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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/base/arch_topology.c, branch v7.0-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: topology: Handle AMU FIE setup on CPU hotplug</title>
<updated>2026-01-05T21:11:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lifeng Zheng</name>
<email>zhenglifeng1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T08:13:56+00:00</published>
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Currently, when a cpufreq policy is created, the AMU FIE setup process
checks all CPUs in the policy -- including those that are offline. If any
of these CPUs are offline at that time, their AMU capability flag hasn't
been verified yet, leading the check fail. As a result, AMU FIE is not
enabled, even if the CPUs that are online do support it.

Later, when the previously offline CPUs come online and report AMU support,
there's no mechanism in place to re-enable AMU FIE for the policy. This
leaves the entire frequency domain without AMU FIE, despite being eligible.

Restrict the initial AMU FIE check to only those CPUs that are online at
the time the policy is created, and allow CPUs that come online later to
join the policy with AMU FIE enabled.

Signed-off-by: Lifeng Zheng &lt;zhenglifeng1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Beata Michalska &lt;beata.michalska@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, when a cpufreq policy is created, the AMU FIE setup process
checks all CPUs in the policy -- including those that are offline. If any
of these CPUs are offline at that time, their AMU capability flag hasn't
been verified yet, leading the check fail. As a result, AMU FIE is not
enabled, even if the CPUs that are online do support it.

Later, when the previously offline CPUs come online and report AMU support,
there's no mechanism in place to re-enable AMU FIE for the policy. This
leaves the entire frequency domain without AMU FIE, despite being eligible.

Restrict the initial AMU FIE check to only those CPUs that are online at
the time the policy is created, and allow CPUs that come online later to
join the policy with AMU FIE enabled.

Signed-off-by: Lifeng Zheng &lt;zhenglifeng1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Beata Michalska &lt;beata.michalska@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge 6.18-rc3 into driver-core-next</title>
<updated>2025-10-27T07:02:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-27T07:02:50+00:00</published>
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We need the driver core fixes in here as well to build on top of.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We need the driver core fixes in here as well to build on top of.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch_topology: move parse_acpi_topology() to common code</title>
<updated>2025-10-22T06:10:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yunhui Cui</name>
<email>cuiyunhui@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-23T01:54:09+00:00</published>
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Currently, RISC-V lacks arch-specific registers for CPU topology
properties and must get them from ACPI. Thus, parse_acpi_topology()
is moved from arm64/ to drivers/ for RISC-V reuse.

Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui &lt;cuiyunhui@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923015409.15983-2-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Currently, RISC-V lacks arch-specific registers for CPU topology
properties and must get them from ACPI. Thus, parse_acpi_topology()
is moved from arm64/ to drivers/ for RISC-V reuse.

Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui &lt;cuiyunhui@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923015409.15983-2-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()</title>
<updated>2025-10-22T06:06:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kaushlendra Kumar</name>
<email>kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-23T17:43:08+00:00</published>
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Fix incorrect use of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()
which causes the code to proceed with NULL clock pointers. The current
logic uses !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) which evaluates to true for both
valid pointers and NULL, leading to potential NULL pointer dereference
in clk_get_rate().

Per include/linux/err.h documentation, PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(ptr) returns:
"The error code within @ptr if it is an error pointer; 0 otherwise."

This means PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() returns 0 for both valid pointers AND NULL
pointers. Therefore !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) evaluates to true (proceed)
when cpu_clk is either valid or NULL, causing clk_get_rate(NULL) to be
called when of_clk_get() returns NULL.

Replace with !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cpu_clk) which only proceeds for valid
pointers, preventing potential NULL pointer dereference in clk_get_rate().

Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kaushlendra Kumar &lt;kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: b8fe128dad8f ("arch_topology: Adjust initial CPU capacities with current freq")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923174308.1771906-1-kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Fix incorrect use of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()
which causes the code to proceed with NULL clock pointers. The current
logic uses !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) which evaluates to true for both
valid pointers and NULL, leading to potential NULL pointer dereference
in clk_get_rate().

Per include/linux/err.h documentation, PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(ptr) returns:
"The error code within @ptr if it is an error pointer; 0 otherwise."

This means PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() returns 0 for both valid pointers AND NULL
pointers. Therefore !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) evaluates to true (proceed)
when cpu_clk is either valid or NULL, causing clk_get_rate(NULL) to be
called when of_clk_get() returns NULL.

Replace with !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cpu_clk) which only proceeds for valid
pointers, preventing potential NULL pointer dereference in clk_get_rate().

Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kaushlendra Kumar &lt;kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: b8fe128dad8f ("arch_topology: Adjust initial CPU capacities with current freq")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923174308.1771906-1-kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch_topology: Relocate cpu_scale to topology.[h|c]</title>
<updated>2025-05-07T19:56:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ricardo Neri</name>
<email>ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-19T02:55:03+00:00</published>
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arch_topology.c provides functionality to parse and scale CPU capacity.
It also provides a corresponding sysfs interface. Some architectures
parse and scale CPU capacity differently as per their own needs. On
Intel processors, for instance, it is responsibility of the Intel
P-state driver.

Relocate the implementation of that interface to a common location in
topology.c. Architectures can use the interface and populate it using
their own mechanisms.

An alternative approach would be to compile arch_topology.c even if
not needed only to get this interface. This approach would create
duplicated and conflicting functionality and data structures.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Loehle &lt;christian.loehle@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250419025504.9760-2-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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arch_topology.c provides functionality to parse and scale CPU capacity.
It also provides a corresponding sysfs interface. Some architectures
parse and scale CPU capacity differently as per their own needs. On
Intel processors, for instance, it is responsibility of the Intel
P-state driver.

Relocate the implementation of that interface to a common location in
topology.c. Architectures can use the interface and populate it using
their own mechanisms.

An alternative approach would be to compile arch_topology.c even if
not needed only to get this interface. This approach would create
duplicated and conflicting functionality and data structures.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Loehle &lt;christian.loehle@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250419025504.9760-2-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next/smt-control' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T19:32:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T19:32:28+00:00</published>
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* for-next/smt-control:
  : Support SMT control on arm64
  arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT
  arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system
  arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system
  cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
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* for-next/smt-control:
  : Support SMT control on arm64
  arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT
  arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system
  arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system
  cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
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<entry>
<title>arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system</title>
<updated>2025-03-14T17:31:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yicong Yang</name>
<email>yangyicong@hisilicon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-11T07:51:41+00:00</published>
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On building the topology from the devicetree, we've already gotten the
SMT thread number of each core. Update the largest SMT thread number
and enable the SMT control by the end of topology parsing.

The framework's SMT control provides two interface to the users through
/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control
(Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu):

1) enable SMT by writing "on" and disable by "off"
2) enable SMT by writing max_thread_number or disable by writing 1

Both method support to completely disable/enable the SMT cores so both
work correctly for symmetric SMT platform and asymmetric platform with
non-SMT and one type SMT cores like:

core A: 1 thread
core B: X (X!=1) threads

Note that for a theoretically possible multiple SMT-X (X&gt;1) core
platform the SMT control is also supported as expected but only
by writing the "on/off" method.

Reviewed-by: Pierre Gondois &lt;pierre.gondois@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang &lt;yangyicong@hisilicon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311075143.61078-3-yangyicong@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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On building the topology from the devicetree, we've already gotten the
SMT thread number of each core. Update the largest SMT thread number
and enable the SMT control by the end of topology parsing.

The framework's SMT control provides two interface to the users through
/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control
(Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu):

1) enable SMT by writing "on" and disable by "off"
2) enable SMT by writing max_thread_number or disable by writing 1

Both method support to completely disable/enable the SMT cores so both
work correctly for symmetric SMT platform and asymmetric platform with
non-SMT and one type SMT cores like:

core A: 1 thread
core B: X (X!=1) threads

Note that for a theoretically possible multiple SMT-X (X&gt;1) core
platform the SMT control is also supported as expected but only
by writing the "on/off" method.

Reviewed-by: Pierre Gondois &lt;pierre.gondois@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang &lt;yangyicong@hisilicon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311075143.61078-3-yangyicong@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch_topology: init capacity_freq_ref to 0</title>
<updated>2025-02-17T18:05:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ionela Voinescu</name>
<email>ionela.voinescu@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-27T15:48:18+00:00</published>
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It's useful to have capacity_freq_ref initialized to 0 for users of
arch_scale_freq_ref() to detect when capacity_freq_ref was not
yet set.

The only scenario affected by this change in the init value is when a
cpufreq driver is never loaded. As a result, the only setter of a
cpu scale factor remains the call of topology_normalize_cpu_scale()
from parse_dt_topology(). There we cannot use the value 0 of
capacity_freq_ref so we have to compensate for its uninitialized state.

Signed-off-by: Ionela Voinescu &lt;ionela.voinescu@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Beata Michalska &lt;beata.michalska@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240827154818.1195849-1-ionela.voinescu@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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It's useful to have capacity_freq_ref initialized to 0 for users of
arch_scale_freq_ref() to detect when capacity_freq_ref was not
yet set.

The only scenario affected by this change in the init value is when a
cpufreq driver is never loaded. As a result, the only setter of a
cpu scale factor remains the call of topology_normalize_cpu_scale()
from parse_dt_topology(). There we cannot use the value 0 of
capacity_freq_ref so we have to compensate for its uninitialized state.

Signed-off-by: Ionela Voinescu &lt;ionela.voinescu@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Beata Michalska &lt;beata.michalska@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240827154818.1195849-1-ionela.voinescu@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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