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<title>mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for nested file systems</title>
<updated>2025-06-13T04:39:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2025-06-09T16:57:49+00:00</published>
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Nested file systems, that is those which invoke call_mmap() within their
own f_op-&gt;mmap() handlers, may encounter underlying file systems which
provide the f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() hook introduced by commit c84bf6dd2b83
("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").

We have a chicken-and-egg scenario here - until all file systems are
converted to using .mmap_prepare(), we cannot convert these nested
handlers, as we can't call f_op-&gt;mmap from an .mmap_prepare() hook.

So we have to do it the other way round - invoke the .mmap_prepare() hook
from an .mmap() one.

in order to do so, we need to convert VMA state into a struct vm_area_desc
descriptor, invoking the underlying file system's f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare()
callback passing a pointer to this, and then setting VMA state accordingly
and safely.

This patch achieves this via the compat_vma_mmap_prepare() function, which
we invoke from call_mmap() if f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() is specified in the
passed in file pointer.

We place the fundamental logic into mm/vma.h where VMA manipulation
belongs.  We also update the VMA userland tests to accommodate the
changes.

The compat_vma_mmap_prepare() function and its associated machinery is
temporary, and will be removed once the conversion of file systems is
complete.

We carefully place this code so it can be used with CONFIG_MMU and also
with cutting edge nommu silicon.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export compat_vma_mmap_prepare tp fix build]
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: remove unused declarations]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac3ae324-4c65-432a-8c6d-2af988b18ac8@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250609165749.344976-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez04yOEVx1ekzOChARDDBZzAKwet8PEoPM4Ln3_rk91AzQ@mail.gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nested file systems, that is those which invoke call_mmap() within their
own f_op-&gt;mmap() handlers, may encounter underlying file systems which
provide the f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() hook introduced by commit c84bf6dd2b83
("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").

We have a chicken-and-egg scenario here - until all file systems are
converted to using .mmap_prepare(), we cannot convert these nested
handlers, as we can't call f_op-&gt;mmap from an .mmap_prepare() hook.

So we have to do it the other way round - invoke the .mmap_prepare() hook
from an .mmap() one.

in order to do so, we need to convert VMA state into a struct vm_area_desc
descriptor, invoking the underlying file system's f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare()
callback passing a pointer to this, and then setting VMA state accordingly
and safely.

This patch achieves this via the compat_vma_mmap_prepare() function, which
we invoke from call_mmap() if f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() is specified in the
passed in file pointer.

We place the fundamental logic into mm/vma.h where VMA manipulation
belongs.  We also update the VMA userland tests to accommodate the
changes.

The compat_vma_mmap_prepare() function and its associated machinery is
temporary, and will be removed once the conversion of file systems is
complete.

We carefully place this code so it can be used with CONFIG_MMU and also
with cutting edge nommu silicon.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export compat_vma_mmap_prepare tp fix build]
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: remove unused declarations]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac3ae324-4c65-432a-8c6d-2af988b18ac8@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250609165749.344976-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez04yOEVx1ekzOChARDDBZzAKwet8PEoPM4Ln3_rk91AzQ@mail.gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc2.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-06-02T19:49:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T19:49:16+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Fix the AT_HANDLE_CONNECTABLE option so filesystems that don't know
   how to decode a connected non-dir dentry fail the request

 - Use repr(transparent) to ensure identical layout between the C and
   Rust implementation of struct file

 - Add a missing xas_pause() into the dax code employing
   wait_entry_unlocked_exclusive()

 - Fix FOP_DONTCACHE which we disabled for v6.15.

   A folio could get redirtied and/or scheduled for writeback after the
   initial dropbehind test. Change the test accordingly to handle these
   cases so we can re-enable FOP_DONTCACHE again

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc2.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  exportfs: require -&gt;fh_to_parent() to encode connectable file handles
  rust: file: improve safety comments
  rust: file: mark `LocalFile` as `repr(transparent)`
  fs/dax: Fix "don't skip locked entries when scanning entries"
  iomap: don't lose folio dropbehind state for overwrites
  mm/filemap: unify dropbehind flag testing and clearing
  mm/filemap: unify read/write dropbehind naming
  Revert "Disable FOP_DONTCACHE for now due to bugs"
  mm/filemap: use filemap_end_dropbehind() for read invalidation
  mm/filemap: gate dropbehind invalidate on folio !dirty &amp;&amp; !writeback
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Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Fix the AT_HANDLE_CONNECTABLE option so filesystems that don't know
   how to decode a connected non-dir dentry fail the request

 - Use repr(transparent) to ensure identical layout between the C and
   Rust implementation of struct file

 - Add a missing xas_pause() into the dax code employing
   wait_entry_unlocked_exclusive()

 - Fix FOP_DONTCACHE which we disabled for v6.15.

   A folio could get redirtied and/or scheduled for writeback after the
   initial dropbehind test. Change the test accordingly to handle these
   cases so we can re-enable FOP_DONTCACHE again

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc2.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  exportfs: require -&gt;fh_to_parent() to encode connectable file handles
  rust: file: improve safety comments
  rust: file: mark `LocalFile` as `repr(transparent)`
  fs/dax: Fix "don't skip locked entries when scanning entries"
  iomap: don't lose folio dropbehind state for overwrites
  mm/filemap: unify dropbehind flag testing and clearing
  mm/filemap: unify read/write dropbehind naming
  Revert "Disable FOP_DONTCACHE for now due to bugs"
  mm/filemap: use filemap_end_dropbehind() for read invalidation
  mm/filemap: gate dropbehind invalidate on folio !dirty &amp;&amp; !writeback
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
   creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
   the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
   this.

 - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
   largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
   and better prepare us for future work.

 - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
   Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
   memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
   block size.

 - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
   Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
   sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
   compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
   memory consumption was dramatic.

 - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
   Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
   this part of our swap handling code.

 - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
   adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
   time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
   strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
   arguments, and syscall return value.

   This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
   branch, but I goofed.

 - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
   Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
   against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
   at the info about guard regions.

 - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
   implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
   validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.

 - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
   Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
   decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
   using more current facilities.

 - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
   Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
   code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
   enabled for ARM.

 - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
   ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
   it already is for user pgtables.

   This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
   to protect page tables". This change does result in various
   architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
   it is anticipated to occur.

 - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
   Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.

 - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
   been missing for 15 years.

 - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
   SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.

   Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
   batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
   was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
   load this particular operation.

 - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
   Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
   preallocation.

   stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
   the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
   reduced.

 - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
   a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.

 - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
   from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
   management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
   leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
   support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.

 - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
   from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
   eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
   for memory tiering.

 - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
   provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
   found via code inspection.

 - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
   changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
   possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
   cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
   settings to violated.

   This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
   certain classes of memory more consistently.

 - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
   pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
   in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.

 - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
   for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.

 - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
   Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
   for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.

   This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
   rather than file-backed folios.

 - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
   first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
   VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
   time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.

 - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
   and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
   ranges of invalid pfns.

 - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
   cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
   when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.

   Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.

 - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
   Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
   using JFS.

 - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
   appropriate mm/vma.c.

 - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
   provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
   function.

 - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.

 - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
   addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
   test_memcontrol selftest.

 - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
   of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().

   The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
   things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.

 - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
   the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.

   This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
   NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.

 - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
   documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
   DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
   documents.

 - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
   stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
   charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.

 - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
   instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
   hugetlb code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
  mm: pcp: increase pcp-&gt;free_count threshold to trigger free_high
  mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
  mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
  memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
  memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
  memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
  memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
  mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
  selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
  alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
  Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
  mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
  mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
   creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
   the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
   this.

 - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
   largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
   and better prepare us for future work.

 - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
   Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
   memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
   block size.

 - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
   Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
   sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
   compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
   memory consumption was dramatic.

 - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
   Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
   this part of our swap handling code.

 - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
   adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
   time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
   strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
   arguments, and syscall return value.

   This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
   branch, but I goofed.

 - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
   Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
   against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
   at the info about guard regions.

 - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
   implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
   validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.

 - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
   Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
   decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
   using more current facilities.

 - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
   Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
   code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
   enabled for ARM.

 - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
   ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
   it already is for user pgtables.

   This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
   to protect page tables". This change does result in various
   architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
   it is anticipated to occur.

 - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
   Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.

 - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
   been missing for 15 years.

 - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
   SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.

   Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
   batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
   was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
   load this particular operation.

 - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
   Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
   preallocation.

   stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
   the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
   reduced.

 - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
   a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.

 - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
   from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
   management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
   leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
   support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.

 - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
   from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
   eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
   for memory tiering.

 - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
   provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
   found via code inspection.

 - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
   changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
   possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
   cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
   settings to violated.

   This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
   certain classes of memory more consistently.

 - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
   pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
   in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.

 - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
   for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.

 - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
   Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
   for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.

   This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
   rather than file-backed folios.

 - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
   first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
   VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
   time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.

 - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
   and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
   ranges of invalid pfns.

 - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
   cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
   when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.

   Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.

 - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
   Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
   using JFS.

 - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
   appropriate mm/vma.c.

 - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
   provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
   function.

 - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.

 - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
   addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
   test_memcontrol selftest.

 - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
   of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().

   The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
   things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.

 - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
   the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.

   This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
   NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.

 - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
   documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
   DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
   documents.

 - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
   stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
   charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.

 - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
   instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
   hugetlb code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
  mm: pcp: increase pcp-&gt;free_count threshold to trigger free_high
  mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
  mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
  memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
  memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
  memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
  memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
  mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
  selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
  alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
  Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
  mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
  mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T22:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T22:38:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0f70f5b08a47a3bc1a252e5f451a137cde7c98ce'/>
<id>0f70f5b08a47a3bc1a252e5f451a137cde7c98ce</id>
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Pull automount updates from Al Viro:
 "Automount wart removal

  A bunch of odd boilerplate gone from instances - the reason for
  those was the need to protect the yet-to-be-attched mount from
  mark_mounts_for_expiry() deciding to take it out.

  But that's easy to detect and take care of in mark_mounts_for_expiry()
  itself; no need to have every instance simulate mount being busy by
  grabbing an extra reference to it, with finish_automount() undoing
  that once it attaches that mount.

  Should've done it that way from the very beginning... This is a
  flagday change, thankfully there are very few instances.

  vfs_submount() is gone - its sole remaining user (trace_automount)
  had been switched to saner primitives"

* tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  kill vfs_submount()
  saner calling conventions for -&gt;d_automount()
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Pull automount updates from Al Viro:
 "Automount wart removal

  A bunch of odd boilerplate gone from instances - the reason for
  those was the need to protect the yet-to-be-attched mount from
  mark_mounts_for_expiry() deciding to take it out.

  But that's easy to detect and take care of in mark_mounts_for_expiry()
  itself; no need to have every instance simulate mount being busy by
  grabbing an extra reference to it, with finish_automount() undoing
  that once it attaches that mount.

  Should've done it that way from the very beginning... This is a
  flagday change, thankfully there are very few instances.

  vfs_submount() is gone - its sole remaining user (trace_automount)
  had been switched to saner primitives"

* tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  kill vfs_submount()
  saner calling conventions for -&gt;d_automount()
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "Disable FOP_DONTCACHE for now due to bugs"</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T19:06:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-27T13:28:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7b2b67dbd449afd00fc7279b1ab7ffa3d26fe0c9'/>
<id>7b2b67dbd449afd00fc7279b1ab7ffa3d26fe0c9</id>
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This reverts commit 478ad02d6844217cc7568619aeb0809d93ade43d.

Both the read and write side dirty &amp;&amp; writeback races should be resolved
now, revert the commit that disabled FOP_DONTCACHE for filesystems.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250525083209.GS2023217@ZenIV/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250527133255.452431-4-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This reverts commit 478ad02d6844217cc7568619aeb0809d93ade43d.

Both the read and write side dirty &amp;&amp; writeback races should be resolved
now, revert the commit that disabled FOP_DONTCACHE for filesystems.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250525083209.GS2023217@ZenIV/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250527133255.452431-4-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xfs-merge-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T19:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T19:56:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f83fcb87f824b0bfbf1200590cc80f05e66488a7'/>
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Pull xfs updates from Carlos Maiolino:

 - Atomic writes for XFS

 - Remove experimental warnings for pNFS, scrub and parent pointers

* tag 'xfs-merge-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits)
  xfs: add inode to zone caching for data placement
  xfs: free the item in xfs_mru_cache_insert on failure
  xfs: remove the EXPERIMENTAL warning for pNFS
  xfs: remove some EXPERIMENTAL warnings
  xfs: Remove deprecated xfs_bufd sysctl parameters
  xfs: stop using set_blocksize
  xfs: allow sysadmins to specify a maximum atomic write limit at mount time
  xfs: update atomic write limits
  xfs: add xfs_calc_atomic_write_unit_max()
  xfs: add xfs_file_dio_write_atomic()
  xfs: commit CoW-based atomic writes atomically
  xfs: add large atomic writes checks in xfs_direct_write_iomap_begin()
  xfs: add xfs_atomic_write_cow_iomap_begin()
  xfs: refine atomic write size check in xfs_file_write_iter()
  xfs: refactor xfs_reflink_end_cow_extent()
  xfs: allow block allocator to take an alignment hint
  xfs: ignore HW which cannot atomic write a single block
  xfs: add helpers to compute transaction reservation for finishing intent items
  xfs: add helpers to compute log item overhead
  xfs: separate out setting buftarg atomic writes limits
  ...
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Pull xfs updates from Carlos Maiolino:

 - Atomic writes for XFS

 - Remove experimental warnings for pNFS, scrub and parent pointers

* tag 'xfs-merge-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits)
  xfs: add inode to zone caching for data placement
  xfs: free the item in xfs_mru_cache_insert on failure
  xfs: remove the EXPERIMENTAL warning for pNFS
  xfs: remove some EXPERIMENTAL warnings
  xfs: Remove deprecated xfs_bufd sysctl parameters
  xfs: stop using set_blocksize
  xfs: allow sysadmins to specify a maximum atomic write limit at mount time
  xfs: update atomic write limits
  xfs: add xfs_calc_atomic_write_unit_max()
  xfs: add xfs_file_dio_write_atomic()
  xfs: commit CoW-based atomic writes atomically
  xfs: add large atomic writes checks in xfs_direct_write_iomap_begin()
  xfs: add xfs_atomic_write_cow_iomap_begin()
  xfs: refine atomic write size check in xfs_file_write_iter()
  xfs: refactor xfs_reflink_end_cow_extent()
  xfs: allow block allocator to take an alignment hint
  xfs: ignore HW which cannot atomic write a single block
  xfs: add helpers to compute transaction reservation for finishing intent items
  xfs: add helpers to compute log item overhead
  xfs: separate out setting buftarg atomic writes limits
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T18:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T18:39:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6f59de9bc0d576eb5a5edfea470527902315e924'/>
<id>6f59de9bc0d576eb5a5edfea470527902315e924</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - ublk updates:
      - Add support for updating the size of a ublk instance
      - Zero-copy improvements
      - Auto-registering of buffers for zero-copy
      - Series simplifying and improving GET_DATA and request lookup
      - Series adding quiesce support
      - Lots of selftests additions
      - Various cleanups

 - NVMe updates via Christoph:
      - add per-node DMA pools and use them for PRP/SGL allocations
        (Caleb Sander Mateos, Keith Busch)
      - nvme-fcloop refcounting fixes (Daniel Wagner)
      - support delayed removal of the multipath node and optionally
        support the multipath node for private namespaces (Nilay Shroff)
      - support shared CQs in the PCI endpoint target code (Wilfred
        Mallawa)
      - support admin-queue only authentication (Hannes Reinecke)
      - use the crc32c library instead of the crypto API (Eric Biggers)
      - misc cleanups (Christoph Hellwig, Marcelo Moreira, Hannes
        Reinecke, Leon Romanovsky, Gustavo A. R. Silva)

 - MD updates via Yu:
      - Fix that normal IO can be starved by sync IO, found by mkfs on
        newly created large raid5, with some clean up patches for bdev
        inflight counters

 - Clean up brd, getting rid of atomic kmaps and bvec poking

 - Add loop driver specifically for zoned IO testing

 - Eliminate blk-rq-qos calls with a static key, if not enabled

 - Improve hctx locking for when a plug has IO for multiple queues
   pending

 - Remove block layer bouncing support, which in turn means we can
   remove the per-node bounce stat as well

 - Improve blk-throttle support

 - Improve delay support for blk-throttle

 - Improve brd discard support

 - Unify IO scheduler switching. This should also fix a bunch of lockdep
   warnings we've been seeing, after enabling lockdep support for queue
   freezing/unfreezeing

 - Add support for block write streams via FDP (flexible data placement)
   on NVMe

 - Add a bunch of block helpers, facilitating the removal of a bunch of
   duplicated boilerplate code

 - Remove obsolete BLK_MQ pci and virtio Kconfig options

 - Add atomic/untorn write support to blktrace

 - Various little cleanups and fixes

* tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (186 commits)
  selftests: ublk: add test for UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  ublk: add feature UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  selftests: ublk: add test case for UBLK_U_CMD_UPDATE_SIZE
  traceevent/block: Add REQ_ATOMIC flag to block trace events
  ublk: run auto buf unregisgering in same io_ring_ctx with registering
  io_uring: add helper io_uring_cmd_ctx_handle()
  ublk: remove io argument from ublk_auto_buf_reg_fallback()
  ublk: handle ublk_set_auto_buf_reg() failure correctly in ublk_fetch()
  selftests: ublk: add test for covering UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  selftests: ublk: support UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: support UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  ublk: register buffer to local io_uring with provided buf index via UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: prepare for supporting to register request buffer automatically
  ublk: convert to refcount_t
  selftests: ublk: make IO &amp; device removal test more stressful
  nvme: rename nvme_mpath_shutdown_disk to nvme_mpath_remove_disk
  nvme: introduce multipath_always_on module param
  nvme-multipath: introduce delayed removal of the multipath head node
  nvme-pci: derive and better document max segments limits
  nvme-pci: use struct_size for allocation struct nvme_dev
  ...
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<pre>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - ublk updates:
      - Add support for updating the size of a ublk instance
      - Zero-copy improvements
      - Auto-registering of buffers for zero-copy
      - Series simplifying and improving GET_DATA and request lookup
      - Series adding quiesce support
      - Lots of selftests additions
      - Various cleanups

 - NVMe updates via Christoph:
      - add per-node DMA pools and use them for PRP/SGL allocations
        (Caleb Sander Mateos, Keith Busch)
      - nvme-fcloop refcounting fixes (Daniel Wagner)
      - support delayed removal of the multipath node and optionally
        support the multipath node for private namespaces (Nilay Shroff)
      - support shared CQs in the PCI endpoint target code (Wilfred
        Mallawa)
      - support admin-queue only authentication (Hannes Reinecke)
      - use the crc32c library instead of the crypto API (Eric Biggers)
      - misc cleanups (Christoph Hellwig, Marcelo Moreira, Hannes
        Reinecke, Leon Romanovsky, Gustavo A. R. Silva)

 - MD updates via Yu:
      - Fix that normal IO can be starved by sync IO, found by mkfs on
        newly created large raid5, with some clean up patches for bdev
        inflight counters

 - Clean up brd, getting rid of atomic kmaps and bvec poking

 - Add loop driver specifically for zoned IO testing

 - Eliminate blk-rq-qos calls with a static key, if not enabled

 - Improve hctx locking for when a plug has IO for multiple queues
   pending

 - Remove block layer bouncing support, which in turn means we can
   remove the per-node bounce stat as well

 - Improve blk-throttle support

 - Improve delay support for blk-throttle

 - Improve brd discard support

 - Unify IO scheduler switching. This should also fix a bunch of lockdep
   warnings we've been seeing, after enabling lockdep support for queue
   freezing/unfreezeing

 - Add support for block write streams via FDP (flexible data placement)
   on NVMe

 - Add a bunch of block helpers, facilitating the removal of a bunch of
   duplicated boilerplate code

 - Remove obsolete BLK_MQ pci and virtio Kconfig options

 - Add atomic/untorn write support to blktrace

 - Various little cleanups and fixes

* tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (186 commits)
  selftests: ublk: add test for UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  ublk: add feature UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  selftests: ublk: add test case for UBLK_U_CMD_UPDATE_SIZE
  traceevent/block: Add REQ_ATOMIC flag to block trace events
  ublk: run auto buf unregisgering in same io_ring_ctx with registering
  io_uring: add helper io_uring_cmd_ctx_handle()
  ublk: remove io argument from ublk_auto_buf_reg_fallback()
  ublk: handle ublk_set_auto_buf_reg() failure correctly in ublk_fetch()
  selftests: ublk: add test for covering UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  selftests: ublk: support UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: support UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  ublk: register buffer to local io_uring with provided buf index via UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: prepare for supporting to register request buffer automatically
  ublk: convert to refcount_t
  selftests: ublk: make IO &amp; device removal test more stressful
  nvme: rename nvme_mpath_shutdown_disk to nvme_mpath_remove_disk
  nvme: introduce multipath_always_on module param
  nvme-multipath: introduce delayed removal of the multipath head node
  nvme-pci: derive and better document max segments limits
  nvme-pci: use struct_size for allocation struct nvme_dev
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T16:33:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T16:33:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8dd53535f1e129b7d75c512dc271bff76461ab6b'/>
<id>8dd53535f1e129b7d75c512dc271bff76461ab6b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs freezing updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains various filesystem freezing related work for this cycle:

   - Allow the power subsystem to support filesystem freeze for suspend
     and hibernate.

     Now all the pieces are in place to actually allow the power
     subsystem to freeze/thaw filesystems during suspend/resume.
     Filesystems are only frozen and thawed if the power subsystem does
     actually own the freeze.

     If the filesystem is already frozen by the time we've frozen all
     userspace processes we don't care to freeze it again. That's
     userspace's job once the process resumes. We only actually freeze
     filesystems if we absolutely have to and we ignore other failures
     to freeze.

     We could bubble up errors and fail suspend/resume if the error
     isn't EBUSY (aka it's already frozen) but I don't think that this
     is worth it. Filesystem freezing during suspend/resume is
     best-effort. If the user has 500 ext4 filesystems mounted and 4
     fail to freeze for whatever reason then we simply skip them.

     What we have now is already a big improvement and let's see how we
     fare with it before making our lives even harder (and uglier) than
     we have to.

   - Allow efivars to support freeze and thaw

     Allow efivarfs to partake to resync variable state during system
     hibernation and suspend. Add freeze/thaw support.

     This is a pretty straightforward implementation. We simply add
     regular freeze/thaw support for both userspace and the kernel.
     efivars is the first pseudofilesystem that adds support for
     filesystem freezing and thawing.

     The simplicity comes from the fact that we simply always resync
     variable state after efivarfs has been frozen. It doesn't matter
     whether that's because of suspend, userspace initiated freeze or
     hibernation. Efivars is simple enough that it doesn't matter that
     we walk all dentries. There are no directories and there aren't
     insane amounts of entries and both freeze/thaw are already
     heavy-handed operations. If userspace initiated a freeze/thaw cycle
     they would need CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the initial user namespace (as
     that's where efivarfs is mounted) so it can't be triggered by
     random userspace. IOW, we really really don't care"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  f2fs: fix freezing filesystem during resize
  kernfs: add warning about implementing freeze/thaw
  efivarfs: support freeze/thaw
  power: freeze filesystems during suspend/resume
  libfs: export find_next_child()
  super: add filesystem freezing helpers for suspend and hibernate
  gfs2: pass through holder from the VFS for freeze/thaw
  super: use common iterator (Part 2)
  super: use a common iterator (Part 1)
  super: skip dying superblocks early
  super: simplify user_get_super()
  super: remove pointless s_root checks
  fs: allow all writers to be frozen
  locking/percpu-rwsem: add freezable alternative to down_read
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull vfs freezing updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains various filesystem freezing related work for this cycle:

   - Allow the power subsystem to support filesystem freeze for suspend
     and hibernate.

     Now all the pieces are in place to actually allow the power
     subsystem to freeze/thaw filesystems during suspend/resume.
     Filesystems are only frozen and thawed if the power subsystem does
     actually own the freeze.

     If the filesystem is already frozen by the time we've frozen all
     userspace processes we don't care to freeze it again. That's
     userspace's job once the process resumes. We only actually freeze
     filesystems if we absolutely have to and we ignore other failures
     to freeze.

     We could bubble up errors and fail suspend/resume if the error
     isn't EBUSY (aka it's already frozen) but I don't think that this
     is worth it. Filesystem freezing during suspend/resume is
     best-effort. If the user has 500 ext4 filesystems mounted and 4
     fail to freeze for whatever reason then we simply skip them.

     What we have now is already a big improvement and let's see how we
     fare with it before making our lives even harder (and uglier) than
     we have to.

   - Allow efivars to support freeze and thaw

     Allow efivarfs to partake to resync variable state during system
     hibernation and suspend. Add freeze/thaw support.

     This is a pretty straightforward implementation. We simply add
     regular freeze/thaw support for both userspace and the kernel.
     efivars is the first pseudofilesystem that adds support for
     filesystem freezing and thawing.

     The simplicity comes from the fact that we simply always resync
     variable state after efivarfs has been frozen. It doesn't matter
     whether that's because of suspend, userspace initiated freeze or
     hibernation. Efivars is simple enough that it doesn't matter that
     we walk all dentries. There are no directories and there aren't
     insane amounts of entries and both freeze/thaw are already
     heavy-handed operations. If userspace initiated a freeze/thaw cycle
     they would need CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the initial user namespace (as
     that's where efivarfs is mounted) so it can't be triggered by
     random userspace. IOW, we really really don't care"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  f2fs: fix freezing filesystem during resize
  kernfs: add warning about implementing freeze/thaw
  efivarfs: support freeze/thaw
  power: freeze filesystems during suspend/resume
  libfs: export find_next_child()
  super: add filesystem freezing helpers for suspend and hibernate
  gfs2: pass through holder from the VFS for freeze/thaw
  super: use common iterator (Part 2)
  super: use a common iterator (Part 1)
  super: skip dying superblocks early
  super: simplify user_get_super()
  super: remove pointless s_root checks
  fs: allow all writers to be frozen
  locking/percpu-rwsem: add freezable alternative to down_read
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T16:02:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-05-26T16:02:39+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Use folios for symlinks in the page cache

     FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion
     in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few
     folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions in this path, and some of the few
     remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page()

   - Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS
     inode-&gt;i_mutex level

   - Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations

     Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently
     allow through out sysctl interface

     A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup
     involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including
     dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2
     million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries
     after initialization

     To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1.
     Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still
     trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the
     cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During
     the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart
     operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache
     recovery completes

     To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved
     during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100
     of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This
     patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache
     pressure control

     The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1,
     vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20
     million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode
     restart performance degradation

   - Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely()

   - Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when
     descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()

   - Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput()

   - Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
     issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert.
     Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we
     report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode

   - Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
     the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op-&gt;setattr isn't
     implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single
     user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either
     useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the
     respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their
     own private superblock

   - Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock

   - Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior

   - Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
     we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead()

  Cleanups:

   - Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers

   - Try to remove the uselib() system call

   - Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll

   - Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select

   - Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse

   - Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir()

   - Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages

   - Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs
     documentation

   - Update main netfs API document

   - Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()

   - Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns()

   - Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases

  Fixes:

   - Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description

   - Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc()

   - Correct comments of fs_validate_description()

   - Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in
     vfs_parse_monolithic_sep()

   - Delete macro fsparam_u32hex()

   - Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()

   - Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name()

   - Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits)
  fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link()
  nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link()
  fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio
  fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable
  fs/open: make do_truncate() killable
  fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable
  include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable()
  readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
  vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
  fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
  Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
  include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case
  kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards
  fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
  fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
  fs: add S_ANON_INODE
  fs: remove uselib() system call
  device_cgroup: avoid access to -&gt;i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
  fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
  fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Use folios for symlinks in the page cache

     FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion
     in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few
     folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions in this path, and some of the few
     remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page()

   - Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS
     inode-&gt;i_mutex level

   - Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations

     Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently
     allow through out sysctl interface

     A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup
     involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including
     dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2
     million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries
     after initialization

     To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1.
     Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still
     trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the
     cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During
     the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart
     operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache
     recovery completes

     To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved
     during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100
     of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This
     patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache
     pressure control

     The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1,
     vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20
     million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode
     restart performance degradation

   - Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely()

   - Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when
     descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()

   - Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput()

   - Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
     issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert.
     Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we
     report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode

   - Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
     the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op-&gt;setattr isn't
     implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single
     user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either
     useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the
     respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their
     own private superblock

   - Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock

   - Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior

   - Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
     we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead()

  Cleanups:

   - Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers

   - Try to remove the uselib() system call

   - Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll

   - Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select

   - Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse

   - Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir()

   - Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages

   - Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs
     documentation

   - Update main netfs API document

   - Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()

   - Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns()

   - Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases

  Fixes:

   - Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description

   - Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc()

   - Correct comments of fs_validate_description()

   - Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in
     vfs_parse_monolithic_sep()

   - Delete macro fsparam_u32hex()

   - Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()

   - Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name()

   - Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits)
  fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link()
  nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link()
  fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio
  fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable
  fs/open: make do_truncate() killable
  fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable
  include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable()
  readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
  vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
  fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
  Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
  include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case
  kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards
  fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
  fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
  fs: add S_ANON_INODE
  fs: remove uselib() system call
  device_cgroup: avoid access to -&gt;i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
  fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
  fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.writepage' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T15:23:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T15:23:09+00:00</published>
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Pull final writepage conversion from Christian Brauner:
 "This converts vboxfs from -&gt;writepage() to -&gt;writepages().

  This was the last user of the -&gt;writepage() method. So remove
  -&gt;writepage() completely and all references to it"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.writepage' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: Remove aops-&gt;writepage
  mm: Remove swap_writepage() and shmem_writepage()
  ttm: Call shmem_writeout() from ttm_backup_backup_page()
  i915: Use writeback_iter()
  shmem: Add shmem_writeout()
  writeback: Remove writeback_use_writepage()
  migrate: Remove call to -&gt;writepage
  vboxsf: Convert to writepages
  9p: Add a migrate_folio method
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Pull final writepage conversion from Christian Brauner:
 "This converts vboxfs from -&gt;writepage() to -&gt;writepages().

  This was the last user of the -&gt;writepage() method. So remove
  -&gt;writepage() completely and all references to it"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.writepage' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: Remove aops-&gt;writepage
  mm: Remove swap_writepage() and shmem_writepage()
  ttm: Call shmem_writeout() from ttm_backup_backup_page()
  i915: Use writeback_iter()
  shmem: Add shmem_writeout()
  writeback: Remove writeback_use_writepage()
  migrate: Remove call to -&gt;writepage
  vboxsf: Convert to writepages
  9p: Add a migrate_folio method
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