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<updated>2026-03-12T11:09:39+00:00</updated>
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<title>kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS</title>
<updated>2026-03-12T11:09:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-25T22:02:51+00:00</published>
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commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream.

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>audit: add missing syscalls to read class</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:19:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeffrey Bencteux</name>
<email>jeff@bencteux.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-27T08:39:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bcb90a2834c7393c26df9609b889a3097b7700cd ]

The "at" variant of getxattr() and listxattr() are missing from the
audit read class. Calling getxattrat() or listxattrat() on a file to
read its extended attributes will bypass audit rules such as:

-w /tmp/test -p rwa -k test_rwa

The current patch adds missing syscalls to the audit read class.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Bencteux &lt;jeff@bencteux.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>audit: add fchmodat2() to change attributes class</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:19:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeffrey Bencteux</name>
<email>jeff@bencteux.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-24T19:49:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4f493a6079b588cf1f04ce5ed6cdad45ab0d53dc ]

fchmodat2(), introduced in version 6.6 is currently not in the change
attribute class of audit. Calling fchmodat2() to change a file
attribute in the same fashion than chmod() or fchmodat() will bypass
audit rules such as:

-w /tmp/test -p rwa -k test_rwa

The current patch adds fchmodat2() to the change attributes class.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Bencteux &lt;jeff@bencteux.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rqspinlock: Fix TAS fallback lock entry creation</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T23:00:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-22T11:59:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 82f3b142c99cf44c7b1e70b7720169c646b9760f ]

The TAS fallback can be invoked directly when queued spin locks are
disabled, and through the slow path when paravirt is enabled for queued
spin locks. In the latter case, the res_spin_lock macro will attempt the
fast path and already hold the entry when entering the slow path. This
will lead to creation of extraneous entries that are not released, which
may cause false positives for deadlock detection.

Fix this by always preceding invocation of the TAS fallback in every
case with the grabbing of the held lock entry, and add a comment to make
note of this.

Fixes: c9102a68c070 ("rqspinlock: Add a test-and-set fallback")
Reported-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260122115911.3668985-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather</title>
<updated>2026-01-20T17:34:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)</name>
<email>david@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-23T21:40:37+00:00</published>
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As reported, ever since commit 1013af4f585f ("mm/hugetlb: fix
huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race") we can end up in some situations
where we perform so many IPI broadcasts when unsharing hugetlb PMD page
tables that it severely regresses some workloads.

In particular, when we fork()+exit(), or when we munmap() a large
area backed by many shared PMD tables, we perform one IPI broadcast per
unshared PMD table.

There are two optimizations to be had:

(1) When we process (unshare) multiple such PMD tables, such as during
    exit(), it is sufficient to send a single IPI broadcast (as long as
    we respect locking rules) instead of one per PMD table.

    Locking prevents that any of these PMD tables could get reused before
    we drop the lock.

(2) When we are not the last sharer (&gt; 2 users including us), there is
    no need to send the IPI broadcast. The shared PMD tables cannot
    become exclusive (fully unshared) before an IPI will be broadcasted
    by the last sharer.

    Concurrent GUP-fast could walk into a PMD table just before we
    unshared it. It could then succeed in grabbing a page from the
    shared page table even after munmap() etc succeeded (and supressed
    an IPI). But there is not difference compared to GUP-fast just
    sleeping for a while after grabbing the page and re-enabling IRQs.

    Most importantly, GUP-fast will never walk into page tables that are
    no-longer shared, because the last sharer will issue an IPI
    broadcast.

    (if ever required, checking whether the PUD changed in GUP-fast
     after grabbing the page like we do in the PTE case could handle
     this)

So let's rework PMD sharing TLB flushing + IPI sync to use the mmu_gather
infrastructure so we can implement these optimizations and demystify the
code at least a bit. Extend the mmu_gather infrastructure to be able to
deal with our special hugetlb PMD table sharing implementation.

To make initialization of the mmu_gather easier when working on a single
VMA (in particular, when dealing with hugetlb), provide
tlb_gather_mmu_vma().

We'll consolidate the handling for (full) unsharing of PMD tables in
tlb_unshare_pmd_ptdesc() and tlb_flush_unshared_tables(), and track
in "struct mmu_gather" whether we had (full) unsharing of PMD tables.

Because locking is very special (concurrent unsharing+reuse must be
prevented), we disallow deferring flushing to tlb_finish_mmu() and instead
require an explicit earlier call to tlb_flush_unshared_tables().

From hugetlb code, we call huge_pmd_unshare_flush() where we make sure
that the expected lock protecting us from concurrent unsharing+reuse is
still held.

Check with a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() in tlb_finish_mmu() that
tlb_flush_unshared_tables() was properly called earlier.

Document it all properly.

Notes about tlb_remove_table_sync_one() interaction with unsharing:

There are two fairly tricky things:

(1) tlb_remove_table_sync_one() is a NOP on architectures without
    CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE.

    Here, the assumption is that the previous TLB flush would send an
    IPI to all relevant CPUs. Careful: some architectures like x86 only
    send IPIs to all relevant CPUs when tlb-&gt;freed_tables is set.

    The relevant architectures should be selecting
    MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE, but x86 might not do that in stable
    kernels and it might have been problematic before this patch.

    Also, the arch flushing behavior (independent of IPIs) is different
    when tlb-&gt;freed_tables is set. Do we have to enlighten them to also
    take care of tlb-&gt;unshared_tables? So far we didn't care, so
    hopefully we are fine. Of course, we could be setting
    tlb-&gt;freed_tables as well, but that might then unnecessarily flush
    too much, because the semantics of tlb-&gt;freed_tables are a bit
    fuzzy.

    This patch changes nothing in this regard.

(2) tlb_remove_table_sync_one() is not a NOP on architectures with
    CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE that actually don't need a sync.

    Take x86 as an example: in the common case (!pv, !X86_FEATURE_INVLPGB)
    we still issue IPIs during TLB flushes and don't actually need the
    second tlb_remove_table_sync_one().

    This optimized can be implemented on top of this, by checking e.g., in
    tlb_remove_table_sync_one() whether we really need IPIs. But as
    described in (1), it really must honor tlb-&gt;freed_tables then to
    send IPIs to all relevant CPUs.

Notes on TLB flushing changes:

(1) Flushing for non-shared PMD tables

    We're converting from flush_hugetlb_tlb_range() to
    tlb_remove_huge_tlb_entry(). Given that we properly initialize the
    MMU gather in tlb_gather_mmu_vma() to be hugetlb aware, similar to
    __unmap_hugepage_range(), that should be fine.

(2) Flushing for shared PMD tables

    We're converting from various things (flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(),
    tlb_flush_pmd_range(), flush_tlb_range()) to tlb_flush_pmd_range().

    tlb_flush_pmd_range() achieves the same that
    tlb_remove_huge_tlb_entry() would achieve in these scenarios.
    Note that tlb_remove_huge_tlb_entry() also calls
    __tlb_remove_tlb_entry(), however that is only implemented on
    powerpc, which does not support PMD table sharing.

    Similar to (1), tlb_gather_mmu_vma() should make sure that TLB
    flushing keeps on working as expected.

Further, note that the ptdesc_pmd_pts_dec() in huge_pmd_share() is not a
concern, as we are holding the i_mmap_lock the whole time, preventing
concurrent unsharing. That ptdesc_pmd_pts_dec() usage will be removed
separately as a cleanup later.

There are plenty more cleanups to be had, but they have to wait until
this is fixed.

[david@kernel.org: fix kerneldoc]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f223dd74-331c-412d-93fc-69e360a5006c@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251223214037.580860-5-david@kernel.org
Fixes: 1013af4f585f ("mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Uschakow, Stanislav" &lt;suschako@amazon.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4d3878531c76479d9f8ca9789dc6485d@amazon.de/
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman &lt;loberman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Harry Yoo &lt;harry.yoo@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liu Shixin &lt;liushixin2@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251207' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux</title>
<updated>2025-12-08T21:10:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-08T21:10:17+00:00</published>
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Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu:

 - Enhancements to Linux as the root partition for Microsoft Hypervisor:
     - Support a new mode called L1VH, which allows Linux to drive the
       hypervisor running the Azure Host directly
     - Support for MSHV crash dump collection
     - Allow Linux's memory management subsystem to better manage guest
       memory regions
     - Fix issues that prevented a clean shutdown of the whole system on
       bare metal and nested configurations
     - ARM64 support for the MSHV driver
     - Various other bug fixes and cleanups

 - Add support for Confidential VMBus for Linux guest on Hyper-V

 - Secure AVIC support for Linux guests on Hyper-V

 - Add the mshv_vtl driver to allow Linux to run as the secure kernel in
   a higher virtual trust level for Hyper-V

* tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251207' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: (58 commits)
  mshv: Cleanly shutdown root partition with MSHV
  mshv: Use reboot notifier to configure sleep state
  mshv: Add definitions for MSHV sleep state configuration
  mshv: Add support for movable memory regions
  mshv: Add refcount and locking to mem regions
  mshv: Fix huge page handling in memory region traversal
  mshv: Move region management to mshv_regions.c
  mshv: Centralize guest memory region destruction
  mshv: Refactor and rename memory region handling functions
  mshv: adjust interrupt control structure for ARM64
  Drivers: hv: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  mshv: Add ioctl for self targeted passthrough hvcalls
  Drivers: hv: Introduce mshv_vtl driver
  Drivers: hv: Export some symbols for mshv_vtl
  static_call: allow using STATIC_CALL_TRAMP_STR() from assembly
  mshv: Extend create partition ioctl to support cpu features
  mshv: Allow mappings that overlap in uaddr
  mshv: Fix create memory region overlap check
  mshv: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users
  Drivers: hv: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'uml-for-linux-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux</title>
<updated>2025-12-06T00:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-06T00:30:56+00:00</published>
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Pull UML updates from Johannes Berg:
 "Apart from the usual small churn, we have

   - initial SMP support (only kernel)

   - major vDSO cleanups (and fixes for 32-bit)"

* tag 'uml-for-linux-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux: (33 commits)
  um: Disable KASAN_INLINE when STATIC_LINK is selected
  um: Don't rename vmap to kernel_vmap
  um: drivers: virtio: use string choices helper
  um: Always set up AT_HWCAP and AT_PLATFORM
  x86/um: Remove FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USE_END
  um: Remove __access_ok_vsyscall()
  um: Remove redundant range check from __access_ok_vsyscall()
  um: Remove fixaddr_user_init()
  x86/um: Drop gate area handling
  x86/um: Do not inherit vDSO from host
  um: Split out default elf_aux_hwcap
  x86/um: Move ELF_PLATFORM fallback to x86-specific code
  um: Split out default elf_aux_platform
  um: Avoid circular dependency on asm-offsets in pgtable.h
  um: Enable SMP support on x86
  asm-generic: percpu: Add assembly guard
  um: vdso: Remove getcpu support on x86
  um: Add initial SMP support
  um: Define timers on a per-CPU basis
  um: Determine sleep based on need_resched()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-12-05T21:52:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T21:52:43+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

  "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki)
     Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations
     (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT)

  "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin)
     Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not
     inherited across fork/exec

  "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park)
     Some light maintenance work on the zswap code

  "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
     Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding
     unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so
     that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over
     time

  "mm/page_alloc: pcp-&gt;batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn)
     Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature

  "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra)
     Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation

  "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov)

  "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom)
     Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little

  "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang)
     Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting
     code

  "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn)
     Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were
     causing (harmless) softlockup warnings

  "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang)
     Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim

  "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park)
     Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature

  "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan)
     Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace
     configuration

  "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port
     additional callsites from the old -&gt;mmap() over to -&gt;mmap_prepare()

  "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu)
     Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU
     code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a
     stale kernel pagetable entry

  "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang)
     Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code

  "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song)
     Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code

  "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park)

  "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park)
     Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the
     middle of the current targets list

  "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo)
     A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion

  "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He)
     improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines

  "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista)
     Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will
     appear in kernel debug info

  "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes)
     Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range

  "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park)
     Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit
     tests

  "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang)
     Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
     writeback-for-eviction code

  "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu)
     Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file

  "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and
     improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs

  "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region
     operations

  "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox)
     Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are
     waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock

  "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park)
     Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)

  "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that
     VMA is merged with another

  "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh)
     Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
     device-private memory

  "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan)

  "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang)
     Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code

  "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the
     concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t

  "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song)
     Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in
     preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
     wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory
     resources

  "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang)
     A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code

  "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
     Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio
     writeback support

  "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt)
     Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats

  "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola)
     Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags

  "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang)
     Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use
     RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension

  "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park)
     Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code

  "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we
     stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit

  "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park)
     Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things
     up a little

[ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu:
  register device memory for poison handling") because it looks
  broken to me, I've asked for clarification   - Linus ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling
  mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate
  mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling
  mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown
  memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers
  selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null
  mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig
  mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type
  tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma-&gt;__vm_flags
  mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
  mm: declare VMA flags by bit
  zram: fix a spelling mistake
  mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity
  mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted
  pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
  mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments
  mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void
  mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async
  mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tracepoints-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-12-05T17:37:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T17:37:41+00:00</published>
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Pull unused tracepoints update from Steven Rostedt:
 "Detect unused tracepoints.

  If a tracepoint is defined but never used (TRACE_EVENT() created but
  no trace_&lt;tracepoint&gt;() called), it can take up to or more than 5K of
  memory each. This can add up as there are around a hundred unused
  tracepoints with various configs. That is 500K of wasted memory.

  Add a make build parameter of "UT=1" to have the build warn if an
  unused tracepoint is detected in the build. This allows detection of
  unused tracepoints to be upstream so that outreachy and the mentoring
  project can have new developers look for fixing them, without having
  these warnings suddenly show up when someone upgrades their kernel.

  When all known unused tracepoints are removed, then the "UT=1" build
  parameter can be removed and unused tracepoints will always warn. This
  will catch new unused tracepoints after the current ones have been
  removed.

  Summary:

   - Separate out elf functions from sorttable.c

     Move out the ELF parsing functions from sorttable.c so that the
     tracing tooling can use it.

   - Add a tracepoint verifier tool to the build process

     If "UT=1" is added to the kernel command line, any unused
     tracepoints will trigger a warning at build time.

   - Do not warn about unused tracepoints for tracepoints that are
     exported

     There are sever cases where a tracepoint is created by the kernel
     and used by modules. Since there's no easy way to detect if these
     are truly unused since the users are in modules, if a tracepoint is
     exported, assume it will eventually be used by a module. Note,
     there's not many exported tracepoints so this should not be a
     problem to ignore them.

   - Have building of modules also detect unused tracepoints

     Do not only check the main vmlinux for unused tracepoints, also
     check modules. If a module is defining a tracepoint it should be
     using it.

   - Add the tracepoint-update program to the ignore file

     The new tracepoint-update program needs to be ignored by git"

* tag 'tracepoints-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  scripts: add tracepoint-update to the list of ignores files
  tracing: Add warnings for unused tracepoints for modules
  tracing: Allow tracepoint-update.c to work with modules
  tracepoint: Do not warn for unused event that is exported
  tracing: Add a tracepoint verification check at build time
  sorttable: Move ELF parsing into scripts/elf-parse.[ch]
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-12-04T00:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-04T00:54:54+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Convert selftests/bpf/test_tc_edt and test_tc_tunnel from .sh to
   test_progs runner (Alexis Lothoré)

 - Convert selftests/bpf/test_xsk to test_progs runner (Bastien
   Curutchet)

 - Replace bpf memory allocator with kmalloc_nolock() in
   bpf_local_storage (Amery Hung), and in bpf streams and range tree
   (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Introduce support for indirect jumps in BPF verifier and x86 JIT
   (Anton Protopopov) and arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Remove runqslower bpf tool (Hoyeon Lee)

 - Fix corner cases in the verifier to close several syzbot reports
   (Eduard Zingerman, KaFai Wan)

 - Several improvements in deadlock detection in rqspinlock (Kumar
   Kartikeya Dwivedi)

 - Implement "jmp" mode for BPF trampoline and corresponding
   DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP. It improves "fexit" program type performance
   from 80 M/s to 136 M/s. With Steven's Ack. (Menglong Dong)

 - Add ability to test non-linear skbs in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Paul
   Chaignon)

 - Do not let BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN emit invalid GSO types to stack (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Generalize buildid reader into bpf_dynptr (Mykyta Yatsenko)

 - Optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types (Ritesh
   Oedayrajsingh Varma)

 - Introduce overwrite mode for BPF ring buffer (Xu Kuohai)

* tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (169 commits)
  bpf: optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types
  bpf: make kprobe_multi_link_prog_run always_inline
  selftests/bpf: do not hardcode target rate in test_tc_edt BPF program
  selftests/bpf: remove test_tc_edt.sh
  selftests/bpf: integrate test_tc_edt into test_progs
  selftests/bpf: rename test_tc_edt.bpf.c section to expose program type
  selftests/bpf: Add success stats to rqspinlock stress test
  rqspinlock: Precede non-head waiter queueing with AA check
  rqspinlock: Disable spinning for trylock fallback
  rqspinlock: Use trylock fallback when per-CPU rqnode is busy
  rqspinlock: Perform AA checks immediately
  rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions
  bpf: Remove runqslower tool
  selftests/bpf: Remove usage of lsm/file_alloc_security in selftest
  bpf: Disable file_alloc_security hook
  bpf: check for insn arrays in check_ptr_alignment
  bpf: force BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG on insn array creation
  bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak
  selftests/bpf: Make CS length configurable for rqspinlock stress test
  selftests/bpf: Add lock wait time stats to rqspinlock stress test
  ...
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