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<title>linux.git/arch/microblaze/include, branch v6.18.21</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T18:37:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T18:37:50+00:00</published>
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Pull misc non-vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted dead code removal around asm/pgtable.h"

* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  alpha: unobfuscate _PAGE_P() definition
  kill FIRST_USER_PGD_NR
  alpha: get rid of the remnants of BAD_PAGE and friends
  SET_PAGE_DIR() users had been gone since 2.3.12pre1
  PAGE_PTR() had been last used outside of arch/* in 1.1.94
  csky: remove BS check for FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY
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Pull misc non-vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted dead code removal around asm/pgtable.h"

* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  alpha: unobfuscate _PAGE_P() definition
  kill FIRST_USER_PGD_NR
  alpha: get rid of the remnants of BAD_PAGE and friends
  SET_PAGE_DIR() users had been gone since 2.3.12pre1
  PAGE_PTR() had been last used outside of arch/* in 1.1.94
  csky: remove BS check for FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kill FIRST_USER_PGD_NR</title>
<updated>2025-09-16T01:11:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T19:37:59+00:00</published>
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dead since 2005, time to bury the body...

Reviewed-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt; # microblaze
Reviewed-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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dead since 2005, time to bury the body...

Reviewed-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt; # microblaze
Reviewed-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>microblaze: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers</title>
<updated>2025-09-12T11:12:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-14T07:09:49+00:00</published>
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize 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: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-19-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt;
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize 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: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-19-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>microblaze: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers</title>
<updated>2025-09-12T11:12:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-14T07:09:48+00:00</published>
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__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.

This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement).

Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-18-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt;
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__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.

This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement).

Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-18-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: pgtable: fix pte_swp_exclusive</title>
<updated>2025-06-11T21:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Magnus Lindholm</name>
<email>linmag7@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-18T17:55:14+00:00</published>
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Make pte_swp_exclusive return bool instead of int.  This will better
reflect how pte_swp_exclusive is actually used in the code.

This fixes swap/swapoff problems on Alpha due pte_swp_exclusive not
returning correct values when _PAGE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE bit resides in upper
32-bits of PTE (like on alpha).

Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sam James &lt;sam@gentoo.org&gt;
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 &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make pte_swp_exclusive return bool instead of int.  This will better
reflect how pte_swp_exclusive is actually used in the code.

This fixes swap/swapoff problems on Alpha due pte_swp_exclusive not
returning correct values when _PAGE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE bit resides in upper
32-bits of PTE (like on alpha).

Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sam James &lt;sam@gentoo.org&gt;
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 &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>syscall.h: introduce syscall_set_nr()</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T00:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry V. Levin</name>
<email>ldv@strace.io</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-03T11:20:20+00:00</published>
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Similar to syscall_set_arguments() that complements
syscall_get_arguments(), introduce syscall_set_nr() that complements
syscall_get_nr().

syscall_set_nr() is going to be needed along with syscall_set_arguments()
on all HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK architectures to implement
PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303112020.GD24170@strace.io
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@strace.io&gt;
Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt; # mips
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Gladkov (Intel) &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: anton ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Betkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Davide Berardi &lt;berardi.dav@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov &lt;esyr@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov &lt;evgsyr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Renzo Davoi &lt;renzo@cs.unibo.it&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russel King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Similar to syscall_set_arguments() that complements
syscall_get_arguments(), introduce syscall_set_nr() that complements
syscall_get_nr().

syscall_set_nr() is going to be needed along with syscall_set_arguments()
on all HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK architectures to implement
PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303112020.GD24170@strace.io
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@strace.io&gt;
Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt; # mips
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Gladkov (Intel) &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: anton ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Betkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Davide Berardi &lt;berardi.dav@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov &lt;esyr@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov &lt;evgsyr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Renzo Davoi &lt;renzo@cs.unibo.it&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russel King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: introduce a common definition of mk_pte()</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T00:48:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-02T18:16:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=cb5b13cd6c9237fe5ac978b22453eb3fa098a8d6'/>
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Most architectures simply call pfn_pte().  Centralise that as the normal
definition and remove the definition of mk_pte() from the architectures
which have either that exact definition or something similar.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; # m68k
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt; # s390
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Most architectures simply call pfn_pte().  Centralise that as the normal
definition and remove the definition of mk_pte() from the architectures
which have either that exact definition or something similar.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; # m68k
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt; # s390
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic __pgd_{alloc,free}</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T04:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Brodsky</name>
<email>kevin.brodsky@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-03T18:44:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=a9b3c355c2e6388b0a3b67627460a516d88bdbc9'/>
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We already have a generic implementation of alloc/free up to P4D level, as
well as pgd_free().  Let's finish the work and add a generic PGD-level
alloc helper as well.

Unlike at lower levels, almost all architectures need some specific magic
at PGD level (typically initialising PGD entries), so introducing a
generic pgd_alloc() isn't worth it.  Instead we introduce two new helpers,
__pgd_alloc() and __pgd_free(), and make use of them in the arch-specific
pgd_alloc() and pgd_free() wherever possible.  To accommodate as many arch
as possible, __pgd_alloc() takes a page allocation order.

Because pagetable_alloc() allocates zeroed pages, explicit zeroing in
pgd_alloc() becomes redundant and we can get rid of it.  Some trivial
implementations of pgd_free() also become unnecessary once __pgd_alloc()
is used; remove them.

Another small improvement is consistent accounting of PGD pages by using
GFP_PGTABLE_{USER,KERNEL} as appropriate.

Not all PGD allocations can be handled by the generic helpers.  In
particular, multiple architectures allocate PGDs from a kmem_cache, and
those PGDs may not be page-sized.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-6-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We already have a generic implementation of alloc/free up to P4D level, as
well as pgd_free().  Let's finish the work and add a generic PGD-level
alloc helper as well.

Unlike at lower levels, almost all architectures need some specific magic
at PGD level (typically initialising PGD entries), so introducing a
generic pgd_alloc() isn't worth it.  Instead we introduce two new helpers,
__pgd_alloc() and __pgd_free(), and make use of them in the arch-specific
pgd_alloc() and pgd_free() wherever possible.  To accommodate as many arch
as possible, __pgd_alloc() takes a page allocation order.

Because pagetable_alloc() allocates zeroed pages, explicit zeroing in
pgd_alloc() becomes redundant and we can get rid of it.  Some trivial
implementations of pgd_free() also become unnecessary once __pgd_alloc()
is used; remove them.

Another small improvement is consistent accounting of PGD pages by using
GFP_PGTABLE_{USER,KERNEL} as appropriate.

Not all PGD allocations can be handled by the generic helpers.  In
particular, multiple architectures allocate PGDs from a kmem_cache, and
those PGDs may not be page-sized.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103184415.2744423-6-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-23T17:58:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=5c00ff742bf5caf85f60e1c73999f99376fb865d'/>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page-&gt;index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page-&gt;index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page-&gt;index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page-&gt;index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T23:13:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T23:13:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=79caa6c88ac484111b24488eb9fe1c86a3d18016'/>
<id>79caa6c88ac484111b24488eb9fe1c86a3d18016</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are a number of unrelated cleanups, generally simplifying the
  architecture specific header files:

   - A series from Al Viro simplifies asm/vga.h, after it turns out that
     most of it can be generalized.

   - A series from Julian Vetter adds a common version of
     memcpy_{to,from}io() and memset_io() and changes most architectures
     to use that instead of their own implementation

   - A series from Niklas Schnelle concludes his work to make PC style
     inb()/outb() optional

   - Nicolas Pitre contributes improvements for the generic do_div()
     helper

   - Christoph Hellwig adds a generic version of page_to_phys() and
     phys_to_page(), replacing the slightly different architecture
     specific definitions.

   - Uwe Kleine-Koenig has a minor cleanup for ioctl definitions"

* tag 'asm-generic-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (24 commits)
  empty include/asm-generic/vga.h
  sparc: get rid of asm/vga.h
  asm/vga.h: don't bother with scr_mem{cpy,move}v() unless we need to
  vt_buffer.h: get rid of dead code in default scr_...() instances
  tty: serial: export serial_8250_warn_need_ioport
  lib/iomem_copy: fix kerneldoc format style
  hexagon: simplify asm/io.h for !HAS_IOPORT
  loongarch: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  csky: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  arm64: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  New implementation for IO memcpy and IO memset
  watchdog: Add HAS_IOPORT dependency for SBC8360 and SBC7240
  __arch_xprod64(): make __always_inline when optimizing for performance
  ARM: div64: improve __arch_xprod_64()
  asm-generic/div64: optimize/simplify __div64_const32()
  lib/math/test_div64: add some edge cases relevant to __div64_const32()
  asm-generic: add an optional pfn_valid check to page_to_phys
  asm-generic: provide generic page_to_phys and phys_to_page implementations
  asm-generic/io.h: Remove I/O port accessors for HAS_IOPORT=n
  tty: serial: handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are a number of unrelated cleanups, generally simplifying the
  architecture specific header files:

   - A series from Al Viro simplifies asm/vga.h, after it turns out that
     most of it can be generalized.

   - A series from Julian Vetter adds a common version of
     memcpy_{to,from}io() and memset_io() and changes most architectures
     to use that instead of their own implementation

   - A series from Niklas Schnelle concludes his work to make PC style
     inb()/outb() optional

   - Nicolas Pitre contributes improvements for the generic do_div()
     helper

   - Christoph Hellwig adds a generic version of page_to_phys() and
     phys_to_page(), replacing the slightly different architecture
     specific definitions.

   - Uwe Kleine-Koenig has a minor cleanup for ioctl definitions"

* tag 'asm-generic-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (24 commits)
  empty include/asm-generic/vga.h
  sparc: get rid of asm/vga.h
  asm/vga.h: don't bother with scr_mem{cpy,move}v() unless we need to
  vt_buffer.h: get rid of dead code in default scr_...() instances
  tty: serial: export serial_8250_warn_need_ioport
  lib/iomem_copy: fix kerneldoc format style
  hexagon: simplify asm/io.h for !HAS_IOPORT
  loongarch: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  csky: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  arm64: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset
  New implementation for IO memcpy and IO memset
  watchdog: Add HAS_IOPORT dependency for SBC8360 and SBC7240
  __arch_xprod64(): make __always_inline when optimizing for performance
  ARM: div64: improve __arch_xprod_64()
  asm-generic/div64: optimize/simplify __div64_const32()
  lib/math/test_div64: add some edge cases relevant to __div64_const32()
  asm-generic: add an optional pfn_valid check to page_to_phys
  asm-generic: provide generic page_to_phys and phys_to_page implementations
  asm-generic/io.h: Remove I/O port accessors for HAS_IOPORT=n
  tty: serial: handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies
  ...
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