kernel/git/stable/linux.git/arch/hexagon, branch master

Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-08-18T22:58:29+00:00

Pull treewide timer related cleanups from Thomas Gleixner: - Remove the leftover CLOCK_TICK_RATE which has been scheduled for removal more than a decade ago along with some now empty asm/timex.h files. - Consolidate delay timer calibration The construct of having a define in a header requires that architectures provided asm/timex.h for no reason. Also the function name for reading the delay timer is confusing at best. Use a config switch to enable that functionality and rename the function to delay_read_timer() to make the purpose clear. This removes some more now empty asm/timex.h files as well. * tag 'timers-cleanups-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: calibrate: Rework delay timer calibration treewide: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE x86: Use PIT_TICK_RATE instead of CLOCK_TICK_RATE

calibrate: Rework delay timer calibration

2026-07-15T13:04:55+00:00

The header define in asm/timex,h and the naming of the function to read the delay timer are confusing at best. Convert it to a config switch selected by the archictures which provide the functionality and rename the function to delay_read_timer(), which makes the purpose clear. Move the declaration to linux/delay.h where it belongs. Remove the resulting empty asm/timex.h files as well. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410120317.978403520@kernel.org

treewide: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE

2026-07-15T13:04:55+00:00

This has been scheduled for removal more than a decade ago and the comments related to it have been dutifully ignored. The last dependencies are gone. Remove it along with various now empty asm/timex.h files. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410120317.910770161@kernel.org

ptrace, treewide: Rename ptrace_report_syscall_entry() to ptrace_report_syscall_permit_entry()

2026-07-12T10:38:02+00:00

The return value of that function is boolean and tells the caller whether to permit the syscall processing or not. Rename the function so the purpose is clear and make the return type bool. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707190254.280015701@kernel.org

uaccess: unify inline vs outline copy_{from,to}_user() selection

2026-05-29T04:24:44+00:00

The kernel allows arches to select between inline and outline implementations of the copy_{from,to}_user() by defining individual INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER and INLINE_COPY_TO_USER, correspondingly. However, all arches enable or disable them always together. Without the real use-case for one helper being inlined while the other outlined, having independent controls is excessive and error prone. Switch the codebase to the single unified INLINE_COPY_USER control. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260425020857.356850-3-ynorov@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Yury Norov Tested-by: Alice Ryhl Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Viktor Malik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic

2026-05-21T12:20:58+00:00

On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded. To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory. Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Ian Rogers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...

Merge tag 'kbuild-7.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux

2026-04-14T16:18:40+00:00

Pull Kbuild/Kconfig updates from Nicolas Schier: "Kbuild: - reject unexpected values for LLVM= - uapi: remove usage of toolchain headers - switch from '-fms-extensions' to '-fms-anonymous-structs' when available (currently: clang >= 23.0.0) - reduce the number of compiler-generated suffixes for clang thin-lto build - reduce output spam ("GEN Makefile") when building out of tree - improve portability for testing headers - also test UAPI headers against C++ compilers - drop build ID architecture allow-list in vdso_install - only run checksyscalls when necessary - update the debug information notes in reproducible-builds.rst - expand inlining hints with -fdiagnostics-show-inlining-chain Kconfig: - forbid multiple entries with the same symbol in a choice - error out on duplicated kconfig inclusion" * tag 'kbuild-7.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (35 commits) kbuild: expand inlining hints with -fdiagnostics-show-inlining-chain kconfig: forbid multiple entries with the same symbol in a choice Documentation: kbuild: Update the debug information notes in reproducible-builds.rst checksyscalls: move instance functionality into generic code checksyscalls: only run when necessary checksyscalls: fail on all intermediate errors checksyscalls: move path to reference table to a variable kbuild: vdso_install: drop build ID architecture allow-list kbuild: vdso_install: gracefully handle images without build ID kbuild: vdso_install: hide readelf warnings kbuild: vdso_install: split out the readelf invocation kbuild: uapi: also test UAPI headers against C++ compilers kbuild: uapi: provide a C++ compatible dummy definition of NULL kbuild: uapi: handle UML in architecture-specific exclusion lists kbuild: uapi: move all include path flags together kbuild: uapi: move some compiler arguments out of the command definition check-uapi: use dummy libc includes check-uapi: honor ${CROSS_COMPILE} setting check-uapi: link into shared objects kbuild: reduce output spam when building out of tree ...

mm: convert do_brk_flags() to use vma_flags_t

2026-04-05T20:53:40+00:00

In order to be able to do this, we need to change VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS and friends and update the architecture-specific definitions also. We then have to update some KSM logic to handle VMA flags, and introduce VMA_STACK_FLAGS to define the vma_flags_t equivalent of VM_STACK_FLAGS. We also introduce two helper functions for use during the time we are converting legacy flags to vma_flags_t values - vma_flags_to_legacy() and legacy_to_vma_flags(). This enables us to iteratively make changes to break these changes up into separate parts. We use these explicitly here to keep VM_STACK_FLAGS around for certain users which need to maintain the legacy vm_flags_t values for the time being. We are no longer able to rely on the simple VM_xxx being set to zero if the feature is not enabled, so in the case of VM_DROPPABLE we introduce VMA_DROPPABLE as the vma_flags_t equivalent, which is set to EMPTY_VMA_FLAGS if the droppable flag is not available. While we're here, we make the description of do_brk_flags() into a kdoc comment, as it almost was already. We use vma_flags_to_legacy() to not need to update the vm_get_page_prot() logic as this time. Note that in create_init_stack_vma() we have to replace the BUILD_BUG_ON() with a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() as the tested values are no longer build time available. We also update mprotect_fixup() to use VMA flags where possible, though we have to live with a little duplication between vm_flags_t and vma_flags_t values for the time being until further conversions are made. While we're here, update VM_SPECIAL to be defined in terms of VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS now we have vma_flags_to_legacy(). Finally, we update the VMA tests to reflect these changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d02e3e45d9a33d7904b149f5604904089fd640ae.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Acked-by: Paul Moore [SELinux] Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Al Viro Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russell King Cc: Stephen Smalley Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Will Deacon Cc: xu xin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page

2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00

Reduce 22 declarations of empty_zero_page to 3 and 23 declarations of ZERO_PAGE() to 4. Every architecture defines empty_zero_page that way or another, but for the most of them it is always a page aligned page in BSS and most definitions of ZERO_PAGE do virt_to_page(empty_zero_page). Move Linus vetted x86 definition of empty_zero_page and ZERO_PAGE() to the core MM and drop these definitions in architectures that do not implement colored zero page (MIPS and s390). ZERO_PAGE() remains a macro because turning it to a wrapper for a static inline causes severe pain in header dependencies. For the most part the change is mechanical, with these being noteworthy: * alpha: aliased empty_zero_page with ZERO_PGE that was also used for boot parameters. Switching to a generic empty_zero_page removes the aliasing and keeps ZERO_PGE for boot parameters only * arm64: uses __pa_symbol() in ZERO_PAGE() so that definition of ZERO_PAGE() is kept intact. * m68k/parisc/um: allocated empty_zero_page from memblock, although they do not support zero page coloring and having it in BSS will work fine. * sparc64 can have empty_zero_page in BSS rather allocate it, but it can't use virt_to_page() for BSS. Keep it's definition of ZERO_PAGE() but instead of allocating it, make mem_map_zero point to empty_zero_page. * sh: used empty_zero_page for boot parameters at the very early boot. Rename the parameters page to boot_params_page and let sh use the generic empty_zero_page. * hexagon: had an amusing comment about empty_zero_page /* A handy thing to have if one has the RAM. Declared in head.S */ that unfortunately had to go :) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-4-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Helge Deller [parisc] Tested-by: Helge Deller [parisc] Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm [alpha] Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen [nios2] Acked-by: Andreas Larsson [sparc] Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton