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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mm: consistently use current-&gt;mm in mm_get_unmapped_area()</title>
<updated>2025-11-17T01:27:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryan Roberts</name>
<email>ryan.roberts@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T15:53:04+00:00</published>
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mm_get_unmapped_area() is a wrapper around arch_get_unmapped_area() /
arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(), both of which search current-&gt;mm for
some free space.  Neither take an mm_struct - they implicitly operate on
current-&gt;mm.

But the wrapper takes an mm_struct and uses it to decide whether to search
bottom up or top down.  All callers pass in current-&gt;mm for this, so
everything is working consistently.  But it feels like an accident waiting
to happen; eventually someone will call that function with a different mm,
expecting to find free space in it, but what gets returned is free space
in the current mm.

So let's simplify by removing the parameter and have the wrapper use
current-&gt;mm to decide which end to start at.  Now everything is consistent
and self-documenting.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251003155306.2147572-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.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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mm_get_unmapped_area() is a wrapper around arch_get_unmapped_area() /
arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(), both of which search current-&gt;mm for
some free space.  Neither take an mm_struct - they implicitly operate on
current-&gt;mm.

But the wrapper takes an mm_struct and uses it to decide whether to search
bottom up or top down.  All callers pass in current-&gt;mm for this, so
everything is working consistently.  But it feels like an accident waiting
to happen; eventually someone will call that function with a different mm,
expecting to find free space in it, but what gets returned is free space
in the current mm.

So let's simplify by removing the parameter and have the wrapper use
current-&gt;mm to decide which end to start at.  Now everything is consistent
and self-documenting.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251003155306.2147572-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.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>bpf: Report arena faults to BPF stderr</title>
<updated>2025-09-11T20:00:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Puranjay Mohan</name>
<email>puranjay@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-11T14:58:02+00:00</published>
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Begin reporting arena page faults and the faulting address to BPF
program's stderr, this patch adds support in the arm64 and x86-64 JITs,
support for other archs can be added later.

The fault handlers receive the 32 bit address in the arena region so
the upper 32 bits of user_vm_start is added to it before printing the
address. This is what the user would expect to see as this is what is
printed by bpf_printk() is you pass it an address returned by
bpf_arena_alloc_pages();

Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan &lt;puranjay@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250911145808.58042-4-puranjay@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Begin reporting arena page faults and the faulting address to BPF
program's stderr, this patch adds support in the arm64 and x86-64 JITs,
support for other archs can be added later.

The fault handlers receive the 32 bit address in the arena region so
the upper 32 bits of user_vm_start is added to it before printing the
address. This is what the user would expect to see as this is what is
printed by bpf_printk() is you pass it an address returned by
bpf_arena_alloc_pages();

Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan &lt;puranjay@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250911145808.58042-4-puranjay@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf/arena: add bpf_arena_reserve_pages kfunc</title>
<updated>2025-07-11T17:43:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emil Tsalapatis</name>
<email>emil@etsalapatis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-09T19:13:11+00:00</published>
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Add a new BPF arena kfunc for reserving a range of arena virtual
addresses without backing them with pages. This prevents the range from
being populated using bpf_arena_alloc_pages().

Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250709191312.29840-2-emil@etsalapatis.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a new BPF arena kfunc for reserving a range of arena virtual
addresses without backing them with pages. This prevents the range from
being populated using bpf_arena_alloc_pages().

Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250709191312.29840-2-emil@etsalapatis.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T20:45:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-30T20:45:28+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf try_alloc_pages() support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "The pull includes work from Sebastian, Vlastimil and myself with a lot
  of help from Michal and Shakeel.

  This is a first step towards making kmalloc reentrant to get rid of
  slab wrappers: bpf_mem_alloc, kretprobe's objpool, etc. These patches
  make page allocator safe from any context.

  Vlastimil kicked off this effort at LSFMM 2024:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/974138/

  and we continued at LSFMM 2025:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQKfkGxudNUkcPJgwe3nTZ=xohnRshx9kLZBTmR_E1DFEg@mail.gmail.com/

  Why:

  SLAB wrappers bind memory to a particular subsystem making it
  unavailable to the rest of the kernel. Some BPF maps in production
  consume Gbytes of preallocated memory. Top 5 in Meta: 1.5G, 1.2G,
  1.1G, 300M, 200M. Once we have kmalloc that works in any context BPF
  map preallocation won't be necessary.

  How:

  Synchronous kmalloc/page alloc stack has multiple stages going from
  fast to slow: cmpxchg16 -&gt; slab_alloc -&gt; new_slab -&gt; alloc_pages -&gt;
  rmqueue_pcplist -&gt; __rmqueue, where rmqueue_pcplist was already
  relying on trylock.

  This set changes rmqueue_bulk/rmqueue_buddy to attempt a trylock and
  return ENOMEM if alloc_flags &amp; ALLOC_TRYLOCK. It then wraps this
  functionality into try_alloc_pages() helper. We make sure that the
  logic is sane in PREEMPT_RT.

  End result: try_alloc_pages()/free_pages_nolock() are safe to call
  from any context.

  try_kmalloc() for any context with similar trylock approach will
  follow. It will use try_alloc_pages() when slab needs a new page.
  Though such try_kmalloc/page_alloc() is an opportunistic allocator,
  this design ensures that the probability of successful allocation of
  small objects (up to one page in size) is high.

  Even before we have try_kmalloc(), we already use try_alloc_pages() in
  BPF arena implementation and it's going to be used more extensively in
  BPF"

* tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
  mm: Fix the flipped condition in gfpflags_allow_spinning()
  bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs.
  mm, bpf: Use memcg in try_alloc_pages().
  memcg: Use trylock to access memcg stock_lock.
  mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock()
  mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation
  locking/local_lock: Introduce localtry_lock_t
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Pull bpf try_alloc_pages() support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "The pull includes work from Sebastian, Vlastimil and myself with a lot
  of help from Michal and Shakeel.

  This is a first step towards making kmalloc reentrant to get rid of
  slab wrappers: bpf_mem_alloc, kretprobe's objpool, etc. These patches
  make page allocator safe from any context.

  Vlastimil kicked off this effort at LSFMM 2024:

    https://lwn.net/Articles/974138/

  and we continued at LSFMM 2025:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQKfkGxudNUkcPJgwe3nTZ=xohnRshx9kLZBTmR_E1DFEg@mail.gmail.com/

  Why:

  SLAB wrappers bind memory to a particular subsystem making it
  unavailable to the rest of the kernel. Some BPF maps in production
  consume Gbytes of preallocated memory. Top 5 in Meta: 1.5G, 1.2G,
  1.1G, 300M, 200M. Once we have kmalloc that works in any context BPF
  map preallocation won't be necessary.

  How:

  Synchronous kmalloc/page alloc stack has multiple stages going from
  fast to slow: cmpxchg16 -&gt; slab_alloc -&gt; new_slab -&gt; alloc_pages -&gt;
  rmqueue_pcplist -&gt; __rmqueue, where rmqueue_pcplist was already
  relying on trylock.

  This set changes rmqueue_bulk/rmqueue_buddy to attempt a trylock and
  return ENOMEM if alloc_flags &amp; ALLOC_TRYLOCK. It then wraps this
  functionality into try_alloc_pages() helper. We make sure that the
  logic is sane in PREEMPT_RT.

  End result: try_alloc_pages()/free_pages_nolock() are safe to call
  from any context.

  try_kmalloc() for any context with similar trylock approach will
  follow. It will use try_alloc_pages() when slab needs a new page.
  Though such try_kmalloc/page_alloc() is an opportunistic allocator,
  this design ensures that the probability of successful allocation of
  small objects (up to one page in size) is high.

  Even before we have try_kmalloc(), we already use try_alloc_pages() in
  BPF arena implementation and it's going to be used more extensively in
  BPF"

* tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
  mm: Fix the flipped condition in gfpflags_allow_spinning()
  bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs.
  mm, bpf: Use memcg in try_alloc_pages().
  memcg: Use trylock to access memcg stock_lock.
  mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock()
  mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation
  locking/local_lock: Introduce localtry_lock_t
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs.</title>
<updated>2025-02-27T17:39:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-22T02:44:27+00:00</published>
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Use try_alloc_pages() and free_pages_nolock() for BPF needs
when context doesn't allow using normal alloc_pages.
This is a prerequisite for further work.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250222024427.30294-7-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Use try_alloc_pages() and free_pages_nolock() for BPF needs
when context doesn't allow using normal alloc_pages.
This is a prerequisite for further work.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250222024427.30294-7-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf bpf-6.14-rc4</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T02:13:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-21T02:10:24+00:00</published>
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Cross-merge bpf fixes after downstream PR (bpf-6.14-rc4).

Minor conflict:
  kernel/bpf/btf.c
Adjacent changes:
  kernel/bpf/arena.c
  kernel/bpf/btf.c
  kernel/bpf/syscall.c
  kernel/bpf/verifier.c
  mm/memory.c

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Cross-merge bpf fixes after downstream PR (bpf-6.14-rc4).

Minor conflict:
  kernel/bpf/btf.c
Adjacent changes:
  kernel/bpf/arena.c
  kernel/bpf/btf.c
  kernel/bpf/syscall.c
  kernel/bpf/verifier.c
  mm/memory.c

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: define KF_ARENA_* flags for bpf_arena kfuncs</title>
<updated>2025-02-08T02:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ihor Solodrai</name>
<email>ihor.solodrai@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-06T00:31:48+00:00</published>
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bpf_arena_alloc_pages() and bpf_arena_free_pages() work with the
bpf_arena pointers [1], which is indicated by the __arena macro in the
kernel source code:

    #define __arena __attribute__((address_space(1)))

However currently this information is absent from the debug data in
the vmlinux binary. As a consequence, bpf_arena_* kfuncs declarations
in vmlinux.h (produced by bpftool) do not match prototypes expected by
the BPF programs attempting to use these functions.

Introduce a set of kfunc flags to mark relevant types as bpf_arena
pointers. The flags then can be detected by pahole when generating BTF
from vmlinux's DWARF, allowing it to emit corresponding BTF type tags
for the marked kfuncs.

With recently proposed BTF extension [2], these type tags will be
processed by bpftool when dumping vmlinux.h, and corresponding
compiler attributes will be added to the declarations.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/961594/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250130201239.1429648-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/

Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai &lt;ihor.solodrai@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206003148.2308659-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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bpf_arena_alloc_pages() and bpf_arena_free_pages() work with the
bpf_arena pointers [1], which is indicated by the __arena macro in the
kernel source code:

    #define __arena __attribute__((address_space(1)))

However currently this information is absent from the debug data in
the vmlinux binary. As a consequence, bpf_arena_* kfuncs declarations
in vmlinux.h (produced by bpftool) do not match prototypes expected by
the BPF programs attempting to use these functions.

Introduce a set of kfunc flags to mark relevant types as bpf_arena
pointers. The flags then can be detected by pahole when generating BTF
from vmlinux's DWARF, allowing it to emit corresponding BTF type tags
for the marked kfuncs.

With recently proposed BTF extension [2], these type tags will be
processed by bpftool when dumping vmlinux.h, and corresponding
compiler attributes will be added to the declarations.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/961594/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250130201239.1429648-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/

Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai &lt;ihor.solodrai@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206003148.2308659-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix softlockup in arena_map_free on 64k page kernel</title>
<updated>2025-02-06T11:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Maguire</name>
<email>alan.maguire@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-05T17:00:59+00:00</published>
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On an aarch64 kernel with CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB=y,
arena_htab tests cause a segmentation fault and soft lockup.
The same failure is not observed with 4k pages on aarch64.

It turns out arena_map_free() is calling
apply_to_existing_page_range() with the address returned by
bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start().  If this address is not page-aligned
the code ends up calling apply_to_pte_range() with that unaligned
address causing soft lockup.

Fix it by round up GUARD_SZ to PAGE_SIZE &lt;&lt; 1 so that the
division by 2 in bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start() returns
a page-aligned value.

Fixes: 317460317a02 ("bpf: Introduce bpf_arena.")
Reported-by: Colm Harrington &lt;colm.harrington@oracle.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250205170059.427458-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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On an aarch64 kernel with CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB=y,
arena_htab tests cause a segmentation fault and soft lockup.
The same failure is not observed with 4k pages on aarch64.

It turns out arena_map_free() is calling
apply_to_existing_page_range() with the address returned by
bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start().  If this address is not page-aligned
the code ends up calling apply_to_pte_range() with that unaligned
address causing soft lockup.

Fix it by round up GUARD_SZ to PAGE_SIZE &lt;&lt; 1 so that the
division by 2 in bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start() returns
a page-aligned value.

Fixes: 317460317a02 ("bpf: Introduce bpf_arena.")
Reported-by: Colm Harrington &lt;colm.harrington@oracle.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250205170059.427458-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T02:36:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-27T02:36:23+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
  indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.

   - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
     the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
     free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
     refcount inc &amp; dec

   - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
     use large folios other than PMD-sized ones

   - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
     and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest

   - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
     of the mapletree code

   - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
     few minor code cleanups

   - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
     a test for the mapletree code

   - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
     (relatively) new mm/vma.c

   - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
     Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
     page allocator

   - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
     Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
     It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading

   - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
     addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
     accumulated:

       https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

     Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
     memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

   - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
     Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
     code when optional compiler warnings are enabled

   - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
     David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
     __GFP_HARDWALL

   - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
     various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
     pertaining to the pkeys tests

   - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
     estimate application working set size

   - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
     provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic

   - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
     removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
     tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated

   - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
     has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
     zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated

   - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
     Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
     use-after-free race is fixed

   - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
     simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
     logic

   - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
     and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
     improvements in accounting accuracy

   - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
     core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
     DAMON's sysfs file interface logic

   - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
     SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
     presented in response to DAMOS actions

   - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
     removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
     migration to sysfs is completed

   - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
     Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
     accounting

   - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
     removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface

   - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
     extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
     but also inclusion (allowing) behavior

   - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
     introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
     overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
     reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
     memory descriptors

   - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
     and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
     demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
     build time with swap-on-zram

   - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
     from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
     mmap_region() can be made MM-internal

   - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
     MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance

   - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
     Park updates DAMON documentation

   - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing

   - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
     Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
     folios, THP folios and migration

   - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
     RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
     pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
     issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
     reading/writing fast devices

   - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
     Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
  s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
  kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
  tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
  mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
  seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
  mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
  zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
  mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
  mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
  selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
  kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
  selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
  selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
  mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
  indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.

   - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
     the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
     free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
     refcount inc &amp; dec

   - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
     use large folios other than PMD-sized ones

   - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
     and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest

   - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
     of the mapletree code

   - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
     few minor code cleanups

   - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
     a test for the mapletree code

   - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
     (relatively) new mm/vma.c

   - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
     Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
     page allocator

   - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
     Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
     It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading

   - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
     addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
     accumulated:

       https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

     Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
     memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

   - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
     Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
     code when optional compiler warnings are enabled

   - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
     David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
     __GFP_HARDWALL

   - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
     various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
     pertaining to the pkeys tests

   - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
     estimate application working set size

   - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
     provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic

   - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
     removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
     tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated

   - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
     has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
     zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated

   - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
     Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
     use-after-free race is fixed

   - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
     simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
     logic

   - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
     and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
     improvements in accounting accuracy

   - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
     core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
     DAMON's sysfs file interface logic

   - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
     SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
     presented in response to DAMOS actions

   - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
     removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
     migration to sysfs is completed

   - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
     Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
     accounting

   - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
     removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface

   - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
     extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
     but also inclusion (allowing) behavior

   - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
     introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
     overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
     reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
     memory descriptors

   - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
     and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
     demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
     build time with swap-on-zram

   - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
     from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
     mmap_region() can be made MM-internal

   - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
     MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance

   - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
     Park updates DAMON documentation

   - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing

   - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
     Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
     folios, THP folios and migration

   - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
     RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
     pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
     issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
     reading/writing fast devices

   - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
     Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
  s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
  kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
  tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
  mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
  seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
  mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
  zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
  mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
  mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
  selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
  kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
  selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
  selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
  mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: alloc_pages_bulk: rename API</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T04:22:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luiz Capitulino</name>
<email>luizcap@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-23T22:00:38+00:00</published>
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The previous commit removed the page_list argument from
alloc_pages_bulk_noprof() along with the alloc_pages_bulk_list() function.

Now that only the *_array() flavour of the API remains, we can do the
following renaming (along with the _noprof() ones):

  alloc_pages_bulk_array -&gt; alloc_pages_bulk
  alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy -&gt; alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy
  alloc_pages_bulk_array_node -&gt; alloc_pages_bulk_node

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/275a3bbc0be20fbe9002297d60045e67ab3d4ada.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;luizcap@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The previous commit removed the page_list argument from
alloc_pages_bulk_noprof() along with the alloc_pages_bulk_list() function.

Now that only the *_array() flavour of the API remains, we can do the
following renaming (along with the _noprof() ones):

  alloc_pages_bulk_array -&gt; alloc_pages_bulk
  alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy -&gt; alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy
  alloc_pages_bulk_array_node -&gt; alloc_pages_bulk_node

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/275a3bbc0be20fbe9002297d60045e67ab3d4ada.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;luizcap@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Yunsheng Lin &lt;linyunsheng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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