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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-10-06T19:37:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-06T19:37:34+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's
     x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko

  x86:

   - Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to
     KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko

   - Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology
     (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD
     (Shadow Stacks).

     It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled
     separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them
     separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both
     SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the
     guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept
     XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons

   - Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts
     when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to
     allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point

   - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the
     MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs

   - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs

   - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
     emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside
     of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios)

   - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED
     virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support

   - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for
     mediated vPMUs

   - Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI
     vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests

   - Many cleanups and minor fixes

   - Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock
     to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages

   - Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently
     deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where
     prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update

  x86 (AMD):

   - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is
     supported

   - Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests
     via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate
     errors instead of latent guest failures

   - Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that
     prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of
     SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This
     feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate
     ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module
     parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used
     for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run
     SEV-ES guests

   - Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the
     untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while
     still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency
     prior to launch

   - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid
     bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values

   - Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully
     succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not
     consumed in KVM)

   - Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's
     LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with
     them

   - Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the
     host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a
     different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace

  KVM (Intel):

   - Preparation for FRED support

   - Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target
     memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a
     deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case

   - Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
  KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks
  KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c
  KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent
  KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit
  KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported
  KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features
  KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write
  KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors
  KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector
  KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE
  KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM
  KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid
  KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate
  KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions
  KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02
  ...
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's
     x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko

  x86:

   - Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to
     KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko

   - Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology
     (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD
     (Shadow Stacks).

     It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled
     separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them
     separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both
     SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the
     guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept
     XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons

   - Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts
     when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to
     allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point

   - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the
     MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs

   - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs

   - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
     emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside
     of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios)

   - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED
     virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support

   - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for
     mediated vPMUs

   - Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI
     vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests

   - Many cleanups and minor fixes

   - Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock
     to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages

   - Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently
     deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where
     prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update

  x86 (AMD):

   - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is
     supported

   - Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests
     via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate
     errors instead of latent guest failures

   - Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that
     prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of
     SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This
     feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate
     ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module
     parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used
     for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run
     SEV-ES guests

   - Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the
     untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while
     still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency
     prior to launch

   - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid
     bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values

   - Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully
     succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not
     consumed in KVM)

   - Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's
     LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with
     them

   - Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the
     host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a
     different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace

  KVM (Intel):

   - Preparation for FRED support

   - Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target
     memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a
     deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case

   - Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
  KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks
  KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c
  KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent
  KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit
  KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported
  KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features
  KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write
  KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors
  KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector
  KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE
  KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM
  KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid
  KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate
  KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions
  KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e1b1d03ceec343362524318c076b110066ffe305'/>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - FC target fixes (Daniel)
     - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
     - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
     - Target lockdep assertions (Max)
     - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
     - Suspend quirk (Georg)

 - MD pull request via Yu:
     - Add support for a lockless bitmap.

       A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
       lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
       bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
       to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
       writes.

       By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
       case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
       need to do a full disk resync/recovery.

 - Switch -&gt;getgeo() and -&gt;bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
   than struct block_device.

 - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
   configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
   includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
   cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.

   The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
   `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
   to support the same use as the removed logic.

 - floppy arch cleanups

 - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands

 - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
   of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
   setups.

 - A few s390 dasd block fixes

 - Fix a few issues around atomic writes

 - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests

 - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
   constraints.

   We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
   only the request as a whole needs to.

 - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
   payloads

 - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate

 - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections

 - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs

 - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
  s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
  s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
  ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
  nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
  nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
  nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
  nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
  nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
  blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
  blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
  blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
  selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
  ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
  ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
  ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - FC target fixes (Daniel)
     - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
     - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
     - Target lockdep assertions (Max)
     - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
     - Suspend quirk (Georg)

 - MD pull request via Yu:
     - Add support for a lockless bitmap.

       A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
       lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
       bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
       to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
       writes.

       By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
       case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
       need to do a full disk resync/recovery.

 - Switch -&gt;getgeo() and -&gt;bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
   than struct block_device.

 - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
   configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
   includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
   cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.

   The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
   `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
   to support the same use as the removed logic.

 - floppy arch cleanups

 - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands

 - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
   of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
   setups.

 - A few s390 dasd block fixes

 - Fix a few issues around atomic writes

 - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests

 - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
   constraints.

   We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
   only the request as a whole needs to.

 - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
   payloads

 - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate

 - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections

 - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs

 - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
  s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
  s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
  ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
  nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
  nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
  nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
  nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
  nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
  blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
  blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
  blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
  selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
  ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
  ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
  ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T03:58:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T03:58:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7f7072574127c9e971cad83a0274e86f6275c0d5'/>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
   as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
   a builtin module

 - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

 - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

 - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
   W=e

 - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
   (userprogs)

 - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
   (hostprogs)

 - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
   to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
   btrfs and XFS

 - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
  modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
  Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
  kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
  modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
  modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
  scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
  KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
  objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
  riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
  riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
  riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
  powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
  mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
  arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
  ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
   as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
   a builtin module

 - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

 - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

 - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
   W=e

 - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
   (userprogs)

 - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
   (hostprogs)

 - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
   to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
   btrfs and XFS

 - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
  modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
  Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
  kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
  modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
  modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
  scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
  KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
  objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
  riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
  riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
  riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
  powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
  mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
  arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
  ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T17:40:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-19T00:33:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=20c48920583675e67b3824f147726e0fbda735ce'/>
<id>20c48920583675e67b3824f147726e0fbda735ce</id>
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Rework the vast majority of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM
submodules, i.e. to x86's kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko.
With few exceptions, KVM's exported APIs are intended (and safe) for KVM-
internal usage only.

Keep kvm_get_kvm(), kvm_get_kvm_safe(), and kvm_put_kvm() as normal
exports, as they are needed by VFIO, and are generally safe for external
usage (though ideally even the get/put APIs would be KVM-internal, and
VFIO would pin a VM by grabbing a reference to its associated file).

Implement a framework in kvm_types.h in anticipation of providing a macro
to restrict KVM-specific kernel exports, i.e. to provide symbol exports
for KVM if and only if KVM is built as one or more modules.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919003303.1355064-3-seanjc@google.com
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
Rework the vast majority of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM
submodules, i.e. to x86's kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko.
With few exceptions, KVM's exported APIs are intended (and safe) for KVM-
internal usage only.

Keep kvm_get_kvm(), kvm_get_kvm_safe(), and kvm_put_kvm() as normal
exports, as they are needed by VFIO, and are generally safe for external
usage (though ideally even the get/put APIs would be KVM-internal, and
VFIO would pin a VM by grabbing a reference to its associated file).

Implement a framework in kvm_types.h in anticipation of providing a macro
to restrict KVM-specific kernel exports, i.e. to provide symbol exports
for KVM if and only if KVM is built as one or more modules.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919003303.1355064-3-seanjc@google.com
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6c7340a7a8d2b6ecad1ad108f6daa73ba1dc082f'/>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T02:28:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T02:28:50+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - powerpc support for BPF arena and arena atomics

 - Patches to switch to msi parent domain (per-device MSI domains)

 - Add a lock contention tracepoint in the queued spinlock slowpath

 - Fixes for underflow in pseries/powernv msi and pci paths

 - Switch from legacy-of-mm-gpiochip dependency to platform driver

 - Fixes for handling TLB misses

 - Introduce support for powerpc papr-hvpipe

 - Add vpa-dtl PMU driver for pseries platform

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Bodkhe, Andrew Donnellan, Athira
Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joe Lawrence,
Kajol Jain, Kienan Stewart, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nam Cao,
Nicolas Schier, Nysal Jan K.A., Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Ruben Wauters,
Saket Kumar Bhaskar, Shashank MS, Shrikanth Hegde, Tejas Manhas, Thomas
Gleixner, Thomas Huth, Thorsten Blum, Tyrel Datwyler, and Venkat Rao
Bagalkote.

* tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (49 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Define __u{8,32} types in papr_hvpipe_hdr struct
  genirq/msi: Remove msi_post_free()
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add documentation for VPA dispatch trace log PMU
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Handle the writing of perf record when aux wake up is needed
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to capture DTL data in aux buffer
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to setup and free aux buffer for capturing DTL data
  docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-dtl: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_dtl pmu
  powerpc/vpa_dtl: Add interface to expose vpa dtl counters via perf
  powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor
  powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure
  powerpc/fprobe: fix updated fprobe for function-graph tracer
  powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
  powerpc64/modules: replace stub allocation sentinel with an explicit counter
  powerpc64/modules: correctly iterate over stubs in setup_ftrace_ool_stubs
  powerpc/ftrace: ensure ftrace record ops are always set for NOPs
  powerpc/603: Really copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs
  powerpc/8xx: Remove left-over instruction and comments in DataStoreTLBMiss handler
  powerpc/pseries: HVPIPE changes to support migration
  powerpc/pseries: Enable hvpipe with ibm,set-system-parameter RTAS
  powerpc/pseries: Enable HVPIPE event message interrupt
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - powerpc support for BPF arena and arena atomics

 - Patches to switch to msi parent domain (per-device MSI domains)

 - Add a lock contention tracepoint in the queued spinlock slowpath

 - Fixes for underflow in pseries/powernv msi and pci paths

 - Switch from legacy-of-mm-gpiochip dependency to platform driver

 - Fixes for handling TLB misses

 - Introduce support for powerpc papr-hvpipe

 - Add vpa-dtl PMU driver for pseries platform

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Bodkhe, Andrew Donnellan, Athira
Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joe Lawrence,
Kajol Jain, Kienan Stewart, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nam Cao,
Nicolas Schier, Nysal Jan K.A., Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Ruben Wauters,
Saket Kumar Bhaskar, Shashank MS, Shrikanth Hegde, Tejas Manhas, Thomas
Gleixner, Thomas Huth, Thorsten Blum, Tyrel Datwyler, and Venkat Rao
Bagalkote.

* tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (49 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Define __u{8,32} types in papr_hvpipe_hdr struct
  genirq/msi: Remove msi_post_free()
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add documentation for VPA dispatch trace log PMU
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Handle the writing of perf record when aux wake up is needed
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to capture DTL data in aux buffer
  powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to setup and free aux buffer for capturing DTL data
  docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-dtl: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_dtl pmu
  powerpc/vpa_dtl: Add interface to expose vpa dtl counters via perf
  powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor
  powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure
  powerpc/fprobe: fix updated fprobe for function-graph tracer
  powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
  powerpc64/modules: replace stub allocation sentinel with an explicit counter
  powerpc64/modules: correctly iterate over stubs in setup_ftrace_ool_stubs
  powerpc/ftrace: ensure ftrace record ops are always set for NOPs
  powerpc/603: Really copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs
  powerpc/8xx: Remove left-over instruction and comments in DataStoreTLBMiss handler
  powerpc/pseries: HVPIPE changes to support migration
  powerpc/pseries: Enable hvpipe with ibm,set-system-parameter RTAS
  powerpc/pseries: Enable HVPIPE event message interrupt
  ...
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<title>powerpc/pseries: Define __u{8,32} types in papr_hvpipe_hdr struct</title>
<updated>2025-09-23T09:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haren Myneni</name>
<email>haren@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-22T09:11:08+00:00</published>
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Fix the the following build errors with CONFIG_UAPI_HEADER_TEST:

./usr/include/asm/papr-hvpipe.h:16:9: error: unknown type name 'u8'
   16 |         u8 version;
./usr/include/asm/papr-hvpipe.h:17:9: error: unknown type name 'u8'
   17 |         u8 reserved[3];
./usr/include/asm/papr-hvpipe.h:18:9: error: unknown type name 'u32'
   18 |         u32 flags;
./usr/include/asm/papr-hvpipe.h:19:9: error: unknown type name 'u8'
   19 |         u8 reserved2[40];

Fixes: 043439ad1a23c ("powerpc/pseries: Define papr-hvpipe ioctl")
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni &lt;haren@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922091108.1483970-1-haren@linux.ibm.com

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Fix the the following build errors with CONFIG_UAPI_HEADER_TEST:

./usr/include/asm/papr-hvpipe.h:16:9: error: unknown type name 'u8'
   16 |         u8 version;
./usr/include/asm/papr-hvpipe.h:17:9: error: unknown type name 'u8'
   17 |         u8 reserved[3];
./usr/include/asm/papr-hvpipe.h:18:9: error: unknown type name 'u32'
   18 |         u32 flags;
./usr/include/asm/papr-hvpipe.h:19:9: error: unknown type name 'u8'
   19 |         u8 reserved2[40];

Fixes: 043439ad1a23c ("powerpc/pseries: Define papr-hvpipe ioctl")
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni &lt;haren@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250922091108.1483970-1-haren@linux.ibm.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor</title>
<updated>2025-09-22T09:18:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aboorva Devarajan</name>
<email>aboorvad@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-15T10:29:41+00:00</published>
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- Define accessor function get_boot_tb() to safely return boot_tb value,
  this is only needed when running in SPLPAR environments, so the
  accessor is built conditionally under CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR.

- Tag boot_tb as __ro_after_init since it is written once at initialized
  and never updated afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan &lt;aboorvad@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas &lt;tejas05@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-2-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com

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- Define accessor function get_boot_tb() to safely return boot_tb value,
  this is only needed when running in SPLPAR environments, so the
  accessor is built conditionally under CONFIG_PPC_SPLPAR.

- Tag boot_tb as __ro_after_init since it is written once at initialized
  and never updated afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan &lt;aboorvad@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tejas Manhas &lt;tejas05@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-2-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com

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<entry>
<title>kasan: introduce ARCH_DEFER_KASAN and unify static key across modes</title>
<updated>2025-09-21T21:21:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov</name>
<email>snovitoll@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-10T12:57:45+00:00</published>
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Patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations", v6.

This patch series addresses the fragmentation in KASAN initialization
across architectures by introducing a unified approach that eliminates
duplicate static keys and arch-specific kasan_arch_is_ready()
implementations.

The core issue is that different architectures have inconsistent approaches
to KASAN readiness tracking:
- PowerPC, LoongArch, and UML arch, each implement own kasan_arch_is_ready()
- Only HW_TAGS mode had a unified static key (kasan_flag_enabled)
- Generic and SW_TAGS modes relied on arch-specific solutions
  or always-on behavior


This patch (of 2):

Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_DEFER_KASAN to identify architectures [1] that need
to defer KASAN initialization until shadow memory is properly set up, and
unify the static key infrastructure across all KASAN modes.

[1] PowerPC, UML, LoongArch selects ARCH_DEFER_KASAN.

The core issue is that different architectures haveinconsistent approaches
to KASAN readiness tracking:
- PowerPC, LoongArch, and UML arch, each implement own
  kasan_arch_is_ready()
- Only HW_TAGS mode had a unified static key (kasan_flag_enabled)
- Generic and SW_TAGS modes relied on arch-specific solutions or always-on
    behavior

This patch addresses the fragmentation in KASAN initialization across
architectures by introducing a unified approach that eliminates duplicate
static keys and arch-specific kasan_arch_is_ready() implementations.

Let's replace kasan_arch_is_ready() with existing kasan_enabled() check,
which examines the static key being enabled if arch selects
ARCH_DEFER_KASAN or has HW_TAGS mode support.  For other arch,
kasan_enabled() checks the enablement during compile time.

Now KASAN users can use a single kasan_enabled() check everywhere.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250810125746.1105476-1-snovitoll@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250810125746.1105476-2-snovitoll@gmail.com
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217049
Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov &lt;snovitoll@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt; #powerpc
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Qing Zhang &lt;zhangqing@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov &lt;snovitoll@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations", v6.

This patch series addresses the fragmentation in KASAN initialization
across architectures by introducing a unified approach that eliminates
duplicate static keys and arch-specific kasan_arch_is_ready()
implementations.

The core issue is that different architectures have inconsistent approaches
to KASAN readiness tracking:
- PowerPC, LoongArch, and UML arch, each implement own kasan_arch_is_ready()
- Only HW_TAGS mode had a unified static key (kasan_flag_enabled)
- Generic and SW_TAGS modes relied on arch-specific solutions
  or always-on behavior


This patch (of 2):

Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_DEFER_KASAN to identify architectures [1] that need
to defer KASAN initialization until shadow memory is properly set up, and
unify the static key infrastructure across all KASAN modes.

[1] PowerPC, UML, LoongArch selects ARCH_DEFER_KASAN.

The core issue is that different architectures haveinconsistent approaches
to KASAN readiness tracking:
- PowerPC, LoongArch, and UML arch, each implement own
  kasan_arch_is_ready()
- Only HW_TAGS mode had a unified static key (kasan_flag_enabled)
- Generic and SW_TAGS modes relied on arch-specific solutions or always-on
    behavior

This patch addresses the fragmentation in KASAN initialization across
architectures by introducing a unified approach that eliminates duplicate
static keys and arch-specific kasan_arch_is_ready() implementations.

Let's replace kasan_arch_is_ready() with existing kasan_enabled() check,
which examines the static key being enabled if arch selects
ARCH_DEFER_KASAN or has HW_TAGS mode support.  For other arch,
kasan_enabled() checks the enablement during compile time.

Now KASAN users can use a single kasan_enabled() check everywhere.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250810125746.1105476-1-snovitoll@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250810125746.1105476-2-snovitoll@gmail.com
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217049
Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov &lt;snovitoll@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt; #powerpc
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Qing Zhang &lt;zhangqing@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov &lt;snovitoll@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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