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<title>Merge tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T14:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-08-25T14:59:44+00:00</published>
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Improve performance of the io-uring transport by introducing buffer
   pools and zero-copy (Joanne)

 - Fix lots of bugs (Baokun Li)

 - Fix io-uring initialization issues (Joanne, Bernd)

 - More prep work for large folios (Joanne)

 - Don't limit buffered read to 128k (Jim Harris)

 - Fix zeroing of page end (dirtied with mmap) on file size extension
   (Jimmy Zuber)

 - Improve performance in certain cases with wake_up_sync() when queuing
   request (Xuewen Yan)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Xuewen Yan)

* tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (35 commits)
  fuse: zero the partial EOF page when extending a file
  io_uring: Add missing include for ITER_SOURCE and ITER_DEST
  fuse: Fix the condition to enable over-io-uring
  fuse: invalidate the correct range after O_APPEND direct write
  selftests/fuse: test post-EOF page zeroing when a file is extended
  fuse: wake one waiter per freed slot when raising max_background
  fuse: use min_not_zero() in fuse_init_server_timeout()
  fuse: copy request headers via a stack buffer for io-uring
  fuse: give wakeup hints to the scheduler for synchronous requests
  fuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount
  fuse: reject a duplicate fd= mount option
  cuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit
  fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
  fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
  fuse: wait for FR_FINISHED on abort_on_kill to prevent use-after-free
  fuse: make dentry_tree_work static
  docs: fuse: document io-uring buffer pool and zero-copy uapi
  fuse: add zero-copy over io-uring
  fuse: support registered buffer pools in io-uring
  fuse: add io-uring buffer pools
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Improve performance of the io-uring transport by introducing buffer
   pools and zero-copy (Joanne)

 - Fix lots of bugs (Baokun Li)

 - Fix io-uring initialization issues (Joanne, Bernd)

 - More prep work for large folios (Joanne)

 - Don't limit buffered read to 128k (Jim Harris)

 - Fix zeroing of page end (dirtied with mmap) on file size extension
   (Jimmy Zuber)

 - Improve performance in certain cases with wake_up_sync() when queuing
   request (Xuewen Yan)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Xuewen Yan)

* tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (35 commits)
  fuse: zero the partial EOF page when extending a file
  io_uring: Add missing include for ITER_SOURCE and ITER_DEST
  fuse: Fix the condition to enable over-io-uring
  fuse: invalidate the correct range after O_APPEND direct write
  selftests/fuse: test post-EOF page zeroing when a file is extended
  fuse: wake one waiter per freed slot when raising max_background
  fuse: use min_not_zero() in fuse_init_server_timeout()
  fuse: copy request headers via a stack buffer for io-uring
  fuse: give wakeup hints to the scheduler for synchronous requests
  fuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount
  fuse: reject a duplicate fd= mount option
  cuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit
  fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
  fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
  fuse: wait for FR_FINISHED on abort_on_kill to prevent use-after-free
  fuse: make dentry_tree_work static
  docs: fuse: document io-uring buffer pool and zero-copy uapi
  fuse: add zero-copy over io-uring
  fuse: support registered buffer pools in io-uring
  fuse: add io-uring buffer pools
  ...
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/rsrc: rename and export IO_IMU_DEST / IO_IMU_SOURCE</title>
<updated>2026-08-17T15:02:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joanne Koong</name>
<email>joannelkoong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-12T18:48:40+00:00</published>
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Rename IO_IMU_DEST and IO_IMU_SOURCE to IO_BUF_DEST and IO_BUF_SOURCE
and export it so subsystems may use it.

This is needed by the io_buffer_register_bvec() path for callers who may
need the buffer to be both readable and writable.

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612184840.4058966-5-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Rename IO_IMU_DEST and IO_IMU_SOURCE to IO_BUF_DEST and IO_BUF_SOURCE
and export it so subsystems may use it.

This is needed by the io_buffer_register_bvec() path for callers who may
need the buffer to be both readable and writable.

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612184840.4058966-5-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring: defer eventfd signaling when queued from a wakeup handler</title>
<updated>2026-08-15T22:56:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2026-08-14T12:58:43+00:00</published>
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io_req_local_work_add() signals the CQ ring eventfd inline when it is the
one to push the first entry onto -&gt;work_list. For DEFER_TASKRUN rings that
add is frequently done from a waitqueue wakeup handler, where an
arbitrary waitqueue lock is held.

eventfd_signal_mask() only refuses to recurse when current-&gt;in_eventfd
is set, but that bit is set by eventfd_signal_mask() itself. If the wake
chain starts somewhere else, signal goes out inline and can feed back
into epoll.

Add IOU_F_TWQ_IN_WAKE, set it on the task_work add done from the three
waitqueue callbacks, and use it to force io_eventfd_signal() down the
existing call_rcu_hurry() deferral instead of signaling inline.

Fixes: 21a091b970cd ("io_uring: signal registered eventfd to process deferred task work")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260813133843.2933127-1-4ncienth@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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io_req_local_work_add() signals the CQ ring eventfd inline when it is the
one to push the first entry onto -&gt;work_list. For DEFER_TASKRUN rings that
add is frequently done from a waitqueue wakeup handler, where an
arbitrary waitqueue lock is held.

eventfd_signal_mask() only refuses to recurse when current-&gt;in_eventfd
is set, but that bit is set by eventfd_signal_mask() itself. If the wake
chain starts somewhere else, signal goes out inline and can feed back
into epoll.

Add IOU_F_TWQ_IN_WAKE, set it on the task_work add done from the three
waitqueue callbacks, and use it to force io_eventfd_signal() down the
existing call_rcu_hurry() deferral instead of signaling inline.

Fixes: 21a091b970cd ("io_uring: signal registered eventfd to process deferred task work")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260813133843.2933127-1-4ncienth@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring/uring_cmd: skip io_uring_cmd_issue_blocking() task work</title>
<updated>2026-07-30T19:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Caleb Sander Mateos</name>
<email>csander@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-02T18:48:45+00:00</published>
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io_uring_cmd_issue_blocking() is only called from blk_cmd_complete(),
which is already a task work callback. However, it queues another task
work item, to call io_queue_iowq(). Just call io_queue_iowq() directly
to skip the CPU cost and latency of the redundant task work proxying.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702184847.1709378-1-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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io_uring_cmd_issue_blocking() is only called from blk_cmd_complete(),
which is already a task work callback. However, it queues another task
work item, to call io_queue_iowq(). Just call io_queue_iowq() directly
to skip the CPU cost and latency of the redundant task work proxying.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702184847.1709378-1-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>io_uring: annotate remote tasks for kcoverage</title>
<updated>2026-06-30T23:32:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Femmer</name>
<email>robert@fmmr.tech</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-24T09:01:46+00:00</published>
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Fuzzers use coverage information to guide generation of test cases
towards new or interesting code paths. Syzkaller, specifically, makes
use kcoverage (CONFIG_KCOV). Coverage information is not collected for
kernel tasks unless annotated by kcov_remote_start and kcov_remote_stop.
This patch annotates io-uring's work queue and sqpoll tasks.

Depends-On: 20260430-kcov-refactor-common-handle-v1-1-23a0c7a0ba38@google.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Femmer &lt;robert@fmmr.tech&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Fuzzers use coverage information to guide generation of test cases
towards new or interesting code paths. Syzkaller, specifically, makes
use kcoverage (CONFIG_KCOV). Coverage information is not collected for
kernel tasks unless annotated by kcov_remote_start and kcov_remote_stop.
This patch annotates io-uring's work queue and sqpoll tasks.

Depends-On: 20260430-kcov-refactor-common-handle-v1-1-23a0c7a0ba38@google.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Femmer &lt;robert@fmmr.tech&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-7.2/io_uring-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2026-06-16T07:23:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-16T07:23:59+00:00</published>
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Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Rework the task_work infrastructure.

   Both the local (DEFER_TASKRUN) and the normal (tctx) task_work lists
   were llist based, which is LIFO ordered, and hence each run had to do
   an O(n) list reversal pass first to restore queue order.
   Additionally, to cap the amount of task_work run, each method needed
   a retry list as well.

   Add a lockless MPCS FIFO queue (based on Dmitry Vyukov's intrusive
   MPSC algorithm) and switch both task_work lists to it. It performs
   better than llists and we can then also ditch the retry lists as well
   as entries are popped one-at-the-time.

   On top of those changes, run the tctx fallback task_work directly and
   remove the now-unused per-ctx fallback machinery entirely.

 - zcrx user notifications.

   Add a mechanism for zcrx to communicate conditions back to userspace
   via a dedicated CQE, with the initial users being notification on
   running out of buffers and on a frag copy fallback, plus
   shared-memory notification statistics.

   Alongside that, a series of zcrx reliability and cleanup fixes: more
   reliable scrubbing, poisoning pointers on unregistration, dropping an
   extra ifq close, adding a ctx back-pointer, reordering fd allocation
   in the export path, and killing a dead 'sock' member.

 - Allow using io_uring registered buffers for plain SEND and RECV, not
   just for the zero-copy send path.

   This enables targets like ublk's NBD backend to push/pull IO data
   directly to/from a registered buffer over a plain send/recv on a TCP
   socket.

 - Registered buffer improvements: account huge pages correctly, bump
   the io_mapped_ubuf length field to size_t, and raise the previous 1GB
   registered buffer size limit.

 - Restrict the ctx access exposed to io_uring BPF struct_ops programs
   by handing them an opaque type rather than the full io_ring_ctx, and
   add a separate MAINTAINERS entry for the bpf-ops code.

 - Allow opcode filtering on IORING_OP_CONNECT.

 - Validate ring-provided buffer addresses with access_ok(), and align
   the legacy buffer add limit with MAX_BIDS_PER_BGID.

 - Various other cleanups and minor fixes, including avoiding msghdr
   async data on connect/bind, dropping async_size for OP_LISTEN, making
   the POLL_FIRST receive side checks consistent, re-checking
   IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT for each linked work item, and using
   trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites.

* tag 'for-7.2/io_uring-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (31 commits)
  io_uring/bpf-ops: add a separate maintainer entry
  io_uring/net: make POLL_FIRST receive side checks consistent
  io_uring: remove the per-ctx fallback task_work machinery
  io_uring: run the tctx task_work fallback directly
  io_uring: switch normal task_work to a mpscq
  io_uring: switch local task_work to a mpscq
  io_uring/mpscq: add lockless multi-producer, single-consumer FIFO queue
  io_uring: grab RCU read lock marking task run
  io_uring/zcrx: kill dead 'sock' member in struct io_zcrx_args
  io_uring/kbuf: validate ring provided buffer addresses with access_ok()
  io_uring/net: support registered buffer for plain send and recv
  io_uring/nop: Drop a wrong comment in struct io_nop
  io_uring/net: Remove async_size for OP_LISTEN
  io_uring/net: Avoid msghdr on op_connect/op_bind async data
  io_uring/bpf-ops: restrict ctx access to BPF
  io_uring/io-wq: re-check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT for each linked work item
  io_uring/kbuf: align legacy buffer add limit with MAX_BIDS_PER_BGID
  io_uring/zcrx: add shared-memory notification statistics
  io_uring/zcrx: notify user on frag copy fallback
  io_uring/zcrx: notify user when out of buffers
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Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Rework the task_work infrastructure.

   Both the local (DEFER_TASKRUN) and the normal (tctx) task_work lists
   were llist based, which is LIFO ordered, and hence each run had to do
   an O(n) list reversal pass first to restore queue order.
   Additionally, to cap the amount of task_work run, each method needed
   a retry list as well.

   Add a lockless MPCS FIFO queue (based on Dmitry Vyukov's intrusive
   MPSC algorithm) and switch both task_work lists to it. It performs
   better than llists and we can then also ditch the retry lists as well
   as entries are popped one-at-the-time.

   On top of those changes, run the tctx fallback task_work directly and
   remove the now-unused per-ctx fallback machinery entirely.

 - zcrx user notifications.

   Add a mechanism for zcrx to communicate conditions back to userspace
   via a dedicated CQE, with the initial users being notification on
   running out of buffers and on a frag copy fallback, plus
   shared-memory notification statistics.

   Alongside that, a series of zcrx reliability and cleanup fixes: more
   reliable scrubbing, poisoning pointers on unregistration, dropping an
   extra ifq close, adding a ctx back-pointer, reordering fd allocation
   in the export path, and killing a dead 'sock' member.

 - Allow using io_uring registered buffers for plain SEND and RECV, not
   just for the zero-copy send path.

   This enables targets like ublk's NBD backend to push/pull IO data
   directly to/from a registered buffer over a plain send/recv on a TCP
   socket.

 - Registered buffer improvements: account huge pages correctly, bump
   the io_mapped_ubuf length field to size_t, and raise the previous 1GB
   registered buffer size limit.

 - Restrict the ctx access exposed to io_uring BPF struct_ops programs
   by handing them an opaque type rather than the full io_ring_ctx, and
   add a separate MAINTAINERS entry for the bpf-ops code.

 - Allow opcode filtering on IORING_OP_CONNECT.

 - Validate ring-provided buffer addresses with access_ok(), and align
   the legacy buffer add limit with MAX_BIDS_PER_BGID.

 - Various other cleanups and minor fixes, including avoiding msghdr
   async data on connect/bind, dropping async_size for OP_LISTEN, making
   the POLL_FIRST receive side checks consistent, re-checking
   IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT for each linked work item, and using
   trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites.

* tag 'for-7.2/io_uring-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (31 commits)
  io_uring/bpf-ops: add a separate maintainer entry
  io_uring/net: make POLL_FIRST receive side checks consistent
  io_uring: remove the per-ctx fallback task_work machinery
  io_uring: run the tctx task_work fallback directly
  io_uring: switch normal task_work to a mpscq
  io_uring: switch local task_work to a mpscq
  io_uring/mpscq: add lockless multi-producer, single-consumer FIFO queue
  io_uring: grab RCU read lock marking task run
  io_uring/zcrx: kill dead 'sock' member in struct io_zcrx_args
  io_uring/kbuf: validate ring provided buffer addresses with access_ok()
  io_uring/net: support registered buffer for plain send and recv
  io_uring/nop: Drop a wrong comment in struct io_nop
  io_uring/net: Remove async_size for OP_LISTEN
  io_uring/net: Avoid msghdr on op_connect/op_bind async data
  io_uring/bpf-ops: restrict ctx access to BPF
  io_uring/io-wq: re-check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT for each linked work item
  io_uring/kbuf: align legacy buffer add limit with MAX_BIDS_PER_BGID
  io_uring/zcrx: add shared-memory notification statistics
  io_uring/zcrx: notify user on frag copy fallback
  io_uring/zcrx: notify user when out of buffers
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'slab-for-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab</title>
<updated>2026-06-16T03:14:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-16T03:14:43+00:00</published>
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Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:

 - Support for "allocation tokens" (currently available in Clang 22+)
   for smarter partitioning of kmalloc caches based on the allocated
   object type, which can be enabled instead of the "random"
   per-caller-address-hash partitioning.

   It should be able to deterministically separate types containing a
   pointer from those that do not (Marco Elver)

 - Improvements and simplification of the kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() and
   mempool_alloc_bulk() API. This includes adaptation of callers
   (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Performance improvements and cleanups related mostly to sheaves
   refill (Hao Li, Shengming Hu, Vlastimil Babka)

 - Several fixups for the slabinfo tool (Xuewen Wang)

* tag 'slab-for-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
  mm/slab: do not limit zeroing to orig_size when only red zoning is enabled
  mm/slub: preserve original size in _kmalloc_nolock_noprof retry path
  mm: simplify the mempool_alloc_bulk API
  mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  mm/slub: detach and reattach partial slabs in batch
  mm/slub: introduce helpers for node partial slab state
  mm/slub: use empty sheaf helpers for oversized sheaves
  tools/mm/slabinfo: remove redundant slab-&gt;partial assignment
  tools/mm/slabinfo: remove dead assignment in get_obj_and_str()
  tools/mm/slabinfo: Fix trace disable logic inversion
  MAINTAINERS: add slab-related scripts and tools to SLAB ALLOCATOR
  mm/slub: fix typo in sheaves comment
  mm, slab: simplify returning slab in __refill_objects_node()
  mm, slab: add an optimistic __slab_try_return_freelist()
  slab: fix kernel-docs for mm-api
  slab: improve KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM randomness
  slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  mm/slub: defer freelist construction until after bulk allocation from a new slab
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Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:

 - Support for "allocation tokens" (currently available in Clang 22+)
   for smarter partitioning of kmalloc caches based on the allocated
   object type, which can be enabled instead of the "random"
   per-caller-address-hash partitioning.

   It should be able to deterministically separate types containing a
   pointer from those that do not (Marco Elver)

 - Improvements and simplification of the kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() and
   mempool_alloc_bulk() API. This includes adaptation of callers
   (Christoph Hellwig)

 - Performance improvements and cleanups related mostly to sheaves
   refill (Hao Li, Shengming Hu, Vlastimil Babka)

 - Several fixups for the slabinfo tool (Xuewen Wang)

* tag 'slab-for-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
  mm/slab: do not limit zeroing to orig_size when only red zoning is enabled
  mm/slub: preserve original size in _kmalloc_nolock_noprof retry path
  mm: simplify the mempool_alloc_bulk API
  mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  mm/slub: detach and reattach partial slabs in batch
  mm/slub: introduce helpers for node partial slab state
  mm/slub: use empty sheaf helpers for oversized sheaves
  tools/mm/slabinfo: remove redundant slab-&gt;partial assignment
  tools/mm/slabinfo: remove dead assignment in get_obj_and_str()
  tools/mm/slabinfo: Fix trace disable logic inversion
  MAINTAINERS: add slab-related scripts and tools to SLAB ALLOCATOR
  mm/slub: fix typo in sheaves comment
  mm, slab: simplify returning slab in __refill_objects_node()
  mm, slab: add an optimistic __slab_try_return_freelist()
  slab: fix kernel-docs for mm-api
  slab: improve KMALLOC_PARTITION_RANDOM randomness
  slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning
  mm/slub: defer freelist construction until after bulk allocation from a new slab
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<entry>
<title>io_uring: remove the per-ctx fallback task_work machinery</title>
<updated>2026-06-13T12:27:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-11T17:44:47+00:00</published>
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With the tctx fallback running its entries directly, the per-ctx
fallback work has a single user left: moving local (DEFER_TASKRUN)
task_work entries out of a ring that is going away. Both of its call
sites are process context and don't hold -&gt;uring_lock, the same
conditions the deferred fallback work itself ran under - so run the
entries in cancel mode right there instead, and rename the helper to
io_cancel_local_task_work() to match what it now does.

With that, -&gt;fallback_llist, -&gt;fallback_work, io_fallback_req_func()
and __io_fallback_tw() can all go away, along with the fallback work
flushing in the ring exit and cancel paths. Requests that get
orphaned by an exiting task now run via the tctx fallback work, which
the ring exit side implicitly waits on through the ctx refs those
requests hold.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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With the tctx fallback running its entries directly, the per-ctx
fallback work has a single user left: moving local (DEFER_TASKRUN)
task_work entries out of a ring that is going away. Both of its call
sites are process context and don't hold -&gt;uring_lock, the same
conditions the deferred fallback work itself ran under - so run the
entries in cancel mode right there instead, and rename the helper to
io_cancel_local_task_work() to match what it now does.

With that, -&gt;fallback_llist, -&gt;fallback_work, io_fallback_req_func()
and __io_fallback_tw() can all go away, along with the fallback work
flushing in the ring exit and cancel paths. Requests that get
orphaned by an exiting task now run via the tctx fallback work, which
the ring exit side implicitly waits on through the ctx refs those
requests hold.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring: switch local task_work to a mpscq</title>
<updated>2026-06-13T12:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-10T21:19:35+00:00</published>
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The local (DEFER_TASKRUN) task_work list is an llist, which is LIFO
ordered, and hence __io_run_local_work() has to restore the right
running order with an O(n) llist_reverse_order() pass first. On top of
that, a batch that gets capped by max_events needs the leftover entries
parked on a separate -&gt;retry_llist, as they can't be pushed back to the
shared list.

Switch it to the FIFO mpscq. Adds are wait-free instead of a cmpxchg
retry loop, entries are popped in queue order with no reversal pass,
capping a run simply leaves the remainder on the queue, and
-&gt;retry_llist goes away entirely. The consumer cursor, -&gt;work_head,
lives with the rest of the -&gt;uring_lock protected state rather than
next to the queue, so that popping entries doesn't dirty the producer
side cacheline.

For low amounts of task_work, this ends up being a bit more efficient
than the existing scheme. As an example of that, doing multishot
receives for 8 clients has the following task_work overhead:

     1.02%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_req_local_work_add
     0.88%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work_loop
     0.60%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] llist_reverse_order
     0.14%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work
     2.64% at ~46Gb/sec

and after this change:

     1.08%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_req_local_work_add
     1.03%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work
     2.11% at ~53Gb/sec

which has less overhead even though that test run was faster. For a case
of having 1024 clients on a single ring:

     2.22%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] llist_reverse_order
     0.84%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work_loop
     0.42%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_req_local_work_add
     0.02%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work
     3.50% at ~24Gb/sec

we start to see the llist reversing taking a considerable amount of
time, and the total add+run task_work overhead is around 3.5%. After
the change:

     0.90%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work
     0.42%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_req_local_work_add
     1.32% at ~26Gb/sec

most of that overhead is gone, and performance is better as well.

Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt; reports that it improves
the performance of a ublk 4kb workload by 4% [1], while testing v1 of
this patchset.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/CADUfDZr-MMYBaP-e+y9+xuRhuiunO2sBTUCmwZyd7AgT8sVtiQ@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The local (DEFER_TASKRUN) task_work list is an llist, which is LIFO
ordered, and hence __io_run_local_work() has to restore the right
running order with an O(n) llist_reverse_order() pass first. On top of
that, a batch that gets capped by max_events needs the leftover entries
parked on a separate -&gt;retry_llist, as they can't be pushed back to the
shared list.

Switch it to the FIFO mpscq. Adds are wait-free instead of a cmpxchg
retry loop, entries are popped in queue order with no reversal pass,
capping a run simply leaves the remainder on the queue, and
-&gt;retry_llist goes away entirely. The consumer cursor, -&gt;work_head,
lives with the rest of the -&gt;uring_lock protected state rather than
next to the queue, so that popping entries doesn't dirty the producer
side cacheline.

For low amounts of task_work, this ends up being a bit more efficient
than the existing scheme. As an example of that, doing multishot
receives for 8 clients has the following task_work overhead:

     1.02%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_req_local_work_add
     0.88%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work_loop
     0.60%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] llist_reverse_order
     0.14%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work
     2.64% at ~46Gb/sec

and after this change:

     1.08%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_req_local_work_add
     1.03%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work
     2.11% at ~53Gb/sec

which has less overhead even though that test run was faster. For a case
of having 1024 clients on a single ring:

     2.22%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] llist_reverse_order
     0.84%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work_loop
     0.42%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_req_local_work_add
     0.02%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work
     3.50% at ~24Gb/sec

we start to see the llist reversing taking a considerable amount of
time, and the total add+run task_work overhead is around 3.5%. After
the change:

     0.90%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __io_run_local_work
     0.42%  sock-test  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] io_req_local_work_add
     1.32% at ~26Gb/sec

most of that overhead is gone, and performance is better as well.

Caleb Sander Mateos &lt;csander@purestorage.com&gt; reports that it improves
the performance of a ublk 4kb workload by 4% [1], while testing v1 of
this patchset.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/CADUfDZr-MMYBaP-e+y9+xuRhuiunO2sBTUCmwZyd7AgT8sVtiQ@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/slab: improve kmem_cache_alloc_bulk</title>
<updated>2026-06-03T16:20:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T09:34:32+00:00</published>
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The kmem_cache_alloc_bulk return value is weird.  It returns the number
of allocated objects, but that must always be 0 or the requested number
based on the implementations and the handling in the callers, but that
assumption is not actually documented anywhere, which confuses automated
review tools.

Fix this by returning a bool if the allocation succeeded and adding a
kerneldoc comment explaining the API.

[rob.clark@oss.qualcomm.com: fixups in
 msm_iommu_pagetable_prealloc_allocate() ]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt; # skbuff
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528093437.2519248-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
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The kmem_cache_alloc_bulk return value is weird.  It returns the number
of allocated objects, but that must always be 0 or the requested number
based on the implementations and the handling in the callers, but that
assumption is not actually documented anywhere, which confuses automated
review tools.

Fix this by returning a bool if the allocation succeeded and adding a
kerneldoc comment explaining the API.

[rob.clark@oss.qualcomm.com: fixups in
 msm_iommu_pagetable_prealloc_allocate() ]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt; # skbuff
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528093437.2519248-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
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