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| 06-Dec-2025 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko) fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c
- "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight) enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up the test module for these library functions
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich) makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB debugger
- "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang) adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire
- "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several users away from their private implementations
- "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet) makes TCP a little faster
- "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin) reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients
- "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin) increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO
- "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin) is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the cover letter:
This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec reboot.
Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and testing work.
- "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain) moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can hopefully be removed one day
- "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport) fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc() regions
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits) calibrate: update header inclusion Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()" vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec test_kho: always print restore status kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree() selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h ...
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| 25-Nov-2025 |
Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de> |
mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
The ability to preserve a memfd allows userspace to use KHO and LUO to transfer its memory contents to the next kernel. This is useful in many ways. For one,
mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
The ability to preserve a memfd allows userspace to use KHO and LUO to transfer its memory contents to the next kernel. This is useful in many ways. For one, it can be used with IOMMUFD as the backing store for IOMMU page tables. Preserving IOMMUFD is essential for performing a hypervisor live update with passthrough devices. memfd support provides the first building block for making that possible.
For another, applications with a large amount of memory that takes time to reconstruct, reboots to consume kernel upgrades can be very expensive. memfd with LUO gives those applications reboot-persistent memory that they can use to quickly save and reconstruct that state.
While memfd is backed by either hugetlbfs or shmem, currently only support on shmem is added. To be more precise, support for anonymous shmem files is added.
The handover to the next kernel is not transparent. All the properties of the file are not preserved; only its memory contents, position, and size. The recreated file gets the UID and GID of the task doing the restore, and the task's cgroup gets charged with the memory.
Once preserved, the file cannot grow or shrink, and all its pages are pinned to avoid migrations and swapping. The file can still be read from or written to.
Use vmalloc to get the buffer to hold the folios, and preserve it using kho_preserve_vmalloc(). This doesn't have the size limit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-15-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de> Co-developed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Cc: Aleksander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: anish kumar <yesanishhere@gmail.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Myugnjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com> Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr> Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev> Cc: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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