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<title>mseal: add mseal syscall</title>
<updated>2024-05-24T02:40:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Xu</name>
<email>jeffxu@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-15T16:35:21+00:00</published>
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The new mseal() is an syscall on 64 bit CPU, and with following signature:

int mseal(void addr, size_t len, unsigned long flags)
addr/len: memory range.
flags: reserved.

mseal() blocks following operations for the given memory range.

1&gt; Unmapping, moving to another location, and shrinking the size,
   via munmap() and mremap(), can leave an empty space, therefore can
   be replaced with a VMA with a new set of attributes.

2&gt; Moving or expanding a different VMA into the current location,
   via mremap().

3&gt; Modifying a VMA via mmap(MAP_FIXED).

4&gt; Size expansion, via mremap(), does not appear to pose any specific
   risks to sealed VMAs. It is included anyway because the use case is
   unclear. In any case, users can rely on merging to expand a sealed VMA.

5&gt; mprotect() and pkey_mprotect().

6&gt; Some destructive madvice() behaviors (e.g. MADV_DONTNEED) for anonymous
   memory, when users don't have write permission to the memory. Those
   behaviors can alter region contents by discarding pages, effectively a
   memset(0) for anonymous memory.

Following input during RFC are incooperated into this patch:

Jann Horn: raising awareness and providing valuable insights on the
destructive madvise operations.
Linus Torvalds: assisting in defining system call signature and scope.
Liam R. Howlett: perf optimization.
Theo de Raadt: sharing the experiences and insight gained from
  implementing mimmutable() in OpenBSD.

Finally, the idea that inspired this patch comes from Stephen Röttger's
work in Chrome V8 CFI.

[jeffxu@chromium.org: add branch prediction hint, per Pedro]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423192825.1273679-2-jeffxu@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415163527.626541-3-jeffxu@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pedro.falcato@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes &lt;jorgelo@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pedro.falcato@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Röttger &lt;sroettger@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amer Al Shanawany &lt;amer.shanawany@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Javier Carrasco &lt;javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The new mseal() is an syscall on 64 bit CPU, and with following signature:

int mseal(void addr, size_t len, unsigned long flags)
addr/len: memory range.
flags: reserved.

mseal() blocks following operations for the given memory range.

1&gt; Unmapping, moving to another location, and shrinking the size,
   via munmap() and mremap(), can leave an empty space, therefore can
   be replaced with a VMA with a new set of attributes.

2&gt; Moving or expanding a different VMA into the current location,
   via mremap().

3&gt; Modifying a VMA via mmap(MAP_FIXED).

4&gt; Size expansion, via mremap(), does not appear to pose any specific
   risks to sealed VMAs. It is included anyway because the use case is
   unclear. In any case, users can rely on merging to expand a sealed VMA.

5&gt; mprotect() and pkey_mprotect().

6&gt; Some destructive madvice() behaviors (e.g. MADV_DONTNEED) for anonymous
   memory, when users don't have write permission to the memory. Those
   behaviors can alter region contents by discarding pages, effectively a
   memset(0) for anonymous memory.

Following input during RFC are incooperated into this patch:

Jann Horn: raising awareness and providing valuable insights on the
destructive madvise operations.
Linus Torvalds: assisting in defining system call signature and scope.
Liam R. Howlett: perf optimization.
Theo de Raadt: sharing the experiences and insight gained from
  implementing mimmutable() in OpenBSD.

Finally, the idea that inspired this patch comes from Stephen Röttger's
work in Chrome V8 CFI.

[jeffxu@chromium.org: add branch prediction hint, per Pedro]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423192825.1273679-2-jeffxu@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415163527.626541-3-jeffxu@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pedro.falcato@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes &lt;jorgelo@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pedro.falcato@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Röttger &lt;sroettger@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amer Al Shanawany &lt;amer.shanawany@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Javier Carrasco &lt;javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00</published>
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page-&gt;flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize -&gt;esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page-&gt;flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize -&gt;esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()</title>
<updated>2024-05-14T07:31:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (IBM)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-05T16:06:18+00:00</published>
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module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code.

Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems
that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and
puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code.

Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various
constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes
additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation.

Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc()
and execmem_free() APIs.

Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and
execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all
call sites to use the new APIs.

Since architectures define different restrictions on placement,
permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by
different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes
a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to
allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that
subsystem.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code.

Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems
that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and
puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code.

Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various
constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes
additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation.

Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc()
and execmem_free() APIs.

Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and
execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all
call sites to use the new APIs.

Since architectures define different restrictions on placement,
permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by
different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes
a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to
allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that
subsystem.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/kmemleak: disable KASAN instrumentation in kmemleak</title>
<updated>2024-04-26T03:56:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-07T19:05:48+00:00</published>
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Kmemleak ia a memory leak checker.  KASAN is also a memory checker but it
focuses more on finding out-of-bounds and use-after-free bugs.  Since
kmemleak is inherently slow especially on systems with large number of
CPUs, adding KASAN instrumentation will make it slower even more.  As
kmemleak is not for production use, the utility of enabling KASAN there is
questionable.

This patch disables KASAN instrumentation for configurations that enable
both of them to slightly reduce performance overhead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240307190548.963626-3-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Kmemleak ia a memory leak checker.  KASAN is also a memory checker but it
focuses more on finding out-of-bounds and use-after-free bugs.  Since
kmemleak is inherently slow especially on systems with large number of
CPUs, adding KASAN instrumentation will make it slower even more.  As
kmemleak is not for production use, the utility of enabling KASAN there is
questionable.

This patch disables KASAN instrumentation for configurations that enable
both of them to slightly reduce performance overhead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240307190548.963626-3-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: make -Woverride-init warnings more consistent</title>
<updated>2024-03-31T02:32:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-26T14:47:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=c40845e3195d074b34f8f8e400e28c9403a06588'/>
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The -Woverride-init warn about code that may be intentional or not,
but the inintentional ones tend to be real bugs, so there is a bit of
disagreement on whether this warning option should be enabled by default
and we have multiple settings in scripts/Makefile.extrawarn as well as
individual subsystems.

Older versions of clang only supported -Wno-initializer-overrides with
the same meaning as gcc's -Woverride-init, though all supported versions
now work with both. Because of this difference, an earlier cleanup of
mine accidentally turned the clang warning off for W=1 builds and only
left it on for W=2, while it's still enabled for gcc with W=1.

There is also one driver that only turns the warning off for newer
versions of gcc but not other compilers, and some but not all the
Makefiles still use a cc-disable-warning conditional that is no
longer needed with supported compilers here.

Address all of the above by removing the special cases for clang
and always turning the warning off unconditionally where it got
in the way, using the syntax that is supported by both compilers.

Fixes: 2cd3271b7a31 ("kbuild: avoid duplicate warning options")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Hamza Mahfooz &lt;hamza.mahfooz@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery &lt;andrew@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The -Woverride-init warn about code that may be intentional or not,
but the inintentional ones tend to be real bugs, so there is a bit of
disagreement on whether this warning option should be enabled by default
and we have multiple settings in scripts/Makefile.extrawarn as well as
individual subsystems.

Older versions of clang only supported -Wno-initializer-overrides with
the same meaning as gcc's -Woverride-init, though all supported versions
now work with both. Because of this difference, an earlier cleanup of
mine accidentally turned the clang warning off for W=1 builds and only
left it on for W=2, while it's still enabled for gcc with W=1.

There is also one driver that only turns the warning off for newer
versions of gcc but not other compilers, and some but not all the
Makefiles still use a cc-disable-warning conditional that is no
longer needed with supported compilers here.

Address all of the above by removing the special cases for clang
and always turning the warning off unconditionally where it got
in the way, using the syntax that is supported by both compilers.

Fixes: 2cd3271b7a31 ("kbuild: avoid duplicate warning options")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Hamza Mahfooz &lt;hamza.mahfooz@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery &lt;andrew@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB from all Kconfig and Makefile</title>
<updated>2023-12-05T10:14:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-02T13:43:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2a19be61a65157b9c6c25e831392cdefbd0a8940'/>
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Remove CONFIG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED and
everything in Kconfig files and mm/Makefile that depends on those. Since
SLUB is the only remaining allocator, remove the allocator choice, make
CONFIG_SLUB a "def_bool y" for now and remove all explicit dependencies
on SLUB or SLAB as it's now always enabled. Make every option's verbose
name and description refer to "the slab allocator" without refering to
the specific implementation. Do not rename the CONFIG_ option names yet.

Everything under #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB, and mm/slab.c is now dead code, all
code under #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB is now always compiled.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
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Remove CONFIG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED and
everything in Kconfig files and mm/Makefile that depends on those. Since
SLUB is the only remaining allocator, remove the allocator choice, make
CONFIG_SLUB a "def_bool y" for now and remove all explicit dependencies
on SLUB or SLAB as it's now always enabled. Make every option's verbose
name and description refer to "the slab allocator" without refering to
the specific implementation. Do not rename the CONFIG_ option names yet.

Everything under #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB, and mm/slab.c is now dead code, all
code under #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB is now always compiled.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: move shrinker-related code into a separate file</title>
<updated>2023-10-04T17:32:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qi Zheng</name>
<email>zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-11T09:25:15+00:00</published>
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The mm/vmscan.c file is too large, so separate the shrinker-related code
from it into a separate file.  No functional changes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911092517.64141-3-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@ya.ru&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Abhinav Kumar &lt;quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig &lt;alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chandan Babu R &lt;chandan.babu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Dai Ngo &lt;Dai.Ngo@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov &lt;dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Gao Xiang &lt;hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Rui &lt;ray.huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jeffle Xu &lt;jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marijn Suijten &lt;marijn.suijten@somainline.org&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia &lt;kolga@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rob Clark &lt;robdclark@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;sean@poorly.run&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tomeu Vizoso &lt;tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Talpey &lt;tom@talpey.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin &lt;tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Xuan Zhuo &lt;xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Yue Hu &lt;huyue2@coolpad.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The mm/vmscan.c file is too large, so separate the shrinker-related code
from it into a separate file.  No functional changes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911092517.64141-3-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@ya.ru&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Abhinav Kumar &lt;quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig &lt;alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chandan Babu R &lt;chandan.babu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Dai Ngo &lt;Dai.Ngo@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov &lt;dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Gao Xiang &lt;hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Rui &lt;ray.huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jeffle Xu &lt;jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marijn Suijten &lt;marijn.suijten@somainline.org&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia &lt;kolga@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rob Clark &lt;robdclark@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;sean@poorly.run&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tomeu Vizoso &lt;tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Talpey &lt;tom@talpey.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin &lt;tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Xuan Zhuo &lt;xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Yue Hu &lt;huyue2@coolpad.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T21:25:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T21:25:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b96a3e9142fdf346b05b20e867b4f0dfca119e96'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
   add_to_avail_list")

 - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
   reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
   also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

 - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
   of mas_store()").

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
   compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
   ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

 - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
   changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
   effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
   tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

 - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

 - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
   Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

 - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
   poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
   UFFD").

 - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
   memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
   check").

 - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
   code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

 - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
   THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

 - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
   subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
   ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

 - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
   ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

 - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
   conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
   from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
   folio").

 - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

 - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
   GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
   architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

 - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
   batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

 - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
   maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
   improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

 - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
   from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
   upgrade").

 - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
   for arm64").

 - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
   ("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

 - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
   most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

 - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
   on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
   optimization for ppc64").

 - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
   data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

 - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
   cleanups").

 - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

 - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
   vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

 - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
   implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
   address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

 - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

 - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
   ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

 - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
   ("cleanup with helper macro K()").

 - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
   memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

 - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
   in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
   migratetype").

 - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
   "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

 - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
   for vm.memfd_noexec").

 - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
   asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

 - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
   output").

 - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
   object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

 - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
   and _folio_order").

 - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
   ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

 - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
   range API").

 - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
   using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

 - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
   Wilcox ("Change calling convention for -&gt;huge_fault").

 - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
   subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
  maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
  maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
  secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
  nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
  hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
  mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
  mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
  mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
  mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
  mm: remove enum page_entry_size
  mm: allow -&gt;huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
  mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
  mm: remove checks for pte_index
  memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
  mm/huge_memory: work on folio-&gt;swap instead of page-&gt;private when splitting folio
  mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
  mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
  mm/swap: stop using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
  selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
  selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
   add_to_avail_list")

 - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
   reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
   also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

 - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
   of mas_store()").

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
   compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
   ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

 - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
   changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
   effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
   tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

 - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

 - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
   Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

 - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
   poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
   UFFD").

 - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
   memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
   check").

 - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
   code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

 - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
   THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

 - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
   subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
   ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

 - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
   ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

 - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
   conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
   from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
   folio").

 - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

 - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
   GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
   architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

 - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
   batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

 - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
   maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
   improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

 - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
   from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
   upgrade").

 - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
   for arm64").

 - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
   ("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

 - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
   most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

 - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
   on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
   optimization for ppc64").

 - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
   data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

 - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
   cleanups").

 - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

 - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
   vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

 - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
   implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
   address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

 - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

 - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
   ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

 - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
   ("cleanup with helper macro K()").

 - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
   memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

 - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
   in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
   migratetype").

 - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
   "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

 - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
   for vm.memfd_noexec").

 - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
   asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

 - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
   output").

 - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
   object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

 - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
   and _folio_order").

 - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
   ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

 - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
   range API").

 - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
   using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

 - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
   Wilcox ("Change calling convention for -&gt;huge_fault").

 - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
   subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
  maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
  maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
  secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
  nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
  hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
  mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
  mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
  mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
  mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
  mm: remove enum page_entry_size
  mm: allow -&gt;huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
  mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
  mm: remove checks for pte_index
  memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
  mm/huge_memory: work on folio-&gt;swap instead of page-&gt;private when splitting folio
  mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
  mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
  mm/swap: stop using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
  selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
  selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: kill frontswap</title>
<updated>2023-08-21T20:37:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-17T16:02:27+00:00</published>
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The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long time.  Have
swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: remove obsolete comment, per Yosry]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719142832.GA932528@cmpxchg.org
[fengwei.yin@intel.com: don't warn if none swapcache folio is passed to zswap_load]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810095652.3905184-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717160227.GA867137@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei &lt;fengwei.yin@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo &lt;cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitaly.wool@konsulko.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long time.  Have
swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: remove obsolete comment, per Yosry]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719142832.GA932528@cmpxchg.org
[fengwei.yin@intel.com: don't warn if none swapcache folio is passed to zswap_load]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810095652.3905184-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717160227.GA867137@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei &lt;fengwei.yin@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo &lt;cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitaly.wool@konsulko.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>shmem: prepare shmem quota infrastructure</title>
<updated>2023-08-09T07:15:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carlos Maiolino</name>
<email>cem@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-25T14:45:07+00:00</published>
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Add new shmem quota format, its quota_format_ops together with
dquot_operations

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230725144510.253763-5-cem@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Add new shmem quota format, its quota_format_ops together with
dquot_operations

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino &lt;cmaiolino@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230725144510.253763-5-cem@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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