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<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2025-07-30T03:21:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-07-30T03:21:54+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "A quick summary: perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extensions
  (BRBE), typical PMU hardware updates, small additions to MTE for
  store-only tag checking and exposing non-address bits to signal
  handlers, HAVE_LIVEPATCH enabled on arm64, VMAP_STACK forced on.

  There is also a TLBI optimisation on hardware that does not require
  break-before-make when changing the user PTEs between contiguous and
  non-contiguous.

  More details:

  Perf and PMU updates:

   - Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs

   - Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts
     between clock domains within a given instance

   - Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the
     minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval

   - Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE)

   - Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes

   - Minor driver fixes and cleanups

  Hardware features:

   - Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY)

   - Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE
     tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR)

   - Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on
     hardware with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB
     conflict aborts

  Software features:

   - Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable()
     and using the text-poke API for late module relocations

   - Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use
     arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives

  ACPI:

   - Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR
     table

  Debug:

   - Simplify the debug exception entry path

   - Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros

  Kselftests:

   - Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests

  Miscellaneous:

   - Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get()

   - Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling

   - Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic

   - Remove redundant gcs_free() call"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits)
  arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task
  arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered
  arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0
  kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems
  kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems
  kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems
  arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at()
  kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3
  arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic
  arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct
  drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt
  drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version
  perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance
  perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "A quick summary: perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extensions
  (BRBE), typical PMU hardware updates, small additions to MTE for
  store-only tag checking and exposing non-address bits to signal
  handlers, HAVE_LIVEPATCH enabled on arm64, VMAP_STACK forced on.

  There is also a TLBI optimisation on hardware that does not require
  break-before-make when changing the user PTEs between contiguous and
  non-contiguous.

  More details:

  Perf and PMU updates:

   - Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs

   - Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts
     between clock domains within a given instance

   - Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the
     minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval

   - Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE)

   - Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes

   - Minor driver fixes and cleanups

  Hardware features:

   - Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY)

   - Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE
     tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR)

   - Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on
     hardware with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB
     conflict aborts

  Software features:

   - Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable()
     and using the text-poke API for late module relocations

   - Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use
     arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives

  ACPI:

   - Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR
     table

  Debug:

   - Simplify the debug exception entry path

   - Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros

  Kselftests:

   - Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests

  Miscellaneous:

   - Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get()

   - Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling

   - Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic

   - Remove redundant gcs_free() call"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits)
  arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task
  arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered
  arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0
  kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems
  kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems
  kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems
  arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at()
  kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3
  arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic
  arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct
  drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt
  drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version
  perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance
  perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling
  ...
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<entry>
<title>stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE</title>
<updated>2025-07-22T04:35:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T23:25:06+00:00</published>
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In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking
that can support stack depth callbacks:

- Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be
  implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang
  stack depth callback support.
- Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE,
  but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself.
- Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named
  for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as
  many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn.

While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS,
since that's the only place it is referenced from.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking
that can support stack depth callbacks:

- Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be
  implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang
  stack depth callback support.
- Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE,
  but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself.
- Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named
  for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as
  many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn.

While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS,
since that's the only place it is referenced from.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile</title>
<updated>2025-07-01T11:44:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T18:09:35+00:00</published>
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%.pi.o files are built as prerequisites of other objects.
There is no need to use extra-y, which is planned for deprecation.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602180937.528459-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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%.pi.o files are built as prerequisites of other objects.
There is no need to use extra-y, which is planned for deprecation.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250602180937.528459-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<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>
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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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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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<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>
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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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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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<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>
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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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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 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2025-05-28T21:55:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-28T21:55:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=47cf96fbe393839b125a9b694a8cfdd3f4216baa'/>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The headline feature is the re-enablement of support for Arm's
  Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) thanks to a bumper crop of fixes
  from Mark Rutland.

  If matrices aren't your thing, then Ryan's page-table optimisation
  work is much more interesting.

  Summary:

  ACPI, EFI and PSCI:

   - Decouple Arm's "Software Delegated Exception Interface" (SDEI)
     support from the ACPI GHES code so that it can be used by platforms
     booted with device-tree

   - Remove unnecessary per-CPU tracking of the FPSIMD state across EFI
     runtime calls

   - Fix a node refcount imbalance in the PSCI device-tree code

  CPU Features:

   - Ensure register sanitisation is applied to fields in ID_AA64MMFR4

   - Expose AIDR_EL1 to userspace via sysfs, primarily so that KVM
     guests can reliably query the underlying CPU types from the VMM

   - Re-enabling of SME support (CONFIG_ARM64_SME) as a result of fixes
     to our context-switching, signal handling and ptrace code

  Entry code:

   - Hook up TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY so that CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY can be
     selected

  Memory management:

   - Prevent BSS exports from being used by the early PI code

   - Propagate level and stride information to the low-level TLB
     invalidation routines when operating on hugetlb entries

   - Use the page-table contiguous hint for vmap() mappings with
     VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP where possible

   - Optimise vmalloc()/vmap() page-table updates to use "lazy MMU mode"
     and hook this up on arm64 so that the trailing DSB (used to publish
     the updates to the hardware walker) can be deferred until the end
     of the mapping operation

   - Extend mmap() randomisation for 52-bit virtual addresses (on par
     with 48-bit addressing) and remove limited support for
     randomisation of the linear map

  Perf and PMUs:

   - Add support for probing the CMN-S3 driver using ACPI

   - Minor driver fixes to the CMN, Arm-NI and amlogic PMU drivers

  Selftests:

   - Fix FPSIMD and SME tests to align with the freshly re-enabled SME
     support

   - Fix default setting of the OUTPUT variable so that tests are
     installed in the right location

  vDSO:

   - Replace raw counter access from inline assembly code with a call to
     the the __arch_counter_get_cntvct() helper function

  Miscellaneous:

   - Add some missing header inclusions to the CCA headers

   - Rework rendering of /proc/cpuinfo to follow the x86-approach and
     avoid repeated buffer expansion (the user-visible format remains
     identical)

   - Remove redundant selection of CONFIG_CRC32

   - Extend early error message when failing to map the device-tree
     blob"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (83 commits)
  arm64: cputype: Add cputype definition for HIP12
  arm64: el2_setup.h: Make __init_el2_fgt labels consistent, again
  perf/arm-cmn: Add CMN S3 ACPI binding
  arm64/boot: Disallow BSS exports to startup code
  arm64/boot: Move global CPU override variables out of BSS
  arm64/boot: Move init_pgdir[] and init_idmap_pgdir[] into __pi_ namespace
  perf/arm-cmn: Initialise cmn-&gt;cpu earlier
  kselftest/arm64: Set default OUTPUT path when undefined
  arm64: Update comment regarding values in __boot_cpu_mode
  arm64: mm: Drop redundant check in pmd_trans_huge()
  arm64/mm: Re-organise setting up FEAT_S1PIE registers PIRE0_EL1 and PIR_EL1
  arm64/mm: Permit lazy_mmu_mode to be nested
  arm64/mm: Disable barrier batching in interrupt contexts
  arm64/cpuinfo: only show one cpu's info in c_show()
  arm64/mm: Batch barriers when updating kernel mappings
  mm/vmalloc: Enter lazy mmu mode while manipulating vmalloc ptes
  arm64/mm: Support huge pte-mapped pages in vmap
  mm/vmalloc: Gracefully unmap huge ptes
  mm/vmalloc: Warn on improper use of vunmap_range()
  arm64/mm: Hoist barriers out of set_ptes_anysz() loop
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The headline feature is the re-enablement of support for Arm's
  Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) thanks to a bumper crop of fixes
  from Mark Rutland.

  If matrices aren't your thing, then Ryan's page-table optimisation
  work is much more interesting.

  Summary:

  ACPI, EFI and PSCI:

   - Decouple Arm's "Software Delegated Exception Interface" (SDEI)
     support from the ACPI GHES code so that it can be used by platforms
     booted with device-tree

   - Remove unnecessary per-CPU tracking of the FPSIMD state across EFI
     runtime calls

   - Fix a node refcount imbalance in the PSCI device-tree code

  CPU Features:

   - Ensure register sanitisation is applied to fields in ID_AA64MMFR4

   - Expose AIDR_EL1 to userspace via sysfs, primarily so that KVM
     guests can reliably query the underlying CPU types from the VMM

   - Re-enabling of SME support (CONFIG_ARM64_SME) as a result of fixes
     to our context-switching, signal handling and ptrace code

  Entry code:

   - Hook up TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY so that CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY can be
     selected

  Memory management:

   - Prevent BSS exports from being used by the early PI code

   - Propagate level and stride information to the low-level TLB
     invalidation routines when operating on hugetlb entries

   - Use the page-table contiguous hint for vmap() mappings with
     VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP where possible

   - Optimise vmalloc()/vmap() page-table updates to use "lazy MMU mode"
     and hook this up on arm64 so that the trailing DSB (used to publish
     the updates to the hardware walker) can be deferred until the end
     of the mapping operation

   - Extend mmap() randomisation for 52-bit virtual addresses (on par
     with 48-bit addressing) and remove limited support for
     randomisation of the linear map

  Perf and PMUs:

   - Add support for probing the CMN-S3 driver using ACPI

   - Minor driver fixes to the CMN, Arm-NI and amlogic PMU drivers

  Selftests:

   - Fix FPSIMD and SME tests to align with the freshly re-enabled SME
     support

   - Fix default setting of the OUTPUT variable so that tests are
     installed in the right location

  vDSO:

   - Replace raw counter access from inline assembly code with a call to
     the the __arch_counter_get_cntvct() helper function

  Miscellaneous:

   - Add some missing header inclusions to the CCA headers

   - Rework rendering of /proc/cpuinfo to follow the x86-approach and
     avoid repeated buffer expansion (the user-visible format remains
     identical)

   - Remove redundant selection of CONFIG_CRC32

   - Extend early error message when failing to map the device-tree
     blob"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (83 commits)
  arm64: cputype: Add cputype definition for HIP12
  arm64: el2_setup.h: Make __init_el2_fgt labels consistent, again
  perf/arm-cmn: Add CMN S3 ACPI binding
  arm64/boot: Disallow BSS exports to startup code
  arm64/boot: Move global CPU override variables out of BSS
  arm64/boot: Move init_pgdir[] and init_idmap_pgdir[] into __pi_ namespace
  perf/arm-cmn: Initialise cmn-&gt;cpu earlier
  kselftest/arm64: Set default OUTPUT path when undefined
  arm64: Update comment regarding values in __boot_cpu_mode
  arm64: mm: Drop redundant check in pmd_trans_huge()
  arm64/mm: Re-organise setting up FEAT_S1PIE registers PIRE0_EL1 and PIR_EL1
  arm64/mm: Permit lazy_mmu_mode to be nested
  arm64/mm: Disable barrier batching in interrupt contexts
  arm64/cpuinfo: only show one cpu's info in c_show()
  arm64/mm: Batch barriers when updating kernel mappings
  mm/vmalloc: Enter lazy mmu mode while manipulating vmalloc ptes
  arm64/mm: Support huge pte-mapped pages in vmap
  mm/vmalloc: Gracefully unmap huge ptes
  mm/vmalloc: Warn on improper use of vunmap_range()
  arm64/mm: Hoist barriers out of set_ptes_anysz() loop
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/boot: Move init_pgdir[] and init_idmap_pgdir[] into __pi_ namespace</title>
<updated>2025-05-16T15:05:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T11:43:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=93d0d6f8a654b623addb40f23e5c7696bc93fbd5'/>
<id>93d0d6f8a654b623addb40f23e5c7696bc93fbd5</id>
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init_pgdir[] is only referenced from the startup code, but lives after
BSS in the linker map. Before tightening the rules about accessing BSS
from startup code, move init_pgdir[] into the __pi_ namespace, so it
does not need to be exported explicitly.

For symmetry, do the same with init_idmap_pgdir[], although it lives
before BSS.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508114328.2460610-6-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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init_pgdir[] is only referenced from the startup code, but lives after
BSS in the linker map. Before tightening the rules about accessing BSS
from startup code, move init_pgdir[] into the __pi_ namespace, so it
does not need to be exported explicitly.

For symmetry, do the same with init_idmap_pgdir[], although it lives
before BSS.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun &lt;yeoreum.yun@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508114328.2460610-6-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/mm: define ptdesc_t</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T00:48:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-07T05:31:13+00:00</published>
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Define ptdesc_t type which describes the basic page table descriptor
layout on arm64 platform.  Subsequently all level specific pxxval_t
descriptors are derived from ptdesc_t thus establishing a common original
format, which can also be appropriate for page table entries, masks and
protection values etc which are used at all page table levels.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407053113.746295-4-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Define ptdesc_t type which describes the basic page table descriptor
layout on arm64 platform.  Subsequently all level specific pxxval_t
descriptors are derived from ptdesc_t thus establishing a common original
format, which can also be appropriate for page table entries, masks and
protection values etc which are used at all page table levels.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250407053113.746295-4-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>arm64/mm: Remove randomization of the linear map</title>
<updated>2025-04-29T12:21:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-18T13:49:50+00:00</published>
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Since commit

  97d6786e0669 ("arm64: mm: account for hotplug memory when randomizing the linear region")

the decision whether or not to randomize the placement of the system's
DRAM inside the linear map is based on the capabilities of the CPU
rather than how much memory is present at boot time. This change was
necessary because memory hotplug may result in DRAM appearing in places
that are not covered by the linear region at all (and therefore
unusable) if the decision is solely based on the memory map at boot.

In the Android GKI kernel, which requires support for memory hotplug,
and is built with a reduced virtual address space of only 39 bits wide,
randomization of the linear map never happens in practice as a result.
And even on arm64 kernels built with support for 48 bit virtual
addressing, the wider PArange of recent CPUs means that linear map
randomization is slowly becoming a feature that only works on systems
that will soon be obsolete.

So let's just remove this feature. We can always bring it back in an
improved form if there is a real need for it.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318134949.3194334-2-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Since commit

  97d6786e0669 ("arm64: mm: account for hotplug memory when randomizing the linear region")

the decision whether or not to randomize the placement of the system's
DRAM inside the linear map is based on the capabilities of the CPU
rather than how much memory is present at boot time. This change was
necessary because memory hotplug may result in DRAM appearing in places
that are not covered by the linear region at all (and therefore
unusable) if the decision is solely based on the memory map at boot.

In the Android GKI kernel, which requires support for memory hotplug,
and is built with a reduced virtual address space of only 39 bits wide,
randomization of the linear map never happens in practice as a result.
And even on arm64 kernels built with support for 48 bit virtual
addressing, the wider PArange of recent CPUs means that linear map
randomization is slowly becoming a feature that only works on systems
that will soon be obsolete.

So let's just remove this feature. We can always bring it back in an
improved form if there is a real need for it.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318134949.3194334-2-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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