kernel/arch/powerpc/Kconfig, branch linux-rolling-stable

mm: fix MAX_FOLIO_ORDER on powerpc configs with hugetlb

2025-11-15T18:52:00Z

In the past, CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE indicated that we support runtime allocation of gigantic hugetlb folios. In the meantime it evolved into a generic way for the architecture to state that it supports gigantic hugetlb folios. In commit fae7d834c43c ("mm: add __dump_folio()") we started using CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE to decide MAX_FOLIO_ORDER: whether we could have folios larger than what the buddy can handle. In the context of that commit, we started using MAX_FOLIO_ORDER to detect page corruptions when dumping tail pages of folios. Before that commit, we assumed that we cannot have folios larger than the highest buddy order, which was obviously wrong. In commit 7b4f21f5e038 ("mm/hugetlb: check for unreasonable folio sizes when registering hstate"), we used MAX_FOLIO_ORDER to detect inconsistencies, and in fact, we found some now. Powerpc allows for configs that can allocate gigantic folio during boot (not at runtime), that do not set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE and can exceed PUD_ORDER. To fix it, let's make powerpc select CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE with hugetlb on powerpc, and increase the maximum folio size with hugetlb to 16 GiB on 64bit (possible on arm64 and powerpc) and 1 GiB on 32 bit (powerpc). Note that on some powerpc configurations, whether we actually have gigantic pages depends on the setting of CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER, but there is nothing really problematic about setting it unconditionally: we just try to keep the value small so we can better detect problems in __dump_folio() and inconsistencies around the expected largest folio in the system. Ideally, we'd have a better way to obtain the maximum hugetlb folio size and detect ourselves whether we really end up with gigantic folios. Let's defer bigger changes and fix the warnings first. While at it, handle gigantic DAX folios more clearly: DAX can only end up creating gigantic folios with HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD. Add a new Kconfig option HAVE_GIGANTIC_FOLIOS to make both cases clearer. In particular, worry about ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE only with HUGETLB_PAGE. Note: with enabling CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE on powerpc, we will now also allow for runtime allocations of folios in some more powerpc configs. I don't think this is a problem, but if it is we could handle it through __HAVE_ARCH_GIGANTIC_PAGE_RUNTIME_SUPPORTED. While __dump_page()/__dump_folio was also problematic (not handling dumping of tail pages of such gigantic folios correctly), it doesn't seem critical enough to mark it as a fix. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114214920.2550676-1-david@kernel.org Fixes: 7b4f21f5e038 ("mm/hugetlb: check for unreasonable folio sizes when registering hstate") Reported-by: Christophe Leroy Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3e043453-3f27-48ad-b987-cc39f523060a@csgroup.eu/ Reported-by: Sourabh Jain Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/94377f5c-d4f0-4c0f-b0f6-5bf1cd7305b1@linux.ibm.com/ Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Donet Tom Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:18:33Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of /proc/pid/maps - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount falls to zero - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's needs - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap code - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the system". It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap selftests - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that function and converts its two remaining callers - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD selftests issues - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator code - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under tools/testing/ - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing (zsmalloc) - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs __free_pages() - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to the thp selftesting code - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory allocation profiling feature - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting arm highmem - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so they can release resources - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling * tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits) mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node() mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc() mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially' mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault() mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one() mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one() ...

Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-09-30T23:58:21Z

Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Further consolidation of the VDSO infrastructure and the common data store - Simplification of the related Kconfig logic - Improve the VDSO selftest suite * tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: selftests: vDSO: Drop vdso_test_clock_getres selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add tests for clock_gettime64() selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Test CPUTIME clocks selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use explicit indices for name array selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Drop clock availability tests selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use ksft_finished() selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Correctly skip whole test with missing vDSO selftests: vDSO: Fix -Wunitialized in powerpc VDSO_CALL() wrapper vdso: Add struct __kernel_old_timeval forward declaration to gettime.h vdso: Gate VDSO_GETRANDOM behind HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_32 riscv: vdso: Untangle Kconfig logic time: Build generic update_vsyscall() only with generic time vDSO vdso/gettimeofday: Remove !CONFIG_TIME_NS stubs vdso: Move ENABLE_COMPAT_VDSO from core to arm64 ARM: VDSO: Remove cntvct_ok global variable vdso/datastore: Gate time data behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY

Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-09-30T17:35:11Z

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Core scheduler changes: - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance (Menglong Dong) - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra) - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra) Fair scheduling: - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider) - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(), as the warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter Zijlstra) Misc cleanups & fixes: - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong) - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)" * tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair() sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask() sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()

kasan: introduce ARCH_DEFER_KASAN and unify static key across modes

2025-09-21T21:21:58Z

Patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific implementations", v6. This patch series addresses the fragmentation in KASAN initialization across architectures by introducing a unified approach that eliminates duplicate static keys and arch-specific kasan_arch_is_ready() implementations. The core issue is that different architectures have inconsistent approaches to KASAN readiness tracking: - PowerPC, LoongArch, and UML arch, each implement own kasan_arch_is_ready() - Only HW_TAGS mode had a unified static key (kasan_flag_enabled) - Generic and SW_TAGS modes relied on arch-specific solutions or always-on behavior This patch (of 2): Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_DEFER_KASAN to identify architectures [1] that need to defer KASAN initialization until shadow memory is properly set up, and unify the static key infrastructure across all KASAN modes. [1] PowerPC, UML, LoongArch selects ARCH_DEFER_KASAN. The core issue is that different architectures haveinconsistent approaches to KASAN readiness tracking: - PowerPC, LoongArch, and UML arch, each implement own kasan_arch_is_ready() - Only HW_TAGS mode had a unified static key (kasan_flag_enabled) - Generic and SW_TAGS modes relied on arch-specific solutions or always-on behavior This patch addresses the fragmentation in KASAN initialization across architectures by introducing a unified approach that eliminates duplicate static keys and arch-specific kasan_arch_is_ready() implementations. Let's replace kasan_arch_is_ready() with existing kasan_enabled() check, which examines the static key being enabled if arch selects ARCH_DEFER_KASAN or has HW_TAGS mode support. For other arch, kasan_enabled() checks the enablement during compile time. Now KASAN users can use a single kasan_enabled() check everywhere. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250810125746.1105476-1-snovitoll@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250810125746.1105476-2-snovitoll@gmail.com Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217049 Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) #powerpc Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Baoquan He Cc: David Gow Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Qing Zhang Cc: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

powerpc/fprobe: fix updated fprobe for function-graph tracer

2025-09-16T10:43:00Z

Since commit 4346ba160409 ("fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer"), FPROBE depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS. With previous patch adding HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FREGS for powerpc, FPROBE can be enabled on powerpc. But with the commit b5fa903b7f7c ("fprobe: Add fprobe_header encoding feature"), asm/fprobe.h header is needed to define arch dependent encode/decode macros. The fprobe header MSB pattern on powerpc is not 0xf. So, define FPROBE_HEADER_MSB_PATTERN expected on powerpc. Also, commit 762abbc0d09f ("fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe exit handler") introduced HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS for archs that have pt_regs in ftrace_regs. Advertise that on powerpc to reuse common definitions like ftrace_partial_regs(). Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini Signed-off-by: Aditya Bodkhe Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916044035.29033-2-adityab1@linux.ibm.com

powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL

2025-09-16T10:43:00Z

commit a1be9ccc57f0 ("function_graph: Support recording and printing the return value of function") introduced support for function graph return value tracing. Additionally, commit a3ed4157b7d8 ("fgraph: Replace fgraph_ret_regs with ftrace_regs") further refactored and optimized the implementation, making `struct fgraph_ret_regs` unnecessary. This patch enables the above modifications for powerpc all, ensuring that function graph return value tracing is available on this architecture. In this patch we have redefined two functions: - 'ftrace_regs_get_return_value()' - the existing implementation on ppc returns -ve of return value based on some conditions not relevant to our patch. - 'ftrace_regs_get_frame_pointer()' - always returns 0 in current code . We also allocate stack space to equivalent of 'SWITCH_FRAME_SIZE', allowing us to directly use predefined offsets like 'GPR3' and 'GPR4' this keeps code clean and consistent with already defined offsets . After this patch, v6.14+ kernel can also be built with FPROBE on powerpc but there are a few other build and runtime dependencies for FPROBE to work properly. The next patch addresses them. Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Aditya Bodkhe Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916044035.29033-1-adityab1@linux.ibm.com

arch/powerpc: Remove support for older GCC and binutils

2025-09-06T10:20:42Z

Commit 118c40b7b503 ("kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30") raised minimum GCC_VERSION and LD_VERSION. Simplify powerpc build accordingly. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b6b94cba7492c8581e8d5d25b15962e5ad7a37c2.1751366979.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS

2025-09-04T09:23:50Z

All architectures implementing time-related functionality in the vDSO are using the generic vDSO library which handles time namespaces properly. Remove the now unnecessary Kconfig symbol. Enables the use of time namespaces on architectures, which use the generic vDSO but did not enable GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS, namely MIPS and arm. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826-vdso-cleanups-v1-10-d9b65750e49f@linutronix.de

vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE

2025-09-04T09:23:50Z

All users of the generic vDSO library also use the generic vDSO datastore. Remove the now unnecessary Kconfig symbol. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826-vdso-cleanups-v1-9-d9b65750e49f@linutronix.de