kernel/linux.git/arch/microblaze/include, branch master

mm: change to return bool for ptep_test_and_clear_young()

2026-04-05T20:53:35+00:00

Patch series "change young flag check functions to return bool", v2. This is a cleanup patchset to change all young flag check functions to return bool, as discussed with David in the previous thread[1]. Since callers only care about whether the young flag was set, returning bool makes the intention clearer. No functional changes intended. This patch (of 6): Callers use ptep_test_and_clear_young() to clear the young flag and check whether it was set. Change the return type to bool to make the intention clearer. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57e70efa9703d43959aa645246ea3cbdba14fa17.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page

2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00

Reduce 22 declarations of empty_zero_page to 3 and 23 declarations of ZERO_PAGE() to 4. Every architecture defines empty_zero_page that way or another, but for the most of them it is always a page aligned page in BSS and most definitions of ZERO_PAGE do virt_to_page(empty_zero_page). Move Linus vetted x86 definition of empty_zero_page and ZERO_PAGE() to the core MM and drop these definitions in architectures that do not implement colored zero page (MIPS and s390). ZERO_PAGE() remains a macro because turning it to a wrapper for a static inline causes severe pain in header dependencies. For the most part the change is mechanical, with these being noteworthy: * alpha: aliased empty_zero_page with ZERO_PGE that was also used for boot parameters. Switching to a generic empty_zero_page removes the aliasing and keeps ZERO_PGE for boot parameters only * arm64: uses __pa_symbol() in ZERO_PAGE() so that definition of ZERO_PAGE() is kept intact. * m68k/parisc/um: allocated empty_zero_page from memblock, although they do not support zero page coloring and having it in BSS will work fine. * sparc64 can have empty_zero_page in BSS rather allocate it, but it can't use virt_to_page() for BSS. Keep it's definition of ZERO_PAGE() but instead of allocating it, make mem_map_zero point to empty_zero_page. * sh: used empty_zero_page for boot parameters at the very early boot. Rename the parameters page to boot_params_page and let sh use the generic empty_zero_page. * hexagon: had an amusing comment about empty_zero_page /* A handy thing to have if one has the RAM. Declared in head.S */ that unfortunately had to go :) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Helge Deller [parisc] Tested-by: Helge Deller [parisc] Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm [alpha] Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen [nios2] Acked-by: Andreas Larsson [sparc] Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant

2026-01-21T03:24:39+00:00

Patch series "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges", v11. This series adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. The series improves on the current discontiguous clearing approach in two ways: - clear pages in a contiguous fashion. - use batched clearing via clear_pages() wherever exposed. The first is useful because it allows us to make much better use of hardware prefetchers. The second, enables advertising the real extent to the processor. Where specific instructions support it (ex. string instructions on x86; "mops" on arm64 etc), a processor can optimize based on this because, instead of seeing a sequence of 8-byte stores, or a sequence of 4KB pages, it sees a larger unit being operated on. For instance, AMD Zen uarchs (for extents larger than LLC-size) switch to a mode where they start eliding cacheline allocation. This is helpful not just because it results in higher bandwidth, but also because now the cache is not evicting useful cachelines and replacing them with zeroes. Demand faulting a 64GB region shows performance improvement: $ perf bench mem mmap -p $pg-sz -f demand -s 64GB -l 5 baseline +series (GBps +- %stdev) (GBps +- %stdev) pg-sz=2MB 11.76 +- 1.10% 25.34 +- 1.18% [*] +115.47% preempt=* pg-sz=1GB 24.85 +- 2.41% 39.22 +- 2.32% + 57.82% preempt=none|voluntary pg-sz=1GB (similar) 52.73 +- 0.20% [#] +112.19% preempt=full|lazy [*] This improvement is because switching to sequential clearing allows the hardware prefetchers to do a much better job. [#] For pg-sz=1GB a large part of the improvement is because of the cacheline elision mentioned above. preempt=full|lazy improves upon that because, not needing explicit invocations of cond_resched() to ensure reasonable preemption latency, it can clear the full extent as a single unit. In comparison the maximum extent used for preempt=none|voluntary is PROCESS_PAGES_NON_PREEMPT_BATCH (32MB). When provided the full extent the processor forgoes allocating cachelines on this path almost entirely. (The hope is that eventually, in the fullness of time, the lazy preemption model will be able to do the same job that none or voluntary models are used for, allowing us to do away with cond_resched().) Raghavendra also tested previous version of the series on AMD Genoa and sees similar improvement [1] with preempt=lazy. $ perf bench mem map -p $page-size -f populate -s 64GB -l 10 base patched change pg-sz=2MB 12.731939 GB/sec 26.304263 GB/sec 106.6% pg-sz=1GB 26.232423 GB/sec 61.174836 GB/sec 133.2% This patch (of 8): Let's drop all variants that effectively map to clear_page() and provide it in a generic variant instead. We'll use the macro clear_user_page to indicate whether an architecture provides it's own variant. Also, clear_user_page() is only called from the generic variant of clear_user_highpage(), so define it only if the architecture does not provide a clear_user_highpage(). And, for simplicity define it in linux/highmem.h. Note that for parisc, clear_page() and clear_user_page() map to clear_page_asm(), so we can just get rid of the custom clear_user_page() implementation. There is a clear_user_page_asm() function on parisc, that seems to be unused. Not sure what's up with that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Co-developed-by: Ankur Arora Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ankur Arora Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Konrad Rzessutek Wilk Cc: Lance Yang Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Li Zhe Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raghavendra K T Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

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

kill FIRST_USER_PGD_NR

2025-09-16T01:11:39+00:00

dead since 2005, time to bury the body... Reviewed-by: Michal Simek # microblaze Reviewed-by: Max Filippov Signed-off-by: Al Viro

microblaze: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in non-uapi headers

2025-09-12T11:12:42+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 on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now. This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement). Cc: Michal Simek Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-19-thuth@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michal Simek

microblaze: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in uapi headers

2025-09-12T11:12:41+00:00

__ASSEMBLY__ is only defined by the Makefile of the kernel, so this is not really useful for uapi headers (unless the userspace Makefile defines it, too). Let's switch to __ASSEMBLER__ which gets set automatically by the compiler when compiling assembly code. This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement). Cc: Michal Simek Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-18-thuth@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michal Simek

mm: pgtable: fix pte_swp_exclusive

2025-06-11T21:52:08+00:00

Make pte_swp_exclusive return bool instead of int. This will better reflect how pte_swp_exclusive is actually used in the code. This fixes swap/swapoff problems on Alpha due pte_swp_exclusive not returning correct values when _PAGE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE bit resides in upper 32-bits of PTE (like on alpha). Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Sam James Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250218175735.19882-2-linmag7@gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250602041118.GA2675383@ZenIV/ [ Applied as the 'sed' script Al suggested - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

syscall.h: introduce syscall_set_nr()

2025-05-12T00:48:15+00:00

Similar to syscall_set_arguments() that complements syscall_get_arguments(), introduce syscall_set_nr() that complements syscall_get_nr(). syscall_set_nr() is going to be needed along with syscall_set_arguments() on all HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK architectures to implement PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303112020.GD24170@strace.io Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins Acked-by: Helge Deller # parisc Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki # mips Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexey Gladkov (Intel) Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: anton ivanov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christian Zankel Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Davide Berardi Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Mike Frysinger Cc: Naveen N Rao Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Renzo Davoi Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russel King Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: introduce a common definition of mk_pte()

2025-05-12T00:48:02+00:00

Most architectures simply call pfn_pte(). Centralise that as the normal definition and remove the definition of mk_pte() from the architectures which have either that exact definition or something similar. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-3-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev # s390 Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton