kernel/linux.git/Documentation/core-api, branch v6.1.168

timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API

2025-10-29T13:04:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit a31323bef2b66455920d054b160c17d4240f8fd4 ] In order to make sure that a timer is not re-armed after it is stopped before freeing, a new shutdown state is added to the timer code. The API timer_shutdown_sync() and timer_shutdown() must be called before the object that holds the timer can be freed. Update the documentation to reflect this new workflow. [ tglx: Updated to the new semantics and updated the zh_CN version ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110064147.712934793@goodmis.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.375284489@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: Replace del_timer/del_timer_sync()

2025-10-29T13:04:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit 87bdd932e85881895d4720255b40ac28749c4e32 ] Adjust to the new preferred function names. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.075320635@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: Don't pin ZERO_PAGE in pin_user_pages()

2025-03-07T15:56:47+00:00

[ Upstream commit c8070b78751955e59b42457b974bea4a4fe00187 ] Make pin_user_pages*() leave a ZERO_PAGE unpinned if it extracts a pointer to it from the page tables and make unpin_user_page*() correspondingly ignore a ZERO_PAGE when unpinning. We don't want to risk overrunning a zero page's refcount as we're only allowed ~2 million pins on it - something that userspace can conceivably trigger. Add a pair of functions to test whether a page or a folio is a ZERO_PAGE. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Christoph Hellwig cc: David Hildenbrand cc: Lorenzo Stoakes cc: Andrew Morton cc: Jens Axboe cc: Al Viro cc: Matthew Wilcox cc: Jan Kara cc: Jeff Layton cc: Jason Gunthorpe cc: Logan Gunthorpe cc: Hillf Danton cc: Christian Brauner cc: Linus Torvalds cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230526214142.958751-2-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Stable-dep-of: bddf10d26e6e ("uprobes: Reject the shared zeropage in uprobe_write_opcode()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

overflow: Fix kern-doc markup for functions

2022-10-25T21:57:42+00:00

Fix the kern-doc markings for several of the overflow helpers and move their location into the core kernel API documentation, where it belongs (it's not driver-specific). Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that). - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock contention. Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees. Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up. - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down to the single bit level. KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones. - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of memory into THPs. - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to support file/shmem-backed pages. - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and memory-failure - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages. - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced memory consumption. - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song. - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner. - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :( - migration enhancements from Peter Xu - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM drivers, etc. - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn. - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand. - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging activity. - THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng. - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox. - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov. - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia. - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups. - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song. - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1] * tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits) hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file() mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE ...

Merge tag 'rust-v6.1-rc1' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux

2022-10-03T23:39:37+00:00

Pull Rust introductory support from Kees Cook: "The tree has a recent base, but has fundamentally been in linux-next for a year and a half[1]. It's been updated based on feedback from the Kernel Maintainer's Summit, and to gain recent Reviewed-by: tags. Miguel is the primary maintainer, with me helping where needed/wanted. Our plan is for the tree to switch to the standard non-rebasing practice once this initial infrastructure series lands. The contents are the absolute minimum to get Rust code building in the kernel, with many more interfaces[2] (and drivers - NVMe[3], 9p[4], M1 GPU[5]) on the way. The initial support of Rust-for-Linux comes in roughly 4 areas: - Kernel internals (kallsyms expansion for Rust symbols, %pA format) - Kbuild infrastructure (Rust build rules and support scripts) - Rust crates and bindings for initial minimum viable build - Rust kernel documentation and samples Rust support has been in linux-next for a year and a half now, and the short log doesn't do justice to the number of people who have contributed both to the Linux kernel side but also to the upstream Rust side to support the kernel's needs. Thanks to these 173 people, and many more, who have been involved in all kinds of ways: Miguel Ojeda, Wedson Almeida Filho, Alex Gaynor, Boqun Feng, Gary Guo, Björn Roy Baron, Andreas Hindborg, Adam Bratschi-Kaye, Benno Lossin, Maciej Falkowski, Finn Behrens, Sven Van Asbroeck, Asahi Lina, FUJITA Tomonori, John Baublitz, Wei Liu, Geoffrey Thomas, Philip Herron, Arthur Cohen, David Faust, Antoni Boucher, Philip Li, Yujie Liu, Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Paul E. McKenney, Josh Triplett, Kent Overstreet, David Gow, Alice Ryhl, Robin Randhawa, Kees Cook, Nick Desaulniers, Matthew Wilcox, Linus Walleij, Joe Perches, Michael Ellerman, Petr Mladek, Masahiro Yamada, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Andrii Nakryiko, Konstantin Shelekhin, Rasmus Villemoes, Konstantin Ryabitsev, Stephen Rothwell, Andy Shevchenko, Sergey Senozhatsky, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, David Laight, Nathan Chancellor, Jonathan Cameron, Daniel Latypov, Shuah Khan, Brendan Higgins, Julia Lawall, Laurent Pinchart, Geert Uytterhoeven, Akira Yokosawa, Pavel Machek, David S. Miller, John Hawley, James Bottomley, Arnd Bergmann, Christian Brauner, Dan Robertson, Nicholas Piggin, Zhouyi Zhou, Elena Zannoni, Jose E. Marchesi, Leon Romanovsky, Will Deacon, Richard Weinberger, Randy Dunlap, Paolo Bonzini, Roland Dreier, Mark Brown, Sasha Levin, Ted Ts'o, Steven Rostedt, Jarkko Sakkinen, Michal Kubecek, Marco Elver, Al Viro, Keith Busch, Johannes Berg, Jan Kara, David Sterba, Connor Kuehl, Andy Lutomirski, Andrew Lunn, Alexandre Belloni, Peter Zijlstra, Russell King, Eric W. Biederman, Willy Tarreau, Christoph Hellwig, Emilio Cobos Álvarez, Christian Poveda, Mark Rousskov, John Ericson, TennyZhuang, Xuanwo, Daniel Paoliello, Manish Goregaokar, comex, Josh Stone, Stephan Sokolow, Philipp Krones, Guillaume Gomez, Joshua Nelson, Mats Larsen, Marc Poulhiès, Samantha Miller, Esteban Blanc, Martin Schmidt, Martin Rodriguez Reboredo, Daniel Xu, Viresh Kumar, Bartosz Golaszewski, Vegard Nossum, Milan Landaverde, Dariusz Sosnowski, Yuki Okushi, Matthew Bakhtiari, Wu XiangCheng, Tiago Lam, Boris-Chengbiao Zhou, Sumera Priyadarsini, Viktor Garske, Niklas Mohrin, Nándor István Krácser, Morgan Bartlett, Miguel Cano, Léo Lanteri Thauvin, Julian Merkle, Andreas Reindl, Jiapeng Chong, Fox Chen, Douglas Su, Antonio Terceiro, SeongJae Park, Sergio González Collado, Ngo Iok Ui (Wu Yu Wei), Joshua Abraham, Milan, Daniel Kolsoi, ahomescu, Manas, Luis Gerhorst, Li Hongyu, Philipp Gesang, Russell Currey, Jalil David Salamé Messina, Jon Olson, Raghvender, Angelos, Kaviraj Kanagaraj, Paul Römer, Sladyn Nunes, Mauro Baladés, Hsiang-Cheng Yang, Abhik Jain, Hongyu Li, Sean Nash, Yuheng Su, Peng Hao, Anhad Singh, Roel Kluin, Sara Saa, Geert Stappers, Garrett LeSage, IFo Hancroft, and Linus Torvalds" Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/849849/ [1] Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/commits/rust [2] Link: https://github.com/metaspace/rust-linux/commit/d88c3744d6cbdf11767e08bad56cbfb67c4c96d0 [3] Link: https://github.com/wedsonaf/linux/commit/9367032607f7670de0ba1537cf09ab0f4365a338 [4] Link: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/commits/gpu/rust-wip [5] * tag 'rust-v6.1-rc1' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (27 commits) MAINTAINERS: Rust samples: add first Rust examples x86: enable initial Rust support docs: add Rust documentation Kbuild: add Rust support rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` scripts: add `is_rust_module.sh` scripts: add `rust_is_available.sh` scripts: add `generate_rust_target.rs` scripts: add `generate_rust_analyzer.py` scripts: decode_stacktrace: demangle Rust symbols scripts: checkpatch: enable language-independent checks for Rust scripts: checkpatch: diagnose uses of `%pA` in the C side as errors vsprintf: add new `%pA` format specifier rust: export generated symbols rust: add `kernel` crate rust: add `bindings` crate rust: add `macros` crate rust: add `compiler_builtins` crate rust: adapt `alloc` crate to the kernel ...

mm/page_alloc: remove obsolete gfpflags_normal_context()

2022-10-03T21:03:30+00:00

Since commit dacb5d8875cc ("tcp: fix page frag corruption on page fault"), there's no caller of gfpflags_normal_context(). Remove it as this helper is strictly tied to the sk page frag usage and there won't be other user in the future. [linmiaohe@huawei.com: fix htmldocs] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1bc55727-9b66-0e9e-c306-f10c4716ea89@huawei.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220916072257.9639-16-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book

2022-09-29T18:55:06+00:00

These files describe part of the core API, but have never been converted to RST due to ... let's say local oppposition. So, create a set of special-purpose wrappers to ..include these files into a separate page so that they can be a part of the htmldocs build. Then link them into the core-api manual and remove them from the "staging" dumping ground. Acked-by: Jani Nikula Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Reviewed-by: David Vernet Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927160559.97154-7-corbet@lwn.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: move asm-annotations.rst into core-api

2022-09-29T18:55:06+00:00

This one file should not really be in the top-level documentation directory. core-api/ may not be a perfect fit but seems to be best, so move it there. Adjust a couple of internal document references to make them location-independent, and point checkpatch.pl at the new location. Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Joe Perches Reviewed-by: David Vernet Acked-by: Jani Nikula Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927160559.97154-6-corbet@lwn.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

vsprintf: add new `%pA` format specifier

2022-09-28T07:00:20+00:00

This patch adds a format specifier `%pA` to `vsprintf` which formats a pointer as `core::fmt::Arguments`. Doing so allows us to directly format to the internal buffer of `printf`, so we do not have to use a temporary buffer on the stack to pre-assemble the message on the Rust side. This specifier is intended only to be used from Rust and not for C, so `checkpatch.pl` is intentionally unchanged to catch any misuse. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho Signed-off-by: Gary Guo Co-developed-by: Miguel Ojeda Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda