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<updated>2026-09-08T13:12:26+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>drm/qxl: create blend mode property on primary and cursor planes</title>
<updated>2026-09-08T13:12:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qinyun Tan</name>
<email>qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-01T08:32:32+00:00</published>
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Since commit 860e748bddcc ("drm: ensure blend mode supported if pixel
format with alpha exposed"), drm_mode_config_validate() warns when a
plane exposes an alpha pixel format but not the "pixel blend mode"
property. Both the qxl primary and cursor planes expose ARGB8888 and
trip this on driver load.

qxl submits cursors as SPICE_CURSOR_TYPE_ALPHA, which the SPICE
protocol explicitly defines as a "pre-multiplied ARGB8888 pixmap"
(Spice Protocol, "Cursor channel definition" section [1]). This
matches the blend mode userspace has always assumed when the property
is not attached. Expose a "pixel blend mode" property advertising only
DRM_MODE_BLEND_PREMULTI to make these semantics explicit and silence
the warning. The primary plane is the bottom-most plane so its blend
mode has no visible effect; advertise the same value there for
consistency. No functional change.

[1] https://www.spice-space.org/spice-protocol.html

Fixes: 860e748bddcc ("drm: ensure blend mode supported if pixel format with alpha exposed")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qinyun Tan &lt;qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901083234.1828755-3-qinyuntan@linux.alibaba.com
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<entry>
<title>treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions</title>
<updated>2026-09-05T04:37:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees+treewide@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-02T22:31:14+00:00</published>
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This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc()
family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci

This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first
kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the
first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h
scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's
"--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped
to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control
flow indicator I could find.

Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc,
riscv, and s390 with no new warnings.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees+treewide@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drm/qxl: remove dependency on DRM simple helpers</title>
<updated>2026-07-10T13:08:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Diogo Silva</name>
<email>diogompaissilva@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-07T16:14:55+00:00</published>
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Simple KMS helper are deprecated since they only add an intermediate
layer between drivers and the atomic modesetting.
This patch removes the drm_simple_encoder_init() helper usage in the
qxl display driver by open coding it and using the encoder atomic
helpers directly. This is a step to eventually get rid of this simple
KMS helper, once all drivers that use it have been converted.

Signed-off-by: Diogo Silva &lt;diogompaissilva@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707-qxl-simple-v2-1-08d21bc74a41@gmail.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drm: Consistently define pci_device_ids using named initializers</title>
<updated>2026-06-17T09:07:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-04T15:05:37+00:00</published>
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The .driver_data member of the various struct pci_device_id arrays were
initialized by list expressions. This isn't easily readable if you're
not into PCI. Using the PCI_DEVICE macro and named initializers is more
explicit and thus easier to parse. Also skip explicit assignments of 0
(which the compiler then takes care of).

This change doesn't introduce changes to the compiled pci_device_id
arrays. Tested on x86 and arm64.

v2:
- gma500: fix coding style in cast

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) &lt;u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Patrik Jakobsson &lt;patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260504150537.2136760-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge v7.1-rc5 into drm-next</title>
<updated>2026-05-28T07:58:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simona Vetter</name>
<email>simona.vetter@ffwll.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T07:56:06+00:00</published>
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Boris Brezillion needs the gem lru fixes 379e8f1ca5e9 ("drm/gem: Make
the GEM LRU lock part of drm_device") backmerged for drm-misc-next.
That also means we need to sort out the rename conflict in panthor with
the fixup patch from Boris from drm-tip.

Signed-off-by: Simona Vetter &lt;simona.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drm/qxl: Fix missing KMS poll cleanup</title>
<updated>2026-05-04T12:54:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Myeonghun Pak</name>
<email>mhun512@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-24T11:25:18+00:00</published>
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drm_kms_helper_poll_init() initializes the output polling work and
enables polling for the DRM device. qxl enables polling before calling
drm_dev_register(), but the drm_dev_register() failure path tears down
the modeset and device state without disabling the polling helper.

The remove path also unregisters and shuts down the DRM device without
first disabling the polling helper. Add matching drm_kms_helper_poll_fini()
calls in both paths so the delayed polling work is cancelled before qxl
tears down the associated modeset/device state.

Signed-off-by: Myeonghun Pak &lt;mhun512@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 5ff91e442652 ("qxl: use drm helper hotplug support")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424112543.57819-1-mhun512@gmail.com
</content>
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<entry>
<title>drm: Rename struct drm_atomic_state to drm_atomic_commit</title>
<updated>2026-05-04T04:05:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxime Ripard</name>
<email>mripard@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-27T07:02:57+00:00</published>
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The KMS framework uses two slightly different definitions for the state
concept. For a given object (plane, CRTC, encoder, etc., so
drm_$OBJECT_state), the state is the entire state of that object.
However, at the device level, drm_atomic_state refers to a state update
for a limited number of objects.

Thus, drm_atomic_state isn't the entire device state, but only the full
state of some objects in that device. This has been an endless source of
confusion and thus bugs.

We can rename the drm_atomic_state structure to drm_atomic_commit to
make it less confusing.

This patch was created using:

rg -l drm_atomic_state | \
	xargs sed -i 's/drm_atomic_state/drm_atomic_commit/g; s/drm_atomic_commit_helper/drm_atomic_state_helper/g'
mv drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_state_test.c drivers/gpu/drm/tests/drm_atomic_commit_test.c

Acked-by: Simona Vetter &lt;simona.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli &lt;luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com&gt;
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli &lt;luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-drm-drm-atomic-update-v4-1-c0e713bfdf25@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'drm-next-2026-04-15' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel</title>
<updated>2026-04-15T15:45:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T15:45:00+00:00</published>
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "Highlights:
   - new DRM RAS infrastructure using netlink
   - amdgpu: enable DC on CIK APUs, and more IP enablement, and more
     user queue work
   - xe: purgeable BO support, and new hw enablement
   - dma-buf : add revocable operations

  Full summary:

  mm:
   - two-pass MMU interval notifiers
   - add gpu active/reclaim per-node stat counters

  math:
   - provide __KERNEL_DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST() in UAPI
   - implement DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST() with __KERNEL_DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST()

  rust:
   - shared tag with driver-core: register macro and io infra
   - core: rework DMA coherent API
   - core: add interop::list to interop with C linked lists
   - core: add more num::Bounded operations
   - core: enable generic_arg_infer and add EMSGSIZE
   - workqueue: add ARef&lt;T&gt; support for work and delayed work
   - add GPU buddy allocator abstraction
   - add DRM shmem GEM helper abstraction
   - allow drm:::Device to dispatch work and delayed work items
     to driver private data
   - add dma_resv_lock helper and raw accessors

  core:
   - introduce DRM RAS infrastructure over netlink
   - add connector panel_type property
   - fourcc: add ARM interleaved 64k modifier
   - colorop: add destroy helper
   - suballoc: split into alloc and init helpers
   - mode: provide DRM_ARGB_GET*() macros for reading color components

  edid:
   - provide drm_output_color_Format

  dma-buf:
   - provide revoke mechanism for shared buffers
   - rename move_notify to invalidate_mappings
   - always enable move_notify
   - protect dma_fence_ops with RCU and improve locking
   - clean pages with helpers

  atomic:
   - allocate drm_private_state via callback
   - helper: use system_percpu_wq

  buddy:
   - make buddy allocator available to gpu level
   - add kernel-doc for buddy allocator
   - improve aligned allocation

  ttm:
   - fix fence signalling
   - improve tests and docs
   - improve handling of gfp_retry_mayfail
   - use per-node stat counters to track memory allocations
   - port pool to use list_lru
   - drop NUMA specific pools
   - make pool shrinker numa aware
   - track allocated pages per numa node

  coreboot:
   - cleanup coreboot framebuffer support

  sched:
   - fix race condition in drm_sched_fini

  pagemap:
   - enable THP support
   - pass pagemap_addr by reference

  gem-shmem:
   - Track page accessed/dirty status across mmap/vmap

  gpusvm:
   - reenable device to device migration
   - fix unbalanced unclock

  bridge:
   - anx7625: Support USB-C plus DT bindings
   - connector: Fix EDID detection
   - dw-hdmi-qp: Support Vendor-Specfic and SDP Infoframes; improve
     others
   - fsl-ldb: Fix visual artifacts plus related DT property
     'enable-termination-resistor'
   - imx8qxp-pixel-link: Improve bridge reference handling
   - lt9611: Support Port-B-only input plus DT bindings
   - tda998x: Support DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR; Clean up
   - Support TH1520 HDMI plus DT bindings
   - waveshare-dsi: Fix register and attach; Support 1..4 DSI lanes plus
     DT bindings
   - anx7625: Fix USB Type-C handling
   - cdns-mhdp8546-core: Handle HDCP state in bridge atomic_check
   - Support Lontium LT8713SX DP MST bridge plus DT bindings
   - analogix_dp: Use DP helpers for link training

  panel:
   - panel-jdi-lt070me05000: Use mipi-dsi multi functions
   - panel-edp: Support Add AUO B116XAT04.1 (HW: 1A); Support CMN
     N116BCL-EAK (C2); Support FriendlyELEC plus DT changes
   - panel-edp: Fix timings for BOE NV140WUM-N64
   - ilitek-ili9882t: Allow GPIO calls to sleep
   - jadard: Support TAIGUAN XTI05101-01A
   - lxd: Support LXD M9189A plus DT bindings
   - mantix: Fix pixel clock; Clean up
   - motorola: Support Motorola Atrix 4G and Droid X2 plus DT bindings
   - novatek: Support Novatek/Tianma NT37700F plus DT bindings
   - simple: Support EDT ET057023UDBA plus DT bindings; Support Powertip
     PH800480T032-ZHC19 plus DT bindings; Support Waveshare 13.3"
   - novatek-nt36672a: Use mipi_dsi_*_multi() functions
   - panel-edp: Support BOE NV153WUM-N42, CMN N153JCA-ELK, CSW
     MNF307QS3-2
   - support Himax HX83121A plus DT bindings
   - support JuTouch JT070TM041 plus DT bindings
   - support Samsung S6E8FC0 plus DT bindings
   - himax-hx83102c: support Samsung S6E8FC0 plus DT bindings; support
     backlight
   - ili9806e: support Rocktech RK050HR345-CT106A plus DT bindings
   - simple: support Tianma TM050RDH03 plus DT bindings

  amdgpu:
   - enable DC by default on CIK APUs
   - userq fence ioctl param size fixes
   - set panel_type to OLED for eDP
   - refactor DC i2c code
   - FAMS2 update
   - rework ttm handling to allow multiple engines
   - DC DCE 6.x cleanup
   - DC support for NUTMEG/TRAVIS DP bridge
   - DCN 4.2 support
   - GC12 idle power fix for compute
   - use struct drm_edid in non-DC code
   - enable NV12/P010 support on primary planes
   - support newer IP discovery tables
   - VCN/JPEG 5.0.2 support
   - GC/MES 12.1 updates
   - USERQ fixes
   - add DC idle state manager
   - eDP DSC seamless boot

  amdkfd:
   - GC 12.1 updates
   - non 4K page fixes

  xe:
   - basic Xe3p_LPG and NVL-P enabling patches
   - allow VM_BIND decompress support
   - add purgeable buffer object support
   - add xe_vm_get_property_ioctl
   - restrict multi-lrc to VCS/VECS engines
   - allow disabling VM overcommit in fault mode
   - dGPU memory optimizations
   - Workaround cleanups and simplification
   - Allow VFs VRAM quote changes using sysfs
   - convert GT stats to per-cpu counters
   - pagefault refactors
   - enable multi-queue on xe3p_xpc
   - disable DCC on PTL
   - make MMIO communication more robust
   - disable D3Cold for BMG on specific platforms
   - vfio: improve FLR sync for Xe VFIO

  i915/display:
   - C10/C20/LT PHY PLL divider verification
   - use trans push mechanism to generate PSR frame change on LNL+
   - refactor DP DSC slice config
   - VGA decode refactoring
   - refactor DPT, gen2-4 overlay, masked field register macro helpers
   - refactor stolen memory allocation decisions
   - prepare for UHBR DP tunnels
   - refactor LT PHY PLL to use DPLL framework
   - implement register polling/waiting in display code
   - add shared stepping header between i915 and display

  i915:
   - fix potential overflow of shmem scatterlist length

  nouveau:
   - provide Z cull info to userspace
   - initial GA100 support
   - shutdown on PCI device shutdown

  nova-core:
   - harden GSP command queue
   - add support for large RPCs
   - simplify GSP sequencer and message handling
   - refactor falcon firmware handling
   - convert to new register macro
   - conver to new DMA coherent API
   - use checked arithmetic
   - add debugfs support for gsp-rm log buffers
   - fix aux device registration for multi-GPU

  msm:
   - CI:
      - Uprev mesa
      - Restore CI jobs for Qualcomm APQ8016 and APQ8096 devices
   - Core:
      - Switched to of_get_available_child_by_name()
   - DPU:
      - Fixes for DSC panels
      - Fixed brownout because of the frequency / OPP mismatch
      - Quad pipe preparation (not enabled yet)
      - Switched to virtual planes by default
      - Dropped VBIF_NRT support
      - Added support for Eliza platform
      - Reworked alpha handling
      - Switched to correct CWB definitions on Eliza
      - Dropped dummy INTF_0 on MSM8953
      - Corrected INTFs related to DP-MST
   - DP:
      - Removed debug prints looking into PHY internals
   - DSI:
      - Fixes for DSC panels
      - RGB101010 support
      - Support for SC8280XP
      - Moved PHY bindings from display/ to phy/
   - GPU:
      - Preemption support for x2-85 and a840
      - IFPC support for a840
      - SKU detection support for x2-85 and a840
      - Expose AQE support (VK ray-pipeline)
      - Avoid locking in VM_BIND fence signaling path
      - Fix to avoid reclaim in GPU snapshot path
      - Disallow foreign mapping of _NO_SHARE BOs
   - HDMI:
      - Fixed infoframes programming
   - MDP5:
      - Dropped support for MSM8974v1
      - Dropped now unused code for MSM8974 v1 and SDM660 / MSM8998

  panthor:
   - add tracepoints for power and IRQs
   - fix fence handling
   - extend timestamp query with flags
   - support various sources for timestamp queries

  tyr:
   - fix names and model/versions

  rockchip:
   - vop2: use drm logging function
   - rk3576 displayport support
   - support CRTC background color

  atmel-hlcdc:
   - support sana5d65 LCD controller

  tilcdc:
   - use DT bindings schema
   - use managed DRM interfaces
   - support DRM_BRIDGE_ATTACH_NO_CONNECTOR

  verisilicon:
   - support DC8200 + DT bindings

  virtgpu:
   - support PRIME import with 3D enabled

  komeda:
   - fix integer overflow in AFBC checks

  mcde:
   - improve bridge handling

  gma500:
   - use drm client buffer for fbdev framebuffer

  amdxdna:
   - add sensors ioctls
   - provide NPU power estimate
   - support column utilization sensor
   - allow forcing DMA through IOMMU IOVA
   - support per-BO mem usage queries
   - refactor GEM implementation

  ivpu:
   - update boot API to v3.29.4
   - limit per-user number of doorbells/contexts
   - perform engine reset on TDR error

  loongson:
   - replace custom code with drm_gem_ttm_dumb_map_offset()

  imx:
   - support planes behind the primary plane
   - fix bus-format selection

  vkms:
   - support CRTC background color

  v3d:
   - improve handling of struct v3d_stats

  komeda:
   - support Arm China Linlon D6 plus DT bindings

  imagination:
   - improve power-off sequence
   - support context-reset notification from firmware

  mediatek:
   - mtk_dsi: enable hs clock during pre-enable
   - Remove all conflicting aperture devices during probe
   - Add support for mt8167 display blocks"

* tag 'drm-next-2026-04-15' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel: (1735 commits)
  drm/ttm/tests: Remove checks from ttm_pool_free_no_dma_alloc
  drm/ttm/tests: fix lru_count ASSERT
  drm/vram: remove DRM_VRAM_MM_FILE_OPERATIONS from docs
  drm/fb-helper: Fix a locking bug in an error path
  dma-fence: correct kernel-doc function parameter @flags
  ttm/pool: track allocated_pages per numa node.
  ttm/pool: make pool shrinker NUMA aware (v2)
  ttm/pool: drop numa specific pools
  ttm/pool: port to list_lru. (v2)
  drm/ttm: use gpu mm stats to track gpu memory allocations. (v4)
  mm: add gpu active/reclaim per-node stat counters (v2)
  gpu: nova-core: fix missing colon in SEC2 boot debug message
  gpu: nova-core: vbios: use from_le_bytes() for PCI ROM header parsing
  gpu: nova-core: bitfield: fix broken Default implementation
  gpu: nova-core: falcon: pad firmware DMA object size to required block alignment
  gpu: nova-core: gsp: fix undefined behavior in command queue code
  drm/shmem_helper: Make sure PMD entries get the writeable upgrade
  accel/ivpu: Trigger recovery on TDR with OS scheduling
  drm/msm: Use of_get_available_child_by_name()
  dt-bindings: display/msm: move DSI PHY bindings to phy/ subdir
  ...
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'nocache-cleanup'</title>
<updated>2026-04-13T15:39:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-13T15:39:51+00:00</published>
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This series cleans up some of the special user copy functions naming and
semantics.  In particular, get rid of the (very traditional) double
underscore names and behavior: the whole "optimize away the range check"
model has been largely excised from the other user accessors because
it's so subtle and can be unsafe, but also because it's just not a
relevant optimization any more.

To do that, a couple of drivers that misused the "user" copies as kernel
copies in order to get non-temporal stores had to be fixed up, but that
kind of code should never have been allowed anyway.

The x86-only "nocache" version was also renamed to more accurately
reflect what it actually does.

This was all done because I looked at this code due to a report by Jann
Horn, and I just couldn't stand the inconsistent naming, the horrible
semantics, and the random misuse of these functions.  This code should
probably be cleaned up further, but it's at least slightly closer to
normal semantics.

I had a more intrusive series that went even further in trying to
normalize the semantics, but that ended up hitting so many other
inconsistencies between different architectures in this area (eg
'size_t' vs 'unsigned long' vs 'int' as size arguments, and various
iovec check differences that Vasily Gorbik pointed out) that I ended up
with this more limited version that fixed the worst of the issues.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgg1QVWNWG-UCFo1hx0zqrPnB3qhPzUTrWNft+MtXQXig@mail.gmail.com/

* nocache-cleanup:
  x86-64/arm64/powerpc: clean up and rename __copy_from_user_flushcache
  x86: rename and clean up __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache()
  x86-64: rename misleadingly named '__copy_user_nocache()' function
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<title>x86: rename and clean up __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache()</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T22:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-03-30T20:11:07+00:00</published>
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Similarly to the previous commit, this renames the somewhat confusingly
named function.  But in this case, it was at least less confusing: the
__copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache is indeed copying from user memory,
and it is indeed ok to be used in an atomic context, so it will not warn
about it.

But the previous commit also removed the NTB mis-use of the
__copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache() function, and as a result every
call-site is now _actually_ doing a real user copy.  That means that we
can now do the proper user pointer verification too.

End result: add proper address checking, remove the double underscores,
and change the "nocache" to "nontemporal" to more accurately describe
what this x86-only function actually does.  It might be worth noting
that only the target is non-temporal: the actual user accesses are
normal memory accesses.

Also worth noting is that non-x86 targets (and on older 32-bit x86 CPU's
before XMM2 in the Pentium III) we end up just falling back on a regular
user copy, so nothing can actually depend on the non-temporal semantics,
but that has always been true.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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