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<entry>
<title>tools/testing/vma: add test to assert MAP_PRIVATE-/dev/zero is anon</title>
<updated>2026-09-11T03:20:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-08T11:23:42+00:00</published>
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Now we've made MAP_PRIVATE-mapped /dev/zero mappings truly anonymous, add
a VMA userland test to assert that this is the case and everything is as
we would expect for an anonymous mapping.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260908-map-private-dev-zero-v2-5-acc7b5625305@kernel.org
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/vma: make MAP_PRIVATE-mapped /dev/zero mappings truly anonymous</title>
<updated>2026-09-11T03:20:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-08T11:23:41+00:00</published>
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When mapping /dev/zero with MAP_PRIVATE, one ends up with strange VMAs
originating from Linux's distant past.

These have vma-&gt;vm_file set but NULL vma-&gt;vm_ops, meaning they satisfy
vma_is_anonymous() but otherwise resemble a file-backed VMA.

The introduction of anonymous page offsets and their subsequent use as
indexes for MAP_PRIVATE-file-backed mappings mean the rmap does the right
thing with these but we are left with inconsistencies.

The vma_start_pgoff(vma) == vma_start_anon_pgoff(vma) invariant is true
for all other anonymous VMAs, but not these.

These VMAs are also observable as files in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/[maps, smaps,
map_files] but otherwise behave like anonymous mappings.

Therefore let's make these VMAs actually anonymous at mapping time which
will activate the anonymous code path for mappings.

This means we no longer have to account for this discrepancy anywhere and
no longer have to think about these at all.

This is user-observable, as MAP_PRIVATE-/dev/zero will no longer appear in
procfs as a file-backed mapping, but the impact of this change should be
low as likely nobody is relying upon this.

However in any case, in using MAP_PRIVATE-/dev/zero they are explicitly
asking anonymous memory, so no longer seeing these as file mappings is in
fact correct.

A previous commit gave us file_is_dev_zero() to positively identify these
mappings, so we expressly only do so for these alone.

Update assert_sane_pgoff(), the comment for vma_start_pgoff() and
linear_anon_page_index() to reflect the change.

We make this change in call_mmap_prepare() alone as /dev/zero has been
converted to an mmap_prepare hook and we do not permit nested MAP_PRIVATE
mapping of /dev/zero.

We also remove the now defunct vma_desc_set_anonymous() and eliminate the
temporary bisection hazard fix from the previous commit.

Also update the VMA userland tests to reflect the change.

Finally, update the procfs self tests proc-self-map-files-001 and
proc-self-map-files-002 which both intend to map an arbitrary file
MAP_PRIVATE then assert procfs state, but happen to choose /dev/zero.

Fix them by updating these to /proc/self/exe which is guaranteed to be
present if procfs is mounted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260908-map-private-dev-zero-v2-4-acc7b5625305@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mm: implement file_is_dev_zero() to uniquely identify /dev/zero</title>
<updated>2026-09-11T03:20:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-08T11:23:39+00:00</published>
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To lay the foundation for a future change that converts
MAP_PRIVATE-/dev/zero mappings to be truly anonymous, add the ability to
uniquely identify these mappings.

With the memory character device now part of mm/ this is trivially
achievable through a file_is_dev_zero() predicate that simply tests that
the file operation hooks are zero_fops.

Also update userland VMA tests to expose file_is_dev_zero() and provide a
stub zero_fops for testing.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260908-map-private-dev-zero-v2-2-acc7b5625305@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: make per-VMA locks available universally</title>
<updated>2026-09-11T03:20:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-31T20:30:52+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: Unconditional per-VMA locks and cleanups", v7.

tl;dr: Make per-VMA locks available in all configs.  Simplify some of the
per-VMA lock users now that they can rely on them being always available.

Binder and networking folks: Your code is the target of the cleanups.  I'm
cc'ing you now on v2 because there's emerging consensus on the mm side
that the approach here is sane.  I'm not quite sure how this pile would
get merged, but ack/review tags would be appreciated if this looks good to
you.

Longer version:

When working on some x86 shadow stack code, it was a real pain to avoid
causing recursive locking problems with mmap_lock.  One way to avoid those
was to avoid mmap_lock and use per-VMA locks instead.  They are great, but
they are not available in all configs which makes them unusable in generic
code, or if you want to completely avoid mmap_lock.

Make per-VMA locks available in all configs.  Right now, they are only
available on select architectures when SMP and MMU are enabled.  But all
of the primitives that per-VMA locks are built on (RCU, maple trees,
refcounts) work just fine without SMP or MMU.

The only real downside is that making VMAs a wee bit bigger on !MMU and
!SMP builds.

The upside is much cleaner code, lower complexity and less #ifdeffery.

Clean up a binder VMA locking site now that it can rely on per-VMA locks.

Building on top of universally-available per-VMA locks, introduce a new
helper.  Since the new API does not require callers to have a fallback to
mmap_lock, it's much easier to use.  Callers can potentially replace this
very common kernel idiom:

	mmap_read_lock(mm);
	vma = vma_lookup()
	// fiddle with vma
	mmap_read_unlock(mm);

with:

	vma = vma_start_read_unlocked(mm, address);
	// fiddle with vma
	vma_end_read(vma);

Which avoids mmap_lock entirely in the fast path.

Use that new API for another binder site and one in the TCP code.


This patch (of 7):

The per-VMA locks have been around for several years.  They've had some
bugs worked out of them and have seen quite wide use.  However, they are
still only available when architectures explicitly enable them.  Remove
the conditional compilation around the per-VMA locks, making them
available on all architectures and configs.

The approach up to now seemed to be to add ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK when
the architecture started using per-VMA locks in the fault handler.  But,
contrary to the naming, the Kconfig option does not really indicate
whether the architecture supports per-VMA locks or not.  It is more of a
marker for whether the architecture is likely to benefit from per-VMA
locks.

To me, the most important thing side-effect of universal availability is
letting per-VMA locks be used in SMP=n configs.  This lets us use
per-VMA locking in all x86 code without fallbacks.

Overall, this just generally makes the kernel simpler.  Just look at the
diffstat.  It also opens the door to users that want to use the per-VMA
locks in common code.  Doing *that* brings additional simplifications.

The downside of this is adding some fields to vm_area_struct and
mm_struct.  There are likely ways to optimize this, especially for things
like SMP=n configs.  For now, do the simplest thing: use the same
implementation everywhere.

== Considerations for NOMMU config ==

NOMMU systems do not write-lock VMAs, therefore read-locking a VMA would
always succeed unless VMA is detached.  Therefore for NOMMU config we make
vma_mark_attached() a NOOP, which keeps VMAs always in detached state. 
This causes VMA read-locking to always fail and the caller falls back to
locking mmap_lock.

The following functions will have a different implementation in NOMMU
config:

- vma_mark_attached(), vma_mark_detached() are made NOOPs, keeping VMAs
  always in a detached state and preventing assertions and refcount
  underflows;

- vma_start_write(), vma_start_write_killable() are made NOOPs to avoid
  warnings in __vma_start_write() due to VMAs being detached.  These
  functions are not used in NOMMU code but __vma_start_write() is an
  exported function, therefore might be used by drivers.

- vma_assert_attached() is made NOOP because it's reachable from NOMMU
  code via split_vma()-&gt;vma_iter_store_new()-&gt;vma_iter_store_overwrite();

- vma_assert_write_locked() is asserting vma-&gt;vm_mm is write-locked, as
  was done before this change;

- vma_assert_locked() is asserting vma-&gt;vm_mm is locked, as was done
  before this change;

The following functions work for both MMU and NOMMU configs:

- vma_lock_init() performs the same initialization as for MMU config;

- mm_lock_seqcount_init(), mm_lock_seqcount_begin(),
  mm_lock_seqcount_end() are called from mmap_write_{lock|unlock} and
  update mm_lock_seq correctly.

- mmap_lock_speculate_try_begin(), mmap_lock_speculate_retry() work as
  is because mm_lock_seq is updated correctly;

- vma_start_read(), vma_start_read_locked() will always fail because
  VMAs are always detached;

- vma_end_read() will never be called because vma_start_read() never
  succeeds;

- vma_is_attached() always return false because VMAs are always
  detached;

- vma_assert_detached() will never trigger because VMAs are never
  attached;

- vma_start_read_locked() always return false because VMAs are always
  detached;

- lock_vma_under_rcu() will be safe as the attempted read lock will bail;

Changes in the following files are not affecting NOMMU config:

task_mmu.c - not compiled when CONFIG_MMU=n;
pagewalk.c - not compiled when CONFIG_MMU=n;
userfaultfd.c - not compiled when CONFIG_MMU=n (CONFIG_USERFAULTFD depends
on CONFIG_MMU);

The following changes in the BPF code are made to keep NOMMU config
working like before:

stack_map_lock_vma() - keeps mmap_lock in NOMMU config;
bpf_iter_task_vma_new() - bails out in NOMMU config;

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260831203056.838265-1-surenb@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260831203056.838265-2-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@android.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Cc: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg &lt;arve@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP typo in tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T01:43:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ethan Nelson-Moore</name>
<email>enelsonmoore@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-11T01:22:44+00:00</published>
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Commit 2b6a3f061f11 ("mm: declare VMA flags by bit") significantly
refactored the header file include/linux/mm.h.  In that step, it
introduced a typo in an ifdef, referring to a non-existing config option
STACK_GROWS_UP, whereas the actual config option is called STACK_GROWSUP.

Commit 40a4af52e047 ("mm: fix CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP typo in mm.h") fixed
this typo in the mm.h header file, but did not update the copy of the code
in tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h.  Update this copy as well.

Commit message adapted from the above-referenced fix to mm.h.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260611012258.432043-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore &lt;enelsonmoore@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>tools/testing/vma: expand VMA merge tests to assert anon pgoff</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T01:42:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-13T17:32:32+00:00</published>
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Now we have introduced the VMA anonymous page offset attribute and update
it when VMAs are manipulated, update VMA merge tests to assert that the
anonymous page offset is as expected.

Also update instances where we could use vma_start_pgoff() to do so.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260813-b4-scalable-cow-virt-pgoff-v5-15-c21581c0c3c8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;baoquan.he@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christan König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Gregory Price (Meta) &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ray &lt;Ray.Huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Auld &lt;matthew.auld@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xu xin &lt;xu.xin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: propagate VMA anonymous page offset on map, remap, split + merge</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T01:42:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-13T17:32:26+00:00</published>
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We must correctly update VMA anonymous page offset state on all VMA
operations that would result in it changing, with special attention given
to remapping.

We cover most cases by simply updating vma_set_range() to do so (with a
new anonymous page offset parameter), but also notably must update the
merging and mapping logic to propagate this parameter correctly.

The remap logic remains the same - we may update the anonymous page offset
if the VMA is unfaulted, but now this applies to MAP_PRIVATE file-backed
mappings too, so we update the code to reflect this.

Note that we use __linear_anon_page_index() upon remap as the VMA may be
shared, in order that we update the field consistently regardless of VMA
type.

Similarly, pass through anon page offset to the merge logic, updating the
vma_merge_struct struct to propagate it, and also use
__linear_anon_page_index() to obtain the anonymous page index so it can be
safely used for both shared and MAP_PRIVATE file-backed mappings.

In copy_vma(), the anonymous page offset is updated regardless of whether
the mapping is a CoW mapping or not.  This is both to keep the anonymous
page offset consistent even for non-CoW mappings (it is set so should at
least remain correct) and makes the logic cleaner.

A self-merge however remains permitted only for mappings which can have a
populated vma-&gt;anon_vma and do not require alignment on a separate file
offset - that is pure anonymous VMAs, so only set can_self_merge if
vma_is_anonymous().

Finally, we update insert_vm_struct() to correctly set the anonymous page
offset on insertion of a VMA.

We simply ensure state is correctly propagated here, so no functional
changes are intended.

Also update VMA userland tests to reflect this change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260813-b4-scalable-cow-virt-pgoff-v5-9-c21581c0c3c8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;baoquan.he@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christan König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Gregory Price (Meta) &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ray &lt;Ray.Huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Auld &lt;matthew.auld@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xu xin &lt;xu.xin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/testing/vma: add tests for copy_vma() self-merge</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T01:42:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-13T17:32:25+00:00</published>
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Assert that a VMA can be moved backwards, forwards and between a preceding
VMA and its old self.

In the cases in which the VMA merges only with itself expect that to be
achieved by expanding its old self, so assert that these function
correctly.

However in the case of a merge between a preceding VMA and itself the
original VMA is removed, so assert that the preceding VMA replaces the one
passed in as vmap and the merge is as expected.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260813-b4-scalable-cow-virt-pgoff-v5-8-c21581c0c3c8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;baoquan.he@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christan König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Gregory Price (Meta) &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ray &lt;Ray.Huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Auld &lt;matthew.auld@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xu xin &lt;xu.xin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/vma: fix self-merge check in copy_vma()</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T01:42:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-13T17:32:24+00:00</published>
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The existing logic is very confusing so improve things.  Firstly rename
the confusing faulted_in_anon_vma variable to can_self_merge and update
this when the page offset is updated.

What is being checked for is a 'self-merge' - that is between the VMA
being remapped and its prior VMA (remember that this is copy_vma() - if a
non-MREMAP_DONTUNMAP remap the original VMA is only removed afterwards).

This can happen if the VMA is moved immediately adjacent to itself, either
before or after it:

		|----------------|----------------|
		|		 |                |
		v		 |		  v
	|...............||---------------||...............|
	|      new      ||      old      ||      new      |
	|...............||---------------||---------------|

In these cases the old VMA is simply expanded to cover the new range.

It is also possible for the move to both self-merge and merge with a prior
VMA if it is placed between a preceding VMA and its old self:

				|---------------|
				|		|
				v		|
	|---------------||...............||---------------|
	|      prev     ||     new       ||     old       |
	|---------------||...............||---------------|

In this case, the old VMA is removed and 'prev' is expanded and replaces
it.

Since copy_vma_and_data() which calls copy_vma() intends to reference the
old VMA after the merge, it must have this pointer updated.

This kind of self-merge is not possible with a succeeding merge, as the
merge always prefers to expand the preceding VMA if possible.

copy_vma() accounts for this by explicitly checking to see if a self-merge
occurred and updating the vmap pointer if so.  However it incorrect did so
even for a subsequent merge (this is simply a noop so it had no impact).

So change this to only check for the case which matters - a backwards
merge - and rearrange the parameters to make it clearer we're doing that -
i.e.  check new_vma-&gt;vm_start &lt; old_vma_start (having already renamed
vma_start to old_vma_start to make it clear this is the previous VMA).

Also update the existing wall-of-text comment to be a lot clearer.

While we're here, replace the VM_BUG_ON_VMA() with a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_VMA()
and update the VMA userland tests accordingly.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260813-b4-scalable-cow-virt-pgoff-v5-7-c21581c0c3c8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;baoquan.he@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christan König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Gregory Price (Meta) &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ray &lt;Ray.Huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Auld &lt;matthew.auld@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xu xin &lt;xu.xin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: introduce linear_anon_page_index()</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T01:42:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-13T17:32:20+00:00</published>
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This function provides the anonymous equivalent of linear_page_index(),
instead offsetting based on the anonymous page offset of the VMA.

It is valid only for anonymous or MAP_PRIVATE file-backed mappings, in
other words CoW mappings.

For pure anon VMAs, this will be equal to linear_page_index().

Assert that both of these invariants are true in linear_anon_page_index()
and implement the algorithm in __linear_anon_page_index().

Note that MAP_PRIVATE-/dev/zero mappings will satisfy vma_is_anonymous()
but not fulfill this invariant, so when asserting this we check
vma-&gt;vm_file to account for this.

We do not update callsites yet, so no functional change intended.

Also const-ify vma_is_anonymous() to make it compatible with the
const-ified linear_anon_page_index().

While we're here, update linear_page_index() to be more succinct.

VMA userland tests are also updated accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260813-b4-scalable-cow-virt-pgoff-v5-3-c21581c0c3c8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) &lt;gourry@gourry.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;baoquan.he@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Chengming Zhou &lt;chengming.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Chris Li &lt;chrisl@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christan König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ray &lt;Ray.Huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Joshua Hahn &lt;joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Lance Yang &lt;lance.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Auld &lt;matthew.auld@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Brost &lt;matthew.brost@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Namhyung kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nico Pache &lt;npache@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rakie Kim &lt;rakie.kim@sk.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellström &lt;thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: xu xin &lt;xu.xin16@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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