Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"Perf event/metric description:
Unify all event and metric descriptions in JSON format. Now event
parsing and handling is greatly simplified by that.
From users point of view, perf list will provide richer information
about hardware events like the following.
$ perf list hw
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):
legacy hardware:
branch-instructions
[Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branches]. Unit: cpu]
branch-misses
[Mispredicted branch instructions. Unit: cpu]
branches
[Retired branch instructions [This event is an alias of branch-instructions]. Unit: cpu]
bus-cycles
[Bus cycles,which can be different from total cycles. Unit: cpu]
cache-misses
[Cache misses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache misses; this is intended to be used in conjunction with the
PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES event to calculate cache miss rates. Unit: cpu]
cache-references
[Cache accesses. Usually this indicates Last Level Cache accesses but this may vary depending on your CPU. This may include
prefetches and coherency messages; again this depends on the design of your CPU. Unit: cpu]
cpu-cycles
[Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cycles]. Unit: cpu]
cycles
[Total cycles. Be wary of what happens during CPU frequency scaling [This event is an alias of cpu-cycles]. Unit: cpu]
instructions
[Retired instructions. Be careful,these can be affected by various issues,most notably hardware interrupt counts. Unit: cpu]
ref-cycles
[Total cycles; not affected by CPU frequency scaling. Unit: cpu]
But most notable changes would be in the perf stat. On the right side,
the default metrics are better named and aligned. :)
$ perf stat -- perf test -w noploop
Performance counter stats for 'perf test -w noploop':
11 context-switches # 10.8 cs/sec cs_per_second
0 cpu-migrations # 0.0 migrations/sec migrations_per_second
3,612 page-faults # 3532.5 faults/sec page_faults_per_second
1,022.51 msec task-clock # 1.0 CPUs CPUs_utilized
110,466 branch-misses # 0.0 % branch_miss_rate (88.66%)
6,934,452,104 branches # 6781.8 M/sec branch_frequency (88.66%)
4,657,032,590 cpu-cycles # 4.6 GHz cycles_frequency (88.65%)
27,755,874,218 instructions # 6.0 instructions insn_per_cycle (89.03%)
TopdownL1 # 0.3 % tma_backend_bound
# 9.3 % tma_bad_speculation (89.05%)
# 9.7 % tma_frontend_bound (77.86%)
# 80.7 % tma_retiring (88.81%)
1.025318171 seconds time elapsed
1.013248000 seconds user
0.012014000 seconds sys
Deferred unwinding support:
With the kernel support (commit c69993ecdd: "perf: Support deferred
user unwind"), perf can use deferred callchains for userspace stack
trace with frame pointers like below:
$ perf record --call-graph fp,defer ...
This will be transparent to users when it comes to other commands like
perf report and perf script. They will merge the deferred callchains
to the previous samples as if they were collected together.
ARM SPE updates
- Extensive enhancements to support various kinds of memory
operations including GCS, MTE allocation tags, memcpy/memset,
register access, and SIMD operations.
- Add inverted data source filter (inv_data_src_filter) support to
exclude certain data sources.
- Improve documentation.
Vendor event updates:
- Intel: Updated event files for Sierra Forest, Panther Lake, Meteor
Lake, Lunar Lake, Granite Rapids, and others.
- Arm64: Added metrics for i.MX94 DDR PMU and Cortex-A720AE
definitions.
- RISC-V: Added JSON support for T-HEAD C920V2.
Misc:
- Improve pointer tracking in data type profiling. It'd give better
output when the variable is using container_of() to convert type.
- Annotation support for perf c2c report in TUI. Press 'a' key to
enter annotation view from cacheline browser window. This will show
which instruction is causing the cacheline contention.
- Lots of fixes and test coverage improvements!"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.19-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (214 commits)
libperf: Use 'extern' in LIBPERF_API visibility macro
perf stat: Improve handling of termination by signal
perf tests stat: Add test for error for an offline CPU
perf stat: When no events, don't report an error if there is none
perf tests stat: Add "--null" coverage
perf cpumap: Add "any" CPU handling to cpu_map__snprint_mask
libperf cpumap: Fix perf_cpu_map__max for an empty/NULL map
perf stat: Allow no events to open if this is a "--null" run
perf test kvm: Add some basic perf kvm test coverage
perf tests evlist: Add basic evlist test
perf tests script dlfilter: Add a dlfilter test
perf tests kallsyms: Add basic kallsyms test
perf tests timechart: Add a perf timechart test
perf tests top: Add basic perf top coverage test
perf tests buildid: Add purge and remove testing
perf tests c2c: Add a basic c2c
perf c2c: Clean up some defensive gets and make asan clean
perf jitdump: Fix missed dso__put
perf mem-events: Don't leak online CPU map
perf hist: In init, ensure mem_info is put on error paths
...
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- Support for userspace handling of synchronous external aborts
(SEAs), allowing the VMM to potentially handle the abort in a
non-fatal manner
- Large rework of the VGIC's list register handling with the goal of
supporting more active/pending IRQs than available list registers
in hardware. In addition, the VGIC now supports EOImode==1 style
deactivations for IRQs which may occur on a separate vCPU than the
one that acked the IRQ
- Support for FEAT_XNX (user / privileged execute permissions) and
FEAT_HAF (hardware update to the Access Flag) in the software page
table walkers and shadow MMU
- Allow page table destruction to reschedule, fixing long
need_resched latencies observed when destroying a large VM
- Minor fixes to KVM and selftests
Loongarch:
- Get VM PMU capability from HW GCFG register
- Add AVEC basic support
- Use 64-bit register definition for EIOINTC
- Add KVM timer test cases for tools/selftests
RISC/V:
- SBI message passing (MPXY) support for KVM guest
- Give a new, more specific error subcode for the case when in-kernel
AIA virtualization fails to allocate IMSIC VS-file
- Support KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET, enabling dirty log gradually
in small chunks
- Fix guest page fault within HLV* instructions
- Flush VS-stage TLB after VCPU migration for Andes cores
s390:
- Always allocate ESCA (Extended System Control Area), instead of
starting with the basic SCA and converting to ESCA with the
addition of the 65th vCPU. The price is increased number of exits
(and worse performance) on z10 and earlier processor; ESCA was
introduced by z114/z196 in 2010
- VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK support
- Operation exception forwarding support
- Cleanups
x86:
- Skip the costly "zap all SPTEs" on an MMIO generation wrap if MMIO
SPTE caching is disabled, as there can't be any relevant SPTEs to
zap
- Relocate a misplaced export
- Fix an async #PF bug where KVM would clear the completion queue
when the guest transitioned in and out of paging mode, e.g. when
handling an SMI and then returning to paged mode via RSM
- Leave KVM's user-return notifier registered even when disabling
virtualization, as long as kvm.ko is loaded. On reboot/shutdown,
keeping the notifier registered is ok; the kernel does not use the
MSRs and the callback will run cleanly and restore host MSRs if the
CPU manages to return to userspace before the system goes down
- Use the checked version of {get,put}_user()
- Fix a long-lurking bug where KVM's lack of catch-up logic for
periodic APIC timers can result in a hard lockup in the host
- Revert the periodic kvmclock sync logic now that KVM doesn't use a
clocksource that's subject to NTP corrections
- Clean up KVM's handling of MMIO Stale Data and L1TF, and bury the
latter behind CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS
- Context switch XCR0, XSS, and PKRU outside of the entry/exit fast
path; the only reason they were handled in the fast path was to
paper of a bug in the core #MC code, and that has long since been
fixed
- Add emulator support for AVX MOV instructions, to play nice with
emulated devices whose guest drivers like to access PCI BARs with
large multi-byte instructions
x86 (AMD):
- Fix a few missing "VMCB dirty" bugs
- Fix the worst of KVM's lack of EFER.LMSLE emulation
- Add AVIC support for addressing 4k vCPUs in x2AVIC mode
- Fix incorrect handling of selective CR0 writes when checking
intercepts during emulation of L2 instructions
- Fix a currently-benign bug where KVM would clobber SPEC_CTRL[63:32]
on VMRUN and #VMEXIT
- Fix a bug where KVM corrupt the guest code stream when re-injecting
a soft interrupt if the guest patched the underlying code after the
VM-Exit, e.g. when Linux patches code with a temporary INT3
- Add KVM_X86_SNP_POLICY_BITS to advertise supported SNP policy bits
to userspace, and extend KVM "support" to all policy bits that
don't require any actual support from KVM
x86 (Intel):
- Use the root role from kvm_mmu_page to construct EPTPs instead of
the current vCPU state, partly as worthwhile cleanup, but mostly to
pave the way for tracking per-root TLB flushes, and elide EPT
flushes on pCPU migration if the root is clean from a previous
flush
- Add a few missing nested consistency checks
- Rip out support for doing "early" consistency checks via hardware
as the functionality hasn't been used in years and is no longer
useful in general; replace it with an off-by-default module param
to WARN if hardware fails a check that KVM does not perform
- Fix a currently-benign bug where KVM would drop the guest's
SPEC_CTRL[63:32] on VM-Enter
- Misc cleanups
- Overhaul the TDX code to address systemic races where KVM (acting
on behalf of userspace) could inadvertantly trigger lock contention
in the TDX-Module; KVM was either working around these in weird,
ugly ways, or was simply oblivious to them (though even Yan's
devilish selftests could only break individual VMs, not the host
kernel)
- Fix a bug where KVM could corrupt a vCPU's cpu_list when freeing a
TDX vCPU, if creating said vCPU failed partway through
- Fix a few sparse warnings (bad annotation, 0 != NULL)
- Use struct_size() to simplify copying TDX capabilities to userspace
- Fix a bug where TDX would effectively corrupt user-return MSR
values if the TDX Module rejects VP.ENTER and thus doesn't clobber
host MSRs as expected
Selftests:
- Fix a math goof in mmu_stress_test when running on a single-CPU
system/VM
- Forcefully override ARCH from x86_64 to x86 to play nice with
specifying ARCH=x86_64 on the command line
- Extend a bunch of nested VMX to validate nested SVM as well
- Add support for LA57 in the core VM_MODE_xxx macro, and add a test
to verify KVM can save/restore nested VMX state when L1 is using
5-level paging, but L2 is not
- Clean up the guest paging code in anticipation of sharing the core
logic for nested EPT and nested NPT
guest_memfd:
- Add NUMA mempolicy support for guest_memfd, and clean up a variety
of rough edges in guest_memfd along the way
- Define a CLASS to automatically handle get+put when grabbing a
guest_memfd from a memslot to make it harder to leak references
- Enhance KVM selftests to make it easer to develop and debug
selftests like those added for guest_memfd NUMA support, e.g. where
test and/or KVM bugs often result in hard-to-debug SIGBUS errors
- Misc cleanups
Generic:
- Use the recently-added WQ_PERCPU when creating the per-CPU
workqueue for irqfd cleanup
- Fix a goof in the dirty ring documentation
- Fix choice of target for directed yield across different calls to
kvm_vcpu_on_spin(); the function was always starting from the first
vCPU instead of continuing the round-robin search"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (260 commits)
KVM: arm64: at: Update AF on software walk only if VM has FEAT_HAFDBS
KVM: arm64: at: Use correct HA bit in TCR_EL2 when regime is EL2
KVM: arm64: Document KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_{UX,PX}
KVM: arm64: Fix spelling mistake "Unexpeced" -> "Unexpected"
KVM: arm64: Add break to default case in kvm_pgtable_stage2_pte_prot()
KVM: arm64: Add endian casting to kvm_swap_s[12]_desc()
KVM: arm64: Fix compilation when CONFIG_ARM64_USE_LSE_ATOMICS=n
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test for AT emulation
KVM: arm64: nv: Expose hardware access flag management to NV guests
KVM: arm64: nv: Implement HW access flag management in stage-2 SW PTW
KVM: arm64: Implement HW access flag management in stage-1 SW PTW
KVM: arm64: Propagate PTW errors up to AT emulation
KVM: arm64: Add helper for swapping guest descriptor
KVM: arm64: nv: Use pgtable definitions in stage-2 walk
KVM: arm64: Handle endianness in read helper for emulated PTW
KVM: arm64: nv: Stop passing vCPU through void ptr in S2 PTW
KVM: arm64: Call helper for reading descriptors directly
KVM: arm64: nv: Advertise support for FEAT_XNX
KVM: arm64: Teach ptdump about FEAT_XNX permissions
KVM: s390: Use generic VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK functions
...
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
...
Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:
- Provide a new interface for dynamic configuration and deconfiguration
of hotplug memory, allowing with and without memmap_on_memory
support. This makes the way memory hotplug is handled on s390 much
more similar to other architectures
- Remove compat support. There shouldn't be any compat user space
around anymore, therefore get rid of a lot of code which also doesn't
need to be tested anymore
- Add stackprotector support. GCC 16 will get new compiler options,
which allow to generate code required for kernel stackprotector
support
- Merge pai_crypto and pai_ext PMU drivers into a new driver. This
removes a lot of duplicated code. The new driver is also extendable
and allows to support new PMUs
- Add driver override support for AP queues
- Rework and extend zcrypt and AP trace events to allow for tracing of
crypto requests
- Support block sizes larger than 65535 bytes for CCW tape devices
- Since the rework of the virtual kernel address space the module area
and the kernel image are within the same 4GB area. This eliminates
the need of weak per cpu variables. Get rid of
ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU
- Various other small improvements and fixes
* tag 's390-6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (92 commits)
watchdog: diag288_wdt: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro
s390/entry: Use lay instead of aghik
s390/vdso: Get rid of -m64 flag handling
s390/vdso: Rename vdso64 to vdso
s390: Rename head64.S to head.S
s390/vdso: Use common STABS_DEBUG and DWARF_DEBUG macros
s390: Add stackprotector support
s390/modules: Simplify module_finalize() slightly
s390: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro
s390/percpu: Get rid of ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU
s390/ap: Restrict driver_override versus apmask and aqmask use
s390/ap: Rename mutex ap_perms_mutex to ap_attr_mutex
s390/ap: Support driver_override for AP queue devices
s390/ap: Use all-bits-one apmask/aqmask for vfio in_use() checks
s390/debug: Update description of resize operation
s390/syscalls: Switch to generic system call table generation
s390/syscalls: Remove system call table pointer from thread_struct
s390/uapi: Remove 31 bit support from uapi header files
s390: Remove compat support
tools: Remove s390 compat support
...
Pull x86 CPU feature updates from Dave Hansen:
"The biggest thing of note here is Linear Address Space Separation
(LASS). It represents the first time I can think of that the
upper=>kernel/lower=>user address space convention is actually
recognized by the hardware on x86. It ensures that userspace can not
even get the hardware to _start_ page walks for the kernel address
space. This, of course, is a really nice generic side channel defense.
This is really only a down payment on LASS support. There are still
some details to work out in its interaction with EFI calls and
vsyscall emulation. For now, LASS is disabled if either of those
features is compiled in (which is almost always the case).
There's also one straggler commit in here which converts an
under-utilized AMD CPU feature leaf into a generic Linux-defined leaf
so more feature can be packed in there.
Summary:
- Enable Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)
- Change X86_FEATURE leaf 17 from an AMD leaf to Linux-defined"
* tag 'x86_cpu_for_6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu: Enable LASS during CPU initialization
selftests/x86: Update the negative vsyscall tests to expect a #GP
x86/traps: Communicate a LASS violation in #GP message
x86/kexec: Disable LASS during relocate kernel
x86/alternatives: Disable LASS when patching kernel code
x86/asm: Introduce inline memcpy and memset
x86/cpu: Add an LASS dependency on SMAP
x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate the LASS feature bits
x86/cpufeatures: Make X86_FEATURE leaf 17 Linux-specific
Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:
- The mandatory pile of cleanups the cat drags in every merge window
* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Clean up whitespace in a20.c
x86/mm: Delete disabled debug code
x86/{boot,mtrr}: Remove unused function declarations
x86/percpu: Use BIT_WORD() and BIT_MASK() macros
x86/cpufeatures: Correct LKGS feature flag description
x86/idtentry: Add missing '*' to kernel-doc lines
KVM/arm64 updates for 6.19
- Support for userspace handling of synchronous external aborts (SEAs),
allowing the VMM to potentially handle the abort in a non-fatal
manner.
- Large rework of the VGIC's list register handling with the goal of
supporting more active/pending IRQs than available list registers in
hardware. In addition, the VGIC now supports EOImode==1 style
deactivations for IRQs which may occur on a separate vCPU than the
one that acked the IRQ.
- Support for FEAT_XNX (user / privileged execute permissions) and
FEAT_HAF (hardware update to the Access Flag) in the software page
table walkers and shadow MMU.
- Allow page table destruction to reschedule, fixing long need_resched
latencies observed when destroying a large VM.
- Minor fixes to KVM and selftests
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Callchain support:
- Add support for deferred user-space stack unwinding for perf,
enabled on x86. (Peter Zijlstra, Steven Rostedt)
- unwind_user/x86: Enable frame pointer unwinding on x86 (Josh
Poimboeuf)
x86 PMU support and infrastructure:
- x86/insn: Simplify for_each_insn_prefix() (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86/insn,uprobes,alternative: Unify insn_is_nop() (Peter Zijlstra)
Intel PMU driver:
- Large series to prepare for and implement architectural PEBS
support for Intel platforms such as Clearwater Forest (CWF) and
Panther Lake (PTL). (Dapeng Mi, Kan Liang)
- Check dynamic constraints (Kan Liang)
- Optimize PEBS extended config (Peter Zijlstra)
- cstates:
- Remove PC3 support from LunarLake (Zhang Rui)
- Add Pantherlake support (Zhang Rui)
- Clearwater Forest support (Zide Chen)
AMD PMU driver:
- x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF (George Kennedy)
Fixes and cleanups:
- task_work: Fix NMI race condition (Peter Zijlstra)
- perf/x86: Fix NULL event access and potential PEBS record loss
(Dapeng Mi)
- Misc other fixes and cleanups (Dapeng Mi, Ingo Molnar, Peter
Zijlstra)"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
perf/x86/intel: Fix and clean up intel_pmu_drain_arch_pebs() type use
perf/x86/intel: Optimize PEBS extended config
perf/x86/intel: Check PEBS dyn_constraints
perf/x86/intel: Add a check for dynamic constraints
perf/x86/intel: Add counter group support for arch-PEBS
perf/x86/intel: Setup PEBS data configuration and enable legacy groups
perf/x86/intel: Update dyn_constraint base on PEBS event precise level
perf/x86/intel: Allocate arch-PEBS buffer and initialize PEBS_BASE MSR
perf/x86/intel: Process arch-PEBS records or record fragments
perf/x86/intel/ds: Factor out PEBS group processing code to functions
perf/x86/intel/ds: Factor out PEBS record processing code to functions
perf/x86/intel: Initialize architectural PEBS
perf/x86/intel: Correct large PEBS flag check
perf/x86/intel: Replace x86_pmu.drain_pebs calling with static call
perf/x86: Fix NULL event access and potential PEBS record loss
perf/x86: Remove redundant is_x86_event() prototype
entry,unwind/deferred: Fix unwind_reset_info() placement
unwind_user/x86: Fix arch=um build
perf: Support deferred user unwind
unwind_user/x86: Teach FP unwind about start of function
...
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
- klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf)
Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate
livepatch modules using a source .patch as input.
This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch
project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to
generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a
complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+
years of maintaining kpatch.
Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:
- Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
graph analysis to help detect changed functions.
- Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.
- Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.
- Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.
- Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for
symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction.
- Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines
script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to
preserve the original line numbers at compile time.
- Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump
(Alexandre Chartre)
- Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre,
which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation
specials such as alternatives:
17ef: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f mov 0x34(%r9),%edx
17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | <alternative.17f3> | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | call 0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax
17f8: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638 cmp %eax,%edx
... jump table alternatives:
1895: sched_use_asym_prio+0x5 test $0x8,%ch
1898: sched_use_asym_prio+0x8 je 0x18a9 <sched_use_asym_prio+0x19>
189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | <jump_table.189a> | JUMP
189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | jmp 0x18ae <sched_use_asym_prio+0x1e> | nop2
189c: sched_use_asym_prio+0xc mov $0x1,%eax
18a1: sched_use_asym_prio+0x11 and $0x80,%ecx
... exception table alternatives:
native_read_msr:
5b80: native_read_msr+0x0 mov %edi,%ecx
5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | <ex_table.5b82> | EXCEPTION
5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | rdmsr | resume at 0x5b84 <native_read_msr+0x4>
5b84: native_read_msr+0x4 shl $0x20,%rdx
.... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT
example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above):
2faaf: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f jne 0x2fba4 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x114>
2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | <alternative.2fab5> | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG
2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | jmp 0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp 0x4b0 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x3f> | nop5
2faba: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a mov $0x2b,%eax
... NOP sequence shortening:
1048e2: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2 je 0x104917 <snapshot_write_finalize+0xf7>
1048e4: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4 nop6
1048ea: snapshot_write_finalize+0xca nop11
1048f5: snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5 nop11
104900: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0 mov %rax,%rcx
104903: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3 mov 0x10(%rdx),%rax
... and much more.
- Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre)
- Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support
(Josh Poimboeuf)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo
Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra,
Thorsten Blum)
* tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives
objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h
objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative
objtool: Add wide output for disassembly
objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction
objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives
objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature
objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives
objtool: Fix address references in alternatives
objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives
objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives
objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions
objtool: Disassemble group alternatives
objtool: Print headers for alternatives
objtool: Preserve alternatives order
objtool: Add the --disas=<function-pattern> action
objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites
objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions
objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives
objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives
...
* for-next/sysreg:
: arm64 sysreg updates/cleanups
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/sysreg: Add ICH_VMCR_EL2
arm64/sysreg: Move generation of RES0/RES1/UNKN to function
arm64/sysreg: Support feature-specific fields with 'Prefix' descriptor
arm64/sysreg: Fix checks for incomplete sysreg definitions
arm64/sysreg: Replace TCR_EL1 field macros
ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS is set to 4 but not all ID register fields are 4
bits. See for instance ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1. The last user of this define,
ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS, is the set_id_regs selftest. Its logic assumes
the fields aren't a single bits; assert that's the case and stop using the
define. As there are no more users, ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS is removed
from the arm64 tools sysreg.h header. A separate commit removes this from
the kernel version of the header.
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Pull RISC-V fixes from Paul Walmsley:
- Correct the MIPS RISC-V/JEDEC vendor ID
- Fix the system shutdown behavior in the legacy case where
CONFIG_RISCV_SBI_V01 is set, but the firmware implementation
doesn't support the older v0.1 system shutdown method
- Align some tools/ macro definitions with the corresponding
kernel headers
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
tools: riscv: Fixed misalignment of CSR related definitions
riscv: sbi: Prefer SRST shutdown over legacy
riscv: Update MIPS vendor id to 0x127
Remove s390 compat support from everything within tools, since s390 compat
support will be removed from the kernel.
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> # tools/nolibc selftests/nolibc
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> # selftests/vDSO
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> # bpf bits
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
The file tools/arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h borrows from
arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h, and subsequent modifications
related to CSR should maintain consistency.
Signed-off-by: Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114071215.816-1-cp0613@linux.alibaba.com
[pjw@kernel.org: dropped Fixes: lines for patches that weren't broken; removed superfluous blank line]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
To pick the changes in:
9d7dfb95da ("KVM: VMX: Inject #UD if guest tries to execute SEAMCALL or TDCALL")
The 'perf kvm-stat' tool uses the exit reasons that are included in the
VMX_EXIT_REASONS define, this new SEAMCALL isn't included there (TDCALL
is), so shouldn't be causing any change in behaviour, this patch ends up
being just addressess the following perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Test how KVM handles guest SEA when APEI is unable to claim it, and
KVM_CAP_ARM_SEA_TO_USER is enabled.
The behavior is triggered by consuming recoverable memory error (UER)
injected via EINJ. The test asserts two major things:
1. KVM returns to userspace with KVM_EXIT_ARM_SEA exit reason, and
has provided expected fault information, e.g. esr, flags, gva, gpa.
2. Userspace is able to handle KVM_EXIT_ARM_SEA by injecting SEA to
guest and KVM injects expected SEA into the VCPU.
Tested on a data center server running Siryn AmpereOne processor
that has RAS support.
Several things to notice before attempting to run this selftest:
- The test relies on EINJ support in both firmware and kernel to
inject UER. Otherwise the test will be skipped.
- The under-test platform's APEI should be unable to claim the SEA.
Otherwise the test will be skipped.
- Some platform doesn't support notrigger in EINJ, which may cause
APEI and GHES to offline the memory before guest can consume
injected UER, and making test unable to trigger SEA.
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20251013185903.1372553-3-jiaqiyan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize now
on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers.
This is a mostly mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement), except for the following files where comments with
mis-spelled macros were tweaked manually:
arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/frame.h
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_ptrauth.h
arch/arm64/include/asm/debug-monitors.h
arch/arm64/include/asm/esr.h
arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h
arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Quotation marks in cpufeatures.h comments are special and when the
comment begins with a quoted string, that string lands in /proc/cpuinfo,
turning it into a user-visible one.
The LKGS comment doesn't begin with a quoted string but just in case
drop the quoted "kernel" in there to avoid confusion. And while at it,
simply change the description into what the LKGS instruction does for
more clarity.
No functional changes.
Reviewed-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251015103548.10194-1-bp@kernel.org
To pick the changes in:
885df2d210 ("KVM: x86: Add support for RDMSR/WRMSRNS w/ immediate on Intel")
c42856af8f ("KVM: TDX: Add a place holder for handler of TDX hypercalls (TDG.VP.VMCALL)")
That makes 'perf kvm-stat' aware of these new TDCALL and
MSR_{READ,WRITE}_IMM exit reasons, thus addressing the following perf
build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Xin Li <xin@zytor.com>
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes in:
b8c3c9f5d0 ("x86/apic: Initialize Secure AVIC APIC backing page")
That triggers:
CC /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/util/kvm-stat.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/util/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/perf-util-in.o
AR /tmp/build/perf-tools/libperf-util.a
LINK /tmp/build/perf-tools/perf
But this time causes no changes in tooling results, as the introduced
SVM_VMGEXIT_SAVIC exit reason wasn't added to SVM_EXIT_REASONS, that is
used in kvm-stat.c.
And addresses this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes in:
fddd07626b ("KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors")
f2f5519aa4 ("KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector")
9d6812d415 ("KVM: x86: Enable guest SSP read/write interface with new uAPIs")
06f2969c6a ("KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG uAPIs support")
That just rebuilds kvm-stat.c on x86, no change in functionality.
This silences these perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To pick the changes from:
e19c062199 ("x86/cpufeatures: Add support for Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring Counters (ABMC)")
7b59c73fd6 ("x86/cpufeatures: Add SNP Secure TSC")
3c7cb84145 ("x86/cpufeatures: Add a CPU feature bit for MSR immediate form instructions")
2f8f173413 ("x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation")
a508cec6e5 ("x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug")
This causes these perf files to be rebuilt and brings some X86_FEATURE
that may be used by:
CC /tmp/build/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
CC /tmp/build/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.o
And addresses this perf build warning:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Xin Li <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Use the new-found freedom of allowing variable declarions inside
for() to simplify the for_each_insn_prefix() iterator to no longer
need an external temporary.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
That cpuinfo_x86.x86_capability[] element was supposed to mirror CPUID flags
from CPUID_0x80000007_EBX but that leaf has still to this day only three bits
defined in it. So move those bits to scattered.c and free the capability
element for synthetic flags.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:
- Simplify inline asm flag output operands now that the minimum
compiler version supports the =@ccCOND syntax
- Remove a bunch of AS_* Kconfig symbols which detect assembler support
for various instruction mnemonics now that the minimum assembler
version supports them all
- The usual cleanups all over the place
* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/asm: Remove code depending on __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__
x86/sgx: Use ENCLS mnemonic in <kernel/cpu/sgx/encls.h>
x86/mtrr: Remove license boilerplate text with bad FSF address
x86/asm: Use RDPKRU and WRPKRU mnemonics in <asm/special_insns.h>
x86/idle: Use MONITORX and MWAITX mnemonics in <asm/mwait.h>
x86/entry/fred: Push __KERNEL_CS directly
x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AS_AVX512
crypto: x86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_VPCLMULQDQ
crypto: X86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_VAES
crypto: x86 - Remove CONFIG_AS_GFNI
x86/kconfig: Drop unused and needless config X86_64_SMP
Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information
(--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T'
hotkey to toggle it
- Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control
over page/chunk sizes
- Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported
events
- Improved support for Clang cross-compilation
- Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity
- Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic
regrouping
- Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent
failures
- Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log
(DTL)
- Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop
details
- Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across
multiple processor generations
- Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in
- Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging)
- Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use
more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new
bindings
- Various 'perf test' fixes
- Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits)
perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h
perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
perf docs: Document building with Clang
perf build: Support build with clang
perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header
perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang
perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen
tools build: Align warning options with perf
perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args'
perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations
perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static
perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling
perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol()
perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso
perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization
perf check: Add libLLVM feature
perf parse-events: Fix parsing of >30kb event strings
...
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:
- Use fdinfo to expose the sysfs path of a device represented by a vfio
device file (Alex Mastro)
- Mark vfio-fsl-mc, vfio-amba, and the reset functions for
vfio-platform for removal as these are either orphaned or believed to
be unused (Alex Williamson)
- Add reviewers for vfio-platform to save it from also being marked for
removal (Mostafa Saleh, Pranjal Shrivastava)
- VFIO selftests, including basic sanity testing and minimal userspace
drivers for testing against real hardware. This is also expected to
provide integration with KVM selftests for KVM-VFIO interfaces (David
Matlack, Josh Hilke)
- Fix drivers/cdx and vfio/cdx to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
(Nipun Gupta)
- Fix reference leak in hisi_acc (Miaoqian Lin)
- Use consistent return for unsupported device feature (Alex Mastro)
- Unwind using the correct memory free callback in vfio/pds (Zilin
Guan)
- Use IRQ_DISABLE_LAZY flag to improve handling of pre-PCI2.3 INTx and
resolve stalled interrupt on ppc64 (Timothy Pearson)
- Enable GB300 in nvgrace-gpu vfio-pci variant driver (Tushar Dave)
- Misc:
- Drop unnecessary ternary conversion in vfio/pci (Xichao Zhao)
- Grammatical fix in nvgrace-gpu (Morduan Zang)
- Update Shameer's email address (Shameer Kolothum)
- Fix document build warning (Alex Williamson)
* tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (48 commits)
vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add GB300 SKU to the devid table
vfio/pci: Fix INTx handling on legacy non-PCI 2.3 devices
vfio/pds: replace bitmap_free with vfree
vfio: return -ENOTTY for unsupported device feature
hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Fix reference leak in hisi_acc_vfio_debug_init
vfio/platform: Mark reset drivers for removal
vfio/amba: Mark for removal
MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer
docs: proc.rst: Fix VFIO Device title formatting
vfio: selftests: Fix .gitignore for already tracked files
vfio/cdx: update driver to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
cdx: don't select CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ
MAINTAINERS: Update Shameer Kolothum's email address
vfio: selftests: Add a script to help with running VFIO selftests
vfio: selftests: Make iommufd the default iommu_mode
vfio: selftests: Add iommufd mode
vfio: selftests: Add iommufd_compat_type1{,v2} modes
vfio: selftests: Add vfio_type1v2_mode
vfio: selftests: Replicate tests across all iommu_modes
...
Pull x86 instruction decoder update from Borislav Petkov:
- Add instruction decoding support for the XOP-prefixed instruction set
present on the AMD Bulldozer uarch
[ These instructions don't normally happen, but a X86_NATIVE_CPU build
on a bulldozer host can make the compiler then use these unusual
instruction encodings ]
* tag 'x86_misc_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/insn: Add XOP prefix instructions decoder support
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core perf code updates:
- Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This is in
reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which could have been
detected earlier and could have mitigated the bug somewhat (Thomas
Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)
- Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation for
sframes (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)
Uprobes updates:
- Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which gives a
substantial speedup (Jiri Olsa)
- Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)
PMU driver updates:
- Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver (Dapeng Mi)
Misc cleanups and fixes:
- Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe_sigill test for uprobe syscall error value
uprobes/x86: Return error from uprobe syscall when not called from trampoline
perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
perf: Simplify get_perf_callchain() user logic
perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
perf: Remove get_perf_callchain() init_nr argument
perf/x86: Print PMU counters bitmap in x86_pmu_show_pmu_cap()
perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
perf/x86/intel: Change macro GLOBAL_CTRL_EN_PERF_METRICS to BIT_ULL(48)
perf/x86: Add PERF_CAP_PEBS_TIMING_INFO flag
perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error
perf/x86/intel: Use early_initcall() to hook bts_init()
uprobes: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
selftests/seccomp: validate uprobe syscall passes through seccomp
seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe syscall shadow stack test
selftests/bpf: Change test_uretprobe_regs_change for uprobe and uretprobe
selftests/bpf: Add uprobe_regs_equal test
selftests/bpf: Add optimized usdt variant for basic usdt test
...
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
...
When compiling with LLVM and CONFIG_RUST is set, there exists the
following objtool warning:
rust/compiler_builtins.o: warning: objtool: __rust__unordsf2(): unexpected end of section .text.unlikely.
objdump shows that the end of section .text.unlikely is an atomic
instruction:
amswap.w $zero, $ra, $zero
According to the LoongArch Reference Manual, if the amswap.w atomic
memory access instruction has the same register number as rd and rj,
the execution will trigger an Instruction Non-defined Exception, so
mark the above instruction as INSN_BUG type to fix the warning.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.
This originally was a completely mechanical patch (done with a
simple "sed -i" statement), with some manual fixups during
rebasing of the patch later.
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606070952.498274-3-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
The minimum supported GCC version is 8.1, which supports flag output operands
and always defines __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__ macro.
Remove code depending on __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__ and use the "=@ccCOND" flag
output operand directly.
Use the equivalent "=@ccz" instead of "=@cce" flag output operand for
CMPXCHG8B and CMPXCHG16B instructions. These instructions set a single flag
bit - the Zero flag - and "=@ccz" is used to distinguish the CC user from
comparison instructions, where set ZERO flag indeed means that the values are
equal.
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905121723.GCaLrU04lP2A50PT-B@fat_crate.local
Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- Correctly handle 'invariant' system registers for protected VMs
- Improved handling of VNCR data aborts, including external aborts
- Fixes for handling of FEAT_RAS for NV guests, providing a sane
fault context during SEA injection and preventing the use of
RASv1p1 fault injection hardware
- Ensure that page table destruction when a VM is destroyed gives an
opportunity to reschedule
- Large fix to KVM's infrastructure for managing guest context loaded
on the CPU, addressing issues where the output of AT emulation
doesn't get reflected to the guest
- Fix AT S12 emulation to actually perform stage-2 translation when
necessary
- Avoid attempting vLPI irqbypass when GICv4 has been explicitly
disabled for a VM
- Minor KVM + selftest fixes
RISC-V:
- Fix pte settings within kvm_riscv_gstage_ioremap()
- Fix comments in kvm_riscv_check_vcpu_requests()
- Fix stack overrun when setting vlenb via ONE_REG
x86:
- Use array_index_nospec() to sanitize the target vCPU ID when
handling PV IPIs and yields as the ID is guest-controlled.
- Drop a superfluous cpumask_empty() check when reclaiming SEV
memory, as the common case, by far, is that at least one CPU will
have entered the VM, and wbnoinvd_on_cpus_mask() will naturally
handle the rare case where the set of have_run_cpus is empty.
Selftests (not KVM):
- Rename the is_signed_type() macro in kselftest_harness.h to
is_signed_var() to fix a collision with linux/overflow.h. The
collision generates compiler warnings due to the two macros having
different meaning"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (29 commits)
KVM: arm64: nv: Fix ATS12 handling of single-stage translation
KVM: arm64: Remove __vcpu_{read,write}_sys_reg_{from,to}_cpu()
KVM: arm64: Fix vcpu_{read,write}_sys_reg() accessors
KVM: arm64: Simplify sysreg access on exception delivery
KVM: arm64: Check for SYSREGS_ON_CPU before accessing the 32bit state
RISC-V: KVM: fix stack overrun when loading vlenb
RISC-V: KVM: Correct kvm_riscv_check_vcpu_requests() comment
RISC-V: KVM: Fix pte settings within kvm_riscv_gstage_ioremap()
KVM: arm64: selftests: Sync ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1 in set_id_regs
KVM: arm64: Get rid of ARM64_FEATURE_MASK()
KVM: arm64: Make ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.RAS_frac writable
KVM: arm64: Make ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.RAS writable
KVM: arm64: Ignore HCR_EL2.FIEN set by L1 guest's EL2
KVM: arm64: Handle RASv1p1 registers
arm64: Add capability denoting FEAT_RASv1p1
KVM: arm64: Reschedule as needed when destroying the stage-2 page-tables
KVM: arm64: Split kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy()
selftests: harness: Rename is_signed_type() to avoid collision with overflow.h
KVM: SEV: don't check have_run_cpus in sev_writeback_caches()
KVM: arm64: Correctly populate FAR_EL2 on nested SEA injection
...
KVM/arm64 changes for 6.17, take #2
- Correctly handle 'invariant' system registers for protected VMs
- Improved handling of VNCR data aborts, including external aborts
- Fixes for handling of FEAT_RAS for NV guests, providing a sane
fault context during SEA injection and preventing the use of
RASv1p1 fault injection hardware
- Ensure that page table destruction when a VM is destroyed gives an
opportunity to reschedule
- Large fix to KVM's infrastructure for managing guest context loaded
on the CPU, addressing issues where the output of AT emulation
doesn't get reflected to the guest
- Fix AT S12 emulation to actually perform stage-2 translation when
necessary
- Avoid attempting vLPI irqbypass when GICv4 has been explicitly
disabled for a VM
- Minor KVM + selftest fixes
The ARM64_FEATURE_MASK() macro was a hack introduce whilst the
automatic generation of sysreg encoding was introduced, and was
too unreliable to be entirely trusted.
We are in a better place now, and we could really do without this
macro. Get rid of it altogether.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250817202158.395078-7-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES.PEBS_TIMING_INFO[bit 17] is introduced to
indicate whether timed PEBS is supported. Timed PEBS adds a new "retired
latency" field in basic info group to show the timing info. Please find
detailed information about timed PEBS in section 8.4.1 "Timed Processor
Event Based Sampling" of "Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions
and Future Features".
This patch adds PERF_CAP_PEBS_TIMING_INFO flag and KVM module leverages
this flag to expose timed PEBS feature to guest.
Moreover, opportunistically refine the indents and make the macros
share consistent indents.
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250820023032.17128-5-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
To pick up the changes in this cset:
69bf205360 powerpc: Drop GPL boilerplate text with obsolete FSF address
This addresses these perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To pick up the changes in this cset:
efe676a1a7 arm64: proton-pack: Add new CPUs 'k' values for branch mitigation
e18c09b204 arm64: Add support for HIP09 Spectre-BHB mitigation
a9b5bd81b2 arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE
53a52a0ec7 arm64: cputype: Add comments about Qualcomm Kryo 5XX and 6XX cores
401c3333bb arm64: cputype: Add QCOM_CPU_PART_KRYO_3XX_GOLD
86edf6bdcf smccc/kvm_guest: Enable errata based on implementation CPUs
0bc9a9e85f KVM: arm64: Work around x1e's CNTVOFF_EL2 bogosity
This addresses these perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h
But the following two changes cannot be applied since they introduced
new build errors in util/arm-spe.c. So it still has the warning after
this change.
c8c2647e69 arm64: Make _midr_in_range_list() an exported function
e3121298c7 arm64: Modify _midr_range() functions to read MIDR/REVIDR internally
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
perf build: [WIP] Fix arm-spe build errors
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To pick up the changes in this cset:
7b306dfa32 x86/sev: Evict cache lines during SNP memory validation
65f55a3017 x86/CPU/AMD: Add CPUID faulting support
d8010d4ba4 x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation
a3c4f3396b x86/msr-index: Add AMD workload classification MSRs
17ec2f9653 KVM: VMX: Allow guest to set DEBUGCTL.RTM_DEBUG if RTM is supported
This addresses these perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To pick up the changes in this cset:
f55ce5a6cd KVM: arm64: Expose new KVM cap for cacheable PFNMAP
28224ef02b KVM: TDX: Report supported optional TDVMCALLs in TDX capabilities
4580dbef5c KVM: TDX: Exit to userspace for SetupEventNotifyInterrupt
25e8b1dd48 KVM: TDX: Exit to userspace for GetTdVmCallInfo
cf207eac06 KVM: TDX: Handle TDG.VP.VMCALL<GetQuote>
This addresses these perf build warnings:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
AMD Cyan Skillfish (Family 17h, Model 47h, Stepping 0h) has an error that
causes RDSEED to always return 0xffffffff, while RDRAND works correctly.
Mask the RDSEED cap for this CPU so that both /proc/cpuinfo and direct CPUID
read report RDSEED as unavailable.
[ bp: Move to amd.c, massage. ]
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Paulyshka <me@mixaill.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250524145319.209075-1-me@mixaill.net
