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Dave Hansen 1ca0f9e97f mm: add a ptdesc flag to mark kernel page tables 
commit 27bfafac65 upstream.

The page tables used to map the kernel and userspace often have very
different handling rules.  There are frequently *_kernel() variants of
functions just for kernel page tables.  That's not great and has lead to
code duplication.

Instead of having completely separate call paths, allow a 'ptdesc' to be
marked as being for kernel mappings.  Introduce helpers to set and clear
this status.

Note: this uses the PG_referenced bit.  Page flags are a great fit for
this since it is truly a single bit of information.  Use PG_referenced
itself because it's a fairly benign flag (as opposed to things like
PG_lock).  It's also (according to Willy) unlikely to go away any time
soon.

PG_referenced is not in PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE.  It does not need to be
cleared before freeing the page, and pages coming out of the allocator
should have it cleared.  Regardless, introduce an API to clear it anyway.
Having symmetry in the API makes it easier to change the underlying
implementation later, like if there was a need to move to a
PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE bit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082635.2462433-3-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com>
Cc: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-01-23 11:21:35 +01:00
arch LoongArch: KVM: Fix kvm_device leak in kvm_pch_pic_destroy() 2026-01-23 11:21:32 +01:00
block block: zero non-PI portion of auto integrity buffer 2026-01-23 11:21:16 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: seqiv - Do not use req->iv after crypto_aead_encrypt 2026-01-08 10:16:43 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-sm8550: Add missing required power-domains and resets 2026-01-02 12:57:27 +01:00
drivers dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: fix device leak on udma lookup 2026-01-23 11:21:35 +01:00
fs ext4: fix iloc.bh leak in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref 2026-01-23 11:21:28 +01:00
include mm: add a ptdesc flag to mark kernel page tables 2026-01-23 11:21:35 +01:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: move local task_work in exit cancel loop 2026-01-23 11:21:13 +01:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel hrtimer: Fix softirq base check in update_needs_ipi() 2026-01-23 11:21:28 +01:00
lib lib/buildid: use __kernel_read() for sleepable context 2026-01-23 11:21:25 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure 2026-01-23 11:21:30 +01:00
net net: can: j1939: j1939_xtp_rx_rts_session_active(): deactivate session upon receiving the second rts 2026-01-23 11:21:24 +01:00
rust rust: bitops: fix missing _find_* functions on 32-bit ARM 2026-01-23 11:21:12 +01:00
samples samples/ftrace: Adjust LoongArch register restore order in direct calls 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
scripts mcb: Add missing modpost build support 2026-01-08 10:16:47 +01:00
security landlock: Fix wrong type usage 2026-01-23 11:21:22 +01:00
sound ASoC: codecs: wsa881x: fix unnecessary initialisation 2026-01-23 11:21:28 +01:00
tools tools/testing/selftests: fix gup_longterm for unknown fs 2026-01-23 11:21:25 +01:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM: Fix last_boosted_vcpu index assignment bug 2026-01-02 12:57:21 +01:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +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: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap 8 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable, 7 are against mm/. 2025-11-26 12:38:05 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.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 MAINTAINERS: mark ISDN subsystem as orphan 2025-10-27 17:49:45 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS soc: fixes for 6.18, part 4 2025-11-28 09:57:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18.6 2026-01-17 16:35:34 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

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.