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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/crypto, branch v6.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>fscrypt_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-03T05:58:15+00:00</published>
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The only thing it's using is parent directory inode and we are already
given a stable reference to that - no need to bother with boilerplate.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The only thing it's using is parent directory inode and we are already
given a stable reference to that - no need to bother with boilerplate.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Pass parent directory inode and expected name to -&gt;d_revalidate()</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-08T05:28:51+00:00</published>
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-&gt;d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has
to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller
to caller.  We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be
moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing
on it ever gets renamed.

It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't
even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache
lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already
have the values of -&gt;d_parent and -&gt;d_name stable.  There is a couple
of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the
majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all.

It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if
there's a -&gt;d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that
in the instances.

This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied
values is left to followups.

NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS
may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need
more precautions than the usual boilerplate.  This series doesn't
do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking
mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem
a-la v9fs).

One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name-&gt;name will normally
point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies
name-&gt;len bytes starting at name-&gt;name, and there is NUL somewhere after it,
but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'.  Do not
ignore name-&gt;len.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;gabriel@krisman.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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-&gt;d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has
to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller
to caller.  We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be
moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing
on it ever gets renamed.

It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't
even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache
lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already
have the values of -&gt;d_parent and -&gt;d_name stable.  There is a couple
of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the
majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all.

It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if
there's a -&gt;d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that
in the instances.

This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied
values is left to followups.

NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS
may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need
more precautions than the usual boilerplate.  This series doesn't
do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking
mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem
a-la v9fs).

One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name-&gt;name will normally
point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies
name-&gt;len bytes starting at name-&gt;name, and there is NUL somewhere after it,
but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'.  Do not
ignore name-&gt;len.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;gabriel@krisman.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'random-6.13-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T18:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T18:43:44+00:00</published>
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Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
 "This contains a single series from Uros to replace uses of
  &lt;linux/random.h&gt; with prandom.h or other more specific headers
  as needed, in order to avoid a circular header issue.

  Uros' goal is to be able to use percpu.h from prandom.h, which
  will then allow him to define __percpu in percpu.h rather than
  in compiler_types.h"

* tag 'random-6.13-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random:
  prandom: Include &lt;linux/percpu.h&gt; in &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt;
  random: Do not include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; in &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  netem: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; in sch_netem.c
  lib/test_scanf: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  lib/test_parman: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  bpf/tests: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  lib/rbtree-test: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  random32: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  kunit: string-stream-test: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt;
  lib/interval_tree_test.c: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  bpf: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  scsi: libfcoe: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  fscrypt: Include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; in fs/crypto/keyring.c
  mtd: tests: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  media: vivid: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; in vivid-vid-cap.c
  drm/lib: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  drm/i915/selftests: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  crypto: testmgr: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  x86/kaslr: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
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<pre>
Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
 "This contains a single series from Uros to replace uses of
  &lt;linux/random.h&gt; with prandom.h or other more specific headers
  as needed, in order to avoid a circular header issue.

  Uros' goal is to be able to use percpu.h from prandom.h, which
  will then allow him to define __percpu in percpu.h rather than
  in compiler_types.h"

* tag 'random-6.13-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random:
  prandom: Include &lt;linux/percpu.h&gt; in &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt;
  random: Do not include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; in &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  netem: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; in sch_netem.c
  lib/test_scanf: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  lib/test_parman: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  bpf/tests: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  lib/rbtree-test: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  random32: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  kunit: string-stream-test: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt;
  lib/interval_tree_test.c: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  bpf: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  scsi: libfcoe: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  fscrypt: Include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; in fs/crypto/keyring.c
  mtd: tests: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  media: vivid: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; in vivid-vid-cap.c
  drm/lib: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  drm/i915/selftests: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  crypto: testmgr: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
  x86/kaslr: Include &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/random.h&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscrypt: Include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; in fs/crypto/keyring.c</title>
<updated>2024-10-03T16:19:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uros Bizjak</name>
<email>ubizjak@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-30T12:33:18+00:00</published>
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Include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; header to allow the removal of legacy
inclusion of &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; from &lt;linux/random.h&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Y. Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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Include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; header to allow the removal of legacy
inclusion of &lt;linux/prandom.h&gt; from &lt;linux/random.h&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Y. Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T19:35:57+00:00</published>
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

auto-generated by the following:

for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do
	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00</published>
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page-&gt;flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize -&gt;esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
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<pre>
Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page-&gt;flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize -&gt;esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fscrypt: try to avoid refing parent dentry in fscrypt_file_open</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T17:28:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-08T08:14:00+00:00</published>
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Merely checking if the directory is encrypted happens for every open
when using ext4, at the moment refing and unrefing the parent, costing 2
atomics and serializing opens of different files.

The most common case of encryption not being used can be checked for
with RCU instead.

Sample result from open1_processes -t 20 ("Separate file open/close")
from will-it-scale on Sapphire Rapids (ops/s):
before:	12539898
after:	25575494 (+103%)

v2:
- add a comment justifying rcu usage, submitted by Eric Biggers
- whack spurious IS_ENCRYPTED check from the refed case

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508081400.422212-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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Merely checking if the directory is encrypted happens for every open
when using ext4, at the moment refing and unrefing the parent, costing 2
atomics and serializing opens of different files.

The most common case of encryption not being used can be checked for
with RCU instead.

Sample result from open1_processes -t 20 ("Separate file open/close")
from will-it-scale on Sapphire Rapids (ops/s):
before:	12539898
after:	25575494 (+103%)

v2:
- add a comment justifying rcu usage, submitted by Eric Biggers
- whack spurious IS_ENCRYPTED check from the refed case

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508081400.422212-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscrypt: convert bh_get_inode_and_lblk_num to use a folio</title>
<updated>2024-05-06T00:53:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-23T22:55:32+00:00</published>
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Patch series "Remove page_mapping()".

There are only a few users left.  Convert them all to either call
folio_mapping() or just use folio-&gt;mapping directly.  


This patch (of 6):

Remove uses of page-&gt;index, page_mapping() and b_page.  Saves a call
to compound_head().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423225552.4113447-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423225552.4113447-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar &lt;sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "Remove page_mapping()".

There are only a few users left.  Convert them all to either call
folio_mapping() or just use folio-&gt;mapping directly.  


This patch (of 6):

Remove uses of page-&gt;index, page_mapping() and b_page.  Saves a call
to compound_head().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423225552.4113447-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423225552.4113447-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar &lt;sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T20:17:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T20:17:36+00:00</published>
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Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
 "Fix flakiness in a test by releasing the quota synchronously when a
  key is removed, and other minor cleanups"

* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux:
  fscrypt: shrink the size of struct fscrypt_inode_info slightly
  fscrypt: write CBC-CTS instead of CTS-CBC
  fscrypt: clear keyring before calling key_put()
  fscrypt: explicitly require that inode-&gt;i_blkbits be set
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Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
 "Fix flakiness in a test by releasing the quota synchronously when a
  key is removed, and other minor cleanups"

* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux:
  fscrypt: shrink the size of struct fscrypt_inode_info slightly
  fscrypt: write CBC-CTS instead of CTS-CBC
  fscrypt: clear keyring before calling key_put()
  fscrypt: explicitly require that inode-&gt;i_blkbits be set
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-next-6.9' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode into vfs.misc</title>
<updated>2024-03-07T10:55:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-07T10:55:41+00:00</published>
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Merge case-insensitive updates from Gabriel Krisman Bertazi:

- Patch case-insensitive lookup by trying the case-exact comparison
  first, before falling back to costly utf8 casefolded comparison.

- Fix to forbid using a case-insensitive directory as part of an
  overlayfs mount.

- Patchset to ensure d_op are set at d_alloc time for fscrypt and
  casefold volumes, ensuring filesystem dentries will all have the
  correct ops, whether they come from a lookup or not.

* tag 'for-next-6.9' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode:
  libfs: Drop generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops
  ubifs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  f2fs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  ext4: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  libfs: Add helper to choose dentry operations at mount-time
  libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops
  fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate once the key is added
  fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate for valid dentries during lookup
  fscrypt: Factor out a helper to configure the lookup dentry
  ovl: Always reject mounting over case-insensitive directories
  libfs: Attempt exact-match comparison first during casefolded lookup

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Merge case-insensitive updates from Gabriel Krisman Bertazi:

- Patch case-insensitive lookup by trying the case-exact comparison
  first, before falling back to costly utf8 casefolded comparison.

- Fix to forbid using a case-insensitive directory as part of an
  overlayfs mount.

- Patchset to ensure d_op are set at d_alloc time for fscrypt and
  casefold volumes, ensuring filesystem dentries will all have the
  correct ops, whether they come from a lookup or not.

* tag 'for-next-6.9' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode:
  libfs: Drop generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops
  ubifs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  f2fs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  ext4: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  libfs: Add helper to choose dentry operations at mount-time
  libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops
  fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate once the key is added
  fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate for valid dentries during lookup
  fscrypt: Factor out a helper to configure the lookup dentry
  ovl: Always reject mounting over case-insensitive directories
  libfs: Attempt exact-match comparison first during casefolded lookup

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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