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2026-06-23Merge tag 'nfs-for-7.2-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds
Pull NFS client updates from Anna Schumaker: "New features: - XPRTRDMA: Decouple req recycling from RPC completion - NFS: Expose FMODE_NOWAIT for read-only files Bugfixes: - SUNRPC: - Fix sunrpc sysfs error handling - Fix uninitialized xprt_create_args structure - XPRTRDMA: - Harden connect and reply handling - NFS: - Fix EOF updates after fallocate/zero-range - Keep PG_UPTODATE clear after read errors in page groups - Use nfsi->rwsem to protect traversal of the file lock list - Prevent resource leak in nfs_alloc_server() - NFSv4: - Clear exception state on successful mkdir retry - Don't skip revalidate when holding a dir delegation and attrs are stale - pNFS: - Fix use-after-free in pnfs_update_layout() - Defer return_range callbacks until after inode unlock - Fix LAYOUTCOMMIT retry loop on OLD_STATEID - Reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr - NFS/flexfiles: - Reject zero-length filehandle version arrays - Fix checking if a layout is striped - Fixes for honoring FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS Other cleanups and improvements: - Remove the fileid field from struct nfs_inode - Move long-delayed xprtrdma work onto the system_dfl_long_wq - Convert xprtrdma send buffer free list to an llist - Show "<redacted>" for cert_serial and privkey_serial mount options" * tag 'nfs-for-7.2-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs: (42 commits) NFS: Use common error handling code in nfs_alloc_server() NFS: Prevent resource leak in nfs_alloc_server() NFSv4/pNFS: reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr nfs: don't skip revalidate on directory delegation when attrs flagged stale xprtrdma: Return sendctx slot after Send preparation failure xprtrdma: Repost Receive buffers for malformed replies xprtrdma: Sanitize the reply credit grant after parsing xprtrdma: Fix bcall rep leak and unbounded peek xprtrdma: Resize reply buffers before reposting receives xprtrdma: Check frwr_wp_create() during connect xprtrdma: Initialize re_id before removal registration xprtrdma: Fix ep kref imbalance on ADDR_CHANGE xprtrdma: Convert send buffer free list to llist NFS: correct CONFIG_NFS_V4 macro name in #endif comment nfs: use nfsi->rwsem to protect traversal of the file lock list NFSv4.1/pNFS: fix LAYOUTCOMMIT retry loop on OLD_STATEID nfs: expose FMODE_NOWAIT for read-only files nfs: add nowait version of nfs_start_io_direct NFSv4/flexfiles: honor FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS in pg_get_mirror_count_write NFSv4/flexfiles: honor FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS on fatal DS connect errors ...
2026-06-19Merge tag 'for-next-keys-7.2-rc1-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd Pull keys update from Jarkko Sakkinen: "This contains only bug fixes" * tag 'for-next-keys-7.2-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd: keys: keyctl_pkey: replace BUG with return -EOPNOTSUPP keys: request_key: replace BUG with return -EINVAL keys: Pin request_key_auth payload in instantiate paths keys: prevent slab cache merging for key_jar keys: Replace strcpy(derived_buf, "AUTH_KEY") with strscpy(..., HASH_SIZE) KEYS: Use acquire when reading state in keyring search keys/trusted_keys: mark 'migratable' as __ro_after_init keys: use kmalloc_flex in user_preparse KEYS: trusted: Debugging as a feature KEYS: encrypted: Remove unnecessary selection of CRYPTO_RNG KEYS: fix overflow in keyctl_pkey_params_get_2()
2026-06-19Merge tag 'integrity-v7.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity Pull IMA updates from Mimi Zohar: - Introduce IMA and EVM post-quantum ML-DSA signature support ML-DSA signature support for IMA and EVM is limited to sigv3 signatures, which calculates and verifies a hash of a compact structure containing the file data/metadata hash, hash type, and hash algorithm. IMA and EVM still calculate the file data/metadata hashes respectively. - Introduce support for removing IMA measurement list records stored in kernel memory The IMA measurement list can grow large depending on policy, but removing records breaks remote attestation, unless they are safely preserved and made available for attestation requests. Until environments are prepared to preserve the measurement records, a new CONFIG_IMA_STAGING Kconfig option is introduced to guard against deletion. Several approaches for removing measurement list records were evaluated but rejected due to filesystem constraints, the introduction of a new critical data record, and locking concerns. Two methods are being upstreamed: staged deletion with confirmation, and staged deletion of N records without confirmation. Both methods minimize the period during which new measurements are blocked from being appended to the measurement list by staging the measurement list. A comparison of the two methods is included in the documentation. - Some code cleanup, and a couple of bug fixes * tag 'integrity-v7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity: doc: security: Add documentation of exporting and deleting IMA measurements ima: Support staging and deleting N measurements records ima: Add support for flushing the hash table when staging measurements ima: Add support for staging measurements with prompt ima: Introduce ima_dump_measurement() ima: Use snprintf() in create_securityfs_measurement_lists ima: Mediate open/release method of the measurements list ima: Introduce _ima_measurements_start() and _ima_measurements_next() ima: Introduce per binary measurements list type binary_runtime_size value ima: Introduce per binary measurements list type ima_num_records counter ima: Replace static htable queue with dynamically allocated array ima: Remove ima_h_table structure evm: terminate and bound the evm_xattrs read buffer integrity: Add support for sigv3 verification using ML-DSA keys integrity: Refactor asymmetric_verify for reusability integrity: Check that algo parameter is within valid range integrity: Check for NULL returned by asymmetric_key_public_key ima: return error early if file xattr cannot be changed ima: Fix sigv3 signature handling for EVM_IMA_XATTR_DIGSIG
2026-06-19Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "selftests/mm: clean up build output and verbosity" (Li Wang) Remove some noise from the MM selftests build - "mm: Free contiguous order-0 pages efficiently" (Ryan Roberts) Speed up the freeing of a batch of 0-order pages by first scanning them for coalescing opportunities. This is applicable to vfree() and to the releasing of frozen pages - "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS failed region quota charge ratio" (SeongJae Park) Address a DAMOS usability issue: The DAMOS quota often exhausts prematurely because it charges for all memory attempted, causing slow and inconsistent performance when actions fail on unreclaimable memory. To fix this, a new feature lets users set a smaller, flexible quota charge ratio (via a numerator and denominator) for failed regions. Since failed actions cause less overhead, reducing their quota cost ensures more predictable and efficient DAMOS processing - "selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large page sizes" (Li Wang) Fix various spurious failures and improves the overall robustness of the cgroup zswap selftests - "fix MAP_DROPPABLE not supported errno" (Anthony Yznaga) Fix an issue in the mlock selftests on arm32 - "mm: huge_memory: clean up defrag sysfs with shared" (Breno Leitao) Some maintenance work in the huge_memory code - "treewide: fixup gfp_t printks" (Brendan Jackman) Use the special vprintf() gfp_t conversion in various places - "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization" (Muchun Song) Fix several bugs in the vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect page accounting and memmap initialization in the DAX and memory hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages - "mm/damon: repost non-hotfix reviewed patches in damon/next tree" A sprinkle of unrelated minor bugfixes for DAMON - "mm: remove page_mapped()" (David Hildenbrand) Remove this function from the tree, replacing it with folio_mapped() - "mm/damon: let DAMON be paused and resumed" (SeongJae Park) Allow DAMON to be paused and resumed without losing its current state - "kasan: hw_tags: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables" (Muhammad Usama Anjum) Simplify and speed up kasan by removing its ineffective tagging of stacks and page tables - "mm/damon/reclaim,lru_sort: monitor all system rams by default" (SeongJae Park) Simplify deployment on diverse hardware like NUMA systems by updating DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT to automatically monitor the physical address range covering all System RAM areas by default, replacing the overly restrictive behavior that only targeted the single largest memory block to save on negligible overhead - "mm/damon/sysfs: document filters/ directory as deprecated" (SeongJae Park) Update some DAMON docs - "mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock" (Dmitry Ilvokhin) Switch zone->lock handling over to using the guard() mechanisms - "mm/filemap: tighten mmap_miss hit accounting" (fujunjie) Fix a flaw where the mmap_miss counter over-credited page cache hits during fault-arounds and page-fault retries. This results in significant reduction of redundant synchronous mmap readahead I/O, drastically cutting down execution time and gigabytes read for sparse random or strided memory access workloads - "selftests/cgroup: Fix false positive failures in test_percpu_basic" (Li Wang) Fix a couple of false-positives in the cgroup kmem selftests - "mm/damon/reclaim: support monitoring intervals auto-tuning" (SeongJae Park) Add a new parameter to DAMON permitting DAMON_RECLAIM to automatically tune DAMON's sampling and aggregation intervals - "mm/damon/stat: add kdamond_pid parameter" (SeongJae Park) Change DAMON_STAT to provide the pid of its kdamond - "mm/kmemleak: dedupe verbose scan output" (Breno Leitao) Remove large amounts of duplicated backtraces from the verbose-mode kmemleak output - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) Reduce our use of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, with a view to removing it entirely in a later series - "mm/damon: validate min_region_size to be power of 2" (Liew Rui Yan) Prevent users from passing a non-power-of-2 value of `addr_unit', as this later results in undesirable behavior - "mm: document read_pages and simplify usage" (Frederick Mayle) - "tools/mm/page-types: Fix misc bugs" (Ye Liu) Fix three issues in tools/mm/page-types.c - "mm: misc cleanups from __GFP_UNMAPPED series" (Brendan Jackman) Implement several cleanups in the page allocator and related code - "mm, swap: swap table phase IV: unify allocation" (Kairui Song) Unify the allocation and charging of anon and shmem swap in folios, provides better synchronization, consolidates the metadata management, hence dropping the static array and map, and improves performance - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes monitoring" (SeongJae Park( Extend DAMON to monitor general data attributes other than accesses - "mm/vmalloc: free unused pages on vrealloc() shrink" (Shivam Kalra) Implement the TODO in vrealloc() to unmap and free unused pages when shrinking across a page boundary - "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes" (niecheng) - "remove mmap_action success, error hooks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Eliminate custom hooks from mmap_action by removing the problematic success_hook which allowed drivers to improperly access uninitialized VMAs. It replaces the error_hook with a simple error-code field and updates the memory char driver accordingly - "mm/damon: minor improvements for code readability and tests" (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: fix macro arguments and clarify quota goals doc" (Maksym Shcherba) - "userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c" (Mike Rapoport) - "mm/mglru: improve reclaim loop and dirty folio" (Kairui Song and others) Clean up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop and dirty writeback handling. Large performance improvements are measured - "use vma locks for proc/pid/{smaps|numa_maps} reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) Use per-vma locks when reading /proc/pid/smaps and numa_maps similar to reduce contention on central mmap_lock - "refactors thpsize_shmem_enabled_store() and thpsize_shmem_enabled_show()" (Ran Xiaokai) Some cleanup work in the THP code - "selftests/memfd: fix compilation warnings" (Konstantin Khorenko) Fix a few build glitches in the memfd selftest code. - "memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs" (Shakeel Butt) Resolve a 68% performance regression caused by NUMA-node cache thrashing around struct obj_stock_pcp by shrinking its existing fields and expanding it into a multi-slot array that caches up to five obj_cgroup pointers per CPU, allowing per-node variants of the same memcg to coexist within a single 64-byte cache line. - "zram: writeback fixes" (Sergey Senozhatsky) address a couple of unrelated zram writeback issues - "mm: switch THP shrinker to list_lru" (Johannes Weiner) Resolve NUMA-awareness issues and streamlines callsite interaction by refactoring and extending the list_lru API to completely replace the complex, open-coded deferred split queue for Transparent Huge Pages - "mm: improve large folio readahead for exec memory" (Usama Arif) Improve large-folio readahead on systems like 64K-page arm64 by preventing the mmap_miss check from permanently disabling target-oriented VM_EXEC readahead, and by generalizing the force_thp_readahead gate to support mappings with any usefully large maximum folio order under the cache cap. - "userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Fix a bunch of minor issues in the userfaultfd/pagemap, all of which were flagged by Sashiko review of proposed new material - "mm/sparse-vmemmap: Provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd()" (Muchun Song) Provide generic versions of these two functions so the four arch-specific implementations can be removed. - "mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device" (Youngjun Park) Address a uswsusp-vs-swapoff race and reduces the swap device reference taking/releasing frequency. - "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest" (Dev Jain) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) selftests/mm/hmm-tests: test pagemap reads of PMD device-private entries fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry lib/test_hmm: check alloc_page_vma() return value and handle OOM mm/compaction: cap compact_gap() at COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX mm/swap: remove redundant swap device reference in alloc/free mm/swap, PM: hibernate: fix swapoff race in uswsusp by pinning swap device mm/filemap: use folio_next_index() for start vmalloc: fix NULL pointer dereference in is_vm_area_hugepages() sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code loongarch/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code riscv/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code arm64/mm: drop vmemmap_pmd helpers and use generic code mm/sparse-vmemmap: provide generic vmemmap_set_pmd() and vmemmap_check_pmd() rust: page: mark Page::nid as inline userfaultfd: build __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS from config-gated masks userfaultfd: gate must_wait writability check on pte_present() mm/huge_memory: preserve pmd_swp_uffd_wp on device-private PMD downgrade fs/proc/task_mmu: fix hugetlb self-deadlock in pagemap_scan_pte_hole() fs/proc/task_mmu: use huge_page_size() in pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry() fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race ...
2026-06-17Merge tag 'dma-mapping-7.2-2026-06-16' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski: - added checks for DMA attributes in the debug code, especially to ensure that mappings are created and released with matching attributes (Leon Romanovsky) - better default configuration for CMA on NUMA machines (Feng Tang) - code cleanup in dma benchmark tool (Rosen Penev) * tag 'dma-mapping-7.2-2026-06-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: dma: map_benchmark: turn dma_sg_map_param buf into a flexible array dma-contiguous: simplify numa cma area handling dma-contiguous: add kconfig option to setup numa cma area if not configured explicitly dma-debug: Ensure mappings are created and released with matching attributes dma-debug: Feed DMA attribute for unmapping flows too dma-debug: Record DMA attributes in debug entry dma-debug: Remove unused DMA attribute parameter ntb: Use consistent DMA attributes when freeing DMA mappings ntb: Store original DMA address for future release
2026-06-17Merge tag 'net-next-7.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Work on removing rtnl_lock protection throughout the stack continues. In this chapter: - don't use rtnl_lock for IPv6 multicast routing configuration - don't take rtnl_lock in ethtool for modern drivers - prepare Qdisc dump callbacks for rtnl_lock removal - Support dumping just ifindex + name of all interfaces, under RCU. It's a common operation for Netlink CLI tools (when translating names to ifindexes) and previously required full rtnl_lock. - Support dumping qdiscs and page pools for a specific netdev. Even tho user space wants a dump of all netdevs, most of the time, the OOO programming model results in repeating the dump for each netdev. Which, in absence of a cache, leads to a O(n^2) behavior. - Flush nexthops once on multi-nexthop removal (e.g. when device goes down), another O(n^2) -> O(n) improvement. - Rehash locally generated traffic to a different nexthop on retransmit timeout. - Honor oif when choosing nexthop for locally generated IPv6 traffic. - Convert TCP Auth Option to crypto library, and drop non-RFC algos. - Increase subflow limits in MPTCP to 64 and endpoint limit to 256. - Support MPTCP signaling of IPv6 address + port (ADD_ADDR). We need to selectively skip reporting of the standard TCP Timestamp option, because they won't fit into the header space together (12 + 30 > 40). - Support using bridge neighbor suppression, Duplicate Address Detection, Gratuitous ARP and unsolicited NA forwarding - in EVPN deployments, e.g. VXLAN fabrics (IPv4 and IPv6). - Improve link state reporting for upper netdevs (e.g. macvlan) over tunnel devices (again, mostly for EVPN deployments). - Support binding GENEVE tunnels to a local address. - Speed up UDP tunnel destruction (remove one synchronize_rcu()). - Support exponential field encoding in multicast (IGMPv3 and MLDv2). - Support attaching PSP crypto offload to containers (veth, netkit). - Add a new IPSec Netlink message XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE_STATE that allows migrating individual IPsec SAs independently of their policies. The existing XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE is tightly coupled to policy+SA migration, lacks SPI for unique SA identification, and cannot express reqid changes or migrate Transport mode selectors. The new interface identifies the SA via SPI and mark, supports reqid changes, address family changes, encap removal, and uses an atomic create+install flow under x->lock to prevent SN/IV reuse during AEAD SA migration. - Implement GRO/GSO support for PPPoE. - Convert sockopt callbacks in a number of protocols to iov_iter. Cross-tree stuff: - Remove support for Crypto TFM cloning (unblocked after the TCP Auth Option rework). This feature regressed performance for all crypto API users, since it changed crypto transformation objects into reference-counted objects. - Add FCrypt-PCBC implementation to rxrpc and remove it from the global crypto API as obsolete and insecure. Wireless: - Major rework of station bandwidth handling, fixing issues with lower capability than AP. - Cleanups for EMLSR spec issues (drafts differed). - More Neighbor Awareness Networking (Wi-Fi Aware) work (multicast, schedule improvements, multi-station etc.) - Some Ultra High Reliability (UHR) / IEEE 802.11bn (D1.4) work (e.g. non-primary channel access, UHR DBE support). - Fine Timing Measurement ranging (i.e. distance measurement) APIs. Netfilter: - Use per-rule hash initval in nf_conncount. This avoids unnecessary lock contention with short keys (e.g. conntrack zones) in different namespaces. - Various safety improvements, both in packet parsing and object lifetimes. Notably add refcounts to conntrack timeout policy. Deletions: - Remove TLS + sockmap integration. TLS wants to pin user pages to avoid a copy, and sockmap wants to write to the input stream. More work on this integration is clearly needed, and we can't find any users (original author admitted that they never deployed it). - Remove support for TLS offload with TCP Offload Engine (the far more common opportunistic offload is retained). The locking looks unfixable (driver sleeps under TCP spin locks) and people from the vendor that added this are AWOL. - Remove more ATM code, trying to leave behind only what PPPoATM needs, AAL5 and br2684 with permanent circuits. - Remove AppleTalk. Let it join hamradio in our out of tree protocol graveyard, I mean, repository. - Disable 32-bit x_tables compatibility (32bit binaries on 64bit kernel) interface in user namespaces. To be deleted completely, soon. - Remove 5/10 MHz support from cfg80211/mac80211. Drivers: - Software: - Support DEVMEM/DMABUF Tx over NETMEM_TX_NO_DMA devices (netkit) - bonding: add knob to strictly follow 802.3ad for link state - New drivers: - Alibaba Elastic Ethernet Adaptor (cloud vNIC). - NXP NETC switch within i.MX94. - DPLL: - Add operational state to pins (implement in zl3073x). - Add generic DPLL type, for daisy-chaining DPLLs (implement in ice). - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Huawei (hinic3): - enhance tc flow offload support with queue selection, tunnels - nVidia/Mellanox: - avoid over-copying payload to the skb's linear part (up to 60% win for LRO on slow CPUs like ARM64 V2) - expose more per-queue stats over the standard API - support additional, unprivileged PFs in the DPU configuration - support Socket Direct (multi-PF) with switchdev offloads - add a pool / frag allocator for DMA mapped buffers for control objects, save memory on systems with 64kB page size - take advantage of the ability to dynamically change RSS table size, even when table is configured by the user - increase the max RSS table size for even traffic distribution - Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - AQC113 PTP support - Realtek USB (r8152): - support 10Gbit Link Speeds and Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) - support firmware loaded (for RTL8157/RTL8159) - support for the RTL8159 - Intel (ixgbe): - support Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) on E610 devices - Ethernet switches: - Airoha: - support multiple netdevs on a single GDM block / port - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - support SERDES of mv88e6321 - Microchip (ksz8/9): - rework the driver callbacks to remove one indirection layer - Motorcomm (yt921x): - support port rate policing - support TBF qdisc offload - support ACL/flower offload - nVidia/Mellanox: - expose per-PG rx_discards - Realtek: - rtl8365mb: bridge offloading and VLAN support - Ethernet PHYs: - Airoha: - support Airoha AN8801R Gigabit PHYs. - Micrel: - implement 3 low-loss cable tunables - Realtek: - support MDI swapping for RTL8226-CG - support MDIO for RTL931x - Qualcomm: - at803x: Rx and Tx clock management for IPQ5018 PHY - Motorcomm: - support YT8522 100M RMII PHY - set drive strength in YT8531s RGMII - TI: - dp83822: add optional external PHY clock - Bluetooth: - hci_sync: add support for HCI_LE_Set_Host_Feature [v2] - SMP: use AES-CMAC library API - Intel: - support Product level reset - support smart trigger dump - Mediatek: - add event filter to filter specific event - Realtek: - fix RTL8761B/BU broken LE extended scan - WiFi: - Broadcom (b43): - new support for a 11n device - MediaTek (mt76): - support mt7927 - mt792x: broken usb transport detection - mt7921: regulatory improvements - Qualcomm (ath9k): - GPIO interface improvements - Qualcomm (ath12k): - WDS support - replace dynamic memory allocation in WMI Rx path - thermal throttling/cooling device support - 6 GHz incumbent interference detection - channel 177 in 5 GHz - Realtek (rt89): - RTL8922AU support - USB 3 mode switch for performance - better monitor radiotap support - RTL8922DE preparations" * tag 'net-next-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1778 commits) ipv4: fib_rule: Move fib4_rules_exit() to ->exit(). net: serialize netif_running() check in enqueue_to_backlog() net: skmsg: preserve sg.copy across SG transforms appletalk: move the protocol out of tree appletalk: stop storing per-interface state in struct net_device selftests/bpf: test that TLS crypto is rejected on a sockmap socket selftests/bpf: drop the unused kTLS program from test_sockmap selftests/bpf: remove sockmap + ktls tests tls: remove dead sockmap (psock) handling from the SW path tls: reject the combination of TLS and sockmap atm: remove orphaned uAPI for deleted drivers, protocols and SVCs atm: remove unused ATM PHY operations atm: remove the unused pre_send and send_bh device operations atm: remove the unused change_qos device operation atm: remove SVC socket support and the signaling daemon interface atm: remove the local ATM (NSAP) address registry atm: remove dead SONET PHY ioctls atm: remove the unused send_oam / push_oam callbacks atm: remove AAL3/4 transport support net: dsa: sja1105: fix lastused timestamp in flower stats ...
2026-06-16Merge tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Things have calmed down a bit on the docs front, with no earthshaking changes this time around: - Ongoing work on the Japanese and Portuguese translations - Better integration of the MAINTAINERS file into the rendered documents, including a search interface - A seemingly infinite supply of fixes for typos, minor grammatical issues, and related problems that LLMs find with abandon" * tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (93 commits) docs: pt_BR: Translate 3.Early-stage.rst into Portuguese docs: pt_BR: update "Purpose of Defconfigs" section in maintainer-soc.rst Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: fix grammar docs/ja_JP: translate submitting-patches.rst (interleaved-replies) docs: Fix minor grammatical error docs/{it_it,sp_SP,zh_CN,zh_TW}: update references to removed CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB Documentation: process: fix brackets Documentation: arch: fix brackets docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st docs/dyndbg: update examples \012 to \n docs: kernel-parameters: Fix stale sticore file paths docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths docs: sonypi: Fix stale header file path docs: kernel-parameters: Remove sa1100ir IrDA parameter iommu: Documentation: rearrange, update kernel-parameters docs: md: fix grammar in speed_limit description docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort) Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc docs: pt_BR: update maintainer-handbooks ...
2026-06-16Merge tag 'fbdev-for-7.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev Pull fbdev updates from Helge Deller: "Beside the removal of the Hercules monochrome ISA graphics driver and the corresponding text console driver, there is just the typical maintanance with smaller driver fixes and cleanups: Removal of drivers: - Hercules monochrome ISA graphics adapter driver (Ethan Nelson-Moore) - Hercules mdacon console driver (Ethan Nelson-Moore) Changes affecting many drivers at once: - possible memory leak fixes in various drivers (Abdun Nihaal) - many conversions to use strscpy() (David Laight) - Use named initializers in drivers (Uwe Kleine-König) Code fixes: - fbcon: don't suspend/resume when vc is graphics mode (Lu Yao) - modedb: fix a possible UAF in fb_find_mode() (Tuo Li) - modedb: Fix entry for 1920x1080-60 mode (Steffen Persvold) - arm: Export acorndata_8x8 font symbol for bootloader (Helge Deller) - omap2: fix use-after-free in omapfb_mmap (Hongling Zeng) Cleanups: - pxa168fb: use devm_ioremap_resource() (Alberto Arostegui) - provice helpers for fb_set_var() and fb_blank() and fbcon updates (Thomas Zimmermann) - fbcon: Use correct type for vc_resize() return value (Jiacheng Yu) - chipsfb: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro (Rahman Mahmutović) - sunxvr2500: replace printk with device-aware logging functions (Rahman Mahmutović) - sm712: Fix operator precedence in big_swap macro (Li RongQing) - imxfb: Use of_device_get_match_data() (Rosen Penev) - atmel_lcdfb: Use of_device_get_match_data() (Rosen Penev) Documentation fixes: - grvga: Fix CLUT register address offset in comment (Eduardo Silva) - omap/dss: Fix stale modedb.c path (Costa Shulyupin) - correct CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING macro name in #endif comment (Ethan Nelson-Moore)" * tag 'fbdev-for-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev: (43 commits) fbdev: modedb: Fix misaligned fields in the 1920x1080-60 mode fbdev: modedb: fix a possible UAF in fb_find_mode() fbdev: s3fb: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays fbdev: sm501fb: Fix buffer errors in OF binding code fbcon: correct CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING macro name in #endif comment fbdev/arm: Export acorndata_8x8 font symbol for bootloader fbdev: mmpfb: Use strscpy() to copy device name fbdev: sisfb: Replace strlen() strcpy() pair with strscpy() fbdev: rivafb: Use strscpy() to copy device name fbdev: cyber2000fb: Use strscpy() to copy device name fbdev: atmel_lcdfb: Use strscpy() to copy device name fbdev: Do not export fbcon from fbdev fbdev: Wrap fbcon updates from vga-switcheroo in helper fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_blank() in helper fbdev: Wrap user-invoked calls to fb_set_var() in helper fbdev: omap2: fix use-after-free in omapfb_mmap docs: omap/dss: Fix stale modedb.c path fbdev: pxa168fb: use devm_ioremap_resource() for MMIO fbdev: grvga: Fix CLUT register address offset in comment fbdev: sunxvr2500: replace printk with device-aware logging functions ...
2026-06-15KEYS: trusted: Debugging as a featureJarkko Sakkinen
TPM_DEBUG, and other similar flags, are a non-standard way to specify a feature in Linux kernel. Introduce CONFIG_TRUSTED_KEYS_DEBUG for trusted keys, and use it to replace these ad-hoc feature flags. Given that trusted keys debug dumps can contain sensitive data, harden the feature as follows: 1. In the Kconfig description postulate that pr_debug() statements must be used. 2. Use pr_debug() statements in TPM 1.x driver to print the protocol dump. 3. Require trusted.debug=1 on the kernel command line (default: 0) to activate dumps at runtime, even when CONFIG_TRUSTED_KEYS_DEBUG=y. Traces, when actually needed, can be easily enabled by providing trusted.dyndbg='+p' and trusted.debug=1 in the kernel command-line. Reported-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7f8b8478-5cd8-4d97-bfd0-341fd5cf10f9@linux.ibm.com/ Reviewed-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Srish Srinivasan <ssrish@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
2026-06-15Merge tag 'x86-cpu-2026-06-14' of ↵Linus Torvalds
gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpuid updates from Ingo Molnar: - CPUID API updates (Ahmed S. Darwish): - Introduce a centralized CPUID parser - Introduce a centralized CPUID data model - Introduce <asm/cpuid/leaf_types.h> - Rename cpuid_leaf()/cpuid_subleaf() APIs - treewide: Explicitly include the x86 CPUID headers - Update to x86-cpuid-db v3.1 (Maciej Wieczor-Retman) - Continued removal of pre-i586 support and related simplifications (Ingo Molnar) - Add Intel CPU model number for rugged Panther Lake (Tony Luck) - Misc fixes, updates and cleanups by Arnd Bergmann, Chao Gao, Lukas Bulwahn, Sohil Mehta, Maciej Wieczor-Retman. * tag 'x86-cpu-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits) x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_CX8 unconditional x86/cpu: Remove unused !CONFIG_X86_TSC code x86/cpuid: Update bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v3.1 tools/x86/kcpuid: Update bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v3.1 x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_TSC unconditional MAINTAINERS: Drop obsolete FPU EMULATOR section x86/cpu: Fix a F00F bug warning and clean up surrounding code x86/cpu: Add Intel CPU model number for rugged Panther Lake x86/cpuid: Introduce a centralized CPUID parser x86/cpu: Introduce a centralized CPUID data model x86/cpuid: Introduce <asm/cpuid/leaf_types.h> x86/cpuid: Rename cpuid_leaf()/cpuid_subleaf() APIs x86/cpu: Do not include the CPUID API header in asm/processor.h Documentation: core-api/cpu_hotplug: Remove stale cpu0_hotplug docs x86/cpu, cpufreq: Remove AMD ELAN support x86/fpu: Remove the math-emu/ FPU emulation library x86/fpu: Remove the 'no387' boot option x86/fpu: Remove MATH_EMULATION and related glue code treewide: Explicitly include the x86 CPUID headers x86/cpu: Remove the CONFIG_X86_INVD_BUG quirk ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-06-14' of ↵Linus Torvalds
gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "SMP load-balancing updates: - A large series to introduce infrastructure for cache-aware load balancing, with the goal of co-locating tasks that share data within the same Last Level Cache (LLC) domain. By improving cache locality, the scheduler can reduce cache bouncing and cache misses, ultimately improving data access efficiency. Implemented by Chen Yu and Tim Chen, based on early prototype work by Peter Zijlstra, with fixes by Jianyong Wu, Peter Zijlstra and Shrikanth Hegde. - A series to simplify CONFIG_SCHED_SMT ifdef usage (Shrikanth Hegde) Fair scheduler updates: - A series to improve SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY scheduling by introducing SMT awareness (Andrea Righi, K Prateek Nayak) - A series to optimize cfs_rq and sched_entity allocation for better data locality (Zecheng Li) - A preparatory series to change fair/cgroup scheduling to a single runqueue, without the final change (Peter Zijlstra) - Auto-manage ext/fair dl_server bandwidth (Andrea Righi) - Fix cpu_util runnable_avg arithmetic (Hongyan Xia) - Optimize update_tg_load_avg()'s rate-limiting code (Rik van Riel) - Allow account_cfs_rq_runtime() to throttle current hierarchy (K Prateek Nayak) - Update util_est after updating util_avg during dequeue, to fix the util signal update logic, which reduces signal noise (Vincent Guittot) Scheduler topology updates: - Allow multiple domains to claim sched_domain_shared (K Prateek Nayak) - Add parameter to split LLC (Peter Zijlstra) Core scheduler updates: - Use trace_call__<tp>() to save a static branch (Gabriele Monaco) Scheduler statistics updates: - Drop now-stale mul_u64_u64_div_u64() cputime over-approximation guard (Nicolas Pitre) Deadline scheduler updates: - Reject debugfs dl_server writes for offline CPUs (Andrea Righi) - Fix replenishment logic for non-deferred servers (Yuri Andriaccio) RT scheduling updates: - Turn RT_PUSH_IPI default off for non PREEMPT_RT (Steven Rostedt) - Update default bandwidth for real-time tasks to 1.0 (Yuri Andriaccio) Proxy scheduling updates: - A series to implement Optimized Donor Migration for Proxy Execution (John Stultz, Peter Zijlstra) - Various proxy scheduling cleanups and fixes (Peter Zijlstra, K Prateek Nayak) Misc fixes, improvements and cleanups by Aaron Lu, Andrea Righi, Zenghui Yu, Chen Yu, Guanyou.Chen, John Stultz, Shrikanth Hegde, Peter Zijlstra, Liang Luo and Yiyang Chen" * tag 'sched-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (91 commits) sched/fair: Fix newidle vs core-sched sched/deadline: Use task_on_rq_migrating() helper sched/core: Combine separate 'else' and 'if' statements sched/fair: Fix cpu_util runnable_avg arithmetic sched/fair: Unify cfs_rq throttling via account_cfs_rq_runtime() sched/fair: Move the throttled tasks to a local list in tg_unthrottle_up() sched/fair: Call update_curr() before unthrottling the hierarchy sched/fair: Use throttled_csd_list for local unthrottle sched/fair: Convert cfs bandwidth throttling to use guards sched/fair: Allocate cfs_tg_state with percpu allocator sched/fair: Remove task_group->se pointer array sched/fair: Co-locate cfs_rq and sched_entity in cfs_tg_state sched: restore timer_slack_ns when resetting RT policy on fork MAINTAINERS: Fix spelling mistake in Peter's name sched: Simplify ttwu_runnable() sched/proxy: Remove superfluous clear_task_blocked_in() sched/proxy: Remove PROXY_WAKING sched/proxy: Switch proxy to use p->is_blocked sched/proxy: Only return migrate when needed sched: Be more strict about p->is_blocked ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'driver-core-7.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich: "Deferred probe: - Fix race where deferred probe timeout work could be permanently canceled by using mod_delayed_work() - Fix missing jiffies conversion in deferred_probe_extend_timeout() - Guard timeout extension with delayed_work_pending() to prevent premature firing - Use system_percpu_wq instead of the deprecated system_wq - Update deferred_probe_timeout documentation device: - Replace direct struct device bitfield access (can_match, dma_iommu, dma_skip_sync, dma_ops_bypass, state_synced, dma_coherent, of_node_reused, offline, offline_disabled) with flag-based accessors using bit operations - Reject devices with unregistered buses - Delete unused DEVICE_ATTR_PREALLOC() - Add low-level device attribute macros with const show/store callbacks, allowing device attributes to reside in read-only memory - Move core device attributes to read-only memory - Constify group array pointers in driver_add_groups() / driver_remove_groups(), struct bus_type, and struct device_driver device property: - Fix fwnode reference leak in fwnode_graph_get_endpoint_by_id() - Initialize all fields of fwnode_handle in fwnode_init() - Provide swnode_get()/swnode_put() wrappers around kobject_get/put() - Allow passing struct software_node_ref_args pointers directly to PROPERTY_ENTRY_REF() driver_override: - Migrate amba, cdx, vmbus, and rpmsg to the generic driver_override infrastructure, fixing a UAF from unsynchronized access to driver_override in bus match() callbacks - Remove the now-unused driver_set_override() firmware loader: - Fix recursive lock deadlock in device_cache_fw_images() when async work falls back to synchronous execution - Fix device reference leak in firmware_upload_register() platform: - Pass KBUILD_MODNAME through the platform driver registration macro to create module symlinks in sysfs for built-in drivers; move module_kset initialization to a pure_initcall and tegra cbb registration to core_initcall to ensure correct ordering - Pass THIS_MODULE implicitly through a coresight_init_driver() macro sysfs: - Upgrade OOB write detection in sysfs_kf_seq_show() from printk to WARN - Add return value clamping to sysfs_kf_read() Rust: - ACPI: Fix missing match data for PRP0001 by exporting acpi_of_match_device() - Auxiliary: Replace drvdata() with dedicated registration data on auxiliary_device. drvdata() exposed the driver's bus device private data beyond the driver's own scope, creating ordering constraints and forcing the data to outlive all registrations that access it. Registration data is instead scoped structurally to the Registration object, making lifecycle ordering enforced by construction rather than convention. - Rust-native device driver lifetimes (HRT): Allow Rust device drivers to carry a lifetime parameter on their bus device private data, tied to the device binding scope -- the interval during which a bus device is bound to a driver. Device resources like pci::Bar<'a> and IoMem<'a> can be stored directly in the driver's bus device private data with a lifetime bounded by the binding scope, so the compiler enforces at build time that they do not outlive the binding. This removes Devres indirection from every access site and eliminates try_access() failure paths in destructors. Bus driver traits use a Generic Associated Type (GAT) Data<'bound> to introduce the lifetime on the private data, rather than parameterizing the Driver trait itself. Auxiliary registration data, where the lifetime is not introduced by a trait callback but must be threaded through Registration, uses the ForLt trait (a type-level abstraction for types generic over a lifetime). Misc: - Fix DT overlayed devices not probing by reverting the broken treewide overlay fix and re-running fw_devlink consumer pickup when an overlay is applied to a bound device - Use root_device_register() for faux bus root device; add sanity check for failed bus init - Fix dev_has_sync_state() data race with READ_ONCE() and move it to base.h - Avoid spurious device_links warning when removing a device while its supplier is unbinding - Switch ISA bus to dynamic root device - Fix suspicious RCU usage in kernfs_put() - Remove devcoredump exit callback - Constify devfreq_event_class" * tag 'driver-core-7.2-rc1' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (81 commits) software node: allow passing reference args to PROPERTY_ENTRY_REF() driver core: platform: set mod_name in driver registration coresight: pass THIS_MODULE implicitly through a macro kernel: param: initialize module_kset in a pure_initcall soc/tegra: cbb: Move driver registration from pure_initcall to core_initcall firmware_loader: Fix recursive lock in device_cache_fw_images() driver core: Use system_percpu_wq instead of system_wq driver core: remove driver_set_override() rpmsg: use generic driver_override infrastructure Drivers: hv: vmbus: use generic driver_override infrastructure cdx: use generic driver_override infrastructure amba: use generic driver_override infrastructure rust: devres: add 'static bound to Devres<T> samples: rust: rust_driver_auxiliary: showcase lifetime-bound registration data rust: auxiliary: generalize Registration over ForLt rust: types: add `ForLt` trait for higher-ranked lifetime support gpu: nova-core: separate driver type from driver data samples: rust: rust_driver_pci: use HRT lifetime for Bar rust: io: make IoMem and ExclusiveIoMem lifetime-parameterized rust: pci: make Bar lifetime-parameterized ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'pm-7.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Over a half of the changes here are cpufreq updates that include core modifications, fixes of the old-style governors, new hardware support in drivers, assorded driver fixes and cleanups, and the removal of one driver (AMD Elan SC4*). Apart from that, the intel_idle driver will now be able to avoid exposing redundant C-states if PC6 is disabled and there are new sysctl knobs for device suspend/resume watchdog timeouts, hibernation gets built-in LZ4 support for image compression and there is the usual collection of assorted fixes and cleanups. Specifics: - Fix a race between cpufreq suspend and CPU hotplug during system shutdown (Tianxiang Chen) - Avoid redundant target() calls for unchanged limits and fix a typo in a comment in the cpufreq core (Viresh Kumar) - Fix concurrency issues related to sysfs attributes access that affect cpufreq governors using the common governor code (Zhongqiu Han) - Simplify frequency limit handling in the conservative cpufreq governor (Lifeng Zheng) - Fix descriptions of the conservative governor freq_step tunable and the ondemand governor sampling_down_factor tunable in the cpufreq documentation (Pengjie Zhang) - Fix use-after-free and double free during _OSC evaluation in the PCC cpufreq driver (Yuho Choi) - Rework the handling of policy min and max frequency values in the cpufreq core to allow drivers to specify special initial values for the scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq sysfs attributes (Pierre Gondois) - Add cpufreq scaling support for Qualcomm Shikra SoC (Taniya Das, Imran Shaik). - Improve the warning message on HWP-disabled hybrid processors printed by the intel_pstate driver and sync policy->cur during CPU offline in it (Yohei Kojima, Fushuai Wang) - Drop cpufreq support for AMD Elan SC4* (Sean Young) - Minor fixes for cpufreq drivers (Krzysztof Kozlowski, Akashdeep Kaur, Hans Zhang, Guangshuo Li, Xueqin Luo) - Clean up dead dependencies on X86 in the cpufreq Kconfig (Julian Braha) - Allow the intel_idle driver to avoid exposing C-states that are redundant when PC6 is disabled (Artem Bityutskiy) - Fix memory leak and a potential race in the OPP core (Abdun Nihaal, Di Shen) - Mark Rust OPP methods as inline (Nicolás Antinori) - Fix misc device registration failure path in the PM QoS core (Yuho Choi) - Add sysctl interface for DPM watchdog timeouts (Tzung-Bi Shih) - Use complete() instead of complete_all() in device_pm_sleep_init() to avoid a false-positive warning from lockdep_assert_RT_in_threaded_ctx() when CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING is enabled (Jiakai Xu) - Use a flexible array for CRC uncompressed buffers during hibernation image saving (Rosen Penev) - Make the LZ4 algorithm available for hibernation compression (l1rox3) - Move the preallocate_image() call during hibernation after the "prepare" phase of the "freeze" transition (Matthew Leach) - Fix a memory leak in rapl_add_package_cpuslocked() in the intel_rapl power capping driver and use sysfs_emit() in cpumask_show() in that driver (Sumeet Pawnikar, Yury Norov) - Fix ValueError when parsing incomplete device properties in the pm-graph utility (Gongwei Li)" * tag 'pm-7.2-rc1' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (40 commits) PM: dpm_watchdog: Add sysctl interface for DPM watchdog timeouts PM: QoS: Fix misc device registration unwind cpufreq: Use policy->min/max init as QoS request cpufreq: Remove driver default policy->min/max init cpufreq: Set default policy->min/max values for all drivers cpufreq: Extract cpufreq_policy_init_qos() function cpufreq: Documentation: fix conservative governor freq_step description cpufreq: ti: Add EPROBE_DEFER for K3 SoCs cpufreq: qcom: Add cpufreq scaling support for Qualcomm Shikra SoC dt-bindings: cpufreq: Document Qualcomm Shikra SoC EPSS powercap: intel_rapl: Use sysfs_emit() in cpumask_show() cpufreq: governor: Fix stale prev_cpu_nice spike when enabling ignore_nice_load cpufreq: governor: Fix data races on per-CPU idle/nice baselines PM: hibernate: Use flexible array for CRC uncompressed buffers powercap: intel_rapl: Fix memory leak in rapl_add_package_cpuslocked() PM: hibernate: make LZ4 available for hibernation compression PM: sleep: Use complete() in device_pm_sleep_init() opp: rust: mark OPP methods as inline cpufreq: intel_pstate: Improve warning message on HWP-disabled hybrid CPUs cpufreq: elanfreq: Drop support for AMD Elan SC4* ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'rcu.release.v7.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux Pull RCU updates from Uladzislau Rezki: "Torture test updates: - Improve kvm-series.sh script by adding examples in its header comment - Lazy RCU is more fully tested now by replacing call_rcu_hurry() with call_rcu() and doing rcu_barrier() to motivate lazy callbacks during a stutter pause - Add more synonyms for the "--do-normal" group of torture.sh command-line arguments Misc changes: - Reduce stack usage of nocb_gp_wait() to address frame size warning when built with CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT - The synchronize_rcu() call can detect the flood and latches a normal/default path temporary switching to wait_rcu_gp() path - Document using rcu_access_pointer() to fetch the old pointer for lockless cmpxchg() updates - Simplify some RCU code using clamp_val() - Fix a kerneldoc header comment typo in srcu_down_read_fast()" * tag 'rcu.release.v7.2' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: rcu/nocb: reduce stack usage in nocb_gp_wait() rcu-tasks: Fix possible boot-time tests failed for the call_rcu_tasks() rcu: Latch normal synchronize_rcu() path on flood rcu: Document rcu_access_pointer() feeding into cmpxchg() rcu: Simplify param_set_next_fqs_jiffies() by applying clamp_val() rcu: Simplify rcu_do_batch() by applying clamp() checkpatch: Undeprecate rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace() srcu: Fix kerneldoc header comment typo in srcu_down_read_fast() torture: Allow "norm" abbreviation for "normal" torture: Improve kvm-series.sh header comment torture: Add torture_sched_set_normal() for user-specified nice values rcutorture: Fully test lazy RCU
2026-06-11Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'Rafael J. Wysocki
Merge cpufreq updates for 7.2: - Fix a race between cpufreq suspend and CPU hotplug during system shutdown (Tianxiang Chen) - Avoid redundant target() calls for unchanged limits and fix a typo in a comment in the cpufreq core (Viresh Kumar) - Fix concurrency issues related to sysfs attributes access that affect cpufreq governors using the common governor code (Zhongqiu Han) - Simplify frequency limit handling in the conservative cpufreq governor (Lifeng Zheng) - Fix descriptions of the conservative governor freq_step tunable and the ondemand governor sampling_down_factor tunable in the cpufreq documentation (Pengjie Zhang) - Fix use-after-free and double free during _OSC evaluation in the PCC cpufreq driver (Yuho Choi) - Rework the handling of policy min and max frequency values in the cpufreq core to allow drivers to specify special initial values for the scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq sysfs attributes (Pierre Gondois) - Add cpufreq scaling support for Qualcomm Shikra SoC (Taniya Das, Imran Shaik). - Improve the warning message on HWP-disabled hybrid processors printed by the intel_pstate driver and sync policy->cur during CPU offline in it (Yohei Kojima, Fushuai Wang) - Drop cpufreq support for AMD Elan SC4* (Sean Young) - Minor fixes for cpufreq drivers (Krzysztof Kozlowski, Akashdeep Kaur, Hans Zhang, Guangshuo Li, Xueqin Luo) - Clean up dead dependencies on X86 in the cpufreq Kconfig (Julian Braha) * pm-cpufreq: (25 commits) cpufreq: Use policy->min/max init as QoS request cpufreq: Remove driver default policy->min/max init cpufreq: Set default policy->min/max values for all drivers cpufreq: Extract cpufreq_policy_init_qos() function cpufreq: Documentation: fix conservative governor freq_step description cpufreq: ti: Add EPROBE_DEFER for K3 SoCs cpufreq: qcom: Add cpufreq scaling support for Qualcomm Shikra SoC dt-bindings: cpufreq: Document Qualcomm Shikra SoC EPSS cpufreq: governor: Fix stale prev_cpu_nice spike when enabling ignore_nice_load cpufreq: governor: Fix data races on per-CPU idle/nice baselines cpufreq: intel_pstate: Improve warning message on HWP-disabled hybrid CPUs cpufreq: elanfreq: Drop support for AMD Elan SC4* cpufreq: clean up dead dependencies on X86 in Kconfig cpufreq: conservative: Simplify frequency limit handling cpufreq: Avoid redundant target() calls for unchanged limits cpufreq: Fix typo in comment cpufreq: intel_pstate: Sync policy->cur during CPU offline cpufreq: Documentation: fix sampling_down_factor range cpufreq: Fix hotplug-suspend race during reboot cpufreq: pcc: fix use-after-free and double free in _OSC evaluation ...
2026-06-08ima: Add support for flushing the hash table when staging measurementsRoberto Sassu
During staging and delete, measurements are not completely deallocated. Their entry digest portion is kept and is still reachable with the hash table to detect duplicate records. If the number of records is significant, this reduces the memory saving benefit of staging. Some users might be interested in achieving the best memory saving (the measurements are completely deallocated) at the cost of having duplicate records across the staged measurement lists. Duplicate records are still avoided within the current measurement list. Introduce the new kernel option ima_flush_htable to decide whether or not the digests of staged measurement records are flushed from the hash table, when they are deleted, to achieve the maximum memory saving. When the option is enabled, replace the old hash table with a new one, by calling ima_alloc_replace_htable(), and completely delete the measurements records. Note: This code derives from the Alt-IMA Huawei project, whose license is GPL-2.0 OR MIT. Link: https://github.com/linux-integrity/linux/issues/1 Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2026-06-08nfs: remove nfs_compat_user_ino64() and deprecate enable_ino64Jeff Layton
Now that inode->i_ino stores the full 64-bit NFS fileid, the nfs_compat_user_ino64() function is no longer needed. generic_fillattr() already copies inode->i_ino into stat->ino, so the explicit override in nfs_getattr() is also redundant. Also remove the now-unused nfs_fileid_to_ino_t() and nfs_fattr_to_ino_t() helper functions that were used to XOR-fold 64-bit fileids into the old unsigned long i_ino. Keep the enable_ino64 module parameter as a deprecated stub that accepts but ignores the value, logging a notice when set. This avoids breaking existing configurations that pass nfs.enable_ino64 on the kernel command line or in modprobe.d. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@hammerspace.com>
2026-06-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netJakub Kicinski
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-7.1-rc7). Silent conflicts: net/wireless/nl80211.c cb9959ab5f99 ("wifi: cfg80211: enforce HE/EHT cap/oper consistency") a384ae969902 ("wifi: cfg80211: move AP HT/VHT/... operation to beacon info") https://lore.kernel.org/aiGJDaHV4UlCexIQ@sirena.org.uk Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/ap.c a342c99cb70d ("wifi: iwlwifi: mld: honor BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED") 9bf1b409afc7 ("wifi: iwlwifi: mld: send tx power constraints before link activation") https://lore.kernel.org/ah2bfedhV45ZxMO8@sirena.org.uk drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c 093305d801fa ("wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: simplify the resume flow if fast resume is not used") e2323929a68a ("wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: add debug print for resume flow if powered off") https://lore.kernel.org/ah2bfedhV45ZxMO8@sirena.org.uk Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c b38cae85d1c4 ("net: airoha: Fix use-after-free in metadata dst teardown") ec6c391bcca7 ("net: airoha: Introduce airoha_gdm_dev struct") drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c 8173d22b211f ("net: lan743x: permit VLAN-tagged packets up to configured MTU") e3c6508a46f5 ("net: lan743x: avoid netdev-based logging before netdev registration") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-06-02mm/hugetlb_cma: restrict hugetlb_cma parameter to gigantic-page alignmentSang-Heon Jeon
Existing hugetlb_cma parameter handling logic rejects sizes smaller than one gigantic page, but rounds up larger sizes that are not a multiple of it. The two behaviors are inconsistent and neither is documented. To remove existing inconsistent and undefined behavior, restrict hugetlb_cma parameter to only accept multiples of the gigantic page size. After this restriction, the redundant round_up() in the allocation loop can be removed. The new restriction is also documented in kernel-parameters.txt. Also, including other minor changes for readability improvement with no functional change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260503084225.415980-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-06-01docs: kernel-parameters: Fix stale sticore file pathsCosta Shulyupin
Update file paths for sticore references that became stale when drivers were reorganized: - drivers/video/console/sticore.c -> drivers/video/ Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260531140541.4115641-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>
2026-06-01docs: kernel-parameters: Remove sa1100ir IrDA parameterCosta Shulyupin
The sa1100ir parameter referenced drivers/net/irda/sa1100_ir.c, which was removed along with the entire IrDA stack in commit d64c2a76123f ("staging: irda: remove the irda network stack and drivers"). Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260531135455.4113157-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>
2026-06-01iommu: Documentation: rearrange, update kernel-parametersRandy Dunlap
Add text for some undescribed iommu= parameters (merge, nomerge, biomerge, panic, nopanic, pt, nopt). Add "usedac" and its description. Add that iommu=pt is equivalent to iommu.passthrough=1 and that iommu=nopt is equivalent to iommu.passthrough=0. Move the PPC/POWERNV heading & its option "nobypass" to a separate area since the current "iommu=" applies only to X86 (according to its heading). Unindent the AMD GART IOMMU options heading to make it stand out. Also add its kconfig symbol name to be explicit about what these options apply to. Make sure that the IOMMU options that are listed under AMD Gart HW IOMMU-specific options are only for that product; i.e., add "force" there and move "merge", "nomerge", and "panic" to the general IOMMU options area. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260528054611.1524937-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>
2026-05-28dma-contiguous: simplify numa cma area handlingFeng Tang
Currently, there are 2 kernel cmdline ways to setup numa cma area: "cma_pernuma=" and "numa_cma=", and there are 2 cma arrays as well, while they have no difference technically. Robin suggested to cleanup the code and only use one array [1], as "the apparent intent that users only want one _or_ the other". Simplify the code by only using one array to save the numa cma area. And in rare case that a user really setup the 2 cmdline parameters at the same time, let the per-node specific size setting 'numa_cma=' take priority over the global numa cma setting. Link[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/43c5301c-fe6a-41e4-9482-ccfc7b62f2a7@arm.com/ Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260525015111.6267-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
2026-05-26Documentation/arch/x86: Hide clearcpuid=Borislav Petkov (AMD)
This option was never meant to be used in production because it solely clears the X86_FEATURE kernel-internal representation of what CPUID bits it has detected and doesn't do any *proper* feature disablement like clearing CR4.CET in the user shadow stack case, for example. So remove its documentation so that it doesn't get used in production and people get silly ideas. It is meant strictly for debugging; and if a chicken bit for properly disabling a feature is warranted, then that would need proper enablement. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520202508.160112-1-bp@kernel.org
2026-05-24rcu: Latch normal synchronize_rcu() path on floodUladzislau Rezki (Sony)
Currently, rcu_normal_wake_from_gp is only enabled by default on small systems(<= 16 CPUs) or when a user explicitly set it enabled. Introduce an adaptive latching mechanism: * Track the number of in-flight synchronize_rcu() requests using a new rcu_sr_normal_count counter; * If the count reaches/exceeds RCU_SR_NORMAL_LATCH_THR(64), it sets the rcu_sr_normal_latched, reverting new requests onto the scaled wait_rcu_gp() path; * The latch is cleared only when the pending requests are fully drained(nr == 0); * Enables rcu_normal_wake_from_gp by default for all systems, relying on this dynamic throttling instead of static CPU limits. Testing(synthetic flood workload): * Kernel version: 6.19.0-rc6 * Number of CPUs: 1536 * 60K concurrent synchronize_rcu() calls Perf(cycles, system-wide): total cycles: 932020263832 rcu_sr_normal_add_req(): 2650282811 cycles(~0.28%) Perf report excerpt: 0.01% 0.01% sync_test/... [k] rcu_sr_normal_add_req Measured overhead of rcu_sr_normal_add_req() remained ~0.28% of total CPU cycles in this synthetic stress test. Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Tested-by: Samir M <samir@linux.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
2026-05-22net: arcnet: remove ISA and PCMCIA support; modernize documentationEthan Nelson-Moore
While ARCnet is still used in industrial environments, and cards are still manufactured, it is unlikely anyone is still using it with ISA and PCMCIA cards. Reduce future maintenance burden by removing all ISA and PCMCIA ARCnet drivers and documentation related to them. Update instructions for loading modules and passing parameters to work on modern kernels and with the com20020_pci driver. Also take the opportunity to document the rest of the module parameters, correct a file path in Documentation/networking/arcnet.rst, and change a reference to /etc/rc.inet1, which no longer exists, to refer to ifconfig. Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521001631.45434-4-enelsonmoore@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-05-22cpufreq: elanfreq: Drop support for AMD Elan SC4*Sean Young
Since commit 8b793a92d862 ("x86/cpu: Remove M486/M486SX/ELAN support"), the AMD Elan SC4* is no longer supported, so the CPU frequency driver is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org> Reviewed-by: Zhongqiu Han <zhongqiu.han@oss.qualcomm.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> [ rjw: Changelog tweaks ] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507090107.10113-1-sean@mess.org Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2026-05-20console: mdacon: remove this obsolete driverEthan Nelson-Moore
The mdacon driver supports using ISA MDA or Hercules-compatible display adapters as a secondary text console. This was commonly used in the 1990s and earlier for debugging software which took over the primary display. It is highly unlikely anyone is doing so nowadays because serial consoles and much better methods of debugging exist. The driver is not enabled by any defconfig, nor any of the dozens of distro configs collected at [1]. It has been relegated to VTs 13-16 since commit 0b9cf3aa6b1e ("mdacon messing up default vc's - set default to vc13-16 again") in Linux 2.6.27 (and before Linux 2.5.53 - see the link in the message of the above commit). The change in 2.6.27 was done because it was incorrectly detecting non-MDA adapters as MDA and taking over all VTs, rendering them unusable. Furthermore, vgacon supports using MDA/Hercules-compatible adapters as the primary text console, so any systems with only one of these adapters were already using vgacon and will not experience any loss in functionality from the removal of this driver. Given all of these factors, the mdacon driver is likely entirely unused. Remove it. [1] https://github.com/nyrahul/linux-kernel-configs/tree/f0bee86a135a0406ea427855f52702dd00d770f9 Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
2026-05-19Merge branch 'sched/cache'Peter Zijlstra
Merge the cache aware balancer topic branch. # Conflicts: # kernel/sched/topology.c
2026-05-15docs: Update nosmt support for arm64Jinjie Ruan
commit eed4583bcf9a6 ("arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT") enable HOTPLUG_SMT for SMT control for arm64, but the documentation was not updated accordingly to reflect that ARM64 now supports control SMT via boot parameter and sysfs knobs: 1. Boot parameters: nosmt: Disable SMT, can be enabled via sysfs knobs. nosmt=force: Disable SMT, cannot be enabled via sysfs knobs. 2. Runtime sysfs controls: Write "on", "off", "forceoff" or the number of SMT threads (1, 2, ...) to /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control. Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260417032540.3720627-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
2026-05-08x86/fpu: Remove the 'no387' boot optionIngo Molnar
Without math emulation there's no point to this option. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250425084216.3913608-10-mingo@kernel.org
2026-05-03Documentation/kernel-parameters: Remove "Deprecated" from isolcpus=Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
The isolcpus= option has been marked as deprecated in 2017. Back then it was desired for the domain sub option to be configured dynamically at runtime instead using this boot command line which provides a static configuration. In the meantime this option was extended by other sub options which don't have runtime counterpart or it does not make sense to provide one. The deprecated part always referred to the default `domain' sub option but it was not obvious. Also the reasoning behind the deprecation is sort of dubious: There is nothing wrong with a static configuration if there is no desired to reconfigure. This is useful on systems which have one purpose and the CPU partition configuration is not changed for the entire lifetime. Remove the "Deprecated" note. Remove the part of the description which suggest to use cpuset.sched_load_balance and instead point to the documentation file which explains how to use cpusets to configure this at runtime. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260427150739.bwVmmkj2@linutronix.de>
2026-05-03docs: Remove stale ISDN parametersCosta Shulyupin
The icn= and pcbit= parameters referenced drivers removed in commit 02bbd9802da7 ("staging: i4l: delete the whole thing"). Remove the stale parameter entries and the now-unused ISDN tag from the legend. Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260502120206.1289126-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>
2026-05-01ne2k: fold drivers/net/Space.c into ne.cArnd Bergmann
drivers/net/Space.c is the last remnant of the linux-2.4.x driver model that required each subsystem and device driver init function to be called from init/main.c explicitly, before the introduction of initcall levels. In linux-7.0, this was only used for a handful of ISA network drivers, with the ne2000 driver being the last one. Fold the code into ne.c directly, with minimal changes to preserve the existing command line parsing. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260429145624.2948432-2-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-28Documentation: update deferred_probe_timeout cmdline parameter documentationHans de Goede
Extend the deferred_probe_timeout cmdline parameter documentation, documenting that negative values are treated as an infinite timeout value. Suggested-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416144144.54547-1-johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
2026-04-24Merge tag 'net-deletions' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski: "Delete some obsolete networking code Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and noobs try to fix them. If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code. We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code behind us" * tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver net: packetengines: remove obsolete yellowfin driver and vendor dir net: packetengines: remove obsolete hamachi driver net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER
2026-04-23net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystemJakub Kicinski
Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree. This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet, and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree to protect our sanity. The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo: https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back. Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP, AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN) so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-04-17Merge tag 'integrity-v7.1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar: "There are two main changes, one feature removal, some code cleanup, and a number of bug fixes. Main changes: - Detecting secure boot mode was limited to IMA. Make detecting secure boot mode accessible to EVM and other LSMs - IMA sigv3 support was limited to fsverity. Add IMA sigv3 support for IMA regular file hashes and EVM portable signatures Remove: - Remove IMA support for asychronous hash calculation originally added for hardware acceleration Cleanup: - Remove unnecessary Kconfig CONFIG_MODULE_SIG and CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG tests - Add descriptions of the IMA atomic flags Bug fixes: - Like IMA, properly limit EVM "fix" mode - Define and call evm_fix_hmac() to update security.evm - Fallback to using i_version to detect file change for filesystems that do not support STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE - Address missing kernel support for configured (new) TPM hash algorithms - Add missing crypto_shash_final() return value" * tag 'integrity-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity: evm: Enforce signatures version 3 with new EVM policy 'bit 3' integrity: Allow sigv3 verification on EVM_XATTR_PORTABLE_DIGSIG ima: add support to require IMA sigv3 signatures ima: add regular file data hash signature version 3 support ima: Define asymmetric_verify_v3() to verify IMA sigv3 signatures ima: remove buggy support for asynchronous hashes integrity: Eliminate weak definition of arch_get_secureboot() ima: Add code comments to explain IMA iint cache atomic_flags ima_fs: Correctly create securityfs files for unsupported hash algos ima: check return value of crypto_shash_final() in boot aggregate ima: Define and use a digest_size field in the ima_algo_desc structure powerpc/ima: Drop unnecessary check for CONFIG_MODULE_SIG ima: efi: Drop unnecessary check for CONFIG_MODULE_SIG/CONFIG_KEXEC_SIG ima: fallback to using i_version to detect file change evm: fix security.evm for a file with IMA signature s390: Drop unnecessary CONFIG_IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT evm: Don't enable fix mode when secure boot is enabled integrity: Make arch_ima_get_secureboot integrity-wide
2026-04-17Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "Arm: - Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code, which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This uses the new infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware, and which came through the tracing tree - Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM - Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, where pages are unmapped from the host as they are faulted into the guest and can be shared back from the guest using pKVM hypercalls. Protected guests are created using a new machine type identifier. As the elusive guestmem has not yet delivered on its promises, anonymous memory is also supported This is only a first step towards full isolation from the host; for example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are not yet isolated. Because this does not really yet bring fully what it promises, it is hidden behind CONFIG_ARM_PKVM_GUEST + 'kvm-arm.mode=protected', and also triggers TAINT_USER when a VM is created. Caveat emptor - Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to the various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of state immutable - Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow page tables on a per-VM basis - Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard to follow - Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they do not generate spurious, out of context table walks that ultimately lead to very bad HW lockups - A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error cases - Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host SMCCC calls - The usual cleanups and other selftest churn LoongArch: - Use CSR_CRMD_PLV for kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel() - Add DMSINTC irqchip in kernel support RISC-V: - Fix steal time shared memory alignment checks - Fix vector context allocation leak - Fix array out-of-bounds in pmu_ctr_read() and pmu_fw_ctr_read_hi() - Fix double-free of sdata in kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area() - Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask() - Fix shift-out-of-bounds in make_xfence_request() - Fix lost write protection on huge pages during dirty logging - Split huge pages during fault handling for dirty logging - Skip CSR restore if VCPU is reloaded on the same core - Implement kvm_arch_has_default_irqchip() for KVM selftests - Factored-out ISA checks into separate sources - Added hideleg to struct kvm_vcpu_config - Factored-out VCPU config into separate sources - Support configuration of per-VM HGATP mode from KVM user space s390: - Support for ESA (31-bit) guests inside nested hypervisors - Remove restriction on memslot alignment, which is not needed anymore with the new gmap code - Fix LPSW/E to update the bear (which of course is the breaking event address register) x86: - Shut up various UBSAN warnings on reading module parameter before they were initialized - Don't zero-allocate page tables that are used for splitting hugepages in the TDP MMU, as KVM is guaranteed to set all SPTEs in the page table and thus write all bytes - As an optimization, bail early when trying to unsync 4KiB mappings if the target gfn can just be mapped with a 2MiB hugepage x86 generic: - Copy single-chunk MMIO write values into struct kvm_vcpu (more precisely struct kvm_mmio_fragment) to fix use-after-free stack bugs where KVM would dereference stack pointer after an exit to userspace - Clean up and comment the emulated MMIO code to try to make it easier to maintain (not necessarily "easy", but "easier") - Move VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (not *all* of VMX and SVM enabling) as it is needed for trusted I/O - Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) instructions - Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one of KVM's headers that is included multiple times - Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected exception, mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to trigger WARNs, but also because it can help prevent userspace from unintentionally crashing the VM - Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec - Misc hardening and cleanup changes x86 (AMD): - Fix and optimize IRQ window inhibit handling for AVIC; make it per-vCPU so that KVM doesn't prematurely re-enable AVIC if multiple vCPUs have to-be-injected IRQs - Clean up and optimize the OSVW handling, avoiding a bug in which KVM would overwrite state when enabling virtualization on multiple CPUs in parallel. This should not be a problem because OSVW should usually be the same for all CPUs - Drop a WARN in KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION where KVM complains about a "too large" size based purely on user input - Clean up and harden the pinning code for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION - Disallow synchronizing a VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted vCPU, as doing so for an SNP guest will crash the host due to an RMP violation page fault - Overhaul KVM's APIs for detecting SEV+ guests so that VM-scoped queries are required to hold kvm->lock, and enforce it by lockdep. Fix various bugs where sev_guest() was not ensured to be stable for the whole duration of a function or ioctl - Convert a pile of kvm->lock SEV code to guard() - Play nicer with userspace that does not enable KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, for which KVM needs to set CR2 and DR6 as a response to ioctls such as KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if the payload would end up in EXITINFO2 rather than CR2, for example). Only set CR2 and DR6 when consumption of the payload is imminent, but on the other hand force delivery of the payload in all paths where userspace retrieves CR2 or DR6 - Use vcpu->arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT instead of vmcb02->save.cr2. The value is out of sync after a save/restore or after a #PF is injected into L2 - Fix a class of nSVM bugs where some fields written by the CPU are not synchronized from vmcb02 to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN, and so are not up-to-date when saved by KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE - Fix a class of bugs where the ordering between KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_{S}REGS could cause vmcb02 to be incorrectly initialized after save+restore - Add a variety of missing nSVM consistency checks - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly update VMCB fields on nested #VMEXIT - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly synthesize #UD or #GP for SVM-related instructions - Add support for save+restore of virtualized LBRs (on SVM) - Refactor various helpers and macros to improve clarity and (hopefully) make the code easier to maintain - Aggressively sanitize fields when copying from vmcb12, to guard against unintentionally allowing L1 to utilize yet-to-be-defined features - Fix several bugs where KVM botched rAX legality checks when emulating SVM instructions. There are remaining issues in that KVM doesn't handle size prefix overrides for 64-bit guests - Fail emulation of VMRUN/VMLOAD/VMSAVE if mapping vmcb12 fails instead of somewhat arbitrarily synthesizing #GP (i.e. don't double down on AMD's architectural but sketchy behavior of generating #GP for "unsupported" addresses) - Cache all used vmcb12 fields to further harden against TOCTOU bugs x86 (Intel): - Drop obsolete branch hint prefixes from the VMX instruction macros - Use ASM_INPUT_RM() in __vmcs_writel() to coerce clang into using a register input when appropriate - Code cleanups guest_memfd: - Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't support reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage to write back to LoongArch selftests: - Add KVM PMU test cases s390 selftests: - Enable more memory selftests x86 selftests: - Add support for Hygon CPUs in KVM selftests - Fix a bug in the MSR test where it would get false failures on AMD/Hygon CPUs with exactly one of RDPID or RDTSCP - Add an MADV_COLLAPSE testcase for guest_memfd as a regression test for a bug where the kernel would attempt to collapse guest_memfd folios against KVM's will" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (373 commits) KVM: x86: use inlines instead of macros for is_sev_*guest x86/virt: Treat SVM as unsupported when running as an SEV+ guest KVM: SEV: Goto an existing error label if charging misc_cg for an ASID fails KVM: SVM: Move lock-protected allocation of SEV ASID into a separate helper KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_handle_guest_req() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_unregister_region() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_ioctl() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_launch_update() KVM: SEV: Assert that kvm->lock is held when querying SEV+ support KVM: SEV: Document that checking for SEV+ guests when reclaiming memory is "safe" KVM: SEV: Hide "struct kvm_sev_info" behind CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y KVM: SEV: WARN on unhandled VM type when initializing VM KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add PMU overflow interrupt test KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic PMU event counting test KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add cpucfg read/write helpers LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC inject msi to vCPU LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC device support LoongArch: KVM: Make vcpu_is_preempted() as a macro rather than function LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_GSTAT save and restore in context switch LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_EENTRY save and restore in context switch ...
2026-04-15Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...
2026-04-15Merge tag 'wq-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: - New default WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope subdivides LLCs into smaller shards to improve scalability on machines with many CPUs per LLC - Misc: - system_dfl_long_wq for long unbound works - devm_alloc_workqueue() for device-managed allocation - sysfs exposure for ordered workqueues and the EFI workqueue - removal of HK_TYPE_WQ from wq_unbound_cpumask - various small fixes * tag 'wq-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (21 commits) workqueue: validate cpumask_first() result in llc_populate_cpu_shard_id() workqueue: use NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS instead of hardcoded value workqueue: avoid unguarded 64-bit division docs: workqueue: document WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope workqueue: add test_workqueue benchmark module tools/workqueue: add CACHE_SHARD support to wq_dump.py workqueue: set WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD as the default affinity scope workqueue: add WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD affinity scope workqueue: fix typo in WQ_AFFN_SMT comment workqueue: Remove HK_TYPE_WQ from affecting wq_unbound_cpumask workqueue: unlink pwqs from wq->pwqs list in alloc_and_link_pwqs() error path workqueue: Remove NULL wq WARN in __queue_delayed_work() workqueue: fix parse_affn_scope() prefix matching bug workqueue: devres: Add device-managed allocate workqueue workqueue: Add system_dfl_long_wq for long unbound works tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: add NODE prefix to all node columns tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: fix column alignment in node_nr/max_active section tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py: remove backslash separator from node_nr/max_active header efi: Allow to expose the workqueue via sysfs workqueue: Allow to expose ordered workqueues via sysfs ...
2026-04-14Merge tag 'x86_fred_for_v7.1_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 FRED updates from Borislav Petkov: "We made the FRED support an opt-in initially out of fear of it breaking machines left and right in the case of a hw bug in the first generation of machines supporting it. Now that that the FRED code has seen a lot of hammering, flip the logic to be opt-out as is the usual case with new hw features" * tag 'x86_fred_for_v7.1_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/fred: Remove kernel log message when initializing exceptions x86/fred: Enable FRED by default
2026-04-14Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_7.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpu updates from Dave Hansen: - Complete LASS enabling: deal with vsyscall and EFI The existing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) support punted on support for common EFI and vsyscall configs. Complete the implementation by supporting EFI and vsyscall=xonly. - Clean up CPUID usage in newer Intel "avs" audio driver and update the x86-cpuid-db file * tag 'x86_cpu_for_7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tools/x86/kcpuid: Update bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v3.0 ASoC: Intel: avs: Include CPUID header at file scope ASoC: Intel: avs: Check maximum valid CPUID leaf x86/cpu: Remove LASS restriction on vsyscall emulation x86/vsyscall: Disable LASS if vsyscall mode is set to EMULATE x86/vsyscall: Restore vsyscall=xonly mode under LASS x86/traps: Consolidate user fixups in the #GP handler x86/vsyscall: Reorganize the page fault emulation code x86/cpu: Remove LASS restriction on EFI x86/efi: Disable LASS while executing runtime services x86/cpu: Defer LASS enabling until userspace comes up
2026-04-14Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner: - A rework of the hrtimer subsystem to reduce the overhead for frequently armed timers, especially the hrtick scheduler timer: - Better timer locality decision - Simplification of the evaluation of the first expiry time by keeping track of the neighbor timers in the RB-tree by providing a RB-tree variant with neighbor links. That avoids walking the RB-tree on removal to find the next expiry time, but even more important allows to quickly evaluate whether a timer which is rearmed changes the position in the RB-tree with the modified expiry time or not. If not, the dequeue/enqueue sequence which both can end up in rebalancing can be completely avoided. - Deferred reprogramming of the underlying clock event device. This optimizes for the situation where a hrtimer callback sets the need resched bit. In that case the code attempts to defer the re-programming of the clock event device up to the point where the scheduler has picked the next task and has the next hrtick timer armed. In case that there is no immediate reschedule or soft interrupts have to be handled before reaching the reschedule point in the interrupt entry code the clock event is reprogrammed in one of those code paths to prevent that the timer becomes stale. - Support for clocksource coupled clockevents The TSC deadline timer is coupled to the TSC. The next event is programmed in TSC time. Currently this is done by converting the CLOCK_MONOTONIC based expiry value into a relative timeout, converting it into TSC ticks, reading the TSC adding the delta ticks and writing the deadline MSR. As the timekeeping core has the conversion factors for the TSC already, the whole back and forth conversion can be completely avoided. The timekeeping core calculates the reverse conversion factors from nanoseconds to TSC ticks and utilizes the base timestamps of TSC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC which are updated once per tick. This allows a direct conversion into the TSC deadline value without reading the time and as a bonus keeps the deadline conversion in sync with the TSC conversion factors, which are updated by adjtimex() on systems with NTP/PTP enabled. - Allow inlining of the clocksource read and clockevent write functions when they are tiny enough, e.g. on x86 RDTSC and WRMSR. With all those enhancements in place a hrtick enabled scheduler provides the same performance as without hrtick. But also other hrtimer users obviously benefit from these optimizations. - Robustness improvements and cleanups of historical sins in the hrtimer and timekeeping code. - Rewrite of the clocksource watchdog. The clocksource watchdog code has over time reached the state of an impenetrable maze of duct tape and staples. The original design, which was made in the context of systems far smaller than today, is based on the assumption that the to be monitored clocksource (TSC) can be trivially compared against a known to be stable clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM timer). Over the years this rather naive approach turned out to have major flaws. Long delays between the watchdog invocations can cause wrap arounds of the reference clocksource. The access to the reference clocksource degrades on large multi-sockets systems dure to interconnect congestion. This has been addressed with various heuristics which degraded the accuracy of the watchdog to the point that it fails to detect actual TSC problems on older hardware which exposes slow inter CPU drifts due to firmware manipulating the TSC to hide SMI time. The rewrite addresses this by: - Restricting the validation against the reference clocksource to the boot CPU which is usually closest to the legacy block which contains the reference clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM). - Do a round robin validation betwen the boot CPU and the other CPUs based only on the TSC with an algorithm similar to the TSC synchronization code during CPU hotplug. - Being more leniant versus remote timeouts - The usual tiny fixes, cleanups and enhancements all over the place * tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits) alarmtimer: Access timerqueue node under lock in suspend hrtimer: Fix incorrect #endif comment for BITS_PER_LONG check posix-timers: Fix stale function name in comment timers: Get this_cpu once while clearing the idle state clocksource: Rewrite watchdog code completely clocksource: Don't use non-continuous clocksources as watchdog x86/tsc: Handle CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES correctly MIPS: Don't select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG parisc: Remove unused clocksource flags hrtimer: Add a helper to retrieve a hrtimer from its timerqueue node hrtimer: Remove trailing comma after HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES hrtimer: Mark index and clockid of clock base as const hrtimer: Drop unnecessary pointer indirection in hrtimer_expire_entry event hrtimer: Drop spurious space in 'enum hrtimer_base_type' hrtimer: Don't zero-initialize ret in hrtimer_nanosleep() hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_get_expires_ns() timekeeping: Mark offsets array as const timekeeping/auxclock: Consistently use raw timekeeper for tk_setup_internals() timer_list: Print offset as signed integer tracing: Use explicit array size instead of sentinel elements in symbol printing ...
2026-04-14Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including: - Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations, Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the beginnings of a Portuguese translation. - New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging Python gbb scripts, and more. - More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and more. - Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put both into alphabetical order. ... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general improvements" * tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits) Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation Documentation: Add managed interrupts Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/ Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation" ...
2026-04-13Merge tag 'pm-7.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Once again, cpufreq is the most active development area, mostly because of the new feature additions and documentation updates in the amd-pstate driver, but there are also changes in the cpufreq core related to boost support and other assorted updates elsewhere. Next up are power capping changes due to the major cleanup of the Intel RAPL driver. On the cpuidle front, a new C-states table for Intel Panther Lake is added to the intel_idle driver, the stopped tick handling in the menu and teo governors is updated, and there are a couple of cleanups. Apart from the above, support for Tegra114 is added to devfreq and there are assorted cleanups of that code, there are also two updates of the operating performance points (OPP) library, two minor updates related to hibernation, and cpupower utility man pages updates and cleanups. Specifics: - Update qcom-hw DT bindings to include Eliza hardware (Abel Vesa) - Update cpufreq-dt-platdev blocklist (Faruque Ansari) - Minor updates to driver and dt-bindings for Tegra (Thierry Reding, Rosen Penev) - Add MAINTAINERS entry for CPPC driver (Viresh Kumar) - Add support for new features: CPPC performance priority, Dynamic EPP, Raw EPP, and new unit tests for them to amd-pstate (Gautham Shenoy, Mario Limonciello) - Fix sysfs files being present when HW missing and broken/outdated documentation in the amd-pstate driver (Ninad Naik, Gautham Shenoy) - Pass the policy to cpufreq_driver->adjust_perf() to avoid using cpufreq_cpu_get() in the .adjust_perf() callback in amd-pstate which leads to a scheduling-while-atomic bug (K Prateek Nayak) - Clean up dead code in Kconfig for cpufreq (Julian Braha) - Remove max_freq_req update for pre-existing cpufreq policy and add a boost_freq_req QoS request to save the boost constraint instead of overwriting the last scaling_max_freq constraint (Pierre Gondois) - Embed cpufreq QoS freq_req objects in cpufreq policy so they all are allocated in one go along with the policy to simplify lifetime rules and avoid error handling issues (Viresh Kumar) - Use DMI max speed when CPPC is unavailable in the acpi-cpufreq scaling driver (Henry Tseng) - Switch policy_is_shared() in cpufreq to using cpumask_nth() instead of cpumask_weight() because the former is more efficient (Yury Norov) - Use sysfs_emit() in sysfs show functions for cpufreq governor attributes (Thorsten Blum) - Update intel_pstate to stop returning an error when "off" is written to its status sysfs attribute while the driver is already off (Fabio De Francesco) - Include current frequency in the debug message printed by __cpufreq_driver_target() (Pengjie Zhang) - Refine stopped tick handling in the menu cpuidle governor and rearrange stopped tick handling in the teo cpuidle governor (Rafael Wysocki) - Add Panther Lake C-states table to the intel_idle driver (Artem Bityutskiy) - Clean up dead dependencies on CPU_IDLE in Kconfig (Julian Braha) - Simplify cpuidle_register_device() with guard() (Huisong Li) - Use performance level if available to distinguish between rates in OPP debugfs (Manivannan Sadhasivam) - Fix scoped_guard in dev_pm_opp_xlate_required_opp() (Viresh Kumar) - Return -ENODATA if the snapshot image is not loaded (Alberto Garcia) - Remove inclusion of crypto/hash.h from hibernate_64.c on x86 (Eric Biggers) - Clean up and rearrange the intel_rapl power capping driver to make the respective interface drivers (TPMI, MSR, and MMOI) hold their own settings and primitives and consolidate PL4 and PMU support flags into rapl_defaults (Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan) - Correct kernel-doc function parameter names in the power capping core code (Randy Dunlap) - Remove unneeded casting for HZ_PER_KHZ in devfreq (Andy Shevchenko) - Use _visible attribute to replace create/remove_sysfs_files() in devfreq (Pengjie Zhang) - Add Tegra114 support to activity monitor device in tegra30-devfreq as a preparation to upcoming EMC controller support (Svyatoslav Ryhel) - Fix mistakes in cpupower man pages, add the boost and epp options to the cpupower-frequency-info man page, and add the perf-bias option to the cpupower-info man page (Roberto Ricci) - Remove unnecessary extern declarations from getopt.h in arguments parsing functions in cpufreq-set, cpuidle-info, cpuidle-set, cpupower-info, and cpupower-set utilities (Kaushlendra Kumar)" * tag 'pm-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (74 commits) cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add POWER_SUPPLY select for dynamic EPP cpupower: remove extern declarations in cmd functions cpuidle: Simplify cpuidle_register_device() with guard() PM / devfreq: tegra30-devfreq: add support for Tegra114 PM / devfreq: use _visible attribute to replace create/remove_sysfs_files() PM / devfreq: Remove unneeded casting for HZ_PER_KHZ MAINTAINERS: amd-pstate: Step down as maintainer, add Prateek as reviewer cpufreq: Pass the policy to cpufreq_driver->adjust_perf() cpufreq/amd-pstate: Pass the policy to amd_pstate_update() cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Add a unit test for raw EPP cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for raw EPP writes cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for platform profile class cpufreq/amd-pstate: add kernel command line to override dynamic epp cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add dynamic energy performance preference Documentation: amd-pstate: fix dead links in the reference section cpufreq/amd-pstate: Cache the max frequency in cpudata Documentation/amd-pstate: Add documentation for amd_pstate_floor_{freq,count} Documentation/amd-pstate: List amd_pstate_prefcore_ranking sysfs file Documentation/amd-pstate: List amd_pstate_hw_prefcore sysfs file amd-pstate-ut: Add a testcase to validate the visibility of driver attributes ...
2026-04-09Merge branches 'acpica', 'acpi-osl' and 'acpi-tables'Rafael J. Wysocki
Merge ACPICA updates, an ACPI OS service layer (OSL) update and assorted updates related to parsing ACPI tables for 7.1-rc1: - Update maintainers information regarding ACPICA (Rafael Wysocki) - Replace strncpy() with strscpy_pad() in acpi_ut_safe_strncpy() (Kees Cook) - Trigger an ordered system power off after encountering a fatal error operator in AML (Armin Wolf) - Enable ACPI FPDT parsing on LoongArch (Xi Ruoyao) - Remove the temporary stop-gap acpi_pptt_cache_v1_full structure from the ACPI PPTT parser (Ben Horgan) - Add support for exposing ACPI FPDT subtables FBPT and S3PT (Nate DeSimone) * acpica: ACPICA: Update maintainers information ACPICA: Replace strncpy() with strscpy_pad() in acpi_ut_safe_strncpy() * acpi-osl: ACPI: OSL: Poweroff when encountering a fatal ACPI error * acpi-tables: ACPI: tables: Enable FPDT on LoongArch Documentation: ABI: add FBPT and S3PT entries to sysfs-firmware-acpi ACPI: FPDT: expose FBPT and S3PT subtables via sysfs ACPI: PPTT: Remove duplicate structure, acpi_pptt_cache_v1_full
2026-04-09Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, ↵Li RongQing
and nobypass Commit ab0e7f20768a ("Documentation: Merge x86-specific boot options doc into kernel-parameters.txt") introduced a formatting regression where architecture tags were placed on separate lines with broken indentation. This caused the 'nopt' [X86] parameter to appear as if it belonged to the [PPC/POWERNV] section. Furthermore, since the main 'iommu=' parameter heading already specifies it is for [X86, EARLY], the subsequent standalone [X86] tags for 'pt', 'nopt', and the AMD GART options are redundant and clutter the documentation. Clean up the formatting by removing these redundant tags and properly attributing the 'nobypass' option to [PPC/POWERNV]. Fixes: ab0e7f20768a ("Documentation: Merge x86-specific boot options doc into kernel-parameters.txt") Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260330105957.2271-1-lirongqing@baidu.com>
2026-04-09x86/topology: Add paramter to split LLCPeter Zijlstra
Add a (debug) option to virtually split the LLC, no CAT involved, just fake topology. Used to test code that depends (either in behaviour or directly) on there being multiple LLC domains in a node. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2026-04-05kfence: add kfence.fault parameterMarco Elver
Add kfence.fault parameter to control the behavior when a KFENCE error is detected (similar in spirit to kasan.fault=<mode>). The supported modes for kfence.fault=<mode> are: - report: print the error report and continue (default). - oops: print the error report and oops. - panic: print the error report and panic. In particular, the 'oops' mode offers a trade-off between no mitigation on report and panicking outright (if panic_on_oops is not set). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225203639.3159463-1-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>