Linux kernel documentation tree maintained by Jonathan Corbet http://mirrors.hust.edu.cn/git/lwn.git/atom?h=master 2026-04-17T03:11:56+00:00 2026-04-17T03:11:56+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-17T03:11:56+00:00 urn:sha1:440d6635b20037bc9ad46b20817d7b61cef0fc1b Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "pid: make sub-init creation retryable" (Oleg Nesterov) Make creation of init in a new namespace more robust by clearing away some historical cruft which is no longer needed. Also some documentation fixups - "selftests/fchmodat2: Error handling and general" (Mark Brown) Fix and a cleanup for the fchmodat2() syscall selftest - "lib: polynomial: Move to math/ and clean up" (Andy Shevchenko) - "hung_task: Provide runtime reset interface for hung task detector" (Aaron Tomlin) Give administrators the ability to zero out /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count - "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from tools/include/uapi" (Thomas Weißschuh) Teach getdelays to use the in-kernel UAPI headers rather than the system-provided ones - "watchdog/hardlockup: Improvements to hardlockup" (Mayank Rungta) Several cleanups and fixups to the hardlockup detector code and its documentation - "lib/bch: fix undefined behavior from signed left-shifts" (Josh Law) A couple of small/theoretical fixes in the bch code - "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()" (Junrui Luo) - "cleanup the RAID5 XOR library" (Christoph Hellwig) A quite far-reaching cleanup to this code. I can't do better than to quote Christoph: "The XOR library used for the RAID5 parity is a bit of a mess right now. The main file sits in crypto/ despite not being cryptography and not using the crypto API, with the generic implementations sitting in include/asm-generic and the arch implementations sitting in an asm/ header in theory. The latter doesn't work for many cases, so architectures often build the code directly into the core kernel, or create another module for the architecture code. Change this to a single module in lib/ that also contains the architecture optimizations, similar to the library work Eric Biggers has done for the CRC and crypto libraries later. After that it changes to better calling conventions that allow for smarter architecture implementations (although none is contained here yet), and uses static_call to avoid indirection function call overhead" - "lib/list_sort: Clean up list_sort() scheduling workarounds" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) Clean up this library code by removing a hacky thing which was added for UBIFS, which UBIFS doesn't actually need - "Fix bugs in extract_iter_to_sg()" (Christian Ehrhardt) Fix a few bugs in the scatterlist code, add in-kernel tests for the now-fixed bugs and fix a leak in the test itself - "kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and PowerPC" (Coiby Xu) Enable support of the LUKS-encrypted device dump target on arm64 and powerpc - "ocfs2: consolidate extent list validation into block read callbacks" (Joseph Qi) Cleanup, simplify, and make more robust ocfs2's validation of extent list fields (Kernel test robot loves mounting corrupted fs images!) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (127 commits) ocfs2: validate group add input before caching ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full doc: watchdog: fix typos etc update Sean's email address ocfs2: use get_random_u32() where appropriate ocfs2: split transactions in dio completion to avoid credit exhaustion ocfs2: remove redundant l_next_free_rec check in __ocfs2_find_path() ocfs2: validate extent block list fields during block read ocfs2: remove empty extent list check in ocfs2_dx_dir_lookup_rec() ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during block read ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_fault() when VM_FAULT_RETRY ocfs2: handle invalid dinode in ocfs2_group_extend .get_maintainer.ignore: add Askar ocfs2: validate bg_list extent bounds in discontig groups checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs tools/accounting: handle truncated taskstats netlink messages taskstats: set version in TGID exit notifications ocfs2/heartbeat: fix slot mapping rollback leaks on error paths arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel ... 2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-15T19:59:16+00:00 urn:sha1:334fbe734e687404f346eba7d5d96ed2b44d35ab Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ... 2026-04-15T00:16:38+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-15T00:16:38+00:00 urn:sha1:88b29f3f579987fff0d2bd726d5fa95a53f857fa Pull module updates from Sami Tolvanen: "Kernel symbol flags: - Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sections (__ksymtab_gpl and __kcrctab_gpl) with a unified symbol table and a new __kflagstab section. This section stores symbol flags, such as the GPL-only flag, as an 8-bit bitset for each exported symbol. This is a cleanup that simplifies symbol lookup in the module loader by avoiding table fragmentation and will allow a cleaner way to add more flags later if needed. Module signature UAPI: - Move struct module_signature to the UAPI headers to allow reuse by tools outside the kernel proper, such as kmod and scripts/sign-file. This also renames a few constants for clarity and drops unused signature types as preparation for hash-based module integrity checking work that's in progress. Sysfs: - Add a /sys/module/<module>/import_ns sysfs attribute to show the symbol namespaces imported by loaded modules. This makes it easier to verify driver API access at runtime on systems that care about such things (e.g. Android). Cleanups and fixes: - Force sh_addr to 0 for all sections in module.lds. This prevents non-zero section addresses when linking modules with 'ld.bfd -r', which confused elfutils. - Fix a memory leak of charp module parameters on module unload when the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SYSFS=n. - Override the -EEXIST error code returned by module_init() to userspace. This prevents confusion with the errno reserved by the module loader to indicate that a module is already loaded. - Simplify the warning message and drop the stack dump on positive returns from module_init(). - Drop unnecessary extern keywords from function declarations and synchronize parse_args() arguments with their implementation" * tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (23 commits) module: Simplify warning on positive returns from module_init() module: Override -EEXIST module return documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules module: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections in module loader module: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections module: populate kflagstab in modpost module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules module: define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags selftests/bpf: verify_pkcs7_sig: Use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers tools uapi headers: add linux/module_signature.h module: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name module: Give 'enum pkey_id_type' a more specific name module: Drop unused signature types extract-cert: drop unused definition of PKEY_ID_PKCS7 docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attribute module: expose imported namespaces via sysfs module: Remove extern keyword from param prototypes ... 2026-04-14T19:36:25+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-14T19:36:25+00:00 urn:sha1:7393febcb1b2082c0484952729cbebfe4dc508d5 Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "Mutexes: - Add killable flavor to guard definitions (Davidlohr Bueso) - Remove the list_head from struct mutex (Matthew Wilcox) - Rename mutex_init_lockep() (Davidlohr Bueso) rwsems: - Remove the list_head from struct rw_semaphore and replace it with a single pointer (Matthew Wilcox) - Fix logic error in rwsem_del_waiter() (Andrei Vagin) Semaphores: - Remove the list_head from struct semaphore (Matthew Wilcox) Jump labels: - Use ATOMIC_INIT() for initialization of .enabled (Thomas Weißschuh) - Remove workaround for old compilers in initializations (Thomas Weißschuh) Lock context analysis changes and improvements: - Add context analysis for rwsems (Peter Zijlstra) - Fix rwlock and spinlock lock context annotations (Bart Van Assche) - Fix rwlock support in <linux/spinlock_up.h> (Bart Van Assche) - Add lock context annotations in the spinlock implementation (Bart Van Assche) - signal: Fix the lock_task_sighand() annotation (Bart Van Assche) - ww-mutex: Fix the ww_acquire_ctx function annotations (Bart Van Assche) - Add lock context support in do_raw_{read,write}_trylock() (Bart Van Assche) - arm64, compiler-context-analysis: Permit alias analysis through __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y (Marco Elver) - Add __cond_releases() (Peter Zijlstra) - Add context analysis for mutexes (Peter Zijlstra) - Add context analysis for rtmutexes (Peter Zijlstra) - Convert futexes to compiler context analysis (Peter Zijlstra) Rust integration updates: - Add atomic fetch_sub() implementation (Andreas Hindborg) - Refactor various rust_helper_ methods for expansion (Boqun Feng) - Add Atomic<*{mut,const} T> support (Boqun Feng) - Add atomic operation helpers over raw pointers (Boqun Feng) - Add performance-optimal Flag type for atomic booleans, to avoid slow byte-sized RMWs on architectures that don't support them. (FUJITA Tomonori) - Misc cleanups and fixes (Andreas Hindborg, Boqun Feng, FUJITA Tomonori) LTO support updates: - arm64: Optimize __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y (Marco Elver) - compiler: Simplify generic RELOC_HIDE() (Marco Elver) Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups by Peter Zijlstra, Randy Dunlap, Thomas Weißschuh, Davidlohr Bueso and Mikhail Gavrilov" * tag 'locking-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) compiler: Simplify generic RELOC_HIDE() locking: Add lock context annotations in the spinlock implementation locking: Add lock context support in do_raw_{read,write}_trylock() locking: Fix rwlock support in <linux/spinlock_up.h> lockdep: Raise default stack trace limits when KASAN is enabled cleanup: Optimize guards jump_label: remove workaround for old compilers in initializations jump_label: use ATOMIC_INIT() for initialization of .enabled futex: Convert to compiler context analysis locking/rwsem: Fix logic error in rwsem_del_waiter() locking/rwsem: Add context analysis locking/rtmutex: Add context analysis locking/mutex: Add context analysis compiler-context-analysys: Add __cond_releases() locking/mutex: Remove the list_head from struct mutex locking/semaphore: Remove the list_head from struct semaphore locking/rwsem: Remove the list_head from struct rw_semaphore rust: atomic: Update a safety comment in impl of `fetch_add()` rust: sync: atomic: Update documentation for `fetch_add()` rust: sync: atomic: Add fetch_sub() ... 2026-04-14T17:53:44+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-14T17:53:44+00:00 urn:sha1:f21f7b5162e9dbde6d3d5ce727d4ca2552d76ce9 Pull vdso updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Make the handling of compat functions consistent and more robust - Rework the underlying data store so that it is dynamically allocated, which allows the conversion of the last holdout SPARC64 to the generic VDSO implementation - Rework the SPARC64 VDSO to utilize the generic implementation - Mop up the left overs of the non-generic VDSO support in the core code - Expand the VDSO selftest and make them more robust - Allow time namespaces to be enabled independently of the generic VDSO support, which was not possible before due to SPARC64 not using it - Various cleanups and improvements in the related code * tag 'timers-vdso-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits) timens: Use task_lock guard in timens_get*() timens: Use mutex guard in proc_timens_set_offset() timens: Simplify some calls to put_time_ns() timens: Add a __free() wrapper for put_time_ns() timens: Remove dependency on the vDSO vdso/timens: Move functions to new file selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Add a test for time() selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Use facilities from parse_vdso.c selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Handle different tv_usec types selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Drop SYS_getcpu fallbacks selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_gettimeofday: Remove nolibc checks Revert "selftests: vDSO: parse_vdso: Use UAPI headers instead of libc headers" random: vDSO: Remove ifdeffery random: vDSO: Trim vDSO includes vdso/datapage: Trim down unnecessary includes vdso/datapage: Remove inclusion of gettimeofday.h vdso/helpers: Explicitly include vdso/processor.h vdso/gettimeofday: Add explicit includes random: vDSO: Add explicit includes MIPS: vdso: Explicitly include asm/vdso/vdso.h ... 2026-04-14T17:27:07+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-14T17:27:07+00:00 urn:sha1:c1fe867b5bf9c57ab7856486d342720e2b205eed Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner: - A rework of the hrtimer subsystem to reduce the overhead for frequently armed timers, especially the hrtick scheduler timer: - Better timer locality decision - Simplification of the evaluation of the first expiry time by keeping track of the neighbor timers in the RB-tree by providing a RB-tree variant with neighbor links. That avoids walking the RB-tree on removal to find the next expiry time, but even more important allows to quickly evaluate whether a timer which is rearmed changes the position in the RB-tree with the modified expiry time or not. If not, the dequeue/enqueue sequence which both can end up in rebalancing can be completely avoided. - Deferred reprogramming of the underlying clock event device. This optimizes for the situation where a hrtimer callback sets the need resched bit. In that case the code attempts to defer the re-programming of the clock event device up to the point where the scheduler has picked the next task and has the next hrtick timer armed. In case that there is no immediate reschedule or soft interrupts have to be handled before reaching the reschedule point in the interrupt entry code the clock event is reprogrammed in one of those code paths to prevent that the timer becomes stale. - Support for clocksource coupled clockevents The TSC deadline timer is coupled to the TSC. The next event is programmed in TSC time. Currently this is done by converting the CLOCK_MONOTONIC based expiry value into a relative timeout, converting it into TSC ticks, reading the TSC adding the delta ticks and writing the deadline MSR. As the timekeeping core has the conversion factors for the TSC already, the whole back and forth conversion can be completely avoided. The timekeeping core calculates the reverse conversion factors from nanoseconds to TSC ticks and utilizes the base timestamps of TSC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC which are updated once per tick. This allows a direct conversion into the TSC deadline value without reading the time and as a bonus keeps the deadline conversion in sync with the TSC conversion factors, which are updated by adjtimex() on systems with NTP/PTP enabled. - Allow inlining of the clocksource read and clockevent write functions when they are tiny enough, e.g. on x86 RDTSC and WRMSR. With all those enhancements in place a hrtick enabled scheduler provides the same performance as without hrtick. But also other hrtimer users obviously benefit from these optimizations. - Robustness improvements and cleanups of historical sins in the hrtimer and timekeeping code. - Rewrite of the clocksource watchdog. The clocksource watchdog code has over time reached the state of an impenetrable maze of duct tape and staples. The original design, which was made in the context of systems far smaller than today, is based on the assumption that the to be monitored clocksource (TSC) can be trivially compared against a known to be stable clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM timer). Over the years this rather naive approach turned out to have major flaws. Long delays between the watchdog invocations can cause wrap arounds of the reference clocksource. The access to the reference clocksource degrades on large multi-sockets systems dure to interconnect congestion. This has been addressed with various heuristics which degraded the accuracy of the watchdog to the point that it fails to detect actual TSC problems on older hardware which exposes slow inter CPU drifts due to firmware manipulating the TSC to hide SMI time. The rewrite addresses this by: - Restricting the validation against the reference clocksource to the boot CPU which is usually closest to the legacy block which contains the reference clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM). - Do a round robin validation betwen the boot CPU and the other CPUs based only on the TSC with an algorithm similar to the TSC synchronization code during CPU hotplug. - Being more leniant versus remote timeouts - The usual tiny fixes, cleanups and enhancements all over the place * tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits) alarmtimer: Access timerqueue node under lock in suspend hrtimer: Fix incorrect #endif comment for BITS_PER_LONG check posix-timers: Fix stale function name in comment timers: Get this_cpu once while clearing the idle state clocksource: Rewrite watchdog code completely clocksource: Don't use non-continuous clocksources as watchdog x86/tsc: Handle CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES correctly MIPS: Don't select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG parisc: Remove unused clocksource flags hrtimer: Add a helper to retrieve a hrtimer from its timerqueue node hrtimer: Remove trailing comma after HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES hrtimer: Mark index and clockid of clock base as const hrtimer: Drop unnecessary pointer indirection in hrtimer_expire_entry event hrtimer: Drop spurious space in 'enum hrtimer_base_type' hrtimer: Don't zero-initialize ret in hrtimer_nanosleep() hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_get_expires_ns() timekeeping: Mark offsets array as const timekeeping/auxclock: Consistently use raw timekeeper for tk_setup_internals() timer_list: Print offset as signed integer tracing: Use explicit array size instead of sentinel elements in symbol printing ... 2026-04-14T15:55:18+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-14T15:55:18+00:00 urn:sha1:a970ed18812d0cf5e1f54401403300bb35b36433 Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov: - new API: bitmap_weight_from() and bitmap_weighted_xor() (Yury) - drop unused __find_nth_andnot_bit() (Yury) - new tests and test improvements (Andy, Akinobu, Yury) - fixes for count_zeroes API (Yury) - cleanup bitmap_print_to_pagebuf() mess (Yury) - documentation updates (Andy, Kai, Kit). * tag 'bitmap-for-v7.1' of https://github.com/norov/linux: (24 commits) bitops: Update kernel-doc for sign_extendXX() powerpc/xive: simplify xive_spapr_debug_show() thermal: intel: switch cpumask_get() to using cpumask_print_to_pagebuf() coresight: don't use bitmap_print_to_pagebuf() lib/prime_numbers: drop temporary buffer in dump_primes() drm/xe: switch xe_pagefault_queue_init() to using bitmap_weighted_or() ice: use bitmap_empty() in ice_vf_has_no_qs_ena ice: use bitmap_weighted_xor() in ice_find_free_recp_res_idx() bitmap: introduce bitmap_weighted_xor() bitmap: add test_zero_nbits() bitmap: exclude nbits == 0 cases from bitmap test bitmap: test bitmap_weight() for more asm-generic/bitops: Fix a comment typo in instrumented-atomic.h bitops: fix kernel-doc parameter name for parity8() lib: count_zeros: unify count_{leading,trailing}_zeros() lib: count_zeros: fix 32/64-bit inconsistency in count_trailing_zeros() lib: crypto: fix comments for count_leading_zeros() x86/topology: use bitmap_weight_from() bitmap: add bitmap_weight_from() lib/find_bit_benchmark: avoid clearing randomly filled bitmap in test_find_first_bit() ... 2026-04-13T21:20:11+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-04-13T21:20:11+00:00 urn:sha1:ef3da345ccb1fd70e2288b821301698483c6c35a Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events - fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery Fixes: - fix architecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 implementations - dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two - fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START - fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache - dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX Cleanups: - remove or unexport unused fs_context infrastructure - trivial ->setattr cleanups - selftests/filesystems: Assume that TIOCGPTPEER is defined - writeback: fix kernel-doc function name mismatch for wb_put_many() - autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink - init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine - fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations - readdir: Introduce dirent_size() - fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access - kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment - fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment - fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits) dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment proc: rename proc_notify_change to proc_setattr proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr affs: rename affs_notify_change to affs_setattr adfs: rename adfs_notify_change to adfs_setattr hfs: update comments on hfs_inode_setattr kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access readdir: Introduce dirent_size() coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events fs: remove do_sys_truncate fs: pass on FTRUNCATE_* flags to do_truncate fs: fix archiecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache ... 2026-04-05T20:53:05+00:00 Lance Yang lance.yang@linux.dev 2026-02-24T14:21:01+00:00 urn:sha1:1fb3d8c20bfadbbe2d9e5de18074de9282a52b5f When freeing page tables, we try to batch them. If batch allocation fails (GFP_NOWAIT), __tlb_remove_table_one() immediately frees the one without batching. On !CONFIG_PT_RECLAIM, the fallback sends an IPI to all CPUs via tlb_remove_table_sync_one(). It disrupts all CPUs even when only a single process is unmapping memory. IPI broadcast was reported to hurt RT workloads[1]. tlb_remove_table_sync_one() synchronizes with lockless page-table walkers (e.g. GUP-fast) that rely on IRQ disabling. These walkers use local_irq_disable(), which is also an RCU read-side critical section. This patch introduces tlb_remove_table_sync_rcu() which uses RCU grace period (synchronize_rcu()) instead of IPI broadcast. This provides the same guarantee as IPI but without disrupting all CPUs. Since batch allocation already failed, we are in a slow path where sleeping is acceptable - we are in process context (unmap_region, exit_mmap) with only mmap_lock held. tlb_remove_table_sync_one() is retained for other callers (e.g., khugepaged after pmdp_collapse_flush(), tlb_finish_mmu() when tlb->fully_unshared_tables) that are not slow paths. Converting those may require different approaches such as targeted IPIs. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1b27a3fa-359a-43d0-bdeb-c31341749367@kernel.org/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260202150957.GD1282955@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/dfdfeac9-5cd5-46fc-a5c1-9ccf9bd3502a@intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/bc489455-bb18-44dc-8518-ae75abda6bec@kernel.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260224142101.20500-1-lance.yang@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 2026-04-03T06:36:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2026-03-27T06:16:53+00:00 urn:sha1:e20043b4765cdf7ec8e963d706bb91469cba8cb8 Move the asm/xor.h headers to lib/raid/xor/$(SRCARCH)/xor_arch.h and include/linux/raid/xor_impl.h to lib/raid/xor/xor_impl.h so that the xor.ko module implementation is self-contained in lib/raid/. As this remove the asm-generic mechanism a new kconfig symbol is added to indicate that a architecture-specific implementations exists, and xor_arch.h should be included. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260327061704.3707577-22-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Tested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Li Nan <linan122@huawei.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>