kernel/linux.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v6.19.11

Revert "ptdesc: remove references to folios from __pagetable_ctor() and pagetable_dtor()"

2026-03-19T15:15:11+00:00

commit 2d28ed588f8d7d0d41b0a4fad7f0d05e4bbf1797 upstream. This change swapped out mod_node_page_state for lruvec_stat_add_folio. But, these two APIs are not interchangeable: the lruvec version also increments memcg stats, in addition to "global" pgdat stats. So after this change, the "pagetables" memcg stat in memory.stat always yields "0", which is a userspace visible regression. I tried to look for a refactor where we add a variant of lruvec_stat_mod_folio which takes a pgdat and a memcg instead of a folio, to try to adhere to the spirit of the original patch. But at the end of the day this just means we have to call folio_memcg(ptdesc_folio(ptdesc)) anyway, which doesn't really accomplish much. This regression is visible in master as well as 6.18 stable, so CC stable too. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225002434.2953895-1-axelrasmussen@google.com Fixes: f0c92726e89f ("ptdesc: remove references to folios from __pagetable_ctor() and pagetable_dtor()") Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: do not copy page tables unnecessarily for VM_UFFD_WP

2026-01-20T17:34:26+00:00

Commit ab04b530e7e8 ("mm: introduce copy-on-fork VMAs and make VM_MAYBE_GUARD one") aggregates flags checks in vma_needs_copy(), including VM_UFFD_WP. However in doing so, it incorrectly performed this check against src_vma. This check was done on the assumption that all relevant flags are copied upon fork. However the userfaultfd logic is very innovative in that it implements custom logic on fork in dup_userfaultfd(), including a rather well hidden case where lacking UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK causes VM_UFFD_WP to not be propagated to the destination VMA. And indeed, vma_needs_copy(), prior to this patch, did check this property on dst_vma, not src_vma. Since all the other relevant flags are copied on fork, we can simply fix this by checking against dst_vma. While we're here, we fix a comment against VM_COPY_ON_FORK (noting that it did indeed already reference dst_vma) to make it abundantly clear that we must check against the destination VMA. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260114110006.1047071-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Fixes: ab04b530e7e8 ("mm: introduce copy-on-fork VMAs and make VM_MAYBE_GUARD one") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reported-by: Chris Mason Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260113231257.3002271-1-clm@meta.com/ Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Acked-by: Pedro Falcato Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: consider non-anon swap cache folios in folio_expected_ref_count()

2025-12-23T19:23:15+00:00

Currently, folio_expected_ref_count() only adds references for the swap cache if the folio is anonymous. However, according to the comment above the definition of PG_swapcache in enum pageflags, shmem folios can also have PG_swapcache set. This patch makes sure references for the swap cache are added if folio_test_swapcache(folio) is true. This issue was found when trying to hot-unplug memory in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine. When initiating hot-unplug when most of the guest memory is allocated, hot-unplug hangs partway through removal due to migration failures. The following message would be printed several times, and would be printed again about every five seconds: [ 49.641309] migrating pfn b12f25 failed ret:7 [ 49.641310] page: refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000033bd8fe2 index:0x7f404d925 pfn:0xb12f25 [ 49.641311] aops:swap_aops [ 49.641313] flags: 0x300000000030508(uptodate|active|owner_priv_1|reclaim|swapbacked|node=0|zone=3) [ 49.641314] raw: 0300000000030508 ffffed312c4bc908 ffffed312c4bc9c8 0000000000000000 [ 49.641315] raw: 00000007f404d925 00000000000c823b 00000002ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 49.641315] page dumped because: migration failure When debugging this, I found that these migration failures were due to __migrate_folio() returning -EAGAIN for a small set of folios because the expected reference count it calculates via folio_expected_ref_count() is one less than the actual reference count of the folios. Furthermore, all of the affected folios were not anonymous, but had the PG_swapcache flag set, inspiring this patch. After applying this patch, the memory hot-unplug behaves as expected. I tested this on a machine running Ubuntu 24.04 with kernel version 6.8.0-90-generic and 64GB of memory. The guest VM is managed by libvirt and runs Ubuntu 24.04 with kernel version 6.18 (though the head of the mm-unstable branch as a Dec 16, 2025 was also tested and behaves the same) and 48GB of memory. The libvirt XML definition for the VM can be found at [1]. CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_MOVABLE is set in the guest kernel so the hot-pluggable memory is automatically onlined. Below are the steps to reproduce this behavior: 1) Define and start and virtual machine host$ virsh -c qemu:///system define ./test_vm.xml # test_vm.xml from [1] host$ virsh -c qemu:///system start test_vm 2) Setup swap in the guest guest$ sudo fallocate -l 32G /swapfile guest$ sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile guest$ sudo mkswap /swapfile guest$ sudo swapon /swapfile 3) Use alloc_data [2] to allocate most of the remaining guest memory guest$ ./alloc_data 45 4) In a separate guest terminal, monitor the amount of used memory guest$ watch -n1 free -h 5) When alloc_data has finished allocating, initiate the memory hot-unplug using the provided xml file [3] host$ virsh -c qemu:///system detach-device test_vm ./remove.xml --live After initiating the memory hot-unplug, you should see the amount of available memory in the guest decrease, and the amount of used swap data increase. If everything works as expected, when all of the memory is unplugged, there should be around 8.5-9GB of data in swap. If the unplugging is unsuccessful, the amount of used swap data will settle below that. If that happens, you should be able to see log messages in dmesg similar to the one posted above. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216200727.2360228-1-bijan311@gmail.com Link: https://github.com/BijanT/linux_patch_files/blob/main/test_vm.xml [1] Link: https://github.com/BijanT/linux_patch_files/blob/main/alloc_data.c [2] Link: https://github.com/BijanT/linux_patch_files/blob/main/remove.xml [3] Fixes: 86ebd50224c0 ("mm: add folio_expected_ref_count() for reference count calculation") Signed-off-by: Bijan Tabatabai Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Acked-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Shivank Garg Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-11-11-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-12-13T08:35:41+00:00

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/pseries/cmm: two smaller fixes" (David Hildenbrand) fixes a couple of minor things in ppc land - "Improve folio split related functions" (Zi Yan) some cleanups and minorish fixes in the folio splitting code * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-11-11-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: avoid damos_test_commit stack warning mm: vmscan: correct nr_requested tracing in scan_folios MAINTAINERS: add idr core-api doc file to XARRAY mm/hugetlb: fix incorrect error return from hugetlb_reserve_pages() mm: fix CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP typo in mm.h mm/huge_memory: fix folio split stats counting mm/huge_memory: make min_order_for_split() always return an order mm/huge_memory: replace can_split_folio() with direct refcount calculation mm/huge_memory: change folio_split_supported() to folio_check_splittable() mm/sparse: fix sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early definition without CONFIG_SPARSEMEM powerpc/pseries/cmm: adjust BALLOON_MIGRATE when migrating pages powerpc/pseries/cmm: call balloon_devinfo_init() also without CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION

mm: fix CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP typo in mm.h

2025-12-09T19:25:33+00:00

Commit 2b6a3f061f11 ("mm: declare VMA flags by bit") significantly refactors the header file include/linux/mm.h. In that step, it introduces a typo in an ifdef, referring to a non-existing config option STACK_GROWS_UP, whereas the actual config option is called STACK_GROWSUP. Fix this typo in the mm header file. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251201122922.352480-1-lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com Fixes: 2b6a3f061f11 ("mm: declare VMA flags by bit") Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Alice Ryhl Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-12-05T21:52:43+00:00

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->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 ->mmap() over to ->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->__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 ...

Merge tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-12-02T16:48:53+00:00

Pull rseq updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A large overhaul of the restartable sequences and CID management: The recent enablement of RSEQ in glibc resulted in regressions which are caused by the related overhead. It turned out that the decision to invoke the exit to user work was not really a decision. More or less each context switch caused that. There is a long list of small issues which sums up nicely and results in a 3-4% regression in I/O benchmarks. The other detail which caused issues due to extra work in context switch and task migration is the CID (memory context ID) management. It also requires to use a task work to consolidate the CID space, which is executed in the context of an arbitrary task and results in sporadic uncontrolled exit latencies. The rewrite addresses this by: - Removing deprecated and long unsupported functionality - Moving the related data into dedicated data structures which are optimized for fast path processing. - Caching values so actual decisions can be made - Replacing the current implementation with a optimized inlined variant. - Separating fast and slow path for architectures which use the generic entry code, so that only fault and error handling goes into the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME handler. - Rewriting the CID management so that it becomes mostly invisible in the context switch path. That moves the work of switching modes into the fork/exit path, which is a reasonable tradeoff. That work is only required when a process creates more threads than the cpuset it is allowed to run on or when enough threads exit after that. An artificial thread pool benchmarks which triggers this did not degrade, it actually improved significantly. The main effect in migration heavy scenarios is that runqueue lock held time and therefore contention goes down significantly" * tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits) sched/mmcid: Switch over to the new mechanism sched/mmcid: Implement deferred mode change irqwork: Move data struct to a types header sched/mmcid: Provide CID ownership mode fixup functions sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism sched/mmcid: Introduce per task/CPU ownership infrastructure sched/mmcid: Serialize sched_mm_cid_fork()/exit() with a mutex sched/mmcid: Provide precomputed maximal value sched/mmcid: Move initialization out of line signal: Move MMCID exit out of sighand lock sched/mmcid: Convert mm CID mask to a bitmap cpumask: Cache num_possible_cpus() sched/mmcid: Use cpumask_weighted_or() cpumask: Introduce cpumask_weighted_or() sched/mmcid: Prevent pointless work in mm_update_cpus_allowed() sched/mmcid: Move scheduler code out of global header sched: Fixup whitespace damage sched/mmcid: Cacheline align MM CID storage sched/mmcid: Use proper data structures sched/mmcid: Revert the complex CID management ...

Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-12-02T04:18:59+00:00

Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar: - klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf) Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch as input. This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of maintaining kpatch. Key improvements compared to kpatch-build: - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow graph analysis to help detect changed functions. - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar. - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code. - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft. - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction. - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to preserve the original line numbers at compile time. - Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump (Alexandre Chartre) - Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre, which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation specials such as alternatives: 17ef: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f mov 0x34(%r9),%edx 17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT 17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | call 0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax 17f8: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638 cmp %eax,%edx ... jump table alternatives: 1895: sched_use_asym_prio+0x5 test $0x8,%ch 1898: sched_use_asym_prio+0x8 je 0x18a9 189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | | JUMP 189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | jmp 0x18ae | nop2 189c: sched_use_asym_prio+0xc mov $0x1,%eax 18a1: sched_use_asym_prio+0x11 and $0x80,%ecx ... exception table alternatives: native_read_msr: 5b80: native_read_msr+0x0 mov %edi,%ecx 5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | | EXCEPTION 5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | rdmsr | resume at 0x5b84 5b84: native_read_msr+0x4 shl $0x20,%rdx .... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above): 2faaf: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f jne 0x2fba4 2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG 2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | jmp 0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp 0x4b0 | nop5 2faba: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a mov $0x2b,%eax ... NOP sequence shortening: 1048e2: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2 je 0x104917 1048e4: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4 nop6 1048ea: snapshot_write_finalize+0xca nop11 1048f5: snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5 nop11 104900: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0 mov %rax,%rcx 104903: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3 mov 0x10(%rdx),%rax ... and much more. - Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre) - Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf) - Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support (Josh Poimboeuf) - Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra, Thorsten Blum) * tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits) objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative objtool: Add wide output for disassembly objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives objtool: Fix address references in alternatives objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions objtool: Disassemble group alternatives objtool: Print headers for alternatives objtool: Preserve alternatives order objtool: Add the --disas= action objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives ...

Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.folio' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-12-01T18:26:38+00:00

Pull folio updates from Christian Brauner: "Add a new folio_next_pos() helper function that returns the file position of the first byte after the current folio. This is a common operation in filesystems when needing to know the end of the current folio. The helper is lifted from btrfs which already had its own version, and is now used across multiple filesystems and subsystems: - btrfs - buffer - ext4 - f2fs - gfs2 - iomap - netfs - xfs - mm This fixes a long-standing bug in ocfs2 on 32-bit systems with files larger than 2GiB. Presumably this is not a common configuration, but the fix is backported anyway. The other filesystems did not have bugs, they were just mildly inefficient. This also introduce uoff_t as the unsigned version of loff_t. A recent commit inadvertently changed a comparison from being unsigned (on 64-bit systems) to being signed (which it had always been on 32-bit systems), leading to sporadic fstests failures. Generally file sizes are restricted to being a signed integer, but in places where -1 is passed to indicate "up to the end of the file", it is convenient to have an unsigned type to ensure comparisons are always unsigned regardless of architecture" * tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.folio' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: Add uoff_t mm: Use folio_next_pos() xfs: Use folio_next_pos() netfs: Use folio_next_pos() iomap: Use folio_next_pos() gfs2: Use folio_next_pos() f2fs: Use folio_next_pos() ext4: Use folio_next_pos() buffer: Use folio_next_pos() btrfs: Use folio_next_pos() filemap: Add folio_next_pos()

mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type

2025-11-29T18:41:09+00:00

It is useful to transition to using a bitmap for VMA flags so we can avoid running out of flags, especially for 32-bit kernels which are constrained to 32 flags, necessitating some features to be limited to 64-bit kernels only. By doing so, we remove any constraint on the number of VMA flags moving forwards no matter the platform and can decide in future to extend beyond 64 if required. We start by declaring an opaque types, vma_flags_t (which resembles mm_struct flags of type mm_flags_t), setting it to precisely the same size as vm_flags_t, and place it in union with vm_flags in the VMA declaration. We additionally update struct vm_area_desc equivalently placing the new opaque type in union with vm_flags. This change therefore does not impact the size of struct vm_area_struct or struct vm_area_desc. In order for the change to be iterative and to avoid impacting performance, we designate VM_xxx declared bitmap flag values as those which must exist in the first system word of the VMA flags bitmap. We therefore declare vma_flags_clear_all(), vma_flags_overwrite_word(), vma_flags_overwrite_word(), vma_flags_overwrite_word_once(), vma_flags_set_word() and vma_flags_clear_word() in order to allow us to update the existing vm_flags_*() functions to utilise these helpers. This is a stepping stone towards converting users to the VMA flags bitmap and behaves precisely as before. By doing this, we can eliminate the existing private vma->__vm_flags field in the vma->vm_flags union and replace it with the newly introduced opaque type vma_flags, which we call flags so we refer to the new bitmap field as vma->flags. We update vma_flag_[test, set]_atomic() to account for the change also. We adapt vm_flags_reset_once() to only clear those bits above the first system word providing write-once semantics to the first system word (which it is presumed the caller requires - and in all current use cases this is so). As we currently only specify that the VMA flags bitmap size is equal to BITS_PER_LONG number of bits, this is a noop, but is defensive in preparation for a future change that increases this. We additionally update the VMA userland test declarations to implement the same changes there. Finally, we update the rust code to reference vma->vm_flags on update rather than vma->__vm_flags which has been removed. This is safe for now, albeit it is implicitly performing a const cast. Once we introduce flag helpers we can improve this more. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bab179d7b153ac12f221b7d65caac2759282cfe9.1764064557.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato Acked-by: Alice Ryhl [rust] Cc: Alex Gaynor Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Andreas Hindborg Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Barry Song Cc: Ben Segall Cc: Björn Roy Baron Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Chris Li Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Dietmar Eggemann Cc: Gary Guo Cc: Gregory Price Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Mathew Brost Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Trevor Gross Cc: Valentin Schneider Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: Wei Xu Cc: xu xin Cc: Yuanchu Xie Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton