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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-08-27T16:17:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-08-27T16:17:06+00:00</published>
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Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff"
   (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset
   to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd
   file-backed memory.

   Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index
   conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance
   improvements.

 - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU"
   (Baolin Wang)

   Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more
   reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped
   executable file folios after their first usage to give executable
   code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload
   performance.

 - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong
   Chen)

   Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness
   parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating
   sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks
   proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration.

 - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived
   scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif)

   Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving
   scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired
   producer updates.

   Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a
   dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over
   60% without impacting scan throughput.

 - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review.

 - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's
   memcg" (Zi Yan)

   Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during
   splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray
   node memory accounting.

 - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick)

   Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a
   generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test
   files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests.

 - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon)

   Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in
   mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function.

 - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin
   Huang)

   Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error
   cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing
   algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to
   reinitialization.

 - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia)

   Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by
   moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in
   writeback_store() and read_block_state().

 - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang)

   Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders
   and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged.

 - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions"
   (Muhammad Usama Anjum)

   Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when
   required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding
   retry logic for transient page migration errors.

 - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia)

   Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled
   and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved
   writeback efficiency.

 - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren
   Baghdasaryan)

   Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation
   profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter
   aggregation.

   This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and
   provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation
   data to userspace.

 - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5"
   (Christoph Hellwig)

   Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of
   single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving
   faster swap throughput during kernel builds.

 - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks"
   (Catalin Marinas)

   Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak
   enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable
   minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter.

 - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels"
   (Breno Leitao)

   Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports
   on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when
   CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second
   confirming scan.

 - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig)

   Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance
   regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection
   overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio
   writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly
   export their own swap_ops.

 - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache)

   khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated
   comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for
   PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal
   documentation.

 - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett)

   Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for
   locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures
   without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity.

   Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation
   edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to
   GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (172 commits)
  selftests/proc: make proc-maps-race work with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC
  memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it
  mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat
  maple_tree: add helper mas_make_walkable()
  maple_tree: avoid extra gap calculation
  maple_tree: fix argument name in header
  maple_tree: change two GFP flags in tests
  maple_tree: document erase and allocations better
  maple_tree: avoid mas_erase() and mtree_erase() failures
  maple_tree: document that erase may use GFP_KERNEL for allocations
  maple_tree: catch race in mas_alloc_cyclic()
  maple_tree: add bulk parent set helper
  maple_tree: micro optimisation of mas_wr_store_type()
  maple_tree: optimise mas_wr_node_store() when not in rcu mode
  maple_tree: use prefetched value in mas_wr_store_type()
  maple_tree: clarify comments on mas_nomem()
  maple_tree: drop MAPLE_ALLOC_SLOTS
  maple_tree: drop dead code from mas_extend_spanning_null()
  maple_tree: documentation fix
  maple_tree: add write lock checking with lockdep sequence numbers
  ...
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Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff"
   (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset
   to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd
   file-backed memory.

   Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index
   conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance
   improvements.

 - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU"
   (Baolin Wang)

   Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more
   reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped
   executable file folios after their first usage to give executable
   code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload
   performance.

 - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong
   Chen)

   Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness
   parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating
   sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks
   proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration.

 - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived
   scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif)

   Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving
   scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired
   producer updates.

   Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a
   dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over
   60% without impacting scan throughput.

 - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review.

 - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's
   memcg" (Zi Yan)

   Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during
   splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray
   node memory accounting.

 - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick)

   Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a
   generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test
   files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests.

 - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon)

   Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in
   mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function.

 - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin
   Huang)

   Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error
   cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing
   algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to
   reinitialization.

 - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia)

   Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by
   moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in
   writeback_store() and read_block_state().

 - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang)

   Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders
   and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged.

 - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions"
   (Muhammad Usama Anjum)

   Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when
   required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding
   retry logic for transient page migration errors.

 - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia)

   Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled
   and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved
   writeback efficiency.

 - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren
   Baghdasaryan)

   Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation
   profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter
   aggregation.

   This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and
   provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation
   data to userspace.

 - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5"
   (Christoph Hellwig)

   Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of
   single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving
   faster swap throughput during kernel builds.

 - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks"
   (Catalin Marinas)

   Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak
   enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable
   minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter.

 - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels"
   (Breno Leitao)

   Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports
   on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when
   CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second
   confirming scan.

 - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig)

   Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance
   regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection
   overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio
   writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly
   export their own swap_ops.

 - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache)

   khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated
   comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for
   PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal
   documentation.

 - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett)

   Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for
   locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures
   without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity.

   Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation
   edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to
   GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (172 commits)
  selftests/proc: make proc-maps-race work with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC
  memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it
  mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat
  maple_tree: add helper mas_make_walkable()
  maple_tree: avoid extra gap calculation
  maple_tree: fix argument name in header
  maple_tree: change two GFP flags in tests
  maple_tree: document erase and allocations better
  maple_tree: avoid mas_erase() and mtree_erase() failures
  maple_tree: document that erase may use GFP_KERNEL for allocations
  maple_tree: catch race in mas_alloc_cyclic()
  maple_tree: add bulk parent set helper
  maple_tree: micro optimisation of mas_wr_store_type()
  maple_tree: optimise mas_wr_node_store() when not in rcu mode
  maple_tree: use prefetched value in mas_wr_store_type()
  maple_tree: clarify comments on mas_nomem()
  maple_tree: drop MAPLE_ALLOC_SLOTS
  maple_tree: drop dead code from mas_extend_spanning_null()
  maple_tree: documentation fix
  maple_tree: add write lock checking with lockdep sequence numbers
  ...
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<title>selftests/cgroup: test_zswap: skip test_no_kmem_bypass if debugfs is unavailable</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T01:43:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wilson Felipe Pereira</name>
<email>wfelipe@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-11T05:14:11+00:00</published>
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test_no_kmem_bypass() needs to read /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/stored_pages
via get_zswap_stored_pages() to verify that compressed pages are charged
to the memcg.

When running in an environment where debugfs is not mounted or
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is disabled, get_zswap_stored_pages() fails, causing the
loop to terminate early and report a false negative (KSFT_FAIL).

Selftests should not fail if debugfs is unavailable, and it should print a
message when it is skipped.

While I'm here, also add a warning message if the test is being skipped
due to totalram size and make the check for totalram more readable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify debugfs-unavailable error message]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260812050848.848882-1-wfelipe@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260811051434.3805648-1-wfelipe@google.com
Signed-off-by: Wilson Felipe Pereira &lt;wfelipe@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: SJ Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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test_no_kmem_bypass() needs to read /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/stored_pages
via get_zswap_stored_pages() to verify that compressed pages are charged
to the memcg.

When running in an environment where debugfs is not mounted or
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is disabled, get_zswap_stored_pages() fails, causing the
loop to terminate early and report a false negative (KSFT_FAIL).

Selftests should not fail if debugfs is unavailable, and it should print a
message when it is skipped.

While I'm here, also add a warning message if the test is being skipped
due to totalram size and make the check for totalram more readable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify debugfs-unavailable error message]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260812050848.848882-1-wfelipe@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260811051434.3805648-1-wfelipe@google.com
Signed-off-by: Wilson Felipe Pereira &lt;wfelipe@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: SJ Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/cgroup: Adjust cpu test duration based on HZ</title>
<updated>2026-06-29T18:52:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Simmons-Talbott</name>
<email>joest@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-26T20:29:22+00:00</published>
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For lower HZ values a quota of 1000us is much lower than the amount
of microseconds per tick which makes the tests test_cpucg_max and
test_cpugc_max_nested fail. Increase the test duration to accommodate
for lower HZ values.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260625203307.1114538-1-joest@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Joe Simmons-Talbott &lt;joest@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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For lower HZ values a quota of 1000us is much lower than the amount
of microseconds per tick which makes the tests test_cpucg_max and
test_cpugc_max_nested fail. Increase the test duration to accommodate
for lower HZ values.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260625203307.1114538-1-joest@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Joe Simmons-Talbott &lt;joest@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T17:14:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-19T17:14:34+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity" (Li Wang)

   Remove some noise from the MM selftests build

 - "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently" (Ryan Roberts)

   Speed up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by first scanning
   them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to vfree() and
   to the releasing of frozen pages

 - "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota charge ratio"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Address a DAMOS usability issue: The DAMOS quota often exhausts
   prematurely because it charges for all memory attempted, causing slow
   and inconsistent performance when actions fail on unreclaimable
   memory.

   To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota
   charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions.
   Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost
   ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing

 - "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large
   page sizes" (Li Wang)

   Fix various spurious failures and improves the overall robustness of
   the cgroup zswap selftests

 - "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" (Anthony Yznaga)

   Fix an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32

 - "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with shared" (Breno Leitao)

   Some maintenance work in the huge_memory code

 - "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" (Brendan Jackman)

   Use the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places

 - "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization" (Muchun
   Song)

   Fix several bugs in the vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect
   page accounting and memmap initialization in the DAX and memory
   hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and
   struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages

 - "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in damon/next tree"

   A sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for DAMON

 - "mm: remove page_mapped()" (David Hildenbrand)

   Remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped()

 - "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" (SeongJae Park)

   Allow DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its current state

 - "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables" (Muhammad
   Usama Anjum)

   Simplify and speed up kasan by removing its ineffective tagging of
   stacks and page tables

 - "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Simplify deployment on diverse hardware like NUMA systems by updating
   DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to automatically monitor the
   physical address range covering all System RAM areas by default,
   replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only targeted the
   single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Update some DAMON docs

 - "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" (Dmitry Ilvokhin)

   Switch zone-&gt;lock handling over to using the guard() mechanisms

 - "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" (fujunjie)

   Fix a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page cache hits
   during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in
   significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O,
   drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse
   random or strided memory access workloads

 - "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic"
   (Li Wang)

   Fix a couple of false-positives in the cgroup kmem selftests

 - "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Add a new parameter to DAMON permitting DAMON_RECLAIM to
   automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation intervals

 - "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" (SeongJae Park)

   Change DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond

 - "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" (Breno Leitao)

   Remove large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the verbose-mode
   kmemleak output

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Reduce our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, with a view to
   removing it entirely in a later series

 - "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of 2" (Liew Rui Yan)

   Prevent users from passing a non-power-of-2 value of `addr_unit', as
   this later results in undesirable behavior

 - "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" (Frederick Mayle)

 - "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" (Ye Liu)

   Fix three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c

 - "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" (Brendan Jackman)

   Implement several cleanups in the page allocator and related code

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation" (Kairui Song)

   Unify the allocation and charging of anon and shmem swap in folios,
   provides better synchronization, consolidates the metadata
   management, hence dropping the static array and map, and improves
   performance

 - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring" (SeongJae Park(

   Extend DAMON to monitor general data attributes other than accesses

 - "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink" (Shivam Kalra)

   Implement the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when
   shrinking across a page boundary

 - "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" (niecheng)

 - "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Eliminate custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the problematic
   success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access uninitialized
   VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code field and
   updates the memory char driver accordingly

 - "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability and tests"
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc" (Maksym
   Shcherba)

 - "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c" (Mike
   Rapoport)

 - "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio" (Kairui Song and
   others)

   Clean up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop and dirty
   writeback handling. Large performance improvements are measured

 - "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps} reads" (Suren
   Baghdasaryan)

   Use per-vma locks when reading /proc/pid/smaps and numa_maps similar
   to reduce contention on central mmap_lock

 - "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()"
   (Ran Xiaokai)

   Some cleanup work in the THP code

 - "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" (Konstantin Khorenko)

   Fix a few build glitches in the memfd selftest code.

 - "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs" (Shakeel
   Butt)

   Resolve a 68% performance regression caused by NUMA-node cache
   thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking its existing
   fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches up to
   five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of the
   same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line.

 - "zram: writeback fixes" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   address a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues

 - "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" (Johannes Weiner)

   Resolve NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite interaction by
   refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely replace the
   complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent Huge Pages

 - "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory" (Usama Arif)

   Improve large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page arm64 by
   preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling
   target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the
   force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large
   maximum folio order under the cache cap.

 - "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" (Kiryl Shutsemau)

   Fix a bunch of minor issues in the userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which
   were flagged by Sashiko review of proposed new material

 - "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and
   vmemmap_check_pmd()" (Muchun Song)

   Provide generic versions of these two functions so the four
   arch-specific implementations can be removed.

 - "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap
   device" (Youngjun Park)

   Address a uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device
   reference taking/releasing frequency.

 - "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" (Dev Jain)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries
  fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry
  lib/test_hmm: check alloc_page_vma() return value and handle OOM
  mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX
  mm/swap: remove redundant swap device reference in alloc/free
  mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device
  mm/filemap: use folio_next_index() for start
  vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages()
  sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
  loongarch/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
  riscv/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
  arm64/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
  mm/sparse-vmemmap: provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()
  rust: page: mark Page::nid as inline
  userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masks
  userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present()
  mm/huge_memory: preserve pmd_swp_uffd_wp on device-private PMD downgrade
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemap_scan_pte_hole()
  fs/proc/task_mmu: use huge_page_size() in pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry()
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity" (Li Wang)

   Remove some noise from the MM selftests build

 - "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently" (Ryan Roberts)

   Speed up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by first scanning
   them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to vfree() and
   to the releasing of frozen pages

 - "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota charge ratio"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Address a DAMOS usability issue: The DAMOS quota often exhausts
   prematurely because it charges for all memory attempted, causing slow
   and inconsistent performance when actions fail on unreclaimable
   memory.

   To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota
   charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions.
   Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost
   ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing

 - "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large
   page sizes" (Li Wang)

   Fix various spurious failures and improves the overall robustness of
   the cgroup zswap selftests

 - "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" (Anthony Yznaga)

   Fix an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32

 - "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with shared" (Breno Leitao)

   Some maintenance work in the huge_memory code

 - "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" (Brendan Jackman)

   Use the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places

 - "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization" (Muchun
   Song)

   Fix several bugs in the vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect
   page accounting and memmap initialization in the DAX and memory
   hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and
   struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages

 - "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in damon/next tree"

   A sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for DAMON

 - "mm: remove page_mapped()" (David Hildenbrand)

   Remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped()

 - "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" (SeongJae Park)

   Allow DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its current state

 - "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables" (Muhammad
   Usama Anjum)

   Simplify and speed up kasan by removing its ineffective tagging of
   stacks and page tables

 - "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Simplify deployment on diverse hardware like NUMA systems by updating
   DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to automatically monitor the
   physical address range covering all System RAM areas by default,
   replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only targeted the
   single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Update some DAMON docs

 - "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" (Dmitry Ilvokhin)

   Switch zone-&gt;lock handling over to using the guard() mechanisms

 - "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" (fujunjie)

   Fix a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page cache hits
   during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in
   significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O,
   drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse
   random or strided memory access workloads

 - "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic"
   (Li Wang)

   Fix a couple of false-positives in the cgroup kmem selftests

 - "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Add a new parameter to DAMON permitting DAMON_RECLAIM to
   automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation intervals

 - "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" (SeongJae Park)

   Change DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond

 - "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" (Breno Leitao)

   Remove large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the verbose-mode
   kmemleak output

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Reduce our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, with a view to
   removing it entirely in a later series

 - "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of 2" (Liew Rui Yan)

   Prevent users from passing a non-power-of-2 value of `addr_unit', as
   this later results in undesirable behavior

 - "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" (Frederick Mayle)

 - "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" (Ye Liu)

   Fix three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c

 - "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" (Brendan Jackman)

   Implement several cleanups in the page allocator and related code

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation" (Kairui Song)

   Unify the allocation and charging of anon and shmem swap in folios,
   provides better synchronization, consolidates the metadata
   management, hence dropping the static array and map, and improves
   performance

 - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring" (SeongJae Park(

   Extend DAMON to monitor general data attributes other than accesses

 - "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink" (Shivam Kalra)

   Implement the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when
   shrinking across a page boundary

 - "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" (niecheng)

 - "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Eliminate custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the problematic
   success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access uninitialized
   VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code field and
   updates the memory char driver accordingly

 - "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability and tests"
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc" (Maksym
   Shcherba)

 - "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c" (Mike
   Rapoport)

 - "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio" (Kairui Song and
   others)

   Clean up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop and dirty
   writeback handling. Large performance improvements are measured

 - "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps} reads" (Suren
   Baghdasaryan)

   Use per-vma locks when reading /proc/pid/smaps and numa_maps similar
   to reduce contention on central mmap_lock

 - "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()"
   (Ran Xiaokai)

   Some cleanup work in the THP code

 - "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" (Konstantin Khorenko)

   Fix a few build glitches in the memfd selftest code.

 - "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs" (Shakeel
   Butt)

   Resolve a 68% performance regression caused by NUMA-node cache
   thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking its existing
   fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches up to
   five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of the
   same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line.

 - "zram: writeback fixes" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   address a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues

 - "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" (Johannes Weiner)

   Resolve NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite interaction by
   refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely replace the
   complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent Huge Pages

 - "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory" (Usama Arif)

   Improve large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page arm64 by
   preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling
   target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the
   force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large
   maximum folio order under the cache cap.

 - "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" (Kiryl Shutsemau)

   Fix a bunch of minor issues in the userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which
   were flagged by Sashiko review of proposed new material

 - "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and
   vmemmap_check_pmd()" (Muchun Song)

   Provide generic versions of these two functions so the four
   arch-specific implementations can be removed.

 - "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap
   device" (Youngjun Park)

   Address a uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device
   reference taking/releasing frequency.

 - "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" (Dev Jain)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries
  fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry
  lib/test_hmm: check alloc_page_vma() return value and handle OOM
  mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX
  mm/swap: remove redundant swap device reference in alloc/free
  mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device
  mm/filemap: use folio_next_index() for start
  vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages()
  sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
  loongarch/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
  riscv/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
  arm64/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
  mm/sparse-vmemmap: provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()
  rust: page: mark Page::nid as inline
  userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masks
  userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present()
  mm/huge_memory: preserve pmd_swp_uffd_wp on device-private PMD downgrade
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemap_scan_pte_hole()
  fs/proc/task_mmu: use huge_page_size() in pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry()
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests/cgroup: rename PAGE_SIZE to BUF_SIZE in cgroup_util</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T04:04:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Wang</name>
<email>li.wang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-24T04:00:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6e9f5c2eecd107cf9a10fd22d311b2c49026f474'/>
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The cgroup utility code defines a local PAGE_SIZE macro hardcoded to 4096,
which is used primarily as a generic buffer size for reading cgroup and
proc files.  This naming is misleading because the value has nothing to do
with the actual page size of the system.  On architectures with larger
pages (e.g., 64K on arm64 or ppc64), the name suggests a relationship that
does not exist.  Additionally, the name can shadow or conflict with
PAGE_SIZE definitions from system headers, leading to confusion or subtle
bugs.

To resolve this, rename the macro to BUF_SIZE to accurately reflect its
purpose as a general I/O buffer size.

Furthermore, test_memcontrol currently relies on this hardcoded 4K value
to stride through memory and trigger page faults.  Update this logic to
use the actual system page size dynamically.  This micro-optimizes the
memory faulting process by ensuring it iterates correctly and efficiently
based on the underlying architecture's true page size.  (This part from
Waiman)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260424040059.12940-5-li.wang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Li Wang &lt;li.wang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Jiayuan Chen &lt;jiayuan.chen@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosry@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The cgroup utility code defines a local PAGE_SIZE macro hardcoded to 4096,
which is used primarily as a generic buffer size for reading cgroup and
proc files.  This naming is misleading because the value has nothing to do
with the actual page size of the system.  On architectures with larger
pages (e.g., 64K on arm64 or ppc64), the name suggests a relationship that
does not exist.  Additionally, the name can shadow or conflict with
PAGE_SIZE definitions from system headers, leading to confusion or subtle
bugs.

To resolve this, rename the macro to BUF_SIZE to accurately reflect its
purpose as a general I/O buffer size.

Furthermore, test_memcontrol currently relies on this hardcoded 4K value
to stride through memory and trigger page faults.  Update this logic to
use the actual system page size dynamically.  This micro-optimizes the
memory faulting process by ensuring it iterates correctly and efficiently
based on the underlying architecture's true page size.  (This part from
Waiman)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260424040059.12940-5-li.wang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Li Wang &lt;li.wang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Jiayuan Chen &lt;jiayuan.chen@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosry@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-7.1-fixes' into for-7.2</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T08:53:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T08:53:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c69e4b02131650c8ae4c467a58987ff7c201889b'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull to receive dde2f938d02f ("cgroup/cpuset: move PF_EXITING check
before __GFP_HARDWALL in cpuset_current_node_allowed()") as a
dependency for an upcoming patch in the same function.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Pull to receive dde2f938d02f ("cgroup/cpuset: move PF_EXITING check
before __GFP_HARDWALL in cpuset_current_node_allowed()") as a
dependency for an upcoming patch in the same function.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests/cgroup: Add NULL check after malloc in cgroup_util.c</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T08:28:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hongfu Li</name>
<email>lihongfu@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T06:08:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c26849d32167ec4f2051bb8c9798e850f6381ac9'/>
<id>c26849d32167ec4f2051bb8c9798e850f6381ac9</id>
<content type='text'>
Add NULL checks after malloc() in three helper functions to prevent
NULL pointer dereference on memory allocation failure.
- cg_name()
- cg_name_indexed()
- cg_control()

These functions allocate memory with malloc() but previously called
snprintf() unconditionally, which would trigger undefined behavior
if allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li &lt;lihongfu@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Add NULL checks after malloc() in three helper functions to prevent
NULL pointer dereference on memory allocation failure.
- cg_name()
- cg_name_indexed()
- cg_control()

These functions allocate memory with malloc() but previously called
snprintf() unconditionally, which would trigger undefined behavior
if allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li &lt;lihongfu@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests/cgroup: Fix cg_read_strcmp() empty string comparison</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T01:53:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hongfu Li</name>
<email>lihongfu@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-09T08:03:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e32e6f02168f2ad7991eb5d160d312d2001520c8'/>
<id>e32e6f02168f2ad7991eb5d160d312d2001520c8</id>
<content type='text'>
cg_read_strcmp() allocated a buffer sized to strlen(expected) + 1,
then passed it to read_text() which calls read(fd, buf, size-1).

When comparing against an empty string (""), strlen("") = 0 gives a
1-byte buffer, and read() is asked to read 0 bytes.  The file content
is never actually read, so strcmp("", buf) always returns 0 regardless
of the real content.  This caused cg_test_proc_killed() to always
report the cgroup as empty immediately, making OOM tests pass without
verifying that processes were killed.

Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li &lt;lihongfu@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
cg_read_strcmp() allocated a buffer sized to strlen(expected) + 1,
then passed it to read_text() which calls read(fd, buf, size-1).

When comparing against an empty string (""), strlen("") = 0 gives a
1-byte buffer, and read() is asked to read 0 bytes.  The file content
is never actually read, so strcmp("", buf) always returns 0 regardless
of the real content.  This caused cg_test_proc_killed() to always
report the cgroup as empty immediately, making OOM tests pass without
verifying that processes were killed.

Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li &lt;lihongfu@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests/cgroup: Don't require synchronous populated update on task exit</title>
<updated>2026-03-24T20:21:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-24T20:21:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6680c162b4850976ee52b57372eddc4450c1d074'/>
<id>6680c162b4850976ee52b57372eddc4450c1d074</id>
<content type='text'>
test_cgcore_populated (test_core) and test_cgkill_{simple,tree,forkbomb}
(test_kill) check cgroup.events "populated 0" immediately after reaping
child tasks with waitpid(). This used to work because cgroup_task_exit() in
do_exit() unlinked tasks from css_sets before exit_notify() woke up
waitpid().

d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done
switching out") moved the unlink to cgroup_task_dead() in
finish_task_switch(), which runs after exit_notify(). The populated counter
is now decremented after the parent's waitpid() can return, so there is no
longer a synchronous ordering guarantee. On PREEMPT_RT, where
cgroup_task_dead() is further deferred through lazy irq_work, the race
window is even larger.

The synchronous populated transition was never part of the cgroup interface
contract - it was an implementation artifact. Use cg_read_strcmp_wait() which
retries for up to 1 second, matching what these tests actually need to
verify: that the cgroup eventually becomes unpopulated after all tasks exit.

Fixes: d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out")
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
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test_cgcore_populated (test_core) and test_cgkill_{simple,tree,forkbomb}
(test_kill) check cgroup.events "populated 0" immediately after reaping
child tasks with waitpid(). This used to work because cgroup_task_exit() in
do_exit() unlinked tasks from css_sets before exit_notify() woke up
waitpid().

d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done
switching out") moved the unlink to cgroup_task_dead() in
finish_task_switch(), which runs after exit_notify(). The populated counter
is now decremented after the parent's waitpid() can return, so there is no
longer a synchronous ordering guarantee. On PREEMPT_RT, where
cgroup_task_dead() is further deferred through lazy irq_work, the race
window is even larger.

The synchronous populated transition was never part of the cgroup interface
contract - it was an implementation artifact. Use cg_read_strcmp_wait() which
retries for up to 1 second, matching what these tests actually need to
verify: that the cgroup eventually becomes unpopulated after all tasks exit.

Fixes: d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out")
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
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<title>selftests: cgroup: Add cg_read_key_long_poll() to poll a cgroup key with retries</title>
<updated>2025-12-08T18:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guopeng Zhang</name>
<email>zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T11:56:29+00:00</published>
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Introduce a new helper function `cg_read_key_long_poll()` in
cgroup_util.h. This function polls the specified key in a cgroup file
until it matches the expected value or the retry limit is reached,
with configurable wait intervals between retries.

This helper is particularly useful for handling asynchronously updated
cgroup statistics (e.g., memory.stat), where immediate reads may
observe stale values, especially on busy systems. It allows tests and
other utilities to handle such cases more flexibly.

Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang &lt;zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce a new helper function `cg_read_key_long_poll()` in
cgroup_util.h. This function polls the specified key in a cgroup file
until it matches the expected value or the retry limit is reached,
with configurable wait intervals between retries.

This helper is particularly useful for handling asynchronously updated
cgroup statistics (e.g., memory.stat), where immediate reads may
observe stale values, especially on busy systems. It allows tests and
other utilities to handle such cases more flexibly.

Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang &lt;zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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