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 <kees@kernel.org>
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
...
Laptop mode was introduced to save battery, by delaying and consolidating writes and thereby maximize the time rotating hard drives wouldn't have to spin. Luckily, rotating hard drives, with their high spin-up times and power draw, are a thing of the past for battery-powered devices. Reclaim has also since changed to not write single filesystem pages anymore, and regular filesystem writeback is lumpy by design. The juice doesn't appear worth the squeeze anymore. The footprint of the feature is small, but nevertheless it's a complicating factor in mm, block, filesystems. Developers don't think about it, and it likely hasn't been tested with new reclaim and writeback changes in years. Let's sunset it. Keep the sysctl with a deprecation warning around for a few more cycles, but remove all functionality behind it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251216185201.GH905277@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Centralize how we synchronize a lazytime update into the actual on-disk timestamp into a single helper. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108141934.2052404-7-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull writeback updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Allow file systems to increase the minimum writeback chunk size.
The relatively low minimal writeback size of 4MiB means that
written back inodes on rotational media are switched a lot. Besides
introducing additional seeks, this also can lead to extreme file
fragmentation on zoned devices when a lot of files are cached
relative to the available writeback bandwidth.
This adds a superblock field that allows the file system to
override the default size, and sets it to the zone size for zoned
XFS.
- Add logging for slow writeback when it exceeds
sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs. This helps identify tasks waiting
for a long time and pinpoint potential issues. Recording the
starting jiffies is also useful when debugging a crashed vmcore.
- Wake up waiting tasks when finishing the writeback of a chunk
Cleanups:
- filemap_* writeback interface cleanups.
Adding filemap_fdatawrite_wbc ended up being a mistake, as all but
the original btrfs caller should be using better high level
interfaces instead.
This series removes all these low-level interfaces, switches btrfs
to a more specific interface, and cleans up other too low-level
interfaces. With this the writeback_control that is passed to the
writeback code is only initialized in three places.
- Remove __filemap_fdatawrite, __filemap_fdatawrite_range, and
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc
- Add filemap_flush_nr helper for btrfs
- Push struct writeback_control into start_delalloc_inodes in btrfs
- Rename filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick to filemap_flush_range
- Stop opencoding filemap_fdatawrite_range in 9p, ocfs2, and mm
- Make wbc_to_tag() inline and use it in fs"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: Make wbc_to_tag() inline and use it in fs.
xfs: set s_min_writeback_pages for zoned file systems
writeback: allow the file system to override MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES
writeback: cleanup writeback_chunk_size
mm: rename filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick to filemap_flush_range
mm: remove __filemap_fdatawrite_range
mm: remove filemap_fdatawrite_wbc
mm: remove __filemap_fdatawrite
mm,btrfs: add a filemap_flush_nr helper
btrfs: push struct writeback_control into start_delalloc_inodes
btrfs: use the local tmp_inode variable in start_delalloc_inodes
ocfs2: don't opencode filemap_fdatawrite_range in ocfs2_journal_submit_inode_data_buffers
9p: don't opencode filemap_fdatawrite_range in v9fs_mmap_vm_close
mm: don't opencode filemap_fdatawrite_range in filemap_invalidate_inode
writeback: Add logging for slow writeback (exceeds sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs)
writeback: Wake up waiting tasks when finishing the writeback of a chunk.
Pull vfs inode updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Hide inode->i_state behind accessors. Open-coded accesses prevent
asserting they are done correctly. One obvious aspect is locking,
but significantly more can be checked. For example it can be
detected when the code is clearing flags which are already missing,
or is setting flags when it is illegal (e.g., I_FREEING when
->i_count > 0)
- Provide accessors for ->i_state, converts all filesystems using
coccinelle and manual conversions (btrfs, ceph, smb, f2fs, gfs2,
overlayfs, nilfs2, xfs), and makes plain ->i_state access fail to
compile
- Rework I_NEW handling to operate without fences, simplifying the
code after the accessor infrastructure is in place
Cleanups:
- Move wait_on_inode() from writeback.h to fs.h
- Spell out fenced ->i_state accesses with explicit smp_wmb/smp_rmb
for clarity
- Cosmetic fixes to LRU handling
- Push list presence check into inode_io_list_del()
- Touch up predicts in __d_lookup_rcu()
- ocfs2: retire ocfs2_drop_inode() and I_WILL_FREE usage
- Assert on ->i_count in iput_final()
- Assert ->i_lock held in __iget()
Fixes:
- Add missing fences to I_NEW handling"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (22 commits)
dcache: touch up predicts in __d_lookup_rcu()
fs: push list presence check into inode_io_list_del()
fs: cosmetic fixes to lru handling
fs: rework I_NEW handling to operate without fences
fs: make plain ->i_state access fail to compile
xfs: use the new ->i_state accessors
nilfs2: use the new ->i_state accessors
overlayfs: use the new ->i_state accessors
gfs2: use the new ->i_state accessors
f2fs: use the new ->i_state accessors
smb: use the new ->i_state accessors
ceph: use the new ->i_state accessors
btrfs: use the new ->i_state accessors
Manual conversion to use ->i_state accessors of all places not covered by coccinelle
Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessors
fs: provide accessors for ->i_state
fs: spell out fenced ->i_state accesses with explicit smp_wmb/smp_rmb
fs: move wait_on_inode() from writeback.h to fs.h
fs: add missing fences to I_NEW handling
ocfs2: retire ocfs2_drop_inode() and I_WILL_FREE usage
...
[BUG] There is a bug report that during emergency sync, btrfs only write back all the dirty data and metadadta, but no full transaction commit, resulting the super block still pointing to the old trees, thus the end user can only see the old data, not the newer one. [CAUSE] Initially this looks like a btrfs specific bug, since ext4 doesn't get affected by this one. But the root problem here is, a combination of btrfs features and the no wait nature of emergency sync. Firstly do_sync_work() will call sync_inodes_one_sb() for every fs, to writeback all the dirty pages for the fs. Btrfs will properly writeback all dirty pages, including both data and the updated metadata. So far so good. Then sync_fs_one_sb() called with @nowait, in the case of btrfs it means no full transaction commit, thus no super block update. At this stage, btrfs is only one super block update away to be fully committed. I believe it's the more or less the same for other fses too. The problem is the next step, sync_bdevs(). Normally other fses have their super block already updated in the page cache of the block device, but btrfs only updates the super block during full transaction commit. So sync_bdevs() may work for other fses, but not for btrfs, btrfs is still using its older super block, all pointing back to the old metadata and data. Thus if after emergency sync, power loss happened, the end user will only see the old data, not the newer one, despite that everything but the super block is already written back. [FIX] Since the emergency sync is already executing in a workqueue, I didn't see much need to only do a nowait sync. Especially after the fact that sync_inodes_one_sb() always wait for the writeback to finish. Instead for the second iteration of sync_fs_one_sb(), pass wait == 1 into it, so fses like btrfs can properly commit its super blocks. Reported-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20251101150429.321537-1-safinaskar@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7b7fd40c5fe440b633b6c0c741d96ce93eb5a89a.1762142636.git.wqu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The function sync_inodes_one_sb() will always wait for the writeback, and ignore the optional parameter. Explicitly pass NULL as parameter for the call sites inside do_sync_work(). Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8079af1c4798cb36887022a8c51547a727c353cf.1762142636.git.wqu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Rename filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick to filemap_flush_range because it is the ranged version of filemap_flush. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024080431.324236-11-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Use filemap_fdatawrite_range and filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick instead of the low-level __filemap_fdatawrite_range that requires the caller to know the internals of the writeback_control structure and remove __filemap_fdatawrite_range now that it is trivial and only two callers would be left. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024080431.324236-10-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>