kernel/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

arm64: mm: Simplify check in arch_kfence_init_pool()

2025-12-15T12:01:08Z

TL;DR: checking force_pte_mapping() in arch_kfence_init_pool() is sufficient Commit ce2b3a50ad92 ("arm64: mm: Don't sleep in split_kernel_leaf_mapping() when in atomic context") recently added an arm64 implementation of arch_kfence_init_pool() to ensure that the KFENCE pool is PTE-mapped. Assuming that the pool was not initialised early, block splitting is necessary if the linear mapping is not fully PTE-mapped, in other words if force_pte_mapping() is false. arch_kfence_init_pool() currently makes another check: whether BBML2-noabort is supported, i.e. whether we are *able* to split block mappings. This check is however unnecessary, because force_pte_mapping() is always true if KFENCE is enabled and BBML2-noabort is not supported. This must be the case by design, since KFENCE requires PTE-mapped pages in all cases. We can therefore remove that check. The situation is different in split_kernel_leaf_mapping(), as that function is called unconditionally regardless of the configuration. If BBML2-noabort is not supported, it cannot do anything and bails out. If force_pte_mapping() is true, there is nothing to do and it also bails out, but these are independent checks. Commit 53357f14f924 ("arm64: mm: Tidy up force_pte_mapping()") grouped these checks into a helper, split_leaf_mapping_possible(). This isn't so helpful as only split_kernel_leaf_mapping() should check both. Revert the parts of that commit that introduced the helper, reintroducing the more accurate comments in split_kernel_leaf_mapping(). Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-12-05T21:52:43Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki) Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT) "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin) Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited across fork/exec "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park) Some light maintenance work on the zswap code "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over time "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn) Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra) Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov) "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom) Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang) Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting code "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn) Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were causing (harmless) softlockup warnings "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang) Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park) Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan) Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare() "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu) Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a stale kernel pagetable entry "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang) Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song) Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park) "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park) Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the middle of the current targets list "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo) A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He) improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista) Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes) Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park) Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit tests "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang) Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's writeback-for-eviction code "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu) Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region operations "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox) Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park) Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that VMA is merged with another "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh) Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone device-private memory "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan) "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang) Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song) Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem, wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang) A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio writeback support "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt) Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola) Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang) Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park) Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park) Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things up a little [ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu: register device memory for poison handling") because it looks broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity mm: declare VMA flags by bit zram: fix a spelling mistake mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational ...

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-12-03T01:03:55Z

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "These are the arm64 updates for 6.19. The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/. There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd (similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and several cleanups/typos. Summary: Core features: - Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring) driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API Perf and PMU: - Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs - Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support for NVIDIA implementations - Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect - Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs - Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver - Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver Memory managemennt: - Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault - Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid - Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros - Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping() - Propagate return value from __change_memory_common() ACPI and EFI: - Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption - Remove unused ACPI function Miscellaneous: - ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems - Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ - Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test - Remove some no longer used macros/functions - Various spelling corrections" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits) arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init() perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4 perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects) perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe() dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch() arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state ...

mm: make INVALID_PHYS_ADDR a generic macro

2025-11-17T01:28:26Z

INVALID_PHYS_ADDR has very similar definitions across the code base. Hence just move that inside header for more generic usage. Also drop the now redundant ones which are no longer required. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251021025638.2420216-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev [s390] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arm64/mm: Rename try_pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm

2025-11-13T16:00:19Z

With BUG_ON in pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm moved up to higher layer, gfp flags is the only difference between try_pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm and pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm. Hence rename the "try" version to pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm_gfp. Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky Signed-off-by: Linu Cherian Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

arm64/mm: Allow __create_pgd_mapping() to propagate pgtable_alloc() errors

2025-11-13T16:00:19Z

arch_add_memory() is used to hotplug memory into a system but as a part of its implementation it calls __create_pgd_mapping(), which uses pgtable_alloc() in order to build intermediate page tables. As this path was initally only used during early boot pgtable_alloc() is designed to BUG_ON() on failure. However, in the event that memory hotplug is attempted when the system's memory is extremely tight and the allocation were to fail, it would lead to panicking the system, which is not desirable. Hence update __create_pgd_mapping and all it's callers to be non void and propagate -ENOMEM on allocation failure to allow system to fail gracefully. But during early boot if there is an allocation failure, we want the system to panic, hence create a wrapper around __create_pgd_mapping() called early_create_pgd_mapping() which is designed to panic, if ret is non zero value. All the init calls are updated to use this wrapper rather than the modified __create_pgd_mapping() to restore functionality. Fixes: 4ab215061554 ("arm64: Add memory hotplug support") Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky Signed-off-by: Chaitanya S Prakash Signed-off-by: Linu Cherian Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

arm64: mm: Tidy up force_pte_mapping()

2025-11-07T14:43:15Z

Tidy up the implementation of force_pte_mapping() to make it easier to read and introduce the split_leaf_mapping_possible() helper to reduce code duplication in split_kernel_leaf_mapping() and arch_kfence_init_pool(). Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: mm: Optimize range_split_to_ptes()

2025-11-07T14:43:15Z

Enter lazy_mmu mode while splitting a range of memory to pte mappings. This causes barriers, which would otherwise be emitted after every pte (and pmd/pud) write, to be deferred until exiting lazy_mmu mode. For large systems, this is expected to significantly speed up fallback to pte-mapping the linear map for the case where the boot CPU has BBML2_NOABORT, but secondary CPUs do not. I haven't directly measured it, but this is equivalent to commit 1fcb7cea8a5f ("arm64: mm: Batch dsb and isb when populating pgtables"). Note that for the path from arch_kfence_init_pool(), we may sleep while allocating memory inside the lazy_mmu mode. Sleeping is not allowed by generic code inside lazy_mmu, but we know that the arm64 implementation is sleep-safe. So this is ok and follows the same pattern already used by split_kernel_leaf_mapping(). Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64: mm: Don't sleep in split_kernel_leaf_mapping() when in atomic context

2025-11-07T14:43:15Z

It has been reported that split_kernel_leaf_mapping() is trying to sleep in non-sleepable context. It does this when acquiring the pgtable_split_lock mutex, when either CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC or CONFIG_KFENCE are enabled, which change linear map permissions within softirq context during memory allocation and/or freeing. All other paths into this function are called from sleepable context and so are safe. But it turns out that the memory for which these 2 features may attempt to modify the permissions is always mapped by pte, so there is no need to attempt to split the mapping. So let's exit early in these cases and avoid attempting to take the mutex. There is one wrinkle to this approach; late-initialized kfence allocates it's pool from the buddy which may be block mapped. So we must hook that allocation and convert it to pte-mappings up front. Previously this was done as a side-effect of kfence protecting all the individual pages in its pool at init-time, but this no longer works due to the added early exit path in split_kernel_leaf_mapping(). So instead, do this via the existing arch_kfence_init_pool() arch hook, and reuse the existing linear_map_split_to_ptes() infrastructure. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/f24b9032-0ec9-47b1-8b95-c0eeac7a31c5@roeck-us.net/ Fixes: a166563e7ec3 ("arm64: mm: support large block mapping when rodata=full") Reported-by: Guenter Roeck Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-10-07T15:59:25Z

Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon: - Preserve old 'tt_core' UAPI for Hisilicon L3C PMU driver - Ensure linear alias of kprobes instruction page is not writable - Fix kernel stack unwinding from BPF - Fix build warnings from the Fujitsu uncore PMU documentation - Fix hang with deferred 'struct page' initialisation and MTE - Consolidate KPTI page-table re-writing code * tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: arm64: mte: Do not flag the zero page as PG_mte_tagged docs: perf: Fujitsu: Fix htmldocs build warnings and errors arm64: mm: Move KPTI helpers to mmu.c tracing: Fix the bug where bpf_get_stackid returns -EFAULT on the ARM64 arm64: kprobes: call set_memory_rox() for kprobe page drivers/perf: hisi: Add tt_core_deprecated for compatibility