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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/proc, branch v6.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: remove register_sysctl_paths()</title>
<updated>2023-05-03T02:24:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis Chamberlain</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-03T01:30:04+00:00</published>
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The deprecation for register_sysctl_paths() is over. We can rejoice as
we nuke register_sysctl_paths(). The routine register_sysctl_table()
was the only user left of register_sysctl_paths(), so we can now just
open code and move the implementation over to what used to be
to __register_sysctl_paths().

The old dynamic struct ctl_table_set *set is now the point to
sysctl_table_root.default_set.

The old dynamic const struct ctl_path *path was being used in the
routine register_sysctl_paths() with a static:

static const struct ctl_path null_path[] = { {} };

Since this is a null path we can now just simplfy the old routine
and remove its use as its always empty.

This saves us a total of 230 bytes.

$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.old vmlinux
add/remove: 2/7 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 1015/-1245 (-230)
Function                                     old     new   delta
register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop          -     524    +524
register_sysctl_table                         22     497    +475
__pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop       -      16     +16
null_path                                      8       -      -8
__pfx_register_sysctl_paths                   16       -     -16
__pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables             16       -     -16
__pfx___register_sysctl_paths                 16       -     -16
__register_sysctl_base                        29      12     -17
register_sysctl_paths                         18       -     -18
register_leaf_sysctl_tables                  534       -    -534
__register_sysctl_paths                      620       -    -620
Total: Before=21259666, After=21259436, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The deprecation for register_sysctl_paths() is over. We can rejoice as
we nuke register_sysctl_paths(). The routine register_sysctl_table()
was the only user left of register_sysctl_paths(), so we can now just
open code and move the implementation over to what used to be
to __register_sysctl_paths().

The old dynamic struct ctl_table_set *set is now the point to
sysctl_table_root.default_set.

The old dynamic const struct ctl_path *path was being used in the
routine register_sysctl_paths() with a static:

static const struct ctl_path null_path[] = { {} };

Since this is a null path we can now just simplfy the old routine
and remove its use as its always empty.

This saves us a total of 230 bytes.

$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.old vmlinux
add/remove: 2/7 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 1015/-1245 (-230)
Function                                     old     new   delta
register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop          -     524    +524
register_sysctl_table                         22     497    +475
__pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop       -      16     +16
null_path                                      8       -      -8
__pfx_register_sysctl_paths                   16       -     -16
__pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables             16       -     -16
__pfx___register_sysctl_paths                 16       -     -16
__register_sysctl_base                        29      12     -17
register_sysctl_paths                         18       -     -18
register_leaf_sysctl_tables                  534       -    -534
__register_sysctl_paths                      620       -    -620
Total: Before=21259666, After=21259436, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_mm_for_6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T16:43:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T16:43:49+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 LAM (Linear Address Masking) support from Dave Hansen:
 "Add support for the new Linear Address Masking CPU feature.

  This is similar to ARM's Top Byte Ignore and allows userspace to store
  metadata in some bits of pointers without masking it out before use"

* tag 'x86_mm_for_6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Do not allow to set FORCE_TAGGED_SVA bit from outside
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Fix error code for LAM enabling failure due to SVA
  selftests/x86/lam: Add test cases for LAM vs thread creation
  selftests/x86/lam: Add ARCH_FORCE_TAGGED_SVA test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add inherit test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add io_uring test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add mmap and SYSCALL test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add malloc and tag-bits test cases for linear-address masking
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Make LAM and SVA mutually exclusive
  iommu/sva: Replace pasid_valid() helper with mm_valid_pasid()
  mm: Expose untagging mask in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/mm: Provide arch_prctl() interface for LAM
  x86/mm: Reduce untagged_addr() overhead for systems without LAM
  x86/uaccess: Provide untagged_addr() and remove tags before address check
  mm: Introduce untagged_addr_remote()
  x86/mm: Handle LAM on context switch
  x86: CPUID and CR3/CR4 flags for Linear Address Masking
  x86: Allow atomic MM_CONTEXT flags setting
  x86/mm: Rework address range check in get_user() and put_user()
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<pre>
Pull x86 LAM (Linear Address Masking) support from Dave Hansen:
 "Add support for the new Linear Address Masking CPU feature.

  This is similar to ARM's Top Byte Ignore and allows userspace to store
  metadata in some bits of pointers without masking it out before use"

* tag 'x86_mm_for_6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Do not allow to set FORCE_TAGGED_SVA bit from outside
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Fix error code for LAM enabling failure due to SVA
  selftests/x86/lam: Add test cases for LAM vs thread creation
  selftests/x86/lam: Add ARCH_FORCE_TAGGED_SVA test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add inherit test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add io_uring test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add mmap and SYSCALL test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add malloc and tag-bits test cases for linear-address masking
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Make LAM and SVA mutually exclusive
  iommu/sva: Replace pasid_valid() helper with mm_valid_pasid()
  mm: Expose untagging mask in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/mm: Provide arch_prctl() interface for LAM
  x86/mm: Reduce untagged_addr() overhead for systems without LAM
  x86/uaccess: Provide untagged_addr() and remove tags before address check
  mm: Introduce untagged_addr_remote()
  x86/mm: Handle LAM on context switch
  x86: CPUID and CR3/CR4 flags for Linear Address Masking
  x86: Allow atomic MM_CONTEXT flags setting
  x86/mm: Rework address range check in get_user() and put_user()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T02:57:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T02:57:00+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly singleton patches all over the place.

  Series of note are:

   - updates to scripts/gdb from Glenn Washburn

   - kexec cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (50 commits)
  mailmap: add entries for Paul Mackerras
  libgcc: add forward declarations for generic library routines
  mailmap: add entry for Oleksandr
  ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage
  fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status
  ia64: fix an addr to taddr in huge_pte_offset()
  checkpatch: introduce proper bindings license check
  epoll: rename global epmutex
  scripts/gdb: add GDB convenience functions $lx_dentry_name() and $lx_i_dentry()
  scripts/gdb: create linux/vfs.py for VFS related GDB helpers
  uapi/linux/const.h: prefer ISO-friendly __typeof__
  delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ
  scripts/gdb: timerlist: convert int chunks to str
  scripts/gdb: print interrupts
  scripts/gdb: raise error with reduced debugging information
  scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser
  lib/rbtree: use '+' instead of '|' for setting color.
  proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time()
  checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags
  checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly singleton patches all over the place.

  Series of note are:

   - updates to scripts/gdb from Glenn Washburn

   - kexec cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (50 commits)
  mailmap: add entries for Paul Mackerras
  libgcc: add forward declarations for generic library routines
  mailmap: add entry for Oleksandr
  ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage
  fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status
  ia64: fix an addr to taddr in huge_pte_offset()
  checkpatch: introduce proper bindings license check
  epoll: rename global epmutex
  scripts/gdb: add GDB convenience functions $lx_dentry_name() and $lx_i_dentry()
  scripts/gdb: create linux/vfs.py for VFS related GDB helpers
  uapi/linux/const.h: prefer ISO-friendly __typeof__
  delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ
  scripts/gdb: timerlist: convert int chunks to str
  scripts/gdb: print interrupts
  scripts/gdb: raise error with reduced debugging information
  scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser
  lib/rbtree: use '+' instead of '|' for setting color.
  proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time()
  checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags
  checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in -&gt;map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in -&gt;map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T23:52:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T23:52:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "This only does a few sysctl moves from the kernel/sysctl.c file, the
  rest of the work has been put towards deprecating two API calls which
  incur recursion and prevent us from simplifying the registration
  process / saving memory per move. Most of the changes have been
  soaking on linux-next since v6.3-rc3.

  I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's
  feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these moves
  instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more memory since
  when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its own file we end
  up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register it. To achieve
  saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed without requiring
  the end element being empty, and just have our registration process
  rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting both styles of sysctls
  would make the sysctl registration pretty brittle, hard to read and
  maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's efforts to do just this [0].
  Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE() for all sysctl registrations
  also implies doing the work to deprecate two API calls which use
  recursion in order to support sysctl declarations with subdirectories.

  And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into
  this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are
  deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove
  them:

   - register_sysctl_table()
   - register_sysctl_paths()

  During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport
  register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end of
  this merge window.

  Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but this
  pull request goes with a few example of how to do this.

  As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of
  these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these
  changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot.

  The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it
  gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the
  generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes.

  Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths()
  does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport
  you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've
  just kept the stragglers after rc3"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org [0]

* tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (29 commits)
  fs: fix sysctls.c built
  mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks
  mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file
  mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file
  arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars
  ia64: simplify one-level sysctl registration for kdump_ctl_table
  utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table
  ntfs: simplfy one-level sysctl registration for ntfs_sysctls
  coda: simplify one-level sysctl registration for coda_table
  fs/cachefiles: simplify one-level sysctl registration for cachefiles_sysctls
  xfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for xfs_table
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs_cb_sysctls
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs4_cb_sysctls
  lockd: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nlm_sysctls
  proc_sysctl: enhance documentation
  xen: simplify sysctl registration for balloon
  md: simplify sysctl registration
  hv: simplify sysctl registration
  scsi: simplify sysctl registration with register_sysctl()
  csky: simplify alignment sysctl registration
  ...
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "This only does a few sysctl moves from the kernel/sysctl.c file, the
  rest of the work has been put towards deprecating two API calls which
  incur recursion and prevent us from simplifying the registration
  process / saving memory per move. Most of the changes have been
  soaking on linux-next since v6.3-rc3.

  I've slowed down the kernel/sysctl.c moves due to Matthew Wilcox's
  feedback that we should see if we could *save* memory with these moves
  instead of incurring more memory. We currently incur more memory since
  when we move a syctl from kernel/sysclt.c out to its own file we end
  up having to add a new empty sysctl used to register it. To achieve
  saving memory we want to allow syctls to be passed without requiring
  the end element being empty, and just have our registration process
  rely on ARRAY_SIZE(). Without this, supporting both styles of sysctls
  would make the sysctl registration pretty brittle, hard to read and
  maintain as can be seen from Meng Tang's efforts to do just this [0].
  Fortunately, in order to use ARRAY_SIZE() for all sysctl registrations
  also implies doing the work to deprecate two API calls which use
  recursion in order to support sysctl declarations with subdirectories.

  And so during this development cycle quite a bit of effort went into
  this deprecation effort. I've annotated the following two APIs are
  deprecated and in few kernel releases we should be good to remove
  them:

   - register_sysctl_table()
   - register_sysctl_paths()

  During this merge window we should be able to deprecate and unexport
  register_sysctl_paths(), we can probably do that towards the end of
  this merge window.

  Deprecating register_sysctl_table() will take a bit more time but this
  pull request goes with a few example of how to do this.

  As it turns out each of the conversions to move away from either of
  these two API calls *also* saves memory. And so long term, all these
  changes *will* prove to have saved a bit of memory on boot.

  The way I see it then is if remove a user of one deprecated call, it
  gives us enough savings to move one kernel/sysctl.c out from the
  generic arrays as we end up with about the same amount of bytes.

  Since deprecating register_sysctl_table() and register_sysctl_paths()
  does not require maintainer coordination except the final unexport
  you'll see quite a bit of these changes from other pull requests, I've
  just kept the stragglers after rc3"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZAD+cpbrqlc5vmry@bombadil.infradead.org [0]

* tag 'sysctl-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (29 commits)
  fs: fix sysctls.c built
  mm: compaction: remove incorrect #ifdef checks
  mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file
  mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file
  arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars
  ia64: simplify one-level sysctl registration for kdump_ctl_table
  utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table
  ntfs: simplfy one-level sysctl registration for ntfs_sysctls
  coda: simplify one-level sysctl registration for coda_table
  fs/cachefiles: simplify one-level sysctl registration for cachefiles_sysctls
  xfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for xfs_table
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs_cb_sysctls
  nfs: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nfs4_cb_sysctls
  lockd: simplify two-level sysctl registration for nlm_sysctls
  proc_sysctl: enhance documentation
  xen: simplify sysctl registration for balloon
  md: simplify sysctl registration
  hv: simplify sysctl registration
  scsi: simplify sysctl registration with register_sysctl()
  csky: simplify alignment sysctl registration
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status</title>
<updated>2023-04-21T21:54:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chunguang Wu</name>
<email>fullspring2018@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-16T05:24:04+00:00</published>
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The command `ps -ef ` and `top -c` mark kernel thread by '[' and ']', but
sometimes the result is not correct.  The task-&gt;flags in /proc/$pid/stat
is good, but we need remember the value of PF_KTHREAD is 0x00200000 and
convert dec to hex.  If we have no binary program and shell script which
read /proc/$pid/stat, we can know it directly by `cat /proc/$pid/status`.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230416052404.2920-1-fullspring2018@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chunguang Wu &lt;fullspring2018@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The command `ps -ef ` and `top -c` mark kernel thread by '[' and ']', but
sometimes the result is not correct.  The task-&gt;flags in /proc/$pid/stat
is good, but we need remember the value of PF_KTHREAD is 0x00200000 and
convert dec to hex.  If we have no binary program and shell script which
read /proc/$pid/stat, we can know it directly by `cat /proc/$pid/status`.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230416052404.2920-1-fullspring2018@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chunguang Wu &lt;fullspring2018@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs</title>
<updated>2023-04-21T21:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Roesch</name>
<email>shr@devkernel.io</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-18T05:13:41+00:00</published>
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This adds the general_profit KSM sysfs knob and the process profit metric
knobs to ksm_stat.

1) expose general_profit metric

   The documentation mentions a general profit metric, however this
   metric is not calculated.  In addition the formula depends on the size
   of internal structures, which makes it more difficult for an
   administrator to make the calculation.  Adding the metric for a better
   user experience.

2) document general_profit sysfs knob

3) calculate ksm process profit metric

   The ksm documentation mentions the process profit metric and how to
   calculate it.  This adds the calculation of the metric.

4) mm: expose ksm process profit metric in ksm_stat

   This exposes the ksm process profit metric in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/ksm_stat.
   The documentation mentions the formula for the ksm process profit
   metric, however it does not calculate it.  In addition the formula
   depends on the size of internal structures.  So it makes sense to
   expose it.

5) document new procfs ksm knobs

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-3-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch &lt;shr@devkernel.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This adds the general_profit KSM sysfs knob and the process profit metric
knobs to ksm_stat.

1) expose general_profit metric

   The documentation mentions a general profit metric, however this
   metric is not calculated.  In addition the formula depends on the size
   of internal structures, which makes it more difficult for an
   administrator to make the calculation.  Adding the metric for a better
   user experience.

2) document general_profit sysfs knob

3) calculate ksm process profit metric

   The ksm documentation mentions the process profit metric and how to
   calculate it.  This adds the calculation of the metric.

4) mm: expose ksm process profit metric in ksm_stat

   This exposes the ksm process profit metric in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/ksm_stat.
   The documentation mentions the formula for the ksm process profit
   metric, however it does not calculate it.  In addition the formula
   depends on the size of internal structures.  So it makes sense to
   expose it.

5) document new procfs ksm knobs

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-3-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch &lt;shr@devkernel.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time()</title>
<updated>2023-04-18T23:39:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-05T14:34:52+00:00</published>
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The last (only) architecture specific arch_idle_time() implementation was
removed with commit be76ea614460 ("s390/idle: remove arch_cpu_idle_time()
and corresponding code").

Therefore remove the now dead code in fs/proc/stat.c as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230405143452.2677172-1-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The last (only) architecture specific arch_idle_time() implementation was
removed with commit be76ea614460 ("s390/idle: remove arch_cpu_idle_time()
and corresponding code").

Therefore remove the now dead code in fs/proc/stat.c as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230405143452.2677172-1-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>smaps: fix defined but not used smaps_shmem_walk_ops</title>
<updated>2023-04-18T23:29:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Price</name>
<email>steven.price@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-05T10:38:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b4aca54792e76556bb9f8661bab07b4bf2eb4e5f'/>
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When !CONFIG_SHMEM smaps_shmem_walk_ops is defined but not used,
triggering a compiler warning.  To avoid the warning remove the #ifdef
around the usage.  This has no effect because shmem_mapping() is a stub
returning false when !CONFIG_SHMEM so the code will be compiled out,
however we now need to also provide a stub for shmem_swap_usage().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230405103819.151246-1-steven.price@arm.com
Fixes: 7b86ac3371b7 ("pagewalk: separate function pointers from iterator data")
Signed-off-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202304031749.UiyJpxzF-lkp@intel.com/
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When !CONFIG_SHMEM smaps_shmem_walk_ops is defined but not used,
triggering a compiler warning.  To avoid the warning remove the #ifdef
around the usage.  This has no effect because shmem_mapping() is a stub
returning false when !CONFIG_SHMEM so the code will be compiled out,
however we now need to also provide a stub for shmem_swap_usage().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230405103819.151246-1-steven.price@arm.com
Fixes: 7b86ac3371b7 ("pagewalk: separate function pointers from iterator data")
Signed-off-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202304031749.UiyJpxzF-lkp@intel.com/
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc_sysctl: enhance documentation</title>
<updated>2023-04-13T18:49:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis Chamberlain</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-10T21:00:16+00:00</published>
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Expand documentation to clarify:

  o that paths don't need to exist for the new API callers
  o clarify that we *require* callers to keep the memory of
    the table around during the lifetime of the sysctls
  o annotate routines we are trying to deprecate and later remove

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.17
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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Expand documentation to clarify:

  o that paths don't need to exist for the new API callers
  o clarify that we *require* callers to keep the memory of
    the table around during the lifetime of the sysctls
  o annotate routines we are trying to deprecate and later remove

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.17
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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