kernel/linux.git/arch/x86/entry, branch v7.1-rc5

x86/kvm/vmx: Fix VMX vs hrtimer_rearm_deferred()

2026-05-19T18:25:51+00:00

Vishal reported that KVM unit test 'x2apic' started failing after commit 0e98eb14814e ("entry: Prepare for deferred hrtimer rearming"). The reason is that KVM/VMX is injecting interrupts while it has interrupts disabled, for a context that will enable interrupts, this means that regs->flags.X86_EFLAGS_IF == 0 and irqentry_exit() will not do the right thing. Notably, irqentry_exit() must not call hrtimer_rearm_deferred() when the return context does not have IF set, because this will cause problems vs NMIs. Therefore, fix up the state after the injection. Fixes: 0e98eb14814e ("entry: Prepare for deferred hrtimer rearming") Reported-by: "Verma, Vishal L" Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: "Verma, Vishal L" Tested-by: David Woodhouse Tested-by: Zhao Liu Tested-by: Sean Christopherson Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423155936.957351833@infradead.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/70cd3e97fbb796e2eb2ff8cd4b7614ada05a5f24.camel%40intel.com

x86/kvm/vmx: Move IRQ/NMI dispatch from KVM into x86 core

2026-05-19T18:25:51+00:00

Move the VMX interrupt dispatch magic into the x86 core code. This isolates KVM from the FRED/IDT decisions and reduces the amount of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM(). Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: "Verma, Vishal L" Tested-by: Zhao Liu Tested-by: Zhao Liu Tested-by: Sean Christopherson Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu Acked-by: Sean Christopherson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508091829.GO3126523@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net

x86/vdso: Fix incorrect size in munmap() on map_vdso() failure

2026-05-19T14:36:34+00:00

In map_vdso(), if a failure occurs during the installation of the VVAR mappings, the error path attempts to clean up previously allocated mappings using do_munmap(). However, the cleanup for the VVAR mapping is incorrectly using image->size (the size of the vDSO text) instead of the actual size allocated for the VVAR area. Replace the incorrect do_munmap() image->size parameter with the constant VDSO_NR_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE. Ensure the unmap size exactly matches the size used during the vdso_install_vvar_mapping() phase to provide a symmetrical and complete teardown of the memory region. Fixes: e93d2521b27f ("x86/vdso: Split virtual clock pages into dedicated mapping") Signed-off-by: Guilherme Giacomo Simoes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503191609.551817-1-trintaeoitogc@gmail.com

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...

Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-04-14T21:24:45+00:00

Pull x86 cpu updates from Dave Hansen: - Complete LASS enabling: deal with vsyscall and EFI The existing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) support punted on support for common EFI and vsyscall configs. Complete the implementation by supporting EFI and vsyscall=xonly. - Clean up CPUID usage in newer Intel "avs" audio driver and update the x86-cpuid-db file * tag 'x86_cpu_for_7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tools/x86/kcpuid: Update bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v3.0 ASoC: Intel: avs: Include CPUID header at file scope ASoC: Intel: avs: Check maximum valid CPUID leaf x86/cpu: Remove LASS restriction on vsyscall emulation x86/vsyscall: Disable LASS if vsyscall mode is set to EMULATE x86/vsyscall: Restore vsyscall=xonly mode under LASS x86/traps: Consolidate user fixups in the #GP handler x86/vsyscall: Reorganize the page fault emulation code x86/cpu: Remove LASS restriction on EFI x86/efi: Disable LASS while executing runtime services x86/cpu: Defer LASS enabling until userspace comes up

Merge tag 'x86-vdso-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-04-14T21:16:27+00:00

Pull x86 vdso updates from Ingo Molnar: "vdso cleanups by Thomas Weißschuh: - Clean up remnants of VDSO32_NOTE_MASK - Drop pointless #ifdeffery in vvar_vclock_fault()" * tag 'x86-vdso-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/vdso: Drop pointless #ifdeffery in vvar_vclock_fault() x86/vdso: Clean up remnants of VDSO32_NOTE_MASK

Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-04-14T17:53:44+00:00

Pull vdso updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Make the handling of compat functions consistent and more robust - Rework the underlying data store so that it is dynamically allocated, which allows the conversion of the last holdout SPARC64 to the generic VDSO implementation - Rework the SPARC64 VDSO to utilize the generic implementation - Mop up the left overs of the non-generic VDSO support in the core code - Expand the VDSO selftest and make them more robust - Allow time namespaces to be enabled independently of the generic VDSO support, which was not possible before due to SPARC64 not using it - Various cleanups and improvements in the related code * tag 'timers-vdso-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits) timens: Use task_lock guard in timens_get*() timens: Use mutex guard in proc_timens_set_offset() timens: Simplify some calls to put_time_ns() timens: Add a __free() wrapper for put_time_ns() timens: Remove dependency on the vDSO vdso/timens: Move functions to new file selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Add a test for time() selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Use facilities from parse_vdso.c selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Handle different tv_usec types selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Drop SYS_getcpu fallbacks selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_gettimeofday: Remove nolibc checks Revert "selftests: vDSO: parse_vdso: Use UAPI headers instead of libc headers" random: vDSO: Remove ifdeffery random: vDSO: Trim vDSO includes vdso/datapage: Trim down unnecessary includes vdso/datapage: Remove inclusion of gettimeofday.h vdso/helpers: Explicitly include vdso/processor.h vdso/gettimeofday: Add explicit includes random: vDSO: Add explicit includes MIPS: vdso: Explicitly include asm/vdso/vdso.h ...

Merge tag 'hardening-v7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2026-04-14T00:52:29+00:00

Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook: - randomize_kstack: Improve implementation across arches (Ryan Roberts) - lkdtm/fortify: Drop unneeded FORTIFY_STR_OBJECT test - refcount: Remove unused __signed_wrap function annotations * tag 'hardening-v7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: lkdtm/fortify: Drop unneeded FORTIFY_STR_OBJECT test refcount: Remove unused __signed_wrap function annotations randomize_kstack: Unify random source across arches randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task

x86/vdso: undefine CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP for vdso32

2026-04-05T20:53:09+00:00

The 32-bit VDSO build on x86_64 uses fake_32bit_build.h to undefine various kernel configuration options that are not suitable for the VDSO context or may cause build issues when including kernel headers. Undefine CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP in fake_32bit_build.h to prepare for change in HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227194302.274384-12-kas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Frank van der Linden Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

x86/vdso: Drop pointless #ifdeffery in vvar_vclock_fault()

2026-03-31T08:06:39+00:00

Sparse complains rightfully when CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK and CONFIG_HYPERV_TIMER are both not set: arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c:94:9: warning: switch with no cases The #ifdeffery is not actually necessary as the compiler can optimize away the branches already if these config options are not set. Remove the #ifdeffery to make the code simpler and Sparse happy. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260117215542.405790227@kernel.org/ Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260331-vdso-x86-ifdef-v1-1-6be9a58b1e7e@linutronix.de