kernel.git/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c, branch master

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-12-03T01:03:55Z

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "These are the arm64 updates for 6.19. The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/. There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd (similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and several cleanups/typos. Summary: Core features: - Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring) driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API Perf and PMU: - Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs - Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support for NVIDIA implementations - Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect - Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs - Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver - Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver Memory managemennt: - Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault - Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid - Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros - Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping() - Propagate return value from __change_memory_common() ACPI and EFI: - Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption - Remove unused ACPI function Miscellaneous: - ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems - Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ - Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test - Remove some no longer used macros/functions - Various spelling corrections" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits) arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init() perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4 perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects) perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe() dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch() arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state ...

arm64, tlbflush: don't TLBI broadcast if page reused in write fault

2025-11-19T16:01:48Z

A multi-thread customer workload with large memory footprint uses fork()/exec() to run some external programs every tens seconds. When running the workload on an arm64 server machine, it's observed that quite some CPU cycles are spent in the TLB flushing functions. While running the workload on the x86_64 server machine, it's not. This causes the performance on arm64 to be much worse than that on x86_64. During the workload running, after fork()/exec() write-protects all pages in the parent process, memory writing in the parent process will cause a write protection fault. Then the page fault handler will make the PTE/PDE writable if the page can be reused, which is almost always true in the workload. On arm64, to avoid the write protection fault on other CPUs, the page fault handler flushes the TLB globally with TLBI broadcast after changing the PTE/PDE. However, this isn't always necessary. Firstly, it's safe to leave some stale read-only TLB entries as long as they will be flushed finally. Secondly, it's quite possible that the original read-only PTE/PDEs aren't cached in remote TLB at all if the memory footprint is large. In fact, on x86_64, the page fault handler doesn't flush the remote TLB in this situation, which benefits the performance a lot. To improve the performance on arm64, make the write protection fault handler flush the TLB locally instead of globally via TLBI broadcast after making the PTE/PDE writable. If there are stale read-only TLB entries in the remote CPUs, the page fault handler on these CPUs will regard the page fault as spurious and flush the stale TLB entries. To test the patchset, make the usemem.c from vm-scalability (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/vm-scalability.git). support calling fork()/exec() periodically. To mimic the behavior of the customer workload, run usemem with 4 threads, access 100GB memory, and call fork()/exec() every 40 seconds. Test results show that with the patchset the score of usemem improves ~40.6%. The cycles% of TLB flush functions reduces from ~50.5% to ~0.3% in perf profile. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Barry Song Acked-by: Zi Yan Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Yin Fengwei Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

mm/huge_memory: Fix initialization of huge zero folio

2025-11-18T16:21:27Z

The recent fix to properly initialize the tags of the huge zero folio had an unfortunate not-so-subtle side effect: it caused the actual *contents* of the huge zero folio to not be initialized at all when the hardware didn't support the memory tagging. The reason was the unfortunate semantics of tag_clear_highpage(): on hardware that didn't do the tagging, it would silently just not do anything at all. And since this is done only on arm64 with MTE support, that basically meant most hardware. It wasn't necessarily immediately obvious since the huge zero page isn't necessarily very heavily used - or because it might already be zero because all-zeroes is the most common pattern. But it ends up causing random odd user space failures when you do hit it. The unfortunate semantics have been around for a while, but became a real bug only when we started actively using __GFP_ZEROTAGS in the generic get_huge_zero_folio() function - before that, it had only ever been used in code that checked that the hardware supported it. Fix this by simply changing the semantics of tag_clear_highpage() to return whether it actually successfully did something or not. While at it, also make it initialize multiple pages in one go, since that's actually what the only caller wants it to do and it simplifies the whole logic. Fixes: adfb6609c680 ("mm/huge_memory: initialise the tags of the huge zero folio") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251117082023.90176-1-00107082@163.com/ Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Reported-and-tested-by: David Wang <00107082@163.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Carlos Llamas Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/huge_memory: initialise the tags of the huge zero folio

2025-11-10T05:19:46Z

On arm64 with MTE enabled, a page mapped as Normal Tagged (PROT_MTE) in user space will need to have its allocation tags initialised. This is normally done in the arm64 set_pte_at() after checking the memory attributes. Such page is also marked with the PG_mte_tagged flag to avoid subsequent clearing. Since this relies on having a struct page, pte_special() mappings are ignored. Commit d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special") maps the huge zero folio special and the arm64 set_pmd_at() will no longer zero the tags. There is no guarantee that the tags are zero, especially if parts of this huge page have been previously tagged. It's fairly easy to detect this by regularly dropping the caches to force the reallocation of the huge zero folio. Allocate the huge zero folio with the __GFP_ZEROTAGS flag. In addition, do not warn in the arm64 __access_remote_tags() when reading tags from the huge zero page. I bundled the arm64 change in here as well since they are both related to the commit mapping the huge zero folio as special. [catalin.marinas@arm.com: handle arch mte_zero_clear_page_tags() code issuing MTE instructions] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aQi8dA_QpXM8XqrE@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251031170133.280742-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com Fixes: d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special") Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Tested-by: Beleswar Padhi Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Aishwarya TCV Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-07-31T21:57:54Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets. 21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up", "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc. I never knew the MM code was so dirty. "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent VMAs. "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park) adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production environments. "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig) is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control. "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom) contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and management code. "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman) does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code. "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts) implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading into order>0 folios. "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown) provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the selftests code. "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain) does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark. "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox) expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page(). "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand) addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be causing any issues at this time. "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park) provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON. "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes) uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other types. "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy) increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd code. "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple) removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags. "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park) implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON sysfs layer. "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes) does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code. "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka) provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort. "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador) creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes. Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline notifier. "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan) cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice. "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park) adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite. "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador) fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and follows that fix with a series of cleanups. "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport) rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator. "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code. "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park) adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code. "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park) does that. "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) also does what it claims. "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand) cleans up the large folio PTE batching code. "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park) facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy. "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola) provides a couple of page->folio conversions. "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso) implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the current memcg-based implementation. "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park) replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface. "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed reliably. "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga) switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range(). "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park) augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update interval. "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi) does what is claims. "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand) provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe directly. "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface. "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan) cleans up __folio_split()! "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain) provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing with large folios. "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian) does some cleanup work in the selftests code. "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes) extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" feature. "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park) extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal subset" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits) MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info() selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment ...

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-07-30T03:21:54Z

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "A quick summary: perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extensions (BRBE), typical PMU hardware updates, small additions to MTE for store-only tag checking and exposing non-address bits to signal handlers, HAVE_LIVEPATCH enabled on arm64, VMAP_STACK forced on. There is also a TLBI optimisation on hardware that does not require break-before-make when changing the user PTEs between contiguous and non-contiguous. More details: Perf and PMU updates: - Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs - Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts between clock domains within a given instance - Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval - Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE) - Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes - Minor driver fixes and cleanups Hardware features: - Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY) - Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR) - Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on hardware with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB conflict aborts Software features: - Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable() and using the text-poke API for late module relocations - Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives ACPI: - Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR table Debug: - Simplify the debug exception entry path - Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros Kselftests: - Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests Miscellaneous: - Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get() - Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling - Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic - Remove redundant gcs_free() call" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits) arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at() kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3 arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling ...

Merge branches 'for-next/livepatch', 'for-next/user-contig-bbml2', 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/acpi', 'for-next/debug-entry', 'for-next/feat_mte_tagged_far', 'for-next/kselftest', 'for-next/mdscr-cleanup' and 'for-next/vmap-stack', remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core

2025-07-24T15:01:22Z

* arm64/for-next/perf: (23 commits) drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling perf/cxlpmu: Fix typos in cxl_pmu.c comments and documentation perf/cxlpmu: Remove unintended newline from IRQ name format string perf/cxlpmu: Fix devm_kcalloc() argument order in cxl_pmu_probe() perf: arm_spe: Relax period restriction perf: arm_pmuv3: Add support for the Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE) KVM: arm64: nvhe: Disable branch generation in nVHE guests arm64: Handle BRBE booting requirements arm64/sysreg: Add BRBE registers and fields perf/arm: Add missing .suppress_bind_attrs perf/arm-cmn: Reduce stack usage during discovery perf: imx9_perf: make the read-only array mask static const perf/arm-cmn: Broaden module description for wider interconnect support ... * for-next/livepatch: : Support for HAVE_LIVEPATCH on arm64 arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered arm64: Implement HAVE_LIVEPATCH arm64: stacktrace: Implement arch_stack_walk_reliable() arm64: stacktrace: Check kretprobe_find_ret_addr() return value arm64/module: Use text-poke API for late relocations. * for-next/user-contig-bbml2: : Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contigous PTEs on hardware with BBML2 and no TLB conflict aborts arm64/mm: Elide tlbi in contpte_convert() under BBML2 iommu/arm: Add BBM Level 2 smmu feature arm64: Add BBM Level 2 cpu feature arm64: cpufeature: Introduce MATCH_ALL_EARLY_CPUS capability type * for-next/misc: : Miscellaneous arm64 patches arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at() arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct arm64: fix unnecessary rebuilding when CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI=y arm64/mm: Optimize loop to reduce redundant operations of contpte_ptep_get arm64: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile * for-next/acpi: : Various ACPI arm64 changes ACPI: Suppress misleading SPCR console message when SPCR table is absent ACPI: Return -ENODEV from acpi_parse_spcr() when SPCR support is disabled * for-next/debug-entry: : Simplify the debug exception entry path arm64: debug: remove debug exception registration infrastructure arm64: debug: split bkpt32 exception entry arm64: debug: split brk64 exception entry arm64: debug: split hardware watchpoint exception entry arm64: debug: split single stepping exception entry arm64: debug: refactor reinstall_suspended_bps() arm64: debug: split hardware breakpoint exception entry arm64: entry: Add entry and exit functions for debug exceptions arm64: debug: remove break/step handler registration infrastructure arm64: debug: call step handlers statically arm64: debug: call software breakpoint handlers statically arm64: refactor aarch32_break_handler() arm64: debug: clean up single_step_handler logic * for-next/feat_mte_tagged_far: : Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE tag check fault kselftest/arm64/mte: Add mtefar tests on check_mmap_options kselftest/arm64/mte: Refactor check_mmap_option test kselftest/arm64/mte: Add verification for address tag in signal handler kselftest/arm64/mte: Add address tag related macro and function kselftest/arm64/mte: Check MTE_FAR feature is supported kselftest/arm64/mte: Register mte signal handler with SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS kselftest/arm64: Add MTE_FAR hwcap test KVM: arm64: Expose FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR feature to guest arm64: Report address tag when FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR is supported arm64/cpufeature: Add FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR feature * for-next/kselftest: : Kselftest updates for arm64 kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3 kselftest/arm64: Specify SVE data when testing VL set in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Fix test for streaming FPSIMD write in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Fix check for setting new VLs in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Convert tpidr2 test to use kselftest.h * for-next/mdscr-cleanup: : Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros KVM: selftests: Change MDSCR_EL1 register holding variables as uint64_t arm64/debug: Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros * for-next/vmap-stack: : Force VMAP_STACK on arm64 arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from entry code arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from SDEI stack handling arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from stacktrace overflow logic arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from traps overflow stack arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from irq stack setup arm64: Remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from THREAD_SHIFT and THREAD_ALIGN arm64: efi: Remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK check arm64: Mandate VMAP_STACK arm64: efi: Fix KASAN false positive for EFI runtime stack arm64/ptrace: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() during flush_gcs() arm64: Restrict pagetable teardown to avoid false warning docs: arm64: Fix ICC_SRE_EL2 register typo in booting.rst

arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic

2025-07-17T10:07:15Z

Set TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK when SError or Synchronous External Abort (SEA) interrupts trigger a panic to flag potential hardware faults. This tainting mechanism aids in debugging and enables correlation of hardware-related crashes in large-scale deployments. This change aligns with similar patches[1] that mark machine check events when the system crashes due to hardware errors. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250702-add_tain-v1-1-9187b10914b9@debian.org/ [1] Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Acked-by: Mark Rutland Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250716-vmcore_hw_error-v2-1-f187f7d62aba@debian.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

mm: update architecture and driver code to use vm_flags_t

2025-07-10T05:42:14Z

In future we intend to change the vm_flags_t type, so it isn't correct for architecture and driver code to assume it is unsigned long. Correct this assumption across the board. Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6eb1894abc5555ece80bb08af5c022ef780c8bc.1750274467.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Acked-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

arm64: debug: remove debug exception registration infrastructure

2025-07-08T12:27:42Z

Now that debug exceptions are handled individually and without the need for dynamic registration, remove the unused registration infrastructure. This removes the external caller for `debug_exception_enter()` and `debug_exception_exit()`. Make them static again and remove them from the header. Remove `early_brk64()` as it has been made redundant by (arm64: debug: split brk64 exception entry) and is not used anymore. Note : in `early_brk64()` `bug_brk_handler()` is called unconditionally as a fall-through, but now `call_break_hook()` only calls it if the immediate matches. This does not change the behaviour in early boot, as if `bug_brk_handler()` was called on a non-BUG immediate it would return DBG_HOOK_ERROR anyway, which `call_break_hook()` will do if no immediate matches. Remove `trap_init()`, as it would be empty and a weak definition already exists in `init/main.c`. Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz Tested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves Reviewed-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Mark Rutland Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250707114109.35672-14-ada.coupriediaz@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon