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<title>linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v6.12</title>
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<title>tpm: Opt-in in disable PCR integrity protection</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T19:10:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jarkko Sakkinen</name>
<email>jarkko@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-11-13T05:54:12+00:00</published>
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The initial HMAC session feature added TPM bus encryption and/or integrity
protection to various in-kernel TPM operations. This can cause performance
bottlenecks with IMA, as it heavily utilizes PCR extend operations.

In order to mitigate this performance issue, introduce a kernel
command-line parameter to the TPM driver for disabling the integrity
protection for PCR extend operations (i.e. TPM2_PCR_Extend).

Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20241015193916.59964-1-zohar@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: 6519fea6fd37 ("tpm: add hmac checks to tpm2_pcr_extend()")
Tested-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
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The initial HMAC session feature added TPM bus encryption and/or integrity
protection to various in-kernel TPM operations. This can cause performance
bottlenecks with IMA, as it heavily utilizes PCR extend operations.

In order to mitigate this performance issue, introduce a kernel
command-line parameter to the TPM driver for disabling the integrity
protection for PCR extend operations (i.e. TPM2_PCR_Extend).

Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20241015193916.59964-1-zohar@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: 6519fea6fd37 ("tpm: add hmac checks to tpm2_pcr_extend()")
Tested-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix docs for the kernel parameter ``thp_anon=``</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T22:14:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maíra Canal</name>
<email>mcanal@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-01T16:54:05+00:00</published>
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If we add ``thp_anon=32,64K:always`` to the kernel command line, we
will see the following error:

[    0.000000] huge_memory: thp_anon=32,64K:always: error parsing string, ignoring setting

This happens because the correct format isn't ``thp_anon=&lt;size&gt;,&lt;size&gt;[KMG]:&lt;state&gt;```,
as [KMG] must follow each number to especify its unit. So, the correct
format is ``thp_anon=&lt;size&gt;[KMG],&lt;size&gt;[KMG]:&lt;state&gt;```.

Therefore, adjust the documentation to reflect the correct format of the
parameter ``thp_anon=``.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101165719.1074234-3-mcanal@igalia.com
Fixes: dd4d30d1cdbe ("mm: override mTHP "enabled" defaults at kernel cmdline")
Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal &lt;mcanal@igalia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;ioworker0@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If we add ``thp_anon=32,64K:always`` to the kernel command line, we
will see the following error:

[    0.000000] huge_memory: thp_anon=32,64K:always: error parsing string, ignoring setting

This happens because the correct format isn't ``thp_anon=&lt;size&gt;,&lt;size&gt;[KMG]:&lt;state&gt;```,
as [KMG] must follow each number to especify its unit. So, the correct
format is ``thp_anon=&lt;size&gt;[KMG],&lt;size&gt;[KMG]:&lt;state&gt;```.

Therefore, adjust the documentation to reflect the correct format of the
parameter ``thp_anon=``.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241101165719.1074234-3-mcanal@igalia.com
Fixes: dd4d30d1cdbe ("mm: override mTHP "enabled" defaults at kernel cmdline")
Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal &lt;mcanal@igalia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;ioworker0@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-09-28T16:20:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-28T16:20:14+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "x86:

   - KVM currently invalidates the entirety of the page tables, not just
     those for the memslot being touched, when a memslot is moved or
     deleted.

     This does not traditionally have particularly noticeable overhead,
     but Intel's TDX will require the guest to re-accept private pages
     if they are dropped from the secure EPT, which is a non starter.

     Actually, the only reason why this is not already being done is a
     bug which was never fully investigated and caused VM instability
     with assigned GeForce GPUs, so allow userspace to opt into the new
     behavior.

   - Advertise AVX10.1 to userspace (effectively prep work for the
     "real" AVX10 functionality that is on the horizon)

   - Rework common MSR handling code to suppress errors on userspace
     accesses to unsupported-but-advertised MSRs

     This will allow removing (almost?) all of KVM's exemptions for
     userspace access to MSRs that shouldn't exist based on the vCPU
     model (the actual cleanup is non-trivial future work)

   - Rework KVM's handling of x2APIC ICR, again, because AMD (x2AVIC)
     splits the 64-bit value into the legacy ICR and ICR2 storage,
     whereas Intel (APICv) stores the entire 64-bit value at the ICR
     offset

   - Fix a bug where KVM would fail to exit to userspace if one was
     triggered by a fastpath exit handler

   - Add fastpath handling of HLT VM-Exit to expedite re-entering the
     guest when there's already a pending wake event at the time of the
     exit

   - Fix a WARN caused by RSM entering a nested guest from SMM with
     invalid guest state, by forcing the vCPU out of guest mode prior to
     signalling SHUTDOWN (the SHUTDOWN hits the VM altogether, not the
     nested guest)

   - Overhaul the "unprotect and retry" logic to more precisely identify
     cases where retrying is actually helpful, and to harden all retry
     paths against putting the guest into an infinite retry loop

   - Add support for yielding, e.g. to honor NEED_RESCHED, when zapping
     rmaps in the shadow MMU

   - Refactor pieces of the shadow MMU related to aging SPTEs in
     prepartion for adding multi generation LRU support in KVM

   - Don't stuff the RSB after VM-Exit when RETPOLINE=y and AutoIBRS is
     enabled, i.e. when the CPU has already flushed the RSB

   - Trace the per-CPU host save area as a VMCB pointer to improve
     readability and cleanup the retrieval of the SEV-ES host save area

   - Remove unnecessary accounting of temporary nested VMCB related
     allocations

   - Set FINAL/PAGE in the page fault error code for EPT violations if
     and only if the GVA is valid. If the GVA is NOT valid, there is no
     guest-side page table walk and so stuffing paging related metadata
     is nonsensical

   - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly synthesize a nested VM-Exit
     instead of emulating posted interrupt delivery to L2

   - Add a lockdep assertion to detect unsafe accesses of vmcs12
     structures

   - Harden eVMCS loading against an impossible NULL pointer deref
     (really truly should be impossible)

   - Minor SGX fix and a cleanup

   - Misc cleanups

  Generic:

   - Register KVM's cpuhp and syscore callbacks when enabling
     virtualization in hardware, as the sole purpose of said callbacks
     is to disable and re-enable virtualization as needed

   - Enable virtualization when KVM is loaded, not right before the
     first VM is created

     Together with the previous change, this simplifies a lot the logic
     of the callbacks, because their very existence implies
     virtualization is enabled

   - Fix a bug that results in KVM prematurely exiting to userspace for
     coalesced MMIO/PIO in many cases, clean up the related code, and
     add a testcase

   - Fix a bug in kvm_clear_guest() where it would trigger a buffer
     overflow _if_ the gpa+len crosses a page boundary, which thankfully
     is guaranteed to not happen in the current code base. Add WARNs in
     more helpers that read/write guest memory to detect similar bugs

  Selftests:

   - Fix a goof that caused some Hyper-V tests to be skipped when run on
     bare metal, i.e. NOT in a VM

   - Add a regression test for KVM's handling of SHUTDOWN for an SEV-ES
     guest

   - Explicitly include one-off assets in .gitignore. Past Sean was
     completely wrong about not being able to detect missing .gitignore
     entries

   - Verify userspace single-stepping works when KVM happens to handle a
     VM-Exit in its fastpath

   - Misc cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (127 commits)
  Documentation: KVM: fix warning in "make htmldocs"
  s390: Enable KVM_S390_UCONTROL config in debug_defconfig
  selftests: kvm: s390: Add VM run test case
  KVM: SVM: let alternatives handle the cases when RSB filling is required
  KVM: VMX: Set PFERR_GUEST_{FINAL,PAGE}_MASK if and only if the GVA is valid
  KVM: x86/mmu: Use KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE() instead of an open coded equivalent
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add KVM_RMAP_MANY to replace open coded '1' and '1ul' literals
  KVM: x86/mmu: Fold mmu_spte_age() into kvm_rmap_age_gfn_range()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Morph kvm_handle_gfn_range() into an aging specific helper
  KVM: x86/mmu: Honor NEED_RESCHED when zapping rmaps and blocking is allowed
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add a helper to walk and zap rmaps for a memslot
  KVM: x86/mmu: Plumb a @can_yield parameter into __walk_slot_rmaps()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Move walk_slot_rmaps() up near for_each_slot_rmap_range()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN on MMIO cache hit when emulating write-protected gfn
  KVM: x86/mmu: Detect if unprotect will do anything based on invalid_list
  KVM: x86/mmu: Subsume kvm_mmu_unprotect_page() into the and_retry() version
  KVM: x86: Rename reexecute_instruction()=&gt;kvm_unprotect_and_retry_on_failure()
  KVM: x86: Update retry protection fields when forcing retry on emulation failure
  KVM: x86: Apply retry protection to "unprotect on failure" path
  KVM: x86: Check EMULTYPE_WRITE_PF_TO_SP before unprotecting gfn
  ...
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "x86:

   - KVM currently invalidates the entirety of the page tables, not just
     those for the memslot being touched, when a memslot is moved or
     deleted.

     This does not traditionally have particularly noticeable overhead,
     but Intel's TDX will require the guest to re-accept private pages
     if they are dropped from the secure EPT, which is a non starter.

     Actually, the only reason why this is not already being done is a
     bug which was never fully investigated and caused VM instability
     with assigned GeForce GPUs, so allow userspace to opt into the new
     behavior.

   - Advertise AVX10.1 to userspace (effectively prep work for the
     "real" AVX10 functionality that is on the horizon)

   - Rework common MSR handling code to suppress errors on userspace
     accesses to unsupported-but-advertised MSRs

     This will allow removing (almost?) all of KVM's exemptions for
     userspace access to MSRs that shouldn't exist based on the vCPU
     model (the actual cleanup is non-trivial future work)

   - Rework KVM's handling of x2APIC ICR, again, because AMD (x2AVIC)
     splits the 64-bit value into the legacy ICR and ICR2 storage,
     whereas Intel (APICv) stores the entire 64-bit value at the ICR
     offset

   - Fix a bug where KVM would fail to exit to userspace if one was
     triggered by a fastpath exit handler

   - Add fastpath handling of HLT VM-Exit to expedite re-entering the
     guest when there's already a pending wake event at the time of the
     exit

   - Fix a WARN caused by RSM entering a nested guest from SMM with
     invalid guest state, by forcing the vCPU out of guest mode prior to
     signalling SHUTDOWN (the SHUTDOWN hits the VM altogether, not the
     nested guest)

   - Overhaul the "unprotect and retry" logic to more precisely identify
     cases where retrying is actually helpful, and to harden all retry
     paths against putting the guest into an infinite retry loop

   - Add support for yielding, e.g. to honor NEED_RESCHED, when zapping
     rmaps in the shadow MMU

   - Refactor pieces of the shadow MMU related to aging SPTEs in
     prepartion for adding multi generation LRU support in KVM

   - Don't stuff the RSB after VM-Exit when RETPOLINE=y and AutoIBRS is
     enabled, i.e. when the CPU has already flushed the RSB

   - Trace the per-CPU host save area as a VMCB pointer to improve
     readability and cleanup the retrieval of the SEV-ES host save area

   - Remove unnecessary accounting of temporary nested VMCB related
     allocations

   - Set FINAL/PAGE in the page fault error code for EPT violations if
     and only if the GVA is valid. If the GVA is NOT valid, there is no
     guest-side page table walk and so stuffing paging related metadata
     is nonsensical

   - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly synthesize a nested VM-Exit
     instead of emulating posted interrupt delivery to L2

   - Add a lockdep assertion to detect unsafe accesses of vmcs12
     structures

   - Harden eVMCS loading against an impossible NULL pointer deref
     (really truly should be impossible)

   - Minor SGX fix and a cleanup

   - Misc cleanups

  Generic:

   - Register KVM's cpuhp and syscore callbacks when enabling
     virtualization in hardware, as the sole purpose of said callbacks
     is to disable and re-enable virtualization as needed

   - Enable virtualization when KVM is loaded, not right before the
     first VM is created

     Together with the previous change, this simplifies a lot the logic
     of the callbacks, because their very existence implies
     virtualization is enabled

   - Fix a bug that results in KVM prematurely exiting to userspace for
     coalesced MMIO/PIO in many cases, clean up the related code, and
     add a testcase

   - Fix a bug in kvm_clear_guest() where it would trigger a buffer
     overflow _if_ the gpa+len crosses a page boundary, which thankfully
     is guaranteed to not happen in the current code base. Add WARNs in
     more helpers that read/write guest memory to detect similar bugs

  Selftests:

   - Fix a goof that caused some Hyper-V tests to be skipped when run on
     bare metal, i.e. NOT in a VM

   - Add a regression test for KVM's handling of SHUTDOWN for an SEV-ES
     guest

   - Explicitly include one-off assets in .gitignore. Past Sean was
     completely wrong about not being able to detect missing .gitignore
     entries

   - Verify userspace single-stepping works when KVM happens to handle a
     VM-Exit in its fastpath

   - Misc cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (127 commits)
  Documentation: KVM: fix warning in "make htmldocs"
  s390: Enable KVM_S390_UCONTROL config in debug_defconfig
  selftests: kvm: s390: Add VM run test case
  KVM: SVM: let alternatives handle the cases when RSB filling is required
  KVM: VMX: Set PFERR_GUEST_{FINAL,PAGE}_MASK if and only if the GVA is valid
  KVM: x86/mmu: Use KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE() instead of an open coded equivalent
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add KVM_RMAP_MANY to replace open coded '1' and '1ul' literals
  KVM: x86/mmu: Fold mmu_spte_age() into kvm_rmap_age_gfn_range()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Morph kvm_handle_gfn_range() into an aging specific helper
  KVM: x86/mmu: Honor NEED_RESCHED when zapping rmaps and blocking is allowed
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add a helper to walk and zap rmaps for a memslot
  KVM: x86/mmu: Plumb a @can_yield parameter into __walk_slot_rmaps()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Move walk_slot_rmaps() up near for_each_slot_rmap_range()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN on MMIO cache hit when emulating write-protected gfn
  KVM: x86/mmu: Detect if unprotect will do anything based on invalid_list
  KVM: x86/mmu: Subsume kvm_mmu_unprotect_page() into the and_retry() version
  KVM: x86: Rename reexecute_instruction()=&gt;kvm_unprotect_and_retry_on_failure()
  KVM: x86: Update retry protection fields when forcing retry on emulation failure
  KVM: x86: Apply retry protection to "unprotect on failure" path
  KVM: x86: Check EMULTYPE_WRITE_PF_TO_SP before unprotecting gfn
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2024-09-22T16:47:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-22T16:47:16+00:00</published>
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Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - tracing/ring-buffer: persistent buffer across reboots

   This allows for the tracing instance ring buffer to stay persistent
   across reboots. The way this is done is by adding to the kernel
   command line:

     trace_instance=boot_map@0x285400000:12M

   This will reserve 12 megabytes at the address 0x285400000, and then
   map the tracing instance "boot_map" ring buffer to that memory. This
   will appear as a normal instance in the tracefs system:

     /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_map

   A user could enable tracing in that instance, and on reboot or kernel
   crash, if the memory is not wiped by the firmware, it will recreate
   the trace in that instance. For example, if one was debugging a
   shutdown of a kernel reboot:

     # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
     # echo function &gt; instances/boot_map/current_tracer
     # reboot
     [..]
     # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
     # tail instances/boot_map/trace
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549800: restore_boot_irq_mode &lt;-native_machine_shutdown
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549801: native_restore_boot_irq_mode &lt;-native_machine_shutdown
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549802: disconnect_bsp_APIC &lt;-native_machine_shutdown
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549811: hpet_disable &lt;-native_machine_shutdown
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549812: iommu_shutdown_noop &lt;-native_machine_restart
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549813: native_machine_emergency_restart &lt;-__do_sys_reboot
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549813: tboot_shutdown &lt;-native_machine_emergency_restart
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549820: acpi_reboot &lt;-native_machine_emergency_restart
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549821: acpi_reset &lt;-acpi_reboot
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549822: acpi_os_write_port &lt;-acpi_reboot

   On reboot, the buffer is examined to make sure it is valid. The
   validation check even steps through every event to make sure the meta
   data of the event is correct. If any test fails, it will simply reset
   the buffer, and the buffer will be empty on boot.

 - Allow the tracing persistent boot buffer to use the "reserve_mem"
   option

   Instead of having the admin find a physical address to store the
   persistent buffer, which can be very tedious if they have to
   administrate several different machines, allow them to use the
   "reserve_mem" option that will find a location for them. It is not as
   reliable because of KASLR, as the loading of the kernel in different
   locations can cause the memory allocated to be inconsistent. Booting
   with "nokaslr" can make reserve_mem more reliable.

 - Have function graph tracer handle offsets from a previous boot.

   The ring buffer output from a previous boot may have different
   addresses due to kaslr. Have the function graph tracer handle these
   by using the delta from the previous boot to the new boot address
   space.

 - Only reset the saved meta offset when the buffer is started or reset

   In the persistent memory meta data, it holds the previous address
   space information, so that it can calculate the delta to have
   function tracing work. But this gets updated after being read to hold
   the new address space. But if the buffer isn't used for that boot, on
   reboot, the delta is now calculated from the previous boot and not
   the boot that holds the data in the ring buffer. This causes the
   functions not to be shown. Do not save the address space information
   of the current kernel until it is being recorded.

 - Add a magic variable to test the valid meta data

   Add a magic variable in the meta data that can also be used for
   validation. The validator of the previous buffer doesn't need this
   magic data, but it can be used if the meta data is changed by a new
   kernel, which may have the same format that passes the validator but
   is used differently. This magic number can also be used as a
   "versioning" of the meta data.

 - Align user space mapped ring buffer sub buffers to improve TLB
   entries

   Linus mentioned that the mapped ring buffer sub buffers were
   misaligned between the meta page and the sub-buffers, so that if the
   sub-buffers were bigger than PAGE_SIZE, it wouldn't allow the TLB to
   use bigger entries.

 - Add new kernel command line "traceoff" to disable tracing on boot for
   instances

   If tracing is enabled for a boot instance, there needs a way to be
   able to disable it on boot so that new events do not get entered into
   the ring buffer and be mixed with events from a previous boot, as
   that can be confusing.

 - Allow trace_printk() to go to other instances

   Currently, trace_printk() can only go to the top level instance. When
   debugging with a persistent buffer, it is really useful to be able to
   add trace_printk() to go to that buffer, so that you have access to
   them after a crash.

 - Do not use "bin_printk()" for traces to a boot instance

   The bin_printk() saves only a pointer to the printk format in the
   ring buffer, as the reader of the buffer can still have access to it.
   But this is not the case if the buffer is from a previous boot. If
   the trace_printk() is going to a "persistent" buffer, it will use the
   slower version that writes the printk format into the buffer.

 - Add command line option to allow trace_printk() to go to an instance

   Allow the kernel command line to define which instance the
   trace_printk() goes to, instead of forcing the admin to set it for
   every boot via the tracefs options.

 - Start a document that explains how to use tracefs to debug the kernel

 - Add some more kernel selftests to test user mapped ring buffer

* tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (28 commits)
  selftests/ring-buffer: Handle meta-page bigger than the system
  selftests/ring-buffer: Verify the entire meta-page padding
  tracing/Documentation: Start a document on how to debug with tracing
  tracing: Add option to set an instance to be the trace_printk destination
  tracing: Have trace_printk not use binary prints if boot buffer
  tracing: Allow trace_printk() to go to other instance buffers
  tracing: Add "traceoff" flag to boot time tracing instances
  ring-buffer: Align meta-page to sub-buffers for improved TLB usage
  ring-buffer: Add magic and struct size to boot up meta data
  ring-buffer: Don't reset persistent ring-buffer meta saved addresses
  tracing/fgraph: Have fgraph handle previous boot function addresses
  tracing: Allow boot instances to use reserve_mem boot memory
  tracing: Fix ifdef of snapshots to not prevent last_boot_info file
  ring-buffer: Use vma_pages() helper function
  tracing: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() check in enable_instances()
  tracing: Add last boot delta offset for stack traces
  tracing: Update function tracing output for previous boot buffer
  tracing: Handle old buffer mappings for event strings and functions
  tracing/ring-buffer: Add last_boot_info file to boot instance
  ring-buffer: Save text and data locations in mapped meta data
  ...
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Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - tracing/ring-buffer: persistent buffer across reboots

   This allows for the tracing instance ring buffer to stay persistent
   across reboots. The way this is done is by adding to the kernel
   command line:

     trace_instance=boot_map@0x285400000:12M

   This will reserve 12 megabytes at the address 0x285400000, and then
   map the tracing instance "boot_map" ring buffer to that memory. This
   will appear as a normal instance in the tracefs system:

     /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_map

   A user could enable tracing in that instance, and on reboot or kernel
   crash, if the memory is not wiped by the firmware, it will recreate
   the trace in that instance. For example, if one was debugging a
   shutdown of a kernel reboot:

     # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
     # echo function &gt; instances/boot_map/current_tracer
     # reboot
     [..]
     # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
     # tail instances/boot_map/trace
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549800: restore_boot_irq_mode &lt;-native_machine_shutdown
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549801: native_restore_boot_irq_mode &lt;-native_machine_shutdown
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549802: disconnect_bsp_APIC &lt;-native_machine_shutdown
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549811: hpet_disable &lt;-native_machine_shutdown
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549812: iommu_shutdown_noop &lt;-native_machine_restart
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549813: native_machine_emergency_restart &lt;-__do_sys_reboot
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549813: tboot_shutdown &lt;-native_machine_emergency_restart
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549820: acpi_reboot &lt;-native_machine_emergency_restart
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549821: acpi_reset &lt;-acpi_reboot
           swapper/0-1       [000] d..1.   164.549822: acpi_os_write_port &lt;-acpi_reboot

   On reboot, the buffer is examined to make sure it is valid. The
   validation check even steps through every event to make sure the meta
   data of the event is correct. If any test fails, it will simply reset
   the buffer, and the buffer will be empty on boot.

 - Allow the tracing persistent boot buffer to use the "reserve_mem"
   option

   Instead of having the admin find a physical address to store the
   persistent buffer, which can be very tedious if they have to
   administrate several different machines, allow them to use the
   "reserve_mem" option that will find a location for them. It is not as
   reliable because of KASLR, as the loading of the kernel in different
   locations can cause the memory allocated to be inconsistent. Booting
   with "nokaslr" can make reserve_mem more reliable.

 - Have function graph tracer handle offsets from a previous boot.

   The ring buffer output from a previous boot may have different
   addresses due to kaslr. Have the function graph tracer handle these
   by using the delta from the previous boot to the new boot address
   space.

 - Only reset the saved meta offset when the buffer is started or reset

   In the persistent memory meta data, it holds the previous address
   space information, so that it can calculate the delta to have
   function tracing work. But this gets updated after being read to hold
   the new address space. But if the buffer isn't used for that boot, on
   reboot, the delta is now calculated from the previous boot and not
   the boot that holds the data in the ring buffer. This causes the
   functions not to be shown. Do not save the address space information
   of the current kernel until it is being recorded.

 - Add a magic variable to test the valid meta data

   Add a magic variable in the meta data that can also be used for
   validation. The validator of the previous buffer doesn't need this
   magic data, but it can be used if the meta data is changed by a new
   kernel, which may have the same format that passes the validator but
   is used differently. This magic number can also be used as a
   "versioning" of the meta data.

 - Align user space mapped ring buffer sub buffers to improve TLB
   entries

   Linus mentioned that the mapped ring buffer sub buffers were
   misaligned between the meta page and the sub-buffers, so that if the
   sub-buffers were bigger than PAGE_SIZE, it wouldn't allow the TLB to
   use bigger entries.

 - Add new kernel command line "traceoff" to disable tracing on boot for
   instances

   If tracing is enabled for a boot instance, there needs a way to be
   able to disable it on boot so that new events do not get entered into
   the ring buffer and be mixed with events from a previous boot, as
   that can be confusing.

 - Allow trace_printk() to go to other instances

   Currently, trace_printk() can only go to the top level instance. When
   debugging with a persistent buffer, it is really useful to be able to
   add trace_printk() to go to that buffer, so that you have access to
   them after a crash.

 - Do not use "bin_printk()" for traces to a boot instance

   The bin_printk() saves only a pointer to the printk format in the
   ring buffer, as the reader of the buffer can still have access to it.
   But this is not the case if the buffer is from a previous boot. If
   the trace_printk() is going to a "persistent" buffer, it will use the
   slower version that writes the printk format into the buffer.

 - Add command line option to allow trace_printk() to go to an instance

   Allow the kernel command line to define which instance the
   trace_printk() goes to, instead of forcing the admin to set it for
   every boot via the tracefs options.

 - Start a document that explains how to use tracefs to debug the kernel

 - Add some more kernel selftests to test user mapped ring buffer

* tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (28 commits)
  selftests/ring-buffer: Handle meta-page bigger than the system
  selftests/ring-buffer: Verify the entire meta-page padding
  tracing/Documentation: Start a document on how to debug with tracing
  tracing: Add option to set an instance to be the trace_printk destination
  tracing: Have trace_printk not use binary prints if boot buffer
  tracing: Allow trace_printk() to go to other instance buffers
  tracing: Add "traceoff" flag to boot time tracing instances
  ring-buffer: Align meta-page to sub-buffers for improved TLB usage
  ring-buffer: Add magic and struct size to boot up meta data
  ring-buffer: Don't reset persistent ring-buffer meta saved addresses
  tracing/fgraph: Have fgraph handle previous boot function addresses
  tracing: Allow boot instances to use reserve_mem boot memory
  tracing: Fix ifdef of snapshots to not prevent last_boot_info file
  ring-buffer: Use vma_pages() helper function
  tracing: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() check in enable_instances()
  tracing: Add last boot delta offset for stack traces
  tracing: Update function tracing output for previous boot buffer
  tracing: Handle old buffer mappings for event strings and functions
  tracing/ring-buffer: Add last_boot_info file to boot instance
  ring-buffer: Save text and data locations in mapped meta data
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-09-21T14:29:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-21T14:29:05+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series
  in this pull request are:

   - "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds
     consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation
     functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification.

   - "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes -
     mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications.

   - "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No
     functional changes - code cleanups only.

   - "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a
     little cleanup.

   - "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and
     simplifications and .text shrinkage.

   - "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel
     Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as

       $ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
       kstack_1k 3
       kstack_2k 188
       kstack_4k 11391
       kstack_8k 243
       kstack_16k 0

     which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at
     all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but
     partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project".

   - "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel
     Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory.

   - "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3
     independent small optimizations of page counters".

   - "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from
     David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes
     powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident.

   - "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand.
     Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible()
     unneeded.

   - "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David
     Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the
     cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector.

   - "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation
     APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions,
     even from a userspace-only harness.

   - "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix
     issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved
     performance.

   - "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill
     in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo.

   - "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand.
     Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk())
     resulting in the removal of follow_page().

   - "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat
     Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant
     reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown.

   - "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill
     Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature,

   - "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on
     DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied
     yet.

   - "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha
     Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple
     tree library code.

   - "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move
     more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code.

   - "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt.
     Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are
     deprecated.

   - "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from
     Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap
     allocation.

   - "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various
     disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic
     code.

   - "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly
     improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes.

   - "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin
     Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into
     simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem.

   - "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice
     performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios.

   - "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for
     khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios.

   - "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect()
     performance regression due to the addition of mseal().

   - "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew
     Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type!

   - "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy
     page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their
     accessors/mutators can be removed.

   - "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama
     Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading
     zero-filled zswap pages to backing store.

   - "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race
     window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during
     an unrelated vma tree walk.

   - "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of
     the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and
     better tested.

   - "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park.
     Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests.

   - "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang.
     Code cleanups and folio conversions.

   - "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts.
     Cleanups for shmem controls and stats.

   - "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song.
     Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning.

   - "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more
     folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs.

   - "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with
     per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram
     rationalization.

   - "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from
     SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates.

   - "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and
     improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page
     allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags.

   - "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy.
     This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas.

   - "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky.
     Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning.

   - "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped
     area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area()
     implementations to better respect guard areas.

   - "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability
     of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups.

   - "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge
     pfnmap support.

   - "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()"
     from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with
     CXL memory.

   - "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches
     a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering
     of poisoned memry.

   - "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support
     the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather
     than into single-page folios"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits)
  zram: free secondary algorithms names
  uprobes: turn xol_area-&gt;pages[2] into xol_area-&gt;page
  uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping
  Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality"
  mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices
  mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios
  mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap
  mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries
  set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs
  mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
  memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
  mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units
  mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page()
  mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault()
  resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()
  resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource
  mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD
  vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support
  mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings
  mm/x86: support large pfn mappings
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series
  in this pull request are:

   - "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds
     consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation
     functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification.

   - "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes -
     mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications.

   - "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No
     functional changes - code cleanups only.

   - "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a
     little cleanup.

   - "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and
     simplifications and .text shrinkage.

   - "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel
     Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as

       $ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
       kstack_1k 3
       kstack_2k 188
       kstack_4k 11391
       kstack_8k 243
       kstack_16k 0

     which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at
     all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but
     partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project".

   - "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel
     Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory.

   - "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3
     independent small optimizations of page counters".

   - "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from
     David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes
     powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident.

   - "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand.
     Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible()
     unneeded.

   - "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David
     Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the
     cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector.

   - "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation
     APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions,
     even from a userspace-only harness.

   - "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix
     issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved
     performance.

   - "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill
     in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo.

   - "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand.
     Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk())
     resulting in the removal of follow_page().

   - "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat
     Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant
     reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown.

   - "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill
     Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature,

   - "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on
     DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied
     yet.

   - "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha
     Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple
     tree library code.

   - "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move
     more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code.

   - "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt.
     Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are
     deprecated.

   - "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from
     Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap
     allocation.

   - "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various
     disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic
     code.

   - "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly
     improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes.

   - "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin
     Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into
     simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem.

   - "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice
     performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios.

   - "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for
     khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios.

   - "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect()
     performance regression due to the addition of mseal().

   - "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew
     Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type!

   - "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy
     page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their
     accessors/mutators can be removed.

   - "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama
     Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading
     zero-filled zswap pages to backing store.

   - "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race
     window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during
     an unrelated vma tree walk.

   - "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of
     the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and
     better tested.

   - "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park.
     Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests.

   - "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang.
     Code cleanups and folio conversions.

   - "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts.
     Cleanups for shmem controls and stats.

   - "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song.
     Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning.

   - "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more
     folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs.

   - "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with
     per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram
     rationalization.

   - "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from
     SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates.

   - "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and
     improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page
     allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags.

   - "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy.
     This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas.

   - "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky.
     Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning.

   - "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped
     area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area()
     implementations to better respect guard areas.

   - "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability
     of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups.

   - "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge
     pfnmap support.

   - "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()"
     from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with
     CXL memory.

   - "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches
     a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering
     of poisoned memry.

   - "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support
     the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather
     than into single-page folios"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits)
  zram: free secondary algorithms names
  uprobes: turn xol_area-&gt;pages[2] into xol_area-&gt;page
  uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping
  Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality"
  mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices
  mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios
  mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap
  mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries
  set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs
  mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
  memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
  mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units
  mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page()
  mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault()
  resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()
  resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource
  mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD
  vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support
  mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings
  mm/x86: support large pfn mappings
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iommu/linux</title>
<updated>2024-09-18T10:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-18T10:45:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=eec91e22fe9f05846a7410beab671f26bef7ba7b'/>
<id>eec91e22fe9f05846a7410beab671f26bef7ba7b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "Core changes:
   - Allow ATS on VF when parent device is identity mapped
   - Optimize unmap path on ARM io-pagetable implementation
   - Use of_property_present()

  ARM-SMMU changes:
   - SMMUv2:
       - Devicetree binding updates for Qualcomm MMU-500 implementations
       - Extend workarounds for broken Qualcomm hypervisor to avoid
         touching features that are not available (e.g. 16KiB page
         support, reserved context banks)
   - SMMUv3:
       - Support for NVIDIA's custom virtual command queue hardware
       - Fix Stage-2 stall configuration and extend tests to cover this
         area
       - A bunch of driver cleanups, including simplification of the
         master rbtree code
   - Minor cleanups and fixes across both drivers

  Intel VT-d changes:
   - Retire si_domain and convert to use static identity domain
   - Batched IOTLB/dev-IOTLB invalidation
   - Small code refactoring and cleanups

  AMD-Vi changes:
   - Cleanup and refactoring of io-pagetable code
   - Add parameter to limit the used io-pagesizes
   - Other cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iommu/linux: (77 commits)
  dt-bindings: arm-smmu: Add compatible for QCS8300 SoC
  iommu/amd: Test for PAGING domains before freeing a domain
  iommu/amd: Fix argument order in amd_iommu_dev_flush_pasid_all()
  iommu/amd: Add kernel parameters to limit V1 page-sizes
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Reorganize struct arm_smmu_ctx_desc_cfg
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add types for each level of the CD table
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Shrink the cdtab l1_desc array
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Do not use devm for the cd table allocations
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Remove strtab_base/cfg
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Reorganize struct arm_smmu_strtab_cfg
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add types for each level of the 2 level stream table
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add arm_smmu_strtab_l1/2_idx()
  iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: apply num_context_bank fixes for SDM630 / SDM660
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use the new rb tree helpers
  dt-bindings: arm-smmu: document the support on SA8255p
  iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Do not allocate vcmdq until dma_set_mask_and_coherent
  iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Drop static at local variable
  iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Fix ioremap() error handling in probe()
  iommu/amd: Do not set the D bit on AMD v2 table entries
  iommu/amd: Correct the reported page sizes from the V1 table
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "Core changes:
   - Allow ATS on VF when parent device is identity mapped
   - Optimize unmap path on ARM io-pagetable implementation
   - Use of_property_present()

  ARM-SMMU changes:
   - SMMUv2:
       - Devicetree binding updates for Qualcomm MMU-500 implementations
       - Extend workarounds for broken Qualcomm hypervisor to avoid
         touching features that are not available (e.g. 16KiB page
         support, reserved context banks)
   - SMMUv3:
       - Support for NVIDIA's custom virtual command queue hardware
       - Fix Stage-2 stall configuration and extend tests to cover this
         area
       - A bunch of driver cleanups, including simplification of the
         master rbtree code
   - Minor cleanups and fixes across both drivers

  Intel VT-d changes:
   - Retire si_domain and convert to use static identity domain
   - Batched IOTLB/dev-IOTLB invalidation
   - Small code refactoring and cleanups

  AMD-Vi changes:
   - Cleanup and refactoring of io-pagetable code
   - Add parameter to limit the used io-pagesizes
   - Other cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'iommu-updates-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iommu/linux: (77 commits)
  dt-bindings: arm-smmu: Add compatible for QCS8300 SoC
  iommu/amd: Test for PAGING domains before freeing a domain
  iommu/amd: Fix argument order in amd_iommu_dev_flush_pasid_all()
  iommu/amd: Add kernel parameters to limit V1 page-sizes
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Reorganize struct arm_smmu_ctx_desc_cfg
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add types for each level of the CD table
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Shrink the cdtab l1_desc array
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Do not use devm for the cd table allocations
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Remove strtab_base/cfg
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Reorganize struct arm_smmu_strtab_cfg
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add types for each level of the 2 level stream table
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add arm_smmu_strtab_l1/2_idx()
  iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: apply num_context_bank fixes for SDM630 / SDM660
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use the new rb tree helpers
  dt-bindings: arm-smmu: document the support on SA8255p
  iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Do not allocate vcmdq until dma_set_mask_and_coherent
  iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Drop static at local variable
  iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Fix ioremap() error handling in probe()
  iommu/amd: Do not set the D bit on AMD v2 table entries
  iommu/amd: Correct the reported page sizes from the V1 table
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux</title>
<updated>2024-09-18T05:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-18T05:52:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=067610ebaaec53809794807842a2fcf5f1f5b9eb'/>
<id>067610ebaaec53809794807842a2fcf5f1f5b9eb</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull RCU updates from Neeraj Upadhyay:
 "Context tracking:
   - rename context tracking state related symbols and remove references
     to "dynticks" in various context tracking state variables and
     related helpers
   - force context_tracking_enabled_this_cpu() to be inlined to avoid
     leaving a noinstr section

  CSD lock:
   - enhance CSD-lock diagnostic reports
   - add an API to provide an indication of ongoing CSD-lock stall

  nocb:
   - update and simplify RCU nocb code to handle (de-)offloading of
     callbacks only for offline CPUs
   - fix RT throttling hrtimer being armed from offline CPU

  rcutorture:
   - remove redundant rcu_torture_ops get_gp_completed fields
   - add SRCU -&gt;same_gp_state and -&gt;get_comp_state functions
   - add generic test for NUM_ACTIVE_*RCU_POLL* for testing RCU and SRCU
     polled grace periods
   - add CFcommon.arch for arch-specific Kconfig options
   - print number of update types in rcu_torture_write_types()
   - add rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay testing to the TREE07 scenario
   - add a stall_cpu_repeat module parameter to test repeated CPU stalls
   - add argument to limit number of CPUs a guest OS can use in
     torture.sh

  rcustall:
   - abbreviate RCU CPU stall warnings during CSD-lock stalls
   - Allow dump_cpu_task() to be called without disabling preemption
   - defer printing stall-warning backtrace when holding rcu_node lock

  srcu:
   - make SRCU gp seq wrap-around faster
   - add KCSAN checks for concurrent updates to -&gt;srcu_n_exp_nodelay and
     -&gt;reschedule_count which are used in heuristics governing
     auto-expediting of normal SRCU grace periods and
     grace-period-state-machine delays
   - mark idle SRCU-barrier callbacks to help identify stuck
     SRCU-barrier callback

  rcu tasks:
   - remove RCU Tasks Rude asynchronous APIs as they are no longer used
   - stop testing RCU Tasks Rude asynchronous APIs
   - fix access to non-existent percpu regions
   - check processor-ID assumptions during chosen CPU calculation for
     callback enqueuing
   - update description of rtp-&gt;tasks_gp_seq grace-period sequence
     number
   - add rcu_barrier_cb_is_done() to identify whether a given
     rcu_barrier callback is stuck
   - mark idle Tasks-RCU-barrier callbacks
   - add *torture_stats_print() functions to print detailed diagnostics
     for Tasks-RCU variants
   - capture start time of rcu_barrier_tasks*() operation to help
     distinguish a hung barrier operation from a long series of barrier
     operations

  refscale:
   - add a TINY scenario to support tests of Tiny RCU and Tiny
     SRCU
   - optimize process_durations() operation

  rcuscale:
   - dump stacks of stalled rcu_scale_writer() instances and
     grace-period statistics when rcu_scale_writer() stalls
   - mark idle RCU-barrier callbacks to identify stuck RCU-barrier
     callbacks
   - print detailed grace-period and barrier diagnostics on
     rcu_scale_writer() hangs for Tasks-RCU variants
   - warn if async module parameter is specified for RCU implementations
     that do not have async primitives such as RCU Tasks Rude
   - make all writer tasks report upon hang
   - tolerate repeated GFP_KERNEL failure in rcu_scale_writer()
   - use special allocator for rcu_scale_writer()
   - NULL out top-level pointers to heap memory to avoid double-free
     bugs on modprobe failures
   - maintain per-task instead of per-CPU callbacks count to avoid any
     issues with migration of either tasks or callbacks
   - constify struct ref_scale_ops

  Fixes:
   - use system_unbound_wq for kfree_rcu work to avoid disturbing
     isolated CPUs

  Misc:
   - warn on unexpected rcu_state.srs_done_tail state
   - better define "atomic" for list_replace_rcu() and
     hlist_replace_rcu() routines
   - annotate struct kvfree_rcu_bulk_data with __counted_by()"

* tag 'rcu.release.v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (90 commits)
  rcu: Defer printing stall-warning backtrace when holding rcu_node lock
  rcu/nocb: Remove superfluous memory barrier after bypass enqueue
  rcu/nocb: Conditionally wake up rcuo if not already waiting on GP
  rcu/nocb: Fix RT throttling hrtimer armed from offline CPU
  rcu/nocb: Simplify (de-)offloading state machine
  context_tracking: Tag context_tracking_enabled_this_cpu() __always_inline
  context_tracking, rcu: Rename rcu_dyntick trace event into rcu_watching
  rcu: Update stray documentation references to rcu_dynticks_eqs_{enter, exit}()
  rcu: Rename rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() into rcu_momentary_eqs()
  rcu: Rename rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() into rcu_watching_snap_recheck()
  rcu: Rename dyntick_save_progress_counter() into rcu_watching_snap_save()
  rcu: Rename struct rcu_data .exp_dynticks_snap into .exp_watching_snap
  rcu: Rename struct rcu_data .dynticks_snap into .watching_snap
  rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs() into rcu_watching_zero_in_eqs()
  rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_in_eqs_since() into rcu_watching_snap_stopped_since()
  rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_in_eqs() into rcu_watching_snap_in_eqs()
  rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() into rcu_watching_online()
  context_tracking, rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs() into rcu_is_watching_curr_cpu()
  context_tracking, rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_task*() into rcu_task*()
  refscale: Constify struct ref_scale_ops
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull RCU updates from Neeraj Upadhyay:
 "Context tracking:
   - rename context tracking state related symbols and remove references
     to "dynticks" in various context tracking state variables and
     related helpers
   - force context_tracking_enabled_this_cpu() to be inlined to avoid
     leaving a noinstr section

  CSD lock:
   - enhance CSD-lock diagnostic reports
   - add an API to provide an indication of ongoing CSD-lock stall

  nocb:
   - update and simplify RCU nocb code to handle (de-)offloading of
     callbacks only for offline CPUs
   - fix RT throttling hrtimer being armed from offline CPU

  rcutorture:
   - remove redundant rcu_torture_ops get_gp_completed fields
   - add SRCU -&gt;same_gp_state and -&gt;get_comp_state functions
   - add generic test for NUM_ACTIVE_*RCU_POLL* for testing RCU and SRCU
     polled grace periods
   - add CFcommon.arch for arch-specific Kconfig options
   - print number of update types in rcu_torture_write_types()
   - add rcutree.nohz_full_patience_delay testing to the TREE07 scenario
   - add a stall_cpu_repeat module parameter to test repeated CPU stalls
   - add argument to limit number of CPUs a guest OS can use in
     torture.sh

  rcustall:
   - abbreviate RCU CPU stall warnings during CSD-lock stalls
   - Allow dump_cpu_task() to be called without disabling preemption
   - defer printing stall-warning backtrace when holding rcu_node lock

  srcu:
   - make SRCU gp seq wrap-around faster
   - add KCSAN checks for concurrent updates to -&gt;srcu_n_exp_nodelay and
     -&gt;reschedule_count which are used in heuristics governing
     auto-expediting of normal SRCU grace periods and
     grace-period-state-machine delays
   - mark idle SRCU-barrier callbacks to help identify stuck
     SRCU-barrier callback

  rcu tasks:
   - remove RCU Tasks Rude asynchronous APIs as they are no longer used
   - stop testing RCU Tasks Rude asynchronous APIs
   - fix access to non-existent percpu regions
   - check processor-ID assumptions during chosen CPU calculation for
     callback enqueuing
   - update description of rtp-&gt;tasks_gp_seq grace-period sequence
     number
   - add rcu_barrier_cb_is_done() to identify whether a given
     rcu_barrier callback is stuck
   - mark idle Tasks-RCU-barrier callbacks
   - add *torture_stats_print() functions to print detailed diagnostics
     for Tasks-RCU variants
   - capture start time of rcu_barrier_tasks*() operation to help
     distinguish a hung barrier operation from a long series of barrier
     operations

  refscale:
   - add a TINY scenario to support tests of Tiny RCU and Tiny
     SRCU
   - optimize process_durations() operation

  rcuscale:
   - dump stacks of stalled rcu_scale_writer() instances and
     grace-period statistics when rcu_scale_writer() stalls
   - mark idle RCU-barrier callbacks to identify stuck RCU-barrier
     callbacks
   - print detailed grace-period and barrier diagnostics on
     rcu_scale_writer() hangs for Tasks-RCU variants
   - warn if async module parameter is specified for RCU implementations
     that do not have async primitives such as RCU Tasks Rude
   - make all writer tasks report upon hang
   - tolerate repeated GFP_KERNEL failure in rcu_scale_writer()
   - use special allocator for rcu_scale_writer()
   - NULL out top-level pointers to heap memory to avoid double-free
     bugs on modprobe failures
   - maintain per-task instead of per-CPU callbacks count to avoid any
     issues with migration of either tasks or callbacks
   - constify struct ref_scale_ops

  Fixes:
   - use system_unbound_wq for kfree_rcu work to avoid disturbing
     isolated CPUs

  Misc:
   - warn on unexpected rcu_state.srs_done_tail state
   - better define "atomic" for list_replace_rcu() and
     hlist_replace_rcu() routines
   - annotate struct kvfree_rcu_bulk_data with __counted_by()"

* tag 'rcu.release.v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (90 commits)
  rcu: Defer printing stall-warning backtrace when holding rcu_node lock
  rcu/nocb: Remove superfluous memory barrier after bypass enqueue
  rcu/nocb: Conditionally wake up rcuo if not already waiting on GP
  rcu/nocb: Fix RT throttling hrtimer armed from offline CPU
  rcu/nocb: Simplify (de-)offloading state machine
  context_tracking: Tag context_tracking_enabled_this_cpu() __always_inline
  context_tracking, rcu: Rename rcu_dyntick trace event into rcu_watching
  rcu: Update stray documentation references to rcu_dynticks_eqs_{enter, exit}()
  rcu: Rename rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() into rcu_momentary_eqs()
  rcu: Rename rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() into rcu_watching_snap_recheck()
  rcu: Rename dyntick_save_progress_counter() into rcu_watching_snap_save()
  rcu: Rename struct rcu_data .exp_dynticks_snap into .exp_watching_snap
  rcu: Rename struct rcu_data .dynticks_snap into .watching_snap
  rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs() into rcu_watching_zero_in_eqs()
  rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_in_eqs_since() into rcu_watching_snap_stopped_since()
  rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_in_eqs() into rcu_watching_snap_in_eqs()
  rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() into rcu_watching_online()
  context_tracking, rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs() into rcu_is_watching_curr_cpu()
  context_tracking, rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_task*() into rcu_task*()
  refscale: Constify struct ref_scale_ops
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'wq-for-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2024-09-18T04:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-18T04:59:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=85a77db95af4915b235b3cffb7eff9a1a2206d14'/>
<id>85a77db95af4915b235b3cffb7eff9a1a2206d14</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing major:

   - workqueue.panic_on_stall boot param added

   - alloc_workqueue_lockdep_map() added (used by DRM)

   - Other cleanusp and doc updates"

* tag 'wq-for-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  kernel/workqueue.c: fix DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED expansion
  workqueue: Fix another htmldocs build warning
  workqueue: fix null-ptr-deref on __alloc_workqueue() error
  workqueue: Don't call va_start / va_end twice
  workqueue: Fix htmldocs build warning
  workqueue: Add interface for user-defined workqueue lockdep map
  workqueue: Change workqueue lockdep map to pointer
  workqueue: Split alloc_workqueue into internal function and lockdep init
  Documentation: kernel-parameters: add workqueue.panic_on_stall
  workqueue: add cmdline parameter workqueue.panic_on_stall
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing major:

   - workqueue.panic_on_stall boot param added

   - alloc_workqueue_lockdep_map() added (used by DRM)

   - Other cleanusp and doc updates"

* tag 'wq-for-6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  kernel/workqueue.c: fix DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED expansion
  workqueue: Fix another htmldocs build warning
  workqueue: fix null-ptr-deref on __alloc_workqueue() error
  workqueue: Don't call va_start / va_end twice
  workqueue: Fix htmldocs build warning
  workqueue: Add interface for user-defined workqueue lockdep map
  workqueue: Change workqueue lockdep map to pointer
  workqueue: Split alloc_workqueue into internal function and lockdep init
  Documentation: kernel-parameters: add workqueue.panic_on_stall
  workqueue: add cmdline parameter workqueue.panic_on_stall
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-6.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2024-09-17T14:44:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-17T14:44:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d58db3f3a00af00fce5f914c9d1a946ef7feecb6'/>
<id>d58db3f3a00af00fce5f914c9d1a946ef7feecb6</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Another relatively mundane cycle for docs:

   - The beginning of an EEVDF scheduler document

   - More Chinese translations

   - A rethrashing of our bisection documentation

  ...plus the usual array of smaller fixes, and more than the usual
  number of typo fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (48 commits)
  Remove duplicate "and" in 'Linux NVMe docs.
  docs:filesystems: fix spelling and grammar mistakes
  docs:filesystem: fix mispelled words on autofs page
  docs:mm: fixed spelling and grammar mistakes on vmalloc kernel stack page
  Documentation: PCI: fix typo in pci.rst
  docs/zh_CN: add the translation of kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst
  docs/process: fix typos
  docs:mm: fix spelling mistakes in heterogeneous memory management page
  accel/qaic: Fix a typo
  docs/zh_CN: update the translation of security-bugs
  docs: block: Fix grammar and spelling mistakes in bfq-iosched.rst
  Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
  Documentation/gpu: Fix typo in Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst
  scripts: sphinx-pre-install: remove unnecessary double check for $cur_version
  Loongarch: KVM: Add KVM hypercalls documentation for LoongArch
  Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted
  docs: scheduler: completion: Update member of struct completion
  docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Suppress extra spaces in CJK literal blocks
  docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4
  docs: update dev-tools/kcsan.rst url about KTSAN
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Another relatively mundane cycle for docs:

   - The beginning of an EEVDF scheduler document

   - More Chinese translations

   - A rethrashing of our bisection documentation

  ...plus the usual array of smaller fixes, and more than the usual
  number of typo fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (48 commits)
  Remove duplicate "and" in 'Linux NVMe docs.
  docs:filesystems: fix spelling and grammar mistakes
  docs:filesystem: fix mispelled words on autofs page
  docs:mm: fixed spelling and grammar mistakes on vmalloc kernel stack page
  Documentation: PCI: fix typo in pci.rst
  docs/zh_CN: add the translation of kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst
  docs/process: fix typos
  docs:mm: fix spelling mistakes in heterogeneous memory management page
  accel/qaic: Fix a typo
  docs/zh_CN: update the translation of security-bugs
  docs: block: Fix grammar and spelling mistakes in bfq-iosched.rst
  Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
  Documentation/gpu: Fix typo in Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst
  scripts: sphinx-pre-install: remove unnecessary double check for $cur_version
  Loongarch: KVM: Add KVM hypercalls documentation for LoongArch
  Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted
  docs: scheduler: completion: Update member of struct completion
  docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Suppress extra spaces in CJK literal blocks
  docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4
  docs: update dev-tools/kcsan.rst url about KTSAN
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20240911' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm</title>
<updated>2024-09-16T16:19:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-09-16T16:19:47+00:00</published>
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Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:

 - Move the LSM framework to static calls

   This transitions the vast majority of the LSM callbacks into static
   calls. Those callbacks which haven't been converted were left as-is
   due to the general ugliness of the changes required to support the
   static call conversion; we can revisit those callbacks at a future
   date.

 - Add the Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) LSM

   This adds a new LSM, Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE). There is
   plenty of documentation about IPE in this patches, so I'll refrain
   from going into too much detail here, but the basic motivation behind
   IPE is to provide a mechanism such that administrators can restrict
   execution to only those binaries which come from integrity protected
   storage, e.g. a dm-verity protected filesystem. You will notice that
   IPE requires additional LSM hooks in the initramfs, dm-verity, and
   fs-verity code, with the associated patches carrying ACK/review tags
   from the associated maintainers. We couldn't find an obvious
   maintainer for the initramfs code, but the IPE patchset has been
   widely posted over several years.

   Both Deven Bowers and Fan Wu have contributed to IPE's development
   over the past several years, with Fan Wu agreeing to serve as the IPE
   maintainer moving forward. Once IPE is accepted into your tree, I'll
   start working with Fan to ensure he has the necessary accounts, keys,
   etc. so that he can start submitting IPE pull requests to you
   directly during the next merge window.

 - Move the lifecycle management of the LSM blobs to the LSM framework

   Management of the LSM blobs (the LSM state buffers attached to
   various kernel structs, typically via a void pointer named "security"
   or similar) has been mixed, some blobs were allocated/managed by
   individual LSMs, others were managed by the LSM framework itself.

   Starting with this pull we move management of all the LSM blobs,
   minus the XFRM blob, into the framework itself, improving consistency
   across LSMs, and reducing the amount of duplicated code across LSMs.
   Due to some additional work required to migrate the XFRM blob, it has
   been left as a todo item for a later date; from a practical
   standpoint this omission should have little impact as only SELinux
   provides a XFRM LSM implementation.

 - Fix problems with the LSM's handling of F_SETOWN

   The LSM hook for the fcntl(F_SETOWN) operation had a couple of
   problems: it was racy with itself, and it was disconnected from the
   associated DAC related logic in such a way that the LSM state could
   be updated in cases where the DAC state would not. We fix both of
   these problems by moving the security_file_set_fowner() hook into the
   same section of code where the DAC attributes are updated. Not only
   does this resolve the DAC/LSM synchronization issue, but as that code
   block is protected by a lock, it also resolve the race condition.

 - Fix potential problems with the security_inode_free() LSM hook

   Due to use of RCU to protect inodes and the placement of the LSM hook
   associated with freeing the inode, there is a bit of a challenge when
   it comes to managing any LSM state associated with an inode. The VFS
   folks are not open to relocating the LSM hook so we have to get
   creative when it comes to releasing an inode's LSM state.
   Traditionally we have used a single LSM callback within the hook that
   is triggered when the inode is "marked for death", but not actually
   released due to RCU.

   Unfortunately, this causes problems for LSMs which want to take an
   action when the inode's associated LSM state is actually released; so
   we add an additional LSM callback, inode_free_security_rcu(), that is
   called when the inode's LSM state is released in the RCU free
   callback.

 - Refactor two LSM hooks to better fit the LSM return value patterns

   The vast majority of the LSM hooks follow the "return 0 on success,
   negative values on failure" pattern, however, there are a small
   handful that have unique return value behaviors which has caused
   confusion in the past and makes it difficult for the BPF verifier to
   properly vet BPF LSM programs. This includes patches to
   convert two of these"special" LSM hooks to the common 0/-ERRNO pattern.

 - Various cleanups and improvements

   A handful of patches to remove redundant code, better leverage the
   IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper, add missing "static" markings, and do some
   minor style fixups.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20240911' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (40 commits)
  security: Update file_set_fowner documentation
  fs: Fix file_set_fowner LSM hook inconsistencies
  lsm: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper function
  lsm: remove LSM_COUNT and LSM_CONFIG_COUNT
  ipe: Remove duplicated include in ipe.c
  lsm: replace indirect LSM hook calls with static calls
  lsm: count the LSMs enabled at compile time
  kernel: Add helper macros for loop unrolling
  init/main.c: Initialize early LSMs after arch code, static keys and calls.
  MAINTAINERS: add IPE entry with Fan Wu as maintainer
  documentation: add IPE documentation
  ipe: kunit test for parser
  scripts: add boot policy generation program
  ipe: enable support for fs-verity as a trust provider
  fsverity: expose verified fsverity built-in signatures to LSMs
  lsm: add security_inode_setintegrity() hook
  ipe: add support for dm-verity as a trust provider
  dm-verity: expose root hash digest and signature data to LSMs
  block,lsm: add LSM blob and new LSM hooks for block devices
  ipe: add permissive toggle
  ...
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Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:

 - Move the LSM framework to static calls

   This transitions the vast majority of the LSM callbacks into static
   calls. Those callbacks which haven't been converted were left as-is
   due to the general ugliness of the changes required to support the
   static call conversion; we can revisit those callbacks at a future
   date.

 - Add the Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) LSM

   This adds a new LSM, Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE). There is
   plenty of documentation about IPE in this patches, so I'll refrain
   from going into too much detail here, but the basic motivation behind
   IPE is to provide a mechanism such that administrators can restrict
   execution to only those binaries which come from integrity protected
   storage, e.g. a dm-verity protected filesystem. You will notice that
   IPE requires additional LSM hooks in the initramfs, dm-verity, and
   fs-verity code, with the associated patches carrying ACK/review tags
   from the associated maintainers. We couldn't find an obvious
   maintainer for the initramfs code, but the IPE patchset has been
   widely posted over several years.

   Both Deven Bowers and Fan Wu have contributed to IPE's development
   over the past several years, with Fan Wu agreeing to serve as the IPE
   maintainer moving forward. Once IPE is accepted into your tree, I'll
   start working with Fan to ensure he has the necessary accounts, keys,
   etc. so that he can start submitting IPE pull requests to you
   directly during the next merge window.

 - Move the lifecycle management of the LSM blobs to the LSM framework

   Management of the LSM blobs (the LSM state buffers attached to
   various kernel structs, typically via a void pointer named "security"
   or similar) has been mixed, some blobs were allocated/managed by
   individual LSMs, others were managed by the LSM framework itself.

   Starting with this pull we move management of all the LSM blobs,
   minus the XFRM blob, into the framework itself, improving consistency
   across LSMs, and reducing the amount of duplicated code across LSMs.
   Due to some additional work required to migrate the XFRM blob, it has
   been left as a todo item for a later date; from a practical
   standpoint this omission should have little impact as only SELinux
   provides a XFRM LSM implementation.

 - Fix problems with the LSM's handling of F_SETOWN

   The LSM hook for the fcntl(F_SETOWN) operation had a couple of
   problems: it was racy with itself, and it was disconnected from the
   associated DAC related logic in such a way that the LSM state could
   be updated in cases where the DAC state would not. We fix both of
   these problems by moving the security_file_set_fowner() hook into the
   same section of code where the DAC attributes are updated. Not only
   does this resolve the DAC/LSM synchronization issue, but as that code
   block is protected by a lock, it also resolve the race condition.

 - Fix potential problems with the security_inode_free() LSM hook

   Due to use of RCU to protect inodes and the placement of the LSM hook
   associated with freeing the inode, there is a bit of a challenge when
   it comes to managing any LSM state associated with an inode. The VFS
   folks are not open to relocating the LSM hook so we have to get
   creative when it comes to releasing an inode's LSM state.
   Traditionally we have used a single LSM callback within the hook that
   is triggered when the inode is "marked for death", but not actually
   released due to RCU.

   Unfortunately, this causes problems for LSMs which want to take an
   action when the inode's associated LSM state is actually released; so
   we add an additional LSM callback, inode_free_security_rcu(), that is
   called when the inode's LSM state is released in the RCU free
   callback.

 - Refactor two LSM hooks to better fit the LSM return value patterns

   The vast majority of the LSM hooks follow the "return 0 on success,
   negative values on failure" pattern, however, there are a small
   handful that have unique return value behaviors which has caused
   confusion in the past and makes it difficult for the BPF verifier to
   properly vet BPF LSM programs. This includes patches to
   convert two of these"special" LSM hooks to the common 0/-ERRNO pattern.

 - Various cleanups and improvements

   A handful of patches to remove redundant code, better leverage the
   IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper, add missing "static" markings, and do some
   minor style fixups.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20240911' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (40 commits)
  security: Update file_set_fowner documentation
  fs: Fix file_set_fowner LSM hook inconsistencies
  lsm: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper function
  lsm: remove LSM_COUNT and LSM_CONFIG_COUNT
  ipe: Remove duplicated include in ipe.c
  lsm: replace indirect LSM hook calls with static calls
  lsm: count the LSMs enabled at compile time
  kernel: Add helper macros for loop unrolling
  init/main.c: Initialize early LSMs after arch code, static keys and calls.
  MAINTAINERS: add IPE entry with Fan Wu as maintainer
  documentation: add IPE documentation
  ipe: kunit test for parser
  scripts: add boot policy generation program
  ipe: enable support for fs-verity as a trust provider
  fsverity: expose verified fsverity built-in signatures to LSMs
  lsm: add security_inode_setintegrity() hook
  ipe: add support for dm-verity as a trust provider
  dm-verity: expose root hash digest and signature data to LSMs
  block,lsm: add LSM blob and new LSM hooks for block devices
  ipe: add permissive toggle
  ...
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