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14 daysMerge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251207' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu: - Enhancements to Linux as the root partition for Microsoft Hypervisor: - Support a new mode called L1VH, which allows Linux to drive the hypervisor running the Azure Host directly - Support for MSHV crash dump collection - Allow Linux's memory management subsystem to better manage guest memory regions - Fix issues that prevented a clean shutdown of the whole system on bare metal and nested configurations - ARM64 support for the MSHV driver - Various other bug fixes and cleanups - Add support for Confidential VMBus for Linux guest on Hyper-V - Secure AVIC support for Linux guests on Hyper-V - Add the mshv_vtl driver to allow Linux to run as the secure kernel in a higher virtual trust level for Hyper-V * tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251207' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: (58 commits) mshv: Cleanly shutdown root partition with MSHV mshv: Use reboot notifier to configure sleep state mshv: Add definitions for MSHV sleep state configuration mshv: Add support for movable memory regions mshv: Add refcount and locking to mem regions mshv: Fix huge page handling in memory region traversal mshv: Move region management to mshv_regions.c mshv: Centralize guest memory region destruction mshv: Refactor and rename memory region handling functions mshv: adjust interrupt control structure for ARM64 Drivers: hv: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() mshv: Add ioctl for self targeted passthrough hvcalls Drivers: hv: Introduce mshv_vtl driver Drivers: hv: Export some symbols for mshv_vtl static_call: allow using STATIC_CALL_TRAMP_STR() from assembly mshv: Extend create partition ioctl to support cpu features mshv: Allow mappings that overlap in uaddr mshv: Fix create memory region overlap check mshv: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users Drivers: hv: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() ...
2025-12-05Merge tag 'uml-for-linux-6.19-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux Pull UML updates from Johannes Berg: "Apart from the usual small churn, we have - initial SMP support (only kernel) - major vDSO cleanups (and fixes for 32-bit)" * tag 'uml-for-linux-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux: (33 commits) um: Disable KASAN_INLINE when STATIC_LINK is selected um: Don't rename vmap to kernel_vmap um: drivers: virtio: use string choices helper um: Always set up AT_HWCAP and AT_PLATFORM x86/um: Remove FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USE_END um: Remove __access_ok_vsyscall() um: Remove redundant range check from __access_ok_vsyscall() um: Remove fixaddr_user_init() x86/um: Drop gate area handling x86/um: Do not inherit vDSO from host um: Split out default elf_aux_hwcap x86/um: Move ELF_PLATFORM fallback to x86-specific code um: Split out default elf_aux_platform um: Avoid circular dependency on asm-offsets in pgtable.h um: Enable SMP support on x86 asm-generic: percpu: Add assembly guard um: vdso: Remove getcpu support on x86 um: Add initial SMP support um: Define timers on a per-CPU basis um: Determine sleep based on need_resched() ...
2025-12-05Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki) Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT) "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin) Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited across fork/exec "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park) Some light maintenance work on the zswap code "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over time "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn) Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra) Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov) "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom) Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang) Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting code "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn) Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were causing (harmless) softlockup warnings "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang) Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park) Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan) Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare() "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu) Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a stale kernel pagetable entry "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang) Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song) Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park) "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park) Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the middle of the current targets list "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo) A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He) improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista) Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes) Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park) Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit tests "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang) Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's writeback-for-eviction code "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu) Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region operations "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox) Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park) Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that VMA is merged with another "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh) Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone device-private memory "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan) "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang) Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song) Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem, wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang) A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio writeback support "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt) Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola) Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang) Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park) Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park) Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things up a little [ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu: register device memory for poison handling") because it looks broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity mm: declare VMA flags by bit zram: fix a spelling mistake mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational ...
2025-12-05Merge tag 'tracepoints-v6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull unused tracepoints update from Steven Rostedt: "Detect unused tracepoints. If a tracepoint is defined but never used (TRACE_EVENT() created but no trace_<tracepoint>() called), it can take up to or more than 5K of memory each. This can add up as there are around a hundred unused tracepoints with various configs. That is 500K of wasted memory. Add a make build parameter of "UT=1" to have the build warn if an unused tracepoint is detected in the build. This allows detection of unused tracepoints to be upstream so that outreachy and the mentoring project can have new developers look for fixing them, without having these warnings suddenly show up when someone upgrades their kernel. When all known unused tracepoints are removed, then the "UT=1" build parameter can be removed and unused tracepoints will always warn. This will catch new unused tracepoints after the current ones have been removed. Summary: - Separate out elf functions from sorttable.c Move out the ELF parsing functions from sorttable.c so that the tracing tooling can use it. - Add a tracepoint verifier tool to the build process If "UT=1" is added to the kernel command line, any unused tracepoints will trigger a warning at build time. - Do not warn about unused tracepoints for tracepoints that are exported There are sever cases where a tracepoint is created by the kernel and used by modules. Since there's no easy way to detect if these are truly unused since the users are in modules, if a tracepoint is exported, assume it will eventually be used by a module. Note, there's not many exported tracepoints so this should not be a problem to ignore them. - Have building of modules also detect unused tracepoints Do not only check the main vmlinux for unused tracepoints, also check modules. If a module is defining a tracepoint it should be using it. - Add the tracepoint-update program to the ignore file The new tracepoint-update program needs to be ignored by git" * tag 'tracepoints-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: scripts: add tracepoint-update to the list of ignores files tracing: Add warnings for unused tracepoints for modules tracing: Allow tracepoint-update.c to work with modules tracepoint: Do not warn for unused event that is exported tracing: Add a tracepoint verification check at build time sorttable: Move ELF parsing into scripts/elf-parse.[ch]
2025-12-03Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Convert selftests/bpf/test_tc_edt and test_tc_tunnel from .sh to test_progs runner (Alexis Lothoré) - Convert selftests/bpf/test_xsk to test_progs runner (Bastien Curutchet) - Replace bpf memory allocator with kmalloc_nolock() in bpf_local_storage (Amery Hung), and in bpf streams and range tree (Puranjay Mohan) - Introduce support for indirect jumps in BPF verifier and x86 JIT (Anton Protopopov) and arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan) - Remove runqslower bpf tool (Hoyeon Lee) - Fix corner cases in the verifier to close several syzbot reports (Eduard Zingerman, KaFai Wan) - Several improvements in deadlock detection in rqspinlock (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Implement "jmp" mode for BPF trampoline and corresponding DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP. It improves "fexit" program type performance from 80 M/s to 136 M/s. With Steven's Ack. (Menglong Dong) - Add ability to test non-linear skbs in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Paul Chaignon) - Do not let BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN emit invalid GSO types to stack (Daniel Borkmann) - Generalize buildid reader into bpf_dynptr (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types (Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma) - Introduce overwrite mode for BPF ring buffer (Xu Kuohai) * tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (169 commits) bpf: optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types bpf: make kprobe_multi_link_prog_run always_inline selftests/bpf: do not hardcode target rate in test_tc_edt BPF program selftests/bpf: remove test_tc_edt.sh selftests/bpf: integrate test_tc_edt into test_progs selftests/bpf: rename test_tc_edt.bpf.c section to expose program type selftests/bpf: Add success stats to rqspinlock stress test rqspinlock: Precede non-head waiter queueing with AA check rqspinlock: Disable spinning for trylock fallback rqspinlock: Use trylock fallback when per-CPU rqnode is busy rqspinlock: Perform AA checks immediately rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions bpf: Remove runqslower tool selftests/bpf: Remove usage of lsm/file_alloc_security in selftest bpf: Disable file_alloc_security hook bpf: check for insn arrays in check_ptr_alignment bpf: force BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG on insn array creation bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak selftests/bpf: Make CS length configurable for rqspinlock stress test selftests/bpf: Add lock wait time stats to rqspinlock stress test ...
2025-12-02Merge tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull rseq updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A large overhaul of the restartable sequences and CID management: The recent enablement of RSEQ in glibc resulted in regressions which are caused by the related overhead. It turned out that the decision to invoke the exit to user work was not really a decision. More or less each context switch caused that. There is a long list of small issues which sums up nicely and results in a 3-4% regression in I/O benchmarks. The other detail which caused issues due to extra work in context switch and task migration is the CID (memory context ID) management. It also requires to use a task work to consolidate the CID space, which is executed in the context of an arbitrary task and results in sporadic uncontrolled exit latencies. The rewrite addresses this by: - Removing deprecated and long unsupported functionality - Moving the related data into dedicated data structures which are optimized for fast path processing. - Caching values so actual decisions can be made - Replacing the current implementation with a optimized inlined variant. - Separating fast and slow path for architectures which use the generic entry code, so that only fault and error handling goes into the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME handler. - Rewriting the CID management so that it becomes mostly invisible in the context switch path. That moves the work of switching modes into the fork/exit path, which is a reasonable tradeoff. That work is only required when a process creates more threads than the cpuset it is allowed to run on or when enough threads exit after that. An artificial thread pool benchmarks which triggers this did not degrade, it actually improved significantly. The main effect in migration heavy scenarios is that runqueue lock held time and therefore contention goes down significantly" * tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits) sched/mmcid: Switch over to the new mechanism sched/mmcid: Implement deferred mode change irqwork: Move data struct to a types header sched/mmcid: Provide CID ownership mode fixup functions sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism sched/mmcid: Introduce per task/CPU ownership infrastructure sched/mmcid: Serialize sched_mm_cid_fork()/exit() with a mutex sched/mmcid: Provide precomputed maximal value sched/mmcid: Move initialization out of line signal: Move MMCID exit out of sighand lock sched/mmcid: Convert mm CID mask to a bitmap cpumask: Cache num_possible_cpus() sched/mmcid: Use cpumask_weighted_or() cpumask: Introduce cpumask_weighted_or() sched/mmcid: Prevent pointless work in mm_update_cpus_allowed() sched/mmcid: Move scheduler code out of global header sched: Fixup whitespace damage sched/mmcid: Cacheline align MM CID storage sched/mmcid: Use proper data structures sched/mmcid: Revert the complex CID management ...
2025-12-01Merge tag 'core-bugs-2025-12-01' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull bug handling infrastructure updates from Ingo Molnar: "Core updates: - Improve WARN(), which has vararg printf like arguments, to work with the x86 #UD based WARN-optimizing infrastructure by hiding the format in the bug_table and replacing this first argument with the address of the bug-table entry, while making the actual function that's called a UD1 instruction (Peter Zijlstra) - Introduce the CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILED Kconfig switch (Ingo Molnar, s390 support by Heiko Carstens) Fixes and cleanups: - bugs/s390: Remove private WARN_ON() implementation (Heiko Carstens) - <asm/bugs.h>: Make i386 use GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS (Peter Zijlstra)" * tag 'core-bugs-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) x86/bugs: Make i386 use GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS x86/bug: Fix BUG_FORMAT vs KASLR x86_64/bug: Inline the UD1 x86/bug: Implement WARN_ONCE() x86_64/bug: Implement __WARN_printf() x86/bug: Use BUG_FORMAT for DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILED x86/bug: Add BUG_FORMAT basics bug: Allow architectures to provide __WARN_printf() bug: Implement WARN_ON() using __WARN_FLAGS() bug: Add report_bug_entry() bug: Add BUG_FORMAT_ARGS infrastructure bug: Clean up CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS bug: Add BUG_FORMAT infrastructure x86: Rework __bug_table helpers bugs/s390: Remove private WARN_ON() implementation bugs/core: Reorganize fields in the first line of WARNING output, add ->comm[] output bugs/sh: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __WARN_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output bugs/parisc: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __WARN_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output bugs/riscv: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __BUG_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output bugs/riscv: Pass in 'cond_str' to __BUG_FLAGS() ...
2025-12-01Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar: - klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf) Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch as input. This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of maintaining kpatch. Key improvements compared to kpatch-build: - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow graph analysis to help detect changed functions. - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar. - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code. - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft. - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction. - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to preserve the original line numbers at compile time. - Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump (Alexandre Chartre) - Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre, which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation specials such as alternatives: 17ef: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f mov 0x34(%r9),%edx 17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | <alternative.17f3> | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT 17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | call 0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax 17f8: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638 cmp %eax,%edx ... jump table alternatives: 1895: sched_use_asym_prio+0x5 test $0x8,%ch 1898: sched_use_asym_prio+0x8 je 0x18a9 <sched_use_asym_prio+0x19> 189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | <jump_table.189a> | JUMP 189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | jmp 0x18ae <sched_use_asym_prio+0x1e> | nop2 189c: sched_use_asym_prio+0xc mov $0x1,%eax 18a1: sched_use_asym_prio+0x11 and $0x80,%ecx ... exception table alternatives: native_read_msr: 5b80: native_read_msr+0x0 mov %edi,%ecx 5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | <ex_table.5b82> | EXCEPTION 5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | rdmsr | resume at 0x5b84 <native_read_msr+0x4> 5b84: native_read_msr+0x4 shl $0x20,%rdx .... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above): 2faaf: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f jne 0x2fba4 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x114> 2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | <alternative.2fab5> | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG 2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | jmp 0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp 0x4b0 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x3f> | nop5 2faba: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a mov $0x2b,%eax ... NOP sequence shortening: 1048e2: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2 je 0x104917 <snapshot_write_finalize+0xf7> 1048e4: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4 nop6 1048ea: snapshot_write_finalize+0xca nop11 1048f5: snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5 nop11 104900: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0 mov %rax,%rcx 104903: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3 mov 0x10(%rdx),%rax ... and much more. - Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre) - Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf) - Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support (Josh Poimboeuf) - Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra, Thorsten Blum) * tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits) objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative objtool: Add wide output for disassembly objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives objtool: Fix address references in alternatives objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions objtool: Disassemble group alternatives objtool: Print headers for alternatives objtool: Preserve alternatives order objtool: Add the --disas=<function-pattern> action objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives ...
2025-12-01Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Cheaper MAY_EXEC handling for path lookup. This elides MAY_WRITE permission checks during path lookup and adds the IOP_FASTPERM_MAY_EXEC flag so filesystems like btrfs can avoid expensive permission work. - Hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery. - Add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer. Cleanups: - Tidy up and inline step_into() and walk_component() for improved code generation. - Re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files. This refactors file timestamp update logic, fixing a layering bypass in btrfs when updating timestamps on device files and improving FMODE_NOCMTIME handling in VFS now that nfsd started using it. - Path lookup optimizations extracting slowpaths into dedicated routines and adding branch prediction hints for mntput_no_expire(), fd_install(), lookup_slow(), and various other hot paths. - Enable clang's -fms-extensions flag, requiring a JFS rename to avoid conflicts. - Remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c. - Stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration. This depends on the shared kbuild branch that brings in -fms-extensions support which is merged into this branch. - Use MD5 library instead of crypto_shash in ecryptfs. - Use largest_zero_folio() in iomap_dio_zero(). - Replace simple_strtol/strtoul with kstrtoint/kstrtouint in init and initrd code. - Various typo fixes. Fixes: - Fix emergency sync for btrfs. Btrfs requires an explicit sync_fs() call with wait == 1 to commit super blocks. The emergency sync path never passed this, leaving btrfs data uncommitted during emergency sync. - Use local kmap in watch_queue's post_one_notification(). - Add hint prints in sb_set_blocksize() for LBS dependency on THP" * tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits) MAINTAINERS: add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer fs: inline step_into() and walk_component() fs: tidy up step_into() & friends before inlining orangefs: use inode_update_timestamps directly btrfs: fix the comment on btrfs_update_time btrfs: use vfs_utimes to update file timestamps fs: export vfs_utimes fs: lift the FMODE_NOCMTIME check into file_update_time_flags fs: refactor file timestamp update logic include/linux/fs.h: trivial fix: regualr -> regular fs/splice.c: trivial fix: pipes -> pipe's fs: mark lookup_slow() as noinline fs: add predicts based on nd->depth fs: move mntput_no_expire() slowpath into a dedicated routine fs: remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c watch_queue: Use local kmap in post_one_notification() fs: touch up predicts in path lookup fs: move fd_install() slowpath into a dedicated routine and provide commentary fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery fs: touch predicts in do_dentry_open() ...
2025-11-29rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitionsKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Ritesh reported that timeouts occurred frequently for rqspinlock despite reentrancy on the same lock on the same CPU in [0]. This patch closes one of the races leading to this behavior, and reduces the frequency of timeouts. We currently have a tiny window between the fast-path cmpxchg and the grabbing of the lock entry where an NMI could land, attempt the same lock that was just acquired, and end up timing out. This is not ideal. Instead, move the lock entry acquisition from the fast path to before the cmpxchg, and remove the grabbing of the lock entry in the slow path, assuming it was already taken by the fast path. The TAS fallback is invoked directly without being preceded by the typical fast path, therefore we must continue to grab the deadlock detection entry in that case. Case on lock leading to missed AA: cmpxchg lock A <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> grab_held_lock_entry(A) There is a similar case when unlocking the lock. If the NMI lands between the WRITE_ONCE and smp_store_release, it is possible that we end up in a situation where the NMI fails to diagnose the AA condition, leading to a timeout. Case on unlock leading to missed AA: WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> smp_store_release(A->locked, 0) The patch changes the order on unlock to smp_store_release() succeeded by WRITE_ONCE() of NULL. This avoids the missed AA detection described above, but may lead to a false positive if the NMI lands between these two statements, which is acceptable (and preferred over a timeout). The original intention of the reverse order on unlock was to prevent the following possible misdiagnosis of an ABBA scenario: grab entry A lock A grab entry B lock B unlock B smp_store_release(B->locked, 0) grab entry B lock B grab entry A lock A ! <detect ABBA> WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) If the store release were is after the WRITE_ONCE, the other CPU would not observe B in the table of the CPU unlocking the lock B. However, since the threads are obviously participating in an ABBA deadlock, it is no longer appealing to use the order above since it may lead to a 250 ms timeout due to missed AA detection. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAH6OuBTjG+N=+GGwcpOUbeDN563oz4iVcU3rbse68egp9wj9_A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 0d80e7f951be ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters") Reported-by: Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma <ritesh@superluminal.eu> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251128232802.1031906-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-24mm: userfaultfd: add pgtable_supports_uffd_wp()Chunyan Zhang
Some platforms can customize the PTE/PMD entry uffd-wp bit making it unavailable even if the architecture provides the resource. This patch adds a macro API pgtable_supports_uffd_wp() that allows architectures to define their specific implementations to check if the uffd-wp bit is available on which device the kernel is running. Also this patch is removing "ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP" and "ifdef CONFIG_PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP" in favor of pgtable_supports_uffd_wp() and uffd_supports_wp_marker() checks respectively that default to IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP) and "IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP)" if not overridden by the architecture, no change in behavior is expected. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113072806.795029-3-zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm: correctly handle UFFD PTE markersLorenzo Stoakes
Patch series "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries", v3. There's an established convention in the kernel that we treat leaf page tables (so far at the PTE, PMD level) as containing 'swap entries' should they be neither empty (i.e. p**_none() evaluating true) nor present (i.e. p**_present() evaluating true). However, at the same time we also have helper predicates - is_swap_pte(), is_swap_pmd() - which are inconsistently used. This is problematic, as it is logical to assume that should somebody wish to operate upon a page table swap entry they should first check to see if it is in fact one. It also implies that perhaps, in future, we might introduce a non-present, none page table entry that is not a swap entry. This series resolves this issue by systematically eliminating all use of the is_swap_pte() and is swap_pmd() predicates so we retain only the convention that should a leaf page table entry be neither none nor present it is a swap entry. We also have the further issue that 'swap entry' is unfortunately a really rather overloaded term and in fact refers to both entries for swap and for other information such as migration entries, page table markers, and device private entries. We therefore have the rather 'unique' concept of a 'non-swap' swap entry. This series therefore introduces the concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t, to eliminate this confusion. A software leaf entry in this sense is any page table entry which is non-present, and represented by the softleaf_t type. That is - page table leaf entries which are software-controlled by the kernel. This includes 'none' or empty entries, which are simply represented by an zero leaf entry value. In order to maintain compatibility as we transition the kernel to this new type, we simply typedef swp_entry_t to softleaf_t. We introduce a number of predicates and helpers to interact with software leaf entries in include/linux/leafops.h which, as it imports swapops.h, can be treated as a drop-in replacement for swapops.h wherever leaf entry helpers are used. Since softleaf_from_[pte, pmd]() treats present entries as they were empty/none leaf entries, this allows for a great deal of simplification of code throughout the code base, which this series utilises a great deal. We additionally change from swap entry to software leaf entry handling where it makes sense to and eliminate functions from swapops.h where software leaf entries obviate the need for the functions. This patch (of 16): PTE markers were previously only concerned with UFFD-specific logic - that is, PTE entries with the UFFD WP marker set or those marked via UFFDIO_POISON. However since the introduction of guard markers in commit 7c53dfbdb024 ("mm: add PTE_MARKER_GUARD PTE marker"), this has no longer been the case. Issues have been avoided as guard regions are not permitted in conjunction with UFFD, but it still leaves very confusing logic in place, most notably the misleading and poorly named pte_none_mostly() and huge_pte_none_mostly(). This predicate returns true for PTE entries that ought to be treated as none, but only in certain circumstances, and on the assumption we are dealing with H/W poison markers or UFFD WP markers. This patch removes these functions and makes each invocation of these functions instead explicitly check what it needs to check. As part of this effort it introduces is_uffd_pte_marker() to explicitly determine if a marker in fact is used as part of UFFD or not. In the HMM logic we note that the only time we would need to check for a fault is in the case of a UFFD WP marker, otherwise we simply encounter a fault error (VM_FAULT_HWPOISON for H/W poisoned marker, VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV for a guard marker), so only check for the UFFD WP case. While we're here we also refactor code to make it easier to understand. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, per Mike] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1762812360.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c38625fd9a1c1f1cf64ae8a248858e45b3dcdf11.1762812360.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24x86/bug: Implement WARN_ONCE()Peter Zijlstra
Implement WARN_ONCE like WARN using BUGFLAG_ONCE. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110115758.339309119@infradead.org
2025-11-24x86/bug: Use BUG_FORMAT for DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILEDPeter Zijlstra
Since we have an explicit format string, use it for the condition string instead of frobbing it in the file string. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110115758.097401406@infradead.org
2025-11-21bug: Allow architectures to provide __WARN_printf()Peter Zijlstra
In addition to providing __WARN_FLAGS(), allow an architecture to also provide __WARN_printf(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110115757.807154591@infradead.org
2025-11-21bug: Implement WARN_ON() using __WARN_FLAGS()Peter Zijlstra
This completes 3bc3c9c3ab6d ("bugs/core: Pass down the condition string of WARN_ON_ONCE(cond) warnings to __WARN_FLAGS()") and makes WARN_ON() and WARN_ON_ONCE() behaviour consistent. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110115757.690999560@infradead.org
2025-11-21bug: Add BUG_FORMAT_ARGS infrastructurePeter Zijlstra
Add BUG_FORMAT_ARGS; when an architecture is able to provide a va_list given pt_regs, use this to print format arguments. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110115757.457339417@infradead.org
2025-11-21bug: Clean up CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERSPeter Zijlstra
Three repeated CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS #ifdefs right after one another yields unreadable code. Add a helper. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110115757.341703850@infradead.org
2025-11-21bug: Add BUG_FORMAT infrastructurePeter Zijlstra
Add BUG_FORMAT; an architecture opt-in feature that allows adding the WARN_printf() format string to the bug_entry table. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110115757.223371452@infradead.org
2025-11-21Merge branch 'objtool/core'Peter Zijlstra
Bring in the UDB and objtool data annotations to avoid conflicts while further extending the bug exceptions. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2025-11-21kbuild: Check for functions with ambiguous -ffunction-sections section namesJosh Poimboeuf
Commit 9c7dc1dd897a ("objtool: Warn on functions with ambiguous -ffunction-sections section names") only works for drivers which are compiled on architectures supported by objtool. Make a script to perform the same check for all architectures. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a6a49644a34964f7e02f3a8ce43af03e72817180.1763669451.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-11-20mm: remove unnecessary __GFP_HIGHMEM in __p*d_alloc_one_*()Huacai Chen
__{pgd,p4d,pud,pmd,pte}_alloc_one_*() always allocate pages with GFP flag GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL/GFP_PGTABLE_USER. These two macros are defined as follows: #define GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO) #define GFP_PGTABLE_USER (GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT) There is no __GFP_HIGHMEM in them, so we needn't to clear __GFP_HIGHMEM explicitly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251109021817.346181-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251107095536.3101371-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-16mm: actually mark kernel page table pagesDave Hansen
Now that the API is in place, mark kernel page table pages just after they are allocated. Unmark them just before they are freed. Note: Unconditionally clearing the 'kernel' marking (via ptdesc_clear_kernel()) would be functionally identical to what is here. But having the if() makes it logically clear that this function can be used for kernel and non-kernel page tables. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-4-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com> Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-15arch/x86: mshyperv: Trap on access for some synthetic MSRsRoman Kisel
hv_set_non_nested_msr() has special handling for SINT MSRs when a paravisor is present. In addition to updating the MSR on the host, the mirror MSR in the paravisor is updated, including with the proxy bit. But with Confidential VMBus, the proxy bit must not be used, so add a special case to skip it. Signed-off-by: Roman Kisel <romank@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Tianyu Lan <tiala@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
2025-11-15arch: hyperv: Get/set SynIC synth.registers via paravisorRoman Kisel
The existing Hyper-V wrappers for getting and setting MSRs are hv_get/set_msr(). Via hv_get/set_non_nested_msr(), they detect when running in a CoCo VM with a paravisor, and use the TDX or SNP guest-host communication protocol to bypass the paravisor and go directly to the host hypervisor for SynIC MSRs. The "set" function also implements the required special handling for the SINT MSRs. Provide functions that allow manipulating the SynIC registers through the paravisor. Move vmbus_signal_eom() to a more appropriate location (which also avoids breaking KVM). Signed-off-by: Roman Kisel <romank@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
2025-11-15arch/x86: mshyperv: Discover Confidential VMBus availabilityRoman Kisel
Confidential VMBus requires enabling paravisor SynIC, and the x86_64 guest has to inspect the Virtualization Stack (VS) CPUID leaf to see if Confidential VMBus is available. If it is, the guest shall enable the paravisor SynIC. Read the relevant data from the VS CPUID leaf. Refactor the code to avoid repeating CPUID and add flags to the struct ms_hyperv_info. For ARM64, the flag for Confidential VMBus is not set which provides the desired behaviour for now as it is not available on ARM64 just yet. Once ARM64 CCA guests are supported, this flag will be set unconditionally when running such a guest. Signed-off-by: Roman Kisel <romank@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
2025-11-15drivers: hv: Allow vmbus message synic interrupt injected from Hyper-VTianyu Lan
When Secure AVIC is enabled, VMBus driver should call x2apic Secure AVIC interface to allow Hyper-V to inject VMBus message interrupt. Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Tianyu Lan <tiala@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
2025-11-15mshv: Fix deposit memory in MSHV_ROOT_HVCALLNuno Das Neves
When the MSHV_ROOT_HVCALL ioctl is executing a hypercall, and gets HV_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY, it deposits memory and then returns -EAGAIN to userspace. The expectation is that the VMM will retry. However, some VMM code in the wild doesn't do this and simply fails. Rather than force the VMM to retry, change the ioctl to deposit memory on demand and immediately retry the hypercall as is done with all the other hypercall helper functions. In addition to making the ioctl easier to use, removing the need for multiple syscalls improves performance. There is a complication: unlike the other hypercall helper functions, in MSHV_ROOT_HVCALL the input is opaque to the kernel. This is problematic for rep hypercalls, because the next part of the input list can't be copied on each loop after depositing pages (this was the original reason for returning -EAGAIN in this case). Introduce hv_do_rep_hypercall_ex(), which adds a 'rep_start' parameter. This solves the issue, allowing the deposit loop in MSHV_ROOT_HVCALL to restart a rep hypercall after depositing pages partway through. Fixes: 621191d709b1 ("Drivers: hv: Introduce mshv_root module to expose /dev/mshv to VMMs") Signed-off-by: Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
2025-11-13objtool: Warn on functions with ambiguous -ffunction-sections section namesJosh Poimboeuf
When compiled with -ffunction-sections, a function named startup() will be placed in .text.startup. However, .text.startup is also used by the compiler for functions with __attribute__((constructor)). That creates an ambiguity for the vmlinux linker script, which needs to differentiate those two cases. Similar naming conflicts exist for functions named exit(), split(), unlikely(), hot() and unknown(). One potential solution would be to use '#ifdef CC_USING_FUNCTION_SECTIONS' to create two distinct implementations of the TEXT_MAIN macro. However, -ffunction-sections can be (and is) enabled or disabled on a per-object basis (for example via ccflags-y or AUTOFDO_PROFILE). So the recently unified TEXT_MAIN macro (commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros")) is necessary. This means there's no way for the linker script to disambiguate things. Instead, use objtool to warn on any function names whose resulting section names might create ambiguity when the kernel is compiled (in whole or in part) with -ffunction-sections. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/65fedea974fe14be487c8867a0b8d0e4a294ce1e.1762991150.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-11-13vmlinux.lds: Fix TEXT_MAIN to include .text.start and friendsJosh Poimboeuf
Since: 6568f14cb5ae ("vmlinux.lds: Exclude .text.startup and .text.exit from TEXT_MAIN") the TEXT_MAIN macro uses a series of patterns to prevent the .text.startup[.*] and .text.exit[.*] sections from getting linked into the vmlinux runtime .text. That commit is a tad too aggressive: it also inadvertently filters out valid runtime text sections like .text.start and .text.start.constprop.0, which can be generated for a function named start() when -ffunction-sections is enabled. As a result, those sections become orphans when building with CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for arm: arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.text.start.constprop.0' from `drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.o' being placed in section `.text.start.constprop.0' arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.text.start.constprop.0' from `drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drxk_hard.o' being placed in section `.text.start.constprop.0' arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.text.start' from `drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv0910.o' being placed in section `.text.start' arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.text.start.constprop.0' from `drivers/media/pci/ddbridge/ddbridge-sx8.o' being placed in section `.text.start.constprop.0' Fix that by explicitly adding the partial "substring" sections (.text.s, .text.st, .text.sta, etc) and their cloned derivatives. While this unfortunately means that TEXT_MAIN continues to grow, these changes are ultimately necessary for proper support of -ffunction-sections. Fixes: 6568f14cb5ae ("vmlinux.lds: Exclude .text.startup and .text.exit from TEXT_MAIN") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cd588144e63df901a656b06b566855019c4a931d.1762991150.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202511040812.DFGedJiy-lkp@intel.com/
2025-11-13Merge tag 'v6.18-rc5' into objtool/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2025-11-12fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machineryMateusz Guzik
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105153622.758836-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-04rseq: Switch to TIF_RSEQ if supportedThomas Gleixner
TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is a multiplexing TIF bit, which is suboptimal especially with the RSEQ fast path depending on it, but not really handling it. Define a separate TIF_RSEQ in the generic TIF space and enable the full separation of fast and slow path for architectures which utilize that. That avoids the hassle with invocations of resume_user_mode_work() from hypervisors, which clear TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. It makes the therefore required re-evaluation at the end of vcpu_run() a NOOP on architectures which utilize the generic TIF space and have a separate TIF_RSEQ. The hypervisor TIF handling does not include the separate TIF_RSEQ as there is no point in doing so. The guest does neither know nor care about the VMM host applications RSEQ state. That state is only relevant when the ioctl() returns to user space. The fastpath implementation still utilizes TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for failure handling, but this only happens within exit_to_user_mode_loop(), so arguably the hypervisor ioctl() code is long done when this happens. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084307.903622031@linutronix.de
2025-10-31vmlinux.lds: Exclude .text.startup and .text.exit from TEXT_MAINJosh Poimboeuf
An ftrace warning was reported in ftrace_init_ool_stub(): WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.c:234 at ftrace_init_ool_stub+0x188/0x3f4, CPU#0: swapper/0 The problem is that the linker script is placing .text.startup in .text rather than in .init.text, due to an inadvertent match of the TEXT_MAIN '.text.[0-9a-zA-Z_]*' pattern. This bug existed for some configurations before, but is only now coming to light due to the TEXT_MAIN macro unification in commit 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros"). The .text.startup section consists of constructors which are used by KASAN, KCSAN, and GCOV. The constructors are only called during boot, so .text.startup is supposed to match the INIT_TEXT pattern so it can be placed in .init.text and freed after init. But since INIT_TEXT comes *after* TEXT_MAIN in the linker script, TEXT_MAIN needs to manually exclude .text.startup. Update TEXT_MAIN to exclude .text.startup (and its .text.startup.* variant from -ffunction-sections), along with .text.exit and .text.exit.* which should match EXIT_TEXT. Specifically, use a series of more specific glob patterns to match generic .text.* sections (for -ffunction-sections) while explicitly excluding .text.startup[.*] and .text.exit[.*]. Also update INIT_TEXT and EXIT_TEXT to explicitly match their -ffunction-sections variants (.text.startup.* and .text.exit.*). Fixes: 1ba9f8979426 ("vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macros") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/72469502-ca37-4287-90b9-a751cecc498c@linux.ibm.com Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com> Debugged-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/07f74b4e5c43872572b7def30f2eac45f28675d9.1761872421.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2025-10-27kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compatDimitri John Ledkov
Previously linker scripts would always generate vmlinuz that has sections aligned. And thus padded (correct Authenticode calculation) and unpadded calculation would be same. As in https://github.com/rhboot/pesign userspace tool would produce the same authenticode digest for both of the following commands: pesign --padding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage pesign --nopadding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage The commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo section of variable length. Depending on kernel configuration it may or may not be aligned. All userspace signing tooling correctly pads such section to calculation spec compliant authenticode digest. However, if bzImage is not further processed and is attempted to be loaded directly by EDK2 firmware, it calculates unpadded Authenticode digest and fails to correct accept/reject such kernel builds even when propoer Authenticode values are enrolled in db/dbx. One can say EDK2 requires aligned/padded kernels in Secureboot. Thus add ALIGN(8) to the .modinfo section, to esure kernels irrespective of modinfo contents can be loaded by all existing EDK2 firmware builds. Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251026202100.679989-1-dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2025-10-27asm-generic: percpu: Add assembly guardTiwei Bie
Currently, asm/percpu.h is directly or indirectly included by some assembly files on x86. Some of them (e.g., checksum_32.S) are also used on um. But x86 and um provide different versions of asm/percpu.h -- um uses asm-generic/percpu.h directly. When SMP is enabled, asm-generic/percpu.h will introduce C code that cannot be assembled. Since asm-generic/percpu.h currently is not designed for use in assembly, and these assembly files do not actually need asm/percpu.h on um, let's add the assembly guard in asm-generic/percpu.h to fix this issue. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw@antgroup.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027001815.1666872-8-tiwei.bie@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2025-10-24tracing: Add a tracepoint verification check at build timeSteven Rostedt
If a tracepoint is defined via DECLARE_TRACE() or TRACE_EVENT() but never called (via the trace_<tracepoint>() function), its metadata is still around in memory and not discarded. When created via TRACE_EVENT() the situation is worse because the TRACE_EVENT() creates metadata that can be around 5k per trace event. Having unused trace events causes several thousand of wasted bytes. Add a verifier that injects a string of the name of the tracepoint it calls that is added to the discarded section "__tracepoint_check". For every builtin tracepoint, its name (which is saved in the in-memory section "__tracepoint_strings") will have its name also in the "__tracepoint_check" section if it is used. Add a new program that is run on build called tracepoint-update. This is executed on the vmlinux.o before the __tracepoint_check section is discarded (the section is discarded before vmlinux is created). This program will create an array of each string in the __tracepoint_check section and then sort it. Then it will walk the strings in the __tracepoint_strings section and do a binary search to check if its name is in the __tracepoint_check section. If it is not, then it is unused and a warning is printed. Note, this currently only handles tracepoints that are builtin and not in modules. Enabling this currently with a given config produces: warning: tracepoint 'sched_move_numa' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'sched_stick_numa' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'sched_swap_numa' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'pelt_hw_tp' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'pelt_irq_tp' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'rcu_preempt_task' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'rcu_unlock_preempted_task' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xdp_bulk_tx' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xdp_redirect_map' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xdp_redirect_map_err' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'vma_mas_szero' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'vma_store' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'hugepage_set_pmd' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'hugepage_set_pud' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'hugepage_update_pmd' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'hugepage_update_pud' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'block_rq_remap' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_handle_event' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_handle_transfer' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_gadget_ep_queue' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_alloc_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_free_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_queue_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_giveback_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_wrong_maclen' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_mismatch' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_key_not_found' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_rnext_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_synack_no_key' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_snd_sne_update' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_rcv_sne_update' is unused. Some of the above is totally unused but others are not used due to their "trace_" functions being inside configs, in which case, the defined tracepoints should also be inside those same configs. Others are architecture specific but defined in generic code, where they should either be moved to the architecture or be surrounded by #ifdef for the architectures they are for. This tool could be updated to process modules in the future. I'd like to thank Mathieu Desnoyers for suggesting using strings instead of pointers, as using pointers in vmlinux.o required handling relocations and it required implementing almost a full feature linker to do so. To enable this check, run the build with: make UT=1 Note, when all the existing unused tracepoints are removed from the build, the "UT=1" will be removed and this will always be enabled when tracepoints are configured to warn on any new tracepoints. The reason this isn't always enabled now is because it will introduce a lot of warnings for the current unused tracepoints, and all bisects would end at this commit for those warnings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250528114549.4d8a5e03@gandalf.local.home/ Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251022004452.920728129@kernel.org Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> # for using strings instead of pointers Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-14vmlinux.lds: Unify TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN, and related macrosJosh Poimboeuf
TEXT_MAIN, DATA_MAIN and friends are defined differently depending on whether certain config options enable -ffunction-sections and/or -fdata-sections. There's no technical reason for that beyond voodoo coding. Keeping the separate implementations adds unnecessary complexity, fragments the logic, and increases the risk of subtle bugs. Unify the macros by using the same input section patterns across all configs. This is a prerequisite for the upcoming livepatch klp-build tooling which will manually enable -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections via KCFLAGS. Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
2025-10-07Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu: - Unify guest entry code for KVM and MSHV (Sean Christopherson) - Switch Hyper-V MSI domain to use msi_create_parent_irq_domain() (Nam Cao) - Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS and limit the semantics of CONFIG_HYPERV (Mukesh Rathor) - Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs (Vitaly Kuznetsov) - Deprecate hyperv_fb in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver (Prasanna Kumar T S M) - Miscellaneous enhancements, fixes and cleanups (Abhishek Tiwari, Alok Tiwari, Nuno Das Neves, Wei Liu, Roman Kisel, Michael Kelley) * tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: hyperv: Remove the spurious null directive line MAINTAINERS: Mark hyperv_fb driver Obsolete fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix typos in vmbus_drv.c Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs output format for ring buffer index Drivers: hv: vmbus: Clean up sscanf format specifier in target_cpu_store() x86/hyperv: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() mshv: Use common "entry virt" APIs to do work in root before running guest entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM proper mshv: Handle NEED_RESCHED_LAZY before transferring to guest x86/hyperv: Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs Drivers: hv: Simplify data structures for VMBus channel close message Drivers: hv: util: Cosmetic changes for hv_utils_transport.c mshv: Add support for a new parent partition configuration clocksource: hyper-v: Skip unnecessary checks for the root partition hyperv: Add missing field to hv_output_map_device_interrupt
2025-10-02Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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() ...
2025-10-01Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor: - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by a builtin module - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR / W=e - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs (userprogs) - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs (hostprogs) - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as btrfs and XFS - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files * tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits) modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections KMSAN: Remove tautological checks objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault() mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS ...
2025-10-01Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: "Two small patches for the asm-generic header files: Varad Gautam improves the MMIO tracing to be faster when the tracepoints are built into the kernel but disabled, while Qi Xi updates the DO_ONCE logic so that clearing the WARN_ONCE() flags does not change the other DO_ONCE users" * tag 'asm-generic-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: once: fix race by moving DO_ONCE to separate section asm-generic/io.h: Skip trace helpers if rwmmio events are disabled
2025-10-01Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS optionMukesh Rathor
At present VMBus driver is hinged off of CONFIG_HYPERV which entails lot of builtin code and encompasses too much. It's not always clear what depends on builtin hv code and what depends on VMBus. Setting CONFIG_HYPERV as a module and fudging the Makefile to switch to builtin adds even more confusion. VMBus is an independent module and should have its own config option. Also, there are scenarios like baremetal dom0/root where support is built in with CONFIG_HYPERV but without VMBus. Lastly, there are more features coming down that use CONFIG_HYPERV and add more dependencies on it. So, create a fine grained HYPERV_VMBUS option and update Kconfigs for dependency on VMBus. Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mrathor@linux.microsoft.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> # drivers/pci Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
2025-09-30Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Further consolidation of the VDSO infrastructure and the common data store - Simplification of the related Kconfig logic - Improve the VDSO selftest suite * tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: selftests: vDSO: Drop vdso_test_clock_getres selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add tests for clock_gettime64() selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Test CPUTIME clocks selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use explicit indices for name array selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Drop clock availability tests selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use ksft_finished() selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Correctly skip whole test with missing vDSO selftests: vDSO: Fix -Wunitialized in powerpc VDSO_CALL() wrapper vdso: Add struct __kernel_old_timeval forward declaration to gettime.h vdso: Gate VDSO_GETRANDOM behind HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_32 riscv: vdso: Untangle Kconfig logic time: Build generic update_vsyscall() only with generic time vDSO vdso/gettimeofday: Remove !CONFIG_TIME_NS stubs vdso: Move ENABLE_COMPAT_VDSO from core to arm64 ARM: VDSO: Remove cntvct_ok global variable vdso/datastore: Gate time data behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
2025-09-30Merge tag 'core-core-2025-09-29' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull TIF bit unification updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A set of changes to consolidate the generic TIF (thread info flag) bits accross architectures. All architectures define the same set of generic TIF bits. This makes it pointlessly hard to add a new generic TIF bit or to change an existing one. Provide a generic variant and convert the architectures which utilize the generic entry code over to use it. The TIF space is divided into 16 generic bits and 16 architecture specific bits, which turned out to provide enough space on both sides" * tag 'core-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: LoongArch: Fix bitflag conflict for TIF_FIXADE riscv: Use generic TIF bits loongarch: Use generic TIF bits s390/entry: Remove unused TIF flags s390: Use generic TIF bits x86: Use generic TIF bits asm-generic: Provide generic TIF infrastructure
2025-09-29Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook: "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly. This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI support), this came up again. The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming. - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva) - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure (Junjie Cao) - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar) - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI" * tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP() stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP() lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
2025-09-25once: fix race by moving DO_ONCE to separate sectionQi Xi
The commit c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")") moved DO_ONCE's ___done variable to .data.once section, which conflicts with DO_ONCE_LITE() that also uses the same section. This creates a race condition when clear_warn_once is used: Thread 1 (DO_ONCE) Thread 2 (DO_ONCE) __do_once_start read ___done (false) acquire once_lock execute func __do_once_done write ___done (true) __do_once_start release once_lock // Thread 3 clear_warn_once reset ___done read ___done (false) acquire once_lock execute func schedule once_work __do_once_done once_deferred: OK write ___done (true) static_branch_disable release once_lock schedule once_work once_deferred: BUG_ON(!static_key_enabled) DO_ONCE_LITE() in once_lite.h is used by WARN_ON_ONCE() and other warning macros. Keep its ___done flag in the .data..once section and allow resetting by clear_warn_once, as originally intended. In contrast, DO_ONCE() is used for functions like get_random_once() and relies on its ___done flag for internal synchronization. We should not reset DO_ONCE() by clear_warn_once. Fix it by isolating DO_ONCE's ___done into a separate .data..do_once section, shielding it from clear_warn_once. Fixes: c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Qi Xi <xiqi2@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2025-09-24kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFIKees Cook
The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with associated options). Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig. Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2025-09-24kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstrippedMasahiro Yamada
Keep the .modinfo section during linking, but strip it from the final vmlinux. Adjust scripts/mksysmap to exclude modinfo symbols from kallsyms. This change will allow the next commit to extract the .modinfo section from the vmlinux.unstripped intermediate. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aaf67c07447215463300fccaa758904bac42f992.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2025-09-24asm-generic/io.h: Skip trace helpers if rwmmio events are disabledVarad Gautam
With `CONFIG_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS=y`, the `{read,write}{b,w,l,q}{_relaxed}()` mmio accessors unconditionally call `log_{post_}{read,write}_mmio()` helpers, which in turn call the ftrace ops for `rwmmio` trace events This adds a performance penalty per mmio accessor call, even when `rwmmio` events are disabled at runtime (~80% overhead on local measurement). Guard these with `tracepoint_enabled()`. Signed-off-by: Varad Gautam <varadgautam@google.com> Fixes: 210031971cdd ("asm-generic/io: Add logging support for MMIO accessors") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>