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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)

   Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
   stack usage and is an improvement.

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)

   Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
   some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.

 - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)

   File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code

 - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
   Chen)

   Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap

 - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)

   Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn

 - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
   Han)

   A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code

 - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)

   Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
   prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently

 - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)

   Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
   metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
   structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel

 - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
   Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)

   Enhance vmscan's tracepointing

 - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
   VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)

   Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
   a generic implementation

 - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area

 - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)

   Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
   which became folio_batch three years ago

 - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
   Shutsemau)

   Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
   pages encode their relationship to the head page

 - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
   filters" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
   efficient when core layer filters are used

 - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
   min_nr_regions user-settable parameter

 - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)

   The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
   simplifications and cleanups ensued

 - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)

   A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
   simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
   zapping functions

 - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)

   Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
   benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64

 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)

   memcg cleanup and robustness improvements

 - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)

   Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
   pages when reporting free memory.

 - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
   a bitmap

 - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
   (SeongJae Park)

   An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
   addr_unit parameter handling

 - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
   overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
   documentation" (SeongJae Park)

   A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON

 - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
   movement was required.

 - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
   improvements in the zram code

 - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
   algorithms that users can select

 - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)

   Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
   reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged

 - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
   code

 - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
   modules" (SeongJae Park)

   Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable

 - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)

   Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
   mTHP support

 - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)

   Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
   CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)

   Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support

 - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)

   Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
   Law and SeongJae Park)

   Fix a few potential DAMON bugs

 - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
   Stoakes)

   Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
   to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
   code.

 - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
   the deprecated f_op-&gt;mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
   security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
   mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers

 - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
   vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
  mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
  mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
  mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
  mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
  mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb-&gt;mm
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
  mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
  mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
  mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
  mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
  mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
  uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
  drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
  mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)

   Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
   stack usage and is an improvement.

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)

   Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
   some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.

 - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)

   File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code

 - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
   Chen)

   Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap

 - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)

   Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn

 - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
   Han)

   A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code

 - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)

   Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
   prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently

 - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)

   Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
   metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
   structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel

 - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
   Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)

   Enhance vmscan's tracepointing

 - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
   VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)

   Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
   a generic implementation

 - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area

 - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)

   Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
   which became folio_batch three years ago

 - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
   Shutsemau)

   Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
   pages encode their relationship to the head page

 - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
   filters" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
   efficient when core layer filters are used

 - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
   min_nr_regions user-settable parameter

 - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)

   The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
   simplifications and cleanups ensued

 - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)

   A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
   simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
   zapping functions

 - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)

   Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
   benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64

 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)

   memcg cleanup and robustness improvements

 - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)

   Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
   pages when reporting free memory.

 - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
   a bitmap

 - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
   (SeongJae Park)

   An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
   addr_unit parameter handling

 - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
   overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
   documentation" (SeongJae Park)

   A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON

 - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
   movement was required.

 - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
   improvements in the zram code

 - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
   algorithms that users can select

 - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)

   Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
   reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged

 - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
   code

 - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
   modules" (SeongJae Park)

   Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable

 - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)

   Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
   mTHP support

 - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)

   Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
   CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)

   Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support

 - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)

   Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
   Law and SeongJae Park)

   Fix a few potential DAMON bugs

 - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
   Stoakes)

   Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
   to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
   code.

 - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
   the deprecated f_op-&gt;mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
   security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
   mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers

 - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
   vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
  mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
  mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
  mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
  mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
  mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb-&gt;mm
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
  mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
  mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
  mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
  mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
  mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
  uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
  drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
  mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: cache struct page for empty_zero_page and return it from ZERO_PAGE()</title>
<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T10:31:41+00:00</published>
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For most architectures every invocation of ZERO_PAGE() does
virt_to_page(empty_zero_page).  But empty_zero_page is in BSS and it is
enough to get its struct page once at initialization time and then use it
whenever a zero page should be accessed.

Add yet another __zero_page variable that will be initialized as
virt_to_page(empty_zero_page) for most architectures in a weak
arch_setup_zero_pages() function.

For architectures that use colored zero pages (MIPS and s390) rename their
setup_zero_pages() to arch_setup_zero_pages() and make it global rather
than static.

For architectures that cannot use virt_to_page() for BSS (arm64 and
sparc64) add override of arch_setup_zero_pages().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-5-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.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: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&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 Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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For most architectures every invocation of ZERO_PAGE() does
virt_to_page(empty_zero_page).  But empty_zero_page is in BSS and it is
enough to get its struct page once at initialization time and then use it
whenever a zero page should be accessed.

Add yet another __zero_page variable that will be initialized as
virt_to_page(empty_zero_page) for most architectures in a weak
arch_setup_zero_pages() function.

For architectures that use colored zero pages (MIPS and s390) rename their
setup_zero_pages() to arch_setup_zero_pages() and make it global rather
than static.

For architectures that cannot use virt_to_page() for BSS (arm64 and
sparc64) add override of arch_setup_zero_pages().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-5-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.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: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&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 Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mips: mm: Allocate tlb_vpn array atomically</title>
<updated>2026-04-01T20:24:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Wiehler</name>
<email>stefan.wiehler@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-10T10:40:24+00:00</published>
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Found by DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /include/linux/sched/mm.h:306
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
  RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
  no locks held by swapper/1/0.
  irq event stamp: 0
  hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;] 0x0
  hardirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;ffffffff801477fc&gt;] copy_process+0x75c/0x1b68
  softirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;ffffffff801477fc&gt;] copy_process+0x75c/0x1b68
  softirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;] 0x0
  CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.6.119-d79e757675ec-fct #1
  Stack : 800000000290bad8 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 800000000290bae8
          800000000290bae8 800000000290bc78 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          ffffffff80c80000 0000000000000001 ffffffff80d8dee8 ffffffff810d09c0
          784bb2a7ec10647d 0000000000000010 ffffffff80a6fd60 8000000001d8a9c0
          0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff80d90000 0000000000000000
          ffffffff80c9e0e8 0000000007ffffff 0000000000000cc0 0000000000000400
          ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 ffffffffc0149ed8
          fffffffffffffffe 8000000002908000 800000000290bae0 ffffffff80a81b74
          ffffffff80129fb0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff80129fd0 0000000000000000
          ...
  Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff80129fd0&gt;] show_stack+0x60/0x158
  [&lt;ffffffff80a7f894&gt;] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xbc
  [&lt;ffffffff8018d3c8&gt;] __might_resched+0x268/0x288
  [&lt;ffffffff803648b0&gt;] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2e0/0x330
  [&lt;ffffffff80302788&gt;] __kmalloc+0x58/0xd0
  [&lt;ffffffff80a81b74&gt;] r4k_tlb_uniquify+0x7c/0x428
  [&lt;ffffffff80143e8c&gt;] tlb_init+0x7c/0x110
  [&lt;ffffffff8012bdb4&gt;] per_cpu_trap_init+0x16c/0x1d0
  [&lt;ffffffff80133258&gt;] start_secondary+0x28/0x128

Fixes: 231ac951faba ("MIPS: mm: kmalloc tlb_vpn array to avoid stack overflow")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wiehler &lt;stefan.wiehler@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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Found by DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /include/linux/sched/mm.h:306
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
  RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
  no locks held by swapper/1/0.
  irq event stamp: 0
  hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;] 0x0
  hardirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;ffffffff801477fc&gt;] copy_process+0x75c/0x1b68
  softirqs last  enabled at (0): [&lt;ffffffff801477fc&gt;] copy_process+0x75c/0x1b68
  softirqs last disabled at (0): [&lt;0000000000000000&gt;] 0x0
  CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.6.119-d79e757675ec-fct #1
  Stack : 800000000290bad8 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 800000000290bae8
          800000000290bae8 800000000290bc78 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          ffffffff80c80000 0000000000000001 ffffffff80d8dee8 ffffffff810d09c0
          784bb2a7ec10647d 0000000000000010 ffffffff80a6fd60 8000000001d8a9c0
          0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff80d90000 0000000000000000
          ffffffff80c9e0e8 0000000007ffffff 0000000000000cc0 0000000000000400
          ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 ffffffffc0149ed8
          fffffffffffffffe 8000000002908000 800000000290bae0 ffffffff80a81b74
          ffffffff80129fb0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff80129fd0 0000000000000000
          ...
  Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff80129fd0&gt;] show_stack+0x60/0x158
  [&lt;ffffffff80a7f894&gt;] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xbc
  [&lt;ffffffff8018d3c8&gt;] __might_resched+0x268/0x288
  [&lt;ffffffff803648b0&gt;] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2e0/0x330
  [&lt;ffffffff80302788&gt;] __kmalloc+0x58/0xd0
  [&lt;ffffffff80a81b74&gt;] r4k_tlb_uniquify+0x7c/0x428
  [&lt;ffffffff80143e8c&gt;] tlb_init+0x7c/0x110
  [&lt;ffffffff8012bdb4&gt;] per_cpu_trap_init+0x16c/0x1d0
  [&lt;ffffffff80133258&gt;] start_secondary+0x28/0x128

Fixes: 231ac951faba ("MIPS: mm: kmalloc tlb_vpn array to avoid stack overflow")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wiehler &lt;stefan.wiehler@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: mm: Rewrite TLB uniquification for the hidden bit feature</title>
<updated>2026-04-01T19:54:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-27T18:57:30+00:00</published>
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Before the introduction of the EHINV feature, which lets software mark
TLB entries invalid, certain older implementations of the MIPS ISA were
equipped with an analogous bit, as a vendor extension, which however is
hidden from software and only ever set at reset, and then any software
write clears it, making the intended TLB entry valid.

This feature makes it unsafe to read a TLB entry with TLBR, modify the
page mask, and write the entry back with TLBWI, because this operation
will implicitly clear the hidden bit and this may create a duplicate
entry, as with the presence of the hidden bit there is no guarantee all
the entries across the TLB are unique each.

Usually the firmware has already uniquified TLB entries before handing
control over, in which case we only need to guarantee at bootstrap no
clash will happen with the VPN2 values chosen in local_flush_tlb_all().

However with systems such as Mikrotik RB532 we get handed the TLB as at
reset, with the hidden bit set across the entries and possibly duplicate
entries present.  This then causes a machine check exception when page
sizes are reset in r4k_tlb_uniquify() and prevents the system from
booting.

Rewrite the algorithm used in r4k_tlb_uniquify() then such as to avoid
the reuse of ASID/VPN values across the TLB.  Get rid of global entries
first as they may be blocking the entire address space, e.g. 16 256MiB
pages will exhaust the whole address space of a 32-bit CPU and a single
big page can exhaust the 32-bit compatibility space on a 64-bit CPU.

Details of the algorithm chosen are given across the code itself.

Fixes: 9f048fa48740 ("MIPS: mm: Prevent a TLB shutdown on initial uniquification")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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Before the introduction of the EHINV feature, which lets software mark
TLB entries invalid, certain older implementations of the MIPS ISA were
equipped with an analogous bit, as a vendor extension, which however is
hidden from software and only ever set at reset, and then any software
write clears it, making the intended TLB entry valid.

This feature makes it unsafe to read a TLB entry with TLBR, modify the
page mask, and write the entry back with TLBWI, because this operation
will implicitly clear the hidden bit and this may create a duplicate
entry, as with the presence of the hidden bit there is no guarantee all
the entries across the TLB are unique each.

Usually the firmware has already uniquified TLB entries before handing
control over, in which case we only need to guarantee at bootstrap no
clash will happen with the VPN2 values chosen in local_flush_tlb_all().

However with systems such as Mikrotik RB532 we get handed the TLB as at
reset, with the hidden bit set across the entries and possibly duplicate
entries present.  This then causes a machine check exception when page
sizes are reset in r4k_tlb_uniquify() and prevents the system from
booting.

Rewrite the algorithm used in r4k_tlb_uniquify() then such as to avoid
the reuse of ASID/VPN values across the TLB.  Get rid of global entries
first as they may be blocking the entire address space, e.g. 16 256MiB
pages will exhaust the whole address space of a 32-bit CPU and a single
big page can exhaust the 32-bit compatibility space on a 64-bit CPU.

Details of the algorithm chosen are given across the code itself.

Fixes: 9f048fa48740 ("MIPS: mm: Prevent a TLB shutdown on initial uniquification")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: mm: Suppress TLB uniquification on EHINV hardware</title>
<updated>2026-04-01T19:54:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-27T18:57:23+00:00</published>
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Hardware that supports the EHINV feature, mandatory for R6 ISA and FTLB
implementation, lets software mark TLB entries invalid, which eliminates
the need to ensure no duplicate matching entries are ever created.  This
feature is already used by local_flush_tlb_all(), via the UNIQUE_ENTRYHI
macro, making the preceding call to r4k_tlb_uniquify() superfluous.

The next change will also modify uniquification code such that it'll
become incompatible with the FTLB and MMID features, as well as MIPSr6
CPUs that do not implement 4KiB pages.

Therefore prevent r4k_tlb_uniquify() from being used on EHINV hardware,
as denoted by `cpu_has_tlbinv'.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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Hardware that supports the EHINV feature, mandatory for R6 ISA and FTLB
implementation, lets software mark TLB entries invalid, which eliminates
the need to ensure no duplicate matching entries are ever created.  This
feature is already used by local_flush_tlb_all(), via the UNIQUE_ENTRYHI
macro, making the preceding call to r4k_tlb_uniquify() superfluous.

The next change will also modify uniquification code such that it'll
become incompatible with the FTLB and MMID features, as well as MIPSr6
CPUs that do not implement 4KiB pages.

Therefore prevent r4k_tlb_uniquify() from being used on EHINV hardware,
as denoted by `cpu_has_tlbinv'.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: SiByte: Bring back cache initialisation</title>
<updated>2026-04-01T19:51:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-27T11:38:06+00:00</published>
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Bring back cache initialisation for Broadcom SiByte SB1 cores, which has
been removed causing the kernel to hang at bootstrap right after:

Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 8, 4194304 bytes, linear)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 7, 2097152 bytes, linear)

The cause of the problem is R4k cache handlers are also used by Broadcom
SiByte SB1 cores, however with a different cache error exception handler
and therefore not using CPU_R4K_CACHE_TLB:

obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_R4K_CACHE_TLB) += c-r4k.o cex-gen.o tlb-r4k.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_SB1)           += c-r4k.o cerr-sb1.o cex-sb1.o tlb-r4k.o

(from arch/mips/mm/Makefile).

Fixes: bbe4f634f48c ("mips: fix r3k_cache_init build regression")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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Bring back cache initialisation for Broadcom SiByte SB1 cores, which has
been removed causing the kernel to hang at bootstrap right after:

Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 8, 4194304 bytes, linear)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 7, 2097152 bytes, linear)

The cause of the problem is R4k cache handlers are also used by Broadcom
SiByte SB1 cores, however with a different cache error exception handler
and therefore not using CPU_R4K_CACHE_TLB:

obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_R4K_CACHE_TLB) += c-r4k.o cex-gen.o tlb-r4k.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_SB1)           += c-r4k.o cerr-sb1.o cex-sb1.o tlb-r4k.o

(from arch/mips/mm/Makefile).

Fixes: bbe4f634f48c ("mips: fix r3k_cache_init build regression")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mips: drop paging_init()</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T04:02:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T08:20:59+00:00</published>
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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) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&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: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&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 Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&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: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&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: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&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 Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&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: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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>arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T08:20:57+00:00</published>
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To initialize node, zone and memory map data structures every architecture
calls free_area_init() during setup_arch() and passes it an array of zone
limits.

Beside code duplication it creates "interesting" ordering cases between
allocation and initialization of hugetlb and the memory map.  Some
architectures allocate hugetlb pages very early in setup_arch() in certain
cases, some only create hugetlb CMA areas in setup_arch() and sometimes
hugetlb allocations happen mm_core_init().

With arch_zone_limits_init() helper available now on all architectures it
is no longer necessary to call free_area_init() from architecture setup
code.  Rather core MM initialization can call arch_zone_limits_init() in a
single place.

This allows to unify ordering of hugetlb vs memory map allocation and
initialization.

Remove the call to free_area_init() from architecture specific code and
place it in a new mm_core_init_early() function that is called immediately
after setup_arch().

After this refactoring it is possible to consolidate hugetlb allocations
and eliminate differences in ordering of hugetlb and memory map
initialization among different architectures.

As the first step of this consolidation move hugetlb_bootmem_alloc() to
mm_core_early_init().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-24-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&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: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&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 Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&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: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
To initialize node, zone and memory map data structures every architecture
calls free_area_init() during setup_arch() and passes it an array of zone
limits.

Beside code duplication it creates "interesting" ordering cases between
allocation and initialization of hugetlb and the memory map.  Some
architectures allocate hugetlb pages very early in setup_arch() in certain
cases, some only create hugetlb CMA areas in setup_arch() and sometimes
hugetlb allocations happen mm_core_init().

With arch_zone_limits_init() helper available now on all architectures it
is no longer necessary to call free_area_init() from architecture setup
code.  Rather core MM initialization can call arch_zone_limits_init() in a
single place.

This allows to unify ordering of hugetlb vs memory map allocation and
initialization.

Remove the call to free_area_init() from architecture specific code and
place it in a new mm_core_init_early() function that is called immediately
after setup_arch().

After this refactoring it is possible to consolidate hugetlb allocations
and eliminate differences in ordering of hugetlb and memory map
initialization among different architectures.

As the first step of this consolidation move hugetlb_bootmem_alloc() to
mm_core_early_init().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-24-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&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: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&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 Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&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: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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>mips: introduce arch_zone_limits_init()</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T04:02:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T08:20:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f61385e29444d4d2dca06766575da72cd814edf2'/>
<id>f61385e29444d4d2dca06766575da72cd814edf2</id>
<content type='text'>
Move calculations of zone limits to a dedicated arch_zone_limits_init()
function.

Later MM core will use this function as an architecture specific callback
during nodes and zones initialization and thus there won't be a need to
call free_area_init() from every architecture.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-12-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&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: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&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 Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&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: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Move calculations of zone limits to a dedicated arch_zone_limits_init()
function.

Later MM core will use this function as an architecture specific callback
during nodes and zones initialization and thus there won't be a need to
call free_area_init() from every architecture.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-12-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&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: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&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 Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&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: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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>mips: fix HIGHMEM initialization</title>
<updated>2026-01-15T06:16:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-31T10:57:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f171b55f1441294344b86edfeaa575ea9673fd23'/>
<id>f171b55f1441294344b86edfeaa575ea9673fd23</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 6faea3422e3b ("arch, mm: streamline HIGHMEM freeing") overzealously
removed mem_init_free_highmem() function that beside freeing high memory
pages checked for CPU support for high memory as a prerequisite.

Partially restore mem_init_free_highmem() with a new highmem_init() name
and make it discard high memory in case there is no CPU support for it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251231105701.519711-1-rppt@kernel.org
Fixes: 6faea3422e3b ("arch, mm: streamline HIGHMEM freeing")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Markus Stockhausen &lt;markus.stockhausen@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Packham &lt;chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Cc: Jonas Jelonek &lt;jelonek.jonas@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Commit 6faea3422e3b ("arch, mm: streamline HIGHMEM freeing") overzealously
removed mem_init_free_highmem() function that beside freeing high memory
pages checked for CPU support for high memory as a prerequisite.

Partially restore mem_init_free_highmem() with a new highmem_init() name
and make it discard high memory in case there is no CPU support for it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251231105701.519711-1-rppt@kernel.org
Fixes: 6faea3422e3b ("arch, mm: streamline HIGHMEM freeing")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Markus Stockhausen &lt;markus.stockhausen@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Packham &lt;chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens &lt;hauke@hauke-m.de&gt;
Cc: Jonas Jelonek &lt;jelonek.jonas@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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