Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd file-backed memory. Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance improvements. - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped executable file folios after their first usage to give executable code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload performance. - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong Chen) Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration. - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif) Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired producer updates. Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over 60% without impacting scan throughput. - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review. - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's memcg" (Zi Yan) Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray node memory accounting. - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick) Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests. - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon) Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function. - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin Huang) Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to reinitialization. - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia) Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in writeback_store() and read_block_state(). - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang) Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged. - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions" (Muhammad Usama Anjum) Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding retry logic for transient page migration errors. - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia) Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved writeback efficiency. - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren Baghdasaryan) Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter aggregation. This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation data to userspace. - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5" (Christoph Hellwig) Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving faster swap throughput during kernel builds. - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks" (Catalin Marinas) Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter. - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels" (Breno Leitao) Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second confirming scan. - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig) Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly export their own swap_ops. - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache) khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal documentation. - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett) Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity. Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (172 commits) selftests/proc: make proc-maps-race work with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat maple_tree: add helper mas_make_walkable() maple_tree: avoid extra gap calculation maple_tree: fix argument name in header maple_tree: change two GFP flags in tests maple_tree: document erase and allocations better maple_tree: avoid mas_erase() and mtree_erase() failures maple_tree: document that erase may use GFP_KERNEL for allocations maple_tree: catch race in mas_alloc_cyclic() maple_tree: add bulk parent set helper maple_tree: micro optimisation of mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: optimise mas_wr_node_store() when not in rcu mode maple_tree: use prefetched value in mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: clarify comments on mas_nomem() maple_tree: drop MAPLE_ALLOC_SLOTS maple_tree: drop dead code from mas_extend_spanning_null() maple_tree: documentation fix maple_tree: add write lock checking with lockdep sequence numbers ...
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving fixes, a Japanese translation that was ready long ago but fell through the cracks, and an update to the Italian translations" * tag 'docs-7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: docs: panic: Disclaimer about console verbosity when using panic_print with pstore docs: kernel-parameters: add CPU_FREQ, CPU_IDLE build options doc:it_IT: align Italian documentation in process docs: threat-model: fix /dev/kmsg reference docs: block: fix dead http link in blk-mq.rst docs/ja_JP: translate submitting-patches.rst (tag usage)
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM64:
- Add support for 'slot' based PMU events, paired with new UAPI that
compels the user to select a specific PMU implementation
- Lazy save/restore of vCPU state for pKVM, along with various fixes
and cleanups to the management of vCPU state between the untrusted
host and pKVM hypervisor
- Disable traps of EL1 registers for nested hypervisors when
FEAT_NV2p1 is present, guaranteeing that EL2-specific register bits
are stateful in the EL1 counterpart
- Leverage FEAT_NV3 to avoid unnecessary ERET/TLBI traps when the
scope of those instructions remains 'in host' (i.e. L1
kernel/userspace)
- Pile of fixes for the management of the VNCR pseudo-TLB, such as
under-invalidations and races with concurrent TLBIs on other vCPUs
- Consolidate the non-protected and pKVM view of ICH_VTR_EL2 to a
runtime-patched constant, allowing the same data to be shared with
pKVM prior to dropping host privileges
- Considerable pile of LLM-assisted fixes around the shop but mostly
in the VGIC, our in-kernel generator of bugs (and sometimes
interrupts)
LoongArch:
- Advertise already-supported capabilities
- Some bug fixes about timer and MMIO
- Some hardening about interrupt injection
- Replace kvm_err() with kvm_pr_unimpl()
- Add FPU/LSX/LASX test cases for selftests
RISC-V:
- Svadu/Zicfiss/Zicfilp FWFT support for Guest
- Use try_cmpxchg for IMSIC MRIF RMW
- More arch-specific tracepoints in KVM RISC-V
- Eager page splitting when enabling dirty logging
- Optimize hfence request handling for SMP Guests
- Improve dirty log clearing by skipping zero bits in mask
- Guard HFENCE range loops against overflow
- CPU PM notifiers in KVM RISC-V for non-retentive idle states
- Fix kernel-mode vector context save/restore for Guest
s390:
- Fixes for vfio-ap
- Fixes for the gmap rework
- Fixes for vsie
- AI triggered fixes all over
- diag9c tracing
- code move preparation for the additional arm64 support
- enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS
x86:
- Perform spring cleaning on x86.{c,h} and asm/kvm_host.h, by adding
regs.c (the kvm_cache_regs.h => regs.h is already applied) and
msrs.{c,h}, and moving relevant code out of x86.c
- Split kvm_mmu in three parts, respectively to describe the format
of page tables, walking the guest page tables and building the page
tables. Always use the same page table walker kvm->arch.gva_walk as
the entry point to convert a guest's virtual address, where the
previous code used two different kvm_mmu structs depending on
whether the walk included nested EPT/NPT or not. Make page fault
vmexits reuse the permission checking machinery that is used for
guest page faults. This is both a cleanup and a baby step towards
supporting XS/XU memory permissions
- Document some of the "fun" gotchas with the APIC base when creating
IRQCHIPs on x86
- Remove a defunct masterclock update from kvm_xen_shared_info_init().
It could result in incorrect kvmclock due to triggering an
unnecessary switch to/from masterclock mode
- Skip Xen runstate time updates if time has effectively gone
backwards, so that the guest doesn't report 100% steal time for
a very, very long time
- Drop KVM's runtime updates of the Xen PV timing CPUID leaf, as KVM
was updating the wrong sub-leaf, and upstream KVM will soon provide
all the information needed by userspace to populate the CPUID field
itself
- Fix a bug where KVM would walk a newly created rmap without holding
the rmap lock (or mmu_lock) during aging
- Fix a bug where aging TDP MMU SPTEs could clobber FROZEN SPTEs
- Fix a variety of #DB priority bugs
- Fix a class of races related to enabling Hyper-V emulation on a
vCPU after the vCPU is visible to the rest of KVM
- Use static calls for nested virtualization ops
- Move more KVM-internal code out of x86's kvm_host.h
- Enumerate support for a variety of Zhaoxin instructions that don't
require explicit virtualization
- Fix missing EFER validation bugs, including in the KVM_SET_SREGS*
path
- Harden kvm_vcpu_map() against double-mapping and thus leaking
references
- Misc fixes and cleanups, e.g. for largely benign syzkaller splats
x86 (Intel):
- Zero a vCPU's entry in VMX's Posted Interrupt Descriptor table used
for IPI virtualization when the vCPU is freed, to fix a
use-after-free where hardware will write to a freed vCPU's PID
- Service local TLB flushes on a failed nested VM-Enter to fix a bug
where KVM could miss a TLB on a future, successful VM-Enter with
the same L2 VPID
- Cap the maximum value shoved into the VMX Preemption Timer to
workaround an erratum that affects all existing Intel CPUs that
support CPUID 0x15
- Fix VPID virtualization bugs where KVM would fail to flush hardware
TLBs
- Harden the TDX "populate" ioctls against bad input, and to prepare
for supporting in-place private<=>shared conversion
x86 (AMD):
- Forcefully invalidate SNP VMSA pages if their backing guest_memfd
page is zapped/invalidated, e.g. due to a PUNCH_HOLE in response to
a Page-State Change request
- Remove a dying VM from the GA Log notifier list before the VM is
actually destroyed, to fix a potential use-after-free
- While FOLL_WRITE was needed in the past to trigger CoW unsharing,
nowadays FOLL_LONGTERM does that already even without FOLL_WRITE,
and in fact, get_user_pages() actually disallows FOLL_WRITE
together with FOLL_LONGTERM. So don't pass FOLL_WRITE when
registering encrypted memory regions, i.e. when pinning SEV/SEV-ES
guest memory, to fix a regression with file-backed memory
introduced by KVM's (correct) usage of long-term pins
(This was reviewed by mm maintainers; for more information, see
commit ee1a586dd1fa "KVM: SEV: Drop FOLL_WRITE for encrypted region
registration")
- Allocate full pages for SEV/SEV-ES {DE,EN}CRYPT ops on SNP-enabled
hosts to fix a data corruption issue due to the PSP driver
assigning to-be-written pages to firmware (as required by the SNP
specs)
- Unconditionally intercept ICBEP so that KVM generates the correct
guest RIP when handling an ICEBP-induced TASK_SWITCH #VMEXIT
- Harden the SNP "populate" ioctls against bad input, and to prepare
for supporting in-place private<=>shared conversion
Generic:
- Remove kvm_debugfs_dir if kvm_init() fails after creating KVM's
debugfs
- Add a per-VM bitmap to track which vCPU IDs have been "claimed" but
for which the vCPU isn't yet online, and use the bitmap to reject
duplicate IDs before calling into arch code. This allows arch code
to consume vcpu_id without having to worry about cross-vCPU
clobbering (at least s390 and x86 have had related bugs)
- Rework the so called "prepare" and "invalidate" guest_memfd hooks
to prepare for in-place private<=>shared conversion, and clean up a
few warts along the way
Selftests:
- Automatically allocate a full page for L2 guest stacks on x86
instead of requiring test-specific L1 guest code to carve out a
portion of the L1 stack for L2 usage, and to ensure the L2 stack
also adheres to the x86-64 calling convention ABI
- Add a selftest to verify {Guest,Host}-Only behavior in x86's
mediated PMU
- Clean up nested SVM's handling of GPRs on L2<=>L1 transitions,
reuse the functionality for nested VMX, and drop the ucall hack
that was fudging around the lack of GPR switching on nVMX
- Add a stress test to verify KVM doesn't clobber/drop #PF state,
e.g. CR2, across save/restore, including when L2 is active
- Add a test to verify KVM_CREATE_VM accepts exactly what is reported
by KVM_CAP_VM_TYPES
- Misc selftests fixes and cleanups
- Fix several issues with seeding the pRNG, and rework the pRNG APIs
to that the pRNG can be sanely used in host code, not just guest
code
- Add an IRQ test to validate virtual IRQ deliverty for IRQs wired up
via KVM_IRQFD + KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING, with optional support for
triggering IRQs via writes to an assigned VFIO device
- Add syscall wrappers to assert success on a variety of pthreads and
CPU affinity APIs
- Set vCPU pthread affinity as early as possible to reduce contention
issues that were surfaced by PREEMPT_LAZY, which result in runtimes
of over a minute on large hosts, versus the expected ~5 seconds
- Rework the PMU counters test to run each testcase using a single VM
with many vCPUs for each sub-testcase, instead of using a unique VM
for each sub-testcase. This cuts the runtime by ~20x
Miscellaneous:
- MAINTAINERS updates for vfio-ap, guest_memfd, kvm-x86. Mostly
representing the status quo more accurately, but also... welcome
David Hildenbrand as guest_memfd reviewer!"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (413 commits)
KVM: arm64: Validate GICv5 timer PPIs before claiming ownership
KVM: arm64: vgic: Reject out-of-range GICv5 PPI IDs
KVM: arm64: vgic: Prevent speculative SPI array underflow
KVM: arm64: vgic: Free gic_kvm_info on initialization failure
KVM: arm64: Avoid mismatched accesses to 'struct kvm_nvhe_init_params'
s390/vfio-ap: Fix NULL deref in status_show() during queue probe
s390/vfio-ap: Fix hot-unplug skipped when last AP adapter or domain removed
s390/vfio-ap: fix potential use of uninitialized apm_filtered bitmap
s390/vfio-ap: Fix control domain removal in vfio_ap_mdev_cfg_remove
s390/vfio-ap: Fix required lock not held during update of ap_matrix_mdev object
s390/vfio-ap: Fix missing lock required to access list of ap_matrix_mdev objects
s390/vfio-ap: Fix dereference matrix_mdev->kvm without checking for NULL
s390/vfio-ap: Fix stale do_remove flag across iterations in vfio_ap_mdev_cfg_remove
RISC-V: KVM: fix vcpu vector context handling for kernel-mode vector
riscv: vector: allow non-preemptible kernel-mode vector with IRQs off
riscv: vector: refactor riscv_v_start_kernel_context
KVM: s390: gmap: Make prefix handling optional
KVM: s390: gmap: Make CMMA optional
KVM: s390: gmap: Make storage keys optional
KVM: s390: Prepare gmap for a second KVM implementation
...
Currently, hugetlb_cma reservation only supports absolute sizes (e.g., hugetlb_cma=2G or hugetlb_cma=0:1G,1:1G). This can be restrictive in heterogeneous environments or when deploying common kernel command lines across machines with different memory capacities. Add support for percentage-based hugetlb_cma reservation (e.g., hugetlb_cma=20% or hugetlb_cma=0:20%,1:10%). The percentage is calculated against the total memory (for global settings) or against the node-specific memory (for node-specific settings) using memblock APIs during early boot. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260807040003.2156630-1-souravpanda@google.com Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Free page reporting currently hardcodes a 2-second interval between reports. This rigid delay cannot accommodate diverse guest workloads. This patch introduces a module parameter, page_reporting_delay_ms (default: 2000), allowing users to tune the reporting rate: - Lower values enable aggressive memory reclamation by returning unused pages to the host immediately. - Higher values help batch pages during spiky allocation/free churn, reducing hypercalls and nested page fault overheads. Setting the delay to 0 is safe and execution is strictly gated by: - reporting is only triggered by high-order page frees. - expensive hypercalls are bounded by a slot capacity watermark check before proceeding. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260731193705.2902728-1-pratmal@google.com Signed-off-by: Pratyush Mallick <pratmal@google.com> Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:
- swiotlb:
- new configuration option for the default pool size
(Jagadeesh Pagadala)
- reduce overhead for high watermark tracking (chenhuguanshen)
- minor code cleanups and improvements (Vova Sharaienko, Honglei Huang
and Marek Szyprowski)
- add proper tracking of the shared DMA state through direct, pool and
swiotlb paths (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
This is important for confidential-computing
* tag 'dma-mapping-7.3-2026-08-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux:
dma/swiotlb: decouple high watermark tracking from CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
MAINTAINERS: update tree for DMA MAPPING HELPERS
dma/swiotlb: introduce Kconfig option for compile-time default pool size
dma-direct: Improve readability of the dma_direct_map_sg() for P2PDMA case
iommu/dma: simplify dma_iova_destroy() and drop the free_iova helper
dma-coherent: use KiB in DMA allocation logs
dma-coherent: fix spacing coding style issue
* tag 'dma-mapping-7.3-2026-08-24-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: (23 commits)
swiotlb: remove unused SWIOTLB_FORCE flag
dma: swiotlb: handle set_memory_decrypted() failures
dma: swiotlb: free dynamic pools from process context
dma-direct: rename ret to cpu_addr in alloc helpers
dma-direct: select DMA address encoding from __DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_CC_SHARED
dma-direct: set decrypted flag for remapped DMA allocations
dma-direct: make dma_direct_map_phys() honor DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED
dma-direct: Move dma_direct_map_phys() to dma/direct.c
dma-direct: pass attrs to dma_capable() for DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED checks
dma-mapping: make dma_pgprot() honor __DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_CC_SHARED
dma: swiotlb: track pool encryption state and honor DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED
dma: swiotlb: pass mapping attributes by reference
dma-pool: track decrypted atomic pools and select them via attrs
dma-direct: use __DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_CC_SHARED in alloc/free paths
dma-mapping: Add internal shared allocation attribute
coco: arm64: s390: powerpc: Mark secure guests with CC_ATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT
dma-direct: swiotlb: handle swiotlb alloc/free outside __dma_direct_alloc_pages
s390: Expose protected virtualization through cc_platform_has()
swiotlb: Preserve allocation virtual address for dynamic pools
dma: free atomic pool pages by physical address
...
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka: - Add kfree_rcu_nolock() that can be used from contexts where spinning on a lock might be unsafe, such as a BPF program attached to an arbitrary function, or in NMI context. This complements the existing kfree_nolock() support (Harry Yoo) - Runtime instead of compile-time slabobj_ext sizing. Avoid wasting memory when memory allocation profiling is compiled but not enabled, with initial partial support to also avoid wasting memory for objcg pointers when those are not needed, while profiling is enabled (Vlastimil Babka) - Various non-urgent fixes, cleanups and optimizations (Hao Li, Hongling Zeng, Li RongQing, Li Xiasong, Seongjun Hong, Shengming Hu) * tag 'slab-for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (31 commits) mm/slab, kfence, memcg: completely remove obj_ext for kfence objects mm/slab: stop allocating objcg pointers when unnecessary mm/slab: add cache_ and slab_needs_objcg() helpers mm/slab: stop exporting kvfree_rcu_barrier[_on_cache]() slub_kunit: extend the test for kfree_rcu_nolock() mm/slab: introduce kfree_rcu_nolock() mm/slab: introduce struct kvfree_rcu_head for kvfree_rcu batching mm/slab: reduce slabobj_ext memory with allocation profiling disabled mm/slab: introduce slab_obj_ext_has_codetag() mm/slab: allow kfree_rcu_sheaf() on PREEMPT_RT mm/slab: extend deferred free mechanism to handle rcu sheaves mm/slab: use call_rcu() in unknown context if irqs are enabled mm/slab: handle the !allow_spin case in kfree_rcu_sheaf() mm/slab: change struct slabobj_ext to a union mm/slab: replace slab.stride with obj_exts_in_object mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.ref access mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.objcg access mm/slab: make slab_obj_ext() determine object index mm: move struct slabobj_ext to mm/slab.h mm/slab: remove objs_per_slab() ...
Users of panic_print / panic_sys_info are usually aware of the potentially huge amount of information displayed with such options - their goal by using them is indeed to dump more information during panic! What might come unnoticed at first is the impact that the console_verbose() call on panic path has, specially in cases that users rely on pstore as a means to collect the panic logs. Recent experience shows that dumping all tasks in an ARM64 system (with qcom_geni tty driver) gets a 2 minute delay on panic time due to writing such information to console. But in that case, pstore was used, so there was no need for console printing, and suppressing that reduced the full time to less than 0.5 second. The option "printk.console_no_auto_verbose" aims exactly at this use case: avoid automatically increasing the loglevel during panic path. So, let's officially document this to avoid users wasting their time either on long panic printing or debugging the panic delays. While at it, improve the readability of the panic_print text, by adding some line breaks. Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260819183419.2203903-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com>
CPU_FREQ and CPU_IDLE are used in descriptions of some kernel parameters so add their descriptions to the build options list. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260815172934.3604009-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
"Make expedited grace periods expedite normal RCU callbacks
Miscellaneous fixes:
- Improve diagnostic output with character task states
- Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design
- Move from kmalloc() to kmalloc_obj()
- Documentation updates
- Improve handling of RCU deferred quiescent states
- Clean up unused function arguments and structure fields
- Reduce show_rcu_gp_kthreads() stack space
Tasks RCU updates:
- Clean up after SRCU re-implementation of Tasks Trace RCU
- Mark accesses to inform KCSAN of concurrency design
- Add ->lazy_timer status to diagnostic output
- Remove an unnecessary memory barrier
- Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN
- Documentation updates
- Convert cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() from macro to static inline
function
SRCU updates:
- Add Rust helpers for SRCU
- Avoid losing queued work at cleanup_srcu_struct() time
Torture-test updates:
- Preparation work for immediate RCU priority deboosting
- Test RCU readers from real interrupt handlers (as opposed to
softirq)
- Simplify code through use of cpumask_next_wrap()
- Improve diagnostic output with character task states
- Add rcutorture.nwriters parameter to allow lightweight stall
testing, and rcutorture.stall_only to make doing so easier
- Test an RCU Tasks Trace grace period implying an RCU grace period
- Make RCU Tasks Trace torturing track reader batches
- Fix a data race, courtesy of KCSAN
- Plug a shuffle_tmp_mask memory leak on kthread spawn failure"
* tag 'rcu.2026.08.18a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (59 commits)
rcu: Add closing parenthesis in comment in rcu_read_unlock_strict()
rcutorture: Make {,s}rcu_read_delay() better handle forward-progress testing
rcutorture: Announce declining to forward-progress test
torture: Don't leak shuffle_tmp_mask when shuffler kthread fails to start
rcutorture: Use this_cpu_inc() for rcu_torture_count[] and rcu_torture_batch[]
rcutorture: Make RCU Tasks Trace track Reader Batches
rcutorture: Test RCU Tasks Trace GP implying RCU GP
rcutorture: Add a stall_only module parameter
rcutorture: Add nwriters module parameter
rcutorture: Use task_state_to_char() for task-state reporting
rcutorture: Use cpumask_next_wrap() in rcu_torture_preempt()
rcutorture: Test RCU readers from hardware interrupt handlers
rcutorture: Check for immediate deboosting at reader end
srcu: Queue sdp->work when the delay timer is successfully deleted
rcu-tasks: Convert cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() to static inline
rcu-tasks: Fix some comments for call_rcu_tasks() and call_rcu_tasks_rude()
rcu-tasks: Rename tasks_rcu_exit_srcu_stall_timer to tasks_rcu_exit_stall_timer
rcu: Mark interrupts-enabled accesses to rdp->cpu_no_qs.s
rcu: Reduce stack usage in show_rcu_gp_kthreads()
rcu: Mark accesses to ->rcu_urgent_qs and ->rcu_need_heavy_qs
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