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<title>fork: lock VMAs of the parent process when forking</title>
<updated>2023-07-08T21:08:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suren Baghdasaryan</name>
<email>surenb@google.com</email>
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<published>2023-07-08T19:12:12+00:00</published>
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When forking a child process, the parent write-protects anonymous pages
and COW-shares them with the child being forked using copy_present_pte().

We must not take any concurrent page faults on the source vma's as they
are being processed, as we expect both the vma and the pte's behind it
to be stable.  For example, the anon_vma_fork() expects the parents
vma-&gt;anon_vma to not change during the vma copy.

A concurrent page fault on a page newly marked read-only by the page
copy might trigger wp_page_copy() and a anon_vma_prepare(vma) on the
source vma, defeating the anon_vma_clone() that wasn't done because the
parent vma originally didn't have an anon_vma, but we now might end up
copying a pte entry for a page that has one.

Before the per-vma lock based changes, the mmap_lock guaranteed
exclusion with concurrent page faults.  But now we need to do a
vma_start_write() to make sure no concurrent faults happen on this vma
while it is being processed.

This fix can potentially regress some fork-heavy workloads.  Kernel
build time did not show noticeable regression on a 56-core machine while
a stress test mapping 10000 VMAs and forking 5000 times in a tight loop
shows ~5% regression.  If such fork time regression is unacceptable,
disabling CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK should restore its performance.  Further
optimizations are possible if this regression proves to be problematic.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dbdef34c-3a07-5951-e1ae-e9c6e3cdf51b@kernel.org/
Reported-by: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b198d649-f4bf-b971-31d0-e8433ec2a34c@applied-asynchrony.com/
Reported-by: Jacob Young &lt;jacobly.alt@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217624
Fixes: 0bff0aaea03e ("x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When forking a child process, the parent write-protects anonymous pages
and COW-shares them with the child being forked using copy_present_pte().

We must not take any concurrent page faults on the source vma's as they
are being processed, as we expect both the vma and the pte's behind it
to be stable.  For example, the anon_vma_fork() expects the parents
vma-&gt;anon_vma to not change during the vma copy.

A concurrent page fault on a page newly marked read-only by the page
copy might trigger wp_page_copy() and a anon_vma_prepare(vma) on the
source vma, defeating the anon_vma_clone() that wasn't done because the
parent vma originally didn't have an anon_vma, but we now might end up
copying a pte entry for a page that has one.

Before the per-vma lock based changes, the mmap_lock guaranteed
exclusion with concurrent page faults.  But now we need to do a
vma_start_write() to make sure no concurrent faults happen on this vma
while it is being processed.

This fix can potentially regress some fork-heavy workloads.  Kernel
build time did not show noticeable regression on a 56-core machine while
a stress test mapping 10000 VMAs and forking 5000 times in a tight loop
shows ~5% regression.  If such fork time regression is unacceptable,
disabling CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK should restore its performance.  Further
optimizations are possible if this regression proves to be problematic.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dbdef34c-3a07-5951-e1ae-e9c6e3cdf51b@kernel.org/
Reported-by: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b198d649-f4bf-b971-31d0-e8433ec2a34c@applied-asynchrony.com/
Reported-by: Jacob Young &lt;jacobly.alt@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217624
Fixes: 0bff0aaea03e ("x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T17:59:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T17:59:38+00:00</published>
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Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in top-level
   directories

 - Douglas Anderson has added a new "buddy" mode to the hardlockup
   detector. It permits the detector to work on architectures which
   cannot provide the required interrupts, by having CPUs periodically
   perform checks on other CPUs

 - Zhen Lei has enhanced kexec's ability to support two crash regions

 - Petr Mladek has done a lot of cleanup on the hard lockup detector's
   Kconfig entries

 - And the usual bunch of singleton patches in various places

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits)
  kernel/time/posix-stubs.c: remove duplicated include
  ocfs2: remove redundant assignment to variable bit_off
  watchdog/hardlockup: fix typo in config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
  powerpc: move arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace from nmi.h to irq.h
  devres: show which resource was invalid in __devm_ioremap_resource()
  watchdog/hardlockup: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  watchdog/sparc64: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64
  watchdog/hardlockup: make HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG sparc64-specific
  watchdog/hardlockup: declare arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() only in linux/nmi.h
  watchdog/hardlockup: make the config checks more straightforward
  watchdog/hardlockup: sort hardlockup detector related config values a logical way
  watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code
  watchdog/buddy: simplify the dependency for HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
  watchdog/buddy: don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu()
  watchdog/buddy: cleanup how watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup() is called
  watchdog/hardlockup: remove softlockup comment in touch_nmi_watchdog()
  watchdog/hardlockup: in watchdog_hardlockup_check() use cpumask_copy()
  watchdog/hardlockup: don't use raw_cpu_ptr() in watchdog_hardlockup_kick()
  watchdog/hardlockup: HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG must implement watchdog_hardlockup_probe()
  watchdog/hardlockup: keep kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl as 0444 if probe fails
  ...
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Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in top-level
   directories

 - Douglas Anderson has added a new "buddy" mode to the hardlockup
   detector. It permits the detector to work on architectures which
   cannot provide the required interrupts, by having CPUs periodically
   perform checks on other CPUs

 - Zhen Lei has enhanced kexec's ability to support two crash regions

 - Petr Mladek has done a lot of cleanup on the hard lockup detector's
   Kconfig entries

 - And the usual bunch of singleton patches in various places

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits)
  kernel/time/posix-stubs.c: remove duplicated include
  ocfs2: remove redundant assignment to variable bit_off
  watchdog/hardlockup: fix typo in config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
  powerpc: move arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace from nmi.h to irq.h
  devres: show which resource was invalid in __devm_ioremap_resource()
  watchdog/hardlockup: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  watchdog/sparc64: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64
  watchdog/hardlockup: make HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG sparc64-specific
  watchdog/hardlockup: declare arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() only in linux/nmi.h
  watchdog/hardlockup: make the config checks more straightforward
  watchdog/hardlockup: sort hardlockup detector related config values a logical way
  watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code
  watchdog/buddy: simplify the dependency for HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
  watchdog/buddy: don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu()
  watchdog/buddy: cleanup how watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup() is called
  watchdog/hardlockup: remove softlockup comment in touch_nmi_watchdog()
  watchdog/hardlockup: in watchdog_hardlockup_check() use cpumask_copy()
  watchdog/hardlockup: don't use raw_cpu_ptr() in watchdog_hardlockup_kick()
  watchdog/hardlockup: HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG must implement watchdog_hardlockup_probe()
  watchdog/hardlockup: keep kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl as 0444 if probe fails
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fork: optimize memcg_charge_kernel_stack() a bit</title>
<updated>2023-06-10T00:44:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haifeng Xu</name>
<email>haifeng.xu@shopee.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-08T06:44:58+00:00</published>
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Since commit f1c1a9ee00e4 ("fork: Move memcg_charge_kernel_stack()
into CONFIG_VMAP_STACK"), memcg_charge_kernel_stack() has been moved
into CONFIG_VMAP_STACK block, so the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK check can be
removed.

Furthermore, memcg_charge_kernel_stack() is only invoked by
alloc_thread_stack_node() instead of dup_task_struct(). If
memcg_kmem_charge_page() fails, the uncharge process is handled in
memcg_charge_kernel_stack() itself instead of free_thread_stack(),
so remove the incorrect comments.

If memcg_charge_kernel_stack() fails to charge pages used by kernel
stack, only charged pages need to be uncharged. It's unnecessary to
uncharge those pages which memory cgroup pointer is NULL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove assertion that PAGE_SIZE is a multiple of 1k]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230508064458.32855-1-haifeng.xu@shopee.com
Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu &lt;haifeng.xu@shopee.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since commit f1c1a9ee00e4 ("fork: Move memcg_charge_kernel_stack()
into CONFIG_VMAP_STACK"), memcg_charge_kernel_stack() has been moved
into CONFIG_VMAP_STACK block, so the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK check can be
removed.

Furthermore, memcg_charge_kernel_stack() is only invoked by
alloc_thread_stack_node() instead of dup_task_struct(). If
memcg_kmem_charge_page() fails, the uncharge process is handled in
memcg_charge_kernel_stack() itself instead of free_thread_stack(),
so remove the incorrect comments.

If memcg_charge_kernel_stack() fails to charge pages used by kernel
stack, only charged pages need to be uncharged. It's unnecessary to
uncharge those pages which memory cgroup pointer is NULL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove assertion that PAGE_SIZE is a multiple of 1k]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230508064458.32855-1-haifeng.xu@shopee.com
Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu &lt;haifeng.xu@shopee.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf</title>
<updated>2023-06-08T04:47:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-08T04:47:11+00:00</published>
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf 2023-06-07

We've added 7 non-merge commits during the last 7 day(s) which contain
a total of 12 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Fix a use-after-free in BPF's task local storage, from KP Singh.

2) Make struct path handling more robust in bpf_d_path, from Jiri Olsa.

3) Fix a syzbot NULL-pointer dereference in sockmap, from Eric Dumazet.

4) UAPI fix for BPF_NETFILTER before final kernel ships,
   from Florian Westphal.

5) Fix map-in-map array_map_gen_lookup code generation where elem_size was
   not being set for inner maps, from Rhys Rustad-Elliott.

6) Fix sockopt_sk selftest's NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS assertion,
   from Yonghong Song.

* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
  bpf: Add extra path pointer check to d_path helper
  selftests/bpf: Fix sockopt_sk selftest
  bpf: netfilter: Add BPF_NETFILTER bpf_attach_type
  selftests/bpf: Add access_inner_map selftest
  bpf: Fix elem_size not being set for inner maps
  bpf: Fix UAF in task local storage
  bpf, sockmap: Avoid potential NULL dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready()
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230607220514.29698-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf 2023-06-07

We've added 7 non-merge commits during the last 7 day(s) which contain
a total of 12 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Fix a use-after-free in BPF's task local storage, from KP Singh.

2) Make struct path handling more robust in bpf_d_path, from Jiri Olsa.

3) Fix a syzbot NULL-pointer dereference in sockmap, from Eric Dumazet.

4) UAPI fix for BPF_NETFILTER before final kernel ships,
   from Florian Westphal.

5) Fix map-in-map array_map_gen_lookup code generation where elem_size was
   not being set for inner maps, from Rhys Rustad-Elliott.

6) Fix sockopt_sk selftest's NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS assertion,
   from Yonghong Song.

* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
  bpf: Add extra path pointer check to d_path helper
  selftests/bpf: Fix sockopt_sk selftest
  bpf: netfilter: Add BPF_NETFILTER bpf_attach_type
  selftests/bpf: Add access_inner_map selftest
  bpf: Fix elem_size not being set for inner maps
  bpf: Fix UAF in task local storage
  bpf, sockmap: Avoid potential NULL dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready()
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230607220514.29698-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix UAF in task local storage</title>
<updated>2023-06-02T17:18:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KP Singh</name>
<email>kpsingh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-02T00:26:12+00:00</published>
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When task local storage was generalized for tracing programs, the
bpf_task_local_storage callback was moved from a BPF LSM hook
callback for security_task_free LSM hook to it's own callback. But a
failure case in bad_fork_cleanup_security was missed which, when
triggered, led to a dangling task owner pointer and a subsequent
use-after-free. Move the bpf_task_storage_free to the very end of
free_task to handle all failure cases.

This issue was noticed when a BPF LSM program was attached to the
task_alloc hook on a kernel with KASAN enabled. The program used
bpf_task_storage_get to copy the task local storage from the current
task to the new task being created.

Fixes: a10787e6d58c ("bpf: Enable task local storage for tracing programs")
Reported-by: Kuba Piecuch &lt;jpiecuch@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602002612.1117381-1-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
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When task local storage was generalized for tracing programs, the
bpf_task_local_storage callback was moved from a BPF LSM hook
callback for security_task_free LSM hook to it's own callback. But a
failure case in bad_fork_cleanup_security was missed which, when
triggered, led to a dangling task owner pointer and a subsequent
use-after-free. Move the bpf_task_storage_free to the very end of
free_task to handle all failure cases.

This issue was noticed when a BPF LSM program was attached to the
task_alloc hook on a kernel with KASAN enabled. The program used
bpf_task_storage_get to copy the task local storage from the current
task to the new task being created.

Fixes: a10787e6d58c ("bpf: Enable task local storage for tracing programs")
Reported-by: Kuba Piecuch &lt;jpiecuch@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602002612.1117381-1-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression</title>
<updated>2023-06-01T21:15:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>michael.christie@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-01T18:32:32+00:00</published>
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When switching from kthreads to vhost_tasks two bugs were added:
1. The vhost worker tasks's now show up as processes so scripts doing
ps or ps a would not incorrectly detect the vhost task as another
process.  2. kthreads disabled freeze by setting PF_NOFREEZE, but
vhost tasks's didn't disable or add support for them.

To fix both bugs, this switches the vhost task to be thread in the
process that does the VHOST_SET_OWNER ioctl, and has vhost_worker call
get_signal to support SIGKILL/SIGSTOP and freeze signals. Note that
SIGKILL/STOP support is required because CLONE_THREAD requires
CLONE_SIGHAND which requires those 2 signals to be supported.

This is a modified version of the patch written by Mike Christie
&lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt; which was a modified version of patch
originally written by Linus.

Much of what depended upon PF_IO_WORKER now depends on PF_USER_WORKER.
Including ignoring signals, setting up the register state, and having
get_signal return instead of calling do_group_exit.

Tidied up the vhost_task abstraction so that the definition of
vhost_task only needs to be visible inside of vhost_task.c.  Making
it easier to review the code and tell what needs to be done where.
As part of this the main loop has been moved from vhost_worker into
vhost_task_fn.  vhost_worker now returns true if work was done.

The main loop has been updated to call get_signal which handles
SIGSTOP, freezing, and collects the message that tells the thread to
exit as part of process exit.  This collection clears
__fatal_signal_pending.  This collection is not guaranteed to
clear signal_pending() so clear that explicitly so the schedule()
sleeps.

For now the vhost thread continues to exist and run work until the
last file descriptor is closed and the release function is called as
part of freeing struct file.  To avoid hangs in the coredump
rendezvous and when killing threads in a multi-threaded exec.  The
coredump code and de_thread have been modified to ignore vhost threads.

Remvoing the special case for exec appears to require teaching
vhost_dev_flush how to directly complete transactions in case
the vhost thread is no longer running.

Removing the special case for coredump rendezvous requires either the
above fix needed for exec or moving the coredump rendezvous into
get_signal.

Fixes: 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads")
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When switching from kthreads to vhost_tasks two bugs were added:
1. The vhost worker tasks's now show up as processes so scripts doing
ps or ps a would not incorrectly detect the vhost task as another
process.  2. kthreads disabled freeze by setting PF_NOFREEZE, but
vhost tasks's didn't disable or add support for them.

To fix both bugs, this switches the vhost task to be thread in the
process that does the VHOST_SET_OWNER ioctl, and has vhost_worker call
get_signal to support SIGKILL/SIGSTOP and freeze signals. Note that
SIGKILL/STOP support is required because CLONE_THREAD requires
CLONE_SIGHAND which requires those 2 signals to be supported.

This is a modified version of the patch written by Mike Christie
&lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt; which was a modified version of patch
originally written by Linus.

Much of what depended upon PF_IO_WORKER now depends on PF_USER_WORKER.
Including ignoring signals, setting up the register state, and having
get_signal return instead of calling do_group_exit.

Tidied up the vhost_task abstraction so that the definition of
vhost_task only needs to be visible inside of vhost_task.c.  Making
it easier to review the code and tell what needs to be done where.
As part of this the main loop has been moved from vhost_worker into
vhost_task_fn.  vhost_worker now returns true if work was done.

The main loop has been updated to call get_signal which handles
SIGSTOP, freezing, and collects the message that tells the thread to
exit as part of process exit.  This collection clears
__fatal_signal_pending.  This collection is not guaranteed to
clear signal_pending() so clear that explicitly so the schedule()
sleeps.

For now the vhost thread continues to exist and run work until the
last file descriptor is closed and the release function is called as
part of freeing struct file.  To avoid hangs in the coredump
rendezvous and when killing threads in a multi-threaded exec.  The
coredump code and de_thread have been modified to ignore vhost threads.

Remvoing the special case for exec appears to require teaching
vhost_dev_flush how to directly complete transactions in case
the vhost thread is no longer running.

Removing the special case for coredump rendezvous requires either the
above fix needed for exec or moving the coredump rendezvous into
get_signal.

Fixes: 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads")
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu</title>
<updated>2023-04-30T20:00:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-30T20:00:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=58390c8ce1bddb6c623f62e7ed36383e7fa5c02f'/>
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Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:

 - Convert to platform remove callback returning void

 - Extend changing default domain to normal group

 - Intel VT-d updates:
     - Remove VT-d virtual command interface and IOASID
     - Allow the VT-d driver to support non-PRI IOPF
     - Remove PASID supervisor request support
     - Various small and misc cleanups

 - ARM SMMU updates:
     - Device-tree binding updates:
         * Allow Qualcomm GPU SMMUs to accept relevant clock properties
         * Document Qualcomm 8550 SoC as implementing an MMU-500
         * Favour new "qcom,smmu-500" binding for Adreno SMMUs

     - Fix S2CR quirk detection on non-architectural Qualcomm SMMU
       implementations

     - Acknowledge SMMUv3 PRI queue overflow when consuming events

     - Document (in a comment) why ATS is disabled for bypass streams

 - AMD IOMMU updates:
     - 5-level page-table support
     - NUMA awareness for memory allocations

 - Unisoc driver: Support for reattaching an existing domain

 - Rockchip driver: Add missing set_platform_dma_ops callback

 - Mediatek driver: Adjust the dma-ranges

 - Various other small fixes and cleanups

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (82 commits)
  iommu: Remove iommu_group_get_by_id()
  iommu: Make iommu_release_device() static
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in dmar_insert_dev_scope()
  iommu/vt-d: Remove a useless BUG_ON(dev-&gt;is_virtfn)
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in map/unmap()
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON when domain-&gt;pgd is NULL
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in handling iotlb cache invalidation
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON on checking valid pfn range
  iommu/vt-d: Make size of operands same in bitwise operations
  iommu/vt-d: Remove PASID supervisor request support
  iommu/vt-d: Use non-privileged mode for all PASIDs
  iommu/vt-d: Remove extern from function prototypes
  iommu/vt-d: Do not use GFP_ATOMIC when not needed
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unnecessary checks in iopf disabling path
  iommu/vt-d: Move PRI handling to IOPF feature path
  iommu/vt-d: Move pfsid and ats_qdep calculation to device probe path
  iommu/vt-d: Move iopf code from SVA to IOPF enabling path
  iommu/vt-d: Allow SVA with device-specific IOPF
  dmaengine: idxd: Add enable/disable device IOPF feature
  arm64: dts: mt8186: Add dma-ranges for the parent "soc" node
  ...
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<pre>
Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:

 - Convert to platform remove callback returning void

 - Extend changing default domain to normal group

 - Intel VT-d updates:
     - Remove VT-d virtual command interface and IOASID
     - Allow the VT-d driver to support non-PRI IOPF
     - Remove PASID supervisor request support
     - Various small and misc cleanups

 - ARM SMMU updates:
     - Device-tree binding updates:
         * Allow Qualcomm GPU SMMUs to accept relevant clock properties
         * Document Qualcomm 8550 SoC as implementing an MMU-500
         * Favour new "qcom,smmu-500" binding for Adreno SMMUs

     - Fix S2CR quirk detection on non-architectural Qualcomm SMMU
       implementations

     - Acknowledge SMMUv3 PRI queue overflow when consuming events

     - Document (in a comment) why ATS is disabled for bypass streams

 - AMD IOMMU updates:
     - 5-level page-table support
     - NUMA awareness for memory allocations

 - Unisoc driver: Support for reattaching an existing domain

 - Rockchip driver: Add missing set_platform_dma_ops callback

 - Mediatek driver: Adjust the dma-ranges

 - Various other small fixes and cleanups

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (82 commits)
  iommu: Remove iommu_group_get_by_id()
  iommu: Make iommu_release_device() static
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in dmar_insert_dev_scope()
  iommu/vt-d: Remove a useless BUG_ON(dev-&gt;is_virtfn)
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in map/unmap()
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON when domain-&gt;pgd is NULL
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON in handling iotlb cache invalidation
  iommu/vt-d: Remove BUG_ON on checking valid pfn range
  iommu/vt-d: Make size of operands same in bitwise operations
  iommu/vt-d: Remove PASID supervisor request support
  iommu/vt-d: Use non-privileged mode for all PASIDs
  iommu/vt-d: Remove extern from function prototypes
  iommu/vt-d: Do not use GFP_ATOMIC when not needed
  iommu/vt-d: Remove unnecessary checks in iopf disabling path
  iommu/vt-d: Move PRI handling to IOPF feature path
  iommu/vt-d: Move pfsid and ats_qdep calculation to device probe path
  iommu/vt-d: Move iopf code from SVA to IOPF enabling path
  iommu/vt-d: Allow SVA with device-specific IOPF
  dmaengine: idxd: Add enable/disable device IOPF feature
  arm64: dts: mt8186: Add dma-ranges for the parent "soc" node
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d579c468d7ad6e37f5b4290b0244a9a5a7d3c4bf'/>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T21:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T21:53:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=586b222d748e91c619d68e9239654ebc7fed9b0c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Allow unprivileged PSI poll()ing

 - Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid

 - Improve livepatch stalls by adding livepatch task switching to
   cond_resched(). This resolves livepatching busy-loop stalls with
   certain CPU-bound kthreads

 - Improve sched_move_task() performance on autogroup configs

 - On core-scheduling CPUs, avoid selecting throttled tasks to run

 - Misc cleanups, fixes and improvements

* tag 'sched-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/clock: Fix local_clock() before sched_clock_init()
  sched/rt: Fix bad task migration for rt tasks
  sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid
  sched/core: Make sched_dynamic_mutex static
  sched/psi: Allow unprivileged polling of N*2s period
  sched/psi: Extract update_triggers side effect
  sched/psi: Rename existing poll members in preparation
  sched/psi: Rearrange polling code in preparation
  sched/fair: Fix inaccurate tally of ttwu_move_affine
  vhost: Fix livepatch timeouts in vhost_worker()
  livepatch,sched: Add livepatch task switching to cond_resched()
  livepatch: Skip task_call_func() for current task
  livepatch: Convert stack entries array to percpu
  sched: Interleave cfs bandwidth timers for improved single thread performance at low utilization
  sched/core: Reduce cost of sched_move_task when config autogroup
  sched/core: Avoid selecting the task that is throttled to run when core-sched enable
  sched/topology: Make sched_energy_mutex,update static
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Allow unprivileged PSI poll()ing

 - Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid

 - Improve livepatch stalls by adding livepatch task switching to
   cond_resched(). This resolves livepatching busy-loop stalls with
   certain CPU-bound kthreads

 - Improve sched_move_task() performance on autogroup configs

 - On core-scheduling CPUs, avoid selecting throttled tasks to run

 - Misc cleanups, fixes and improvements

* tag 'sched-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/clock: Fix local_clock() before sched_clock_init()
  sched/rt: Fix bad task migration for rt tasks
  sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid
  sched/core: Make sched_dynamic_mutex static
  sched/psi: Allow unprivileged polling of N*2s period
  sched/psi: Extract update_triggers side effect
  sched/psi: Rename existing poll members in preparation
  sched/psi: Rearrange polling code in preparation
  sched/fair: Fix inaccurate tally of ttwu_move_affine
  vhost: Fix livepatch timeouts in vhost_worker()
  livepatch,sched: Add livepatch task switching to cond_resched()
  livepatch: Skip task_call_func() for current task
  livepatch: Convert stack entries array to percpu
  sched: Interleave cfs bandwidth timers for improved single thread performance at low utilization
  sched/core: Reduce cost of sched_move_task when config autogroup
  sched/core: Avoid selecting the task that is throttled to run when core-sched enable
  sched/topology: Make sched_energy_mutex,update static
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</content>
</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7fa8a8ee9400fe8ec188426e40e481717bc5e924'/>
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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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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<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
  ...
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