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<updated>2026-04-27T12:54:24+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>mm: start background writeback based on per-wb threshold for strictlimit BDIs</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T12:54:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joanne Koong</name>
<email>joannelkoong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T23:46:29+00:00</published>
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The proactive nr_dirty &gt; gdtc-&gt;bg_thresh check in balance_dirty_pages()
only checks the global dirty threshold to start background writeback while
the writer is still free-running, but for strictlimit BDIs (eg fuse), the
per-wb dirty count can exceed the per-wb background threshold while the
global threshold is not yet exceeded, so background writeback for this
case never gets proactively started.

Add a per-wb threshold check for strictlimit BDIs so that background
writeback is started when wb_dirty exceeds wb_bg_thresh, which drains
dirty pages before the writer hits the throttle wall, matching the
proactive behavior that the global check provides for non-strictlimit
BDIs.

fio runs on fuse show about a 3-4% improvement in perf for buffered
writes:
fio --name=writeback_test --ioengine=psync --rw=write --bs=128k \
    --size=2G --numjobs=4 --ramp_time=10 --runtime=20 \
    --time_based --group_reporting=1 --direct=0

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260326234629.840938-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)

   Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
   stack usage and is an improvement.

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)

   Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
   some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.

 - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)

   File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code

 - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
   Chen)

   Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap

 - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)

   Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn

 - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
   Han)

   A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code

 - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)

   Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
   prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently

 - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)

   Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
   metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
   structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel

 - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
   Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)

   Enhance vmscan's tracepointing

 - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
   VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)

   Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
   a generic implementation

 - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area

 - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)

   Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
   which became folio_batch three years ago

 - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
   Shutsemau)

   Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
   pages encode their relationship to the head page

 - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
   filters" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
   efficient when core layer filters are used

 - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)

   Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
   min_nr_regions user-settable parameter

 - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)

   The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
   simplifications and cleanups ensued

 - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)

   A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
   simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
   zapping functions

 - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)

   Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
   benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64

 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)

   memcg cleanup and robustness improvements

 - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)

   Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
   pages when reporting free memory.

 - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
   a bitmap

 - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
   (SeongJae Park)

   An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
   addr_unit parameter handling

 - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
   overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core

 - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
   documentation" (SeongJae Park)

   A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON

 - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
   movement was required.

 - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
   improvements in the zram code

 - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
   algorithms that users can select

 - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)

   Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
   reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged

 - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
   code

 - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
   modules" (SeongJae Park)

   Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable

 - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)

   Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
   mTHP support

 - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)

   Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
   CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)

   Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support

 - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)

   Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
   Law and SeongJae Park)

   Fix a few potential DAMON bugs

 - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
   Stoakes)

   Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
   to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
   code.

 - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
   the deprecated f_op-&gt;mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
   security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
   mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers

 - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
   vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
  mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
  mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
  mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
  mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
  mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb-&gt;mm
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
  mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
  mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
  mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
  mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
  mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
  mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
  mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
  uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
  drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
  mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: reinstate unconditional writeback start in balance_dirty_pages()</title>
<updated>2026-04-06T18:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joanne Koong</name>
<email>joannelkoong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T21:51:27+00:00</published>
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Commit 64dd89ae01f2 ("mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode") removed this
unconditional writeback start from balance_dirty_pages():

       if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(wb)))
	       wb_start_background_writeback(wb);

This logic needs to be reinstated to prevent performance regressions for
strictlimited BDIs and memcg setups.  The problem occurs because:

a) For strictlimited BDIs, throttling is calculated using per-wb
   thresholds.  The per-wb threshold can be exceeded even when the global
   dirty threshold was not exceeded (nr_dirty &lt; gdtc-&gt;bg_thresh)

b) For memcg-based throttling, memcg uses its own dirty count /
   thresholds and can trigger throttling even when the global threshold
   isn't exceeded

Without the unconditional writeback start, IO is throttled as it waits for
dirty pages to be written back but there is no writeback running.  This
leads to severe stalls.  On fuse, buffered write performance dropped from
1400 MiB/s to 2000 KiB/s.

Reinstate the unconditional writeback start so that writeback is
guaranteed to be running whenever IO needs to be throttled.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260326215127.3857682-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Fixes: 64dd89ae01f2 ("mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode")
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: rename zap_vma_pages() to zap_vma()</title>
<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand (Arm)</name>
<email>david@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-27T20:08:43+00:00</published>
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Let's rename it to an even simpler name.  While at it, add some simplistic
kernel doc.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227200848.114019-13-david@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Arve &lt;arve@android.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkman &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich &lt;dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hartley Sweeten &lt;hsweeten@visionengravers.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kacinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leon@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin &lt;tursulin@ursulin.net&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>folio_batch: rename pagevec.h to folio_batch.h</title>
<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tal Zussman</name>
<email>tz2294@columbia.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T23:44:27+00:00</published>
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struct pagevec was removed in commit 1e0877d58b1e ("mm: remove struct
pagevec").  Rename include/linux/pagevec.h to reflect reality and update
includes tree-wide.  Add the new filename to MAINTAINERS explicitly, as it
no longer matches the "include/linux/page[-_]*" pattern in MEMORY
MANAGEMENT - CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225-pagevec_cleanup-v2-3-716868cc2d11@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman &lt;tz2294@columbia.edu&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/block/fs: remove laptop_mode</title>
<updated>2026-01-21T03:24:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-15T17:57:53+00:00</published>
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Laptop mode was introduced to save battery, by delaying and consolidating
writes and thereby maximize the time rotating hard drives wouldn't have to
spin.

Luckily, rotating hard drives, with their high spin-up times and power
draw, are a thing of the past for battery-powered devices.  Reclaim has
also since changed to not write single filesystem pages anymore, and
regular filesystem writeback is lumpy by design.

The juice doesn't appear worth the squeeze anymore.  The footprint of the
feature is small, but nevertheless it's a complicating factor in mm,
block, filesystems.  Developers don't think about it, and it likely hasn't
been tested with new reclaim and writeback changes in years.

Let's sunset it.  Keep the sysctl with a deprecation warning around for a
few more cycles, but remove all functionality behind it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey &lt;kartikey406@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<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>memcg: remove __lruvec_stat_mod_folio</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T23:08:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shakeel Butt</name>
<email>shakeel.butt@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-10T23:20:08+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:c1bd09994c4d5b897571671bed16581335e93242</id>
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__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() is already safe against irqs, so there is no
need to have a separate interface (i.e.  lruvec_stat_mod_folio) which
wraps calls to it with irq disabling and reenabling.  Let's rename
__lruvec_stat_mod_folio() to lruvec_stat_mod_folio().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251110232008.1352063-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo &lt;harry.yoo@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Make wbc_to_tag() inline and use it in fs.</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T22:33:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Sun</name>
<email>sunjunchao@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T11:13:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=4952f35f0545f3b53dab8d5fd727c4827c2a2778'/>
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The logic in wbc_to_tag() is widely used in file systems, so modify this
function to be inline and use it in file systems.

This patch has only passed compilation tests, but it should be fine.

Signed-off-by: Julian Sun &lt;sunjunchao@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo &lt;wqu@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T19:48:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T19:48:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=6238729bfce13f94b701766996a5d116d2df8bff'/>
<id>urn:sha1:6238729bfce13f94b701766996a5d116d2df8bff</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Extend copy_file_range interface to be fully 64bit capable (Miklos)

 - Add selftest for fusectl (Chen Linxuan)

 - Move fuse docs into a separate directory (Bagas Sanjaya)

 - Allow fuse to enter freezable state in some cases (Sergey
   Senozhatsky)

 - Clean up writeback accounting after removing tmp page copies (Joanne)

 - Optimize virtiofs request handling (Li RongQing)

 - Add synchronous FUSE_INIT support (Miklos)

 - Allow server to request prune of unused inodes (Miklos)

 - Fix deadlock with AIO/sync release (Darrick)

 - Add some prep patches for block/iomap support (Darrick)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (26 commits)
  fuse: move CREATE_TRACE_POINTS to a separate file
  fuse: move the backing file idr and code into a new source file
  fuse: enable FUSE_SYNCFS for all fuseblk servers
  fuse: capture the unique id of fuse commands being sent
  fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers
  mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling
  fuse: add prune notification
  fuse: remove redundant calls to fuse_copy_finish() in fuse_notify()
  fuse: fix possibly missing fuse_copy_finish() call in fuse_notify()
  fuse: remove FUSE_NOTIFY_CODE_MAX from &lt;uapi/linux/fuse.h&gt;
  fuse: remove fuse_readpages_end() null mapping check
  fuse: fix references to fuse.rst -&gt; fuse/fuse.rst
  fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT
  fuse: zero initialize inode private data
  fuse: remove unused 'inode' parameter in fuse_passthrough_open
  virtio_fs: fix the hash table using in virtio_fs_enqueue_req()
  mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT
  fuse: use default writeback accounting
  virtio_fs: Remove redundant spinlock in virtio_fs_request_complete()
  fuse: remove unneeded offset assignment when filling write pages
  ...
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