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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T17:14:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-06-19T17:14:34+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity" (Li Wang)

   Remove some noise from the MM selftests build

 - "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently" (Ryan Roberts)

   Speed up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by first scanning
   them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to vfree() and
   to the releasing of frozen pages

 - "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota charge ratio"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Address a DAMOS usability issue: The DAMOS quota often exhausts
   prematurely because it charges for all memory attempted, causing slow
   and inconsistent performance when actions fail on unreclaimable
   memory.

   To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota
   charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions.
   Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost
   ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing

 - "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large
   page sizes" (Li Wang)

   Fix various spurious failures and improves the overall robustness of
   the cgroup zswap selftests

 - "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" (Anthony Yznaga)

   Fix an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32

 - "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with shared" (Breno Leitao)

   Some maintenance work in the huge_memory code

 - "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" (Brendan Jackman)

   Use the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places

 - "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization" (Muchun
   Song)

   Fix several bugs in the vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect
   page accounting and memmap initialization in the DAX and memory
   hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and
   struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages

 - "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in damon/next tree"

   A sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for DAMON

 - "mm: remove page_mapped()" (David Hildenbrand)

   Remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped()

 - "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" (SeongJae Park)

   Allow DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its current state

 - "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables" (Muhammad
   Usama Anjum)

   Simplify and speed up kasan by removing its ineffective tagging of
   stacks and page tables

 - "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Simplify deployment on diverse hardware like NUMA systems by updating
   DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to automatically monitor the
   physical address range covering all System RAM areas by default,
   replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only targeted the
   single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead

 - "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated" (SeongJae
   Park)

   Update some DAMON docs

 - "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" (Dmitry Ilvokhin)

   Switch zone-&gt;lock handling over to using the guard() mechanisms

 - "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" (fujunjie)

   Fix a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page cache hits
   during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in
   significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O,
   drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse
   random or strided memory access workloads

 - "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic"
   (Li Wang)

   Fix a couple of false-positives in the cgroup kmem selftests

 - "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning"
   (SeongJae Park)

   Add a new parameter to DAMON permitting DAMON_RECLAIM to
   automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation intervals

 - "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" (SeongJae Park)

   Change DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond

 - "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" (Breno Leitao)

   Remove large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the verbose-mode
   kmemleak output

 - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)" (David
   Hildenbrand)

   Reduce our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, with a view to
   removing it entirely in a later series

 - "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of 2" (Liew Rui Yan)

   Prevent users from passing a non-power-of-2 value of `addr_unit', as
   this later results in undesirable behavior

 - "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" (Frederick Mayle)

 - "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" (Ye Liu)

   Fix three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c

 - "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" (Brendan Jackman)

   Implement several cleanups in the page allocator and related code

 - "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation" (Kairui Song)

   Unify the allocation and charging of anon and shmem swap in folios,
   provides better synchronization, consolidates the metadata
   management, hence dropping the static array and map, and improves
   performance

 - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring" (SeongJae Park(

   Extend DAMON to monitor general data attributes other than accesses

 - "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink" (Shivam Kalra)

   Implement the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when
   shrinking across a page boundary

 - "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" (niecheng)

 - "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)

   Eliminate custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the problematic
   success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access uninitialized
   VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code field and
   updates the memory char driver accordingly

 - "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability and tests"
   (SeongJae Park)

 - "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc" (Maksym
   Shcherba)

 - "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c" (Mike
   Rapoport)

 - "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio" (Kairui Song and
   others)

   Clean up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop and dirty
   writeback handling. Large performance improvements are measured

 - "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps} reads" (Suren
   Baghdasaryan)

   Use per-vma locks when reading /proc/pid/smaps and numa_maps similar
   to reduce contention on central mmap_lock

 - "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()"
   (Ran Xiaokai)

   Some cleanup work in the THP code

 - "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" (Konstantin Khorenko)

   Fix a few build glitches in the memfd selftest code.

 - "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs" (Shakeel
   Butt)

   Resolve a 68% performance regression caused by NUMA-node cache
   thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking its existing
   fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches up to
   five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of the
   same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line.

 - "zram: writeback fixes" (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   address a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues

 - "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" (Johannes Weiner)

   Resolve NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite interaction by
   refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely replace the
   complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent Huge Pages

 - "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory" (Usama Arif)

   Improve large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page arm64 by
   preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling
   target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the
   force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large
   maximum folio order under the cache cap.

 - "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" (Kiryl Shutsemau)

   Fix a bunch of minor issues in the userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which
   were flagged by Sashiko review of proposed new material

 - "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and
   vmemmap_check_pmd()" (Muchun Song)

   Provide generic versions of these two functions so the four
   arch-specific implementations can be removed.

 - "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap
   device" (Youngjun Park)

   Address a uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device
   reference taking/releasing frequency.

 - "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" (Dev Jain)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries
  fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry
  lib/test_hmm: check alloc_page_vma() return value and handle OOM
  mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX
  mm/swap: remove redundant swap device reference in alloc/free
  mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device
  mm/filemap: use folio_next_index() for start
  vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages()
  sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
  loongarch/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code
  riscv/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
  arm64/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code
  mm/sparse-vmemmap: provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()
  rust: page: mark Page::nid as inline
  userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masks
  userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present()
  mm/huge_memory: preserve pmd_swp_uffd_wp on device-private PMD downgrade
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemap_scan_pte_hole()
  fs/proc/task_mmu: use huge_page_size() in pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry()
  fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sh: Drop cache flush of the zero page at boot</title>
<updated>2026-06-02T15:29:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-29T15:02:03+00:00</published>
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SuperH performs cache maintenance on the zero page during boot,
presumably because before commit

  6215d9f4470f ("arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page")

the zero page did double duty as a boot params region, and was cleared
separately, as it was not part of BSS. The memset() in question was
dropped by that commit, but the __flush_wback_region() call remained.

As empty_zero_page[] has been moved to BSS, it can be treated as any
other BSS memory, and so the cache flush can be dropped.

Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sh: use folio_mapped() instead of page_mapped() in sh4_flush_cache_page()</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T04:04:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand (Arm)</name>
<email>david@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-27T11:43:14+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: remove page_mapped()".

While preparing my slides for an LSF/MM talk, I realized that I did not
yet remove page_mapped().

So let's do that.  In the BPF arena code it's unclear which memdesc we
would want to allocate in the future: certainly something with a refcount,
but likely none with a mapcount.  So let's just rely on the page refcount
instead to decide whether we want to try zapping the page from user page
tables.


This patch (of 3):

We already have the folio in our hands, so let's just use folio_mapped().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427-page_mapped-v1-0-e89c3592c74c@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260427-page_mapped-v1-1-e89c3592c74c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Harry Yoo &lt;harry@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page</title>
<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T10:31:40+00:00</published>
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Reduce 22 declarations of empty_zero_page to 3 and 23 declarations of
ZERO_PAGE() to 4.

Every architecture defines empty_zero_page that way or another, but for the
most of them it is always a page aligned page in BSS and most definitions
of ZERO_PAGE do virt_to_page(empty_zero_page).

Move Linus vetted x86 definition of empty_zero_page and ZERO_PAGE() to the
core MM and drop these definitions in architectures that do not implement
colored zero page (MIPS and s390).

ZERO_PAGE() remains a macro because turning it to a wrapper for a static
inline causes severe pain in header dependencies.

For the most part the change is mechanical, with these being noteworthy:

* alpha: aliased empty_zero_page with ZERO_PGE that was also used for boot
  parameters. Switching to a generic empty_zero_page removes the aliasing
  and keeps ZERO_PGE for boot parameters only
* arm64: uses __pa_symbol() in ZERO_PAGE() so that definition of
  ZERO_PAGE() is kept intact.
* m68k/parisc/um: allocated empty_zero_page from memblock,
  although they do not support zero page coloring and having it in BSS
  will work fine.
* sparc64 can have empty_zero_page in BSS rather allocate it, but it
  can't use virt_to_page() for BSS. Keep it's definition of ZERO_PAGE()
  but instead of allocating it, make mem_map_zero point to
  empty_zero_page.
* sh: used empty_zero_page for boot parameters at the very early boot.
  Rename the parameters page to boot_params_page and let sh use the generic
  empty_zero_page.
* hexagon: had an amusing comment about empty_zero_page

	/* A handy thing to have if one has the RAM. Declared in head.S */

  that unfortunately had to go :)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;		[parisc]
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;		[parisc]
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;	[alpha]
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;	[nios2]
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;	[sparc]
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T08:20:58+00:00</published>
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Every architecture calls sparse_init() during setup_arch() although the
data structures created by sparse_init() are not used until the
initialization of the core MM.

Beside the code duplication, calling sparse_init() from architecture
specific code causes ordering differences of vmemmap and HVO
initialization on different architectures.

Move the call to sparse_init() from architecture specific code to
free_area_init() to ensure that vmemmap and HVO initialization order is
always the same.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-25-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, mm: consolidate initialization of nodes, zones and memory map</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T08:20:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.rulkc.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=d49004c5f0c140bb83c87fab46dcf449cf00eb24'/>
<id>urn:sha1:d49004c5f0c140bb83c87fab46dcf449cf00eb24</id>
<content type='text'>
To initialize node, zone and memory map data structures every architecture
calls free_area_init() during setup_arch() and passes it an array of zone
limits.

Beside code duplication it creates "interesting" ordering cases between
allocation and initialization of hugetlb and the memory map.  Some
architectures allocate hugetlb pages very early in setup_arch() in certain
cases, some only create hugetlb CMA areas in setup_arch() and sometimes
hugetlb allocations happen mm_core_init().

With arch_zone_limits_init() helper available now on all architectures it
is no longer necessary to call free_area_init() from architecture setup
code.  Rather core MM initialization can call arch_zone_limits_init() in a
single place.

This allows to unify ordering of hugetlb vs memory map allocation and
initialization.

Remove the call to free_area_init() from architecture specific code and
place it in a new mm_core_init_early() function that is called immediately
after setup_arch().

After this refactoring it is possible to consolidate hugetlb allocations
and eliminate differences in ordering of hugetlb and memory map
initialization among different architectures.

As the first step of this consolidation move hugetlb_bootmem_alloc() to
mm_core_early_init().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-24-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sh: introduce arch_zone_limits_init()</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T04:02:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T08:20:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.rulkc.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=8bfa6c2259f494e18b06add7e822c1c2982d0c03'/>
<id>urn:sha1:8bfa6c2259f494e18b06add7e822c1c2982d0c03</id>
<content type='text'>
Move calculations of zone limits to a dedicated arch_zone_limits_init()
function.

Later MM core will use this function as an architecture specific callback
during nodes and zones initialization and thus there won't be a need to
call free_area_init() from every architecture.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-19-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alexs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Klara Modin &lt;klarasmodin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Yadav &lt;pratyush@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" &lt;ritesh.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>syscore: Pass context data to callbacks</title>
<updated>2025-11-14T09:01:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thierry Reding</name>
<email>treding@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-29T16:33:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.rulkc.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=a97fbc3ee3e2a536fafaff04f21f45472db71769'/>
<id>urn:sha1:a97fbc3ee3e2a536fafaff04f21f45472db71769</id>
<content type='text'>
Several drivers can benefit from registering per-instance data along
with the syscore operations. To achieve this, move the modifiable fields
out of the syscore_ops structure and into a separate struct syscore that
can be registered with the framework. Add a void * driver data field for
drivers to store contextual data that will be passed to the syscore ops.

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding &lt;treding@nvidia.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t</title>
<updated>2025-09-13T23:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-05T17:22:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.rulkc.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=53fbef56e07df822ea3029109ffca25328c2e5ac'/>
<id>urn:sha1:53fbef56e07df822ea3029109ffca25328c2e5ac</id>
<content type='text'>
Patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t".

At some point struct page will be separated from struct slab and struct
folio.  This is a step towards that by introducing a type for the 'flags'
word of all three structures.  This gives us a certain amount of type
safety by establishing that some of these unsigned longs are different
from other unsigned longs in that they contain things like node ID,
section number and zone number in the upper bits.  That lets us have
functions that can be easily called by anyone who has a slab, folio or
page (but not easily by anyone else) to get the node or zone.

There's going to be some unusual merge problems with this as some odd bits
of the kernel decide they want to print out the flags value or something
similar by writing page-&gt;flags and now they'll need to write page-&gt;flags.f
instead.  That's most of the churn here.  Maybe we should be removing
these things from the debug output?


This patch (of 11):

Wrap the unsigned long flags in a typedef.  In upcoming patches, this will
provide a strong hint that you can't just pass a random unsigned long to
functions which take this as an argument.

[willy@infradead.org: s/flags/flags.f/ in several architectures]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aKMgPRLD-WnkPxYm@casper.infradead.org
[nicola.vetrini@gmail.com: mips: fix compilation error]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYvkpmqGr6wjBNHY=dRp71PLCoi2341JxOudi60yqaeUdg@mail.gmail.com/
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825214245.1838158-1-nicola.vetrini@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, mm: make releasing of memory to page allocator more explicit</title>
<updated>2025-03-18T05:06:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-13T13:50:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.rulkc.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=8afa901c147a41f92e83943cddf154bbb7995ee6'/>
<id>urn:sha1:8afa901c147a41f92e83943cddf154bbb7995ee6</id>
<content type='text'>
The point where the memory is released from memblock to the buddy
allocator is hidden inside arch-specific mem_init()s and the call to
memblock_free_all() is needlessly duplicated in every artiste cure and
after introduction of arch_mm_preinit() hook, mem_init() implementation on
many architecture only contains the call to memblock_free_all().

Pull memblock_free_all() call into mm_core_init() and drop mem_init() on
relevant architectures to make it more explicit where the free memory is
released from memblock to the buddy allocator and to reduce code
duplication in architecture specific code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-14-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;	[x86]
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Tested-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Betkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren (csky) &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russel King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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