kernel/linux.git/include/linux/shmem_fs.h, branch v7.2-rc1

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-23-08-55' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-06-23T19:03:44+00:00

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "khugepaged: add mTHP collapse support" (Nico Pache) Provide khugepaged with the capability to collapse anonymous memory regions to mTHPs - "Remove CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS and enable file THP for writable files" (Zi Yan) Remove the READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS check in file_thp_enabled(), so that khugepaged and MADV_COLLAPSE can run on filesystems with PMD THP pagecache support even without READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS enabled - "make MM selftests more CI friendly" (Mike Rapoport) General fixes and cleanups to the MM selftests. Also move more MM selftests under the kselftest framework, making them more amenable to ongoing CI testing - "selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements" and "selftests/mm: assorted fixes for hmm-tests" (Sayali Patil) Fix several issues in MM selftests which were revealed by powerpc 64k pagesize * tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-23-08-55' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (118 commits) Revert "mm: limit filemap_fault readahead to VMA boundaries" mm/vmscan: pass NULL to trace vmscan node reclaim mm: use mapping_mapped to simplify the code selftests/mm: fix exclusive_cow test fork() handling selftests/mm: remove hardcoded THP sizing assumptions in hmm tests selftests/mm: allow PUD-level entries in compound testcase of hmm tests mm/gup_test: reject wrapped user ranges mm/page_frag: reject invalid CPUs in page_frag_test mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids mm: page_isolation: avoid unsafe folio reads while scanning compound pages mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show() selftests: mm: fix and speedup "droppable" test mm: merge writeout into pageout MAINTAINERS: add Hao Ge as reviewer for codetag and alloc_tag selftests/mm: clarify alternate unmapping in compaction_test selftests/mm: move hwpoison setup into run_test() and silence modprobe output for memory-failure category selftests/mm: skip uffd-stress test when nr_pages_per_cpu is zero selftests/mm: skip uffd-wp-mremap if UFFD write-protect is unsupported selftests/mm: ensure destination is hugetlb-backed in hugetlb-mremap selftest/mm: register existing mapping with userfaultfd in hugetlb-mremap ...

mm/khugepaged: remove READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS check in hugepage_enabled()

2026-06-21T18:37:14+00:00

Remove the READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS gate and khugepaged for file-backed pmd-sized hugepages are enabled by the global transparent hugepage control. khugepaged can still be enabled by per-size control for anon and shmem when the global control is off. Add shmem_hpage_pmd_enabled() stub for !CONFIG_SHMEM to remove IS_ENABLED(SHMEM) in hugepage_enabled(). Clean up hugepage_enabled() by moving anon code to anon_hpage_enabled(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260517135416.1434539-5-ziy@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Reviewed-by: Nico Pache Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Cc: Al Viro Cc: Barry Song Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: David Sterba Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Song Liu Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache

2026-06-06T13:21:41+00:00

Move the hash table to the super block to remove excessive overhead in case of small number of xattrs per inode. Add linked list to the inode, used for listxattr and eviction. Listxattr uses rcu protection to iterate the list of xattrs. Before being made per-sb, lazy allocation was protected by inode lock. Now inode lock no longer provides sufficient exclusion, so use cmpxchg() to ensure atomicity. Though I haven't found a description of this pattern, after some research it seems that cmpxchg_release() and READ_ONCE() should provide the necessary memory barriers. Use simple_xattr_free_rcu() in simple_xattrs_free(). This is needed because the hash table is now shared between inodes and lookup on a different inode might be running the compare function on the just freed element within the RCU grace period. Following stats are based on slabinfo diff, after creating 100k empty files, then adding a "user.test=foo" xattr to each: v7.0 (no rhashtable): File creation: 993.40 bytes/file Xattr addition: 79.99 bytes/file v7.1-rc2 (per-inode rhashtable): File creation: 939.73 bytes/file Xattr addition: 1296.08 bytes/file v7.1-rc2 + this patch (per-sb rhashtable) File creation: 946.84 bytes/file Xattr addition: 111.86 bytes/file The overhead of a single xattr is reduced to nearly v7.0 levels. The per xattr overhead is slightly larger due to the addition of three pointers to struct simple_xattr. Fixes: b32c4a213698 ("xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-5-mszeredi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable)

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-04-19T15:01:17+00:00

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song) Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended period pointlessly consuming memory - "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng) Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series - "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count" (Breno Leitao) Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next kernel, and print it at boot time - "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin) Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active sessions - "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha Tatashin) Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and unregistration during module unloading - "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar) Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx resources - "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race" (SeongJae Park) Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and damon_walk() - "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid" (SeongJae Park) Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences - "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race" (SeongJae Park) Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at the wrong time - "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple) Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests - "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan) Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code - "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport) Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd - "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu Hu) Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels - "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato) A couple of nice speedups for mprotect() - "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav) Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo, kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits) MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd() selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store() docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan() mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment mm/page_io: use sio->len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete() selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available ...

shmem, userfaultfd: implement shmem uffd operations using vm_uffd_ops

2026-04-18T07:10:54+00:00

Add filemap_add() and filemap_remove() methods to vm_uffd_ops and use them in __mfill_atomic_pte() to add shmem folios to page cache and remove them in case of error. Implement these methods in shmem along with vm_uffd_ops->alloc_folio() and drop shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(). Since userfaultfd now does not reference any functions from shmem, drop include if linux/shmem_fs.h from mm/userfaultfd.c mfill_atomic_install_pte() is not used anywhere outside of mm/userfaultfd, make it static. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260402041156.1377214-11-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: James Houghton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nikita Kalyazin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Carlier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

shmem: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation

2026-02-23T12:06:38+00:00

Adapt tmpfs/shmem to use the rhashtable-based xattr path and switch from an embedded struct to pointer-based lazy allocation. Change shmem_inode_info.xattrs from embedded 'struct simple_xattrs' to a pointer 'struct simple_xattrs *', initialized to NULL. This avoids the rhashtable overhead for every tmpfs inode, which helps when a lot of inodes exist. The xattr store is allocated on first use: - shmem_initxattrs(): Allocates via simple_xattrs_alloc() when security modules set initial xattrs during inode creation. - shmem_xattr_handler_set(): Allocates on first setxattr, with a short-circuit for removal when no xattrs are stored yet. All read paths (shmem_xattr_handler_get, shmem_listxattr) check for NULL xattrs pointer and return -ENODATA or 0 respectively. Replaced xattr entries are freed via simple_xattr_free_rcu() to allow concurrent RCU readers to finish. shmem_evict_inode() conditionally frees the xattr store only when allocated. Also change simple_xattr_add() from void to int to propagate rhashtable insertion failures. shmem_initxattrs() is the only caller. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216-work-xattr-socket-v1-3-c2efa4f74cb7@kernel.org Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t

2026-02-12T23:42:58+00:00

In order to be able to use only vma_flags_t in vm_area_desc we must adjust shmem file setup functions to operate in terms of vma_flags_t rather than vm_flags_t. This patch makes this change and updates all callers to use the new functions. No functional changes intended. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment fixes, per Baolin] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/736febd280eb484d79cef5cf55b8a6f79ad832d2.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Damien Le Moal Cc: Yury Norov Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Pedro Falcato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-12-06T22:01:20+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko) fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight) enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up the test module for these library functions - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich) makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB debugger - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang) adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several users away from their private implementations - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet) makes TCP a little faster - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin) reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin) increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin) is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the cover letter: This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition. As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec reboot. Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and testing work. - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain) moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can hopefully be removed one day - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport) fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc() regions * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits) calibrate: update header inclusion Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()" vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec test_kho: always print restore status kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree() selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h ...

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 ...

mm: shmem: allow freezing inode mapping

2025-11-27T22:24:40+00:00

To prepare a shmem inode for live update, its index -> folio mappings must be serialized. Once the mappings are serialized, they cannot change since it would cause the serialized data to become inconsistent. This can be done by pinning the folios to avoid migration, and by making sure no folios can be added to or removed from the inode. While mechanisms to pin folios already exist, the only way to stop folios being added or removed are the grow and shrink file seals. But file seals come with their own semantics, one of which is that they can't be removed. This doesn't work with liveupdate since it can be cancelled or error out, which would need the seals to be removed and the file's normal functionality to be restored. Introduce SHMEM_F_MAPPING_FROZEN to indicate this instead. It is internal to shmem and is not directly exposed to userspace. It functions similar to F_SEAL_GROW | F_SEAL_SHRINK, but additionally disallows hole punching, and can be removed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-12-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Tested-by: David Matlack Cc: Aleksander Lobakin Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Alice Ryhl Cc: Andriy Shevchenko Cc: anish kumar Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Chanwoo Choi Cc: Chen Ridong Cc: Chris Li Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Daniel Wagner Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Jeffery Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Guixin Liu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Joanthan Cameron Cc: Joel Granados Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lennart Poettering Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Lukas Wunner Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Matthew Maurer Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Myugnjoo Ham Cc: Parav Pandit Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Saeed Mahameed Cc: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: Song Liu Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Stuart Hayes Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: William Tu Cc: Yoann Congal Cc: Zhu Yanjun Cc: Zijun Hu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton