kernel/linux.git/arch/alpha/include, branch v6.18.21

alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction

2026-03-04T12:19:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit dd5712f3379cfe760267cdd28ff957d9ab4e51c7 ] Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap corruption when memory compaction is enabled. Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation. The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration. Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or instruction translations from surviving migration. Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines: - MM context invalidation (ASN rollover), - immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI), - synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required. The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing global TLB semantics. Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering. This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems. Reviewed-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Tested-by: Matoro Mahri Tested-by: Michael Cree Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260102173603.18247-2-linmag7@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

alpha: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants

2026-01-17T15:35:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9aeed9041929812a10a6d693af050846942a1d16 ] Similar in nature to ab107276607af90b13a5994997e19b7b9731e251. glibc-2.42 drops the legacy termio struct, but the ioctls.h header still defines some TC* constants in terms of termio (via sizeof). Hardcode the values instead. This fixes building Python for example, which falls over like: ./Modules/termios.c:1119:16: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio' Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/961769 Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/962600 Signed-off-by: Sam James Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6ebd3451908785cad53b50ca6bc46cfe9d6bc03c.1764922497.git.sam@gentoo.org Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2025-10-03T18:37:50+00:00

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

Merge tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux

2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: - NVMe pull request via Keith: - FC target fixes (Daniel) - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris) - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit) - Target lockdep assertions (Max) - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair) - Suspend quirk (Georg) - MD pull request via Yu: - Add support for a lockless bitmap. A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following writes. By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no need to do a full disk resync/recovery. - Switch ->getgeo() and ->bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather than struct block_device. - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes. The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string` to support the same use as the removed logic. - floppy arch cleanups - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket setups. - A few s390 dasd block fixes - Fix a few issues around atomic writes - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment constraints. We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now only the request as a whole needs to. - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata payloads - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device - Various fixes and cleanups * tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits) s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod() nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io() ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq() ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req() ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch() ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch() ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf() ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf() ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req() ...

alpha: unobfuscate _PAGE_P() definition

2025-09-16T01:12:05+00:00

Way, way back it used to be _PAGE_NORMAL((x) | ((x & _PAGE_FOW) ? 0 : _PAGE_FOW | _PAGE_COW)) Then (in 1.3.54) _PAGE_COW had died. Result: _PAGE_NORMAL((x) | ((x & _PAGE_FOW) ? 0 : _PAGE_FOW)) which is somewhat... obscure. What it does is simply _PAGE_NORMAL((x) | _PAGE_FOW) and IMO that's easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

alpha: get rid of the remnants of BAD_PAGE and friends

2025-09-13T19:15:08+00:00

unused since 2.4 times... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

PAGE_PTR() had been last used outside of arch/* in 1.1.94

2025-09-13T19:15:07+00:00

.. and in arch/* - circa 2.2.7. Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Signed-off-by: Al Viro

alpha: Add __attribute_const__ to ffs()-family implementations

2025-09-08T21:58:51+00:00

While tracking down a problem where constant expressions used by BUILD_BUG_ON() suddenly stopped working[1], we found that an added static initializer was convincing the compiler that it couldn't track the state of the prior statically initialized value. Tracing this down found that ffs() was used in the initializer macro, but since it wasn't marked with __attribute__const__, the compiler had to assume the function might change variable states as a side-effect (which is not true for ffs(), which provides deterministic math results). Add missing __attribute_const__ annotations to Alpha's implementations of __ffs(), ffs(), fls64(), __fls(), fls(), and ffz() functions. These are pure mathematical functions that always return the same result for the same input with no side effects, making them eligible for compiler optimization. Build tested ARCH=alpha defconfig with GCC alpha-linux-gnu 14.2.0. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/364 [1] Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804164417.1612371-7-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

floppy: Remove unused CROSS_64KB() macro from arch/ code

2025-08-25T20:46:42+00:00

Since the commit 3d86739c6343 ("floppy: always use the track buffer") the CROSS_64KB() is not used by the driver, remove the leftovers. Acked-by: Helge Deller #parisc Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250825163545.39303-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets. 21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up", "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc. I never knew the MM code was so dirty. "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent VMAs. "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park) adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production environments. "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig) is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control. "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom) contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and management code. "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman) does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code. "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts) implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading into order>0 folios. "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown) provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the selftests code. "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain) does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark. "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox) expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page(). "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand) addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be causing any issues at this time. "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park) provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON. "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes) uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other types. "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy) increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd code. "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple) removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags. "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park) implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON sysfs layer. "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes) does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code. "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka) provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort. "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador) creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes. Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline notifier. "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan) cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice. "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park) adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite. "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador) fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and follows that fix with a series of cleanups. "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport) rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator. "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code. "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park) adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code. "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park) does that. "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) also does what it claims. "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand) cleans up the large folio PTE batching code. "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park) facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy. "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola) provides a couple of page->folio conversions. "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso) implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the current memcg-based implementation. "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park) replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface. "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed reliably. "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga) switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range(). "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park) augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update interval. "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi) does what is claims. "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand) provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe directly. "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface. "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan) cleans up __folio_split()! "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain) provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing with large folios. "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian) does some cleanup work in the selftests code. "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes) extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" feature. "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park) extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal subset" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits) MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info() selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment ...