linux-toradex.git/Documentation/process/changes.rst, branch v7.0-rc6

Merge tag 'bpf-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2026-02-10T19:26:21+00:00

Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Support associating BPF program with struct_ops (Amery Hung)

 - Switch BPF local storage to rqspinlock and remove recursion detection
   counters which were causing false positives (Amery Hung)

 - Fix live registers marking for indirect jumps (Anton Protopopov)

 - Introduce execution context detection BPF helpers (Changwoo Min)

 - Improve verifier precision for 32bit sign extension pattern
   (Cupertino Miranda)

 - Optimize BTF type lookup by sorting vmlinux BTF and doing binary
   search (Donglin Peng)

 - Allow states pruning for misc/invalid slots in iterator loops (Eduard
   Zingerman)

 - In preparation for ASAN support in BPF arenas teach libbpf to move
   global BPF variables to the end of the region and enable arena kfuncs
   while holding locks (Emil Tsalapatis)

 - Introduce support for implicit arguments in kfuncs and migrate a
   number of them to new API. This is a prerequisite for cgroup
   sub-schedulers in sched-ext (Ihor Solodrai)

 - Fix incorrect copied_seq calculation in sockmap (Jiayuan Chen)

 - Fix ORC stack unwind from kprobe_multi (Jiri Olsa)

 - Speed up fentry attach by using single ftrace direct ops in BPF
   trampolines (Jiri Olsa)

 - Require frozen map for calculating map hash (KP Singh)

 - Fix lock entry creation in TAS fallback in rqspinlock (Kumar
   Kartikeya Dwivedi)

 - Allow user space to select cpu in lookup/update operations on per-cpu
   array and hash maps (Leon Hwang)

 - Make kfuncs return trusted pointers by default (Matt Bobrowski)

 - Introduce "fsession" support where single BPF program is executed
   upon entry and exit from traced kernel function (Menglong Dong)

 - Allow bpf_timer and bpf_wq use in all programs types (Mykyta
   Yatsenko, Andrii Nakryiko, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Alexei
   Starovoitov)

 - Make KF_TRUSTED_ARGS the default for all kfuncs and clean up their
   definition across the tree (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Allow BPF arena calls from non-sleepable context (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Improve register id comparison logic in the verifier and extend
   linked registers with negative offsets (Puranjay Mohan)

 - In preparation for BPF-OOM introduce kfuncs to access memcg events
   (Roman Gushchin)

 - Use CFI compatible destructor kfunc type (Sami Tolvanen)

 - Add bitwise tracking for BPF_END in the verifier (Tianci Cao)

 - Add range tracking for BPF_DIV and BPF_MOD in the verifier (Yazhou
   Tang)

 - Make BPF selftests work with 64k page size (Yonghong Song)

* tag 'bpf-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (268 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix outdated test on storage->smap
  selftests/bpf: Choose another percpu variable in bpf for btf_dump test
  selftests/bpf: Remove test_task_storage_map_stress_lookup
  selftests/bpf: Update task_local_storage/task_storage_nodeadlock test
  selftests/bpf: Update task_local_storage/recursion test
  selftests/bpf: Update sk_storage_omem_uncharge test
  bpf: Switch to bpf_selem_unlink_nofail in bpf_local_storage_{map_free, destroy}
  bpf: Support lockless unlink when freeing map or local storage
  bpf: Prepare for bpf_selem_unlink_nofail()
  bpf: Remove unused percpu counter from bpf_local_storage_map_free
  bpf: Remove cgroup local storage percpu counter
  bpf: Remove task local storage percpu counter
  bpf: Change local_storage->lock and b->lock to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert bpf_selem_unlink to failable
  bpf: Convert bpf_selem_link_map to failable
  bpf: Convert bpf_selem_unlink_map to failable
  bpf: Select bpf_local_storage_map_bucket based on bpf_local_storage
  selftests/xsk: fix number of Tx frags in invalid packet
  selftests/xsk: properly handle batch ending in the middle of a packet
  bpf: Prevent reentrance into call_rcu_tasks_trace()
  ...

Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors

2026-01-16T18:13:45+00:00

Fix various typos and grammatical errors across documentation files:

- Fix missing preposition 'in' in process/changes.rst
- Correct 'result by' to 'result from' in admin-guide/README.rst
- Fix 'before hand' to 'beforehand' in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
- Correct 'allows to limit' to 'allows limiting' in hugetlb.rst,
  cgroup-v2.rst, and kconfig-language.rst
- Fix 'needs precisely know' to 'needs to precisely know'
- Correct 'overcommited' to 'overcommitted' in hugetlb.rst
- Fix subject-verb agreement: 'never causes' to 'never cause'
- Fix 'there is enough' to 'there are enough' in hugetlb.rst
- Fix 'metadatas' to 'metadata' in filesystems/erofs.rst
- Fix 'hardwares' to 'hardware' in scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx

Signed-off-by: Nauman Sabir 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Message-ID: <20260115230110.7734-1-officialnaumansabir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

lib/Kconfig.debug: Set the minimum required pahole version to v1.22

2025-12-19T18:55:40+00:00

Subsequent patches in the series change vmlinux linking scripts to
unconditionally pass --btf_encode_detached to pahole, which was
introduced in v1.22 [1][2].

This change allows to remove PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF Kconfig option and
other checks of older pahole versions.

[1] https://github.com/acmel/dwarves/releases/tag/v1.22
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cbafbf4e-9073-4383-8ee6-1353f9e5869c@oracle.com/

Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai 
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko 
Tested-by: Alan Maguire 
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman 
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251219181825.1289460-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev

Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2025-10-04T00:16:13+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
  over:

   - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
     "literal include" mode.

   - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
     kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
     converted to Python and updated for current systems.

   - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
     HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
     hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.

   - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
     protocol.

   - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.

  ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
  etc"

* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
  docs: remove cdomain.py
  Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
  docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
  Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
  docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
  Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
  Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
  Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
  docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
  docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
  docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
  docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
  ...

kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

2025-08-28T23:58:43+00:00

s390 and x86 have required LLVM 15 since

  30d17fac6aae ("scripts/min-tool-version.sh: raise minimum clang version to 15.0.0 for s390")
  7861640aac52 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0")

respectively but most other architectures allow LLVM 13.0.1 or newer. In
accordance with the recent minimum supported version of GCC bump that
happened in

  118c40b7b503 ("kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30")

do the same for LLVM to 15.0.0.

Of the supported releases of Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE
surveyed in evaluating this bump, this only leaves behind Debian
Bookworm (14.0.6) and Ubuntu Jammy (14.0.0). Debian Trixie has 19.1.7
and Ubuntu Noble has 18.1.3 (so there are viable upgrade paths) or users
can use apt.llvm.org, which provides even newer packages for those
distributions.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821-bump-min-llvm-ver-15-v2-1-635f3294e5f0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

docs: changes: better document Python needs

2025-08-11T16:54:29+00:00

Python is listed as an optional dependency, but this is not
true, as:

1) arm (multi_v7_defconfig and other defconfigs) and arm64 defconfig
   needs it due to DRM_MSM dependencies;

2) CONFIG_LTO_CLANG runs a python script at scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o;

3) kernel-doc is called during compilation when some DRM options
   like CONFIG_DRM_I915_WERROR are enabled;

4) allyesconfig/allmodconfig will enable CONFIG_* dependencies
   that needs it;

5) besides DRM, other subsystems seem to have logic calling *.py
   scripts.

So, better document that and change the dependency from optional
to mandatory to reflect the current needs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) 
Acked-by: Akira Yokosawa 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b03b95b8d09358e81e4f27942839191f49b0ba80.1753806485.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org

docs: Remove reiserfsprogs from dependencies.

2025-06-09T20:53:16+00:00

The reiserfsprogs package is no longer needed since ReiserFS was removed
in Linux 6.13. Furthermore, the package is no longer maintained.

Signed-off-by: Collin Funk 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2d6b194b33e8aacd12999b6ddfe21b5753c1171c.1749352106.git.collin.funk1@gmail.com

Documentation: update binutils-2.30 version reference

2025-05-16T08:10:02+00:00

The change to binutils-2.30 missed one reference in the Documentation
that needs to be updated to match.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30

2025-04-30T19:53:35+00:00

Commit a3e8fe814ad1 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1")
raised the minimum compiler version as enforced by Kbuild to gcc-8.1
and clang-15 for x86.

This is actually the same gcc version that has been discussed as the
minimum for all architectures several times in the past, with little
objection. A previous concern was the kernel for SLE15-SP7 needing to
be built with gcc-7. As this ended up still using linux-6.4 and there
is no plan for an SP8, this is no longer a problem.

Change it for all architectures and adjust the documentation accordingly.
A few version checks can be removed in the process.  The binutils
version 2.30 is the lowest version used in combination with gcc-8 on
common distros, so use that as the corresponding minimum.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240925150059.3955569-32-ardb+git@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/871q7yxrgv.wl-tiwai@suse.de/
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

docs: changes: update Python minimal version

2025-02-13T18:33:32+00:00

The current minimal version doesn't match what we have currently
at the Kernel:

	$ vermin -v  $(git ls-files *.py)
	...
	Minimum required versions: 3.10
	Incompatible versions:     2

Those are the Python scripts requiring versions higher than current minimal (3.5):

        !2, 3.10     tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/generators/__init__.py
        !2, 3.10     tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/generators/program.py
        !2, 3.10     tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/subcmds/source.py
        !2, 3.10     tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/xdr_ast.py
        !2, 3.10     tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python/test_raw_pylibcpupower.py
        !2, 3.9      tools/testing/selftests/net/rds/test.py
        !2, 3.9      tools/net/ynl/ethtool.py
        !2, 3.9      tools/net/ynl/cli.py
        !2, 3.9      scripts/checktransupdate.py
        !2, 3.8      tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/plugin-lib/nsPlugin.py
        !2, 3.8      tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/base.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/selftests/turbostat/smi_aperf_mperf.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/selftests/turbostat/defcolumns.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/selftests/turbostat/added_perf_counters.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/conftest.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/kunit/qemu_config.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/kunit/kunit_tool_test.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/kunit/kunit_parser.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/kunit/kunit_json.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/testing/kunit/kunit_config.py
        !2, 3.7      tools/perf/scripts/python/gecko.py
        !2, 3.7      scripts/rust_is_available_test.py
        !2, 3.7      scripts/bpf_doc.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/writeback/wb_monitor.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/usb/p9_fwd.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/tracing/rtla/sample/timerlat_load.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/net/nl_netdev.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/ynl.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/utils.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/nsim.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/netns.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/ksft.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/ksft.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_tablet.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_sony.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_multitouch.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_mouse.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/base_gamepad.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/base_device.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/stats.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/shaper.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/queues.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/ping.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/remote_ssh.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/load.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/__init__.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/env.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/rss_ctx.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/pp_alloc_fail.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/nic_performance.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/nic_link_layer.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/lib/py/linkconfig.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/lib/py/__init__.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/devmem.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/devlink_port_split.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/csum.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/devices/probe/test_discoverable_devices.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_bpftool_synctypes.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/selftests/bpf/generate_udp_fragments.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/kunit/run_checks.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/testing/kunit/kunit_printer.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/sched_ext/scx_show_state.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_json_output_lint.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/scripts/python/parallel-perf.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/scripts/python/flamegraph.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/scripts/python/arm-cs-trace-disasm.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/pmu-events/models.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/pmu-events/metric_test.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-rst.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-c.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/net/ynl/lib/nlspec.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/crypto/tcrypt/tcrypt_speed_compare.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/cgroup/iocost_monitor.py
        !2, 3.6      tools/cgroup/iocost_coef_gen.py
        !2, 3.6      scripts/make_fit.py
        !2, 3.6      scripts/macro_checker.py
        !2, 3.6      scripts/get_abi.py
        !2, 3.6      scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py
        !2, 3.6      scripts/gdb/linux/timerlist.py
        !2, 3.6      scripts/gdb/linux/pgtable.py
        !2, 3.6      scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py
        !2, 3.6      Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py

Even if we exclude tools/net/sunrpc/xdrgen/, the minimal version is
Python 3.9.

Update process/changes to reflect the current minimal version required to
run Python scripts outside tools.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/34dda7a5a75f30380d95d8e85a8813be98dc72fe.1739254187.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org