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<title>powerpc64/ftrace: fix module loading without patchable function entries</title>
<updated>2025-04-15T06:10:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anthony Iliopoulos</name>
<email>ailiop@suse.com</email>
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<published>2025-02-04T23:18:21+00:00</published>
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get_stubs_size assumes that there must always be at least one patchable
function entry, which is not always the case (modules that export data
but no code), otherwise it returns -ENOEXEC and thus the section header
sh_size is set to that value. During module_memory_alloc() the size is
passed to execmem_alloc() after being page-aligned and thus set to zero
which will cause it to fail the allocation (and thus module loading) as
__vmalloc_node_range() checks for zero-sized allocs and returns null:

[  115.466896] module_64: cast_common: doesn't contain __patchable_function_entries.
[  115.469189] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  115.469496] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 274 at mm/vmalloc.c:3778 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x8b4/0x8f0
...
[  115.478574] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[  115.479545] execmem: unable to allocate memory

Fix this by removing the check completely, since it is anyway not
helpful to propagate this as an error upwards.

Fixes: eec37961a56a ("powerpc64/ftrace: Move ftrace sequence out of line")
Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos &lt;ailiop@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250204231821.39140-1-ailiop@suse.com

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get_stubs_size assumes that there must always be at least one patchable
function entry, which is not always the case (modules that export data
but no code), otherwise it returns -ENOEXEC and thus the section header
sh_size is set to that value. During module_memory_alloc() the size is
passed to execmem_alloc() after being page-aligned and thus set to zero
which will cause it to fail the allocation (and thus module loading) as
__vmalloc_node_range() checks for zero-sized allocs and returns null:

[  115.466896] module_64: cast_common: doesn't contain __patchable_function_entries.
[  115.469189] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  115.469496] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 274 at mm/vmalloc.c:3778 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x8b4/0x8f0
...
[  115.478574] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[  115.479545] execmem: unable to allocate memory

Fix this by removing the check completely, since it is anyway not
helpful to propagate this as an error upwards.

Fixes: eec37961a56a ("powerpc64/ftrace: Move ftrace sequence out of line")
Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos &lt;ailiop@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250204231821.39140-1-ailiop@suse.com

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T18:02:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T18:02:03+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updatesk from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of driver core updates for 6.15-rc1. Lots of stuff
  happened this development cycle, including:

   - kernfs scaling changes to make it even faster thanks to rcu

   - bin_attribute constify work in many subsystems

   - faux bus minor tweaks for the rust bindings

   - rust binding updates for driver core, pci, and platform busses,
     making more functionaliy available to rust drivers. These are all
     due to people actually trying to use the bindings that were in
     6.14.

   - make Rafael and Danilo full co-maintainers of the driver core
     codebase

   - other minor fixes and updates"

* tag 'driver-core-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (52 commits)
  rust: platform: require Send for Driver trait implementers
  rust: pci: require Send for Driver trait implementers
  rust: platform: impl Send + Sync for platform::Device
  rust: pci: impl Send + Sync for pci::Device
  rust: platform: fix unrestricted &amp;mut platform::Device
  rust: pci: fix unrestricted &amp;mut pci::Device
  rust: device: implement device context marker
  rust: pci: use to_result() in enable_device_mem()
  MAINTAINERS: driver core: mark Rafael and Danilo as co-maintainers
  rust/kernel/faux: mark Registration methods inline
  driver core: faux: only create the device if probe() succeeds
  rust/faux: Add missing parent argument to Registration::new()
  rust/faux: Drop #[repr(transparent)] from faux::Registration
  rust: io: fix devres test with new io accessor functions
  rust: io: rename `io::Io` accessors
  kernfs: Move dput() outside of the RCU section.
  efi: rci2: mark bin_attribute as __ro_after_init
  rapidio: constify 'struct bin_attribute'
  firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: constify 'struct bin_attribute'
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Constify 'struct bin_attribute'
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Pull driver core updatesk from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of driver core updates for 6.15-rc1. Lots of stuff
  happened this development cycle, including:

   - kernfs scaling changes to make it even faster thanks to rcu

   - bin_attribute constify work in many subsystems

   - faux bus minor tweaks for the rust bindings

   - rust binding updates for driver core, pci, and platform busses,
     making more functionaliy available to rust drivers. These are all
     due to people actually trying to use the bindings that were in
     6.14.

   - make Rafael and Danilo full co-maintainers of the driver core
     codebase

   - other minor fixes and updates"

* tag 'driver-core-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (52 commits)
  rust: platform: require Send for Driver trait implementers
  rust: pci: require Send for Driver trait implementers
  rust: platform: impl Send + Sync for platform::Device
  rust: pci: impl Send + Sync for pci::Device
  rust: platform: fix unrestricted &amp;mut platform::Device
  rust: pci: fix unrestricted &amp;mut pci::Device
  rust: device: implement device context marker
  rust: pci: use to_result() in enable_device_mem()
  MAINTAINERS: driver core: mark Rafael and Danilo as co-maintainers
  rust/kernel/faux: mark Registration methods inline
  driver core: faux: only create the device if probe() succeeds
  rust/faux: Add missing parent argument to Registration::new()
  rust/faux: Drop #[repr(transparent)] from faux::Registration
  rust: io: fix devres test with new io accessor functions
  rust: io: rename `io::Io` accessors
  kernfs: Move dput() outside of the RCU section.
  efi: rci2: mark bin_attribute as __ro_after_init
  rapidio: constify 'struct bin_attribute'
  firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: constify 'struct bin_attribute'
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Constify 'struct bin_attribute'
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T17:06:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T17:06:52+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from
   Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic
   layers.

 - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from
   Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the
   get_maintainer output.

 - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from
   Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the
   ucount code.

 - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency
   hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a
   driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot.

 - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar
   Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to
   secs_to_jiffies().

 - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from
   Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds
   some more tests and performs some cleanups.

 - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami
   Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of
   the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task.

 - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy
   Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros.

 - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the
   individual changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits)
  mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin
  fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()
  relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting
  resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES()
  resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED()
  resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC()
  resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED()
  samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample
  hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex
  kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses
  watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination
  lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap()
  lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree
  lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration
  lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers
  lib/rbtree: add random seed
  lib/rbtree: split tests
  lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure
  checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length
  scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from
   Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic
   layers.

 - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from
   Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the
   get_maintainer output.

 - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from
   Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the
   ucount code.

 - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency
   hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a
   driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot.

 - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar
   Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to
   secs_to_jiffies().

 - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from
   Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds
   some more tests and performs some cleanups.

 - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami
   Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of
   the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task.

 - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy
   Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros.

 - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the
   individual changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits)
  mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin
  fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()
  relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting
  resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES()
  resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED()
  resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC()
  resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED()
  samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample
  hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex
  kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses
  watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination
  lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap()
  lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree
  lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration
  lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers
  lib/rbtree: add random seed
  lib/rbtree: split tests
  lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure
  checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length
  scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T16:29:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T16:29:18+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
   Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
   compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.

   This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
   reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.

 - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
   relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.

 - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
   Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
   device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
   needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
   succeed.

 - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
   remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
   for half a year and nobody has complained.

 - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
   effects are anticipated.

 - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
   process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
   madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
   in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.

 - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
   Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
   noticed when working on the swap code.

 - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
   Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
   user-visible output.

 - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
   handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
   handling of large folios.

 - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
   behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
   kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.

 - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
   core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
   work for the future removal of page structure fields.

 - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
   from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
   huge page sizes.

 - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
   present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
   file-backed mappings.

 - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
   reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
   for pte-mapped large folios.

 - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
   pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
   messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
   microbenchmark.

 - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
   improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
   docs.

 - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
   van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
   when using CMA on large machines.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
   from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
   page's mapped/unmapped status.

 - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
   Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
   operations preemptibly.

 - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
   Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
   encountered while runnimg our selftests.

 - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
   determine whether a particular page is a guard page.

 - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
   removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
   wasn't being effective.

 - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
   David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
   code.

 - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
   implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
   Kconfig logic.

 - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
   Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
   DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.

 - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
   powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
   preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
   vmalloc.

 - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
   fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
   code easier to follow.

 - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
   Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
   we accidentally added late last year.

 - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
   many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
   Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
   reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
   initialization.

 - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
   from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
   balancing code.

 - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
   and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
   reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
   is updated accordingly.

 - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
   updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
   removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.

 - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
   it claims.

 - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
   Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
   handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
   checks.

 - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
   preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.

 - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
   CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
   which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
   exclusively into a single MM.

 - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
   on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
   directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.

 - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
   Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
   mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.

 - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
   damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
   access to DAMON internal data.

 - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
   Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
   crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
   cmdline options.

 - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
   Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
   main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
   are generated.

 - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
   Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
   an xarray split.

 - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
   performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.

 - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
   totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
   page allocator code.

 - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
   classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
   SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.

 - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
   from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
   has observed in the memory-failure implementation.

 - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
   makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
   fragmentation.

 - The series "Minor memcg cleanups &amp; prep for memdescs" from Matthew
   Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.

 - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
   introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
   from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
   separately for file and anon pages.

 - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
   separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
   statistics.

 - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
   Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
   code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
  x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
  mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
  mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
  cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
  mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
  selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
  selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages &gt; 2M
  docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
  mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
  fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
  MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
  selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
  fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
  xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
  mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
   Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
   compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.

   This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
   reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.

 - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
   relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.

 - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
   Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
   device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
   needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
   succeed.

 - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
   remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
   for half a year and nobody has complained.

 - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
   effects are anticipated.

 - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
   process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
   madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
   in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.

 - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
   Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
   noticed when working on the swap code.

 - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
   Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
   user-visible output.

 - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
   handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
   handling of large folios.

 - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
   behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
   kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.

 - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
   core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
   work for the future removal of page structure fields.

 - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
   from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
   huge page sizes.

 - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
   present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
   file-backed mappings.

 - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
   reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
   for pte-mapped large folios.

 - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
   pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
   messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
   microbenchmark.

 - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
   improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
   docs.

 - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
   van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
   when using CMA on large machines.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
   from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
   page's mapped/unmapped status.

 - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
   Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
   operations preemptibly.

 - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
   Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
   encountered while runnimg our selftests.

 - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
   determine whether a particular page is a guard page.

 - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
   removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
   wasn't being effective.

 - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
   David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
   code.

 - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
   implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
   Kconfig logic.

 - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
   Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
   DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.

 - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
   powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
   preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
   vmalloc.

 - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
   fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
   code easier to follow.

 - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
   Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
   we accidentally added late last year.

 - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
   many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
   Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
   reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
   initialization.

 - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
   from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
   balancing code.

 - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
   and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
   reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
   is updated accordingly.

 - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
   updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
   removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.

 - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
   it claims.

 - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
   Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
   handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
   checks.

 - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
   preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.

 - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
   CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
   which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
   exclusively into a single MM.

 - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
   on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
   directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.

 - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
   Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
   mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.

 - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
   damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
   access to DAMON internal data.

 - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
   Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
   crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
   cmdline options.

 - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
   Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
   main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
   are generated.

 - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
   Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
   an xarray split.

 - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
   performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.

 - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
   totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
   page allocator code.

 - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
   classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
   SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.

 - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
   from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
   has observed in the memory-failure implementation.

 - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
   makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
   fragmentation.

 - The series "Minor memcg cleanups &amp; prep for memdescs" from Matthew
   Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.

 - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
   introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
   from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
   separately for file and anon pages.

 - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
   separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
   statistics.

 - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
   Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
   code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
  x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
  mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
  mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
  cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
  mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
  selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
  selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages &gt; 2M
  docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
  mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
  fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
  MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
  selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
  fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
  xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
  mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T22:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-30T22:44:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=01d5b167dc230cf3b6eb9dd7205f6a705026d1ce'/>
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Pull modules updates from Petr Pavlu:

 - Use RCU instead of RCU-sched

   The mix of rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_lock_sched() and
   preempt_disable() in the module code and its users has
   been replaced with just rcu_read_lock()

 - The rest of changes are smaller fixes and updates

* tag 'modules-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (32 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Update the MODULE SUPPORT section
  module: Remove unnecessary size argument when calling strscpy()
  module: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()
  params: Annotate struct module_param_attrs with __counted_by()
  bug: Use RCU instead RCU-sched to protect module_bug_list.
  static_call: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  kprobes: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  bpf: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
  x86: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
  cfi: Use RCU while invoking __module_address().
  powerpc/ftrace: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  LoongArch: ftrace: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  LoongArch/orc: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
  arm64: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  ARM: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  module: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
  module: Use RCU in search_module_extables().
  ...
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Pull modules updates from Petr Pavlu:

 - Use RCU instead of RCU-sched

   The mix of rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_lock_sched() and
   preempt_disable() in the module code and its users has
   been replaced with just rcu_read_lock()

 - The rest of changes are smaller fixes and updates

* tag 'modules-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (32 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Update the MODULE SUPPORT section
  module: Remove unnecessary size argument when calling strscpy()
  module: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()
  params: Annotate struct module_param_attrs with __counted_by()
  bug: Use RCU instead RCU-sched to protect module_bug_list.
  static_call: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  kprobes: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  bpf: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
  x86: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
  cfi: Use RCU while invoking __module_address().
  powerpc/ftrace: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  LoongArch: ftrace: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  LoongArch/orc: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
  arm64: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  ARM: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
  module: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
  module: Use RCU in search_module_extables().
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2025-03-28T02:39:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-28T02:39:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7b667acd69e316c2ed1b47e5dcd9d093be4a843f'/>
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Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - Remove support for IBM Cell Blades

 - SMP support for microwatt platform

 - Support for inline static calls on PPC32

 - Enable pmu selftests for power11 platform

 - Enable hardware trace macro (HTM) hcall support

 - Support for limited address mode capability

 - Changes to RMA size from 512 MB to 768 MB to handle fadump

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Abhishek Dubey, Amit Machhiwal, Andreas Schwab, Arnd Bergmann,
Athira Rajeev, Avnish Chouhan, Christophe Leroy, Disha Goel, Donet Tom,
Gaurav Batra, Gautam Menghani, Hari Bathini, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook,
Mahesh Salgaonkar, Michael Ellerman, Paul Mackerras, Ritesh Harjani
(IBM), Sathvika Vasireddy, Segher Boessenkool, Sourabh Jain, Vaibhav
Jain, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote.

* tag 'powerpc-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (61 commits)
  powerpc/kexec: fix physical address calculation in clear_utlb_entry()
  crypto: powerpc: Mark ghashp8-ppc.o as an OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD
  powerpc: Fix 'intra_function_call not a direct call' warning
  powerpc/perf: Fix ref-counting on the PMU 'vpa_pmu'
  KVM: PPC: Enable CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO on pSeries KVM guests
  powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing #size-cells on PowerBook6,7
  powerpc/microwatt: Add SMP support
  powerpc: Define config option for processors with broadcast TLBIE
  powerpc/microwatt: Define an idle power-save function
  powerpc/microwatt: Device-tree updates
  powerpc/microwatt: Select COMMON_CLK in order to get the clock framework
  net: toshiba: Remove reference to PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
  net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driver
  cpufreq: ppc_cbe: Remove powerpc Cell driver
  genirq: Remove IRQ_EDGE_EOI_HANDLER
  docs: Remove reference to removed CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR
  powerpc: Remove UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE
  powerpc/io: Use standard barrier macros in io.c
  powerpc/io: Rename _insw_ns() etc.
  powerpc/io: Use generic raw accessors
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - Remove support for IBM Cell Blades

 - SMP support for microwatt platform

 - Support for inline static calls on PPC32

 - Enable pmu selftests for power11 platform

 - Enable hardware trace macro (HTM) hcall support

 - Support for limited address mode capability

 - Changes to RMA size from 512 MB to 768 MB to handle fadump

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Abhishek Dubey, Amit Machhiwal, Andreas Schwab, Arnd Bergmann,
Athira Rajeev, Avnish Chouhan, Christophe Leroy, Disha Goel, Donet Tom,
Gaurav Batra, Gautam Menghani, Hari Bathini, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook,
Mahesh Salgaonkar, Michael Ellerman, Paul Mackerras, Ritesh Harjani
(IBM), Sathvika Vasireddy, Segher Boessenkool, Sourabh Jain, Vaibhav
Jain, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote.

* tag 'powerpc-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (61 commits)
  powerpc/kexec: fix physical address calculation in clear_utlb_entry()
  crypto: powerpc: Mark ghashp8-ppc.o as an OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD
  powerpc: Fix 'intra_function_call not a direct call' warning
  powerpc/perf: Fix ref-counting on the PMU 'vpa_pmu'
  KVM: PPC: Enable CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO on pSeries KVM guests
  powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing #size-cells on PowerBook6,7
  powerpc/microwatt: Add SMP support
  powerpc: Define config option for processors with broadcast TLBIE
  powerpc/microwatt: Define an idle power-save function
  powerpc/microwatt: Device-tree updates
  powerpc/microwatt: Select COMMON_CLK in order to get the clock framework
  net: toshiba: Remove reference to PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
  net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driver
  cpufreq: ppc_cbe: Remove powerpc Cell driver
  genirq: Remove IRQ_EDGE_EOI_HANDLER
  docs: Remove reference to removed CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR
  powerpc: Remove UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE
  powerpc/io: Use standard barrier macros in io.c
  powerpc/io: Rename _insw_ns() etc.
  powerpc/io: Use generic raw accessors
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T18:30:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T18:30:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=317a76a996043d336b85197aed5f44184b36ac4a'/>
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Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Consolidate the VDSO storage

   The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
   specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
   effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.

   There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
   and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
   integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
   duplicated code for managing the mappings.

   Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
   infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
   specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
   provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
   functionalities without conflict and interaction.

 - Rework the timekeeping data storage

   The current implementation is designed for exposing system
   timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
   designed.

   PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
   requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
   to system timekeeping.

   Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
   allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
   both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.

* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
  sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
  x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
  vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
  vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
  powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
  vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
  vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
  arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
  ...
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Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Consolidate the VDSO storage

   The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
   specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
   effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.

   There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
   and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
   integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
   duplicated code for managing the mappings.

   Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
   infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
   specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
   provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
   functionalities without conflict and interaction.

 - Rework the timekeeping data storage

   The current implementation is designed for exposing system
   timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
   designed.

   PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
   requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
   to system timekeeping.

   Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
   allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
   both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.

* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
  sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
  x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
  vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
  vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
  powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
  vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
  vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
  vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
  arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T17:54:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T17:54:15+00:00</published>
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Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A treewide hrtimer timer cleanup

  hrtimers are initialized with hrtimer_init() and a subsequent store to
  the callback pointer. This turned out to be suboptimal for the
  upcoming Rust integration and is obviously a silly implementation to
  begin with.

  This cleanup replaces the hrtimer_init(T); T-&gt;function = cb; sequence
  with hrtimer_setup(T, cb);

  The conversion was done with Coccinelle and a few manual fixups.

  Once the conversion has completely landed in mainline, hrtimer_init()
  will be removed and the hrtimer::function becomes a private member"

* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
  wifi: rt2x00: Switch to use hrtimer_update_function()
  io_uring: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
  serial: xilinx_uartps: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
  ASoC: fsl: imx-pcm-fiq: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  RDMA: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  virtio: mem: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/vmwgfx: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/xe/oa: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/vkms: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/msm: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/request: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/uncore: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/pmu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/perf: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/gvt: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/huc: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/amdgpu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  stm class: heartbeat: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  i2c: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  iio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  ...
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Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A treewide hrtimer timer cleanup

  hrtimers are initialized with hrtimer_init() and a subsequent store to
  the callback pointer. This turned out to be suboptimal for the
  upcoming Rust integration and is obviously a silly implementation to
  begin with.

  This cleanup replaces the hrtimer_init(T); T-&gt;function = cb; sequence
  with hrtimer_setup(T, cb);

  The conversion was done with Coccinelle and a few manual fixups.

  Once the conversion has completely landed in mainline, hrtimer_init()
  will be removed and the hrtimer::function becomes a private member"

* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
  wifi: rt2x00: Switch to use hrtimer_update_function()
  io_uring: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
  serial: xilinx_uartps: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
  ASoC: fsl: imx-pcm-fiq: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  RDMA: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  virtio: mem: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/vmwgfx: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/xe/oa: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/vkms: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/msm: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/request: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/uncore: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/pmu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/perf: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/gvt: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/i915/huc: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  drm/amdgpu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  stm class: heartbeat: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  i2c: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  iio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T04:28:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T04:28:12+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core &amp; fair scheduler changes:

   - Cancel the slice protection of the idle entity (Zihan Zhou)
   - Reduce the default slice to avoid tasks getting an extra tick
     (Zihan Zhou)
   - Force propagating min_slice of cfs_rq when {en,de}queue tasks
     (Tianchen Ding)
   - Refactor can_migrate_task() to elimate looping (I Hsin Cheng)
   - Add unlikey branch hints to several system calls (Colin Ian King)
   - Optimize current_clr_polling() on certain architectures (Yujun
     Dong)

  Deadline scheduler: (Juri Lelli)
   - Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call
   - Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h

  Uclamp:
   - Use the uclamp_is_used() helper instead of open-coding it (Xuewen
     Yan)
   - Optimize sched_uclamp_used static key enabling (Xuewen Yan)

  Scheduler topology support: (Juri Lelli)
   - Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains
   - Add wrappers for sched_domains_mutex
   - Generalize unique visiting of root domains
   - Rebuild root domain accounting after every update
   - Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains
   - Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked

  RSEQ: (Michael Jeanson)
   - Update kernel fields in lockstep with CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y
   - Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero
   - selftests: Add rseq syscall errors test
   - selftests: Ensure the rseq ABI TLS is actually 1024 bytes

  Membarriers:
   - Fix redundant load of membarrier_state (Nysal Jan K.A.)

  Scheduler debugging:
   - Introduce and use preempt_model_str() (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
   - Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG unconditional (Ingo Molnar)

  Fixes and cleanups:
   - Always save/restore x86 TSC sched_clock() on suspend/resume
     (Guilherme G. Piccoli)
   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Thorsten Blum, Juri Lelli, Sebastian
     Andrzej Siewior)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  cpuidle, sched: Use smp_mb__after_atomic() in current_clr_polling()
  sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
  sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG from self-test config files
  sched/debug, Documentation: Remove (most) CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG references from documentation
  sched/debug: Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG functionality unconditional
  sched/debug: Make 'const_debug' tunables unconditional __read_mostly
  sched/debug: Change SCHED_WARN_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE()
  rseq/selftests: Fix namespace collision with rseq UAPI header
  include/{topology,cpuset}: Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h
  sched/topology: Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked
  cgroup/cpuset: Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains
  sched/topology: Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call
  sched/deadline: Rebuild root domain accounting after every update
  sched/deadline: Generalize unique visiting of root domains
  sched/topology: Wrappers for sched_domains_mutex
  sched/deadline: Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains
  tracing: Use preempt_model_str()
  xtensa: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
  x86: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
  s390: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core &amp; fair scheduler changes:

   - Cancel the slice protection of the idle entity (Zihan Zhou)
   - Reduce the default slice to avoid tasks getting an extra tick
     (Zihan Zhou)
   - Force propagating min_slice of cfs_rq when {en,de}queue tasks
     (Tianchen Ding)
   - Refactor can_migrate_task() to elimate looping (I Hsin Cheng)
   - Add unlikey branch hints to several system calls (Colin Ian King)
   - Optimize current_clr_polling() on certain architectures (Yujun
     Dong)

  Deadline scheduler: (Juri Lelli)
   - Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call
   - Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h

  Uclamp:
   - Use the uclamp_is_used() helper instead of open-coding it (Xuewen
     Yan)
   - Optimize sched_uclamp_used static key enabling (Xuewen Yan)

  Scheduler topology support: (Juri Lelli)
   - Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains
   - Add wrappers for sched_domains_mutex
   - Generalize unique visiting of root domains
   - Rebuild root domain accounting after every update
   - Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains
   - Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked

  RSEQ: (Michael Jeanson)
   - Update kernel fields in lockstep with CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y
   - Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero
   - selftests: Add rseq syscall errors test
   - selftests: Ensure the rseq ABI TLS is actually 1024 bytes

  Membarriers:
   - Fix redundant load of membarrier_state (Nysal Jan K.A.)

  Scheduler debugging:
   - Introduce and use preempt_model_str() (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
   - Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG unconditional (Ingo Molnar)

  Fixes and cleanups:
   - Always save/restore x86 TSC sched_clock() on suspend/resume
     (Guilherme G. Piccoli)
   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Thorsten Blum, Juri Lelli, Sebastian
     Andrzej Siewior)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  cpuidle, sched: Use smp_mb__after_atomic() in current_clr_polling()
  sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
  sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG from self-test config files
  sched/debug, Documentation: Remove (most) CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG references from documentation
  sched/debug: Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG functionality unconditional
  sched/debug: Make 'const_debug' tunables unconditional __read_mostly
  sched/debug: Change SCHED_WARN_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE()
  rseq/selftests: Fix namespace collision with rseq UAPI header
  include/{topology,cpuset}: Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h
  sched/topology: Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked
  cgroup/cpuset: Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains
  sched/topology: Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call
  sched/deadline: Rebuild root domain accounting after every update
  sched/deadline: Generalize unique visiting of root domains
  sched/topology: Wrappers for sched_domains_mutex
  sched/deadline: Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains
  tracing: Use preempt_model_str()
  xtensa: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
  x86: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
  s390: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'seccomp-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2025-03-24T22:34:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-24T22:34:38+00:00</published>
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Pull seccomp updates from Kees Cook:

 - avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case (Mateusz
   Guzik)

 - remove unused 'sd' argument through-out (Oleg Nesterov)

 - selftests/seccomp: Add hard-coded __NR_uretprobe for x86_64

* tag 'seccomp-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  seccomp: avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case
  seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __seccomp_filter()
  seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __secure_computing()
  seccomp: fix the __secure_computing() stub for !HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
  seccomp/mips: change syscall_trace_enter() to use secure_computing()
  selftests/seccomp: Add hard-coded __NR_uretprobe for x86_64
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Pull seccomp updates from Kees Cook:

 - avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case (Mateusz
   Guzik)

 - remove unused 'sd' argument through-out (Oleg Nesterov)

 - selftests/seccomp: Add hard-coded __NR_uretprobe for x86_64

* tag 'seccomp-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  seccomp: avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case
  seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __seccomp_filter()
  seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __secure_computing()
  seccomp: fix the __secure_computing() stub for !HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
  seccomp/mips: change syscall_trace_enter() to use secure_computing()
  selftests/seccomp: Add hard-coded __NR_uretprobe for x86_64
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