kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/Documentation/dev-tools, branch master

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-08-27T16:17:06+00:00

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd file-backed memory. Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance improvements. - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped executable file folios after their first usage to give executable code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload performance. - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong Chen) Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration. - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif) Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired producer updates. Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over 60% without impacting scan throughput. - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review. - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's memcg" (Zi Yan) Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray node memory accounting. - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick) Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests. - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon) Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function. - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin Huang) Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to reinitialization. - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia) Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in writeback_store() and read_block_state(). - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang) Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged. - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions" (Muhammad Usama Anjum) Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding retry logic for transient page migration errors. - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia) Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved writeback efficiency. - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren Baghdasaryan) Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter aggregation. This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation data to userspace. - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5" (Christoph Hellwig) Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving faster swap throughput during kernel builds. - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks" (Catalin Marinas) Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter. - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels" (Breno Leitao) Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second confirming scan. - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig) Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly export their own swap_ops. - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache) khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal documentation. - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett) Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity. Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (172 commits) selftests/proc: make proc-maps-race work with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat maple_tree: add helper mas_make_walkable() maple_tree: avoid extra gap calculation maple_tree: fix argument name in header maple_tree: change two GFP flags in tests maple_tree: document erase and allocations better maple_tree: avoid mas_erase() and mtree_erase() failures maple_tree: document that erase may use GFP_KERNEL for allocations maple_tree: catch race in mas_alloc_cyclic() maple_tree: add bulk parent set helper maple_tree: micro optimisation of mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: optimise mas_wr_node_store() when not in rcu mode maple_tree: use prefetched value in mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: clarify comments on mas_nomem() maple_tree: drop MAPLE_ALLOC_SLOTS maple_tree: drop dead code from mas_extend_spanning_null() maple_tree: documentation fix maple_tree: add write lock checking with lockdep sequence numbers ...

Documentation: kmemleak: document the conditional min_unref_scans default

2026-08-25T01:43:18+00:00

min_unref_scans now defaults to 2 when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN and CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE are both enabled, but the documentation still states that the default is unconditionally 1. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260731-kmemleak_hardened-v2-2-7b9689ac77cb@debian.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kmemleak: report leaks only after N consecutive unreferenced scans

2026-08-25T01:43:17+00:00

kmemleak reports an object the first scan it is found unreferenced. Its mark phase runs without stopping the rest of the kernel and without a write barrier, so a live object whose only reference is briefly invisible during a concurrent RCU update -- e.g. a VMA moved between maple tree nodes, or a page-cache xa_node -- can be seen as unreferenced for that one scan. Because an object is flagged as reported only once, such a transient race turns into a permanent false positive. Track how many consecutive scans each object has been seen unreferenced and only report it once that reaches min_unref_scans, a new module parameter. It defaults to 1, leaving the behaviour unchanged; setting it higher (e.g. 2) still reports a genuine leak, one scan later, while an object referenced again before the threshold restarts its run and is never reported. min_unref_scans can be set at boot with kmemleak.min_unref_scans= or at run-time via /sys/module/kmemleak/parameters/min_unref_scans. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260713-catalin_pto-v1-2-5b93b1131089@debian.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'docs-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

2026-08-20T17:31:50+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a not-too-busy cycle for docs; here's the highlights: - A (hopefully) consensus change to our LLM-attribution requirements, removing the specific model name from the Assisted-by tag - A couple of new realtime documents - Various docs-build-system fixes - Ongoing work with the Chinese, Portuguese, and Japanese translations ...and lots of typo fixes, grammar tweaks, etc" * tag 'docs-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (85 commits) Doc: admin-guide: pm: Remove unnecessary backticks and fix a spell Documentation: Extend the real-time hardware bits with some firmware bits docs: pt_BR: Reorganize process/index.rst to follow english structure docs: conf.py: fix the 'utf-8' typo doc tools: fix 'path' typos Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide docs: python: abi_regex: convert adjacent index placeholders docs: python: abi_regex: catch the right exception for a bad regex docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: include localversion in kernel version string Documentation: html: adjust sidebar section titles styling Documentation: html: show sections in the sidebar checkpatch.pl: adapt to new Assisted-by: format MAINTAINERS: update Traditional Chinese documentation maintainers docs: pt_BR: process: Translate CVE documentation docs: pt_BR: translate the management-style.rst to Brazilian Portuguese docs: xforms_lists: support DEFINE_IDTENTRY_IRQ() coding-assistants: simplify attribution docs: translations: pt_BR: translate email-clients.rst docs: pt_BR: process: Translate the security-bugs.rst doc:it_IT: align doc-guide translation ...

Documentation: dev-tools: scripts/container prefers Podman

2026-07-15T16:51:27+00:00

Obviously scripts/container prefers Podman over Docker. Putting podman before docker also makes it consistent with following parts of the doc and the help text of the tool. Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu Reviewed-by: Guillaume Tucker Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260624013850.1853171-1-coiby.xu@gmail.com>

Documentation: kunit: Fix outdated FAQ entries

2026-07-06T15:31:27+00:00

The KUnit FAQ was written when KUnit in general, and kunit.py in particular, were very heavily focused on UML. While they were updated slightly when qemu support was added, they've not really kept pace with changes to KUnit or the structure of the rest of the documentation. Update them to describe how to run kunit.py with non-UML architectures, and to point to the run_manual.rst page for further detail on how to run KUnit without kunit.py, as it's the authoratative documentation on that subject. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260627082921.1709181-2-david@davidgow.net Signed-off-by: David Gow Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan

Documentation: kunit: Test Kconfig entries shouldn't select other configs

2026-07-06T15:31:20+00:00

Add a note to the Kconfig section of style.rst to use 'depends on' rather than 'selects' for dependencies, as this can cause users of CONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS to suddenly grow unexpected dependencies. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260627082921.1709181-1-david@davidgow.net Signed-off-by: David Gow Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan

Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-next-7.2-rc1-second' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest

2026-06-23T14:35:37+00:00

Pull more kselftest updates from Shuah Khan: "Docs: -remove obsolete wiki link from kselftest.rst ftrace: - drop invalid top-level local in test_ownership - Fix trace_marker_raw test on 64K page kernels" * tag 'linux_kselftest-next-7.2-rc1-second' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: docs: kselftest: remove link to obsolete wiki selftests/ftrace: Fix trace_marker_raw test on 64K page kernels selftests/ftrace: Drop invalid top-level local in test_ownership

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-06-21-10-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-06-21T20:20:19+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "taskstats: fix TGID dead-thread stat retention" (Yiyang Chen) Fix a taskstats TGID aggregation bug where fields added in the TGID query path were not preserved after thread exit, and adds a kselftest covering the regression. - "lib/tests: string_helpers: Slight improvements" (Andy Shevchenko) Improve lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c a little - "lib/base64: decode fixes" (Josh Law) Address minor issues in lib/base64.c - "selftests/filelock: Make output more kselftestish" (Mark Brown) Make the output from the ofdlocks test a bit easier for tooling to work with. Also ignore the generated file - "uaccess: unify inline vs outline copy_{from,to}_user() selection" (Yury Norov) Simplify the usercopy code by removing the selectability of inlining copy_{from,to}_user(). - "ocfs2: validate inline xattr header consumers" (ZhengYuan Huang) Fix a number of possible issues in the ocfs2 xattr code - "lib and lib/cmdline enhancements" (Dmitry Antipov) Provide additional robustness checking in the cmdline handling code and its in-kernel testing and selftests - "cleanup the RAID6 P/Q library" (Christoph Hellwig) Clean up the RAID6 P/Q library to match the recent updates to the RAID 5 XOR library and other CRC/crypto libraries - "ocfs2: harden inode validators against forged metadata" (Michael Bommarito) Add three structural checks to OCFS2 dinode validation so malformed on-disk fields are rejected before ocfs2_populate_inode() copies them into the in-core inode - "lib/raid: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc()" (Mike Rapoport) Clean up the lib/raid code by using kmalloc() in more places * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-06-21-10-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (108 commits) ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_dio_end_io_write ocfs2: fix NULL h_transaction deref in ocfs2_assure_trans_credits lib: interval_tree_test: validate benchmark parameters ocfs2: avoid moving extents to occupied clusters treewide: fix transposed "sign" typos and update spelling.txt ocfs2: fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds in ocfs2_sum_rightmost_rec fat: reject BPB volumes whose data area starts beyond total sectors selftests/uevent: increase __UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE to avoid ENOBUFS on busy systems lib/test_firmware: allocate the configured into_buf size fs: efs: remove unneeded debug prints checkpatch: cuppress warnings when Reported-by: is followed by Link: MAINTAINERS: add Alexander as a kcov reviewer mailmap: update Alexander Sverdlin's Email addresses fs: fat: inode: replace sprintf() with scnprintf() ocfs2: fix out-of-bounds write in ocfs2_remove_refcount_extent ocfs2: fix race between ocfs2_control_install_private() and ocfs2_control_release() ocfs2/dlm: require a ref for locking_state debugfs open ocfs2: reject FITRIM ranges shorter than a cluster ocfs2: validate fast symlink target during inode read ocfs2: add journal NULL check in ocfs2_checkpoint_inode() ...

docs: kselftest: remove link to obsolete wiki

2026-06-18T23:04:49+00:00

Remove the reference to the obsolete kselftest wiki. The kselftest wiki is marked obsolete and is no longer updated. The last edit was in 2019, and the information is outdated, referring readers for support to IRC networks that have not been used for years, and to kernel versions that are no longer supported. If there is any relevant information left in the wiki it needs to be cleaned up and moved into the canonical kselftest documentation here. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260115172817.7120-1-bacs@librecast.net Signed-off-by: Brett A C Sheffield Acked-by: Bagas Sanjaya Acked-by: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan