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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/ras, branch v7.0-rc7</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;
</pre>
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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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'edac_updates_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T02:14:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T02:14:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=14c357c4add8b2a213f291230c5bf485cffb9db6'/>
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Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove two drivers for obsolete hardware: i82443bxgx_edac and
   r82600_edac

 - Add support for Intel Amston Lake and Panther Lake-H SoCs to
   igen6_edac

 - The usual amount of fixes and cleanups

* tag 'edac_updates_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
  EDAC/r82600: Remove this obsolete driver
  EDAC/i82443bxgx: Remove driver that has been marked broken since 2007
  EDAC/amd64: Avoid a -Wformat-security warning
  RAS/AMD/ATL: Remove an unneeded semicolon
  EDAC/igen6: Add more Intel Panther Lake-H SoCs support
  EDAC/igen6: Make masks of {MCHBAR, TOM, TOUUD, ECC_ERROR_LOG} configurable
  EDAC/igen6: Add two Intel Amston Lake SoCs support
  EDAC/i5400: Fix snprintf() limit calculation in calculate_dimm_size()
  EDAC/i5000: Fix snprintf() size calculation in calculate_dimm_size()
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<pre>
Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove two drivers for obsolete hardware: i82443bxgx_edac and
   r82600_edac

 - Add support for Intel Amston Lake and Panther Lake-H SoCs to
   igen6_edac

 - The usual amount of fixes and cleanups

* tag 'edac_updates_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
  EDAC/r82600: Remove this obsolete driver
  EDAC/i82443bxgx: Remove driver that has been marked broken since 2007
  EDAC/amd64: Avoid a -Wformat-security warning
  RAS/AMD/ATL: Remove an unneeded semicolon
  EDAC/igen6: Add more Intel Panther Lake-H SoCs support
  EDAC/igen6: Make masks of {MCHBAR, TOM, TOUUD, ECC_ERROR_LOG} configurable
  EDAC/igen6: Add two Intel Amston Lake SoCs support
  EDAC/i5400: Fix snprintf() limit calculation in calculate_dimm_size()
  EDAC/i5000: Fix snprintf() size calculation in calculate_dimm_size()
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>APEI/GHES: ARM processor Error: don't go past allocated memory</title>
<updated>2026-01-14T16:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+huawei@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-08T11:35:03+00:00</published>
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If the BIOS generates a very small ARM Processor Error, or
an incomplete one, the current logic will fail to deferrence

	err-&gt;section_length
and
	ctx_info-&gt;size

Add checks to avoid that. With such changes, such GHESv2
records won't cause OOPSes like this:

[    1.492129] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1]  SMP
[    1.495449] Modules linked in:
[    1.495820] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1-00017-gabadcc3553dd-dirty #18 PREEMPT
[    1.496125] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
[    1.496433] Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred
[    1.496967] pstate: 814000c5 (Nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[    1.497199] pc : log_arm_hw_error+0x5c/0x200
[    1.497380] lr : ghes_handle_arm_hw_error+0x94/0x220

0xffff8000811c5324 is in log_arm_hw_error (../drivers/ras/ras.c:75).
70		err_info = (struct cper_arm_err_info *)(err + 1);
71		ctx_info = (struct cper_arm_ctx_info *)(err_info + err-&gt;err_info_num);
72		ctx_err = (u8 *)ctx_info;
73
74		for (n = 0; n &lt; err-&gt;context_info_num; n++) {
75			sz = sizeof(struct cper_arm_ctx_info) + ctx_info-&gt;size;
76			ctx_info = (struct cper_arm_ctx_info *)((long)ctx_info + sz);
77			ctx_len += sz;
78		}
79

and similar ones while trying to access section_length on an
error dump with too small size.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;jonathan.cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
[ rjw: Subject tweaks ]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7fd9f38413be05ee2d7cfdb0dc31ea2274cf1a54.1767871950.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
If the BIOS generates a very small ARM Processor Error, or
an incomplete one, the current logic will fail to deferrence

	err-&gt;section_length
and
	ctx_info-&gt;size

Add checks to avoid that. With such changes, such GHESv2
records won't cause OOPSes like this:

[    1.492129] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1]  SMP
[    1.495449] Modules linked in:
[    1.495820] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1-00017-gabadcc3553dd-dirty #18 PREEMPT
[    1.496125] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
[    1.496433] Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred
[    1.496967] pstate: 814000c5 (Nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[    1.497199] pc : log_arm_hw_error+0x5c/0x200
[    1.497380] lr : ghes_handle_arm_hw_error+0x94/0x220

0xffff8000811c5324 is in log_arm_hw_error (../drivers/ras/ras.c:75).
70		err_info = (struct cper_arm_err_info *)(err + 1);
71		ctx_info = (struct cper_arm_ctx_info *)(err_info + err-&gt;err_info_num);
72		ctx_err = (u8 *)ctx_info;
73
74		for (n = 0; n &lt; err-&gt;context_info_num; n++) {
75			sz = sizeof(struct cper_arm_ctx_info) + ctx_info-&gt;size;
76			ctx_info = (struct cper_arm_ctx_info *)((long)ctx_info + sz);
77			ctx_len += sz;
78		}
79

and similar ones while trying to access section_length on an
error dump with too small size.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;jonathan.cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
[ rjw: Subject tweaks ]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7fd9f38413be05ee2d7cfdb0dc31ea2274cf1a54.1767871950.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RAS/AMD/ATL: Remove an unneeded semicolon</title>
<updated>2025-12-29T14:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Ni</name>
<email>nichen@iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-01T07:21:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=0923a618a78fe4e329d79d6d50f8db2620845d39'/>
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<content type='text'>
Remove an unneeded semicolon. No functional changes.

Detected by Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Chen Ni &lt;nichen@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240701072118.846277-1-nichen@iscas.ac.cn
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<pre>
Remove an unneeded semicolon. No functional changes.

Detected by Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Chen Ni &lt;nichen@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240701072118.846277-1-nichen@iscas.ac.cn
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2025-12-05T01:10:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T01:10:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=b1dd1e2f3e4ed970949ab4bb982bb0165f3e979d'/>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "The usual trickle of EFI contributions:

   - Parse SMBIOS tables in memory directly on Macbooks that do not
     implement the EFI SMBIOS protocol

   - Obtain EDID information from the primary display while running in
     the EFI stub, and expose it via bootparams on x86 (generic method
     is in the works, and will likely land during the next cycle)

   - Bring CPER handling for ARM systems up to data with the latest EFI
     spec changes

   - Various cosmetic changes"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  docs: efi: add CPER functions to driver-api
  efi/cper: align ARM CPER type with UEFI 2.9A/2.10 specs
  efi/cper: Add a new helper function to print bitmasks
  efi/cper: Adjust infopfx size to accept an extra space
  RAS: Report all ARM processor CPER information to userspace
  efi/libstub: x86: Store EDID in boot_params
  efi/libstub: gop: Add support for reading EDID
  efi/libstub: gop: Initialize screen_info in helper function
  efi/libstub: gop: Find GOP handle instead of GOP data
  efi: Fix trailing whitespace in header file
  efi/memattr: Convert efi_memattr_init() return type to void
  efi: stmm: fix kernel-doc "bad line" warnings
  efi/riscv: Remove the useless failure return message print
  efistub/x86: Add fallback for SMBIOS record lookup
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<pre>
Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "The usual trickle of EFI contributions:

   - Parse SMBIOS tables in memory directly on Macbooks that do not
     implement the EFI SMBIOS protocol

   - Obtain EDID information from the primary display while running in
     the EFI stub, and expose it via bootparams on x86 (generic method
     is in the works, and will likely land during the next cycle)

   - Bring CPER handling for ARM systems up to data with the latest EFI
     spec changes

   - Various cosmetic changes"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  docs: efi: add CPER functions to driver-api
  efi/cper: align ARM CPER type with UEFI 2.9A/2.10 specs
  efi/cper: Add a new helper function to print bitmasks
  efi/cper: Adjust infopfx size to accept an extra space
  RAS: Report all ARM processor CPER information to userspace
  efi/libstub: x86: Store EDID in boot_params
  efi/libstub: gop: Add support for reading EDID
  efi/libstub: gop: Initialize screen_info in helper function
  efi/libstub: gop: Find GOP handle instead of GOP data
  efi: Fix trailing whitespace in header file
  efi/memattr: Convert efi_memattr_init() return type to void
  efi: stmm: fix kernel-doc "bad line" warnings
  efi/riscv: Remove the useless failure return message print
  efistub/x86: Add fallback for SMBIOS record lookup
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branches 'ras/edac-amd-atl', 'ras/edac-drivers' and 'ras/edac-misc' into edac-updates</title>
<updated>2025-12-01T11:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-01T11:06:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=e2349c5811ae642f6d948d1ee4bfc4a93566c178'/>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RAS/AMD/ATL: Replace bitwise_xor_bits() with hweight16()</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T16:00:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Borisov</name>
<email>nik.borisov@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-24T14:25:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=69acbdbbefbda7b7b32faa706a8f68c399c9e47b'/>
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Doing hweight16() and checking whether the lsb is set is functionally
equivalent to what bitwise_xor_bits() does. In addition, it results in better
generated code as before gcc would inline the function 4 times.  With hweight16(),
the resulting code boils down to 2 instructions -  POPCNT and AND, and all
relevant CPUs support POPCNT.

An alternative would have been to use the __builtin_parity() function provided
by both Clang/GCC, however under some circumstances the compiler can choose not
to inline it but generate a library call which is unsupported in the kernel.

No functional changes.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nik.borisov@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251124142517.1708451-1-nik.borisov@suse.com
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Doing hweight16() and checking whether the lsb is set is functionally
equivalent to what bitwise_xor_bits() does. In addition, it results in better
generated code as before gcc would inline the function 4 times.  With hweight16(),
the resulting code boils down to 2 instructions -  POPCNT and AND, and all
relevant CPUs support POPCNT.

An alternative would have been to use the __builtin_parity() function provided
by both Clang/GCC, however under some circumstances the compiler can choose not
to inline it but generate a library call which is unsupported in the kernel.

No functional changes.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nik.borisov@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251124142517.1708451-1-nik.borisov@suse.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RAS: Report all ARM processor CPER information to userspace</title>
<updated>2025-11-21T08:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Tian</name>
<email>jason@os.amperecomputing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-14T16:52:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=05954511b73e748d0370549ad9dd9cd95297d97a'/>
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The ARM processor CPER record was added in UEFI v2.6 and remained
unchanged up to v2.10.

Yet, the original arm_event trace code added by

  e9279e83ad1f ("trace, ras: add ARM processor error trace event")

is incomplete, as it only traces some fields of UAPI 2.6 table N.16, not
exporting any information from tables N.17 to N.29 of the record.

This is not enough for the user to be able to figure out what has
exactly happened or to take appropriate action.

According to the UEFI v2.9 specification chapter N2.4.4, the ARM
processor error section includes:

- several (ERR_INFO_NUM) ARM processor error information structures
  (Tables N.17 to N.20);
- several (CONTEXT_INFO_NUM) ARM processor context information
  structures (Tables N.21 to N.29);
- several vendor specific error information structures. The
  size is given by Section Length minus the size of the other
  fields.

In addition, it also exports two fields that are parsed by the GHES
driver when firmware reports it, e.g.:

- error severity
- CPU logical index

Report all of these information to userspace via a the ARM tracepoint so
that userspace can properly record the error and take decisions related
to CPU core isolation according to error severity and other info.

The updated ARM trace event now contains the following fields:

======================================  =============================
UEFI field on table N.16                ARM Processor trace fields
======================================  =============================
Validation                              handled when filling data for
                                        affinity MPIDR and running
                                        state.
ERR_INFO_NUM                            pei_len
CONTEXT_INFO_NUM                        ctx_len
Section Length                          indirectly reported by
                                        pei_len, ctx_len and oem_len
Error affinity level                    affinity
MPIDR_EL1                               mpidr
MIDR_EL1                                midr
Running State                           running_state
PSCI State                              psci_state
Processor Error Information Structure   pei_err - count at pei_len
Processor Context                       ctx_err- count at ctx_len
Vendor Specific Error Info              oem - count at oem_len
======================================  =============================

It should be noted that decoding of tables N.17 to N.29, if needed, will
be handled in userspace. That gives more flexibility, as there won't be
any need to flood the kernel with micro-architecture specific error
decoding.

Also, decoding the other fields require a complex logic, and should be
done for each of the several values inside the record field.  So, let
userspace daemons like rasdaemon decode them, parsing such tables and
having vendor-specific micro-architecture-specific decoders.

 [mchehab: modified description, solved merge conflicts and fixed coding style]

Signed-off-by: Jason Tian &lt;jason@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Shengwei Luo &lt;luoshengwei@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shengwei Luo &lt;luoshengwei@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ferguson &lt;danielf@os.amperecomputing.com&gt; # rebased
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shiju Jose &lt;shiju.jose@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Fixes: e9279e83ad1f ("trace, ras: add ARM processor error trace event")
Link: https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/Apx_N_Common_Platform_Error_Record.html#arm-processor-error-section
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The ARM processor CPER record was added in UEFI v2.6 and remained
unchanged up to v2.10.

Yet, the original arm_event trace code added by

  e9279e83ad1f ("trace, ras: add ARM processor error trace event")

is incomplete, as it only traces some fields of UAPI 2.6 table N.16, not
exporting any information from tables N.17 to N.29 of the record.

This is not enough for the user to be able to figure out what has
exactly happened or to take appropriate action.

According to the UEFI v2.9 specification chapter N2.4.4, the ARM
processor error section includes:

- several (ERR_INFO_NUM) ARM processor error information structures
  (Tables N.17 to N.20);
- several (CONTEXT_INFO_NUM) ARM processor context information
  structures (Tables N.21 to N.29);
- several vendor specific error information structures. The
  size is given by Section Length minus the size of the other
  fields.

In addition, it also exports two fields that are parsed by the GHES
driver when firmware reports it, e.g.:

- error severity
- CPU logical index

Report all of these information to userspace via a the ARM tracepoint so
that userspace can properly record the error and take decisions related
to CPU core isolation according to error severity and other info.

The updated ARM trace event now contains the following fields:

======================================  =============================
UEFI field on table N.16                ARM Processor trace fields
======================================  =============================
Validation                              handled when filling data for
                                        affinity MPIDR and running
                                        state.
ERR_INFO_NUM                            pei_len
CONTEXT_INFO_NUM                        ctx_len
Section Length                          indirectly reported by
                                        pei_len, ctx_len and oem_len
Error affinity level                    affinity
MPIDR_EL1                               mpidr
MIDR_EL1                                midr
Running State                           running_state
PSCI State                              psci_state
Processor Error Information Structure   pei_err - count at pei_len
Processor Context                       ctx_err- count at ctx_len
Vendor Specific Error Info              oem - count at oem_len
======================================  =============================

It should be noted that decoding of tables N.17 to N.29, if needed, will
be handled in userspace. That gives more flexibility, as there won't be
any need to flood the kernel with micro-architecture specific error
decoding.

Also, decoding the other fields require a complex logic, and should be
done for each of the several values inside the record field.  So, let
userspace daemons like rasdaemon decode them, parsing such tables and
having vendor-specific micro-architecture-specific decoders.

 [mchehab: modified description, solved merge conflicts and fixed coding style]

Signed-off-by: Jason Tian &lt;jason@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Shengwei Luo &lt;luoshengwei@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shengwei Luo &lt;luoshengwei@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ferguson &lt;danielf@os.amperecomputing.com&gt; # rebased
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shiju Jose &lt;shiju.jose@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Fixes: e9279e83ad1f ("trace, ras: add ARM processor error trace event")
Link: https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/Apx_N_Common_Platform_Error_Record.html#arm-processor-error-section
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>RAS/CEC: Replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq</title>
<updated>2025-11-07T12:48:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Crivellari</name>
<email>marco.crivellari@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-06T11:24:54+00:00</published>
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Switch to using system_percpu_wq because system_wq is going away as part of
a workqueue restructuring.

Currently if a user enqueues a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used workqueue is "system_wq" (per-cpu workqueue) while queue_delayed_work()
uses WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a CPU is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use of
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND again.

This lack of consistency cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
For more details see those commits and the Link tag below.

  128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
  930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de
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Switch to using system_percpu_wq because system_wq is going away as part of
a workqueue restructuring.

Currently if a user enqueues a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used workqueue is "system_wq" (per-cpu workqueue) while queue_delayed_work()
uses WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a CPU is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use of
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND again.

This lack of consistency cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
For more details see those commits and the Link tag below.

  128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
  930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de
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