kernel/linux.git/arch/arm/mm, branch v7.0.10

ARM: 9472/1: fix race condition on PG_dcache_clean in __sync_icache_dcache()

2026-05-07T04:14:08+00:00

commit 75f9a484e817adea211c73f89ed938a2b2f90953 upstream. This bug was already discovered and fixed for arm64 in commit 588a513d3425 ("arm64: Fix race condition on PG_dcache_clean in __sync_icache_dcache()"). Verified with added instrumentation to track dcache flushes in a ring buffer, as shown by the (distilled) output: kernel: SIGILL at b6b80ac0 cpu 1 pid 32663 linux_pte=8eff659f hw_pte=8eff6e7e young=1 exec=1 kernel: dcache flush START cpu0 pfn=8eff6 ts=48629557020154 kernel: dcache flush SKIPPED cpu1 pfn=8eff6 ts=48629557020154 kernel: dcache flush FINISH cpu0 pfn=8eff6 ts=48629557036154 audisp-syslog: comm="journalctl" exe="/usr/bin/journalctl" sig=4 [...] Discussions in the mailing list mentioned that arch/arm is also affected but the fix was never applied to it [1][2]. Apply the change now, since the race condition can cause sporadic SIGILL's and SEGV's especially while under high memory pressure. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/adzMOdySgMIePcue@willie-the-truck [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210514095001.13236-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com [2] Signed-off-by: Brian Ruley Reviewed-by: Will Deacon Cc: Fixes: 6012191aa9c6 ("ARM: 6380/1: Introduce __sync_icache_dcache() for VIPT caches") Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rmk/linux

2026-02-20T20:21:00+00:00

Pull ARM updates from Russell King: - avoid %pK for ARM MM prints - implement ARCH_HAS_CC_CAN_LINK to ensure runnable user progs - handle BE8 and BE32 for user progs * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rmk/linux: ARM: 9470/1: Handle BE8 vs BE32 in ARCH_CC_CAN_LINK ARM: 9469/1: Implement ARCH_HAS_CC_CAN_LINK ARM: 9467/1: mm: Don't use %pK through printk

ARM: 9467/1: mm: Don't use %pK through printk

2026-01-31T12:59:09+00:00

Restricted pointers ("%pK") were never meant to be used through printk(). They can acquire sleeping locks in atomic contexts. Switch to %px over the more secure %p as this usage is a debugging aid, gated behind CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL and used by WARN(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250113171731-dc10e3c1-da64-4af0-b767-7c7070468023@linutronix.de/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle)

arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model

2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00

Every architecture calls sparse_init() during setup_arch() although the data structures created by sparse_init() are not used until the initialization of the core MM. Beside the code duplication, calling sparse_init() from architecture specific code causes ordering differences of vmemmap and HVO initialization on different architectures. Move the call to sparse_init() from architecture specific code to free_area_init() to ensure that vmemmap and HVO initialization order is always the same. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-25-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Klara Modin Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map

2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00

To initialize node, zone and memory map data structures every architecture calls free_area_init() during setup_arch() and passes it an array of zone limits. Beside code duplication it creates "interesting" ordering cases between allocation and initialization of hugetlb and the memory map. Some architectures allocate hugetlb pages very early in setup_arch() in certain cases, some only create hugetlb CMA areas in setup_arch() and sometimes hugetlb allocations happen mm_core_init(). With arch_zone_limits_init() helper available now on all architectures it is no longer necessary to call free_area_init() from architecture setup code. Rather core MM initialization can call arch_zone_limits_init() in a single place. This allows to unify ordering of hugetlb vs memory map allocation and initialization. Remove the call to free_area_init() from architecture specific code and place it in a new mm_core_init_early() function that is called immediately after setup_arch(). After this refactoring it is possible to consolidate hugetlb allocations and eliminate differences in ordering of hugetlb and memory map initialization among different architectures. As the first step of this consolidation move hugetlb_bootmem_alloc() to mm_core_early_init(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-24-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Klara Modin Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arm: make initialization of zero page independent of the memory map

2026-01-27T04:02:13+00:00

Unlike most architectures, arm keeps a struct page pointer to the empty_zero_page and to initialize it requires conversion of a virtual address to page which makes it necessary to have memory map initialized before creating the empty_zero_page. Make empty_zero_page a stataic array in BSS to decouple it's initialization from the initialization of the memory map. This also aligns arm with vast majorty of architectures. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-5-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Klara Modin Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arm: introduce arch_zone_limits_init()

2026-01-27T04:02:13+00:00

Move calculations of zone limits to a dedicated arch_zone_limits_init() function. Later MM core will use this function as an architecture specific callback during nodes and zones initialization and thus there won't be a need to call free_area_init() from every architecture. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Klara Modin Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rmk/linux

2025-12-10T22:50:48+00:00

Pull ARM updates from Russell King: - disable jump label and high PTE for PREEMPT RT kernels - fix input operand modification in load_unaligned_zeropad() - fix hash_name() / fault path induced warnings - fix branch predictor hardening * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rmk/linux: ARM: fix branch predictor hardening ARM: fix hash_name() fault ARM: allow __do_kernel_fault() to report execution of memory faults ARM: group is_permission_fault() with is_translation_fault() ARM: 9464/1: fix input-only operand modification in load_unaligned_zeropad() ARM: 9461/1: Disable HIGHPTE on PREEMPT_RT kernels ARM: 9459/1: Disable jump-label on PREEMPT_RT