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# f4b369c6 20-Apr-2026 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 7.1 merge window.


Revision tags: v7.0, v7.0-rc7, v7.0-rc6, v7.0-rc5, v7.0-rc4
# 0421ccdf 12-Mar-2026 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v7.0-rc3' into next

Sync up with the mainline to brig up the latest changes, specifically
changes to ALPS driver.


# 26ff9699 13-Apr-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'rust-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux

Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"Toolchain and infrastructure:

- Bump the minimum Rust version to 1.85.0 (

Merge tag 'rust-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux

Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"Toolchain and infrastructure:

- Bump the minimum Rust version to 1.85.0 (and 'bindgen' to 0.71.1).

As proposed in LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1], we are
going to follow Debian Stable's Rust versions as our minimum
versions.

Debian Trixie was released on 2025-08-09 with a Rust 1.85.0 and
'bindgen' 0.71.1 toolchain, which is a fair amount of time for e.g.
kernel developers to upgrade.

Other major distributions support a Rust version that is high
enough as well, including:

+ Arch Linux.
+ Fedora Linux.
+ Gentoo Linux.
+ Nix.
+ openSUSE Slowroll and openSUSE Tumbleweed.
+ Ubuntu 25.10 and 26.04 LTS. In addition, 24.04 LTS using
their versioned packages.

The merged patch series comes with the associated cleanups and
simplifications treewide that can be performed thanks to both
bumps, as well as documentation updates.

In addition, start using 'bindgen''s '--with-attribute-custom-enum'
feature to set the 'cfi_encoding' attribute for the 'lru_status'
enum used in Binder.

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1]

- Add experimental Kconfig option ('CONFIG_RUST_INLINE_HELPERS') that
inlines C helpers into Rust.

Essentially, it performs a step similar to LTO, but just for the
helpers, i.e. very local and fast.

It relies on 'llvm-link' and its '--internalize' flag, and requires
a compatible LLVM between Clang and 'rustc' (i.e. same major
version, 'CONFIG_RUSTC_CLANG_LLVM_COMPATIBLE'). It is only enabled
for two architectures for now.

The result is a measurable speedup in different workloads that
different users have tested. For instance, for the null block
driver, it amounts to a 2%.

- Support global per-version flags.

While we already have per-version flags in many places, we didn't
have a place to set global ones that depend on the compiler
version, i.e. in 'rust_common_flags', which sometimes is needed to
e.g. tweak the lints set per version.

Use that to allow the 'clippy::precedence' lint for Rust < 1.86.0,
since it had a change in behavior.

- Support overriding the crate name and apply it to Rust Binder,
which wanted the module to be called 'rust_binder'.

- Add the remaining '__rust_helper' annotations (started in the
previous cycle).

'kernel' crate:

- Introduce the 'const_assert!' macro: a more powerful version of
'static_assert!' that can refer to generics inside functions or
implementation bodies, e.g.:

fn f<const N: usize>() {
const_assert!(N > 1);
}

fn g<T>() {
const_assert!(size_of::<T>() > 0, "T cannot be ZST");
}

In addition, reorganize our set of build-time assertion macros
('{build,const,static_assert}!') to live in the 'build_assert'
module.

Finally, improve the docs as well to clarify how these are
different from one another and how to pick the right one to use,
and their equivalence (if any) to the existing C ones for extra
clarity.

- 'sizes' module: add 'SizeConstants' trait.

This gives us typed 'SZ_*' constants (avoiding casts) for use in
device address spaces where the address width depends on the
hardware (e.g. 32-bit MMIO windows, 64-bit GPU framebuffers, etc.),
e.g.:

let gpu_heap = 14 * u64::SZ_1M;
let mmio_window = u32::SZ_16M;

- 'clk' module: implement 'Send' and 'Sync' for 'Clk' and thus
simplify the users in Tyr and PWM.

- 'ptr' module: add 'const_align_up'.

- 'str' module: improve the documentation of the 'c_str!' macro to
explain that one should only use it for non-literal cases (for the
other case we instead use C string literals, e.g. 'c"abc"').

- Disallow the use of 'CStr::{as_ptr,from_ptr}' and clean one such
use in the 'task' module.

- 'sync' module: finish the move of 'ARef' and 'AlwaysRefCounted'
outside of the 'types' module, i.e. update the last remaining
instances and finally remove the re-exports.

- 'error' module: clarify that 'from_err_ptr' can return 'Ok(NULL)',
including runtime-tested examples.

The intention is to hopefully prevent UB that assumes the result of
the function is not 'NULL' if successful. This originated from a
case of UB I noticed in 'regulator' that created a 'NonNull' on it.

Timekeeping:

- Expand the example section in the 'HrTimer' documentation.

- Mark the 'ClockSource' trait as unsafe to ensure valid values for
'ktime_get()'.

- Add 'Delta::from_nanos()'.

'pin-init' crate:

- Replace the 'Zeroable' impls for 'Option<NonZero*>' with impls of
'ZeroableOption' for 'NonZero*'.

- Improve feature gate handling for unstable features.

- Declutter the documentation of implementations of 'Zeroable' for
tuples.

- Replace uses of 'addr_of[_mut]!' with '&raw [mut]'.

rust-analyzer:

- Add type annotations to 'generate_rust_analyzer.py'.

- Add support for scripts written in Rust ('generate_rust_target.rs',
'rustdoc_test_builder.rs', 'rustdoc_test_gen.rs').

- Refactor 'generate_rust_analyzer.py' to explicitly identify host
and target crates, improve readability, and reduce duplication.

And some other fixes, cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'rust-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (79 commits)
rust: sizes: add SizeConstants trait for device address space constants
rust: kernel: update `file_with_nul` comment
rust: kbuild: allow `clippy::precedence` for Rust < 1.86.0
rust: kbuild: support global per-version flags
rust: declare cfi_encoding for lru_status
docs: rust: general-information: use real example
docs: rust: general-information: simplify Kconfig example
docs: rust: quick-start: remove GDB/Binutils mention
docs: rust: quick-start: remove Nix "unstable channel" note
docs: rust: quick-start: remove Gentoo "testing" note
docs: rust: quick-start: add Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and remove subsection title
docs: rust: quick-start: update minimum Ubuntu version
docs: rust: quick-start: update Ubuntu versioned packages
docs: rust: quick-start: openSUSE provides `rust-src` package nowadays
rust: kbuild: remove "dummy parameter" workaround for `bindgen` < 0.71.1
rust: kbuild: update `bindgen --rust-target` version and replace comment
rust: rust_is_available: remove warning for `bindgen` < 0.69.5 && libclang >= 19.1
rust: rust_is_available: remove warning for `bindgen` 0.66.[01]
rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
rust: block: update `const_refs_to_static` MSRV TODO comment
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# 7ab26eb5 07-Apr-2026 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Merge patch series "rust: bump minimum Rust and `bindgen` versions"

As proposed in the past in e.g. LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1],
we are going to follow Debian Stable's Rust versions as o

Merge patch series "rust: bump minimum Rust and `bindgen` versions"

As proposed in the past in e.g. LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1],
we are going to follow Debian Stable's Rust versions as our minimum
supported version.

Debian Trixie was released with a Rust 1.85.0 toolchain [2], which it
still uses to this day [3] (i.e. no update to Rust 1.85.1).

Debian Trixie was released with `bindgen` 0.71.1, which it also still
uses to this day [4].

Debian Trixie's release happened on 2025-08-09 [5], which means that a
fair amount of time has passed since its release for kernel developers
to upgrade.

Thus bump the minimum to the new versions, i.e.

- Rust: 1.78.0 -> 1.85.0
- bindgen: 0.65.1 -> 0.71.1

There are a few main parts to the series, in this order:

- A few cleanups that can be performed before the bumps.
- The Rust bump (and its cleanups).
- The `bindgen` bump (and its cleanups).
- Documentation updates.
- The `cfi_encoding` patch, added here, which needs the bump.
- The per-version flags support and a Clippy cleanup on top.

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1]
Link: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#desktops-and-well-known-packages [2]
Link: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/rustc [3]
Link: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/bindgen [4]
Link: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ [5]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405235309.418950-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

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# 9e5946de 06-Apr-2026 Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>

rust: declare cfi_encoding for lru_status

By default bindgen will convert 'enum lru_status' into a typedef for an
integer. For the most part, an integer of the same size as the enum
results in the c

rust: declare cfi_encoding for lru_status

By default bindgen will convert 'enum lru_status' into a typedef for an
integer. For the most part, an integer of the same size as the enum
results in the correct ABI, but in the specific case of CFI, that is not
the case. The CFI encoding is supposed to be the same as a struct called
'lru_status' rather than the name of the underlying native integer type.

To fix this, tell bindgen to generate a newtype and set the CFI type
explicitly. Note that we need to set the CFI attribute explicitly as
bindgen is using repr(transparent), which is otherwise identical to the
inner type for ABI purposes.

This allows us to remove the page range helper C function in Binder
without risking a CFI failure when list_lru_walk calls the provided
function pointer.

The --with-attribute-custom-enum argument requires bindgen v0.71 or
greater.

[ In particular, the feature was added in 0.71.0 [1][2].

In addition, `feature(cfi_encoding)` has been available since
Rust 1.71.0 [3].

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/2520 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2866 [2]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/105452 [3]

- Miguel ]

My testing procedure was to add this to the android17-6.18 branch and
verify that rust_shrink_free_page is successfully called without crash,
and verify that it does in fact crash when the cfi_encoding is set to
other values. Note that I couldn't test this on android16-6.12 as that
branch uses a bindgen version that is too old.

Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223-cfi-lru-status-v2-1-89c6448a63a4@google.com
[ Rebased on top of the minimum Rust version bump series which provide
the required `bindgen` version. - Miguel ]
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405235309.418950-32-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

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# 518b9ad2 06-Apr-2026 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

rust: kbuild: remove "`try` keyword" workaround for `bindgen` < 0.59.2

There is a workaround that has not been needed, even already after commit
08ab786556ff ("rust: bindgen: upgrade to 0.65.1"), bu

rust: kbuild: remove "`try` keyword" workaround for `bindgen` < 0.59.2

There is a workaround that has not been needed, even already after commit
08ab786556ff ("rust: bindgen: upgrade to 0.65.1"), but it does not hurt.

Thus remove it.

Reviewed-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405235309.418950-3-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v7.0-rc3, v7.0-rc2, v7.0-rc1
# ec496f77 09-Feb-2026 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>

Merge branch 'for-6.20/sony' into for-linus

- Support for Rock band 4 PS4 and PS5 guitars (Rosalie Wanders)


Revision tags: v6.19, v6.19-rc8, v6.19-rc7
# cc4adab1 20-Jan-2026 Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>

Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next

Merge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWC
config database defining UBWC_6).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.q

Merge tag 'v6.19-rc1' into msm-next

Merge Linux 6.19-rc1 in order to catch up with other changes (e.g. UBWC
config database defining UBWC_6).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>

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Revision tags: v6.19-rc6, v6.19-rc5, v6.19-rc4, v6.19-rc3, v6.19-rc2
# 5add3c3c 19-Dec-2025 Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

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

Backmerging to bring in 6.19-rc1. An important upstream bugfix and
to help unblock PTL CI.

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


# ec439c38 17-Dec-2025 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after 6.19-rc1

Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# b8304863 15-Dec-2025 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

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

Sync-up some display code needed for Async flips refactor.

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


# 7f790dd2 15-Dec-2025 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

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

Let's kickstart the v6.20 (7.0?) release cycle.

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


Revision tags: v6.19-rc1
# a4a508df 13-Dec-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.18' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the latest APIs.


# 24f171c7 21-Dec-2025 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.19

We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.19-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.19

We've been quite busy with fixes since the merge window, though not in
any particularly exciting ways - the standout thing is the fix for _SX
controls which were broken by a change to how we do clamping, otherwise
it's all fairly run of the mill fixes and quirks.

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# 84318277 15-Dec-2025 Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>

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

Pull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,
and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.

Signed-off-by: M

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

Pull in rc1 to include all changes since the merge window closed,
and grab all fixes and changes from drm/drm-next.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se>

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# 7203ca41 05-Dec-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

"__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

"__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki)
Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations
(GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT)

"ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin)
Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not
inherited across fork/exec

"mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park)
Some light maintenance work on the zswap code

"mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding
unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so
that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over
time

"mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn)
Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature

"Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra)
Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation

"kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov)

"drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom)
Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little

"mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang)
Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting
code

"mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn)
Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were
causing (harmless) softlockup warnings

"optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang)
Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim

"mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park)
Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature

"mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan)
Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace
configuration

"expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port
additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare()

"Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu)
Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU
code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a
stale kernel pagetable entry

"mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang)
Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code

"mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song)
Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code

"mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park)

"mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park)
Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the
middle of the current targets list

"mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo)
A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion

"mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He)
improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines

"mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista)
Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will
appear in kernel debug info

"ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes)
Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range

"mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park)
Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit
tests

"some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang)
Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
writeback-for-eviction code

"mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu)
Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file

"introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and
improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs

"mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region
operations

"vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox)
Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are
waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock

"mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park)
Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature

"mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)

"make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that
VMA is merged with another

"mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh)
Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
device-private memory

"Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan)

"mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang)
Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code

"mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the
concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t

"reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song)
Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in
preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory
resources

"unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang)
A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code

"zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio
writeback support

"memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt)
Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats

"make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola)
Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags

"mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang)
Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use
RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension

"mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park)
Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code

"initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we
stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit

"mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park)
Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things
up a little

[ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu:
register device memory for poison handling") because it looks
broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling
mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate
mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard
fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling
mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown
memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers
selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null
mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig
mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type
tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags
mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
mm: declare VMA flags by bit
zram: fix a spelling mistake
mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity
mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted
pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments
mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void
mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async
mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational
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Revision tags: v6.18
# 2b6a3f06 25-Nov-2025 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>

mm: declare VMA flags by bit

Patch series "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap", v3.

We are in the rather silly situation that we are running out of VMA flags
as they are currently limited to

mm: declare VMA flags by bit

Patch series "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap", v3.

We are in the rather silly situation that we are running out of VMA flags
as they are currently limited to a system word in size.

This leads to absurd situations where we limit features to 64-bit
architectures only because we simply do not have the ability to add a flag
for 32-bit ones.

This is very constraining and leads to hacks or, in the worst case, simply
an inability to implement features we want for entirely arbitrary reasons.

This also of course gives us something of a Y2K type situation in mm where
we might eventually exhaust all of the VMA flags even on 64-bit systems.

This series lays the groundwork for getting away from this limitation by
establishing VMA flags as a bitmap whose size we can increase in future
beyond 64 bits if required.

This is necessarily a highly iterative process given the extensive use of
VMA flags throughout the kernel, so we start by performing basic steps.

Firstly, we declare VMA flags by bit number rather than by value,
retaining the VM_xxx fields but in terms of these newly introduced
VMA_xxx_BIT fields.

While we are here, we use sparse annotations to ensure that, when dealing
with VMA bit number parameters, we cannot be passed values which are not
declared as such - providing some useful type safety.

We then introduce an opaque VMA flag type, much like the opaque mm_struct
flag type introduced in commit bb6525f2f8c4 ("mm: add bitmap mm->flags
field"), which we establish in union with vma->vm_flags (but still set at
system word size meaning there is no functional or data type size change).

We update the vm_flags_xxx() helpers to use this new bitmap, introducing
sensible helpers to do so.

This series lays the foundation for further work to expand the use of
bitmap VMA flags and eventually eliminate these arbitrary restrictions.


This patch (of 4):

In order to lay the groundwork for VMA flags being a bitmap rather than a
system word in size, we need to be able to consistently refer to VMA flags
by bit number rather than value.

Take this opportunity to do so in an enum which we which is additionally
useful for tooling to extract metadata from.

This additionally makes it very clear which bits are being used for what
at a glance.

We use the VMA_ prefix for the bit values as it is logical to do so since
these reference VMAs. We consistently suffix with _BIT to make it clear
what the values refer to.

We declare bit values even when the flags that use them would not be
enabled by config options as this is simply clearer and clearly defines
what bit numbers are used for what, at no additional cost.

We declare a sparse-bitwise type vma_flag_t which ensures that users can't
pass around invalid VMA flags by accident and prepares for future work
towards VMA flags being a bitmap where we want to ensure bit values are
type safe.

To make life easier, we declare some macro helpers - DECLARE_VMA_BIT()
allows us to avoid duplication in the enum bit number declarations (and
maintaining the sparse __bitwise attribute), and INIT_VM_FLAG() is used to
assist with declaration of flags.

Unfortunately we can't declare both in the enum, as we run into issue with
logic in the kernel requiring that flags are preprocessor definitions, and
additionally we cannot have a macro which declares another macro so we
must define each flag macro directly.

Additionally, update the VMA userland testing vma_internal.h header to
include these changes.

We also have to fix the parameters to the vma_flag_*_atomic() functions
since VMA_MAYBE_GUARD_BIT is now of type vma_flag_t and sparse will
complain otherwise.

We have to update some rather silly if-deffery found in mm/task_mmu.c
which would otherwise break.

Finally, we update the rust binding helper as now it cannot auto-detect
the flags at all.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1764064556.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a35e5a0bcfa00e84af24cbafc0653e74deda64a.1764064556.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> [rust]
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v6.18-rc7, v6.18-rc6, v6.18-rc5, v6.18-rc4
# cb9f145f 01-Nov-2025 Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next-robclark

Back-merge drm-next to get caught up.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>


Revision tags: v6.18-rc3, v6.18-rc2
# 82ee5025 14-Oct-2025 Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

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

Backmerging to bring in 6.18-rc1.

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


# 2acee98f 14-Oct-2025 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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

Sync to v6.18-rc1.

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


# 9b966ae4 13-Oct-2025 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

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

Updating drm-misc-next to the state of v6.18-rc1.

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


# 2ace5271 21-Nov-2025 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Merge branch 'objtool/core'

Bring in the UDB and objtool data annotations to avoid conflicts while further extending the bug exceptions.

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


# f39b6c46 18-Nov-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.18-rc6' into for-linus

Sync up with the mainline to bring in definition of
INPUT_PROP_HAPTIC_TOUCHPAD.


# 4f38da1f 13-Oct-2025 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

spi: Merge up v6.18-rc1

Ensure my CI has a sensible baseline.


# ec2e0fb0 16-Oct-2025 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.18-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.18

A moderately large collection of driver specific fixes, plus a f

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.18-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.18

A moderately large collection of driver specific fixes, plus a few new
quirks and device IDs. The NAU8821 changes are a little large but more
in mechanical ways than in ways that are complex.

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