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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-11-26T00:09:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T00:09:48+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko
   performs some cleanups in the resource management code

 - The series "Improve the copy of task comm" from Yafang Shao addresses
   possible race-induced overflows in the management of
   task_struct.comm[]

 - The series "Remove unnecessary header includes from
   {tools/}lib/list_sort.c" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds some cleanups and a
   small fix to the list_sort library code and to its selftest

 - The series "Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions and
   optimizations" also from Kuan-Wei Chiu optimizes and cleans up the
   min_heap library code

 - The series "nilfs2: Finish folio conversion" from Ryusuke Konishi
   finishes off nilfs2's folioification

 - The series "add detect count for hung tasks" from Lance Yang adds
   more userspace visibility into the hung-task detector's activity

 - Apart from that, singelton patches in many places - please see the
   individual changelogs for details

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  gdb: lx-symbols: do not error out on monolithic build
  kernel/reboot: replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  lib: util_macros_kunit: add kunit test for util_macros.h
  util_macros.h: fix/rework find_closest() macros
  Improve consistency of '#error' directive messages
  ocfs2: fix uninitialized value in ocfs2_file_read_iter()
  hung_task: add docs for hung_task_detect_count
  hung_task: add detect count for hung tasks
  dma-buf: use atomic64_inc_return() in dma_buf_getfile()
  fs/proc/kcore.c: fix coccinelle reported ERROR instances
  resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects()
  ocfs2: remove unused errmsg function and table
  ocfs2: cluster: fix a typo
  lib/scatterlist: use sg_phys() helper
  checkpatch: always parse orig_commit in fixes tag
  nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage to writepages
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_recovery_copy_block() to take a folio
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers() to take a folio
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_writepage
  nilfs2: convert checkpoint file to be folio-based
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko
   performs some cleanups in the resource management code

 - The series "Improve the copy of task comm" from Yafang Shao addresses
   possible race-induced overflows in the management of
   task_struct.comm[]

 - The series "Remove unnecessary header includes from
   {tools/}lib/list_sort.c" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds some cleanups and a
   small fix to the list_sort library code and to its selftest

 - The series "Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions and
   optimizations" also from Kuan-Wei Chiu optimizes and cleans up the
   min_heap library code

 - The series "nilfs2: Finish folio conversion" from Ryusuke Konishi
   finishes off nilfs2's folioification

 - The series "add detect count for hung tasks" from Lance Yang adds
   more userspace visibility into the hung-task detector's activity

 - Apart from that, singelton patches in many places - please see the
   individual changelogs for details

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  gdb: lx-symbols: do not error out on monolithic build
  kernel/reboot: replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  lib: util_macros_kunit: add kunit test for util_macros.h
  util_macros.h: fix/rework find_closest() macros
  Improve consistency of '#error' directive messages
  ocfs2: fix uninitialized value in ocfs2_file_read_iter()
  hung_task: add docs for hung_task_detect_count
  hung_task: add detect count for hung tasks
  dma-buf: use atomic64_inc_return() in dma_buf_getfile()
  fs/proc/kcore.c: fix coccinelle reported ERROR instances
  resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects()
  ocfs2: remove unused errmsg function and table
  ocfs2: cluster: fix a typo
  lib/scatterlist: use sg_phys() helper
  checkpatch: always parse orig_commit in fixes tag
  nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage to writepages
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_recovery_copy_block() to take a folio
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers() to take a folio
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_writepage
  nilfs2: convert checkpoint file to be folio-based
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-11-24T00:00:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-24T00:00:50+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The biggest change here is eliminating the awful idea that KVM had of
  essentially guessing which pfns are refcounted pages.

  The reason to do so was that KVM needs to map both non-refcounted
  pages (for example BARs of VFIO devices) and VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXMEDMAP
  VMAs that contain refcounted pages.

  However, the result was security issues in the past, and more recently
  the inability to map VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory that _is_ backed by
  struct page but is not refcounted. In particular this broke virtio-gpu
  blob resources (which directly map host graphics buffers into the
  guest as "vram" for the virtio-gpu device) with the amdgpu driver,
  because amdgpu allocates non-compound higher order pages and the tail
  pages could not be mapped into KVM.

  This requires adjusting all uses of struct page in the
  per-architecture code, to always work on the pfn whenever possible.
  The large series that did this, from David Stevens and Sean
  Christopherson, also cleaned up substantially the set of functions
  that provided arch code with the pfn for a host virtual addresses.

  The previous maze of twisty little passages, all different, is
  replaced by five functions (__gfn_to_page, __kvm_faultin_pfn, the
  non-__ versions of these two, and kvm_prefetch_pages) saving almost
  200 lines of code.

  ARM:

   - Support for stage-1 permission indirection (FEAT_S1PIE) and
     permission overlays (FEAT_S1POE), including nested virt + the
     emulated page table walker

   - Introduce PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 support to KVM + client driver. This
     call was introduced in PSCIv1.3 as a mechanism to request
     hibernation, similar to the S4 state in ACPI

   - Explicitly trap + hide FEAT_MPAM (QoS controls) from KVM guests. As
     part of it, introduce trivial initialization of the host's MPAM
     context so KVM can use the corresponding traps

   - PMU support under nested virtualization, honoring the guest
     hypervisor's trap configuration and event filtering when running a
     nested guest

   - Fixes to vgic ITS serialization where stale device/interrupt table
     entries are not zeroed when the mapping is invalidated by the VM

   - Avoid emulated MMIO completion if userspace has requested
     synchronous external abort injection

   - Various fixes and cleanups affecting pKVM, vCPU initialization, and
     selftests

  LoongArch:

   - Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel.

   - Add in-kernel interrupt controller emulation.

   - Add support for virtualization extensions to the eiointc irqchip.

  PPC:

   - Drop lingering and utterly obsolete references to PPC970 KVM, which
     was removed 10 years ago.

   - Fix incorrect documentation references to non-existing ioctls

  RISC-V:

   - Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest

   - Perf support to collect KVM guest statistics from host side

  s390:

   - New selftests: more ucontrol selftests and CPU model sanity checks

   - Support for the gen17 CPU model

   - List registers supported by KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG in the
     documentation

  x86:

   - Cleanup KVM's handling of Accessed and Dirty bits to dedup code,
     improve documentation, harden against unexpected changes.

     Even if the hardware A/D tracking is disabled, it is possible to
     use the hardware-defined A/D bits to track if a PFN is Accessed
     and/or Dirty, and that removes a lot of special cases.

   - Elide TLB flushes when aging secondary PTEs, as has been done in
     x86's primary MMU for over 10 years.

   - Recover huge pages in-place in the TDP MMU when dirty page logging
     is toggled off, instead of zapping them and waiting until the page
     is re-accessed to create a huge mapping. This reduces vCPU jitter.

   - Batch TLB flushes when dirty page logging is toggled off. This
     reduces the time it takes to disable dirty logging by ~3x.

   - Remove the shrinker that was (poorly) attempting to reclaim shadow
     page tables in low-memory situations.

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of writes to
     MSR_IA32_APICBASE.

   - Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest

   - Quirk KVM's misguided behavior of initialized certain feature MSRs
     to their maximum supported feature set, which can result in KVM
     creating invalid vCPU state. E.g. initializing PERF_CAPABILITIES to
     a non-zero value results in the vCPU having invalid state if
     userspace hides PDCM from the guest, which in turn can lead to
     save/restore failures.

   - Fix KVM's handling of non-canonical checks for vCPUs that support
     LA57 to better follow the "architecture", in quotes because the
     actual behavior is poorly documented. E.g. most MSR writes and
     descriptor table loads ignore CR4.LA57 and operate purely on
     whether the CPU supports LA57.

   - Bypass the register cache when querying CPL from kvm_sched_out(),
     as filling the cache from IRQ context is generally unsafe; harden
     the cache accessors to try to prevent similar issues from occuring
     in the future. The issue that triggered this change was already
     fixed in 6.12, but was still kinda latent.

   - Advertise AMD_IBPB_RET to userspace, and fix a related bug where
     KVM over-advertises SPEC_CTRL when trying to support cross-vendor
     VMs.

   - Minor cleanups

   - Switch hugepage recovery thread to use vhost_task.

     These kthreads can consume significant amounts of CPU time on
     behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example
     how it accesses its memory); therefore KVM tried to place the
     thread in the VM's cgroups and charge the CPU time consumed by that
     work to the VM's container.

     However the kthreads did not process SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, and therefore
     cgroups which had KVM instances inside could not complete freezing.

     Fix this by replacing the kthread with a PF_USER_WORKER thread, via
     the vhost_task abstraction. Another 100+ lines removed, with
     generally better behavior too like having these threads properly
     parented in the process tree.

   - Revert a workaround for an old CPU erratum (Nehalem/Westmere) that
     didn't really work; there was really nothing to work around anyway:
     the broken patch was meant to fix nested virtualization, but the
     PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR is virtualized and therefore unaffected by the
     erratum.

   - Fix 6.12 regression where CONFIG_KVM will be built as a module even
     if asked to be builtin, as long as neither KVM_INTEL nor KVM_AMD is
     'y'.

  x86 selftests:

   - x86 selftests can now use AVX.

  Documentation:

   - Use rST internal links

   - Reorganize the introduction to the API document

  Generic:

   - Protect vcpu-&gt;pid accesses outside of vcpu-&gt;mutex with a rwlock
     instead of RCU, so that running a vCPU on a different task doesn't
     encounter long due to having to wait for all CPUs become quiescent.

     In general both reads and writes are rare, but userspace that
     supports confidential computing is introducing the use of "helper"
     vCPUs that may jump from one host processor to another. Those will
     be very happy to trigger a synchronize_rcu(), and the effect on
     performance is quite the disaster"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (298 commits)
  KVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD
  KVM: x86: add back X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency
  Revert "KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()"
  KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task
  KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR
  x86: KVM: Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest
  Documentation: KVM: fix malformed table
  irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Add virt extension support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add irqfd support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI user mode read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel
  KVM: arm64: Pass on SVE mapping failures
  ...
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<pre>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The biggest change here is eliminating the awful idea that KVM had of
  essentially guessing which pfns are refcounted pages.

  The reason to do so was that KVM needs to map both non-refcounted
  pages (for example BARs of VFIO devices) and VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXMEDMAP
  VMAs that contain refcounted pages.

  However, the result was security issues in the past, and more recently
  the inability to map VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory that _is_ backed by
  struct page but is not refcounted. In particular this broke virtio-gpu
  blob resources (which directly map host graphics buffers into the
  guest as "vram" for the virtio-gpu device) with the amdgpu driver,
  because amdgpu allocates non-compound higher order pages and the tail
  pages could not be mapped into KVM.

  This requires adjusting all uses of struct page in the
  per-architecture code, to always work on the pfn whenever possible.
  The large series that did this, from David Stevens and Sean
  Christopherson, also cleaned up substantially the set of functions
  that provided arch code with the pfn for a host virtual addresses.

  The previous maze of twisty little passages, all different, is
  replaced by five functions (__gfn_to_page, __kvm_faultin_pfn, the
  non-__ versions of these two, and kvm_prefetch_pages) saving almost
  200 lines of code.

  ARM:

   - Support for stage-1 permission indirection (FEAT_S1PIE) and
     permission overlays (FEAT_S1POE), including nested virt + the
     emulated page table walker

   - Introduce PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 support to KVM + client driver. This
     call was introduced in PSCIv1.3 as a mechanism to request
     hibernation, similar to the S4 state in ACPI

   - Explicitly trap + hide FEAT_MPAM (QoS controls) from KVM guests. As
     part of it, introduce trivial initialization of the host's MPAM
     context so KVM can use the corresponding traps

   - PMU support under nested virtualization, honoring the guest
     hypervisor's trap configuration and event filtering when running a
     nested guest

   - Fixes to vgic ITS serialization where stale device/interrupt table
     entries are not zeroed when the mapping is invalidated by the VM

   - Avoid emulated MMIO completion if userspace has requested
     synchronous external abort injection

   - Various fixes and cleanups affecting pKVM, vCPU initialization, and
     selftests

  LoongArch:

   - Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel.

   - Add in-kernel interrupt controller emulation.

   - Add support for virtualization extensions to the eiointc irqchip.

  PPC:

   - Drop lingering and utterly obsolete references to PPC970 KVM, which
     was removed 10 years ago.

   - Fix incorrect documentation references to non-existing ioctls

  RISC-V:

   - Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest

   - Perf support to collect KVM guest statistics from host side

  s390:

   - New selftests: more ucontrol selftests and CPU model sanity checks

   - Support for the gen17 CPU model

   - List registers supported by KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG in the
     documentation

  x86:

   - Cleanup KVM's handling of Accessed and Dirty bits to dedup code,
     improve documentation, harden against unexpected changes.

     Even if the hardware A/D tracking is disabled, it is possible to
     use the hardware-defined A/D bits to track if a PFN is Accessed
     and/or Dirty, and that removes a lot of special cases.

   - Elide TLB flushes when aging secondary PTEs, as has been done in
     x86's primary MMU for over 10 years.

   - Recover huge pages in-place in the TDP MMU when dirty page logging
     is toggled off, instead of zapping them and waiting until the page
     is re-accessed to create a huge mapping. This reduces vCPU jitter.

   - Batch TLB flushes when dirty page logging is toggled off. This
     reduces the time it takes to disable dirty logging by ~3x.

   - Remove the shrinker that was (poorly) attempting to reclaim shadow
     page tables in low-memory situations.

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of writes to
     MSR_IA32_APICBASE.

   - Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest

   - Quirk KVM's misguided behavior of initialized certain feature MSRs
     to their maximum supported feature set, which can result in KVM
     creating invalid vCPU state. E.g. initializing PERF_CAPABILITIES to
     a non-zero value results in the vCPU having invalid state if
     userspace hides PDCM from the guest, which in turn can lead to
     save/restore failures.

   - Fix KVM's handling of non-canonical checks for vCPUs that support
     LA57 to better follow the "architecture", in quotes because the
     actual behavior is poorly documented. E.g. most MSR writes and
     descriptor table loads ignore CR4.LA57 and operate purely on
     whether the CPU supports LA57.

   - Bypass the register cache when querying CPL from kvm_sched_out(),
     as filling the cache from IRQ context is generally unsafe; harden
     the cache accessors to try to prevent similar issues from occuring
     in the future. The issue that triggered this change was already
     fixed in 6.12, but was still kinda latent.

   - Advertise AMD_IBPB_RET to userspace, and fix a related bug where
     KVM over-advertises SPEC_CTRL when trying to support cross-vendor
     VMs.

   - Minor cleanups

   - Switch hugepage recovery thread to use vhost_task.

     These kthreads can consume significant amounts of CPU time on
     behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example
     how it accesses its memory); therefore KVM tried to place the
     thread in the VM's cgroups and charge the CPU time consumed by that
     work to the VM's container.

     However the kthreads did not process SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, and therefore
     cgroups which had KVM instances inside could not complete freezing.

     Fix this by replacing the kthread with a PF_USER_WORKER thread, via
     the vhost_task abstraction. Another 100+ lines removed, with
     generally better behavior too like having these threads properly
     parented in the process tree.

   - Revert a workaround for an old CPU erratum (Nehalem/Westmere) that
     didn't really work; there was really nothing to work around anyway:
     the broken patch was meant to fix nested virtualization, but the
     PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR is virtualized and therefore unaffected by the
     erratum.

   - Fix 6.12 regression where CONFIG_KVM will be built as a module even
     if asked to be builtin, as long as neither KVM_INTEL nor KVM_AMD is
     'y'.

  x86 selftests:

   - x86 selftests can now use AVX.

  Documentation:

   - Use rST internal links

   - Reorganize the introduction to the API document

  Generic:

   - Protect vcpu-&gt;pid accesses outside of vcpu-&gt;mutex with a rwlock
     instead of RCU, so that running a vCPU on a different task doesn't
     encounter long due to having to wait for all CPUs become quiescent.

     In general both reads and writes are rare, but userspace that
     supports confidential computing is introducing the use of "helper"
     vCPUs that may jump from one host processor to another. Those will
     be very happy to trigger a synchronize_rcu(), and the effect on
     performance is quite the disaster"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (298 commits)
  KVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD
  KVM: x86: add back X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency
  Revert "KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()"
  KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task
  KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR
  x86: KVM: Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest
  Documentation: KVM: fix malformed table
  irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Add virt extension support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add irqfd support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI user mode read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel
  KVM: arm64: Pass on SVE mapping failures
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2024-11-23T18:44:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-23T18:44:31+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Rework kfence support for the HPT MMU to work on systems with &gt;= 16TB
   of RAM.

 - Remove the powerpc "maple" platform, used by the "Yellow Dog
   Powerstation".

 - Add support for DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS,
   DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS &amp; BPF Trampolines.

 - Add support for running KVM nested guests on Power11.

 - Other small features, cleanups and fixes.

Thanks to Amit Machhiwal, Arnd Bergmann, Christophe Leroy, Costa
Shulyupin, David Hunter, David Wang, Disha Goel, Gautam Menghani, Geert
Uytterhoeven, Hari Bathini, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Keith Packard,
Lukas Bulwahn, Madhavan Srinivasan, Markus Elfring, Michal Suchanek,
Ming Lei, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya, Nathan Chancellor, Naveen N Rao,
Nicholas Piggin, Nysal Jan K.A, Paulo Miguel Almeida, Pavithra Prakash,
Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Rob Herring (Arm), Sachin P Bappalige, Shen
Lichuan, Simon Horman, Sourabh Jain, Thomas Weißschuh, Thorsten Blum,
Thorsten Leemhuis, Venkat Rao Bagalkote, Zhang Zekun, and zhang jiao.

* tag 'powerpc-6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (89 commits)
  EDAC/powerpc: Remove PPC_MAPLE drivers
  powerpc/perf: Add per-task/process monitoring to vpa_pmu driver
  powerpc/kvm: Add vpa latency counters to kvm_vcpu_arch
  docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-pmu: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_pmu
  powerpc/perf: Add perf interface to expose vpa counters
  MAINTAINERS: powerpc: Mark Maddy as "M"
  powerpc/Makefile: Allow overriding CPP
  powerpc-km82xx.c: replace of_node_put() with __free
  ps3: Correct some typos in comments
  powerpc/kexec: Fix return of uninitialized variable
  macintosh: Use common error handling code in via_pmu_led_init()
  powerpc/powermac: Use of_property_match_string() in pmac_has_backlight_type()
  powerpc: remove dead config options for MPC85xx platform support
  powerpc/xive: Use cpumask_intersects()
  selftests/powerpc: Remove the path after initialization.
  powerpc/xmon: symbol lookup length fixed
  powerpc/ep8248e: Use %pa to format resource_size_t
  powerpc/ps3: Reorganize kerneldoc parameter names
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix kmv -&gt; kvm typo
  powerpc/sstep: make emulate_vsx_load and emulate_vsx_store static
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Rework kfence support for the HPT MMU to work on systems with &gt;= 16TB
   of RAM.

 - Remove the powerpc "maple" platform, used by the "Yellow Dog
   Powerstation".

 - Add support for DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS,
   DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS &amp; BPF Trampolines.

 - Add support for running KVM nested guests on Power11.

 - Other small features, cleanups and fixes.

Thanks to Amit Machhiwal, Arnd Bergmann, Christophe Leroy, Costa
Shulyupin, David Hunter, David Wang, Disha Goel, Gautam Menghani, Geert
Uytterhoeven, Hari Bathini, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Keith Packard,
Lukas Bulwahn, Madhavan Srinivasan, Markus Elfring, Michal Suchanek,
Ming Lei, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya, Nathan Chancellor, Naveen N Rao,
Nicholas Piggin, Nysal Jan K.A, Paulo Miguel Almeida, Pavithra Prakash,
Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Rob Herring (Arm), Sachin P Bappalige, Shen
Lichuan, Simon Horman, Sourabh Jain, Thomas Weißschuh, Thorsten Blum,
Thorsten Leemhuis, Venkat Rao Bagalkote, Zhang Zekun, and zhang jiao.

* tag 'powerpc-6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (89 commits)
  EDAC/powerpc: Remove PPC_MAPLE drivers
  powerpc/perf: Add per-task/process monitoring to vpa_pmu driver
  powerpc/kvm: Add vpa latency counters to kvm_vcpu_arch
  docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-pmu: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_pmu
  powerpc/perf: Add perf interface to expose vpa counters
  MAINTAINERS: powerpc: Mark Maddy as "M"
  powerpc/Makefile: Allow overriding CPP
  powerpc-km82xx.c: replace of_node_put() with __free
  ps3: Correct some typos in comments
  powerpc/kexec: Fix return of uninitialized variable
  macintosh: Use common error handling code in via_pmu_led_init()
  powerpc/powermac: Use of_property_match_string() in pmac_has_backlight_type()
  powerpc: remove dead config options for MPC85xx platform support
  powerpc/xive: Use cpumask_intersects()
  selftests/powerpc: Remove the path after initialization.
  powerpc/xmon: symbol lookup length fixed
  powerpc/ep8248e: Use %pa to format resource_size_t
  powerpc/ps3: Reorganize kerneldoc parameter names
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix kmv -&gt; kvm typo
  powerpc/sstep: make emulate_vsx_load and emulate_vsx_store static
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5c00ff742bf5caf85f60e1c73999f99376fb865d'/>
<id>5c00ff742bf5caf85f60e1c73999f99376fb865d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T23:13:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T23:13:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=79caa6c88ac484111b24488eb9fe1c86a3d18016'/>
<id>79caa6c88ac484111b24488eb9fe1c86a3d18016</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are a number of unrelated cleanups, generally simplifying the
  architecture specific header files:

   - A series from Al Viro simplifies asm/vga.h, after it turns out that
     most of it can be generalized.

   - A series from Julian Vetter adds a common version of
     memcpy_{to,from}io() and memset_io() and changes most architectures
     to use that instead of their own implementation

   - A series from Niklas Schnelle concludes his work to make PC style
     inb()/outb() optional

   - Nicolas Pitre contributes improvements for the generic do_div()
     helper

   - Christoph Hellwig adds a generic version of page_to_phys() and
     phys_to_page(), replacing the slightly different architecture
     specific definitions.

   - Uwe Kleine-Koenig has a minor cleanup for ioctl definitions"

* tag 'asm-generic-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (24 commits)
  empty include/asm-generic/vga.h
  sparc: get rid of asm/vga.h
  asm/vga.h: don't bother with scr_mem{cpy,move}v() unless we need to
  vt_buffer.h: get rid of dead code in default scr_...() instances
  tty: serial: export serial_8250_warn_need_ioport
  lib/iomem_copy: fix kerneldoc format style
  hexagon: simplify asm/io.h for !HAS_IOPORT
  loongarch: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  csky: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  arm64: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  New implementation for IO memcpy and IO memset
  watchdog: Add HAS_IOPORT dependency for SBC8360 and SBC7240
  __arch_xprod64(): make __always_inline when optimizing for performance
  ARM: div64: improve __arch_xprod_64()
  asm-generic/div64: optimize/simplify __div64_const32()
  lib/math/test_div64: add some edge cases relevant to __div64_const32()
  asm-generic: add an optional pfn_valid check to page_to_phys
  asm-generic: provide generic page_to_phys and phys_to_page implementations
  asm-generic/io.h: Remove I/O port accessors for HAS_IOPORT=n
  tty: serial: handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are a number of unrelated cleanups, generally simplifying the
  architecture specific header files:

   - A series from Al Viro simplifies asm/vga.h, after it turns out that
     most of it can be generalized.

   - A series from Julian Vetter adds a common version of
     memcpy_{to,from}io() and memset_io() and changes most architectures
     to use that instead of their own implementation

   - A series from Niklas Schnelle concludes his work to make PC style
     inb()/outb() optional

   - Nicolas Pitre contributes improvements for the generic do_div()
     helper

   - Christoph Hellwig adds a generic version of page_to_phys() and
     phys_to_page(), replacing the slightly different architecture
     specific definitions.

   - Uwe Kleine-Koenig has a minor cleanup for ioctl definitions"

* tag 'asm-generic-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (24 commits)
  empty include/asm-generic/vga.h
  sparc: get rid of asm/vga.h
  asm/vga.h: don't bother with scr_mem{cpy,move}v() unless we need to
  vt_buffer.h: get rid of dead code in default scr_...() instances
  tty: serial: export serial_8250_warn_need_ioport
  lib/iomem_copy: fix kerneldoc format style
  hexagon: simplify asm/io.h for !HAS_IOPORT
  loongarch: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  csky: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  arm64: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  New implementation for IO memcpy and IO memset
  watchdog: Add HAS_IOPORT dependency for SBC8360 and SBC7240
  __arch_xprod64(): make __always_inline when optimizing for performance
  ARM: div64: improve __arch_xprod_64()
  asm-generic/div64: optimize/simplify __div64_const32()
  lib/math/test_div64: add some edge cases relevant to __div64_const32()
  asm-generic: add an optional pfn_valid check to page_to_phys
  asm-generic: provide generic page_to_phys and phys_to_page implementations
  asm-generic/io.h: Remove I/O port accessors for HAS_IOPORT=n
  tty: serial: handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T19:34:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T19:34:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=aad3a0d084513e811233ad48bf234fbfcfcd0a14'/>
<id>aad3a0d084513e811233ad48bf234fbfcfcd0a14</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure the function graph shadow stack to prepare it for use
   with kretprobes

   With the goal of merging the shadow stack logic of function graph and
   kretprobes, some more restructuring of the function shadow stack is
   required.

   Move out function graph specific fields from the fgraph
   infrastructure and store it on the new stack variables that can pass
   data from the entry callback to the exit callback.

   Hopefully, with this change, the merge of kretprobes to use fgraph
   shadow stacks will be ready by the next merge window.

 - Make shadow stack 4k instead of using PAGE_SIZE.

   Some architectures have very large PAGE_SIZE values which make its
   use for shadow stacks waste a lot of memory.

 - Give shadow stacks its own kmem cache.

   When function graph is started, every task on the system gets a
   shadow stack. In the future, shadow stacks may not be 4K in size.
   Have it have its own kmem cache so that whatever size it becomes will
   still be efficient in allocations.

 - Initialize profiler graph ops as it will be needed for new updates to
   fgraph

 - Convert to use guard(mutex) for several ftrace and fgraph functions

 - Add more comments and documentation

 - Show function return address in function graph tracer

   Add an option to show the caller of a function at each entry of the
   function graph tracer, similar to what the function tracer does.

 - Abstract out ftrace_regs from being used directly like pt_regs

   ftrace_regs was created to store a partial pt_regs. It holds only the
   registers and stack information to get to the function arguments and
   return values. On several archs, it is simply a wrapper around
   pt_regs. But some users would access ftrace_regs directly to get the
   pt_regs which will not work on all archs. Make ftrace_regs an
   abstract structure that requires all access to its fields be through
   accessor functions.

 - Show how long it takes to do function code modifications

   When code modification for function hooks happen, it always had the
   time recorded in how long it took to do the conversion. But this
   value was never exported. Recently the code was touched due to new
   ROX modification handling that caused a large slow down in doing the
   modifications and had a significant impact on boot times.

   Expose the timings in the dyn_ftrace_total_info file. This file was
   created a while ago to show information about memory usage and such
   to implement dynamic function tracing. It's also an appropriate file
   to store the timings of this modification as well. This will make it
   easier to see the impact of changes to code modification on boot up
   timings.

 - Other clean ups and small fixes

* tag 'ftrace-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (22 commits)
  ftrace: Show timings of how long nop patching took
  ftrace: Use guard to take ftrace_lock in ftrace_graph_set_hash()
  ftrace: Use guard to take the ftrace_lock in release_probe()
  ftrace: Use guard to lock ftrace_lock in cache_mod()
  ftrace: Use guard for match_records()
  fgraph: Use guard(mutex)(&amp;ftrace_lock) for unregister_ftrace_graph()
  fgraph: Give ret_stack its own kmem cache
  fgraph: Separate size of ret_stack from PAGE_SIZE
  ftrace: Rename ftrace_regs_return_value to ftrace_regs_get_return_value
  selftests/ftrace: Fix check of return value in fgraph-retval.tc test
  ftrace: Use arch_ftrace_regs() for ftrace_regs_*() macros
  ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_regs accessor functions for archs using pt_regs
  ftrace: Make ftrace_regs abstract from direct use
  fgragh: No need to invoke the function call_filter_check_discard()
  fgraph: Simplify return address printing in function graph tracer
  function_graph: Remove unnecessary initialization in ftrace_graph_ret_addr()
  function_graph: Support recording and printing the function return address
  ftrace: Have calltime be saved in the fgraph storage
  ftrace: Use a running sleeptime instead of saving on shadow stack
  fgraph: Use fgraph data to store subtime for profiler
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure the function graph shadow stack to prepare it for use
   with kretprobes

   With the goal of merging the shadow stack logic of function graph and
   kretprobes, some more restructuring of the function shadow stack is
   required.

   Move out function graph specific fields from the fgraph
   infrastructure and store it on the new stack variables that can pass
   data from the entry callback to the exit callback.

   Hopefully, with this change, the merge of kretprobes to use fgraph
   shadow stacks will be ready by the next merge window.

 - Make shadow stack 4k instead of using PAGE_SIZE.

   Some architectures have very large PAGE_SIZE values which make its
   use for shadow stacks waste a lot of memory.

 - Give shadow stacks its own kmem cache.

   When function graph is started, every task on the system gets a
   shadow stack. In the future, shadow stacks may not be 4K in size.
   Have it have its own kmem cache so that whatever size it becomes will
   still be efficient in allocations.

 - Initialize profiler graph ops as it will be needed for new updates to
   fgraph

 - Convert to use guard(mutex) for several ftrace and fgraph functions

 - Add more comments and documentation

 - Show function return address in function graph tracer

   Add an option to show the caller of a function at each entry of the
   function graph tracer, similar to what the function tracer does.

 - Abstract out ftrace_regs from being used directly like pt_regs

   ftrace_regs was created to store a partial pt_regs. It holds only the
   registers and stack information to get to the function arguments and
   return values. On several archs, it is simply a wrapper around
   pt_regs. But some users would access ftrace_regs directly to get the
   pt_regs which will not work on all archs. Make ftrace_regs an
   abstract structure that requires all access to its fields be through
   accessor functions.

 - Show how long it takes to do function code modifications

   When code modification for function hooks happen, it always had the
   time recorded in how long it took to do the conversion. But this
   value was never exported. Recently the code was touched due to new
   ROX modification handling that caused a large slow down in doing the
   modifications and had a significant impact on boot times.

   Expose the timings in the dyn_ftrace_total_info file. This file was
   created a while ago to show information about memory usage and such
   to implement dynamic function tracing. It's also an appropriate file
   to store the timings of this modification as well. This will make it
   easier to see the impact of changes to code modification on boot up
   timings.

 - Other clean ups and small fixes

* tag 'ftrace-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (22 commits)
  ftrace: Show timings of how long nop patching took
  ftrace: Use guard to take ftrace_lock in ftrace_graph_set_hash()
  ftrace: Use guard to take the ftrace_lock in release_probe()
  ftrace: Use guard to lock ftrace_lock in cache_mod()
  ftrace: Use guard for match_records()
  fgraph: Use guard(mutex)(&amp;ftrace_lock) for unregister_ftrace_graph()
  fgraph: Give ret_stack its own kmem cache
  fgraph: Separate size of ret_stack from PAGE_SIZE
  ftrace: Rename ftrace_regs_return_value to ftrace_regs_get_return_value
  selftests/ftrace: Fix check of return value in fgraph-retval.tc test
  ftrace: Use arch_ftrace_regs() for ftrace_regs_*() macros
  ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_regs accessor functions for archs using pt_regs
  ftrace: Make ftrace_regs abstract from direct use
  fgragh: No need to invoke the function call_filter_check_discard()
  fgraph: Simplify return address printing in function graph tracer
  function_graph: Remove unnecessary initialization in ftrace_graph_ret_addr()
  function_graph: Support recording and printing the function return address
  ftrace: Have calltime be saved in the fgraph storage
  ftrace: Use a running sleeptime instead of saving on shadow stack
  fgraph: Use fgraph data to store subtime for profiler
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T00:09:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T00:09:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=035238752319a58244d86facd442c5f40b0e97e2'/>
<id>035238752319a58244d86facd442c5f40b0e97e2</id>
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Pull vdso data page handling updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "First steps of consolidating the VDSO data page handling.

  The VDSO data page handling is architecture specific for historical
  reasons, but there is no real technical reason to do so.

  Aside of that VDSO data has become a dump ground for various
  mechanisms and fail to provide a clear separation of the
  functionalities.

  Clean this up by:

   - consolidating the VDSO page data by getting rid of architecture
     specific warts especially in x86 and PowerPC.

   - removing the last includes of header files which are pulling in
     other headers outside of the VDSO namespace.

   - seperating timekeeping and other VDSO data accordingly.

  Further consolidation of the VDSO page handling is done in subsequent
  changes scheduled for the next merge window.

  This also lays the ground for expanding the VDSO time getters for
  independent PTP clocks in a generic way without making every
  architecture add support seperately"

* tag 'timers-vdso-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  x86/vdso: Add missing brackets in switch case
  vdso: Rename struct arch_vdso_data to arch_vdso_time_data
  powerpc: Split systemcfg struct definitions out from vdso
  powerpc: Split systemcfg data out of vdso data page
  powerpc: Add kconfig option for the systemcfg page
  powerpc/pseries/lparcfg: Use num_possible_cpus() for potential processors
  powerpc/pseries/lparcfg: Fix printing of system_active_processors
  powerpc/procfs: Propagate error of remap_pfn_range()
  powerpc/vdso: Remove offset comment from 32bit vdso_arch_data
  x86/vdso: Split virtual clock pages into dedicated mapping
  x86/vdso: Delete vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Access vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Move the rng offset to vsyscall.h
  x86/vdso: Access rng vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Access timens vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Allocate vvar page from C code
  x86/vdso: Access rng data from kernel without vvar
  x86/vdso: Place vdso_data at beginning of vvar page
  x86/vdso: Use __arch_get_vdso_data() to access vdso data
  x86/mm/mmap: Remove arch_vma_name()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull vdso data page handling updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "First steps of consolidating the VDSO data page handling.

  The VDSO data page handling is architecture specific for historical
  reasons, but there is no real technical reason to do so.

  Aside of that VDSO data has become a dump ground for various
  mechanisms and fail to provide a clear separation of the
  functionalities.

  Clean this up by:

   - consolidating the VDSO page data by getting rid of architecture
     specific warts especially in x86 and PowerPC.

   - removing the last includes of header files which are pulling in
     other headers outside of the VDSO namespace.

   - seperating timekeeping and other VDSO data accordingly.

  Further consolidation of the VDSO page handling is done in subsequent
  changes scheduled for the next merge window.

  This also lays the ground for expanding the VDSO time getters for
  independent PTP clocks in a generic way without making every
  architecture add support seperately"

* tag 'timers-vdso-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  x86/vdso: Add missing brackets in switch case
  vdso: Rename struct arch_vdso_data to arch_vdso_time_data
  powerpc: Split systemcfg struct definitions out from vdso
  powerpc: Split systemcfg data out of vdso data page
  powerpc: Add kconfig option for the systemcfg page
  powerpc/pseries/lparcfg: Use num_possible_cpus() for potential processors
  powerpc/pseries/lparcfg: Fix printing of system_active_processors
  powerpc/procfs: Propagate error of remap_pfn_range()
  powerpc/vdso: Remove offset comment from 32bit vdso_arch_data
  x86/vdso: Split virtual clock pages into dedicated mapping
  x86/vdso: Delete vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Access vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Move the rng offset to vsyscall.h
  x86/vdso: Access rng vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Access timens vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Allocate vvar page from C code
  x86/vdso: Access rng data from kernel without vvar
  x86/vdso: Place vdso_data at beginning of vvar page
  x86/vdso: Use __arch_get_vdso_data() to access vdso data
  x86/mm/mmap: Remove arch_vma_name()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Add per-task/process monitoring to vpa_pmu driver</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T03:11:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kajol Jain</name>
<email>kjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T11:41:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f26f9933e3e31b2117b804b6b8932388db88a131'/>
<id>f26f9933e3e31b2117b804b6b8932388db88a131</id>
<content type='text'>
Enhance the vpa_pmu driver with a feature to observe context switch
latency event for both per-task (tid) and per-pid (pid) option.
Couple of new helper functions are added to hide the abstraction of
reading the context switch latency counter from kvm_vcpu_arch struct
and these helper functions are defined in the "kvm/book3s_hv.c".

"PERF_ATTACH_TASK" flag is used to decide whether to read the counter
values from lppaca or kvm_vcpu_arch struct.

Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118114114.208964-4-kjain@linux.ibm.com

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Enhance the vpa_pmu driver with a feature to observe context switch
latency event for both per-task (tid) and per-pid (pid) option.
Couple of new helper functions are added to hide the abstraction of
reading the context switch latency counter from kvm_vcpu_arch struct
and these helper functions are defined in the "kvm/book3s_hv.c".

"PERF_ATTACH_TASK" flag is used to decide whether to read the counter
values from lppaca or kvm_vcpu_arch struct.

Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118114114.208964-4-kjain@linux.ibm.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kvm: Add vpa latency counters to kvm_vcpu_arch</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T03:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kajol Jain</name>
<email>kjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T11:41:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5f0b48c6a168994cc09d02888c2d939eba2af193'/>
<id>5f0b48c6a168994cc09d02888c2d939eba2af193</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit e1f288d2f9c69 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Add support
for reading VPA counters for pseries guests") introduced support for new
Virtual Process Area(VPA) based software counters. These counters are
useful when observing context switch latency of L1 &lt;-&gt; L2. It also
added access to counters in lppaca, which is good enough to understand
latency details per-cpu level. But to extend and aggregate
per-process level(qemu) or per-pid/tid level(vcpu), these
counters also needs to be added as part of kvm_vcpu_arch struct.
Additional code added to update these new kvm_vcpu_arch variables
in do_trace_nested_cs_time function.

Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118114114.208964-3-kjain@linux.ibm.com
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<pre>
Commit e1f288d2f9c69 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Add support
for reading VPA counters for pseries guests") introduced support for new
Virtual Process Area(VPA) based software counters. These counters are
useful when observing context switch latency of L1 &lt;-&gt; L2. It also
added access to counters in lppaca, which is good enough to understand
latency details per-cpu level. But to extend and aggregate
per-process level(qemu) or per-pid/tid level(vcpu), these
counters also needs to be added as part of kvm_vcpu_arch struct.
Additional code added to update these new kvm_vcpu_arch variables
in do_trace_nested_cs_time function.

Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118114114.208964-3-kjain@linux.ibm.com
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Add perf interface to expose vpa counters</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T03:11:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kajol Jain</name>
<email>kjain@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T11:41:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=176cda0619b6c17a553625f6e2fcbc3981ad667d'/>
<id>176cda0619b6c17a553625f6e2fcbc3981ad667d</id>
<content type='text'>
To support performance measurement for KVM on PowerVM(KoP)
feature, PowerVM hypervisor has added couple of new software
counters in Virtual Process Area(VPA) of the partition.

Commit e1f288d2f9c69 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Add
support for reading VPA counters for pseries guests")
have updated the paca fields with corresponding changes.

Proposed perf interface is to expose these new software
counters for monitoring of context switch latencies and
runtime aggregate. Perf interface driver is called
"vpa_pmu" and it has dependency on KVM and perf, hence
added new config called "VPA_PMU" which depends on
"CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV" and "CONFIG_HV_PERF_CTRS".
Since, kvm and kvm_host are currently compiled as built-in
modules, this perf interface takes the same path and
registered as a module.

vpa_pmu perf interface needs access to some of the kvm
functions and structures like kvmhv_get_l2_counters_status(),
hence kvm_book3s_64.h and kvm_ppc.h are included.
Below are the events added to monitor KoP:

  vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
  vpa_pmu/l2_to_l1_lat/
  vpa_pmu/l2_runtime_agg/

and vpa_pmu driver supports only per-cpu monitoring with this patch.
Example usage:

[command]# perf stat -e vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/ -a -I 1000
     1.001017682            727,200      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     2.003540491          1,118,824      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     3.005699458          1,919,726      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     4.007827011          2,364,630      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/

Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118114114.208964-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
To support performance measurement for KVM on PowerVM(KoP)
feature, PowerVM hypervisor has added couple of new software
counters in Virtual Process Area(VPA) of the partition.

Commit e1f288d2f9c69 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV nestedv2: Add
support for reading VPA counters for pseries guests")
have updated the paca fields with corresponding changes.

Proposed perf interface is to expose these new software
counters for monitoring of context switch latencies and
runtime aggregate. Perf interface driver is called
"vpa_pmu" and it has dependency on KVM and perf, hence
added new config called "VPA_PMU" which depends on
"CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV" and "CONFIG_HV_PERF_CTRS".
Since, kvm and kvm_host are currently compiled as built-in
modules, this perf interface takes the same path and
registered as a module.

vpa_pmu perf interface needs access to some of the kvm
functions and structures like kvmhv_get_l2_counters_status(),
hence kvm_book3s_64.h and kvm_ppc.h are included.
Below are the events added to monitor KoP:

  vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
  vpa_pmu/l2_to_l1_lat/
  vpa_pmu/l2_runtime_agg/

and vpa_pmu driver supports only per-cpu monitoring with this patch.
Example usage:

[command]# perf stat -e vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/ -a -I 1000
     1.001017682            727,200      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     2.003540491          1,118,824      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     3.005699458          1,919,726      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     4.007827011          2,364,630      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/

Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain &lt;kjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118114114.208964-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
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