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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

  "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
     mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
     VMAs.

  "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
     adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
     DAMON in production environments.

  "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
     is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
     pointers from struct writeback_control.

  "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
     contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
     management code.

  "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
     does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.

  "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
     implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
     into order&gt;0 folios.

  "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
     provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
     selftests code.

  "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
     memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.

  "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
     expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().

  "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
     addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
     These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.

  "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
     provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.

  "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
     types.

  "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
     increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
     code.

  "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
     removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.

  "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
     implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
     sysfs layer.

  "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.

  "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
     provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.

  "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
     creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
     Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
     on/offline notifier.

  "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
     which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.

  "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
     adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
     more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.

  "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
     fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
     follows that fix with a series of cleanups.

  "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
     rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
     allocator.

  "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
     provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.

  "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
     adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.

  "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
     does that.

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
     also does what it claims.

  "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
     cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.

  "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
     facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
     policy.

  "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
     provides a couple of page-&gt;folio conversions.

  "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
     implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
     current memcg-based implementation.

  "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
     replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
     powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.

  "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
     for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
     of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
     excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
     reliably.

  "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
     switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
     removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

  "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
     augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
     monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
     tunable to control the update interval.

  "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
     does what is claims.

  "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
     provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
     a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
     over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
     directly.

  "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
     addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
     reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
     half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
     selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.

  "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up __folio_split()!

  "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     provides some quite large (&gt;3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
     with large folios.

  "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
     does some cleanup work in the selftests code.

  "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
     more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
     multiple VMAs" feature.

  "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
     extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
     possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
     subset"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy &amp; migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

  "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
     mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
     VMAs.

  "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
     adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
     DAMON in production environments.

  "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
     is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
     pointers from struct writeback_control.

  "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
     contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
     management code.

  "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
     does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.

  "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
     implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
     into order&gt;0 folios.

  "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
     provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
     selftests code.

  "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
     memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.

  "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
     expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().

  "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
     addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
     These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.

  "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
     provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.

  "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
     types.

  "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
     increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
     code.

  "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
     removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.

  "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
     implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
     sysfs layer.

  "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.

  "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
     provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.

  "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
     creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
     Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
     on/offline notifier.

  "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
     which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.

  "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
     adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
     more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.

  "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
     fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
     follows that fix with a series of cleanups.

  "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
     rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
     allocator.

  "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
     provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.

  "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
     adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.

  "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
     does that.

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
     also does what it claims.

  "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
     cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.

  "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
     facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
     policy.

  "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
     provides a couple of page-&gt;folio conversions.

  "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
     implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
     current memcg-based implementation.

  "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
     replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
     powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.

  "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
     for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
     of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
     excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
     reliably.

  "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
     switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
     removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

  "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
     augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
     monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
     tunable to control the update interval.

  "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
     does what is claims.

  "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
     provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
     a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
     over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
     directly.

  "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
     addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
     reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
     half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
     selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.

  "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up __folio_split()!

  "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     provides some quite large (&gt;3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
     with large folios.

  "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
     does some cleanup work in the selftests code.

  "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
     more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
     multiple VMAs" feature.

  "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
     extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
     possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
     subset"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy &amp; migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bio: use memzero_page() in bio_truncate()</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T05:42:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-12T14:34:37+00:00</published>
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Patch series "Remove zero_user()".

The zero_user() API is almost unused these days.  Finish the job of
removing it.


This patch (of 5):

memzero_page() is the new name for zero_user().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250612143443.2848197-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250612143443.2848197-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Markuze &lt;amarkuze@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Patch series "Remove zero_user()".

The zero_user() API is almost unused these days.  Finish the job of
removing it.


This patch (of 5):

memzero_page() is the new name for zero_user().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250612143443.2848197-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250612143443.2848197-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Markuze &lt;amarkuze@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: don't merge different kinds of P2P transfers in a single bio</title>
<updated>2025-06-30T21:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-25T11:34:58+00:00</published>
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To get out of the DMA mapping helpers having to check every segment for
it's P2P status, ensure that bios either contain P2P transfers or non-P2P
transfers, and that a P2P bio only contains ranges from a single device.

This means we do the page zone access in the bio add path where it should
be still page hot, and will only have do the fairly expensive P2P topology
lookup once per bio down in the DMA mapping path, and only for already
marked bios.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe &lt;logang@deltatee.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625113531.522027-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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To get out of the DMA mapping helpers having to check every segment for
it's P2P status, ensure that bios either contain P2P transfers or non-P2P
transfers, and that a P2P bio only contains ranges from a single device.

This means we do the page zone access in the bio add path where it should
be still page hot, and will only have do the fairly expensive P2P topology
lookup once per bio down in the DMA mapping path, and only for already
marked bios.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe &lt;logang@deltatee.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625113531.522027-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T18:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T18:39:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6f59de9bc0d576eb5a5edfea470527902315e924'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - ublk updates:
      - Add support for updating the size of a ublk instance
      - Zero-copy improvements
      - Auto-registering of buffers for zero-copy
      - Series simplifying and improving GET_DATA and request lookup
      - Series adding quiesce support
      - Lots of selftests additions
      - Various cleanups

 - NVMe updates via Christoph:
      - add per-node DMA pools and use them for PRP/SGL allocations
        (Caleb Sander Mateos, Keith Busch)
      - nvme-fcloop refcounting fixes (Daniel Wagner)
      - support delayed removal of the multipath node and optionally
        support the multipath node for private namespaces (Nilay Shroff)
      - support shared CQs in the PCI endpoint target code (Wilfred
        Mallawa)
      - support admin-queue only authentication (Hannes Reinecke)
      - use the crc32c library instead of the crypto API (Eric Biggers)
      - misc cleanups (Christoph Hellwig, Marcelo Moreira, Hannes
        Reinecke, Leon Romanovsky, Gustavo A. R. Silva)

 - MD updates via Yu:
      - Fix that normal IO can be starved by sync IO, found by mkfs on
        newly created large raid5, with some clean up patches for bdev
        inflight counters

 - Clean up brd, getting rid of atomic kmaps and bvec poking

 - Add loop driver specifically for zoned IO testing

 - Eliminate blk-rq-qos calls with a static key, if not enabled

 - Improve hctx locking for when a plug has IO for multiple queues
   pending

 - Remove block layer bouncing support, which in turn means we can
   remove the per-node bounce stat as well

 - Improve blk-throttle support

 - Improve delay support for blk-throttle

 - Improve brd discard support

 - Unify IO scheduler switching. This should also fix a bunch of lockdep
   warnings we've been seeing, after enabling lockdep support for queue
   freezing/unfreezeing

 - Add support for block write streams via FDP (flexible data placement)
   on NVMe

 - Add a bunch of block helpers, facilitating the removal of a bunch of
   duplicated boilerplate code

 - Remove obsolete BLK_MQ pci and virtio Kconfig options

 - Add atomic/untorn write support to blktrace

 - Various little cleanups and fixes

* tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (186 commits)
  selftests: ublk: add test for UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  ublk: add feature UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  selftests: ublk: add test case for UBLK_U_CMD_UPDATE_SIZE
  traceevent/block: Add REQ_ATOMIC flag to block trace events
  ublk: run auto buf unregisgering in same io_ring_ctx with registering
  io_uring: add helper io_uring_cmd_ctx_handle()
  ublk: remove io argument from ublk_auto_buf_reg_fallback()
  ublk: handle ublk_set_auto_buf_reg() failure correctly in ublk_fetch()
  selftests: ublk: add test for covering UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  selftests: ublk: support UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: support UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  ublk: register buffer to local io_uring with provided buf index via UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: prepare for supporting to register request buffer automatically
  ublk: convert to refcount_t
  selftests: ublk: make IO &amp; device removal test more stressful
  nvme: rename nvme_mpath_shutdown_disk to nvme_mpath_remove_disk
  nvme: introduce multipath_always_on module param
  nvme-multipath: introduce delayed removal of the multipath head node
  nvme-pci: derive and better document max segments limits
  nvme-pci: use struct_size for allocation struct nvme_dev
  ...
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - ublk updates:
      - Add support for updating the size of a ublk instance
      - Zero-copy improvements
      - Auto-registering of buffers for zero-copy
      - Series simplifying and improving GET_DATA and request lookup
      - Series adding quiesce support
      - Lots of selftests additions
      - Various cleanups

 - NVMe updates via Christoph:
      - add per-node DMA pools and use them for PRP/SGL allocations
        (Caleb Sander Mateos, Keith Busch)
      - nvme-fcloop refcounting fixes (Daniel Wagner)
      - support delayed removal of the multipath node and optionally
        support the multipath node for private namespaces (Nilay Shroff)
      - support shared CQs in the PCI endpoint target code (Wilfred
        Mallawa)
      - support admin-queue only authentication (Hannes Reinecke)
      - use the crc32c library instead of the crypto API (Eric Biggers)
      - misc cleanups (Christoph Hellwig, Marcelo Moreira, Hannes
        Reinecke, Leon Romanovsky, Gustavo A. R. Silva)

 - MD updates via Yu:
      - Fix that normal IO can be starved by sync IO, found by mkfs on
        newly created large raid5, with some clean up patches for bdev
        inflight counters

 - Clean up brd, getting rid of atomic kmaps and bvec poking

 - Add loop driver specifically for zoned IO testing

 - Eliminate blk-rq-qos calls with a static key, if not enabled

 - Improve hctx locking for when a plug has IO for multiple queues
   pending

 - Remove block layer bouncing support, which in turn means we can
   remove the per-node bounce stat as well

 - Improve blk-throttle support

 - Improve delay support for blk-throttle

 - Improve brd discard support

 - Unify IO scheduler switching. This should also fix a bunch of lockdep
   warnings we've been seeing, after enabling lockdep support for queue
   freezing/unfreezeing

 - Add support for block write streams via FDP (flexible data placement)
   on NVMe

 - Add a bunch of block helpers, facilitating the removal of a bunch of
   duplicated boilerplate code

 - Remove obsolete BLK_MQ pci and virtio Kconfig options

 - Add atomic/untorn write support to blktrace

 - Various little cleanups and fixes

* tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (186 commits)
  selftests: ublk: add test for UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  ublk: add feature UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  selftests: ublk: add test case for UBLK_U_CMD_UPDATE_SIZE
  traceevent/block: Add REQ_ATOMIC flag to block trace events
  ublk: run auto buf unregisgering in same io_ring_ctx with registering
  io_uring: add helper io_uring_cmd_ctx_handle()
  ublk: remove io argument from ublk_auto_buf_reg_fallback()
  ublk: handle ublk_set_auto_buf_reg() failure correctly in ublk_fetch()
  selftests: ublk: add test for covering UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  selftests: ublk: support UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: support UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  ublk: register buffer to local io_uring with provided buf index via UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: prepare for supporting to register request buffer automatically
  ublk: convert to refcount_t
  selftests: ublk: make IO &amp; device removal test more stressful
  nvme: rename nvme_mpath_shutdown_disk to nvme_mpath_remove_disk
  nvme: introduce multipath_always_on module param
  nvme-multipath: introduce delayed removal of the multipath head node
  nvme-pci: derive and better document max segments limits
  nvme-pci: use struct_size for allocation struct nvme_dev
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: remove the same_page output argument to bvec_try_merge_page</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T18:09:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-12T04:23:54+00:00</published>
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bvec_try_merge_page currently returns if the added page fragment is
within the same page as the last page in the last current bio_vec.

This information is used by __bio_iov_iter_get_pages so that we always
have a single folio pin per page even when the page is split over
multiple __bio_iov_iter_get_pages calls.

Threading this through the entire lowlevel add page to bio logic is
annoying and inefficient and leads to less code sharing than otherwise
possible.  Instead add code to __bio_iov_iter_get_pages that checks if
the bio_vecs did not change and thus a merge into the last segment must
have happened, and if there is an offset into the page for the currently
added fragment, because if yes we must have already had a previous
fragment of the same page in the last bio_vec.  While this is still a bit
ugly, it keeps the logic in the one place that needs it and allows for
more code sharing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512042354.514329-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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bvec_try_merge_page currently returns if the added page fragment is
within the same page as the last page in the last current bio_vec.

This information is used by __bio_iov_iter_get_pages so that we always
have a single folio pin per page even when the page is split over
multiple __bio_iov_iter_get_pages calls.

Threading this through the entire lowlevel add page to bio logic is
annoying and inefficient and leads to less code sharing than otherwise
possible.  Instead add code to __bio_iov_iter_get_pages that checks if
the bio_vecs did not change and thus a merge into the last segment must
have happened, and if there is an offset into the page for the currently
added fragment, because if yes we must have already had a previous
fragment of the same page in the last bio_vec.  While this is still a bit
ugly, it keeps the logic in the one place that needs it and allows for
more code sharing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512042354.514329-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: sd_zbc: block: Respect bio vector limits for REPORT ZONES buffer</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T02:35:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Siwinski</name>
<email>ssiwinski@atto.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T20:01:22+00:00</published>
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The REPORT ZONES buffer size is currently limited by the HBA's maximum
segment count to ensure the buffer can be mapped. However, the block
layer further limits the number of iovec entries to 1024 when allocating
a bio.

To avoid allocation of buffers too large to be mapped, further restrict
the maximum buffer size to BIO_MAX_INLINE_VECS.

Replace the UIO_MAXIOV symbolic name with the more contextually
appropriate BIO_MAX_INLINE_VECS.

Fixes: b091ac616846 ("sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve Siwinski &lt;ssiwinski@atto.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508200122.243129-1-ssiwinski@atto.com
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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The REPORT ZONES buffer size is currently limited by the HBA's maximum
segment count to ensure the buffer can be mapped. However, the block
layer further limits the number of iovec entries to 1024 when allocating
a bio.

To avoid allocation of buffers too large to be mapped, further restrict
the maximum buffer size to BIO_MAX_INLINE_VECS.

Replace the UIO_MAXIOV symbolic name with the more contextually
appropriate BIO_MAX_INLINE_VECS.

Fixes: b091ac616846 ("sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve Siwinski &lt;ssiwinski@atto.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508200122.243129-1-ssiwinski@atto.com
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a bio_add_vmalloc helpers</title>
<updated>2025-05-07T13:31:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T12:04:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8dd16f5e34693aa0aa6a4ed48427045008097e64'/>
<id>8dd16f5e34693aa0aa6a4ed48427045008097e64</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a helper to add a vmalloc region to a bio, abstracting away the
vmalloc addresses from the underlying pages and another one wrapping
it for the simple case where all data fits into a single bio.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507120451.4000627-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Add a helper to add a vmalloc region to a bio, abstracting away the
vmalloc addresses from the underlying pages and another one wrapping
it for the simple case where all data fits into a single bio.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507120451.4000627-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a bdev_rw_virt helper</title>
<updated>2025-05-07T13:31:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T12:04:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=10b1e59cdadabff16fc78eb2ca4c341b1502293c'/>
<id>10b1e59cdadabff16fc78eb2ca4c341b1502293c</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a helper to perform synchronous I/O on a kernel direct map range.
Currently this is implemented in various places in usually not very
efficient ways, so provide a generic helper instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507120451.4000627-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
Add a helper to perform synchronous I/O on a kernel direct map range.
Currently this is implemented in various places in usually not very
efficient ways, so provide a generic helper instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507120451.4000627-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a bio_add_virt_nofail helper</title>
<updated>2025-05-07T13:31:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T12:04:25+00:00</published>
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<id>850e210d5ad21b94b55b97d4d82b4cdeb0bb05df</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a helper to add a directly mapped kernel virtual address to a
bio so that callers don't have to convert to pages or folios.

For now only the _nofail variant is provided as that is what all the
obvious callers want.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507120451.4000627-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
Add a helper to add a directly mapped kernel virtual address to a
bio so that callers don't have to convert to pages or folios.

For now only the _nofail variant is provided as that is what all the
obvious callers want.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507120451.4000627-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a bi_write_stream field</title>
<updated>2025-05-06T13:46:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-06T12:17:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5006f85ea23ea0bda9a8e31fdda126f4fca48f20'/>
<id>5006f85ea23ea0bda9a8e31fdda126f4fca48f20</id>
<content type='text'>
Add the ability to pass a write stream for placement control in the bio.
The new field fits in an existing hole, so does not change the size of
the struct.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nitesh Shetty &lt;nj.shetty@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi &lt;joshi.k@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250506121732.8211-3-joshi.k@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
Add the ability to pass a write stream for placement control in the bio.
The new field fits in an existing hole, so does not change the size of
the struct.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nitesh Shetty &lt;nj.shetty@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi &lt;joshi.k@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250506121732.8211-3-joshi.k@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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