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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Remove bcachefs core code</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T20:43:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T20:43:52+00:00</published>
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bcachefs was marked 'externally maintained' in 6.17 but the code
remained to make the transition smoother.

It's now a DKMS module, making the in-kernel code stale, so remove
it to avoid any version confusion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/yokpt2d2g2lluyomtqrdvmkl3amv3kgnipmenobkpgx537kay7@xgcgjviv3n7x/T/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "hugetlb: make hugetlb depends on SYSFS or SYSCTL"</title>
<updated>2025-09-13T23:55:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miaohe Lin</name>
<email>linmiaohe@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-26T03:09:55+00:00</published>
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Commit f8142cf94d47 ("hugetlb: make hugetlb depends on SYSFS or SYSCTL")
added dependency on SYSFS or SYSCTL but hugetlb can be used without SYSFS
or SYSCTL.  So this dependency is wrong and should be removed.

For users with CONFIG_SYSFS or CONFIG_SYSCTL on, there should be no
difference.  For users have CONFIG_SYSFS and CONFIG_SYSCTL both
undefined, hugetlbfs can still works perfectly well through cmdline
except a possible kismet warning[1] when select CONFIG_HUGETLBFS. 
IMHO, it might not worth a backport.

This reverts commit f8142cf94d4737ea0c3baffb3b9bad8addcb9b6b.  It
overlooked the scenario of using hugetlb through boot parameters when
it was submitted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250826030955.2898709-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5c99458f-4a91-485f-8a35-3618a992e2e4@csgroup.eu/ [1]
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202508222032.bwJsQPZ1-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/Kconfig: enable HUGETLBFS only if ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS</title>
<updated>2025-07-25T02:12:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-11T10:29:34+00:00</published>
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Enable HUGETLBFS only when platform subscrbes via ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS.
Hence select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS on existing x86 and sparc for their
continuing HUGETLBFS support.  While here also just drop existing 'BROKEN'
dependency.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250711102934.2399533-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/dax: remove FS_DAX_LIMITED config option</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T05:42:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alistair Popple</name>
<email>apopple@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-19T08:58:02+00:00</published>
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The dcssblk driver was the last user of FS_DAX_LIMITED.  That was marked
broken by 653d7825c149 ("dcssblk: mark DAX broken, remove FS_DAX_LIMITED
support") to allow removal of PFN_SPECIAL.  However the FS_DAX_LIMITED
config option itself was not removed, so do that now.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b47bf164b4a1013d736fa1a3d501bc8b8e71311f.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;balbirs@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhang.lyra@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Deepak Gupta &lt;debug@rivosinc.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Inki Dae &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: John Groves &lt;john@groves.net&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/resctrl: Add boiler plate for external resctrl code</title>
<updated>2025-05-16T09:05:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-15T16:58:45+00:00</published>
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Add Makefile and Kconfig for fs/resctrl. Add ARCH_HAS_CPU_RESCTRL
for the common parts of the resctrl interface and make X86_CPU_RESCTRL
select this.

Adding an include of asm/resctrl.h to linux/resctrl.h allows the
/fs/resctrl files to switch over to using this header instead.

Co-developed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan &lt;tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghuay@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghuay@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carl Worth &lt;carl@os.amperecomputing.com&gt; # arm64
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan &lt;tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Newman &lt;peternewman@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Amit Singh Tomar &lt;amitsinght@marvell.com&gt; # arm64
Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;sdonthineni@nvidia.com&gt; # arm64
Tested-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@amd.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250515165855.31452-16-james.morse@arm.com
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfsd-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux</title>
<updated>2025-04-19T17:38:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-19T17:38:03+00:00</published>
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Pull nfsd fixes from Chuck Lever:

 - v6.15 libcrc clean-up makes invalid configurations possible

 - Fix a potential deadlock introduced during the v6.15 merge window

* tag 'nfsd-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux:
  nfsd: decrease sc_count directly if fail to queue dl_recall
  nfs: add missing selections of CONFIG_CRC32
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<entry>
<title>nfs: add missing selections of CONFIG_CRC32</title>
<updated>2025-04-13T20:39:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T22:02:21+00:00</published>
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nfs.ko, nfsd.ko, and lockd.ko all use crc32_le(), which is available
only when CONFIG_CRC32 is enabled.  But the only NFS kconfig option that
selected CONFIG_CRC32 was CONFIG_NFS_DEBUG, which is client-specific and
did not actually guard the use of crc32_le() even on the client.

The code worked around this bug by only actually calling crc32_le() when
CONFIG_CRC32 is built-in, instead hard-coding '0' in other cases.  This
avoided randconfig build errors, and in real kernels the fallback code
was unlikely to be reached since CONFIG_CRC32 is 'default y'.  But, this
really needs to just be done properly, especially now that I'm planning
to update CONFIG_CRC32 to not be 'default y'.

Therefore, make CONFIG_NFS_FS, CONFIG_NFSD, and CONFIG_LOCKD select
CONFIG_CRC32.  Then remove the fallback code that becomes unnecessary,
as well as the selection of CONFIG_CRC32 from CONFIG_NFS_DEBUG.

Fixes: 1264a2f053a3 ("NFS: refactor code for calculating the crc32 hash of a filehandle")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T16:29:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T16:29:18+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
   Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
   compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.

   This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
   reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.

 - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
   relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.

 - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
   Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
   device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
   needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
   succeed.

 - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
   remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
   for half a year and nobody has complained.

 - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
   effects are anticipated.

 - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
   process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
   madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
   in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.

 - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
   Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
   noticed when working on the swap code.

 - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
   Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
   user-visible output.

 - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
   handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
   handling of large folios.

 - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
   behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
   kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.

 - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
   core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
   work for the future removal of page structure fields.

 - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
   from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
   huge page sizes.

 - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
   present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
   file-backed mappings.

 - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
   reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
   for pte-mapped large folios.

 - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
   pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
   messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
   microbenchmark.

 - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
   improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
   docs.

 - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
   van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
   when using CMA on large machines.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
   from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
   page's mapped/unmapped status.

 - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
   Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
   operations preemptibly.

 - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
   Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
   encountered while runnimg our selftests.

 - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
   determine whether a particular page is a guard page.

 - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
   removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
   wasn't being effective.

 - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
   David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
   code.

 - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
   implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
   Kconfig logic.

 - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
   Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
   DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.

 - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
   powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
   preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
   vmalloc.

 - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
   fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
   code easier to follow.

 - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
   Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
   we accidentally added late last year.

 - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
   many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
   Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
   reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
   initialization.

 - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
   from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
   balancing code.

 - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
   and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
   reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
   is updated accordingly.

 - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
   updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
   removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.

 - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
   it claims.

 - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
   Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
   handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
   checks.

 - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
   preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.

 - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
   CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
   which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
   exclusively into a single MM.

 - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
   on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
   directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.

 - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
   Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
   mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.

 - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
   damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
   access to DAMON internal data.

 - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
   Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
   crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
   cmdline options.

 - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
   Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
   main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
   are generated.

 - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
   Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
   an xarray split.

 - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
   performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.

 - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
   totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
   page allocator code.

 - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
   classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
   SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.

 - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
   from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
   has observed in the memory-failure implementation.

 - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
   makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
   fragmentation.

 - The series "Minor memcg cleanups &amp; prep for memdescs" from Matthew
   Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.

 - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
   introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
   from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
   separately for file and anon pages.

 - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
   separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
   statistics.

 - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
   Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
   code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
  x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
  mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
  mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
  cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
  mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
  selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
  selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages &gt; 2M
  docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
  mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
  fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
  MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
  selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
  fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
  xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
  mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/sparse: allow for alternate vmemmap section init at boot</title>
<updated>2025-03-17T05:06:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frank van der Linden</name>
<email>fvdl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-28T18:29:11+00:00</published>
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Add functions that are called just before the per-section memmap is
initialized and just before the memmap page structures are initialized. 
They are called sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early and
sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_late, respectively.

This allows for mm subsystems to add calls to initialize memmap and page
structures in a specific way, if using SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.  Specifically,
hugetlb can pre-HVO bootmem allocated pages that way, so that no time and
resources are wasted on allocating vmemmap pages, only to free them later
(and possibly unnecessarily running the system out of memory in the
process).

Refactor some code and export a few convenience functions for external
use.

In sparse_init_nid, skip any sections that are already initialized, e.g. 
they have been initialized by sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early already.

The hugetlb code to use these functions will be added in a later commit.

Export section_map_size, as any alternate memmap init code will want to
use it.

The internal config option to enable this is SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT,
which is selected if an architecture-specific option,
ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_PREINIT, is set.  In the future, if other
subsystems want to do preinit too, they can do it in a similar fashion.

The internal config option is there because a section flag is used, and
the number of flags available is architecture-dependent (see mmzone.h). 
Architecures can decide if there is room for the flag when enabling
options that select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT.

Fortunately, as of right now, all sparse vmemmap using architectures do
have room.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-11-fvdl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden &lt;fvdl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Usama Arif &lt;usamaarif642@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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