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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random
Pull random number generator fixes from Jason Donenfeld:
- VMGENID memory needs to be mapped with the decrypted tag, so that
SEV-SNP machines can boot
- A fix for an initialization race in VMGENID, followed by a cleanup
- Trivial kernel doc cleanups in siphash and random.c
- A fix for a new compilation failure with recent clang on PPC and
RISC-V, due to generating an out-of-line memset in the vDSO
* tag 'random-7.3-rc6-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random:
random: vDSO: avoid call to memset() when zeroing reserved parameter
random: fix vgetrandom_opaque_params kernel-doc
random: vDSO: fix repeated word 'to' in comment
siphash: clean up kernel-doc comments
virt: vmgenid: move to using dev_set/get_drvdata
virt: vmgenid: set driver_data before registering notification handlers
virt: vmgenid: remap memory as decrypted
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The implied padding causes a harmless warning when testing the uapi
headers with -Wpadded that could in theory indicate incompatibilities
or data leaks:
./usr/include/linux/alloc_tag.h:41:1: error: padding struct size to alignment boundary with 7 bytes [-Werror=padded]
The code here is fine, but it's better to make the padding explicit and
avoid the warning here.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260916065830.1619425-1-arnd@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260915202404.3568029-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 1d581ab2348c ("alloc_tag: add ioctl to /proc/allocinfo")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
Pull input fixes from Dmitry Torokhov:
- Fixes for evdev and input compat handling to zero-initialize on-stack
absinfo and force-feedback effect structures before partial or compat
copies from userspace, preventing kernel stack memory disclosure
- Fixes for the Synaptics RMI4 driver to prevent an out-of-bounds read
when writing multi-chunk blocks over SMBus and to avoid a NULL
pointer dereference during suspend/resume when the RMI device is
unbound
- Fixes for the soc_button_array driver to propagate -EPROBE_DEFER on
non-Bay Trail/Cherry Trail platforms (fixing broken power and volume
buttons on the Microsoft Surface Pro 11) and to validate the ACPI
package element count before dereferencing
- A fix for the adp5588-keys driver to cache the initial GPIO hardware
state before registering the gpiochip so pre-configured pin states
are not clobbered by GPIO hogs during registration
- A fix for the cyttsp5 touchscreen driver to clamp the device-supplied
HID report size before copying into the response buffer, preventing a
buffer overflow
- A fix for the HP SDC serio driver to use timer_shutdown_sync() on
module exit so the periodic kicker timer cannot rearm itself during
teardown
- A fix for the eeti_ts touchscreen driver to export its OF module
alias so the module autoloads on Device Tree platforms
- Updates to the xpad joystick driver adding support for the Victrix
Pro BFG controller and Azeron devices, and fixing the device type
classification for the PDP Marvel Xbox 360 controller
- Quirks for the i8042 and atkbd drivers to keep the built-in keyboards
functional on the Acer Aspire Go 15 AG15-42P and Xiaomi Redmi Book
Pro 16 2026
- A quirk for the Synaptics PS/2 touchpad driver disabling SMBus
InterTouch on the Lenovo ThinkPad T440p (board ID 2722) so the
touchpad and TrackPoint respond immediately at boot
- Other minor updates and documentation fixes, including reading the
"ti,poll-period" property as u32 in tsc2007, adding the mt6572
compatible to the MediaTek keypad Device Tree binding, fixing an
attribute name typo in the trackpoint sysfs ABI documentation, and
documenting that no new LED codes should be added to the input
subsystem
* tag 'input-for-v7.3-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: hp_sdc - shut down kicker timer on module exit
Input: xpad - add support for Victrix Pro BFG Controller
Input: tsc2007 - read "ti,poll-period" as u32
Input: trackpoint - fix the inertia attribute name in the ABI document
Input: eeti_ts - publish the OF module alias
Input: xpad - add support for Azeron devices
Input: xpad - fix PDP Marvel Xbox 360 controller
Input: document that no new LED codes should be added
Input: soc_button_array - check btns_desc->package.count
Input: soc_button_array - fix MS Surface Pro 11 probe failure
Input: i8042 - add quirk for Acer Aspire Go 15 AG15-42P
Input: synaptics - disable InterTouch on ThinkPad T440p (board id 2722)
Input: cyttsp5 - clamp the HID report size before memcpy
Input: zero ff_effect before compat copy in input_ff_effect_from_user
Input: evdev - zero absinfo before partial copy in EVIOCSABS
Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix GPF in suspend and resume when unbound
Input: rmi_smbus - fix out-of-bounds read in rmi_smb_write_block()
Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for Xiaomi Redmi Book Pro 16 2026
dt-bindings: input: mediatek,mt6779-keypad: add mt6572
Input: adp5588-keys - cache GPIO state before registering the gpiochip
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struct vgetrandom_opaque_params contains size_of_opaque_state, but its
kernel-doc describes size_per_opaque_state. This leaves the real member
undescribed and adds a nonexistent member to the generated
documentation.
Use the member's actual name.
Fixes: 4ad10a5f5f78 ("random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation")
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Pull rdma fixes from Jason Gunthorpe:
"Lots of bug fixes from the last weeks:
- Various error unwind bugs
- Several more races and bugs in siw and rxe, including remote
triggerable
- HFI1 corruption with its credit scheme
- Remove a bogus user triggerable dev_warn
- Lock __ethtool_get_link_ksettings() properly
- Fix a lockdep loop with diassociation
- Several storage related bugs, some triggerable remotely
- Do no leak physical addresses to userspace in bnxt_re
- Fix wrong irq context for the xarrays in erdma
- User triggerable race in ucma with multicast
- Race in ipoib with multicast flushing and destruction"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (28 commits)
RDMA/siw: Bound fragmented header copies by the remaining length
RDMA/efa: Keep EQ resources alive while IRQ is registered
RDMA/efa: Keep admin queues alive while IRQ is registered
RDMA/core: fix refcount bug in iwpm_get_nlmsg_request()
IB/IPoIB: Avoid restoring OPER_UP after multicast flush
RDMA/ucma: Serialize join and leave on copy_to_user failure
RDMA/rtrs-clt: Fix CQ pool leak when connect is interrupted
RDMA/irdma: Enforce local fence for IB_WR_REG_MR
RDMA/erdma: Use IRQ-safe XArray helpers for QP and CQ tables
RDMA/mad: Fix receive buffer leak when PKey enforcement fails
RDMA/uverbs: Fix potential leak of resources->collection in flow_resources_alloc()
RDMA/bnxt_re: Avoid exposing umdbr to userspace
RDMA/rtrs: guard against null kobj name
RDMA/bnxt_re: check create_singlethread_workqueue() in DCB setup
IB/isert: wait for deferred control PDU completions before releasing the connection
IB/iser: reject a remote invalidation of an unregistered direction
RDMA/srp: Fix srp_remove_target()
IB/mlx4: Fix use-after-free on pkey sysfs registration failure
RDMA/uverbs: Fix mmap_lock/disassociation_lock circular dependency
RDMA/core: Reject unregistering netdevs in ib_get_eth_speed
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Add a comment to input-event-codes.h clarifying that no new LED
definitions should be added to the input subsystem. The existing
LED_* definitions are legacy and grandfathered for backwards
compatibility with userspace via evdev. Any new LED indicators
should instead use the dedicated LED subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity
Pull IMA fixes from Mimi Zohar:
- Instantiating the ima_file_truncate and ima_path_truncate LSM hooks
resulted in configfs locking issues.
configfs files should not be measured, appraised, or audited in the
first place, so the builtin policies are updated to exclude them.
- IMA audit messages include the filename, which could result in a page
fault when the filename doesn't exist
- Un-hide the IMA_MEASURE_PCR_IDX Kconfig prompt
* tag 'integrity-v7.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity:
ima: allow users to specify the pcr index with IMA_MEASURE_PCR_IDX
ima: Check for ERR_PTR from dentry_path() in validate_hash_algo()
ima: don't measure/appraise files on configfs
configfs: move CONFIGFS_MAGIC definition to magic.h
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need to pad before __u64 tcc_disabled_mask variable.
This patch fixes 64bit Kernel + 32 bit mesa combination. But at the same
time it will break 32bit Kernel(using this patch) + older 32bit mesa(not
using this patch).
This issue was discussd with alexander.deucher@amd.com,
christian.koenig@amd.com and pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@amd.com.
Currently today 32 bit kernel + 32 bit userspace and 64 bit kernel and
64 bit userspace work. Mixed 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userspace is
currently broken. Since 32 bit kernel and userspace is probably pretty
rare these days and the data affected by this is not critical, Hence
we can go ahead with this patch.
Fixes: cf21e76a6005 ("drm/amdgpu: return tcc_disabled_mask to userspace")
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Mohan Marimuthu <yogesh.mohanmarimuthu@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
(cherry picked from commit 497b5090f2857ef8ad9a162aa31ada0de5814663)
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The umdbr field in struct bnxt_re_db_region returns the raw
unmapped PCI BAR address of the doorbell region. Avoid sharing
this field to the userspace. Change this to a reserved field
and stop populating it, keeping the ABI layout and size
unchanged for existing binaries.
Fixes: 1234a9d8aebb ("RDMA/bnxt_re: Support doorbell extensions")
Signed-off-by: Sriharsha Basavapatna <sriharsha.basavapatna@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260824172443.33943-1-sriharsha.basavapatna@broadcom.com
Reviewed-by: Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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IMA shouldn't measure or appraise configfs, but currently does because
it's missing from the default exclusion policies. Move CONFIGFS_MAGIC to
magic.h to expose the file system's magic to IMA, as well as other userland
applications.
Suggested-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com>
Acked-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
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Pull more drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"As mentioned last week, an msm pull request fell down the side of the
couch or whatever the email equivalent of that is. This has the msm
next stuff + the usual fixes for amd/intel.
core:
- use drm_warn instead of warn
msm:
- Bindings:
- Added Shikra support
- Document a840, a704, a722
- Core:
- Use drm_client buffers for fbdev emulation
- teardown fixes
- ARM32 DMA fixup
- Remove objects from evict list when re-validated
- Bunch of corner case and error path fixes
- DPU:
- Dropped dev_pm_opp_set_rate(0) preventing burnout
- Fixed SSPP offsets of Kaanapali
- DP:
- Dropped dev_pm_opp_set_rate(0) preventing burnout
- Cleaned up core code in preparation for MST support
- Fixed prepare() to let Pipewire continue in case of the unplugged cable
- GPU:
- Add support for a704
- Add support for a722
- HDMI:
- Simplifed register access
amdgpu:
- eGPU fixes
- Runtime PM fix
- UserQ fixes
- Backlight fix
- Discovery sysfs fix
- Reset handling fixes
- Buffer func handling fix for xgmi
- VCN boundary check fix
- DC lut handling fixes
- MES fixes
- UVD fix
- VCE 3 fix
- Enforce isolation fix
- HPD fix for VGA/LVDS
- DML fix
- DCN 6 fixes
- DC gpu reset fix
amdkfd:
- Fix return value
- CU occupancy for GFX 11
- CU occupancy for GFX 12/12.1
- Queue bounds checking fix
- SVM fixes
- CRIU bounds checking fix
radeon:
- iMac display fix
xe:
- error message cleanups
- i2c global register definitions as dependency for xe/i2c fixes
- Media workardound
- Add CCS to gt_idle debugfs print
- Page fault related fix
- i2c related fixes
- System Controller mailbox bit fix"
* tag 'drm-next-2026-08-29' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (121 commits)
drm/xe/sysctrl: Read mailbox phase bit from hardware
drm/xe/i2c: Keep the i2c controller always enabled
drm/xe/i2c: Fix the interrupt handling
i2c: designware: Global register definitions
drm/xe: Reject page faults from non-fault-mode scratch VMs
drm/xe/xe_gt_idle: Add CCS to the powergating info print
drm/xe: Do not apply WA 14025883347 to media 3503
drm/amd/display: fix dc_lock leak on GPU reset error paths
drm/amd/display: Fix redundant GPUVMEnable checks in dcn6 flip schedule
drm/amd/display: Fix wrong bytes-per-pixel value for dml2_422_packed_10
drm/amdkfd: guard against NULL restore_mqd in CRIU queue restore
drm/amdgpu/userq: fix lock missing for userq fence error set
drm/amdkfd: Fix the case that vm range is hole at svm_migrate_copy_to_vram
drm/amdkfd: Fix error path at svm_migrate_copy_to_ram
drm/amd/display: Log details when failing to register HPD IRQ
drm/amd/display: Fix HPD consideration for VGA/LVDS connectors on DCE
drm/amdgpu: clamp the isolation index for rings outside a partition
drm/amdkfd: Reject zero-sized AQL queue allocations after size halving
drm/amdgpu: Fix VCE 3 ring align_mask
drm/kfd: Add CU occupancy support to GFX12.1
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/ubifs
Pull UBI and UBIFS updates from Richard Weinberger:
"UBI:
- Support for a per-device wear-leveling threshold
- Various fixes and cleanups of error paths
- Correctly preserve torture flag up wear-leveling
UBIFS:
- Various fixes and cleanups of error paths and kernel-doc"
* tag 'ubifs-for-linus-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/ubifs:
UBI: support per-device wear-leveling threshold
UBI: fix two issues in the ubi.mtd MODULE_PARM_DESC
mtd: ubi: Release device reference on busy detach
ubi: Fix rollback for explicit UBI device numbers
ubifs: fix out-of-bounds read in signature length check
UBI: fastmap: Pass to_be_tortured when reusing old fastmap PEBs
UBI: Preserve torture flag when rescheduling failed erasures
ubifs: ubifs.h: clean up kernel-doc comments
ubifs: key.h: use correct function parameter name
ubifs: debug.h: fix kernel-doc struct prototypes
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"In this round, key enhancements focus on reducing inode management
memory overhead, introducing resizable tail sections with unified
pinned allocation, and boosting I/O throughput via parallel
multi-device flushes and asynchronous f2fs_write_end_io() execution.
We also add dynamic device alias reservations to allow on-the-fly
space donation from user partitions.
Alongside these features, critical bug fixes resolve folio race
conditions, lingering dirty flags, dentry and block counter leaks, and
potential deadloops in f2fs_fsync_node_pages(). Additional stability
patches address error-path handling across symlink, sync, and
rename/unlink operations, prevent pinned file fragmentation, and
correct segment migration and free section accounting in
free_segment_range.
Enhancements:
- reduce memory footprint of ino management
- support dynamic reserve/release for device aliasing
- issue multi-device flushes in parallel
- add a way to run f2fs_write_end_io() asynchronously
- support resizable tail section and unify pinned allocation
Bug fixes:
- fix to pass folio->index to f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer()
- fix folio_nr_pages() race after put in large folio invalidate
- fix to clear dirty flag on folio in error path
- accurately adjust free_sections during free_segment_range
- fix to avoid potential deadloop in f2fs_fsync_node_pages()
- fix the error path in symlink, device alias in rename/unlink,
f2fs_sync_fs
- fix to migrate all curseg types during free_segment_range
- fix to avoid pinfile fragment on fragment:{block, segment} mode
- fix valid block count leak on data block allocation failure
- fix dentry folio leak in find_in_level
- reject overlapping move range after len expansion
- fix some bugs related to file pinning, GC functions, i_size
And, the series includes a number of minor bug fixes"
* tag 'f2fs-for-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (51 commits)
f2fs: support resizable tail section and unify pinned allocation
f2fs: don't leave the hashed inode while it's unlinked
f2fs: accurately adjust free_sections during free_segment_range
f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadloop in f2fs_fsync_node_pages()
f2fs: use adjusted write range after f2fs_write_checks()
f2fs: fix to propagate error from f2fs_sync_fs()
f2fs: return symlink writeback errors
f2fs: fix error handling on device alias check in rename and unlink
f2fs: fix to reset all pinned status during fggc
f2fs: use f2fs_{down, up}_(read, write}_trace() for nat_tree_lock
f2fs: reduce memory footprint of ino management
f2fs: fix i_size when pinned fallocate partially fails
f2fs: fix to migrate all curseg types during free_segment_range
f2fs: avoid setting SBI_NEED_FSCK on transient resize failure
f2fs: fix to avoid pinfile fragment on fragment:{block, segment} mode
f2fs: cleanup w/ f2fs_need_rand_{blk, seg, seg_blk}
f2fs: fix to shrink gc_lock coverage in f2fs_gc_range()
f2fs: fix to reclaim space in f2fs_allocate_pinning_section()
f2fs: unify add/remove ino entry API for all ino types
f2fs: fix to zero post-EOF data when extending file size
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Including fixes from Bluetooth, IPSec and Netfilter.
Current release - fix to a fix:
- netfilter: ipset: remove need to allocate memory on delete operations
Current release - regressions:
- macb: drop CONFIG_OF #if block, fix build
Previous releases - always broken:
- stream of fixes for SCTP continues
- inet: frags: strip GSO state from fragments before reassembly
- virtio-net: ensure that TCP packets don't overflow gso_segs
- tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of current_key on reconnect to another
peer
- page_pool: remove zone/policy GFP flags when allocating XArray
entries
- Bluetooth: L2CAP: reject accept queue add unless BT_LISTEN
- tls: device: fix out-of-bounds write in tls_append_frag()
- eth: bnxt:
- ring the doorbell when SW USO exits early, avoid packets stuck
in Tx
- gate TPH enablement behind BNXT_SUPPORTS_QUEUE_API check, avoid
users of older NICs seeing non-actionable warning messages
- eth: qede: fix NULL pointer dereference in TPA fragment processing"
* tag 'net-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (216 commits)
inet: frags: strip GSO state from fragments before reassembly
net/sched: sch_htb: limit htb_classify inner-class filter hops
selftests/net: packetdrill: add tcp_urg_ptr_retransmit
tcp: fix corruption of urgent data on multi-segment retransmit
usb: atm: usbatm: fix invalid ci_range initialization
net: fec: only stop PTP if it was initialized
slip: remove slip_hangup() to fix use-after-free in slip_receive_buf()
net: bridge: mcast: fix use-after-free of a master VLAN's multicast context
net/sched: bound qdisc_pkt_len to prevent qdisc soft lockup
net: dsa: mxl862xx: enable assisted learning on CPU port
net: stmmac: restore NET_IP_ALIGN in the RX DMA offset
net: stmmac: drop gso_enabled_types and rely on netdev features
net: stmmac: selftests: Don't test flow control for small rx fifos
net: stmmac: selftests: Account for the UC filter list for filtering tests
net: stmmac: dwxgmac: Account for the primary MAC address for UC filtering
net: stmmac: dwmac4: Account for the primary MAC address for UC filtering
net: stmmac: dwmac1000: Account for the primary MAC address for UC filtering
net: stmmac: selftests: Check multiple MMC counters
selftests: net: Fix slow configurations in big_tcp_tunnels.sh
selftests: net: Lower threshold with csum offload off in big_tcp_tunnels.sh
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM64:
- Add support for 'slot' based PMU events, paired with new UAPI that
compels the user to select a specific PMU implementation
- Lazy save/restore of vCPU state for pKVM, along with various fixes
and cleanups to the management of vCPU state between the untrusted
host and pKVM hypervisor
- Disable traps of EL1 registers for nested hypervisors when
FEAT_NV2p1 is present, guaranteeing that EL2-specific register bits
are stateful in the EL1 counterpart
- Leverage FEAT_NV3 to avoid unnecessary ERET/TLBI traps when the
scope of those instructions remains 'in host' (i.e. L1
kernel/userspace)
- Pile of fixes for the management of the VNCR pseudo-TLB, such as
under-invalidations and races with concurrent TLBIs on other vCPUs
- Consolidate the non-protected and pKVM view of ICH_VTR_EL2 to a
runtime-patched constant, allowing the same data to be shared with
pKVM prior to dropping host privileges
- Considerable pile of LLM-assisted fixes around the shop but mostly
in the VGIC, our in-kernel generator of bugs (and sometimes
interrupts)
LoongArch:
- Advertise already-supported capabilities
- Some bug fixes about timer and MMIO
- Some hardening about interrupt injection
- Replace kvm_err() with kvm_pr_unimpl()
- Add FPU/LSX/LASX test cases for selftests
RISC-V:
- Svadu/Zicfiss/Zicfilp FWFT support for Guest
- Use try_cmpxchg for IMSIC MRIF RMW
- More arch-specific tracepoints in KVM RISC-V
- Eager page splitting when enabling dirty logging
- Optimize hfence request handling for SMP Guests
- Improve dirty log clearing by skipping zero bits in mask
- Guard HFENCE range loops against overflow
- CPU PM notifiers in KVM RISC-V for non-retentive idle states
- Fix kernel-mode vector context save/restore for Guest
s390:
- Fixes for vfio-ap
- Fixes for the gmap rework
- Fixes for vsie
- AI triggered fixes all over
- diag9c tracing
- code move preparation for the additional arm64 support
- enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS
x86:
- Perform spring cleaning on x86.{c,h} and asm/kvm_host.h, by adding
regs.c (the kvm_cache_regs.h => regs.h is already applied) and
msrs.{c,h}, and moving relevant code out of x86.c
- Split kvm_mmu in three parts, respectively to describe the format
of page tables, walking the guest page tables and building the page
tables. Always use the same page table walker kvm->arch.gva_walk as
the entry point to convert a guest's virtual address, where the
previous code used two different kvm_mmu structs depending on
whether the walk included nested EPT/NPT or not. Make page fault
vmexits reuse the permission checking machinery that is used for
guest page faults. This is both a cleanup and a baby step towards
supporting XS/XU memory permissions
- Document some of the "fun" gotchas with the APIC base when creating
IRQCHIPs on x86
- Remove a defunct masterclock update from kvm_xen_shared_info_init().
It could result in incorrect kvmclock due to triggering an
unnecessary switch to/from masterclock mode
- Skip Xen runstate time updates if time has effectively gone
backwards, so that the guest doesn't report 100% steal time for
a very, very long time
- Drop KVM's runtime updates of the Xen PV timing CPUID leaf, as KVM
was updating the wrong sub-leaf, and upstream KVM will soon provide
all the information needed by userspace to populate the CPUID field
itself
- Fix a bug where KVM would walk a newly created rmap without holding
the rmap lock (or mmu_lock) during aging
- Fix a bug where aging TDP MMU SPTEs could clobber FROZEN SPTEs
- Fix a variety of #DB priority bugs
- Fix a class of races related to enabling Hyper-V emulation on a
vCPU after the vCPU is visible to the rest of KVM
- Use static calls for nested virtualization ops
- Move more KVM-internal code out of x86's kvm_host.h
- Enumerate support for a variety of Zhaoxin instructions that don't
require explicit virtualization
- Fix missing EFER validation bugs, including in the KVM_SET_SREGS*
path
- Harden kvm_vcpu_map() against double-mapping and thus leaking
references
- Misc fixes and cleanups, e.g. for largely benign syzkaller splats
x86 (Intel):
- Zero a vCPU's entry in VMX's Posted Interrupt Descriptor table used
for IPI virtualization when the vCPU is freed, to fix a
use-after-free where hardware will write to a freed vCPU's PID
- Service local TLB flushes on a failed nested VM-Enter to fix a bug
where KVM could miss a TLB on a future, successful VM-Enter with
the same L2 VPID
- Cap the maximum value shoved into the VMX Preemption Timer to
workaround an erratum that affects all existing Intel CPUs that
support CPUID 0x15
- Fix VPID virtualization bugs where KVM would fail to flush hardware
TLBs
- Harden the TDX "populate" ioctls against bad input, and to prepare
for supporting in-place private<=>shared conversion
x86 (AMD):
- Forcefully invalidate SNP VMSA pages if their backing guest_memfd
page is zapped/invalidated, e.g. due to a PUNCH_HOLE in response to
a Page-State Change request
- Remove a dying VM from the GA Log notifier list before the VM is
actually destroyed, to fix a potential use-after-free
- While FOLL_WRITE was needed in the past to trigger CoW unsharing,
nowadays FOLL_LONGTERM does that already even without FOLL_WRITE,
and in fact, get_user_pages() actually disallows FOLL_WRITE
together with FOLL_LONGTERM. So don't pass FOLL_WRITE when
registering encrypted memory regions, i.e. when pinning SEV/SEV-ES
guest memory, to fix a regression with file-backed memory
introduced by KVM's (correct) usage of long-term pins
(This was reviewed by mm maintainers; for more information, see
commit ee1a586dd1fa "KVM: SEV: Drop FOLL_WRITE for encrypted region
registration")
- Allocate full pages for SEV/SEV-ES {DE,EN}CRYPT ops on SNP-enabled
hosts to fix a data corruption issue due to the PSP driver
assigning to-be-written pages to firmware (as required by the SNP
specs)
- Unconditionally intercept ICBEP so that KVM generates the correct
guest RIP when handling an ICEBP-induced TASK_SWITCH #VMEXIT
- Harden the SNP "populate" ioctls against bad input, and to prepare
for supporting in-place private<=>shared conversion
Generic:
- Remove kvm_debugfs_dir if kvm_init() fails after creating KVM's
debugfs
- Add a per-VM bitmap to track which vCPU IDs have been "claimed" but
for which the vCPU isn't yet online, and use the bitmap to reject
duplicate IDs before calling into arch code. This allows arch code
to consume vcpu_id without having to worry about cross-vCPU
clobbering (at least s390 and x86 have had related bugs)
- Rework the so called "prepare" and "invalidate" guest_memfd hooks
to prepare for in-place private<=>shared conversion, and clean up a
few warts along the way
Selftests:
- Automatically allocate a full page for L2 guest stacks on x86
instead of requiring test-specific L1 guest code to carve out a
portion of the L1 stack for L2 usage, and to ensure the L2 stack
also adheres to the x86-64 calling convention ABI
- Add a selftest to verify {Guest,Host}-Only behavior in x86's
mediated PMU
- Clean up nested SVM's handling of GPRs on L2<=>L1 transitions,
reuse the functionality for nested VMX, and drop the ucall hack
that was fudging around the lack of GPR switching on nVMX
- Add a stress test to verify KVM doesn't clobber/drop #PF state,
e.g. CR2, across save/restore, including when L2 is active
- Add a test to verify KVM_CREATE_VM accepts exactly what is reported
by KVM_CAP_VM_TYPES
- Misc selftests fixes and cleanups
- Fix several issues with seeding the pRNG, and rework the pRNG APIs
to that the pRNG can be sanely used in host code, not just guest
code
- Add an IRQ test to validate virtual IRQ deliverty for IRQs wired up
via KVM_IRQFD + KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING, with optional support for
triggering IRQs via writes to an assigned VFIO device
- Add syscall wrappers to assert success on a variety of pthreads and
CPU affinity APIs
- Set vCPU pthread affinity as early as possible to reduce contention
issues that were surfaced by PREEMPT_LAZY, which result in runtimes
of over a minute on large hosts, versus the expected ~5 seconds
- Rework the PMU counters test to run each testcase using a single VM
with many vCPUs for each sub-testcase, instead of using a unique VM
for each sub-testcase. This cuts the runtime by ~20x
Miscellaneous:
- MAINTAINERS updates for vfio-ap, guest_memfd, kvm-x86. Mostly
representing the status quo more accurately, but also... welcome
David Hildenbrand as guest_memfd reviewer!"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (413 commits)
KVM: arm64: Validate GICv5 timer PPIs before claiming ownership
KVM: arm64: vgic: Reject out-of-range GICv5 PPI IDs
KVM: arm64: vgic: Prevent speculative SPI array underflow
KVM: arm64: vgic: Free gic_kvm_info on initialization failure
KVM: arm64: Avoid mismatched accesses to 'struct kvm_nvhe_init_params'
s390/vfio-ap: Fix NULL deref in status_show() during queue probe
s390/vfio-ap: Fix hot-unplug skipped when last AP adapter or domain removed
s390/vfio-ap: fix potential use of uninitialized apm_filtered bitmap
s390/vfio-ap: Fix control domain removal in vfio_ap_mdev_cfg_remove
s390/vfio-ap: Fix required lock not held during update of ap_matrix_mdev object
s390/vfio-ap: Fix missing lock required to access list of ap_matrix_mdev objects
s390/vfio-ap: Fix dereference matrix_mdev->kvm without checking for NULL
s390/vfio-ap: Fix stale do_remove flag across iterations in vfio_ap_mdev_cfg_remove
RISC-V: KVM: fix vcpu vector context handling for kernel-mode vector
riscv: vector: allow non-preemptible kernel-mode vector with IRQs off
riscv: vector: refactor riscv_v_start_kernel_context
KVM: s390: gmap: Make prefix handling optional
KVM: s390: gmap: Make CMMA optional
KVM: s390: gmap: Make storage keys optional
KVM: s390: Prepare gmap for a second KVM implementation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull TTY / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" set of tty and serial driver updates for 7.3-rc1.
Not really all that much happened this development cycle for this
subsystem, changes in here are:
- removal of the ipwireless driver as it's no longer used or needed
- new 8250_mxpcie driver added
- qcom serial driver updates and additions
- vt mode validation addition
- lots of other small serial driver updates and additions
All of these have been in linux-next for weeks with no reported issues"
* tag 'tty-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (97 commits)
serial: imx: serialize imx_uart_ports[] lifetime
tty: clear cdev pointer after cdev_add() failure
tty: skip cdev_del() when no cdev is registered
serial: core: clear freed pointers on uart_register_driver() failure
serial: core: do fallible allocations before the console can be registered
serial: 8250_mxpcie: implement rx_trig_bytes callbacks via MUEx50 RTL
serial: 8250_mxpcie: introduce per-port private data structure
serial: 8250: allow UART drivers to override rx_trig_bytes handling
serial: 8250_mxpcie: add break support for RS485 using MUEx50 features
serial: 8250: allow low-level drivers to override break control
serial: 8250_mxpcie: support serial interface mode switching
serial: 8250_mxpcie: speed up TX using memory-mapped FIFO window
serial: 8250_mxpcie: speed up RX using memory-mapped FIFO window
serial: 8250_mxpcie: add custom handle_irq callback
serial: 8250_mxpcie: offload XON/XOFF flow control to MUEx50 hardware
serial: 8250_mxpcie: enable automatic RTS/CTS flow control
serial: 8250_mxpcie: enable enhanced mode and program FIFO trigger levels
serial: 8250: add Moxa MUEx50 UART port type
serial: 8250: split Moxa PCIe serial board support out of 8250_pci
serial: qcom-geni: Use geni_se_set_perf_level() for baud rate perf level
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of USB and Thunderbolt driver updates for 7.3-rc1.
Lots of driver work for new devices and systems, and many other minor
fixes and updates. Included in here are:
- Thunderbolt subsystem driver updates and additions
- typec driver updates and additions
- usb gadget fixes all over the place, seems like people are finally
paying attention to these drivers for some reason
- xhci driver updates and fixes based on lots of reports
- usb-serial driver updates and additions
- new device ids
- other minor USB driver updates and fixes
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'usb-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (163 commits)
usb: gadget: uvc: fix dangling pointers in uvc_function_bind() and uvc_function_unbind()
usb: typec: hd3ss3220: fix VBUS regulator error message
usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()
usb: gadget: u_audio: Fix use-after-free on sound card disconnect
usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix use-after-free in dwc3_gadget_free_endpoints due to race condition
usb: gadget: f_tcm: keep port count until LUN teardown completes
usb: usbtest: disable dynamic ID support
usb: typec: tcpci: pass correct rx_type to tcpm_pd_receive()
USB: c67x00: fix use-after-free in c67x00_add_iso_urb()
usb: typec: ucsi: use UCSI_TIMEOUT_MS for sync command completion
usb: gadget: snps_udc_plat: clean up PHY on probe deferral
usb: gadget: f_tcm: fix deadlock in usbg_make_tpg()
usb: dwc2: gadget: Exit partial power down state when changing USB pull-up
usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix Use-After-Free in AIO error path
usb: gadget: f_fs: Prevent deadlock during ep0 read loop
usb: gadget: at91_udc: drain polled-VBUS timer/work before udc is freed
usb: gadget: midi2: remove default configfs groups on teardown
usb: gadget: uvc: Fix null pointer dereference in uvcg_video_init()
usb: typec: thunderbolt: Disable work before freeing tbt on remove
usb: xhci: Handle bogus TRB pointers in Missed Service Error events
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc/IIO/etc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char, misc, iio, counter, fpga, and other small
driver subsystems for 7.3-rc1.
Overall, due to some driver removals we only added a bit more code
than removed, which was a nice change. Highlights in this merge
request are:
- Loads of IIO driver updates and additions
- binder driver updates (more on that below...)
- Removal of the SGI XP and GRU drivers as they are not used anymore
and turn out to be pretty insecure overall
- Removal of the obsolete ibmasm driver as it's not being used
anymore
- Coresight driver updates and additions
- Mei driver udpates
- Counter driver updates
- FPGA driver updates
- ICC driver updates
- lots and lots of other tiny driver updates to resolve reported
issues
All of these have been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'char-misc-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (513 commits)
iio: chemical: atlas-sensor: use iio_trigger_poll_nested() to fix remove UAF
iio: adc: pac1921: fix wrong channel used in trigger handler read
iio: light: gp2ap002: re-enable irq if runtime suspend fails
iio: light: gp2ap002: Fix unbalanced runtime PM on repeated event writes
iio: light: apds9306: fix PM reference leak in apds9306_read_data()
iio: gyro: mpu3050: fix sign of raw angular velocity readings
iio: srf04: fix pm_runtime handling on probe error path
iio: adc: ad4080: configure backend data size
iio: adc: adi-axi-adc: add data size support for AD408X backend
iio: chemical: atlas-sensor: fix PM reference leak in buffer postenable
iio: dac: ad5446: fix OF module device table
iio: light: opt4001: Fix reversed GENMASK() arguments in fault count mask
iio: light: opt4001: Reject integration times with a non-zero seconds part
iio: light: opt4001: Fix incompatible pointer type passed to div_u64_rem()
iio: light: opt4001: Fix power down clearing bits of the wrong register
iio: light: opt4060: Fix incorrect register name in threshold read error message
iio: light: opt4060: Fix pointer type passed to div_u64_rem()
iio: light: opt4060: Reject integration times with a non-zero seconds part
iio: light: ltrf216a: fix runtime PM reference leak in error path
iio: pressure: dps310: fix NULL pointer dereference on ACPI probe
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:
- Improve performance of the io-uring transport by introducing buffer
pools and zero-copy (Joanne)
- Fix lots of bugs (Baokun Li)
- Fix io-uring initialization issues (Joanne, Bernd)
- More prep work for large folios (Joanne)
- Don't limit buffered read to 128k (Jim Harris)
- Fix zeroing of page end (dirtied with mmap) on file size extension
(Jimmy Zuber)
- Improve performance in certain cases with wake_up_sync() when queuing
request (Xuewen Yan)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Xuewen Yan)
* tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (35 commits)
fuse: zero the partial EOF page when extending a file
io_uring: Add missing include for ITER_SOURCE and ITER_DEST
fuse: Fix the condition to enable over-io-uring
fuse: invalidate the correct range after O_APPEND direct write
selftests/fuse: test post-EOF page zeroing when a file is extended
fuse: wake one waiter per freed slot when raising max_background
fuse: use min_not_zero() in fuse_init_server_timeout()
fuse: copy request headers via a stack buffer for io-uring
fuse: give wakeup hints to the scheduler for synchronous requests
fuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount
fuse: reject a duplicate fd= mount option
cuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit
fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
fuse: wait for FR_FINISHED on abort_on_kill to prevent use-after-free
fuse: make dentry_tree_work static
docs: fuse: document io-uring buffer pool and zero-copy uapi
fuse: add zero-copy over io-uring
fuse: support registered buffer pools in io-uring
fuse: add io-uring buffer pools
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Extend the allocinfo filtering mechanism to allow users to filter tags
based on their accuracy.
[abhishekbapat@google.com: move `inaccurate` filtering criteria from `struct allocinfo_tag` to `struct allocinfo_filter`]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e4e49ec4a5960292aeeb9e196526c18dc95228a2.1785867739.git.abhishekbapat@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/396a5e4bc3b2990223ab355f2cd3ceb6aa15499e.1783532853.git.abhishekbapat@google.com
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Bapat <abhishekbapat@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Extend the allocinfo filtering mechanism to allow users to filter tags
based on the total number of bytes allocated [min_size, max_size]. The
size range is inclusive.
Filtering by size involves retrieving allocinfo per-CPU counters, which is
an expensive operation. Hence, the performance of size-based filtering
will be worse than other filters.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/0a7653b70ae0d64e967fbea0e933bc35f8ac656e.1783532853.git.abhishekbapat@google.com
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Bapat <abhishekbapat@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Extend the capability of the IOCTL mechanism to filter allocations based
on tag's module name, function name, file name and line number.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/6a6100c0c58cb2911f39126b9fe177a8c17db16f.1783532853.git.abhishekbapat@google.com
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Bapat <abhishekbapat@google.com>
Acked-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP", v8.
Currently, memory allocation profiling data is primarily exposed through
/proc/allocinfo. While useful for manual inspection, this text-based
interface poses challenges for production monitoring and large-scale
analysis:
1. Userspace must parse large amounts of text to extract specific
fields.
2. To find specific tags, userspace must read the entire dataset,
requiring many context switches and high data copying.
3. The kernel currently aggregates per-CPU counters for every allocation
size, even those the user intends to filter out immediately.
This series introduces a new IOCTL-based binary interface for allocinfo
that supports kernel-side filtering. By allowing the user to specify a
filter mask, we significantly reduce the work perform |
