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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T14:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-06-19T14:37:52+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature

 - Add missing property in DTS for mpc83xx platform

 - Enable building of DTB based on platfrom Kconfig

 - Add powerpc64 JIT support for timed may_goto

 - Add timeout to RTAS busy-wait loops

 - Simplify cpumask api usage for cpuinfo display

 - implement get_direction() in cpm1 (8xx platform)

 - MAINTAINERS file update for power VMX AES entries

 - Fixes to handle preempt count

 - Restore KUAP registers on syscall restart exit

 - define MIN_RMA in bytes rather than MB

 - misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Adriano Vero, Amit Machhiwal, Anushree
Mathur, Bartosz Golaszewski, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP), David Gow,
Jinjie Ruan, J. Neuschäfer, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mukesh
Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM), Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Saket Kumar Bhaskar,
Samir M, Sayali Patil, Shirisha G, Shivang Upadhyay, Shrikanth Hegde,
Sourabh Jain, Thorsten Blum, Venkat Rao Bagalkote, and Yury Norov.

* tag 'powerpc-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (32 commits)
  powerpc/fadump: define MIN_RMA in bytes rather than MB
  powerpc: Restore KUAP registers on syscall restart exit
  powerpc/kexec: fix double get_cpu() imbalance in kexec_prepare_cpus
  powerpc/powernv: fix preempt count leak in pnv_kexec_wait_secondaries_down
  powerpc/perf: fix preempt count underflow in fsl_emb_pmu_del
  powerpc/boot: Allow text relocations for pseries wrapper with binutils 2.46+
  powerpc: Simplify access_ok()
  powerpc/entry: Disable interrupts before irqentry_exit
  powerpc/8xx: implement get_direction() in cpm1
  powerpc/pseries/lparcfg: Replace deprecated strcpy in parse_system_parameter_string
  powerpc: Fix indentation and replace typedef with struct name
  powerpc/rtas: Replace one-element array with flexible array member
  powerpc: use sysfs_emit{_at} in sysfs show functions
  MAINTAINERS: powerpc: update VMX AES entries
  ppc/fadump: invoke kmsg_dump in fadump panic path
  powerpc/xive: Add warning if target CPU not found
  powerpc/perf: Use cpumask_intersects api for checking disable path
  powerpc: Simplify cpumask api usage for cpuinfo display
  powerpc: Use cpumask_next_wrap instead
  powerpc/fadump: Add timeout to RTAS busy-wait loops
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature

 - Add missing property in DTS for mpc83xx platform

 - Enable building of DTB based on platfrom Kconfig

 - Add powerpc64 JIT support for timed may_goto

 - Add timeout to RTAS busy-wait loops

 - Simplify cpumask api usage for cpuinfo display

 - implement get_direction() in cpm1 (8xx platform)

 - MAINTAINERS file update for power VMX AES entries

 - Fixes to handle preempt count

 - Restore KUAP registers on syscall restart exit

 - define MIN_RMA in bytes rather than MB

 - misc fixes and cleanups

Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Adriano Vero, Amit Machhiwal, Anushree
Mathur, Bartosz Golaszewski, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP), David Gow,
Jinjie Ruan, J. Neuschäfer, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mukesh
Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM), Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Saket Kumar Bhaskar,
Samir M, Sayali Patil, Shirisha G, Shivang Upadhyay, Shrikanth Hegde,
Sourabh Jain, Thorsten Blum, Venkat Rao Bagalkote, and Yury Norov.

* tag 'powerpc-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (32 commits)
  powerpc/fadump: define MIN_RMA in bytes rather than MB
  powerpc: Restore KUAP registers on syscall restart exit
  powerpc/kexec: fix double get_cpu() imbalance in kexec_prepare_cpus
  powerpc/powernv: fix preempt count leak in pnv_kexec_wait_secondaries_down
  powerpc/perf: fix preempt count underflow in fsl_emb_pmu_del
  powerpc/boot: Allow text relocations for pseries wrapper with binutils 2.46+
  powerpc: Simplify access_ok()
  powerpc/entry: Disable interrupts before irqentry_exit
  powerpc/8xx: implement get_direction() in cpm1
  powerpc/pseries/lparcfg: Replace deprecated strcpy in parse_system_parameter_string
  powerpc: Fix indentation and replace typedef with struct name
  powerpc/rtas: Replace one-element array with flexible array member
  powerpc: use sysfs_emit{_at} in sysfs show functions
  MAINTAINERS: powerpc: update VMX AES entries
  ppc/fadump: invoke kmsg_dump in fadump panic path
  powerpc/xive: Add warning if target CPU not found
  powerpc/perf: Use cpumask_intersects api for checking disable path
  powerpc: Simplify cpumask api usage for cpuinfo display
  powerpc: Use cpumask_next_wrap instead
  powerpc/fadump: Add timeout to RTAS busy-wait loops
  ...
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<entry>
<title>vdso/treewide: Drop GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL</title>
<updated>2026-06-02T19:41:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-19T06:26:17+00:00</published>
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This Kconfig symbol is not used anymore, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519-vdso-generic_time_vsyscal-v1-3-5c2a5905d5f5@linutronix.de
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This Kconfig symbol is not used anymore, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519-vdso-generic_time_vsyscal-v1-3-5c2a5905d5f5@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature</title>
<updated>2026-05-20T01:27:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya</name>
<email>mkchauras@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-27T12:27:41+00:00</published>
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Enable the generic IRQ entry/exit infrastructure on PowerPC by selecting
GENERIC_ENTRY and integrating the architecture-specific interrupt and
syscall handlers with the generic entry/exit APIs.

This change replaces PowerPC’s local interrupt entry/exit handling with
calls to the generic irqentry_* helpers, aligning the architecture with
the common kernel entry model. The macros that define interrupt, async,
and NMI handlers are updated to use irqentry_enter()/irqentry_exit()
and irqentry_nmi_enter()/irqentry_nmi_exit() where applicable also
convert the PowerPC syscall entry and exit paths to use the generic
entry/exit framework and integrating with the common syscall handling
routines.

Key updates include:
 - The architecture now selects GENERIC_ENTRY in Kconfig.
 - Replace interrupt_enter/exit_prepare() with arch_interrupt_* helpers.
 - Integrate irqentry_enter()/exit() in standard and async interrupt paths.
 - Integrate irqentry_nmi_enter()/exit() in NMI handlers.
 - Remove redundant irq_enter()/irq_exit() calls now handled generically.
 - Use irqentry_exit_cond_resched() for preemption checks.
 - interrupt.c and syscall.c are simplified to delegate context
   management and user exit handling to the generic entry path.
 - The new pt_regs field `exit_flags` introduced earlier is now used
   to carry per-syscall exit state flags (e.g. _TIF_RESTOREALL).
 - Remove unused code.

This change establishes the necessary wiring for PowerPC to use the
generic IRQ entry/exit framework while maintaining existing semantics.
This aligns PowerPC with the common entry code used by other
architectures and reduces duplicated logic around syscall tracing,
context tracking, and signal handling.

The performance benchmarks from perf bench basic syscall are below:

perf bench syscall usec/op (-ve is improvement)

| Syscall | Base        | test        | change % |
| ------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------- |
| basic   | 0.093543    | 0.093023    | -0.56    |
| execve  | 446.557781  | 450.107172  | +0.79    |
| fork    | 1142.204391 | 1156.377214 | +1.24    |
| getpgid | 0.097666    | 0.092677    | -5.11    |

perf bench syscall ops/sec (+ve is improvement)

| Syscall | Base     | New      | change % |
| ------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| basic   | 10690548 | 10750140 | +0.56    |
| execve  | 2239     | 2221     | -0.80    |
| fork    | 875      | 864      | -1.26    |
| getpgid | 10239026 | 10790324 | +5.38    |

IPI latency benchmark (-ve is improvement)

| Metric         | Base (ns)     | New (ns)      | % Change |
| -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | -------- |
| Dry run        | 583136.56     | 584136.35     | 0.17%    |
| Self IPI       | 4167393.42    | 4149093.90    | -0.44%   |
| Normal IPI     | 61769347.82   | 61753728.39   | -0.03%   |
| Broadcast IPI  | 2235584825.02 | 2227521401.45 | -0.36%   |
| Broadcast lock | 2164964433.31 | 2125658641.76 | -1.82%   |

Thats very close to performance earlier with arch specific handling.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya &lt;mkchauras@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Samir M &lt;samir@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427122742.210074-8-mkchauras@gmail.com

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Enable the generic IRQ entry/exit infrastructure on PowerPC by selecting
GENERIC_ENTRY and integrating the architecture-specific interrupt and
syscall handlers with the generic entry/exit APIs.

This change replaces PowerPC’s local interrupt entry/exit handling with
calls to the generic irqentry_* helpers, aligning the architecture with
the common kernel entry model. The macros that define interrupt, async,
and NMI handlers are updated to use irqentry_enter()/irqentry_exit()
and irqentry_nmi_enter()/irqentry_nmi_exit() where applicable also
convert the PowerPC syscall entry and exit paths to use the generic
entry/exit framework and integrating with the common syscall handling
routines.

Key updates include:
 - The architecture now selects GENERIC_ENTRY in Kconfig.
 - Replace interrupt_enter/exit_prepare() with arch_interrupt_* helpers.
 - Integrate irqentry_enter()/exit() in standard and async interrupt paths.
 - Integrate irqentry_nmi_enter()/exit() in NMI handlers.
 - Remove redundant irq_enter()/irq_exit() calls now handled generically.
 - Use irqentry_exit_cond_resched() for preemption checks.
 - interrupt.c and syscall.c are simplified to delegate context
   management and user exit handling to the generic entry path.
 - The new pt_regs field `exit_flags` introduced earlier is now used
   to carry per-syscall exit state flags (e.g. _TIF_RESTOREALL).
 - Remove unused code.

This change establishes the necessary wiring for PowerPC to use the
generic IRQ entry/exit framework while maintaining existing semantics.
This aligns PowerPC with the common entry code used by other
architectures and reduces duplicated logic around syscall tracing,
context tracking, and signal handling.

The performance benchmarks from perf bench basic syscall are below:

perf bench syscall usec/op (-ve is improvement)

| Syscall | Base        | test        | change % |
| ------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------- |
| basic   | 0.093543    | 0.093023    | -0.56    |
| execve  | 446.557781  | 450.107172  | +0.79    |
| fork    | 1142.204391 | 1156.377214 | +1.24    |
| getpgid | 0.097666    | 0.092677    | -5.11    |

perf bench syscall ops/sec (+ve is improvement)

| Syscall | Base     | New      | change % |
| ------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| basic   | 10690548 | 10750140 | +0.56    |
| execve  | 2239     | 2221     | -0.80    |
| fork    | 875      | 864      | -1.26    |
| getpgid | 10239026 | 10790324 | +5.38    |

IPI latency benchmark (-ve is improvement)

| Metric         | Base (ns)     | New (ns)      | % Change |
| -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | -------- |
| Dry run        | 583136.56     | 584136.35     | 0.17%    |
| Self IPI       | 4167393.42    | 4149093.90    | -0.44%   |
| Normal IPI     | 61769347.82   | 61753728.39   | -0.03%   |
| Broadcast IPI  | 2235584825.02 | 2227521401.45 | -0.36%   |
| Broadcast lock | 2164964433.31 | 2125658641.76 | -1.82%   |

Thats very close to performance earlier with arch specific handling.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya &lt;mkchauras@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Samir M &lt;samir@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427122742.210074-8-mkchauras@gmail.com

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'integrity-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity</title>
<updated>2026-04-17T22:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-17T22:42:01+00:00</published>
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Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar:
 "There are two main changes, one feature removal, some code cleanup,
  and a number of bug fixes.

  Main changes:
   - Detecting secure boot mode was limited to IMA. Make detecting
     secure boot mode accessible to EVM and other LSMs
   - IMA sigv3 support was limited to fsverity. Add IMA sigv3 support
     for IMA regular file hashes and EVM portable signatures

  Remove:
   - Remove IMA support for asychronous hash calculation originally
     added for hardware acceleration

  Cleanup:
   - Remove unnecessary Kconfig CONFIG_MODULE_SIG and CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG
     tests
   - Add descriptions of the IMA atomic flags

  Bug fixes:
   - Like IMA, properly limit EVM "fix" mode
   - Define and call evm_fix_hmac() to update security.evm
   - Fallback to using i_version to detect file change for filesystems
     that do not support STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE
   - Address missing kernel support for configured (new) TPM hash
     algorithms
   - Add missing crypto_shash_final() return value"

* tag 'integrity-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity:
  evm: Enforce signatures version 3 with new EVM policy 'bit 3'
  integrity: Allow sigv3 verification on EVM_XATTR_PORTABLE_DIGSIG
  ima: add support to require IMA sigv3 signatures
  ima: add regular file data hash signature version 3 support
  ima: Define asymmetric_verify_v3() to verify IMA sigv3 signatures
  ima: remove buggy support for asynchronous hashes
  integrity: Eliminate weak definition of arch_get_secureboot()
  ima: Add code comments to explain IMA iint cache atomic_flags
  ima_fs: Correctly create securityfs files for unsupported hash algos
  ima: check return value of crypto_shash_final() in boot aggregate
  ima: Define and use a digest_size field in the ima_algo_desc structure
  powerpc/ima: Drop unnecessary check for CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
  ima: efi: Drop unnecessary check for CONFIG_MODULE_SIG/CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG
  ima: fallback to using i_version to detect file change
  evm: fix security.evm for a file with IMA signature
  s390: Drop unnecessary CONFIG_IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT
  evm: Don't enable fix mode when secure boot is enabled
  integrity: Make arch_ima_get_secureboot integrity-wide
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Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar:
 "There are two main changes, one feature removal, some code cleanup,
  and a number of bug fixes.

  Main changes:
   - Detecting secure boot mode was limited to IMA. Make detecting
     secure boot mode accessible to EVM and other LSMs
   - IMA sigv3 support was limited to fsverity. Add IMA sigv3 support
     for IMA regular file hashes and EVM portable signatures

  Remove:
   - Remove IMA support for asychronous hash calculation originally
     added for hardware acceleration

  Cleanup:
   - Remove unnecessary Kconfig CONFIG_MODULE_SIG and CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG
     tests
   - Add descriptions of the IMA atomic flags

  Bug fixes:
   - Like IMA, properly limit EVM "fix" mode
   - Define and call evm_fix_hmac() to update security.evm
   - Fallback to using i_version to detect file change for filesystems
     that do not support STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE
   - Address missing kernel support for configured (new) TPM hash
     algorithms
   - Add missing crypto_shash_final() return value"

* tag 'integrity-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity:
  evm: Enforce signatures version 3 with new EVM policy 'bit 3'
  integrity: Allow sigv3 verification on EVM_XATTR_PORTABLE_DIGSIG
  ima: add support to require IMA sigv3 signatures
  ima: add regular file data hash signature version 3 support
  ima: Define asymmetric_verify_v3() to verify IMA sigv3 signatures
  ima: remove buggy support for asynchronous hashes
  integrity: Eliminate weak definition of arch_get_secureboot()
  ima: Add code comments to explain IMA iint cache atomic_flags
  ima_fs: Correctly create securityfs files for unsupported hash algos
  ima: check return value of crypto_shash_final() in boot aggregate
  ima: Define and use a digest_size field in the ima_algo_desc structure
  powerpc/ima: Drop unnecessary check for CONFIG_MODULE_SIG
  ima: efi: Drop unnecessary check for CONFIG_MODULE_SIG/CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG
  ima: fallback to using i_version to detect file change
  evm: fix security.evm for a file with IMA signature
  s390: Drop unnecessary CONFIG_IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT
  evm: Don't enable fix mode when secure boot is enabled
  integrity: Make arch_ima_get_secureboot integrity-wide
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<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE</title>
<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand (Arm)</name>
<email>david@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-19T08:19:40+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
CONFIG_MIGRATION".

While working on memory hotplug code cleanups, I realized that
CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE is not really required anymore.

Changing that revealed some rather nasty looking CONFIG_MIGRATION
handling.

Let's clean that up by introducing a dedicated CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION
option and reducing the dependencies that CONFIG_MIGRATION has.


This patch (of 2):

All architectures that select CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE also
select CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.  So we can just remove
CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE.

For CONFIG_MIGRATION, make it depend on CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE instead,
and make CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE select CONFIG_MIGRATION (just like
CONFIG_CMA and CONFIG_COMPACTION already do).

We'll clean up CONFIG_MIGRATION next.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260319-config_migration-v1-0-42270124966f@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260319-config_migration-v1-1-42270124966f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;jonathan.cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
CONFIG_MIGRATION".

While working on memory hotplug code cleanups, I realized that
CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE is not really required anymore.

Changing that revealed some rather nasty looking CONFIG_MIGRATION
handling.

Let's clean that up by introducing a dedicated CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATION
option and reducing the dependencies that CONFIG_MIGRATION has.


This patch (of 2):

All architectures that select CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE also
select CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.  So we can just remove
CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE.

For CONFIG_MIGRATION, make it depend on CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE instead,
and make CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE select CONFIG_MIGRATION (just like
CONFIG_CMA and CONFIG_COMPACTION already do).

We'll clean up CONFIG_MIGRATION next.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260319-config_migration-v1-0-42270124966f@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260319-config_migration-v1-1-42270124966f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;jonathan.cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&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>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/audit: Convert powerpc to AUDIT_ARCH_COMPAT_GENERIC</title>
<updated>2026-04-01T03:51:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-10T15:08:07+00:00</published>
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Commit e65e1fc2d24b ("[PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal
targets") added generic support for AUDIT but that didn't include
support for bi-arch like powerpc.

Commit 4b58841149dc ("audit: Add generic compat syscall support")
added generic support for bi-arch.

Convert powerpc to that bi-arch generic audit support.

With this change generated text is similar.

Thomas has confirmed that the previously failing filter_exclude/test
is now successful both without and with this patch, see [1]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260306115350-ef265661-6d6b-4043-9bd0-8e6b437d0d67@linutronix.de/

Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/412
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater &lt;clg@kaod.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/261b1be5b8dc526b83d73e8281e682a73536ea28.1773155031.git.chleroy@kernel.org

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Commit e65e1fc2d24b ("[PATCH] syscall class hookup for all normal
targets") added generic support for AUDIT but that didn't include
support for bi-arch like powerpc.

Commit 4b58841149dc ("audit: Add generic compat syscall support")
added generic support for bi-arch.

Convert powerpc to that bi-arch generic audit support.

With this change generated text is similar.

Thomas has confirmed that the previously failing filter_exclude/test
is now successful both without and with this patch, see [1]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260306115350-ef265661-6d6b-4043-9bd0-8e6b437d0d67@linutronix.de/

Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/412
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater &lt;clg@kaod.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/261b1be5b8dc526b83d73e8281e682a73536ea28.1773155031.git.chleroy@kernel.org

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Add support for huge pfnmaps</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T10:22:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ritesh Harjani (IBM)</name>
<email>ritesh.list@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-09T12:38:38+00:00</published>
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This uses _RPAGE_SW2 bit for the PMD and PUDs similar to PTEs.
This also adds support for {pte,pmd,pud}_pgprot helpers needed for
follow_pfnmap APIs.

This allows us to extend the PFN mappings, e.g. PCI MMIO bars where
it can grow as large as 8GB or even bigger, to map at PMD / PUD level.
VFIO PCI core driver already supports fault handling at PMD / PUD level
for more efficient BAR mappings.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6fca726574236f556dd4e1e259692e82a4c29e85.1773058761.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com

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This uses _RPAGE_SW2 bit for the PMD and PUDs similar to PTEs.
This also adds support for {pte,pmd,pud}_pgprot helpers needed for
follow_pfnmap APIs.

This allows us to extend the PFN mappings, e.g. PCI MMIO bars where
it can grow as large as 8GB or even bigger, to map at PMD / PUD level.
VFIO PCI core driver already supports fault handling at PMD / PUD level
for more efficient BAR mappings.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6fca726574236f556dd4e1e259692e82a4c29e85.1773058761.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com

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<entry>
<title>integrity: Eliminate weak definition of arch_get_secureboot()</title>
<updated>2026-03-13T15:37:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-09T20:37:02+00:00</published>
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security/integrity/secure_boot.c contains a single __weak function,
which breaks recordmcount when building with clang:

  $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc LLVM=1 ppc64_defconfig security/integrity/secure_boot.o
  Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
  security/integrity/secure_boot.o: failed

Introduce a Kconfig symbol, CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_GET_SECUREBOOT, to indicate
that an architecture provides a definition of arch_get_secureboot().
Provide a static inline stub when this symbol is not defined to achieve
the same effect as the __weak function, allowing secure_boot.c to be
removed altogether. Move the s390 definition of arch_get_secureboot()
out of the CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE block to ensure it is always available, as
it does not actually depend on KEXEC_FILE.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Fixes: 31a6a07eefeb ("integrity: Make arch_ima_get_secureboot integrity-wide")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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security/integrity/secure_boot.c contains a single __weak function,
which breaks recordmcount when building with clang:

  $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc LLVM=1 ppc64_defconfig security/integrity/secure_boot.o
  Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
  security/integrity/secure_boot.o: failed

Introduce a Kconfig symbol, CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_GET_SECUREBOOT, to indicate
that an architecture provides a definition of arch_get_secureboot().
Provide a static inline stub when this symbol is not defined to achieve
the same effect as the __weak function, allowing secure_boot.c to be
removed altogether. Move the s390 definition of arch_get_secureboot()
out of the CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE block to ensure it is always available, as
it does not actually depend on KEXEC_FILE.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Fixes: 31a6a07eefeb ("integrity: Make arch_ima_get_secureboot integrity-wide")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc64: make clang cross-build friendly</title>
<updated>2026-03-07T10:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
<email>hbathini@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-27T08:49:24+00:00</published>
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ARCH_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY depends on toolchain support for
-fpatchable-function-entry option. The current script that checks
for this support only handles GCC. Rename the script and extend it
to detect support for -fpatchable-function-entry with Clang as well,
allowing clean cross-compilation with Clang toolchains.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127084926.34497-2-hbathini@linux.ibm.com

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ARCH_USING_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY depends on toolchain support for
-fpatchable-function-entry option. The current script that checks
for this support only handles GCC. Rename the script and extend it
to detect support for -fpatchable-function-entry with Clang as well,
allowing clean cross-compilation with Clang toolchains.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127084926.34497-2-hbathini@linux.ibm.com

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