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<title>mm: always expand the stack with the mmap write lock held</title>
<updated>2023-07-01T11:12:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-24T20:45:51+00:00</published>
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commit 8d7071af890768438c14db6172cc8f9f4d04e184 upstream.

This finishes the job of always holding the mmap write lock when
extending the user stack vma, and removes the 'write_locked' argument
from the vm helper functions again.

For some cases, we just avoid expanding the stack at all: drivers and
page pinning really shouldn't be extending any stacks.  Let's see if any
strange users really wanted that.

It's worth noting that architectures that weren't converted to the new
lock_mm_and_find_vma() helper function are left using the legacy
"expand_stack()" function, but it has been changed to drop the mmap_lock
and take it for writing while expanding the vma.  This makes it fairly
straightforward to convert the remaining architectures.

As a result of dropping and re-taking the lock, the calling conventions
for this function have also changed, since the old vma may no longer be
valid.  So it will now return the new vma if successful, and NULL - and
the lock dropped - if the area could not be extended.

Tested-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt; # ia64
Tested-by: Frank Scheiner &lt;frank.scheiner@web.de&gt; # ia64
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8d7071af890768438c14db6172cc8f9f4d04e184 upstream.

This finishes the job of always holding the mmap write lock when
extending the user stack vma, and removes the 'write_locked' argument
from the vm helper functions again.

For some cases, we just avoid expanding the stack at all: drivers and
page pinning really shouldn't be extending any stacks.  Let's see if any
strange users really wanted that.

It's worth noting that architectures that weren't converted to the new
lock_mm_and_find_vma() helper function are left using the legacy
"expand_stack()" function, but it has been changed to drop the mmap_lock
and take it for writing while expanding the vma.  This makes it fairly
straightforward to convert the remaining architectures.

As a result of dropping and re-taking the lock, the calling conventions
for this function have also changed, since the old vma may no longer be
valid.  So it will now return the new vma if successful, and NULL - and
the lock dropped - if the area could not be extended.

Tested-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt; # ia64
Tested-by: Frank Scheiner &lt;frank.scheiner@web.de&gt; # ia64
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>execve: expand new process stack manually ahead of time</title>
<updated>2023-07-01T11:12:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-19T18:34:15+00:00</published>
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commit f313c51d26aa87e69633c9b46efb37a930faca71 upstream.

This is a small step towards a model where GUP itself would not expand
the stack, and any user that needs GUP to not look up existing mappings,
but actually expand on them, would have to do so manually before-hand,
and with the mm lock held for writing.

It turns out that execve() already did almost exactly that, except it
didn't take the mm lock at all (it's single-threaded so no locking
technically needed, but it could cause lockdep errors).  And it only did
it for the CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case, since in that case GUP has
obviously never expanded the stack downwards.

So just make that CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case do the right thing with
locking, and enable it generally.  This will eventually help GUP, and in
the meantime avoids a special case and the lockdep issue.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f313c51d26aa87e69633c9b46efb37a930faca71 upstream.

This is a small step towards a model where GUP itself would not expand
the stack, and any user that needs GUP to not look up existing mappings,
but actually expand on them, would have to do so manually before-hand,
and with the mm lock held for writing.

It turns out that execve() already did almost exactly that, except it
didn't take the mm lock at all (it's single-threaded so no locking
technically needed, but it could cause lockdep errors).  And it only did
it for the CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case, since in that case GUP has
obviously never expanded the stack downwards.

So just make that CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case do the right thing with
locking, and enable it generally.  This will eventually help GUP, and in
the meantime avoids a special case and the lockdep issue.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: make find_extend_vma() fail if write lock not held</title>
<updated>2023-07-01T11:12:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liam R. Howlett</name>
<email>Liam.Howlett@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-16T22:58:54+00:00</published>
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commit f440fa1ac955e2898893f9301568435eb5cdfc4b upstream.

Make calls to extend_vma() and find_extend_vma() fail if the write lock
is required.

To avoid making this a flag-day event, this still allows the old
read-locking case for the trivial situations, and passes in a flag to
say "is it write-locked".  That way write-lockers can say "yes, I'm
being careful", and legacy users will continue to work in all the common
cases until they have been fully converted to the new world order.

Co-Developed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f440fa1ac955e2898893f9301568435eb5cdfc4b upstream.

Make calls to extend_vma() and find_extend_vma() fail if the write lock
is required.

To avoid making this a flag-day event, this still allows the old
read-locking case for the trivial situations, and passes in a flag to
say "is it write-locked".  That way write-lockers can say "yes, I'm
being careful", and legacy users will continue to work in all the common
cases until they have been fully converted to the new world order.

Co-Developed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tracing/user_events: Track fork/exec/exit for mm lifetime</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T10:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-28T23:52:09+00:00</published>
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During tracefs discussions it was decided instead of requiring a mapping
within a user-process to track the lifetime of memory descriptors we
should hook the appropriate calls. Do this by adding the minimal stubs
required for task fork, exec, and exit. Currently this is just a NOP.
Future patches will implement these calls fully.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-3-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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During tracefs discussions it was decided instead of requiring a mapping
within a user-process to track the lifetime of memory descriptors we
should hook the appropriate calls. Do this by adding the minimal stubs
required for task fork, exec, and exit. Currently this is just a NOP.
Future patches will implement these calls fully.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-3-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lazy tlb: introduce lazy tlb mm refcount helper functions</title>
<updated>2023-03-28T23:20:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T07:18:34+00:00</published>
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Add explicit _lazy_tlb annotated functions for lazy tlb mm refcounting. 
This makes the lazy tlb mm references more obvious, and allows the
refcounting scheme to be modified in later changes.  There is no
functional change with this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-3-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add explicit _lazy_tlb annotated functions for lazy tlb mm refcounting. 
This makes the lazy tlb mm references more obvious, and allows the
refcounting scheme to be modified in later changes.  There is no
functional change with this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-3-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&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-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-02-24T01:09:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-24T01:09:35+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add
   F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at
   memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X
   bit.

 - Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset()
   thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition
   related to PMD unsharing.

 - Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal
   Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes

 - Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()")
   which does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work.

 - SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series
   "mm/damon/core: implement damos filter".

   These filters provide users with finer-grained control over DAMOS's
   actions. SeongJae has also done some DAMON cleanup work.

 - Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap").

 - Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple
   tree".

 - Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It
   adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global
   reclaim.

 - David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the
   series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups".

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library
   function in the series "remove generic_writepages".

 - Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in
   his series "Some small improvements for compaction".

 - Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his
   series "Get rid of tail page fields".

 - David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and
   generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series
   "mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with
   swap PTEs".

 - Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation
   flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC".

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with
   his series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable".

 - Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of
   writeable+executable mappings.

   The previous BPF-based approach had shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel
   support for memory-deny-write-execute (MDWE)".

 - Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series
   "mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() &amp; fix UAF".

 - T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series
   "mm: multi-gen LRU: improve".

 - Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error
   statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a
   per-node basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error
   statistics".

 - Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog
   regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage
   during compaction".

 - Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series
   "cleanup vfree and vunmap".

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in
   ths series "remove -&gt;rw_page".

 - We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's
   series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()".

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our
   vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier
   functions".

 - Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's
   series "mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for
   FLATMEM" and "fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()"

 - Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and
   /proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series
   "mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas".

 - Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest
   of the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for
   GUP".

 - SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface
   over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be
   printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the
   series "mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface".

 - Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes
   and clean-ups" series.

 - Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush
   IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing".

 - Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes".

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (505 commits)
  include/linux/migrate.h: remove unneeded externs
  mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range()
  mm/uffd: fix comment in handling pte markers
  mm: change to return bool for isolate_movable_page()
  mm: hugetlb: change to return bool for isolate_hugetlb()
  mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page()
  mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru()
  objtool: add UACCESS exceptions for __tsan_volatile_read/write
  kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code
  kasan: mark addr_has_metadata __always_inline
  mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled()
  sh: initialize max_mapnr
  m68k/nommu: add missing definition of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET
  mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size()
  maple_tree: reduce stack usage with gcc-9 and earlier
  mm: page_alloc: call panic() when memoryless node allocation fails
  mm: multi-gen LRU: avoid futile retries
  migrate_pages: move THP/hugetlb migration support check to simplify code
  migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB
  migrate_pages: share more code between _unmap and _move
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add
   F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at
   memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X
   bit.

 - Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset()
   thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition
   related to PMD unsharing.

 - Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal
   Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes

 - Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()")
   which does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work.

 - SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series
   "mm/damon/core: implement damos filter".

   These filters provide users with finer-grained control over DAMOS's
   actions. SeongJae has also done some DAMON cleanup work.

 - Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap").

 - Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple
   tree".

 - Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It
   adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global
   reclaim.

 - David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the
   series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups".

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library
   function in the series "remove generic_writepages".

 - Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in
   his series "Some small improvements for compaction".

 - Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his
   series "Get rid of tail page fields".

 - David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and
   generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series
   "mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with
   swap PTEs".

 - Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation
   flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC".

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with
   his series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable".

 - Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of
   writeable+executable mappings.

   The previous BPF-based approach had shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel
   support for memory-deny-write-execute (MDWE)".

 - Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series
   "mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() &amp; fix UAF".

 - T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series
   "mm: multi-gen LRU: improve".

 - Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error
   statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a
   per-node basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error
   statistics".

 - Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog
   regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage
   during compaction".

 - Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series
   "cleanup vfree and vunmap".

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in
   ths series "remove -&gt;rw_page".

 - We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's
   series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()".

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our
   vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier
   functions".

 - Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's
   series "mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for
   FLATMEM" and "fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()"

 - Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and
   /proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series
   "mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas".

 - Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest
   of the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for
   GUP".

 - SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface
   over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be
   printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the
   series "mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface".

 - Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes
   and clean-ups" series.

 - Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush
   IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing".

 - Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes".

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (505 commits)
  include/linux/migrate.h: remove unneeded externs
  mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range()
  mm/uffd: fix comment in handling pte markers
  mm: change to return bool for isolate_movable_page()
  mm: hugetlb: change to return bool for isolate_hugetlb()
  mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page()
  mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru()
  objtool: add UACCESS exceptions for __tsan_volatile_read/write
  kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code
  kasan: mark addr_has_metadata __always_inline
  mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled()
  sh: initialize max_mapnr
  m68k/nommu: add missing definition of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET
  mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size()
  maple_tree: reduce stack usage with gcc-9 and earlier
  mm: page_alloc: call panic() when memoryless node allocation fails
  mm: multi-gen LRU: avoid futile retries
  migrate_pages: move THP/hugetlb migration support check to simplify code
  migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB
  migrate_pages: share more code between _unmap and _move
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2023-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-02-21T01:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-21T01:41:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1f2d9ffc7a5f916935749ffc6e93fb33bfe94d2f'/>
<id>1f2d9ffc7a5f916935749ffc6e93fb33bfe94d2f</id>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve the scalability of the CFS bandwidth unthrottling logic with
   large number of CPUs.

 - Fix &amp; rework various cpuidle routines, simplify interaction with the
   generic scheduler code. Add __cpuidle methods as noinstr to objtool's
   noinstr detection and fix boatloads of cpuidle bugs &amp; quirks.

 - Add new ABI: introduce MEMBARRIER_CMD_GET_REGISTRATIONS, to query
   previously issued registrations.

 - Limit scheduler slice duration to the sysctl_sched_latency period, to
   improve scheduling granularity with a large number of SCHED_IDLE
   tasks.

 - Debuggability enhancement on sys_exit(): warn about disabled IRQs,
   but also enable them to prevent a cascade of followup problems and
   repeat warnings.

 - Fix the rescheduling logic in prio_changed_dl().

 - Micro-optimize cpufreq and sched-util methods.

 - Micro-optimize ttwu_runnable()

 - Micro-optimize the idle-scanning in update_numa_stats(),
   select_idle_capacity() and steal_cookie_task().

 - Update the RSEQ code &amp; self-tests

 - Constify various scheduler methods

 - Remove unused methods

 - Refine __init tags

 - Documentation updates

 - Misc other cleanups, fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2023-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (110 commits)
  sched/rt: pick_next_rt_entity(): check list_entry
  sched/deadline: Add more reschedule cases to prio_changed_dl()
  sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
  sched/fair: Remove capacity inversion detection
  sched/fair: unlink misfit task from cpu overutilized
  objtool: mem*() are not uaccess safe
  cpuidle: Fix poll_idle() noinstr annotation
  sched/clock: Make local_clock() noinstr
  sched/clock/x86: Mark sched_clock() noinstr
  x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read()
  x86/atomics: Always inline arch_atomic64*()
  cpuidle: tracing, preempt: Squash _rcuidle tracing
  cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()
  cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG
  cpuidle: drivers: firmware: psci: Dont instrument suspend code
  KVM: selftests: Fix build of rseq test
  exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops
  cpuidle, arm64: Fix the ARM64 cpuidle logic
  cpuidle: mvebu: Fix duplicate flags assignment
  sched/fair: Limit sched slice duration
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve the scalability of the CFS bandwidth unthrottling logic with
   large number of CPUs.

 - Fix &amp; rework various cpuidle routines, simplify interaction with the
   generic scheduler code. Add __cpuidle methods as noinstr to objtool's
   noinstr detection and fix boatloads of cpuidle bugs &amp; quirks.

 - Add new ABI: introduce MEMBARRIER_CMD_GET_REGISTRATIONS, to query
   previously issued registrations.

 - Limit scheduler slice duration to the sysctl_sched_latency period, to
   improve scheduling granularity with a large number of SCHED_IDLE
   tasks.

 - Debuggability enhancement on sys_exit(): warn about disabled IRQs,
   but also enable them to prevent a cascade of followup problems and
   repeat warnings.

 - Fix the rescheduling logic in prio_changed_dl().

 - Micro-optimize cpufreq and sched-util methods.

 - Micro-optimize ttwu_runnable()

 - Micro-optimize the idle-scanning in update_numa_stats(),
   select_idle_capacity() and steal_cookie_task().

 - Update the RSEQ code &amp; self-tests

 - Constify various scheduler methods

 - Remove unused methods

 - Refine __init tags

 - Documentation updates

 - Misc other cleanups, fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2023-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (110 commits)
  sched/rt: pick_next_rt_entity(): check list_entry
  sched/deadline: Add more reschedule cases to prio_changed_dl()
  sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
  sched/fair: Remove capacity inversion detection
  sched/fair: unlink misfit task from cpu overutilized
  objtool: mem*() are not uaccess safe
  cpuidle: Fix poll_idle() noinstr annotation
  sched/clock: Make local_clock() noinstr
  sched/clock/x86: Mark sched_clock() noinstr
  x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read()
  x86/atomics: Always inline arch_atomic64*()
  cpuidle: tracing, preempt: Squash _rcuidle tracing
  cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()
  cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG
  cpuidle: drivers: firmware: psci: Dont instrument suspend code
  KVM: selftests: Fix build of rseq test
  exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops
  cpuidle, arm64: Fix the ARM64 cpuidle logic
  cpuidle: mvebu: Fix duplicate flags assignment
  sched/fair: Limit sched slice duration
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: replace vma-&gt;vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls</title>
<updated>2023-02-10T00:51:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suren Baghdasaryan</name>
<email>surenb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-26T19:37:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1c71222e5f2393b5ea1a41795c67589eea7e3490'/>
<id>1c71222e5f2393b5ea1a41795c67589eea7e3490</id>
<content type='text'>
Replace direct modifications to vma-&gt;vm_flags with calls to modifier
functions to be able to track flag changes and to keep vma locking
correctness.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/misc/open-dice.c, per Hyeonggon Yoo]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126193752.297968-5-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel &lt;sebastian.reichel@collabora.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjun Roy &lt;arjunroy@google.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Oskolkov &lt;posk@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Punit Agrawal &lt;punit.agrawal@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Replace direct modifications to vma-&gt;vm_flags with calls to modifier
functions to be able to track flag changes and to keep vma locking
correctness.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/misc/open-dice.c, per Hyeonggon Yoo]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126193752.297968-5-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel &lt;sebastian.reichel@collabora.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjun Roy &lt;arjunroy@google.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Oskolkov &lt;posk@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Punit Agrawal &lt;punit.agrawal@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/mmap: don't use __vma_adjust() in shift_arg_pages()</title>
<updated>2023-02-10T00:51:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liam R. Howlett</name>
<email>Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-20T16:26:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=cf51e86dfbe39b7cae3a9de650d035af22dd5fb4'/>
<id>cf51e86dfbe39b7cae3a9de650d035af22dd5fb4</id>
<content type='text'>
Introduce shrink_vma() which uses the vma_prepare() and vma_complete()
functions to reduce the vma coverage.

Convert shift_arg_pages() to use expand_vma() and the new shrink_vma()
function.  Remove support from __vma_adjust() to reduce a vma size since
shift_arg_pages() is the only user that shrinks a VMA in this way.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230120162650.984577-46-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Introduce shrink_vma() which uses the vma_prepare() and vma_complete()
functions to reduce the vma coverage.

Convert shift_arg_pages() to use expand_vma() and the new shrink_vma()
function.  Remove support from __vma_adjust() to reduce a vma size since
shift_arg_pages() is the only user that shrinks a VMA in this way.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230120162650.984577-46-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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