kernel/linux.git/mm/pgtable-generic.c, branch v7.1-rc5

mm: change to return bool for pmdp_clear_flush_young()

2026-04-05T20:53:35+00:00

The pmdp_clear_flush_young() is used to clear the young flag and flush the TLB, returning whether the young flag was set for this PMD entry. Change the return type to bool to make the intention clearer. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a668b9a974c0d675e7a41f6973bcbe3336e8b373.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: change to return bool for ptep_clear_flush_young()/clear_flush_young_ptes()

2026-04-05T20:53:35+00:00

The ptep_clear_flush_young() and clear_flush_young_ptes() are used to clear the young flag and flush the TLB, returning whether the young flag was set. Change the return type to bool to make the intention clearer. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/24af5144b96103631594501f77d4525f2475c1be.1774075004.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

compiler-context-analysis: Remove __cond_lock() function-like helper

2026-01-05T15:43:33+00:00

As discussed in [1], removing __cond_lock() will improve the readability of trylock code. Now that Sparse context tracking support has been removed, we can also remove __cond_lock(). Change existing APIs to either drop __cond_lock() completely, or make use of the __cond_acquires() function attribute instead. In particular, spinlock and rwlock implementations required switching over to inline helpers rather than statement-expressions for their trylock_* variants. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250207082832.GU7145@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [1] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-25-elver@google.com

mm/huge_memory: add device-private THP support to PMD operations

2025-11-24T23:08:48+00:00

Extend core huge page management functions to handle device-private THP entries. This enables proper handling of large device-private folios in fundamental MM operations. The following functions have been updated: - copy_huge_pmd(): Handle device-private entries during fork/clone - zap_huge_pmd(): Properly free device-private THP during munmap - change_huge_pmd(): Support protection changes on device-private THP - __pte_offset_map(): Add device-private entry awareness Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001065707.920170-4-balbirs@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh Acked-by: Zi Yan Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Gregory Price Cc: Ying Huang Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Barry Song Cc: Lyude Paul Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: David Airlie Cc: Simona Vetter Cc: Ralph Campbell Cc: Mika Penttilä Cc: Francois Dugast Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide: include linux/pgalloc.h instead of asm/pgalloc.h

2025-11-17T01:28:25+00:00

For now, including instead of is technically fine unless the .c file calls p*d_populate_kernel() helper functions. But it is a better practice to always include . Include instead of outside arch/. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251024113047.119058-3-harry.yoo@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

iommu/sva: invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space

2025-11-17T01:28:18+00:00

Introduce a new IOMMU interface to flush IOTLB paging cache entries for the CPU kernel address space. This interface is invoked from the x86 architecture code that manages combined user and kernel page tables, specifically before any kernel page table page is freed and reused. This addresses the main issue with vfree() which is a common occurrence and can be triggered by unprivileged users. While this resolves the primary problem, it doesn't address some extremely rare case related to memory unplug of memory that was present as reserved memory at boot, which cannot be triggered by unprivileged users. The discussion can be found at the link below. Enable SVA on x86 architecture since the IOMMU can now receive notification to flush the paging cache before freeing the CPU kernel page table pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-9-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/04983c62-3b1d-40d4-93ae-34ca04b827e5@intel.com/ Co-developed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu Suggested-by: Jann Horn Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Vasant Hegde Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robin Murohy Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yi Lai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: introduce deferred freeing for kernel page tables

2025-11-17T01:28:18+00:00

This introduces a conditional asynchronous mechanism, enabled by CONFIG_ASYNC_KERNEL_PGTABLE_FREE. When enabled, this mechanism defers the freeing of pages that are used as page tables for kernel address mappings. These pages are now queued to a work struct instead of being freed immediately. This deferred freeing allows for batch-freeing of page tables, providing a safe context for performing a single expensive operation (TLB flush) for a batch of kernel page tables instead of performing that expensive operation for each page table. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-8-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robin Murohy Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vasant Hegde Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yi Lai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove redundant pXd_devmap calls

2025-07-10T05:42:17+00:00

DAX was the only thing that created pmd_devmap and pud_devmap entries however it no longer does as DAX pages are now refcounted normally and pXd_trans_huge() returns true for those. Therefore checking both pXd_devmap and pXd_trans_huge() is redundant and the former can be removed without changing behaviour as it will always be false. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d58f089dc16b7feb7c6728164f37dea65d64a0d3.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Inki Dae Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: John Groves Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add RCU annotation to pte_offset_map(_lock)

2024-12-19T03:04:43+00:00

RCU lock is taken by ___pte_offset_map() unless it returns NULL. Add this information to its inline callers to avoid sparse warning about context imbalance in pte_unmap(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241210000604.700710-1-oss@malat.biz Signed-off-by: Petr Malat Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: pgtable: remove pte_offset_map_nolock()

2024-11-06T00:56:29+00:00

Now no users are using the pte_offset_map_nolock(), remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d04f9bbbcde048fb6ffa6f2bdbc6f9b22d5286f9.1727332572.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Reviewed-by: Muchun Song Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton