linux-toradex.git/arch/nios2, branch master

kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-02-26T18:50:19+00:00

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W  # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T19:32:37+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes
   arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev)

   It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use
   it. Various hacks were removed in the process.

 - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data
   compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky)

 - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous
   page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting
   are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand)

 - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong)

 - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos
   stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic
   control, and readability (SeongJae Park)

 - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few
   issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang)

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several
   issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu)

 - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves
   the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai)

 - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a
   glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg)

 - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and
   consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of
   hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb
   (Mike Rapoport)

 - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma
   implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of
   the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka)

 - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the
   memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being
   exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt)

 - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the
   allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount
   operations (Kefeng Wang)

 - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement
   of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning
   of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park)

 - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes
   CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan)

 - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes
   nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the
   underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code
   (Yury Norov)

 - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up
   some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work
   in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg)

 - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon
   infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also
   some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand)

 - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds
   additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen)

 - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is
   part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs
   over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari)

 - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated
   improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky)

 - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic
   folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in
   pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang)

 - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation
   reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and
   DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc"
   performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans
   up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap
   write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding
   the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old
   swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which
   wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications
   were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui
   Song)

 - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM
   available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various
   cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits)
  mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table()
  mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c
  mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config
  um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h
  mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles
  zsmalloc: make common caches global
  mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files
  mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers
  mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers
  mm/readahead: fix typo in comment
  mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file()
  mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages
  mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range
  mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area
  ...

nios2: uapi: Remove custom asm/swab.h from UAPI

2026-01-30T15:46:17+00:00

UAPI headers are not supposed to leak references to kconfig symbols.
They are undefined there in any case. As all actual definitions of this
header are guarded behind a kconfig symbol, for userspace the header is
always identical to its asm-generic variant.

Make the custom UAPI header a kernel-internal one, so the leaks of
kconfig symbols are fixed and userspace will instead use
asm-generic/swab.h directly.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/93c55086-931a-4282-a94c-de4954047fa9@app.fastmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map

2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00

To initialize node, zone and memory map data structures every architecture
calls free_area_init() during setup_arch() and passes it an array of zone
limits.

Beside code duplication it creates "interesting" ordering cases between
allocation and initialization of hugetlb and the memory map.  Some
architectures allocate hugetlb pages very early in setup_arch() in certain
cases, some only create hugetlb CMA areas in setup_arch() and sometimes
hugetlb allocations happen mm_core_init().

With arch_zone_limits_init() helper available now on all architectures it
is no longer necessary to call free_area_init() from architecture setup
code.  Rather core MM initialization can call arch_zone_limits_init() in a
single place.

This allows to unify ordering of hugetlb vs memory map allocation and
initialization.

Remove the call to free_area_init() from architecture specific code and
place it in a new mm_core_init_early() function that is called immediately
after setup_arch().

After this refactoring it is possible to consolidate hugetlb allocations
and eliminate differences in ordering of hugetlb and memory map
initialization among different architectures.

As the first step of this consolidation move hugetlb_bootmem_alloc() to
mm_core_early_init().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-24-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Pratyush Yadav 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

nios2: introduce arch_zone_limits_init()

2026-01-27T04:02:15+00:00

Move calculations of zone limits to a dedicated arch_zone_limits_init()
function.

Later MM core will use this function as an architecture specific callback
during nodes and zones initialization and thus there won't be a need to
call free_area_init() from every architecture.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-13-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Pratyush Yadav 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant

2026-01-21T03:24:39+00:00

Patch series "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges", v11.

This series adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages.

The series improves on the current discontiguous clearing approach in two
ways:

  - clear pages in a contiguous fashion.
  - use batched clearing via clear_pages() wherever exposed.

The first is useful because it allows us to make much better use of
hardware prefetchers.

The second, enables advertising the real extent to the processor.  Where
specific instructions support it (ex.  string instructions on x86; "mops"
on arm64 etc), a processor can optimize based on this because, instead of
seeing a sequence of 8-byte stores, or a sequence of 4KB pages, it sees a
larger unit being operated on.

For instance, AMD Zen uarchs (for extents larger than LLC-size) switch to
a mode where they start eliding cacheline allocation.  This is helpful not
just because it results in higher bandwidth, but also because now the
cache is not evicting useful cachelines and replacing them with zeroes.

Demand faulting a 64GB region shows performance improvement:

 $ perf bench mem mmap -p $pg-sz -f demand -s 64GB -l 5

                       baseline              +series
                   (GBps +- %stdev)      (GBps +- %stdev)

   pg-sz=2MB       11.76 +- 1.10%        25.34 +- 1.18% [*]   +115.47%  	preempt=*

   pg-sz=1GB       24.85 +- 2.41%        39.22 +- 2.32%       + 57.82%  	preempt=none|voluntary
   pg-sz=1GB         (similar)           52.73 +- 0.20% [#]   +112.19%  	preempt=full|lazy

 [*] This improvement is because switching to sequential clearing
  allows the hardware prefetchers to do a much better job.

 [#] For pg-sz=1GB a large part of the improvement is because of the
  cacheline elision mentioned above. preempt=full|lazy improves upon
  that because, not needing explicit invocations of cond_resched() to
  ensure reasonable preemption latency, it can clear the full extent
  as a single unit. In comparison the maximum extent used for
  preempt=none|voluntary is PROCESS_PAGES_NON_PREEMPT_BATCH (32MB).

  When provided the full extent the processor forgoes allocating
  cachelines on this path almost entirely.

  (The hope is that eventually, in the fullness of time, the lazy
   preemption model will be able to do the same job that none or
   voluntary models are used for, allowing us to do away with
   cond_resched().)

Raghavendra also tested previous version of the series on AMD Genoa and
sees similar improvement [1] with preempt=lazy.

  $ perf bench mem map -p $page-size -f populate -s 64GB -l 10

                    base               patched              change
   pg-sz=2MB       12.731939 GB/sec    26.304263 GB/sec     106.6%
   pg-sz=1GB       26.232423 GB/sec    61.174836 GB/sec     133.2%


This patch (of 8):

Let's drop all variants that effectively map to clear_page() and provide
it in a generic variant instead.

We'll use the macro clear_user_page to indicate whether an architecture
provides it's own variant.

Also, clear_user_page() is only called from the generic variant of
clear_user_highpage(), so define it only if the architecture does not
provide a clear_user_highpage().  And, for simplicity define it in
linux/highmem.h.

Note that for parisc, clear_page() and clear_user_page() map to
clear_page_asm(), so we can just get rid of the custom clear_user_page()
implementation.  There is a clear_user_page_asm() function on parisc, that
seems to be unused.  Not sure what's up with that.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Co-developed-by: Ankur Arora 
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Ankur Arora 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Konrad Rzessutek Wilk 
Cc: Lance Yang 
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" 
Cc: Li Zhe 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Mateusz Guzik 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Raghavendra K T 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch/nios2: replace "__auto_type" and adjacent equivalent with "auto"

2025-12-08T23:32:15+00:00

Replace uses of "__auto_type" in arch/nios2/include/asm/uaccess.h with
"auto", and equivalently convert an adjacent cast to the analogous
form.

Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel)

serial: drop SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS

2025-11-21T17:31:27+00:00

In 3.7, 8250 was unintentionally renamed to 8250_core. This happened in
the commit 835d844d1a28 (8250_pnp: do pnp probe before legacy probe).
This made 8250. module options effectively defunct. Instead,
8250_core. worked.

In 3.9, the commit f2b8dfd9e480 (serial: 8250: Keep 8250. module
options functional after driver rename) made the original options work
again by introducing a hack.

Later in 3.9, the commit 9196d8acd7f9 (TTY: 8250, revert module name
change) changed the module name back to 8250 (from 8250_core). Since
then, the hack was there to support the transient 8250_core.
options. Those were present only in the 3.7..3.9 range.

These transient options were deprecated by 9326b047e4fd (TTY: 8250,
deprecated 8250_core.* options) in v3.9 too.

Now, after those 12 years, it is time to get rid of this hack
completely.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119092457.826789-4-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman