linux/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v6.14

Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-v6.14-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-03-09T19:23:14Z

Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada: - Use the specified $(LD) when building userprogs with Clang - Pass the correct target triple when compile-testing UAPI headers with Clang - Fix pacman-pkg build error with KBUILD_OUTPUT * tag 'kbuild-fixes-v6.14-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: kbuild: install-extmod-build: Fix build when specifying KBUILD_OUTPUT docs: Kconfig: fix defconfig description kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang kbuild: userprogs: use correct lld when linking through clang

docs: Kconfig: fix defconfig description

2025-03-04T19:07:06Z

Commit 2a86f6612164 ("kbuild: use KBUILD_DEFCONFIG as the fallback for DEFCONFIG_LIST") removed arch/$ARCH/defconfig; however, the document has not been updated to reflect this change yet. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

coredump: Only sort VMAs when core_sort_vma sysctl is set

2025-02-24T18:51:57Z

The sorting of VMAs by size in commit 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores") breaks elfutils[1]. Instead, sort based on the setting of the new sysctl, core_sort_vma, which defaults to 0, no sorting. Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250218085407.61126-1-michael@stapelberg.de/ [1] Fixes: 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-01-28T17:01:36Z

Pull KVM/arm64 updates from Will Deacon: "New features: - Support for non-protected guest in protected mode, achieving near feature parity with the non-protected mode - Support for the EL2 timers as part of the ongoing NV support - Allow control of hardware tracing for nVHE/hVHE Improvements, fixes and cleanups: - Massive cleanup of the debug infrastructure, making it a bit less awkward and definitely easier to maintain. This should pave the way for further optimisations - Complete rewrite of pKVM's fixed-feature infrastructure, aligning it with the rest of KVM and making the code easier to follow - Large simplification of pKVM's memory protection infrastructure - Better handling of RES0/RES1 fields for memory-backed system registers - Add a workaround for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X CPUs, which suffer from a pretty nasty timer bug - Small collection of cleanups and low-impact fixes" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (87 commits) arm64/sysreg: Get rid of TRFCR_ELx SysregFields KVM: arm64: nv: Fix doc header layout for timers KVM: arm64: nv: Apply RESx settings to sysreg reset values KVM: arm64: nv: Always evaluate HCR_EL2 using sanitising accessors KVM: arm64: Fix selftests after sysreg field name update coresight: Pass guest TRFCR value to KVM KVM: arm64: Support trace filtering for guests KVM: arm64: coresight: Give TRBE enabled state to KVM coresight: trbe: Remove redundant disable call arm64/sysreg/tools: Move TRFCR definitions to sysreg tools: arm64: Update sysreg.h header files KVM: arm64: Drop pkvm_mem_transition for host/hyp donations KVM: arm64: Drop pkvm_mem_transition for host/hyp sharing KVM: arm64: Drop pkvm_mem_transition for FF-A KVM: arm64: Explicitly handle BRBE traps as UNDEFINED KVM: arm64: vgic: Use str_enabled_disabled() in vgic_v3_probe() arm64: kvm: Introduce nvhe stack size constants KVM: arm64: Fix nVHE stacktrace VA bits mask KVM: arm64: Fix FEAT_MTE in pKVM Documentation: Update the behaviour of "kvm-arm.mode" ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-01-27T02:36:23Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs. - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a refcount inc & dec - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to use large folios other than PMD-sized ones - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part of the mapletree code - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a few minor code cleanups - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and a test for the mapletree code - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the (relatively) new mm/vma.c - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the page allocator - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue. It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are accumulated: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/ Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests code when optional compiler warnings are enabled - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of __GFP_HARDWALL - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly pertaining to the pkeys tests - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to estimate application working set size - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare use-after-free race is fixed - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging logic - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in improvements in accounting accuracy - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes DAMON's sysfs file interface logic - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is presented in response to DAMOS actions - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the migration to sysfs is completed - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation accounting - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting), but also inclusion (allowing) behavior - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of memory descriptors - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel build time with swap-on-zram - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal" from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that mmap_region() can be made MM-internal - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae Park updates DAMON documentation - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb folios, THP folios and migration - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when reading/writing fast devices - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags() tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us() seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin() mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page() mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch() mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type() selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy() kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags() selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue ...

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: update snapshot example

2025-01-26T04:22:39Z

Two of DAMON user-space tool (damo) commands that are used for examples on DAMON getting started document, namely 'damo show' and 'damo report heats' are deprecated[1,2], and replaced by new commands that provides same functions with unified and simplified user interfaces. Also the example output of 'damo show' is outdated. 'damo schemes' command is not deprecated, but users are recommended to use 'damo start' or 'damo tune' instead. Update the examples to use the replacements, recommendations, and up-to-date output formats. [1] https://git.kernel.org/sj/damo/c/3272e0ac94ecc5e1 [2] https://git.kernel.org/sj/damo/c/da3ec66bbdd9e87d Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110185232.54907-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Honggyu Kim Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Yunjeong Mun Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix and add missing DAMOS filter sysfs files on files hierarchy

2025-01-26T04:22:39Z

DAMOS filter directory part of DAMON sysfs files hierarchy on the usage document is wrong. 'memcg_path' file under the directory is wrongly written as 'memcg_id'. Also the directory has 'addr_start', 'addr_end', and 'target_idx' files, but the list is missing those. Fix the wrong name and add missing files. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110185232.54907-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Honggyu Kim Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Yunjeong Mun Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMOS filter 'allow' sysfs file

2025-01-26T04:22:33Z

Update DAMON usage document for the newly added 'allow' sysfs file for DAMOS filters. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109175126.57878-11-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: omit DAMOS filter details in favor of design doc

2025-01-26T04:22:32Z

DAMON usage document is describing some details about DAMOS filters, which are also documented on the design doc. Deduplicate the details in favor of the design doc. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109175126.57878-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove DAMON debugfs interface documentation

2025-01-26T04:22:28Z

It's time to remove DAMON debugfs interface, which has deprecated long before in February 2023. Read the cover letter of this patch series for more details. Remove DAMON debugfs interface usage documentation, to avoid confusing users with documents for an already removed thing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250106191941.107070-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: David Gow Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn> Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Rae Moar Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Yanteng Si Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton