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Linus Torvalds
36ae1c45b2 Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Scheduler Kconfig space updates:

   - Further consolidate configurable preemption modes (Peter Zijlstra)

     Reduce the number of architectures that are allowed to offer
     PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number of
     preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy' on
     up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc, riscv, s390,
     x86).

     None and voluntary are only available as legacy features on
     platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet, or which don't
     even support preemption.

     The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and voluntary
     preemption altogether.

  RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support (Thomas Gleixner
  and Peter Zijlstra):

  This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it enters
  a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when the thread
  is scheduled out inside of the critical section.

   - Add fields and constants for time slice extension
   - Provide static branch for time slice extensions
   - Add statistics for time slice extensions
   - Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions
   - Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()
   - Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions
   - Implement time slice extension enforcement timer
   - Reset slice extension when scheduled
   - Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension()
   - entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension
   - selftests: Implement time slice extension test
   - Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension
   - Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs
   - Lower default slice extension
   - selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script

  Scheduler performance/scalability improvements:

   - Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU, which
     improves the scalability of various workloads (Shubhang Kaushik)

   - Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching (Blake Jones)

   - Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups (Shrikanth Hegde):
      - Move checking for nohz cpus after time check
      - Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus
      - Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead

   - Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo)

   - Cleanups (Yury Norov):
      - Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu()
      - Simplify task_numa_find_cpu()
      - Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group()

  DL scheduler updates:

   - Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and Joel
     Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra)

  RT scheduler updates:

   - Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang)

  Entry code updates and performance improvements (Jinjie Ruan)

  This is part of the scheduler tree in this cycle due to inter-
  dependencies with the RSEQ based time slice extension work:

    - Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
    - Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
    - Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
    - Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()

  Scheduler core updates (Peter Zijlstra):

   - Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()
   - Avoid rq->lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle()
   - Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() =>
            rcu_dereference_sched_domain()
   - <linux/compiler_types.h>: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper

  Fair scheduler updates/refactoring (Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar):

   - Fold the sched_avg update
   - Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched
   - Switch to rcu_dereference_all()
   - Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock()
   - Limit hrtick work
   - Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks
   - Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq'
   - Separate se->vlag from se->vprot
   - Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight
   - Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime & helper functions
   - Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers for
     wrapped-signed aritmetics
   - Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise

  Scheduler debugging code updates:

   - Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco)

   - Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user()
     (Fushuai Wang)

   - Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra)

   - hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

   - Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled
     cgroups (Zicheng Qu)

   - Remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig)

   - Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng)

   - sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
     (zenghongling)"

* tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups
  sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
  sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu()
  sched/clock: Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime
  selftests/sched_ext: Add test for DL server total_bw consistency
  selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server
  sched/debug: Fix dl_server (re)start conditions
  sched/debug: Add support to change sched_ext server params
  sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks
  sched/debug: Stop and start server based on if it was active
  sched/debug: Fix updating of ppos on server write ops
  sched/deadline: Clear the defer params
  entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
  entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
  entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
  entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
  sched: remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping
  sched: Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU
  selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
  hrtimer: Fix trace oddity
  ...
2026-02-10 12:50:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
72c395024d Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is
  still a fair amount going on, including:

   - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation

   - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for
     patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption
     by generative tools

   - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to
     tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink
     behind to avoid breaking scripts

   - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of
     documentation in Python code, better support for documenting
     variables, and lots of improvements and fixes

   - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example --
     to the online pages in the HTML build

  ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such"

* tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits)
  doc: development-process: add notice on testing
  tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message
  docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q
  docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools
  docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree'
  docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation
  docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst
  docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete
  docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers
  Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
  docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent
  docs: add parse_features module documentation
  docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements
  docs: add jobserver module documentation
  docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value
  docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8
  docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot
  docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: add kabi modules documentation
  ...
2026-02-09 20:53:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
33120a2f8f Merge tag 'for-linus-7.0-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - fix running as Xen PVH guest in 32-bit mode without PAE

 - fix PV device handling for suspend/resume when running as
   a Xen guest

 - clean up workqueue usage

 - fix the Xen balloon driver for PVH dom0

 - introduce the possibility to use hypercalls for console
   messages in unprivileged guests

 - enable Xen dom0 use of virtio devices in nested virtualization
   setups

 - simplify the xen-mcelog driver

* tag 'for-linus-7.0-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xenbus: Rename helpers to freeze/thaw/restore
  xenbus: Use .freeze/.thaw to handle xenbus devices
  xen/mcelog: simplify MCE_GETCLEAR_FLAGS using xchg()
  xen/balloon: improve accuracy of initial balloon target for dom0
  Partial revert "x86/xen: fix balloon target initialization for PVH dom0"
  xen: introduce xen_console_io option
  xen/virtio: Don't use grant-dma-ops when running as Dom0
  x86/xen/pvh: Enable PAE mode for 32-bit guest only when CONFIG_X86_PAE is set
  xen: privcmd: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
  xen/events: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
2026-02-09 20:38:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
996812c453 Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs initrd removal from Christian Brauner:
 "Remove the deprecated linuxrc-based initrd code path and related dead
  code. The linuxrc initrd path was deprecated in 2020 and this series
  completes its removal. If we see real-life regressions we'll revert.

  The core change removes handle_initrd() and init_linuxrc() — the
  entire flow that ran /linuxrc from an initrd, pivoted roots, and
  handed off to the real root filesystem. With that gone, initrd_load()
  becomes void (no longer short-circuits prepare_namespace()),
  rd_load_image() is simplified to always load /initrd.image instead of
  taking a path, and rd_load_disk() is deleted.

  The /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev sysctl and its backing variable are
  removed since they only existed for linuxrc to communicate the real
  root device back to the kernel.

  The no-op load_ramdisk= and prompt_ramdisk= parameters are dropped,
  and noinitrd and ramdisk_start= gain deprecation warnings.

  Initramfs is entirely unaffected. The non-linuxrc initrd path
  (root=/dev/ram0) is preserved but now carries a deprecation warning
  targeting January 2027 removal"

* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
  initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc)
  init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameters
2026-02-09 11:03:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ef852baaf6 Merge tag 'rcu.release.v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Boqun Feng:

 - RCU Tasks Trace:

   Re-implement RCU tasks trace in term of SRCU-fast, not only more than
   500 lines of code are saved because of the reimplementation, a new
   set of API, rcu_read_{,un}lock_tasks_trace(), becomes possible as
   well. Compared to the previous rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace(), the new
   API avoid the task_struct accesses thanks to the SRCU-fast semantics.

   As a result, the old rcu_read{,un}lock_trace() API is now deprecated.

 - RCU Torture Test:
    - Multiple improvements on kvm-series.sh (parallel run and
      progress showing metrics)
    - Add context checks to rcu_torture_timer()
    - Make config2csv.sh properly handle comments in .boot files
    - Include commit discription in testid.txt

 - Miscellaneous RCU changes:
    - Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency by reporting GP kthread's
      CPU QS early
    - Use suitable gfp_flags for the init_srcu_struct_nodes()
    - Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to softirq
    - Correctly compute probability to invoke ->exp_current()
      in rcutorture
    - Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings detect stall-end races

 - RCU nocb:
    - Remove unnecessary WakeOvfIsDeferred wake path and callback
      overload handling
    - Extract nocb_defer_wakeup_cancel() helper

* tag 'rcu.release.v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (25 commits)
  rcu/nocb: Extract nocb_defer_wakeup_cancel() helper
  rcu/nocb: Remove dead callback overload handling
  rcu/nocb: Remove unnecessary WakeOvfIsDeferred wake path
  rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency by reporting GP kthread's CPU QS early
  srcu: Use suitable gfp_flags for the init_srcu_struct_nodes()
  rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to softirq
  rcutorture: Correctly compute probability to invoke ->exp_current()
  rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings detect stall-end races
  rcutorture: Add --kill-previous option to terminate previous kvm.sh runs
  rcutorture: Prevent concurrent kvm.sh runs on same source tree
  torture: Include commit discription in testid.txt
  torture: Make config2csv.sh properly handle comments in .boot files
  torture: Make kvm-series.sh give run numbers and totals
  torture: Make kvm-series.sh give build numbers and totals
  torture: Parallelize kvm-series.sh guest-OS execution
  rcutorture: Add context checks to rcu_torture_timer()
  rcutorture: Test rcu_tasks_trace_expedite_current()
  srcu: Create an rcu_tasks_trace_expedite_current() function
  checkpatch: Deprecate rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace()
  rcu: Update Requirements.rst for RCU Tasks Trace
  ...
2026-02-09 09:46:26 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
3e4067169c Merge branch 'v6.19-rc8'
Update to avoid conflicts with /urgent patches.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2026-02-03 12:04:13 +01:00
Li Chen
1a47837bfa Documentation: document liveupdate cmdline parameter
liveupdate is used to enable Live Update Orchestrator (LUO) early during
boot.  Add it to kernel-parameters.txt so users can discover and use it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260130112036.359806-1-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-02 18:43:56 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
f8380f9768 rseq: Provide static branch for time slice extensions
Guard the time slice extension functionality with a static key, which can
be disabled on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155708.733429292@linutronix.de
2026-01-22 11:11:16 +01:00
Marc Herbert
d9d25684e9 docs: make kptr_restrict and hash_pointers reference each other
vsprintf.c uses a mix of the `kernel.kptr_restrict` sysctl and the
`hash_pointers` boot param to control pointer hashing. But that wasn't
possible to tell without looking at the source code.

They have a different focus and purpose. To avoid wasting the time of
users trying to use one instead of the other, simply have them reference
each other in the Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260107-doc-hash-ptr-v2-1-cb4c161218d7@linux.intel.com>
2026-01-16 11:31:58 -07:00
Marco Elver
6ac166a0c8 docs: kernel-parameters: add kfence parameters
Add a brief summary for KFENCE's kernel command-line parameters in
admin-guide/kernel-parameters.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251222150018.1349672-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-14 22:16:20 -08:00
Stefano Stabellini
763baca7bf xen: introduce xen_console_io option
Xen can support console_io hypercalls for any domains, not just dom0,
depending on DEBUG and XSM policies. These hypercalls can be very useful
for development and debugging.

Introduce a kernel command line option xen_console_io to enable the
usage of console_io hypercalls for any domain upon request. When
xen_console_io is not specified, the current behavior is retained.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2601131522540.992863@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop>
2026-01-14 14:43:57 +01:00
Askar Safin
c350a65b56 initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc)
Remove linuxrc initrd code path, which was deprecated in 2020.

Initramfs and (non-initial) RAM disks (i. e. brd) still work.

Both built-in and bootloader-supplied initramfs still work.

Non-linuxrc initrd code path (i. e. using /dev/ram as final root
filesystem) still works, but I put deprecation message into it.

Also I deprecate command line parameters "noinitrd" and "ramdisk_start=".

Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119222407.3333257-3-safinaskar@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-12 17:22:22 +01:00
Yu Liao
be5c6ec660 Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add tsa under mitigations=off
On X86 AMD systems, mitigations=off also disables the Transient
Scheduler Attacks (TSA) mitigation. Add it to the list.

Signed-off-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu.ly@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251225121438.38427-1-liaoyu.ly@bytedance.com>
2026-01-06 15:23:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
a73fc3dcc6 rcu: Clean up after the SRCU-fastification of RCU Tasks Trace
Now that RCU Tasks Trace has been re-implemented in terms of SRCU-fast,
the ->trc_ipi_to_cpu, ->trc_blkd_cpu, ->trc_blkd_node, ->trc_holdout_list,
and ->trc_reader_special task_struct fields are no longer used.

In addition, the rcu_tasks_trace_qs(), rcu_tasks_trace_qs_blkd(),
exit_tasks_rcu_finish_trace(), and rcu_spawn_tasks_trace_kthread(),
show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread(), rcu_tasks_trace_get_gp_data(),
rcu_tasks_trace_torture_stats_print(), and get_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread()
functions and all the other functions that they invoke are no longer used.

Also, the TRC_NEED_QS and TRC_NEED_QS_CHECKED CPP macros are no longer used.
Neither are the rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms and rcu_task_ipi_delay rcupdate
module parameters and the TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option.

This commit therefore removes all of them.

[ paulmck: Apply Alexei Starovoitov feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
2026-01-01 16:39:46 +08:00
Askar Safin
7f3b336685 init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameters
...which do nothing. They were deprecated (in documentation) in
6b99e6e6aa ("Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of
"rdev"") in 2020 and in kernel messages in c8376994c8 ("initrd: remove
support for multiple floppies") in 2020.

Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119222407.3333257-2-safinaskar@gmail.com
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-12-15 14:32:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
67a454e6b1 Merge tag 'memblock-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock
Pull memblock update from Mike Rapoport:
 "Introduce a 'check_pages' boot parameter to decouple simple checks for
  page state on allocation and free from CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.

  This allows enabling page checking without building kernel with
  CONFIG_DEBUG_VM or forcing init_on_{alloc, free} or other heavier
  mechanisms"

* tag 'memblock-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock:
  mm/mm_init: Introduce a boot parameter for check_pages
2025-12-07 08:56:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
509d3f4584 Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
   fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c

 - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
   enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
   the test module for these library functions

 - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
   makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
   debugger

 - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
   adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
   the hung-task and lockup detectors fire

 - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
   adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
   users away from their private implementations

 - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
   makes TCP a little faster

 - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
   reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
   Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients

 - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
   increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO

 - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
   is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
   cover letter:

      This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
      subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
      kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
      environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
      downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
      preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
      devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.

      As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
      memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
      as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
      RAM across the kexec reboot.

   Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
   testing work.

 - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
   moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
   /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
   hopefully be removed one day

 - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
   fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
   regions

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
  calibrate: update header inclusion
  Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
  vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
  kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
  kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
  MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
  init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
  KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
  Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
  Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
  kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
  test_kho: always print restore status
  kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
  selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions
  selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO
  selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests
  docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO
  mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
  liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
  mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h
  ...
2025-12-06 14:01:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
416f99c3b1 Merge tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
 "Arch Topology:
   - Move parse_acpi_topology() from arm64 to common code for reuse in
     RISC-V

  CPU:
   - Expose housekeeping CPUs through /sys/devices/system/cpu/housekeeping
   - Print a newline (or 0x0A) instead of '(null)' reading
     /sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full when nohz_full= is not set

  debugfs
   - Remove (broken) 'no-mount' mode
   - Remove redundant access mode checks in debugfs_get_tree() and
     debugfs_create_*() functions

  Devres:
   - Remove unused devm_free_percpu() helper
   - Move devm_alloc_percpu() from device.h to devres.h

  Firmware Loader:
   - Replace simple_strtol() with kstrtoint()
   - Do not call cancel_store() when no upload is in progress

  kernfs:
   - Increase struct super_block::maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
   - Fix a missing unwind path in __kernfs_new_node()

  Misc:
   - Increase the name size in struct auxiliary_device_id to 40
     characters
   - Replace system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq and add WQ_PERCPU to
     alloc_workqueue()

  Platform:
   - Replace ERR_PTR() with IOMEM_ERR_PTR() in platform ioremap
     functions

  Rust:
   - Auxiliary:
      - Unregister auxiliary device on parent device unbind
      - Move parent() to impl Device; implement device context aware
        parent() for Device<Bound>
      - Illustrate how to safely obtain a driver's device private data
        when calling from an auxiliary driver into the parant device
        driver

   - DebugFs:
      - Implement support for binary large objects

   - Device:
      - Let probe() return the driver's device private data as pinned
        initializer, i.e. impl PinInit<Self, Error>
      - Implement safe accessor for a driver's device private data for
        Device<Bound> (returned reference can't out-live driver binding
        and guarantees the correct private data type)
      - Implement AsBusDevice trait, to be used by class device
        abstractions to derive the bus device type of the parent device

   - DMA:
      - Store raw pointer of allocation as NonNull
      - Use start_ptr() and start_ptr_mut() to inherit correct
        mutability of self

   - FS:
      - Add file::Offset type alias

   - I2C:
      - Add abstractions for I2C device / driver infrastructure
      - Implement abstractions for manual I2C device registrations

   - I/O:
      - Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
      - Define ResourceSize as resource_size_t
      - Move ResourceSize to top-level I/O module
      - Add type alias for phys_addr_t
      - Implement Rust version of read_poll_timeout_atomic()

   - PCI:
      - Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
      - Move I/O and IRQ infrastructure to separate files
      - Add support for PCI interrupt vectors
      - Implement TryInto<IrqRequest<'a>> for IrqVector<'a> to convert
        an IrqVector bound to specific pci::Device into an IrqRequest
        bound to the same pci::Device's parent Device
      - Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ
        methods

   - PinInit:
      - Add {pin_}init_scope() to execute code before creating an
        initializer

   - Platform:
      - Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ
        methods

   - Timekeeping:
      - Implement abstraction of udelay()

   - Uaccess:
      - Implement read_slice_partial() and read_slice_file() for
        UserSliceReader
      - Implement write_slice_partial() and write_slice_file() for
        UserSliceWriter

  sysfs:
   - Prepare the constification of struct attribute"

* tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (75 commits)
  rust: pci: fix build failure when CONFIG_PCI_MSI is disabled
  debugfs: Fix default access mode config check
  debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode
  debugfs: Remove redundant access mode checks
  driver core: Check drivers_autoprobe for all added devices
  driver core: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
  driver core: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
  tick/nohz: Expose housekeeping CPUs in sysfs
  tick/nohz: avoid showing '(null)' if nohz_full= not set
  sysfs/cpu: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO for nohz_full attribute
  kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in __kernfs_new_node
  fs/kernfs: raise sb->maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
  mod_devicetable: Bump auxiliary_device_id name size
  sysfs: simplify attribute definition macros
  samples/kobject: constify 'struct foo_attribute'
  samples/kobject: add is_visible() callback to attribute group
  sysfs: attribute_group: enable const variants of is_visible()
  sysfs: introduce __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE()
  sysfs: transparently handle const pointers in ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS()
  sysfs: attribute_group: allow registration of const attribute
  ...
2025-12-05 21:29:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ad952db4a8 Merge tag 'powerpc-6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Restore clearing of MSR[RI] at interrupt/syscall exit on 32-bit

 - Fix unpaired stwcx on interrupt exit on 32-bit

 - Fix race condition leading to double list-add in
   mac_hid_toggle_emumouse()

 - Fix mprotect on book3s 32-bit

 - Fix SLB multihit issue during SLB preload with 64-bit hash MMU

 - Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation

 - Add die_id and die_cpumask for Power10 & later to expose chip
   hemispheres

 - A series of minor fixes and improvements to the hash SLB code

Thanks to Antonio Alvarez Feijoo, Ben Collins, Bhaskar Chowdhury,
Christophe Leroy, Daniel Thompson, Dave Vasilevsky, Donet Tom,
J. Neuschäfer, Kunwu Chan, Long Li, Naresh Kamboju, Nathan Chancellor,
Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Shirisha G, Shrikanth Hegde, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stephen Rothwell, Thomas Zimmermann, Venkat Rao Bagalkote,
and Vishal Chourasia.

* tag 'powerpc-6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (32 commits)
  macintosh/via-pmu-backlight: Include <linux/fb.h> and <linux/of.h>
  powerpc/powermac: backlight: Include <linux/of.h>
  powerpc/64s/slb: Add no_slb_preload early cmdline param
  powerpc/64s/slb: Make preload_add return type as void
  powerpc/ptdump: Dump PXX level info for kernel_page_tables
  powerpc/64s/pgtable: Enable directMap counters in meminfo for Hash
  powerpc/64s/hash: Update directMap page counters for Hash
  powerpc/64s/hash: Hash hpt_order should be only available with Hash MMU
  powerpc/64s/hash: Improve hash mmu printk messages
  powerpc/64s/hash: Fix phys_addr_t printf format in htab_initialize()
  powerpc/64s/ptdump: Fix kernel_hash_pagetable dump for ISA v3.00 HPTE format
  powerpc/64s/hash: Restrict stress_hpt_struct memblock region to within RMA limit
  powerpc/64s/slb: Fix SLB multihit issue during SLB preload
  powerpc, mm: Fix mprotect on book3s 32-bit
  powerpc/smp: Expose die_id and die_cpumask
  powerpc/83xx: Add a null pointer check to mcu_gpiochip_add
  arch:powerpc:tools This file was missing shebang line, so added it
  kexec: Include kernel-end even without crashkernel
  powerpc: p2020: Rename wdt@ nodes to watchdog@
  powerpc: 86xx: Rename wdt@ nodes to watchdog@
  ...
2025-12-05 16:18:21 -08:00
Joshua Hahn
83c8f7b5e1 mm/mm_init: Introduce a boot parameter for check_pages
Use-after-free and double-free bugs can be very difficult to track down.
The kernel is good at tracking these and preventing bad pages from being
used/created through simple checks gated behind "check_pages_enabled".

Currently, the only ways to enable this flag is by building with
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, or as a side effect of other checks such as
init_on_{alloc, free}, page_poisoning, or debug_pagealloc among others.
These solutions are powerful, but may often be too coarse in balancing
the performance vs. safety that a user may want, particularly in
latency-sensitive production environments.

Introduce a new boot parameter "check_pages", which enables page checking
with no other side effects. It takes kstrbool-able inputs as an argument
(i.e. 0/1, true/false, on/off, ...). This patch is backwards-compatible;
setting CONFIG_DEBUG_VM still enables page checking.

Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251201180739.2330474-1-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2025-12-04 19:40:25 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
f96163865a Merge tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This has been another busy cycle for documentation, with a lot of
  build-system thrashing. That work should slow down from here on out.

   - The various scripts and tools for documentation were spread out in
     several directories; now they are (almost) all coalesced under
     tools/docs/. The holdout is the kernel-doc script, which cannot be
     easily moved without some further thought.

   - As the amount of Python code increases, we are accumulating modules
     that are imported by multiple programs. These modules have been
     pulled together under tools/lib/python/ -- at least, for
     documentation-related programs. There is other Python code in the
     tree that might eventually want to move toward this organization.

   - The Perl kernel-doc.pl script has been removed. It is no longer
     used by default, and nobody has missed it, least of all anybody who
     actually had to look at it.

   - The docs build was controlled by a complex mess of makefilese that
     few dared to touch. Mauro has moved that logic into a new program
     (tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper) that, with any luck at all, will
     be far easier to understand and maintain.

   - The get_feat.pl program, used to access information under
     Documentation/features/, has been rewritten in Python, bringing an
     end to the use of Perl in the docs subsystem.

   - The top-level README file has been reorganized into a more
     reader-friendly presentation.

   - A lot of Chinese translation additions

   - Typo fixes and documentation updates as usual"

* tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (164 commits)
  docs: makefile: move rustdoc check to the build wrapper
  README: restructure with role-based documentation and guidelines
  docs: kdoc: various fixes for grammar, spelling, punctuation
  docs: kdoc_parser: use '@' for Excess enum value
  docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that removal of Acks needs explanation too
  docs: kdoc_parser: add data/function attributes to ignore
  docs: MAINTAINERS: update Mauro's files/paths
  docs/zh_CN: Add wd719x.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: Add libsas.rst translation
  get_feat.pl: remove it, as it got replaced by get_feat.py
  Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py: use class directly
  tools/docs/get_feat.py: convert get_feat.pl to Python
  Documentation/admin-guide: fix typo and comment in cscope example
  docs/zh_CN: Add data-integrity.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: Add blk-mq.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: Add block/index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: Update the Chinese translation of kbuild.rst
  docs: bring some order to our Python module hierarchy
  docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python
  Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options
  ...
2025-12-03 11:34:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d348c22394 Merge tag 'pm-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "There are quite a few interesting things here, including new hardware
  support, new features, some bug fixes and documentation updates. In
  addition, there are a usual bunch of minor fixes and cleanups all
  over.

  In the new hardware support category, there are intel_pstate and
  intel_rapl driver updates to support new processors, Panther Lake,
  Wildcat Lake, Noval Lake, and Diamond Rapids in the OOB mode, OPP and
  bandwidth allocation support in the tegra186 cpufreq driver, and
  JH7110S SOC support in dt-platdev cpufreq.

  The new features are the PM QoS CPU latency limit for suspend-to-idle,
  the netlink support for the energy model management, support for
  terminating system suspend via a wakeup event during the sync of file
  systems, configurable number of hibernation compression threads, the
  runtime PM auto-cleanup macros, and the "poweroff" PM event that is
  expected to be used during system shutdown.

  Bugs are mostly fixed in cpuidle governors, but there are also fixes
  elsewhere, like in the amd-pstate cpufreq driver.

  Documentation updates include, but are not limited to, a new doc on
  debugging shutdown hangs, cross-referencing fixes and cleanups in the
  intel_pstate documentation, and updates of comments in the core
  hibernation code.

  Specifics:

   - Introduce and document a QoS limit on CPU exit latency during
     wakeup from suspend-to-idle (Ulf Hansson)

   - Add support for building libcpupower statically (Zuo An)

   - Add support for sending netlink notifications to user space on
     energy model updates (Changwoo Mini, Peng Fan)

   - Minor improvements to the Rust OPP interface (Tamir Duberstein)

   - Fixes to scope-based pointers in the OPP library (Viresh Kumar)

   - Use residency threshold in polling state override decisions in the
     menu cpuidle governor (Aboorva Devarajan)

   - Add sanity check for exit latency and target residency in the
     cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Use this_cpu_ptr() where possible in the teo governor (Christian
     Loehle)

   - Rework the handling of tick wakeups in the teo cpuidle governor to
     increase the likelihood of stopping the scheduler tick in the cases
     when tick wakeups can be counted as non-timer ones (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Fix a reverse condition in the teo cpuidle governor and drop a
     misguided target residency check from it (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Clean up multiple minor defects in the teo cpuidle governor (Rafael
     Wysocki)

   - Update header inclusion to make it follow the Include What You Use
     principle (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Enable MSR-based RAPL PMU support in the intel_rapl power capping
     driver and arrange for using it on the Panther Lake and Wildcat
     Lake processors (Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan)

   - Add support for Nova Lake and Wildcat Lake processors to the
     intel_rapl power capping driver (Kaushlendra Kumar, Srinivas
     Pandruvada)

   - Add OPP and bandwidth support for Tegra186 (Aaron Kling)

   - Optimizations for parameter array handling in the amd-pstate
     cpufreq driver (Mario Limonciello)

   - Fix for mode changes with offline CPUs in the amd-pstate cpufreq
     driver (Gautham Shenoy)

   - Preserve freq_table_sorted across suspend/hibernate in the cpufreq
     core (Zihuan Zhang)

   - Adjust energy model rules for Intel hybrid platforms in the
     intel_pstate cpufreq driver and improve printing of debug messages
     in it (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Replace deprecated strcpy() in cpufreq_unregister_governor()
     (Thorsten Blum)

   - Fix duplicate hyperlink target errors in the intel_pstate cpufreq
     driver documentation and use :ref: directive for internal linking
     in it (Swaraj Gaikwad, Bagas Sanjaya)

   - Add Diamond Rapids OOB mode support to the intel_pstate cpufreq
     driver (Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan)

   - Use mutex guard for driver locking in the intel_pstate driver and
     eliminate some code duplication from it (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Replace udelay() with usleep_range() in ACPI cpufreq (Kaushlendra
     Kumar)

   - Minor improvements to various cpufreq drivers (Christian Marangi,
     Hal Feng, Jie Zhan, Marco Crivellari, Miaoqian Lin, and Shuhao Fu)

   - Replace snprintf() with scnprintf() in show_trace_dev_match()
     (Kaushlendra Kumar)

   - Fix memory allocation error handling in pm_vt_switch_required()
     (Malaya Kumar Rout)

   - Introduce CALL_PM_OP() macro and use it to simplify code in generic
     PM operations (Kaushlendra Kumar)

   - Add module param to backtrace all CPUs in the device power
     management watchdog (Sergey Senozhatsky)

   - Rework message printing in swsusp_save() (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Make it possible to change the number of hibernation compression
     threads (Xueqin Luo)

   - Clarify that only cgroup1 freezer uses PM freezer (Tejun Heo)

   - Add document on debugging shutdown hangs to PM documentation and
     correct a mistaken configuration option in it (Mario Limonciello)

   - Shut down wakeup source timer before removing the wakeup source
     from the list (Kaushlendra Kumar, Rafael Wysocki)

   - Introduce new PMSG_POWEROFF event for system shutdown handling with
     the help of PM device callbacks (Mario Limonciello)

   - Make pm_test delay interruptible by wakeup events (Riwen Lu)

   - Clean up kernel-doc comment style usage in the core hibernation
     code and remove unuseful comments from it (Sunday Adelodun, Rafael
     Wysocki)

   - Add support for handling wakeup events and aborting the suspend
     process while it is syncing file systems (Samuel Wu, Rafael
     Wysocki)

   - Add WQ_UNBOUND to pm_wq workqueue (Marco Crivellari)

   - Add runtime PM wrapper macros for ACQUIRE()/ACQUIRE_ERR() and use
     them in the PCI core and the ACPI TAD driver (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Improve runtime PM in the ACPI TAD driver (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Update pm_runtime_allow/forbid() documentation (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Fix typos in runtime.c comments (Malaya Kumar Rout)

   - Move governor.h from devfreq under include/linux/ and rename to
     devfreq-governor.h to allow devfreq governor definitions in out of
     drivers/devfreq/ (Dmitry Baryshkov)

   - Use min() to improve readability in tegra30-devfreq.c (Thorsten
     Blum)

   - Fix potential use-after-free issue of OPP handling in
     hisi_uncore_freq.c (Pengjie Zhang)

   - Fix typo in DFSO_DOWNDIFFERENTIAL macro name in
     governor_simpleondemand.c in devfreq (Riwen Lu)"

* tag 'pm-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (96 commits)
  PM / devfreq: Fix typo in DFSO_DOWNDIFFERENTIAL macro name
  cpuidle: Warn instead of bailing out if target residency check fails
  cpuidle: Update header inclusion
  Documentation: power/cpuidle: Document the CPU system wakeup latency QoS
  cpuidle: Respect the CPU system wakeup QoS limit for cpuidle
  sched: idle: Respect the CPU system wakeup QoS limit for s2idle
  pmdomain: Respect the CPU system wakeup QoS limit for cpuidle
  pmdomain: Respect the CPU system wakeup QoS limit for s2idle
  PM: QoS: Introduce a CPU system wakeup QoS limit
  cpuidle: governors: teo: Add missing space to the description
  PM: hibernate: Extra cleanup of comments in swap handling code
  PM / devfreq: tegra30: use min to simplify actmon_cpu_to_emc_rate
  PM / devfreq: hisi: Fix potential UAF in OPP handling
  PM / devfreq: Move governor.h to a public header location
  powercap: intel_rapl: Enable MSR-based RAPL PMU support
  powercap: intel_rapl: Prepare read_raw() interface for atomic-context callers
  cpufreq: qcom-nvmem: fix compilation warning for qcom_cpufreq_ipq806x_match_list
  PM: sleep: Call pm_sleep_fs_sync() instead of ksys_sync_helper()
  PM: sleep: Add support for wakeup during filesystem sync
  cpufreq: ACPI: Replace udelay() with usleep_range()
  ...
2025-12-02 17:31:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2ae20d6510 Merge tag 'x86_cache_for_v6.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 resource control updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add support for AMD's Smart Data Cache Injection feature which allows
   for direct insertion of data from I/O devices into the L3 cache, thus
   bypassing DRAM and saving its bandwidth; the resctrl side of the
   feature allows the size of the L3 used for data injection to be
   controlled

 - Add Intel Clearwater Forest to the list of CPUs which support
   Sub-NUMA clustering

 - Other fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_cache_for_v6.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  fs/resctrl: Update bit_usage to reflect io_alloc
  fs/resctrl: Introduce interface to modify io_alloc capacity bitmasks
  fs/resctrl: Modify struct rdt_parse_data to pass mode and CLOSID
  fs/resctrl: Introduce interface to display io_alloc CBMs
  fs/resctrl: Add user interface to enable/disable io_alloc feature
  fs/resctrl: Introduce interface to display "io_alloc" support
  x86,fs/resctrl: Implement "io_alloc" enable/disable handlers
  x86,fs/resctrl: Detect io_alloc feature
  x86/resctrl: Add SDCIAE feature in the command line options
  x86/cpufeatures: Add support for L3 Smart Data Cache Injection Allocation Enforcement
  fs/resctrl: Consider sparse masks when initializing new group's allocation
  x86/resctrl: Support Sub-NUMA Cluster (SNC) mode on Clearwater Forest
2025-12-02 11:55:58 -08:00
Aaron Thompson
f278809475 debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode
debugfs access modes were added in Linux 5.10 (Dec 2020) [1], but the
no-mount mode has behaved effectively the same as the off mode since
Linux 5.12 (Apr 2021) [2]. The only difference is the specific error
code returned by the debugfs_create_* functions, which is -ENOENT in
no-mount mode and -EPERM in off mode.

Given that no-mount hasn't worked for several years with no complaints,
just remove it.

[1] a24c6f7bc9 ("debugfs: Add access restriction option")

[2] bc6de804d3 ("debugfs: be more robust at handling improper input in debugfs_lookup()")
    56348560d4 ("debugfs: do not attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is initalized")

Signed-off-by: Aaron Thompson <dev@aaront.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120102222.18371-3-dev@null.aaront.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-11-27 10:45:20 +01:00
Babu Moger
4d4840b125 x86/resctrl: Add SDCIAE feature in the command line options
Add a kernel command-line parameter to enable or disable the exposure of
the L3 Smart Data Cache Injection Allocation Enforcement (SDCIAE) hardware
feature to resctrl.

Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c623edf7cb369ba9da966de47d9f1b666778a40e.1762995456.git.babu.moger@amd.com
2025-11-21 22:03:23 +01:00
Borislav Petkov (AMD)
f690e07859 Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options
Move the kernel build options abbreviations to the .txt file so that
they are together instead of one having to go hunt them in the .rst
file.

Tweak the formatting so that the inclusion of kernel-parameters.txt
still keeps the whole thing somewhat presentable in the html output too.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251112114641.8230-1-bp@kernel.org>
2025-11-18 09:18:51 -07:00
Xie Yuanbin
46a47693e1 Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix typo in retbleed= kernel parameter description
Fixes a typo in the retbleed= parameter description, changing
"migitation" to "mitigation".

Fixes: 7fbf47c7ce ("x86/bugs: Add AMD retbleed= boot parameter")

Signed-off-by: Xie Yuanbin <qq570070308@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251116145302.3681-1-qq570070308@gmail.com>
2025-11-18 09:12:17 -07:00
Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
5b3a426aff powerpc/64s/slb: Add no_slb_preload early cmdline param
no_slb_preload cmdline can come useful in quickly disabling and/or
testing the performance impact of userspace slb preloads. Recently there
was a slb multi-hit issue due to slb preload cache which was very
difficult to triage. This cmdline option allows to quickly disable
preloads and verify if the issue exists in preload cache or somewhere
else. This can also be a useful option to see the effect of slb preloads
for any application workload e.g. number of slb faults with or w/o slb
preloads.

with slb_preload:
slb_faults (minimal initrd boot): 15
slb_faults (full systemd boot): 300

with no_slb_preload:
slb_faults (minimal initrd boot): 33
slb_faults (full systemd boot): 138180

Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/de484b55c45d831bc2db63945f455153c89a9a65.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
2025-11-18 12:35:53 +05:30
Li RongQing
9544f9e694 hung_task: panic when there are more than N hung tasks at the same time
The hung_task_panic sysctl is currently a blunt instrument: it's all or
nothing.

Panicking on a single hung task can be an overreaction to a transient
glitch.  A more reliable indicator of a systemic problem is when
multiple tasks hang simultaneously.

Extend hung_task_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the
kernel to panic only when N hung tasks are detected in a single scan. 
This provides finer control to distinguish between isolated incidents
and system-wide failures.

The accepted values are:
- 0: Don't panic (unchanged)
- 1: Panic on the first hung task (unchanged)
- N > 1: Panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan

The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full
backward compatibility.

[lance.yang@linux.dev: new changelog]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015063615.2632-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au> [aspeed_g5_defconfig]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Wesphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-12 10:00:14 -08:00
Sourabh Jain
b4a96ab50f powerpc/kdump: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
Commit 35c18f2933 ("Add a new optional ",cma" suffix to the
crashkernel= command line option") and commit ab475510e0 ("kdump:
implement reserve_crashkernel_cma") added CMA support for kdump
crashkernel reservation.

Extend crashkernel CMA reservation support to powerpc.

The following changes are made to enable CMA reservation on powerpc:

- Parse and obtain the CMA reservation size along with other crashkernel
  parameters
- Call reserve_crashkernel_cma() to allocate the CMA region for kdump
- Include the CMA-reserved ranges in the usable memory ranges for the
  kdump kernel to use.
- Exclude the CMA-reserved ranges from the crash kernel memory to
  prevent them from being exported through /proc/vmcore.

With the introduction of the CMA crashkernel regions,
crash_exclude_mem_range() needs to be called multiple times to exclude
both crashk_res and crashk_cma_ranges from the crash memory ranges. To
avoid repetitive logic for validating mem_ranges size and handling
reallocation when required, this functionality is moved to a new wrapper
function crash_exclude_mem_range_guarded().

To ensure proper CMA reservation, reserve_crashkernel_cma() is called
after pageblock_order is initialized.

Update kernel-parameters.txt to document CMA support for crashkernel on
powerpc architecture.

Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107080334.708028-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
2025-11-11 14:11:08 +05:30
Thomas Gleixner
9c37cb6e80 rseq: Provide static branch for runtime debugging
Config based debug is rarely turned on and is not available easily when
things go wrong.

Provide a static branch to allow permanent integration of debug mechanisms
along with the usual toggles in Kconfig, command line and debugfs.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084307.089270547@linutronix.de
2025-11-04 08:32:49 +01:00
Xueqin Luo
090bf5a0f4 PM: hibernate: make compression threads configurable
The number of compression/decompression threads has a direct impact on
hibernate image generation and resume latency. Using more threads can
reduce overall resume time, but on systems with fewer CPU cores it may
also introduce contention and reduce efficiency.

Performance was evaluated on an 8-core ARM system, averaged over 10 runs:

    Threads  Hibernate(s)  Resume(s)
    --------------------------------
       3         12.14       18.86
       4         12.28       17.48
       5         11.09       16.77
       6         11.08       16.44

With 5–6 threads, resume latency improves by approximately 12% compared
to the default 3-thread configuration, with negligible impact on
hibernate time.

Introduce a new kernel parameter `hibernate_compression_threads=` that
allows users and integrators to tune the number of
compression/decompression threads at boot. This provides a way to
balance performance and CPU utilization across a wide range of hardware
without recompiling the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Xueqin Luo <luoxueqin@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f24b3ca6416e230a515a154ed4c121d72a7e05a6.1761046167.git.luoxueqin@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2025-10-30 20:07:00 +01:00
Yohei Kojima
04623798aa docs: admin-guide: Fix a typo in kernel-parameters.txt
Fix a typo in the stacktrace parameter description in kernel-parameters.txt

Signed-off-by: Yohei Kojima <Yohei.Kojima@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <edda15e3fcae13265278d3c3bd93ab077345d78f.1760498951.git.Yohei.Kojima@sony.com>
2025-10-17 14:16:10 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
9591fdb061 Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull more x86 updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove a bunch of asm implementing condition flags testing in KVM's
   emulator in favor of int3_emulate_jcc() which is written in C

 - Replace KVM fastops with C-based stubs which avoids problems with the
   fastop infra related to latter not adhering to the C ABI due to their
   special calling convention and, more importantly, bypassing compiler
   control-flow integrity checking because they're written in asm

 - Remove wrongly used static branches and other ugliness accumulated
   over time in hyperv's hypercall implementation with a proper static
   function call to the correct hypervisor call variant

 - Add some fixes and modifications to allow running FRED-enabled
   kernels in KVM even on non-FRED hardware

 - Add kCFI improvements like validating indirect calls and prepare for
   enabling kCFI with GCC. Add cmdline params documentation and other
   code cleanups

 - Use the single-byte 0xd6 insn as the official #UD single-byte
   undefined opcode instruction as agreed upon by both x86 vendors

 - Other smaller cleanups and touchups all over the place

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86,retpoline: Optimize patch_retpoline()
  x86,ibt: Use UDB instead of 0xEA
  x86/cfi: Remove __noinitretpoline and __noretpoline
  x86/cfi: Add "debug" option to "cfi=" bootparam
  x86/cfi: Standardize on common "CFI:" prefix for CFI reports
  x86/cfi: Document the "cfi=" bootparam options
  x86/traps: Clarify KCFI instruction layout
  compiler_types.h: Move __nocfi out of compiler-specific header
  objtool: Validate kCFI calls
  x86/fred: KVM: VMX: Always use FRED for IRQs when CONFIG_X86_FRED=y
  x86/fred: Play nice with invoking asm_fred_entry_from_kvm() on non-FRED hardware
  x86/fred: Install system vector handlers even if FRED isn't fully enabled
  x86/hyperv: Use direct call to hypercall-page
  x86/hyperv: Clean up hv_do_hypercall()
  KVM: x86: Remove fastops
  KVM: x86: Convert em_salc() to C
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_3WCL
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_1SRC2
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2CL
  KVM: x86: Introduce EM_ASM_2W
  ...
2025-10-11 11:19:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
256e341706 Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's
     x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko

  x86:

   - Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to
     KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko

   - Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology
     (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD
     (Shadow Stacks).

     It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled
     separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them
     separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both
     SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the
     guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept
     XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons

   - Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts
     when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to
     allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point

   - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the
     MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs

   - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs

   - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
     emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside
     of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios)

   - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED
     virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support

   - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for
     mediated vPMUs

   - Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI
     vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests

   - Many cleanups and minor fixes

   - Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock
     to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages

   - Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently
     deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where
     prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update

  x86 (AMD):

   - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is
     supported

   - Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests
     via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate
     errors instead of latent guest failures

   - Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that
     prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of
     SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This
     feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate
     ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module
     parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used
     for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run
     SEV-ES guests

   - Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the
     untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while
     still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency
     prior to launch

   - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid
     bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values

   - Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully
     succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not
     consumed in KVM)

   - Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's
     LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with
     them

   - Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the
     host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a
     different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace

  KVM (Intel):

   - Preparation for FRED support

   - Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target
     memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a
     deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case

   - Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
  KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks
  KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c
  KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent
  KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit
  KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported
  KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features
  KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write
  KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors
  KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector
  KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE
  KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM
  KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid
  KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate
  KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions
  KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02
  ...
2025-10-06 12:37:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ee2fe81cdc Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
  over:

   - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
     "literal include" mode.

   - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
     kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
     converted to Python and updated for current systems.

   - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
     HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
     hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.

   - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
     protocol.

   - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.

  ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
  etc"

* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
  docs: remove cdomain.py
  Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
  docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
  Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
  docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
  Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
  Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
  Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
  docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
  docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
  docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
  docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
  ...
2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e406d57be7 Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
2025-10-02 18:44:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3b2074c77d Merge tag 'irq-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of updates for the interrupt core subsystem:

   - Introduce irq_chip_[startup|shutdown]_parent() to prepare for
     addressing a few short comings in the PCI/MSI interrupt subsystem.

     It allows to utilize the interrupt chip startup/shutdown callbacks
     for initializing the interrupt chip hierarchy properly on certain
     RISCV implementations and provides a mechanism to reduce the
     overhead of masking and unmasking PCI/MSI interrupts during
     operation when the underlying MSI provider can mask the interrupt.

     The actual usage comes with the interrupt driver pull request.

   - Add generic error handling for devm_request_*_irq()

     This allows to remove the zoo of random error printk's all over the
     usage sites.

   - Add a mechanism to warn about long-running interrupt handlers

     Long running interrupt handlers can introduce latencies and
     tracking them down is a tedious task. The tracking has to be
     enabled with a threshold on the kernel command line and utilizes a
     static branch to remove the overhead when disabled.

   - Update and extend the selftests which validate the CPU hotplug
     interrupt migration logic

   - Allow dropping the per CPU softirq lock on PREEMPT_RT kernels,
     which causes contention and latencies all over the place.

     The serialization requirements have been pushed down into the
     actual affected usage sites already.

   - The usual small cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'irq-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  softirq: Allow to drop the softirq-BKL lock on PREEMPT_RT
  softirq: Provide a handshake for canceling tasklets via polling
  genirq/test: Ensure CPU 1 is online for hotplug test
  genirq/test: Drop CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION assumptions
  genirq/test: Depend on SPARSE_IRQ
  genirq/test: Fail early if interrupt request fails
  genirq/test: Factor out fake-virq setup
  genirq/test: Select IRQ_DOMAIN
  genirq/test: Fix depth tests on architectures with NOREQUEST by default.
  genirq: Add support for warning on long-running interrupt handlers
  genirq/devres: Add error handling in devm_request_*_irq()
  genirq: Add irq_chip_(startup/shutdown)_parent()
  genirq: Remove GENERIC_IRQ_LEGACY
2025-09-30 15:55:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2cb8eeaf00 Merge tag 'x86_cache_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 resource control updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "Add support on AMD for assigning QoS bandwidth counters to resources
  (RMIDs) with the ability for those resources to be tracked by the
  counters as long as they're assigned to them.

  Previously, due to hw limitations, bandwidth counts from untracked
  resources would get lost when those resources are not tracked.

  Refactor the code and user interfaces to be able to also support
  other, similar features on ARM, for example"

* tag 'x86_cache_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits)
  fs/resctrl: Fix counter auto-assignment on mkdir with mbm_event enabled
  MAINTAINERS: resctrl: Add myself as reviewer
  x86/resctrl: Configure mbm_event mode if supported
  fs/resctrl: Introduce the interface to switch between monitor modes
  fs/resctrl: Disable BMEC event configuration when mbm_event mode is enabled
  fs/resctrl: Introduce the interface to modify assignments in a group
  fs/resctrl: Introduce mbm_L3_assignments to list assignments in a group
  fs/resctrl: Auto assign counters on mkdir and clean up on group removal
  fs/resctrl: Introduce mbm_assign_on_mkdir to enable assignments on mkdir
  fs/resctrl: Provide interface to update the event configurations
  fs/resctrl: Add event configuration directory under info/L3_MON/
  fs/resctrl: Support counter read/reset with mbm_event assignment mode
  x86/resctrl: Implement resctrl_arch_reset_cntr() and resctrl_arch_cntr_read()
  x86/resctrl: Refactor resctrl_arch_rmid_read()
  fs/resctrl: Introduce counter ID read, reset calls in mbm_event mode
  fs/resctrl: Pass struct rdtgroup instead of individual members
  fs/resctrl: Add the functionality to unassign MBM events
  fs/resctrl: Add the functionality to assign MBM events
  x86,fs/resctrl: Implement resctrl_arch_config_cntr() to assign a counter with ABMC
  fs/resctrl: Introduce event configuration field in struct mon_evt
  ...
2025-09-30 13:29:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bd91417a96 Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add infrastructure to be able to debug the microcode loader in a guest

 - Refresh Intel old microcode revisions

* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/microcode: Add microcode loader debugging functionality
  x86/microcode: Add microcode= cmdline parsing
  x86/microcode/intel: Refresh the revisions that determine old_microcode
2025-09-30 12:41:10 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
10ef74c06b Merge tag 'kvm-x86-ciphertext-6.18' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD
KVM SEV-SNP CipherText Hiding support for 6.18

Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that prevents
unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of SNP guest private
memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack.  Instead of ciphertext, the CPU
will always read back all FFs when CipherText Hiding is enabled.

Add new module parameter to the KVM module to enable CipherText Hiding and
control the number of ASIDs that can be used for VMs with CipherText Hiding,
which is in effect the number of SNP VMs.  When CipherText Hiding is enabled,
the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space is split into separate ranges for SEV-ES
and SEV-SNP guests, i.e. ASIDs that can be used for CipherText Hiding cannot
be used to run SEV-ES guests.
2025-09-30 13:34:32 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
feafee2845 Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "There's good stuff across the board, including some nice mm
  improvements for CPUs with the 'noabort' BBML2 feature and a clever
  patch to allow ptdump to play nicely with block mappings in the
  vmalloc area.

  Confidential computing:

   - Add support for accepting secrets from firmware (e.g. ACPI CCEL)
     and mapping them with appropriate attributes.

  CPU features:

   - Advertise atomic floating-point instructions to userspace

   - Extend Spectre workarounds to cover additional Arm CPU variants

   - Extend list of CPUs that support break-before-make level 2 and
     guarantee not to generate TLB conflict aborts for changes of
     mapping granularity (BBML2_NOABORT)

   - Add GCS support to our uprobes implementation.

  Documentation:

   - Remove bogus SME documentation concerning register state when
     entering/exiting streaming mode.

  Entry code:

   - Switch over to the generic IRQ entry code (GENERIC_IRQ_ENTRY)

   - Micro-optimise syscall entry path with a compiler branch hint.

  Memory management:

   - Enable huge mappings in vmalloc space even when kernel page-table
     dumping is enabled

   - Tidy up the types used in our early MMU setup code

   - Rework rodata= for closer parity with the behaviour on x86

   - For CPUs implementing BBML2_NOABORT, utilise block mappings in the
     linear map even when rodata= applies to virtual aliases

   - Don't re-allocate the virtual region between '_text' and '_stext',
     as doing so confused tools parsing /proc/vmcore.

  Miscellaneous:

   - Clean-up Kconfig menuconfig text for architecture features

   - Avoid redundant bitmap_empty() during determination of supported
     SME vector lengths

   - Re-enable warnings when building the 32-bit vDSO object

   - Avoid breaking our eggs at the wrong end.

  Perf and PMUs:

   - Support for v3 of the Hisilicon L3C PMU

   - Support for Hisilicon's MN and NoC PMUs

   - Support for Fujitsu's Uncore PMU

   - Support for SPE's extended event filtering feature

   - Preparatory work to enable data source filtering in SPE

   - Support for multiple lanes in the DWC PCIe PMU

   - Support for i.MX94 in the IMX DDR PMU driver

   - MAINTAINERS update (Thank you, Yicong)

   - Minor driver fixes (PERF_IDX2OFF() overflow, CMN register offsets).

  Selftests:

   - Add basic LSFE check to the existing hwcaps test

   - Support nolibc in GCS tests

   - Extend SVE ptrace test to pass unsupported regsets and invalid
     vector lengths

   - Minor cleanups (typos, cosmetic changes).

  System registers:

   - Fix ID_PFR1_EL1 definition

   - Fix incorrect signedness of some fields in ID_AA64MMFR4_EL1

   - Sync TCR_EL1 definition with the latest Arm ARM (L.b)

   - Be stricter about the input fed into our AWK sysreg generator
     script

   - Typo fixes and removal of redundant definitions.

  ACPI, EFI and PSCI:

   - Decouple Arm's "Software Delegated Exception Interface" (SDEI)
     support from the ACPI GHES code so that it can be used by platforms
     booted with device-tree

   - Remove unnecessary per-CPU tracking of the FPSIMD state across EFI
     runtime calls

   - Fix a node refcount imbalance in the PSCI device-tree code.

  CPU Features:

   - Ensure register sanitisation is applied to fields in ID_AA64MMFR4

   - Expose AIDR_EL1 to userspace via sysfs, primarily so that KVM
     guests can reliably query the underlying CPU types from the VMM

   - Re-enabling of SME support (CONFIG_ARM64_SME) as a result of fixes
     to our context-switching, signal handling and ptrace code"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits)
  arm64: cpufeature: Remove duplicate asm/mmu.h header
  arm64: Kconfig: Make CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depend on BROKEN
  perf/dwc_pcie: Fix use of uninitialized variable
  arm/syscalls: mark syscall invocation as likely in invoke_syscall
  Documentation: hisi-pmu: Add introduction to HiSilicon V3 PMU
  Documentation: hisi-pmu: Fix of minor format error
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for L3C PMU v3
  drivers/perf: hisi: Refactor the event configuration of L3C PMU
  drivers/perf: hisi: Extend the field of tt_core
  drivers/perf: hisi: Extract the event filter check of L3C PMU
  drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process of each L3C PMU version
  drivers/perf: hisi: Export hisi_uncore_pmu_isr()
  drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event ID check in the framework
  perf: Fujitsu: Add the Uncore PMU driver
  arm64: map [_text, _stext) virtual address range non-executable+read-only
  arm64/sysreg: Update TCR_EL1 register
  arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump
  arm64: cpufeature: add Neoverse-V3AE to BBML2 allow list
  arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AE
  arm64: cputype: Add Neoverse-V3AE definitions
  ...
2025-09-29 18:48:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b7ce6fa90f Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Add "initramfs_options" parameter to set initramfs mount options.
     This allows to add specific mount options to the rootfs to e.g.,
     limit the memory size

   - Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2()

     Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE
     signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or
     sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and
     converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets

   - Allow to pass pid namespace as procfs mount option

     Ever since the introduction of pid namespaces, procfs has had very
     implicit behaviour surrounding them (the pidns used by a procfs
     mount is auto-selected based on the mounting process's active
     pidns, and the pidns itself is basically hidden once the mount has
     been constructed)

     This implicit behaviour has historically meant that userspace was
     required to do some special dances in order to configure the pidns
     of a procfs mount as desired. Examples include:

     * In order to bypass the mnt_too_revealing() check, Kubernetes
       creates a procfs mount from an empty pidns so that user
       namespaced containers can be nested (without this, the nested
       containers would fail to mount procfs)

       But this requires forking off a helper process because you cannot
       just one-shot this using mount(2)

     * Container runtimes in general need to fork into a container
       before configuring its mounts, which can lead to security issues
       in the case of shared-pidns containers (a privileged process in
       the pidns can interact with your container runtime process)

       While SUID_DUMP_DISABLE and user namespaces make this less of an
       issue, the strict need for this due to a minor uAPI wart is kind
       of unfortunate

       Things would be much easier if there was a way for userspace to
       just specify the pidns they want. So this pull request contains
       changes to implement a new "pidns" argument which can be set
       using fsconfig(2):

           fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "pidns", NULL, nsfd);
           fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pidns", "/proc/self/ns/pid", 0);

       or classic mount(2) / mount(8):

           // mount -t proc -o pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid proc /tmp/proc
           mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", MS_..., "pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid");

  Cleanups:

   - Remove the last references to EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK

   - Make file_remove_privs_flags() static

   - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN when GFP_NOWAIT is used

   - Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add()

   - Use try_cmpxchg() in sb_init_done_wq()

   - Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ioctl_file_dedupe_range()

   - Remove vfs_ioctl() export

   - Replace rwlock() with spinlock in epoll code as rwlock causes
     priority inversion on preempt rt kernels

   - Make ns_entries in fs/proc/namespaces const

   - Use a switch() statement() in init_special_inode() just like we do
     in may_open()

   - Use struct_size() in dir_add() in the initramfs code

   - Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()

   - Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()

   - Rename generic_delete_inode() to inode_just_drop() and
     generic_drop_inode() to inode_generic_drop()

   - Remove unused arguments from fcntl_{g,s}et_rw_hint()

  Fixes:

   - Document @name parameter for name_contains_dotdot() helper

   - Fix spelling mistake

   - Always return zero from replace_fd() instead of the file descriptor
     number

   - Limit the size for copy_file_range() in compat mode to prevent a
     signed overflow

   - Fix debugfs mount options not being applied

   - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in minixfs

   - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in cramfs

   - Don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV

     If openat2() was called with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV it didn't traverse
     through automounts, but could still trigger them

   - Add FL_RECLAIM flag to show_fl_flags() macro so it appears in
     tracepoints

   - Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390

   - Make INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD

   - Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

   - Don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore in listmount() and
     statmount()"

* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (38 commits)
  fcntl: trim arguments
  listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
  statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
  pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
  fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()
  init: INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  initramfs: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
  initrd: Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
  initramfs: Use struct_size() helper to improve dir_add()
  initrd: Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
  fs: use the switch statement in init_special_inode()
  fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const
  filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro
  eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock
  selftests/proc: add tests for new pidns APIs
  procfs: add "pidns" mount option
  pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper
  openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
  namei: move cross-device check to __traverse_mounts
  namei: remove LOOKUP_NO_XDEV check from handle_mounts
  ...
2025-09-29 09:03:07 -07:00
Huang Shijie
c0f303d7d4 arm64: mm: Rework the 'rodata=' options
As per admin guide documentation, "rodata=on" should be the default on
platforms. Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt describes
these options as

   rodata=         [KNL,EARLY]
           on      Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
           off     Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
           full    Mark read-only kernel memory and aliases as read-only
                   [arm64]

But on arm64 platform, RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED is enabled by default,
so "rodata=full" is the default instead.

For parity with other architectures, namely x86, rework 'rodata=on' to
match the current "full" behaviour and replace 'rodata=full' with a new
'rodata=noalias' option which retains writable aliases in the direct map
for memory regions outside of the kernel image.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2025-09-16 20:53:13 +01:00
Ashish Kalra
6c7c620585 KVM: SEV: Add SEV-SNP CipherTextHiding support
Ciphertext hiding prevents host accesses from reading the ciphertext of
SNP guest private memory. Instead of reading ciphertext, the host reads
will see constant default values (0xff).

The SEV ASID space is split into SEV and SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID ranges.
Enabling ciphertext hiding further splits the SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space
into separate ASID ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests.

Add a new off-by-default kvm-amd module parameter to enable ciphertext
hiding and allow the admin to configure the SEV-ES and SEV-SNP ASID
ranges. Simply cap the maximum SEV-SNP ASID as appropriate, i.e. don't
reject loading KVM or disable ciphertest hiding for a too-big value, as
KVM's general approach for module params is to sanitize inputs based on
hardware/kernel support, not burn the world down. This also allows the
admin to use -1u to assign all SEV-ES/SNP ASIDs to SNP without needing
dedicated handling in KVM.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/95abc49edfde36d4fb791570ea2a4be6ad95fd0d.1755721927.git.ashish.kalra@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-09-15 10:14:11 -07:00
Babu Moger
bebf57bf05 x86/resctrl: Add ABMC feature in the command line options
Add a kernel command-line parameter to enable or disable the exposure of
the ABMC (Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring Counters) hardware feature to
resctrl.

Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1757108044.git.babu.moger@amd.com
2025-09-15 12:05:23 +02:00
Feng Tang
8c2b91fbb0 panic: refine the document for 'panic_print'
User reported current document about SYS_INFO_PANIC_CONSOLE_REPLAY is
confusing, that people could expect all user space console messages to be
replayed.

Specify that only 'kernel' messages will be replayed to solve the confusion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825025701.81921-3-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13 17:32:50 -07:00
Kees Cook
026211c40b x86/cfi: Add "debug" option to "cfi=" bootparam
Add "debug" option for "cfi=" bootparam to get details on early CFI
initialization steps so future Kees can find breakage easier.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250904034656.3670313-5-kees@kernel.org
2025-09-04 21:59:08 +02:00
Kees Cook
24452d9ef1 x86/cfi: Document the "cfi=" bootparam options
The kernel-parameters.txt didn't have a section for the cfi= options.
Add it.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250904034656.3670313-3-kees@kernel.org
2025-09-04 21:59:08 +02:00
Borislav Petkov (AMD)
43181a4726 x86/microcode: Add microcode loader debugging functionality
Instead of adding ad-hoc debugging glue to the microcode loader each
time I need it, add debugging functionality which is not built by
default.

Simulate all patch handling the loader does except the actual loading of
the microcode patch into the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250820135043.19048-3-bp@kernel.org
2025-09-04 16:15:19 +02:00