kernel/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h, branch master

mm: provide address parameter to p{te,md,ud}_user_accessible_page()

2026-01-27T04:02:35Z

On several powerpc platforms, a page table entry may not imply whether the relevant mapping is for userspace or kernelspace. Instead, such platforms infer this by the address which is being accessed. Add an additional address argument to each of these routines in order to provide support for page table check on powerpc. [ajd@linux.ibm.com: rebase on arm64 changes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251219-pgtable_check_v18rebase-v18-9-755bc151a50b@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar # x86 Acked-by: Alexandre Ghiti # riscv Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Donet Tom Cc: Guo Weikang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Miehlbradt Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/page_table_check: reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pte_clear()

2026-01-27T04:02:35Z

This reverts commit aa232204c468 ("mm/page_table_check: remove unused parameter in [__]page_table_check_pte_clear"). Reinstate previously unused parameters for the purpose of supporting powerpc platforms, as many do not encode user/kernel ownership of the page in the pte, but instead in the address of the access. [ajd@linux.ibm.com: rebase, fix additional occurrence and loop handling] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251219-pgtable_check_v18rebase-v18-8-755bc151a50b@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar # x86 Acked-by: Alexandre Ghiti # riscv Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Donet Tom Cc: Guo Weikang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Miehlbradt Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/page_table_check: reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pmd_clear()

2026-01-27T04:02:35Z

This reverts commit 1831414cd729 ("mm/page_table_check: remove unused parameter in [__]page_table_check_pmd_clear"). Reinstate previously unused parameters for the purpose of supporting powerpc platforms, as many do not encode user/kernel ownership of the page in the pte, but instead in the address of the access. [ajd@linux.ibm.com: rebase on arm64 changes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251219-pgtable_check_v18rebase-v18-7-755bc151a50b@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar # x86 Acked-by: Alexandre Ghiti # riscv Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Donet Tom Cc: Guo Weikang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Miehlbradt Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/page_table_check: reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pud_clear()

2026-01-27T04:02:34Z

This reverts commit 931c38e16499 ("mm/page_table_check: remove unused parameter in [__]page_table_check_pud_clear"). Reinstate previously unused parameters for the purpose of supporting powerpc platforms, as many do not encode user/kernel ownership of the page in the pte, but instead in the address of the access. [ajd@linux.ibm.com: rebase on arm64 changes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251219-pgtable_check_v18rebase-v18-6-755bc151a50b@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar # x86 Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Donet Tom Cc: Guo Weikang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Miehlbradt Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/page_table_check: reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pmd[s]_set()

2026-01-27T04:02:34Z

This reverts commit a3b837130b58 ("mm/page_table_check: remove unused parameter in [__]page_table_check_pmd_set"). Reinstate previously unused parameters for the purpose of supporting powerpc platforms, as many do not encode user/kernel ownership of the page in the pte, but instead in the address of the access. Apply this to __page_table_check_pmds_set(), page_table_check_pmd_set(), and the page_table_check_pmd_set() wrapper macro. [ajd@linux.ibm.com: rebase on arm64 + riscv changes, update commit message] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251219-pgtable_check_v18rebase-v18-4-755bc151a50b@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar # x86 Acked-by: Alexandre Ghiti # riscv Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Donet Tom Cc: Guo Weikang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Miehlbradt Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/page_table_check: reinstate address parameter in [__]page_table_check_pud[s]_set()

2026-01-27T04:02:33Z

This reverts commit 6d144436d954 ("mm/page_table_check: remove unused parameter in [__]page_table_check_pud_set"). Reinstate previously unused parameters for the purpose of supporting powerpc platforms, as many do not encode user/kernel ownership of the page in the pte, but instead in the address of the access. Apply this to __page_table_check_puds_set(), page_table_check_puds_set() and the page_table_check_pud_set() wrapper macro. [ajd@linux.ibm.com: rebase on riscv + arm64 changes, update commit message] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251219-pgtable_check_v18rebase-v18-3-755bc151a50b@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar # x86 Acked-by: Alexandre Ghiti # riscv Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Donet Tom Cc: Guo Weikang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Magnus Lindholm Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Miehlbradt Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" Cc: Sweet Tea Dorminy Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: introduce generic lazy_mmu helpers

2026-01-21T03:24:33Z

The implementation of the lazy MMU mode is currently entirely arch-specific; core code directly calls arch helpers: arch_{enter,leave}_lazy_mmu_mode(). We are about to introduce support for nested lazy MMU sections. As things stand we'd have to duplicate that logic in every arch implementing lazy_mmu - adding to a fair amount of logic already duplicated across lazy_mmu implementations. This patch therefore introduces a new generic layer that calls the existing arch_* helpers. Two pair of calls are introduced: * lazy_mmu_mode_enable() ... lazy_mmu_mode_disable() This is the standard case where the mode is enabled for a given block of code by surrounding it with enable() and disable() calls. * lazy_mmu_mode_pause() ... lazy_mmu_mode_resume() This is for situations where the mode is temporarily disabled by first calling pause() and then resume() (e.g. to prevent any batching from occurring in a critical section). The documentation in will be updated in a subsequent patch. No functional change should be introduced at this stage. The implementation of enable()/resume() and disable()/pause() is currently identical, but nesting support will change that. Most of the call sites have been updated using the following Coccinelle script: @@ @@ { ... - arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode(); + lazy_mmu_mode_enable(); ... - arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(); + lazy_mmu_mode_disable(); ... } @@ @@ { ... - arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(); + lazy_mmu_mode_pause(); ... - arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode(); + lazy_mmu_mode_resume(); ... } A couple of notes regarding x86: * Xen is currently the only case where explicit handling is required for lazy MMU when context-switching. This is purely an implementation detail and using the generic lazy_mmu_mode_* functions would cause trouble when nesting support is introduced, because the generic functions must be called from the current task. For that reason we still use arch_leave() and arch_enter() there. * x86 calls arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() unconditionally in a few places, but only defines it if PARAVIRT_XXL is selected, and we are removing the fallback in . Add a new fallback definition to to keep things building. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215150323.2218608-8-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Cc: David S. Miller Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Juegren Gross Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove devmap related functions and page table bits

2025-07-10T05:42:18Z

Now that DAX and all other reference counts to ZONE_DEVICE pages are managed normally there is no need for the special devmap PTE/PMD/PUD page table bits. So drop all references to these, freeing up a software defined page table bit on architectures supporting it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6389398c32cc9daa3dfcaa9f79c7972525d310ce.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple Acked-by: Will Deacon # arm64 Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Suggested-by: Chunyan Zhang Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Björn Töpel Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Inki Dae Cc: John Groves Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: pgtable: fix pte_swp_exclusive

2025-06-11T21:52:08Z

Make pte_swp_exclusive return bool instead of int. This will better reflect how pte_swp_exclusive is actually used in the code. This fixes swap/swapoff problems on Alpha due pte_swp_exclusive not returning correct values when _PAGE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE bit resides in upper 32-bits of PTE (like on alpha). Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm Cc: Sam James Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250218175735.19882-2-linmag7@gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250602041118.GA2675383@ZenIV/ [ Applied as the 'sed' script Al suggested - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-05-31T22:44:16Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide this. - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up and better prepare us for future work. - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory block size. - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's memory consumption was dramatic. - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to this part of our swap handling code. - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this time we can alter only "system call information that are used by strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall arguments, and syscall return value. This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM" branch, but I goofed. - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get at the info about guard regions. - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error. - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of using more current facilities. - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are enabled for ARM. - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables. This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page tables". This change does result in various architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur. - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures. - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've been missing for 15 years. - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to load this particular operation. - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly reduced. - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code. - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit. - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON for memory tiering. - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan found via code inspection. - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset settings to violated. This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently. - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code. - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization. - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios. - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved. - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping ranges of invalid pfns. - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases. - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when using JFS. - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more appropriate mm/vma.c. - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index() function. - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that. - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the test_memcontrol selftest. - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging. - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement. - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and documents. - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement. - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the hugetlb code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits) mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range() mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private() memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject() mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat() mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs ...