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637315cb400eed1dbe721954fea437a61a2d65b2 - Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-7.3-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:07:31 +0200

Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-7.3-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEADKVM/riscv changes for 7.3- Svadu/Zicfiss/Zicfilp FWFT support for Guest- Use try_cmpxchg for IMSIC MRIF RMW- More arch-specific tracepoints in KVM RISC-V- Eager Page Splitting for KVM RISC-V- Optimize hfence request handling for SMP Guests- Improve dirty log clearing by skipping zero bits in mask- Guard HFENCE range loops against overflow- CPU PM notifiers in KVM RISC-V for non-retentive idle states- Fix kernel-mode vector context save/restore for Guest List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

efe86f088f48f18c27b648e5724048947f3b7fb4 - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:40:31 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-nextSync some i915/display changesSigned-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

6d177908bad5992e17669030db41caab88041d5e - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:55:43 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-nextSync with v7.2-rc1.Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

827b9aabd3ea3e96d5e48abed9f44dbd1e550d4e - Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:16:00 +0200

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-nextBackmerging to get drm-misc-next to v7.2-rc1.Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

7dd19adaaac9a161723a24de7c270861063ec6ac - Merge tag 'v7.2-rc1' into drm-rust-next

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:39:43 +0200

Merge tag 'v7.2-rc1' into drm-rust-nextMerge v7.2-rc1 into drm-rust-next to start the next cycle.Devres now requires T: 'static, which conflicts with shmem::Object usingDevres> without that bound. Resolve by adding 'staticas a supertrait to DriverObject and DeviceContext, which does notrestrict any current use cases since DriverObject is always implementedon owned, refcounted types and DeviceContext is a sealed marker traitwith only unit-type implementors.If DriverObject (or DeviceContext) ever becomes lifetime-parameterized(e.g. via a GAT for TTM backed objects), the 'static supertrait can berelaxed at that point.Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

0eaed89c18aeedf0898baf2dbf5ff027c6795152 - Merge tag 'timers-v7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/clocksource

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:29:52 +0200

Merge tag 'timers-v7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/clocksource - Use designated initializers for sh_mtu2, sh_cmt, and sh_tmu, and drop the unused initializer in the platform_device_id table for sh_mtu2 (Uwe Kleine-König) - Remove redundant dev_err()/dev_err_probe() messages when devm_request_*_irq() fails, as the helper already logs an error message (Pan Chuang) - Fix a boot hang on Allwinner D1 when a forced minimum delta is used with the sun4i timer (Felix Yan) - Fix an IRQ leak in the cpuhp_setup_state() error path by freeing the IRQ on failure in the NXP PIT driver (WenTao Liang) - Fix incorrect unmapping of shared MMIO between the clocksource and clockevent drivers. If one of them fails to initialize, the error path unmaps the shared MMIO region, leaving the other driver with an invalid mapping on clps711x (Guangshuo Li) - Make the samsung_pwm driver compatible with PREEMPT_RT by replacing regular spinlocks with raw_spinlock_t in atomic contexts (Marek Szyprowski) - Use __raw_readl() and __raw_writel() instead of ioread32() and iowrite32() to support SWAP_IO_SPACE in the rtl-otto driver (Rustam Adilov) - Fix a missing clk_disable_unprepare() call in the timer initialization error path of the Armada driver (Yuho Choi)Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75feea31-683d-45a1-87f4-ab045e0152ae@oss.qualcomm.com List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

b4d85f863e5a6f1fa01b186001af0f68f4f5239e - Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:26:07 +0200

Merge branch 'next' into for-linusPrepare input updates for 7.3 merge window. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

76904fccf81936c084faebc73ac72c0919a42941 - Merge tag 'v7.2-rc3' into next

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:06:00 +0200

Merge tag 'v7.2-rc3' into nextSync up with mainline to pull in stable fixes to avoid merge conflicts. List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

00599d4841790d05401820a96cf7edb193888b00 - Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:58:00 +0200

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixesPull in tag v7.2-rc1 so that drm-misc-fixes becomes useful again,and drm-misc-next-fixes can be closed.Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

7e0e7bd60d4a812b694c477716597fcb038b00cb - Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:29:45 +0200

Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfsPull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the lock in anon_pipe_write(). anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves 21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to selftests. - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr() helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC). - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program that was merged into systemd. - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio conversions and iomap migration. Fixes: - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo() callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning. - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs, qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a device with a sector size > PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them; the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the minix v3 block size fails. - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API. - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg() from read_lock(&tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID path. - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT. - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns() where the tests should SKIP. - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n. - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state. - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in validate_coredump_safety(). - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in __iomap_write_begin(). - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc. Cleanups: - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin() instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x prefixes. - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc() across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2, isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page allocator calls with kmalloc(). - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence. - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path() into start_removing_path(). - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(). - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 << n) for the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases. - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free() via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags. - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the allocation against multiplication overflow. - fs/pipe: write to ->poll_usage only once. - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd(). - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc(). - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts(). - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code. - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix assorted spelling mistakes"* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits) backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 << n) for O_ flags bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe->mutex in anon_pipe_write fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next() fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc() fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() ... List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

99f414273beda01a86c2fb66c2155da61335fa59 - Merge patch series "fs/pipe: reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock"

Thu, 28 May 2026 14:33:32 +0200

Merge patch series "fs/pipe: reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock"Breno Leitao says:While profiling Meta's caching code[1], I found pipe->mutex contentionon the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() onceper page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doingdirect reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the criticalsection and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.This series pre-allocates pages outside pipe->mutex inanon_pipe_write(): for writes that span more than one full page, upto PIPE_PREALLOC_MAX (8) pages are allocated via a per-pagealloc_page() loop before the mutex is taken. anon_pipe_get_page()then drains the prealloc array first, falls back to the per-pipetmp_page[] cache, and only enters the allocator under the mutex forthe leftover pages (writes larger than PIPE_PREALLOC_MAX, single-pagewrites that skip prealloc, or shortfalls when the prealloc loopfails). Leftover prealloc pages are recycled into tmp_page[] beforeunlock and any remainder is put_page()'d after unlock, keeping theallocator out of the critical section on both sides.alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy() looked tempting but the bulk allocatorrefuses __GFP_ACCOUNT under memcg -- it returns at most one pagewhen memcg_kmem_online() && (gfp & __GFP_ACCOUNT), see commit8dcb3060d81d ("memcg: page_alloc: skip bulk allocator for__GFP_ACCOUNT"). A per-page loop keeps memcg accounting and thetask NUMA mempolicy honoured uniformly without open-coding thecharge.I also vibe-coded a microbenchmark to validate the change. It sweepswriters x readers over {1,2,5} x {1,5,10} with 64KB writes against a1 MB pipe and prints throughput + latency percentiles per config.Measured on arm64 and also on x86 using virtme-ng (16 vCPUs, 64KBwrites, 1 MB pipe). The numbers below were collected on v1(alloc_pages_bulk()); v2's per-page loop preserves the dominant"allocation outside the mutex" win and is expected to land in the samerange.== No memory pressure (10s per config) == Throughput in MB/s (baseline -> patched, delta): writers readers=1 readers=5 readers=10 1 1119 -> 1354 (+21%) 1132 -> 1195 (+6%) 1060 -> 1240 (+17%) 2 1162 -> 1487 (+28%) 1034 -> 1285 (+24%) 1069 -> 1213 (+14%) 5 1152 -> 1357 (+18%) 1021 -> 1164 (+14%) 997 -> 1239 (+24%) Avg write latency in ns (baseline -> patched, delta): writers readers=1 readers=5 readers=10 1 55786 -> 46103 (-17%) 55164 -> 52260 (-5%) 58906 -> 50370 (-14%) 2 107546 -> 84011 (-22%) 120837 -> 97206 (-20%) 116860 -> 103036 (-12%) 5 271293 -> 230170 (-15%) 306089 -> 268429 (-12%) 313300 -> 252232 (-19%)Throughput improves +6% to +28% and average write latency drops 5%to 22% across every configuration.== Under memory pressure (--memory-pressure, 6s per config) ==stress-ng --vm 2 --vm-bytes 50% --vm-keep is forked alongside thesweep so the alloc_page() calls inside anon_pipe_write() routinelyhit direct reclaim -- exactly the regime the patch targets. Throughput in MB/s (baseline -> patched, delta): writers readers=1 readers=5 readers=10 1 1088 -> 1438 (+32%) 996 -> 1477 (+48%) 989 -> 1194 (+21%) 2 1076 -> 1378 (+28%) 1007 -> 1269 (+26%) 1018 -> 1234 (+21%) 5 1052 -> 1311 (+25%) 986 -> 1225 (+24%) 972 -> 1249 (+29%) Avg write latency in ns (baseline -> patched, delta): writers readers=1 readers=5 readers=10 1 57397 -> 43406 (-24%) 62690 -> 42272 (-33%) 63136 -> 52272 (-17%) 2 116121 -> 90700 (-22%) 124098 -> 98481 (-21%) 122754 -> 101217 (-18%) 5 297122 -> 238322 (-20%) 316836 -> 255095 (-19%) 321496 -> 250189 (-22%)Throughput improves +21% to +48% and average write latency drops17% to 33% -- a noticeably bigger win than the no-pressure run.That tracks: when alloc_page() has to dip into reclaim, the costof holding pipe->mutex across it is highest, and pulling theallocation out of the critical section pays the most.* patches from https://patch.msgid.link/20260524-fix_pipe-v3-0-bb4a75d23a90@debian.org: selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe->mutex in anon_pipe_writeLink: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc13/atc13-bronson.pdf [1]Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260524-fix_pipe-v3-0-bb4a75d23a90@debian.orgSigned-off-by: Christian Brauner List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile

d29bd8efe16239608b60173a7e8d842bcbfcd9e9 - selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark

Sun, 24 May 2026 16:44:59 +0200

selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmarkAdd a small selftest that stresses pipe->mutex contention by spawning Nwriter threads that hammer a single pipe with multi-page writes, plus Mreader threads that drain. Each writer records its own write() latencysamples into a log2-bucketed histogram; main aggregates and printstotal writes, throughput, average and percentile (p50/p99) latencies,and the maximum observed latency.Pass --memory-pressure to fork stress-ng (--vm 4 --vm-bytes 80%--vm-method all) for the duration of the run, so alloc_page() inanon_pipe_write() routinely hits direct reclaim. The flag failsfast if stress-ng is not on $PATH.Program print something like the following, for different writes,readers, msgsizes and memory pressure: config: writers=X readers=Y msgsize=Z duration=3 pipe_size=1048576 memory_pressure=[no|yes] writes: total=54451 rate=18150/s throughput_MBps: 1134.40 lat_avg_ns: 275355 lat_p50_ns_upper: 262143 lat_p99_ns_upper: 1048575 lat_max_ns: 2145633Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260524-fix_pipe-v3-2-bb4a75d23a90@debian.orgSigned-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) List of files: /linux/tools/testing/selftests/pipe/Makefile