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Pasha Tatashin 99cd2ffac6 kho: don't unpreserve memory during abort
KHO allows clients to preserve memory regions at any point before the KHO
state is finalized.  The finalization process itself involves KHO
performing its own actions, such as serializing the overall preserved
memory map.

If this finalization process is aborted, the current implementation
destroys KHO's internal memory tracking structures
(`kho_out.ser.track.orders`).  This behavior effectively unpreserves all
memory from KHO's perspective, regardless of whether those preservations
were made by clients before the finalization attempt or by KHO itself
during finalization.

This premature unpreservation is incorrect.  An abort of the finalization
process should only undo actions taken by KHO as part of that specific
finalization attempt.  Individual memory regions preserved by clients
prior to finalization should remain preserved, as their lifecycle is
managed by the clients themselves.  These clients might still need to call
kho_unpreserve_folio() or kho_unpreserve_phys() based on their own logic,
even after a KHO finalization attempt is aborted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251101142325.1326536-7-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
block block-6.18-20251031 2025-10-31 12:57:19 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
Documentation crash: export crashkernel CMA reservation to userspace 2025-11-20 14:03:44 -08:00
drivers lib/base64: add support for multiple variants 2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
fs Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
include kho: add interfaces to unpreserve folios, page ranges, and vmalloc 2025-11-27 14:24:32 -08:00
init init/main.c: wrap long kernel cmdline when printing to logs 2025-11-12 10:00:16 -08:00
io_uring io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation 2025-11-07 17:17:13 -07:00
ipc ipc: create_ipc_ns: drop mqueue mount on sysctl setup failure 2025-11-12 10:00:15 -08:00
kernel kho: don't unpreserve memory during abort 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
lib test_kho: unpreserve memory in case of error 2025-11-27 14:24:32 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm memblock: unpreserve memory in case of error 2025-11-27 14:24:32 -08:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. 2025-11-06 08:52:30 -08:00
rust rbtree: inline rb_last() 2025-11-27 14:24:30 -08:00
samples selftests: complete kselftest include centralization 2025-11-27 14:24:31 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
security integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.18 2025-10-30 13:08:08 +01:00
tools kho: make debugfs interface optional 2025-11-27 14:24:31 -08:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: 2025-10-18 10:25:43 +02:00
.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
.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 Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -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 CREDITS: update Martin's information 2025-11-12 10:00:14 -08:00
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 kho: make debugfs interface optional 2025-11-27 14:24:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc5 2025-11-09 15:10:19 -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.