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

ARM: clean up the memset64() C wrapper

2026-03-12T11:09:44+00:00

commit b52343d1cb47bb27ca32a3f4952cc2fd3cd165bf upstream. The current logic to split the 64-bit argument into its 32-bit halves is byte-order specific and a bit clunky. Use a union instead which is easier to read and works in all cases. GCC still generates the same machine code. While at it, rename the arguments of the __memset64() prototype to actually reflect their semantics. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Reported-by: Ben Hutchings # for -stable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1a11526ae3d8664f705b541b8d6ea57b847b49a8.camel@decadent.org.uk/ Suggested-by: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aZonkWMwpbFhzDJq@casper.infradead.org/ # for -stable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aZonkWMwpbFhzDJq@casper.infradead.org/ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: 9468/1: fix memset64() on big-endian

2026-02-11T12:41:42+00:00

commit 23ea2a4c72323feb6e3e025e8a6f18336513d5ad upstream. On big-endian systems the 32-bit low and high halves need to be swapped for the underlying assembly implementation to work correctly. Fixes: fd1d362600e2 ("ARM: implement memset32 & memset64") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: 9464/1: fix input-only operand modification in load_unaligned_zeropad()

2025-12-18T13:03:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit edb924a7211c9aa7a4a415e03caee4d875e46b8e ] In the inline assembly inside load_unaligned_zeropad(), the "addr" is constrained as input-only operand. The compiler assumes that on exit from the asm statement these operands contain the same values as they had before executing the statement, but when kernel page fault happened, the assembly fixup code "bic %2 %2, #0x3" modify the value of "addr", which may lead to an unexpected behavior. Use a temporary variable "tmp" to handle it, instead of modifying the input-only operand, just like what arm64's load_unaligned_zeropad() does. Fixes: b9a50f74905a ("ARM: 7450/1: dcache: select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS for little-endian ARMv6+ CPUs") Co-developed-by: Xie Yuanbin Signed-off-by: Xie Yuanbin Signed-off-by: Liyuan Pang Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of /proc/pid/maps - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount falls to zero - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's needs - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap code - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the system". It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap selftests - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that function and converts its two remaining callers - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD selftests issues - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator code - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under tools/testing/ - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing (zsmalloc) - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs __free_pages() - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to the thp selftesting code - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory allocation profiling feature - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting arm highmem - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so they can release resources - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling * tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits) mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node() mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc() mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially' mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault() mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one() mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one() ...

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() ...

mm: constify highmem related functions for improved const-correctness

2025-09-21T21:22:15+00:00

Lots of functions in mm/highmem.c do not write to the given pointers and do not call functions that take non-const pointers and can therefore be constified. This includes functions like kunmap() which might be implemented in a way that writes to the pointer (e.g. to update reference counters or mapping fields), but currently are not. kmap() on the other hand cannot be made const because it calls set_page_address() which is non-const in some architectures/configurations. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: "fix" folio_page() build failure] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-13-max.kellermann@ionos.com Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Christian Zankel Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jocelyn Falempe Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Russel King Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Yuanchu Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t

2025-09-13T23:55:07+00:00

Patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t". At some point struct page will be separated from struct slab and struct folio. This is a step towards that by introducing a type for the 'flags' word of all three structures. This gives us a certain amount of type safety by establishing that some of these unsigned longs are different from other unsigned longs in that they contain things like node ID, section number and zone number in the upper bits. That lets us have functions that can be easily called by anyone who has a slab, folio or page (but not easily by anyone else) to get the node or zone. There's going to be some unusual merge problems with this as some odd bits of the kernel decide they want to print out the flags value or something similar by writing page->flags and now they'll need to write page->flags.f instead. That's most of the churn here. Maybe we should be removing these things from the debug output? This patch (of 11): Wrap the unsigned long flags in a typedef. In upcoming patches, this will provide a strong hint that you can't just pass a random unsigned long to functions which take this as an argument. [willy@infradead.org: s/flags/flags.f/ in several architectures] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aKMgPRLD-WnkPxYm@casper.infradead.org [nicola.vetrini@gmail.com: mips: fix compilation error] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYvkpmqGr6wjBNHY=dRp71PLCoi2341JxOudi60yqaeUdg@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825214245.1838158-1-nicola.vetrini@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Zi Yan Cc: Shakeel Butt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ARM: VDSO: Remove cntvct_ok global variable

2025-09-04T09:23:49+00:00

The cntvct_ok variable has not had any external user since commit c7a18100bdff ("lib/vdso: Avoid highres update if clocksource is not VDSO capable"). It also only has one user in vdso.c, once during init, so rather than having the caller of patch_vdso() initialize cntvct_ok, just call cntvct_functional() directly and avoid the global variable entirely. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826-vdso-cleanups-v1-2-d9b65750e49f@linutronix.de

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

ARM: stacktrace: include asm/sections.h in asm/stacktrace.h

2025-08-25T13:12:06+00:00

The recent kstack erase changes appear to have uncovered an existing issue with a missing header inclusion: In file included from drivers/misc/lkdtm/kstack_erase.c:12: In file included from include/linux/kstack_erase.h:16: arch/arm/include/asm/stacktrace.h:48:21: error: call to undeclared function 'in_entry_text'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 48 | frame->ex_frame = in_entry_text(frame->pc); | ^ Include asm/sections.h here so the compiler can see the in_entry_text() declaration. Fixes: 752ec621ef5c ("ARM: 9234/1: stacktrace: Avoid duplicate saving of exception PC value") Cc: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250807071902.4077714-1-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook