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<updated>2025-10-23T14:20:47+00:00</updated>
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<title>mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise</title>
<updated>2025-10-23T14:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Acs</name>
<email>acsjakub@amazon.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-01T09:03:52+00:00</published>
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commit f04aad36a07cc17b7a5d5b9a2d386ce6fae63e93 upstream.

syzkaller discovered the following crash: (kernel BUG)

[   44.607039] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   44.607422] kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067!
[   44.608148] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI
[   44.608814] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2475 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(none)
[   44.609635] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[   44.610695] RIP: 0010:userfaultfd_release_all+0x3a8/0x460

&lt;snip other registers, drop unreliable trace&gt;

[   44.617726] Call Trace:
[   44.617926]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[   44.619284]  userfaultfd_release+0xef/0x1b0
[   44.620976]  __fput+0x3f9/0xb60
[   44.621240]  fput_close_sync+0x110/0x210
[   44.622222]  __x64_sys_close+0x8f/0x120
[   44.622530]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x2f0
[   44.622840]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[   44.623244] RIP: 0033:0x7f365bb3f227

Kernel panics because it detects UFFD inconsistency during
userfaultfd_release_all().  Specifically, a VMA which has a valid pointer
to vma-&gt;vm_userfaultfd_ctx, but no UFFD flags in vma-&gt;vm_flags.

The inconsistency is caused in ksm_madvise(): when user calls madvise()
with MADV_UNMEARGEABLE on a VMA that is registered for UFFD in MINOR mode,
it accidentally clears all flags stored in the upper 32 bits of
vma-&gt;vm_flags.

Assuming x86_64 kernel build, unsigned long is 64-bit and unsigned int and
int are 32-bit wide.  This setup causes the following mishap during the &amp;=
~VM_MERGEABLE assignment.

VM_MERGEABLE is a 32-bit constant of type unsigned int, 0x8000'0000.
After ~ is applied, it becomes 0x7fff'ffff unsigned int, which is then
promoted to unsigned long before the &amp; operation.  This promotion fills
upper 32 bits with leading 0s, as we're doing unsigned conversion (and
even for a signed conversion, this wouldn't help as the leading bit is 0).
&amp; operation thus ends up AND-ing vm_flags with 0x0000'0000'7fff'ffff
instead of intended 0xffff'ffff'7fff'ffff and hence accidentally clears
the upper 32-bits of its value.

Fix it by changing `VM_MERGEABLE` constant to unsigned long, using the
BIT() macro.

Note: other VM_* flags are not affected: This only happens to the
VM_MERGEABLE flag, as the other VM_* flags are all constants of type int
and after ~ operation, they end up with leading 1 and are thus converted
to unsigned long with leading 1s.

Note 2:
After commit 31defc3b01d9 ("userfaultfd: remove (VM_)BUG_ON()s"), this is
no longer a kernel BUG, but a WARNING at the same place:

[   45.595973] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2474 at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067

but the root-cause (flag-drop) remains the same.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rust bindgen wasn't able to handle BIT(), from Miguel]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202510030449.VfSaAjvd-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001090353.57523-2-acsjakub@amazon.de
Fixes: 7677f7fd8be7 ("userfaultfd: add minor fault registration mode")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Acs &lt;acsjakub@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Xu Xin &lt;xu.xin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[acsjakub@amazon.de: adjust context in bindgings_helper.h]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Acs &lt;acsjakub@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's `unnecessary_transmutes` lint</title>
<updated>2025-05-18T06:24:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-02T14:02:35+00:00</published>
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commit 7129ea6e242b00938532537da41ddf5fa3e21471 upstream.

Starting with Rust 1.88.0 (expected 2025-06-26) [1][2], `rustc` may
introduce a new lint that catches unnecessary transmutes, e.g.:

     error: unnecessary transmute
         --&gt; rust/uapi/uapi_generated.rs:23242:18
          |
    23242 |         unsafe { ::core::mem::transmute(self._bitfield_1.get(0usize, 1u8) as u8) }
          |                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ help: replace this with: `(self._bitfield_1.get(0usize, 1u8) as u8 == 1)`
          |
          = note: `-D unnecessary-transmutes` implied by `-D warnings`
          = help: to override `-D warnings` add `#[allow(unnecessary_transmutes)]`

There are a lot of them (at least 300), but luckily they are all in
`bindgen`-generated code.

Thus clean all up by allowing it there.

Since unknown lints trigger a lint itself in older compilers, do it
conditionally so that we can keep the `unknown_lints` lint enabled.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Needed in 6.12.y and later (Rust is pinned in older LTSs).
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/136083 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/136067 [2]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250502140237.1659624-4-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rust: map `__kernel_size_t` and friends also to usize/isize</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T12:01:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gary Guo</name>
<email>gary@garyguo.net</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T22:50:05+00:00</published>
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commit 2fd6f55c048d0c863ffbc8590b1bd2edb5ff13e5 upstream.

Currently bindgen has special logic to recognise `size_t` and `ssize_t`
and map them to Rust `usize` and `isize`. Similarly, `ptrdiff_t` is
mapped to `isize`.

However this falls short for `__kernel_size_t`, `__kernel_ssize_t` and
`__kernel_ptrdiff_t`. To ensure that they are mapped to usize/isize
rather than 32/64 integers depending on platform, blocklist them in
bindgen parameters and manually provide their definition.

Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913213041.395655-3-gary@garyguo.net
[ Formatted comment. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: alloc: add __GFP_NOWARN to `Flags`</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T12:01:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Danilo Krummrich</name>
<email>dakr@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T22:49:36+00:00</published>
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commit 01b2196e5aac8af9343282d0044fa0d6b07d484c upstream.

Some test cases in subsequent patches provoke allocation failures. Add
`__GFP_NOWARN` to enable test cases to silence unpleasant warnings.

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004154149.93856-11-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: enable `clippy::undocumented_unsafe_blocks` lint</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T12:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T22:49:11+00:00</published>
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commit db4f72c904cb116e2bf56afdd67fc5167a607a7b upstream.

Checking that we are not missing any `// SAFETY` comments in our `unsafe`
blocks is something we have wanted to do for a long time, as well as
cleaning up the remaining cases that were not documented [1].

Back when Rust for Linux started, this was something that could have
been done via a script, like Rust's `tidy`. Soon after, in Rust 1.58.0,
Clippy implemented the `undocumented_unsafe_blocks` lint [2].

Even though the lint has a few false positives, e.g. in some cases where
attributes appear between the comment and the `unsafe` block [3], there
are workarounds and the lint seems quite usable already.

Thus enable the lint now.

We still have a few cases to clean up, so just allow those for the moment
by writing a `TODO` comment -- some of those may be good candidates for
new contributors.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/351 [1]
Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/#/undocumented_unsafe_blocks [2]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/13189 [3]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904204347.168520-5-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: sort blk includes in bindings_helper.h</title>
<updated>2024-08-20T22:37:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Ryhl</name>
<email>aliceryhl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-09T13:28:35+00:00</published>
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The headers in this file are sorted alphabetically, which makes it
easy to quickly resolve conflicts by selecting all of the headers and
invoking :'&lt;,'&gt;sort to sort them. To keep this technique to resolve
conflicts working, also apply sorting to symbols that are not letters.

This file is very prone to merge conflicts, so I think keeping conflict
resolution really easy is more important than not messing with git blame
history.

These includes were originally introduced in commit 3253aba3408a ("rust:
block: introduce `kernel::block::mq` module").

Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240809132835.274603-1-aliceryhl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rust-6.11' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux</title>
<updated>2024-07-27T20:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-27T20:44:54+00:00</published>
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Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
 "The highlight is the establishment of a minimum version for the Rust
  toolchain, including 'rustc' (and bundled tools) and 'bindgen'.

  The initial minimum will be the pinned version we currently have, i.e.
  we are just widening the allowed versions. That covers three stable
  Rust releases: 1.78.0, 1.79.0, 1.80.0 (getting released tomorrow),
  plus beta, plus nightly.

  This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions
  that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch
  Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux,
  Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and
  openSUSE Slowroll and Tumbleweed.

  In addition, the kernel is now being built-tested by Rust's pre-merge
  CI. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust
  compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it
  passes. Similarly, the bindgen tool has agreed to build the kernel in
  their CI too.

  Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid
  unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that,
  in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will
  need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust
  compiler versions should generally work.

  In addition, the Rust project has proposed getting the kernel into
  stable Rust (at least solving the main blockers) as one of its three
  flagship goals for 2024H2 [1].

  I would like to thank Niko, Sid, Emilio et al. for their help
  promoting the collaboration between Rust and the kernel.

  Toolchain and infrastructure:

   - Support several Rust toolchain versions.

   - Support several bindgen versions.

   - Remove 'cargo' requirement and simplify 'rusttest', thanks to
     'alloc' having been dropped last cycle.

   - Provide proper error reporting for the 'rust-analyzer' target.

  'kernel' crate:

   - Add 'uaccess' module with a safe userspace pointers abstraction.

   - Add 'page' module with a 'struct page' abstraction.

   - Support more complex generics in workqueue's 'impl_has_work!'
     macro.

  'macros' crate:

   - Add 'firmware' field support to the 'module!' macro.

   - Improve 'module!' macro documentation.

  Documentation:

   - Provide instructions on what packages should be installed to build
     the kernel in some popular Linux distributions.

   - Introduce the new kernel.org LLVM+Rust toolchains.

   - Explain '#[no_std]'.

  And a few other small bits"

Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2024h2/index.html#flagship-goals [1]

* tag 'rust-6.11' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (26 commits)
  docs: rust: quick-start: add section on Linux distributions
  rust: warn about `bindgen` versions 0.66.0 and 0.66.1
  rust: start supporting several `bindgen` versions
  rust: work around `bindgen` 0.69.0 issue
  rust: avoid assuming a particular `bindgen` build
  rust: start supporting several compiler versions
  rust: simplify Clippy warning flags set
  rust: relax most deny-level lints to warnings
  rust: allow `dead_code` for never constructed bindings
  rust: init: simplify from `map_err` to `inspect_err`
  rust: macros: indent list item in `paste!`'s docs
  rust: add abstraction for `struct page`
  rust: uaccess: add typed accessors for userspace pointers
  uaccess: always export _copy_[from|to]_user with CONFIG_RUST
  rust: uaccess: add userspace pointers
  kbuild: rust-analyzer: improve comment documentation
  kbuild: rust-analyzer: better error handling
  docs: rust: no_std is used
  rust: alloc: add __GFP_HIGHMEM flag
  rust: alloc: fix typo in docs for GFP_NOWAIT
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2024-07-25T17:42:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-25T17:42:22+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of driver core changes for 6.11-rc1.

  Lots of stuff in here, with not a huge diffstat, but apis are evolving
  which required lots of files to be touched. Highlights of the changes
  in here are:

   - platform remove callback api final fixups (Uwe took many releases
     to get here, finally!)

   - Rust bindings for basic firmware apis and initial driver-core
     interactions.

     It's not all that useful for a "write a whole driver in rust" type
     of thing, but the firmware bindings do help out the phy rust
     drivers, and the driver core bindings give a solid base on which
     others can start their work.

     There is still a long way to go here before we have a multitude of
     rust drivers being added, but it's a great first step.

   - driver core const api changes.

     This reached across all bus types, and there are some fix-ups for
     some not-common bus types that linux-next and 0-day testing shook
     out.

     This work is being done to help make the rust bindings more safe,
     as well as the C code, moving toward the end-goal of allowing us to
     put driver structures into read-only memory. We aren't there yet,
     but are getting closer.

   - minor devres cleanups and fixes found by code inspection

   - arch_topology minor changes

   - other minor driver core cleanups

  All of these have been in linux-next for a very long time with no
  reported problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (55 commits)
  ARM: sa1100: make match function take a const pointer
  sysfs/cpu: Make crash_hotplug attribute world-readable
  dio: Have dio_bus_match() callback take a const *
  zorro: make match function take a const pointer
  driver core: module: make module_[add|remove]_driver take a const *
  driver core: make driver_find_device() take a const *
  driver core: make driver_[create|remove]_file take a const *
  firmware_loader: fix soundness issue in `request_internal`
  firmware_loader: annotate doctests as `no_run`
  devres: Correct code style for functions that return a pointer type
  devres: Initialize an uninitialized struct member
  devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu()
  devres: Fix devm_krealloc() wasting memory
  driver core: platform: Switch to use kmemdup_array()
  driver core: have match() callback in struct bus_type take a const *
  MAINTAINERS: add Rust device abstractions to DRIVER CORE
  device: rust: improve safety comments
  MAINTAINERS: add Danilo as FIRMWARE LOADER maintainer
  MAINTAINERS: add Rust FW abstractions to FIRMWARE LOADER
  firmware: rust: improve safety comments
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: allow `dead_code` for never constructed bindings</title>
<updated>2024-07-10T08:28:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-09T16:05:58+00:00</published>
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Starting with the upcoming Rust 1.80.0 (since upstream commit 35130d7233e9
("Detect pub structs never constructed and unused associated constants
in traits")), the `dead_code` pass detects more cases, which triggers
in the `bindings` crate:

    warning: struct `boot_params` is never constructed
        --&gt; rust/bindings/bindings_generated.rs:10684:12
        |
    10684 | pub struct boot_params {
        |            ^^^^^^^^^^^
        |
        = note: `#[warn(dead_code)]` on by default

As well as in the `uapi` one:

    warning: struct `boot_params` is never constructed
        --&gt; rust/uapi/uapi_generated.rs:10392:12
        |
    10392 | pub struct boot_params {
        |            ^^^^^^^^^^^
        |
        = note: `#[warn(dead_code)]` on by default

These are all expected, since we do not use all the structs in the
bindings that `bindgen` generates from the C headers.

Therefore, allow them.

Reviewed-by: Björn Roy Baron &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Finn Behrens &lt;me@kloenk.dev&gt;
Tested-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-4-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: add abstraction for `struct page`</title>
<updated>2024-07-08T21:44:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Ryhl</name>
<email>aliceryhl@google.com</email>
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<published>2024-05-28T14:58:05+00:00</published>
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Adds a new struct called `Page` that wraps a pointer to `struct page`.
This struct is assumed to hold ownership over the page, so that Rust
code can allocate and manage pages directly.

The page type has various methods for reading and writing into the page.
These methods will temporarily map the page to allow the operation. All
of these methods use a helper that takes an offset and length, performs
bounds checks, and returns a pointer to the given offset in the page.

This patch only adds support for pages of order zero, as that is all
Rust Binder needs. However, it is written to make it easy to add support
for higher-order pages in the future. To do that, you would add a const
generic parameter to `Page` that specifies the order. Most of the
methods do not need to be adjusted, as the logic for dealing with
mapping multiple pages at once can be isolated to just the
`with_pointer_into_page` method.

Rust Binder needs to manage pages directly as that is how transactions
are delivered: Each process has an mmap'd region for incoming
transactions. When an incoming transaction arrives, the Binder driver
will choose a region in the mmap, allocate and map the relevant pages
manually, and copy the incoming transaction directly into the page. This
architecture allows the driver to copy transactions directly from the
address space of one process to another, without an intermediate copy
to a kernel buffer.

This code is based on Wedson's page abstractions from the old rust
branch, but it has been modified by Alice by removing the incomplete
support for higher-order pages, by introducing the `with_*` helpers
to consolidate the bounds checking logic into a single place, and
various other changes.

Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528-alice-mm-v7-4-78222c31b8f4@google.com
[ Fixed typos and added a few intra-doc links. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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