linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c, branch v7.1

memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing

2026-04-01T08:20:15+00:00

It shouldn't be responsibility of memblock users to detect if they free
memory allocated from memblock late and should use memblock_free_late().

Make memblock_free() and memblock_phys_free() take care of late memory
freeing and drop memblock_free_late().

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323074836.3653702-9-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T19:32:37+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes
   arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev)

   It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use
   it. Various hacks were removed in the process.

 - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data
   compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky)

 - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous
   page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting
   are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand)

 - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong)

 - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos
   stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic
   control, and readability (SeongJae Park)

 - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few
   issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang)

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several
   issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu)

 - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves
   the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai)

 - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a
   glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg)

 - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and
   consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of
   hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb
   (Mike Rapoport)

 - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma
   implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of
   the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka)

 - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the
   memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being
   exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt)

 - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the
   allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount
   operations (Kefeng Wang)

 - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement
   of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning
   of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park)

 - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes
   CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan)

 - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes
   nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the
   underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code
   (Yury Norov)

 - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up
   some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work
   in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg)

 - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon
   infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also
   some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand)

 - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds
   additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen)

 - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is
   part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs
   over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari)

 - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated
   improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky)

 - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic
   folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in
   pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang)

 - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation
   reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and
   DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc"
   performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans
   up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap
   write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding
   the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old
   swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which
   wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications
   were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui
   Song)

 - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM
   available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various
   cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits)
  mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table()
  mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c
  mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config
  um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h
  mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles
  zsmalloc: make common caches global
  mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files
  mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers
  mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers
  mm/readahead: fix typo in comment
  mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file()
  mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages
  mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range
  mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area
  ...

Merge tag 'x86-boot-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-02-10T21:12:54+00:00

Pull x86/boot updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - x86/acpi: Add acpi=spcr to use SPCR-provided default console
   (Shenghao Yang)

 - x86/acpi/boot: Correct the acpi_is_processor_usable() check again
   (Yazen Ghannam)

 - Refresh the x86 memory map (e820 table) handling code, and make the
   printouts a bit more informative (Ingo Molnar)

* tag 'x86-boot-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
  x86/acpi: Add acpi=spcr to use SPCR-provided default console
  x86/boot/e820: Use  symbols for literals
  x86/boot/e820: Make sure e820_search_gap() finds all gaps
  x86/boot/e820: Simplify the e820__range_remove() API
  x86/boot/e820: Remove e820__range_remove()'s unused return parameter
  x86/boot/e820: Simplify append_e820_table() and remove restriction on single-entry tables
  x86/boot/e820: Standardize __init/__initdata tag placement
  x86/boot/e820: Simplify & clarify __e820__range_add() a bit
  x86/boot/e820: Rename gap_start/gap_size to max_gap_start/max_gap_start in e820_search_gap() et al
  x86/boot/e820: Change e820_search_gap() to search for the highest-address PCI gap
  x86/boot/e820: Clean up e820__setup_pci_gap()/e820_search_gap() a bit
  x86/boot/e820: Change struct e820_table::nr_entries type from __u32 to u32
  x86/boot/e820: Standardize e820 table index variable types under 'u32'
  x86/boot/e820: Standardize e820 table index variable names under 'idx'
  x86/boot/e820: Remove unnecessary header inclusions
  x86/boot/e820: Clean up __refdata use a bit
  x86/boot/e820: Clean up __e820__range_add() a bit
  x86/boot/e820: Improve e820_print_type() messages
  x86/boot/e820: Clean up confusing and self-contradictory verbiage around E820 related resource allocations
  x86/boot/e820: Remove pointless early_panic() indirection
  ...

mm, arch: consolidate hugetlb CMA reservation

2026-01-27T04:02:19+00:00

Every architecture that supports hugetlb_cma command line parameter
reserves CMA areas for hugetlb during setup_arch().

This obfuscates the ordering of hugetlb CMA initialization with respect to
the rest initialization of the core MM.

Introduce arch_hugetlb_cma_order() callback to allow architectures report
the desired order-per-bit of CMA areas and provide a week implementation
of arch_hugetlb_cma_order() for architectures that don't support hugetlb
with CMA.

Use this callback in hugetlb_cma_reserve() instead if passing the order as
parameter and call hugetlb_cma_reserve() from mm_core_init_early() rather
than have it spread over architecture specific code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-28-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Pratyush Yadav 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

x86: don't reserve hugetlb memory in setup_arch()

2026-01-27T04:02:19+00:00

Commit 665eaf313314 ("x86/setup: call hugetlb_bootmem_alloc early") added
an early call to hugetlb_bootmem_alloc() to setup_arch() to allow HVO
style pre-initialization of vmemmap on x86.

With the ordering of hugetlb reservation vs memory map initialization
sorted out in core MM this no longer needs to be an architecture specific
quirk.

Drop the call to hugetlb_bootmem_alloc() from x86::setup_arch().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-27-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Pratyush Yadav 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

x86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima kexec buffer

2026-01-27T03:07:11+00:00

When the second-stage kernel is booted via kexec with a limiting command
line such as "mem=", the physical range that contains the carried
over IMA measurement list may fall outside the truncated RAM leading to a
kernel panic.

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff97793ff47000
    RIP: ima_restore_measurement_list+0xdc/0x45a
    #PF: error_code(0x0000) – not-present page

Other architectures already validate the range with page_is_ram(), as done
in commit cbf9c4b9617b ("of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer
against memory bounds") do a similar check on x86.

Without carrying the measurement list across kexec, the attestation
would fail.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251231061609.907170-4-harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli 
Fixes: b69a2afd5afc ("x86/kexec: Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec")
Reported-by: Paul Webb 
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar 
Cc: Alexander Graf 
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Borislav Betkov 
Cc: guoweikang 
Cc: Henry Willard 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Bohac 
Cc: Joel Granados 
Cc: Jonathan McDowell 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Sohil Mehta 
Cc: Sourabh Jain 
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer 
Cc: Yifei Liu 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display

2025-12-16T13:12:44+00:00

Move x86's edid_info into sysfb_primary_display as a new field named
edid. Adapt all users.

An instance of edid_info has only been defined on x86. With the move
into sysfb_primary_display, it becomes available on all architectures.
Therefore remove this contraint from CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID.

x86 fills the EDID data from boot_params.edid_info. DRM drivers pick
up the raw data and make it available to DRM clients. Replace the
drivers' references to edid_info and instead use the sysfb_display_info
as passed from sysfb.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

sysfb: Replace screen_info with sysfb_primary_display

2025-12-16T13:12:44+00:00

Replace the global screen_info with sysfb_primary_display of type
struct sysfb_display_info. Adapt all users of screen_info.

Instances of screen_info are defined for x86, loongarch and EFI,
with only one instance compiled into a specific build. Replace all
of them with sysfb_primary_display.

All existing users of screen_info are updated by pointing them to
sysfb_primary_display.screen instead. This introduces some churn to
the code, but has no impact on functionality.

Boot parameters and EFI config tables are unchanged. They transfer
screen_info as before. The logic in EFI's alloc_screen_info() changes
slightly, as it now returns the screen field of sysfb_primary_display.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas  # drivers/pci/
Reviewed-by: Richard Lyu 
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

x86/boot/e820: Simplify the e820__range_remove() API

2025-12-14T08:19:42+00:00

Right now e820__range_remove() has two parameters to control the
E820 type of the range removed:

	extern void e820__range_remove(u64 start, u64 size, enum e820_type old_type, bool check_type);

Since E820 types start at 1, zero has a natural meaning of 'no type.

Consolidate the (old_type,check_type) parameters into a single (filter_type)
parameter:

	extern void e820__range_remove(u64 start, u64 size, enum e820_type filter_type);

Note that both e820__mapped_raw_any() and e820__mapped_any()
already have such semantics for their 'type' parameter, although
it's currently not used with '0' by in-kernel code.

Also, the __e820__mapped_all() internal helper already has such
semantics implemented as well, and the e820__get_entry_type() API
uses the '0' type to such effect.

This simplifies not just e820__range_remove(), and synchronizes its
use of type filters with other E820 API functions, but simplifies
usage sites as well, such as parse_memmap_one(), beyond the reduction
of the number of parameters:

  -               else if (from)
  -                       e820__range_remove(start_at, mem_size, from, 1);
                  else
  -                       e820__range_remove(start_at, mem_size, 0, 0);
  +                       e820__range_remove(start_at, mem_size, from);

The generated code gets smaller as well:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/5 up/down: 0/-66 (-66)

	Function                                     old     new   delta
	parse_memopt                                 112     107      -5
	efi_init                                    1048    1039      -9
	setup_arch                                  2719    2709     -10
	e820__range_remove                           283     273     -10
	parse_memmap_opt                             559     527     -32

	Total: Before=22,675,600, After=22,675,534, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: H . Peter Anvin 
Cc: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Paul Menzel 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250515120549.2820541-28-mingo@kernel.org