linux-toradex.git/arch/sparc, branch master Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-18-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 2026-06-19T17:14:34+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-06-19T17:14:34+00:00 a552c81ff4a16738ca5a44a177d552eb38d552ce 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 ... 
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
  ...
Merge tag 'net-next-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2026-06-17T07:17:00+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-06-17T07:17:00+00:00 b85966adbf5de0668a815c6e3527f87e0c387fb4 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 ... 
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
  ...
Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2026-06-15T08:27:13+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-06-15T08:27:13+00:00 186d3c4e92242351afc24d9784f31cb4cd08a4b7 Pull vdso updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Remove the redundant CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL after converting the remaining users over. - Rework and sanitize the MIPS VDSO handling, so it does not handle the time related VDSO if there is no VDSO capable clocksource available. Also stop mapping VDSO data pages unconditionally even if there is no usage possible. * tag 'timers-vdso-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: MIPS: VDSO: Fold MIPS_CLOCK_VSYSCALL into MIPS_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY MIPS: VDSO: Gate microMIPS restriction on GCC version MIPS: VDSO: Fold MIPS_DISABLE_VDSO into MIPS_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Only use VDSO_CLOCKMODE_GIC when it is a available MIPS: csrc-r4k: Only use VDSO_CLOCKMODE_R4K when it is a available MIPS: VDSO: Only map the data pages when the vDSO is used MIPS: Introduce Kconfig MIPS_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY vdso/datastore: Always provide symbol declarations MAINTAINERS: Add include/linux/vdso_datastore.h to vDSO block vdso/gettimeofday: Rename __arch_get_vdso_u_timens_data() vdso/treewide: Drop GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL vdso/vsyscall: Gate update_vsyscall() behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY riscv: vdso: Drop CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL guard around syscall fallbacks 
Pull vdso updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Remove the redundant CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL after converting
   the remaining users over.

 - Rework and sanitize the MIPS VDSO handling, so it does not handle the
   time related VDSO if there is no VDSO capable clocksource available.
   Also stop mapping VDSO data pages unconditionally even if there is no
   usage possible.

* tag 'timers-vdso-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  MIPS: VDSO: Fold MIPS_CLOCK_VSYSCALL into MIPS_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
  MIPS: VDSO: Gate microMIPS restriction on GCC version
  MIPS: VDSO: Fold MIPS_DISABLE_VDSO into MIPS_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Only use VDSO_CLOCKMODE_GIC when it is a available
  MIPS: csrc-r4k: Only use VDSO_CLOCKMODE_R4K when it is a available
  MIPS: VDSO: Only map the data pages when the vDSO is used
  MIPS: Introduce Kconfig MIPS_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
  vdso/datastore: Always provide symbol declarations
  MAINTAINERS: Add include/linux/vdso_datastore.h to vDSO block
  vdso/gettimeofday: Rename __arch_get_vdso_u_timens_data()
  vdso/treewide: Drop GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
  vdso/vsyscall: Gate update_vsyscall() behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
  riscv: vdso: Drop CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL guard around syscall fallbacks
Merge tag 'irq-core-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2026-06-15T07:49:41+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-06-15T07:49:41+00:00 13e1a6d6a17eb4bca350e5bf59a89a3056c834ca Pull interrupt core updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Rework of /proc/interrupt handling: /proc/interrupts was subject to micro optimizations for a long time, but most of the low hanging fruit was left on the table. This rework addresses the major time consuming issues: - Printing a long series of zeros one by one via a format string instead of counting subsequent zeros and emitting a string constant. - Simplify and cache the conditions whether interrupts should be printed - Use a proper iteration over the interrupt descriptor xarray instead of walking and testing one by one. - Provide helper functions for the architecture code to emit the architecture specific counters - Convert the counter structure in x86 to an array, which simplifies the output and add mechanisms to suppress unused architecture interrupts, which just occupy space for nothing. Adopt the new core mechanisms. This adjusts the gdb scripts related to interrupt counter statistics to work with the new mechanisms. - Prevent a string overflow in the /proc/irq/$N/ directory name creation code. * tag 'irq-core-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/irq: Add missing 's' back to thermal event printout genirq/proc: Speed up /proc/interrupts iteration genirq/proc: Runtime size the chip name genirq: Expose irq_find_desc_at_or_after() in core code genirq: Add rcuref count to struct irq_desc genirq/proc: Increase default interrupt number precision to four genirq: Calculate precision only when required genirq: Cache the condition for /proc/interrupts exposure genirq/manage: Make NMI cleanup RT safe genirq: Expose nr_irqs in core code scripts/gdb: Update x86 interrupts to the array based storage x86/irq: Move IOAPIC misrouted and PIC/APIC error counts into irq_stats x86/irq: Suppress unlikely interrupt stats by default x86/irq: Make irqstats array based genirq/proc: Utilize irq_desc::tot_count to avoid evaluation genirq/proc: Avoid formatting zero counts in /proc/interrupts x86/irq: Optimize interrupts decimals printing genirq/proc: Size interrupt directory names for 10-digit interrupt numbers 
Pull interrupt core updates from Thomas Gleixner:

  - Rework of /proc/interrupt handling:

    /proc/interrupts was subject to micro optimizations for a long time,
    but most of the low hanging fruit was left on the table. This rework
    addresses the major time consuming issues:

      - Printing a long series of zeros one by one via a format string
        instead of counting subsequent zeros and emitting a string
        constant.

      - Simplify and cache the conditions whether interrupts should be
        printed

      - Use a proper iteration over the interrupt descriptor xarray
        instead of walking and testing one by one.

      - Provide helper functions for the architecture code to emit the
        architecture specific counters

      - Convert the counter structure in x86 to an array, which
        simplifies the output and add mechanisms to suppress unused
        architecture interrupts, which just occupy space for nothing.
        Adopt the new core mechanisms.

    This adjusts the gdb scripts related to interrupt counter statistics
    to work with the new mechanisms.

  - Prevent a string overflow in the /proc/irq/$N/ directory name
    creation code.

* tag 'irq-core-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/irq: Add missing 's' back to thermal event printout
  genirq/proc: Speed up /proc/interrupts iteration
  genirq/proc: Runtime size the chip name
  genirq: Expose irq_find_desc_at_or_after() in core code
  genirq: Add rcuref count to struct irq_desc
  genirq/proc: Increase default interrupt number precision to four
  genirq: Calculate precision only when required
  genirq: Cache the condition for /proc/interrupts exposure
  genirq/manage: Make NMI cleanup RT safe
  genirq: Expose nr_irqs in core code
  scripts/gdb: Update x86 interrupts to the array based storage
  x86/irq: Move IOAPIC misrouted and PIC/APIC error counts into irq_stats
  x86/irq: Suppress unlikely interrupt stats by default
  x86/irq: Make irqstats array based
  genirq/proc: Utilize irq_desc::tot_count to avoid evaluation
  genirq/proc: Avoid formatting zero counts in /proc/interrupts
  x86/irq: Optimize interrupts decimals printing
  genirq/proc: Size interrupt directory names for 10-digit interrupt numbers
Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs 2026-06-14T22:29:45+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-06-14T22:29:45+00:00 7e0e7bd60d4a812b694c477716597fcb038b00cb Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the lock in anon_pipe_write(). anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves 21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to selftests. - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr() helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC). - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program that was merged into systemd. - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio conversions and iomap migration. Fixes: - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo() callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning. - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs, qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a device with a sector size > PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them; the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the minix v3 block size fails. - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API. - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg() from read_lock(&tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID path. - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT. - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns() where the tests should SKIP. - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n. - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state. - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in validate_coredump_safety(). - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in __iomap_write_begin(). - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc. Cleanups: - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin() instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x prefixes. - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc() across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2, isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page allocator calls with kmalloc(). - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence. - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path() into start_removing_path(). - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(). - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 << n) for the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases. - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free() via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags. - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the allocation against multiplication overflow. - fs/pipe: write to ->poll_usage only once. - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd(). - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc(). - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts(). - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code. - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix assorted spelling mistakes" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits) backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 << n) for O_ flags bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe->mutex in anon_pipe_write fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next() fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc() fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() ... 
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the
     lock in anon_pipe_write().

     anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding
     pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs
     memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any
     concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are
     pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled
     into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder
     is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical
     section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB
     writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average
     write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of
     holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves
     21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to
     selftests.

   - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in
     copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check
     in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add
     copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr()
     helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC).

   - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real
     inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode
     attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device
     information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program
     that was merged into systemd.

   - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by
     the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose
     on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio
     conversions and iomap migration.

  Fixes:

   - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
     and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a
     one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo
     filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo()
     callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where
     SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning.

   - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs,
     qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a
     device with a sector size > PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them;
     the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a
     follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the
     minix v3 block size fails.

   - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API.

   - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by
     switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg()
     from read_lock(&tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID
     path.

   - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing
     delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount
     performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init
     s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT.

   - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped
     grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in
     listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns()
     where the tests should SKIP.

   - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for
     CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n.

   - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before
     running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state.

   - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in
     validate_coredump_safety().

   - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in
     __iomap_write_begin().

   - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc.

  Cleanups:

   - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin()
     instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and
     extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x
     prefixes.

   - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc()
     across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2,
     isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the
     do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page
     allocator calls with kmalloc().

   - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and
     journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence.

   - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove
     start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path()
     into start_removing_path().

   - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with
     EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES().

   - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 << n) for
     the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the
     architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases.

   - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free()
     via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags.

   - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the
     allocation against multiplication overflow.

   - fs/pipe: write to ->poll_usage only once.

   - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd().

   - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc().

   - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts().

   - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code.

   - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix
     assorted spelling mistakes"

* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits)
  backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter
  iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin
  vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS
  filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n
  vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 << n) for O_ flags
  bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc
  fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world
  libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers
  libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
  mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API
  fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling
  selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
  fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe->mutex in anon_pipe_write
  fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next()
  fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment
  bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc()
  binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc()
  fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer
  fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  ...
Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.openat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs 2026-06-14T21:41:05+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-06-14T21:41:05+00:00 50b900c564b0f0307c126de9f17c21d3a1ba039b Pull openat2 updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Add O_EMPTYPATH to openat(2)/openat2(2). To get an operable file descriptor from an O_PATH file descriptor it is possible to use openat(fd, ".", O_DIRECTORY) for directories, but other file types require going through open("/proc/<pid>/fd/<nr>") and thus depend on a functioning procfs. With O_EMPTYPATH an empty path string is accepted and LOOKUP_EMPTY is set at path resolution time, allowing to reopen the file behind the file descriptor directly. Selftests are included. - Add an OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for openat2(2) which refuses to open anything but regular files with the new EFTYPE error code. This implements the "ability to only open regular files" feature requested by userspace via uapi-group.org and protects services from being redirected to fifos, device nodes, and friends. All atomic_open implementations were audited for OPENAT2_REGULAR handling. Explicit checks were added to ceph, gfs2, nfs (v4), and cifs/smb - these are the filesystems whose atomic_open can encounter an existing non-regular file and would otherwise call finish_open() on it or return a misleading error code. The remaining implementations (9p, fuse, vboxsf, nfs v2/v3) only call finish_open() on freshly created files and use finish_no_open() for lookup hits, letting the VFS catch non-regular files via the do_open() safety net. Cleanups: - Migrate the openat2 selftests to the kselftest harness and move them under selftests/filesystems/. The tests were written in the early days of selftests' TAP support and the modern kselftest harness is much easier to follow and maintain. The contents of the tests are unchanged and the new emptypath tests are ported on top. - Make the LAST_XXX last-type constants private to fs/namei.c. The only user outside of fs/namei.c was ksmbd which only needs to know whether the last component is a regular one, so vfs_path_parent_lookup() now performs the LAST_NORM check internally. The ints are replaced with a dedicated enum last_type" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.openat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: vfs: replace ints with enum last_type for LAST_XXX vfs: make LAST_XXX private to fs/namei.c selftests: openat2: port emptypath_test to kselftest harness kselftest/openat2: test for OPENAT2_REGULAR flag openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support openat2: introduce EFTYPE error code selftest: add tests for O_EMPTYPATH vfs: add O_EMPTYPATH to openat(2)/openat2(2) selftests: openat2: migrate to kselftest harness selftests: openat2: switch from custom ARRAY_LEN to ARRAY_SIZE selftests: openat2: move helpers to header selftests: move openat2 tests to selftests/filesystems/ 
Pull openat2 updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Add O_EMPTYPATH to openat(2)/openat2(2). To get an operable file
     descriptor from an O_PATH file descriptor it is possible to use
     openat(fd, ".", O_DIRECTORY) for directories, but other file types
     require going through open("/proc/<pid>/fd/<nr>") and thus depend
     on a functioning procfs.

     With O_EMPTYPATH an empty path string is accepted and LOOKUP_EMPTY
     is set at path resolution time, allowing to reopen the file behind
     the file descriptor directly. Selftests are included.

   - Add an OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for openat2(2) which refuses to open
     anything but regular files with the new EFTYPE error code.

     This implements the "ability to only open regular files" feature
     requested by userspace via uapi-group.org and protects services
     from being redirected to fifos, device nodes, and friends.

     All atomic_open implementations were audited for OPENAT2_REGULAR
     handling. Explicit checks were added to ceph, gfs2, nfs (v4), and
     cifs/smb - these are the filesystems whose atomic_open can
     encounter an existing non-regular file and would otherwise call
     finish_open() on it or return a misleading error code.

     The remaining implementations (9p, fuse, vboxsf, nfs v2/v3) only
     call finish_open() on freshly created files and use
     finish_no_open() for lookup hits, letting the VFS catch non-regular
     files via the do_open() safety net.

  Cleanups:

   - Migrate the openat2 selftests to the kselftest harness and move
     them under selftests/filesystems/. The tests were written in the
     early days of selftests' TAP support and the modern kselftest
     harness is much easier to follow and maintain. The contents of the
     tests are unchanged and the new emptypath tests are ported on top.

   - Make the LAST_XXX last-type constants private to fs/namei.c. The
     only user outside of fs/namei.c was ksmbd which only needs to know
     whether the last component is a regular one, so
     vfs_path_parent_lookup() now performs the LAST_NORM check
     internally. The ints are replaced with a dedicated enum last_type"

* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.openat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  vfs: replace ints with enum last_type for LAST_XXX
  vfs: make LAST_XXX private to fs/namei.c
  selftests: openat2: port emptypath_test to kselftest harness
  kselftest/openat2: test for OPENAT2_REGULAR flag
  openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support
  openat2: introduce EFTYPE error code
  selftest: add tests for O_EMPTYPATH
  vfs: add O_EMPTYPATH to openat(2)/openat2(2)
  selftests: openat2: migrate to kselftest harness
  selftests: openat2: switch from custom ARRAY_LEN to ARRAY_SIZE
  selftests: openat2: move helpers to header
  selftests: move openat2 tests to selftests/filesystems/
crypto: pcbc - Remove support for PCBC mode 2026-06-10T00:03:03+00:00 Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org 2026-05-22T05:07:36+00:00 1967bfaf7ba15dc179a7e3325e880736efbcdf62 The only user of PCBC mode (Propagating Cipher Block Chaining mode) was net/rxrpc/rxkad.c, which now uses local code instead. While PCBC was an interesting cryptographic experiment, it has largely been relegated to the history books and academic exercises. It is non-parallelizable (i.e., very slow) and doesn't actually achieve the integrity properties it was apparently intended to achieve. Remove support for it from the crypto API. Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522050740.84561-6-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 
The only user of PCBC mode (Propagating Cipher Block Chaining mode) was
net/rxrpc/rxkad.c, which now uses local code instead.

While PCBC was an interesting cryptographic experiment, it has largely
been relegated to the history books and academic exercises.  It is
non-parallelizable (i.e., very slow) and doesn't actually achieve the
integrity properties it was apparently intended to achieve.

Remove support for it from the crypto API.

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522050740.84561-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
crypto: fcrypt - Remove support for FCrypt block cipher 2026-06-10T00:03:03+00:00 Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org 2026-05-22T05:07:35+00:00 374efbdc85d027814f6b26a8d641dc062f9017c0 Remove the insecure FCrypt block cipher from the crypto API. Its only user was net/rxrpc/, but now net/rxrpc/ implements it locally. The crypto API implementation is no longer needed. For some additional context: FCrypt was designed in 1988 and is essentially a weakened version of DES. It has the same 56-bit key size as DES, which is easily brute forced. Moreover, it's cryptographically weak and doesn't even provide the intended 56-bit security level. Its author considers it to be a mistake, as well (https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2000-December/005320.html). But fortunately this 1980s-era homebrew block cipher was never adopted outside of net/rxrpc/. So its code can just be kept there. Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522050740.84561-5-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 
Remove the insecure FCrypt block cipher from the crypto API.  Its only
user was net/rxrpc/, but now net/rxrpc/ implements it locally.  The
crypto API implementation is no longer needed.

For some additional context: FCrypt was designed in 1988 and is
essentially a weakened version of DES.  It has the same 56-bit key size
as DES, which is easily brute forced.  Moreover, it's cryptographically
weak and doesn't even provide the intended 56-bit security level.  Its
author considers it to be a mistake, as well
(https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2000-December/005320.html).

But fortunately this 1980s-era homebrew block cipher was never adopted
outside of net/rxrpc/.  So its code can just be kept there.

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522050740.84561-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
sparc/mm: drop vmemmap_check_pmd helper and use generic code 2026-06-09T01:21:31+00:00 Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com 2026-06-01T08:48:44+00:00 d3d58e9469008dc706863a7681fb9ae1856c8a4b The generic implementations now suffice; remove the sparc copy. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260601084845.3792171-6-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador (SUSE) <osalvador@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
The generic implementations now suffice; remove the sparc copy.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260601084845.3792171-6-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador (SUSE) <osalvador@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 << n) for O_ flags 2026-06-06T13:34:03+00:00 Jori Koolstra jkoolstra@xs4all.nl 2026-06-04T22:24:05+00:00 0da79c259ad0554b36761a7135d4f92eb7c46263 A recent build failure[1] exposed the diffculty of working with the current octal and hex definitions of O_ flags when trying to find a gap for a new flag. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that O_ flags may have architectural specific values. Replace the hex/octal #defines, which are hard to parse when looking for free bits, with explicit bit shifts like (1 << 11). Also, add comments that identify which architectures redefine some of the seemingly free ("cursed") bits in uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h. These should not be used to define new O_ flags (for now, at least). The translastion was done with Claude Opus 4.8, and verified with a (non-AI) gawk script. The accounting of which architectures claim which bit-gaps in uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h is also done by hand. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agruPPybCx8q2XcJ@sirena.org.uk/ Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.8 Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604222405.5382-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org> 
A recent build failure[1] exposed the diffculty of working with the
current octal and hex definitions of O_ flags when trying to find a gap
for a new flag. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that O_ flags
may have architectural specific values.

Replace the hex/octal #defines, which are hard to parse when looking for
free bits, with explicit bit shifts like (1 << 11). Also, add comments
that identify which architectures redefine some of the seemingly free
("cursed") bits in uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h. These should not be used to
define new O_ flags (for now, at least).

The translastion was done with Claude Opus 4.8, and verified with a
(non-AI) gawk script. The accounting of which architectures claim
which bit-gaps in uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h is also done by hand.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agruPPybCx8q2XcJ@sirena.org.uk/

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.8
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604222405.5382-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>