kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/arch/powerpc, branch stable

powerpc: Remove dead non-preemption code

2026-07-15T02:34:13+00:00

Since commit 7dadeaa6e851 ("sched: Further restrict the preemption modes"), powerpc always has CONFIG_PREEMPTION because only CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY are possible, even in dynamic preemption mode (see sched_dynamic_mode). As a consequence, need_irq_preemption() is always true and can be removed. And because commit bee25f97ad24 ("powerpc: Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature") includes linux/irq-entry-common.h which already declares sk_dynamic_irqentry_exit_cond_resched static key, asm/preempt.h becauses useless and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2bf10a0afffefb6aca44bf2f864cc17471a80e31.1781870889.git.chleroy@kernel.org

powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Set CPU_FTR_P11_PVR for Power11 and later processors

2026-07-15T02:34:13+00:00

When using device tree CPU features (dt-cpu-ftrs), the kernel bypasses the traditional cputable-based CPU identification and instead derives CPU features from the device tree's "ibm,powerpc-cpu-features" node provided by firmware. However, CPU_FTR_P11_PVR is a kernel-internal feature flag used to identify Power11 and later processors, and is not represented in the device tree's ISA feature set. While ISA v3.1 support (indicated by CPU_FTR_ARCH_31) is present on both Power10 and Power11, the CPU_FTR_P11_PVR flag is specifically needed by code that must distinguish between Power10 and Power11 processors. Without this flag set, code that checks for Power11 using cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_P11_PVR) will incorrectly return false on Power11+ systems using dt-cpu-ftrs, leading to incorrect behavior. This issue manifests specifically in powernv environments (bare-metal or QEMU TCG with powernv machine type), where skiboot/OPAL firmware provides the "ibm,powerpc-cpu-features" node, causing the kernel to use dt-cpu-ftrs. The issue does not affect pseries guests, where SLOF firmware does not provide this node, causing the kernel to fall back to the traditional cputable path (identify_cpu) which correctly sets CPU_FTR_P11_PVR during PVR-based CPU identification. In powernv TCG guests, the missing flag causes KVM code to trigger warnings when attempting to create KVM guests, as cpu_features shows 0x000c00eb8f4fb187 (missing bit 53) instead of the correct 0x002c00eb8f4fb187 (with bit 53 set). Fix this by setting CPU_FTR_P11_PVR for all processors with PVR >= PVR_POWER11 when ISA v3.1 support is detected in cpufeatures_setup_start(). This approach ensures forward compatibility with future processor generations. Fixes: 96e266e3bcd6 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add Power11 capability support for Nested PAPR guests") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.13+ Signed-off-by: Amit Machhiwal Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260614173437.26352-1-amachhiw@linux.ibm.com

powerpc/pseries: fix memory leak on krealloc failure in papr_init

2026-07-15T02:34:13+00:00

When krealloc() fails, free the original esi_buf before returning to avoid a memory leak. Fixes: 3c14b73454cf ("powerpc/pseries: Interface to represent PAPR firmware attributes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260614142356.658212-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev

powerpc/uaccess: correct check for CONFIG_PPC_E500 in mask_user_address()

2026-07-15T02:34:13+00:00

mask_user_address() incorrectly checks for CONFIG_E500 instead of CONFIG_PPC_E500, causing mask_user_address_isel() to not be used on E500 hardware. Fix the check to use the correct name. Fixes: 861574d51bbd ("powerpc/uaccess: Implement masked user access") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 7.0+ Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore Fixes: 861574d51bbd ("powerpc/uaccess: Implement masked user access") Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615233729.29386-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com

powerpc/vtime: Initialize starttime at boot for native accounting

2026-07-15T02:34:13+00:00

It was observed that /proc/stat had very large value for one ore more CPUs. It was more visible after recent code simplifications around cpustats. System has 240 CPUs. cat /proc/uptime; 194.18 46500.55 cat /proc/stat cpu 5966 39 837032887 4650070 164 185 100 0 0 0 cpu0 108 0 837030890 19109 24 4 23 0 0 0 Since uptime is 194s, system time of each CPU can't be more than 19400. Sum of system time of all CPUs can't be more than 19400*240 4656000. In fact huge value is close to mftb(). Note mftb doesn't reset on powerVM when the LPAR restart. It only resets when whole system resets. The same issue exists for kexec too. This happens since starttime is not setup at init time. Once it is set then subsequent vtime_delta will return the right delta. Fix it by initializing the starttime during CPU initialization. This fixes the large times seen. cat /proc/uptime; cat /proc/stat 15.78 3694.63 cpu 6035 35 1347 369479 23 144 49 0 0 0 cpu0 19 0 38 1508 0 1 14 0 0 0 Now, system time is reported as expected. Fixes: cf9efce0ce31 ("powerpc: Account time using timebase rather than PURR") Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605124329.377533-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com

powerpc/85xx: Add fsl,ifc to common device ids

2026-07-15T02:33:28+00:00

Add fsl,ifc to mpc85xx_common_ids so that of_platform_bus_probe creates a platform device for the IFC node even without 'simple-bus' in its compatible property. On P1010 and similar platforms the IFC node is a direct child of the root, so it must be explicitly matched to be populated. Fixes: 0bf51cc9e9e5 ("powerpc: dts: mpc85xx: remove "simple-bus" compatible from ifc node") Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604043309.91280-1-rosenp@gmail.com

powerpc/spufs: fix out-of-bounds access in spufs_mem_mmap_access()

2026-07-13T09:40:04+00:00

spufs_mem_mmap_access() computes the local store offset as address - vma->vm_start, but bounds-checks it against vma->vm_end instead of the local store size. On 64-bit, offset is always well below vma->vm_end, so the clamp never fires and len stays unbounded against the LS_SIZE buffer returned by ctx->ops->get_ls(). Reject offsets at or beyond LS_SIZE and clamp len to the remaining space, mirroring the guard already used by spufs_mem_mmap_fault() and spufs_ps_fault(). Fixes: a352894d0705 ("spufs: use new vm_ops->access to allow local state access from gdb") Reported-by: Yuhao Jiang Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Junrui Luo Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/SYBPR01MB7881EE775E8B51C09F5A29E7AF152@SYBPR01MB7881.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com

powerpc/pseries/Kconfig: Enable CONFIG_VPA_PMU to be used with KVM

2026-07-10T11:40:13+00:00

Currently, CONFIG_VPA_PMU is not enabled by default, and consequently cannot be used for KVM guests at all, unless explicitly enabled on host kernel. Mark CONFIG_VPA_PMU as "default m" to ensure it is available when KVM is being used. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.13+ Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson Reviewed-by: Amit Machhiwal Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani [Maddy: Changed tag order] Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615091120.84169-1-gautam@linux.ibm.com

Merge tag 'device-id-rework' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ukleinek/linux

2026-07-03T06:54:26+00:00

Pull mod_devicetable.h header split from Uwe Kleine-König: "Split in per subsystem headers is included transitively in nearly every driver in an x86_64 allmodconfig build of v7.1: $ find drivers -name \*.o -not -name \*.mod.o | wc -l 21330 $ find drivers -name \*.o.cmd -not -name \*.mod.o.cmd | xargs grep -l mod_devicetable.h | wc -l 17038 The result of this mixture of different and unrelated subsystem details is that even when touching an obscure device id struct most of the kernel needs to be recompiled. Given that each driver typically only needs one or two of these structures, splitting into per subsystem headers and only including what is really needed reduces the amount of needed recompilation. This split is implemented in the first commit and then after some preparatory work in the following commits, the last two replace includes of by the actually needed more specific headers. There are still a few instances left, but the ones with high impact (that is in headers that are used a lot) and the easy ones (.c files) are handled. These remaining includes will be addressed during the next merge window" * tag 'device-id-rework' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ukleinek/linux: Replace by more specific (c files) Replace by more specific (headers) parisc: #include for unlikely() in media: em28xx: Add include for struct usb_device_id LoongArch: KVM: Add include defining struct cpu_feature ALSA: hda/core: Add include defining struct hda_device_id usb: dwc2: Add include defining struct pci_device_id platform/x86: int3472: Add include defining struct dmi_system_id platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Add include defining struct dmi_system_id i2c: Let i2c-core.h include of: Explicitly include and platform/x86: msi-ec: Ensure dmi_system_id is defined usb: serial: Include in driver core: platform: Include header for struct platform_device_id driver: core: Include headers for acpi_device_id and of_device_id for struct device_driver media: ti: vpe: #include explicitly mod_devicetable.h: Split into per subsystem headers

Replace by more specific (c files)

2026-07-03T05:38:17+00:00

Replace the #include of by the more specific where applicable. For most cases the include can be dropped completely, only a few drivers need one or two headers added. Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich Acked-by: Takashi Sakamoto Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1a3f2007c5c5dcf555c09a4035ce3ae8ef1b6c49.1782808461.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)