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<entry>
<title>sched/core: Fix wakeup_preempt's next_class tracking</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T10:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-18T16:33:29+00:00</published>
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Kernel test robot reported that
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test was failing due to
commit 704069649b5b ("sched/core: Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt()
and rq_modified_*()")

It turns out there were two related problems that could lead to a
missed preemption:

 - when hitting newidle balance from the idle thread, it would elevate
   rb-&gt;next_class from &amp;idle_sched_class to &amp;fair_sched_class, causing
   later wakeup_preempt() calls to not hit the sched_class_above()
   case, and not issue resched_curr().

   Notably, this modification pattern should only lower the
   next_class, and never raise it. Create two new helper functions to
   wrap this.

 - when doing schedule_idle(), it was possible to miss (re)setting
   rq-&gt;next_class to &amp;idle_sched_class, leading to the very same
   problem.

Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 704069649b5b ("sched/core: Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202602122157.4e861298-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218163329.GQ1395416@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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Kernel test robot reported that
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test was failing due to
commit 704069649b5b ("sched/core: Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt()
and rq_modified_*()")

It turns out there were two related problems that could lead to a
missed preemption:

 - when hitting newidle balance from the idle thread, it would elevate
   rb-&gt;next_class from &amp;idle_sched_class to &amp;fair_sched_class, causing
   later wakeup_preempt() calls to not hit the sched_class_above()
   case, and not issue resched_curr().

   Notably, this modification pattern should only lower the
   next_class, and never raise it. Create two new helper functions to
   wrap this.

 - when doing schedule_idle(), it was possible to miss (re)setting
   rq-&gt;next_class to &amp;idle_sched_class, leading to the very same
   problem.

Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 704069649b5b ("sched/core: Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202602122157.4e861298-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260218163329.GQ1395416@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix lag clamp</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T10:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-22T10:16:28+00:00</published>
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Vincent reported that he was seeing undue lag clamping in a mixed
slice workload. Implement the max_slice tracking as per the todo
comment.

Fixes: 147f3efaa241 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Reported-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik &lt;shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250422101628.GA33555@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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Vincent reported that he was seeing undue lag clamping in a mixed
slice workload. Implement the max_slice tracking as per the todo
comment.

Fixes: 147f3efaa241 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Reported-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik &lt;shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250422101628.GA33555@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/eevdf: Update se-&gt;vprot in reweight_entity()</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T10:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Tao</name>
<email>wangtao554@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-20T12:31:13+00:00</published>
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In the EEVDF framework with Run-to-Parity protection, `se-&gt;vprot` is an
independent variable defining the virtual protection timestamp.

When `reweight_entity()` is called (e.g., via nice/renice), it performs
the following actions to preserve Lag consistency:
 1. Scales `se-&gt;vlag` based on the new weight.
 2. Calls `place_entity()`, which recalculates `se-&gt;vruntime` based on
    the new weight and scaled lag.

However, the current implementation fails to update `se-&gt;vprot`, leading
to mismatches between the task's actual runtime and its expected duration.

Fixes: 63304558ba5d ("sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption")
Suggested-by: Zhang Qiao &lt;zhangqiao22@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wang Tao &lt;wangtao554@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik &lt;shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120123113.3518950-1-wangtao554@huawei.com
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In the EEVDF framework with Run-to-Parity protection, `se-&gt;vprot` is an
independent variable defining the virtual protection timestamp.

When `reweight_entity()` is called (e.g., via nice/renice), it performs
the following actions to preserve Lag consistency:
 1. Scales `se-&gt;vlag` based on the new weight.
 2. Calls `place_entity()`, which recalculates `se-&gt;vruntime` based on
    the new weight and scaled lag.

However, the current implementation fails to update `se-&gt;vprot`, leading
to mismatches between the task's actual runtime and its expected duration.

Fixes: 63304558ba5d ("sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption")
Suggested-by: Zhang Qiao &lt;zhangqiao22@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wang Tao &lt;wangtao554@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik &lt;shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120123113.3518950-1-wangtao554@huawei.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Only set slice protection at pick time</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T10:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-23T15:49:09+00:00</published>
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We should not (re)set slice protection in the sched_change pattern
which calls put_prev_task() / set_next_task().

Fixes: 63304558ba5d ("sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik &lt;shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080624.561421378%40infradead.org
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We should not (re)set slice protection in the sched_change pattern
which calls put_prev_task() / set_next_task().

Fixes: 63304558ba5d ("sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik &lt;shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080624.561421378%40infradead.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix zero_vruntime tracking</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T10:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-09T14:28:16+00:00</published>
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It turns out that zero_vruntime tracking is broken when there is but a single
task running. Current update paths are through __{en,de}queue_entity(), and
when there is but a single task, pick_next_task() will always return that one
task, and put_prev_set_next_task() will end up in neither function.

This can cause entity_key() to grow indefinitely large and cause overflows,
leading to much pain and suffering.

Furtermore, doing update_zero_vruntime() from __{de,en}queue_entity(), which
are called from {set_next,put_prev}_entity() has problems because:

 - set_next_entity() calls __dequeue_entity() before it does cfs_rq-&gt;curr = se.
   This means the avg_vruntime() will see the removal but not current, missing
   the entity for accounting.

 - put_prev_entity() calls __enqueue_entity() before it does cfs_rq-&gt;curr =
   NULL. This means the avg_vruntime() will see the addition *and* current,
   leading to double accounting.

Both cases are incorrect/inconsistent.

Noting that avg_vruntime is already called on each {en,de}queue, remove the
explicit avg_vruntime() calls (which removes an extra 64bit division for each
{en,de}queue) and have avg_vruntime() update zero_vruntime itself.

Additionally, have the tick call avg_vruntime() -- discarding the result, but
for the side-effect of updating zero_vruntime.

While there, optimize avg_vruntime() by noting that the average of one value is
rather trivial to compute.

Test case:
  # taskset -c -p 1 $$
  # taskset -c 2 bash -c 'while :; do :; done&amp;'
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched/debug | awk '/^cpu#/ {P=0} /^cpu#2,/ {P=1} {if (P) print $0}' | grep -e zero_vruntime -e "^&gt;"

PRE:
    .zero_vruntime                 : 31316.407903
  &gt;R            bash   487     50787.345112   E       50789.145972           2.800000     50780.298364        16     120         0.000000         0.000000         0.000000        /
    .zero_vruntime                 : 382548.253179
  &gt;R            bash   487    427275.204288   E      427276.003584           2.800000    427268.157540        23     120         0.000000         0.000000         0.000000        /

POST:
    .zero_vruntime                 : 17259.709467
  &gt;R            bash   526     17259.709467   E       17262.509467           2.800000     16915.031624         9     120         0.000000         0.000000         0.000000        /
    .zero_vruntime                 : 18702.723356
  &gt;R            bash   526     18702.723356   E       18705.523356           2.800000     18358.045513         9     120         0.000000         0.000000         0.000000        /

Fixes: 79f3f9bedd14 ("sched/eevdf: Fix min_vruntime vs avg_vruntime")
Reported-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik &lt;shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080624.438854780%40infradead.org
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It turns out that zero_vruntime tracking is broken when there is but a single
task running. Current update paths are through __{en,de}queue_entity(), and
when there is but a single task, pick_next_task() will always return that one
task, and put_prev_set_next_task() will end up in neither function.

This can cause entity_key() to grow indefinitely large and cause overflows,
leading to much pain and suffering.

Furtermore, doing update_zero_vruntime() from __{de,en}queue_entity(), which
are called from {set_next,put_prev}_entity() has problems because:

 - set_next_entity() calls __dequeue_entity() before it does cfs_rq-&gt;curr = se.
   This means the avg_vruntime() will see the removal but not current, missing
   the entity for accounting.

 - put_prev_entity() calls __enqueue_entity() before it does cfs_rq-&gt;curr =
   NULL. This means the avg_vruntime() will see the addition *and* current,
   leading to double accounting.

Both cases are incorrect/inconsistent.

Noting that avg_vruntime is already called on each {en,de}queue, remove the
explicit avg_vruntime() calls (which removes an extra 64bit division for each
{en,de}queue) and have avg_vruntime() update zero_vruntime itself.

Additionally, have the tick call avg_vruntime() -- discarding the result, but
for the side-effect of updating zero_vruntime.

While there, optimize avg_vruntime() by noting that the average of one value is
rather trivial to compute.

Test case:
  # taskset -c -p 1 $$
  # taskset -c 2 bash -c 'while :; do :; done&amp;'
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched/debug | awk '/^cpu#/ {P=0} /^cpu#2,/ {P=1} {if (P) print $0}' | grep -e zero_vruntime -e "^&gt;"

PRE:
    .zero_vruntime                 : 31316.407903
  &gt;R            bash   487     50787.345112   E       50789.145972           2.800000     50780.298364        16     120         0.000000         0.000000         0.000000        /
    .zero_vruntime                 : 382548.253179
  &gt;R            bash   487    427275.204288   E      427276.003584           2.800000    427268.157540        23     120         0.000000         0.000000         0.000000        /

POST:
    .zero_vruntime                 : 17259.709467
  &gt;R            bash   526     17259.709467   E       17262.509467           2.800000     16915.031624         9     120         0.000000         0.000000         0.000000        /
    .zero_vruntime                 : 18702.723356
  &gt;R            bash   526     18702.723356   E       18705.523356           2.800000     18358.045513         9     120         0.000000         0.000000         0.000000        /

Fixes: 79f3f9bedd14 ("sched/eevdf: Fix min_vruntime vs avg_vruntime")
Reported-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik &lt;shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219080624.438854780%40infradead.org
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=32a92f8c89326985e05dce8b22d3f0aa07a3e1bd'/>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43'/>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</published>
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<id>136114e0abf03005e182d75761ab694648e6d388</id>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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