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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page-&gt;index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page-&gt;index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page-&gt;index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page-&gt;index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'for-next/mops' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2024-11-14T12:07:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2024-11-14T12:07:28+00:00</published>
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* for-next/mops:
  : More FEAT_MOPS (memcpy instructions) uses - in-kernel routines
  arm64: mops: Document requirements for hypervisors
  arm64: lib: Use MOPS for copy_page() and clear_page()
  arm64: lib: Use MOPS for memcpy() routines
  arm64: mops: Document booting requirement for HCR_EL2.MCE2
  arm64: mops: Handle MOPS exceptions from EL1
  arm64: probes: Disable kprobes/uprobes on MOPS instructions

# Conflicts:
#	arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
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* for-next/mops:
  : More FEAT_MOPS (memcpy instructions) uses - in-kernel routines
  arm64: mops: Document requirements for hypervisors
  arm64: lib: Use MOPS for copy_page() and clear_page()
  arm64: lib: Use MOPS for memcpy() routines
  arm64: mops: Document booting requirement for HCR_EL2.MCE2
  arm64: mops: Handle MOPS exceptions from EL1
  arm64: probes: Disable kprobes/uprobes on MOPS instructions

# Conflicts:
#	arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
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<title>Merge branches 'for-next/gcs', 'for-next/probes', 'for-next/asm-offsets', 'for-next/tlb', 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/mte', 'for-next/sysreg', 'for-next/stacktrace', 'for-next/hwcap3', 'for-next/kselftest', 'for-next/crc32', 'for-next/guest-cca', 'for-next/haft' and 'for-next/scs', remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2024-11-14T12:07:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2024-11-14T12:07:16+00:00</published>
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* arm64/for-next/perf:
  perf: Switch back to struct platform_driver::remove()
  perf: arm_pmuv3: Add support for Samsung Mongoose PMU
  dt-bindings: arm: pmu: Add Samsung Mongoose core compatible
  perf/dwc_pcie: Fix typos in event names
  perf/dwc_pcie: Add support for Ampere SoCs
  ARM: pmuv3: Add missing write_pmuacr()
  perf/marvell: Marvell PEM performance monitor support
  perf/arm_pmuv3: Add PMUv3.9 per counter EL0 access control
  perf/dwc_pcie: Convert the events with mixed case to lowercase
  perf/cxlpmu: Support missing events in 3.1 spec
  perf: imx_perf: add support for i.MX91 platform
  dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add i.MX91 compatible
  drivers perf: remove unused field pmu_node

* for-next/gcs: (42 commits)
  : arm64 Guarded Control Stack user-space support
  kselftest/arm64: Fix missing printf() argument in gcs/gcs-stress.c
  arm64/gcs: Fix outdated ptrace documentation
  kselftest/arm64: Ensure stable names for GCS stress test results
  kselftest/arm64: Validate that GCS push and write permissions work
  kselftest/arm64: Enable GCS for the FP stress tests
  kselftest/arm64: Add a GCS stress test
  kselftest/arm64: Add GCS signal tests
  kselftest/arm64: Add test coverage for GCS mode locking
  kselftest/arm64: Add a GCS test program built with the system libc
  kselftest/arm64: Add very basic GCS test program
  kselftest/arm64: Always run signals tests with GCS enabled
  kselftest/arm64: Allow signals tests to specify an expected si_code
  kselftest/arm64: Add framework support for GCS to signal handling tests
  kselftest/arm64: Add GCS as a detected feature in the signal tests
  kselftest/arm64: Verify the GCS hwcap
  arm64: Add Kconfig for Guarded Control Stack (GCS)
  arm64/ptrace: Expose GCS via ptrace and core files
  arm64/signal: Expose GCS state in signal frames
  arm64/signal: Set up and restore the GCS context for signal handlers
  arm64/mm: Implement map_shadow_stack()
  ...

* for-next/probes:
  : Various arm64 uprobes/kprobes cleanups
  arm64: insn: Simulate nop instruction for better uprobe performance
  arm64: probes: Remove probe_opcode_t
  arm64: probes: Cleanup kprobes endianness conversions
  arm64: probes: Move kprobes-specific fields
  arm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels
  arm64: probes: Fix simulate_ldr*_literal()
  arm64: probes: Remove broken LDR (literal) uprobe support

* for-next/asm-offsets:
  : arm64 asm-offsets.c cleanup (remove unused offsets)
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove DMA_{TO,FROM}_DEVICE
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove VM_EXEC and PAGE_SZ
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove MM_CONTEXT_ID
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove COMPAT_{RT_,SIGFRAME_REGS_OFFSET
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove VMA_VM_*
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove TSK_ACTIVE_MM

* for-next/tlb:
  : TLB flushing optimisations
  arm64: optimize flush tlb kernel range
  arm64: tlbflush: add __flush_tlb_range_limit_excess()

* for-next/misc:
  : Miscellaneous patches
  arm64: tls: Fix context-switching of tpidrro_el0 when kpti is enabled
  arm64/ptrace: Clarify documentation of VL configuration via ptrace
  acpi/arm64: remove unnecessary cast
  arm64/mm: Change protval as 'pteval_t' in map_range()
  arm64: uprobes: Optimize cache flushes for xol slot
  acpi/arm64: Adjust error handling procedure in gtdt_parse_timer_block()
  arm64: fix .data.rel.ro size assertion when CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
  arm64/ptdump: Test both PTE_TABLE_BIT and PTE_VALID for block mappings
  arm64/mm: Sanity check PTE address before runtime P4D/PUD folding
  arm64/mm: Drop setting PTE_TYPE_PAGE in pte_mkcont()
  ACPI: GTDT: Tighten the check for the array of platform timer structures
  arm64/fpsimd: Fix a typo
  arm64: Expose ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.XS to sanitised feature consumers
  arm64: Return early when break handler is found on linked-list
  arm64/mm: Re-organize arch_make_huge_pte()
  arm64/mm: Drop _PROT_SECT_DEFAULT
  arm64: Add command-line override for ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.ECV
  arm64: head: Drop SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT
  arm64: cpufeature: add POE to cpucap_is_possible()
  arm64/mm: Change pgattr_change_is_safe() arguments as pteval_t

* for-next/mte:
  : Various MTE improvements
  selftests: arm64: add hugetlb mte tests
  hugetlb: arm64: add mte support

* for-next/sysreg:
  : arm64 sysreg updates
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1 to DDI0601 2024-09

* for-next/stacktrace:
  : arm64 stacktrace improvements
  arm64: preserve pt_regs::stackframe during exec*()
  arm64: stacktrace: unwind exception boundaries
  arm64: stacktrace: split unwind_consume_stack()
  arm64: stacktrace: report recovered PCs
  arm64: stacktrace: report source of unwind data
  arm64: stacktrace: move dump_backtrace() to kunwind_stack_walk()
  arm64: use a common struct frame_record
  arm64: pt_regs: swap 'unused' and 'pmr' fields
  arm64: pt_regs: rename "pmr_save" -&gt; "pmr"
  arm64: pt_regs: remove stale big-endian layout
  arm64: pt_regs: assert pt_regs is a multiple of 16 bytes

* for-next/hwcap3:
  : Add AT_HWCAP3 support for arm64 (also wire up AT_HWCAP4)
  arm64: Support AT_HWCAP3
  binfmt_elf: Wire up AT_HWCAP3 at AT_HWCAP4

* for-next/kselftest: (30 commits)
  : arm64 kselftest fixes/cleanups
  kselftest/arm64: Try harder to generate different keys during PAC tests
  kselftest/arm64: Don't leak pipe fds in pac.exec_sign_all()
  kselftest/arm64: Corrupt P0 in the irritator when testing SSVE
  kselftest/arm64: Add FPMR coverage to fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Expand the set of ZA writes fp-ptrace does
  kselftets/arm64: Use flag bits for features in fp-ptrace assembler code
  kselftest/arm64: Enable build of PAC tests with LLVM=1
  kselftest/arm64: Check that SVCR is 0 in signal handlers
  kselftest/arm64: Fix printf() compiler warnings in the arm64 syscall-abi.c tests
  kselftest/arm64: Fix printf() warning in the arm64 MTE prctl() test
  kselftest/arm64: Fix printf() compiler warnings in the arm64 fp tests
  kselftest/arm64: Fix build with stricter assemblers
  kselftest/arm64: Test signal handler state modification in fp-stress
  kselftest/arm64: Provide a SIGUSR1 handler in the kernel mode FP stress test
  kselftest/arm64: Implement irritators for ZA and ZT
  kselftest/arm64: Remove unused ADRs from irritator handlers
  kselftest/arm64: Correct misleading comments on fp-stress irritators
  kselftest/arm64: Poll less often while waiting for fp-stress children
  kselftest/arm64: Increase frequency of signal delivery in fp-stress
  kselftest/arm64: Fix encoding for SVE B16B16 test
  ...

* for-next/crc32:
  : Optimise CRC32 using PMULL instructions
  arm64/crc32: Implement 4-way interleave using PMULL
  arm64/crc32: Reorganize bit/byte ordering macros
  arm64/lib: Handle CRC-32 alternative in C code

* for-next/guest-cca:
  : Support for running Linux as a guest in Arm CCA
  arm64: Document Arm Confidential Compute
  virt: arm-cca-guest: TSM_REPORT support for realms
  arm64: Enable memory encrypt for Realms
  arm64: mm: Avoid TLBI when marking pages as valid
  arm64: Enforce bounce buffers for realm DMA
  efi: arm64: Map Device with Prot Shared
  arm64: rsi: Map unprotected MMIO as decrypted
  arm64: rsi: Add support for checking whether an MMIO is protected
  arm64: realm: Query IPA size from the RMM
  arm64: Detect if in a realm and set RIPAS RAM
  arm64: rsi: Add RSI definitions

* for-next/haft:
  : Support for arm64 FEAT_HAFT
  arm64: pgtable: Warn unexpected pmdp_test_and_clear_young()
  arm64: Enable ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG
  arm64: Add support for FEAT_HAFT
  arm64: setup: name 'tcr2' register
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1 register

* for-next/scs:
  : Dynamic shadow call stack fixes
  arm64/scs: Drop unused prototype __pi_scs_patch_vmlinux()
  arm64/scs: Deal with 64-bit relative offsets in FDE frames
  arm64/scs: Fix handling of DWARF augmentation data in CIE/FDE frames
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* arm64/for-next/perf:
  perf: Switch back to struct platform_driver::remove()
  perf: arm_pmuv3: Add support for Samsung Mongoose PMU
  dt-bindings: arm: pmu: Add Samsung Mongoose core compatible
  perf/dwc_pcie: Fix typos in event names
  perf/dwc_pcie: Add support for Ampere SoCs
  ARM: pmuv3: Add missing write_pmuacr()
  perf/marvell: Marvell PEM performance monitor support
  perf/arm_pmuv3: Add PMUv3.9 per counter EL0 access control
  perf/dwc_pcie: Convert the events with mixed case to lowercase
  perf/cxlpmu: Support missing events in 3.1 spec
  perf: imx_perf: add support for i.MX91 platform
  dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add i.MX91 compatible
  drivers perf: remove unused field pmu_node

* for-next/gcs: (42 commits)
  : arm64 Guarded Control Stack user-space support
  kselftest/arm64: Fix missing printf() argument in gcs/gcs-stress.c
  arm64/gcs: Fix outdated ptrace documentation
  kselftest/arm64: Ensure stable names for GCS stress test results
  kselftest/arm64: Validate that GCS push and write permissions work
  kselftest/arm64: Enable GCS for the FP stress tests
  kselftest/arm64: Add a GCS stress test
  kselftest/arm64: Add GCS signal tests
  kselftest/arm64: Add test coverage for GCS mode locking
  kselftest/arm64: Add a GCS test program built with the system libc
  kselftest/arm64: Add very basic GCS test program
  kselftest/arm64: Always run signals tests with GCS enabled
  kselftest/arm64: Allow signals tests to specify an expected si_code
  kselftest/arm64: Add framework support for GCS to signal handling tests
  kselftest/arm64: Add GCS as a detected feature in the signal tests
  kselftest/arm64: Verify the GCS hwcap
  arm64: Add Kconfig for Guarded Control Stack (GCS)
  arm64/ptrace: Expose GCS via ptrace and core files
  arm64/signal: Expose GCS state in signal frames
  arm64/signal: Set up and restore the GCS context for signal handlers
  arm64/mm: Implement map_shadow_stack()
  ...

* for-next/probes:
  : Various arm64 uprobes/kprobes cleanups
  arm64: insn: Simulate nop instruction for better uprobe performance
  arm64: probes: Remove probe_opcode_t
  arm64: probes: Cleanup kprobes endianness conversions
  arm64: probes: Move kprobes-specific fields
  arm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels
  arm64: probes: Fix simulate_ldr*_literal()
  arm64: probes: Remove broken LDR (literal) uprobe support

* for-next/asm-offsets:
  : arm64 asm-offsets.c cleanup (remove unused offsets)
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove DMA_{TO,FROM}_DEVICE
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove VM_EXEC and PAGE_SZ
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove MM_CONTEXT_ID
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove COMPAT_{RT_,SIGFRAME_REGS_OFFSET
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove VMA_VM_*
  arm64: asm-offsets: remove TSK_ACTIVE_MM

* for-next/tlb:
  : TLB flushing optimisations
  arm64: optimize flush tlb kernel range
  arm64: tlbflush: add __flush_tlb_range_limit_excess()

* for-next/misc:
  : Miscellaneous patches
  arm64: tls: Fix context-switching of tpidrro_el0 when kpti is enabled
  arm64/ptrace: Clarify documentation of VL configuration via ptrace
  acpi/arm64: remove unnecessary cast
  arm64/mm: Change protval as 'pteval_t' in map_range()
  arm64: uprobes: Optimize cache flushes for xol slot
  acpi/arm64: Adjust error handling procedure in gtdt_parse_timer_block()
  arm64: fix .data.rel.ro size assertion when CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
  arm64/ptdump: Test both PTE_TABLE_BIT and PTE_VALID for block mappings
  arm64/mm: Sanity check PTE address before runtime P4D/PUD folding
  arm64/mm: Drop setting PTE_TYPE_PAGE in pte_mkcont()
  ACPI: GTDT: Tighten the check for the array of platform timer structures
  arm64/fpsimd: Fix a typo
  arm64: Expose ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.XS to sanitised feature consumers
  arm64: Return early when break handler is found on linked-list
  arm64/mm: Re-organize arch_make_huge_pte()
  arm64/mm: Drop _PROT_SECT_DEFAULT
  arm64: Add command-line override for ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.ECV
  arm64: head: Drop SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT
  arm64: cpufeature: add POE to cpucap_is_possible()
  arm64/mm: Change pgattr_change_is_safe() arguments as pteval_t

* for-next/mte:
  : Various MTE improvements
  selftests: arm64: add hugetlb mte tests
  hugetlb: arm64: add mte support

* for-next/sysreg:
  : arm64 sysreg updates
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1 to DDI0601 2024-09

* for-next/stacktrace:
  : arm64 stacktrace improvements
  arm64: preserve pt_regs::stackframe during exec*()
  arm64: stacktrace: unwind exception boundaries
  arm64: stacktrace: split unwind_consume_stack()
  arm64: stacktrace: report recovered PCs
  arm64: stacktrace: report source of unwind data
  arm64: stacktrace: move dump_backtrace() to kunwind_stack_walk()
  arm64: use a common struct frame_record
  arm64: pt_regs: swap 'unused' and 'pmr' fields
  arm64: pt_regs: rename "pmr_save" -&gt; "pmr"
  arm64: pt_regs: remove stale big-endian layout
  arm64: pt_regs: assert pt_regs is a multiple of 16 bytes

* for-next/hwcap3:
  : Add AT_HWCAP3 support for arm64 (also wire up AT_HWCAP4)
  arm64: Support AT_HWCAP3
  binfmt_elf: Wire up AT_HWCAP3 at AT_HWCAP4

* for-next/kselftest: (30 commits)
  : arm64 kselftest fixes/cleanups
  kselftest/arm64: Try harder to generate different keys during PAC tests
  kselftest/arm64: Don't leak pipe fds in pac.exec_sign_all()
  kselftest/arm64: Corrupt P0 in the irritator when testing SSVE
  kselftest/arm64: Add FPMR coverage to fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Expand the set of ZA writes fp-ptrace does
  kselftets/arm64: Use flag bits for features in fp-ptrace assembler code
  kselftest/arm64: Enable build of PAC tests with LLVM=1
  kselftest/arm64: Check that SVCR is 0 in signal handlers
  kselftest/arm64: Fix printf() compiler warnings in the arm64 syscall-abi.c tests
  kselftest/arm64: Fix printf() warning in the arm64 MTE prctl() test
  kselftest/arm64: Fix printf() compiler warnings in the arm64 fp tests
  kselftest/arm64: Fix build with stricter assemblers
  kselftest/arm64: Test signal handler state modification in fp-stress
  kselftest/arm64: Provide a SIGUSR1 handler in the kernel mode FP stress test
  kselftest/arm64: Implement irritators for ZA and ZT
  kselftest/arm64: Remove unused ADRs from irritator handlers
  kselftest/arm64: Correct misleading comments on fp-stress irritators
  kselftest/arm64: Poll less often while waiting for fp-stress children
  kselftest/arm64: Increase frequency of signal delivery in fp-stress
  kselftest/arm64: Fix encoding for SVE B16B16 test
  ...

* for-next/crc32:
  : Optimise CRC32 using PMULL instructions
  arm64/crc32: Implement 4-way interleave using PMULL
  arm64/crc32: Reorganize bit/byte ordering macros
  arm64/lib: Handle CRC-32 alternative in C code

* for-next/guest-cca:
  : Support for running Linux as a guest in Arm CCA
  arm64: Document Arm Confidential Compute
  virt: arm-cca-guest: TSM_REPORT support for realms
  arm64: Enable memory encrypt for Realms
  arm64: mm: Avoid TLBI when marking pages as valid
  arm64: Enforce bounce buffers for realm DMA
  efi: arm64: Map Device with Prot Shared
  arm64: rsi: Map unprotected MMIO as decrypted
  arm64: rsi: Add support for checking whether an MMIO is protected
  arm64: realm: Query IPA size from the RMM
  arm64: Detect if in a realm and set RIPAS RAM
  arm64: rsi: Add RSI definitions

* for-next/haft:
  : Support for arm64 FEAT_HAFT
  arm64: pgtable: Warn unexpected pmdp_test_and_clear_young()
  arm64: Enable ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG
  arm64: Add support for FEAT_HAFT
  arm64: setup: name 'tcr2' register
  arm64/sysreg: Update ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1 register

* for-next/scs:
  : Dynamic shadow call stack fixes
  arm64/scs: Drop unused prototype __pi_scs_patch_vmlinux()
  arm64/scs: Deal with 64-bit relative offsets in FDE frames
  arm64/scs: Fix handling of DWARF augmentation data in CIE/FDE frames
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: uprobes: Optimize cache flushes for xol slot</title>
<updated>2024-11-08T16:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liao Chang</name>
<email>liaochang1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-19T12:17:19+00:00</published>
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The profiling of single-thread selftests bench reveals a bottlenect in
caches_clean_inval_pou() on ARM64. On my local testing machine, this
function takes approximately 34% of CPU cycles for trig-uprobe-nop and
trig-uprobe-push.

This patch add a check to avoid unnecessary cache flush when writing
instruction to the xol slot. If the instruction is same with the
existing instruction in slot, there is no need to synchronize D/I cache.
Since xol slot allocation and updates occur on the hot path of uprobe
handling, The upstream kernel running on Kunpeng916 (Hi1616), 4 NUMA
nodes, 64 cores@ 2.4GHz reveals this optimization has obvious gain for
nop and push testcases.

Before (next-20240918)
----------------------
uprobe-nop      ( 1 cpus):    0.418 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.418M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 1 cpus):    0.411 ± 0.005M/s  (  0.411M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 1 cpus):    2.052 ± 0.002M/s  (  2.052M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-nop   ( 1 cpus):    0.350 ± 0.000M/s  (  0.350M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-push  ( 1 cpus):    0.353 ± 0.000M/s  (  0.353M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-ret   ( 1 cpus):    1.074 ± 0.001M/s  (  1.074M/s/cpu)

After
-----
uprobe-nop      ( 1 cpus):    0.926 ± 0.000M/s  (  0.926M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 1 cpus):    0.910 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.910M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 1 cpus):    2.056 ± 0.001M/s  (  2.056M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-nop   ( 1 cpus):    0.653 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.653M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-push  ( 1 cpus):    0.645 ± 0.000M/s  (  0.645M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-ret   ( 1 cpus):    1.093 ± 0.001M/s  (  1.093M/s/cpu)

Signed-off-by: Liao Chang &lt;liaochang1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240919121719.2148361-1-liaochang1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The profiling of single-thread selftests bench reveals a bottlenect in
caches_clean_inval_pou() on ARM64. On my local testing machine, this
function takes approximately 34% of CPU cycles for trig-uprobe-nop and
trig-uprobe-push.

This patch add a check to avoid unnecessary cache flush when writing
instruction to the xol slot. If the instruction is same with the
existing instruction in slot, there is no need to synchronize D/I cache.
Since xol slot allocation and updates occur on the hot path of uprobe
handling, The upstream kernel running on Kunpeng916 (Hi1616), 4 NUMA
nodes, 64 cores@ 2.4GHz reveals this optimization has obvious gain for
nop and push testcases.

Before (next-20240918)
----------------------
uprobe-nop      ( 1 cpus):    0.418 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.418M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 1 cpus):    0.411 ± 0.005M/s  (  0.411M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 1 cpus):    2.052 ± 0.002M/s  (  2.052M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-nop   ( 1 cpus):    0.350 ± 0.000M/s  (  0.350M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-push  ( 1 cpus):    0.353 ± 0.000M/s  (  0.353M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-ret   ( 1 cpus):    1.074 ± 0.001M/s  (  1.074M/s/cpu)

After
-----
uprobe-nop      ( 1 cpus):    0.926 ± 0.000M/s  (  0.926M/s/cpu)
uprobe-push     ( 1 cpus):    0.910 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.910M/s/cpu)
uprobe-ret      ( 1 cpus):    2.056 ± 0.001M/s  (  2.056M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-nop   ( 1 cpus):    0.653 ± 0.001M/s  (  0.653M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-push  ( 1 cpus):    0.645 ± 0.000M/s  (  0.645M/s/cpu)
uretprobe-ret   ( 1 cpus):    1.093 ± 0.001M/s  (  1.093M/s/cpu)

Signed-off-by: Liao Chang &lt;liaochang1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240919121719.2148361-1-liaochang1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>asm-generic: introduce text-patching.h</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T22:25:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-23T16:27:06+00:00</published>
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Several architectures support text patching, but they name the header
files that declare patching functions differently.

Make all such headers consistently named text-patching.h and add an empty
header in asm-generic for architectures that do not support text patching.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241023162711.2579610-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; # m68k
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: kdevops &lt;kdevops@lists.linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Several architectures support text patching, but they name the header
files that declare patching functions differently.

Make all such headers consistently named text-patching.h and add an empty
header in asm-generic for architectures that do not support text patching.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241023162711.2579610-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; # m68k
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: kdevops &lt;kdevops@lists.linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: probes: Disable kprobes/uprobes on MOPS instructions</title>
<updated>2024-10-17T15:42:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kristina Martsenko</name>
<email>kristina.martsenko@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-30T16:10:47+00:00</published>
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FEAT_MOPS instructions require that all three instructions (prologue,
main and epilogue) appear consecutively in memory. Placing a
kprobe/uprobe on one of them doesn't work as only a single instruction
gets executed out-of-line or simulated. So don't allow placing a probe
on a MOPS instruction.

Fixes: b7564127ffcb ("arm64: mops: detect and enable FEAT_MOPS")
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko &lt;kristina.martsenko@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240930161051.3777828-2-kristina.martsenko@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
FEAT_MOPS instructions require that all three instructions (prologue,
main and epilogue) appear consecutively in memory. Placing a
kprobe/uprobe on one of them doesn't work as only a single instruction
gets executed out-of-line or simulated. So don't allow placing a probe
on a MOPS instruction.

Fixes: b7564127ffcb ("arm64: mops: detect and enable FEAT_MOPS")
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko &lt;kristina.martsenko@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240930161051.3777828-2-kristina.martsenko@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: insn: Simulate nop instruction for better uprobe performance</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T18:43:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liao Chang</name>
<email>liaochang1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-09T07:11:14+00:00</published>
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v2-&gt;v1:
1. Remove the simuation of STP and the related bits.
2. Use arm64_skip_faulting_instruction for single-stepping or FEAT_BTI
   scenario.

As Andrii pointed out, the uprobe/uretprobe selftest bench run into a
counterintuitive result that nop and push variants are much slower than
ret variant [0]. The root cause lies in the arch_probe_analyse_insn(),
which excludes 'nop' and 'stp' from the emulatable instructions list.
This force the kernel returns to userspace and execute them out-of-line,
then trapping back to kernel for running uprobe callback functions. This
leads to a significant performance overhead compared to 'ret' variant,
which is already emulated.

Typicall uprobe is installed on 'nop' for USDT and on function entry
which starts with the instrucion 'stp x29, x30, [sp, #imm]!' to push lr
and fp into stack regardless kernel or userspace binary. In order to
improve the performance of handling uprobe for common usecases. This
patch supports the emulation of Arm64 equvialents instructions of 'nop'
and 'push'. The benchmark results below indicates the performance gain
of emulation is obvious.

On Kunpeng916 (Hi1616), 4 NUMA nodes, 64 Arm64 cores@2.4GHz.

xol (1 cpus)
------------
uprobe-nop:  0.916 ± 0.001M/s (0.916M/prod)
uprobe-push: 0.908 ± 0.001M/s (0.908M/prod)
uprobe-ret:  1.855 ± 0.000M/s (1.855M/prod)
uretprobe-nop:  0.640 ± 0.000M/s (0.640M/prod)
uretprobe-push: 0.633 ± 0.001M/s (0.633M/prod)
uretprobe-ret:  0.978 ± 0.003M/s (0.978M/prod)

emulation (1 cpus)
-------------------
uprobe-nop:  1.862 ± 0.002M/s  (1.862M/prod)
uprobe-push: 1.743 ± 0.006M/s  (1.743M/prod)
uprobe-ret:  1.840 ± 0.001M/s  (1.840M/prod)
uretprobe-nop:  0.964 ± 0.004M/s  (0.964M/prod)
uretprobe-push: 0.936 ± 0.004M/s  (0.936M/prod)
uretprobe-ret:  0.940 ± 0.001M/s  (0.940M/prod)

As shown above, the performance gap between 'nop/push' and 'ret'
variants has been significantly reduced. Due to the emulation of 'push'
instruction needs to access userspace memory, it spent more cycles than
the other.

As Mark suggested [1], it is painful to emulate the correct atomicity
and ordering properties of STP, especially when it interacts with MTE,
POE, etc. So this patch just focus on the simuation of 'nop'. The
simluation of STP and related changes will be addressed in a separate
patch.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAEf4BzaO4eG6hr2hzXYpn+7Uer4chS0R99zLn02ezZ5YruVuQw@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zr3RN4zxF5XPgjEB@J2N7QTR9R3/

CC: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liao Chang &lt;liaochang1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240909071114.1150053-1-liaochang1@huawei.com
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: small tweaks following MarkR's comments]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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v2-&gt;v1:
1. Remove the simuation of STP and the related bits.
2. Use arm64_skip_faulting_instruction for single-stepping or FEAT_BTI
   scenario.

As Andrii pointed out, the uprobe/uretprobe selftest bench run into a
counterintuitive result that nop and push variants are much slower than
ret variant [0]. The root cause lies in the arch_probe_analyse_insn(),
which excludes 'nop' and 'stp' from the emulatable instructions list.
This force the kernel returns to userspace and execute them out-of-line,
then trapping back to kernel for running uprobe callback functions. This
leads to a significant performance overhead compared to 'ret' variant,
which is already emulated.

Typicall uprobe is installed on 'nop' for USDT and on function entry
which starts with the instrucion 'stp x29, x30, [sp, #imm]!' to push lr
and fp into stack regardless kernel or userspace binary. In order to
improve the performance of handling uprobe for common usecases. This
patch supports the emulation of Arm64 equvialents instructions of 'nop'
and 'push'. The benchmark results below indicates the performance gain
of emulation is obvious.

On Kunpeng916 (Hi1616), 4 NUMA nodes, 64 Arm64 cores@2.4GHz.

xol (1 cpus)
------------
uprobe-nop:  0.916 ± 0.001M/s (0.916M/prod)
uprobe-push: 0.908 ± 0.001M/s (0.908M/prod)
uprobe-ret:  1.855 ± 0.000M/s (1.855M/prod)
uretprobe-nop:  0.640 ± 0.000M/s (0.640M/prod)
uretprobe-push: 0.633 ± 0.001M/s (0.633M/prod)
uretprobe-ret:  0.978 ± 0.003M/s (0.978M/prod)

emulation (1 cpus)
-------------------
uprobe-nop:  1.862 ± 0.002M/s  (1.862M/prod)
uprobe-push: 1.743 ± 0.006M/s  (1.743M/prod)
uprobe-ret:  1.840 ± 0.001M/s  (1.840M/prod)
uretprobe-nop:  0.964 ± 0.004M/s  (0.964M/prod)
uretprobe-push: 0.936 ± 0.004M/s  (0.936M/prod)
uretprobe-ret:  0.940 ± 0.001M/s  (0.940M/prod)

As shown above, the performance gap between 'nop/push' and 'ret'
variants has been significantly reduced. Due to the emulation of 'push'
instruction needs to access userspace memory, it spent more cycles than
the other.

As Mark suggested [1], it is painful to emulate the correct atomicity
and ordering properties of STP, especially when it interacts with MTE,
POE, etc. So this patch just focus on the simuation of 'nop'. The
simluation of STP and related changes will be addressed in a separate
patch.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAEf4BzaO4eG6hr2hzXYpn+7Uer4chS0R99zLn02ezZ5YruVuQw@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zr3RN4zxF5XPgjEB@J2N7QTR9R3/

CC: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liao Chang &lt;liaochang1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240909071114.1150053-1-liaochang1@huawei.com
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: small tweaks following MarkR's comments]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: probes: Remove probe_opcode_t</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T17:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-08T15:58:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=14762109de024837dafcb893d45ccaf6a08ac990'/>
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The probe_opcode_t typedef for u32 isn't necessary, and is a source of
confusion as it is easily confused with kprobe_opcode_t, which is a
typedef for __le32.

The typedef is only used within arch/arm64, and all of arm64's commn
insn code uses u32 for the endian-agnostic value of an instruction, so
it'd be clearer to use u32 consistently.

Remove probe_opcode_t and use u32 directly.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marnias@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008155851.801546-7-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The probe_opcode_t typedef for u32 isn't necessary, and is a source of
confusion as it is easily confused with kprobe_opcode_t, which is a
typedef for __le32.

The typedef is only used within arch/arm64, and all of arm64's commn
insn code uses u32 for the endian-agnostic value of an instruction, so
it'd be clearer to use u32 consistently.

Remove probe_opcode_t and use u32 directly.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marnias@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008155851.801546-7-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: probes: Cleanup kprobes endianness conversions</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T17:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-08T15:58:50+00:00</published>
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The core kprobes code uses kprobe_opcode_t for the in-memory
representation of an instruction, using 'kprobe_opcode_t *' for XOL
slots. As arm64 instructions are always little-endian 32-bit values,
kprobes_opcode_t should be __le32, but at the moment kprobe_opcode_t
is typedef'd to u32.

Today there is no functional issue as we convert values via
cpu_to_le32() and le32_to_cpu() where necessary, but these conversions
are inconsistent with the types used, causing sparse warnings:

|   CHECK   arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
| arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c:102:21: warning: cast to restricted __le32
|   CHECK   arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
| arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c:122:46: warning: cast to restricted __le32
| arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c:124:50: warning: cast to restricted __le32
| arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c:136:31: warning: cast to restricted __le32

Improve this by making kprobes_opcode_t a typedef for __le32 and
consistently using this for pointers to executable instructions. With
this change we can rely on the type system to tell us where conversions
are necessary.

Since kprobe::opcode is changed from u32 to __le32, the existing
le32_to_cpu() converion moves from the point this is initialized (in
arch_prepare_kprobe()) to the points this is consumed when passed to
a handler or text patching function. As kprobe::opcode isn't altered or
consumed elsewhere, this shouldn't result in a functional change.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008155851.801546-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The core kprobes code uses kprobe_opcode_t for the in-memory
representation of an instruction, using 'kprobe_opcode_t *' for XOL
slots. As arm64 instructions are always little-endian 32-bit values,
kprobes_opcode_t should be __le32, but at the moment kprobe_opcode_t
is typedef'd to u32.

Today there is no functional issue as we convert values via
cpu_to_le32() and le32_to_cpu() where necessary, but these conversions
are inconsistent with the types used, causing sparse warnings:

|   CHECK   arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
| arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c:102:21: warning: cast to restricted __le32
|   CHECK   arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
| arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c:122:46: warning: cast to restricted __le32
| arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c:124:50: warning: cast to restricted __le32
| arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c:136:31: warning: cast to restricted __le32

Improve this by making kprobes_opcode_t a typedef for __le32 and
consistently using this for pointers to executable instructions. With
this change we can rely on the type system to tell us where conversions
are necessary.

Since kprobe::opcode is changed from u32 to __le32, the existing
le32_to_cpu() converion moves from the point this is initialized (in
arch_prepare_kprobe()) to the points this is consumed when passed to
a handler or text patching function. As kprobe::opcode isn't altered or
consumed elsewhere, this shouldn't result in a functional change.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008155851.801546-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: probes: Move kprobes-specific fields</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T17:16:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-08T15:58:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6105c5d46d0b39ccf01e329fc4449ba840c2937d'/>
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We share struct arch_probe_insn between krpboes and uprobes, but most of
its fields aren't necessary for uprobes:

* The 'insn' field is only used by kprobes as a pointer to the XOL slot.

* The 'restore' field is only used by probes as the PC to restore after
  stepping an instruction in the XOL slot.

* The 'pstate_cc' field isn't used by kprobes or uprobes, and seems to
  only exist as a result of copy-pasting the 32-bit arm implementation
  of kprobes.

As these fields live in struct arch_probe_insn they cannot use
definitions that only exist when CONFIG_KPROBES=y, such as the
kprobe_opcode_t typedef, which we'd like to use in subsequent patches.

Clean this up by removing the 'pstate_cc' field, and moving the
kprobes-specific fields into the kprobes-specific struct
arch_specific_insn. To make it clear that the fields are related to
stepping instructions in the XOL slot, 'insn' is renamed to 'xol_insn'
and 'restore' is renamed to 'xol_restore'

At the same time, remove the misleading and useless comment above struct
arch_probe_insn.

The should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008155851.801546-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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We share struct arch_probe_insn between krpboes and uprobes, but most of
its fields aren't necessary for uprobes:

* The 'insn' field is only used by kprobes as a pointer to the XOL slot.

* The 'restore' field is only used by probes as the PC to restore after
  stepping an instruction in the XOL slot.

* The 'pstate_cc' field isn't used by kprobes or uprobes, and seems to
  only exist as a result of copy-pasting the 32-bit arm implementation
  of kprobes.

As these fields live in struct arch_probe_insn they cannot use
definitions that only exist when CONFIG_KPROBES=y, such as the
kprobe_opcode_t typedef, which we'd like to use in subsequent patches.

Clean this up by removing the 'pstate_cc' field, and moving the
kprobes-specific fields into the kprobes-specific struct
arch_specific_insn. To make it clear that the fields are related to
stepping instructions in the XOL slot, 'insn' is renamed to 'xol_insn'
and 'restore' is renamed to 'xol_restore'

At the same time, remove the misleading and useless comment above struct
arch_probe_insn.

The should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008155851.801546-5-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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