Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Miscellaneous documentation fixes"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot/Documentation: Prefix hexadecimal literals with 0x
x86/boot/Documentation: Spell 'ID' consistently
x86/platform: Fix and extend kernel-doc comments in <asm/x86_init.h>
Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley:
- Enable parallel hotplug for RISC-V
- Optimize vector regset allocation for ptrace()
- Add a kernel selftest for the vector ptrace interface
- Enable the userspace RAID6 test to build and run using RISC-V vectors
- Add initial support for the Zalasr RISC-V ratified ISA extension
- For the Zicbop RISC-V ratified ISA extension to userspace, expose
hardware and kernel support to userspace and add a kselftest for
Zicbop
- Convert open-coded instances of 'asm goto's that are controlled by
runtime ALTERNATIVEs to use riscv_has_extension_{un,}likely(),
following arm64's alternative_has_cap_{un,}likely()
- Remove an unnecessary mask in the GFP flags used in some calls to
pagetable_alloc()
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.19-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
selftests/riscv: Add Zicbop prefetch test
riscv: hwprobe: Expose Zicbop extension and its block size
riscv: Introduce Zalasr instructions
riscv: hwprobe: Export Zalasr extension
dt-bindings: riscv: Add Zalasr ISA extension description
riscv: Add ISA extension parsing for Zalasr
selftests: riscv: Add test for the Vector ptrace interface
riscv: ptrace: Optimize the allocation of vector regset
raid6: test: Add support for RISC-V
raid6: riscv: Allow code to be compiled in userspace
raid6: riscv: Prevent compiler from breaking inline vector assembly code
riscv: cmpxchg: Use riscv_has_extension_likely
riscv: bitops: Use riscv_has_extension_likely
riscv: hweight: Use riscv_has_extension_likely
riscv: checksum: Use riscv_has_extension_likely
riscv: pgtable: Use riscv_has_extension_unlikely
riscv: Remove __GFP_HIGHMEM masking
RISC-V: Enable HOTPLUG_PARALLEL for secondary CPUs
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
...
The x86 bootloader ID specification text uses hexadecimal
values without a 0x prefix:
D kexec-tools
E Extended (see ext_loader_type)
F Special (0xFF = undefined)
10 Reserved
11 Minimal Linux Bootloader
<http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de>
12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack
13 barebox
Which beyond the ambiguity of '13' in isolation, also
made me fail a grep -wi '0xd' when I was looking for
the kexec bootloader ID definition and caused quite
a bit of head-scratching before I found out why it
didn't show up.
Furthermore, the actual explanatory text uses the 0x
prefix:
For boot loader IDs above T = 0xD, write T = 0xE to this field and
write the extended ID minus 0x10 to the ext_loader_type field.
Similarly, the ext_loader_ver field can be used to provide more than
four bits for the bootloader version.
So make it all both unambiguous, easy to grep and consistent
across the entire documentation by prefixing the IDs with 0x.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
The bootloader ID specification text uses 2 capitalization
variants for the same thing: 'id', 'ids', 'ID' and 'IDs'.
Use 'ID/IDs' consistently.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
"These are the arm64 updates for 6.19.
The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/.
There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd
(similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us
to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write
fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with
preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and
several cleanups/typos.
Summary:
Core features:
- Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring)
driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API
Perf and PMU:
- Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs
- Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support
for NVIDIA implementations
- Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect
- Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs
- Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver
- Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver
Memory managemennt:
- Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault
- Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid
- Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros
- Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping()
- Propagate return value from __change_memory_common()
ACPI and EFI:
- Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption
- Remove unused ACPI function
Miscellaneous:
- ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems
- Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor
- Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__
- Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test
- Remove some no longer used macros/functions
- Various spelling corrections"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits)
arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic
arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common
arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS
KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache
KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user
arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros
Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names
ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init()
perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source
perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4
perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects)
perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks
perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe()
dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL
arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index
MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver
arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch()
arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset
arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state
...
* arm64/for-next/perf:
perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source
perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4
perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects)
perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks
perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe()
dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL
arch_topology: Provide a stub topology_core_has_smt() for !CONFIG_GENERIC_ARCH_TOPOLOGY
perf/arm-ni: Fix and optimise register offset calculation
perf: arm_pmuv3: Add new Cortex and C1 CPU PMUs
perf: arm_cspmu: fix error handling in arm_cspmu_impl_unregister()
perf/arm-ni: Add NoC S3 support
perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add pmevfiltr2 support
perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add revision id matching
perf/arm_cspmu: Add pmpidr support
perf/arm_cspmu: Add callback to reset filter config
perf: arm_pmuv3: Don't use PMCCNTR_EL0 on SMT cores
* for-next/misc:
: Miscellaneous patches
arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros
arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT
arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index
arm64: mm: make linear mapping permission update more robust for patial range
arm64/mm: Elide TLB flush in certain pte protection transitions
arm64/mm: Rename try_pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm
arm64/mm: Allow __create_pgd_mapping() to propagate pgtable_alloc() errors
arm64: add unlikely hint to MTE async fault check in el0_svc_common
arm64: acpi: add newline to deferred APEI warning
arm64: entry: Clean out some indirection
arm64/mm: Ensure PGD_SIZE is aligned to 64 bytes when PA_BITS = 52
arm64/mm: Drop cpu_set_[default|idmap]_tcr_t0sz()
arm64: remove unused ARCH_PFN_OFFSET
arm64: use SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK for enabling softirq stack
arm64: Remove assertion on CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
* for-next/kselftest:
: arm64 kselftest patches
kselftest/arm64: Align zt-test register dumps
* for-next/efi-preempt:
: arm64: Make EFI calls preemptible
arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption
arm64/efi: Move uaccess en/disable out of efi_set_pgd()
arm64/efi: Drop efi_rt_lock spinlock from EFI arch wrapper
arm64/fpsimd: Permit kernel mode NEON with IRQs off
arm64/fpsimd: Don't warn when EFI execution context is preemptible
efi/runtime-wrappers: Keep track of the efi_runtime_lock owner
efi: Add missing static initializer for efi_mm::cpus_allowed_lock
* for-next/assembler-macro:
: arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in headers
arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers
arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers
* for-next/typos:
: Random typo/spelling fixes
arm64: Fix double word in comments
arm64: Fix typos and spelling errors in comments
* for-next/sme-ptrace-disable:
: Support disabling streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems
kselftest/arm64: Cover disabling streaming mode without SVE in fp-ptrace
kselftst/arm64: Test NT_ARM_SVE FPSIMD format writes on non-SVE systems
arm64/sme: Support disabling streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems
* for-next/local-tlbi-page-reused:
: arm64, mm: avoid TLBI broadcast if page reused in write fault
arm64, tlbflush: don't TLBI broadcast if page reused in write fault
mm: add spurious fault fixing support for huge pmd
* for-next/mpam: (34 commits)
: Basic Arm MPAM driver (more to follow)
MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver
arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch()
arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset
arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state
arm_mpam: Use long MBWU counters if supported
arm_mpam: Probe for long/lwd mbwu counters
arm_mpam: Consider overflow in bandwidth counter state
arm_mpam: Track bandwidth counter state for power management
arm_mpam: Add mpam_msmon_read() to read monitor value
arm_mpam: Add helpers to allocate monitors
arm_mpam: Probe and reset the rest of the features
arm_mpam: Allow configuration to be applied and restored during cpu online
arm_mpam: Use a static key to indicate when mpam is enabled
arm_mpam: Register and enable IRQs
arm_mpam: Extend reset logic to allow devices to be reset any time
arm_mpam: Add a helper to touch an MSC from any CPU
arm_mpam: Reset MSC controls from cpuhp callbacks
arm_mpam: Merge supported features during mpam_enable() into mpam_class
arm_mpam: Probe the hardware features resctrl supports
arm_mpam: Add helpers for managing the locking around the mon_sel registers
...
* for-next/acpi:
: arm64 acpi updates
ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init()
* for-next/documentation:
: arm64 Documentation updates
Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names
- Add `RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZICBOP` to report the presence of the
Zicbop extension.
- Add `RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_ZICBOP_BLOCK_SIZE` to expose the block
size (in bytes) when Zicbop is supported.
- Update hwprobe.rst to document the new extension bit and block
size key, following the existing Zicbom/Zicboz style.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Yao Zihong <zihong.plct@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118162436.15485-2-zihong.plct@isrc.iscas.ac.cn
[pjw@kernel.org: updated to apply]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Currently it is not possible to disable streaming mode via ptrace on SME
only systems, the interface for doing this is to write via NT_ARM_SVE but
such writes will be rejected on a system without SVE support. Enable this
functionality by allowing userspace to write SVE_PT_REGS_FPSIMD format data
via NT_ARM_SVE with the vector length set to 0 on SME only systems. Such
writes currently error since we require that a vector length is specified
which should minimise the risk that existing software is relying on current
behaviour.
Reads are not supported since I am not aware of any use case for this and
there is some risk that an existing userspace application may be confused if
it reads NT_ARM_SVE on a system without SVE. Existing kernels will return
FPSIMD formatted register state from NT_ARM_SVE if full SVE state is not
stored, for example if the task has not used SVE. Returning a vector length
of 0 would create a risk that software would try to do things like allocate
space for register state with zero sizes, while returning a vector length of
128 bits would look like SVE is supported. It seems safer to just not make
the changes to add read support.
It remains possible for userspace to detect a SME only system via the ptrace
interface only since reads of NT_ARM_SSVE and NT_ARM_ZA will succeed while
reads of NT_ARM_SVE will fail. Read/write access to the FPSIMD registers in
non-streaming mode is available via REGSET_FPR.
sve_set_common() already avoids allocating SVE storage when doing a FPSIMD
formatted write and allocating SME storage when doing a NT_ARM_SVE write so
we change the function to validate the new case and skip setting a vector
length for it.
The aim is to make a minimally invasive change, no operation that would
previously have succeeded will be affected, and we use a previously
defined interface in new circumstances rather than define completely new
ABI.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Spickett <david.spickett@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
With commit 1204777867 ("s390/debug: keep debug data on resize")
the behavior of a debug area resize operation was changed. Update the
associated documentation to reflect this change.
Fixes: 1204777867 ("s390/debug: keep debug data on resize")
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Since the Handover Protocol was deprecated, the recommended approach is
to provide an initrd using a UEFI boot service with the
LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path. Documentation for the new
approach has been no more than an admonition with a link to an existing
implementation.
Provide a short explanation of this functionality, to ease future
implementations without having to reverse engineer existing ones.
[Bagas: Don't use :ref: link to EFI stub documentation and refer to
OVMF/edk2 implementation]
Signed-off-by: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@whynothugo.nl>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250428131206.8656-2-hugo@whynothugo.nl
Co-developed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251013085718.27085-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Pull x86 TDX updates from Dave Hansen:
"The biggest change here is making TDX and kexec play nicely together.
Before this, the memory encryption hardware (which doesn't respect
cache coherency) could write back old cachelines on top of data in the
new kernel, so kexec and TDX were made mutually exclusive. This
removes the limitation.
There is also some work to tighten up a hardware bug workaround and
some MAINTAINERS updates.
- Make TDX and kexec work together
- Skip TDX bug workaround when the bug is not present
- Update maintainers entries"
* tag 'x86_tdx_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/virt/tdx: Use precalculated TDVPR page physical address
KVM/TDX: Explicitly do WBINVD when no more TDX SEAMCALLs
x86/virt/tdx: Update the kexec section in the TDX documentation
x86/virt/tdx: Remove the !KEXEC_CORE dependency
x86/kexec: Disable kexec/kdump on platforms with TDX partial write erratum
x86/virt/tdx: Mark memory cache state incoherent when making SEAMCALL
x86/sme: Use percpu boolean to control WBINVD during kexec
x86/kexec: Consolidate relocate_kernel() function parameters
x86/tdx: Skip clearing reclaimed pages unless X86_BUG_TDX_PW_MCE is present
x86/tdx: Tidy reset_pamt functions
x86/tdx: Eliminate duplicate code in tdx_clear_page()
MAINTAINERS: Add KVM mail list to the TDX entry
MAINTAINERS: Add Rick Edgecombe as a TDX reviewer
MAINTAINERS: Update the file list in the TDX entry.
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()
...
Pull x86 cpuid updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Make UMIP instruction detection more robust
- Correct and cleanup AMD CPU topology detection; document the relevant
CPUID leaves topology parsing precedence on AMD
- Add support for running the kernel as guest on FreeBSD's Bhyve
hypervisor
- Cleanups and improvements
* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/umip: Fix decoding of register forms of 0F 01 (SGDT and SIDT aliases)
x86/umip: Check that the instruction opcode is at least two bytes
Documentation/x86/topology: Detail CPUID leaves used for topology enumeration
x86/cpu/topology: Define AMD64_CPUID_EXT_FEAT MSR
x86/cpu/topology: Check for X86_FEATURE_XTOPOLOGY instead of passing has_xtopology
x86/cpu/cacheinfo: Simplify cacheinfo_amd_init_llc_id() using _cpuid4_info
x86/cpu: Rename and move CPU model entry for Diamond Rapids
x86/cpu: Detect FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor
Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:
- powerpc support for BPF arena and arena atomics
- Patches to switch to msi parent domain (per-device MSI domains)
- Add a lock contention tracepoint in the queued spinlock slowpath
- Fixes for underflow in pseries/powernv msi and pci paths
- Switch from legacy-of-mm-gpiochip dependency to platform driver
- Fixes for handling TLB misses
- Introduce support for powerpc papr-hvpipe
- Add vpa-dtl PMU driver for pseries platform
- Misc fixes and cleanups
Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Bodkhe, Andrew Donnellan, Athira
Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joe Lawrence,
Kajol Jain, Kienan Stewart, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nam Cao,
Nicolas Schier, Nysal Jan K.A., Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Ruben Wauters,
Saket Kumar Bhaskar, Shashank MS, Shrikanth Hegde, Tejas Manhas, Thomas
Gleixner, Thomas Huth, Thorsten Blum, Tyrel Datwyler, and Venkat Rao
Bagalkote.
* tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (49 commits)
powerpc/pseries: Define __u{8,32} types in papr_hvpipe_hdr struct
genirq/msi: Remove msi_post_free()
powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add documentation for VPA dispatch trace log PMU
powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Handle the writing of perf record when aux wake up is needed
powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to capture DTL data in aux buffer
powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to setup and free aux buffer for capturing DTL data
docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-dtl: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_dtl pmu
powerpc/vpa_dtl: Add interface to expose vpa dtl counters via perf
powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor
powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure
powerpc/fprobe: fix updated fprobe for function-graph tracer
powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
powerpc64/modules: replace stub allocation sentinel with an explicit counter
powerpc64/modules: correctly iterate over stubs in setup_ftrace_ool_stubs
powerpc/ftrace: ensure ftrace record ops are always set for NOPs
powerpc/603: Really copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs
powerpc/8xx: Remove left-over instruction and comments in DataStoreTLBMiss handler
powerpc/pseries: HVPIPE changes to support migration
powerpc/pseries: Enable hvpipe with ibm,set-system-parameter RTAS
powerpc/pseries: Enable HVPIPE event message interrupt
...
Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley
- Replacement of __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files (other
architectures have already merged this type of cleanup)
- The introduction of ioremap_wc() for RISC-V
- Cleanup of the RISC-V kprobes code to use mostly-extant macros rather
than open code
- A RISC-V kprobes unit test
- An architecture-specific endianness swap macro set implementation,
leveraging some dedicated RISC-V instructions for this purpose if
they are available
- The ability to identity and communicate to userspace the presence
of a MIPS P8700-specific ISA extension, and to leverage its
MIPS-specific PAUSE implementation in cpu_relax()
- Several other miscellaneous cleanups
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (39 commits)
riscv: errata: Fix the PAUSE Opcode for MIPS P8700
riscv: hwprobe: Document MIPS xmipsexectl vendor extension
riscv: hwprobe: Add MIPS vendor extension probing
riscv: Add xmipsexectl instructions
riscv: Add xmipsexectl as a vendor extension
dt-bindings: riscv: Add xmipsexectl ISA extension description
riscv: cpufeature: add validation for zfa, zfh and zfhmin
perf: riscv: skip empty batches in counter start
selftests: riscv: Add README for RISC-V KSelfTest
riscv: sbi: Switch to new sys-off handler API
riscv: Move vendor errata definitions to new header
RISC-V: ACPI: enable parsing the BGRT table
riscv: Enable ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
riscv: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile
riscv: introduce asm/swab.h
riscv: mmap(): use unsigned offset type in riscv_sys_mmap
drivers/perf: riscv: Remove redundant ternary operators
riscv: mm: Use mmu-type from FDT to limit SATP mode
riscv: mm: Return intended SATP mode for noXlvl options
riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_ITYPE_IMM
...
* for-next/perf: (29 commits)
perf/dwc_pcie: Fix use of uninitialized variable
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
perf/arm-cmn: Fix CMN S3 DTM offset
perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF()
coresight: trbe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF()
MAINTAINERS: Remove myself from HiSilicon PMU maintainers
drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon MN PMU driver
drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon NoC PMU
perf: arm_pmuv3: Factor out PMCCNTR_EL0 use conditions
arm64/boot: Enable EL2 requirements for SPE_FEAT_FDS
arm64/boot: Factor out a macro to check SPE version
...
SPE data source filtering (optional from Armv8.8) requires that traps to
the filter register PMSDSFR be disabled. Document the requirements and
disable the traps if the feature is present.
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
FEAT_LSFE (Large System Float Extension), providing atomic floating point
memory operations, is optional from v9.5. This feature adds no new
architectural stare and we have no immediate use for it in the kernel so
simply provide a hwcap for it to support discovery by userspace.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
The SME ABI documentation contains an inaccurate description of the
architectural streaming mode entry/exit behaviour, just remove it since
this is better documented by the architecture or with the rest of the
documentation for the specific software interfaces concerned.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reiserfs has been removed in 6.13, there are still some mentions in the
documentation about it and the tools. Remove those that don't seem
relevant anymore but keep references to reiserfs' r5 hash used by some
code.
There's one change in a script scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh but it
does not seem to be relevant either.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250813100053.1291961-1-dsterba@suse.com
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively busy cycle for docs, especially the build
system:
- The Perl kernel-doc script was added to 2.3.52pre1 just after the
turn of the millennium. Over the following 25 years, it accumulated
a vast amount of cruft, all in a language few people want to deal
with anymore. Mauro's Python replacement in 6.16 faithfully
reproduced all of the cruft in the hope of avoiding regressions.
Now that we have a more reasonable code base, though, we can work
on cleaning it up; many of the changes this time around are toward
that end.
- A reorganization of the ext4 docs into the usual TOC format.
- Various Chinese translations and updates.
- A new script from Mauro to help with docs-build testing.
- A new document for linked lists
- A sweep through MAINTAINERS fixing broken GitHub git:// repository
links.
...and lots of fixes and updates"
* tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (147 commits)
scripts: add origin commit identification based on specific patterns
sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir>
Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions
docs: fault-injection: drop reference to md-faulty
docs: document linked lists
scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7
docs: kernel-doc: emit warnings for ancient versions of Python
Documentation/rtla: Describe exit status
Documentation/rtla: Add include common_appendix.rst
docs: kernel: Clarify printk_ratelimit_burst reset behavior
Documentation: ioctl-number: Don't repeat macro names
Documentation: ioctl-number: Shorten macros table
Documentation: ioctl-number: Correct full path to papr-physical-attestation.h
Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width
Documentation: ioctl-number: Fix linuxppc-dev mailto link
overlayfs.rst: fix typos
docs: kdoc: emit a warning for ancient versions of Python
docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections()
docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields
docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration()
...
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for
arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt
translation and wired interrupts
- Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on
GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface
- Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing
userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on
hardware that previously advertised it unconditionally
- Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on
systems with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to
perform cache maintenance on the address range
- Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the
guest hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take
traps of masked external aborts to the hypervisor
- Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven
implementation
- Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3
system registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the
ONE_REG vCPU ioctls
- Various cleanups and minor fixes
LoongArch:
- Add stat information for in-kernel irqchip
- Add tracepoints for CPUCFG and CSR emulation exits
- Enhance in-kernel irqchip emulation
- Various cleanups
RISC-V:
- Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking
- Improve perf kvm stat to report interrupt events
- Delegate illegal instruction trap to VS-mode
- MMU improvements related to upcoming nested virtualization
s390x
- Fixes
x86:
- Add CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC for x86 to allow disabling support for I/O
APIC, PIC, and PIT emulation at compile time
- Share device posted IRQ code between SVM and VMX and harden it
against bugs and runtime errors
- Use vcpu_idx, not vcpu_id, for GA log tag/metadata, to make lookups
O(1) instead of O(n)
- For MMIO stale data mitigation, track whether or not a vCPU has
access to (host) MMIO based on whether the page tables have MMIO
pfns mapped; using VFIO is prone to false negatives
- Rework the MSR interception code so that the SVM and VMX APIs are
more or less identical
- Recalculate all MSR intercepts from scratch on MSR filter changes,
instead of maintaining shadow bitmaps
- Advertise support for LKGS (Load Kernel GS base), a new instruction
that's loosely related to FRED, but is supported and enumerated
independently
- Fix a user-triggerable WARN that syzkaller found by setting the
vCPU in INIT_RECEIVED state (aka wait-for-SIPI), and then putting
the vCPU into VMX Root Mode (post-VMXON). Trying to detect every
possible path leading to architecturally forbidden states is hard
and even risks breaking userspace (if it goes from valid to valid
state but passes through invalid states), so just wait until
KVM_RUN to detect that the vCPU state isn't allowed
- Add KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF to allow disabling
interception of APERF/MPERF reads, so that a "properly" configured
VM can access APERF/MPERF. This has many caveats (APERF/MPERF
cannot be zeroed on vCPU creation or saved/restored on suspend and
resume, or preserved over thread migration let alone VM migration)
but can be useful whenever you're interested in letting Linux
guests see the effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo
- Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ for vm file descriptors if vCPUs have been
created, as there's no known use case for changing the default
frequency for other VM types and it goes counter to the very reason
why the ioctl was added to the vm file descriptor. And also, there
would be no way to make it work for confidential VMs with a
"secure" TSC, so kill two birds with one stone
- Dynamically allocation the shadow MMU's hashed page list, and defer
allocating the hashed list until it's actually needed (the TDP MMU
doesn't use the list)
- Extract many of KVM's helpers for accessing architectural local
APIC state to common x86 so that they can be shared by guest-side
code for Secure AVIC
- Various cleanups and fixes
x86 (Intel):
- Preserve the host's DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_IN_SMM when running the guest.
Failure to honor FREEZE_IN_SMM can leak host state into guests
- Explicitly check vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL on nested VM-Enter to
prevent L1 from running L2 with features that KVM doesn't support,
e.g. BTF
x86 (AMD):
- WARN and reject loading kvm-amd.ko instead of panicking the kernel
if the nested SVM MSRPM offsets tracker can't handle an MSR (which
is pretty much a static condition and therefore should never
happen, but still)
- Fix a variety of flaws and bugs in the AVIC device posted IRQ code
- Inhibit AVIC if a vCPU's ID is too big (relative to what hardware
supports) instead of rejecting vCPU creation
- Extend enable_ipiv module param support to SVM, by simply leaving
IsRunning clear in the vCPU's physical ID table entry
- Disable IPI virtualization, via enable_ipiv, if the CPU is affected
by erratum #1235, to allow (safely) enabling AVIC on such CPUs
- Request GA Log interrupts if and only if the target vCPU is
blocking, i.e. only if KVM needs a notification in order to wake
the vCPU
- Intercept SPEC_CTRL on AMD if the MSR shouldn't exist according to
the vCPU's CPUID model
- Accept any SNP policy that is accepted by the firmware with respect
to SMT and single-socket restrictions. An incompatible policy
doesn't put the kernel at risk in any way, so there's no reason for
KVM to care
- Drop a superfluous WBINVD (on all CPUs!) when destroying a VM and
use WBNOINVD instead of WBINVD when possible for SEV cache
maintenance
- When reclaiming memory from an SEV guest, only do cache flushes on
CPUs that have ever run a vCPU for the guest, i.e. don't flush the
caches for CPUs that can't possibly have cache lines with dirty,
encrypted data
Generic:
- Rework irqbypass to track/match producers and consumers via an
xarray instead of a linked list. Using a linked list leads to
O(n^2) insertion times, which is hugely problematic for use cases
that create large numbers of VMs. Such use cases typically don't
actually use irqbypass, but eliminating the pointless registration
is a future problem to solve as it likely requires new uAPI
- Track irqbypass's "token" as "struct eventfd_ctx *" instead of a
"void *", to avoid making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult
to understand
- Decouple device posted IRQs from VFIO device assignment, as binding
a VM to a VFIO group is not a requirement for enabling device
posted IRQs
- Clean up and document/comment the irqfd assignment code
- Disallow binding multiple irqfds to an eventfd with a priority
waiter, i.e. ensure an eventfd is bound to at most one irqfd
through the entire host, and add a selftest to verify eventfd:irqfd
bindings are globally unique
- Add a tracepoint for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES to help debug issues
related to private <=> shared memory conversions
- Drop guest_memfd's .getattr() implementation as the VFS layer will
call generic_fillattr() if inode_operations.getattr is NULL
- Fix issues with dirty ring harvesting where KVM doesn't bound the
processing of entries in any way, which allows userspace to keep
KVM in a tight loop indefinitely
- Kill off kvm_arch_{start,end}_assignment() and x86's associated
tracking, now that KVM no longer uses assigned_device_count as a
heuristic for either irqbypass usage or MDS mitigation
Selftests:
- Fix a comment typo
- Verify KVM is loaded when getting any KVM module param so that
attempting to run a selftest without kvm.ko loaded results in a
SKIP message about KVM not being loaded/enabled (versus some random
parameter not existing)
- Skip tests that hit EACCES when attempting to access a file, and
print a "Root required?" help message. In most cases, the test just
needs to be run with elevated permissions"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (340 commits)
Documentation: KVM: Use unordered list for pre-init VGIC registers
RISC-V: KVM: Avoid re-acquiring memslot in kvm_riscv_gstage_map()
RISC-V: KVM: Use find_vma_intersection() to search for intersecting VMAs
RISC-V: perf/kvm: Add reporting of interrupt events
RISC-V: KVM: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking
RISC-V: KVM: Fix inclusion of Smnpm in the guest ISA bitmap
RISC-V: KVM: Delegate illegal instruction fault to VS mode
RISC-V: KVM: Pass VMID as parameter to kvm_riscv_hfence_xyz() APIs
RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out g-stage page table management
RISC-V: KVM: Add vmid field to struct kvm_riscv_hfence
RISC-V: KVM: Introduce struct kvm_gstage_mapping
RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out MMU related declarations into separate headers
RISC-V: KVM: Use ncsr_xyz() in kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect()
RISC-V: KVM: Implement kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range()
RISC-V: KVM: Don't flush TLB when PTE is unchanged
RISC-V: KVM: Replace KVM_REQ_HFENCE_GVMA_VMID_ALL with KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH
RISC-V: KVM: Rename and move kvm_riscv_local_tlb_sanitize()
RISC-V: KVM: Drop the return value of kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_init()
RISC-V: KVM: Check kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context() return value
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add FEAT_RAS EL2 registers to get-reg-list
...
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing
- Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)
- Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX
- Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK
- Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP
- Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface
- Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB
- Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users
- Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque
- Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
once
- Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code
- Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization
- Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets
- Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing
- MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling
- Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink
- Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed
- Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries
- Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM
- Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
refactoring. Add a number of selftests
- Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
should be used for an inbound SA lookup
- Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS
- Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links
- Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch
- Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack
- Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer
- Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT
Driver API:
- Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink
- Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
fields
- Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc
- Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
inputs
- Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
management
- Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration
Device drivers:
- Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)
- Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL
- Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
- take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
- idpf: add flow steering
- add link_down_events statistic
- clean up the TSPLL code
- preparations for live VM migration
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
- optimize context memory usage for matchers
- expose serial numbers in devlink info
- support PCIe congestion metrics
- Meta (fbnic):
- add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
- support dumping FW logs
- Marvell/Cavium:
- support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
- Amazon:
- add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)
- Ethernet virtual:
- VirtIO net:
- support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
- Google (gve):
- support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
- Microsoft vNIC:
- add handler for device-originated servicing events
- allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
- support Tx bandwidth clamping
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- AMD:
- amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
- add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support BCM5325 switches
- add bcm63xx EPHY power control
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- lots of code refactoring and cleanups
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
- icssg: PRP offload support
- Microchip:
- lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
- ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
- Intel:
- support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
time-sensitive networking (taprio)
- support packet pre-emption in both
- RealTek (r8169):
- enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
- Airoha:
- add PPPoE offload support
- MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583
- Ethernet PHYs:
- support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
- micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
- add MDI/MDI-X control support
- add RX error counters
- add cable test support
- add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
- dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
- support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
- air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
- support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
- support WoL for QCA807x
- CAN drivers:
- rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
- kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info
- WiFi:
- extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
- add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
- support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
- add Radio Measurement action fields
- support per-radio RTS threshold
- some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
used by TKIP, not only WEP)
- improvements for unsolicited probe response handling
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw88):
- IBSS mode for SDIO devices
- RealTek (rtw89):
- BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
- concurrent station + P2P support
- support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
compatibility issues
- many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
- some FIPS interoperability
- MediaTek (mt76):
- firmware recovery improvements
- more MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
- fix scan on multi-radio devices
- more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
- encapsulation/decapsulation offload
- Broadcom (brcm80211):
- support SDIO 43751 device
- Bluetooth:
- hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
- ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
- ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS
- Bluetooth drivers:
- intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
- nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
- nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"
* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
ipv6: annotate data-races around rt->fib6_nsiblings
ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
...
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
"A quick summary: perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extensions
(BRBE), typical PMU hardware updates, small additions to MTE for
store-only tag checking and exposing non-address bits to signal
handlers, HAVE_LIVEPATCH enabled on arm64, VMAP_STACK forced on.
There is also a TLBI optimisation on hardware that does not require
break-before-make when changing the user PTEs between contiguous and
non-contiguous.
More details:
Perf and PMU updates:
- Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs
- Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts
between clock domains within a given instance
- Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the
minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval
- Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE)
- Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes
- Minor driver fixes and cleanups
Hardware features:
- Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY)
- Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE
tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR)
- Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on
hardware with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB
conflict aborts
Software features:
- Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable()
and using the text-poke API for late module relocations
- Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use
arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives
ACPI:
- Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR
table
Debug:
- Simplify the debug exception entry path
- Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros
Kselftests:
- Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests
Miscellaneous:
- Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get()
- Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling
- Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic
- Remove redundant gcs_free() call"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits)
arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task
arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered
arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0
kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems
kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems
kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace
kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace
kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems
arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at()
kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3
arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic
arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct
drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt
drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs
drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver
drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information
drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver
drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version
perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance
perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling
...
Pull x86 platform updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds support for the AMD hardware feedback interface (HFI), by
Perry Yuan"
* tag 'x86-platform-2025-07-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/itmt: Add debugfs file to show core priorities
platform/x86/amd: hfi: Add debugfs support
platform/x86/amd: hfi: Set ITMT priority from ranking data
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Disable preferred cores on designs with workload classification
x86/process: Clear hardware feedback history for AMD processors
platform/x86: hfi: Add power management callback
platform/x86: hfi: Add online and offline callback support
platform/x86: hfi: Init per-cpu scores for each class
platform/x86: hfi: Parse CPU core ranking data from shared memory
platform/x86: hfi: Introduce AMD Hardware Feedback Interface Driver
x86/msr-index: Add AMD workload classification MSRs
MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer entry for AMD Hardware Feedback Driver
Documentation/x86: Add AMD Hardware Feedback Interface documentation
KVM/arm64 changes for 6.17, round #1
- Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for
arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt
translation and wired interrupts.
- Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on
GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface.
- Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing
userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on hardware
that previously advertised it unconditionally.
- Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on systems
with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to perform cache
maintenance on the address range.
- Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the guest
hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take traps of
masked external aborts to the hypervisor.
- Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven
implementation.
- Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3 system
registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the ONE_REG
vCPU ioctls.
- Various cleanups and minor fixes.
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
- Introduce and start using TRAILING_OVERLAP() helper for fixing
embedded flex array instances (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
- mux: Convert mux_control_ops to a flex array member in mux_chip
(Thorsten Blum)
- string: Group str_has_prefix() and strstarts() (Andy Shevchenko)
- Remove KCOV instrumentation from __init and __head (Ritesh Harjani,
Kees Cook)
- Refactor and rename stackleak feature to support Clang
- Add KUnit test for seq_buf API
- Fix KUnit fortify test under LTO
* tag 'hardening-v6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (22 commits)
sched/task_stack: Add missing const qualifier to end_of_stack()
kstack_erase: Support Clang stack depth tracking
kstack_erase: Add -mgeneral-regs-only to silence Clang warnings
init.h: Disable sanitizer coverage for __init and __head
kstack_erase: Disable kstack_erase for all of arm compressed boot code
x86: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches
arm64: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches
s390: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches
arm: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches
mips: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatch
powerpc/mm/book3s64: Move kfence and debug_pagealloc related calls to __init section
configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON
configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE
stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS
stackleak: Rename stackleak_track_stack to __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth
stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE
seq_buf: Introduce KUnit tests
string: Group str_has_prefix() and strstarts()
kunit/fortify: Add back "volatile" for sizeof() constants
acpi: nfit: intel: avoid multiple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings
...
* for-next/feat_mte_store_only:
: MTE feature to restrict tag checking to store only operations
kselftest/arm64/mte: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY testcases
kselftest/arm64/mte: Preparation for mte store only test
kselftest/arm64/abi: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY feature hwcap test
KVM: arm64: Expose MTE_STORE_ONLY feature to guest
arm64/hwcaps: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY hwcaps
arm64/kernel: Support store-only mte tag check
prctl: Introduce PR_MTE_STORE_ONLY
arm64/cpufeature: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY feature
* arm64/for-next/perf: (23 commits)
drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt
drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs
drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver
drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information
drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver
drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version
perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance
perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling
perf/cxlpmu: Fix typos in cxl_pmu.c comments and documentation
perf/cxlpmu: Remove unintended newline from IRQ name format string
perf/cxlpmu: Fix devm_kcalloc() argument order in cxl_pmu_probe()
perf: arm_spe: Relax period restriction
perf: arm_pmuv3: Add support for the Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE)
KVM: arm64: nvhe: Disable branch generation in nVHE guests
arm64: Handle BRBE booting requirements
arm64/sysreg: Add BRBE registers and fields
perf/arm: Add missing .suppress_bind_attrs
perf/arm-cmn: Reduce stack usage during discovery
perf: imx9_perf: make the read-only array mask static const
perf/arm-cmn: Broaden module description for wider interconnect support
...
* for-next/livepatch:
: Support for HAVE_LIVEPATCH on arm64
arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered
arm64: Implement HAVE_LIVEPATCH
arm64: stacktrace: Implement arch_stack_walk_reliable()
arm64: stacktrace: Check kretprobe_find_ret_addr() return value
arm64/module: Use text-poke API for late relocations.
* for-next/user-contig-bbml2:
: Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contigous PTEs on hardware with BBML2 and no TLB conflict aborts
arm64/mm: Elide tlbi in contpte_convert() under BBML2
iommu/arm: Add BBM Level 2 smmu feature
arm64: Add BBM Level 2 cpu feature
arm64: cpufeature: Introduce MATCH_ALL_EARLY_CPUS capability type
* for-next/misc:
: Miscellaneous arm64 patches
arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task
arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0
arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at()
arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic
arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct
arm64: fix unnecessary rebuilding when CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI=y
arm64/mm: Optimize loop to reduce redundant operations of contpte_ptep_get
arm64: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile
* for-next/acpi:
: Various ACPI arm64 changes
ACPI: Suppress misleading SPCR console message when SPCR table is absent
ACPI: Return -ENODEV from acpi_parse_spcr() when SPCR support is disabled
* for-next/debug-entry:
: Simplify the debug exception entry path
arm64: debug: remove debug exception registration infrastructure
arm64: debug: split bkpt32 exception entry
arm64: debug: split brk64 exception entry
arm64: debug: split hardware watchpoint exception entry
arm64: debug: split single stepping exception entry
arm64: debug: refactor reinstall_suspended_bps()
arm64: debug: split hardware breakpoint exception entry
arm64: entry: Add entry and exit functions for debug exceptions
arm64: debug: remove break/step handler registration infrastructure
arm64: debug: call step handlers statically
arm64: debug: call software breakpoint handlers statically
arm64: refactor aarch32_break_handler()
arm64: debug: clean up single_step_handler logic
* for-next/feat_mte_tagged_far:
: Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE tag check fault
kselftest/arm64/mte: Add mtefar tests on check_mmap_options
kselftest/arm64/mte: Refactor check_mmap_option test
kselftest/arm64/mte: Add verification for address tag in signal handler
kselftest/arm64/mte: Add address tag related macro and function
kselftest/arm64/mte: Check MTE_FAR feature is supported
kselftest/arm64/mte: Register mte signal handler with SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS
kselftest/arm64: Add MTE_FAR hwcap test
KVM: arm64: Expose FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR feature to guest
arm64: Report address tag when FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR is supported
arm64/cpufeature: Add FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR feature
* for-next/kselftest:
: Kselftest updates for arm64
kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems
kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems
kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace
kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace
kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems
kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3
kselftest/arm64: Specify SVE data when testing VL set in sve-ptrace
kselftest/arm64: Fix test for streaming FPSIMD write in sve-ptrace
kselftest/arm64: Fix check for setting new VLs in sve-ptrace
kselftest/arm64: Convert tpidr2 test to use kselftest.h
* for-next/mdscr-cleanup:
: Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros
KVM: selftests: Change MDSCR_EL1 register holding variables as uint64_t
arm64/debug: Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros
* for-next/vmap-stack:
: Force VMAP_STACK on arm64
arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from entry code
arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from SDEI stack handling
arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from stacktrace overflow logic
arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from traps overflow stack
arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from irq stack setup
arm64: Remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from THREAD_SHIFT and THREAD_ALIGN
arm64: efi: Remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK check
arm64: Mandate VMAP_STACK
arm64: efi: Fix KASAN false positive for EFI runtime stack
arm64/ptrace: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth()
arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() during flush_gcs()
arm64: Restrict pagetable teardown to avoid false warning
docs: arm64: Fix ICC_SRE_EL2 register typo in booting.rst
In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking
that can support stack depth callbacks:
- Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be
implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang
stack depth callback support.
- Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE,
but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself.
- Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named
for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as
many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn.
While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS,
since that's the only place it is referenced from.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
The netiucv driver creates TCP/IP interfaces over IUCV between Linux
guests on z/VM and other z/VM entities.
Rationale for removal:
- NETIUCV connections are only supported for compatibility with
earlier versions and not to be used for new network setups,
since at least Linux kernel 4.0.
- No known active users, use cases, or product dependencies
- The driver is no longer relevant for z/VM networking;
preferred methods include:
* Device pass-through (e.g., OSA, RoCE)
* z/VM Virtual Switch (VSWITCH)
The IUCV mechanism itself remains supported and is actively used
via AF_IUCV, hvc_iucv, and smsg_iucv.
Signed-off-by: Nagamani PV <nagamani@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250715074210.3999296-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To use the Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE), some configuration is
necessary at EL3 and EL2. This patch documents the requirements and adds
the initial EL2 setup code, which largely consists of configuring the
fine-grained traps and initializing a couple of BRBE control registers.
Before this patch, __init_el2_fgt() would initialize HDFGRTR_EL2 and
HDFGWTR_EL2 with the same value, relying on the read/write trap controls
for a register occupying the same bit position in either register. The
'nBRBIDR' trap control only exists in bit 59 of HDFGRTR_EL2, while bit
59 of HDFGWTR_EL2 is RES0, and so this assumption no longer holds.
To handle HDFGRTR_EL2 and HDFGWTR_EL2 having (slightly) different bit
layouts, __init_el2_fgt() is changed to accumulate the HDFGRTR_EL2 and
HDFGWTR_EL2 control bits separately. While making this change the
open-coded value (1 << 62) is replaced with
HDFG{R,W}TR_EL2_nPMSNEVFR_EL1_MASK.
The BRBCR_EL1 and BRBCR_EL2 registers are unusual and require special
initialisation: even though they are subject to E2H renaming, both have
an effect regardless of HCR_EL2.TGE, even when running at EL2. So we
must initialize BRBCR_EL2 in case we run in nVHE mode. This is handled
in __init_el2_brbe() with a comment to explain the situation.
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
[Mark: rewrite commit message, fix typo in comment]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
tested-by: Adam Young <admiyo@os.amperecomputing.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611-arm-brbe-v19-v23-2-e7775563036e@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Pull CPU speculation fixes from Borislav Petkov:
"Add the mitigation logic for Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA)
TSA are new aspeculative side channel attacks related to the execution
timing of instructions under specific microarchitectural conditions.
In some cases, an attacker may be able to use this timing information
to infer data from other contexts, resulting in information leakage.
Add the usual controls of the mitigation and integrate it into the
existing speculation bugs infrastructure in the kernel"
* tag 'tsa_x86_bugs_for_6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/process: Move the buffer clearing before MONITOR
x86/microcode/AMD: Add TSA microcode SHAs
KVM: SVM: Advertise TSA CPUID bits to guests
x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation
x86/bugs: Rename MDS machinery to something more generic
Introduce a new documentation file, `amd_hfi.rst`, which delves into the
implementation details of the AMD Hardware Feedback Interface and its
associated driver, `amd_hfi`. This documentation describes how the driver
provides hint to the OS scheduling which depends on the capability of core
performance and efficiency ranking data.
This documentation describes:
* The design of the driver
* How the driver provides hints to the OS scheduling
* How the driver interfaces with the kernel for efficiency ranking data.
Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250609200518.3616080-2-superm1@kernel.org
If FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR (Armv8.9) is supported, bits 63:60 of the fault address
are preserved in response to synchronous tag check faults (SEGV_MTESERR).
This patch modifies below to support this feature:
- Use the original FAR_EL1 value when an MTE tag check fault occurs,
if ARM64_MTE_FAR is supported so that not only logical tag
(bits 59:56) but also address tag (bits 63:60] being reported too.
- Add HWCAP for mtefar to let user know bits 63:60 includes
address tag information when when FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR is supported.
Applications that require this information should install
a signal handler with the SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS flag.
While this introduces a minor ABI change,
most applications do not set this flag and therefore will not be affected.
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618084513.1761345-3-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
