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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T19:18:47+00:00</updated>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series

	'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers'
	'Some cleanups of maple tree'

   - In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem'
     Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug
     and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily
     have its memmap placed within that newly added memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes)
     in the patch series

	'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()'
	'Make folio_start_writeback return void'
	'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages'
	'Convert aops-&gt;error_remove_page to -&gt;error_remove_folio'
	'Finish two folio conversions'
	'More swap folio conversions'

   - Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series

	'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault'

   - Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series
     'tweak kmemleak report format'.

   - In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey
     Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction
     of no longer needed stack traces.

   - Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page
     allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm:
     page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'.

   - Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code
     for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series
     'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'.

   - Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series
     'maple_tree: iterator state changes'.

   - Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series
     'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'.

   - DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the
     series

	'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS'
	'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests'
	'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8'

   - Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm:
     memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'.

   - In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts
     has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which
     improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during
     anonymous page faults.

   - Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance
     work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head
     cleanups'.

   - Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series
     'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap
     compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than
     UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free.

   - Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm:
     Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning
     aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs.

   - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use
     in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback
     code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the
     writeback paths'.

   - Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free
     stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan:
     save mempool stack traces'.

   - Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series
     'kasan: assorted clean-ups'.

   - David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more
     pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap:
     interface overhaul'.

   - Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code
     in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups
     in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits)
  mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
  mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
  selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting
  selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
  selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output
  selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output
  selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
  mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large
  mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state()
  mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file()
  slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node
  slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc()
  slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page()
  mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions
  mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker
  kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles
  mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty()
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'x86-cleanups-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T01:23:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T01:23:32+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:

 - Change global variables to local

 - Add missing kernel-doc function parameter descriptions

 - Remove unused parameter from a macro

 - Remove obsolete Kconfig entry

 - Fix comments

 - Fix typos, mostly scripted, manually reviewed

and a micro-optimization got misplaced as a cleanup:

 - Micro-optimize the asm code in secondary_startup_64_no_verify()

* tag 'x86-cleanups-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  arch/x86: Fix typos
  x86/head_64: Use TESTB instead of TESTL in secondary_startup_64_no_verify()
  x86/docs: Remove reference to syscall trampoline in PTI
  x86/Kconfig: Remove obsolete config X86_32_SMP
  x86/io: Remove the unused 'bw' parameter from the BUILDIO() macro
  x86/mtrr: Document missing function parameters in kernel-doc
  x86/setup: Make relocated_ramdisk a local variable of relocate_initrd()
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2024-01-05-11-35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-01-05T21:46:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
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Pull misc mm fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "12 hotfixes.

  Two are cc:stable and the remainder either address post-6.7 issues or
  aren't considered necessary for earlier kernel versions"

* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2024-01-05-11-35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
  mm: shrinker: use kvzalloc_node() from expand_one_shrinker_info()
  mailmap: add entries for Mathieu Othacehe
  MAINTAINERS: change vmware.com addresses to broadcom.com
  arch/mm/fault: fix major fault accounting when retrying under per-VMA lock
  mm/mglru: skip special VMAs in lru_gen_look_around()
  MAINTAINERS: hand over hwpoison maintainership to Miaohe Lin
  MAINTAINERS: remove hugetlb maintainer Mike Kravetz
  mm: fix unmap_mapping_range high bits shift bug
  mm: memcg: fix split queue list crash when large folio migration
  mm: fix arithmetic for max_prop_frac when setting max_ratio
  mm: fix arithmetic for bdi min_ratio
  mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP boundaries
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<title>arch/x86: Fix typos</title>
<updated>2024-01-03T10:46:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bhelgaas@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-03T00:40:11+00:00</published>
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Fix typos, most reported by "codespell arch/x86".  Only touches comments,
no code changes.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240103004011.1758650-1-helgaas@kernel.org
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<title>arch/mm/fault: fix major fault accounting when retrying under per-VMA lock</title>
<updated>2023-12-29T19:06:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suren Baghdasaryan</name>
<email>surenb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-26T21:46:10+00:00</published>
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A test [1] in Android test suite started failing after [2] was merged.  It
turns out that after handling a major fault under per-VMA lock, the
process major fault counter does not register that fault as major.  Before
[2] read faults would be done under mmap_lock, in which case
FAULT_FLAG_TRIED flag is set before retrying.  That in turn causes
mm_account_fault() to account the fault as major once retry completes. 
With per-VMA locks we often retry because a fault can't be handled without
locking the whole mm using mmap_lock.  Therefore such retries do not set
FAULT_FLAG_TRIED flag.  This logic does not work after [2] because we can
now handle read major faults under per-VMA lock and upon retry the fact
there was a major fault gets lost.  Fix this by setting FAULT_FLAG_TRIED
after retrying under per-VMA lock if VM_FAULT_MAJOR was returned.  Ideally
we would use an additional VM_FAULT bit to indicate the reason for the
retry (could not handle under per-VMA lock vs other reason) but this
simpler solution seems to work, so keeping it simple.

[1] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:test/vts-testcase/kernel/api/drop_caches_prop/drop_caches_test.cpp
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231006195318.4087158-6-willy@infradead.org/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231226214610.109282-1-surenb@google.com
Fixes: 12214eba1992 ("mm: handle read faults under the VMA lock")
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>NUMA: optimize detection of memory with no node id assigned by firmware</title>
<updated>2023-12-11T00:51:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liam Ni</name>
<email>zhiguangni01@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-26T02:03:29+00:00</published>
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Sanity check that makes sure the nodes cover all memory loops over
numa_meminfo to count the pages that have node id assigned by the
firmware, then loops again over memblock.memory to find the total amount
of memory and in the end checks that the difference between the total
memory and memory that covered by nodes is less than some threshold. 
Worse, the loop over numa_meminfo calls __absent_pages_in_range() that
also partially traverses memblock.memory.

It's much simpler and more efficient to have a single traversal of
memblock.memory that verifies that amount of memory not covered by nodes
is less than a threshold.

Introduce memblock_validate_numa_coverage() that does exactly that and use
it instead of numa_meminfo_cover_memory().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231026020329.327329-1-zhiguangni01@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Liam Ni &lt;zhiguangni01@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bibo Mao &lt;maobibo@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Binbin Zhou &lt;zhoubinbin@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Feiyang Chen &lt;chenfeiyang@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/coco: Disable 32-bit emulation by default on TDX and SEV</title>
<updated>2023-12-07T17:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-04T08:31:38+00:00</published>
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The INT 0x80 instruction is used for 32-bit x86 Linux syscalls. The
kernel expects to receive a software interrupt as a result of the INT
0x80 instruction. However, an external interrupt on the same vector
triggers the same handler.

The kernel interprets an external interrupt on vector 0x80 as a 32-bit
system call that came from userspace.

A VMM can inject external interrupts on any arbitrary vector at any
time.  This remains true even for TDX and SEV guests where the VMM is
untrusted.

Put together, this allows an untrusted VMM to trigger int80 syscall
handling at any given point. The content of the guest register file at
that moment defines what syscall is triggered and its arguments. It
opens the guest OS to manipulation from the VMM side.

Disable 32-bit emulation by default for TDX and SEV. User can override
it with the ia32_emulation=y command line option.

[ dhansen: reword the changelog ]

Reported-by: Supraja Sridhara &lt;supraja.sridhara@inf.ethz.ch&gt;
Reported-by: Benedict Schlüter &lt;benedict.schlueter@inf.ethz.ch&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Kuhne &lt;mark.kuhne@inf.ethz.ch&gt;
Reported-by: Andrin Bertschi &lt;andrin.bertschi@inf.ethz.ch&gt;
Reported-by: Shweta Shinde &lt;shweta.shinde@inf.ethz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.0+: 1da5c9b x86: Introduce ia32_enabled()
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.0+
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-core-2023-10-29-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T03:37:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T03:37:47+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 core updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Limit the hardcoded topology quirk for Hygon CPUs to those which have
   a model ID less than 4.

   The newer models have the topology CPUID leaf 0xB correctly
   implemented and are not affected.

 - Make SMT control more robust against enumeration failures

   SMT control was added to allow controlling SMT at boottime or
   runtime. The primary purpose was to provide a simple mechanism to
   disable SMT in the light of speculation attack vectors.

   It turned out that the code is sensible to enumeration failures and
   worked only by chance for XEN/PV. XEN/PV has no real APIC enumeration
   which means the primary thread mask is not set up correctly. By
   chance a XEN/PV boot ends up with smp_num_siblings == 2, which makes
   the hotplug control stay at its default value "enabled". So the mask
   is never evaluated.

   The ongoing rework of the topology evaluation caused XEN/PV to end up
   with smp_num_siblings == 1, which sets the SMT control to "not
   supported" and the empty primary thread mask causes the hotplug core
   to deny the bringup of the APS.

   Make the decision logic more robust and take 'not supported' and 'not
   implemented' into account for the decision whether a CPU should be
   booted or not.

 - Fake primary thread mask for XEN/PV

   Pretend that all XEN/PV vCPUs are primary threads, which makes the
   usage of the primary thread mask valid on XEN/PV. That is consistent
   with because all of the topology information on XEN/PV is fake or
   even non-existent.

 - Encapsulate topology information in cpuinfo_x86

   Move the randomly scattered topology data into a separate data
   structure for readability and as a preparatory step for the topology
   evaluation overhaul.

 - Consolidate APIC ID data type to u32

   It's fixed width hardware data and not randomly u16, int, unsigned
   long or whatever developers decided to use.

 - Cure the abuse of cpuinfo for persisting logical IDs.

   Per CPU cpuinfo is used to persist the logical package and die IDs.
   That's really not the right place simply because cpuinfo is subject
   to be reinitialized when a CPU goes through an offline/online cycle.

   Use separate per CPU data for the persisting to enable the further
   topology management rework. It will be removed once the new topology
   management is in place.

 - Provide a debug interface for inspecting topology information

   Useful in general and extremly helpful for validating the topology
   management rework in terms of correctness or "bug" compatibility.

* tag 'x86-core-2023-10-29-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  x86/apic, x86/hyperv: Use u32 in hv_snp_boot_ap() too
  x86/cpu: Provide debug interface
  x86/cpu/topology: Cure the abuse of cpuinfo for persisting logical ids
  x86/apic: Use u32 for wakeup_secondary_cpu[_64]()
  x86/apic: Use u32 for [gs]et_apic_id()
  x86/apic: Use u32 for phys_pkg_id()
  x86/apic: Use u32 for cpu_present_to_apicid()
  x86/apic: Use u32 for check_apicid_used()
  x86/apic: Use u32 for APIC IDs in global data
  x86/apic: Use BAD_APICID consistently
  x86/cpu: Move cpu_l[l2]c_id into topology info
  x86/cpu: Move logical package and die IDs into topology info
  x86/cpu: Remove pointless evaluation of x86_coreid_bits
  x86/cpu: Move cu_id into topology info
  x86/cpu: Move cpu_core_id into topology info
  hwmon: (fam15h_power) Use topology_core_id()
  scsi: lpfc: Use topology_core_id()
  x86/cpu: Move cpu_die_id into topology info
  x86/cpu: Move phys_proc_id into topology info
  x86/cpu: Encapsulate topology information in cpuinfo_x86
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-mm-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T01:40:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T01:40:57+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 mm handling updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add new NX-stack self-test

 - Improve NUMA partial-CFMWS handling

 - Fix #VC handler bugs resulting in SEV-SNP boot failures

 - Drop the 4MB memory size restriction on minimal NUMA nodes

 - Reorganize headers a bit, in preparation to header dependency
   reduction efforts

 - Misc cleanups &amp; fixes

* tag 'x86-mm-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Drop the 4 MB restriction on minimal NUMA node memory size
  selftests/x86/lam: Zero out buffer for readlink()
  x86/sev: Drop unneeded #include
  x86/sev: Move sev_setup_arch() to mem_encrypt.c
  x86/tdx: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strtomem_pad()
  selftests/x86/mm: Add new test that userspace stack is in fact NX
  x86/sev: Make boot_ghcb_page[] static
  x86/boot: Move x86_cache_alignment initialization to correct spot
  x86/sev-es: Set x86_virt_bits to the correct value straight away, instead of a two-phase approach
  x86/sev-es: Allow copy_from_kernel_nofault() in earlier boot
  x86_64: Show CR4.PSE on auxiliaries like on BSP
  x86/iommu/docs: Update AMD IOMMU specification document URL
  x86/sev/docs: Update document URL in amd-memory-encryption.rst
  x86/mm: Move arch_memory_failure() and arch_is_platform_page() definitions from &lt;asm/processor.h&gt; to &lt;asm/pgtable.h&gt;
  ACPI/NUMA: Apply SRAT proximity domain to entire CFMWS window
  x86/numa: Introduce numa_fill_memblks()
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