linux.git/include/linux/dax.h, branch v7.1-rc2

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2026-04-21T21:12:01+00:00

Pull dax updates from Ira Weiny:
 "The series adds DAX support required for the upcoming fuse/famfs file
  system.[1] The support here is required because famfs is backed by
  devdax rather than pmem. This all lays the groundwork for using shared
  memory as a file system"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0100019d43e5f632-f5862a3e-361c-4b54-a9a6-96c242a8f17a-000000@email.amazonses.com/ [1]

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  dax/fsdev: fix uninitialized kaddr in fsdev_dax_zero_page_range()
  dax: export dax_dev_get()
  dax: Add fs_dax_get() func to prepare dax for fs-dax usage
  dax: Add dax_set_ops() for setting dax_operations at bind time
  dax: Add dax_operations for use by fs-dax on fsdev dax
  dax: Save the kva from memremap
  dax: add fsdev.c driver for fs-dax on character dax
  dax: Factor out dax_folio_reset_order() helper
  dax: move dax_pgoff_to_phys from [drivers/dax/] device.c to bus.c

mm: reintroduce vma_desc_test() as a singular flag test

2026-04-05T20:53:19+00:00

Similar to vma_flags_test(), we have previously renamed vma_desc_test() to
vma_desc_test_any().  Now that is in place, we can reintroduce
vma_desc_test() to explicitly check for a single VMA flag.

As with vma_flags_test(), this is useful as often flag tests are against a
single flag, and vma_desc_test_any(flags, VMA_READ_BIT) reads oddly and
potentially causes confusion.

As with vma_flags_test() a combination of sparse and vma_flags_t being a
struct means that users cannot misuse this function without it getting
flagged.

Also update the VMA tests to reflect this change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a65ca23defb05060333f0586428fe279a484564.1772704455.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Babu Moger 
Cc: Baolin Wang 
Cc: Chao Yu 
Cc: Chatre, Reinette 
Cc: Chunhai Guo 
Cc: Damien Le Maol 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: Dave Martin 
Cc: Gao Xiang 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Hongbo Li 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: James Morse 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Jeffle Xu 
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn 
Cc: Konstantin Komarov 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Naohiro Aota 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Sandeep Dhavale 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vishal Verma 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Yue Hu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: rename VMA flag helpers to be more readable

2026-04-05T20:53:18+00:00

Patch series "mm: vma flag tweaks".

The ongoing work around introducing non-system word VMA flags has
introduced a number of helper functions and macros to make life easier
when working with these flags and to make conversions from the legacy use
of VM_xxx flags more straightforward.

This series improves these to reduce confusion as to what they do and to
improve consistency and readability.

Firstly the series renames vma_flags_test() to vma_flags_test_any() to
make it abundantly clear that this function tests whether any of the flags
are set (as opposed to vma_flags_test_all()).

It then renames vma_desc_test_flags() to vma_desc_test_any() for the same
reason.  Note that we drop the 'flags' suffix here, as
vma_desc_test_any_flags() would be cumbersome and 'test' implies a flag
test.

Similarly, we rename vma_test_all_flags() to vma_test_all() for
consistency.

Next, we have a couple of instances (erofs, zonefs) where we are now
testing for vma_desc_test_any(desc, VMA_SHARED_BIT) &&
vma_desc_test_any(desc, VMA_MAYWRITE_BIT).

This is silly, so this series introduces vma_desc_test_all() so these
callers can instead invoke vma_desc_test_all(desc, VMA_SHARED_BIT,
VMA_MAYWRITE_BIT).

We then observe that quite a few instances of vma_flags_test_any() and
vma_desc_test_any() are in fact only testing against a single flag.

Using the _any() variant here is just confusing - 'any' of single item
reads strangely and is liable to cause confusion.

So in these instances the series reintroduces vma_flags_test() and
vma_desc_test() as helpers which test against a single flag.

The fact that vma_flags_t is a struct and that vma_flag_t utilises sparse
to avoid confusion with vm_flags_t makes it impossible for a user to
misuse these helpers without it getting flagged somewhere.

The series also updates __mk_vma_flags() and functions invoked by it to
explicitly mark them always inline to match expectation and to be
consistent with other VMA flag helpers.

It also renames vma_flag_set() to vma_flags_set_flag() (a function only
used by __mk_vma_flags()) to be consistent with other VMA flag helpers.

Finally it updates the VMA tests for each of these changes, and introduces
explicit tests for vma_flags_test() and vma_desc_test() to assert that
they behave as expected.


This patch (of 6):

On reflection, it's confusing to have vma_flags_test() and
vma_desc_test_flags() test whether any comma-separated VMA flag bit is
set, while also having vma_flags_test_all() and vma_test_all_flags()
separately test whether all flags are set.

Firstly, rename vma_flags_test() to vma_flags_test_any() to eliminate this
confusion.

Secondly, since the VMA descriptor flag functions are becoming rather
cumbersome, prefer vma_desc_test*() to vma_desc_test_flags*(), and also
rename vma_desc_test_flags() to vma_desc_test_any().

Finally, rename vma_test_all_flags() to vma_test_all() to keep the
VMA-specific helper consistent with the VMA descriptor naming convention
and to help avoid confusion vs.  vma_flags_test_all().

While we're here, also update whitespace to be consistent in helper
functions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1772704455.git.ljs@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0f9cb3c511c478344fac0b3b3b0300bb95be95e9.1772704455.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Suggested-by: Pedro Falcato 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Babu Moger 
Cc: Baolin Wang 
Cc: Chao Yu 
Cc: Chatre, Reinette 
Cc: Chunhai Guo 
Cc: Damien Le Maol 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: Dave Martin 
Cc: Gao Xiang 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Hongbo Li 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: James Morse 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Jeffle Xu 
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn 
Cc: Konstantin Komarov 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Naohiro Aota 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Sandeep Dhavale 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vishal Verma 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Yue Hu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

dax: export dax_dev_get()

2026-03-30T13:20:48+00:00

famfs needs to look up a dax_device by dev_t when resolving fmap
entries that reference character dax devices.

Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang 
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron 
Signed-off-by: John Groves 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311daab5-bb212f0b-4e05-4668-bf53-d76fab56be68-000000@email.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

dax: Add fs_dax_get() func to prepare dax for fs-dax usage

2026-03-30T13:20:48+00:00

The fs_dax_get() function should be called by fs-dax file systems after
opening a fsdev dax device. This adds holder_operations, which provides
a memory failure callback path and effects exclusivity between callers
of fs_dax_get().

fs_dax_get() is specific to fsdev_dax, so it checks the driver type
(which required touching bus.[ch]). fs_dax_get() fails if fsdev_dax is
not bound to the memory.

This function serves the same role as fs_dax_get_by_bdev(), which dax
file systems call after opening the pmem block device.

This can't be located in fsdev.c because struct dax_device is opaque
there.

This will be called by fs/fuse/famfs.c in a subsequent commit.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron 
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang 
Signed-off-by: John Groves 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311d8750-75395c22-031b-4d5f-aebe-790dca656b87-000000@email.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

dax: Add dax_set_ops() for setting dax_operations at bind time

2026-03-30T13:20:48+00:00

Add a new dax_set_ops() function that allows drivers to set the
dax_operations after the dax_device has been allocated. This is needed
for fsdev_dax where the operations need to be set during probe and
cleared during unbind.

The fsdev driver uses devm_add_action_or_reset() for cleanup consistency,
avoiding the complexity of mixing devm-managed resources with manual
cleanup in a remove() callback. This ensures cleanup happens automatically
in the correct reverse order when the device is unbound.

Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang 
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron 
Signed-off-by: John Groves 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311d65a0-b9c1419e-f3a0-4afd-b0bd-848f18ff5950-000000@email.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

dax: Factor out dax_folio_reset_order() helper

2026-03-30T13:20:47+00:00

Both fs/dax.c:dax_folio_put() and drivers/dax/fsdev.c:
fsdev_clear_folio_state() (the latter coming in the next commit after this
one) contain nearly identical code to reset a compound DAX folio back to
order-0 pages. Factor this out into a shared helper function.

The new dax_folio_reset_order() function:
- Clears the folio's mapping and share count
- Resets compound folio state via folio_reset_order()
- Clears PageHead and compound_head for each sub-page
- Restores the pgmap pointer for each resulting order-0 folio
- Returns the original folio order (for callers that need to advance by
  that many pages)

Two intentional differences from the original dax_folio_put() logic:

1. folio->share is cleared unconditionally. This is correct because the DAX
   subsystem maintains the invariant that share != 0 only when
   mapping == NULL (enforced by dax_folio_make_shared()). dax_folio_put()
   ensures share has reached zero before calling this helper, so the
   unconditional clear is safe.

2. folio->pgmap is now explicitly restored for order-0 folios. For the
   dax_folio_put() caller this is a no-op (reads and writes back the same
   field). It is intentional for the upcoming fsdev_clear_folio_state()
   caller, which converts previously-compound folios and needs pgmap
   re-established for all pages regardless of order.

This simplifies fsdev_clear_folio_state() from ~50 lines to ~15 lines.

Suggested-by: Jonathan Cameron 
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny 
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang 
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron 
Signed-off-by: John Groves 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0100019d311cc6b9-5be7428a-7f16-4774-8f90-a44b88ac5660-000000@email.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny

mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t

2026-02-12T23:42:58+00:00

We will be shortly removing the vm_flags_t field from vm_area_desc so we
need to update all mmap_prepare users to only use the dessc->vma_flags
field.

This patch achieves that and makes all ancillary changes required to make
this possible.

This lays the groundwork for future work to eliminate the use of
vm_flags_t in vm_area_desc altogether and more broadly throughout the
kernel.

While we're here, we take the opportunity to replace VM_REMAP_FLAGS with
VMA_REMAP_FLAGS, the vma_flags_t equivalent.

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fb1f55323799f09fe6a36865b31550c9ec67c225.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal 	[zonefs]
Acked-by: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Acked-by: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Baolin Wang 
Cc: Barry Song 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dev Jain 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen 
Cc: Yury Norov 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...

mm: remove callers of pfn_t functionality

2025-07-10T05:42:19+00:00

All PFN_* pfn_t flags have been removed.  Therefore there is no longer a
need for the pfn_t type and all uses can be replaced with normal pfns.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bbedfa576c9822f8032494efbe43544628698b1f.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Björn Töpel 
Cc: Björn Töpel 
Cc: Chunyan Zhang 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Deepak Gupta 
Cc: Gerald Schaefer 
Cc: Inki Dae 
Cc: John Groves 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton