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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/proc, branch v6.6-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>proc: nommu: fix empty /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T20:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Wolsieffer</name>
<email>ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-15T16:00:56+00:00</published>
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On no-MMU, /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps reads as an empty file.  This happens because
find_vma(mm, 0) always returns NULL (assuming no vma actually contains the
zero address, which is normally the case).

To fix this bug and improve the maintainability in the future, this patch
makes the no-MMU implementation as similar as possible to the MMU
implementation.

The only remaining differences are the lack of hold/release_task_mempolicy
and the extra code to shoehorn the gate vma into the iterator.

This has been tested on top of 6.5.3 on an STM32F746.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915160055.971059-2-ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com
Fixes: 0c563f148043 ("proc: remove VMA rbtree use from nommu")
Signed-off-by: Ben Wolsieffer &lt;ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Giulio Benetti &lt;giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On no-MMU, /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps reads as an empty file.  This happens because
find_vma(mm, 0) always returns NULL (assuming no vma actually contains the
zero address, which is normally the case).

To fix this bug and improve the maintainability in the future, this patch
makes the no-MMU implementation as similar as possible to the MMU
implementation.

The only remaining differences are the lack of hold/release_task_mempolicy
and the extra code to shoehorn the gate vma into the iterator.

This has been tested on top of 6.5.3 on an STM32F746.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915160055.971059-2-ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com
Fixes: 0c563f148043 ("proc: remove VMA rbtree use from nommu")
Signed-off-by: Ben Wolsieffer &lt;ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Giulio Benetti &lt;giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>proc: nommu: /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps: release mmap read lock</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T20:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Wolsieffer</name>
<email>Ben.Wolsieffer@hefring.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-14T16:30:20+00:00</published>
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The no-MMU implementation of /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/map doesn't normally release
the mmap read lock, because it uses !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_vml) to determine
whether to release the lock.  Since _vml is NULL when the end of the
mappings is reached, the lock is not released.

Reading /proc/1/maps twice doesn't cause a hang because it only
takes the read lock, which can be taken multiple times and therefore
doesn't show any problem if the lock isn't released. Instead, you need
to perform some operation that attempts to take the write lock after
reading /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps. To actually reproduce the bug, compile the
following code as 'proc_maps_bug':

#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        void *buf;
        sleep(1);
        buf = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        puts("mmap returned");
        return 0;
}

Then, run:

  ./proc_maps_bug &amp;; cat /proc/$!/maps; fg

Without this patch, mmap() will hang and the command will never
complete.
	
This code was incorrectly adapted from the MMU implementation, which at
the time released the lock in m_next() before returning the last entry.

The MMU implementation has diverged further from the no-MMU version since
then, so this patch brings their locking and error handling into sync,
fixing the bug and hopefully avoiding similar issues in the future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230914163019.4050530-2-ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com
Fixes: 47fecca15c09 ("fs/proc/task_nommu.c: don't use priv-&gt;task-&gt;mm")
Signed-off-by: Ben Wolsieffer &lt;ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Giulio Benetti &lt;giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The no-MMU implementation of /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/map doesn't normally release
the mmap read lock, because it uses !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_vml) to determine
whether to release the lock.  Since _vml is NULL when the end of the
mappings is reached, the lock is not released.

Reading /proc/1/maps twice doesn't cause a hang because it only
takes the read lock, which can be taken multiple times and therefore
doesn't show any problem if the lock isn't released. Instead, you need
to perform some operation that attempts to take the write lock after
reading /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps. To actually reproduce the bug, compile the
following code as 'proc_maps_bug':

#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        void *buf;
        sleep(1);
        buf = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        puts("mmap returned");
        return 0;
}

Then, run:

  ./proc_maps_bug &amp;; cat /proc/$!/maps; fg

Without this patch, mmap() will hang and the command will never
complete.
	
This code was incorrectly adapted from the MMU implementation, which at
the time released the lock in m_next() before returning the last entry.

The MMU implementation has diverged further from the no-MMU version since
then, so this patch brings their locking and error handling into sync,
fixing the bug and hopefully avoiding similar issues in the future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230914163019.4050530-2-ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com
Fixes: 47fecca15c09 ("fs/proc/task_nommu.c: don't use priv-&gt;task-&gt;mm")
Signed-off-by: Ben Wolsieffer &lt;ben.wolsieffer@hefring.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Giulio Benetti &lt;giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-09-04-14-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-09-05T17:56:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-05T17:56:27+00:00</published>
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Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Stefan Roesch has added ksm statistics to /proc/pid/smaps

 - Also a number of singleton patches, mainly cleanups and leftovers

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-09-04-14-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
  mm/kmemleak: move up cond_resched() call in page scanning loop
  mm: page_alloc: remove stale CMA guard code
  MAINTAINERS: add rmap.h to mm entry
  rmap: remove anon_vma_link() nommu stub
  proc/ksm: add ksm stats to /proc/pid/smaps
  mm/hwpoison: rename hwp_walk* to hwpoison_walk*
  mm: memory-failure: add PageOffline() check
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Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Stefan Roesch has added ksm statistics to /proc/pid/smaps

 - Also a number of singleton patches, mainly cleanups and leftovers

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-09-04-14-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
  mm/kmemleak: move up cond_resched() call in page scanning loop
  mm: page_alloc: remove stale CMA guard code
  MAINTAINERS: add rmap.h to mm entry
  rmap: remove anon_vma_link() nommu stub
  proc/ksm: add ksm stats to /proc/pid/smaps
  mm/hwpoison: rename hwp_walk* to hwpoison_walk*
  mm: memory-failure: add PageOffline() check
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<entry>
<title>proc/ksm: add ksm stats to /proc/pid/smaps</title>
<updated>2023-09-02T22:17:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Roesch</name>
<email>shr@devkernel.io</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-22T18:05:39+00:00</published>
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With madvise and prctl KSM can be enabled for different VMA's.  Once it is
enabled we can query how effective KSM is overall.  However we cannot
easily query if an individual VMA benefits from KSM.

This commit adds a KSM section to the /prod/&lt;pid&gt;/smaps file.  It reports
how many of the pages are KSM pages.  Note that KSM-placed zeropages are
not included, only actual KSM pages.

Here is a typical output:

7f420a000000-7f421a000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
Size:             262144 kB
KernelPageSize:        4 kB
MMUPageSize:           4 kB
Rss:               51212 kB
Pss:                8276 kB
Shared_Clean:        172 kB
Shared_Dirty:      42996 kB
Private_Clean:       196 kB
Private_Dirty:      7848 kB
Referenced:        15388 kB
Anonymous:         51212 kB
KSM:               41376 kB
LazyFree:              0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
Swap:             202016 kB
SwapPss:            3882 kB
Locked:                0 kB
THPeligible:    0
ProtectionKey:         0
ksm_state:          0
ksm_skip_base:      0
ksm_skip_count:     0
VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me nr mg anon

This information also helps with the following workflow:
- First enable KSM for all the VMA's of a process with prctl.
- Then analyze with the above smaps report which VMA's benefit the most
- Change the application (if possible) to add the corresponding madvise
calls for the VMA's that benefit the most

[shr@devkernel.io: v5]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823170107.1457915-1-shr@devkernel.io
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230822180539.1424843-1-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch &lt;shr@devkernel.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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With madvise and prctl KSM can be enabled for different VMA's.  Once it is
enabled we can query how effective KSM is overall.  However we cannot
easily query if an individual VMA benefits from KSM.

This commit adds a KSM section to the /prod/&lt;pid&gt;/smaps file.  It reports
how many of the pages are KSM pages.  Note that KSM-placed zeropages are
not included, only actual KSM pages.

Here is a typical output:

7f420a000000-7f421a000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
Size:             262144 kB
KernelPageSize:        4 kB
MMUPageSize:           4 kB
Rss:               51212 kB
Pss:                8276 kB
Shared_Clean:        172 kB
Shared_Dirty:      42996 kB
Private_Clean:       196 kB
Private_Dirty:      7848 kB
Referenced:        15388 kB
Anonymous:         51212 kB
KSM:               41376 kB
LazyFree:              0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
Swap:             202016 kB
SwapPss:            3882 kB
Locked:                0 kB
THPeligible:    0
ProtectionKey:         0
ksm_state:          0
ksm_skip_base:      0
ksm_skip_count:     0
VmFlags: rd wr mr mw me nr mg anon

This information also helps with the following workflow:
- First enable KSM for all the VMA's of a process with prctl.
- Then analyze with the above smaps report which VMA's benefit the most
- Change the application (if possible) to add the corresponding madvise
calls for the VMA's that benefit the most

[shr@devkernel.io: v5]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823170107.1457915-1-shr@devkernel.io
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230822180539.1424843-1-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch &lt;shr@devkernel.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...
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Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-30T00:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-30T00:39:15+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c
  arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help
  avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're
  going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and
  try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each
  array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new
  sentinel with each array moved.

  Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves
  of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new
  move.

  The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl
  is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot
  of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying
  to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels.
  Although Joel already has code which does most of this work,
  experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be
  careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to
  the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.

  To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major
  housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this
  merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels
  will be done later in future kernel releases.

  The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall
  build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the
  kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each
  sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the
  kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels
  are created"

* tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro
  sysctl: SIZE_MAX-&gt;ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl
  vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function
  sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init
  sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Add size argument to init_header
  sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry
  sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Long ago we set out to remove the kitchen sink on kernel/sysctl.c
  arrays and placings sysctls to their own sybsystem or file to help
  avoid merge conflicts. Matthew Wilcox pointed out though that if we're
  going to do that we might as well also *save* space while at it and
  try to remove the extra last sysctl entry added at the end of each
  array, a sentintel, instead of bloating the kernel by adding a new
  sentinel with each array moved.

  Doing that was not so trivial, and has required slowing down the moves
  of kernel/sysctl.c arrays and measuring the impact on size by each new
  move.

  The complex part of the effort to help reduce the size of each sysctl
  is being done by the patient work of el señor Don Joel Granados. A lot
  of this is truly painful code refactoring and testing and then trying
  to measure the savings of each move and removing the sentinels.
  Although Joel already has code which does most of this work,
  experience with sysctl moves in the past shows is we need to be
  careful due to the slew of odd build failures that are possible due to
  the amount of random Kconfig options sysctls use.

  To that end Joel's work is split by first addressing the major
  housekeeping needed to remove the sentinels, which is part of this
  merge request. The rest of the work to actually remove the sentinels
  will be done later in future kernel releases.

  The preliminary math is showing this will all help reduce the overall
  build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the
  kernel by about ~64 bytes per array where we are able to remove each
  sentinel in the future. That also means there is no more bloating the
  kernel with the extra ~64 bytes per array moved as no new sentinels
  are created"

* tag 'sysctl-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_size as stopping criteria for list macro
  sysctl: SIZE_MAX-&gt;ARRAY_SIZE in register_net_sysctl
  vrf: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  networking: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  netfilter: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  ax.25: Update to register_net_sysctl_sz
  sysctl: Add size to register_net_sysctl function
  sysctl: Add size arg to __register_sysctl_init
  sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl
  sysctl: Add a size arg to __register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Add size argument to init_header
  sysctl: Add ctl_table_size to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: Use ctl_table_header in list_for_each_table_entry
  sysctl: Prefer ctl_table_header in proc_sysctl
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T21:53:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T21:53:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=d68b4b6f307d155475cce541f2aee938032ed22e'/>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
   ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h")

 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands")

 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
   handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
   hot un/plug")

 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
  document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
  drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
  x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
  crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
  crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
  x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
  crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
  kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
  crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
  crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
  kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
  kill do_each_thread()
  nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
  scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
  treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
  lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
  lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
  kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
  adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
   ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h")

 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands")

 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
   handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
   hot un/plug")

 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
  document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
  drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
  x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
  crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
  crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
  x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
  crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
  kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
  crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
  crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
  kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
  kill do_each_thread()
  nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
  scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
  treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
  lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
  lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
  kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
  adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T21:25:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T21:25:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b96a3e9142fdf346b05b20e867b4f0dfca119e96'/>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
   add_to_avail_list")

 - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
   reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
   also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

 - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
   of mas_store()").

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
   compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
   ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

 - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
   changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
   effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
   tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

 - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

 - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
   Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

 - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
   poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
   UFFD").

 - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
   memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
   check").

 - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
   code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

 - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
   THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

 - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
   subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
   ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

 - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
   ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

 - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
   conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
   from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
   folio").

 - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

 - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
   GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
   architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

 - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
   batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

 - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
   maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
   improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

 - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
   from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
   upgrade").

 - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
   for arm64").

 - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
   ("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

 - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
   most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

 - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
   on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
   optimization for ppc64").

 - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
   data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

 - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
   cleanups").

 - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

 - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
   vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

 - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
   implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
   address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

 - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

 - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
   ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

 - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
   ("cleanup with helper macro K()").

 - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
   memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

 - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
   in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
   migratetype").

 - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
   "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

 - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
   for vm.memfd_noexec").

 - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
   asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

 - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
   output").

 - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
   object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

 - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
   and _folio_order").

 - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
   ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

 - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
   range API").

 - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
   using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

 - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
   Wilcox ("Change calling convention for -&gt;huge_fault").

 - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
   subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
  maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
  maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
  secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
  nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
  hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
  mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
  mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
  mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
  mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
  mm: remove enum page_entry_size
  mm: allow -&gt;huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
  mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
  mm: remove checks for pte_index
  memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
  mm/huge_memory: work on folio-&gt;swap instead of page-&gt;private when splitting folio
  mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
  mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
  mm/swap: stop using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
  selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
  selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
   add_to_avail_list")

 - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
   reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
   also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

 - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
   of mas_store()").

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
   compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
   ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

 - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
   changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
   effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
   tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

 - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

 - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
   Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

 - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
   poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
   UFFD").

 - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
   memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
   check").

 - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
   code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

 - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
   THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

 - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
   subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
   ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

 - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
   ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

 - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
   conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
   from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
   folio").

 - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

 - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
   GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
   architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

 - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
   batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

 - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
   maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
   improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

 - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
   from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
   upgrade").

 - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
   for arm64").

 - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
   ("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

 - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
   most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

 - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
   on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
   optimization for ppc64").

 - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
   data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

 - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
   cleanups").

 - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

 - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
   vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

 - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
   implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
   address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

 - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

 - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
   ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

 - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
   ("cleanup with helper macro K()").

 - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
   memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

 - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
   in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
   migratetype").

 - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
   "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

 - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
   for vm.memfd_noexec").

 - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
   asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

 - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
   output").

 - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
   object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

 - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
   and _folio_order").

 - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
   ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

 - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
   range API").

 - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
   using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

 - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
   Wilcox ("Change calling convention for -&gt;huge_fault").

 - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
   subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
  maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
  maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
  secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
  nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
  hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
  mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
  mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
  mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
  mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
  mm: remove enum page_entry_size
  mm: allow -&gt;huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
  mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
  mm: remove checks for pte_index
  memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
  mm/huge_memory: work on folio-&gt;swap instead of page-&gt;private when splitting folio
  mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
  mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
  mm/swap: stop using page-&gt;private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
  selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
  selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-fs.proc.uapi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T18:43:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T18:43:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b4a04f92a4fd029f4a4cd7a47583f3f1bb562cd4'/>
<id>b4a04f92a4fd029f4a4cd7a47583f3f1bb562cd4</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull procfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "Mode changes to files under /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/ aren't supported ever since
  commit 6d76fa58b050 ("Don't allow chmod() on the /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/ files").

  Due to an oversight in commit 1b3044e39a89 ("procfs: fix pthread
  cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE") in switching from REG to NOD,
  mode changes on /proc/thread-self/comm were accidently allowed.

  Similar, mode changes for all files beneath /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/net/ are
  blocked but mode changes on /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/net itself were accidently
  allowed.

  Both issues come down to not using the generic proc_setattr() helper
  which blocks all mode changes. This is rectified with this pull
  request.

  This also removes a strange nolibc test that abused /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/net
  for testing mode changes. Using procfs for this test never made a lot
  of sense given procfs has special semantics for almost everything
  anway.

  Both changes are minor user-visible changes. It is however very
  unlikely that mode changes on proc/&lt;pid&gt;/net and
  /proc/thread-self/comm are something that userspace relies on"

* tag 'v6.6-fs.proc.uapi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm
  proc: use generic setattr() for /proc/$PID/net
  selftests/nolibc: drop test chmod_net
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull procfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "Mode changes to files under /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/ aren't supported ever since
  commit 6d76fa58b050 ("Don't allow chmod() on the /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/ files").

  Due to an oversight in commit 1b3044e39a89 ("procfs: fix pthread
  cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE") in switching from REG to NOD,
  mode changes on /proc/thread-self/comm were accidently allowed.

  Similar, mode changes for all files beneath /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/net/ are
  blocked but mode changes on /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/net itself were accidently
  allowed.

  Both issues come down to not using the generic proc_setattr() helper
  which blocks all mode changes. This is rectified with this pull
  request.

  This also removes a strange nolibc test that abused /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/net
  for testing mode changes. Using procfs for this test never made a lot
  of sense given procfs has special semantics for almost everything
  anway.

  Both changes are minor user-visible changes. It is however very
  unlikely that mode changes on proc/&lt;pid&gt;/net and
  /proc/thread-self/comm are something that userspace relies on"

* tag 'v6.6-fs.proc.uapi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm
  proc: use generic setattr() for /proc/$PID/net
  selftests/nolibc: drop test chmod_net
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T16:31:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T16:31:32+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs timestamp updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds VFS support for multi-grain timestamps and converts tmpfs,
  xfs, ext4, and btrfs to use them. This carries acks from all relevant
  filesystems.

  The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
  and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
  to optimize away a lot of metadata updates, down to around 1 per
  jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.

  Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via
  NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes
  can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the
  client decide to invalidate the cache.

  Even with NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support
  a change attribute and are subject to the same problems with timestamp
  granularity. Other applications have similar issues with timestamps
  (e.g., backup applications).

  If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve
  the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying
  filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates.

  This introduces fine-grained timestamps that are used when they are
  actively queried.

  This uses the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that
  something has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag
  is set, on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a
  fine-grained timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one.

  As POSIX generally mandates that when the mtime changes, the ctime
  must also change the kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so
  only the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used.

  Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in
  the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use
  coarse-grained timestamps.

  Various preparatory changes, fixes and cleanups are included:

   - Fixup all relevant places where POSIX requires updating ctime
     together with mtime. This is a wide-range of places and all
     maintainers provided necessary Acks.

   - Add new accessors for inode-&gt;i_ctime directly and change all
     callers to rely on them. Plain accesses to inode-&gt;i_ctime are now
     gone and it is accordingly rename to inode-&gt;__i_ctime and commented
     as requiring accessors.

   - Extend generic_fillattr() to pass in a request mask mirroring in a
     sense the statx() uapi. This allows callers to pass in a request
     mask to only get a subset of attributes filled in.

   - Rework timestamp updates so it's possible to drop the @now
     parameter the update_time() inode operation and associated helpers.

   - Add inode_update_timestamps() and convert all filesystems to it
     removing a bunch of open-coding"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (107 commits)
  btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
  ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
  xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
  tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
  fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
  fs: drop the timespec64 argument from update_time
  xfs: have xfs_vn_update_time gets its own timestamp
  fat: make fat_update_time get its own timestamp
  fat: remove i_version handling from fat_update_time
  ubifs: have ubifs_update_time use inode_update_timestamps
  btrfs: have it use inode_update_timestamps
  fs: drop the timespec64 arg from generic_update_time
  fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  fs: remove silly warning from current_time
  gfs2: fix timestamp handling on quota inodes
  fs: rename i_ctime field to __i_ctime
  selinux: convert to ctime accessor functions
  security: convert to ctime accessor functions
  apparmor: convert to ctime accessor functions
  sunrpc: convert to ctime accessor functions
  ...
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Pull vfs timestamp updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds VFS support for multi-grain timestamps and converts tmpfs,
  xfs, ext4, and btrfs to use them. This carries acks from all relevant
  filesystems.

  The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
  and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
  to optimize away a lot of metadata updates, down to around 1 per
  jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.

  Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via
  NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes
  can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the
  client decide to invalidate the cache.

  Even with NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support
  a change attribute and are subject to the same problems with timestamp
  granularity. Other applications have similar issues with timestamps
  (e.g., backup applications).

  If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve
  the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying
  filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates.

  This introduces fine-grained timestamps that are used when they are
  actively queried.

  This uses the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that
  something has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag
  is set, on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a
  fine-grained timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one.

  As POSIX generally mandates that when the mtime changes, the ctime
  must also change the kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so
  only the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used.

  Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in
  the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use
  coarse-grained timestamps.

  Various preparatory changes, fixes and cleanups are included:

   - Fixup all relevant places where POSIX requires updating ctime
     together with mtime. This is a wide-range of places and all
     maintainers provided necessary Acks.

   - Add new accessors for inode-&gt;i_ctime directly and change all
     callers to rely on them. Plain accesses to inode-&gt;i_ctime are now
     gone and it is accordingly rename to inode-&gt;__i_ctime and commented
     as requiring accessors.

   - Extend generic_fillattr() to pass in a request mask mirroring in a
     sense the statx() uapi. This allows callers to pass in a request
     mask to only get a subset of attributes filled in.

   - Rework timestamp updates so it's possible to drop the @now
     parameter the update_time() inode operation and associated helpers.

   - Add inode_update_timestamps() and convert all filesystems to it
     removing a bunch of open-coding"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (107 commits)
  btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
  ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
  xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
  tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
  fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
  fs: drop the timespec64 argument from update_time
  xfs: have xfs_vn_update_time gets its own timestamp
  fat: make fat_update_time get its own timestamp
  fat: remove i_version handling from fat_update_time
  ubifs: have ubifs_update_time use inode_update_timestamps
  btrfs: have it use inode_update_timestamps
  fs: drop the timespec64 arg from generic_update_time
  fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  fs: remove silly warning from current_time
  gfs2: fix timestamp handling on quota inodes
  fs: rename i_ctime field to __i_ctime
  selinux: convert to ctime accessor functions
  security: convert to ctime accessor functions
  apparmor: convert to ctime accessor functions
  sunrpc: convert to ctime accessor functions
  ...
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