Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: introduce HacKerMaiL

Patch series "Docs/mm/damon/maintaier-profile: document a mailing tool and
community meetup series", v2.

There is a mailing tool that develope

Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: introduce HacKerMaiL

Patch series "Docs/mm/damon/maintaier-profile: document a mailing tool and
community meetup series", v2.

There is a mailing tool that developed and maintained by DAMON
maintainer aiming to support DAMON community. Also there are DAMON
community meetup series. Both are known to have rooms of improvements
in terms of their visibility. Document those on the maintainer's
profile document.


This patch (of 2):

Since DAMON was merged into mainline, I periodically received some
questions around DAMON's mailing lists based workflow. The workflow is
not different from the normal ones that well documented, but it is also
true that it is not always easy and familiar for everyone.

I personally overcame it by developing and using a simple tool, named
HacKerMaiL (hkml)[1]. Based on my experience, I believe it is matured
enough to be used for simple workflows like that of DAMON. Actually some
DAMON contributors and Linux kernel developers other than myself told me
they are using the tool.

As DAMON maintainer, I also believe helping new DAMON community members
onboarding to the worklow is one of the most important parts of my
responsibilities. For the reason, the tool is announced[2] to support
DAMON community. To further increasing the visibility of the fact,
document the tool and the support plan on DAMON maintainer's profile.

[1] https://github.com/damonitor/hackermail
[2] https://github.com/damonitor/hackermail/commit/3909dad91301

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240621163626.74815-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240621163626.74815-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.11 merge window.

Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API.

Merge drm-misc-next-2024-07-04 into drm-misc-next-fixes

Let's start the drm-misc-next-fixes cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync to v6.10-rc3.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Needed to get tracing cleanup and add mmio tracing series.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm-misc/drm-misc-next' into HEAD

Merge drm-misc-next tree into the msm-next tree in order to be able to
use HDMI connector framework for the MSM HDMI driver.

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Let's start the new release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Some display refactoring patches are needed in order to allow conflict-
less merging.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

Merge branch 'tip/x86/cpu'

The Lunarlake patches rely on the new VFM stuff.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Merge topic branches 'clkdev' and 'fixes' into for-linus

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-fixes' into drm-misc-fixes

v6.10-rc1 is released, forward from v6.9

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
"The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
Notable series include:

- Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
API".

- In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
one test.

- In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
/proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

- Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
largely similar code sites.

- In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
efficiency.

- In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

- Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
memory almost met memcg limit".

- In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
performance improvement in one test.

- Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
free_area_init_core()".

- Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
"mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

- MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
follow_pfn".

- More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
page->flags cleanups".

- Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

- More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
"khugepaged folio conversions"
"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
"Use folio APIs in procfs"
"Clean up __folio_put()"
"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
"Remove page_mapping()"
"More folio compat code removal"

- David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
hugetlb functions to work on folis".

- Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

- Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

- Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

- Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
"support multi-size THP numa balancing".

- Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

- Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
"selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

- Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

- Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
permission page faults in the series
"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

- GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
it GUP-fast".

- hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
path to use struct vm_fault".

- selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

- Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
memory types works as intended.

- David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
follow_pte() fixes".

- David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

- Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
folio in KSM".

- Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
counters".

- Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

- Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
documentation".

- Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
optimizes the freeing of these things.

- Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

- Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
"Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

- Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

- SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

- Also some maintenance work in the series
"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

- David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
XFAIL".

- memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

- DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
"dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
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Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree

The document mentions any patches for review should based on mm-unstable
instead of damon/next. It should be the rec

Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree

The document mentions any patches for review should based on mm-unstable
instead of damon/next. It should be the recommended process, but
sometimes patches based on damon/next could be posted for some reasons.
Actually, the DAMON-based tiered memory management patchset[1] was written
on top of 'young page' DAMOS filter patchset, which was in damon/next tree
as of the writing.

Allow such case and just ask such things to be clearly specified.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20240405060858.2818-1-honggyu.kim@sk.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-11-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT

The document says the maintainer is working on only PST. The maintainer
respects daylight saving system, though. U

Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT

The document says the maintainer is working on only PST. The maintainer
respects daylight saving system, though. Update the time zone to PT.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240503180318.72798-10-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging drm-next in order to get up-to-date and in particular
to access commit 9ca5facd0400f610f3f7f71aeb7fc0b949a48c67.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <tho

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging drm-next in order to get up-to-date and in particular
to access commit 9ca5facd0400f610f3f7f71aeb7fc0b949a48c67.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

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Merge tag 'phy_dp_modes_6.10' into msm-next-lumag

Merge DisplayPort subnode API in order to allow DisplayPort driver to
configure the PHYs either to the DP or eDP mode, depending on hardware
configu

Merge tag 'phy_dp_modes_6.10' into msm-next-lumag

Merge DisplayPort subnode API in order to allow DisplayPort driver to
configure the PHYs either to the DP or eDP mode, depending on hardware
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catching up on 6.9-rc2

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.9-rc2 changes into drm-misc-next.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge branch 'topic/sound-devel-6.10' into for-next

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.9-rc1' into sched/core, to pick up fixes and to refresh the branch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.9-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.9

A relatively large set of fixes here, the biggest piece of it is a

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.9-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.9

A relatively large set of fixes here, the biggest piece of it is a
series correcting some problems with the delay reporting for Intel SOF
cards but there's a bunch of other things. Everything here is driver
specific except for a fix in the core for an issue with sign extension
handling volume controls.

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Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get drm-misc-fixes to the state of v6.9-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames
from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
"implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".

- More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series

"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"

- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
scalability of zswap rb-tree".

- Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
swap-intensive situations.

- And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.

- zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series
"mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".

- In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is
hotplugged as system memory.

- Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
which does that.

- More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series

"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"

- In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving
policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion
rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory
environments appearing with CXL.

- Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".

- Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".

- Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
tools to parse and process out selftesting results.

- Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the
process has a large number of pte-mapped folios.

- David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown
situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice.

- And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings"
Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's
series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.

- In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page
faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.

- In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction
test", Mark Brown did what the title claims.

- Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and
refactoring".

- Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
zswap kselftests" does as claimed.

- In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess
in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing
data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.

- Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides
dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during
certain userfaultfd operations.

- Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
in his series

"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"

- Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability
improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It
realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark.

- Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".

- Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series

"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"

- Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging
of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable >0 order folio
memory compaction".

- Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages()
to an iterator".

- Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
"Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".

- Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".

- David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
total_mapcount()", a cleanup.

- Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".

- Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which
are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.

- Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.

- Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
also. S390 is affected.

- Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
"mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".

- Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM
Selftests".

- Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
the individual changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits)
mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep
memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning
mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio
mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case
selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements
selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages
selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages
mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split
mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio
mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure
mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE
mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list
mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it
filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault()
mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check
mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount
mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs
mm/treewide: drop pXd_large()
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