- various hotfixes and minor things
- hch's use_mm/unuse_mm clearnups
- new syscall process_madvise(): perform madvise() on a process other
than self
25 patches, based on 6f630784cc0d92fb58ea326e2bc01aa056279ecb.
Subsystems affected by this patch series:
mm/hugetlb
scripts
kcov
lib
nilfs
checkpatch
lib
mm/debug
ocfs2
lib
misc
mm/madvise
Subsystem: mm/hugetlb
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>:
khugepaged: selftests: fix timeout condition in wait_for_scan()
Subsystem: scripts
SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>:
scripts/spelling: add a few more typos
Subsystem: kcov
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>:
kcov: check kcov_softirq in kcov_remote_stop()
Subsystem: lib
Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c: document deliberate use of `&'
Subsystem: nilfs
Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>:
nilfs2: fix null pointer dereference at nilfs_segctor_do_construct()
Subsystem: checkpatch
Tim Froidcoeur <tim.froidcoeur@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
checkpatch: correct check for kernel parameters doc
Subsystem: lib
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
lib: fix bitmap_parse() on 64-bit big endian archs
Subsystem: mm/debug
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: fix kernel crash by checking for THP support
Subsystem: ocfs2
Keyur Patel <iamkeyur96@xxxxxxxxx>:
ocfs2: fix spelling mistake and grammar
Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>:
mm: add comments on pglist_data zones
Subsystem: lib
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>:
lib: test get_count_order/long in test_bitops.c
Subsystem: misc
Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
stacktrace: cleanup inconsistent variable type
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>:
Patch series "improve use_mm / unuse_mm", v2:
kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c
kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c
kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract
kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm
Subsystem: mm/madvise
Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
Patch series "introduce memory hinting API for external process", v7:
mm/madvise: pass task and mm to do_madvise
mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API
mm/madvise: check fatal signal pending of target process
pid: move pidfd_get_pid() to pid.c
mm/madvise: support both pid and pidfd for process_madvise
Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxx>:
mm/madvise: allow KSM hints for remote API
Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
mm: support vector address ranges for process_madvise
mm: use only pidfd for process_madvise syscall
YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>:
mm/madvise.c: remove duplicated include
arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1
arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl | 1
arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h | 2
arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h | 4
arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1
arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1
arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1
arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl | 3
arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl | 1
arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl | 3
arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 3
arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 3
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-fault.c | 4
arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 3
arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1
arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 3
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 3
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 5
arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd.h | 5
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd_arcturus.c | 1
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd_gfx_v10.c | 1
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd_gfx_v7.c | 2
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd_gfx_v8.c | 2
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd_gfx_v9.c | 2
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 2
drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 10
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 6
drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 6
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 8
fs/aio.c | 1
fs/io-wq.c | 15 -
fs/io_uring.c | 11
fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 2
fs/ocfs2/mmap.c | 2
include/linux/compat.h | 10
include/linux/kthread.h | 9
include/linux/mm.h | 3
include/linux/mmu_context.h | 5
include/linux/mmzone.h | 14
include/linux/pid.h | 1
include/linux/stacktrace.h | 2
include/linux/syscalls.h | 16 -
include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 7
kernel/exit.c | 17 -
kernel/kcov.c | 26 +
kernel/kthread.c | 95 +++++-
kernel/pid.c | 17 +
kernel/sys_ni.c | 2
lib/Kconfig.debug | 10
lib/bitmap.c | 9
lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c | 3
lib/test_bitops.c | 53 +++
mm/Makefile | 2
mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c | 6
mm/madvise.c | 295 ++++++++++++++------
mm/mmu_context.c | 64 ----
mm/oom_kill.c | 6
mm/vmacache.c | 4
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4
scripts/spelling.txt | 9
tools/testing/selftests/vm/khugepaged.c | 2
62 files changed, 526 insertions(+), 285 deletions(-)
