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<updated>2023-04-28T02:57:00Z</updated>
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T02:57:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-04-28T02:57:00Z</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly singleton patches all over the place.

  Series of note are:

   - updates to scripts/gdb from Glenn Washburn

   - kexec cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-04-27-16-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (50 commits)
  mailmap: add entries for Paul Mackerras
  libgcc: add forward declarations for generic library routines
  mailmap: add entry for Oleksandr
  ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage
  fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status
  ia64: fix an addr to taddr in huge_pte_offset()
  checkpatch: introduce proper bindings license check
  epoll: rename global epmutex
  scripts/gdb: add GDB convenience functions $lx_dentry_name() and $lx_i_dentry()
  scripts/gdb: create linux/vfs.py for VFS related GDB helpers
  uapi/linux/const.h: prefer ISO-friendly __typeof__
  delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ
  scripts/gdb: timerlist: convert int chunks to str
  scripts/gdb: print interrupts
  scripts/gdb: raise error with reduced debugging information
  scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser
  lib/rbtree: use '+' instead of '|' for setting color.
  proc/stat: remove arch_idle_time()
  checkpatch: check for misuse of the link tags
  checkpatch: allow Closes tags with links
  ...
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<entry>
<title>docs: kmemleak: adjust to config renaming</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T23:53:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Bulwahn</name>
<email>lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-14T06:12:41Z</published>
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Commit c87db8ca0902 ("kmemleak-test: fix kmemleak_test.c build logic")
essentially renames the config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST to SAMPLE_KMEMLEAK, but
misses to adjust the documentation.

Adjust kmemleak documentation to this config renaming.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn &lt;lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230414061241.12754-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kcov: improve documentation</title>
<updated>2023-04-08T20:45:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-27T17:17:03Z</published>
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Improve KCOV documentation:

- Use KCOV instead of kcov, as the former is more widely-used.

- Mention Clang in compiler requirements.

- Use ``annotations`` for inline code.

- Rework remote coverage collection documentation for better clarity.

- Various smaller changes.

[andreyknvl@google.com: v2]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/583f41c49eef15210fa813e8229730d11427efa7.1677614637.git.andreyknvl@google.com
[andreyknvl@google.com: fix ``annotation`` for KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/72be5c215c275f35891229b90622ed859f196a46.1677684837.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0b5efd70e31bba7912cf9a6c951f0e76a8df27df.1677517724.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-02-24T01:09:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-24T01:09:35Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add
   F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at
   memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X
   bit.

 - Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset()
   thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition
   related to PMD unsharing.

 - Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal
   Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes

 - Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()")
   which does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work.

 - SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series
   "mm/damon/core: implement damos filter".

   These filters provide users with finer-grained control over DAMOS's
   actions. SeongJae has also done some DAMON cleanup work.

 - Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap").

 - Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple
   tree".

 - Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It
   adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global
   reclaim.

 - David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the
   series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups".

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library
   function in the series "remove generic_writepages".

 - Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in
   his series "Some small improvements for compaction".

 - Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his
   series "Get rid of tail page fields".

 - David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and
   generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series
   "mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with
   swap PTEs".

 - Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation
   flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC".

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with
   his series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable".

 - Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of
   writeable+executable mappings.

   The previous BPF-based approach had shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel
   support for memory-deny-write-execute (MDWE)".

 - Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series
   "mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() &amp; fix UAF".

 - T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series
   "mm: multi-gen LRU: improve".

 - Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error
   statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a
   per-node basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error
   statistics".

 - Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog
   regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage
   during compaction".

 - Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series
   "cleanup vfree and vunmap".

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in
   ths series "remove -&gt;rw_page".

 - We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's
   series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()".

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our
   vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier
   functions".

 - Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's
   series "mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for
   FLATMEM" and "fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()"

 - Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and
   /proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series
   "mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas".

 - Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest
   of the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for
   GUP".

 - SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface
   over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be
   printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the
   series "mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface".

 - Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes
   and clean-ups" series.

 - Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush
   IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing".

 - Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes".

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (505 commits)
  include/linux/migrate.h: remove unneeded externs
  mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range()
  mm/uffd: fix comment in handling pte markers
  mm: change to return bool for isolate_movable_page()
  mm: hugetlb: change to return bool for isolate_hugetlb()
  mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page()
  mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru()
  objtool: add UACCESS exceptions for __tsan_volatile_read/write
  kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code
  kasan: mark addr_has_metadata __always_inline
  mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled()
  sh: initialize max_mapnr
  m68k/nommu: add missing definition of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET
  mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size()
  maple_tree: reduce stack usage with gcc-9 and earlier
  mm: page_alloc: call panic() when memoryless node allocation fails
  mm: multi-gen LRU: avoid futile retries
  migrate_pages: move THP/hugetlb migration support check to simplify code
  migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB
  migrate_pages: share more code between _unmap and _move
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest</title>
<updated>2023-02-23T17:40:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-23T17:40:14Z</published>
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Pull KUnit update from Shuah Khan:

 - add Function Redirection API to isolate the code being tested from
   other parts of the kernel.

   Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/api/functionredirection.rst has the
   details.

* tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  kunit: Add printf attribute to fail_current_test_impl
  lib/hashtable_test.c: add test for the hashtable structure
  Documentation: Add Function Redirection API docs
  kunit: Expose 'static stub' API to redirect functions
  kunit: Add "hooks" to call into KUnit when it's built as a module
  kunit: kunit.py extract handlers
  tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py: remove redundant double check
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: Add Function Redirection API docs</title>
<updated>2023-02-08T21:28:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sadiya Kazi</name>
<email>sadiyakazi@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-31T06:46:41Z</published>
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Added a new page (functionredirection.rst) that describes the Function
Redirection (static stubbing) API. This page will be expanded if we add,
for example, ftrace-based stubbing.

In addition,
1. Updated the api/index.rst page to create an entry for function
   redirection api
2. Updated the toctree to be hidden, reducing redundancy on the
   generated page.

Signed-off-by: Sadiya Kazi &lt;sadiyakazi@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Daniel Latypov &lt;dlatypov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov &lt;dlatypov@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins &lt;brendanhiggins@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>kunit: Add "hooks" to call into KUnit when it's built as a module</title>
<updated>2023-02-08T21:26:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gow</name>
<email>davidgow@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-28T07:10:07Z</published>
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KUnit has several macros and functions intended for use from non-test
code. These hooks, currently the kunit_get_current_test() and
kunit_fail_current_test() macros, didn't work when CONFIG_KUNIT=m.

In order to support this case, the required functions and static data
need to be available unconditionally, even when KUnit itself is not
built-in. The new 'hooks.c' file is therefore always included, and has
both the static key required for kunit_get_current_test(), and a table
of function pointers in struct kunit_hooks_table. This is filled in with
the real implementations by kunit_install_hooks(), which is kept in
hooks-impl.h and called when the kunit module is loaded.

This can  be extended for future features which require similar
"hook" behaviour, such as static stubs, by simply adding new entries to
the struct, and the appropriate code to set them.

Fixed white-space errors during commit:
Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

Resolved merge conflicts with:
db105c37a4d6 ("kunit: Export kunit_running()")
This patch supersedes the above.
Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

Signed-off-by: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rae Moar &lt;rmoar@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins &lt;brendanhiggins@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: coccinelle: Escape --options to fix Sphinx output</title>
<updated>2023-01-31T20:55:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Neuschäfer</name>
<email>j.neuschaefer@gmx.net</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-29T15:14:08Z</published>
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Without such escaping, -- is rendered as – (en dash).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer &lt;j.neuschaefer@gmx.net&gt;
Acked-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230129151408.1525324-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>docs/scripts/gdb: add necessary make scripts_gdb step</title>
<updated>2023-01-26T18:21:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakob Koschel</name>
<email>jkl820.git@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-19T23:23:20Z</published>
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In order to debug the kernel successfully with gdb you need to run
'make scripts_gdb' nowadays.

This was changed with the following commit:

Commit 67274c083438340ad16c ("scripts/gdb: delay generation of gdb
constants.py")

In order to have a complete guide for beginners this remark
should be added to the offial documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel &lt;jkl820.git@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112-documentation-gdb-v2-1-292785c43dc9@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<title>kasan: allow sampling page_alloc allocations for HW_TAGS</title>
<updated>2023-01-19T01:12:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-19T18:09:18Z</published>
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As Hardware Tag-Based KASAN is intended to be used in production, its
performance impact is crucial.  As page_alloc allocations tend to be big,
tagging and checking all such allocations can introduce a significant
slowdown.

Add two new boot parameters that allow to alleviate that slowdown:

- kasan.page_alloc.sample, which makes Hardware Tag-Based KASAN tag only
  every Nth page_alloc allocation with the order configured by the second
  added parameter (default: tag every such allocation).

- kasan.page_alloc.sample.order, which makes sampling enabled by the first
  parameter only affect page_alloc allocations with the order equal or
  greater than the specified value (default: 3, see below).

The exact performance improvement caused by using the new parameters
depends on their values and the applied workload.

The chosen default value for kasan.page_alloc.sample.order is 3, which
matches both PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER and SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER.  This is
done for two reasons:

1. PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER is "the order at which allocations are deemed
   costly to service", which corresponds to the idea that only large and
   thus costly allocations are supposed to sampled.

2. One of the workloads targeted by this patch is a benchmark that sends
   a large amount of data over a local loopback connection. Most multi-page
   data allocations in the networking subsystem have the order of
   SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER (or PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER).

When running a local loopback test on a testing MTE-enabled device in sync
mode, enabling Hardware Tag-Based KASAN introduces a ~50% slowdown. 
Applying this patch and setting kasan.page_alloc.sampling to a value
higher than 1 allows to lower the slowdown.  The performance improvement
saturates around the sampling interval value of 10 with the default
sampling page order of 3.  This lowers the slowdown to ~20%.  The slowdown
in real scenarios involving the network will likely be better.

Enabling page_alloc sampling has a downside: KASAN misses bad accesses to
a page_alloc allocation that has not been tagged.  This lowers the value
of KASAN as a security mitigation.

However, based on measuring the number of page_alloc allocations of
different orders during boot in a test build, sampling with the default
kasan.page_alloc.sample.order value affects only ~7% of allocations.  The
rest ~93% of allocations are still checked deterministically.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/129da0614123bb85ed4dd61ae30842b2dd7c903f.1671471846.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brand &lt;markbrand@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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