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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/firmware/efi, branch v6.7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>efi/x86: Fix the missing KASLR_FLAG bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags</title>
<updated>2024-01-02T15:51:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuntao Wang</name>
<email>ytcoode@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-26T14:02:50+00:00</published>
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When KASLR is enabled, the KASLR_FLAG bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags
should be set to 1 to propagate KASLR status from compressed kernel to
kernel, just as the choose_random_location() function does.

Currently, when the kernel is booted via the EFI stub, the KASLR_FLAG
bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags is not set, even though it should be.
This causes some functions, such as kernel_randomize_memory(), not to
execute as expected. Fix it.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang &lt;ytcoode@gmail.com&gt;
[ardb: drop 'else' branch clearing KASLR_FLAG]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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When KASLR is enabled, the KASLR_FLAG bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags
should be set to 1 to propagate KASLR status from compressed kernel to
kernel, just as the choose_random_location() function does.

Currently, when the kernel is booted via the EFI stub, the KASLR_FLAG
bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags is not set, even though it should be.
This causes some functions, such as kernel_randomize_memory(), not to
execute as expected. Fix it.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang &lt;ytcoode@gmail.com&gt;
[ardb: drop 'else' branch clearing KASLR_FLAG]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi/x86: Avoid physical KASLR on older Dell systems</title>
<updated>2023-12-11T16:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-11T09:00:57+00:00</published>
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River reports boot hangs with v6.6 and v6.7, and the bisect points to
commit

  a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")

which moves the memory allocation and kernel decompression from the
legacy decompressor (which executes *after* ExitBootServices()) to the
EFI stub, using boot services for allocating the memory. The memory
allocation succeeds but the subsequent call to decompress_kernel() never
returns, resulting in a failed boot and a hanging system.

As it turns out, this issue only occurs when physical address
randomization (KASLR) is enabled, and given that this is a feature we
can live without (virtual KASLR is much more important), let's disable
the physical part of KASLR when booting on AMI UEFI firmware claiming to
implement revision v2.0 of the specification (which was released in
2006), as this is the version these systems advertise.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218173
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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River reports boot hangs with v6.6 and v6.7, and the bisect points to
commit

  a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")

which moves the memory allocation and kernel decompression from the
legacy decompressor (which executes *after* ExitBootServices()) to the
EFI stub, using boot services for allocating the memory. The memory
allocation succeeds but the subsequent call to decompress_kernel() never
returns, resulting in a failed boot and a hanging system.

As it turns out, this issue only occurs when physical address
randomization (KASLR) is enabled, and given that this is a feature we
can live without (virtual KASLR is much more important), let's disable
the physical part of KASLR when booting on AMI UEFI firmware claiming to
implement revision v2.0 of the specification (which was released in
2006), as this is the version these systems advertise.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218173
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi/loongarch: Use load address to calculate kernel entry address</title>
<updated>2023-12-11T10:18:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Yao</name>
<email>wangyao@lemote.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-06T00:24:27+00:00</published>
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The efi_relocate_kernel() may load the PIE kernel to anywhere, the
loaded address may not be equal to link address or
EFI_KIMG_PREFERRED_ADDRESS.

Acked-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wang Yao &lt;wangyao@lemote.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The efi_relocate_kernel() may load the PIE kernel to anywhere, the
loaded address may not be equal to link address or
EFI_KIMG_PREFERRED_ADDRESS.

Acked-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wang Yao &lt;wangyao@lemote.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi/unaccepted: Fix off-by-one when checking for overlapping ranges</title>
<updated>2023-11-28T11:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Roth</name>
<email>michael.roth@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T15:13:54+00:00</published>
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When a task needs to accept memory it will scan the accepting_list
to see if any ranges already being processed by other tasks overlap
with its range. Due to an off-by-one in the range comparisons, a task
might falsely determine that an overlapping range is being accepted,
leading to an unnecessary delay before it begins processing the range.

Fix the off-by-one in the range comparison to prevent this and slightly
improve performance.

Fixes: 50e782a86c98 ("efi/unaccepted: Fix soft lockups caused by parallel memory acceptance")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231101004523.vseyi5bezgfaht5i@amd.com/T/#me2eceb9906fcae5fe958b3fe88e41f920f8335b6
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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When a task needs to accept memory it will scan the accepting_list
to see if any ranges already being processed by other tasks overlap
with its range. Due to an off-by-one in the range comparisons, a task
might falsely determine that an overlapping range is being accepted,
leading to an unnecessary delay before it begins processing the range.

Fix the off-by-one in the range comparison to prevent this and slightly
improve performance.

Fixes: 50e782a86c98 ("efi/unaccepted: Fix soft lockups caused by parallel memory acceptance")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231101004523.vseyi5bezgfaht5i@amd.com/T/#me2eceb9906fcae5fe958b3fe88e41f920f8335b6
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.7-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-10T17:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-10T17:23:17+00:00</published>
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Pull more RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for handling misaligned accesses in S-mode

 - Probing for misaligned access support is now properly cached and
   handled in parallel

 - PTDUMP now reflects the SW reserved bits, as well as the PBMT and
   NAPOT extensions

 - Performance improvements for TLB flushing

 - Support for many new relocations in the module loader

 - Various bug fixes and cleanups

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.7-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (51 commits)
  riscv: Optimize bitops with Zbb extension
  riscv: Rearrange hwcap.h and cpufeature.h
  drivers: perf: Do not broadcast to other cpus when starting a counter
  drivers: perf: Check find_first_bit() return value
  of: property: Add fw_devlink support for msi-parent
  RISC-V: Don't fail in riscv_of_parent_hartid() for disabled HARTs
  riscv: Fix set_memory_XX() and set_direct_map_XX() by splitting huge linear mappings
  riscv: Don't use PGD entries for the linear mapping
  RISC-V: Probe misaligned access speed in parallel
  RISC-V: Remove __init on unaligned_emulation_finish()
  RISC-V: Show accurate per-hart isa in /proc/cpuinfo
  RISC-V: Don't rely on positional structure initialization
  riscv: Add tests for riscv module loading
  riscv: Add remaining module relocations
  riscv: Avoid unaligned access when relocating modules
  riscv: split cache ops out of dma-noncoherent.c
  riscv: Improve flush_tlb_kernel_range()
  riscv: Make __flush_tlb_range() loop over pte instead of flushing the whole tlb
  riscv: Improve flush_tlb_range() for hugetlb pages
  riscv: Improve tlb_flush()
  ...
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Pull more RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for handling misaligned accesses in S-mode

 - Probing for misaligned access support is now properly cached and
   handled in parallel

 - PTDUMP now reflects the SW reserved bits, as well as the PBMT and
   NAPOT extensions

 - Performance improvements for TLB flushing

 - Support for many new relocations in the module loader

 - Various bug fixes and cleanups

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.7-mw2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (51 commits)
  riscv: Optimize bitops with Zbb extension
  riscv: Rearrange hwcap.h and cpufeature.h
  drivers: perf: Do not broadcast to other cpus when starting a counter
  drivers: perf: Check find_first_bit() return value
  of: property: Add fw_devlink support for msi-parent
  RISC-V: Don't fail in riscv_of_parent_hartid() for disabled HARTs
  riscv: Fix set_memory_XX() and set_direct_map_XX() by splitting huge linear mappings
  riscv: Don't use PGD entries for the linear mapping
  RISC-V: Probe misaligned access speed in parallel
  RISC-V: Remove __init on unaligned_emulation_finish()
  RISC-V: Show accurate per-hart isa in /proc/cpuinfo
  RISC-V: Don't rely on positional structure initialization
  riscv: Add tests for riscv module loading
  riscv: Add remaining module relocations
  riscv: Avoid unaligned access when relocating modules
  riscv: split cache ops out of dma-noncoherent.c
  riscv: Improve flush_tlb_kernel_range()
  riscv: Make __flush_tlb_range() loop over pte instead of flushing the whole tlb
  riscv: Improve flush_tlb_range() for hugetlb pages
  riscv: Improve tlb_flush()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: Optimize bitops with Zbb extension</title>
<updated>2023-11-09T18:15:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Wang</name>
<email>xiao.w.wang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T06:45:53+00:00</published>
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This patch leverages the alternative mechanism to dynamically optimize
bitops (including __ffs, __fls, ffs, fls) with Zbb instructions. When
Zbb ext is not supported by the runtime CPU, legacy implementation is
used. If Zbb is supported, then the optimized variants will be selected
via alternative patching.

The legacy bitops support is taken from the generic C implementation as
fallback.

If the parameter is a build-time constant, we leverage compiler builtin to
calculate the result directly, this approach is inspired by x86 bitops
implementation.

EFI stub runs before the kernel, so alternative mechanism should not be
used there, this patch introduces a macro NO_ALTERNATIVE for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang &lt;xiao.w.wang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031064553.2319688-3-xiao.w.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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This patch leverages the alternative mechanism to dynamically optimize
bitops (including __ffs, __fls, ffs, fls) with Zbb instructions. When
Zbb ext is not supported by the runtime CPU, legacy implementation is
used. If Zbb is supported, then the optimized variants will be selected
via alternative patching.

The legacy bitops support is taken from the generic C implementation as
fallback.

If the parameter is a build-time constant, we leverage compiler builtin to
calculate the result directly, this approach is inspired by x86 bitops
implementation.

EFI stub runs before the kernel, so alternative mechanism should not be
used there, this patch introduces a macro NO_ALTERNATIVE for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang &lt;xiao.w.wang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031064553.2319688-3-xiao.w.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2023-11-04T01:44:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-04T01:44:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1f24458a1071f006e3f7449c08ae0f12af493923'/>
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Pull tty and serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of tty/serial driver changes for 6.7-rc1. Included
  in here are:

   - console/vgacon cleanups and removals from Arnd

   - tty core and n_tty cleanups from Jiri

   - lots of 8250 driver updates and cleanups

   - sc16is7xx serial driver updates

   - dt binding updates

   - first set of port lock wrapers from Thomas for the printk fixes
     coming in future releases

   - other small serial and tty core cleanups and updates

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (193 commits)
  serdev: Replace custom code with device_match_acpi_handle()
  serdev: Simplify devm_serdev_device_open() function
  serdev: Make use of device_set_node()
  tty: n_gsm: add copyright Siemens Mobility GmbH
  tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections
  serial: core: Fix runtime PM handling for pending tx
  vgacon: fix mips/sibyte build regression
  dt-bindings: serial: drop unsupported samsung bindings
  tty: serial: samsung: drop earlycon support for unsupported platforms
  tty: 8250: Add note for PX-835
  tty: 8250: Fix IS-200 PCI ID comment
  tty: 8250: Add Brainboxes Oxford Semiconductor-based quirks
  tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IX cards
  tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes PX cards
  tty: 8250: Fix up PX-803/PX-857
  tty: 8250: Fix port count of PX-257
  tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IS-100
  tty: 8250: Add support for Brainboxes UP cards
  tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes UC cards
  tty: 8250: Remove UC-257 and UC-431
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tty and serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of tty/serial driver changes for 6.7-rc1. Included
  in here are:

   - console/vgacon cleanups and removals from Arnd

   - tty core and n_tty cleanups from Jiri

   - lots of 8250 driver updates and cleanups

   - sc16is7xx serial driver updates

   - dt binding updates

   - first set of port lock wrapers from Thomas for the printk fixes
     coming in future releases

   - other small serial and tty core cleanups and updates

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (193 commits)
  serdev: Replace custom code with device_match_acpi_handle()
  serdev: Simplify devm_serdev_device_open() function
  serdev: Make use of device_set_node()
  tty: n_gsm: add copyright Siemens Mobility GmbH
  tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections
  serial: core: Fix runtime PM handling for pending tx
  vgacon: fix mips/sibyte build regression
  dt-bindings: serial: drop unsupported samsung bindings
  tty: serial: samsung: drop earlycon support for unsupported platforms
  tty: 8250: Add note for PX-835
  tty: 8250: Fix IS-200 PCI ID comment
  tty: 8250: Add Brainboxes Oxford Semiconductor-based quirks
  tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IX cards
  tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes PX cards
  tty: 8250: Fix up PX-803/PX-857
  tty: 8250: Fix port count of PX-257
  tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IS-100
  tty: 8250: Add support for Brainboxes UP cards
  tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes UC cards
  tty: 8250: Remove UC-257 and UC-431
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ecae0bd5173b1014f95a14a8dfbe40ec10367dcf'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1e0c505e13162a2abe7c984309cfe2ae976b428d'/>
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Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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<pre>
Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-boot-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T00:11:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T00:11:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2b95bb052656d46c2073b87f9487a53ef5e79732'/>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Rework PE header generation, primarily to generate a modern, 4k
   aligned kernel image view with narrower W^X permissions.

 - Further refine init-lifetime annotations

 - Misc cleanups &amp; fixes

* tag 'x86-boot-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  x86/boot: efistub: Assign global boot_params variable
  x86/boot: Rename conflicting 'boot_params' pointer to 'boot_params_ptr'
  x86/head/64: Move the __head definition to &lt;asm/init.h&gt;
  x86/head/64: Add missing __head annotation to startup_64_load_idt()
  x86/head/64: Mark 'startup_gdt[]' and 'startup_gdt_descr' as __initdata
  x86/boot: Harmonize the style of array-type parameter for fixup_pointer() calls
  x86/boot: Fix incorrect startup_gdt_descr.size
  x86/boot: Compile boot code with -std=gnu11 too
  x86/boot: Increase section and file alignment to 4k/512
  x86/boot: Split off PE/COFF .data section
  x86/boot: Drop PE/COFF .reloc section
  x86/boot: Construct PE/COFF .text section from assembler
  x86/boot: Derive file size from _edata symbol
  x86/boot: Define setup size in linker script
  x86/boot: Set EFI handover offset directly in header asm
  x86/boot: Grab kernel_info offset from zoffset header directly
  x86/boot: Drop references to startup_64
  x86/boot: Drop redundant code setting the root device
  x86/boot: Omit compression buffer from PE/COFF image memory footprint
  x86/boot: Remove the 'bugger off' message
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Rework PE header generation, primarily to generate a modern, 4k
   aligned kernel image view with narrower W^X permissions.

 - Further refine init-lifetime annotations

 - Misc cleanups &amp; fixes

* tag 'x86-boot-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  x86/boot: efistub: Assign global boot_params variable
  x86/boot: Rename conflicting 'boot_params' pointer to 'boot_params_ptr'
  x86/head/64: Move the __head definition to &lt;asm/init.h&gt;
  x86/head/64: Add missing __head annotation to startup_64_load_idt()
  x86/head/64: Mark 'startup_gdt[]' and 'startup_gdt_descr' as __initdata
  x86/boot: Harmonize the style of array-type parameter for fixup_pointer() calls
  x86/boot: Fix incorrect startup_gdt_descr.size
  x86/boot: Compile boot code with -std=gnu11 too
  x86/boot: Increase section and file alignment to 4k/512
  x86/boot: Split off PE/COFF .data section
  x86/boot: Drop PE/COFF .reloc section
  x86/boot: Construct PE/COFF .text section from assembler
  x86/boot: Derive file size from _edata symbol
  x86/boot: Define setup size in linker script
  x86/boot: Set EFI handover offset directly in header asm
  x86/boot: Grab kernel_info offset from zoffset header directly
  x86/boot: Drop references to startup_64
  x86/boot: Drop redundant code setting the root device
  x86/boot: Omit compression buffer from PE/COFF image memory footprint
  x86/boot: Remove the 'bugger off' message
  ...
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