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Linus Torvalds 5c00ff742b - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection algorithm.
   This leads to improved memory savings.
 
 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
 
 	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
 	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
 	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
 	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
 	- "refine storing null"
 
 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.
 
 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping code.
 
 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of shadow
   entries.
 
 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.
 
 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in the
   hugetlb code.
 
 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page into
   small pages.  Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP.  More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.
 
 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.
 
 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to do.
 
 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio size
   rather than as individual pages.  A 20% speedup was observed.
 
 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON splitting.
 
 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel Butt
   removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.
 
 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.
 
 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations" from
   Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for read-only-execute
   module text.
 
 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.
 
 - The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page->index in mm/.  A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.
 
 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.
 
 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression.  It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.
 
 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in tests
   over to the KUnit framework.
 
 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a single
   VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for this.
   Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are expected.
 
 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.
 
 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.
 
 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP from
   the kernel boot command line.
 
 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.
 
 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep is
   enabled.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
   Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
   algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.

 - Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
   series which clean up the implementation:
	- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
	- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
	- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
	- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
	- "refine storing null"

 - The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
   David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.

 - The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
   implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
   code.

 - The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
   optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
   shadow entries.

 - The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
   migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.

 - The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
   Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
   the hugetlb code.

 - The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
   takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
   into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
   consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.

 - The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
   Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.

 - The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
   optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
   do.

 - The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
   Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
   size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.

 - The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
   damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
   splitting.

 - The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
   Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.

 - The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
   addresses some potential performance issues.

 - The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
   from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
   read-only-execute module text.

 - The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
   feature.

 - The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
   most references to page->index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
   struct page.

 - The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
   interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
   DAMON's self testing code.

 - The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
   improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
   step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
   this zswap operation.

 - The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
   Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
   tests over to the KUnit framework.

 - The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
   permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
   single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
   this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
   expected.

 - The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
   tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
   activity.

 - The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
   fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.

 - The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
   Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
   from the kernel boot command line.

 - The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
   Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.

 - The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
   from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
   is enabled.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
  cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
  mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
  zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
  memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
  vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
  mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
  zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
  MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
  Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
  mm: define general function pXd_init()
  kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
  mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
  mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
  mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
  mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
  mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
  mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
  kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
  kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
  kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
  ...
2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
arch - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
block for-6.13/block-20241118 2024-11-18 16:50:08 -08:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Random number generator updates for Linux 6.13-rc1. 2024-11-19 10:43:44 -08:00
Documentation - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
drivers - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
fs - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
include - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
init tracing updates for v6.13: 2024-11-22 13:27:01 -08:00
io_uring A rather large update for timekeeping and timers: 2024-11-19 16:35:06 -08:00
ipc fdget(), more trivial conversions 2024-11-03 01:28:06 -05:00
kernel - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
lib - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
net Networking changes for 6.13. 2024-11-21 08:28:08 -08:00
rust Networking changes for 6.13. 2024-11-21 08:28:08 -08:00
samples bpf-next-bpf-next-6.13 2024-11-21 08:11:04 -08:00
scripts - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
security \n 2024-11-21 09:55:45 -08:00
sound - Several drivers, including atmel-flexcom/rk8xx-core, palmas, and 2024-11-22 16:19:47 -08:00
tools - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt the bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff 2024-11-18 12:24:06 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v6.12 2024-09-24 13:02:06 -07:00
.mailmap media updates for v6.13-rc1 2024-11-20 14:01:15 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS cgroup: Changes for v6.13 2024-11-20 09:54:49 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS - The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from 2024-11-23 09:58:07 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.12 2024-11-17 14:15:08 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.