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2026-04-15Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of ↵Linus Torvalds-43/+64
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...
2026-04-05Docs/mm/damon: document min_nr_regions constraint and rationaleLiew Rui Yan-0/+7
The current DAMON implementation requires 'min_nr_regions' to be at least 3. However, this constraint is not explicitly documented in the admin-guide documents, nor is its design rationale explained in the design document. Add a section in design.rst to explain the rationale: the virtual address space monitoring design needs to handle at least three regions to accommodate two large unmapped areas. While this is specific to 'vaddr', DAMON currently enforces it across all operation sets for consistency. Also update reclaim.rst and lru_sort.rst by adding cross-references to this constraint within their respective 'min_nr_regions' parameter description sections, ensuring users are aware of the lower bound. This change is motivated from a recent discussion [1]. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260320052428.213230-1-aethernet65535@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20260319151528.86490-1-sj@kernel.org/T/#t [1] Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMON actions when TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is offAsier Gutierrez-2/+6
MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE are guarded and they are not available when compiling the kernel without TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE option. The DAMON behaviour is to silently fail [1] in when DAMOS_HUGEPAGE or DAMOS_NOHUGEPAGE are used, but TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is disabled. Update the DAMON documentation to reflect this behaviour. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260318035349.88715-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/66131775-180b-4b9f-b7ce-61a3e077b6e6@huawei-partners.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Asier Gutierrez <gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05Docs/mm/damon: document exclusivity of special-purpose modulesLiew Rui Yan-0/+4
Add a section in design.rst to explain that DAMON special-purpose kernel modules (LRU_SORT, RECLAIM, STAT) run in an exclusive manner and return -EBUSY if another is already running. Update lru_sort.rst, reclaim.rst and stat.rst by adding cross-references to this exclusivity rule at the end of their respective Example sections. This change is motivated from another discussion [1]. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260315162945.80994-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20260314002119.79742-1-sj@kernel.org/T/#t [1] Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05Docs/mm/damon/design: document the goal-based quota tuner selectionsSeongJae Park-0/+12
Update the design document for the newly added goal-based quota tuner selection feature. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260310010529.91162-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05Docs/mm/damon/index: fix typo: autoamted -> automatedSeongJae Park-1/+1
There is an obvious typo. Fix it (s/autoamted/automated/). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260307195356.203753-8-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 32d11b320897 ("Docs/mm/damon/index: simplify the intro") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: use flexible review cadenceSeongJae Park-4/+4
The document mentions the maitainer is working in the usual 9-5 fashion. The maintainer nowadays prefers working in a more flexible way. Update the document to avoid contributors having a wrong time expectation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260307195356.203753-7-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05Docs/mm/damon/design: document the power-of-two limitation for addr_unitSeongJae Park-0/+2
The min_region_sz is set as max(DAMON_MIN_REGION_SZ / addr_unit, 1). DAMON_MIN_REGION_SZ is the same to PAGE_SIZE, and addr_unit is what the user can arbitrarily set. Commit c80f46ac228b ("mm/damon/core: disallow non-power of two min_region_sz") made min_region_sz to always be a power of two. Hence, addr_unit should be a power of two when it is smaller than PAGE_SIZE. While 'addr_unit' is a user-exposed parameter, the rule is not documented. This can confuse users. Specifically, if the user sets addr_unit as a value that is smaller than PAGE_SIZE and not a power of two, the setup will explicitly fail. Document the rule on the design document. Usage documents reference the design document for detail, so updating only the design document should suffice. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260307194222.202075-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05Documentation: fix a hugetlbfs reservation statementJane Chu-1/+1
Documentation/mm/hugetlbfs_reserv.rst has if (resv_needed <= (resv_huge_pages - free_huge_pages)) resv_huge_pages += resv_needed; which describes this code in gather_surplus_pages() needed = (h->resv_huge_pages + delta) - h->free_huge_pages; if (needed <= 0) { h->resv_huge_pages += delta; return 0; } which means if there are enough free hugepages to account for the new reservation, simply update the global reservation count without further action. But the description is backwards, it should be if (resv_needed <= (free_huge_pages - resv_huge_pages)) instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260302201015.1824798-1-jane.chu@oracle.com Fixes: 70bc0dc578b3 ("Documentation: vm, add hugetlbfs reservation overview") Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05hugetlb: update vmemmap_dedup.rstKiryl Shutsemau-34/+26
Update the documentation regarding vmemmap optimization for hugetlb to reflect the changes in how the kernel maps the tail pages. Fake heads no longer exist. Remove their description. [kas@kernel.org: update vmemmap_dedup.rst] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260302105630.303492-1-kas@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227194302.274384-18-kas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05mm: rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info'Kiryl Shutsemau-3/+3
The 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' encodes whether the page is a tail and where to locate the head page. Bit 0 is set if the page is a tail, and the remaining bits in the field point to the head page. As preparation for changing how the field encodes information about the head page, rename the field to 'compound_info'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227194302.274384-4-kas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-03-17Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst: fix typos and grammar.Ariful Islam Shoikot-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260317120614.51046-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
2026-03-09Documentation/mm: Fix typo in NUMA paragraphAriful Islam Shoikot-1/+1
Fixed a typo in Documentation/mm/numa.rst: -changed 'allocated' to 'allocate' in the paragraph about memoryless nodes. Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260307114006.33183-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
2026-02-15Merge tag 'docs-7.0-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds-6/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of small, late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: docs: toshiba_haps: fix grammar error in SSD warning Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page_tables.rst Docs/core-api: fix typos in rbtree.rst docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst docs: process: maintainer-pgp-guide: update kernel.org docs link docs: kdoc_parser: allow __exit in function prototypes
2026-02-14Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page_tables.rstMin-Hsun Chang-6/+6
Correct several spelling and grammatical errors in the page tables documentation. This includes: - Fixing "a address" to "an address" - Fixing "pfs" to "pfns" - Correcting the possessive "Torvald's" to "Torvalds's" - Fixing "instruction that want" to "instruction that wants" - Fixing "code path" to "code paths" Signed-off-by: Min-Hsun Chang <chmh0624@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260209145603.96664-1-chmh0624@gmail.com>
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of ↵Linus Torvalds-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds-32/+41
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 ...
2026-02-10Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of ↵Linus Torvalds-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "Lock debugging: - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features (Marco Elver) We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code. Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited in distribution, admittedly) Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives. ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back, if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. ) Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng) - Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool> - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for helper LTO - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function calls WW mutexes: - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz) Misc fixes and cleanups: - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd Bergmann) - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra) - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap) - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir Duberstein)" * tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits) locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers tomoyo: Use scoped init guard crypto: Use scoped init guard kcov: Use scoped init guard compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers ...
2026-01-31Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: remove damon-tests/perf suggestionSeongJae Park-2/+1
The DAMON performance tests [1] use PARSEC 3.0 as its major test workloads. But the official web site for PARSEC 3.0 has gone, so there is no easy way to get the benchmark. Mainly due to the fact, DAMON performance tests are difficult to run, and effectively broken. Do not request running it for now. Instead, suggest running any benchmarks or real world workloads that make sense for performance changes. [1] https://github.com/damonitor/damon-tests/tree/master/perf Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260118180305.70023-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: fix wrong MAITNAINERS section nameSeongJae Park-2/+2
Commit 9044cbe50a70 ("MAINTAINERS: rename DAMON section") renamed the section for DAMON from "DATA ACCESS MONITOR" to "DAMON". But the commit forgot updating the name on the maintainer-profile document. Update. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260118180305.70023-8-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: introduce DAMON modules at the beginningSeongJae Park-0/+2
DAMON usage document provides a list of available DAMON interfaces with brief introduction at the beginning of the doc. The list is missing DAMON modules for special purposes, while it is one of the major suggested interfaces. Add an item for those to the list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260118180305.70023-6-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31Docs/mm/damon/design: add reference to DAMON_STAT usageSeongJae Park-1/+1
Design document's special-purpose DAMON modules section is providing the list of links to the usage documents of existing DAMON modules. It is missing the link for DAMON_STAT, though. Add the missed link. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260118180305.70023-5-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMON sample modulesSeongJae Park-0/+13
People sometimes get confused about the purposes of DAMON special-purpose modules and sample modules. Clarify those on the design document by adding a section describing their existence and purposes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260118180305.70023-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31Docs/mm/damon/design: link repology instead of Fedora packageSeongJae Park-2/+2
The document is introducing Fedora as one way to get DAMON user-space tool (damo) from OS-providing packaging system. Linux distros more than Fedora are providing damo with their packaging systems, though. Replace the Fedora part with the repology.org page that shows damo packaging status for multiple Linux distros. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260118180305.70023-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31Docs/mm/damon/index: simplify the introSeongJae Park-22/+9
Patch series "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc". Update DAMON documentations for wordsmithing, clarifications, and miscellaneous outdated things with eight patches. Patch 1 simplifies the brief introduction of DAMON. Patch 2 updates DAMON user-space tool packaged distros information on design doc to include not only Fedora, but refer to repology. Three following patches update design and usage documents for clarifying DAMON sample modules purposes (patch 3), and outdated information about usages of DAMON modules (patches 4 and 5). Final three patches update usage and maintainer-profile for sysfs refresh_ms feature behavior (patch 6), synchronize DAMON MAINTAINERS section name (patch 7), and broken damon-tests performance tests (patch 8). This patch (of 8): The intro is a bit verbose and redundant. Simplify it by replacing details with more links to the design docs, and refining the design points list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260118180305.70023-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260118180305.70023-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMOS_QUOTA_[IN]ACTIVE_MEM_BPSeongJae Park-0/+4
Update design document for newly added DAMOS_QUOTA_[IN]ACTIVE_MEM_BP metrics. Note that API document is automatically updated by kernel-doc comment, and the usage document points to the design document which uses keywords same to that for sysfs inputs. Hence updating only design document is sufficient. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113152717.70459-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory modelMike Rapoport (Microsoft)-3/+0
Every architecture calls sparse_init() during setup_arch() although the data structures created by sparse_init() are not used until the initialization of the core MM. Beside the code duplication, calling sparse_init() from architecture specific code causes ordering differences of vmemmap and HVO initialization on different architectures. Move the call to sparse_init() from architecture specific code to free_area_init() to ensure that vmemmap and HVO initialization order is always the same. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-25-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-26kho: docs: combine concepts and FDT documentationMike Rapoport (Microsoft)-1/+1
Currently index.rst in KHO documentation looks empty and sad as it only contains links to "Kexec Handover Concepts" and "KHO FDT" chapters. Inline contents of these chapters into index.rst to provide a single coherent chapter describing KHO. While on it, drop parts of the KHO FDT description that will be superseded by addition of KHO ABI documentation. [rppt@kernel.org: fix Documentation/core-api/kho/index.rst] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aV4bnHlBXGpT_FMc@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Jason Miu <jasonmiu@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20Docs/mm/damon/design: update for max_nr_snapshotsSeongJae Park-0/+5
Update DAMON design document for the newly added snapshot level DAMOS deactivation feature, max_nr_snapshots. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216080128.42991-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20Docs/mm/damon/design: update for nr_snapshots damos statSeongJae Park-0/+2
Update DAMON design document for the newly added damos stat, nr_snapshots. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216080128.42991-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-20Docs/mm/allocation-profiling: describe sysctrl limitations in debug modeSuren Baghdasaryan-0/+10
When CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y, /proc/sys/vm/mem_profiling is read-only to avoid debug warnings in a scenario when an allocation is made while profiling is disabled (allocation does not get an allocation tag), then profiling gets enabled and allocation gets freed (warning due to the allocation missing allocation tag). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116184423.2708363-1-surenb@google.com Fixes: ebdf9ad4ca98 ("memprofiling: documentation") Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-05compiler-context-analysis: Remove __cond_lock() function-like helperMarco Elver-3/+3
As discussed in [1], removing __cond_lock() will improve the readability of trylock code. Now that Sparse context tracking support has been removed, we can also remove __cond_lock(). Change existing APIs to either drop __cond_lock() completely, or make use of the __cond_acquires() function attribute instead. In particular, spinlock and rwlock implementations required switching over to inline helpers rather than statement-expressions for their trylock_* variants. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250207082832.GU7145@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [1] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-25-elver@google.com
2025-12-06Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of ↵Linus Torvalds-0/+24
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko) fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight) enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up the test module for these library functions - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich) makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB debugger - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang) adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several users away from their private implementations - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet) makes TCP a little faster - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin) reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin) increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin) is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the cover letter: This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition. As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec reboot. Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and testing work. - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain) moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can hopefully be removed one day - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport) fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc() regions * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits) calibrate: update header inclusion Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()" vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec test_kho: always print restore status kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree() selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h ...
2025-12-05Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds-16/+62
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki) Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT) "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin) Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited across fork/exec "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park) Some light maintenance work on the zswap code "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over time "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn) Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra) Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov) "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom) Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang) Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting code "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn) Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were causing (harmless) softlockup warnings "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang) Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park) Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan) Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare() "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu) Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a stale kernel pagetable entry "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang) Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song) Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park) "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park) Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the middle of the current targets list "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo) A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He) improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista) Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes) Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park) Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit tests "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang) Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's writeback-for-eviction code "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu) Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region operations "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox) Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park) Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that VMA is merged with another "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh) Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone device-private memory "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan) "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang) Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song) Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem, wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang) A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio writeback support "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt) Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola) Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang) Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park) Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park) Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things up a little [ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu: register device memory for poison handling") because it looks broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity mm: declare VMA flags by bit zram: fix a spelling mistake mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational ...
2025-11-27docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUOPratyush Yadav-0/+24
Add the documentation under the "Preserving file descriptors" section of LUO's documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-16-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de> Co-developed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com> Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr> Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev> Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm/zone_device: rename page_free callback to folio_freeBalbir Singh-1/+1
Change page_free to folio_free to make the folio support for zone device-private more consistent. The PCI P2PDMA callback has also been updated and changed to folio_free() as a result. For drivers that do not support folios (yet), the folio is converted back into page via &folio->page and the page is used as is, in the current callback implementation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001065707.920170-3-balbirs@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@intel.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: fix grammatical errorsSeongJae Park-4/+4
Fix a few grammatical errors on DAMON maintainer-profile. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251112154114.66053-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: fix a typo on mm-untable linkSeongJae Park-1/+1
Commit 0b473f9e6eac ("Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: update for mm-new tree") mistakenly forgot putting a space between a link and the next word. Fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251112154114.66053-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-20mm: add vma_start_write_killable()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)-1/+8
Patch series "vma_start_write_killable"", v2. When we added the VMA lock, we made a major oversight in not adding a killable variant. That can run us into trouble where a thread takes the VMA lock for read (eg handling a page fault) and then goes out to lunch for an hour (eg doing reclaim). Another thread tries to modify the VMA, taking the mmap_lock for write, then attempts to lock the VMA for write. That blocks on the first thread, and ensures that every other page fault now tries to take the mmap_lock for read. Because everything's in an uninterruptible sleep, we can't kill the task, which makes me angry. This patchset just adds vma_start_write_killable() and converts one caller to use it. Most users are somewhat tricky to convert, so expect follow-up individual patches per call-site which need careful analysis to make sure we've done proper cleanup. This patch (of 2): The vma can be held read-locked for a substantial period of time, eg if memory allocation needs to go into reclaim. It's useful to be able to send fatal signals to threads which are waiting for the write lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110203204.1454057-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110203204.1454057-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Chris Li <chriscli@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16Docs/mm/damon/design: fix wrong link to intervals goal sectionSeongJae Park-2/+2
Commit b243d666d107 ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: add intervals_goal directory on the hierarchy") mistakenly added a wrong reference for intervals goal usage documentation on the design document. Fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251026182216.118200-3-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16Docs/mm/damon/design: document DAMOS_QUOTA_NODE_MEMCG_{USED,FREE}_BPSeongJae Park-6/+15
Update design doc for the newly added two DAMOS quota auto-tuning target goal metrics, DAMOS_QUOTA_NODE_MEMCG_{USED,FREE}_BP. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251017212706.183502-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm/page_owner: update Documentation with 'show_handles' and ↵Mauricio Faria de Oliveira-1/+31
'show_stacks_handles' Describe and provide examples for 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001175611.575861-6-mfo@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-03Documentation: treewide: Replace marc.info links with loreBagas Sanjaya-1/+1
In the past, people would link to third-party mailing list archives (like marc.info) for any kernel-related discussions. Now that there is lore archive under kernel.org infrastructure, replace these marc links Note that the only remaining marc link is "Re: Memory mapping on Cirrus EP9315" [1] since that thread is not available at lore [2]. [1]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=110061245502000&w=2 [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/?q=b%3A%22Re%3A+Memory+mapping+on+Cirrus+EP9315%22 Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251031043358.23709-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
2025-10-05Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-03-16-49' of ↵Linus Torvalds-6/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Only two patch series in this pull request: - "mm/memory_hotplug: fixup crash during uevent handling" from Hannes Reinecke fixes a race that was causing udev to trigger a crash in the memory hotplug code - "mm_slot: following fixup for usage of mm_slot_entry()" from Wei Yang adds some touchups to the just-merged mm_slot changes" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-03-16-49' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm/khugepaged: use KMEM_CACHE() mm/ksm: cleanup mm_slot_entry() invocation Documentation/mm: drop pxx_mkdevmap() descriptions from page table helpers mm: clean up is_guard_pte_marker() drivers/base: move memory_block_add_nid() into the caller mm/memory_hotplug: activate node before adding new memory blocks drivers/base/memory: add node id parameter to add_memory_block()
2025-10-03Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds-0/+2
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...
2025-10-03Documentation/mm: drop pxx_mkdevmap() descriptions from page table helpersAnshuman Khandual-6/+0
Remove pxx_mkdevmap() descriptions, as these helper functions have already been dropped (including DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE test) via the commit d438d2734170 ("mm: remove devmap related functions and page table bits"). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250929120045.1109707-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: update community meetup for reservation ↵SeongJae Park-11/+6
requirements DAMON community meetup was having two different kinds of meetups: reservation required ones and unrequired ones. Now the reservation unrequested one is gone, but the documentation on the maintainer-profile is not updated. Update. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916032339.115817-4-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21docs/mm: add document for swap tableChris Li-0/+70
Patch series "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)", v4. This is the first phase of the bigger series implementing basic infrastructures for the Swap Table idea proposed at the LSF/MM/BPF topic "Integrate swap cache, swap maps with swap allocator" [1]. To give credit where it is due, this is based on Chris Li's idea and a prototype of using cluster size atomic arrays to implement swap cache. This phase I contains 15 patches, introduces the swap table infrastructure and uses it as the swap cache backend. By doing so, we have up to ~5-20% performance gain in throughput, RPS or build time for benchmark and workload tests. The speed up is due to less contention on the swap cache access and shallower swap cache lookup path. The cluster size is much finer-grained than the 64M address space split, which is removed in this phase I. It also unifies and cleans up the swap code base. Each swap cluster will dynamically allocate the swap table, which is an atomic array to cover every swap slot in the cluster. It replaces the swap cache backed by XArray. In phase I, the static allocated swap_map still co-exists with the swap table. The memory usage is about the same as the original on average. A few exception test cases show about 1% higher in memory usage. In the following phases of the series, swap_map will merge into the swap table without additional memory allocation. It will result in net memory reduction compared to the original swap cache. Testing has shown that phase I has a significant performance improvement from 8c/1G ARM machine to 48c96t/128G x86_64 servers in many practical workloads. The full picture with a summary can be found at [2]. An older bigger series of 28 patches is posted at [3]. vm-scability test: ================== Test with: usemem --init-time -O -y -x -n 31 1G (4G memcg, PMEM as swap) Before: After: System time: 219.12s 158.16s (-27.82%) Sum Throughput: 4767.13 MB/s 6128.59 MB/s (+28.55%) Single process Throughput: 150.21 MB/s 196.52 MB/s (+30.83%) Free latency: 175047.58 us 131411.87 us (-24.92%) usemem --init-time -O -y -x -n 32 1536M (16G memory, global pressure, PMEM as swap) Before: After: System time: 356.16s 284.68s (-20.06%) Sum Throughput: 4648.35 MB/s 5453.52 MB/s (+17.32%) Single process Throughput: 141.63 MB/s 168.35 MB/s (+18.86%) Free latency: 499907.71 us 484977.03 us (-2.99%) This shows an improvement of more than 20% improvement in most readings. Build kernel test: ================== The following result matrix is from building kernel with defconfig on tmpfs with ZSWAP / ZRAM, using different memory pressure and setups. Measuring sys and real time in seconds, less is better (user time is almost identical as expected): -j<NR> / Mem | Sys before / after | Real before / after Using 16G ZRAM with memcg limit: 6 / 192M | 9686 / 9472 -2.21% | 2130 / 2096 -1.59% 12 / 256M | 6610 / 6451 -2.41% | 827 / 812 -1.81% 24 / 384M | 5938 / 5701 -3.37% | 414 / 405 -2.17% 48 / 768M | 4696 / 4409 -6.11% | 188 / 182 -3.19% With 64k folio: 24 / 512M | 4222 / 4162 -1.42% | 326 / 321 -1.53% 48 / 1G | 3688 / 3622 -1.79% | 151 / 149 -1.32% With ZSWAP with 3G memcg (using higher limit due to kmem account): 48 / 3G | 603 / 581 -3.65% | 81 / 80 -1.23% Testing extremely high global memory and schedule pressure: Using ZSWAP with 32G NVMEs in a 48c VM that has 4G memory, no memcg limit, system components take up about 1.5G already, using make -j48 to build defconfig: Before: sys time: 2069.53s real time: 135.76s After: sys time: 2021.13s (-2.34%) real time: 134.23s (-1.12%) On another 48c 4G memory VM, using 16G ZRAM as swap, testing make -j48 with same config: Before: sys time: 1756.96s real time: 111.01s After: sys time: 1715.90s (-2.34%) real time: 109.51s (-1.35%) All cases are more or less faster, and no regression even under extremely heavy global memory pressure. Redis / Valkey bench: ===================== The test machine is a ARM64 VM with 1536M memory 12 cores, Redis is set to use 2500M memory, and ZRAM swap size is set to 5G: Testing with: redis-benchmark -r 2000000 -n 2000000 -d 1024 -c 12 -P 32 -t get no BGSAVE with BGSAVE Before: 487576.06 RPS 280016.02 RPS After: 487541.76 RPS (-0.01%) 300155.32 RPS (+7.19%) Testing with: redis-benchmark -r 2500000 -n 2500000 -d 1024 -c 12 -P 32 -t get no BGSAVE with BGSAVE Before: 466789.59 RPS 281213.92 RPS After: 466402.89 RPS (-0.08%) 298411.84 RPS (+6.12%) With BGSAVE enabled, most Redis memory will have a swap count > 1 so swap cache is heavily in use. We can see a about 6% performance gain. No BGSAVE is very slightly slower (<0.1%) due to the higher memory pressure of the co-existence of swap_map and swap table. This will be optimzed into a net gain and up to 20% gain in BGSAVE case in the following phases. HDD swap is also ~40% faster with usemem because we removed an old contention workaround. This patch (of 15): Swap table is the new swap cache. [chrisl@kernel.org: move swap table document, redo swap table size sentence] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACePvbXjaUyzB_9RSSSgR6BNvz+L9anvn0vcNf_J0jD7-4Yy6Q@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916160100.31545-1-ryncsn@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250514201729.48420-1-ryncsn@gmail.com/ [3] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916160100.31545-2-ryncsn@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/CAMgjq7BvQ0ZXvyLGp2YP96+i+6COCBBJCYmjXHGBnfisCAb8VA@mail.gmail.com [1] Link: https://github.com/ryncsn/linux/tree/kasong/devel/swap-table [2] Signed-off-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Suggested-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document addr_unit fileSeongJae Park-0/+2
Document addr_unit DAMON sysfs file on DAMON usage document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250828171242.59810-10-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Quanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: ze zuo <zuoze1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13Docs/mm/damon/design: document 'address unit' parameterSeongJae Park-1/+13
Add 'addr_unit' parameter description on DAMON design document. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250828171242.59810-9-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Quanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Liam 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: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: ze zuo <zuoze1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>