kernel/include/linux/types.h, branch master

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...

atomic: specify alignment for atomic_t and atomic64_t

2026-01-27T03:07:14Z

Some recent commits incorrectly assumed 4-byte alignment of locks. That assumption fails on Linux/m68k (and, interestingly, would have failed on Linux/cris also). The jump label implementation makes a similar alignment assumption. The expectation that atomic_t and atomic64_t variables will be naturally aligned seems reasonable, as indeed they are on 64-bit architectures. But atomic64_t isn't naturally aligned on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh. Neither atomic_t nor atomic64_t are naturally aligned on m68k. This patch brings a little uniformity by specifying natural alignment for atomic types. One benefit is that atomic64_t variables do not get split across a page boundary. The cost is that some structs grow which leads to cache misses and wasted memory. See also, commit bbf2a330d92c ("x86: atomic64: The atomic64_t data type should be 8 bytes aligned on 32-bit too"). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a76bc24a4e7c1d8112d7d5fa8d14e4b694a0e90c.1768281748.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAFr9PX=MYUDGJS2kAvPMkkfvH+0-SwQB_kxE4ea0J_wZ_pk=7w@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdW7Ab13DdGs2acMQcix5ObJK0O2dG_Fxzr8_g58Rc1_0g@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Finn Thain Acked-by: Guo Ren Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Rich Felker Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Daniel Borkman Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Gary Guo Cc: Hao Luo Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Fastabend Cc: KP Singh Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stanislav Fomichev Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yonghong Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

types: drop definition of __EXPORTED_HEADERS__

2026-01-27T03:07:10Z

This definition disarms the warning in uapi/linux/types.h about including kernel headers from user space. However the warning is already disarmed due to the fact that kernel code is built with -D__KERNEL__. Drop the pointless definition. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251230-exported-headers-types-h-v1-1-947fc606f3d8@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

types: move phys_vec definition to common header

2026-01-06T12:47:54Z

Move the struct phys_vec definition from block/blk-mq-dma.c to include/linux/types.h to make it available for use across the kernel. The phys_vec structure represents a physical address range with a length, which is used by the new physical address-based DMA mapping API. This structure is already used by the block layer and will be needed for DMA phys API users. Moving this definition to types.h provides a centralized location for this common data structure and eliminates code duplication across subsystems that need to work with physical address ranges. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: Add uoff_t

2025-11-25T09:07:42Z

In a recent commit, I inadvertently changed a comparison from being an unsigned comparison (on 64-bit systems) to being a signed comparison (which it had always been on 32-bit systems). This led to a sporadic fstests failure. To make sure this comparison is always unsigned, introduce a new type, uoff_t which is the unsigned version of loff_t. Generally file sizes are restricted to being a signed integer, but in these two places it is convenient to pass -1 to indicate "up to the end of the file". Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251123220518.1447261-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

kernel.h: move READ/WRITE definitions to

2025-05-12T00:54:06Z

Patch series "kernel.h: Move out a couple of macros and constants". kernel.h hosts a couple of macros and constants that may be better placed. Do that. Also add missing documentation. No functional changes intended. This patch (of 2): Headers shouldn't be forced to include just to gain these simple constants. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250324105228.775784-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250324105228.775784-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Alexandru Ardelean Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-04-01T17:06:52Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic layers. - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the get_maintainer output. - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the ucount code. - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot. - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to secs_to_jiffies(). - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds some more tests and performs some cleanups. - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task. - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros. - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the individual changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits) mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan() relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES() resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED() resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED() samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap() lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers lib/rbtree: add random seed lib/rbtree: split tests lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 ...

lib/rbtree: add random seed

2025-03-17T19:17:00Z

Current test use pseudo rand function with fixed seed, which means the test data is the same pattern each time. Add random seed parameter to randomize the test. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310074938.26756-4-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

types: move struct rcuwait into types.h

2025-03-17T05:06:18Z

Move rcuwait struct definition into types.h so that rcuwait can be used without including rcuwait.h which includes other headers. Without this change mm_types.h can't use rcuwait due to a the following circular dependency: mm_types.h -> rcuwait.h -> signal.h -> mm_types.h Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250213224655.1680278-7-surenb@google.com Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Tested-by: Shivank Garg Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e19ec93-8307-47c2-bb13-3ddf7150624e@amd.com Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Howells Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Klara Modin Cc: Lokesh Gidra Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Sourav Panda Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

include: update references to include/asm-

2025-01-13T04:20:59Z

"include/asm-" was replaced by "arch//include/asm" a long time ago. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/541258219b0441fa1da890e2f8458a7ac18c2ef9.1733404444.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nicolas Schier Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Yury Norov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton