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Linus Torvalds
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mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable
Everything: Total patches: 171 Reviews/patch: 1.83 Reviewed rate: 82% Excluding selftests: Total patches: 149 Reviews/patch: 1.77 Reviewed rate: 80% Excluding selftests and maple_tree: Total patches: 129 Reviews/patch: 1.99 Reviewed rate: 89% Summary of patch series in this merge: - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff" (Lorenzo Stoakes): Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd file-backed memory. Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance improvements. - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang): Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped executable file folios after their first usage to give executable code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload performance. - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong Chen): Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration. - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif): Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired producer updates. Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over 60% without impacting scan throughput. - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky): Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review. - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's memcg" (Zi Yan): Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray node memory accounting. - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick): Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests. - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon): Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function. - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin Huang): Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to reinitialization. - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia): Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in writeback_store() and read_block_state(). - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang): Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged. - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions" (Muhammad Usama Anjum): Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding retry logic for transient page migration errors. - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia): Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved writeback efficiency. - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren Baghdasaryan): Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter aggregation. This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation data to userspace. - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5" (Christoph Hellwig): Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving faster swap throughput during kernel builds. - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks" (Catalin Marinas): Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter. - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels" (Breno Leitao): Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second confirming scan. - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig): Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly export their own swap_ops. - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache): khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal documentation. - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett): Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity. Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQTTMBEPP41GrTpTJgfdBJ7gKXxAjgUCao9nJQAKCRDdBJ7gKXxA jk/9AQDlfevYJuSJmzAI8bt8ISG+/TfXMtIZC/MdbHqtQVYWPQD8Cvm3DUZsdGB/ Gloq/HBFuMPgE8p2pwUIthdgnTPNvAc= =c+Nb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd file-backed memory. Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance improvements. - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped executable file folios after their first usage to give executable code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload performance. - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong Chen) Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration. - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif) Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired producer updates. Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over 60% without impacting scan throughput. - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review. - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's memcg" (Zi Yan) Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray node memory accounting. - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick) Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests. - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon) Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function. - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin Huang) Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to reinitialization. - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia) Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in writeback_store() and read_block_state(). - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang) Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged. - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions" (Muhammad Usama Anjum) Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding retry logic for transient page migration errors. - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia) Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved writeback efficiency. - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren Baghdasaryan) Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter aggregation. This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation data to userspace. - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5" (Christoph Hellwig) Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving faster swap throughput during kernel builds. - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks" (Catalin Marinas) Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter. - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels" (Breno Leitao) Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second confirming scan. - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig) Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly export their own swap_ops. - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache) khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal documentation. - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett) Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity. Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (172 commits) selftests/proc: make proc-maps-race work with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat maple_tree: add helper mas_make_walkable() maple_tree: avoid extra gap calculation maple_tree: fix argument name in header maple_tree: change two GFP flags in tests maple_tree: document erase and allocations better maple_tree: avoid mas_erase() and mtree_erase() failures maple_tree: document that erase may use GFP_KERNEL for allocations maple_tree: catch race in mas_alloc_cyclic() maple_tree: add bulk parent set helper maple_tree: micro optimisation of mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: optimise mas_wr_node_store() when not in rcu mode maple_tree: use prefetched value in mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: clarify comments on mas_nomem() maple_tree: drop MAPLE_ALLOC_SLOTS maple_tree: drop dead code from mas_extend_spanning_null() maple_tree: documentation fix maple_tree: add write lock checking with lockdep sequence numbers ... |
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Liam R. Howlett (Oracle)
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maple_tree: document erase and allocations better
During a discussion on the maple tree erase process and GFP flags, Jason suggested there be an amendment to the documentation to clarify the situation on allocations within the tree. The added text is an attempt to better explain that the tree may allocate, even when erasing, and provide some guidance on how to work around such issues. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak mtree_erase() description, per Jason] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260617180419.GA231643@ziepe.ca/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260821192627.4085470-16-liam@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Liam R. Howlett (Oracle)
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maple_tree: documentation fix
Don't include the word flag in the quotes with the actual flag. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260821192627.4085470-5-liam@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linus Torvalds
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dma-mapping updates for Linux 7.3:
- swiotlb: added new configuration option for the default pool size
(Jagadeesh Pagadala) and reduced overhead for high watermark tracking
(chenhuguanshen)
- minor code cleanups and improvements (Vova Sharaienko, Honglei Huang
and Marek Szyprowski)
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Linus Torvalds
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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
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workqueue: Changes for v7.3
- Worker wakeups moved out of pool->lock on the hot paths, shortening lock hold times. The wakeup can be expensive on arm64 due to the idle wakeup IPI, and the change improves the workqueue microbenchmark there by up to 10%. - Stall diagnostics now report pools stuck with no running worker, with a backtrace of what the CPU is executing and the likely culprit worker, instead of dumping every in-flight worker. - Preparation for turning per-cpu workqueues into an affinity scope of unbound workqueues instead of a separate backend. - Race annotations for KCSAN and sparse warnings, and doc and monitoring script fixes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iIQEABYKACwWIQTfIjM1kS57o3GsC/uxYfJx3gVYGQUCaoNxSg4cdGpAa2VybmVs Lm9yZwAKCRCxYfJx3gVYGWDfAP4tp2XFrNOOai4aCcWivKV99Arb0YFdjozM4vjX rx3HCwEAiwfLTduv+ZeLHYTIm3V3Nxrf246fitSEYUknb+Cx8QE= =XrZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'wq-for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: - Worker wakeups moved out of pool->lock on the hot paths, shortening lock hold times. The wakeup can be expensive on arm64 due to the idle wakeup IPI, and the change improves the workqueue microbenchmark there by up to 10% - Stall diagnostics now report pools stuck with no running worker, with a backtrace of what the CPU is executing and the likely culprit worker, instead of dumping every in-flight worker - Preparation for turning per-cpu workqueues into an affinity scope of unbound workqueues instead of a separate backend - Race annotations for KCSAN and sparse warnings, and doc and monitoring script fixes * tag 'wq-for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (23 commits) workqueue: annotate racy p->wake_cpu accesses in kick_pool_pick() workqueue: BUG_ON() instead of returning NULL in wq_node_nr_active() workqueue: use RCU accessors when populating wq->cpu_pwq workqueue: use rcu_dereference_sched() in workqueue_congested() workqueue: skip the node_nr_active update for non-unbound workqueues workqueue: rename alloc_unbound_pwq() to alloc_pwq() workqueue: allocate attrs for all workqueues workqueue: rename wq->unbound_attrs to wq->attrs workqueue: test WQ_UNBOUND explicitly in the hotplug loops workqueue: account nr_active by the backing pool workqueue: release pwq pools by pool type workqueue: factor out alloc_and_link_percpu_pwqs() workqueue: factor out get_percpu_pool() docs: workqueue: Fix bracket workqueue: annotate racy sum_exec_runtime reads for CPU-intensive detection workqueue: annotate racy PWQ_STAT_CPU_TIME update in wq_worker_tick() workqueue: dump the last woken worker for stalled pools workqueue: trigger a single-CPU backtrace for stalled pools workqueue: only show running workers in stall diagnostics workqueue: defer the worker wakeup outside pool->lock in process_one_work() ... |
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Linus Torvalds
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72fdff1416 |
It has been a not-too-busy cycle for docs; here's the highlights:
- A (hopefully) consensus change to our LLM-attribution requirements,
removing the specific model name from the Assisted-by tag.
- A couple of new realtime documents
- Various docs-build-system fixes
- Ongoing work with the Chinese, Portuguese, and Japanese translations.
...and lots of typo fixes, grammar tweaks, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a not-too-busy cycle for docs; here's the highlights:
- A (hopefully) consensus change to our LLM-attribution requirements,
removing the specific model name from the Assisted-by tag
- A couple of new realtime documents
- Various docs-build-system fixes
- Ongoing work with the Chinese, Portuguese, and Japanese
translations
...and lots of typo fixes, grammar tweaks, etc"
* tag 'docs-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (85 commits)
Doc: admin-guide: pm: Remove unnecessary backticks and fix a spell
Documentation: Extend the real-time hardware bits with some firmware bits
docs: pt_BR: Reorganize process/index.rst to follow english structure
docs: conf.py: fix the 'utf-8' typo
doc tools: fix 'path' typos
Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide
docs: python: abi_regex: convert adjacent index placeholders
docs: python: abi_regex: catch the right exception for a bad regex
docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: include localversion in kernel version string
Documentation: html: adjust sidebar section titles styling
Documentation: html: show sections in the sidebar
checkpatch.pl: adapt to new Assisted-by: format
MAINTAINERS: update Traditional Chinese documentation maintainers
docs: pt_BR: process: Translate CVE documentation
docs: pt_BR: translate the management-style.rst to Brazilian Portuguese
docs: xforms_lists: support DEFINE_IDTENTRY_IRQ()
coding-assistants: simplify attribution
docs: translations: pt_BR: translate email-clients.rst
docs: pt_BR: process: Translate the security-bugs.rst
doc:it_IT: align doc-guide translation
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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5edf1547ac |
Documentation: Extend the real-time hardware bits with some firmware bits
I have been reviewing how OP‑TEE is implemented and how secure‑world invocations behave. The goal was to determine whether an OP‑TEE call can delay the Linux side and introduce latency depending on the time spent in the secure world. Similar latency effects are already known for EFI runtime services, but this was not documented. To mitigate the impact, EFI runtime invocations can be restricted to specific CPUs so that real‑time workloads on other CPUs remain unaffected. This mechanism, however, is only described in the commit that introduced it. This change adds a firmware section that documents these behaviours explicitly. It highlights cases where firmware can delay the kernel, information that may be unfamiliar to some users and surprising-or concerning-to others. Assisted-by: Microsoft-Copilot Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260718175041.QXn9iOFK@linutronix.de> |
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Ahmed S. Darwish
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3160c8de3a |
Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide
Add a configuration guide for real-time kernels. List all Kconfig options that are recommended to be either enabled or disabled. Explicitly add a table of contents at the top of the document, so that all the options can be seen in a glance. Whenever appropriate, link to other kernel guides; e.g. cpuidle, cpufreq, power management, workqueues, and no_hz. Add a summary at the end of the document warning users that there is no "one size fits all solution" for configuring a real-time system. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260804141541.747704-2-darwi@linutronix.de> |
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Jianyue Wu
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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> |
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Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
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a6e40900f0 |
dma-mapping: Add internal shared allocation attribute
DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED describes an existing DMA mapping whose backing memory is already shared, or decrypted, for confidential computing. It is a mapping attribute: callers use it to request a shared DMA address encoding for memory that has already been prepared for shared DMA. Allocation paths need a related but different state. Once the DMA core decides that an allocation must use shared backing pages, the lower-level allocation helpers need to select shared pools, decrypt newly allocated pages, derive the DMA address with the shared-memory translation and restore encryption on free. That state is internal to the DMA-mapping implementation and should not be passed by drivers to dma_alloc_attrs(). Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260717180442.110954-10-aneesh.kumar@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> |
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
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eafe0dcdc0 |
mm: add writeback.h to docs build
There's four functions in this header file with kernel-doc; add them to the htmldocs. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260615162244.2170866-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Jyun-An Chen
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7ed594363b |
Documentation/core-api: min_heap: remove documented but unimplemented min_heap_empty()
min_heap_empty()/min_heap_empty_inline() are documented as part of the Min Heap API, but no such functions or macros exist in include/linux/min_heap.h or lib/min_heap.c. Remove the stale description. Acked-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jyun-An Chen <jun930436@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260722044236.6346-1-jun930436@gmail.com> |
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Thomas Gleixner
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05c033db7e |
entry, treewide: Make syscall_enter_from_user_mode[_work]() indicate syscall execution
The return values of syscall_enter_from_user_mode[_work]() are
non-intuitive. Both functions return the syscall number which should be
invoked by the architecture specific syscall entry code. The returned
number can be:
- the unmodified syscall number which was handed in by the caller
- a modified syscall number (ptrace, seccomp, trace/probe/bpf)
That has an additional twist. If the return value is -1L then the caller is
not allowed to modify the return value as that indicates that the modifying
entity requests to abort the syscall and set the return value already. That
can obviously not be differentiated from a syscall which handed in -1 as
syscall number.
The most trivial way to deal with that is:
set_return_value(regs, -ENOSYS);
nr = syscall_enter_from_user_mode(regs, nr);
if (valid(nr))
handle_syscall(regs, nr);
That's what LOONGARCH, RISCV, and X86 do. But PowerPC and S390 do not
preset the return value, so when user space hands in -1 and there is
nothing setting the return value in the entry work code, then the syscall
is skipped but the return value is whatever random data has been in the
return value register.
Change the return values of syscall_enter_from_user_mode[_work]() to
boolean and return false, when either ptrace or seccomp request to skip the
syscall. If they return true, update the syscall number as it might have
been changed.
That results in slightly different behaviour of the architectures versus
tracing.
If the syscall tracepoint has probe/BPF attached, those might set the
syscall number to -1 and also set the return value. PowerPC and S390 will
then overwrite that value with -ENOSYS. The other architectures will just
ignore it like any other invalid syscall and use the modified one.
Originally-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260712141346.772209074@kernel.org
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Jagadeesh Pagadala
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3cf67bbc5e |
dma/swiotlb: introduce Kconfig option for compile-time default pool size
The SWIOTLB bounce buffer pool size is hardcoded at 64 MB via IO_TLB_DEFAULT_SIZE with no compile-time knob to adjust it. On memory-constrained embedded or mobile platforms equipped with a hardware IOMMU (e.g., ARM SMMU) covering most DMA-capable devices, reserving 64 MB at boot is unnecessarily wasteful — the SWIOTLB is only exercised for devices that bypass the IOMMU or have restricted DMA address ranges. Introduce CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DEFAULT_SIZE_MB, an integer Kconfig option (range 1–64 MB, default 64) that allows platforms to set a smaller compile-time default. IO_TLB_DEFAULT_SIZE is updated to derive from this value when CONFIG_SWIOTLB is enabled, preserving the existing 64 MB default when the option is not configured. The runtime "swiotlb=<nslabs>" kernel parameter override remains fully supported and takes precedence over the compile-time default. Signed-off-by: Jagadeesh Pagadala <jpagadal@qti.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Bibek Kumar Patro <bibek.patro@oss.qualcomm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260702-swiotlb-v2-1-9205f3ba5408@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> |
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Manuel Ebner
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4b13911a46 |
docs: dma-api: remove needless bracket
Remove single ')'. Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260708194821.357548-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org> |
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Manuel Ebner
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2899b92260 |
errseq: add missing bracket
Add missing ')' to nested functions of code block. Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260709092900.380694-1-manuelebner@mailbox.org> |
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Manuel Ebner
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703cc3d342 |
Docs: list: Fix bracket
Add missing ')' to sentence. Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260709115008.387869-3-manuelebner@mailbox.org> |
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Manuel Ebner
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8ff722efae |
docs: packing: fix brackets
Add two ')' to nested functions in code block.
Fixes:
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Randy Dunlap
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6c502df8b6 |
Docs: SMP: add an SMP docbook chapter
Add SMP primitives to the core-api documentation. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260625210331.1050915-1-rdunlap@infradead.org> |
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Thomas Gleixner
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bad2a27ba8 |
entry: Remove syscall_enter_from_user_mode()
All architecture use either:
nr = syscall_enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack(regs, nr);
or
enter_from_user_mode_randomize_stack(regs);
nr = syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work(regs, nr);
Remove the now unused function.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.132654198@kernel.org
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Manuel Ebner
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dbff1ec23f |
docs: workqueue: Fix bracket
Add missing ')'. Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
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Linus Torvalds
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d639d9fa16 |
liveupdate: updates for 7.2-rc1
- kho: make memory preservation compatible with deferred initialization of
the memory map
- luo: add LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl and parameter verification for
LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION ioctl
- luo: documentation updates for liveupdate=on command line option, systemd
support and the current compatibility status
- luo: remove the fixed limits on the number of files that can be preserved
within a single session, and the total number of sessions managed by the
Live Update Orchestrator
- fixes that didn't cut as urgent and were delayed until the merge window:
* reference count incoming File-Lifecycle-Bound (FLB) data so it cannot
be freed while a subsystem is still using it
* fixes for a TOCTOU race in luo_session_retrieve(), a use-after-free in
the file finish and unpreserve paths, concurrent session mutations
during reboot and serialization on preserve_context kexec
* make sure ioctls for incoming LUO sessions are blocked for outgoing
sessions and vice versa
* make sure KHO scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
* fix memblock tests build issue introduced by KHO changes
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Merge tag 'liveupdate-v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/liveupdate/linux
Pull liveupdate updates from Mike Rapoport:
"Kexec Handover (KHO):
- make memory preservation compatible with deferred initialization
of the memory map
Live Update Orchestrator (LUO):
- add LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl and parameter verification
for LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION ioctl
- documentation updates for liveupdate=on command line option,
systemd support and the current compatibility status
- remove the fixed limits on the number of files that can be
preserved within a single session, and the total number of
sessions managed by the LUO
Misc fixes:
- reference count incoming File-Lifecycle-Bound (FLB) data so
it cannot be freed while a subsystem is still using it
- fixes for a TOCTOU race in luo_session_retrieve(), a use-
after-free in the file finish and unpreserve paths, concurrent
session mutations during reboot and serialization on
preserve_context kexec
- make sure ioctls for incoming LUO sessions are blocked for
outgoing sessions and vice versa
- make sure KHO scratch size is always aligned by
CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
- fix memblock tests build issue introduced by KHO changes"
* tag 'liveupdate-v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/liveupdate/linux: (36 commits)
liveupdate: Document that retrieve failure is permanent
docs: memfd_preservation: fix rendering of ABI documentation
selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-files kexec test
selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-sessions kexec test
selftests/liveupdate: Test session and file limit removal
liveupdate: Remove limit on the number of files per session
liveupdate: Remove limit on the number of sessions
liveupdate: defer session block allocation and physical address setting
kho: add support for linked-block serialization
liveupdate: Extract luo_session_deserialize_one helper
liveupdate: Extract luo_file_deserialize_one helper
liveupdate: register luo_ser as KHO subtree
liveupdate: centralize state management into struct luo_ser
liveupdate: avoid mixing cleanup guards with goto in luo_session_retrieve_fd
liveupdate: change file_set->count type to u64 for type safety
liveupdate: Remove unused ser field from struct luo_session
liveupdate: fix u-a-f in luo_file_unpreserve_files() and luo_file_finish()
liveupdate: block session mutations during reboot
liveupdate: fix TOCTOU race in luo_session_retrieve()
liveupdate: skip serialization for context-preserving kexec
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Linus Torvalds
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0db1496dcb |
printk changes for 7.2
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Linus Torvalds
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ba9c792c82 |
for-7.2/block-20260615
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Merge tag 'for-7.2/block-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- NVMe pull request via Keith:
- Per-controller admin and IO timeout sysfs attributes, and
letting the block layer set request timeouts (Maurizio,
Maximilian)
- Multipath passthrough iostats, and PCI P2PDMA enablement for
multipath devices (Keith, Kiran)
- A new diag sysfs attribute group exporting per-controller
counters (retries, multipath failover, error counters, requeue
and failure counts, reset and reconnect events) (Nilay)
- FDP configuration validation and bounds check fixes (liuxixin)
- Various nvmet fixes, including a pre-auth out-of-bounds read in
the Discovery Get Log Page handler, auth payload bounds
validation, and tcp error-path leak fixes (Bryam, Tianchu,
Geliang)
- nvme-tcp lockdep and workqueue fixes (Shin'ichiro, Kuniyuki,
Eric)
- Assorted other fixes and cleanups (John, Yao, Chao, Mateusz,
Achkinazi, Wentao)
- MD pull request via Yu Kuai:
- raid1/raid10 fixes for a deadlock in the read error recovery
path, error-path detection and bio accounting with cloned bios,
and an nr_pending leak in the REQ_ATOMIC bad-block error path
(Abd-Alrhman)
- PCI P2PDMA propagation from member devices to the RAID device
(Kiran)
- dm-raid bio requeue fix, and various smaller fixes and cleanups
(Benjamin, Chen, Li, Thorsten)
- Enable Clang lock context analysis for the block layer, with the
accompanying annotations across queue limits, the blk_holder_ops
callbacks, crypto, cgroup, iocost, kyber and mq-deadline (Bart)
- Block status code infrastructure work: a tagged status table, a
str_to_blk_op() helper, a bio_endio_status() helper, and on top of
that a new configurable block-layer error injection facility
(Christoph)
- DRBD netlink rework, replacing the genl_magic machinery with explicit
netlink serialization and moving the DRBD UAPI headers to
include/uapi/linux/ (Christoph Böhmwalder)
- bvec improvements: a bvec_folio() helper and making the bvec_iter
helpers proper inline functions (Willy, Christoph)
- ublk cleanups and a canceling-flag fix for the disk-not-allocated
case (Caleb, Ming)
- Partition handling fixes: bound the AIX pp_count scan, fix an of_node
refcount leak, and replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() (Bryam,
Wentao, Mike)
- Convert numa_node to int in blk_mq_hw_ctx and ->init_request, and add
WQ_PERCPU to the block workqueue users (Mateusz, Marco)
- Block statistics and tracing: propagate in-flight to the whole disk
on partition IO, export passthrough stats, and a new
block_rq_tag_wait tracepoint (Tang, Keith, Aaron)
- A round of removals, unexports and cleanups across bio, direct-io and
the bvec helpers (Christoph)
- Various driver fixes (mtip32xx use-after-free, rbd snap_count
validation and strscpy conversion, nbd socket lockdep reclassify,
virtio-blk zone report clamp, floppy) and a batch of MAINTAINERS
email/list updates (Coly, Li, Yu, Christoph Böhmwalder)
- Other little fixes and cleanups all over
* tag 'for-7.2/block-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (117 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Update Coly Li's email address
block: check bio split for unaligned bvec
nbd: Reclassify sockets to avoid lockdep circular dependency
block: add configurable error injection
block: add a str_to_blk_op helper
block: add a "tag" for block status codes
block: add a macro to initialize the status table
floppy: Drop unused pnp driver data
block: propagate in_flight to whole disk on partition I/O
virtio-blk: clamp zone report to the report buffer capacity
block: optimize I/O merge hot path with unlikely() hints
drivers/block/rbd: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
partitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array
block: Enable lock context analysis
block/mq-deadline: Make the lock context annotations compatible with Clang
block/Kyber: Make the lock context annotations compatible with Clang
block/blk-mq-debugfs: Improve lock context annotations
block/blk-iocost: Inline iocg_lock() and iocg_unlock()
block/blk-iocost: Split ioc_rqos_throttle()
block/crypto: Annotate the crypto functions
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Andy Shevchenko
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vsprintf: Add upper case flavour to %p[mM]
Some of the (ABI aware) code needs an upper case when printing MAC addresses. Introduce an extension for that into the existing %p[mM]. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603104351.152085-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> |
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Pasha Tatashin
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0349ff2887 |
kho: add support for linked-block serialization
Introduce a linked-block serialization mechanism for state handover. Previously, LUO used contiguous memory blocks for serializing sessions and files, which imposed limits on the total number of items that could be preserved across a live update. This commit adds the infrastructure for a more flexible, block-based approach where serialized data is stored in a chain of linked blocks. This is a generic KHO serialization block infrastructure that can be used by multiple subsystems. Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-8-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> |
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Costa Shulyupin
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2d5e755b06 |
docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text
The man page reference appeared twice - once as plain text and once as a hyperlink. Remove the plain text duplicate. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260531141823.4118954-1-costa.shul@redhat.com> |
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
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block: Include bvec.h kernel-doc in the htmldocs
People have gone to the trouble of writing this kernel-doc; the least we can do is publish it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@linux.dev> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528175905.1102280-3-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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Chao Gao
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Documentation: core-api/cpu_hotplug: Remove stale cpu0_hotplug docs
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Costa Shulyupin
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docs: housekeeping: Fix struct member access in code example
No such array housekeeping_cpumasks Fix to housekeeping.cpumasks. Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260501043855.980567-1-costa.shul@redhat.com> |
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Manuel Ebner
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7c6d969d53 |
Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family
Update the documentation to reflect new type-aware kmalloc-family as
suggested in commit
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Hyeonjin Kim
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docs: fix typos in kernel documentation
reinitalizes => reinitializes unpriviledged => unprivileged sub-struture => sub-structure Signed-off-by: Hyeonjin Kim <fruitworld.planet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260415001204.6428-1-fruitworld.planet@gmail.com> |
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Linus Torvalds
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mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable
Everything: Total patches: 368 Reviews/patch: 1.56 Reviewed rate: 74% Excluding DAMON: Total patches: 316 Reviews/patch: 1.77 Reviewed rate: 81% Excluding DAMON and zram: Total patches: 306 Reviews/patch: 1.81 Reviewed rate: 82% Excluding DAMON, zram and maple_tree: Total patches: 276 Reviews/patch: 2.01 Reviewed rate: 91% Significant patch series in this merge: - The 30 patch series "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" from Liam Howlett is mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - The 12 patch series "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" from Kairui Song offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - The 2 patch series "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" from Pratyush Yadav adds file seal preservation to LUO's memfd code. - The 2 patch series "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" from Jiayuan Chen adds additional userspace stats reportng to zswap. - The 4 patch series "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" from Mike Rapoport implements some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn. - The 2 patch series "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" from Zhongqiu Han provides an robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code. - The 4 patch series "Improve khugepaged scan logic" from Vernon Yang "improves the khugepaged scan logic and reduces CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently". - The 2 patch series "Make KHO Stateless" from Jason Miu simplifies Kexec Handover by "transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel" - The 3 patch series "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" from Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt enhances vmscan's tracepointing. - The 5 patch series "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" from Catalin Marinas is a cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation. - The 2 patch series "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" from Pasha Tatashin fixes a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area. - The 4 patch series "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" from Tal Zussman provides several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago. - The 17 patch series "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" from Kiryl Shutsemau simplifies the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page. - The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" from SeongJae Park improves two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used. - The 3 patch series "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" from SeongJae Park improves DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter. - The 3 patch series "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" from Vlastimil Babka is a proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ennsed. - The 16 patch series "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" from David Hildenbrand implements "a bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions". - The 6 patch series "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" from Baolin Wang supports batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64. - The 5 patch series "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" from Johannes Weiner provides memcg cleanup and robustness improvements. - The 5 patch series "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" from Yuvraj Sakshith enhances page_reporting's free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - The 6 patch series "mm: vma flag tweaks" from Lorenzo Stoakes is cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap. - The 10 patch series "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" from SeongJae Park adds some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core. - The 2 patch series "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" from SeongJae Park adds an additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling. - The 3 patch series "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" from SeongJae Park fixes a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core. - The 7 patch series "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" from SeongJae Park is a "batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups" for DAMON. - The 4 patch series "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" from David Hildenbrand fixes a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - The 6 patch series "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" from Sergey Senozhatsky provides "a somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements" in the zram code. - The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" from SeongJae Park extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select. - The 4 patch series "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" from Breno Leitao fixes the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged. - The 3 patch series "mm: improve map count checks" from Lorenzo Stoakes provides some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code. - The 5 patch series "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" from SeongJae Park extends the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable. - The 5 patch series "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" from Nico Pache provides cleanups in the khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support. - The 15 patch series "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" from David Hildenbrand implements code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code. - The 2 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" from David Hildenbrand rationalizes some memhotplug Kconfig support. - The 6 patch series "change young flag check functions to return bool" from Baolin Wang is "a cleanup patchset to change all young flag check functions to return bool". - The 3 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" from Josh Law and SeongJae Park fixes a few potential DAMON bugs. - The 25 patch series "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" from "converts a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it". Mainly in the vma code. - The 21 patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" from Lorenzo Stoakes "expands the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time". Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers. - The 13 patch series "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" from Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYIAB0WIQTTMBEPP41GrTpTJgfdBJ7gKXxAjgUCad3HDQAKCRDdBJ7gKXxA jrUQAPwNhPk5nPSxnyxjAeQtOBHqgCdnICeEismLajPKd9aYRgEA0s2XAu3tSUYi GrBnWImHG3s4ePQxVcPCegWTsOUrXgQ= =1Q7o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ... |
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Linus Torvalds
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7de6b4a246 |
workqueue: Changes for v7.1
- New default WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope subdivides LLCs into
smaller shards to improve scalability on machines with many CPUs per
LLC.
- Misc: system_dfl_long_wq for long unbound works, devm_alloc_workqueue()
for device-managed allocation, sysfs exposure for ordered workqueues and
the EFI workqueue, removal of HK_TYPE_WQ from wq_unbound_cpumask, and
various small fixes.
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Merge tag 'wq-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
- New default WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope subdivides LLCs into
smaller shards to improve scalability on machines with many CPUs per
LLC
- Misc:
- system_dfl_long_wq for long unbound works
- devm_alloc_workqueue() for device-managed allocation
- sysfs exposure for ordered workqueues and the EFI workqueue
- removal of HK_TYPE_WQ from wq_unbound_cpumask
- various small fixes
* tag 'wq-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (21 commits)
workqueue: validate cpumask_first() result in llc_populate_cpu_shard_id()
workqueue: use NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS instead of hardcoded value
workqueue: avoid unguarded 64-bit division
docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope
workqueue: add test_workqueue benchmark module
tools/workqueue: add CACHE_SHARD support to wq_dump.py
workqueue: set WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD as the default affinity scope
workqueue: add WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope
workqueue: fix typo in WQ_AFFN_SMT comment
workqueue: Remove HK_TYPE_WQ from affecting wq_unbound_cpumask
workqueue: unlink pwqs from wq->pwqs list in alloc_and_link_pwqs() error path
workqueue: Remove NULL wq WARN in __queue_delayed_work()
workqueue: fix parse_affn_scope() prefix matching bug
workqueue: devres: Add device-managed allocate workqueue
workqueue: Add system_dfl_long_wq for long unbound works
tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: add NODE prefix to all node columns
tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: fix column alignment in node_nr/max_active section
tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: remove backslash separator from node_nr/max_active header
efi: Allow to expose the workqueue via sysfs
workqueue: Allow to expose ordered workqueues via sysfs
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Linus Torvalds
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88b29f3f57 |
Modules changes for v7.1-rc1
Kernel symbol flags:
- Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sections (__ksymtab_gpl and
__kcrctab_gpl) with a unified symbol table and a new
__kflagstab section. This section stores symbol flags, such as
the GPL-only flag, as an 8-bit bitset for each exported symbol.
This is a cleanup that simplifies symbol lookup in the module
loader by avoiding table fragmentation and will allow a cleaner
way to add more flags later if needed.
Module signature UAPI:
- Move struct module_signature to the UAPI headers to allow reuse
by tools outside the kernel proper, such as kmod and
scripts/sign-file. This also renames a few constants for clarity
and drops unused signature types as preparation for hash-based
module integrity checking work that's in progress.
Sysfs:
- Add a /sys/module/<module>/import_ns sysfs attribute to show
the symbol namespaces imported by loaded modules. This makes it
easier to verify driver API access at runtime on systems that
care about such things (e.g. Android).
Cleanups and fixes:
- Force sh_addr to 0 for all sections in module.lds. This prevents
non-zero section addresses when linking modules with ld.bfd -r,
which confused elfutils.
- Fix a memory leak of charp module parameters on module unload
when the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SYSFS=n.
- Override the -EEXIST error code returned by module_init() to
userspace. This prevents confusion with the errno reserved by
the module loader to indicate that a module is already loaded.
- Simplify the warning message and drop the stack dump on positive
returns from module_init().
- Drop unnecessary extern keywords from function declarations and
synchronize parse_args() arguments with their implementation.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
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Merge tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux
Pull module updates from Sami Tolvanen:
"Kernel symbol flags:
- Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sections (__ksymtab_gpl and
__kcrctab_gpl) with a unified symbol table and a new __kflagstab
section.
This section stores symbol flags, such as the GPL-only flag, as an
8-bit bitset for each exported symbol. This is a cleanup that
simplifies symbol lookup in the module loader by avoiding table
fragmentation and will allow a cleaner way to add more flags later
if needed.
Module signature UAPI:
- Move struct module_signature to the UAPI headers to allow reuse by
tools outside the kernel proper, such as kmod and
scripts/sign-file.
This also renames a few constants for clarity and drops unused
signature types as preparation for hash-based module integrity
checking work that's in progress.
Sysfs:
- Add a /sys/module/<module>/import_ns sysfs attribute to show the
symbol namespaces imported by loaded modules.
This makes it easier to verify driver API access at runtime on
systems that care about such things (e.g. Android).
Cleanups and fixes:
- Force sh_addr to 0 for all sections in module.lds. This prevents
non-zero section addresses when linking modules with 'ld.bfd -r',
which confused elfutils.
- Fix a memory leak of charp module parameters on module unload when
the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SYSFS=n.
- Override the -EEXIST error code returned by module_init() to
userspace. This prevents confusion with the errno reserved by the
module loader to indicate that a module is already loaded.
- Simplify the warning message and drop the stack dump on positive
returns from module_init().
- Drop unnecessary extern keywords from function declarations and
synchronize parse_args() arguments with their implementation"
* tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (23 commits)
module: Simplify warning on positive returns from module_init()
module: Override -EEXIST module return
documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules
module: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections in module loader
module: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections
module: populate kflagstab in modpost
module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules
module: define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags
selftests/bpf: verify_pkcs7_sig: Use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
tools uapi headers: add linux/module_signature.h
module: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI
module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
module: Give 'enum pkey_id_type' a more specific name
module: Drop unused signature types
extract-cert: drop unused definition of PKEY_ID_PKCS7
docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attribute
module: expose imported namespaces via sysfs
module: Remove extern keyword from param prototypes
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Linus Torvalds
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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"
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Sukrut Heroorkar
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40a3f6c5e2 |
Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling
Fix typo "excpetion" with "exception". Signed-off-by: Sukrut Heroorkar <hsukrut3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260411155120.233357-1-hsukrut3@gmail.com> |
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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bb6a85b4b6 |
Documentation: Add managed interrupts
I stumbled upon "isolcpus=managed_irq" which is the last piece which
can only be handled by isolcpus= and has no runtime knob. I knew roughly
what managed interrupts should do but I lacked some details how it is
used and what the managed_irq sub parameter means in practise.
This documents what we have as of today and how it works. I added some
examples how the parameter affects the configuration. Did I miss
something?
Given that the spreading as computed group_cpus_evenly() does not take
the mask of isolated CPUs into account I'm not sure how relevant the
managed_irq argument is. The virtio_scsi driver has no way to limit the
interrupts and I don't see this for the nvme. Even if the number of
queues can be reduced to two (as in the example) it is still spread
evenly in the system instead and the isolated CPUs are not taken into
account.
To make this worse, you can even argue further whether or not the
application on the isolated CPU wants to receive the interrupt directly
or would prefer not to.
Given all this, I am not sure if it makes sense to add 'io_queue' to the
mix or if it could be incorporated into 'managed_irq'.
One more point: Given that isolcpus= is marked deprecated as of commit
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Manuel Cortez
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96c1f4517e |
docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation
Fix the following typos and duplicated words: - admin-guide/pm/intel-speed-select.rst: "weather" -> "whether" - core-api/real-time/differences.rst: "the the" -> "the" - admin-guide/bcache.rst: "to to" -> "to" Signed-off-by: Manuel Cortez <mdjesuscv@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260406030323.1196-1-mdjesuscv@gmail.com> |
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Jason Miu
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6b0dd42d76 |
kho: remove finalize state and clients
Eliminate the `kho_finalize()` function and its associated state from the KHO subsystem. The transition to a radix tree for memory tracking makes the explicit "finalize" state and its serialization step obsolete. Remove the `kho_finalize()` and `kho_finalized()` APIs and their stub implementations. Update KHO client code and the debugfs interface to no longer call or depend on the `kho_finalize()` mechanism. Complete the move towards a stateless KHO, simplifying the overall design by removing unnecessary state management. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260206021428.3386442-3-jasonmiu@google.com Signed-off-by: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com> Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Jason Miu
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3f2ad90060 |
kho: adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking
Patch series "Make KHO Stateless", v9.
This series transitions KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system
with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed
directly to the next kernel.
The key motivations for this change are to:
- Eliminate the need for data serialization before kexec.
- Remove the KHO finalize state.
- Pass preservation metadata more directly to the next kernel via the FDT.
The new approach uses a radix tree to mark preserved pages. A page's
physical address and its order are encoded into a single value. The tree
is composed of multiple levels of page-sized tables, with leaf nodes being
bitmaps where each set bit represents a preserved page. The physical
address of the radix tree's root is passed in the FDT, allowing the next
kernel to reconstruct the preserved memory map.
This series is broken down into the following patches:
1. kho: Adopt radix tree for preserved memory tracking:
Replaces the xarray-based tracker with the new radix tree
implementation and increments the ABI version.
2. kho: Remove finalize state and clients:
Removes the now-obsolete kho_finalize() function and its usage
from client code and debugfs.
This patch (of 2):
Introduce a radix tree implementation for tracking preserved memory pages
and switch the KHO memory tracking mechanism to use it. This lays the
groundwork for a stateless KHO implementation that eliminates the need for
serialization and the associated "finalize" state.
This patch introduces the core radix tree data structures and constants to
the KHO ABI. It adds the radix tree node and leaf structures, along with
documentation for the radix tree key encoding scheme that combines a
page's physical address and order.
To support broader use by other kernel subsystems, such as hugetlb
preservation, the core radix tree manipulation functions are exported as a
public API.
The xarray-based memory tracking is replaced with this new radix tree
implementation. The core KHO preservation and unpreservation functions
are wired up to use the radix tree helpers. On boot, the second kernel
restores the preserved memory map by walking the radix tree whose root
physical address is passed via the FDT.
The ABI `compatible` version is bumped to "kho-v2" to reflect the
structural changes in the preserved memory map and sub-FDT property names.
This includes renaming "fdt" to "preserved-data" to better reflect that
preserved state may use formats other than FDT.
[ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn: fix child node parsing for debugfs in/sub_fdts]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260309033530.244508-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260206021428.3386442-1-jasonmiu@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260206021428.3386442-2-jasonmiu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Breno Leitao
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41e3ccca00 |
docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope
Update kernel-parameters.txt and workqueue.rst to reflect the new cache_shard affinity scope and the default change from cache to cache_shard. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
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Leon Romanovsky
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e6a58fa255 |
dma-mapping: Introduce DMA require coherency attribute
The mapping buffers which carry this attribute require DMA coherent system. This means that they can't take SWIOTLB path, can perform CPU cache overlap and doesn't perform cache flushing. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260316-dma-debug-overlap-v3-4-1dde90a7f08b@nvidia.com |
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Leon Romanovsky
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9bb0a4d6a4 |
dma-mapping: Clarify valid conditions for CPU cache line overlap
Rename the DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN attribute to better reflect that it is debugging aid to inform DMA core code that CPU cache line overlaps are allowed, and refine the documentation describing its use. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260316-dma-debug-overlap-v3-3-1dde90a7f08b@nvidia.com |
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Nicholas Sielicki
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f15dbe8a94 |
docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attribute
Reference the new /sys/module/*/import_ns sysfs attribute in docs as an alternative to modinfo for inspecting imported namespaces of loaded modules. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Sielicki <linux@opensource.nslick.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> |
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Praveen Kumar Singh
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d0eab64faf |
docs: memory-hotplug: fix typo 'fo' -> 'for' in NODE_ADDED_FIRST_MEMORY description
The description of NODE_ADDED_FIRST_MEMORY notification contains a missing 'r' in the word 'for'. Fix the typo. Signed-off-by: Praveen Kumar Singh <pr4veensingh@proton.me> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <by7jSPCep0WcWKD6nntH0wGbcN59hRhsEOc2lHBps2QizxRtedH25CdW8DO33YiqJU3Y7kGWesJnBts-jvgMzNqDvLWH3cTDYpJPuNed9hU=@proton.me> |
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h3288824963
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04c612f6d7 |
Documentation: printk: Add section about avoiding lockups
Add a section 'Avoiding lockups from excessive printk() use' to printk-basics.rst, explaining the risk of calling printk() in hot paths with legacy consoles and suggesting alternatives. The section covers: - Rate-limited and one-time printing variants - Log level filtering - printk_deferred() for legacy consoles - Porting to nbcon API (preferred solution) - Using tracepoints for permanent debugging This documentation is relevant only for legacy console drivers and !PREEMPT_RT kernels. Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Suggested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: h3288824963 <3288824963@qq.com> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <tencent_FB5B7DCFFB10BCDE325397D1202226779D09@qq.com> |
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Ryan Cheevers
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1722b500d2 |
docs: fix typo in housekeeping
Signed-off-by: Ryan Cheevers <cheeversr0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260309060015.2349939-1-cheeversr0@gmail.com> |
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Linus Torvalds
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26a4cfaff8 |
A handful of small, late-arriving documentation fixes.
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