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After the merge of the alpha and mm trees, this code does not compile,
as a parameter is missing in a call to page_table_check_pte_clear().
The parameter was re-added in commit d7b4b67eb6b3 ("mm/page_table_check:
reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pte_clear()").
The alpha-specific code was newly added in commit dd5712f3379c ("alpha:
fix user-space corruption during memory compaction").
Fixes: 4cff5c05e076 ("Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes
arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev)
It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use
it. Various hacks were removed in the process.
- "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data
compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky)
- "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous
page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting
are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand)
- "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong)
- "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos
stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic
control, and readability (SeongJae Park)
- "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few
issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang)
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several
issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu)
- "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves
the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai)
- "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a
glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg)
- "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and
consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of
hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb
(Mike Rapoport)
- "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma
implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes)
- "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of
the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka)
- "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the
memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being
exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt)
- "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the
allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount
operations (Kefeng Wang)
- "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement
of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning
of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park)
- "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan)
- "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes
nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the
underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code
(Yury Norov)
- "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up
some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park)
- "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work
in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg)
- "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon
infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also
some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand)
- "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds
additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen)
- "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is
part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs
over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari)
- "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated
improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky)
- "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic
folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in
pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang)
- "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation
reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests
(SeongJae Park)
- "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and
DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code
(SeongJae Park)
- "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc"
performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park)
- "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans
up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap
write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding
the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes)
- "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old
swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which
wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications
were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui
Song)
- "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM
available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various
cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng)
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits)
mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table()
mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c
mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config
um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h
mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles
zsmalloc: make common caches global
mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files
mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers
mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers
mm/readahead: fix typo in comment
mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file()
mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages
mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range
mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lindholm/alpha
Pull alpha update from Magnus Lindholm:
- alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction
* tag 'alpha-for-v7.0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lindholm/alpha:
alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction
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On a 64-bit system, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) may cause a large number of
empty PTE page table pages (such as 100GB+). To resolve this problem,
first enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE to prepare for enabling the
PT_RECLAIM feature, which resolves this problem.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3380f40a89b73c488202c85f9a8abf99fb08543b.1769515122.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com> [alpha]
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap
corruption when memory compaction is enabled.
Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned
tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear
when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation.
The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration.
Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache
coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or
instruction translations from surviving migration.
Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines:
- MM context invalidation (ASN rollover),
- immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI),
- synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required.
The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing
global TLB semantics.
Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use
READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering.
This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems.
Reviewed-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@unseen.parts>
Tested-by: Matoro Mahri <matoro_mailinglist_kernel@matoro.tk>
Tested-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260102173603.18247-2-linmag7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
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Patch series "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges", v11.
This series adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages.
The series improves on the current discontiguous clearing approach in two
ways:
- clear pages in a contiguous fashion.
- use batched clearing via clear_pages() wherever exposed.
The first is useful because it allows us to make much better use of
hardware prefetchers.
The second, enables advertising the real extent to the processor. Where
specific instructions support it (ex. string instructions on x86; "mops"
on arm64 etc), a processor can optimize based on this because, instead of
seeing a sequence of 8-byte stores, or a sequence of 4KB pages, it sees a
larger unit being operated on.
For instance, AMD Zen uarchs (for extents larger than LLC-size) switch to
a mode where they start eliding cacheline allocation. This is helpful not
just because it results in higher bandwidth, but also because now the
cache is not evicting useful cachelines and replacing them with zeroes.
Demand faulting a 64GB region shows performance improvement:
$ perf bench mem mmap -p $pg-sz -f demand -s 64GB -l 5
baseline +series
(GBps +- %stdev) (GBps +- %stdev)
pg-sz=2MB 11.76 +- 1.10% 25.34 +- 1.18% [*] +115.47% preempt=*
pg-sz=1GB 24.85 +- 2.41% 39.22 +- 2.32% + 57.82% preempt=none|voluntary
pg-sz=1GB (similar) 52.73 +- 0.20% [#] +112.19% preempt=full|lazy
[*] This improvement is because switching to sequential clearing
allows the hardware prefetchers to do a much better job.
[#] For pg-sz=1GB a large part of the improvement is because of the
cacheline elision mentioned above. preempt=full|lazy improves upon
that because, not needing explicit invocations of cond_resched() to
ensure reasonable preemption latency, it can clear the full extent
as a single unit. In comparison the maximum extent used for
preempt=none|voluntary is PROCESS_PAGES_NON_PREEMPT_BATCH (32MB).
When provided the full extent the processor forgoes allocating
cachelines on this path almost entirely.
(The hope is that eventually, in the fullness of time, the lazy
preemption model will be able to do the same job that none or
voluntary models are used for, allowing us to do away with
cond_resched().)
Raghavendra also tested previous version of the series on AMD Genoa and
sees similar improvement [1] with preempt=lazy.
$ perf bench mem map -p $page-size -f populate -s 64GB -l 10
base patched change
pg-sz=2MB 12.731939 GB/sec 26.304263 GB/sec 106.6%
pg-sz=1GB 26.232423 GB/sec 61.174836 GB/sec 133.2%
This patch (of 8):
Let's drop all variants that effectively map to clear_page() and provide
it in a generic variant instead.
We'll use the macro clear_user_page to indicate whether an architecture
provides it's own variant.
Also, clear_user_page() is only called from the generic variant of
clear_user_highpage(), so define it only if the architecture does not
provide a clear_user_highpage(). And, for simplicity define it in
linux/highmem.h.
Note that for parisc, clear_page() and clear_user_page() map to
clear_page_asm(), so we can just get rid of the custom clear_user_page()
implementation. There is a clear_user_page_asm() function on parisc, that
seems to be unused. Not sure what's up with that.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzessutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Stop definining these privately and instead move them to the uapi
errno.h so that they become canonical instead of copy pasta.
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/176826402587.3490369.17659117524205214600.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Similar in nature to ab107276607af90b13a5994997e19b7b9731e251. glibc-2.42
drops the legacy termio struct, but the ioctls.h header still defines some
TC* constants in terms of termio (via sizeof). Hardcode the values instead.
This fixes building Python for example, which falls over like:
./Modules/termios.c:1119:16: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio'
Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/961769
Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/962600
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6ebd3451908785cad53b50ca6bc46cfe9d6bc03c.1764922497.git.sam@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize now
on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers.
This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement).
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251121100044.282684-2-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
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Pull misc non-vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted dead code removal around asm/pgtable.h"
* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
alpha: unobfuscate _PAGE_P() definition
kill FIRST_USER_PGD_NR
alpha: get rid of the remnants of BAD_PAGE and friends
SET_PAGE_DIR() users had been gone since 2.3.12pre1
PAGE_PTR() had been last used outside of arch/* in 1.1.94
csky: remove BS check for FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- NVMe pull request via Keith:
- FC target fixes (Daniel)
- Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
- Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
- Target lockdep assertions (Max)
- Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
- Suspend quirk (Georg)
- MD pull request via Yu:
- Add support for a lockless bitmap.
A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
writes.
By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
need to do a full disk resync/recovery.
- Switch ->getgeo() and ->bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
than struct block_device.
- Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.
The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
`kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
to support the same use as the removed logic.
- floppy arch cleanups
- Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands
- Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
setups.
- A few s390 dasd block fixes
- Fix a few issues around atomic writes
- Improve DMA interation for integrity requests
- Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
constraints.
We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
only the request as a whole needs to.
- Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
payloads
- Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate
- Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections
- Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs
- Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device
- Various fixes and cleanups
* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
...
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Way, way back it used to be
_PAGE_NORMAL((x) | ((x & _PAGE_FOW) ? 0 : _PAGE_FOW | _PAGE_COW))
Then (in 1.3.54) _PAGE_COW had died. Result:
_PAGE_NORMAL((x) | ((x & _PAGE_FOW) ? 0 : _PAGE_FOW))
which is somewhat... obscure. What it does is simply
_PAGE_NORMAL((x) | _PAGE_FOW)
and IMO that's easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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unused since 2.4 times...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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.. and in arch/* - circa 2.2.7.
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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While tracking down a problem where constant expressions used by
BUILD_BUG_ON() suddenly stopped working[1], we found that an added static
initializer was convincing the compiler that it couldn't track the state
of the prior statically initialized value. Tracing this down found that
ffs() was used in the initializer macro, but since it wasn't marked with
__attribute__const__, the compiler had to assume the function might
change variable states as a side-effect (which is not true for ffs(),
which provides deterministic math results).
Add missing __attribute_const__ annotations to Alpha's implementations
of __ffs(), ffs(), fls64(), __fls(), fls(), and ffz() functions. These
are pure mathematical functions that always return the same result for
the same input with no side effects, making them eligible for compiler
optimization.
Build tested ARCH=alpha defconfig with GCC alpha-linux-gnu 14.2.0.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/364 [1]
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804164417.1612371-7-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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Since the commit 3d86739c6343 ("floppy: always use the track buffer")
the CROSS_64KB() is not used by the driver, remove the leftovers.
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> #parisc
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250825163545.39303-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
"cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.
I never knew the MM code was so dirty.
"mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
VMAs.
"mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
DAMON in production environments.
"stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
pointers from struct writeback_control.
"drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
management code.
"mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.
"Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
into order>0 folios.
"selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
selftests code.
"Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.
"Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().
"mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.
"mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.
"use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
types.
"mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
code.
"mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.
"mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
sysfs layer.
"madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.
"madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.
"Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
on/offline notifier.
"Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.
"selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.
"Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
follows that fix with a series of cleanups.
"cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
allocator.
"mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.
"mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.
"mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
does that.
"mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
also does what it claims.
"mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.
"mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
policy.
"Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
provides a couple of page->folio conversions.
"mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
current memcg-based implementation.
"mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.
"mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
reliably.
"drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().
"mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
tunable to control the update interval.
"Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
does what is claims.
"mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
directly.
"use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.
"__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
cleans up __folio_split()!
"Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
with large folios.
"selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
does some cleanup work in the selftests code.
"tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
multiple VMAs" feature.
"selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
subset"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section
MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing
- Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)
- Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX
- Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK
- Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP
- Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface
- Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB
- Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users
- Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque
- Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
once
- Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code
- Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization
- Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets
- Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing
- MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling
- Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink
- Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed
- Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries
- Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM
- Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
refactoring. Add a number of selftests
- Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
should be used for an inbound SA lookup
- Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS
- Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links
- Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch
- Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack
- Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer
- Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT
Driver API:
- Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink
- Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
fields
- Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc
- Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
inputs
- Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
management
- Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration
Device drivers:
- Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)
- Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL
- Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
- take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
- idpf: add flow steering
- add link_down_events statistic
- clean up the TSPLL code
- preparations for live VM migration
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
- optimize context memory usage for matchers
- expose serial numbers in devlink info
- support PCIe congestion metrics
- Meta (fbnic):
- add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
- support dumping FW logs
- Marvell/Cavium:
- support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
- Amazon:
- add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)
- Ethernet virtual:
- VirtIO net:
- support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
- Google (gve):
- support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
- Microsoft vNIC:
- add handler for device-originated servicing events
- allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
- support Tx bandwidth clamping
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- AMD:
- amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
- add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support BCM5325 switches
- add bcm63xx EPHY power control
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- lots of code refactoring and cleanups
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
- icssg: PRP offload support
- Microchip:
- lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
- ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
- Intel:
- support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
time-sensitive networking (taprio)
- support packet pre-emption in both
- RealTek (r8169):
- enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
- Airoha:
- add PPPoE offload support
- MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583
- Ethernet PHYs:
- support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
- micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
- add MDI/MDI-X control support
- add RX error counters
- add cable test support
- add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
- dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
- support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
- air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
- support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
- support WoL for QCA807x
- CAN drivers:
- rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
- kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info
- WiFi:
- extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
- add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
- support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
- add Radio Measurement action fields
- support per-radio RTS threshold
- some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
used by TKIP, not only WEP)
- improvements for unsolicited probe response handling
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw88):
- IBSS mode for SDIO devices
- RealTek (rtw89):
- BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
- concurrent station + P2P support
- support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
compatibility issues
- many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
- some FIPS interoperability
- MediaTek (mt76):
- firmware recovery improvements
- more MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
- fix scan on multi-radio devices
- more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
- encapsulation/decapsulation offload
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support SDIO 43751 device
- Bluetooth:
- hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
- ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
- ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS
- Bluetooth drivers:
- intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
- nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
- nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"
* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
ipv6: annotate data-races around rt->fib6_nsiblings
ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull asm/param cleanup from Al Viro:
"This massages asm/param.h to simpler and more uniform shape:
- all arch/*/include/uapi/asm/param.h are either generated includes
of <asm-generic/param.h> or a #define or two followed by such
include
- no arch/*/include/asm/param.h anywhere, generated or not
- include <asm/param.h> resolves to arch/*/include/uapi/asm/param.h
of the architecture in question (or that of host in case of uml)
- include/asm-generic/param.h pulls uapi/asm-generic/param.h and
deals with USER_HZ, CLOCKS_PER_SEC and with HZ redefinition after
that"
* tag 'pull-headers_param' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
loongarch, um, xtensa: get rid of generated arch/$ARCH/include/asm/param.h
alpha: regularize the situation with asm/param.h
xtensa: get rid uapi/asm/param.h
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CONFIG_ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU
Recently discovered this entry while checking kallsyms on ARM64:
ffff800083e509c0 D _shared_alloc_tag
If ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU is not defined(it is only defined for s390 and
alpha architectures), there's no need to statically define the percpu
variable _shared_alloc_tag.
Therefore, we need to implement isolation for this purpose.
When building the core kernel code for s390 or alpha architectures,
ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU remains undefined (as it is gated by #if
defined(MODULE)). However, when building modules for these architectures,
the macro is explicitly defined.
Therefore, we remove all instances of ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU from the
code and introduced CONFIG_ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU to replace the
relevant logic. We can now conditionally define the perpcu variable
_shared_alloc_tag based on CONFIG_ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU. This
allows architectures (such as s390/alpha) that require weak definitions
for percpu variables in modules to include the definition, while others
can omit it via compile-time exclusion.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250618015809.1235761-1-hao.ge@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn>
Suggested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> [s390]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Chistoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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We have an application that uses almost the same code for TCP and
AF_UNIX (SOCK_STREAM).
TCP can use TCP_INQ, but AF_UNIX doesn't have it and requires an
extra syscall, ioctl(SIOCINQ) or getsockopt(SO_MEMINFO) as an
alternative.
Let's introduce the generic version of TCP_INQ.
If SO_INQ is enabled, recvmsg() will put a cmsg of SCM_INQ that
contains the exact value of ioctl(SIOCINQ). The cmsg is also
included when msg->msg_get_inq is non-zero to make sockets
io_uring-friendly.
Note that SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT is flagged only for SOCK_STREAM to
override setsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET.
By having the flag in struct unix_sock, instead of struct sock, we
can later add SO_INQ support for TCP and reuse tcp_sk(sk)->recvmsg_inq.
Note also that supporting custom getsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET will need
preparation for other SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT users (UDP, vsock, MPTCP).
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250702223606.1054680-7-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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The only reason why alpha can't do what sparc et.al. are doing
is that include/asm-generic/param.h relies upon the value of HZ
set for userland header in uapi/asm/param.h being 100.
We need that value to define USER_HZ and we need that definition
to outlive the redefinition of HZ kernel-side. And alpha needs
it to be 1024, not 100 like everybody else.
So let's add __USER_HZ to uapi/asm-generic/param.h, defaulting to
100 and used to define HZ. That way include/asm-generic/param.h
can use that thing instead of open-coding it - it won't be affected
by undefining and redefining HZ.
That done, alpha asm/param.h can be removed and uapi/asm/param.h
switched to defining __USER_HZ and EXEC_PAGESIZE and then including
<asm-generic/param.h> - asm/param.h will resolve to uapi/asm/param.h,
which pulls <asm-generic/param.h>, which will do the right thing
both in the kernel and userland contexts.
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Make pte_swp_exclusive return bool instead of int. This will better
reflect how pte_swp_exclusive is actually used in the code.
This fixes swap/swapoff problems on Alpha due pte_swp_exclusive not
returning correct values when _PAGE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE bit resides in upper
32-bits of PTE (like on alpha).
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250218175735.19882-2-linmag7@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250602041118.GA2675383@ZenIV/
[ Applied as the 'sed' script Al suggested - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
this.
- "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
and better prepare us for future work.
- "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
block size.
- "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
memory consumption was dramatic.
- "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
this part of our swap handling code.
- "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
arguments, and syscall return value.
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