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<title>um: convert irq_lock to raw spinlock</title>
<updated>2025-02-12T22:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T12:54:06+00:00</published>
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Since this is deep in the architecture, and the code is
called nested into other deep management code, this really
needs to be a raw spinlock. Convert it.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250110125550.32479-8-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<pre>
Since this is deep in the architecture, and the code is
called nested into other deep management code, this really
needs to be a raw spinlock. Convert it.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250110125550.32479-8-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: virtio_uml: use raw spinlock</title>
<updated>2025-02-12T22:40:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T12:54:05+00:00</published>
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This is needed because at least in time-travel the code
can be called directly from the deep architecture and
IRQ handling code.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250110125550.32479-7-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<pre>
This is needed because at least in time-travel the code
can be called directly from the deep architecture and
IRQ handling code.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250110125550.32479-7-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: virt-pci: don't use kmalloc()</title>
<updated>2025-02-12T22:40:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T12:54:04+00:00</published>
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This code can be called deep in the IRQ handling, for
example, and then cannot normally use kmalloc(). Have
its own pre-allocated memory and use from there instead
so this doesn't occur. Only in the (very rare) case of
memcpy_toio() we'd still need to allocate memory.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250110125550.32479-6-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<pre>
This code can be called deep in the IRQ handling, for
example, and then cannot normally use kmalloc(). Have
its own pre-allocated memory and use from there instead
so this doesn't occur. Only in the (very rare) case of
memcpy_toio() we'd still need to allocate memory.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250110125550.32479-6-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: fix execve stub execution on old host OSs</title>
<updated>2025-02-12T22:40:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Berg</name>
<email>benjamin.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-13T09:41:07+00:00</published>
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The stub execution uses the somewhat new close_range and execveat
syscalls. Of these two, the execveat call is essential, but the
close_range call is more about stub process hygiene rather than safety
(and its result is ignored).

Replace both calls with a raw syscall as older machines might not have a
recent enough kernel for close_range (with CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC) or a
libc that does not yet expose both of the syscalls.

Fixes: 32e8eaf263d9 ("um: use execveat to create userspace MMs")
Reported-by: Glenn Washburn &lt;development@efficientek.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20250108022404.05e0de1e@crass-HP-ZBook-15-G2
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250113094107.674738-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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The stub execution uses the somewhat new close_range and execveat
syscalls. Of these two, the execveat call is essential, but the
close_range call is more about stub process hygiene rather than safety
(and its result is ignored).

Replace both calls with a raw syscall as older machines might not have a
recent enough kernel for close_range (with CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC) or a
libc that does not yet expose both of the syscalls.

Fixes: 32e8eaf263d9 ("um: use execveat to create userspace MMs")
Reported-by: Glenn Washburn &lt;development@efficientek.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20250108022404.05e0de1e@crass-HP-ZBook-15-G2
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250113094107.674738-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: avoid copying FP state from init_task</title>
<updated>2025-02-12T22:40:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Berg</name>
<email>benjamin.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-17T20:27:44+00:00</published>
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The init_task instance of struct task_struct is statically allocated and
does not contain the dynamic area for the userspace FP registers. As
such, limit the copy to the valid area of init_task and fill the rest
with zero.

Note that the FP state is only needed for userspace, and as such it is
entirely reasonable for init_task to not contain it.

Reported-by: Brian Norris &lt;briannorris@chromium.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/Z1ySXmjZm-xOqk90@google.com
Fixes: 3f17fed21491 ("um: switch to regset API and depend on XSTATE")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241217202745.1402932-3-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<pre>
The init_task instance of struct task_struct is statically allocated and
does not contain the dynamic area for the userspace FP registers. As
such, limit the copy to the valid area of init_task and fill the rest
with zero.

Note that the FP state is only needed for userspace, and as such it is
entirely reasonable for init_task to not contain it.

Reported-by: Brian Norris &lt;briannorris@chromium.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/Z1ySXmjZm-xOqk90@google.com
Fixes: 3f17fed21491 ("um: switch to regset API and depend on XSTATE")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241217202745.1402932-3-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'uml-for-linus-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux</title>
<updated>2025-01-31T02:29:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-31T02:29:40+00:00</published>
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Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - hostfs: Convert to writepages

 - many cleanups: removal of dead macros, missing __init

* tag 'uml-for-linus-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux:
  um: Remove unused asm/archparam.h header
  um: Include missing headers in asm/pgtable.h
  hostfs: Convert to writepages
  um: rtc: use RTC time when calculating the alarm
  um: Remove unused user_context function
  um: Remove unused THREAD_NAME_LEN macro
  um: Remove unused PGD_BOUND macro
  um: Mark setup_env_path as __init
  um: Mark install_fatal_handler as __init
  um: Mark set_stklim as __init
  um: Mark get_top_address as __init
  um: Mark parse_cache_line as __init
  um: Mark parse_host_cpu_flags as __init
  um: Count iomem_size only once in physmem calculation
  um: Remove obsolete fixmap support
  um: Remove unused MODULES_LEN macro
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<pre>
Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - hostfs: Convert to writepages

 - many cleanups: removal of dead macros, missing __init

* tag 'uml-for-linus-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux:
  um: Remove unused asm/archparam.h header
  um: Include missing headers in asm/pgtable.h
  hostfs: Convert to writepages
  um: rtc: use RTC time when calculating the alarm
  um: Remove unused user_context function
  um: Remove unused THREAD_NAME_LEN macro
  um: Remove unused PGD_BOUND macro
  um: Mark setup_env_path as __init
  um: Mark install_fatal_handler as __init
  um: Mark set_stklim as __init
  um: Mark get_top_address as __init
  um: Mark parse_cache_line as __init
  um: Mark parse_host_cpu_flags as __init
  um: Count iomem_size only once in physmem calculation
  um: Remove obsolete fixmap support
  um: Remove unused MODULES_LEN macro
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T02:36:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-27T02:36:23+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
  indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.

   - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
     the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
     free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
     refcount inc &amp; dec

   - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
     use large folios other than PMD-sized ones

   - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
     and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest

   - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
     of the mapletree code

   - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
     few minor code cleanups

   - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
     a test for the mapletree code

   - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
     (relatively) new mm/vma.c

   - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
     Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
     page allocator

   - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
     Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
     It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading

   - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
     addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
     accumulated:

       https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

     Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
     memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

   - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
     Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
     code when optional compiler warnings are enabled

   - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
     David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
     __GFP_HARDWALL

   - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
     various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
     pertaining to the pkeys tests

   - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
     estimate application working set size

   - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
     provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic

   - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
     removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
     tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated

   - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
     has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
     zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated

   - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
     Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
     use-after-free race is fixed

   - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
     simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
     logic

   - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
     and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
     improvements in accounting accuracy

   - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
     core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
     DAMON's sysfs file interface logic

   - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
     SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
     presented in response to DAMOS actions

   - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
     removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
     migration to sysfs is completed

   - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
     Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
     accounting

   - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
     removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface

   - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
     extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
     but also inclusion (allowing) behavior

   - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
     introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
     overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
     reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
     memory descriptors

   - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
     and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
     demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
     build time with swap-on-zram

   - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
     from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
     mmap_region() can be made MM-internal

   - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
     MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance

   - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
     Park updates DAMON documentation

   - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing

   - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
     Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
     folios, THP folios and migration

   - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
     RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
     pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
     issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
     reading/writing fast devices

   - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
     Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
  s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
  kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
  tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
  mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
  seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
  mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
  zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
  mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
  mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
  selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
  kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
  selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
  selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
  mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
  indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.

   - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
     the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
     free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
     refcount inc &amp; dec

   - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
     use large folios other than PMD-sized ones

   - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
     and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest

   - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
     of the mapletree code

   - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
     few minor code cleanups

   - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
     a test for the mapletree code

   - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
     (relatively) new mm/vma.c

   - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
     Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
     page allocator

   - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
     Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
     It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading

   - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
     addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
     accumulated:

       https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

     Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
     memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

   - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
     Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
     code when optional compiler warnings are enabled

   - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
     David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
     __GFP_HARDWALL

   - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
     various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
     pertaining to the pkeys tests

   - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
     estimate application working set size

   - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
     provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic

   - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
     removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
     tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated

   - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
     has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
     zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated

   - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
     Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
     use-after-free race is fixed

   - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
     simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
     logic

   - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
     and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
     improvements in accounting accuracy

   - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
     core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
     DAMON's sysfs file interface logic

   - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
     SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
     presented in response to DAMOS actions

   - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
     removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
     migration to sysfs is completed

   - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
     Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
     accounting

   - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
     removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface

   - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
     extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
     but also inclusion (allowing) behavior

   - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
     introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
     overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
     reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
     memory descriptors

   - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
     and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
     demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
     build time with swap-on-zram

   - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
     from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
     mmap_region() can be made MM-internal

   - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
     MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance

   - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
     Park updates DAMON documentation

   - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing

   - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
     Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
     folios, THP folios and migration

   - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
     RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
     pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
     issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
     reading/writing fast devices

   - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
     Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
  s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
  kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
  tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
  mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
  seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
  mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
  zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
  mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
  mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
  selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
  kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
  selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
  selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
  mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memblock: add memblock_alloc_or_panic interface</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T04:22:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guo Weikang</name>
<email>guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-02T07:25:28+00:00</published>
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Before SLUB initialization, various subsystems used memblock_alloc to
allocate memory.  In most cases, when memory allocation fails, an
immediate panic is required.  To simplify this behavior and reduce
repetitive checks, introduce `memblock_alloc_or_panic`.  This function
ensures that memory allocation failures result in a panic automatically,
improving code readability and consistency across subsystems that require
this behavior.

[guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com: arch/s390: save_area_alloc default failure behavior changed to panic]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109033136.2845676-1-guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z2fknmnNtiZbCc7x@kernel.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250102072528.650926-1-guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guo Weikang &lt;guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;	[s390]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Before SLUB initialization, various subsystems used memblock_alloc to
allocate memory.  In most cases, when memory allocation fails, an
immediate panic is required.  To simplify this behavior and reduce
repetitive checks, introduce `memblock_alloc_or_panic`.  This function
ensures that memory allocation failures result in a panic automatically,
improving code readability and consistency across subsystems that require
this behavior.

[guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com: arch/s390: save_area_alloc default failure behavior changed to panic]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109033136.2845676-1-guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z2fknmnNtiZbCc7x@kernel.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250102072528.650926-1-guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guo Weikang &lt;guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;	[s390]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic __pgd_{alloc,free}</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T04:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Brodsky</name>
<email>kevin.brodsky@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-03T18:44:14+00:00</published>
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We already have a generic implementation of alloc/free up to P4D level, as
well as pgd_free().  Let's finish the work and add a generic PGD-level
alloc helper as well.

Unlike at lower levels, almost all architectures need some specific magic
at PGD level (typically initialising PGD entries), so introducing a
generic pgd_alloc() isn't worth it.  Instead we introduce two new helpers,
__pgd_alloc() and __pgd_free(), and make use of them in the arch-specific
pgd_alloc() and pgd_free() wherever possible.  To accommodate as many arch
as possible, __pgd_alloc() takes a page allocation order.

Because pagetable_alloc() allocates zeroed pages, explicit zeroing in
pgd_alloc() becomes redundant and we can get rid of it.  Some trivial
implementations of pgd_free() also become unnecessary once __pgd_alloc()
is used; remove them.

Another small improvement is consistent accounting of PGD pages by using
GFP_PGTABLE_{USER,KERNEL} as appropriate.

Not all PGD allocations can be handled by the generic helpers.  In
particular, multiple architectures allocate PGDs from a kmem_cache, and
those PGDs may not be page-sized.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-6-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
We already have a generic implementation of alloc/free up to P4D level, as
well as pgd_free().  Let's finish the work and add a generic PGD-level
alloc helper as well.

Unlike at lower levels, almost all architectures need some specific magic
at PGD level (typically initialising PGD entries), so introducing a
generic pgd_alloc() isn't worth it.  Instead we introduce two new helpers,
__pgd_alloc() and __pgd_free(), and make use of them in the arch-specific
pgd_alloc() and pgd_free() wherever possible.  To accommodate as many arch
as possible, __pgd_alloc() takes a page allocation order.

Because pagetable_alloc() allocates zeroed pages, explicit zeroing in
pgd_alloc() becomes redundant and we can get rid of it.  Some trivial
implementations of pgd_free() also become unnecessary once __pgd_alloc()
is used; remove them.

Another small improvement is consistent accounting of PGD pages by using
GFP_PGTABLE_{USER,KERNEL} as appropriate.

Not all PGD allocations can be handled by the generic helpers.  In
particular, multiple architectures allocate PGDs from a kmem_cache, and
those PGDs may not be page-sized.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-6-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: pgtable: introduce pagetable_dtor()</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T04:22:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qi Zheng</name>
<email>zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-08T06:57:23+00:00</published>
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The pagetable_p*_dtor() are exactly the same except for the handling of
ptlock.  If we make ptlock_free() handle the case where ptdesc-&gt;ptl is
NULL and remove VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() from pmd_ptlock_free(), we can unify
pagetable_p*_dtor() into one function.  Let's introduce pagetable_dtor()
to do this.

Later, pagetable_dtor() will be moved to tlb_remove_ptdesc(), so that
ptlock and page table pages can be freed together (regardless of whether
RCU is used).  This prevents the use-after-free problem where the ptlock
is freed immediately but the page table pages is freed later via RCU.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/47f44fff9dc68d9d9e9a0d6c036df275f820598a.1736317725.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;	[s390]
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) &lt;vishal.moola@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The pagetable_p*_dtor() are exactly the same except for the handling of
ptlock.  If we make ptlock_free() handle the case where ptdesc-&gt;ptl is
NULL and remove VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() from pmd_ptlock_free(), we can unify
pagetable_p*_dtor() into one function.  Let's introduce pagetable_dtor()
to do this.

Later, pagetable_dtor() will be moved to tlb_remove_ptdesc(), so that
ptlock and page table pages can be freed together (regardless of whether
RCU is used).  This prevents the use-after-free problem where the ptlock
is freed immediately but the page table pages is freed later via RCU.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/47f44fff9dc68d9d9e9a0d6c036df275f820598a.1736317725.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;	[s390]
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) &lt;vishal.moola@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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