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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile, branch v6.15</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>x86/boot: Disable stack protector for early boot code</title>
<updated>2025-02-18T09:14:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Gerst</name>
<email>brgerst@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T19:07:35+00:00</published>
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On 64-bit, this will prevent crashes when the canary access is changed
from %gs:40 to %gs:__stack_chk_guard(%rip).  RIP-relative addresses from
the identity-mapped early boot code will target the wrong address with
zero-based percpu.  KASLR could then shift that address to an unmapped
page causing a crash on boot.

This early boot code runs well before user-space is active and does not
need stack protector enabled.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123190747.745588-4-brgerst@gmail.com
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On 64-bit, this will prevent crashes when the canary access is changed
from %gs:40 to %gs:__stack_chk_guard(%rip).  RIP-relative addresses from
the identity-mapped early boot code will target the wrong address with
zero-based percpu.  KASLR could then shift that address to an unmapped
page causing a crash on boot.

This early boot code runs well before user-space is active and does not
need stack protector enabled.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123190747.745588-4-brgerst@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Start moving AMD node functionality out of AMD_NB</title>
<updated>2025-01-08T09:47:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yazen Ghannam</name>
<email>yazen.ghannam@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-06T16:11:57+00:00</published>
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The "AMD Node" concept spans many families of systems and applies to
a number of subsystems and drivers.

Currently, the AMD Northbridge code is overloaded with AMD node
functionality. However, the node concept is broader than just
northbridges.

Start files to host common AMD node functions and definitions.  Include
a helper to find an AMD node device function based on the convention
described in AMD documentation.

Anything that needs node functionality should include this rather than
amd_nb.h. The AMD_NB code will be reduced to only northbridge-specific
code needed for legacy systems.

Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam &lt;yazen.ghannam@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241206161210.163701-5-yazen.ghannam@amd.com
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The "AMD Node" concept spans many families of systems and applies to
a number of subsystems and drivers.

Currently, the AMD Northbridge code is overloaded with AMD node
functionality. However, the node concept is broader than just
northbridges.

Start files to host common AMD node functions and definitions.  Include
a helper to find an AMD node device function based on the convention
described in AMD documentation.

Anything that needs node functionality should include this rather than
amd_nb.h. The AMD_NB code will be reduced to only northbridge-specific
code needed for legacy systems.

Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam &lt;yazen.ghannam@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241206161210.163701-5-yazen.ghannam@amd.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Ignore stack unwinding in KCOV</title>
<updated>2024-08-08T15:36:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-11T07:50:33+00:00</published>
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Stack unwinding produces large amounts of uninteresting coverage.
It's called from KASAN kmalloc/kfree hooks, fault injection, etc.
It's not particularly useful and is not a function of system call args.
Ignore that code.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/eaf54b8634970b73552dcd38bf9be6ef55238c10.1718092070.git.dvyukov@google.com

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Stack unwinding produces large amounts of uninteresting coverage.
It's called from KASAN kmalloc/kfree hooks, fault injection, etc.
It's not particularly useful and is not a function of system call args.
Ignore that code.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/eaf54b8634970b73552dcd38bf9be6ef55238c10.1718092070.git.dvyukov@google.com

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/sev: Move SEV compilation units</title>
<updated>2024-07-11T09:55:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-19T09:03:16+00:00</published>
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A long time ago it was agreed upon that the coco stuff needs to go where
it belongs:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yg5nh1RknPRwIrb8@zn.tnic

and not keep it in arch/x86/kernel. TDX did that and SEV can't find time
to do so. So lemme do it. If people have trouble converting their
ongoing featuritis patches, ask me for a sed script.

No functional changes.

Move the instrumentation exclusion bits too, as helpfully caught and
reported by the 0day folks.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202406220748.hG3qlmDx-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202407091342.46d7dbb-oliver.sang@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ashish Kalra &lt;ashish.kalra@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619093014.17962-1-bp@kernel.org
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<pre>
A long time ago it was agreed upon that the coco stuff needs to go where
it belongs:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yg5nh1RknPRwIrb8@zn.tnic

and not keep it in arch/x86/kernel. TDX did that and SEV can't find time
to do so. So lemme do it. If people have trouble converting their
ongoing featuritis patches, ask me for a sed script.

No functional changes.

Move the instrumentation exclusion bits too, as helpfully caught and
reported by the 0day folks.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202406220748.hG3qlmDx-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202407091342.46d7dbb-oliver.sang@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ashish Kalra &lt;ashish.kalra@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619093014.17962-1-bp@kernel.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2024-05-18T19:39:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-18T19:39:20+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Avoid 'constexpr', which is a keyword in C23

 - Allow 'dtbs_check' and 'dt_compatible_check' run independently of
   'dt_binding_check'

 - Fix weak references to avoid GOT entries in position-independent code
   generation

 - Convert the last use of 'optional' property in arch/sh/Kconfig

 - Remove support for the 'optional' property in Kconfig

 - Remove support for Clang's ThinLTO caching, which does not work with
   the .incbin directive

 - Change the semantics of $(src) so it always points to the source
   directory, which fixes Makefile inconsistencies between upstream and
   downstream

 - Fix 'make tar-pkg' for RISC-V to produce a consistent package

 - Provide reasonable default coverage for objtool, sanitizers, and
   profilers

 - Remove redundant OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD, KASAN_SANITIZE, etc.

 - Remove the last use of tristate choice in drivers/rapidio/Kconfig

 - Various cleanups and fixes in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (46 commits)
  kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in sym_check_prop()
  rapidio: remove choice for enumeration
  kconfig: lxdialog: remove initialization with A_NORMAL
  kconfig: m/nconf: merge two item_add_str() calls
  kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display value of bool choice
  kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display children of choice members
  kconfig: gconf: show checkbox for choice correctly
  kbuild: use GCOV_PROFILE and KCSAN_SANITIZE in scripts/Makefile.modfinal
  Makefile: remove redundant tool coverage variables
  kbuild: provide reasonable defaults for tool coverage
  modules: Drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules
  kconfig: use menu_list_for_each_sym() in sym_check_choice_deps()
  kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in conf_write_defconfig()
  kconfig: add sym_get_choice_menu() helper
  kconfig: turn defaults and additional prompt for choice members into error
  kconfig: turn missing prompt for choice members into error
  kconfig: turn conf_choice() into void function
  kconfig: use linked list in sym_set_changed()
  kconfig: gconf: use MENU_CHANGED instead of SYMBOL_CHANGED
  kconfig: gconf: remove debug code
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Avoid 'constexpr', which is a keyword in C23

 - Allow 'dtbs_check' and 'dt_compatible_check' run independently of
   'dt_binding_check'

 - Fix weak references to avoid GOT entries in position-independent code
   generation

 - Convert the last use of 'optional' property in arch/sh/Kconfig

 - Remove support for the 'optional' property in Kconfig

 - Remove support for Clang's ThinLTO caching, which does not work with
   the .incbin directive

 - Change the semantics of $(src) so it always points to the source
   directory, which fixes Makefile inconsistencies between upstream and
   downstream

 - Fix 'make tar-pkg' for RISC-V to produce a consistent package

 - Provide reasonable default coverage for objtool, sanitizers, and
   profilers

 - Remove redundant OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD, KASAN_SANITIZE, etc.

 - Remove the last use of tristate choice in drivers/rapidio/Kconfig

 - Various cleanups and fixes in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (46 commits)
  kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in sym_check_prop()
  rapidio: remove choice for enumeration
  kconfig: lxdialog: remove initialization with A_NORMAL
  kconfig: m/nconf: merge two item_add_str() calls
  kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display value of bool choice
  kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display children of choice members
  kconfig: gconf: show checkbox for choice correctly
  kbuild: use GCOV_PROFILE and KCSAN_SANITIZE in scripts/Makefile.modfinal
  Makefile: remove redundant tool coverage variables
  kbuild: provide reasonable defaults for tool coverage
  modules: Drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules
  kconfig: use menu_list_for_each_sym() in sym_check_choice_deps()
  kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in conf_write_defconfig()
  kconfig: add sym_get_choice_menu() helper
  kconfig: turn defaults and additional prompt for choice members into error
  kconfig: turn missing prompt for choice members into error
  kconfig: turn conf_choice() into void function
  kconfig: use linked list in sym_set_changed()
  kconfig: gconf: use MENU_CHANGED instead of SYMBOL_CHANGED
  kconfig: gconf: remove debug code
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory</title>
<updated>2024-05-09T19:34:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-27T14:55:02+00:00</published>
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Kbuild conventionally uses $(obj)/ for generated files, and $(src)/ for
checked-in source files. It is merely a convention without any functional
difference. In fact, $(obj) and $(src) are exactly the same, as defined
in scripts/Makefile.build:

    src := $(obj)

When the kernel is built in a separate output directory, $(src) does
not accurately reflect the source directory location. While Kbuild
resolves this discrepancy by specifying VPATH=$(srctree) to search for
source files, it does not cover all cases. For example, when adding a
header search path for local headers, -I$(srctree)/$(src) is typically
passed to the compiler.

This introduces inconsistency between upstream and downstream Makefiles
because $(src) is used instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for the latter.

To address this inconsistency, this commit changes the semantics of
$(src) so that it always points to the directory in the source tree.

Going forward, the variables used in Makefiles will have the following
meanings:

  $(obj)     - directory in the object tree
  $(src)     - directory in the source tree  (changed by this commit)
  $(objtree) - the top of the kernel object tree
  $(srctree) - the top of the kernel source tree

Consequently, $(srctree)/$(src) in upstream Makefiles need to be replaced
with $(src).

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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Kbuild conventionally uses $(obj)/ for generated files, and $(src)/ for
checked-in source files. It is merely a convention without any functional
difference. In fact, $(obj) and $(src) are exactly the same, as defined
in scripts/Makefile.build:

    src := $(obj)

When the kernel is built in a separate output directory, $(src) does
not accurately reflect the source directory location. While Kbuild
resolves this discrepancy by specifying VPATH=$(srctree) to search for
source files, it does not cover all cases. For example, when adding a
header search path for local headers, -I$(srctree)/$(src) is typically
passed to the compiler.

This introduces inconsistency between upstream and downstream Makefiles
because $(src) is used instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for the latter.

To address this inconsistency, this commit changes the semantics of
$(src) so that it always points to the directory in the source tree.

Going forward, the variables used in Makefiles will have the following
meanings:

  $(obj)     - directory in the object tree
  $(src)     - directory in the source tree  (changed by this commit)
  $(objtree) - the top of the kernel object tree
  $(srctree) - the top of the kernel source tree

Consequently, $(srctree)/$(src) in upstream Makefiles need to be replaced
with $(src).

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Move leftover contents of topology.c to setup.c</title>
<updated>2024-03-21T19:47:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-18T18:12:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=edf66a3c76635a5d326badd83d76fd480a0c8db2'/>
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The only useful piece of arch/x86/kernel/topology.c is the definition
of arch_cpu_is_hotpluggable() that can be moved elsewhere (other
architectures tend to put it into setup.c), so do that and delete
the rest of the file.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/12422874.O9o76ZdvQC@kreacher
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The only useful piece of arch/x86/kernel/topology.c is the definition
of arch_cpu_is_hotpluggable() that can be moved elsewhere (other
architectures tend to put it into setup.c), so do that and delete
the rest of the file.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/12422874.O9o76ZdvQC@kreacher
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T00:43:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-15T00:43:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=902861e34c401696ed9ad17a54c8790e7e8e3069'/>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames
   from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
   "implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".

 - More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series

	"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
	"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"

 - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
   significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
   reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
   scalability of zswap rb-tree".

 - Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
   lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
   swap-intensive situations.

 - And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
   optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.

 - zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series
   "mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".

 - In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
   contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
   control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is
   hotplugged as system memory.

 - Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
   which does that.

 - More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series

	"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
	"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
	"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
	"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"

 - In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
   extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving
   policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion
   rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory
   environments appearing with CXL.

 - Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
   against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
   Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".

 - Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
   series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".

 - Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
   human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
   format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
   tools to parse and process out selftesting results.

 - Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
   series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
   targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the
   process has a large number of pte-mapped folios.

 - David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
   series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
   implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown
   situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice.

 - And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings"
   Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
   mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's
   series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.

 - In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
   fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page
   faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.

 - In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction
   test", Mark Brown did what the title claims.

 - Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and
   refactoring".

 - Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
   zswap kselftests" does as claimed.

 - In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
   regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess
   in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing
   data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.

 - Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides
   dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during
   certain userfaultfd operations.

 - Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
   in his series

	"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
	"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"

 - Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability
   improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It
   realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark.

 - Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
   crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".

 - Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series

	"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
	"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"

 - Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
   order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging
   of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable &gt;0 order folio
   memory compaction".

 - Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
   pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages()
   to an iterator".

 - Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
   "Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".

 - Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
   into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
   series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".

 - David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
   total_mapcount()", a cleanup.

 - Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
   freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".

 - Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
   provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which
   are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.

 - Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.

 - Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
   also. S390 is affected.

 - Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
   "mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".

 - Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
   series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM
   Selftests".

 - Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
   the individual changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits)
  mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
  crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep
  memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning
  mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio
  mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case
  selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements
  selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages
  selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages
  mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split
  mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio
  mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure
  mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE
  mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list
  mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it
  filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault()
  mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check
  mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount
  mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
  mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs
  mm/treewide: drop pXd_large()
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames
   from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
   "implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".

 - More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series

	"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
	"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"

 - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
   significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
   reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
   scalability of zswap rb-tree".

 - Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
   lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
   swap-intensive situations.

 - And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
   optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.

 - zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series
   "mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".

 - In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
   contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
   control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is
   hotplugged as system memory.

 - Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
   which does that.

 - More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series

	"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
	"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
	"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
	"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"

 - In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
   extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving
   policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion
   rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory
   environments appearing with CXL.

 - Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
   against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
   Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".

 - Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
   series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".

 - Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
   human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
   format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
   tools to parse and process out selftesting results.

 - Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
   series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
   targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the
   process has a large number of pte-mapped folios.

 - David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
   series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
   implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown
   situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice.

 - And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings"
   Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
   mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's
   series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.

 - In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
   fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page
   faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.

 - In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction
   test", Mark Brown did what the title claims.

 - Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and
   refactoring".

 - Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
   zswap kselftests" does as claimed.

 - In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
   regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess
   in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing
   data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.

 - Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides
   dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during
   certain userfaultfd operations.

 - Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
   in his series

	"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
	"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"

 - Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability
   improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It
   realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark.

 - Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
   crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".

 - Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series

	"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
	"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"

 - Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
   order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging
   of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable &gt;0 order folio
   memory compaction".

 - Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
   pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages()
   to an iterator".

 - Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
   "Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".

 - Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
   into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
   series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".

 - David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
   total_mapcount()", a cleanup.

 - Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
   freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".

 - Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
   provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which
   are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.

 - Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.

 - Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
   also. S390 is affected.

 - Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
   "mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".

 - Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
   series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM
   Selftests".

 - Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
   the individual changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits)
  mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
  crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep
  memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning
  mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio
  mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case
  selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements
  selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages
  selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages
  mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split
  mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio
  mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure
  mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE
  mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list
  mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it
  filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault()
  mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check
  mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount
  mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
  mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs
  mm/treewide: drop pXd_large()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T00:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T00:44:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=38b334fc767e44816be087b3ec5d84b1438b735f'/>
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Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support.

   This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of
   running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP
   is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side,
   providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment
   up to date.

   This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready
   in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the
   next cycle.

 - Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in
   order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and
   -mcmodel=kernel

 - The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs
  x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS
  crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU
  iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry()
  x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
  crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static
  x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
  Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature
  KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe
  crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump
  iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown
  crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled
  x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list
  crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands
  ...
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Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support.

   This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of
   running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP
   is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side,
   providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment
   up to date.

   This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready
   in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the
   next cycle.

 - Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in
   order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and
   -mcmodel=kernel

 - The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs
  x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS
  crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU
  iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry()
  x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
  crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static
  x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
  Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature
  KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe
  crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump
  iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown
  crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled
  x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list
  crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs</title>
<updated>2024-03-08T07:59:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changbin Du</name>
<email>changbin.du@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-08T04:44:01+00:00</published>
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Instrumenting sev.c and mem_encrypt_identity.c with KMSAN will result in
a triple-faulting kernel. Some of the code is invoked too early during
boot, before KMSAN is ready.

Disable KMSAN instrumentation for the two translation units.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308044401.1120395-1-changbin.du@huawei.com
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Instrumenting sev.c and mem_encrypt_identity.c with KMSAN will result in
a triple-faulting kernel. Some of the code is invoked too early during
boot, before KMSAN is ready.

Disable KMSAN instrumentation for the two translation units.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308044401.1120395-1-changbin.du@huawei.com
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