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Marco ElverandPeter Zijlstra eb7d96a13b bit_spinlock: Support Clang's context analysis
The annotations for bit_spinlock.h have simply been using "bitlock" as
the token. For Sparse, that was likely sufficient in most cases. But
Clang's context analysis is more precise, and we need to ensure we
can distinguish different bitlocks.

To do so, add a token context, and a macro __bitlock(bitnum, addr)
that is used to construct unique per-bitlock tokens.

Add the appropriate test.

<linux/list_bl.h> is implicitly included through other includes, and
requires 2 annotations to indicate that acquisition (without release)
and release (without prior acquisition) of its bitlock is intended.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-14-elver@google.com
2026-01-05 16:43:30 +01:00
Marco ElverandPeter Zijlstra 8f8a55f49c locking/seqlock: Support Clang's context analysis
Add support for Clang's context analysis for seqlock_t.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-12-elver@google.com
2026-01-05 16:43:29 +01:00
Marco ElverandPeter Zijlstra 370f0a345a locking/mutex: Support Clang's context analysis
Add support for Clang's context analysis for mutex.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-11-elver@google.com
2026-01-05 16:43:29 +01:00
Marco ElverandPeter Zijlstra f16a802d40 locking/rwlock, spinlock: Support Clang's context analysis
Add support for Clang's context analysis for raw_spinlock_t,
spinlock_t, and rwlock. This wholesale conversion is required because
all three of them are interdependent.

To avoid warnings in constructors, the initialization functions mark a
lock as acquired when initialized before guarded variables.

The test verifies that common patterns do not generate false positives.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-9-elver@google.com
2026-01-05 16:43:28 +01:00
Marco ElverandPeter Zijlstra 8f32441d7a Documentation: Add documentation for Compiler-Based Context Analysis
Adds documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/context-analysis.rst, and
adds it to the index.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-5-elver@google.com
2026-01-05 16:43:27 +01:00
Addison EnglishandJonathan Corbet faa395bcda docs: fix typo in clang-format documentation
The clang-format documentation contains a minor spelling issue where
"intended" is used instead of "indented" when describing deeply nested
code. This patch corrects the typo to improve the clarity and consistency.

Signed-off-by: Addison English <addison.englishw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251208065136.9092-1-addison.englishw@gmail.com>
2025-12-22 15:18:57 -07:00
Andy ShevchenkoandJonathan Corbet 197bbebd25 docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h
For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split
to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach
which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few
required updates to align with that work. Do it here.

Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing
to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2025-12-22 14:59:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9d9c1cfec0 Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the
  individual changelogs for details"

[ Editor's note: it's mainly ocfs2 and a couple of random fixes ]

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
  mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency
  mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n
  ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_merge_rec_left()
  ocfs2: invalidate inode if i_mode is zero after block read
  ocfs2: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
  ocfs2: convert remaining read-only checks to ocfs2_emergency_state
  ocfs2: add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr
  checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  args: fix documentation to reflect the correct numbers
  ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain
  liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl()
  ocfs2: validate inline xattr size and entry count in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_list
  fs/fat: remove unnecessary wrapper fat_max_cache()
  ocfs2: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy
  ocfs2: check tl_used after reading it from trancate log inode
  liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator
2025-12-13 20:55:12 +12:00
Ally HeevandAndrew Morton 01da5216c5 checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
Uinitialized pointers with __free attribute can cause undefined behavior
as the memory randomly assigned to the pointer is freed automatically when
the pointer goes out of scope.  add check in checkpatch to detect such
issues.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251203-aheev-checkpatch-uninitialized-free-v7-1-841e3b31d8f3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8a4c0b43-cf63-400d-b33d-d9c447b7e0b9@suswa.mountain/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/58fd478f408a34b578ee8d949c5c4b4da4d4f41d.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Menon, Nishanth <nm@ti.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-12-10 16:07:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 509d3f4584 Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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
  ...
2025-12-06 14:01:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b6d993310a Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull kunit updates from Shuah Khan:

 - Make filter parameters configurable via Kconfig

 - Add description of kunit.enable parameter to documentation

* tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  kunit: Make filter parameters configurable via Kconfig
  Documentation: kunit: add description of kunit.enable parameter
2025-12-03 15:50:11 -08:00
Onur ÖzkanandAndrew Morton 55b453ed53 checkpatch: document new check PLACEHOLDER_USE
Adds documentation for the new check PLACEHOLDER_USE in checkpatch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250917173725.22547-3-work@onurozkan.dev
Signed-off-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-11 16:48:29 -08:00
Yuya IshikawaandShuah Khan 9de5f847ef Documentation: kunit: add description of kunit.enable parameter
The current KUnit documentation does not mention the kunit.enable
kernel parameter, making it unclear how to troubleshoot cases where
KUnit tests do not run as expected.
Add a note explaining kunit.enable parmaeter. Disabling this parameter
prevents all KUnit tests from running even if CONFIG_KUNIT is enabled.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251021030605.41610-1-ishikawa.yuy-00@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Yuya Ishikawa <ishikawa.yuy-00@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-10-27 11:16:09 -06:00
Brian NorrisandJonathan Corbet 0aa760051f docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style
Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no
longer checks for this.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>
2025-10-21 14:36:33 -06:00
Brian NorrisandJonathan Corbet 7159cf9fad docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style
Ironically, the block style comments in the checkpatch documentation are
not aligned properly. Correct that.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-1-briannorris@chromium.org>
2025-10-21 14:36:33 -06:00
Linus Torvalds ee2fe81cdc Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
  over:

   - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
     "literal include" mode.

   - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
     kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
     converted to Python and updated for current systems.

   - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
     HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
     hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.

   - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
     protocol.

   - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.

  ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
  etc"

* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
  docs: remove cdomain.py
  Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
  docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
  Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
  docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
  Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
  Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
  Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
  docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
  docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
  docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
  docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
  ...
2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e406d57be7 Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
2025-10-02 18:44:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8804d970fa Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
Akira YokosawaandJonathan Corbet ab588b78cd docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
Commit 1e9ddbb2cd ("docs: Pull LKMM documentation into dev-tools book")
failed to add a file extension in lkmm/docs/herd-representation.rst for
referencing its plane-text counterpart.

Fix it.

Fixes: 1e9ddbb2cd ("docs: Pull LKMM documentation into dev-tools book")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202509192138.fx3H6NzG-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <c3b9de17-7cd8-4968-9872-cbe2607a7143@gmail.com>
2025-09-21 16:22:09 -06:00
Yeoreum YunandAndrew Morton 31d8edb535 kasan/hw-tags: introduce kasan.write_only option
Patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags", v8.

Hardware tag based KASAN is implemented using the Memory Tagging Extension
(MTE) feature.

MTE is built on top of the ARMv8.0 virtual address tagging TBI (Top Byte
Ignore) feature and allows software to access a 4-bit allocation tag for
each 16-byte granule in the physical address space.  A logical tag is
derived from bits 59-56 of the virtual address used for the memory access.
A CPU with MTE enabled will compare the logical tag against the
allocation tag and potentially raise an tag check fault on mismatch,
subject to system registers configuration.

Since ARMv8.9, FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY can be used to restrict raise of tag
check fault on store operation only.

Using this feature (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY), introduce KASAN write-only mode
which restricts KASAN check write (store) operation only.  This mode omits
KASAN check for read (fetch/load) operation.  Therefore, it might be used
not only debugging purpose but also in normal environment.


This patch (of 2):

Since Armv8.9, FEATURE_MTE_STORE_ONLY feature is introduced to restrict
raise of tag check fault on store operation only.  Introduce KASAN write
only mode based on this feature.

KASAN write only mode restricts KASAN checks operation for write only and
omits the checks for fetch/read operations when accessing memory.  So it
might be used not only debugging enviroment but also normal enviroment to
check memory safty.

This features can be controlled with "kasan.write_only" arguments.  When
"kasan.write_only=on", KASAN checks write operation only otherwise KASAN
checks all operations.

This changes the MTE_STORE_ONLY feature as BOOT_CPU_FEATURE like
ARM64_MTE_ASYMM so that makes it initialise in kasan_init_hw_tags() with
other function together.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916222755.466009-2-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Hardevsinh Palaniya <hardevsinh.palaniya@siliconsignals.io>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: levi.yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@amd.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21 14:22:10 -07:00
Akira YokosawaandJonathan Corbet 1e9ddbb2cd docs: Pull LKMM documentation into dev-tools book
Currently, LKMM docs are not included in any of kernel documentation
books.

Commit e40573a43d ("docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt
into the core-api book") covered plain-text docs under Documentation/
by using the "include::" directive along with the ":literal:" option.

As LKMM docs are not under Documentation/, the same approach would not
work due to the directive's restriction.

As a matter of fact, kernel documentation has an extended directive
by the name of "kernel-include::", which loosens such restriction and
accepts any files under the kernel source tree.

Rather than moving LKMM docs around, use the latter and pull them into
the dev-tools book next to KCSAN.

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <7ce84a93-5cbc-420e-894a-06a0372c52ab@gmail.com>
2025-09-16 10:12:02 -06:00
Soham BagchiandAndrew Morton 1455b6ac21 kcov: load acquire coverage count in user-space code
Update the KCOV documentation to use a load-acquire operation for the
first element of the shared memory buffer between kernel-space and
user-space.

The load-acquire pairs with the write memory barrier used in
kcov_move_area().

[soham.bagchi@utah.edu: v2]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250803180558.2967962-1-soham.bagchi@utah.edu
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728184318.1839137-2-soham.bagchi@utah.edu
Signed-off-by: Soham Bagchi <soham.bagchi@utah.edu>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13 17:32:44 -07:00
Harshit MogalapalliandJonathan Corbet 3f65aa8ede Documentation: dev-tools: Fix a typo in autofdo documentation
Use "cat /proc/cpuinfo" instead of "cat proc/cpuinfo".

Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250831151118.1274826-1-harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com
2025-09-03 15:44:14 -06:00
Marie ZhussupovaandShuah Khan 93cf798e76 Documentation: kunit: Document new parameterized test features
This patch updates the KUnit docs to show how to use the new
parameterized test context to share resources between parameter runs.
It documents and show examples of different ways the test user can
pass parameter arrays to a parameterized test. Finally, it specifies the
parameterized testing terminology.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250826091341.1427123-8-davidgow@google.com
Reviewed-by: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marie Zhussupova <marievic@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-08-26 23:36:03 -06:00
Bagas SanjayaandJonathan Corbet fea71fe1f0 Documentation: ktap: Separate first bullet list items
The first bullet list items are shown in htmldocs output as combined
with previous paragraph due to missing blank line separator. Add it.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814012046.21235-3-bagasdotme@gmail.com
2025-08-18 10:28:44 -06:00