linux/arch/arc, branch v6.17

ARC: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names

2025-07-15T05:27:46Z

Instead of having the core code guess the note name for each regset, use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to pick the correct name from elf.h. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Akihiko Odaki Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701135616.29630-5-Dave.Martin@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'arc-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc

2025-06-12T15:17:56Z

Pull ARC fixes from Vineet Gupta: - arch_atomic64_cmpxchg relaxed variant [Jason] - use of inbuilt swap in stack unwinder [Yu-Chun Lin] - use of __ASSEMBLER__ in kernel headers [Thomas Huth] * tag 'arc-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: ARC: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in the non-uapi headers ARC: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers ARC: unwind: Use built-in sort swap to reduce code size and improve performance ARC: atomics: Implement arch_atomic64_cmpxchg using _relaxed

mm: pgtable: fix pte_swp_exclusive

2025-06-11T21:52:08Z

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 Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Sam James 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

ARC: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in the non-uapi headers

2025-06-09T16:18:12Z

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 on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now. This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement). Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in uapi headers

2025-06-09T16:18:12Z

__ASSEMBLY__ is only defined by the Makefile of the kernel, so this is not really useful for uapi headers (unless the userspace Makefile defines it, too). Let's switch to __ASSEMBLER__ which gets set automatically by the compiler when compiling assembly code. Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: unwind: Use built-in sort swap to reduce code size and improve performance

2025-06-09T16:18:12Z

The custom swap function used in sort() was identical to the default built-in sort swap. Remove the custom swap function and passes NULL to sort(), allowing it to use the default swap function. This change reduces code size and improves performance, particularly when CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE is enabled. With RETPOLINE mitigation, indirect function calls incur significant overhead, and using the default swap function avoids this cost. $ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ./unwind.o.old ./unwind.o.new add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-22 (-22) Function old new delta init_unwind_hdr.constprop 544 540 -4 swap_eh_frame_hdr_table_entries 18 - -18 Total: Before=4410, After=4388, chg -0.50% Signed-off-by: Yu-Chun Lin Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: atomics: Implement arch_atomic64_cmpxchg using _relaxed

2025-06-09T16:18:12Z

The core atomic code has a number of macros where it elaborates architecture primitives into more functions. ARC uses arch_atomic64_cmpxchg() as it's architecture primitive which disable alot of the additional functions. Instead provide arch_cmpxchg64_relaxed() as the primitive and rely on the core macros to create arch_cmpxchg64(). The macros will also provide other functions, for instance, try_cmpxchg64_release(), giving a more complete implementation. Suggested-by: Mark Rutland Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z0747n5bSep4_1VX@J2N7QTR9R3 Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-06-07T17:05:35Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which exports a symbol only to specified modules - Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms - Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n - Add checkers for redundant or missing inclusion - Deprecate the extra-y syntax - Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files * tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits) genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES} efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include when W=1 scripts/misc-check: check missing #include when W=1 scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation kconfig: introduce menu type enum docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers ...

arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds

2025-06-07T05:38:07Z

The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN), which behaves equivalently. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-05-31T22:44:16Z

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. This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM" branch, but I goofed. - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get at the info about guard regions. - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error. - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of using more current facilities. - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are enabled for ARM. - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables. This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page tables". This change does result in various architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur. - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures. - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've been missing for 15 years. - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to load this particular operation. - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly reduced. - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code. - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit. - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON for memory tiering. - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan found via code inspection. - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset settings to violated. This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently. - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code. - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization. - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios. - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved. - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping ranges of invalid pfns. - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases. - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when using JFS. - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more appropriate mm/vma.c. - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index() function. - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that. - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the test_memcontrol selftest. - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging. - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement. - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and documents. - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement. - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the hugetlb code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits) mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range() mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private() memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject() mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat() mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs ...