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<updated>2026-07-05T23:23:20+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>mm/damon/stat: use secs_to_jiffies() instead of msecs_to_jiffies()</title>
<updated>2026-07-05T23:23:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Philippe Laferriere</name>
<email>plafer@proton.me</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-29T14:55:33+00:00</published>
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The conversion of a duration expressed in seconds reads as
msecs_to_jiffies(5 * MSEC_PER_SEC), which obscures the intent and
needlessly goes through milliseconds.  Use the dedicated secs_to_jiffies()
helper, which expresses the 5-second refresh interval directly.  No
functional change.

Found using Coccinelle (scripts/coccinelle/misc/secs_to_jiffies.cocci).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260629145538.134832-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Philippe Laferriere &lt;plafer@proton.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: SJ Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SJ Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Asier Gutierrez &lt;gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Higgins &lt;brendan.higgins@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Doehyun Baek &lt;doehyunbaek@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sailesh Nandanavanam &lt;saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: SJ Park &lt;sj@kkernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/damon/stat: add a parameter for reading kdamond pid</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T04:05:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>SeongJae Park</name>
<email>sj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-02T02:05:03+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter".

DAMON_STAT doesn't provide the pid of its kdamond, unlike DAMON_RECLAIM
and DAMON_LRU_SORT.  This makes user-space management of DAMON_STAT
unnecessarily complicated.  Provide the information via a new parameter,
namely kdamond_pid, and document it.


This patch (of 2):

Knowing the pid of the kdamonds can help user-space management including
monitoring of DAMON's system resource consumption.  To make it easier,
DAMON_SYSFS, DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT provide the pid information.
DAMON_STAT is not providing it, though.  Expose the pid of DAMON_STAT
kdamond via a new read-only module parameter, namely kdamond_pid.  This
also makes DAMON modules usage more standardized, because DAMON_RECLAIM
and DAMON_LRU_SORT also provide the information via their read-only
parameters of the same name.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260502020505.80822-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260502020505.80822-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/damon/stat: use damon_set_region_system_rams_default()</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T04:05:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>SeongJae Park</name>
<email>sj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-29T04:12:27+00:00</published>
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damon_stat_set_moniotirng_region() is nearly a duplicate of the core
function, damon_set_region_system_rams_default().  Use the core
implementation.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429041232.90257-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/damon/stat: detect and use fresh enabled value</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T12:54:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>SeongJae Park</name>
<email>sj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-19T16:10:02+00:00</published>
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DAMON_STAT updates 'enabled' parameter value, which represents the running
status of its kdamond, when the user explicitly requests start/stop of the
kdamond.  The kdamond can, however, be stopped even if the user explicitly
requested the stop, if ctx-&gt;regions_score_histogram allocation failure at
beginning of the execution of the kdamond.  Hence, if the kdamond is
stopped by the allocation failure, the value of the parameter can be
stale.

Users could show the stale value and be confused.  The problem will only
rarely happen in real and common setups because the allocation is arguably
too small to fail.  Also, unlike the similar bugs that are now fixed in
DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT, kdamond can be restarted in this case,
because DAMON_STAT force-updates the enabled parameter value for user
inputs.  The bug is a bug, though.

The issue stems from the fact that there are multiple events that can
change the status, and following all the events is challenging. 
Dynamically detect and use the fresh status for the parameters when those
are requested.

The issue was dicovered [1] by Sashiko.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260419161003.79176-4-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260416040602.88665-1-sj@kernel.org [1]
Fixes: 369c415e6073 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT module")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liew Rui Yan &lt;aethernet65535@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.17.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-04-19T15:01:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-19T15:01:17+00:00</published>
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Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song)

   Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a
   no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended
   period pointlessly consuming memory

 - "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng)

   Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified
   during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series

 - "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count"
   (Breno Leitao)

   Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string
   and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next
   kernel, and print it at boot time

 - "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin)

   Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active
   sessions

 - "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha
   Tatashin)

   Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and
   unregistration during module unloading

 - "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar)

   Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and
   improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx
   resources

 - "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and
   damon_walk()

 - "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal-&gt;nid" (SeongJae Park)

   Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences

 - "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential
   races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at
   the wrong time

 - "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple)

   Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests

 - "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan)

   Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code

 - "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport)

   Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd

 - "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu
   Hu)

   Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage
   when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels

 - "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato)

   A couple of nice speedups for mprotect()

 - "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav)

   Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo,
   kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are
   being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer
  mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning
  MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address
  MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE
  MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO
  MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers
  MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries
  mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd()
  selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall
  userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr
  mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update
  mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
  zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store()
  docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps
  mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions
  mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function
  mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan()
  mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment
  mm/page_io: use sio-&gt;len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete()
  selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm/damon/stat: fix memory leak on damon_start() failure in damon_stat_start()</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T07:10:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jackie Liu</name>
<email>liuyun01@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-31T10:15:53+00:00</published>
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Destroy the DAMON context and reset the global pointer when damon_start()
fails.  Otherwise, the context allocated by damon_stat_build_ctx() is
leaked, and the stale damon_stat_context pointer will be overwritten on
the next enable attempt, making the old allocation permanently
unreachable.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260331101553.88422-1-liu.yun@linux.dev
Fixes: 369c415e6073 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT module")
Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu &lt;liuyun01@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.17.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mm/damon/stat: deallocate damon_call() failure leaking damon_ctx</title>
<updated>2026-04-06T18:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>SeongJae Park</name>
<email>sj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-02T13:44:17+00:00</published>
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damon_stat_start() always allocates the module's damon_ctx object
(damon_stat_context).  Meanwhile, if damon_call() in the function fails,
the damon_ctx object is not deallocated.  Hence, if the damon_call() is
failed, and the user writes Y to “enabled” again, the previously
allocated damon_ctx object is leaked.

This cannot simply be fixed by deallocating the damon_ctx object when
damon_call() fails.  That's because damon_call() failure doesn't guarantee
the kdamond main function, which accesses the damon_ctx object, is
completely finished.  In other words, if damon_stat_start() deallocates
the damon_ctx object after damon_call() failure, the not-yet-terminated
kdamond could access the freed memory (use-after-free).

Fix the leak while avoiding the use-after-free by keeping returning
damon_stat_start() without deallocating the damon_ctx object after
damon_call() failure, but deallocating it when the function is invoked
again and the kdamond is completely terminated.  If the kdamond is not yet
terminated, simply return -EAGAIN, as the kdamond will soon be terminated.

The issue was discovered [1] by sashiko.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260402134418.74121-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260401012428.86694-1-sj@kernel.org [1]
Fixes: 405f61996d9d ("mm/damon/stat: use damon_call() repeat mode instead of damon_callback")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.17.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/damon/stat: monitor all System RAM resources</title>
<updated>2026-03-23T16:35:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>SeongJae Park</name>
<email>sj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-16T23:51:17+00:00</published>
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DAMON_STAT usage document (Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/stat.rst)
says it monitors the system's entire physical memory.  But, it is
monitoring only the biggest System RAM resource of the system.  When there
are multiple System RAM resources, this results in monitoring only an
unexpectedly small fraction of the physical memory.  For example, suppose
the system has a 500 GiB System RAM, 10 MiB non-System RAM, and 500 GiB
System RAM resources in order on the physical address space.  DAMON_STAT
will monitor only the first 500 GiB System RAM.  This situation is
particularly common on NUMA systems.

Select a physical address range that covers all System RAM areas of the
system, to fix this issue and make it work as documented.

[sj@kernel.org: return error if monitoring target region is invalid]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260317053631.87907-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260316235118.873-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 369c415e6073 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT module")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[6.17+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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