kernel/linux.git/arch/sparc/include/asm, branch v7.0.11

ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic

2026-06-01T15:54:24+00:00

commit a494d3c8d5392bcdff83c2a593df0c160ff9f322 upstream. On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded. To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory. Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Ian Rogers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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 ...

mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config

2026-02-06T23:47:19+00:00

For architectures that define __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE, the page tables at the pmd/pud level are generally not of struct ptdesc type, and do not have pt_rcu_head member, thus these architectures cannot support PT_RECLAIM. In preparation for enabling PT_RECLAIM on more architectures, convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config, so that we can make conditional judgments in Kconfig. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5ebfa3d4b56e63c6906bda5eccaa9f7194d3a86b.1769515122.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Tested-by: Andreas Larsson [sparc, UP&SMP] Acked-by: Andreas Larsson [sparc] Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Lance Yang Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sparc: Add architecture support for clone3

2026-02-06T14:03:43+00:00

Add support for the clone3 system call to the SPARC architectures. The implementation follows the pattern of the original clone syscall. However, instead of explicitly calling kernel_clone, the clone3 handler calls the generic sys_clone3 handler in kernel/fork. In case no stack is provided, the parents stack is reused. The return value convention for clone3 follows the regular kernel return value convention (in contrast to the original clone/fork on SPARC). Closes: https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/10 Signed-off-by: Ludwig Rydberg Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson Tested-by: Andreas Larsson Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260119144753.27945-3-ludwig.rydberg@gaisler.com Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson

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

sparc/mm: replace batch->active with is_lazy_mmu_mode_active()

2026-01-21T03:24:35+00:00

A per-CPU batch struct is activated when entering lazy MMU mode; its lifetime is the same as the lazy MMU section (it is deactivated when leaving the mode). Preemption is disabled in that interval to ensure that the per-CPU reference remains valid. The generic lazy_mmu layer now tracks whether a task is in lazy MMU mode. We can therefore use the generic helper is_lazy_mmu_mode_active() to tell whether a batch struct is active instead of tracking it explicitly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215150323.2218608-13-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun Acked-by: Andreas Larsson Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Anshuman Khandual 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

mm: introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE

2026-01-21T03:24:33+00:00

Architectures currently opt in for implementing lazy_mmu helpers by defining __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_MMU_MODE. In preparation for introducing a generic lazy_mmu layer that will require storage in task_struct, let's switch to a cleaner approach: instead of defining a macro, select a CONFIG option. This patch introduces CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE and has each arch select it when it implements lazy_mmu helpers. __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_MMU_MODE is removed and relies on the new CONFIG instead. On x86, lazy_mmu helpers are only implemented if PARAVIRT_XXL is selected. This creates some complications in arch/x86/boot/, because a few files manually undefine PARAVIRT* options. As a result does not define the lazy_mmu helpers, but this breaks the build as only defines them if !CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE. There does not seem to be a clean way out of this - let's just undefine that new CONFIG too. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215150323.2218608-7-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun Acked-by: Andreas Larsson [sparc] Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) 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: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sparc/mm: implement arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode()

2026-01-21T03:24:32+00:00

Upcoming changes to the lazy_mmu API will cause arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() to be called when leaving a nested lazy_mmu section. Move the relevant logic from arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() to arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() and have the former call the latter. Note: the additional this_cpu_ptr() call on the arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() path will be removed in a subsequent patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215150323.2218608-5-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun Acked-by: Andreas Larsson Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) 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

mm: abstract io_remap_pfn_range() based on PFN

2025-11-17T01:28:12+00:00

The only instances in which we customise this function are ones in which we customise the PFN used. Instances where architectures were not passing the pgprot value through pgprot_decrypted() are ones where pgprot_decrypted() was a no-op anyway, so we can simply always pass pgprot through this function. Use this fact to simplify the use of io_remap_pfn_range(), by abstracting the PFN via io_remap_pfn_range_pfn() and using this instead of providing a general io_remap_pfn_range() function per-architecture. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d086191bf431b58ce3b231b4f4f555d080f60327.1760959442.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Chatre, Reinette Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Dave Martin Cc: Dave Young Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: James Morse Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kevin Tian Cc: Konstantin Komarov Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Robin Murohy Cc: Sumanth Korikkar Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'sparc-for-6.18-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alarsson/linux-sparc

2025-10-04T17:59:06+00:00

Pull sparc updates from Andreas Larsson: - Add relocation handling for R_SPARC_UA64 for sparc64 that is generated by llvm and clarify printout on missing relocation handler - Fix missing hugetlb tte initialization for sun4u - Code cleanup for redundant use of __GPF_NOWARN for sparc64 - Fix prototypes of reads[bwl]() for sparc64 by adding missing const and volatile pointer qualifiers - Fix bugs in accurate exception reporting in multiple machine specific sparc64 variants of copy_{from,to}_user() for sparc64 - Fix memory leak in error handling for sparc32 - Drop -ansi from asflags and replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in headers for all arch/sparc - Replace strcpy() with strscpy() for all arch/sparc * tag 'sparc-for-6.18-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alarsson/linux-sparc: (22 commits) sparc: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in handle_nextprop_quirks() sparc64: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in build_path_component() sparc: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in prom_32.c sparc: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in domain services driver sparc64: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in prom_nextprop() sparc: floppy: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in sun_floppy_init() sparc: parport: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in ecpp_probe() sparc: PCI: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() sparc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers sparc: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers sparc: Drop the "-ansi" from the asflags sparc: fix error handling in scan_one_device() sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from,to}_user for M7 sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_to_user for Niagara 4 sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for Niagara sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC III sparc: fix accurate exception reporting in copy_{from_to}_user for UltraSPARC sparc64: fix prototypes of reads[bwl]() sparc64: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN sparc64: fix hugetlb for sun4u ...