kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch master

Merge tag 'ceph-for-7.3-rc1' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client

2026-08-28T18:51:05+00:00

Pull ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov: "A wide variety of mostly CephFS fixes and cleanups, split between changes that address edge cases (Sam, Xiubo, Matthew), efficiency improvements (Max) and AI-assisted hardening (Michael, Jeremy). One thing that stands out is Alex's change to how CephFS behaves in NEARFULL scenarios: the long-standing "make all writes synchronous" behavior has become opt-in. It was always somewhat controversial and doesn't make much sense for modern deployments; the new default is to continue normal operation (i.e. buffer writes as MDS allows, etc). The behavior in case the cluster reaches any FULL state remains the same as before" * tag 'ceph-for-7.3-rc1' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client: (32 commits) ceph: force a cap message when a deferred revoke can't be acked immediately libceph: reject buckets with mismatched CRUSH ids ceph: reject export_targets ranks >= CEPH_MAX_MDS in mdsmap decode ceph: fix leaked inode reference on writeback abort at umount libceph: remove ceph_put_page_vector() libceph: validate banner payload length ceph: make nearfull sync writes opt-in ceph: do not repeat ceph_trim_dentries() if no progress possible ceph: drop mdsc->mutex before decoding the MDS reply ceph: fix UAF in check_new_map() on session freed during unlock ceph: fix UAF in __kick_flushing_caps() on cf entry freed during unlock ceph: pass inode pointer around instead of reloading it ceph: mark cap remove with RB_CLEAR_NODE() instead of setting ci=NULL ceph: add helper function ceph_cap_is_removed() ceph: make __ceph_remove_cap() static ceph: cap delegated inode count in ceph_parse_deleg_inos() ceph: bound num_export_targets array for mds info v2/v3 ceph: bound MDSCapAuth path and fs_name decode in handle_session() ceph: bound xattr value length in __build_xattrs() ceph: bound copied dentry name length in NFS export get_name ...

Merge tag 'f2fs-for-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

2026-08-28T17:48:48+00:00

Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim: "In this round, key enhancements focus on reducing inode management memory overhead, introducing resizable tail sections with unified pinned allocation, and boosting I/O throughput via parallel multi-device flushes and asynchronous f2fs_write_end_io() execution. We also add dynamic device alias reservations to allow on-the-fly space donation from user partitions. Alongside these features, critical bug fixes resolve folio race conditions, lingering dirty flags, dentry and block counter leaks, and potential deadloops in f2fs_fsync_node_pages(). Additional stability patches address error-path handling across symlink, sync, and rename/unlink operations, prevent pinned file fragmentation, and correct segment migration and free section accounting in free_segment_range. Enhancements: - reduce memory footprint of ino management - support dynamic reserve/release for device aliasing - issue multi-device flushes in parallel - add a way to run f2fs_write_end_io() asynchronously - support resizable tail section and unify pinned allocation Bug fixes: - fix to pass folio->index to f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer() - fix folio_nr_pages() race after put in large folio invalidate - fix to clear dirty flag on folio in error path - accurately adjust free_sections during free_segment_range - fix to avoid potential deadloop in f2fs_fsync_node_pages() - fix the error path in symlink, device alias in rename/unlink, f2fs_sync_fs - fix to migrate all curseg types during free_segment_range - fix to avoid pinfile fragment on fragment:{block, segment} mode - fix valid block count leak on data block allocation failure - fix dentry folio leak in find_in_level - reject overlapping move range after len expansion - fix some bugs related to file pinning, GC functions, i_size And, the series includes a number of minor bug fixes" * tag 'f2fs-for-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (51 commits) f2fs: support resizable tail section and unify pinned allocation f2fs: don't leave the hashed inode while it's unlinked f2fs: accurately adjust free_sections during free_segment_range f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadloop in f2fs_fsync_node_pages() f2fs: use adjusted write range after f2fs_write_checks() f2fs: fix to propagate error from f2fs_sync_fs() f2fs: return symlink writeback errors f2fs: fix error handling on device alias check in rename and unlink f2fs: fix to reset all pinned status during fggc f2fs: use f2fs_{down, up}_(read, write}_trace() for nat_tree_lock f2fs: reduce memory footprint of ino management f2fs: fix i_size when pinned fallocate partially fails f2fs: fix to migrate all curseg types during free_segment_range f2fs: avoid setting SBI_NEED_FSCK on transient resize failure f2fs: fix to avoid pinfile fragment on fragment:{block, segment} mode f2fs: cleanup w/ f2fs_need_rand_{blk, seg, seg_blk} f2fs: fix to shrink gc_lock coverage in f2fs_gc_range() f2fs: fix to reclaim space in f2fs_allocate_pinning_section() f2fs: unify add/remove ino entry API for all ino types f2fs: fix to zero post-EOF data when extending file size ...

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 ...

f2fs: support resizable tail section and unify pinned allocation

2026-08-27T04:47:36+00:00

Currently, zoned block devices restrict pinned file allocations to conventional zones at the beginning of the storage (before first_seq_zone_segno), triggering range GC when conventional space is exhausted. On regular block devices, when preparing for future online filesystem resizing (e.g. partition shrinking), pinned files must not be allocated in the tail area that will be truncated, as pinned files cannot be relocated by GC. Specifying the resizable tail area size (in sections) allows uniform mount configuration across devices of different storage capacities. To support this, introduce a unified `pinned_area_max_secno` boundary abstraction in `f2fs_sb_info`: 1. Add `-o resizable_tail_secno=%u` mount option to specify the number of sections at the tail of the filesystem reserved for resizing. 2. In `f2fs_fill_super()`, initialize `sbi->pinned_area_max_secno` as: min(MAIN_SECS(sbi) - resizable_tail_sec, zoned_max_sec). 3. In `get_new_segment()`, restrict segment allocation for pinned files (`pinning == true`) to `0 .. sbi->pinned_area_max_secno - 1`. If no free section is available in the pinned area, return -EAGAIN. 4. In `f2fs_allocate_pinning_section()`, unify the range GC trigger to run `f2fs_gc_range()` up to `sbi->pinned_area_max_secno` whenever `sbi->pinned_area_max_secno < MAIN_SECS(sbi)` and allocation returns -EAGAIN. 5. Expose `/sys/fs/f2fs//pinned_area_max_secno` as a read-only sysfs node. Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong Signed-off-by: Sunmin Jeong Reviewed-by: Wenjie Qi Reviewed-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim

ceph: make nearfull sync writes opt-in

2026-08-26T17:57:28+00:00

The kernel CephFS client has historically treated a cluster or pool NEARFULL condition as a request to force successful writes through generic_write_sync(). That effectively turns otherwise buffered writes into synchronous writes and can cause a severe throughput drop as soon as a single OSD or the file data pool crosses the nearfull threshold. On modern large clusters, NEARFULL is primarily an operator health signal rather than an immediate client-side capacity failure. Operators can still have substantial usable capacity while a cluster is rebalancing, splitting PGs, or expanding onto new devices. RBD, RGW and the userspace CephFS client do not impose this extra client-side sync-write throttle, so the kernel client behavior is surprising and operationally painful. Change the default behavior so NEARFULL no longer changes normal write-sync semantics. FULL and pool FULL still fail with -ENOSPC, and explicitly synchronous writes continue to be synced by generic_write_sync(). Add a nearfull_sync mount option for deployments that want the legacy backpressure behavior. When this option is set, successful writes are promoted to IOCB_DSYNC if the cluster or file data pool is marked NEARFULL, preserving the old behavior for conservative deployments. Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/74849 Signed-off-by: Alex Markuze Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov

Merge tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2026-08-25T14:59:44+00:00

Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: - Improve performance of the io-uring transport by introducing buffer pools and zero-copy (Joanne) - Fix lots of bugs (Baokun Li) - Fix io-uring initialization issues (Joanne, Bernd) - More prep work for large folios (Joanne) - Don't limit buffered read to 128k (Jim Harris) - Fix zeroing of page end (dirtied with mmap) on file size extension (Jimmy Zuber) - Improve performance in certain cases with wake_up_sync() when queuing request (Xuewen Yan) - Misc fixes and cleanups (Xuewen Yan) * tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (35 commits) fuse: zero the partial EOF page when extending a file io_uring: Add missing include for ITER_SOURCE and ITER_DEST fuse: Fix the condition to enable over-io-uring fuse: invalidate the correct range after O_APPEND direct write selftests/fuse: test post-EOF page zeroing when a file is extended fuse: wake one waiter per freed slot when raising max_background fuse: use min_not_zero() in fuse_init_server_timeout() fuse: copy request headers via a stack buffer for io-uring fuse: give wakeup hints to the scheduler for synchronous requests fuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount fuse: reject a duplicate fd= mount option cuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure fuse: wait for FR_FINISHED on abort_on_kill to prevent use-after-free fuse: make dentry_tree_work static docs: fuse: document io-uring buffer pool and zero-copy uapi fuse: add zero-copy over io-uring fuse: support registered buffer pools in io-uring fuse: add io-uring buffer pools ...

mm/swap: move swap_ops into file systems for file system-based swap

2026-08-25T01:43:20+00:00

Currently swap to and from file systems goes through two indirect calls between the swap ops and the swap_rw method. Reduce this by directly providing the swap_ops from the file system. For this refactor swap_fs_submit into a swap_fs_prepare_rw helper that initializes the iov_iter on the callers stack so that file systems can call it directly, and use that to initialize file system specific ops in the NFS and SMB clients, which then get passed to swap_fs_activate. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723054622.3460249-4-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Chris Li Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Steve French Cc: Usama Arif Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/swap: remove SWP_FS_OPS

2026-08-25T01:43:15+00:00

Provide a swap_fs_activate helper that directly sets up swap_fs_ops, and a flag in struct swap_ops to indicate of NOFS swapping is allowed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260713093350.2154226-7-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Barry Song Cc: Chris Li Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Youngjun Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files

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

ext4 and f2fs don't prevent filesystem-level encrypted files from being set up directly as swap files. In this case, encryption is bypassed. No one should be doing this, vs. the methods of encrypted swap that actually do work (such as swapping to a dm-crypt device, or swapping to a loopback device on top of a filesystem-level encrypted file). Nevertheless, to prevent user error, make swapon() explicitly reject this case. Document this behavior in fscrypt.rst as well. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260803180426.3123-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Fixes: 9bd8212f981e ("ext4 crypto: add encryption policy and password salt support") Fixes: f424f664f0e8 ("f2fs crypto: add encryption policy and password salt support") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Baoquan He Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Barry Song Cc: Chris Li Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-08-21T01:17:08+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm: drop "sub" prefix from various places" (Dev Jain) page->folio conversion and a naming cleanup - "mm/kasan: remove redundant initialization for kasan_flag_write_only" (Igor Putko) KASAN cleanup work - "mm/filemap: reduce unnecessary xarray lookups" (Chi Zhiling) Small speedup in the pagecaache read code - "mm/percpu: Fix possible NOFS/NOIO reclaim recursion" (Kaitao Cheng) Improve the vmalloc code - mainly the avoidance of GFP_KERNEL allocations when the caller asked for GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO - "mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task stacks" (Breno Leitao) Avoid a soft lockup watchdog trigger from the kmemleak scanning code in extreme situations - "mm/page_owner: misc cleanups" (Ye Liu) Cleanups to the page_owner code. For some reason lots of people have been working on the page_owner code this cycle. - "mm: convert to walk_page_range_vma() to eliminate find_vma()" (Kefeng Wang) Simplify and accelerate the page walking library function - "mm/migrate: preparatory cleanups for batch copy and offload" (Shivank Garg) Cleanups in the migration code - "mm/page_owner: add per-fd filter infrastructure for print_mode and NUMA filtering" (Zhen Ni) Per-fd filtering to page_owner in order to reduce the sometimes vast amount of output it can produce - "mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage allocation" (Muchun Song) Fixes and preparatory cleanups around bootmem HugeTLB handling, sparse initialization ordering, and related vmemmap setup - "mm/zsmalloc: reduce lock contention in zs_free()" (Wenchao Hao) Reduce lock contention in zs_free(), which dominates the unmap path under memory pressure on Android (LMK kills) and on x86 servers running zswap-heavy workloads. Up to 1.83x improvement in microbenchmarking. - "move alloc_tag.c file under mm/" (Suren Baghdasaryan) - "samples/damon: handle damon_{start,stop}() failures" (SJ Park) Fix improper handling of damon_start(), damon_stop(), and damon_call() failures across DAMON sample modules to prevent potential memory leaks, operation disruptions and use-after-free bugs - "mm/damon/sysfs: kobject_del() directories that users can create/remove" (SJ Park) Fix delayed sysfs directory removal under DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE causeing creation failures due to duplicate directory names by adding missing kobject_del() calls before creating new directories - "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()" (David Hildenbrand) Clean up the core pte handling code - "selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs" (Kunwu Chan) Fix several bugs in the DAMON selftests - "selftests/damon: fix memcg_path staging handling" (Cheng Nie) Fix a bug in _damon_sysfs.py for damos_filter memcg_path setup, and add a test case for it in sysfs.py. - "selftests/damon: test kdamond refresh_ms" (Ruslan Valiyev) Selftest coverage for DAMON's refresh_ms sysfs feature by updating the test control module and verifying that scheme stats update automatically without manual intervention - "mm/damon: five misc fixups" (Akinobu Mita) Miscellaneous DAMON fixups. - "mm/damon/core: detect internal variation above max_nr_regions/2" (Jiayuan Chen) Fix DAMON's region splitting behavior when region counts exceed half the maximum budget by dynamically scaling down the split fraction as the limit approaches, preventing large regions from staying un-split, and add corresponding KUnit test coverage - "mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries" (Usama Arif) Refactor and clean up PMD softleaf helpers, call sites, and architecture flags to lay the groundwork for a follow-up series that introduces PMD page table swap entries - "mm/damon: update, optimize, and clean up doc, tests, and code" (SJ Park) Update DAMON design and ABI documentation, expands unit and selftest coverage, optimize damon_commit_target_regions(), and clean up recently added sysfs interface code for better readability - "mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code overhead on cgroup v2" (Usama Arif) Optimize vmpressure() by skipping unnecessary work on cgroup v2 for userspace event notifications and refactor v1-only eventfd handling into mm/memcontrol-v1.c to reduce memory overhead and code complexity - "selftests/mm: refactor pkey helpers and fix mmap error handling" (Hongfu Li) Refactor pkeys shared tracing and assertion helpers into a common file, unify protection key selftests to use consistent diagnostic logging and assertions, and enforce standardized MAP_FAILED return checks for mmap() calls across the tests - "mm/damon: optimize out nr_accesses_bp" (SJ Park) Replace the error-prone, continuously updated nr_accesses_bp field in damon_region with an on-demand moving sum function, reducing structure memory overhead and avoiding state corruption bugs - "Open HugeTLB allocation routine for more generic use" (Ackerley Tng) Decouple HugeTLB folio allocation from VMA dependencies by introducing hugetlb_alloc_folio(), enabling subsystems like guest_memfd to allocate HugeTLB folios without standard VMA reservations or pseudo-VMAs - "mm/damon: provide pseudo moving sum probe_hits" (SJ Park) Integrate DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter into the pseudo moving sum infrastructure, enabling real-time, online monitoring without waiting for full aggregation intervals - "mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs" (Brendan Jackman) Simplify and refactor the page allocator entry points and flags by unifying allocation paths, adding internal alloc_flags arguments, and eliminating redundant __ prefixed alloc_pages variants. - "Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries" (Dev Jain) Enforce the consistent use of huge_ptep_get() instead of ptep_get() for HugeTLB entries and fixes an unaligned address issue in arm64's huge_ptep_get() implementation - "mm/damon: validate all parameters in the core" (SJ Park) Consolidate parameter validation into the DAMON core specifically within damon_start() and damon_commit_ctx() to centralize error checking, eliminate caller-side redundant checks and to improve maintenance efficiency - "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix filtering and cleanup issues" (Yichong Chen) Rename is_need() to filter_record() for clearer return semantics, fix per-record allocation memory leaks and bound output copies in search_pattern() to address an existing buffer issue - "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying" (Jiayuan Chen) Mitigate a system-wide stall which occurs when a cgroup is removed while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous reclaim - "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages" (Breno Leitao) Introduce an opt-in vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl that immediately panics the kernel on unrecoverable memory errors in kernel-owned pages to preserve error context and prevent delayed, silent data corruption - "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}() for simple error handling" (SJ Park) Refactor the DAMON core API functions to guarantee that all contexts are fully stopped when damon_start(), damon_stop(), or damon_commit() fail, eliminating the need for complex and error-prone caller-side cleanup code - "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split" (Zi Yan) Add checks to ensure tail_page->private is zero when freeing compound or high-order pages and when promoting tail pages during large folio splits. By validating these fields at free and split time, it allows the removal of redundant private field clearing inside prep_compound_tail() - "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio reuse paths" (Barry Song) Eliminate redundant lru_add_drain() calls in wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page() to reduce LRU lock contention and system overhead By validating folio refcounts against the LRU cache before draining and removing unnecessary drains in the swap path, it achieves up to a 30.5% reduction in drain calls during heavy swap workloads - "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations" (Jianyue Wu) Reorganize folio LRU and swap code by relocating page-cluster state to mm/swap_state.c, renaming mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c, and moving MM-internal reclaim declarations into mm/internal.h. - "userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Add userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of VM guest memory, so a VMM can identify hot pages and reclaim cold ones to tiered or remote storage - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 2)" (David Hildenbrand) Remove the remaining pieces of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, performing some smaller cleanups around freeing of reserved vmemmap pages on the way. - "mm/damon: update probe hits for runtime parameter commits" (SJ Park) Ensure that DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter is properly updated when monitoring intervals are changed at runtime, matching the behavior of nr_accesses. To achieve this, it refactors and renames existing helper functions for shared use, applies the updates to probe_hits, and handles edge cases in damon_probe_hits_mvsum() to maintain measurement accuracy. - "KSM: performance optimizations for rmap_walk_ksm" (xu xin) Resolve a severe KSM reverse-mapping performance bottleneck where thousands of split VMAs sharing a single anon_vma cause extended lock contention. By adding an interval-filtering check during the rmap walk, it reduces worst-case anon_vma lock hold times from over 500ms down to under 2ms, preventing application freezes and latency spikes under memory pressure. - "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h" (Mike Rapoport) Split declarations related to mm_init, memblock, vmalloc and sparse into new headers - "KSM: use linear_page_index in collect_procs_ksm()" (xu xin) Apply the interval tree optimization from rmap_walk_ksm() to collect_procs_ksm() to avoid iterating over non-matching VMAs during KSM memory error handling. It hoists loop-invariant address initialization and restricts the anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach walk to a targeted page offset range, reducing redundant checks and improving lookup efficiency. - "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and KSM tests" (Sayali Patil) Fix issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM selftest categories that can report failures when the prerequisites for the tests are not satisfied - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring" (SJ Park) Introduce attribute-weighted region management in DAMON, allowing users to prioritize specific data attributes (such as page sizes or cgroups) over or instead of access monitoring. By assigning weights to attribute probes, DAMON can completely disable access tracking and adjust monitoring regions based on weighted probe-hit counters to optimize monitoring quality for attribute-focused workloads. - "mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings" (Stanislav Kinsburskii) Extend hmm_range_fault() to support userfaultfd-backed regions by allowing the mmap lock to be dropped during fault handling via a new hmm_range_fault_locked() helper. By accepting a locked pointer and signaling retry status when lock release occurs, it enables page fault resolution in userfaultfd regions while preserving backward compatibility for existing callers. - "mm: make VMA page offset handling more consistent" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up and standardize how vma->vm_pgoff is accessed and manipulated across file-backed and anonymous mappings in the kernel It introduces dedicated helper functions such as vma_start_pgoff(), vma_end_pgoff(), vma_set_pgoff() and linear_page_delta() while renaming rmap interval tree helpers to better reflect their functionality. These changes establish a cleaner foundation for future work that will unify virtual page offset indexing for all anonymous and CoW'd folios. - "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks" (Usama Arif) Address kernel panics and state corruption caused by MM walk callbacks reaching non-present device-private PMD swap entries created during HMM migrations It ensures that functions which acquire pmd_trans_huge_lock() properly recognize device-private PMDs instead of assuming a present THP or a standard migration entry. - "mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one" (Dev Jain) Refactor try_to_unmap_one by modularizing Hugetlb, anonymous-lazyfree, and anonymous-swapbacked logic into dedicated functions, laying the structural groundwork for batched anonymous large folio unmapping. - "Docs/ABI/damon: sysfs ABI document fixes and additions" (Song Hu) Fix typos and fills in missing entries in the DAMON sysfs ABI document - "dax/kmem: atomic whole-device hotplug via sysfs" (Gregory Price) Introduce an atomic sysfs state attribute and supporting DAX/MM infrastructure to prevent userland races when offlining and removing entire memory regions By adding an unplugged state alongside standard online modes, it enables whole-device atomic hotplug control while preserving backward compatibility. - "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Continue transitioning the kernel from the deprecated vm_flags_t type to vma_flags_t across core memory management infrastructure. It replaces legacy type usage in core functions such as do_mmap(), unmapped area allocation, mm->def_vma_flags, and VMA operations like mlock, mprotect, and mremap. - "Two small patches to clean up mm/mm_slot.h" (xu xin) Refactor mm_slot.h by introducing mm_slot_remove() to unify duplicate slot deletion sequences in khugepaged and KSM. It also adds code documentation explaining why mm_slot_lookup and mm_slot_insert must remain as preprocessor macros rather than static inline functions. - "mm/damon/core: hide core-private struct fields" (SJ Park) Clean up DAMON core structures by consistently marking internal-only fields with private: comment tags to prevent improper direct access from outer layers. It enforces encapsulation across core structures including damon_region, damon_target, and damon_ctx and updates DAMON_SYSFS to interact through approved access APIs instead of exposing raw struct members. - "mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races" (SJ Park) Address potential infinite loops, NULL dereferences, and race conditions identified in DAMON It fixes an infinite loop triggered by extreme user configurations, a NULL pointer dereference within unit tests and minor monitoring accuracy degradation caused by subtle runtime races. - "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on RT/UP" (Brendan Jackman) Fix an NMI safety flaw in __free_frozen_pages() where freeing pages on non-SMP or PREEMPT_RT kernels can bypass can_spin_trylock() checks via non-PCP or isolated migration paths. It also resolves potential kernel crashes and privilege escalation risks triggered when BPF tracing runs in NMI context alongside memory hotplug or large allocation frees. - "mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent cleanups" (Brendan Jackman) Clean up and update page allocator nomenclature, documentation, and debug assertions. It aligns internal FPI_ flags with the public "nolock" naming convention, removes outdated internal implementation details from high-level page allocator comments, and eliminates obsolete VM_BUG_ON() assertions in allocation paths. - "mm/mseal: further cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Refactor and simplify the mseal implementation by clarifying API boundaries and removing unnecessary code complexity. It replaces generic do_mseal() usage outside the syscall with a dedicated mseal_mmap_page_zero() helper for MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, eliminates mm_struct parameters to enforce that sealing applies only to current->mm, and streamlines overall logic and comments with no functional changes intended. - "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up per-node proactive reclaim" (Ridong Chen) Resolve reclaim behavior bugs and clean up function parameters across memory reclaim paths It fixes swappiness=max in both standard reclaim and MGLRU so unswappable anonymous memory no longer falls back to evicting page cache, ensures reclaim_store() returns accurate error codes instead of collapsing all failures into -EAGAIN, and removes the obsolete gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim(). - "mm: mincore: misc cleanups" (Kefeng Wang) Clean up and simplifies the mincore code. Most importantly, it removes the historical special behavior that always reports VM_PFNMAP pages as non-resident. - "mm/huge_memory: drop dead split helper variants" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Two trivial cleanups in the folio split API - "mm/damon: fix uninitialized DAMOS field and kunit exec expectation bugs" (SJ Park) Resolve minor operational and testing bugs in DAMON identified by Sashiko. It initializes the damos->last_applied field to prevent occasional efficiency degradation and fixes invalid memory accesses in DAMON KUnit tests during test failure handling. - "cleanup for stable_page_flags()" (Jinjiang Tu) Clean up and refactor stable_page_flags() used by /proc/kpageflags without altering functionality. It uses BIT_ULL() to prevent shift-overflow warnings on 64-bit flag bits, converts folio-specific flag checks to standard folio_test_*() helpers, and removes redundant CONFIG_PAGE_IDLE_FLAG handling. - "Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios" (Dev Jain) Extend batched folio unmapping support to file folios within userfaultfd write-protect (uffd-wp) VMAs by adding batching capabilities to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(). This removes special-case restrictions on uffd-wp VMAs in try_to_unmap_one(), significantly simplifying the function's control flow and complexity. - "mm/early_ioremap: clarify and clean up early_ioremap_reset()" (Sang-Heon Jeon) Clarify and clean up the architecture-specific usage of __late_set_fixmap() and __late_clear_fixmap() after early_ioremap_reset() It adds explicit documentation regarding when early_ioremap_reset() must be called and removes redundant macro definitions and reset calls in the RISC-V and ARM64 architectures. - "mm: fix reclaim storms in defrag_mode" (Johannes Weiner) Address severe performance regressions, swap storms, and spurious OOMs caused by vm.defrag_mode=1 under high memory pressure in Meta production It updates the page allocator slowpath so non-movable allocation requests actively trigger direct reclaim and direct compaction at pageblock_order scale, allowing them to claim whole pageblocks rather than spinning unproductively. - "zram: lockmap tweaks" (Sebastian Siewior) Optimize and fix lockdep tracking for zram devices by consolidating per-entry lockmaps and isolate lock classes across multiple instances This reduces memory overhead by replacing per-entry lockdep_map instances with a single map per struct zram, and assigns a dynamic lock_class_key to each instance to prevent false deadlock reports when different zram devices are backed by distinct filesystems. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (501 commits) selftests/mm: thuge-gen: fix test_shmget() for PAGE_SIZE check selftests/mm: unpoison pages in memory-failure teardown mm/shmem: downgrade final i_blocks check in shmem_evict_inode() to pr_warn() mm/khugepaged: replace mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage with guard macro mm/zsmalloc: fix release order of locks in zs_page_migrate() Documentation: zram: remove sections numbering ksm: stop iterating VMAs when ksm_test_exit returns true mm: fold userfaultfd_rwp() to false without CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_PROTNONE mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch() zram: use a custom key for each zram object zram: move lockmap to be per-zram instead per table selftests/mm: fix gup_longterm EINVAL error message mm: page_alloc: fix non-movable reclaim storm in defrag_mode mm: page_alloc: move capture_control to the page allocator mm: compaction: support non-movable compaction for pageblock requests mm: page_alloc: __GFP_FS lockdep annotation for direct compaction hugetlb: evaluate subpool free state while locked mm/damon: remove trailing semicolons after function definitions mm/damon/ops-common: prevent migration fallback to non-target nodes mm/damon: update outdated comment about DAMOS filter handling ...