kernel/linux.git/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h, branch linux-7.1.y

arm64: mpam: Context switch the MPAM registers

2026-03-27T15:27:59+00:00

MPAM allows traffic in the SoC to be labeled by the OS, these labels are used to apply policy in caches and bandwidth regulators, and to monitor traffic in the SoC. The label is made up of a PARTID and PMG value. The x86 equivalent calls these CLOSID and RMID, but they don't map precisely. MPAM has two CPU system registers that is used to hold the PARTID and PMG values that traffic generated at each exception level will use. These can be set per-task by the resctrl file system. (resctrl is the defacto interface for controlling this stuff). Add a helper to switch this. struct task_struct's separate CLOSID and RMID fields are insufficient to implement resctrl using MPAM, as resctrl can change the PARTID (CLOSID) and PMG (sort of like the RMID) separately. On x86, the rmid is an independent number, so a race that writes a mismatched closid and rmid into hardware is benign. On arm64, the pmg bits extend the partid. (i.e. partid-5 has a pmg-0 that is not the same as partid-6's pmg-0). In this case, mismatching the values will 'dirty' a pmg value that resctrl believes is clean, and is not tracking with its 'limbo' code. To avoid this, the partid and pmg are always read and written as a pair. This requires a new u64 field. In struct task_struct there are two u32, rmid and closid for the x86 case, but as we can't use them here do something else. Add this new field, mpam_partid_pmg, to struct thread_info to avoid adding more architecture specific code to struct task_struct. Always use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() when accessing this field. Resctrl allows a per-cpu 'default' value to be set, this overrides the values when scheduling a task in the default control-group, which has PARTID 0. The way 'code data prioritisation' gets emulated means the register value for the default group needs to be a variable. The current system register value is kept in a per-cpu variable to avoid writing to the system register if the value isn't going to change. Writes to this register may reset the hardware state for regulating bandwidth. Finally, there is no reason to context switch these registers unless there is a driver changing the values in struct task_struct. Hide the whole thing behind a static key. This also allows the driver to disable MPAM in response to errors reported by hardware. Move the existing static key to belong to the arch code, as in the future the MPAM driver may become a loadable module. All this should depend on whether there is an MPAM driver, hide it behind CONFIG_ARM64_MPAM. Tested-by: Gavin Shan Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan Tested-by: Peter Newman Tested-by: Zeng Heng Tested-by: Punit Agrawal Tested-by: Jesse Chick CC: Amit Singh Tomar Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Co-developed-by: Ben Horgan Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan Signed-off-by: James Morse

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T19:32:37+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari) - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky) - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang) - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code (SeongJae Park) - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc" performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park) - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui Song) - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits) mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table() mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles zsmalloc: make common caches global mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers mm/readahead: fix typo in comment mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file() mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area ...

arm64: Remove unused _TIF_WORK_MASK

2026-01-27T10:38:35+00:00

Since commit b3cf07851b6c ("arm64: entry: Switch to generic IRQ entry"), _TIF_WORK_MASK is never used, so remove it. Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: mm: replace TIF_LAZY_MMU with is_lazy_mmu_mode_active()

2026-01-21T03:24:34+00:00

The generic lazy_mmu layer now tracks whether a task is in lazy MMU mode. As a result we no longer need a TIF flag for that purpose - let's use the new is_lazy_mmu_mode_active() helper instead. The explicit check for in_interrupt() is no longer necessary either as is_lazy_mmu_mode_active() always returns false in interrupt context. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215150323.2218608-11-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Juegren Gross Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arm64: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in non-uapi headers

2025-11-11T19:35:59+00:00

While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel. This can be very confusing when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize now on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers. This is a mostly mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement), except for the following files where comments with mis-spelled macros were tweaked manually: arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/frame.h arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_ptrauth.h arch/arm64/include/asm/debug-monitors.h arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

arm64: Implement HAVE_LIVEPATCH

2025-07-01T14:18:53+00:00

Allocate a task flag used to represent the patch pending state for the task. When a livepatch is being loaded or unloaded, the livepatch code uses this flag to select the proper version of a being patched kernel functions to use for current task. In arch/arm64/Kconfig, select HAVE_LIVEPATCH and include proper Kconfig. This is largely based on [1] by Suraj Jitindar Singh. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210604235930.603-1-surajjs@amazon.com/ Cc: Suraj Jitindar Singh Cc: Torsten Duwe Acked-by: Miroslav Benes Tested-by: Breno Leitao Tested-by: Andrea della Porta Signed-off-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Will Deacon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250630174502.842486-1-song@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

Merge branch 'for-next/mm' into for-next/core

2025-05-27T11:26:06+00:00

* for-next/mm: arm64/boot: Disallow BSS exports to startup code arm64/boot: Move global CPU override variables out of BSS arm64/boot: Move init_pgdir[] and init_idmap_pgdir[] into __pi_ namespace arm64: mm: Drop redundant check in pmd_trans_huge() arm64/mm: Permit lazy_mmu_mode to be nested arm64/mm: Disable barrier batching in interrupt contexts arm64/mm: Batch barriers when updating kernel mappings mm/vmalloc: Enter lazy mmu mode while manipulating vmalloc ptes arm64/mm: Support huge pte-mapped pages in vmap mm/vmalloc: Gracefully unmap huge ptes mm/vmalloc: Warn on improper use of vunmap_range() arm64/mm: Hoist barriers out of set_ptes_anysz() loop arm64: hugetlb: Use __set_ptes_anysz() and __ptep_get_and_clear_anysz() arm64/mm: Refactor __set_ptes() and __ptep_get_and_clear() mm/page_table_check: Batch-check pmds/puds just like ptes arm64: hugetlb: Refine tlb maintenance scope arm64: hugetlb: Cleanup huge_pte size discovery mechanisms arm64: pageattr: Explicitly bail out when changing permissions for vmalloc_huge mappings arm64: Support ARM64_VA_BITS=52 when setting ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX arm64/mm: Remove randomization of the linear map

arm64/mm: Batch barriers when updating kernel mappings

2025-05-09T12:43:08+00:00

Because the kernel can't tolerate page faults for kernel mappings, when setting a valid, kernel space pte (or pmd/pud/p4d/pgd), it emits a dsb(ishst) to ensure that the store to the pgtable is observed by the table walker immediately. Additionally it emits an isb() to ensure that any already speculatively determined invalid mapping fault gets canceled. We can improve the performance of vmalloc operations by batching these barriers until the end of a set of entry updates. arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() and arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() provide the required hooks. vmalloc improves by up to 30% as a result. Two new TIF_ flags are created; TIF_LAZY_MMU tells us if the task is in the lazy mode and can therefore defer any barriers until exit from the lazy mode. TIF_LAZY_MMU_PENDING is used to remember if any pte operation was performed while in the lazy mode that required barriers. Then when leaving lazy mode, if that flag is set, we emit the barriers. Since arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() and arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() are used for both user and kernel mappings, we need the second flag to avoid emitting barriers unnecessarily if only user mappings were updated. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250422081822.1836315-12-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: enable PREEMPT_LAZY

2025-04-29T12:44:47+00:00

For an architecture to enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_RESCHED_LAZY, two things are required: 1) Adding a TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY flag definition 2) Checking for TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY in the appropriate locations 2) is handled in a generic manner by CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY, which isn't (yet) implemented for arm64. However, outside of core scheduler code, TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY only needs to be checked on a kernel exit, meaning: o return/entry to userspace. o return/entry to guest. The return/entry to a guest is all handled by xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work() which already does the right thing, so it can be left as-is. arm64 doesn't use common entry's exit_to_user_mode_prepare(), so update its return to user path to check for TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY and call into schedule() accordingly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rt-users/20241216190451.1c61977c@mordecai.tesarici.cz/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xhsmh4j0fl0p3.mognet@vschneid-thinkpadt14sgen2i.remote.csb/ Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland [testdrive, _TIF_WORK_MASK fixlet and changelog.] Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith [Another round of testing; changelog faff] Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Mark Rutland Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305104925.189198-2-vschneid@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: Implement prctl(PR_{G,S}ET_TSC)

2024-08-27T12:38:56+00:00

On arm64, this prctl controls access to CNTVCT_EL0, CNTVCTSS_EL0 and CNTFRQ_EL0 via CNTKCTL_EL1.EL0VCTEN. Since this bit is also used to implement various erratum workarounds, check whether the CPU needs a workaround whenever we potentially need to change it. This is needed for a correct implementation of non-instrumenting record-replay debugging on arm64 (i.e. rr; https://rr-project.org/). rr must trap and record any sources of non-determinism from the userspace program's perspective so it can be replayed later. This includes the results of syscalls as well as the results of access to architected timers exposed directly to the program. This prctl was originally added for x86 by commit 8fb402bccf20 ("generic, x86: add prctl commands PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC"), and rr uses it to trap RDTSC on x86 for the same reason. We also considered exposing this as a PTRACE_EVENT. However, prctl seems like a better choice for these reasons: 1) In general an in-process control seems more useful than an out-of-process control, since anything that you would be able to do with ptrace could also be done with prctl (tracer can inject a call to the prctl and handle signal-delivery-stops), and it avoids needing an additional process (which will complicate debugging of the ptraced process since it cannot have more than one tracer, and will be incompatible with ptrace_scope=3) in cases where that is not otherwise necessary. 2) Consistency with x86_64. Note that on x86_64, RDTSC has been there since the start, so it's the same situation as on arm64. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I233a1867d1ccebe2933a347552e7eae862344421 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240824015415.488474-1-pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon