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<title>arm/crc-t10dif: expose CRC-T10DIF function through lib</title>
<updated>2024-12-02T01:23:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-02T01:20:49+00:00</published>
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Move the arm CRC-T10DIF assembly code into the lib directory and wire it
up to the library interface.  This allows it to be used without going
through the crypto API.  It remains usable via the crypto API too via
the shash algorithms that use the library interface.  Thus all the
arch-specific "shash" code becomes unnecessary and is removed.

Note: to see the diff from arch/arm/crypto/crct10dif-ce-glue.c to
arch/arm/lib/crc-t10dif-glue.c, view this commit with 'git show -M10'.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202012056.209768-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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Move the arm CRC-T10DIF assembly code into the lib directory and wire it
up to the library interface.  This allows it to be used without going
through the crypto API.  It remains usable via the crypto API too via
the shash algorithms that use the library interface.  Thus all the
arch-specific "shash" code becomes unnecessary and is removed.

Note: to see the diff from arch/arm/crypto/crct10dif-ce-glue.c to
arch/arm/lib/crc-t10dif-glue.c, view this commit with 'git show -M10'.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202012056.209768-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm/crc32: expose CRC32 functions through lib</title>
<updated>2024-12-02T01:23:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-02T01:08:30+00:00</published>
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Move the arm CRC32 assembly code into the lib directory and wire it up
to the library interface.  This allows it to be used without going
through the crypto API.  It remains usable via the crypto API too via
the shash algorithms that use the library interface.  Thus all the
arch-specific "shash" code becomes unnecessary and is removed.

Note: to see the diff from arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-glue.c to
arch/arm/lib/crc32-glue.c, view this commit with 'git show -M10'.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202010844.144356-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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Move the arm CRC32 assembly code into the lib directory and wire it up
to the library interface.  This allows it to be used without going
through the crypto API.  It remains usable via the crypto API too via
the shash algorithms that use the library interface.  Thus all the
arch-specific "shash" code becomes unnecessary and is removed.

Note: to see the diff from arch/arm/crypto/crc32-ce-glue.c to
arch/arm/lib/crc32-glue.c, view this commit with 'git show -M10'.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202010844.144356-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: arm/xor - add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro</title>
<updated>2024-09-02T03:43:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Johnson</name>
<email>quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-30T14:43:18+00:00</published>
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Patch series "treewide: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros".

Since commit 1fffe7a34c89 ("script: modpost: emit a warning when the
description is missing"), a module without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION() will
result in a warning when built with make W=1.

Recently, multiple developers have been eradicating these warnings
treewide, and I personally submitted almost 300 patches over the past few
months.  Almost all of my patches landed by 6.11-rc1, either by being
merged in a 6.10-rc or by being merged in the 6.11 merge window.  However,
a few of my patches did not land.


This patch (of 5):

With ARCH=arm and CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=y, make W=1 C=1 reports:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.o

Add the missing invocation of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730-module_description_orphans-v1-0-7094088076c8@quicinc.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730-module_description_orphans-v1-1-7094088076c8@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson &lt;quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Alistar Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Cc: Andrew Jeffery &lt;andrew@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Eddie James &lt;eajames@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Cc: Karol Herbst &lt;karolherbst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nouveau &lt;nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Paalanen &lt;ppaalanen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "treewide: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros".

Since commit 1fffe7a34c89 ("script: modpost: emit a warning when the
description is missing"), a module without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION() will
result in a warning when built with make W=1.

Recently, multiple developers have been eradicating these warnings
treewide, and I personally submitted almost 300 patches over the past few
months.  Almost all of my patches landed by 6.11-rc1, either by being
merged in a 6.10-rc or by being merged in the 6.11 merge window.  However,
a few of my patches did not land.


This patch (of 5):

With ARCH=arm and CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=y, make W=1 C=1 reports:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.o

Add the missing invocation of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730-module_description_orphans-v1-0-7094088076c8@quicinc.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240730-module_description_orphans-v1-1-7094088076c8@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson &lt;quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Alistar Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Cc: Andrew Jeffery &lt;andrew@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Eddie James &lt;eajames@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jk@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Cc: Karol Herbst &lt;karolherbst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nouveau &lt;nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Paalanen &lt;ppaalanen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: crypto: use CC_FLAGS_FPU for NEON CFLAGS</title>
<updated>2024-05-19T21:36:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Holland</name>
<email>samuel.holland@sifive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-29T07:18:18+00:00</published>
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Now that CC_FLAGS_FPU is exported and can be used anywhere in the source
tree, use it instead of duplicating the flags here.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329072441.591471-4-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt; 
Cc: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;git@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Now that CC_FLAGS_FPU is exported and can be used anywhere in the source
tree, use it instead of duplicating the flags here.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329072441.591471-4-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt; 
Cc: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;git@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00</published>
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page-&gt;flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize -&gt;esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page-&gt;flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize -&gt;esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'amba', 'cfi', 'clkdev' and 'misc' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2024-05-16T11:35:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King (Oracle)</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-16T11:35:01+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9390/2: lib: Annotate loop delay instructions for CFI</title>
<updated>2024-04-29T13:14:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-23T07:50:38+00:00</published>
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When we annotate the loop delay code with SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START()
a function prototype signature will be emitted into the object
file above each site called from C, and the delay loop code is
using "fallthroughs" from the different assembly callbacks. This
will not work as the execution flow will run into the prototype
signatures.

Rewrite the code to use explicit branches to the other code
segments and annotate the code using SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START().

Tested on the ARM Versatile which uses the calibrated loop delay.

Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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When we annotate the loop delay code with SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START()
a function prototype signature will be emitted into the object
file above each site called from C, and the delay loop code is
using "fallthroughs" from the different assembly callbacks. This
will not work as the execution flow will run into the prototype
signatures.

Rewrite the code to use explicit branches to the other code
segments and annotate the code using SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START().

Tested on the ARM Versatile which uses the calibrated loop delay.

Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/arm: remove pmd_thp_or_huge()</title>
<updated>2024-04-26T03:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-18T20:04:03+00:00</published>
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ARM/ARM64 used to define pmd_thp_or_huge().  Now this macro is completely
redundant.  Remove it and use pmd_leaf().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240318200404.448346-14-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Shawn Guo &lt;shawnguo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Andersson &lt;andersson@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Konrad Dybcio &lt;konrad.dybcio@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Fabio Estevam &lt;festevam@denx.de&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Lucas Stach &lt;l.stach@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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ARM/ARM64 used to define pmd_thp_or_huge().  Now this macro is completely
redundant.  Remove it and use pmd_leaf().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240318200404.448346-14-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Shawn Guo &lt;shawnguo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Andersson &lt;andersson@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Konrad Dybcio &lt;konrad.dybcio@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Fabio Estevam &lt;festevam@denx.de&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Lucas Stach &lt;l.stach@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9358/2: Implement PAN for LPAE by TTBR0 page table walks disablement</title>
<updated>2024-04-18T11:10:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-25T07:31:13+00:00</published>
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With LPAE enabled, privileged no-access cannot be enforced using CPU
domains as such feature is not available. This patch implements PAN
by disabling TTBR0 page table walks while in kernel mode.

The ARM architecture allows page table walks to be split between TTBR0
and TTBR1. With LPAE enabled, the split is defined by a combination of
TTBCR T0SZ and T1SZ bits. Currently, an LPAE-enabled kernel uses TTBR0
for user addresses and TTBR1 for kernel addresses with the VMSPLIT_2G
and VMSPLIT_3G configurations. The main advantage for the 3:1 split is
that TTBR1 is reduced to 2 levels, so potentially faster TLB refill
(though usually the first level entries are already cached in the TLB).

The PAN support on LPAE-enabled kernels uses TTBR0 when running in user
space or in kernel space during user access routines (TTBCR T0SZ and
T1SZ are both 0). When running user accesses are disabled in kernel
mode, TTBR0 page table walks are disabled by setting TTBCR.EPD0. TTBR1
is used for kernel accesses (including loadable modules; anything
covered by swapper_pg_dir) by reducing the TTBCR.T0SZ to the minimum
(2^(32-7) = 32MB). To avoid user accesses potentially hitting stale TLB
entries, the ASID is switched to 0 (reserved) by setting TTBCR.A1 and
using the ASID value in TTBR1. The difference from a non-PAN kernel is
that with the 3:1 memory split, TTBR1 always uses 3 levels of page
tables.

As part of the change we are using preprocessor elif definied() clauses
so balance these clauses by converting relevant precedingt ifdef
clauses to if defined() clauses.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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With LPAE enabled, privileged no-access cannot be enforced using CPU
domains as such feature is not available. This patch implements PAN
by disabling TTBR0 page table walks while in kernel mode.

The ARM architecture allows page table walks to be split between TTBR0
and TTBR1. With LPAE enabled, the split is defined by a combination of
TTBCR T0SZ and T1SZ bits. Currently, an LPAE-enabled kernel uses TTBR0
for user addresses and TTBR1 for kernel addresses with the VMSPLIT_2G
and VMSPLIT_3G configurations. The main advantage for the 3:1 split is
that TTBR1 is reduced to 2 levels, so potentially faster TLB refill
(though usually the first level entries are already cached in the TLB).

The PAN support on LPAE-enabled kernels uses TTBR0 when running in user
space or in kernel space during user access routines (TTBCR T0SZ and
T1SZ are both 0). When running user accesses are disabled in kernel
mode, TTBR0 page table walks are disabled by setting TTBCR.EPD0. TTBR1
is used for kernel accesses (including loadable modules; anything
covered by swapper_pg_dir) by reducing the TTBCR.T0SZ to the minimum
(2^(32-7) = 32MB). To avoid user accesses potentially hitting stale TLB
entries, the ASID is switched to 0 (reserved) by setting TTBCR.A1 and
using the ASID value in TTBR1. The difference from a non-PAN kernel is
that with the 3:1 memory split, TTBR1 always uses 3 levels of page
tables.

As part of the change we are using preprocessor elif definied() clauses
so balance these clauses by converting relevant precedingt ifdef
clauses to if defined() clauses.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9321/1: memset: cast the constant byte to unsigned char</title>
<updated>2023-10-05T15:15:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kursad Oney</name>
<email>kursad.oney@broadcom.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-22T14:06:06+00:00</published>
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memset() description in ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (and elsewhere) says:

	The memset function copies the value of c (converted to an
	unsigned char) into each of the first n characters of the
	object pointed to by s.

The kernel's arm32 memset does not cast c to unsigned char. This results
in the following code to produce erroneous output:

	char a[128];
	memset(a, -128, sizeof(a));

This is because gcc will generally emit the following code before
it calls memset() :

	mov   r0, r7
	mvn   r1, #127        ; 0x7f
	bl    00000000 &lt;memset&gt;

r1 ends up with 0xffffff80 before being used by memset() and the
'a' array will have -128 once in every four bytes while the other
bytes will be set incorrectly to -1 like this (printing the first
8 bytes) :

	test_module: -128 -1 -1 -1
	test_module: -1 -1 -1 -128

The change here is to 'and' r1 with 255 before it is used.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kursad Oney &lt;kursad.oney@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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memset() description in ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (and elsewhere) says:

	The memset function copies the value of c (converted to an
	unsigned char) into each of the first n characters of the
	object pointed to by s.

The kernel's arm32 memset does not cast c to unsigned char. This results
in the following code to produce erroneous output:

	char a[128];
	memset(a, -128, sizeof(a));

This is because gcc will generally emit the following code before
it calls memset() :

	mov   r0, r7
	mvn   r1, #127        ; 0x7f
	bl    00000000 &lt;memset&gt;

r1 ends up with 0xffffff80 before being used by memset() and the
'a' array will have -128 once in every four bytes while the other
bytes will be set incorrectly to -1 like this (printing the first
8 bytes) :

	test_module: -128 -1 -1 -1
	test_module: -1 -1 -1 -128

The change here is to 'and' r1 with 255 before it is used.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kursad Oney &lt;kursad.oney@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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