under 2ms, preventing application freezes and latency spikes under
   memory pressure.

 - "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h" (Mike Rapoport)

   Split declarations related to mm_init, memblock, vmalloc and sparse
   into new headers

 - "KSM: use linear_page_index in collect_procs_ksm()" (xu xin)

   Apply the interval tree optimization from rmap_walk_ksm() to
   collect_procs_ksm() to avoid iterating over non-matching VMAs during
   KSM memory error handling.

   It hoists loop-invariant address initialization and restricts the
   anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach walk to a targeted page offset range,
   reducing redundant checks and improving lookup efficiency.

 - "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and KSM tests" (Sayali
   Patil)

   Fix issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM selftest categories that can
   report failures when the prerequisites for the tests are not
   satisfied

 - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring" (SJ Park)

   Introduce attribute-weighted region management in DAMON, allowing
   users to prioritize specific data attributes (such as page sizes or
   cgroups) over or instead of access monitoring.

   By assigning weights to attribute probes, DAMON can completely
   disable access tracking and adjust monitoring regions based on
   weighted probe-hit counters to optimize monitoring quality for
   attribute-focused workloads.

 - "mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings"
   (Stanislav Kinsburskii)

   Extend hmm_range_fault() to support userfaultfd-backed regions by
   allowing the mmap lock to be dropped during fault handling via a new
   hmm_range_fault_locked() helper.

   By accepting a locked pointer and signaling retry status when lock
   release occurs, it enables page fault resolution in userfaultfd
   regions while preserving backward compatibility for existing callers.

 - "mm: make VMA page offset handling more consistent" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Clean up and standardize how vma->vm_pgoff is accessed and
   manipulated across file-backed and anonymous mappings in the kernel

   It introduces dedicated helper functions such as vma_start_pgoff(),
   vma_end_pgoff(), vma_set_pgoff() and linear_page_delta() while
   renaming rmap interval tree helpers to better reflect their
   functionality.

   These changes establish a cleaner foundation for future work that
   will unify virtual page offset indexing for all anonymous and CoW'd
   folios.

 - "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks" (Usama Arif)

   Address kernel panics and state corruption caused by MM walk
   callbacks reaching non-present device-private PMD swap entries
   created during HMM migrations

   It ensures that functions which acquire pmd_trans_huge_lock()
   properly recognize device-private PMDs instead of assuming a present
   THP or a standard migration entry.

 - "mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one" (Dev Jain)

   Refactor try_to_unmap_one by modularizing Hugetlb,
   anonymous-lazyfree, and anonymous-swapbacked logic into dedicated
   functions, laying the structural groundwork for batched anonymous
   large folio unmapping.

 - "Docs/ABI/damon: sysfs ABI document fixes and additions" (Song Hu)

   Fix typos and fills in missing entries in the DAMON sysfs ABI
   document

 - "dax/kmem: atomic whole-device hotplug via sysfs" (Gregory Price)

   Introduce an atomic sysfs state attribute and supporting DAX/MM
   infrastructure to prevent userland races when offlining and removing
   entire memory regions

   By adding an unplugged state alongside standard online modes, it
   enables whole-device atomic hotplug control while preserving backward
   compatibility.

 - "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Continue transitioning the kernel from the deprecated vm_flags_t type
   to vma_flags_t across core memory management infrastructure.

   It replaces legacy type usage in core functions such as do_mmap(),
   unmapped area allocation, mm->def_vma_flags, and VMA operations like
   mlock, mprotect, and mremap.

 - "Two small patches to clean up mm/mm_slot.h" (xu xin)

   Refactor mm_slot.h by introducing mm_slot_remove() to unify duplicate
   slot deletion sequences in khugepaged and KSM. It also adds code
   documentation explaining why mm_slot_lookup and mm_slot_insert must
   remain as preprocessor macros rather than static inline functions.

 - "mm/damon/core: hide core-private struct fields" (SJ Park)

   Clean up DAMON core structures by consistently marking internal-only
   fields with private: comment tags to prevent improper direct access
   from outer layers.

   It enforces encapsulation across core structures including
   damon_region, damon_target, and damon_ctx and updates DAMON_SYSFS to
   interact through approved access APIs instead of exposing raw struct
   members.

 - "mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races"
   (SJ Park)

   Address potential infinite loops, NULL dereferences, and race
   conditions identified in DAMON

   It fixes an infinite loop triggered by extreme user configurations, a
   NULL pointer dereference within unit tests and minor monitoring
   accuracy degradation caused by subtle runtime races.

 - "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on RT/UP" (Brendan
   Jackman)

   Fix an NMI safety flaw in __free_frozen_pages() where freeing pages
   on non-SMP or PREEMPT_RT kernels can bypass can_spin_trylock() checks
   via non-PCP or isolated migration paths.

   It also resolves potential kernel crashes and privilege escalation
   risks triggered when BPF tracing runs in NMI context alongside memory
   hotplug or large allocation frees.

 - "mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent cleanups" (Brendan
   Jackman)

   Clean up and update page allocator nomenclature, documentation, and
   debug assertions.

   It aligns internal FPI_ flags with the public "nolock" naming
   convention, removes outdated internal implementation details from
   high-level page allocator comments, and eliminates obsolete
   VM_BUG_ON() assertions in allocation paths.

 - "mm/mseal: further cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Refactor and simplify the mseal implementation by clarifying API
   boundaries and removing unnecessary code complexity.

   It replaces generic do_mseal() usage outside the syscall with a
   dedicated mseal_mmap_page_zero() helper for MMAP_PAGE_ZERO,
   eliminates mm_struct parameters to enforce that sealing applies only
   to current->mm, and streamlines overall logic and comments with no
   functional changes intended.

 - "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up per-node proactive
   reclaim" (Ridong Chen)

   Resolve reclaim behavior bugs and clean up function parameters across
   memory reclaim paths

   It fixes swappiness=max in both standard reclaim and MGLRU so
   unswappable anonymous memory no longer falls back to evicting page
   cache, ensures reclaim_store() returns accurate error codes instead
   of collapsing all failures into -EAGAIN, and removes the obsolete
   gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim().

 - "mm: mincore: misc cleanups" (Kefeng Wang)

   Clean up and simplifies the mincore code. Most importantly, it
   removes the historical special behavior that always reports VM_PFNMAP
   pages as non-resident.

 - "mm/huge_memory: drop dead split helper variants" (Kiryl Shutsemau)

   Two trivial cleanups in the folio split API

 - "mm/damon: fix uninitialized DAMOS field and kunit exec expectation
   bugs" (SJ Park)

   Resolve minor operational and testing bugs in DAMON identified by
   Sashiko. It initializes the damos->last_applied field to prevent
   occasional efficiency degradation and fixes invalid memory accesses
   in DAMON KUnit tests during test failure handling.

 - "cleanup for stable_page_flags()" (Jinjiang Tu)

   Clean up and refactor stable_page_flags() used by /proc/kpageflags
   without altering functionality.

   It uses BIT_ULL() to prevent shift-overflow warnings on 64-bit flag
   bits, converts folio-specific flag checks to standard folio_test_*()
   helpers, and removes redundant CONFIG_PAGE_IDLE_FLAG handling.

 - "Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios" (Dev Jain)

   Extend batched folio unmapping support to file folios within
   userfaultfd write-protect (uffd-wp) VMAs by adding batching
   capabilities to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed().

   This removes special-case restrictions on uffd-wp VMAs in
   try_to_unmap_one(), significantly simplifying the function's control
   flow and complexity.

 - "mm/early_ioremap: clarify and clean up early_ioremap_reset()"
   (Sang-Heon Jeon)

   Clarify and clean up the architecture-specific usage of
   __late_set_fixmap() and __late_clear_fixmap() after
   early_ioremap_reset()

   It adds explicit documentation regarding when early_ioremap_reset()
   must be called and removes redundant macro definitions and reset
   calls in the RISC-V and ARM64 architectures.

 - "mm: fix reclaim storms in defrag_mode" (Johannes Weiner)

   Address severe performance regressions, swap storms, and spurious
   OOMs caused by vm.defrag_mode=1 under high memory pressure in Meta
   production

   It updates the page allocator slowpath so non-movable allocation
   requests actively trigger direct reclaim and direct compaction at
   pageblock_order scale, allowing them to claim whole pageblocks rather
   than spinning unproductively.

 - "zram: lockmap tweaks" (Sebastian Siewior)

   Optimize and fix lockdep tracking for zram devices by consolidating
   per-entry lockmaps and isolate lock classes across multiple instances

   This reduces memory overhead by replacing per-entry lockdep_map
   instances with a single map per struct zram, and assigns a dynamic
   lock_class_key to each instance to prevent false deadlock reports
   when different zram devices are backed by distinct filesystems.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (501 commits)
  selftests/mm: thuge-gen: fix test_shmget() for PAGE_SIZE check
  selftests/mm: unpoison pages in memory-failure teardown
  mm/shmem: downgrade final i_blocks check in shmem_evict_inode() to pr_warn()
  mm/khugepaged: replace mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage with guard macro
  mm/zsmalloc: fix release order of locks in zs_page_migrate()
  Documentation: zram: remove sections numbering
  ksm: stop iterating VMAs when ksm_test_exit returns true
  mm: fold userfaultfd_rwp() to false without CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_PROTNONE
  mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch()
  zram: use a custom key for each zram object
  zram: move lockmap to be per-zram instead per table
  selftests/mm: fix gup_longterm EINVAL error message
  mm: page_alloc: fix non-movable reclaim storm in defrag_mode
  mm: page_alloc: move capture_control to the page allocator
  mm: compaction: support non-movable compaction for pageblock requests
  mm: page_alloc: __GFP_FS lockdep annotation for direct compaction
  hugetlb: evaluate subpool free state while locked
  mm/damon: remove trailing semicolons after function definitions
  mm/damon/ops-common: prevent migration fallback to non-target nodes
  mm/damon: update outdated comment about DAMOS filter handling
  ...
2026-08-20 18:17:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a4ff2be345 This update includes the following changes:
API:
 
 - Add af_alg_restrict sysctl and white list.
 - Fix potential suspend/resume races in hwrng.
 
 Algorithms:
 
 - Optimize vli additive operations using compiler builtins in ecc.
 
 Drivers:
 
 - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms from qce.
 - Mark qce as BROKEN.
 - Add runtime PM and interconnect bandwidth scaling support to qce.
 - Remove crypto_rng from qcom, sun8i and caam.
 - Fix SG list issues in iaa.
 - Fix SEV init path bugs in ccp.
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Merge tag 'v7.3-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 "API:
   - Add af_alg_restrict sysctl and white list
   - Fix potential suspend/resume races in hwrng

  Algorithms:
   - Optimize vli additive operations using compiler builtins in ecc

  Drivers:
   - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms from qce
   - Mark qce as BROKEN
   - Add runtime PM and interconnect bandwidth scaling support to qce
   - Remove crypto_rng from qcom, sun8i and caam
   - Fix SG list issues in iaa
   - Fix SEV init path bugs in ccp"

* tag 'v7.3-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (122 commits)
  crypto: lskcipher - propagate errors from unaligned crypt
  crypto: keembay - use crypto_memneq() to compare CCM AEAD tags
  crypto: keembay - use crypto_memneq() to compare GCM AEAD tags
  crypto: sa2ul - use crypto_memneq() to compare AEAD tag
  hwrng: drivers - use named initializers for acpi_device_id
  crypto: qce - fix CCM AAD buffer underallocation
  crypto: iaa - unmap dst before software fallback on decompress
  crypto: iaa - use bounce buffer for multi-sg decompress input
  crypto: iaa - avoid counting fallback decompression bytes
  crypto: iaa - fall back to software for multi-entry scatterlists
  hwrng: core - Stop/start hwrng_fillfn() kthread before/after suspend-resume
  crypto: hisilicon/sec2 - fix CCM algorithm long packet failure
  crypto: eip93 - use struct_size() and flexible array for ring allocation
  crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers
  crypto: af_alg - Stop after finding name in allowlist
  crypto: af_alg - Replace 'bool privileged' with flags
  crypto: af_alg - Make cbc(paes) privileged-only
  hwrng: imx-rngc - Disable clock on registration failure
  crypto: qat - remove dead ADF_HEX code
  crypto: qce - simplify qce_handle_request
  ...
2026-08-19 17:25:42 -07:00
Jianyue Wu
0ba14428ab mm: rename swap.c to folio.c
Rename mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c so the filename better matches the code's
main responsibility.

This keeps the implementation split from swap-specific code without
changing the published LRU helper interfaces.

Update MAINTAINERS and the remaining mm/swap.c documentation references
after the rename.

[wujianyue000@gmail.com: MAINTAINERS: move mm/folio.c to MM CORE]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260804111109.393127-1-wujianyue000@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260708-ch-swap-series-plus-folio-lru-cleanup-v9-2-2bc72b4f8730@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jianyue Wu <wujianyue000@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04 19:18:35 -07:00
Breno Leitao
97b03277ce Documentation: document panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl
Add documentation for the new vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure
sysctl, describing which failures trigger a panic (kernel-owned pages the
handler cannot recover) and which are intentionally left out (transient
allocator races and unclassified pages).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630-ecc_panic-v10-5-c6ed5b62eea2@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04 19:18:28 -07:00
Gregory Price
5b6e32ba7b syscall_user_dispatch: Add kernel.syscall_user_dispatch sysctl
Add a matching sysctl to go with CONFIG_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH.

kernel.syscall_user_dispatch (default 1 - allow) controls whether
userspace may arm syscall user dispatch (both via prctl and ptrace).

Disarming is always permitted - same semantics as comparable knobs.

Disabling while a task has armed syscall user dispatch does not
cause it to become inactive - instead it remains active until the
user attempts to disable/re-enable via prctl or ptrace.  On the
next attempt to re-enable, the prctl/ptrace call fails gracefully.

The alternative would cause programs translating non-linux syscalls
to interpret those syscalls as linux syscalls, resulting in undefined
userland behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706140020.873735-3-gourry@gourry.net
2026-07-08 10:22:00 +02:00
Eric Biggers
2f204fe718 crypto: af_alg - Add af_alg_restrict sysctl, defaulting to 1
AF_ALG is a frequent source of vulnerabilities and a maintenance
nightmare.  It exposes far more functionality to userspace than ever
should have been exposed, especially to unprivileged processes.  Recent
exploits have targeted kernel internal implementation details like
"authencesn" that have zero use case for userspace access.

Fortunately, AF_ALG is rarely used in practice, as userspace crypto
libraries exist.  And when it is used, only some functionality is known
to be used, and many users are known to hold capabilities already.
iwd for example requires CAP_NET_ADMIN and has a known algorithm list
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/bcbbef00-5881-421b-8892-7be6c04b832d@gmail.com/).

Thus, let's restrict the set of allowed algorithms by default, depending
on the capabilities held.

Add a sysctl /proc/sys/crypto/af_alg_restrict with meaning:

    0: unrestricted
    1: limited functionality
    2: completely disabled

Set the default value to 1, which enables an algorithm allowlist for
unprivileged processes and a slightly longer allowlist for privileged
processes.

Note that the list may be tweaked in the future.  However, the common
use cases such as iwd and bluez are taken into account already.  I've
tested that iwd still works with the default value of 1.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2026-07-05 13:27:15 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
a552c81ff4 mm.git review status for mm-hotfixes-stable..mm-stable
Everything:
 
 Total patches:       321
 Reviews/patch:       1.52
 Reviewed rate:       68%
 
 Excluding DAMON:
 
 Total patches:       227
 Reviews/patch:       2.07
 Reviewed rate:       90%
 
 Excluding DAMON and selftests:
 
 Total patches:       203
 Reviews/patch:       2.14
 Reviewed rate:       91%
 
 Patchsets in this merge:
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity"
   from Li Wang removes some noise from the MM selftests build out.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently"
   from Ryan Roberts speeds up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by
   first scanning them for coalescing opportunities.  This is applicable to
   vfree() and to the releasing of frozen pages.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota
   charge ratio" from SeongJae Park addresses a DAMOS usability issue: The
   DAMOS quota often exhausts prematurely because it charges for all memory
   attempted, causing slow and inconsistent performance when actions fail
   on unreclaimable memory.
 
   To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota
   charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions.
   Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost
   ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing
 
 - The 8 patch series "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness
   and support large page sizes" from Li Wang fixes various spurious
   failures and improves the overall robustness of the cgroup zswap
   selftests.
 
 - The 3 patch series "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" from
   Anthony Yznaga fixes an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with
   shared" from Breno Leitao does some maintenance work in the huge_memory
   code.
 
 - The 3 patch series "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" from Brendan
   Jackman uses the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and
   initialization" from Muchun Song fixes several bugs in the vmemmap
   optimization, mainly around incorrect page accounting and memmap
   initialization in the DAX and memory hotplug paths.  It also fixes
   pageblock migratetype initialization and struct page initialization for
   ZONE_DEVICE compound pages.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in
   damon/next tree" from is a sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for
   DAMON.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm: remove page_mapped()" from David Hildenbrand
   remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped().
 
 - The 10 patch series "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" from
   SeongJae Park permits DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its
   current state.
 
 - The 3 patch series "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and
   page-tables" from Muhammad Usama Anjum simplifies and speeds up kasan by
   removing its ineffective tagging of stacks and page tables.
 
 - The 7 patch series "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams
   by default" from SeongJae Park simplifies deployment on diverse hardware
   like NUMA systems by updating DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to
   automatically monitor the physical address range covering all System RAM
   areas by default, replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only
   targeted the single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as
   deprecated" from SeongJae Park updates some DAMON docs.
 
 - The 8 patch series "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" from Dmitry
   Ilvokhin switches zone->lock handling over to using the guard()
   mechanisms.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" from
   fujunjie fixes a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page
   cache hits during fault-arounds and page-fault retries.  This results in
   significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O,
   drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse
   random or strided memory access workloads.
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in
   test_percpu_basic" from Li Wang fixes a couple of false-positives in the
   cgroup kmem selftests.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals
   auto-tuning" from SeongJae Park adds a new parameter to DAMON permitting
   DAMON_RECLAIM to automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation
   intervals.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" from
   SeongJae Park chnges DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" from
   Breno Leitao removes large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the
   verbose-mode kmemleak output.
 
 - The 8 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)"
   from David Hildenbrand reduces our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE,
   with a view to removing it entirely in a later series.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of
   2" from Liew Rui Yan prevents users from passing a non-power-of-2 value
   of `addr_unit', as this later results in undesirable behavior.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" from
   Frederick Mayle does as claimed.
 
 - The 3 patch series "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" from Ye Liu
   fixes three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" from
   Brendan Jackman implements several cleanups in the page allocator and
   related code.
 
 - The 12 patch series "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation"
   from Kairui Song unifies the allocation and charging of anon and shmem
   swap in folios, provides better synchronization, consolidates the
   metadata management, hence dropping the static array and map, and
   improves performance.
 
 - The 28 patch series "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring"
   from SeongJae Park extends DAMON for monitoring general data attributes
   other than accesses.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc()
   shrink" from Shivam Kalra implements the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and
   free unused pages when shrinking across a page boundary.
 
 - The 3 patch series "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" from
   niecheng does as advertised.
 
 - The 3 patch series "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes eliminates custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the
   problematic success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access
   uninitialized VMAs.  It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code
   field and updates the memory char driver accordingly.
 
 - The 14 patch series "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability
   and tests" from SeongJae Park implements minor improvements in code
   readability and tests for DAMON.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota
   goals doc" from Maksym Shcherba does those things.
 
 - The 2 patch series "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into
   mm/userfaultfd.c" from Mike Rapoport performs that code movement.
 
 - The 15 patch series "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio"
   from Kairui Song and others cleans up and slightly improves MGLRU's
   reclaim loop and dirty writeback handling.  Large performance
   improvements are measured.
 
 - The 3 patch series "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps}
   reads" from Suren Baghdasaryan uses per-vma locks when reading
   /proc/pid/smaps and /proc/pid/numa_maps similar to reduce contention on
   central mmap_lock.
 
 - The 2 patch series "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and
   thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()" from Ran Xiaokai provides some cleanup
   work in the THP code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" from
   Konstantin Khorenko fixes a few build glitches in the memfd selftest
   code.
 
 - The 4 patch series "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple
   objcgs" from Shakeel Butt resolves a 68% performance regression caused
   by NUMA-node cache thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking
   its existing fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches
   up to five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of
   the same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line.
 
 - The 2 patch series "zram: writeback fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   addresses a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues.
 
 - The 9 patch series "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" from Johannes
   Weiner resolves NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite
   interaction by refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely
   replace the complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent
   Huge Pages (THPs).
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory"
   from Usama Arif improves large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page
   arm64 by preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling
   target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the
   force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large
   maximum folio order under the cache cap.
 
 - The 6 patch series "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" from
   Kiryl Shutsemau fixes a bunch of minor issues in the
   userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which were flagged by Sashiko review of
   proposed new material.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic
   vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()" from Muchun Song provides
   generic versions of these two functions so the four arch-specific
   implementations can be removed.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in
   uswsusp by pinning swap device" from Youngjun Park addresses a
   uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device reference
   taking/releasing frequency.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" from Dev Jain does
   as claimed.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity" (Li Wang)

   Remove some noise from the MM selftests build

 - "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently" (Ryan Roberts)

   Speed up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by first scanning
   them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to vfree() and
   to the releasing of frozen pages

 - "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota charge ratio"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Address a DAMOS usability issue: The DAMOS quota often exhausts
   prematurely because it charges for all memory attempted, causing slow
   and inconsistent performance when actions fail on unreclaimable
   memory.

   To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota
   charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions.
   Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost
   ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing

 - "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large
   page sizes" (Li Wang)

   Fix various spurious failures and improves the overall robustness of
   the cgroup zswap selftests

 - "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" (Anthony Yznaga)

   Fix an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32

 - "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with shared" (Breno Leitao)

   Some maintenance work in the huge_memory code

 - "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" (Brendan Jackman)

   Use the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places

 - "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization" (Muchun
   Song)

   Fix several bugs in the vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect
   page accounting and memmap initialization in the DAX and memory
   hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and
   struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages

 - "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in damon/next tree"

   A sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for DAMON

 - "mm: remove page_mapped()" (David Hildenbrand)

   Remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped()

 - "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" (SeongJae Park)

   Allow DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its current state

 - "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables" (Muhammad
   Usama Anjum)

   Simplify and speed up kasan by removing its ineffective tagging of
   stacks and page tables

 - "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Simplify deployment on diverse hardware like NUMA systems by updating
   DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to automatically monitor the
   physical address range covering all System RAM areas by default,
   replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only targeted the
   single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Update some DAMON docs

 - "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" (Dmitry Ilvokhin)

   Switch zone->lock handling over to using the guard() mechanisms

 - "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" (fujunjie)

   Fix a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page cache hits
   during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in
   significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O,
   drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse
   random or strided memory access workloads

 - "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic"
   (Li Wang)

   Fix a couple of false-positives in the cgroup kmem selftests

 - "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Add a new parameter to DAMON permitting DAMON_RECLAIM to
   automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation intervals

 - "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" (SeongJae Park)

   Change DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond

 - "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" (Breno Leitao)

   Remove large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the verbose-mode
   kmemleak output

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Reduce our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, with a view to
   removing it entirely in a later series

 - "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of 2" (Liew Rui Yan)

   Prevent users from passing a non-power-of-2 value of `addr_unit', as
   this later results in undesirable behavior

 - "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" (Frederick Mayle)

 - "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" (Ye Liu)

   Fix three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c

 - "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" (Brendan Jackman)

   Implement several cleanups in the page allocator and related code

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation" (Kairui Song)

   Unify the allocation and charging of anon and shmem swap in folios,
   provides better synchronization, consolidates the metadata
   management, hence dropping the static array and map, and improves
   performance

 - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring" (SeongJae Park(

   Extend DAMON to monitor general data attributes other than accesses

 - "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink" (Shivam Kalra)

   Implement the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when
   shrinking across a page boundary

 - "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" (niecheng)

 - "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Eliminate custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the problematic
   success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access uninitialized
   VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code field and
   updates the memory char driver accordingly

 - "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability and tests"
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc" (Maksym
   Shcherba)

 - "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c" (Mike
   Rapoport)

 - "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio" (Kairui Song and
   others)

   Clean up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop and dirty
   writeback handling. Large performance improvements are measured

 - "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps} reads" (Suren
   Baghdasaryan)

   Use per-vma locks when reading /proc/pid/smaps and numa_maps similar
   to reduce contention on central mmap_lock

 - "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()"
   (Ran Xiaokai)

   Some cleanup work in the THP code

 - "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" (Konstantin Khorenko)

   Fix a few build glitches in the memfd selftest code.

 - "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs" (Shakeel
   Butt)

   Resolve a 68% performance regression caused by NUMA-node cache
   thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking its existing
   fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches up to
   five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of the
   same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line.

 - "zram: writeback fixes" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   address a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues

 - "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" (Johannes Weiner)

   Resolve NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite interaction by
   refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely replace the
   complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent Huge Pages

 - "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory" (Usama Arif)

   Improve large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page arm64 by
   preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling
   target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the
   force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large
   maximum folio order under the cache cap.

 - "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" (Kiryl Shutsemau)

   Fix a bunch of minor issues in the userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which
   were flagged by Sashiko review of proposed new material

 - "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and
   vmemmap_check_pmd()" (Muchun Song)

   Provide generic versions of these two functions so the four
   arch-specific implementations can be removed.

 - "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap
   device" (Youngjun Park)

   Address a uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device
   reference taking/releasing frequency.

 - "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" (Dev Jain)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries
  fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry
  lib/test_hmm: check alloc_page_vma() return value and handle OOM
  mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX
  mm/swap: remove redundant swap device reference in alloc/free
  mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device
  mm/filemap: use folio_next_index() for start
  vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages()
  sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
  loongarch/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
  riscv/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
  arm64/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
  mm/sparse-vmemmap: provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()
  rust: page: mark Page::nid as inline
  userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masks
  userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present()
  mm/huge_memory: preserve pmd_swp_uffd_wp on device-private PMD downgrade
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemap_scan_pte_hole()
  fs/proc/task_mmu: use huge_page_size() in pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry()
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race
  ...
2026-06-19 10:14:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b85966adbf Networking changes for 7.2.
Core & protocols
 ----------------
 
  - Work on removing rtnl_lock protection throughout the stack continues.
    In this chapter:
     - don't use rtnl_lock for IPv6 multicast routing configuration
     - don't take rtnl_lock in ethtool for modern drivers
     - prepare Qdisc dump callbacks for rtnl_lock removal
 
  - Support dumping just ifindex + name of all interfaces, under RCU.
    It's a common operation for Netlink CLI tools (when translating
    names to ifindexes) and previously required full rtnl_lock.
 
  - Support dumping qdiscs and page pools for a specific netdev. Even tho
    user space wants a dump of all netdevs, most of the time, the OOO
    programming model results in repeating the dump for each netdev.
    Which, in absence of a cache, leads to a O(n^2) behavior.
 
  - Flush nexthops once on multi-nexthop removal (e.g. when device goes
    down), another O(n^2) -> O(n) improvement.
 
  - Rehash locally generated traffic to a different nexthop on retransmit
    timeout.
 
  - Honor oif when choosing nexthop for locally generated IPv6 traffic.
 
  - Convert TCP Auth Option to crypto library, and drop non-RFC algos.
 
  - Increase subflow limits in MPTCP to 64 and endpoint limit to 256.
 
  - Support MPTCP signaling of IPv6 address + port (ADD_ADDR). We need
    to selectively skip reporting of the standard TCP Timestamp option,
    because they won't fit into the header space together (12 + 30 > 40).
 
  - Support using bridge neighbor suppression, Duplicate Address
    Detection, Gratuitous ARP and unsolicited NA forwarding - in EVPN
    deployments, e.g. VXLAN fabrics (IPv4 and IPv6).
 
  - Improve link state reporting for upper netdevs (e.g. macvlan) over
    tunnel devices (again, mostly for EVPN deployments).
 
  - Support binding GENEVE tunnels to a local address.
 
  - Speed up UDP tunnel destruction (remove one synchronize_rcu()).
 
  - Support exponential field encoding in multicast (IGMPv3 and MLDv2).
 
  - Support attaching PSP crypto offload to containers (veth, netkit).
 
  - Add a new IPSec Netlink message XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE that allows
    migrating individual IPsec SAs independently of their policies.
    The existing XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE is tightly coupled to policy+SA
    migration, lacks SPI for unique SA identification, and cannot express
    reqid changes or migrate Transport mode selectors. The new interface
    identifies the SA via SPI and mark, supports reqid changes, address
    family changes, encap removal, and uses an atomic create+install
    flow under x->lock to prevent SN/IV reuse during AEAD SA migration.
 
  - Implement GRO/GSO support for PPPoE.
 
  - Convert sockopt callbacks in a number of protocols to iov_iter.
 
 Cross-tree stuff
 ----------------
 
  - Remove support for Crypto TFM cloning (unblocked after the TCP Auth
    Option rework). This feature regressed performance for all crypto API
    users, since it changed crypto transformation objects into reference-
    -counted objects.
 
  - Add FCrypt-PCBC implementation to rxrpc and remove it from the global
    crypto API as obsolete and insecure.
 
 Wireless
 --------
 
  - Major rework of station bandwidth handling, fixing issues with lower
    capability than AP.
 
  - Cleanups for EMLSR spec issues (drafts differed).
 
  - More Neighbor Awareness Networking (Wi-Fi Aware) work (multicast,
    schedule improvements, multi-station etc.)
 
  - Some Ultra High Reliability (UHR) / IEEE 802.11bn (D1.4) work
    (e.g. non-primary channel access, UHR DBE support).
 
  - Fine Timing Measurement ranging (i.e. distance measurement) APIs.
 
 Netfilter
 ---------
 
  - Use per-rule hash initval in nf_conncount. This avoids unnecessary
    lock contention with short keys (e.g. conntrack zones) in different
    namespaces.
 
  - Various safety improvements, both in packet parsing and object
    lifetimes. Notably add refcounts to conntrack timeout policy.
 
 Deletions
 ---------
 
  - Remove TLS + sockmap integration. TLS wants to pin user pages
    to avoid a copy, and sockmap wants to write to the input stream.
    More work on this integration is clearly needed, and we can't find
    any users (original author admitted that they never deployed it).
 
  - Remove support for TLS offload with TCP Offload Engine (the far
    more common opportunistic offload is retained). The locking looks
    unfixable (driver sleeps under TCP spin locks) and people from
    the vendor that added this are AWOL.
 
  - Remove more ATM code, trying to leave behind only what PPPoATM needs,
    AAL5 and br2684 with permanent circuits.
 
  - Remove AppleTalk. Let it join hamradio in our out of tree protocol
    graveyard, I mean, repository.
 
  - Disable 32-bit x_tables compatibility (32bit binaries on 64bit kernel)
    interface in user namespaces. To be deleted completely, soon.
 
  - Remove 5/10 MHz support from cfg80211/mac80211.
 
 Drivers
 -------
 
  - Software:
    - Support DEVMEM/DMABUF Tx over NETMEM_TX_NO_DMA devices (netkit).
    - bonding: add knob to strictly follow 802.3ad for link state.
 
  - New drivers:
    - Alibaba Elastic Ethernet Adaptor (cloud vNIC).
    - NXP NETC switch within i.MX94.
 
  - DPLL:
    - Add operational state to pins (implement in zl3073x).
    - Add generic DPLL type, for daisy-chaining DPLLs (implement in ice).
 
  - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
    - Huawei (hinic3):
      - enhance tc flow offload support with queue selection, tunnels
    - nVidia/Mellanox:
      - avoid over-copying payload to the skb's linear part (up to 60%
        win for LRO on slow CPUs like ARM64 V2)
      - expose more per-queue stats over the standard API
      - support additional, unprivileged PFs in the DPU configuration
      - support Socket Direct (multi-PF) with switchdev offloads
      - add a pool / frag allocator for DMA mapped buffers for control
        objects, save memory on systems with 64kB page size
      - take advantage of the ability to dynamically change RSS table
        size, even when table is configured by the user
      - increase the max RSS table size for even traffic distribution
 
  - Ethernet NICs:
    - Marvell/Aquantia:
      - AQC113 PTP support
    - Realtek USB (r8152):
      - support 10Gbit Link Speeds and Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
      - support firmware loaded (for RTL8157/RTL8159)
      - support for the RTL8159
    - Intel (ixgbe):
      - support Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) on E610 devices
 
  - Ethernet switches:
    - Airoha:
      - support multiple netdevs on a single GDM block / port
    - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
      - support SERDES of mv88e6321
    - Microchip (ksz8/9):
      - rework the driver callbacks to remove one indirection layer
    - Motorcomm (yt921x):
      - support port rate policing
      - support TBF qdisc offload
      - support ACL/flower offload
    - nVidia/Mellanox:
      - expose per-PG rx_discards
    - Realtek:
      - rtl8365mb: bridge offloading and VLAN support
 
  - Ethernet PHYs:
    - Airoha:
      - support Airoha AN8801R Gigabit PHYs.
    - Micrel:
      - implement 3 low-loss cable tunables
    - Realtek:
      - support MDI swapping for RTL8226-CG
      - support MDIO for RTL931x
    - Qualcomm:
      - at803x: Rx and Tx clock management for IPQ5018 PHY
    - Motorcomm:
      - support YT8522 100M RMII PHY
      - set drive strength in YT8531s RGMII
    - TI:
      - dp83822: add optional external PHY clock
 
  - Bluetooth:
    - hci_sync: add support for HCI_LE_Set_Host_Feature [v2]
    - SMP: use AES-CMAC library API
    - Intel:
      - support Product level reset
      - support smart trigger dump
    - Mediatek:
      - add event filter to filter specific event
    - Realtek:
      - fix RTL8761B/BU broken LE extended scan
 
  - WiFi:
    - Broadcom (b43):
      - new support for a 11n device
    - MediaTek (mt76):
      - support mt7927
      - mt792x: broken usb transport detection
      - mt7921: regulatory improvements
    - Qualcomm (ath9k):
      - GPIO interface improvements
    - Qualcomm (ath12k):
      - WDS support
      - replace dynamic memory allocation in WMI Rx path
      - thermal throttling/cooling device support
      - 6 GHz incumbent interference detection
      - channel 177 in 5 GHz
    - Realtek (rt89):
      - RTL8922AU support
      - USB 3 mode switch for performance
      - better monitor radiotap support
      - RTL8922DE preparations
 
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Merge tag 'net-next-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core & protocols:

   - Work on removing rtnl_lock protection throughout the stack
     continues. In this chapter:
       - don't use rtnl_lock for IPv6 multicast routing configuration
       - don't take rtnl_lock in ethtool for modern drivers
       - prepare Qdisc dump callbacks for rtnl_lock removal

   - Support dumping just ifindex + name of all interfaces, under RCU.
     It's a common operation for Netlink CLI tools (when translating
     names to ifindexes) and previously required full rtnl_lock.

   - Support dumping qdiscs and page pools for a specific netdev. Even
     tho user space wants a dump of all netdevs, most of the time, the
     OOO programming model results in repeating the dump for each
     netdev. Which, in absence of a cache, leads to a O(n^2) behavior.

   - Flush nexthops once on multi-nexthop removal (e.g. when device goes
     down), another O(n^2) -> O(n) improvement.

   - Rehash locally generated traffic to a different nexthop on
     retransmit timeout.

   - Honor oif when choosing nexthop for locally generated IPv6 traffic.

   - Convert TCP Auth Option to crypto library, and drop non-RFC algos.

   - Increase subflow limits in MPTCP to 64 and endpoint limit to 256.

   - Support MPTCP signaling of IPv6 address + port (ADD_ADDR). We need
     to selectively skip reporting of the standard TCP Timestamp option,
     because they won't fit into the header space together (12 + 30 >
     40).

   - Support using bridge neighbor suppression, Duplicate Address
     Detection, Gratuitous ARP and unsolicited NA forwarding - in EVPN
     deployments, e.g. VXLAN fabrics (IPv4 and IPv6).

   - Improve link state reporting for upper netdevs (e.g. macvlan) over
     tunnel devices (again, mostly for EVPN deployments).

   - Support binding GENEVE tunnels to a local address.

   - Speed up UDP tunnel destruction (remove one synchronize_rcu()).

   - Support exponential field encoding in multicast (IGMPv3 and MLDv2).

   - Support attaching PSP crypto offload to containers (veth, netkit).

   - Add a new IPSec Netlink message XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE that allows
     migrating individual IPsec SAs independently of their policies.

     The existing XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE is tightly coupled to policy+SA
     migration, lacks SPI for unique SA identification, and cannot
     express reqid changes or migrate Transport mode selectors.

     The new interface identifies the SA via SPI and mark, supports
     reqid changes, address family changes, encap removal, and uses an
     atomic create+install flow under x->lock to prevent SN/IV reuse
     during AEAD SA migration.

   - Implement GRO/GSO support for PPPoE.

   - Convert sockopt callbacks in a number of protocols to iov_iter.

  Cross-tree stuff:

   - Remove support for Crypto TFM cloning (unblocked after the TCP Auth
     Option rework). This feature regressed performance for all crypto
     API users, since it changed crypto transformation objects into
     reference-counted objects.

   - Add FCrypt-PCBC implementation to rxrpc and remove it from the
     global crypto API as obsolete and insecure.

  Wireless:

   - Major rework of station bandwidth handling, fixing issues with
     lower capability than AP.

   - Cleanups for EMLSR spec issues (drafts differed).

   - More Neighbor Awareness Networking (Wi-Fi Aware) work (multicast,
     schedule improvements, multi-station etc.)

   - Some Ultra High Reliability (UHR) / IEEE 802.11bn (D1.4) work
     (e.g. non-primary channel access, UHR DBE support).

   - Fine Timing Measurement ranging (i.e. distance measurement) APIs.

  Netfilter:

   - Use per-rule hash initval in nf_conncount. This avoids unnecessary
     lock contention with short keys (e.g. conntrack zones) in different
     namespaces.

   - Various safety improvements, both in packet parsing and object
     lifetimes. Notably add refcounts to conntrack timeout policy.

  Deletions:

   - Remove TLS + sockmap integration. TLS wants to pin user pages to
     avoid a copy, and sockmap wants to write to the input stream. More
     work on this integration is clearly needed, and we can't find any
     users (original author admitted that they never deployed it).

   - Remove support for TLS offload with TCP Offload Engine (the far
     more common opportunistic offload is retained). The locking looks
     unfixable (driver sleeps under TCP spin locks) and people from the
     vendor that added this are AWOL.

   - Remove more ATM code, trying to leave behind only what PPPoATM
     needs, AAL5 and br2684 with permanent circuits.

   - Remove AppleTalk. Let it join hamradio in our out of tree protocol
     graveyard, I mean, repository.

   - Disable 32-bit x_tables compatibility (32bit binaries on 64bit
     kernel) interface in user namespaces. To be deleted completely,
     soon.

   - Remove 5/10 MHz support from cfg80211/mac80211.

  Drivers:

   - Software:
       - Support DEVMEM/DMABUF Tx over NETMEM_TX_NO_DMA devices (netkit)
       - bonding: add knob to strictly follow 802.3ad for link state

   - New drivers:
       - Alibaba Elastic Ethernet Adaptor (cloud vNIC).
       - NXP NETC switch within i.MX94.

   - DPLL:
       - Add operational state to pins (implement in zl3073x).
       - Add generic DPLL type, for daisy-chaining DPLLs (implement in ice).

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
       - Huawei (hinic3):
           - enhance tc flow offload support with queue selection,
             tunnels
       - nVidia/Mellanox:
           - avoid over-copying payload to the skb's linear part (up to
             60% win for LRO on slow CPUs like ARM64 V2)
           - expose more per-queue stats over the standard API
           - support additional, unprivileged PFs in the DPU
             configuration
           - support Socket Direct (multi-PF) with switchdev offloads
           - add a pool / frag allocator for DMA mapped buffers for
             control objects, save memory on systems with 64kB page size
           - take advantage of the ability to dynamically change RSS
             table size, even when table is configured by the user
           - increase the max RSS table size for even traffic
             distribution

   - Ethernet NICs:
       - Marvell/Aquantia:
           - AQC113 PTP support
       - Realtek USB (r8152):
           - support 10Gbit Link Speeds and Energy-Efficient Ethernet
             (EEE)
           - support firmware loaded (for RTL8157/RTL8159)
           - support for the RTL8159
       - Intel (ixgbe):
           - support Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) on E610 devices

   - Ethernet switches:
       - Airoha:
           - support multiple netdevs on a single GDM block / port
       - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
           - support SERDES of mv88e6321
       - Microchip (ksz8/9):
           - rework the driver callbacks to remove one indirection layer
       - Motorcomm (yt921x):
           - support port rate policing
           - support TBF qdisc offload
           - support ACL/flower offload
       - nVidia/Mellanox:
           - expose per-PG rx_discards
       - Realtek:
           - rtl8365mb: bridge offloading and VLAN support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
       - Airoha:
           - support Airoha AN8801R Gigabit PHYs.
       - Micrel:
           - implement 3 low-loss cable tunables
       - Realtek:
           - support MDI swapping for RTL8226-CG
           - support MDIO for RTL931x
       - Qualcomm:
           - at803x: Rx and Tx clock management for IPQ5018 PHY
       - Motorcomm:
           - support YT8522 100M RMII PHY
           - set drive strength in YT8531s RGMII
       - TI:
           - dp83822: add optional external PHY clock

   - Bluetooth:
       - hci_sync: add support for HCI_LE_Set_Host_Feature [v2]
       - SMP: use AES-CMAC library API
       - Intel:
           - support Product level reset
           - support smart trigger dump
       - Mediatek:
           - add event filter to filter specific event
       - Realtek:
           - fix RTL8761B/BU broken LE extended scan

   - WiFi:
       - Broadcom (b43):
           - new support for a 11n device
       - MediaTek (mt76):
           - support mt7927
           - mt792x: broken usb transport detection
           - mt7921: regulatory improvements
       - Qualcomm (ath9k):
           - GPIO interface improvements
       - Qualcomm (ath12k):
           - WDS support
           - replace dynamic memory allocation in WMI Rx path
           - thermal throttling/cooling device support
           - 6 GHz incumbent interference detection
           - channel 177 in 5 GHz
       - Realtek (rt89):
           - RTL8922AU support
           - USB 3 mode switch for performance
           - better monitor radiotap support
           - RTL8922DE preparations"

* tag 'net-next-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1778 commits)
  ipv4: fib_rule: Move fib4_rules_exit() to ->exit().
  net: serialize netif_running() check in enqueue_to_backlog()
  net: skmsg: preserve sg.copy across SG transforms
  appletalk: move the protocol out of tree
  appletalk: stop storing per-interface state in struct net_device
  selftests/bpf: test that TLS crypto is rejected on a sockmap socket
  selftests/bpf: drop the unused kTLS program from test_sockmap
  selftests/bpf: remove sockmap + ktls tests
  tls: remove dead sockmap (psock) handling from the SW path
  tls: reject the combination of TLS and sockmap
  atm: remove orphaned uAPI for deleted drivers, protocols and SVCs
  atm: remove unused ATM PHY operations
  atm: remove the unused pre_send and send_bh device operations
  atm: remove the unused change_qos device operation
  atm: remove SVC socket support and the signaling daemon interface
  atm: remove the local ATM (NSAP) address registry
  atm: remove dead SONET PHY ioctls
  atm: remove the unused send_oam / push_oam callbacks
  atm: remove AAL3/4 transport support
  net: dsa: sja1105: fix lastused timestamp in flower stats
  ...
2026-06-17 08:17:00 +01:00
Jakub Kicinski
8a398a0c18 appletalk: move the protocol out of tree
AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009,
according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated
fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing.

Let AppleTalk follow AX.25 and hamradio out of the Linux tree.
We we will maintain the code at: github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
for anyone interested in playing with it.

Retain the uAPI for now. No strong reason, simply because I suspect
keeping it will be less controversial.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615222935.947233-3-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-06-16 14:37:06 -07:00
Brian Masney
a195cf013e docs: mm: clarify that user_reserve_kbytes has no effect when overcommit_memory is set to 0 or 1
Looking at __vm_enough_memory() in mm/util.c, user_reserve_kbytes has no
effect when overcommit_memory is set to 0 or 1. The documentation for
overcommit_memory already references user_reserve_kbytes when the flag
is set to 2.

Let's go ahead and add a clarification to user_reserve_kbytes in vm.rst
that it has no effect when overcommit_memory is set to 0 or 1.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260528-mm-clarify-docs-v1-1-aa88e83b4bfd@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-04 14:45:08 -07:00
Costa Shulyupin
d7391997ea docs: sysctl/net: Remove ax25, netrom, rose entries
These networking subsystems were removed in commit dd8d4bc28a
("net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem"),
but the sysctl directory table still listed them.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260515180200.1490926-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>
2026-05-25 14:31:44 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
440d6635b2 mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable
Total patches:       126
 Reviews/patch:       0.92
 Reviewed rate:       76%
 
 - The 2 patch series "pid: make sub-init creation retryable" from Oleg
   Nesterov increases the robustness of our creation of init in a new
   namespace.  By clearing away some historical cruft which is no longer
   needed.  Also some documentation fixups are provided.
 
 - The 2 patch series "selftests/fchmodat2: Error handling and general"
   from Mark Brown has a fixup and a cleanup for the fchmodat2() syscall
   selftest.
 
 - The 3 patch series "lib: polynomial: Move to math/ and clean up" from
   Andy Shevchenko does as advertised.
 
 - The 3 patch series "hung_task: Provide runtime reset interface for
   hung task detector" from Aaron Tomlin gives administrators the ability
   to zero out /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count.
 
 - The 2 patch series "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from
   tools/include/uapi" from Thomas Weißschuh teaches getdelays to use the
   in-kernel UAPI headers rather than the system-provided ones.
 
 - The 5 patch series "watchdog/hardlockup: Improvements to hardlockup"
   from Mayank Rungta provides several cleanups and fixups to the
   hardlockup detector code and its documentation.
 
 - The 2 patch series "lib/bch: fix undefined behavior from signed
   left-shifts" from Josh Law provides a couple of small/theoretical fixes
   in the bch code.
 
 - The 2 patch series "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()"
   from Junrui Luo does what is claims.
 
 - The 27 patch series "cleanup the RAID5 XOR library" from Christoph
   Hellwig is a quite far-reaching cleanup to this code.  I can't do better
   than to quote Christoph:
 
     The XOR library used for the RAID5 parity is a bit of a mess right
     now.  The main file sits in crypto/ despite not being cryptography and
     not using the crypto API, with the generic implementations sitting in
     include/asm-generic and the arch implementations sitting in an asm/
     header in theory.  The latter doesn't work for many cases, so
     architectures often build the code directly into the core kernel, or
     create another module for the architecture code.
 
     Change this to a single module in lib/ that also contains the
     architecture optimizations, similar to the library work Eric Biggers
     has done for the CRC and crypto libraries later.  After that it
     changes to better calling conventions that allow for smarter
     architecture implementations (although none is contained here yet),
     and uses static_call to avoid indirection function call overhead.
 
 - The 2 patch series "lib/list_sort: Clean up list_sort() scheduling
   workarounds" from Kuan-Wei Chiu cleans up this library code by removing
   a hacky thing which was added for UBIFS, which UBIFS doesn't actually
   need.
 
 - The 5 patch series "Fix bugs in extract_iter_to_sg()" from Christian
   Ehrhardt fixes a few bugs in the scatterlist code, adds in-kernel tests
   for the now-fixed bugs and fixes a leak in the test itself.
 
 - The 3 patch series "kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support
   in ARM64 and PowerPC" from Coiby Xu eenables support of the
   LUKS-encrypted device dump target on arm64 and powerpc.
 
 - The 4 patch series "ocfs2: consolidate extent list validation into
   block read callbacks" from Joseph Qi addresses ocfs2's validation of
   extent list fields - cleanup, simplification, robustness.  (Kernel test
   robot loves mounting corrupted fs images!)
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "pid: make sub-init creation retryable" (Oleg Nesterov)

   Make creation of init in a new namespace more robust by clearing away
   some historical cruft which is no longer needed. Also some
   documentation fixups

 - "selftests/fchmodat2: Error handling and general" (Mark Brown)

   Fix and a cleanup for the fchmodat2() syscall selftest

 - "lib: polynomial: Move to math/ and clean up" (Andy Shevchenko)

 - "hung_task: Provide runtime reset interface for hung task detector"
   (Aaron Tomlin)

   Give administrators the ability to zero out
   /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count

 - "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from
   tools/include/uapi" (Thomas Weißschuh)

   Teach getdelays to use the in-kernel UAPI headers rather than the
   system-provided ones

 - "watchdog/hardlockup: Improvements to hardlockup" (Mayank Rungta)

   Several cleanups and fixups to the hardlockup detector code and its
   documentation

 - "lib/bch: fix undefined behavior from signed left-shifts" (Josh Law)

   A couple of small/theoretical fixes in the bch code

 - "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()" (Junrui Luo)

 - "cleanup the RAID5 XOR library" (Christoph Hellwig)

   A quite far-reaching cleanup to this code. I can't do better than to
   quote Christoph:

     "The XOR library used for the RAID5 parity is a bit of a mess right
      now. The main file sits in crypto/ despite not being cryptography
      and not using the crypto API, with the generic implementations
      sitting in include/asm-generic and the arch implementations
      sitting in an asm/ header in theory. The latter doesn't work for
      many cases, so architectures often build the code directly into
      the core kernel, or create another module for the architecture
      code.

      Change this to a single module in lib/ that also contains the
      architecture optimizations, similar to the library work Eric
      Biggers has done for the CRC and crypto libraries later. After
      that it changes to better calling conventions that allow for
      smarter architecture implementations (although none is contained
      here yet), and uses static_call to avoid indirection function call
      overhead"

 - "lib/list_sort: Clean up list_sort() scheduling workarounds"
   (Kuan-Wei Chiu)

   Clean up this library code by removing a hacky thing which was added
   for UBIFS, which UBIFS doesn't actually need

 - "Fix bugs in extract_iter_to_sg()" (Christian Ehrhardt)

   Fix a few bugs in the scatterlist code, add in-kernel tests for the
   now-fixed bugs and fix a leak in the test itself

 - "kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and
   PowerPC" (Coiby Xu)

   Enable support of the LUKS-encrypted device dump target on arm64 and
   powerpc

 - "ocfs2: consolidate extent list validation into block read callbacks"
   (Joseph Qi)

   Cleanup, simplify, and make more robust ocfs2's validation of extent
   list fields (Kernel test robot loves mounting corrupted fs images!)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (127 commits)
  ocfs2: validate group add input before caching
  ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan
  ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full
  doc: watchdog: fix typos etc
  update Sean's email address
  ocfs2: use get_random_u32() where appropriate
  ocfs2: split transactions in dio completion to avoid credit exhaustion
  ocfs2: remove redundant l_next_free_rec check in __ocfs2_find_path()
  ocfs2: validate extent block list fields during block read
  ocfs2: remove empty extent list check in ocfs2_dx_dir_lookup_rec()
  ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during block read
  ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_fault() when VM_FAULT_RETRY
  ocfs2: handle invalid dinode in ocfs2_group_extend
  .get_maintainer.ignore: add Askar
  ocfs2: validate bg_list extent bounds in discontig groups
  checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs
  tools/accounting: handle truncated taskstats netlink messages
  taskstats: set version in TGID exit notifications
  ocfs2/heartbeat: fix slot mapping rollback leaks on error paths
  arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel
  ...
2026-04-16 20:11:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
91a4855d6c Networking changes for 7.1.
Core & protocols
 ----------------
 
  - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access
    to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP.
 
  - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining.
    Avoid output arguments for returning drop reason where possible.
 
  - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata
    about the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints.
 
  - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing.
 
  - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer
    itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s,
    thus making the table allocation size a power of two.
 
  - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag.
 
  - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the randomly
    selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space.
 
  - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing.
 
  - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter.
 
  - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid
    buffer size drifting up.
 
  - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP.
 
  - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection.
    This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage.
 
  - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023).
 
  - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module.
    Remove the now unnecessary function calling indirection.
 
 Cross-tree stuff
 ----------------
 
  - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless,
    it's considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it.
 
 Netfilter
 ---------
 
  - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry
    object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.
    Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate.
 
  - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and
    switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that
    walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex.
 
  - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure.
 
  - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable.
 
 Wireless
 --------
 
  - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth.
 
  - Radar detection improvements.
 
  - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs.
 
  - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and
    client probing.
 
  - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking,
    aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware.
 
 Driver API
 ----------
 
  - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create
    fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink
    instances which span multiple PFs.
 
  - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events
    (implement in mlx5 and fbnic).
 
  - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering
    (implement in mana).
 
  - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes.
 
  - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x).
 
  - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5).
 
 Misc
 ----
 
  - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter.
 
 Drivers
 -------
 
  - Software:
    - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared source
      MAC address
    - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad
      LACP "independent control"
 
  - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
    - nVidia/Mellanox:
      - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload
        coalescing)
      - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB pages)
    - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt):
      - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction
      - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost
    - Broadcom 800GE (bnge):
      - add link status and configuration handling
      - add various HW and SW statistics
    - Marvell/Cavium:
      - NPC HW block support for cn20k
    - Huawei (hinic3):
      - add mailbox / control queue
      - add rx VLAN offload
      - add driver info and link management
 
  - Ethernet NICs:
    - Marvell/Aquantia:
      - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards
    - Realtek PCI (r8169):
      - add support for RTL8125cp
    - Realtek USB (r8152):
      - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip
      - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support
 
  - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP:
    - Synopsys (stmmac):
      - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support
      - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data
      - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling
      - shrink driver memory use for internal structures
      - improve Tx IRQ coalescing
      - improve TCP segmentation handling
      - add support for Spacemit K3
    - Cadence (macb):
      - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM
      - support IEEE 802.3az EEE
      - rework usrio capabilities and handling
    - AMD (xgbe):
      - improve power management for S0i3
      - improve TX resilience for link-down handling
 
  - Virtual:
    - Google cloud vNIC:
      - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode
      - improve HW-GRO handling
      - support UDP GSO for DQO format
    - PCIe NTB:
      - support queue count configuration
 
  - Ethernet PHYs:
    - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge
    - Broadcom:
      - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support
    - Micrel:
      - support for LAN9645X internal PHY
    - Realtek:
      - add RTL8224 pair order support
      - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
      - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC)
    - Maxlinear:
      - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool
 
  - Ethernet switches:
    - Maxlinear (mxl862xx):
      - support for bridge offloading
      - support for VLANs
      - support driver statistics
 
  - Bluetooth:
    - large number of fixes and new device IDs
    - Mediatek:
      - support MT6639 (MT7927)
      - support MT7902 SDIO
 
  - WiFi:
    - Intel (iwlwifi):
      - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work
    - MediaTek (mt76):
      - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements
      - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload)
    - Qualcomm (ath12k):
      - monitor mode support on IPQ5332
      - basic hwmon temperature reporting
      - support IPQ5424
    - Realtek:
      - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance
      - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs
 
  - Cellular:
    - IPA v5.2 support
 
 Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core & protocols:

   - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access
     to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP

   - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid
     output arguments for returning drop reason where possible

   - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about
     the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints

   - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing

   - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer
     itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s,
     thus making the table allocation size a power of two

   - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag

   - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the
     randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space

   - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing

   - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter

   - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid
     buffer size drifting up

   - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP

   - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection.
     This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage

   - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023)

   - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now
     unnecessary function calling indirection

  Cross-tree stuff:

   - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's
     considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it

  Netfilter:

   - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry
     object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.

     Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate

   - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and
     switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that
     walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex

   - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure

   - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable

  Wireless:

   - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth

   - Radar detection improvements

   - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs

   - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client
     probing

   - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking,
     aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware

  Driver API:

   - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create
     fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink
     instances which span multiple PFs

   - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement
     in mlx5 and fbnic)

   - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement
     in mana)

   - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes

   - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x)

   - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5)

  Misc:

   - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter

  Drivers

   - Software:
      - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared
        source MAC address
      - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad
        LACP "independent control"

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload
           coalescing)
         - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB
           pages)
      - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt):
         - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction
         - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost
      - Broadcom 800GE (bnge):
         - add link status and configuration handling
         - add various HW and SW statistics
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - NPC HW block support for cn20k
      - Huawei (hinic3):
         - add mailbox / control queue
         - add rx VLAN offload
         - add driver info and link management

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Marvell/Aquantia:
         - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards
      - Realtek PCI (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8125cp
      - Realtek USB (r8152):
         - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip
         - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support
         - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data
         - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling
         - shrink driver memory use for internal structures
         - improve Tx IRQ coalescing
         - improve TCP segmentation handling
         - add support for Spacemit K3
      - Cadence (macb):
         - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM
         - support IEEE 802.3az EEE
         - rework usrio capabilities and handling
      - AMD (xgbe):
         - improve power management for S0i3
         - improve TX resilience for link-down handling

   - Virtual:
      - Google cloud vNIC:
         - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode
         - improve HW-GRO handling
         - support UDP GSO for DQO format
      - PCIe NTB:
         - support queue count configuration

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge
      - Broadcom:
         - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support
      - Micrel:
         - support for LAN9645X internal PHY
      - Realtek:
         - add RTL8224 pair order support
         - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
         - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC)
      - Maxlinear:
         - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear (mxl862xx):
         - support for bridge offloading
         - support for VLANs
         - support driver statistics

   - Bluetooth:
      - large number of fixes and new device IDs
      - Mediatek:
         - support MT6639 (MT7927)
         - support MT7902 SDIO

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements
         - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload)
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - monitor mode support on IPQ5332
         - basic hwmon temperature reporting
         - support IPQ5424
      - Realtek:
         - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance
         - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs

   - Cellular:
      - IPA v5.2 support"

* tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits)
  net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id()
  wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
  wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space
  tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard
  wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu()
  MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files
  selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease
  selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease
  tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager
  net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init()
  net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC
  net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown
  net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp()
  net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()
  selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up
  net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master
  net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration
  sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
  sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments
  net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks
  ...
2026-04-14 18:36:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5181afcdf9 A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including:
- Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations, Chinese
   translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the beginnings of a
   Portuguese translation.
 
 - New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging
   Python gbb scripts, and more.
 
 - More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding self
   tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C tokenizer to
   replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and more.
 
 - Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put both
   into alphabetical order.
 
 ...and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general
 improvements.
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Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including:

   - Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations,
     Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the
     beginnings of a Portuguese translation.

   - New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging
     Python gbb scripts, and more.

   - More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding
     self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C
     tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and
     more.

   - Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put
     both into alphabetical order.

  ... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general
  improvements"

* tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits)
  Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling
  doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation
  Documentation: Add managed interrupts
  Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference
  docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version
  docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview
  tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling
  docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/
  Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable
  Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass
  sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS
  Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format
  docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation
  docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation
  docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst
  Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation"
  ...
2026-04-14 08:47:08 -07:00
Shubham Chakraborty
136799e52c docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/
Add documentation for the Xen hypervisor sysctl controls in
/proc/sys/xen/balloon/.

Documents the hotplug_unpopulated tunable (available when
CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is enabled) which controls
whether unpopulated memory regions are automatically hotplugged
when the Xen balloon driver needs to reclaim memory.

The documentation is based on source code analysis of
drivers/xen/balloon.c.

Signed-off-by: Shubham Chakraborty <chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260304150419.16738-1-chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com>
2026-04-09 08:44:31 -06:00
Aaron Tomlin
49085e1b70 hung_task: enable runtime reset of hung_task_detect_count
Currently, the hung_task_detect_count sysctl provides a cumulative count
of hung tasks since boot.  In long-running, high-availability
environments, this counter may lose its utility if it cannot be reset once
an incident has been resolved.  Furthermore, the previous implementation
relied upon implicit ordering, which could not strictly guarantee that
diagnostic metadata published by one CPU was visible to the panic logic on
another.

This patch introduces the capability to reset the detection count by
writing "0" to the hung_task_detect_count sysctl.  The proc_handler logic
has been updated to validate this input and atomically reset the counter.

The synchronisation of sysctl_hung_task_detect_count relies upon a
transactional model to ensure the integrity of the detection counter
against concurrent resets from userspace.  The application of
atomic_long_read_acquire() and atomic_long_cmpxchg_release() is correct
and provides the following guarantees:

    1. Prevention of Load-Store Reordering via Acquire Semantics By
       utilising atomic_long_read_acquire() to snapshot the counter
       before initiating the task traversal, we establish a strict
       memory barrier. This prevents the compiler or hardware from
       reordering the initial load to a point later in the scan. Without
       this "acquire" barrier, a delayed load could potentially read a
       "0" value resulting from a userspace reset that occurred
       mid-scan. This would lead to the subsequent cmpxchg succeeding
       erroneously, thereby overwriting the user's reset with stale
       increment data.

    2. Atomicity of the "Commit" Phase via Release Semantics The
       atomic_long_cmpxchg_release() serves as the transaction's commit
       point. The "release" barrier ensures that all diagnostic
       recordings and task-state observations made during the scan are
       globally visible before the counter is incremented.

    3. Race Condition Resolution This pairing effectively detects any
       "out-of-band" reset of the counter. If
       sysctl_hung_task_detect_count is modified via the procfs
       interface during the scan, the final cmpxchg will detect the
       discrepancy between the current value and the "acquire" snapshot.
       Consequently, the update will fail, ensuring that a reset command
       from the administrator is prioritised over a scan that may have
       been invalidated by that very reset.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260303203031.4097316-3-atomlin@atomlin.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-03-27 21:19:40 -07:00
Alexander Graf
0de607dc4f vsock: add G2H fallback for CIDs not owned by H2G transport
When no H2G transport is loaded, vsock currently routes all CIDs to the
G2H transport (commit 65b422d9b6 ("vsock: forward all packets to the
host when no H2G is registered"). Extend that existing behavior: when
an H2G transport is loaded but does not claim a given CID, the
connection falls back to G2H in the same way.

This matters in environments like Nitro Enclaves, where an instance may
run nested VMs via vhost-vsock (H2G) while also needing to reach sibling
enclaves at higher CIDs through virtio-vsock-pci (G2H). With the old
code, any CID > 2 was unconditionally routed to H2G when vhost was
loaded, making those enclaves unreachable without setting
VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST explicitly on every connect.

Requiring every application to set VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST creates friction:
tools like socat, iperf, and others would all need to learn about it.
The flag was introduced 6 years ago and I am still not aware of any tool
that supports it. Even if there was support, it would be cumbersome to
use. The most natural experience is a single CID address space where H2G
only wins for CIDs it actually owns, and everything else falls through to
G2H, extending the behavior that already exists when H2G is absent.

To give user space at least a hint that the kernel applied this logic,
automatically set the VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST on the remote address so it
can determine the path taken via getpeername().

Add a per-network namespace sysctl net.vsock.g2h_fallback (default 1).
At 0 it forces strict routing: H2G always wins for CID > VMADDR_CID_HOST,
or ENODEV if H2G is not loaded.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304230027.59857-1-graf@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-03-12 10:59:36 +01:00
Shubham Chakraborty
6801cc4936 docs: sysctl: add documentation for crypto and debug
Add documentation for the /proc/sys/crypto and /proc/sys/debug
directories in the admin-guide. This includes tunables for FIPS
mode (fips_enabled, fips_name, fips_version), exception-trace,
and kprobes-optimization.

The documentation is based on source code analysis and addresses
stylistic feedback to keep it direct and concise.

Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Shubham Chakraborty <chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260223203724.20874-1-chakrabortyshubham66@gmail.com>
2026-03-03 10:26:44 -07:00
Bobby Eshleman
b6302e057f vsock: document write-once behavior of the child_ns_mode sysctl
Update the vsock child_ns_mode documentation to include the new
write-once semantics of setting child_ns_mode. The semantics are
implemented in a preceding patch in this series.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223-vsock-ns-write-once-v3-3-c0cde6959923@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-02-26 11:10:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8bf22c33e7 Including fixes from Netfilter.
Current release - new code bugs:
 
  - net: fix backlog_unlock_irq_restore() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
 
  - eth: mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change
 
  - phy_port: correctly recompute the port's linkmodes
 
  - vsock: prevent child netns mode switch from local to global
 
  - couple of kconfig fixes for new symbols
 
 Previous releases - regressions:
 
  - nfc: nci: fix false-positive parameter validation for packet data
 
  - net: do not delay zero-copy skbs in skb_attempt_defer_free()
 
 Previous releases - always broken:
 
  - mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses to user space are zero-initialised
 
  - ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()
 
  - fixes for ICMP rate limiting
 
 Misc:
 
  - intel: fix PCI device ID conflict between i40e and ipw2200
 
 Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Including fixes from Netfilter.

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - net: fix backlog_unlock_irq_restore() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT

   - eth: mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change

   - phy_port: correctly recompute the port's linkmodes

   - vsock: prevent child netns mode switch from local to global

   - couple of kconfig fixes for new symbols

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - nfc: nci: fix false-positive parameter validation for packet data

   - net: do not delay zero-copy skbs in skb_attempt_defer_free()

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses to user space are zero-initialised

   - ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()

   - fixes for ICMP rate limiting

  Misc:

   - intel: fix PCI device ID conflict between i40e and ipw2200"

* tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (85 commits)
  net: nfc: nci: Fix parameter validation for packet data
  net/mlx5e: Use unsigned for mlx5e_get_max_num_channels
  net/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks
  net/mlx5e: MACsec, add ASO poll loop in macsec_aso_set_arm_event
  net/mlx5: Fix misidentification of write combining CQE during poll loop
  net/mlx5e: Fix misidentification of ASO CQE during poll loop
  net/mlx5: Fix multiport device check over light SFs
  bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down
  bnge: fix reserving resources from FW
  eth: fbnic: Advertise supported XDP features.
  rds: tcp: fix uninit-value in __inet_bind
  net/rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rds_tcp_accept_one
  octeontx2-af: Fix default entries mcam entry action
  net/mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change
  ipv6: icmp: icmpv6_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit is zero
  ipv4: icmp: icmpv4_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit is zero
  ipv6: icmp: remove obsolete code in icmpv6_xrlim_allow()
  inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line
  icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow()
  selftests/net: packetdrill: add ipv4-mapped-ipv6 tests
  ...
2026-02-19 10:39:08 -08:00
Stefano Garzarella
a07c33c6f2 vsock: document namespace mode sysctls
Add documentation for the vsock per-namespace sysctls (`ns_mode` and
`child_ns_mode`) to Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst.
These sysctls were introduced by commit eafb64f40c ("vsock: add
netns to vsock core").

Document the two namespace modes (`global` and `local`), the
inheritance behavior of `child_ns_mode`, and the restriction preventing
local namespaces from setting `child_ns_mode` to `global`.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216163147.236844-1-sgarzare@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-02-17 17:20:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4cff5c05e0 mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable
Everything:
 
 Total patches:       325
 Reviews/patch:       1.39
 Reviewed rate:       72%
 
 Excluding DAMON:
 
 Total patches:       262
 Reviews/patch:       1.63
 Reviewed rate:       82%
 
 Excluding DAMON and zram:
 
 Total patches:       248
 Reviews/patch:       1.72
 Reviewed rate:       86%
 
 - The 14 patch series "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB
   flush" from Alexander Gordeev makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode()
   nest properly.
 
   It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use
   it.  Various hacks were removed in the process.
 
 - The 7 patch series "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" from
   Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky implements data compression for
   zram writeback.
 
 - The 8 patch series "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" from David
   Hildenbrand adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages.
   Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated.
 
 - The 2 patch series "memcg cleanups" from Chen Ridong tideis up some
   memcg code.
 
 - The 12 patch series "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and
   tracepoint for damos stats" from SeongJae Park improves DAMOS stat's
   provided information, deterministic control, and readability.
 
 - The 3 patch series "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness
   fixes" from Li Wang fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging
   selftests.
 
 - The 5 patch series "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again"
   from Chunyu Hu addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test
   scenarios" from Shu Anzai improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for
   MADV_COLLAPSE" from Shivank Garg fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was
   causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN.
 
 - The 29 patch series "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation"
   from Mike Rapoport reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code
   related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of
   CMA areas for hugetlb.
 
 - The 9 patch series "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways.
 
 - The 3 patch series "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" from
   Vlastimil Babka does a little streamlining of the page allocator's
   slowpath code.
 
 - The 8 patch series "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces"
   from Shakeel Butt cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the
   internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace.
 
 - The 6 patch series "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" from
   Kefeng Wang cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some
   atomic refcount operations.
 
 - The 11 patch series "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" from
   SeongJae Park improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and
   inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of
   monitoring intervals.
 
 - The 18 patch series "Support page table check on PowerPC" from Andrew
   Donnellan makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc.
 
 - The 3 patch series "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying
   bitmap ops" from Yury Norov makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot()
   propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling
   some cleanup in calling code.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API
   callers" from SeongJae Park cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces.
 
 - The 4 patch series "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" from
   Shivank Garg does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit
   accounting issue.
 
 - The 24 patch series "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" from David
   Hildenbrand goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page
   migration function.  Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification.
 
 - The 2 patch series "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for
   kswapd_failures reset" from Jiayuan Chen adds additional tracepoints to
   the page reclaim code.
 
 - The 3 patch series "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to
   alloc_workqueue() users" from Marco Crivellari is part of Marco's
   kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the
   preferred unbound workqueues.
 
 - The 9 patch series "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" from
   Kevin Brodsky provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm
   kselftests.
 
 - The 5 patch series "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" from
   Kefeng Wang greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by
   avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig().
 
 - The 5 patch series "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss
   estimation reliability" from SeongJae Park improves the reliability of
   two of the DAMON selftests.
 
 - The 8 patch series "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos
   filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" from SeongJae Park does some cleanup work
   in the core DAMON code.
 
 - The 8 patch series "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer
   profile, and misc" from SeongJae Park performs maintenance work on the
   DAMON documentation.
 
 - The 10 patch series "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes refactors and cleans up the core VMA code.  The
   main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state
   to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code
   requires.
 
 - The 19 patch series "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use"
   from Kairui Song removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and
   swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well.  Various other
   cleanups and simplifications were made.  The end result is a 20% speedup
   in one benchmark.
 
 - The 8 patch series "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures"
   from Qi Zheng makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch,
   mips, parisc, um,  Various cleanups were performed along the way.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes
   arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev)

   It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use
   it. Various hacks were removed in the process.

 - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data
   compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky)

 - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous
   page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting
   are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand)

 - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong)

 - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos
   stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic
   control, and readability (SeongJae Park)

 - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few
   issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang)

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several
   issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu)

 - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves
   the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai)

 - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a
   glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg)

 - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and
   consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of
   hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb
   (Mike Rapoport)

 - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma
   implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of
   the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka)

 - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the
   memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being
   exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt)

 - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the
   allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount
   operations (Kefeng Wang)

 - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement
   of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning
   of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park)

 - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes
   CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan)

 - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes
   nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the
   underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code
   (Yury Norov)

 - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up
   some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work
   in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg)

 - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon
   infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also
   some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand)

 - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds
   additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen)

 - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is
   part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs
   over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari)

 - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated
   improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky)

 - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic
   folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in
   pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang)

 - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation
   reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and
   DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc"
   performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans
   up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap
   write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding
   the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old
   swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which
   wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications
   were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui
   Song)

 - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM
   available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various
   cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits)
  mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table()
  mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c
  mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config
  um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h
  mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles
  zsmalloc: make common caches global
  mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files
  mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers
  mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers
  mm/readahead: fix typo in comment
  mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file()
  mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages
  mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range
  mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area
  ...
2026-02-12 11:32:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
37a93dd5c4 Networking changes for 7.0
Core & protocols
 ----------------
 
  - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
    make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls for
    small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path. This
    generates better and faster code with very small or no text size
    increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than the
    actual inlined helper.
 
  - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
    also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
    basis.
 
  - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
    Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
    buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage by
    up to ~30%.
 
  - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the RX
    path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
    user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without the
    HBH hint.
 
  - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
    resolved out of a different interface than the one specified, aligning
    IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.
 
  - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the rate
    shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing a
    single global rate on the interface.
 
  - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
    netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations that
    are safer in crash scenarios.
 
  - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information, saving
    cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.
 
  - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most protocols,
    avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.
 
  - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.
 
  - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.
 
  - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies between
    the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.
 
  - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
    across different network namespaces.
 
  - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
    optimizations.
 
  - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
    to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes back
    online.
 
 Driver API
 ----------
 
  - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a DPLL
    device via netlink.
 
  - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
    media ports over a single MAC.
 
  - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties, to
    generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential signaling.
 
  - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.
 
 Device drivers
 --------------
 
  - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.
 
  - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet controller.
 
  - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches
 
  - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.
 
  - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
    hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().
 
  - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
    ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.
 
  - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
    - Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
      - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram and
        NVRAM defragmentation
      - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
    - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
      - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the used
        H/W resources
      - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
      - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
      - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO, leading to
        12% RX tput improvement
    - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
      - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
        locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new layouts
      - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
    - Meta (fbnic):
      - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors
 
  - Ethernet virtual:
    - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation
 
  - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
    - Synopsys (stmmac):
      - some code refactoring and cleanups
    - RealTek (r8169):
      - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
      - add dash and LTR support
    - Airoha:
      - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
    - Freescale (fec):
      - add XDP zero-copy support
    - Thunderbolt:
      - add get link setting support to allow bonding
    - Renesas:
      - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC
 
  - Ethernet switches:
    - Maxlinear:
      - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
      - add support for Intel GSW150
    - Motorcomm (yt921x):
      - add DCB/QoS support
    - TI:
      - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
        framework
 
  - Ethernet PHYs:
    - Realtek:
      - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
      - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
    - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema
 
  - CAN:
    - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN metadata
      access more robust
 
  - CAN drivers:
    - rcar_canfd:
      - add support for FD-only mode
      - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
    - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling
 
  - WiFi:
    - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
    - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
    - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
      spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
    - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
    - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211
 
  - WiFi drivers:
    - Qualcomm/Atheros:
      - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
      - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support
        multi-wiphy devices and and pave the way for future device support
        in the same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
      - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
    - Intel:
      - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
      - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
    - RealTek (rtw89):
      - preparations for RTL8922DE support
 
  - Bluetooth:
    - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
    - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections
 
  - Bluetooth drivers:
    - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
    - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature
 
 Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core & protocols:

   - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
     make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls
     for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.

     This generates better and faster code with very small or no text
     size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than
     the actual inlined helper.

   - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
     also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
     basis.

   - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
     Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
     buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage
     by up to ~30%.

   - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the
     RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
     user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without
     the HBH hint.

   - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
     resolved out of a different interface than the one specified,
     aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.

   - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the
     rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing
     a single global rate on the interface.

   - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
     netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations
     that are safer in crash scenarios.

   - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information,
     saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.

   - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most
     protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.

   - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.

   - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.

   - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies
     between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.

   - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
     across different network namespaces.

   - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
     optimizations.

   - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
     to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes
     back online.

  Driver API:

   - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a
     DPLL device via netlink.

   - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
     media ports over a single MAC.

   - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties,
     to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential
     signaling.

   - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.

  Device drivers:

   - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.

   - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet
     controller.

   - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches

   - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.

   - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
     hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().

   - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
     ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
         - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram
           and NVRAM defragmentation
         - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the
           used H/W resources
         - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
         - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
         - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO,
           leading to 12% RX tput improvement
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
           locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new
           layouts
         - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - some code refactoring and cleanups
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
         - add dash and LTR support
      - Airoha:
         - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
      - Freescale (fec):
         - add XDP zero-copy support
      - Thunderbolt:
         - add get link setting support to allow bonding
      - Renesas:
         - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear:
         - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
         - add support for Intel GSW150
      - Motorcomm (yt921x):
         - add DCB/QoS support
      - TI:
         - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
           framework

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Realtek:
         - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
         - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
      - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema

   - CAN:
      - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN
        metadata access more robust

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd:
         - add support for FD-only mode
         - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
      - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling

   - WiFi:
      - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
      - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
      - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
        spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
      - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
      - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211

   - WiFi drivers:
      - Qualcomm/Atheros:
         - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
         - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy
           devices and and pave the way for future device support in the
           same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
         - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
      - Intel:
         - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
         - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - preparations for RTL8922DE support

   - Bluetooth:
      - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
      - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
      - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"

* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits)
  bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI
  net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up
  af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR
  net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
  net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors
  net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx
  selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets
  octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure
  net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine
  ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages
  tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization
  tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
  tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect()
  ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6
  ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update()
  ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header()
  ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo
  net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup()
  ...
2026-02-11 19:31:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
72c395024d A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is still a
fair amount going on, including:
 
 - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation
 
 - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for patch
   submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption by
   generative tools.
 
 - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to tools/docs.  For
   now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink behind to avoid breaking
   scripts.
 
 - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of documentation in
   Python code, better support for documenting variables, and lots of
   improvements and fixes.
 
 - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example -- to
   the online pages in the HTML build.
 
 ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such.
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Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is
  still a fair amount going on, including:

   - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation

   - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for
     patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption
     by generative tools

   - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to
     tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink
     behind to avoid breaking scripts

   - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of
     documentation in Python code, better support for documenting
     variables, and lots of improvements and fixes

   - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example --
     to the online pages in the HTML build

  ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such"

* tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits)
  doc: development-process: add notice on testing
  tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message
  docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q
  docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools
  docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree'
  docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation
  docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst
  docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete
  docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers
  Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
  docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent
  docs: add parse_features module documentation
  docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements
  docs: add jobserver module documentation
  docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value
  docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8
  docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot
  docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: add kabi modules documentation
  ...
2026-02-09 20:53:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
996812c453 vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd tag.
 
 Thanks!
 Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs initrd removal from Christian Brauner:
 "Remove the deprecated linuxrc-based initrd code path and related dead
  code. The linuxrc initrd path was deprecated in 2020 and this series
  completes its removal. If we see real-life regressions we'll revert.

  The core change removes handle_initrd() and init_linuxrc() — the
  entire flow that ran /linuxrc from an initrd, pivoted roots, and
  handed off to the real root filesystem. With that gone, initrd_load()
  becomes void (no longer short-circuits prepare_namespace()),
  rd_load_image() is simplified to always load /initrd.image instead of
  taking a path, and rd_load_disk() is deleted.

  The /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev sysctl and its backing variable are
  removed since they only existed for linuxrc to communicate the real
  root device back to the kernel.

  The no-op load_ramdisk= and prompt_ramdisk= parameters are dropped,
  and noinitrd and ramdisk_start= gain deprecation warnings.

  Initramfs is entirely unaffected. The non-linuxrc initrd path
  (root=/dev/ram0) is preserved but now carries a deprecation warning
  targeting January 2027 removal"

* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
  initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc)
  init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameters
2026-02-09 11:03:25 -08:00
Jakub Kicinski
a010fe8d86 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.19-rc8).

No adjacent changes, conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/spacemit/k1_emac.c
  2c84959167 ("net: spacemit: Check for netif_carrier_ok() in emac_stats_update()")
  f66086798f ("net: spacemit: Remove broken flow control support")
https://lore.kernel.org/aXjAqZA3iEWD_DGM@sirena.org.uk

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-29 17:28:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
fcb70a56f4 vfs-6.19-rc8.fixes
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Fix the the buggy conversion of fuse_reverse_inval_entry() introduced
   during the creation rework

 - Disallow nfs delegation requests for directories by setting
   simple_nosetlease()

 - Require an opt-in for getting readdir flag bits outside of S_DT_MASK
   set in d_type

 - Fix scheduling delayed writeback work by only scheduling when the
   dirty time expiry interval is non-zero and cancel the delayed work if
   the interval is set to zero

 - Use rounded_jiffies_interval for dirty time work

 - Check the return value of sb_set_blocksize() for romfs

 - Wait for batched folios to be stable in __iomap_get_folio()

 - Use private naming for fuse hash size

 - Fix the stale dentry cleanup to prevent a race that causes a UAF

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  vfs: document d_dispose_if_unused()
  fuse: shrink once after all buckets have been scanned
  fuse: clean up fuse_dentry_tree_work()
  fuse: add need_resched() before unlocking bucket
  fuse: make sure dentry is evicted if stale
  fuse: fix race when disposing stale dentries
  fuse: use private naming for fuse hash size
  writeback: use round_jiffies_relative for dirtytime_work
  iomap: wait for batched folios to be stable in __iomap_get_folio
  romfs: check sb_set_blocksize() return value
  docs: clarify that dirtytime_expire_seconds=0 disables writeback
  writeback: fix 100% CPU usage when dirtytime_expire_interval is 0
  readdir: require opt-in for d_type flags
  vboxsf: don't allow delegations to be set on directories
  ceph: don't allow delegations to be set on directories
  gfs2: don't allow delegations to be set on directories
  9p: don't allow delegations to be set on directories
  smb/client: properly disallow delegations on directories
  nfs: properly disallow delegation requests on directories
  fuse: fix conversion of fuse_reverse_inval_entry() to start_removing()
2026-01-26 09:30:48 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
37b0ea8fef net: expand NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN to 256 bytes
NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN has been set to 52 bytes in 2014, until now.

Jakub suggested we bump the size to 128 bytes or more.

Some drivers (like idpf) were already working around the core limit.

Since this change might cause some issues in admin scripts,
bump it directly to 256 in one go.

tjbp26:~# cat /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key | wc -c
768

tjbp26:~# ethtool -x eth1
RX flow hash indirection table for eth1 with 32 RX ring(s):
...
RSS hash key:
fe:16:5b:2f:93:85:c2:c9:c1:ef:bd:60:c6:e0:2b:99:4d:bf:b7:14:c8:1e:8d:cb:31:17:51:da:55:eb:91:d9:9e:f9:89:9b:44:a1:dc:08:72:3a:b3:d6:31:86:9a:fe:02:3a:0d:eb:a1:7c:f5:a3:51:3b:08:56:c9:3f:71:69:01:ba:70:38
RSS hash function:
    toeplitz: on
    xor: off
    crc32: off

Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260122075206.504ec591@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122190349.2771064-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-25 13:20:46 -08:00
Gregory Price
9e80e66dda mm, hugetlb: implement movable_gigantic_pages sysctl
This reintroduces a concept removed by: commit d6cb41cc44 ("mm, hugetlb:
remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl")

This sysctl provides flexibility between ZONE_MOVABLE use cases:
1) onlining memory in ZONE_MOVABLE to maintain hotplug compatibility
2) onlining memory in ZONE_MOVABLE to make hugepage allocate reliable

When ZONE_MOVABLE is used to make huge page allocation more reliable,
disallowing gigantic pages memory in this region is pointless.  If hotplug
is not a requirement, we can loosen the restrictions to allow 1GB gigantic
pages in ZONE_MOVABLE.

Since 1GB can be difficult to migrate / has impacts on compaction /
defragmentation, we don't enable this by default.  Notably, 1GB pages can
only be migrated if another 1GB page is available - so hot-unplug will
fail if such a page cannot be found.

However, since there are scenarios where gigantic pages are migratable, we
should allow use of these on movable regions.

When not valid 1GB is available for migration, hot-unplug will retry
indefinitely (or until interrupted).  For example:

  echo 0 > node0/hugepages/..-1GB/nr_hugepages  # clear node0 1GB pages
  echo 1 > node1/hugepages/..-1GB/nr_hugepages  # reserve node1 1GB page
  ./alloc_huge_node1 &    # Allocate a 1GB page on node1
  ./node1_offline  &      # attempt to offline all node1 memory
  echo 1 > node0/hugepages/..-1GB/nr_hugepages  # reserve node0 1GB page

In this example, node1_offline will block indefinitely until the final
step, when a node0 1GB page is made available.

Note: Boot-time CMA is not possible for driver-managed hotplug memory, as
CMA requires the memory to be registered as SystemRAM at boot time. 
Additionally, 1GB huge pages are not supported by THP.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251221125603.2364174-1-gourry@gourry.net
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20180201193132.Hk7vI_xaU%25akpm@linux-foundation.org/
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 19:24:50 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
64dd89ae01 mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode
Laptop mode was introduced to save battery, by delaying and consolidating
writes and thereby maximize the time rotating hard drives wouldn't have to
spin.

Luckily, rotating hard drives, with their high spin-up times and power
draw, are a thing of the past for battery-powered devices.  Reclaim has
also since changed to not write single filesystem pages anymore, and
regular filesystem writeback is lumpy by design.

The juice doesn't appear worth the squeeze anymore.  The footprint of the
feature is small, but nevertheless it's a complicating factor in mm,
block, filesystems.  Developers don't think about it, and it likely hasn't
been tested with new reclaim and writeback changes in years.

Let's sunset it.  Keep the sysctl with a deprecation warning around for a
few more cycles, but remove all functionality behind it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 19:24:47 -08:00
Suren Baghdasaryan
cb7d761bf5 Docs/mm/allocation-profiling: describe sysctrl limitations in debug mode
When CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y, /proc/sys/vm/mem_profiling is
read-only to avoid debug warnings in a scenario when an allocation is
made while profiling is disabled (allocation does not get an allocation
tag), then profiling gets enabled and allocation gets freed (warning due
to the allocation missing allocation tag).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116184423.2708363-1-surenb@google.com
Fixes: ebdf9ad4ca ("memprofiling: documentation")
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20 09:34:26 -08:00
Marc Herbert
d9d25684e9 docs: make kptr_restrict and hash_pointers reference each other
vsprintf.c uses a mix of the `kernel.kptr_restrict` sysctl and the
`hash_pointers` boot param to control pointer hashing. But that wasn't
possible to tell without looking at the source code.

They have a different focus and purpose. To avoid wasting the time of
users trying to use one instead of the other, simply have them reference
each other in the Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260107-doc-hash-ptr-v2-1-cb4c161218d7@linux.intel.com>
2026-01-16 11:31:58 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
ffe4ccd359 net: add net.core.qdisc_max_burst
In blamed commit, I added a check against the temporary queue
built in __dev_xmit_skb(). Idea was to drop packets early,
before any spinlock was acquired.

if (unlikely(defer_count > READ_ONCE(q->limit))) {
	kfree_skb_reason(skb, SKB_DROP_REASON_QDISC_DROP);
	return NET_XMIT_DROP;
}

It turned out that HTB Qdisc has a zero q->limit.
HTB limits packets on a per-class basis.
Some of our tests became flaky.

Add a new sysctl : net.core.qdisc_max_burst to control
how many packets can be stored in the temporary lockless queue.

Also add a new QDISC_BURST_DROP drop reason to better diagnose
future issues.

Thanks Neal !

Fixes: 100dfa74ca ("net: dev_queue_xmit() llist adoption")
Reported-and-bisected-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107104159.3669285-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-01-13 10:12:11 +01:00
Askar Safin
e6ce36ccc8
init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
It is not used anymore.

Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119222407.3333257-4-safinaskar@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-12 17:22:27 +01:00
Laveesh Bansal
30ef9a20f1
docs: clarify that dirtytime_expire_seconds=0 disables writeback
Document that setting vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds to zero disables
periodic dirtytime writeback, matching the behavior of the related
dirty_writeback_centisecs sysctl which already documents this.

Signed-off-by: Laveesh Bansal <laveeshb@laveeshbansal.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106145059.543282-3-laveeshb@laveeshbansal.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-12 11:07:25 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
509d3f4584 Significant patch series in this pull request:
- The 6 patch series "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential
   issue" from Andy Shevchenko fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in
   ib/sys_info.c.
 
 - The 9 patch series "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" from
   David Laight enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and
   beefs up the test module for these library functions.
 
 - The 2 patch series "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available
   to GDB" from Ilya Leoshkevich makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line
   numbers available to the GDB debugger.
 
 - The 4 patch series "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system
   info on demand" from Feng Tang adds a sysctl which can be used to cause
   additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire.
 
 - The 6 patch series "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate
   users" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/
   and migrates several users away from their private implementations.
 
 - The 2 patch series "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" from Eric
   Dumazet makes TCP a little faster.
 
 - The 9 patch series "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" from
   Pasha Tatashin reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for
   Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients.
 
 - The 13 patch series "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic
   updates" from Pasha Tatashin increases the flexibility of KEXEC
   Handover.  Also preparation for LUO.
 
 - The 18 patch series "Live Update Orchestrator" from Pasha Tatashin is
   a major new feature targeted at cloud environments.  Quoting the [0/N]:
 
     This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem
     designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot.
     This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors
     to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines.  LUO
     achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as
     memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
 
     As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file
     descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or
     any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec
     reboot.
 
   Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
   testing work.
 
 - The 3 patch series "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" from
   Sourabh Jain moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/
   to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
   hopefully be removed one day.
 
 - The 2 patch series "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" from Mike
   Rapoport fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of
   vmalloc() regions.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
   fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c

 - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
   enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
   the test module for these library functions

 - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
   makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
   debugger

 - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
   adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
   the hung-task and lockup detectors fire

 - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
   adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
   users away from their private implementations

 - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
   makes TCP a little faster

 - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
   reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
   Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients

 - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
   increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO

 - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
   is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
   cover letter:

      This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
      subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
      kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
      environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
      downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
      preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
      devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.

      As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
      memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
      as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
      RAM across the kexec reboot.

   Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
   testing work.

 - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
   moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
   /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
   hopefully be removed one day

 - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
   fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
   regions

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
  calibrate: update header inclusion
  Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
  vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
  kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
  kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
  MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
  init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
  KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
  Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
  Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
  kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
  test_kho: always print restore status
  kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
  selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions
  selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO
  selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests
  docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO
  mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
  liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
  mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h
  ...
2025-12-06 14:01:20 -08:00
Feng Tang
03ef32d665 sys_info: add a default kernel sys_info mask
Which serves as a global default sys_info mask.  When users want the same
system information for many error cases (panic, hung, lockup ...), they
can chose to set this global knob only once, while not setting up each
individual sys_info knobs.

This just adds a 'lazy' option, and doesn't change existing kernel
behavior as the mask is 0 by default.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-5-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
Feng Tang
a9af76a787 watchdog: add sys_info sysctls to dump sys info on system lockup
When soft/hard lockup happens, developers may need different kinds of
system information (call-stacks, memory info, locks, etc.) to help
debugging.

Add 'softlockup_sys_info' and 'hardlockup_sys_info' sysctl knobs to take
human readable string like "tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,...", and when
system lockup happens, all requested information will be printed out. 
(refer kernel/sys_info.c for more details).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-4-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
Feng Tang
8b2b9b4f6f hung_task: add hung_task_sys_info sysctl to dump sys info on task-hung
When task-hung happens, developers may need different kinds of system
information (call-stacks, memory info, locks, etc.) to help debugging.

Add 'hung_task_sys_info' sysctl knob to take human readable string like
"tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,...", and when task-hung happens, all
requested information will be dumped.  (refer kernel/sys_info.c for more
details).

Meanwhile, the newly introduced sys_info() call is used to unify some
existing info-dumping knobs.

[feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com: maintain consistecy established behavior, per Lance and Petr]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aRncJo1mA5Zk77Hr@U-2FWC9VHC-2323.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-3-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
Feng Tang
5f264c00b6 docs: panic: correct some sys_ifo names in sysctl doc
Patch series "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on
demand", v2.

When working on kernel stability issues: panic, task-hung and soft/hard
lockup are frequently met.  And to debug them, user may need lots of
system information at that time, like task call stacks, lock info, memory
info, ftrace dump, etc.

panic case already uses sys_info() for this purpose, and has a
'panic_sys_info' sysctl(also support cmdline setup) interface to take
human readable string like "tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,..." to control
what kinds of information is needed.  Which is also helpful to debug
task-hung and lockup cases.

So this patchset introduces the similar sys_info sysctl interface for
task-hung and lockup cases.

his is mainly for debugging and the info dumping could be intrusive, like
dumping call stack for all tasks when system has huge number of tasks,
similarly for ftrace dump (we may add tracing_stop() and tracing_start()
around it)

Locally these have been used in our bug chasing for stability issues and
were helpful.

As Andrew suggested, add a configurable global 'kernel_sys_info' knob. 
When error scenarios like panic/hung-task/lockup etc doesn't setup their
own sys_info knob and calls sys_info() with parameter "0", this global
knob will take effect.  It could be used for other kernel cases like OOM,
which may not need one dedicated sys_info knob.


This patch (of 4):

Some sys_info names wered forgotten to change in patch iterations, while
the right names are defined in kernel/sys_info.c.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-2-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: d747755917 ("panic: add 'panic_sys_info' sysctl to take human readable string parameter")
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
Li RongQing
9544f9e694 hung_task: panic when there are more than N hung tasks at the same time
The hung_task_panic sysctl is currently a blunt instrument: it's all or
nothing.

Panicking on a single hung task can be an overreaction to a transient
glitch.  A more reliable indicator of a systemic problem is when
multiple tasks hang simultaneously.

Extend hung_task_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the
kernel to panic only when N hung tasks are detected in a single scan. 
This provides finer control to distinguish between isolated incidents
and system-wide failures.

The accepted values are:
- 0: Don't panic (unchanged)
- 1: Panic on the first hung task (unchanged)
- N > 1: Panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan

The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full
backward compatibility.

[lance.yang@linux.dev: new changelog]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015063615.2632-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au> [aspeed_g5_defconfig]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Wesphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-12 10:00:14 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
b61785852e net: increase skb_defer_max default to 128
skb_defer_max value is very conservative, and can be increased
to avoid too many calls to kick_defer_list_purge().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106202935.1776179-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-11-07 19:02:40 -08:00
Kuniyuki Iwashima
b46ab63181 net: Introduce net.core.bypass_prot_mem sysctl.
If a socket has sk->sk_bypass_prot_mem flagged, the socket opts out
of the global protocol memory accounting.

Let's control the flag by a new sysctl knob.

The flag is written once during socket(2) and is inherited to child
sockets.

Tested with a script that creates local socket pairs and send()s a
bunch of data without recv()ing.

Setup:

  # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
  # echo $$ >> /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs
  # sysctl -q net.ipv4.tcp_mem="1000 1000 1000"
  # ulimit -n 524288

Without net.core.bypass_prot_mem, charged to tcp_mem & memcg

  # python3 pressure.py &
  # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat | grep sock
  sock 22642688 <-------------------------------------- charged to memcg
  # cat /proc/net/sockstat| grep TCP
  TCP: inuse 2006 orphan 0 tw 0 alloc 2008 mem 5376 <-- charged to tcp_mem
  # ss -tn | head -n 5
  State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port
  ESTAB 2000   0          127.0.0.1:34479    127.0.0.1:53188
  ESTAB 2000   0          127.0.0.1:34479    127.0.0.1:49972
  ESTAB 2000   0          127.0.0.1:34479    127.0.0.1:53868
  ESTAB 2000   0          127.0.0.1:34479    127.0.0.1:53554
  # nstat | grep Pressure || echo no pressure
  TcpExtTCPMemoryPressures        1                  0.0

With net.core.bypass_prot_mem=1, charged to memcg only:

  # sysctl -q net.core.bypass_prot_mem=1
  # python3 pressure.py &
  # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat | grep sock
  sock 2757468160 <------------------------------------ charged to memcg
  # cat /proc/net/sockstat | grep TCP
  TCP: inuse 2006 orphan 0 tw 0 alloc 2008 mem 0 <- NOT charged to tcp_mem
  # ss -tn | head -n 5
  State Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port
  ESTAB 111000 0           127.0.0.1:36019    127.0.0.1:49026
  ESTAB 110000 0           127.0.0.1:36019    127.0.0.1:45630
  ESTAB 110000 0           127.0.0.1:36019    127.0.0.1:44870
  ESTAB 111000 0           127.0.0.1:36019    127.0.0.1:45274
  # nstat | grep Pressure || echo no pressure
  no pressure

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014235604.3057003-4-kuniyu@google.com
2025-10-16 12:04:47 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
2ddef3462b net: add /proc/sys/net/core/txq_reselection_ms control
Add a new sysctl to control how often a queue reselection
can happen even if a flow has a persistent queue of skbs
in a Qdisc or NIC queue.

A value of zero means the feature is disabled.

Default is 1000 (1 second).

This sysctl is used in the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251013152234.842065-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-10-15 09:04:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ee2fe81cdc It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over:
- Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal
   include" mode.
 
 - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
   kernel-doc technical debt.  The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
   converted to Python and updated for current systems.
 
 - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML
   redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the
   rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.
 
 - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol.
 
 - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.
 
 ...and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
  over:

   - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
     "literal include" mode.

   - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
     kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
     converted to Python and updated for current systems.

   - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
     HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
     hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.

   - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
     protocol.

   - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.

  ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
  etc"

* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
  docs: remove cdomain.py
  Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
  docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
  Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
  docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
  Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
  Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
  Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
  docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
  docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
  docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
  docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
  ...
2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e406d57be7 Patch series in this pull request:
- The 3 patch series "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from
   Christophe Jaillet completes the removal of this legacy IDR API.
 
 - The 9 patch series "panic: introduce panic status function family"
   from Jinchao Wang provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and
   its various helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the
   place.
 
 - The 5 patch series "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard
   interaction support" from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability
   changes to the delaytop monitoring tool.
 
 - The 3 patch series "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from
   Evangelos Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the
   combination of EFI and KHO.
 
 - The 2 patch series "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity
   check" from Phillip Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about
   SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE.  A mere 150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen
   microbenchmark.
 
 - Plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
2025-10-02 18:44:54 -07:00
Feng Tang
8c2b91fbb0 panic: refine the document for 'panic_print'
User reported current document about SYS_INFO_PANIC_CONSOLE_REPLAY is
confusing, that people could expect all user space console messages to be
replayed.

Specify that only 'kernel' messages will be replayed to solve the confusion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825025701.81921-3-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13 17:32:50 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
4cc7dce797 docs: sysctl: add a few more top-level /proc/sys entries
Add a few missing directories under /proc/sys.
Fix punctuation and doubled words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250819075456.113623-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
2025-08-21 12:00:10 -06:00
Eric Dumazet
a6d4f25888 net: set net.core.rmem_max and net.core.wmem_max to 4 MB
SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF have limited range today, unless
distros or system admins change rmem_max and wmem_max.

Even iproute2 uses 1 MB SO_RCVBUF which is capped by
the kernel.

Decouple [rw]mem_max and [rw]mem_default and increase
[rw]mem_max to 4 MB.

Before:

$ sysctl net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max
net.core.rmem_default = 212992
net.core.rmem_max = 212992
net.core.wmem_default = 212992
net.core.wmem_max = 212992

After:

$ sysctl net.core.rmem_default net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_default net.core.wmem_max
net.core.rmem_default = 212992
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_default = 212992
net.core.wmem_max = 4194304

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250819174030.1986278-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-08-20 19:35:00 -07:00