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<title>linux-stable.git/mm/Kconfig, branch linux-6.2.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'x86_mm_for_6.2_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-17T20:06:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-17T20:06:53+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 mm updates from Dave Hansen:
 "New Feature:

   - Randomize the per-cpu entry areas

  Cleanups:

   - Have CR3_ADDR_MASK use PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK instead of open coding it

   - Move to "native" set_memory_rox() helper

   - Clean up pmd_get_atomic() and i386-PAE

   - Remove some unused page table size macros"

* tag 'x86_mm_for_6.2_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits)
  x86/mm: Ensure forced page table splitting
  x86/kasan: Populate shadow for shared chunk of the CPU entry area
  x86/kasan: Add helpers to align shadow addresses up and down
  x86/kasan: Rename local CPU_ENTRY_AREA variables to shorten names
  x86/mm: Populate KASAN shadow for entire per-CPU range of CPU entry area
  x86/mm: Recompute physical address for every page of per-CPU CEA mapping
  x86/mm: Rename __change_page_attr_set_clr(.checkalias)
  x86/mm: Inhibit _PAGE_NX changes from cpa_process_alias()
  x86/mm: Untangle __change_page_attr_set_clr(.checkalias)
  x86/mm: Add a few comments
  x86/mm: Fix CR3_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mm: Remove P*D_PAGE_MASK and P*D_PAGE_SIZE macros
  mm: Convert __HAVE_ARCH_P..P_GET to the new style
  mm: Remove pointless barrier() after pmdp_get_lockless()
  x86/mm/pae: Get rid of set_64bit()
  x86_64: Remove pointless set_64bit() usage
  x86/mm/pae: Be consistent with pXXp_get_and_clear()
  x86/mm/pae: Use WRITE_ONCE()
  x86/mm/pae: Don't (ab)use atomic64
  mm/gup: Fix the lockless PMD access
  ...
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Pull x86 mm updates from Dave Hansen:
 "New Feature:

   - Randomize the per-cpu entry areas

  Cleanups:

   - Have CR3_ADDR_MASK use PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK instead of open coding it

   - Move to "native" set_memory_rox() helper

   - Clean up pmd_get_atomic() and i386-PAE

   - Remove some unused page table size macros"

* tag 'x86_mm_for_6.2_v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits)
  x86/mm: Ensure forced page table splitting
  x86/kasan: Populate shadow for shared chunk of the CPU entry area
  x86/kasan: Add helpers to align shadow addresses up and down
  x86/kasan: Rename local CPU_ENTRY_AREA variables to shorten names
  x86/mm: Populate KASAN shadow for entire per-CPU range of CPU entry area
  x86/mm: Recompute physical address for every page of per-CPU CEA mapping
  x86/mm: Rename __change_page_attr_set_clr(.checkalias)
  x86/mm: Inhibit _PAGE_NX changes from cpa_process_alias()
  x86/mm: Untangle __change_page_attr_set_clr(.checkalias)
  x86/mm: Add a few comments
  x86/mm: Fix CR3_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mm: Remove P*D_PAGE_MASK and P*D_PAGE_SIZE macros
  mm: Convert __HAVE_ARCH_P..P_GET to the new style
  mm: Remove pointless barrier() after pmdp_get_lockless()
  x86/mm/pae: Get rid of set_64bit()
  x86_64: Remove pointless set_64bit() usage
  x86/mm/pae: Be consistent with pXXp_get_and_clear()
  x86/mm/pae: Use WRITE_ONCE()
  x86/mm/pae: Don't (ab)use atomic64
  mm/gup: Fix the lockless PMD access
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2022-12-15T19:12:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-15T19:12:21+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM64:

   - Enable the per-vcpu dirty-ring tracking mechanism, together with an
     option to keep the good old dirty log around for pages that are
     dirtied by something other than a vcpu.

   - Switch to the relaxed parallel fault handling, using RCU to delay
     page table reclaim and giving better performance under load.

   - Relax the MTE ABI, allowing a VMM to use the MAP_SHARED mapping
     option, which multi-process VMMs such as crosvm rely on (see merge
     commit 382b5b87a97d: "Fix a number of issues with MTE, such as
     races on the tags being initialised vs the PG_mte_tagged flag as
     well as the lack of support for VM_SHARED when KVM is involved.
     Patches from Catalin Marinas and Peter Collingbourne").

   - Merge the pKVM shadow vcpu state tracking that allows the
     hypervisor to have its own view of a vcpu, keeping that state
     private.

   - Add support for the PMUv3p5 architecture revision, bringing support
     for 64bit counters on systems that support it, and fix the
     no-quite-compliant CHAIN-ed counter support for the machines that
     actually exist out there.

   - Fix a handful of minor issues around 52bit VA/PA support (64kB
     pages only) as a prefix of the oncoming support for 4kB and 16kB
     pages.

   - Pick a small set of documentation and spelling fixes, because no
     good merge window would be complete without those.

  s390:

   - Second batch of the lazy destroy patches

   - First batch of KVM changes for kernel virtual != physical address
     support

   - Removal of a unused function

  x86:

   - Allow compiling out SMM support

   - Cleanup and documentation of SMM state save area format

   - Preserve interrupt shadow in SMM state save area

   - Respond to generic signals during slow page faults

   - Fixes and optimizations for the non-executable huge page errata
     fix.

   - Reprogram all performance counters on PMU filter change

   - Cleanups to Hyper-V emulation and tests

   - Process Hyper-V TLB flushes from a nested guest (i.e. from a L2
     guest running on top of a L1 Hyper-V hypervisor)

   - Advertise several new Intel features

   - x86 Xen-for-KVM:

      - Allow the Xen runstate information to cross a page boundary

      - Allow XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag behaviour to be configured

      - Add support for 32-bit guests in SCHEDOP_poll

   - Notable x86 fixes and cleanups:

      - One-off fixes for various emulation flows (SGX, VMXON, NRIPS=0).

      - Reinstate IBPB on emulated VM-Exit that was incorrectly dropped
        a few years back when eliminating unnecessary barriers when
        switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02.

      - Clean up vmread_error_trampoline() to make it more obvious that
        params must be passed on the stack, even for x86-64.

      - Let userspace set all supported bits in MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL
        irrespective of the current guest CPUID.

      - Fudge around a race with TSC refinement that results in KVM
        incorrectly thinking a guest needs TSC scaling when running on a
        CPU with a constant TSC, but no hardware-enumerated TSC
        frequency.

      - Advertise (on AMD) that the SMM_CTL MSR is not supported

      - Remove unnecessary exports

  Generic:

   - Support for responding to signals during page faults; introduces
     new FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE flag that was reviewed by mm folks

  Selftests:

   - Fix an inverted check in the access tracking perf test, and restore
     support for asserting that there aren't too many idle pages when
     running on bare metal.

   - Fix build errors that occur in certain setups (unsure exactly what
     is unique about the problematic setup) due to glibc overriding
     static_assert() to a variant that requires a custom message.

   - Introduce actual atomics for clear/set_bit() in selftests

   - Add support for pinning vCPUs in dirty_log_perf_test.

   - Rename the so called "perf_util" framework to "memstress".

   - Add a lightweight psuedo RNG for guest use, and use it to randomize
     the access pattern and write vs. read percentage in the memstress
     tests.

   - Add a common ucall implementation; code dedup and pre-work for
     running SEV (and beyond) guests in selftests.

   - Provide a common constructor and arch hook, which will eventually
     be used by x86 to automatically select the right hypercall (AMD vs.
     Intel).

   - A bunch of added/enabled/fixed selftests for ARM64, covering
     memslots, breakpoints, stage-2 faults and access tracking.

   - x86-specific selftest changes:

      - Clean up x86's page table management.

      - Clean up and enhance the "smaller maxphyaddr" test, and add a
        related test to cover generic emulation failure.

      - Clean up the nEPT support checks.

      - Add X86_PROPERTY_* framework to retrieve multi-bit CPUID values.

      - Fix an ordering issue in the AMX test introduced by recent
        conversions to use kvm_cpu_has(), and harden the code to guard
        against similar bugs in the future. Anything that tiggers
        caching of KVM's supported CPUID, kvm_cpu_has() in this case,
        effectively hides opt-in XSAVE features if the caching occurs
        before the test opts in via prctl().

  Documentation:

   - Remove deleted ioctls from documentation

   - Clean up the docs for the x86 MSR filter.

   - Various fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (361 commits)
  KVM: x86: Add proper ReST tables for userspace MSR exits/flags
  KVM: selftests: Allocate ucall pool from MEM_REGION_DATA
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Align VA space allocator with TTBR0
  KVM: arm64: Fix benign bug with incorrect use of VA_BITS
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix period computation for 64bit counters with 32bit overflow
  KVM: x86: Advertise that the SMM_CTL MSR is not supported
  KVM: x86: remove unnecessary exports
  KVM: selftests: Fix spelling mistake "probabalistic" -&gt; "probabilistic"
  tools: KVM: selftests: Convert clear/set_bit() to actual atomics
  tools: Drop "atomic_" prefix from atomic test_and_set_bit()
  tools: Drop conflicting non-atomic test_and_{clear,set}_bit() helpers
  KVM: selftests: Use non-atomic clear/set bit helpers in KVM tests
  perf tools: Use dedicated non-atomic clear/set bit helpers
  tools: Take @bit as an "unsigned long" in {clear,set}_bit() helpers
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Enable single-step without a "full" ucall()
  KVM: x86: fix APICv/x2AVIC disabled when vm reboot by itself
  KVM: Remove stale comment about KVM_REQ_UNHALT
  KVM: Add missing arch for KVM_CREATE_DEVICE and KVM_{SET,GET}_DEVICE_ATTR
  KVM: Reference to kvm_userspace_memory_region in doc and comments
  KVM: Delete all references to removed KVM_SET_MEMORY_ALIAS ioctl
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM64:

   - Enable the per-vcpu dirty-ring tracking mechanism, together with an
     option to keep the good old dirty log around for pages that are
     dirtied by something other than a vcpu.

   - Switch to the relaxed parallel fault handling, using RCU to delay
     page table reclaim and giving better performance under load.

   - Relax the MTE ABI, allowing a VMM to use the MAP_SHARED mapping
     option, which multi-process VMMs such as crosvm rely on (see merge
     commit 382b5b87a97d: "Fix a number of issues with MTE, such as
     races on the tags being initialised vs the PG_mte_tagged flag as
     well as the lack of support for VM_SHARED when KVM is involved.
     Patches from Catalin Marinas and Peter Collingbourne").

   - Merge the pKVM shadow vcpu state tracking that allows the
     hypervisor to have its own view of a vcpu, keeping that state
     private.

   - Add support for the PMUv3p5 architecture revision, bringing support
     for 64bit counters on systems that support it, and fix the
     no-quite-compliant CHAIN-ed counter support for the machines that
     actually exist out there.

   - Fix a handful of minor issues around 52bit VA/PA support (64kB
     pages only) as a prefix of the oncoming support for 4kB and 16kB
     pages.

   - Pick a small set of documentation and spelling fixes, because no
     good merge window would be complete without those.

  s390:

   - Second batch of the lazy destroy patches

   - First batch of KVM changes for kernel virtual != physical address
     support

   - Removal of a unused function

  x86:

   - Allow compiling out SMM support

   - Cleanup and documentation of SMM state save area format

   - Preserve interrupt shadow in SMM state save area

   - Respond to generic signals during slow page faults

   - Fixes and optimizations for the non-executable huge page errata
     fix.

   - Reprogram all performance counters on PMU filter change

   - Cleanups to Hyper-V emulation and tests

   - Process Hyper-V TLB flushes from a nested guest (i.e. from a L2
     guest running on top of a L1 Hyper-V hypervisor)

   - Advertise several new Intel features

   - x86 Xen-for-KVM:

      - Allow the Xen runstate information to cross a page boundary

      - Allow XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag behaviour to be configured

      - Add support for 32-bit guests in SCHEDOP_poll

   - Notable x86 fixes and cleanups:

      - One-off fixes for various emulation flows (SGX, VMXON, NRIPS=0).

      - Reinstate IBPB on emulated VM-Exit that was incorrectly dropped
        a few years back when eliminating unnecessary barriers when
        switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02.

      - Clean up vmread_error_trampoline() to make it more obvious that
        params must be passed on the stack, even for x86-64.

      - Let userspace set all supported bits in MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL
        irrespective of the current guest CPUID.

      - Fudge around a race with TSC refinement that results in KVM
        incorrectly thinking a guest needs TSC scaling when running on a
        CPU with a constant TSC, but no hardware-enumerated TSC
        frequency.

      - Advertise (on AMD) that the SMM_CTL MSR is not supported

      - Remove unnecessary exports

  Generic:

   - Support for responding to signals during page faults; introduces
     new FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE flag that was reviewed by mm folks

  Selftests:

   - Fix an inverted check in the access tracking perf test, and restore
     support for asserting that there aren't too many idle pages when
     running on bare metal.

   - Fix build errors that occur in certain setups (unsure exactly what
     is unique about the problematic setup) due to glibc overriding
     static_assert() to a variant that requires a custom message.

   - Introduce actual atomics for clear/set_bit() in selftests

   - Add support for pinning vCPUs in dirty_log_perf_test.

   - Rename the so called "perf_util" framework to "memstress".

   - Add a lightweight psuedo RNG for guest use, and use it to randomize
     the access pattern and write vs. read percentage in the memstress
     tests.

   - Add a common ucall implementation; code dedup and pre-work for
     running SEV (and beyond) guests in selftests.

   - Provide a common constructor and arch hook, which will eventually
     be used by x86 to automatically select the right hypercall (AMD vs.
     Intel).

   - A bunch of added/enabled/fixed selftests for ARM64, covering
     memslots, breakpoints, stage-2 faults and access tracking.

   - x86-specific selftest changes:

      - Clean up x86's page table management.

      - Clean up and enhance the "smaller maxphyaddr" test, and add a
        related test to cover generic emulation failure.

      - Clean up the nEPT support checks.

      - Add X86_PROPERTY_* framework to retrieve multi-bit CPUID values.

      - Fix an ordering issue in the AMX test introduced by recent
        conversions to use kvm_cpu_has(), and harden the code to guard
        against similar bugs in the future. Anything that tiggers
        caching of KVM's supported CPUID, kvm_cpu_has() in this case,
        effectively hides opt-in XSAVE features if the caching occurs
        before the test opts in via prctl().

  Documentation:

   - Remove deleted ioctls from documentation

   - Clean up the docs for the x86 MSR filter.

   - Various fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (361 commits)
  KVM: x86: Add proper ReST tables for userspace MSR exits/flags
  KVM: selftests: Allocate ucall pool from MEM_REGION_DATA
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Align VA space allocator with TTBR0
  KVM: arm64: Fix benign bug with incorrect use of VA_BITS
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix period computation for 64bit counters with 32bit overflow
  KVM: x86: Advertise that the SMM_CTL MSR is not supported
  KVM: x86: remove unnecessary exports
  KVM: selftests: Fix spelling mistake "probabalistic" -&gt; "probabilistic"
  tools: KVM: selftests: Convert clear/set_bit() to actual atomics
  tools: Drop "atomic_" prefix from atomic test_and_set_bit()
  tools: Drop conflicting non-atomic test_and_{clear,set}_bit() helpers
  KVM: selftests: Use non-atomic clear/set bit helpers in KVM tests
  perf tools: Use dedicated non-atomic clear/set bit helpers
  tools: Take @bit as an "unsigned long" in {clear,set}_bit() helpers
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Enable single-step without a "full" ucall()
  KVM: x86: fix APICv/x2AVIC disabled when vm reboot by itself
  KVM: Remove stale comment about KVM_REQ_UNHALT
  KVM: Add missing arch for KVM_CREATE_DEVICE and KVM_{SET,GET}_DEVICE_ATTR
  KVM: Reference to kvm_userspace_memory_region in doc and comments
  KVM: Delete all references to removed KVM_SET_MEMORY_ALIAS ioctl
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: Rename GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH</title>
<updated>2022-12-15T18:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-21T12:51:44+00:00</published>
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Since it no longer applies to only PTEs, rename it to PXX.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221022114424.776404066%40infradead.org
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Since it no longer applies to only PTEs, rename it to PXX.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221022114424.776404066%40infradead.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T03:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-14T03:29:45+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu

 - Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying

 - Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola

 - David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW
   handling

 - Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin

 - Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki

 - Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew
   Wilcox

 - A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use
   it

 - Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the
   __no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword.

   This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad

 - Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and
   memory section removal for huge pages

 - DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park

 - Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages

 - Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors

 - Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it
   and making it more efficient

 - Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and
   David Hildenbrand

 - zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky

 - David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so
   that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which
   didn't work very well anyway

 - Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain
   enabled during per-cpu page allocations

 - Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper

 - Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to
   prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of
   pagecache

 - David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW
   breaking

 - Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's
   zsmalloc backend

 - Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in
   file[map]_write_and_wait_range()

 - sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang
   Chen

 - Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode
   work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several
   filesystems. They only need .writepages()

 - Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target
   beancounting

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit
   machines

 - Many singleton patches, as usual

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio
  mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps
  mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment
  kmsan: fix memcpy tests
  mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
  mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages
  selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit
  selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit
  selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions
  mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem
  mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount
  mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting
  mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim
  mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim
  selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
  selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until()
  mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
  mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure
  omfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  jfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu

 - Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying

 - Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola

 - David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW
   handling

 - Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin

 - Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki

 - Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew
   Wilcox

 - A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use
   it

 - Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the
   __no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword.

   This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad

 - Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and
   memory section removal for huge pages

 - DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park

 - Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages

 - Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors

 - Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it
   and making it more efficient

 - Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and
   David Hildenbrand

 - zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky

 - David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so
   that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which
   didn't work very well anyway

 - Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain
   enabled during per-cpu page allocations

 - Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper

 - Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to
   prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of
   pagecache

 - David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW
   breaking

 - Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's
   zsmalloc backend

 - Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in
   file[map]_write_and_wait_range()

 - sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang
   Chen

 - Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode
   work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several
   filesystems. They only need .writepages()

 - Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target
   beancounting

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit
   machines

 - Many singleton patches, as usual

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio
  mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps
  mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment
  kmsan: fix memcpy tests
  mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
  mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages
  selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit
  selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit
  selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions
  mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem
  mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount
  mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting
  mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim
  mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim
  selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
  selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until()
  mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
  mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure
  omfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  jfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Kconfig: make config SECRETMEM visible with EXPERT</title>
<updated>2022-11-30T23:58:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Bulwahn</name>
<email>lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-16T13:19:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=749477244b05be0d9b6dcc10c161bfa4c4749d78'/>
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Commit 6a108a14fa35 ("kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT")
introduces CONFIG_EXPERT to carry the previous intent of CONFIG_EMBEDDED
and just gives that intent a much better name.  That has been clearly a
good and long overdue renaming, and it is clearly an improvement to the
kernel build configuration that has shown to help managing the kernel
build configuration in the last decade.

However, rather than bravely and radically just deleting CONFIG_EMBEDDED,
this commit gives CONFIG_EMBEDDED a new intended semantics, but keeps it
open for future contributors to implement that intended semantics:

    A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects
    CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate
    options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC
    architectures, SLOB, etc).

Since then, this CONFIG_EMBEDDED implicitly had two purposes:

  - It can make even more options visible beyond what CONFIG_EXPERT makes
    visible. In other words, it may introduce another level of enabling the
    visibility of configuration options: always visible, visible with
    CONFIG_EXPERT and visible with CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

  - Set certain default values of some configurations differently,
    following the assumption that configuring a kernel build for an
    embedded system generally starts with a different set of default values
    compared to kernel builds for all other kind of systems.

Considering the second purpose, note that already probably arguing that a
kernel build for an embedded system would choose some values differently
is already tricky: the set of embedded systems with Linux kernels is
already quite diverse.  Many embedded system have powerful CPUs and it
would not be clear that all embedded systems just optimize towards one
specific aspect, e.g., a smaller kernel image size.  So, it is unclear if
starting with "one set of default configuration" that is induced by
CONFIG_EMBEDDED is a good offer for developers configuring their kernels.

Also, the differences of needed user-space features in an embedded system
compared to a non-embedded system are probably difficult or even
impossible to name in some generic way.

So it is not surprising that in the last decade hardly anyone has
contributed changes to make something default differently in case of
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.

Currently, in v6.0-rc4, SECRETMEM is the only config switched off if
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.

As long as that is actually the only option that currently is selected or
deselected, it is better to just make SECRETMEM configurable at build time
by experts using menuconfig instead.

Make SECRETMEM configurable when EXPERT is set and otherwise default to
yes.  Further, SECRETMEM needs ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP.

This allows us to remove CONFIG_EMBEDDED in the close future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116131922.25533-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn &lt;lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Commit 6a108a14fa35 ("kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT")
introduces CONFIG_EXPERT to carry the previous intent of CONFIG_EMBEDDED
and just gives that intent a much better name.  That has been clearly a
good and long overdue renaming, and it is clearly an improvement to the
kernel build configuration that has shown to help managing the kernel
build configuration in the last decade.

However, rather than bravely and radically just deleting CONFIG_EMBEDDED,
this commit gives CONFIG_EMBEDDED a new intended semantics, but keeps it
open for future contributors to implement that intended semantics:

    A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects
    CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate
    options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC
    architectures, SLOB, etc).

Since then, this CONFIG_EMBEDDED implicitly had two purposes:

  - It can make even more options visible beyond what CONFIG_EXPERT makes
    visible. In other words, it may introduce another level of enabling the
    visibility of configuration options: always visible, visible with
    CONFIG_EXPERT and visible with CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

  - Set certain default values of some configurations differently,
    following the assumption that configuring a kernel build for an
    embedded system generally starts with a different set of default values
    compared to kernel builds for all other kind of systems.

Considering the second purpose, note that already probably arguing that a
kernel build for an embedded system would choose some values differently
is already tricky: the set of embedded systems with Linux kernels is
already quite diverse.  Many embedded system have powerful CPUs and it
would not be clear that all embedded systems just optimize towards one
specific aspect, e.g., a smaller kernel image size.  So, it is unclear if
starting with "one set of default configuration" that is induced by
CONFIG_EMBEDDED is a good offer for developers configuring their kernels.

Also, the differences of needed user-space features in an embedded system
compared to a non-embedded system are probably difficult or even
impossible to name in some generic way.

So it is not surprising that in the last decade hardly anyone has
contributed changes to make something default differently in case of
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.

Currently, in v6.0-rc4, SECRETMEM is the only config switched off if
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.

As long as that is actually the only option that currently is selected or
deselected, it is better to just make SECRETMEM configurable at build time
by experts using menuconfig instead.

Make SECRETMEM configurable when EXPERT is set and otherwise default to
yes.  Further, SECRETMEM needs ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP.

This allows us to remove CONFIG_EMBEDDED in the close future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116131922.25533-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn &lt;lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm,hugetlb: use folio fields in second tail page</title>
<updated>2022-11-30T23:58:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-03T01:48:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dad6a5eb55564845aa17b8b20fa834af21e46c48'/>
<id>dad6a5eb55564845aa17b8b20fa834af21e46c48</id>
<content type='text'>
Patch series "mm,huge,rmap: unify and speed up compound mapcounts".


This patch (of 3):

We want to declare one more int in the first tail of a compound page: that
first tail page being valuable property, since every compound page has a
first tail, but perhaps no more than that.

No problem on 64-bit: there is already space for it.  No problem with
32-bit THPs: 5.18 commit 5232c63f46fd ("mm: Make compound_pincount always
available") kindly cleared the space for it, apparently not realizing that
only 64-bit architectures enable CONFIG_THP_SWAP (whose use of tail
page-&gt;private might conflict) - but make sure of that in its Kconfig.

But hugetlb pages use tail page-&gt;private of the first tail page for a
subpool pointer, which will conflict; and they also use page-&gt;private of
the 2nd, 3rd and 4th tails.

Undo "mm: add private field of first tail to struct page and struct
folio"'s recent addition of private_1 to the folio tail: instead add
hugetlb_subpool, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb_cgroup_rsvd, hugetlb_hwpoison to
a second tail page of the folio: THP has long been using several fields of
that tail, so make better use of it for hugetlb too.  This is not how a
generic folio should be declared in future, but it is an effective
transitional way to make use of it.

Delete the SUBPAGE_INDEX stuff, but keep __NR_USED_SUBPAGE: now 3.

[hughd@google.com: prefix folio's page_1 and page_2 with double underscore,
  give folio's _flags_2 and _head_2 a line documentation each]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9e2cb6b-5b58-d3f2-b5ee-5f8a14e8f10@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5f52de70-975-e94f-f141-543765736181@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3818cc9a-9999-d064-d778-9c94c5911e6@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar &lt;sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zach O'Keefe &lt;zokeefe@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Patch series "mm,huge,rmap: unify and speed up compound mapcounts".


This patch (of 3):

We want to declare one more int in the first tail of a compound page: that
first tail page being valuable property, since every compound page has a
first tail, but perhaps no more than that.

No problem on 64-bit: there is already space for it.  No problem with
32-bit THPs: 5.18 commit 5232c63f46fd ("mm: Make compound_pincount always
available") kindly cleared the space for it, apparently not realizing that
only 64-bit architectures enable CONFIG_THP_SWAP (whose use of tail
page-&gt;private might conflict) - but make sure of that in its Kconfig.

But hugetlb pages use tail page-&gt;private of the first tail page for a
subpool pointer, which will conflict; and they also use page-&gt;private of
the 2nd, 3rd and 4th tails.

Undo "mm: add private field of first tail to struct page and struct
folio"'s recent addition of private_1 to the folio tail: instead add
hugetlb_subpool, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb_cgroup_rsvd, hugetlb_hwpoison to
a second tail page of the folio: THP has long been using several fields of
that tail, so make better use of it for hugetlb too.  This is not how a
generic folio should be declared in future, but it is an effective
transitional way to make use of it.

Delete the SUBPAGE_INDEX stuff, but keep __NR_USED_SUBPAGE: now 3.

[hughd@google.com: prefix folio's page_1 and page_2 with double underscore,
  give folio's _flags_2 and _head_2 a line documentation each]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9e2cb6b-5b58-d3f2-b5ee-5f8a14e8f10@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5f52de70-975-e94f-f141-543765736181@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3818cc9a-9999-d064-d778-9c94c5911e6@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mina Almasry &lt;almasrymina@google.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar &lt;sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zach O'Keefe &lt;zokeefe@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: always compile in pte markers</title>
<updated>2022-11-30T23:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-30T21:41:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ca92ea3dc5a2b01f98e9f02b7a6bc03be06fe124'/>
<id>ca92ea3dc5a2b01f98e9f02b7a6bc03be06fe124</id>
<content type='text'>
Patch series "mm: Use pte marker for swapin errors".

This series uses the pte marker to replace the swapin error swap entry,
then we save one more swap entry slot for swap devices.  A new pte marker
bit is defined.


This patch (of 2):

The PTE markers code is tiny and now it's enabled for most of the
distributions.  It's fine to keep it as-is, but to make a broader use of
it (e.g.  replacing read error swap entry) it needs to be there always
otherwise we need special code path to take care of !PTE_MARKER case.

It'll be easier just make pte marker always exist.  Use this chance to
extend its usage to anonymous too by simply touching up some of the old
comments, because it'll be used for anonymous pages in the follow up
patches.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221030214151.402274-1-peterx@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221030214151.402274-2-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Patch series "mm: Use pte marker for swapin errors".

This series uses the pte marker to replace the swapin error swap entry,
then we save one more swap entry slot for swap devices.  A new pte marker
bit is defined.


This patch (of 2):

The PTE markers code is tiny and now it's enabled for most of the
distributions.  It's fine to keep it as-is, but to make a broader use of
it (e.g.  replacing read error swap entry) it needs to be there always
otherwise we need special code path to take care of !PTE_MARKER case.

It'll be easier just make pte marker always exist.  Use this chance to
extend its usage to anonymous too by simply touching up some of the old
comments, because it'll be used for anonymous pages in the follow up
patches.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221030214151.402274-1-peterx@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221030214151.402274-2-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@nec.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, slob: rename CONFIG_SLOB to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED</title>
<updated>2022-11-30T23:09:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-11T10:04:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=149b6fa228eda1d191abc440af7162264d716d90'/>
<id>149b6fa228eda1d191abc440af7162264d716d90</id>
<content type='text'>
As explained in [1], we would like to remove SLOB if possible.

- There are no known users that need its somewhat lower memory footprint
  so much that they cannot handle SLUB (after some modifications by the
  previous patches) instead.

- It is an extra maintenance burden, and a number of features are
  incompatible with it.

- It blocks the API improvement of allowing kfree() on objects allocated
  via kmem_cache_alloc().

As the first step, rename the CONFIG_SLOB option in the slab allocator
configuration choice to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED. Add CONFIG_SLOB
depending on CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED as an internal option to avoid code
churn. This will cause existing .config files and defconfigs with
CONFIG_SLOB=y to silently switch to the default (and recommended
replacement) SLUB, while still allowing SLOB to be configured by anyone
that notices and needs it. But those should contact the slab maintainers
and linux-mm@kvack.org as explained in the updated help. With no valid
objections, the plan is to update the existing defconfigs to SLUB and
remove SLOB in a few cycles.

To make SLUB more suitable replacement for SLOB, a CONFIG_SLUB_TINY
option was introduced to limit SLUB's memory overhead.
There is a number of defconfigs specifying CONFIG_SLOB=y. As part of
this patch, update them to select CONFIG_SLUB and CONFIG_SLUB_TINY.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/b35c3f82-f67b-2103-7d82-7a7ba7521439@suse.cz/

Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Janusz Krzysztofik &lt;jmkrzyszt@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Conor Dooley &lt;conor@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt; # OMAP1
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com&gt; # riscv k210
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt; # arm
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
As explained in [1], we would like to remove SLOB if possible.

- There are no known users that need its somewhat lower memory footprint
  so much that they cannot handle SLUB (after some modifications by the
  previous patches) instead.

- It is an extra maintenance burden, and a number of features are
  incompatible with it.

- It blocks the API improvement of allowing kfree() on objects allocated
  via kmem_cache_alloc().

As the first step, rename the CONFIG_SLOB option in the slab allocator
configuration choice to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED. Add CONFIG_SLOB
depending on CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED as an internal option to avoid code
churn. This will cause existing .config files and defconfigs with
CONFIG_SLOB=y to silently switch to the default (and recommended
replacement) SLUB, while still allowing SLOB to be configured by anyone
that notices and needs it. But those should contact the slab maintainers
and linux-mm@kvack.org as explained in the updated help. With no valid
objections, the plan is to update the existing defconfigs to SLUB and
remove SLOB in a few cycles.

To make SLUB more suitable replacement for SLOB, a CONFIG_SLUB_TINY
option was introduced to limit SLUB's memory overhead.
There is a number of defconfigs specifying CONFIG_SLOB=y. As part of
this patch, update them to select CONFIG_SLUB and CONFIG_SLUB_TINY.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/b35c3f82-f67b-2103-7d82-7a7ba7521439@suse.cz/

Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Janusz Krzysztofik &lt;jmkrzyszt@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Conor Dooley &lt;conor@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt; # OMAP1
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com&gt; # riscv k210
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt; # arm
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Do not enable PG_arch_2 for all 64-bit architectures</title>
<updated>2022-11-29T09:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-04T01:10:34+00:00</published>
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Commit 4beba9486abd ("mm: Add PG_arch_2 page flag") introduced a new
page flag for all 64-bit architectures. However, even if an architecture
is 64-bit, it may still have limited spare bits in the 'flags' member of
'struct page'. This may happen if an architecture enables SPARSEMEM
without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP as is the case with the newly added loongarch.
This architecture port needs 19 more bits for the sparsemem section
information and, while it is currently fine with PG_arch_2, adding any
more PG_arch_* flags will trigger build-time warnings.

Add a new CONFIG_ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X option which can be selected by
architectures that need more PG_arch_* flags beyond PG_arch_1. Select it
on arm64.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[pcc@google.com: fix build with CONFIG_ARM64_MTE disabled]
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104011041.290951-2-pcc@google.com
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Commit 4beba9486abd ("mm: Add PG_arch_2 page flag") introduced a new
page flag for all 64-bit architectures. However, even if an architecture
is 64-bit, it may still have limited spare bits in the 'flags' member of
'struct page'. This may happen if an architecture enables SPARSEMEM
without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP as is the case with the newly added loongarch.
This architecture port needs 19 more bits for the sparsemem section
information and, while it is currently fine with PG_arch_2, adding any
more PG_arch_* flags will trigger build-time warnings.

Add a new CONFIG_ARCH_USES_PG_ARCH_X option which can be selected by
architectures that need more PG_arch_* flags beyond PG_arch_1. Select it
on arm64.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[pcc@google.com: fix build with CONFIG_ARM64_MTE disabled]
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104011041.290951-2-pcc@google.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, slub: add CONFIG_SLUB_TINY</title>
<updated>2022-11-27T22:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-14T17:13:45+00:00</published>
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For tiny systems that have used SLOB until now, SLUB might be
impractical due to its higher memory usage. To help with that, introduce
an option CONFIG_SLUB_TINY that modifies SLUB to use less memory.
This is done by sacrificing scalability, security and debugging
features, therefore not recommended for any system with more than 16MB
RAM.

This commit introduces the option and uses it to set other related
options in a way that reduces memory usage.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
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For tiny systems that have used SLOB until now, SLUB might be
impractical due to its higher memory usage. To help with that, introduce
an option CONFIG_SLUB_TINY that modifies SLUB to use less memory.
This is done by sacrificing scalability, security and debugging
features, therefore not recommended for any system with more than 16MB
RAM.

This commit introduces the option and uses it to set other related
options in a way that reduces memory usage.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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