kernel/linux.git/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h, branch v6.18.22

x86/boot: Create a confined code area for startup code

2025-09-03T16:00:01+00:00

In order to be able to have tight control over which code may execute from the early 1:1 mapping of memory, but still link vmlinux as a single executable, prefix all symbol references in startup code with __pi_, and invoke it from outside using the __pi_ prefix. Use objtool to check that no absolute symbol references are present in the startup code, as these cannot be used from code running from the 1:1 mapping. Note that this also requires disabling the latent-entropy GCC plugin, as the global symbol references that it injects would require explicit exports, and given that the startup code rarely executes more than once, it is not a useful source of entropy anyway. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-43-ardb+git@google.com

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide this. - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up and better prepare us for future work. - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory block size. - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's memory consumption was dramatic. - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to this part of our swap handling code. - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this time we can alter only "system call information that are used by strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall arguments, and syscall return value. This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM" branch, but I goofed. - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get at the info about guard regions. - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error. - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of using more current facilities. - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are enabled for ARM. - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables. This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page tables". This change does result in various architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur. - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures. - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've been missing for 15 years. - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to load this particular operation. - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly reduced. - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code. - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit. - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON for memory tiering. - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan found via code inspection. - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset settings to violated. This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently. - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code. - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization. - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios. - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved. - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping ranges of invalid pfns. - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases. - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when using JFS. - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more appropriate mm/vma.c. - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index() function. - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that. - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the test_memcontrol selftest. - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging. - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement. - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and documents. - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement. - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the hugetlb code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits) mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range() mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private() memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject() mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat() mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs ...

x86/kexec: add support for passing kexec handover (KHO) data

2025-05-13T06:50:41+00:00

kexec handover (KHO) creates a metadata that the kernels pass between each other during kexec. This metadata is stored in memory and kexec image contains a (physical) pointer to that memory. In addition, KHO keeps "scratch regions" available for kexec: physically contiguous memory regions that are guaranteed to not have any memory that KHO would preserve. The new kernel bootstraps itself using the scratch regions and sets all handed over memory as in use. When subsystems that support KHO initialize, they introspect the KHO metadata, restore preserved memory regions, and retrieve their state stored in the preserved memory. Enlighten x86 kexec-file and boot path about the KHO metadata and make sure it gets passed along to the next kernel. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509074635.3187114-12-changyuanl@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Co-developed-by: Changyuan Lyu Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu Acked-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Anthony Yznaga Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Ashish Kalra Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Gowans Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Saravana Kannan Cc: Stanislav Kinsburskii Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Lendacky Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

x86/boot: Move early_setup_gdt() back into head64.c

2025-05-04T13:27:23+00:00

Move early_setup_gdt() out of the startup code that is callable from the 1:1 mapping - this is not needed, and instead, it is better to expose the helper that does reside in __head directly. This reduces the amount of code that needs special checks for 1:1 execution suitability. In particular, it avoids dealing with the GHCB page (and its physical address) in startup code, which runs from the 1:1 mapping, making physical to virtual translations ambiguous. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Kevin Loughlin Cc: Len Brown Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250504095230.2932860-26-ardb+git@google.com

x86/headers: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in non-UAPI headers

2025-03-19T10:47:30+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 mostly a mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement), with some manual tweaks in , and that mentioned this macro in comments with some missing underscores. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-38-thuth@redhat.com

x86: Move sysctls into arch/x86

2025-02-18T10:08:36+00:00

Move the following sysctl tables into arch/x86/kernel/setup.c: panic_on_{unrecoverable_nmi,io_nmi} bootloader_{type,version} io_delay_type unknown_nmi_panic acpi_realmode_flags Variables moved from include/linux/ to arch/x86/include/asm/ because there is no longer need for them outside arch/x86/kernel: acpi_realmode_flags panic_on_{unrecoverable_nmi,io_nmi} Include in arch/s86/kernel/setup.h in order to bring in panic_on_{io_nmi,unrecovered_nmi}. This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in kerenel/sysctl.c. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250218-jag-mv_ctltables-v1-8-cd3698ab8d29@kernel.org

x86/boot/64: Determine VA/PA offset before entering C code

2024-12-05T12:18:54+00:00

Implicit absolute symbol references (e.g., taking the address of a global variable) must be avoided in the C code that runs from the early 1:1 mapping of the kernel, given that this is a practice that violates assumptions on the part of the toolchain. I.e., RIP-relative and absolute references are expected to produce the same values, and so the compiler is free to choose either. However, the code currently assumes that RIP-relative references are never emitted here. So an explicit virtual-to-physical offset needs to be used instead to derive the kernel virtual addresses of _text and _end, instead of simply taking the addresses and assuming that the compiler will not choose to use a RIP-relative references in this particular case. Currently, phys_base is already used to perform such calculations, but it is derived from the kernel virtual address of _text, which is taken using an implicit absolute symbol reference. So instead, derive this VA-to-PA offset in asm code, and pass it to the C startup code. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241205112804.3416920-11-ardb+git@google.com

x86/setup: Warn when option parsing is done too early

2024-05-27T16:54:45+00:00

Commit 4faa0e5d6d79 ("x86/boot: Move kernel cmdline setup earlier in the boot process (again)") fixed and issue where cmdline parsing would happen before the final boot_command_line string has been built from the builtin and boot cmdlines and thus cmdline arguments would get lost. Add a check to catch any future wrong use ordering so that such issues can be caught in time. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409152541.GCZhVd9XIPXyTNd9vc@fat_crate.local

x86/boot/64: Simplify global variable accesses in GDT/IDT programming

2024-02-26T11:58:11+00:00

There are two code paths in the startup code to program an IDT: one that runs from the 1:1 mapping and one that runs from the virtual kernel mapping. Currently, these are strictly separate because fixup_pointer() is used on the 1:1 path, which will produce the wrong value when used while executing from the virtual kernel mapping. Switch to RIP_REL_REF() so that the two code paths can be merged. Also, move the GDT and IDT descriptors to the stack so that they can be referenced directly, rather than via RIP_REL_REF(). Rename startup_64_setup_env() to startup_64_setup_gdt_idt() while at it, to make the call from assembler self-documenting. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221113506.2565718-19-ardb+git@google.com

x86/setup: Make relocated_ramdisk a local variable of relocate_initrd()

2023-11-13T08:09:37+00:00

After 0b62f6cb0773 ("x86/microcode/32: Move early loading after paging enable"), the global variable relocated_ramdisk is no longer used anywhere except for the relocate_initrd() function. Make it a local variable of that function. Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Baoquan He Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231113034026.130679-1-ytcoode@gmail.com