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<title>mm: various small mmap_prepare cleanups</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T04:14:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-04-29T05:36:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3e4bb2706817710d9461394da8b75be79981586b ]

Patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage", v4.

This series expands the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to
replace the deprecated f_op-&gt;mmap hook which has been the source of bugs
and security issues for some time.

This series starts with some cleanup of existing mmap_prepare logic, then
adds documentation for the mmap_prepare call to make it easier for
filesystem and driver writers to understand how it works.

It then importantly adds a vm_ops-&gt;mapped hook, a key feature that was
missing from mmap_prepare previously - this is invoked when a driver which
specifies mmap_prepare has successfully been mapped but not merged with
another VMA.

mmap_prepare is invoked prior to a merge being attempted, so you cannot
manipulate state such as reference counts as if it were a new mapping.

The vm_ops-&gt;mapped hook allows a driver to perform tasks required at this
stage, and provides symmetry against subsequent vm_ops-&gt;open,close calls.

The series uses this to correct the afs implementation which wrongly
manipulated reference count at mmap_prepare time.

It then adds an mmap_prepare equivalent of vm_iomap_memory() -
mmap_action_simple_ioremap(), then uses this to update a number of drivers.

It then splits out the mmap_prepare compatibility layer (which allows for
invocation of mmap_prepare hooks in an mmap() hook) in such a way as to
allow for more incremental implementation of mmap_prepare hooks.

It then uses this to extend mmap_prepare usage in drivers.

Finally it adds an mmap_prepare equivalent of vm_map_pages(), which lays
the foundation for future work which will extend mmap_prepare to DMA
coherent mappings.

This patch (of 21):

Rather than passing arbitrary fields, pass a vm_area_desc pointer to mmap
prepare functions to mmap prepare, and an action and vma pointer to mmap
complete in order to put all the action-specific logic in the function
actually doing the work.

Additionally, allow mmap prepare functions to return an error so we can
error out as soon as possible if there is something logically incorrect in
the input.

Update remap_pfn_range_prepare() to properly check the input range for the
CoW case.

Also remove io_remap_pfn_range_complete(), as we can simply set up the
fields correctly in io_remap_pfn_range_prepare() and use
remap_pfn_range_complete() for this.

While we're here, make remap_pfn_range_prepare_vma() a little neater, and
pass mmap_action directly to call_action_complete().

Then, update compat_vma_mmap() to perform its logic directly, as
__compat_vma_map() is not used by anything so we don't need to export it.

Also update compat_vma_mmap() to use vfs_mmap_prepare() rather than
calling the mmap_prepare op directly.

Finally, update the VMA userland tests to reflect the changes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/99f408e4694f44ab12bdc55fe0bd9685d3bd1117.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Bodo Stroesser &lt;bostroesser@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Long Li &lt;longli@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra &lt;vigneshr@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: f96e1d5f15b7 ("mm: avoid deadlock when holding rmap on mmap_prepare error")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3e4bb2706817710d9461394da8b75be79981586b ]

Patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage", v4.

This series expands the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to
replace the deprecated f_op-&gt;mmap hook which has been the source of bugs
and security issues for some time.

This series starts with some cleanup of existing mmap_prepare logic, then
adds documentation for the mmap_prepare call to make it easier for
filesystem and driver writers to understand how it works.

It then importantly adds a vm_ops-&gt;mapped hook, a key feature that was
missing from mmap_prepare previously - this is invoked when a driver which
specifies mmap_prepare has successfully been mapped but not merged with
another VMA.

mmap_prepare is invoked prior to a merge being attempted, so you cannot
manipulate state such as reference counts as if it were a new mapping.

The vm_ops-&gt;mapped hook allows a driver to perform tasks required at this
stage, and provides symmetry against subsequent vm_ops-&gt;open,close calls.

The series uses this to correct the afs implementation which wrongly
manipulated reference count at mmap_prepare time.

It then adds an mmap_prepare equivalent of vm_iomap_memory() -
mmap_action_simple_ioremap(), then uses this to update a number of drivers.

It then splits out the mmap_prepare compatibility layer (which allows for
invocation of mmap_prepare hooks in an mmap() hook) in such a way as to
allow for more incremental implementation of mmap_prepare hooks.

It then uses this to extend mmap_prepare usage in drivers.

Finally it adds an mmap_prepare equivalent of vm_map_pages(), which lays
the foundation for future work which will extend mmap_prepare to DMA
coherent mappings.

This patch (of 21):

Rather than passing arbitrary fields, pass a vm_area_desc pointer to mmap
prepare functions to mmap prepare, and an action and vma pointer to mmap
complete in order to put all the action-specific logic in the function
actually doing the work.

Additionally, allow mmap prepare functions to return an error so we can
error out as soon as possible if there is something logically incorrect in
the input.

Update remap_pfn_range_prepare() to properly check the input range for the
CoW case.

Also remove io_remap_pfn_range_complete(), as we can simply set up the
fields correctly in io_remap_pfn_range_prepare() and use
remap_pfn_range_complete() for this.

While we're here, make remap_pfn_range_prepare_vma() a little neater, and
pass mmap_action directly to call_action_complete().

Then, update compat_vma_mmap() to perform its logic directly, as
__compat_vma_map() is not used by anything so we don't need to export it.

Also update compat_vma_mmap() to use vfs_mmap_prepare() rather than
calling the mmap_prepare op directly.

Finally, update the VMA userland tests to reflect the changes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/99f408e4694f44ab12bdc55fe0bd9685d3bd1117.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Bodo Stroesser &lt;bostroesser@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Long Li &lt;longli@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra &lt;vigneshr@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: f96e1d5f15b7 ("mm: avoid deadlock when holding rmap on mmap_prepare error")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "ptdesc: remove references to folios from __pagetable_ctor() and pagetable_dtor()"</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T17:44:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Axel Rasmussen</name>
<email>axelrasmussen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T00:24:34+00:00</published>
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This change swapped out mod_node_page_state for lruvec_stat_add_folio. 
But, these two APIs are not interchangeable: the lruvec version also
increments memcg stats, in addition to "global" pgdat stats.

So after this change, the "pagetables" memcg stat in memory.stat always
yields "0", which is a userspace visible regression.

I tried to look for a refactor where we add a variant of
lruvec_stat_mod_folio which takes a pgdat and a memcg instead of a folio,
to try to adhere to the spirit of the original patch.  But at the end of
the day this just means we have to call folio_memcg(ptdesc_folio(ptdesc))
anyway, which doesn't really accomplish much.

This regression is visible in master as well as 6.18 stable, so CC stable
too.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225002434.2953895-1-axelrasmussen@google.com
Fixes: f0c92726e89f ("ptdesc: remove references to folios from __pagetable_ctor() and pagetable_dtor()")
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) &lt;vishal.moola@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This change swapped out mod_node_page_state for lruvec_stat_add_folio. 
But, these two APIs are not interchangeable: the lruvec version also
increments memcg stats, in addition to "global" pgdat stats.

So after this change, the "pagetables" memcg stat in memory.stat always
yields "0", which is a userspace visible regression.

I tried to look for a refactor where we add a variant of
lruvec_stat_mod_folio which takes a pgdat and a memcg instead of a folio,
to try to adhere to the spirit of the original patch.  But at the end of
the day this just means we have to call folio_memcg(ptdesc_folio(ptdesc))
anyway, which doesn't really accomplish much.

This regression is visible in master as well as 6.18 stable, so CC stable
too.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225002434.2953895-1-axelrasmussen@google.com
Fixes: f0c92726e89f ("ptdesc: remove references to folios from __pagetable_ctor() and pagetable_dtor()")
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) &lt;vishal.moola@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T04:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-19T04:50:32+00:00</published>
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Pull more MM  updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a
   couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion
   and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao)

 - "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare
   mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett)

 - "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use
   them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion
   of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios"
   implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming
   clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang)

 - "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe
   Lin)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: clear page-&gt;private in free_pages_prepare()
  selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test
  mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios
  arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
  arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios
  arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper
  mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios
  tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions
  tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers
  tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files
  mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
  tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()]
  mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
  ...
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Pull more MM  updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a
   couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion
   and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao)

 - "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare
   mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett)

 - "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use
   them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion
   of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios"
   implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming
   clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang)

 - "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe
   Lin)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: clear page-&gt;private in free_pages_prepare()
  selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test
  mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios
  arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
  arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios
  arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper
  mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios
  tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions
  tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers
  tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files
  mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
  tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()]
  mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-13T03:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-13T03:17:44+00:00</published>
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Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley:

 - Add support for control flow integrity for userspace processes.

   This is based on the standard RISC-V ISA extensions Zicfiss and
   Zicfilp

 - Improve ptrace behavior regarding vector registers, and add some
   selftests

 - Optimize our strlen() assembly

 - Enable the ISO-8859-1 code page as built-in, similar to ARM64, for
   EFI volume mounting

 - Clean up some code slightly, including defining copy_user_page() as
   copy_page() rather than memcpy(), aligning us with other
   architectures; and using max3() to slightly simplify an expression
   in riscv_iommu_init_check()

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (42 commits)
  riscv: lib: optimize strlen loop efficiency
  selftests: riscv: vstate_exec_nolibc: Use the regular prctl() function
  selftests: riscv: verify ptrace accepts valid vector csr values
  selftests: riscv: verify ptrace rejects invalid vector csr inputs
  selftests: riscv: verify syscalls discard vector context
  selftests: riscv: verify initial vector state with ptrace
  selftests: riscv: test ptrace vector interface
  riscv: ptrace: validate input vector csr registers
  riscv: csr: define vtype register elements
  riscv: vector: init vector context with proper vlenb
  riscv: ptrace: return ENODATA for inactive vector extension
  kselftest/riscv: add kselftest for user mode CFI
  riscv: add documentation for shadow stack
  riscv: add documentation for landing pad / indirect branch tracking
  riscv: create a Kconfig fragment for shadow stack and landing pad support
  arch/riscv: add dual vdso creation logic and select vdso based on hw
  arch/riscv: compile vdso with landing pad and shadow stack note
  riscv: enable kernel access to shadow stack memory via the FWFT SBI call
  riscv: add kernel command line option to opt out of user CFI
  riscv/hwprobe: add zicfilp / zicfiss enumeration in hwprobe
  ...
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Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley:

 - Add support for control flow integrity for userspace processes.

   This is based on the standard RISC-V ISA extensions Zicfiss and
   Zicfilp

 - Improve ptrace behavior regarding vector registers, and add some
   selftests

 - Optimize our strlen() assembly

 - Enable the ISO-8859-1 code page as built-in, similar to ARM64, for
   EFI volume mounting

 - Clean up some code slightly, including defining copy_user_page() as
   copy_page() rather than memcpy(), aligning us with other
   architectures; and using max3() to slightly simplify an expression
   in riscv_iommu_init_check()

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (42 commits)
  riscv: lib: optimize strlen loop efficiency
  selftests: riscv: vstate_exec_nolibc: Use the regular prctl() function
  selftests: riscv: verify ptrace accepts valid vector csr values
  selftests: riscv: verify ptrace rejects invalid vector csr inputs
  selftests: riscv: verify syscalls discard vector context
  selftests: riscv: verify initial vector state with ptrace
  selftests: riscv: test ptrace vector interface
  riscv: ptrace: validate input vector csr registers
  riscv: csr: define vtype register elements
  riscv: vector: init vector context with proper vlenb
  riscv: ptrace: return ENODATA for inactive vector extension
  kselftest/riscv: add kselftest for user mode CFI
  riscv: add documentation for shadow stack
  riscv: add documentation for landing pad / indirect branch tracking
  riscv: create a Kconfig fragment for shadow stack and landing pad support
  arch/riscv: add dual vdso creation logic and select vdso based on hw
  arch/riscv: compile vdso with landing pad and shadow stack note
  riscv: enable kernel access to shadow stack memory via the FWFT SBI call
  riscv: add kernel command line option to opt out of user CFI
  riscv/hwprobe: add zicfilp / zicfiss enumeration in hwprobe
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T23:42:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-22T16:06:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=53f1d936445131cb5da2212c2b60884a25cb0330'/>
<id>53f1d936445131cb5da2212c2b60884a25cb0330</id>
<content type='text'>
Now we have eliminated all uses of vm_area_desc-&gt;vm_flags, eliminate this
field, and have mmap_prepare users utilise the vma_flags_t
vm_area_desc-&gt;vma_flags field only.

As part of this change we alter is_shared_maywrite() to accept a
vma_flags_t parameter, and introduce is_shared_maywrite_vm_flags() for use
with legacy vm_flags_t flags.

We also update struct mmap_state to add a union between vma_flags and
vm_flags temporarily until the mmap logic is also converted to using
vma_flags_t.

Also update the VMA userland tests to reflect this change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd2a2938b246b4505321954062b1caba7acfc77a.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Now we have eliminated all uses of vm_area_desc-&gt;vm_flags, eliminate this
field, and have mmap_prepare users utilise the vma_flags_t
vm_area_desc-&gt;vma_flags field only.

As part of this change we alter is_shared_maywrite() to accept a
vma_flags_t parameter, and introduce is_shared_maywrite_vm_flags() for use
with legacy vm_flags_t flags.

We also update struct mmap_state to add a union between vma_flags and
vm_flags temporarily until the mmap logic is also converted to using
vma_flags_t.

Also update the VMA userland tests to reflect this change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd2a2938b246b4505321954062b1caba7acfc77a.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T23:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-22T16:06:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5bd2c0650a9030007af5c2cf2a01dccdc67a6991'/>
<id>5bd2c0650a9030007af5c2cf2a01dccdc67a6991</id>
<content type='text'>
We will be shortly removing the vm_flags_t field from vm_area_desc so we
need to update all mmap_prepare users to only use the dessc-&gt;vma_flags
field.

This patch achieves that and makes all ancillary changes required to make
this possible.

This lays the groundwork for future work to eliminate the use of
vm_flags_t in vm_area_desc altogether and more broadly throughout the
kernel.

While we're here, we take the opportunity to replace VM_REMAP_FLAGS with
VMA_REMAP_FLAGS, the vma_flags_t equivalent.

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fb1f55323799f09fe6a36865b31550c9ec67c225.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;	[zonefs]
Acked-by: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
We will be shortly removing the vm_flags_t field from vm_area_desc so we
need to update all mmap_prepare users to only use the dessc-&gt;vma_flags
field.

This patch achieves that and makes all ancillary changes required to make
this possible.

This lays the groundwork for future work to eliminate the use of
vm_flags_t in vm_area_desc altogether and more broadly throughout the
kernel.

While we're here, we take the opportunity to replace VM_REMAP_FLAGS with
VMA_REMAP_FLAGS, the vma_flags_t equivalent.

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fb1f55323799f09fe6a36865b31550c9ec67c225.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;	[zonefs]
Acked-by: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T23:42:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-22T16:06:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bae0ba7c7c0a022287d8b093da63ebcb794d77ea'/>
<id>bae0ba7c7c0a022287d8b093da63ebcb794d77ea</id>
<content type='text'>
Now we have the mk_vma_flags() macro helper which permits easy
specification of any number of VMA flags, add helper functions which
operate with vma_flags_t parameters.

This patch provides vma_flags_test[_mask](), vma_flags_set[_mask]() and
vma_flags_clear[_mask]() respectively testing, setting and clearing flags
with the _mask variants accepting vma_flag_t parameters, and the non-mask
variants implemented as macros which accept a list of flags.

This allows us to trivially test/set/clear aggregate VMA flag values as
necessary, for instance:

	if (vma_flags_test(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT))
		goto readwrite;

	vma_flags_set(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT);

	vma_flags_clear(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT);

We also add a function for testing that ALL flags are set for convenience,
e.g.:

	if (vma_flags_test_all(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_MAYREAD_BIT)) {
		/* Both READ and MAYREAD flags set */
		...
	}

The compiler generates optimal assembly for each such that they behave as
if the caller were setting the bitmap flags manually.

This is important for e.g.  drivers which manipulate flag values rather
than a VMA's specific flag values.

We also add helpers for testing, setting and clearing flags for VMA's and
VMA descriptors to reduce boilerplate.

Also add the EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS define to aid initialisation of empty flags.

Finally, update the userland VMA tests to add the helpers there so they
can be utilised as part of userland testing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/885d4897d67a6a57c0b07fa182a7055ad752df11.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Now we have the mk_vma_flags() macro helper which permits easy
specification of any number of VMA flags, add helper functions which
operate with vma_flags_t parameters.

This patch provides vma_flags_test[_mask](), vma_flags_set[_mask]() and
vma_flags_clear[_mask]() respectively testing, setting and clearing flags
with the _mask variants accepting vma_flag_t parameters, and the non-mask
variants implemented as macros which accept a list of flags.

This allows us to trivially test/set/clear aggregate VMA flag values as
necessary, for instance:

	if (vma_flags_test(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT))
		goto readwrite;

	vma_flags_set(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT);

	vma_flags_clear(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT);

We also add a function for testing that ALL flags are set for convenience,
e.g.:

	if (vma_flags_test_all(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_MAYREAD_BIT)) {
		/* Both READ and MAYREAD flags set */
		...
	}

The compiler generates optimal assembly for each such that they behave as
if the caller were setting the bitmap flags manually.

This is important for e.g.  drivers which manipulate flag values rather
than a VMA's specific flag values.

We also add helpers for testing, setting and clearing flags for VMA's and
VMA descriptors to reduce boilerplate.

Also add the EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS define to aid initialisation of empty flags.

Finally, update the userland VMA tests to add the helpers there so they
can be utilised as part of userland testing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/885d4897d67a6a57c0b07fa182a7055ad752df11.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T23:42:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-22T16:06:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1c628004e0de0383a5a56facdb0bf28a54441b5f'/>
<id>1c628004e0de0383a5a56facdb0bf28a54441b5f</id>
<content type='text'>
This patch introduces the mk_vma_flags() macro helper to allow easy
manipulation of VMA flags utilising the new bitmap representation
implemented of VMA flags defined by the vma_flags_t type.

It is a variadic macro which provides a bitwise-or'd representation of all
of each individual VMA flag specified.

Note that, while we maintain VM_xxx flags for backwards compatibility
until the conversion is complete, we define VMA flags of type vma_flag_t
using VMA_xxx_BIT to avoid confusing the two.

This helper macro therefore can be used thusly:

vma_flags_t flags = mk_vma_flags(VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT);

Testing has demonstrated that the compiler optimises this code such that
it generates the same assembly utilising this macro as it does if the
flags were specified manually, for instance:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
	return mk_vma_flags(VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT, VMA_EXEC_BIT);
}

Generates the same code as:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
	vma_flags_t flags;

	vma_flags_clear_all(&amp;flags);
	vma_flag_set(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT);
	vma_flag_set(&amp;flags, VMA_WRITE_BIT);
	vma_flag_set(&amp;flags, VMA_EXEC_BIT);

	return flags;
}

And:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
	vma_flags_t flags;
	unsigned long *bitmap = ACCESS_PRIVATE(&amp;flags, __vma_flags);

	*bitmap = 1UL &lt;&lt; (__force int)VMA_READ_BIT;
	*bitmap |= 1UL &lt;&lt; (__force int)VMA_WRITE_BIT;
	*bitmap |= 1UL &lt;&lt; (__force int)VMA_EXEC_BIT;

	return flags;
}

That is:

get_flags:
        movl    $7, %eax
        ret

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fde00df6ff7fb8c4b42cc0defa5a4924c7a1943a.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This patch introduces the mk_vma_flags() macro helper to allow easy
manipulation of VMA flags utilising the new bitmap representation
implemented of VMA flags defined by the vma_flags_t type.

It is a variadic macro which provides a bitwise-or'd representation of all
of each individual VMA flag specified.

Note that, while we maintain VM_xxx flags for backwards compatibility
until the conversion is complete, we define VMA flags of type vma_flag_t
using VMA_xxx_BIT to avoid confusing the two.

This helper macro therefore can be used thusly:

vma_flags_t flags = mk_vma_flags(VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT);

Testing has demonstrated that the compiler optimises this code such that
it generates the same assembly utilising this macro as it does if the
flags were specified manually, for instance:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
	return mk_vma_flags(VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT, VMA_EXEC_BIT);
}

Generates the same code as:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
	vma_flags_t flags;

	vma_flags_clear_all(&amp;flags);
	vma_flag_set(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT);
	vma_flag_set(&amp;flags, VMA_WRITE_BIT);
	vma_flag_set(&amp;flags, VMA_EXEC_BIT);

	return flags;
}

And:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
	vma_flags_t flags;
	unsigned long *bitmap = ACCESS_PRIVATE(&amp;flags, __vma_flags);

	*bitmap = 1UL &lt;&lt; (__force int)VMA_READ_BIT;
	*bitmap |= 1UL &lt;&lt; (__force int)VMA_WRITE_BIT;
	*bitmap |= 1UL &lt;&lt; (__force int)VMA_EXEC_BIT;

	return flags;
}

That is:

get_flags:
        movl    $7, %eax
        ret

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fde00df6ff7fb8c4b42cc0defa5a4924c7a1943a.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: rename vma_flag_test/set_atomic() to vma_test/set_atomic_flag()</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T23:42:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-22T16:06:11+00:00</published>
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In order to stay consistent between functions which manipulate a
vm_flags_t argument of the form of vma_flags_...() and those which
manipulate a VMA (in this case the flags field of a VMA), rename
vma_flag_[test/set]_atomic() to vma_[test/set]_atomic_flag().

This lays the groundwork for adding VMA flag manipulation functions in a
subsequent commit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/033dcf12e819dee5064582bced9b12ea346d1607.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In order to stay consistent between functions which manipulate a
vm_flags_t argument of the form of vma_flags_...() and those which
manipulate a VMA (in this case the flags field of a VMA), rename
vma_flag_[test/set]_atomic() to vma_[test/set]_atomic_flag().

This lays the groundwork for adding VMA flag manipulation functions in a
subsequent commit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/033dcf12e819dee5064582bced9b12ea346d1607.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm/vma: remove __private sparse decoration from vma_flags_t</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T23:42:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-22T16:06:10+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare
to use them", v2.

We introduced the bitmap VMA type vma_flags_t in the aptly named commit
9ea35a25d51b ("mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type") in order to permit
future growth in VMA flags and to prevent the asinine requirement that VMA
flags be available to 64-bit kernels only if they happened to use a bit
number about 32-bits.

This is a long-term project as there are very many users of VMA flags
within the kernel that need to be updated in order to utilise this new
type.

In order to further this aim, this series adds a number of helper
functions to enable ordinary interactions with VMA flags - that is
testing, setting and clearing them.

In order to make working with VMA bit numbers less cumbersome this series
introduces the mk_vma_flags() helper macro which generates a vma_flags_t
from a variadic parameter list, e.g.:

	vma_flags_t flags = mk_vma_flags(VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT,
					 VMA_EXEC_BIT);

It turns out that the compiler optimises this very well to the point that
this is just as efficient as using VM_xxx pre-computed bitmap values.

This series then introduces the following functions:

	bool vma_flags_test_mask(vma_flags_t flags, vma_flags_t to_test);
	bool vma_flags_test_all_mask(vma_flags_t flags, vma_flags_t to_test);
	void vma_flags_set_mask(vma_flags_t *flags, vma_flags_t to_set);
	void vma_flags_clear_mask(vma_flags_t *flags, vma_flags_t to_clear);

Providing means of testing any flag, testing all flags, setting, and
clearing a specific vma_flags_t mask.

For convenience, helper macros are provided - vma_flags_test(),
vma_flags_set() and vma_flags_clear(), each of which utilise
mk_vma_flags() to make these operations easier, as well as an
EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS macro to make initialisation of an empty vma_flags_t value
easier, e.g.:

	vma_flags_t flags = EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS;

	vma_flags_set(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT, VMA_EXEC_BIT);
	...
	if (vma_flags_test(flags, VMA_READ_BIT)) {
		...
	}
	...
	if (vma_flags_test_all_mask(flags, VMA_REMAP_FLAGS)) {
		...
	}
	...
	vma_flags_clear(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT);

Since callers are often dealing with a vm_area_struct (VMA) or
vm_area_desc (VMA descriptor as used in .mmap_prepare) object, this series
further provides helpers for these - firstly vma_set_flags_mask() and
vma_set_flags() for a VMA:

	vma_flags_t flags = EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS:

	vma_flags_set(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT, VMA_EXEC_BIT);
	...
	vma_set_flags_mask(&amp;vma, flags);
	...
	vma_set_flags(&amp;vma, VMA_DONTDUMP_BIT);

Note that these do NOT ensure appropriate locks are taken and assume the
callers takes care of this.

For VMA descriptors this series adds vma_desc_[test, set,
clear]_flags_mask() and vma_desc_[test, set, clear]_flags() for a VMA
descriptor, e.g.:

	static int foo_mmap_prepare(struct vm_area_desc *desc)
	{
		...
		vma_desc_set_flags(desc, VMA_SEQ_READ_BIT);
		vma_desc_clear_flags(desc, VMA_RAND_READ_BIT);
		...
		if (vma_desc_test_flags(desc, VMA_SHARED_BIT) {
			...
		}
		...
	}

With these helpers introduced, this series then updates all mmap_prepare
users to make use of the vma_flags_t vm_area_desc-&gt;vma_flags field rather
than the legacy vm_flags_t vm_area_desc-&gt;vm_flags field.

In order to do so, several other related functions need to be updated,
with separate patches for larger changes in hugetlbfs, secretmem and shmem
before finally removing vm_area_desc-&gt;vm_flags altogether.

This lays the foundations for future elimination of vm_flags_t and
associated defines and functionality altogether in the long run, and
elimination of the use of vm_flags_t in f_op-&gt;mmap() hooks in the near
term as mmap_prepare replaces these.

There is a useful synergy between the VMA flags and mmap_prepare work here
as with this change in place, converting f_op-&gt;mmap() to
f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare naturally also converts use of vm_flags_t to
vma_flags_t in all drivers which declare mmap handlers.

This accounts for the majority of the users of the legacy vm_flags_*()
helpers and thus a large number of drivers which need to interact with VMA
flags in general.

This series also updates the userland VMA tests to account for the change,
and adds unit tests for these helper functions to assert that they behave
as expected.

In order to faciliate this change in a sensible way, the series also
separates out the VMA unit tests into - code that is duplicated from the
kernel that should be kept in sync, code that is customised for test
purposes and code that is stubbed out.

We also separate out the VMA userland tests into separate files to make it
easier to manage and to provide a sensible baseline for adding the
userland tests for these helpers.


This patch (of 13):

We need to pass around these values and access them in a way that sparse
does not allow, as __private implies noderef, i.e.  disallowing
dereference of the value, which manifests as sparse warnings even when
passed around benignly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/64fa89f416f22a60ae74cfff8fd565e7677be192.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare
to use them", v2.

We introduced the bitmap VMA type vma_flags_t in the aptly named commit
9ea35a25d51b ("mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type") in order to permit
future growth in VMA flags and to prevent the asinine requirement that VMA
flags be available to 64-bit kernels only if they happened to use a bit
number about 32-bits.

This is a long-term project as there are very many users of VMA flags
within the kernel that need to be updated in order to utilise this new
type.

In order to further this aim, this series adds a number of helper
functions to enable ordinary interactions with VMA flags - that is
testing, setting and clearing them.

In order to make working with VMA bit numbers less cumbersome this series
introduces the mk_vma_flags() helper macro which generates a vma_flags_t
from a variadic parameter list, e.g.:

	vma_flags_t flags = mk_vma_flags(VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT,
					 VMA_EXEC_BIT);

It turns out that the compiler optimises this very well to the point that
this is just as efficient as using VM_xxx pre-computed bitmap values.

This series then introduces the following functions:

	bool vma_flags_test_mask(vma_flags_t flags, vma_flags_t to_test);
	bool vma_flags_test_all_mask(vma_flags_t flags, vma_flags_t to_test);
	void vma_flags_set_mask(vma_flags_t *flags, vma_flags_t to_set);
	void vma_flags_clear_mask(vma_flags_t *flags, vma_flags_t to_clear);

Providing means of testing any flag, testing all flags, setting, and
clearing a specific vma_flags_t mask.

For convenience, helper macros are provided - vma_flags_test(),
vma_flags_set() and vma_flags_clear(), each of which utilise
mk_vma_flags() to make these operations easier, as well as an
EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS macro to make initialisation of an empty vma_flags_t value
easier, e.g.:

	vma_flags_t flags = EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS;

	vma_flags_set(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT, VMA_EXEC_BIT);
	...
	if (vma_flags_test(flags, VMA_READ_BIT)) {
		...
	}
	...
	if (vma_flags_test_all_mask(flags, VMA_REMAP_FLAGS)) {
		...
	}
	...
	vma_flags_clear(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT);

Since callers are often dealing with a vm_area_struct (VMA) or
vm_area_desc (VMA descriptor as used in .mmap_prepare) object, this series
further provides helpers for these - firstly vma_set_flags_mask() and
vma_set_flags() for a VMA:

	vma_flags_t flags = EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS:

	vma_flags_set(&amp;flags, VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT, VMA_EXEC_BIT);
	...
	vma_set_flags_mask(&amp;vma, flags);
	...
	vma_set_flags(&amp;vma, VMA_DONTDUMP_BIT);

Note that these do NOT ensure appropriate locks are taken and assume the
callers takes care of this.

For VMA descriptors this series adds vma_desc_[test, set,
clear]_flags_mask() and vma_desc_[test, set, clear]_flags() for a VMA
descriptor, e.g.:

	static int foo_mmap_prepare(struct vm_area_desc *desc)
	{
		...
		vma_desc_set_flags(desc, VMA_SEQ_READ_BIT);
		vma_desc_clear_flags(desc, VMA_RAND_READ_BIT);
		...
		if (vma_desc_test_flags(desc, VMA_SHARED_BIT) {
			...
		}
		...
	}

With these helpers introduced, this series then updates all mmap_prepare
users to make use of the vma_flags_t vm_area_desc-&gt;vma_flags field rather
than the legacy vm_flags_t vm_area_desc-&gt;vm_flags field.

In order to do so, several other related functions need to be updated,
with separate patches for larger changes in hugetlbfs, secretmem and shmem
before finally removing vm_area_desc-&gt;vm_flags altogether.

This lays the foundations for future elimination of vm_flags_t and
associated defines and functionality altogether in the long run, and
elimination of the use of vm_flags_t in f_op-&gt;mmap() hooks in the near
term as mmap_prepare replaces these.

There is a useful synergy between the VMA flags and mmap_prepare work here
as with this change in place, converting f_op-&gt;mmap() to
f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare naturally also converts use of vm_flags_t to
vma_flags_t in all drivers which declare mmap handlers.

This accounts for the majority of the users of the legacy vm_flags_*()
helpers and thus a large number of drivers which need to interact with VMA
flags in general.

This series also updates the userland VMA tests to account for the change,
and adds unit tests for these helper functions to assert that they behave
as expected.

In order to faciliate this change in a sensible way, the series also
separates out the VMA unit tests into - code that is duplicated from the
kernel that should be kept in sync, code that is customised for test
purposes and code that is stubbed out.

We also separate out the VMA userland tests into separate files to make it
easier to manage and to provide a sensible baseline for adding the
userland tests for these helpers.


This patch (of 13):

We need to pass around these values and access them in a way that sparse
does not allow, as __private implies noderef, i.e.  disallowing
dereference of the value, which manifests as sparse warnings even when
passed around benignly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/64fa89f416f22a60ae74cfff8fd565e7677be192.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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