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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

  "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
     mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
     VMAs.

  "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
     adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
     DAMON in production environments.

  "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
     is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
     pointers from struct writeback_control.

  "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
     contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
     management code.

  "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
     does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.

  "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
     implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
     into order&gt;0 folios.

  "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
     provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
     selftests code.

  "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
     memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.

  "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
     expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().

  "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
     addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
     These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.

  "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
     provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.

  "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
     types.

  "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
     increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
     code.

  "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
     removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.

  "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
     implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
     sysfs layer.

  "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.

  "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
     provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.

  "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
     creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
     Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
     on/offline notifier.

  "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
     which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.

  "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
     adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
     more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.

  "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
     fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
     follows that fix with a series of cleanups.

  "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
     rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
     allocator.

  "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
     provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.

  "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
     adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.

  "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
     does that.

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
     also does what it claims.

  "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
     cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.

  "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
     facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
     policy.

  "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
     provides a couple of page-&gt;folio conversions.

  "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
     implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
     current memcg-based implementation.

  "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
     replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
     powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.

  "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
     for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
     of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
     excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
     reliably.

  "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
     switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
     removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

  "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
     augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
     monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
     tunable to control the update interval.

  "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
     does what is claims.

  "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
     provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
     a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
     over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
     directly.

  "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
     addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
     reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
     half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
     selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.

  "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up __folio_split()!

  "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     provides some quite large (&gt;3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
     with large folios.

  "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
     does some cleanup work in the selftests code.

  "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
     more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
     multiple VMAs" feature.

  "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
     extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
     possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
     subset"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy &amp; migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

  "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
     mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
     VMAs.

  "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
     adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
     DAMON in production environments.

  "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
     is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
     pointers from struct writeback_control.

  "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
     contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
     management code.

  "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
     does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.

  "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
     implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
     into order&gt;0 folios.

  "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
     provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
     selftests code.

  "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
     memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.

  "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
     expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().

  "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
     addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
     These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.

  "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
     provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.

  "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
     types.

  "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
     increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
     code.

  "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
     removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.

  "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
     implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
     sysfs layer.

  "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.

  "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
     provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.

  "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
     creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
     Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
     on/offline notifier.

  "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
     which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.

  "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
     adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
     more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.

  "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
     fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
     follows that fix with a series of cleanups.

  "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
     rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
     allocator.

  "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
     provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.

  "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
     adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.

  "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
     does that.

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
     also does what it claims.

  "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
     cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.

  "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
     facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
     policy.

  "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
     provides a couple of page-&gt;folio conversions.

  "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
     implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
     current memcg-based implementation.

  "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
     replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
     powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.

  "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
     for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
     of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
     excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
     reliably.

  "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
     switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
     removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

  "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
     augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
     monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
     tunable to control the update interval.

  "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
     does what is claims.

  "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
     provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
     a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
     over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
     directly.

  "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
     addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
     reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
     half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
     selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.

  "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up __folio_split()!

  "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     provides some quite large (&gt;3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
     with large folios.

  "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
     does some cleanup work in the selftests code.

  "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
     more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
     multiple VMAs" feature.

  "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
     extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
     possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
     subset"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy &amp; migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...
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<entry>
<title>openrisc: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names</title>
<updated>2025-07-15T05:27:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-01T13:56:06+00:00</published>
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Instead of having the core code guess the note name for each regset,
use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to pick the correct name from elf.h.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Akihiko Odaki &lt;akihiko.odaki@daynix.com&gt;
Cc: linux-openrisc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki &lt;odaki@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701135616.29630-14-Dave.Martin@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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Instead of having the core code guess the note name for each regset,
use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to pick the correct name from elf.h.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Akihiko Odaki &lt;akihiko.odaki@daynix.com&gt;
Cc: linux-openrisc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki &lt;odaki@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701135616.29630-14-Dave.Martin@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/pagewalk: split walk_page_range_novma() into kernel/user parts</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T05:42:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-05T13:51:04+00:00</published>
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walk_page_range_novma() is rather confusing - it supports two modes, one
used often, the other used only for debugging.

The first mode is the common case of traversal of kernel page tables,
which is what nearly all callers use this for.

Secondly it provides an unusual debugging interface that allows for the
traversal of page tables in a userland range of memory even for that
memory which is not described by a VMA.

It is far from certain that such page tables should even exist, but
perhaps this is precisely why it is useful as a debugging mechanism.

As a result, this is utilised by ptdump only.  Historically, things were
reversed - ptdump was the only user, and other parts of the kernel evolved
to use the kernel page table walking here.

Since we have some complicated and confusing locking rules for the novma
case, it makes sense to separate the two usages into their own functions.

Doing this also provide self-documentation as to the intent of the caller
- are they doing something rather unusual or are they simply doing a
standard kernel page table walk?

We therefore establish two separate functions - walk_page_range_debug()
for this single usage, and walk_kernel_page_table_range() for general
kernel page table walking.

The walk_page_range_debug() function is currently used to traverse both
userland and kernel mappings, so we maintain this and in the case of
kernel mappings being traversed, we have walk_page_range_debug() invoke
walk_kernel_page_table_range() internally.

We additionally make walk_page_range_debug() internal to mm.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605135104.90720-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
walk_page_range_novma() is rather confusing - it supports two modes, one
used often, the other used only for debugging.

The first mode is the common case of traversal of kernel page tables,
which is what nearly all callers use this for.

Secondly it provides an unusual debugging interface that allows for the
traversal of page tables in a userland range of memory even for that
memory which is not described by a VMA.

It is far from certain that such page tables should even exist, but
perhaps this is precisely why it is useful as a debugging mechanism.

As a result, this is utilised by ptdump only.  Historically, things were
reversed - ptdump was the only user, and other parts of the kernel evolved
to use the kernel page table walking here.

Since we have some complicated and confusing locking rules for the novma
case, it makes sense to separate the two usages into their own functions.

Doing this also provide self-documentation as to the intent of the caller
- are they doing something rather unusual or are they simply doing a
standard kernel page table walk?

We therefore establish two separate functions - walk_page_range_debug()
for this single usage, and walk_kernel_page_table_range() for general
kernel page table walking.

The walk_page_range_debug() function is currently used to traverse both
userland and kernel mappings, so we maintain this and in the case of
kernel mappings being traversed, we have walk_page_range_debug() invoke
walk_kernel_page_table_range() internally.

We additionally make walk_page_range_debug() internal to mm.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605135104.90720-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds</title>
<updated>2025-06-07T05:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T18:12:54+00:00</published>
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The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN),
which behaves equivalently.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN),
which behaves equivalently.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>openrisc: Add cacheinfo support</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T06:06:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sahil Siddiq</name>
<email>sahilcdq0@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-19T15:48:19+00:00</published>
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Add cacheinfo support for OpenRISC.

Currently, a few CPU cache attributes pertaining to OpenRISC processors
are exposed along with other unrelated CPU attributes in the procfs file
system (/proc/cpuinfo). However, a few cache attributes remain unexposed.

Provide a mechanism that the generic cacheinfo infrastructure can employ
to expose these attributes via the sysfs file system. These attributes
can then be exposed in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache/indexN. Move
the implementation to pull cache attributes from the processor's
registers from arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c with a few modifications.

This implementation is based on similar work done for MIPS and LoongArch.

Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openrisc/doc/master/openrisc-arch-1.4-rev0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Sahil Siddiq &lt;sahilcdq0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
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Add cacheinfo support for OpenRISC.

Currently, a few CPU cache attributes pertaining to OpenRISC processors
are exposed along with other unrelated CPU attributes in the procfs file
system (/proc/cpuinfo). However, a few cache attributes remain unexposed.

Provide a mechanism that the generic cacheinfo infrastructure can employ
to expose these attributes via the sysfs file system. These attributes
can then be exposed in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache/indexN. Move
the implementation to pull cache attributes from the processor's
registers from arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c with a few modifications.

This implementation is based on similar work done for MIPS and LoongArch.

Link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openrisc/doc/master/openrisc-arch-1.4-rev0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Sahil Siddiq &lt;sahilcdq0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>openrisc: Introduce new utility functions to flush and invalidate caches</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T06:06:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sahil Siddiq</name>
<email>sahilcdq0@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-19T15:48:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0c4a6e79ef522554bc509294dfe69b24ee78205d'/>
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According to the OpenRISC architecture manual, the dcache and icache may
not be present. When these caches are present, the invalidate and flush
registers may be absent. The current implementation does not perform
checks to verify their presence before utilizing cache registers, or
invalidating and flushing cache blocks.

Introduce new functions to detect the presence of cache components and
related special-purpose registers.

There are a few places where a range of addresses have to be flushed or
invalidated and the implementation is duplicated. Introduce new utility
functions and macros that generalize this implementation and reduce
duplication.

Signed-off-by: Sahil Siddiq &lt;sahilcdq0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
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According to the OpenRISC architecture manual, the dcache and icache may
not be present. When these caches are present, the invalidate and flush
registers may be absent. The current implementation does not perform
checks to verify their presence before utilizing cache registers, or
invalidating and flushing cache blocks.

Introduce new functions to detect the presence of cache components and
related special-purpose registers.

There are a few places where a range of addresses have to be flushed or
invalidated and the implementation is duplicated. Introduce new utility
functions and macros that generalize this implementation and reduce
duplication.

Signed-off-by: Sahil Siddiq &lt;sahilcdq0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>openrisc: Refactor struct cpuinfo_or1k to reduce duplication</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T06:06:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sahil Siddiq</name>
<email>sahilcdq0@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-19T15:48:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=efabefb05aa1fe534ddb1839980824a763a7f1b0'/>
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The "cpuinfo_or1k" structure currently has identical data members for
different cache components.

Remove these fields out of struct cpuinfo_or1k and into its own struct.
This reduces duplication while keeping cpuinfo_or1k extensible so more
cache descriptors can be added in the future.

Also add a new field "sets" to the new structure.

Signed-off-by: Sahil Siddiq &lt;sahilcdq0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
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The "cpuinfo_or1k" structure currently has identical data members for
different cache components.

Remove these fields out of struct cpuinfo_or1k and into its own struct.
This reduces duplication while keeping cpuinfo_or1k extensible so more
cache descriptors can be added in the future.

Also add a new field "sets" to the new structure.

Signed-off-by: Sahil Siddiq &lt;sahilcdq0@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>openrisc: Add support for restartable sequences</title>
<updated>2025-01-14T17:17:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stafford Horne</name>
<email>shorne@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-12T12:33:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ca46ebffc2d2b243cc213d444e2a440489ecd4bc'/>
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Implement support for restartable sequences on OpenRISC by doing:
 - Select HAVE_RSEQ in Kconfig
 - Call rseq_syscall() on return to userspace when CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ
   is enabled.
 - Call rseq_signal_deliver() to fixup the pre-signal stack frame when a
   signal is delivered on top of a restartable sequence critical section

Cc: Michael Jeanson &lt;mjeanson@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
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Implement support for restartable sequences on OpenRISC by doing:
 - Select HAVE_RSEQ in Kconfig
 - Call rseq_syscall() on return to userspace when CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ
   is enabled.
 - Call rseq_signal_deliver() to fixup the pre-signal stack frame when a
   signal is delivered on top of a restartable sequence critical section

Cc: Michael Jeanson &lt;mjeanson@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>openrisc: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API support</title>
<updated>2025-01-14T17:17:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Jeanson</name>
<email>mjeanson@efficios.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-10T19:58:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7ce8716e2769dc08eccdf2b9385db6b0346d2f0d'/>
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Support for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API needed for restartable
sequences.

The implementation has been copied from riscv and tested with the
restartable sequences self tests.

Note, pt-regs members are 'long' on openrisc which require casts for the
api, someday we should try to update these to be 'unsigned long' as
that's what they really are.

Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson &lt;mjeanson@efficios.com&gt;
[stafford: Updated commit message]
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
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Support for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API needed for restartable
sequences.

The implementation has been copied from riscv and tested with the
restartable sequences self tests.

Note, pt-regs members are 'long' on openrisc which require casts for the
api, someday we should try to update these to be 'unsigned long' as
that's what they really are.

Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson &lt;mjeanson@efficios.com&gt;
[stafford: Updated commit message]
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>openrisc: Fix misalignments in head.S</title>
<updated>2024-12-10T12:04:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-05T13:04:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c8f8d4344d50d72181207ee73175bba567c25f58'/>
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<content type='text'>
Align all line continuations and (sub)section headers in a consistent
way.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Align all line continuations and (sub)section headers in a consistent
way.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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