linux.git/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c, branch v7.0

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...

mips: drop paging_init()

2026-01-27T04:02:19+00:00

All three variants of paging_init() on MIPS are wrappers for
pagetable_init().

Instead of having three identical wrappers, call pagetable_init() directly
from setup_arch() and remove the unnecessary paging_init() functions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-26-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Pratyush Yadav 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model

2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00

Every architecture calls sparse_init() during setup_arch() although the
data structures created by sparse_init() are not used until the
initialization of the core MM.

Beside the code duplication, calling sparse_init() from architecture
specific code causes ordering differences of vmemmap and HVO
initialization on different architectures.

Move the call to sparse_init() from architecture specific code to
free_area_init() to ensure that vmemmap and HVO initialization order is
always the same.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-25-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Pratyush Yadav 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users

2026-01-21T03:44:19+00:00

Remove  from  and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include  as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.

Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.

This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes.  Also,
all users/callers of  in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Add a new optional ",cma" suffix to the crashkernel= command line option

2025-07-20T02:08:22+00:00

Patch series "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA", v5.

This series implements a way to reserve additional crash kernel memory
using CMA.

Currently, all the memory for the crash kernel is not usable by the 1st
(production) kernel.  It is also unmapped so that it can't be corrupted by
the fault that will eventually trigger the crash.  This makes sense for
the memory actually used by the kexec-loaded crash kernel image and initrd
and the data prepared during the load (vmcoreinfo, ...).  However, the
reserved space needs to be much larger than that to provide enough
run-time memory for the crash kernel and the kdump userspace.  Estimating
the amount of memory to reserve is difficult.  Being too careful makes
kdump likely to end in OOM, being too generous takes even more memory from
the production system.  Also, the reservation only allows reserving a
single contiguous block (or two with the "low" suffix).  I've seen systems
where this fails because the physical memory is fragmented.

By reserving additional crashkernel memory from CMA, the main crashkernel
reservation can be just large enough to fit the kernel and initrd image,
minimizing the memory taken away from the production system.  Most of the
run-time memory for the crash kernel will be memory previously available
to userspace in the production system.  As this memory is no longer
wasted, the reservation can be done with a generous margin, making kdump
more reliable.  Kernel memory that we need to preserve for dumping is
normally not allocated from CMA, unless it is explicitly allocated as
movable.  Currently this is only the case for memory ballooning and zswap.
Such movable memory will be missing from the vmcore.  User data is
typically not dumped by makedumpfile.  When dumping of user data is
intended this new CMA reservation cannot be used.

There are five patches in this series:

The first adds a new ",cma" suffix to the recenly introduced generic
crashkernel parsing code.  parse_crashkernel() takes one more argument to
store the cma reservation size.

The second patch implements reserve_crashkernel_cma() which performs the
reservation.  If the requested size is not available in a single range,
multiple smaller ranges will be reserved.

The third patch updates Documentation/, explicitly mentioning the
potential DMA corruption of the CMA-reserved memory.

The fourth patch adds a short delay before booting the kdump kernel,
allowing pending DMA transfers to finish.

The fifth patch enables the functionality for x86 as a proof of
concept. There are just three things every arch needs to do:
- call reserve_crashkernel_cma()
- include the CMA-reserved ranges in the physical memory map
- exclude the CMA-reserved ranges from the memory available
  through /proc/vmcore by excluding them from the vmcoreinfo
  PT_LOAD ranges.

Adding other architectures is easy and I can do that as soon as this
series is merged.

With this series applied, specifying
	crashkernel=100M craskhernel=1G,cma
on the command line will make a standard crashkernel reservation
of 100M, where kexec will load the kernel and initrd.

An additional 1G will be reserved from CMA, still usable by the production
system.  The crash kernel will have 1.1G memory available.  The 100M can
be reliably predicted based on the size of the kernel and initrd.

The new cma suffix is completely optional. When no
crashkernel=size,cma is specified, everything works as before.


This patch (of 5):

Add a new cma_size parameter to parse_crashkernel().  When not NULL, call
__parse_crashkernel to parse the CMA reservation size from
"crashkernel=size,cma" and store it in cma_size.

Set cma_size to NULL in all calls to parse_crashkernel().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aEqnxxfLZMllMC8I@dwarf.suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aEqoQckgoTQNULnh@dwarf.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: Donald Dutile 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Philipp Rudo 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Cc: Tao Liu 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/memblock: add memblock_alloc_or_panic interface

2025-01-26T04:22:38+00:00

Before SLUB initialization, various subsystems used memblock_alloc to
allocate memory.  In most cases, when memory allocation fails, an
immediate panic is required.  To simplify this behavior and reduce
repetitive checks, introduce `memblock_alloc_or_panic`.  This function
ensures that memory allocation failures result in a panic automatically,
improving code readability and consistency across subsystems that require
this behavior.

[guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com: arch/s390: save_area_alloc default failure behavior changed to panic]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109033136.2845676-1-guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z2fknmnNtiZbCc7x@kernel.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250102072528.650926-1-guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guo Weikang 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 	[m68k]
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev 	[s390]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mips, crash: wrap crash dumping code into crash related ifdefs

2024-02-24T01:48:24+00:00

Now crash codes under kernel/ folder has been split out from kexec
code, crash dumping can be separated from kexec reboot in config
items on mips with some adjustments.

Here use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE) check to decide if compiling
in the crashkernel reservation code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-12-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Hari Bathini 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Michael Kelley 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Yang Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mips_6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux

2024-01-17T19:20:50+00:00

Pull MIPS updates from Thomas Bogendoerfer:
 "Just cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'mips_6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux:
  MIPS: Alchemy: Fix an out-of-bound access in db1550_dev_setup()
  MIPS: Alchemy: Fix an out-of-bound access in db1200_dev_setup()
  MIPS: Fix typos
  MIPS: Remove unused shadow GPR support from vector irq setup
  MIPS: Allow vectored interrupt handler to reside everywhere for 64bit
  mips: Set dump-stack arch description
  mips: mm: add slab availability checking in ioremap_prot
  mips: Optimize max_mapnr init procedure
  mips: Fix max_mapnr being uninitialized on early stages
  mips: Fix incorrect max_low_pfn adjustment
  mips: dmi: Fix early remap on MIPS32
  MIPS: compressed: Use correct instruction for 64 bit code
  MIPS: SGI-IP27: hubio: fix nasid kernel-doc warning
  MAINTAINERS: Add myself as maintainer of the Ralink architecture

MIPS: Fix typos

2024-01-08T09:39:12+00:00

Fix typos, most reported by "codespell arch/mips".  Only touches comments,
no code changes.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer

mips: Fix incorrect max_low_pfn adjustment

2023-12-21T14:31:46+00:00

max_low_pfn variable is incorrectly adjusted if the kernel is built with
high memory support and the later is detected in a running system, so the
memory which actually can be directly mapped is getting into the highmem
zone. See the ZONE_NORMAL range on my MIPS32r5 system:

> Zone ranges:
>   DMA      [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000ffffff]
>   Normal   [mem 0x0000000001000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
>   HighMem  [mem 0x0000000008000000-0x000000020fffffff]

while the zones are supposed to look as follows:

> Zone ranges:
>   DMA      [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000ffffff]
>   Normal   [mem 0x0000000001000000-0x000000001fffffff]
>   HighMem  [mem 0x0000000020000000-0x000000020fffffff]

Even though the physical memory within the range [0x08000000;0x20000000]
belongs to MMIO on our system, we don't really want it to be considered as
high memory since on MIPS32 that range still can be directly mapped.

Note there might be other problems caused by the max_low_pfn variable
misconfiguration. For instance high_memory variable is initialize with
virtual address corresponding to the max_low_pfn PFN, and by design it
must define the upper bound on direct map memory, then end of the normal
zone. That in its turn potentially may cause problems in accessing the
memory by means of the /dev/mem and /dev/kmem devices.

Let's fix the discovered misconfiguration then. It turns out the commit
a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map") didn't introduce the
max_low_pfn adjustment quite correct. If the kernel is built with high
memory support and the system is equipped with high memory, the
max_low_pfn variable will need to be initialized with PFN of the most
upper directly reachable memory address so the zone normal would be
correctly setup. On MIPS that PFN corresponds to PFN_DOWN(HIGHMEM_START).
If the system is built with no high memory support and one is detected in
the running system, we'll just need to adjust the max_pfn variable to
discard the found high memory from the system and leave the max_low_pfn as
is, since the later will be less than PFN_DOWN(HIGHMEM_START) anyway by
design of the for_each_memblock() loop performed a bit early in the
bootmem_init() method.

Fixes: a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map")
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer