Johannes Berg says:
====================
Final updates, notably:
- crypto: move Michael MIC code into wireless (only)
- mac80211:
- multi-link 4-addr support
- NAN data support (but no drivers yet)
- ath10k: DT quirk to make it work on some devices
- ath12k: IPQ5424 support
- rtw89: USB improvements for performance
* tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (124 commits)
wifi: cfg80211: Explicitly include <linux/export.h> in michael-mic.c
wifi: ath10k: Add device-tree quirk to skip host cap QMI requests
dt-bindings: wireless: ath10k: Add quirk to skip host cap QMI requests
crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API
wifi: ipw2x00: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
wifi: ath12k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
wifi: ath11k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
wifi: mac80211, cfg80211: Export michael_mic() and move it to cfg80211
wifi: ipw2x00: Rename michael_mic() to libipw_michael_mic()
wifi: libertas_tf: refactor endpoint lookup
wifi: libertas: refactor endpoint lookup
wifi: at76c50x: refactor endpoint lookup
wifi: ath12k: Enable IPQ5424 WiFi device support
wifi: ath12k: Add CE remap hardware parameters for IPQ5424
wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_regs for IPQ5424
wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_version_map entry for IPQ5424
wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_hw_params for IPQ5424
dt-bindings: net: wireless: add ath12k wifi device IPQ5424
wifi: ath10k: fix station lookup failure during disconnect
wifi: ath12k: Create symlink for each radio in a wiphy
...
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410064703.735099-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Remove the "michael_mic" crypto_shash algorithm, since it's no longer
used. Its only users were wireless drivers, which have now been
converted to use the michael_mic() function instead.
It makes sense that no other users ever appeared: Michael MIC is an
insecure algorithm that is specific to WPA TKIP, which itself was an
interim security solution to replace the broken WEP standard.
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408030651.80336-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
space (Heming Zhao)
- "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)
- "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
page size (Pnina Feder)
- "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)
- "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)
- "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)
- "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)
- "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)
- "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
more appropriate places (Yury Norov)
- "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)
- "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
list: add kunit test for private list primitives
list: add primitives for private list manipulations
delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
...
The s2io driver supports Exar (formerly Neterion and S2io) PCI-X 10
Gigabit Ethernet cards. Hardware supporting PCI-X has not been
manufactured in years. On x86, it was quickly replaced by PCIe. While
it stuck around longer on POWER hardware, the last POWER hardware to
support it was POWER7, which is not supported by ppc64le Linux
distributions. The last supported mainstream ppc64 Linux distribution
was RHEL 7; while it is still supported under ELS, ELS is only
available for x86 and IBM Z. It is possible to use many PCI-X cards in
standard PCI slots (which are still available on new motherboards), but
it does not make sense to do so for 10 Gigabit Ethernet because the
maximum bandwidth of standard PCI is only 1067 Mbps. It is therefore
highly unlikely that this driver is still being used. Remove the
driver, and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file (restoring
credit for the vxge driver, which was removed in commit f05643a0f6
("eth: remove neterion/vxge").
Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260126031352.22997-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Move lib/test_min_heap.c to lib/tests/min_heap_kunit.c and convert it to
use KUnit.
This change switches the ad-hoc test code to standard KUnit test cases.
The test data remains the same, but the verification logic is updated to
use KUNIT_EXPECT_* macros.
Also remove CONFIG_TEST_MIN_HEAP from arch/*/configs/* because it is no
longer used. The new CONFIG_MIN_HEAP_KUNIT_TEST will be automatically
enabled by CONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS.
The reasons for converting to KUnit are:
1. Standardization:
Switching from ad-hoc printk-based reporting to the standard
KTAP format makes it easier for CI systems to parse and report test
results
2. Better Diagnostics:
Using KUNIT_EXPECT_* macros automatically provides detailed
diagnostics on failure.
3. Tooling Integration:
It allows the test to be managed and executed using standard
KUnit tools.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251221133516.321846-1-sakamo.ryota@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryota Sakamoto <sakamo.ryota@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of exposing the powerpc-optimized MD5 code via powerpc-specific
crypto_shash algorithms, instead just implement the md5_blocks() library
function. This is much simpler, it makes the MD5 library functions be
powerpc-optimized, and it fixes the longstanding issue where the
powerpc-optimized MD5 code was disabled by default. MD5 still remains
available through crypto_shash, but individual architectures no longer
need to handle it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250805222855.10362-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:
- CONFIG_HZ changes to move the base_slice from 10ms to 1ms
- Patchset to move some of the mutex handling to lock guard
- Expose secvars relevant to the key management mode
- Misc cleanups and fixes
Thanks to Ankit Chauhan, Christophe Leroy, Donet Tom, Gautam Menghani,
Haren Myneni, Johan Korsnes, Madadi Vineeth Reddy, Paul Mackerras,
Shrikanth Hegde, Srish Srinivasan, Thomas Fourier, Thomas Huth, Thomas
Weißschuh, Souradeep, Amit Machhiwal, R Nageswara Sastry, Venkat Rao
Bagalkote, Andrew Donnellan, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Mimi Zohar, Mukesh
Kumar Chaurasiya, Nayna Jain, Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stefan Berger, Tyrel Datwyler, and Kowshik Jois.
* tag 'powerpc-6.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (23 commits)
arch/powerpc: Remove .interp section in vmlinux
powerpc: Drop GPL boilerplate text with obsolete FSF address
powerpc: Don't use %pK through printk
arch: powerpc: defconfig: Drop obsolete CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX
misc: ocxl: Replace scnprintf() with sysfs_emit() in sysfs show functions
integrity/platform_certs: Allow loading of keys in the static key management mode
powerpc/secvar: Expose secvars relevant to the key management mode
powerpc/pseries: Correct secvar format representation for static key management
(powerpc/512) Fix possible `dma_unmap_single()` on uninitialized pointer
powerpc: floppy: Add missing checks after DMA map
book3s64/radix : Optimize vmemmap start alignment
book3s64/radix : Handle error conditions properly in radix_vmemmap_populate
powerpc/pseries/dlpar: Search DRC index from ibm,drc-indexes for IO add
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add H_VIRT mapping for tracing exits
powerpc: sysdev: use lock guard for mutex
powerpc: powernv: ocxl: use lock guard for mutex
powerpc: book3s: vas: use lock guard for mutex
powerpc: fadump: use lock guard for mutex
powerpc: rtas: use lock guard for mutex
powerpc: eeh: use lock guard for mutex
...
Instead of exposing the powerpc-optimized SHA-1 code via
powerpc-specific crypto_shash algorithms, instead just implement the
sha1_blocks() library function. This is much simpler, it makes the
SHA-1 library functions be powerpc-optimized, and it fixes the
longstanding issue where the powerpc-optimized SHA-1 code was disabled
by default. SHA-1 still remains available through crypto_shash, but
individual architectures no longer need to handle it.
Note: to see the diff from arch/powerpc/crypto/sha1-spe-glue.c to
lib/crypto/powerpc/sha1.h, view this commit with 'git show -M10'.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250712232329.818226-11-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Commit 030bdc3fd0 ("powerpc/defconfigs: Set HZ=100 on pseries and ppc64
defconfigs") lowered CONFIG_HZ from 250 to 100, citing reduced need for a
higher tick rate due to high-resolution timers and concerns about timer
interrupt overhead and cascading effects in the timer wheel.
However, improvements have been made to the timer wheel algorithm since
then, particularly in eliminating cascading effects at the cost of minor
timekeeping inaccuracies. More details are available here
https://lwn.net/Articles/646950/. This removes the original concern about
cascading, and the reliance on high-resolution timers is not applicable
to the scheduler, which still depends on periodic ticks set by CONFIG_HZ.
With the introduction of the EEVDF scheduler, users can specify custom
slices for workloads. The default base_slice is 3ms, but with CONFIG_HZ=100
(10ms tick interval), base_slice is ineffective. Workloads like stress-ng
that do not voluntarily yield the CPU run for ~10ms before switching out.
Additionally, setting a custom slice below 3ms (e.g., 2ms) should lower
task latency, but this effect is lost due to the coarse 10ms tick.
By increasing CONFIG_HZ to 1000 (1ms tick), base_slice is properly honored,
and user-defined slices work as expected. Benchmark results support this
change:
Latency improvements in schbench with EEVDF under stress-ng-induced noise:
Scheduler CONFIG_HZ Custom Slice 99th Percentile Latency (µs)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
EEVDF 1000 No 0.30x
EEVDF 1000 2 ms 0.29x
EEVDF (default) 100 No 1.00x
Switching to HZ=1000 reduces the 99th percentile latency in schbench by
~70%. This improvement occurs because, with HZ=1000, stress-ng tasks run
for ~3ms before yielding, compared to ~10ms with HZ=100. As a result,
schbench gets CPU time sooner, reducing its latency.
Daytrader Performance:
Daytrader results show minor variation within standard deviation,
indicating no significant regression.
Workload (Users/Instances) Throughput 1000HZ vs 100HZ (Std Dev%)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
30 u, 1 i +3.01% (1.62%)
60 u, 1 i +1.46% (2.69%)
90 u, 1 i –1.33% (3.09%)
30 u, 2 i -1.20% (1.71%)
30 u, 3 i –0.07% (1.33%)
Avg. Response Time: No Change (=)
pgbench select queries:
Metric 1000HZ vs 100HZ (Std Dev%)
------------------------------------------------------------------
Average TPS Change +2.16% (1.27%)
Average Latency Change –2.21% (1.21%)
Average TPS: Higher the better
Average Latency: Lower the better
pgbench shows both throughput and latency improvements beyond standard
deviation.
Given these results and the improvements in timer wheel implementation,
increasing CONFIG_HZ to 1000 ensures that powerpc benefits from EEVDF’s
base_slice and allows fine-tuned scheduling for latency-sensitive
workloads.
Signed-off-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250330074734.16679-1-vineethr@linux.ibm.com
tcrypt is actually a benchmarking module and not the actual tests. This
regularly causes confusion. Update the kconfig option name and help
text accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series
in this pull are:
- "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap
library code
- "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms
some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code
- "Update reference to include/asm-<arch>" from Geert Uytterhoeven
fixes pathnames in some code comments
- "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses
the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is
appropriate
- "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
switches two filesystems to the new mount API
- "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that
- "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang
Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various
places
- "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip
Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs
some maintainability work
- "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work
- "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented
with a corrupted image
- "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc
- "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger
- "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does
some maintenance work on the min/max library code
- "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance
work on the xarray library code"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits)
ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions
include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros
Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent
Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks()
Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc()
Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause()
Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked()
ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions
gcov: clang: use correct function param names
latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params
minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once
minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()
minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp()
minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()
minmax.h: update some comments
minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas
nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved
nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return
CREDITS: fix spelling mistake
...
Move the powerpc CRC-T10DIF assembly code into the lib directory and
wire it up to the library interface. This allows it to be used without
going through the crypto API. It remains usable via the crypto API too
via the shash algorithms that use the library interface. Thus all the
arch-specific "shash" code becomes unnecessary and is removed.
Note: to see the diff from arch/powerpc/crypto/crct10dif-vpmsum_glue.c
to arch/powerpc/lib/crc-t10dif-glue.c, view this commit with
'git show -M10'.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202012056.209768-8-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Move the powerpc CRC32C assembly code into the lib directory and wire it
up to the library interface. This allows it to be used without going
through the crypto API. It remains usable via the crypto API too via
the shash algorithms that use the library interface. Thus all the
arch-specific "shash" code becomes unnecessary and is removed.
Note: to see the diff from arch/powerpc/crypto/crc32c-vpmsum_glue.c to
arch/powerpc/lib/crc32-glue.c, view this commit with 'git show -M10'.
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202010844.144356-9-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series
in this pull request are:
- "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds
consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation
functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification.
- "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes -
mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications.
- "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No
functional changes - code cleanups only.
- "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a
little cleanup.
- "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and
simplifications and .text shrinkage.
- "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel
Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as
$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 3
kstack_2k 188
kstack_4k 11391
kstack_8k 243
kstack_16k 0
which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at
all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but
partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project".
- "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel
Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory.
- "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3
independent small optimizations of page counters".
- "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from
David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes
powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident.
- "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand.
Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible()
unneeded.
- "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David
Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the
cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector.
- "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation
APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions,
even from a userspace-only harness.
- "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix
issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved
performance.
- "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill
in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo.
- "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand.
Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk())
resulting in the removal of follow_page().
- "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat
Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant
reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown.
- "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill
Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature,
- "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on
DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied
yet.
- "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha
Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple
tree library code.
- "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move
more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code.
- "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt.
Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are
deprecated.
- "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from
Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap
allocation.
- "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various
disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic
code.
- "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly
improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes.
- "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin
Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into
simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem.
- "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice
performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios.
- "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for
khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios.
- "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect()
performance regression due to the addition of mseal().
- "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew
Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type!
- "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy
page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their
accessors/mutators can be removed.
- "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama
Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading
zero-filled zswap pages to backing store.
- "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race
window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during
an unrelated vma tree walk.
- "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of
the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and
better tested.
- "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park.
Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests.
- "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang.
Code cleanups and folio conversions.
- "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts.
Cleanups for shmem controls and stats.
- "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song.
Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning.
- "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more
folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs.
- "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with
per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram
rationalization.
- "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from
SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates.
- "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and
improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page
allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags.
- "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy.
This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas.
- "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky.
Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning.
- "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped
area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area()
implementations to better respect guard areas.
- "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability
of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups.
- "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge
pfnmap support.
- "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()"
from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with
CXL memory.
- "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches
a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering
of poisoned memry.
- "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support
the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather
than into single-page folios"
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits)
zram: free secondary algorithms names
uprobes: turn xol_area->pages[2] into xol_area->page
uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping
Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality"
mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices
mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios
mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries
set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs
mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units
mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page()
mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault()
resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()
resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource
mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD
vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support
mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings
mm/x86: support large pfn mappings
...
The z3fold compressed pages allocator is rarely used, most users use
zsmalloc. The only disadvantage of zsmalloc in comparison is the
dependency on MMU, and zbud is a more common option for !MMU as it was the
default zswap allocator for a long time.
Historically, zsmalloc had worse latency than zbud and z3fold but offered
better memory savings. This is no longer the case as shown by a simple
recent analysis [1]. That analysis showed that z3fold does not have any
advantage over zsmalloc or zbud considering both performance and memory
usage. In a kernel build test on tmpfs in a limited cgroup, z3fold took
3% more time and used 1.8% more memory. The latency of zswap_load() was
7% higher, and that of zswap_store() was 10% higher. Zsmalloc is better
in all metrics.
Moreover, z3fold apparently has latent bugs, which was made noticeable by
a recent soft lockup bug report with z3fold [2]. Switching to zsmalloc
not only fixed the problem, but also reduced the swap usage from 6~8G to
1~2G. Other users have also reported being bitten by mistakenly enabling
z3fold.
Other than hurting users, z3fold is repeatedly causing wasted engineering
effort. Apart from investigating the above bug, it came up in multiple
development discussions (e.g. [3]) as something we need to handle, when
there aren't any legit users (at least not intentionally).
The natural course of action is to deprecate z3fold, and remove in a few
cycles if no objections are raised from active users. Next on the list
should be zbud, as it offers marginal latency gains at the cost of huge
memory waste when compared to zsmalloc. That one will need to wait until
zsmalloc does not depend on MMU.
Rename the user-visible config option from CONFIG_Z3FOLD to
CONFIG_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED so that users with CONFIG_Z3FOLD=y get a new
prompt with explanation during make oldconfig. Also, remove
CONFIG_Z3FOLD=y from defconfigs.
[1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkbRF6od-2x_L8-A1QL3=2Ww13sCj4S3i4bNndqF+3+_Vg@mail.gmail.com/
[2]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/EF0ABD3E-A239-4111-A8AB-5C442E759CF3@gmail.com/
[3]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkbnmeVugfunffSovJf9FAgy9rhBVt_tx=nxUveLUfqVsA@mail.gmail.com/
[arnd@arndb.de: deprecate ZSWAP_ZPOOL_DEFAULT_Z3FOLD as well]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240909202625.1054880-1-arnd@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240904233343.933462-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add HOTPLUG_SMT support (/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt) and honour the
configured SMT state when hotplugging CPUs into the system
- Combine final TLB flush and lazy TLB mm shootdown IPIs when using the
Radix MMU to avoid a broadcast TLBIE flush on exit
- Drop the exclusion between ptrace/perf watchpoints, and drop the now
unused associated arch hooks
- Add support for the "nohlt" command line option to disable CPU idle
- Add support for -fpatchable-function-entry for ftrace, with GCC >=
13.1
- Rework memory block size determination, and support 256MB size on
systems with GPUs that have hotpluggable memory
- Various other small features and fixes
Thanks to Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Athira
Rajeev, Benjamin Gray, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Gautam
Menghani, Geoff Levand, Hari Bathini, Immad Mir, Jialin Zhang, Joel
Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Justin Stitt, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Krzysztof
Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Liang He, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
Masahiro Yamada, Michal Suchanek, Nageswara R Sastry, Nathan Chancellor,
Nathan Lynch, Naveen N Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Omar
Sandoval, Randy Dunlap, Reza Arbab, Rob Herring, Russell Currey, Sourabh
Jain, Thomas Gleixner, Trevor Woerner, Uwe Kleine-König, Vaibhav Jain,
Xiongfeng Wang, Yuan Tan, Zhang Rui, and Zheng Zengkai.
* tag 'powerpc-6.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (135 commits)
macintosh/ams: linux/platform_device.h is needed
powerpc/xmon: Reapply "Relax frame size for clang"
powerpc/mm/book3s64: Use 256M as the upper limit with coherent device memory attached
powerpc/mm/book3s64: Fix build error with SPARSEMEM disabled
powerpc/iommu: Fix notifiers being shared by PCI and VIO buses
powerpc/mpc5xxx: Add missing fwnode_handle_put()
powerpc/config: Disable SLAB_DEBUG_ON in skiroot
powerpc/pseries: Remove unused hcall tracing instruction
powerpc/pseries: Fix hcall tracepoints with JUMP_LABEL=n
powerpc: dts: add missing space before {
powerpc/eeh: Use pci_dev_id() to simplify the code
powerpc/64s: Move CPU -mtune options into Kconfig
powerpc/powermac: Fix unused function warning
powerpc/pseries: Rework lppaca_shared_proc() to avoid DEBUG_PREEMPT
powerpc: Don't include lppaca.h in paca.h
powerpc/pseries: Move hcall_vphn() prototype into vphn.h
powerpc/pseries: Move VPHN constants into vphn.h
cxl: Drop unused detach_spa()
powerpc: Drop zalloc_maybe_bootmem()
powerpc/powernv: Use struct opal_prd_msg in more places
...
Commit a2225d931f ("autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs")
promised the removal of the fs/autofs/Kconfig fragment for AUTOFS4_FS
within a couple of releases, but five years later this still has not
happened yet, and AUTOFS4_FS is still enabled in 63 defconfigs.
Get rid of it mechanically:
git grep -l CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS -- '*defconfig' |
xargs sed -i 's/AUTOFS4_FS/AUTOFS_FS/'
Also just remove the AUTOFS4_FS config option stub. Anybody who hasn't
regenerated their config file in the last five years will need to just
get the new name right when they do.
Signed-off-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add support for building the kernel using PC-relative addressing on
Power10.
- Allow HV KVM guests on Power10 to use prefixed instructions.
- Unify support for the P2020 CPU (85xx) into a single machine
description.
- Always build the 64-bit kernel with 128-bit long double.
- Drop support for several obsolete 2000's era development boards as
identified by Paul Gortmaker.
- A series fixing VFIO on Power since some generic changes.
- Various other small features and fixes.
Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Benjamin Gray, Bo Liu,
Christophe Leroy, Dan Carpenter, David Binderman, Ira Weiny, Joel
Stanley, Kajol Jain, Kautuk Consul, Liang He, Luis Chamberlain, Masahiro
Yamada, Michael Neuling, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Nysal Jan K.A, Pali
Rohár, Paul Gortmaker, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vaněk, Randy Dunlap, Rob
Herring, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher Boessenkool, and
Timothy Pearson.
* tag 'powerpc-6.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (156 commits)
powerpc/64s: Disable pcrel code model on Clang
powerpc: Fix merge conflict between pcrel and copy_thread changes
powerpc/configs/powernv: Add IGB=y
powerpc/configs/64s: Drop JFS Filesystem
powerpc/configs/64s: Use EXT4 to mount EXT2 filesystems
powerpc/configs: Make pseries_defconfig an alias for ppc64le_guest
powerpc/configs: Make pseries_le an alias for ppc64le_guest
powerpc/configs: Incorporate generic kvm_guest.config into guest configs
powerpc/configs: Add IBMVETH=y and IBMVNIC=y to guest configs
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable Device Mapper options
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable PSTORE
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable VLAN support
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable BLK_DEV_NVME
powerpc/configs/64s: Drop REISERFS
powerpc/configs/64s: Use SHA512 for module signatures
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable SCHEDSTATS
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable DEBUG_VM & other options
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable EMULATED_STATS
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable KUNIT and most tests
...
Fedora enables DEBUG_VM, which has led to occasions where a VM_BUG_ON()
is not caught by upstream testing, but rather is first found in Fedora,
which is not how it's meant to be.
PAGE_OWNER & PAGE_POISONING both need to be enabled on the kernel
command line, so should not add much overhead in normal operation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230414132415.821564-20-mpe@ellerman.id.au
