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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>smb: client: disable path remapping with POSIX extensions</title>
<updated>2025-06-09T20:59:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Philipp Kerling</name>
<email>pkerling@casix.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-08T18:59:00+00:00</published>
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If SMB 3.1.1 POSIX Extensions are available and negotiated, the client
should be able to use all characters and not remap anything. Currently, the
user has to explicitly request this behavior by specifying the "nomapposix"
mount option.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4195bb677b33d680e77549890a4f4dd3b474ceaf.camel@rx2.rx-server.de
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kerling &lt;pkerling@casix.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;linkinjeon@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
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If SMB 3.1.1 POSIX Extensions are available and negotiated, the client
should be able to use all characters and not remap anything. Currently, the
user has to explicitly request this behavior by specifying the "nomapposix"
mount option.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4195bb677b33d680e77549890a4f4dd3b474ceaf.camel@rx2.rx-server.de
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kerling &lt;pkerling@casix.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;linkinjeon@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'usb-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb</title>
<updated>2025-06-06T19:45:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-06T19:45:35+00:00</published>
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Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.16-rc1.
  Included in here are the following:

   - USB offload support for audio devices.

     I think this takes the record for the most number of patch series
     (30+) over the longest period of time (2+ years) to get merged
     properly.

     Many props go to Wesley Cheng for seeing this effort through, they
     took a major out-of-tree hacked-up-monstrosity that was created by
     multiple vendors for their specific devices, got it all merged into
     a semi-coherent set of changes, and got all of the different major
     subsystems to agree on how this should be implemented both with
     changes to their code as well as userspace apis, AND wrangled the
     hardware companies into agreeing to go forward with this, despite
     making them all redo work they had already done in their private
     device trees.

     This feature offers major power savings on embedded devices where a
     USB audio stream can continue to flow while the rest of the system
     is sleeping, something that devices running on battery power really
     care about. There are still some more small tweaks left to be done
     here, and those patches are still out for review and arguing among
     the different hardware companies, but this is a major step forward
     and a great example of how to do upstream development well.

   - small number of thunderbolt fixes and updates, things seem to be
     slowing down here (famous last words...)

   - xhci refactors and reworking to try to handle some rough corner
     cases in some hardware implementations where things don't always
     work properly

   - typec driver updates

   - USB3 power management reworking and updates

   - Removal of some old and orphaned UDC gadget drivers that had not
     been used in a very long time, dropping over 11 thousand lines from
     the tree, always a nice thing, making up for the 12k lines added
     for the USB offload feature.

   - lots of little updates and fixes in different drivers

  All of these have been in linux-next for over 2 weeks, the USB offload
  logic has been in there for 8 weeks now, with no reported issues"

* tag 'usb-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (172 commits)
  ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: fix USB_XHCI dependency
  ASoC: qdsp6: fix compile-testing without CONFIG_OF
  usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: fix build warning for CONFIG_USB_ONBOARD_DEV_USB5744=n
  usb: typec: tipd: fix typo in TPS_STATUS_HIGH_VOLAGE_WARNING macro
  USB: typec: fix const issue in typec_match()
  USB: gadget: udc: fix const issue in gadget_match_driver()
  USB: gadget: fix up const issue with struct usb_function_instance
  USB: serial: pl2303: add new chip PL2303GC-Q20 and PL2303GT-2AB
  USB: serial: bus: fix const issue in usb_serial_device_match()
  usb: usbtmc: Fix timeout value in get_stb
  usb: usbtmc: Fix read_stb function and get_stb ioctl
  ALSA: qc_audio_offload: try to reduce address space confusion
  ALSA: qc_audio_offload: avoid leaking xfer_buf allocation
  ALSA: qc_audio_offload: rename dma/iova/va/cpu/phys variables
  ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: Fix an error handling path in qc_usb_audio_probe()
  usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: Fix usb5744 initialization sequence
  dt-bindings: usb: ti,usb8041: Add binding for TI USB8044 hub controller
  usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: Add support for TI TUSB8044 hub
  usb: gadget: lpc32xx_udc: Use USB API functions rather than constants
  usb: gadget: epautoconf: Use USB API functions rather than constants
  ...
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<pre>
Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.16-rc1.
  Included in here are the following:

   - USB offload support for audio devices.

     I think this takes the record for the most number of patch series
     (30+) over the longest period of time (2+ years) to get merged
     properly.

     Many props go to Wesley Cheng for seeing this effort through, they
     took a major out-of-tree hacked-up-monstrosity that was created by
     multiple vendors for their specific devices, got it all merged into
     a semi-coherent set of changes, and got all of the different major
     subsystems to agree on how this should be implemented both with
     changes to their code as well as userspace apis, AND wrangled the
     hardware companies into agreeing to go forward with this, despite
     making them all redo work they had already done in their private
     device trees.

     This feature offers major power savings on embedded devices where a
     USB audio stream can continue to flow while the rest of the system
     is sleeping, something that devices running on battery power really
     care about. There are still some more small tweaks left to be done
     here, and those patches are still out for review and arguing among
     the different hardware companies, but this is a major step forward
     and a great example of how to do upstream development well.

   - small number of thunderbolt fixes and updates, things seem to be
     slowing down here (famous last words...)

   - xhci refactors and reworking to try to handle some rough corner
     cases in some hardware implementations where things don't always
     work properly

   - typec driver updates

   - USB3 power management reworking and updates

   - Removal of some old and orphaned UDC gadget drivers that had not
     been used in a very long time, dropping over 11 thousand lines from
     the tree, always a nice thing, making up for the 12k lines added
     for the USB offload feature.

   - lots of little updates and fixes in different drivers

  All of these have been in linux-next for over 2 weeks, the USB offload
  logic has been in there for 8 weeks now, with no reported issues"

* tag 'usb-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (172 commits)
  ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: fix USB_XHCI dependency
  ASoC: qdsp6: fix compile-testing without CONFIG_OF
  usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: fix build warning for CONFIG_USB_ONBOARD_DEV_USB5744=n
  usb: typec: tipd: fix typo in TPS_STATUS_HIGH_VOLAGE_WARNING macro
  USB: typec: fix const issue in typec_match()
  USB: gadget: udc: fix const issue in gadget_match_driver()
  USB: gadget: fix up const issue with struct usb_function_instance
  USB: serial: pl2303: add new chip PL2303GC-Q20 and PL2303GT-2AB
  USB: serial: bus: fix const issue in usb_serial_device_match()
  usb: usbtmc: Fix timeout value in get_stb
  usb: usbtmc: Fix read_stb function and get_stb ioctl
  ALSA: qc_audio_offload: try to reduce address space confusion
  ALSA: qc_audio_offload: avoid leaking xfer_buf allocation
  ALSA: qc_audio_offload: rename dma/iova/va/cpu/phys variables
  ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: Fix an error handling path in qc_usb_audio_probe()
  usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: Fix usb5744 initialization sequence
  dt-bindings: usb: ti,usb8041: Add binding for TI USB8044 hub controller
  usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: Add support for TI TUSB8044 hub
  usb: gadget: lpc32xx_udc: Use USB API functions rather than constants
  usb: gadget: epautoconf: Use USB API functions rather than constants
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2025-06-05T18:39:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-05T18:39:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e9e668cd2756c1300f3bf84eba1d6711b886b531'/>
<id>e9e668cd2756c1300f3bf84eba1d6711b886b531</id>
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Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
 "We've got a couple of build fixes when using LLD, a missing TLB
  invalidation and a workaround for broken firmware on SoCs with CPUs
  that implement MPAM:

   - Disable problematic linker assertions for broken versions of LLD

   - Work around sporadic link failure with LLD and various randconfig
     builds

   - Fix missing invalidation in the TLB batching code when reclaim
     races with mprotect() and friends

   - Add a command-line override for MPAM to allow booting on systems
     with broken firmware"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: Add override for MPAM
  arm64/mm: Close theoretical race where stale TLB entry remains valid
  arm64: Work around convergence issue with LLD linker
  arm64: Disable LLD linker ASSERT()s for the time being
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<pre>
Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
 "We've got a couple of build fixes when using LLD, a missing TLB
  invalidation and a workaround for broken firmware on SoCs with CPUs
  that implement MPAM:

   - Disable problematic linker assertions for broken versions of LLD

   - Work around sporadic link failure with LLD and various randconfig
     builds

   - Fix missing invalidation in the TLB batching code when reclaim
     races with mprotect() and friends

   - Add a command-line override for MPAM to allow booting on systems
     with broken firmware"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: Add override for MPAM
  arm64/mm: Close theoretical race where stale TLB entry remains valid
  arm64: Work around convergence issue with LLD linker
  arm64: Disable LLD linker ASSERT()s for the time being
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-06-02T23:00:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T23:00:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fd1f8473503e5bf897bd3e8efe3545c0352954e6'/>
<id>fd1f8473503e5bf897bd3e8efe3545c0352954e6</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   adds infrastructure for passing algorithm-specific parameters into
   zram. A single parameter `winbits' is implemented at this time.

 - "memcg: nmi-safe kmem charging" from Shakeel Butt makes memcg
   charging nmi-safe, which is required by BFP, which can operate in NMI
   context.

 - "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem" from Kemeng Shi implements
   small fixes and cleanups in the shmem code.

 - "Skip mm selftests instead when kernel features are not present" from
   Zi Yan fixes some issues in the MM selftest code.

 - "mm/damon: build-enable essential DAMON components by default" from
   SeongJae Park reworks DAMON Kconfig to make it easier to enable
   CONFIG_DAMON.

 - "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task migration" from Libo
   Chen adds more info into sysfs and procfs files to improve visibility
   into the NUMA balancer's task migration activity.

 - "selftests/mm: cow and gup_longterm cleanups" from Mark Brown
   provides various updates to some of the MM selftests to make them
   play better with the overall containing framework.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (43 commits)
  mm/khugepaged: clean up refcount check using folio_expected_ref_count()
  selftests/mm: fix test result reporting in gup_longterm
  selftests/mm: report unique test names for each cow test
  selftests/mm: add helper for logging test start and results
  selftests/mm: use standard ksft_finished() in cow and gup_longterm
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: skip testcases if CONFIG_DAMON_SYSFS is disabled
  sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task
  sched/numa: fix task swap by skipping kernel threads
  tools/testing: check correct variable in open_procmap()
  tools/testing/vma: add missing function stub
  mm/gup: update comment explaining why gup_fast() disables IRQs
  selftests/mm: two fixes for the pfnmap test
  mm/khugepaged: fix race with folio split/free using temporary reference
  mm: add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order
  mmu_notifiers: remove leftover stub macros
  selftests/mm: deduplicate test names in madv_populate
  kcov: rust: add flags for KCOV with Rust
  mm: rust: make CONFIG_MMU ifdefs more narrow
  mmu_gather: move tlb flush for VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXEDMAP vmas into free_pgtables()
  mm/damon/Kconfig: enable CONFIG_DAMON by default
  ...
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<pre>
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   adds infrastructure for passing algorithm-specific parameters into
   zram. A single parameter `winbits' is implemented at this time.

 - "memcg: nmi-safe kmem charging" from Shakeel Butt makes memcg
   charging nmi-safe, which is required by BFP, which can operate in NMI
   context.

 - "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem" from Kemeng Shi implements
   small fixes and cleanups in the shmem code.

 - "Skip mm selftests instead when kernel features are not present" from
   Zi Yan fixes some issues in the MM selftest code.

 - "mm/damon: build-enable essential DAMON components by default" from
   SeongJae Park reworks DAMON Kconfig to make it easier to enable
   CONFIG_DAMON.

 - "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task migration" from Libo
   Chen adds more info into sysfs and procfs files to improve visibility
   into the NUMA balancer's task migration activity.

 - "selftests/mm: cow and gup_longterm cleanups" from Mark Brown
   provides various updates to some of the MM selftests to make them
   play better with the overall containing framework.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (43 commits)
  mm/khugepaged: clean up refcount check using folio_expected_ref_count()
  selftests/mm: fix test result reporting in gup_longterm
  selftests/mm: report unique test names for each cow test
  selftests/mm: add helper for logging test start and results
  selftests/mm: use standard ksft_finished() in cow and gup_longterm
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: skip testcases if CONFIG_DAMON_SYSFS is disabled
  sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task
  sched/numa: fix task swap by skipping kernel threads
  tools/testing: check correct variable in open_procmap()
  tools/testing/vma: add missing function stub
  mm/gup: update comment explaining why gup_fast() disables IRQs
  selftests/mm: two fixes for the pfnmap test
  mm/khugepaged: fix race with folio split/free using temporary reference
  mm: add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order
  mmu_notifiers: remove leftover stub macros
  selftests/mm: deduplicate test names in madv_populate
  kcov: rust: add flags for KCOV with Rust
  mm: rust: make CONFIG_MMU ifdefs more narrow
  mmu_gather: move tlb flush for VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXEDMAP vmas into free_pgtables()
  mm/damon/Kconfig: enable CONFIG_DAMON by default
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Add override for MPAM</title>
<updated>2025-06-02T12:49:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xi Ruoyao</name>
<email>xry111@xry111.site</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T04:33:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=10f885d63a0efd50b0d22bf27eb3cf727838e99e'/>
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As the message of the commit 09e6b306f3ba ("arm64: cpufeature: discover
CPU support for MPAM") already states, if a buggy firmware fails to
either enable MPAM or emulate the trap as if it were disabled, the
kernel will just fail to boot.  While upgrading the firmware should be
the best solution, we have some hardware of which the vendor have made
no response 2 months after we requested a firmware update.  Allow
overriding it so our devices don't become some e-waste.

Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shameer Kolothum &lt;shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mingcong Bai &lt;jeffbai@aosc.io&gt;
Cc: Shaopeng Tan &lt;tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Horgan &lt;ben.horgan@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao &lt;xry111@xry111.site&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602043723.216338-1-xry111@xry111.site
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
As the message of the commit 09e6b306f3ba ("arm64: cpufeature: discover
CPU support for MPAM") already states, if a buggy firmware fails to
either enable MPAM or emulate the trap as if it were disabled, the
kernel will just fail to boot.  While upgrading the firmware should be
the best solution, we have some hardware of which the vendor have made
no response 2 months after we requested a firmware update.  Allow
overriding it so our devices don't become some e-waste.

Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shameer Kolothum &lt;shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mingcong Bai &lt;jeffbai@aosc.io&gt;
Cc: Shaopeng Tan &lt;tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Horgan &lt;ben.horgan@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao &lt;xry111@xry111.site&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602043723.216338-1-xry111@xry111.site
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task</title>
<updated>2025-06-01T05:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Yu</name>
<email>yu.c.chen@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-23T12:51:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ad6b26b6a0a79166b53209df2ca1cf8636296382'/>
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On systems with NUMA balancing enabled, it has been found that tracking
task activities resulting from NUMA balancing is beneficial.  NUMA
balancing employs two mechanisms for task migration: one is to migrate
a task to an idle CPU within its preferred node, and the other is to
swap tasks located on different nodes when they are on each other's
preferred nodes.

The kernel already provides NUMA page migration statistics in
/sys/fs/cgroup/mytest/memory.stat and /proc/{PID}/sched.  However, it
lacks statistics regarding task migration and swapping.  Therefore,
relevant counts for task migration and swapping should be added.

The following two new fields:

numa_task_migrated
numa_task_swapped

will be shown in /sys/fs/cgroup/{GROUP}/memory.stat, /proc/{PID}/sched
and /proc/vmstat.

Introducing both per-task and per-memory cgroup (memcg) NUMA balancing
statistics facilitates a rapid evaluation of the performance and
resource utilization of the target workload.  For instance, users can
first identify the container with high NUMA balancing activity and then
further pinpoint a specific task within that group, and subsequently
adjust the memory policy for that task.  In short, although it is
possible to iterate through /proc/$pid/sched to locate the problematic
task, the introduction of aggregated NUMA balancing activity for tasks
within each memcg can assist users in identifying the task more
efficiently through a divide-and-conquer approach.

As Libo Chen pointed out, the memcg event relies on the text names in
vmstat_text, and /proc/vmstat generates corresponding items based on
vmstat_text.  Thus, the relevant task migration and swapping events
introduced in vmstat_text also need to be populated by
count_vm_numa_event(), otherwise these values are zero in /proc/vmstat.

In theory, task migration and swap events are part of the scheduler's
activities.  The reason for exposing them through the
memory.stat/vmstat interface is that we already have NUMA balancing
statistics in memory.stat/vmstat, and these events are closely related
to each other.  Following Shakeel's suggestion, we describe the
end-to-end flow/story of all these events occurring on a timeline for
future reference:

The goal of NUMA balancing is to co-locate a task and its memory pages
on the same NUMA node.  There are two strategies: migrate the pages to
the task's node, or migrate the task to the node where its pages
reside.

Suppose a task p1 is running on Node 0, but its pages are located on
Node 1.  NUMA page fault statistics for p1 reveal its "page footprint"
across nodes.  If NUMA balancing detects that most of p1's pages are on
Node 1:

1.Page Migration Attempt:
The Numa balance first tries to migrate p1's pages to Node 0.
The numa_page_migrate counter increments.

2.Task Migration Strategies:
After the page migration finishes, Numa balance checks every
1 second to see if p1 can be migrated to Node 1.

Case 2.1: Idle CPU Available

  If Node 1 has an idle CPU, p1 is directly scheduled there.  This
  event is logged as numa_task_migrated.

Case 2.2: No Idle CPU (Task Swap)

  If all CPUs on Node1 are busy, direct migration could cause CPU
  contention or load imbalance.  Instead: The Numa balance selects a
  candidate task p2 on Node 1 that prefers Node 0 (e.g., due to its own
  page footprint).  p1 and p2 are swapped.  This cross-node swap is
  recorded as numa_task_swapped.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d00edb12ba0f0de3c5222f61487e65f2ac58f5b1.1748493462.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ef90a88602ed536be46eba7152ed0d33bad5790.1748002400.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy &lt;vineethr@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aubrey Li &lt;aubrey.li@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ayush Jain &lt;Ayush.jain3@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Chen, Tim C" &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On systems with NUMA balancing enabled, it has been found that tracking
task activities resulting from NUMA balancing is beneficial.  NUMA
balancing employs two mechanisms for task migration: one is to migrate
a task to an idle CPU within its preferred node, and the other is to
swap tasks located on different nodes when they are on each other's
preferred nodes.

The kernel already provides NUMA page migration statistics in
/sys/fs/cgroup/mytest/memory.stat and /proc/{PID}/sched.  However, it
lacks statistics regarding task migration and swapping.  Therefore,
relevant counts for task migration and swapping should be added.

The following two new fields:

numa_task_migrated
numa_task_swapped

will be shown in /sys/fs/cgroup/{GROUP}/memory.stat, /proc/{PID}/sched
and /proc/vmstat.

Introducing both per-task and per-memory cgroup (memcg) NUMA balancing
statistics facilitates a rapid evaluation of the performance and
resource utilization of the target workload.  For instance, users can
first identify the container with high NUMA balancing activity and then
further pinpoint a specific task within that group, and subsequently
adjust the memory policy for that task.  In short, although it is
possible to iterate through /proc/$pid/sched to locate the problematic
task, the introduction of aggregated NUMA balancing activity for tasks
within each memcg can assist users in identifying the task more
efficiently through a divide-and-conquer approach.

As Libo Chen pointed out, the memcg event relies on the text names in
vmstat_text, and /proc/vmstat generates corresponding items based on
vmstat_text.  Thus, the relevant task migration and swapping events
introduced in vmstat_text also need to be populated by
count_vm_numa_event(), otherwise these values are zero in /proc/vmstat.

In theory, task migration and swap events are part of the scheduler's
activities.  The reason for exposing them through the
memory.stat/vmstat interface is that we already have NUMA balancing
statistics in memory.stat/vmstat, and these events are closely related
to each other.  Following Shakeel's suggestion, we describe the
end-to-end flow/story of all these events occurring on a timeline for
future reference:

The goal of NUMA balancing is to co-locate a task and its memory pages
on the same NUMA node.  There are two strategies: migrate the pages to
the task's node, or migrate the task to the node where its pages
reside.

Suppose a task p1 is running on Node 0, but its pages are located on
Node 1.  NUMA page fault statistics for p1 reveal its "page footprint"
across nodes.  If NUMA balancing detects that most of p1's pages are on
Node 1:

1.Page Migration Attempt:
The Numa balance first tries to migrate p1's pages to Node 0.
The numa_page_migrate counter increments.

2.Task Migration Strategies:
After the page migration finishes, Numa balance checks every
1 second to see if p1 can be migrated to Node 1.

Case 2.1: Idle CPU Available

  If Node 1 has an idle CPU, p1 is directly scheduled there.  This
  event is logged as numa_task_migrated.

Case 2.2: No Idle CPU (Task Swap)

  If all CPUs on Node1 are busy, direct migration could cause CPU
  contention or load imbalance.  Instead: The Numa balance selects a
  candidate task p2 on Node 1 that prefers Node 0 (e.g., due to its own
  page footprint).  p1 and p2 are swapped.  This cross-node swap is
  recorded as numa_task_swapped.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d00edb12ba0f0de3c5222f61487e65f2ac58f5b1.1748493462.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ef90a88602ed536be46eba7152ed0d33bad5790.1748002400.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy &lt;vineethr@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aubrey Li &lt;aubrey.li@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ayush Jain &lt;Ayush.jain3@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Chen, Tim C" &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-06-01T02:12:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-01T02:12:53+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from
   Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector.

   The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is
   blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores

 - "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from
   Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2

 - "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn
   fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts

 - "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from
   Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.

   When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
   the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in
   the series [0/N] cover letter

 - "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds
   /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
   /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count

 - "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin
   implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c

 - "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early
   boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb
   scripts

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits)
  llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline
  delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation
  squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching
  crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in
  scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot
  scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off()
  scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux()
  kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments
  mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email
  nilfs2: remove wbc-&gt;for_reclaim handling
  fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK
  fork: check charging success before zeroing stack
  fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code
  fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation
  kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
  kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count
  x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible
  x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel
  Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()"
  crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from
   Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector.

   The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is
   blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores

 - "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from
   Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2

 - "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn
   fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts

 - "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from
   Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.

   When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
   the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in
   the series [0/N] cover letter

 - "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds
   /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
   /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count

 - "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin
   implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c

 - "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early
   boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb
   scripts

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits)
  llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline
  delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation
  squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching
  crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in
  scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot
  scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off()
  scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux()
  kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments
  mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email
  nilfs2: remove wbc-&gt;for_reclaim handling
  fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK
  fork: check charging success before zeroing stack
  fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code
  fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation
  kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
  kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count
  x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible
  x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel
  Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()"
  crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=00c010e130e58301db2ea0cec1eadc931e1cb8cf'/>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
   creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
   the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
   this.

 - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
   largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
   and better prepare us for future work.

 - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
   Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
   memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
   block size.

 - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
   Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
   sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
   compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
   memory consumption was dramatic.

 - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
   Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
   this part of our swap handling code.

 - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
   adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
   time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
   strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
   arguments, and syscall return value.

   This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
   branch, but I goofed.

 - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
   Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
   against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
   at the info about guard regions.

 - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
   implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
   validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.

 - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
   Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
   decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
   using more current facilities.

 - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
   Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
   code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
   enabled for ARM.

 - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
   ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
   it already is for user pgtables.

   This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
   to protect page tables". This change does result in various
   architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
   it is anticipated to occur.

 - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
   Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.

 - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
   been missing for 15 years.

 - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
   SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.

   Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
   batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
   was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
   load this particular operation.

 - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
   Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
   preallocation.

   stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
   the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
   reduced.

 - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
   a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.

 - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
   from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
   management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
   leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
   support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.

 - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
   from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
   eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
   for memory tiering.

 - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
   provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
   found via code inspection.

 - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
   changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
   possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
   cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
   settings to violated.

   This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
   certain classes of memory more consistently.

 - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
   pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
   in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.

 - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
   for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.

 - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
   Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
   for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.

   This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
   rather than file-backed folios.

 - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
   first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
   VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
   time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.

 - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
   and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
   ranges of invalid pfns.

 - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
   cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
   when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.

   Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.

 - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
   Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
   using JFS.

 - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
   appropriate mm/vma.c.

 - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
   provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
   function.

 - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.

 - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
   addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
   test_memcontrol selftest.

 - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
   of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().

   The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
   things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.

 - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
   the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.

   This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
   NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.

 - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
   documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
   DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
   documents.

 - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
   stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
   charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.

 - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
   instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
   hugetlb code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
  mm: pcp: increase pcp-&gt;free_count threshold to trigger free_high
  mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
  mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
  memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
  memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
  memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
  memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
  mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
  selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
  alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
  Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
  mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
  mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
   creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
   the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
   this.

 - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
   largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
   and better prepare us for future work.

 - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
   Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
   memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
   block size.

 - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
   Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
   sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
   compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
   memory consumption was dramatic.

 - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
   Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
   this part of our swap handling code.

 - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
   adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
   time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
   strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
   arguments, and syscall return value.

   This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
   branch, but I goofed.

 - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
   Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
   against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
   at the info about guard regions.

 - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
   implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
   validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.

 - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
   Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
   decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
   using more current facilities.

 - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
   Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
   code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
   enabled for ARM.

 - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
   ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
   it already is for user pgtables.

   This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
   to protect page tables". This change does result in various
   architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
   it is anticipated to occur.

 - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
   Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.

 - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
   been missing for 15 years.

 - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
   SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.

   Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
   batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
   was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
   load this particular operation.

 - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
   Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
   preallocation.

   stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
   the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
   reduced.

 - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
   a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.

 - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
   from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
   management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
   leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
   support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.

 - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
   from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
   eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
   for memory tiering.

 - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
   provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
   found via code inspection.

 - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
   changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
   possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
   cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
   settings to violated.

   This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
   certain classes of memory more consistently.

 - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
   pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
   in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.

 - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
   for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.

 - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
   Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
   for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.

   This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
   rather than file-backed folios.

 - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
   first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
   VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
   time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.

 - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
   and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
   ranges of invalid pfns.

 - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
   cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
   when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.

   Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.

 - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
   Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
   using JFS.

 - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
   appropriate mm/vma.c.

 - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
   provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
   function.

 - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.

 - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
   addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
   test_memcontrol selftest.

 - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
   of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().

   The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
   things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.

 - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
   the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.

   This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
   NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.

 - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
   documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
   DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
   documents.

 - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
   stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
   charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.

 - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
   instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
   hugetlb code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
  mm: pcp: increase pcp-&gt;free_count threshold to trigger free_high
  mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
  mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
  memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
  memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
  memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
  memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
  mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
  selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
  alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
  Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
  mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
  mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gcc-minimum-version-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2025-05-31T15:16:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T15:16:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dee264c16a6334dcdbea5c186f5ff35f98b1df42'/>
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Pull compiler version requirement update from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30

  x86 already uses gcc-8 as the minimum version, this changes all other
  architectures to the same version. gcc-8 is used is Debian 10 and Red
  Hat Enterprise Linux 8, both of which are still supported, and
  binutils 2.30 is the oldest corresponding version on those.

  Ubuntu Pro 18.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 both use gcc-7 as
  the system compiler but additionally include toolchains that remain
  supported.

  With the new minimum toolchain versions, a number of workarounds for
  older versions can be dropped, in particular on x86_64 and arm64.
  Importantly, the updated compiler version allows removing two of the
  five remaining gcc plugins, as support for sancov and structeak
  features is already included in modern compiler versions.

  I tried collecting the known changes that are possible based on the
  new toolchain version, but expect that more cleanups will be possible.

  Since this touches multiple architectures, I merged the patches
  through the asm-generic tree."

* tag 'gcc-minimum-version-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  Makefile.kcov: apply needed compiler option unconditionally in CFLAGS_KCOV
  Documentation: update binutils-2.30 version reference
  gcc-plugins: remove SANCOV gcc plugin
  Kbuild: remove structleak gcc plugin
  arm64: drop binutils version checks
  raid6: skip avx512 checks
  kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30
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<pre>
Pull compiler version requirement update from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30

  x86 already uses gcc-8 as the minimum version, this changes all other
  architectures to the same version. gcc-8 is used is Debian 10 and Red
  Hat Enterprise Linux 8, both of which are still supported, and
  binutils 2.30 is the oldest corresponding version on those.

  Ubuntu Pro 18.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 both use gcc-7 as
  the system compiler but additionally include toolchains that remain
  supported.

  With the new minimum toolchain versions, a number of workarounds for
  older versions can be dropped, in particular on x86_64 and arm64.
  Importantly, the updated compiler version allows removing two of the
  five remaining gcc plugins, as support for sancov and structeak
  features is already included in modern compiler versions.

  I tried collecting the known changes that are possible based on the
  new toolchain version, but expect that more cleanups will be possible.

  Since this touches multiple architectures, I merged the patches
  through the asm-generic tree."

* tag 'gcc-minimum-version-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  Makefile.kcov: apply needed compiler option unconditionally in CFLAGS_KCOV
  Documentation: update binutils-2.30 version reference
  gcc-plugins: remove SANCOV gcc plugin
  Kbuild: remove structleak gcc plugin
  arm64: drop binutils version checks
  raid6: skip avx512 checks
  kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T17:19:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-29T17:19:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1193e205dbb6feca917dc8e1862ffcdf2194234b'/>
<id>1193e205dbb6feca917dc8e1862ffcdf2194234b</id>
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Pull x86 platform drivers updates from Ilpo Järvinen:
 "The changes are mostly business as usual. Besides pdx86 changes, there
  are a few power supply changes needed for related pdx86 features, move
  of oxpec driver from hwmon (oxp-sensors) to pdx86, and one FW version
  warning to hid-asus.

  Highlights:

   - alienware-wmi-wmax:
       - Add HWMON support
       - Add ABI and admin-guide documentation
       - Expose GPIO debug methods through debug FS
       - Support manual fan control and "custom" thermal profile

   - amd/hsmp:
       - Add sysfs files to show HSMP telemetry
       - Report power readings and limits via hwmon

   - amd/isp4: Add AMD ISP platform config for OV05C10

   - asus-wmi:
       - Refactor Ally suspend/resume to work better with older FW
       - hid-asus: check ROG Ally MCU version and warn about old FW versions

   - dasharo-acpi:
       - Add driver for Dasharo devices supporting fans and temperatures
         monitoring

   - dell-ddv:
       - Expose the battery health and manufacture date to userspace
         using power supply extensions
       - Implement the battery matching algorithm

   - dell-pc:
       - Improve error propagation
       - Use faux device

   - int3472:
       - Add delays to avoid GPIO regulator spikes
       - Add handshake pin support
       - Make regulator supply name configurable and allow registering
         more than 1 GPIO regulator
       - Map mt9m114 powerdown pin to powerenable

   - intel/pmc: Add separate SSRAM Telemetry driver

   - intel-uncore-freq: Add attributes to show agent types and die ID

   - ISST:
       - Support SST-TF revision 2 (allows more cores per bucket)
       - Support SST-PP revision 2 (fabric 1 frequencies)
       - Remove unnecessary SST MSRs restore (the package retains MSRs
         despite CPU offlining)

   - mellanox: Add support for SN2201, SN4280, SN5610, and SN5640

   - mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Support additional PMC blocks

   - oxpec:
       - Add OneXFly variants
       - Add support for charge limit, charge thresholds, and turbo LED
       - Distinguish current X1 variants to avoid unwanted matching to
         new variants
       - Follow hwmon conventions
       - Move from hwmon/oxp-sensors to platform/x86 to match the
         enlarged scope

   - power supply:
       - Add inhibit-charge-awake (needed by oxpec)
       - Add additional battery health status values ("blown fuse" and
         "cell imbalance") (needed by dell-ddv)

   - powerwell-ec: Add driver for Portwell EC supporting GPIO and watchdog

   - thinkpad-acpi: Support camera shutter switch hotkey

   - tuxedo: Add virtual LampArray for TUXEDO NB04 devices

   - tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select:
       - Support displaying SST-PP revision 2 fields
       - Skip uncore frequency update on newer generations of CPUs

   - Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements"

* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (112 commits)
  thermal/drivers/acerhdf: Constify struct thermal_zone_device_ops
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: fix building with CONFIG_HWMON=m
  platform/x86: asus-wmi: fix build without CONFIG_SUSPEND
  docs: ABI: Fix "aassociated" to "associated"
  platform/x86: Add AMD ISP platform config for OV05C10
  Documentation: admin-guide: pm: Add documentation for die_id
  platform/x86/intel-uncore-freq: Add attributes to show die_id
  platform/x86/intel: power-domains: Add interface to get Linux die ID
  Documentation: admin-guide: pm: Add documentation for agent_types
  platform/x86/intel-uncore-freq: Add attributes to show agent types
  platform/x86/tuxedo: Prevent invalid Kconfig state
  platform/x86: dell-ddv: Expose the battery health to userspace
  platform/x86: dell-ddv: Expose the battery manufacture date to userspace
  platform/x86: dell-ddv: Implement the battery matching algorithm
  power: supply: core: Add additional health status values
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: acpi: Add sysfs files to display HSMP telemetry
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Report power via hwmon sensors
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Use a single DRIVER_VERSION for all hsmp modules
  platform/mellanox: mlxreg-dpu: Fix smatch warnings
  platform: mellanox: nvsw-sn2200: Fix .items in nvsw_sn2201_busbar_hotplug
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 platform drivers updates from Ilpo Järvinen:
 "The changes are mostly business as usual. Besides pdx86 changes, there
  are a few power supply changes needed for related pdx86 features, move
  of oxpec driver from hwmon (oxp-sensors) to pdx86, and one FW version
  warning to hid-asus.

  Highlights:

   - alienware-wmi-wmax:
       - Add HWMON support
       - Add ABI and admin-guide documentation
       - Expose GPIO debug methods through debug FS
       - Support manual fan control and "custom" thermal profile

   - amd/hsmp:
       - Add sysfs files to show HSMP telemetry
       - Report power readings and limits via hwmon

   - amd/isp4: Add AMD ISP platform config for OV05C10

   - asus-wmi:
       - Refactor Ally suspend/resume to work better with older FW
       - hid-asus: check ROG Ally MCU version and warn about old FW versions

   - dasharo-acpi:
       - Add driver for Dasharo devices supporting fans and temperatures
         monitoring

   - dell-ddv:
       - Expose the battery health and manufacture date to userspace
         using power supply extensions
       - Implement the battery matching algorithm

   - dell-pc:
       - Improve error propagation
       - Use faux device

   - int3472:
       - Add delays to avoid GPIO regulator spikes
       - Add handshake pin support
       - Make regulator supply name configurable and allow registering
         more than 1 GPIO regulator
       - Map mt9m114 powerdown pin to powerenable

   - intel/pmc: Add separate SSRAM Telemetry driver

   - intel-uncore-freq: Add attributes to show agent types and die ID

   - ISST:
       - Support SST-TF revision 2 (allows more cores per bucket)
       - Support SST-PP revision 2 (fabric 1 frequencies)
       - Remove unnecessary SST MSRs restore (the package retains MSRs
         despite CPU offlining)

   - mellanox: Add support for SN2201, SN4280, SN5610, and SN5640

   - mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Support additional PMC blocks

   - oxpec:
       - Add OneXFly variants
       - Add support for charge limit, charge thresholds, and turbo LED
       - Distinguish current X1 variants to avoid unwanted matching to
         new variants
       - Follow hwmon conventions
       - Move from hwmon/oxp-sensors to platform/x86 to match the
         enlarged scope

   - power supply:
       - Add inhibit-charge-awake (needed by oxpec)
       - Add additional battery health status values ("blown fuse" and
         "cell imbalance") (needed by dell-ddv)

   - powerwell-ec: Add driver for Portwell EC supporting GPIO and watchdog

   - thinkpad-acpi: Support camera shutter switch hotkey

   - tuxedo: Add virtual LampArray for TUXEDO NB04 devices

   - tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select:
       - Support displaying SST-PP revision 2 fields
       - Skip uncore frequency update on newer generations of CPUs

   - Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements"

* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (112 commits)
  thermal/drivers/acerhdf: Constify struct thermal_zone_device_ops
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: fix building with CONFIG_HWMON=m
  platform/x86: asus-wmi: fix build without CONFIG_SUSPEND
  docs: ABI: Fix "aassociated" to "associated"
  platform/x86: Add AMD ISP platform config for OV05C10
  Documentation: admin-guide: pm: Add documentation for die_id
  platform/x86/intel-uncore-freq: Add attributes to show die_id
  platform/x86/intel: power-domains: Add interface to get Linux die ID
  Documentation: admin-guide: pm: Add documentation for agent_types
  platform/x86/intel-uncore-freq: Add attributes to show agent types
  platform/x86/tuxedo: Prevent invalid Kconfig state
  platform/x86: dell-ddv: Expose the battery health to userspace
  platform/x86: dell-ddv: Expose the battery manufacture date to userspace
  platform/x86: dell-ddv: Implement the battery matching algorithm
  power: supply: core: Add additional health status values
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: acpi: Add sysfs files to display HSMP telemetry
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Report power via hwmon sensors
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Use a single DRIVER_VERSION for all hsmp modules
  platform/mellanox: mlxreg-dpu: Fix smatch warnings
  platform: mellanox: nvsw-sn2200: Fix .items in nvsw_sn2201_busbar_hotplug
  ...
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