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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/uapi, branch v6.17-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'tty-6.16-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2025-08-09T15:12:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-08-09T15:12:23+00:00</published>
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Pull TTY fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single revert of one of the previous patches that went in
  the last tty/serial merge that is breaking userspace on some platforms
  (specifically powerpc, probably a few others.)

  It accidentially changed the ioctl values of some tty ioctls, which
  breaks xorg.

  The revert has been in linux-next all this week with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-6.16-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  Revert "tty: vt: use _IO() to define ioctl numbers"
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Pull TTY fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single revert of one of the previous patches that went in
  the last tty/serial merge that is breaking userspace on some platforms
  (specifically powerpc, probably a few others.)

  It accidentially changed the ioctl values of some tty ioctls, which
  breaks xorg.

  The revert has been in linux-next all this week with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-6.16-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  Revert "tty: vt: use _IO() to define ioctl numbers"
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'block-6.17-20250808' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2025-08-09T05:47:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-09T05:47:28+00:00</published>
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Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - MD pull request via Yu:
      - mddev null-ptr-dereference fix, by Erkun
      - md-cluster fail to remove the faulty disk regression fix, by
        Heming
      - minor cleanup, by Li Nan and Jinchao
      - mdadm lifetime regression fix reported by syzkaller, by Yu Kuai

 - MD pull request via Christoph
      - add support for getting the FDP featuee in fabrics passthru path
        (Nitesh Shetty)
      - add capability to connect to an administrative controller
        (Kamaljit Singh)
      - fix a leak on sgl setup error (Keith Busch)
      - initialize discovery subsys after debugfs is initialized
        (Mohamed Khalfella)
      - fix various comment typos (Bjorn Helgaas)
      - remove unneeded semicolons (Jiapeng Chong)

 - nvmet debugfs ordering issue fix

 - Fix UAF in the tag_set in zloop

 - Ensure sbitmap shallow depth covers entire set

 - Reduce lock roundtrips in io context lookup

 - Move scheduler tags alloc/free out of elevator and freeze lock, to
   fix some lockdep found issues

 - Improve robustness of queue limits checking

 - Fix a regression with IO priorities, if no io context exists

* tag 'block-6.17-20250808' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (26 commits)
  lib/sbitmap: make sbitmap_get_shallow() internal
  lib/sbitmap: convert shallow_depth from one word to the whole sbitmap
  nvmet: exit debugfs after discovery subsystem exits
  block, bfq: Reorder struct bfq_iocq_bfqq_data
  md: make rdev_addable usable for rcu mode
  md/raid1: remove struct pool_info and related code
  md/raid1: change r1conf-&gt;r1bio_pool to a pointer type
  block: ensure discard_granularity is zero when discard is not supported
  zloop: fix KASAN use-after-free of tag set
  block: Fix default IO priority if there is no IO context
  nvme: fix various comment typos
  nvme-auth: remove unneeded semicolon
  nvme-pci: fix leak on sgl setup error
  nvmet: initialize discovery subsys after debugfs is initialized
  nvme: add capability to connect to an administrative controller
  nvmet: add support for FDP in fabrics passthru path
  md: rename recovery_cp to resync_offset
  md/md-cluster: handle REMOVE message earlier
  md: fix create on open mddev lifetime regression
  block: fix potential deadlock while running nr_hw_queue update
  ...
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Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - MD pull request via Yu:
      - mddev null-ptr-dereference fix, by Erkun
      - md-cluster fail to remove the faulty disk regression fix, by
        Heming
      - minor cleanup, by Li Nan and Jinchao
      - mdadm lifetime regression fix reported by syzkaller, by Yu Kuai

 - MD pull request via Christoph
      - add support for getting the FDP featuee in fabrics passthru path
        (Nitesh Shetty)
      - add capability to connect to an administrative controller
        (Kamaljit Singh)
      - fix a leak on sgl setup error (Keith Busch)
      - initialize discovery subsys after debugfs is initialized
        (Mohamed Khalfella)
      - fix various comment typos (Bjorn Helgaas)
      - remove unneeded semicolons (Jiapeng Chong)

 - nvmet debugfs ordering issue fix

 - Fix UAF in the tag_set in zloop

 - Ensure sbitmap shallow depth covers entire set

 - Reduce lock roundtrips in io context lookup

 - Move scheduler tags alloc/free out of elevator and freeze lock, to
   fix some lockdep found issues

 - Improve robustness of queue limits checking

 - Fix a regression with IO priorities, if no io context exists

* tag 'block-6.17-20250808' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (26 commits)
  lib/sbitmap: make sbitmap_get_shallow() internal
  lib/sbitmap: convert shallow_depth from one word to the whole sbitmap
  nvmet: exit debugfs after discovery subsystem exits
  block, bfq: Reorder struct bfq_iocq_bfqq_data
  md: make rdev_addable usable for rcu mode
  md/raid1: remove struct pool_info and related code
  md/raid1: change r1conf-&gt;r1bio_pool to a pointer type
  block: ensure discard_granularity is zero when discard is not supported
  zloop: fix KASAN use-after-free of tag set
  block: Fix default IO priority if there is no IO context
  nvme: fix various comment typos
  nvme-auth: remove unneeded semicolon
  nvme-pci: fix leak on sgl setup error
  nvmet: initialize discovery subsys after debugfs is initialized
  nvme: add capability to connect to an administrative controller
  nvmet: add support for FDP in fabrics passthru path
  md: rename recovery_cp to resync_offset
  md/md-cluster: handle REMOVE message earlier
  md: fix create on open mddev lifetime regression
  block: fix potential deadlock while running nr_hw_queue update
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'io_uring-6.17-20250808' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2025-08-09T05:45:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-09T05:45:08+00:00</published>
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Pull io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Allow vectorized payloads for send/send-zc - like sendmsg, but
   without the hassle of a msghdr.

 - Fix for an integer wrap that should go to stable, spotted by syzbot.
   Nothing alarming here, as you need to be root to hit this.
   Nevertheless, it should get fixed.

   FWIW, kudos to the syzbot crew for having much nicer reproducers now,
   and with nicely annotated source code as well. This is particularly
   useful as syzbot uses the raw interface rather than liburing,
   historically it's been difficult to turn a syzbot reproducer into a
   meaningful test case. With the recent changes, not true anymore!

* tag 'io_uring-6.17-20250808' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
  io_uring/memmap: cast nr_pages to size_t before shifting
  io_uring/net: Allow to do vectorized send
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<pre>
Pull io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Allow vectorized payloads for send/send-zc - like sendmsg, but
   without the hassle of a msghdr.

 - Fix for an integer wrap that should go to stable, spotted by syzbot.
   Nothing alarming here, as you need to be root to hit this.
   Nevertheless, it should get fixed.

   FWIW, kudos to the syzbot crew for having much nicer reproducers now,
   and with nicely annotated source code as well. This is particularly
   useful as syzbot uses the raw interface rather than liburing,
   historically it's been difficult to turn a syzbot reproducer into a
   meaningful test case. With the recent changes, not true anymore!

* tag 'io_uring-6.17-20250808' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
  io_uring/memmap: cast nr_pages to size_t before shifting
  io_uring/net: Allow to do vectorized send
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'input-for-v6.17-rc0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input</title>
<updated>2025-08-07T04:40:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-07T04:40:01+00:00</published>
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Pull input updates from Dmitry Torokhov:

 - updates to several drivers consuming GPIO APIs to use setters
   returning error codes

 - an infrastructure allowing to define "overlays" for touchscreens
   carving out regions implementing buttons and other elements from a
   bigger sensors and a corresponding update to st1232 driver

 - an update to AT/PS2 keyboard driver to map F13-F24 by default

 - Samsung keypad driver got a facelift

 - evdev input handler will now bind to all devices using EV_SYN event
   instead of abusing id-&gt;driver_info

 - two new sub-drivers implementing 1A (capacitive buttons) and 21
   (forcepad button) functions in Synaptics RMI driver

 - support for polling mode in Goodix touchscreen driver

 - support for support for FocalTech FT8716 in edt-ft5x06 driver

 - support for MT6359 in mtk-pmic-keys driver

 - removal of pcf50633-input driver since platform it was used on is
   gone

 - new definitions for game controller "grip" buttons (BTN_GRIP*) and
   corresponding changes to xpad and hid-steam controller drivers

 - a new definition for "performance" key

* tag 'input-for-v6.17-rc0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (38 commits)
  HID: hid-steam: Use new BTN_GRIP* buttons
  Input: add keycode for performance mode key
  Input: max77693 - convert to atomic pwm operation
  Input: st1232 - add touch-overlay handling
  dt-bindings: input: touchscreen: st1232: add touch-overlay example
  Input: touch-overlay - add touchscreen overlay handling
  dt-bindings: touchscreen: add touch-overlay property
  Input: atkbd - correctly map F13 - F24
  Input: xpad - use new BTN_GRIP* buttons
  Input: Add and document BTN_GRIP*
  Input: xpad - change buttons the D-Pad gets mapped as to BTN_DPAD_*
  Documentation: Fix capitalization of XBox -&gt; Xbox
  Input: synaptics-rmi4 - add support for F1A
  dt-bindings: input: syna,rmi4: Document F1A function
  Input: synaptics-rmi4 - add support for Forcepads (F21)
  Input: mtk-pmic-keys - add support for MT6359 PMIC keys
  Input: remove special handling of id-&gt;driver_info when matching
  Input: evdev - switch matching to EV_SYN
  Input: samsung-keypad - use BIT() and GENMASK() where appropriate
  Input: samsung-keypad - use per-chip parameters
  ...
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Pull input updates from Dmitry Torokhov:

 - updates to several drivers consuming GPIO APIs to use setters
   returning error codes

 - an infrastructure allowing to define "overlays" for touchscreens
   carving out regions implementing buttons and other elements from a
   bigger sensors and a corresponding update to st1232 driver

 - an update to AT/PS2 keyboard driver to map F13-F24 by default

 - Samsung keypad driver got a facelift

 - evdev input handler will now bind to all devices using EV_SYN event
   instead of abusing id-&gt;driver_info

 - two new sub-drivers implementing 1A (capacitive buttons) and 21
   (forcepad button) functions in Synaptics RMI driver

 - support for polling mode in Goodix touchscreen driver

 - support for support for FocalTech FT8716 in edt-ft5x06 driver

 - support for MT6359 in mtk-pmic-keys driver

 - removal of pcf50633-input driver since platform it was used on is
   gone

 - new definitions for game controller "grip" buttons (BTN_GRIP*) and
   corresponding changes to xpad and hid-steam controller drivers

 - a new definition for "performance" key

* tag 'input-for-v6.17-rc0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (38 commits)
  HID: hid-steam: Use new BTN_GRIP* buttons
  Input: add keycode for performance mode key
  Input: max77693 - convert to atomic pwm operation
  Input: st1232 - add touch-overlay handling
  dt-bindings: input: touchscreen: st1232: add touch-overlay example
  Input: touch-overlay - add touchscreen overlay handling
  dt-bindings: touchscreen: add touch-overlay property
  Input: atkbd - correctly map F13 - F24
  Input: xpad - use new BTN_GRIP* buttons
  Input: Add and document BTN_GRIP*
  Input: xpad - change buttons the D-Pad gets mapped as to BTN_DPAD_*
  Documentation: Fix capitalization of XBox -&gt; Xbox
  Input: synaptics-rmi4 - add support for F1A
  dt-bindings: input: syna,rmi4: Document F1A function
  Input: synaptics-rmi4 - add support for Forcepads (F21)
  Input: mtk-pmic-keys - add support for MT6359 PMIC keys
  Input: remove special handling of id-&gt;driver_info when matching
  Input: evdev - switch matching to EV_SYN
  Input: samsung-keypad - use BIT() and GENMASK() where appropriate
  Input: samsung-keypad - use per-chip parameters
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfio-v6.17-rc1-v2' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio</title>
<updated>2025-08-07T04:32:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-07T04:32:50+00:00</published>
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Fix imbalance where the no-iommu/cdev device path skips too much on
   open, failing to increment a reference, but still decrements the
   reference on close. Add bounds checking to prevent such underflows
   (Jacob Pan)

 - Fill missing detach_ioas op for pds_vfio_pci, fixing probe failure
   when used with IOMMUFD (Brett Creeley)

 - Split SR-IOV VFs to separate dev_set, avoiding unnecessary
   serialization between VFs that appear on the same bus (Alex
   Williamson)

 - Fix a theoretical integer overflow is the mlx5-vfio-pci variant
   driver (Artem Sadovnikov)

 - Implement missing VF token checking support via vfio cdev/IOMMUFD
   interface (Jason Gunthorpe)

 - Update QAT vfio-pci variant driver to claim latest VF devices
   (Małgorzata Mielnik)

 - Add a cond_resched() call to avoid holding the CPU too long during
   DMA mapping operations (Keith Busch)

* tag 'vfio-v6.17-rc1-v2' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
  vfio/type1: conditional rescheduling while pinning
  vfio/qat: add support for intel QAT 6xxx virtual functions
  vfio/qat: Remove myself from VFIO QAT PCI driver maintainers
  vfio/pci: Do vf_token checks for VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD
  vfio/mlx5: fix possible overflow in tracking max message size
  vfio/pci: Separate SR-IOV VF dev_set
  vfio/pds: Fix missing detach_ioas op
  vfio: Prevent open_count decrement to negative
  vfio: Fix unbalanced vfio_df_close call in no-iommu mode
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Fix imbalance where the no-iommu/cdev device path skips too much on
   open, failing to increment a reference, but still decrements the
   reference on close. Add bounds checking to prevent such underflows
   (Jacob Pan)

 - Fill missing detach_ioas op for pds_vfio_pci, fixing probe failure
   when used with IOMMUFD (Brett Creeley)

 - Split SR-IOV VFs to separate dev_set, avoiding unnecessary
   serialization between VFs that appear on the same bus (Alex
   Williamson)

 - Fix a theoretical integer overflow is the mlx5-vfio-pci variant
   driver (Artem Sadovnikov)

 - Implement missing VF token checking support via vfio cdev/IOMMUFD
   interface (Jason Gunthorpe)

 - Update QAT vfio-pci variant driver to claim latest VF devices
   (Małgorzata Mielnik)

 - Add a cond_resched() call to avoid holding the CPU too long during
   DMA mapping operations (Keith Busch)

* tag 'vfio-v6.17-rc1-v2' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
  vfio/type1: conditional rescheduling while pinning
  vfio/qat: add support for intel QAT 6xxx virtual functions
  vfio/qat: Remove myself from VFIO QAT PCI driver maintainers
  vfio/pci: Do vf_token checks for VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD
  vfio/mlx5: fix possible overflow in tracking max message size
  vfio/pci: Separate SR-IOV VF dev_set
  vfio/pds: Fix missing detach_ioas op
  vfio: Prevent open_count decrement to negative
  vfio: Fix unbalanced vfio_df_close call in no-iommu mode
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<title>vfio/pci: Do vf_token checks for VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD</title>
<updated>2025-08-05T21:41:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgg@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-14T16:08:25+00:00</published>
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This was missed during the initial implementation. The VFIO PCI encodes
the vf_token inside the device name when opening the device from the group
FD, something like:

  "0000:04:10.0 vf_token=bd8d9d2b-5a5f-4f5a-a211-f591514ba1f3"

This is used to control access to a VF unless there is co-ordination with
the owner of the PF.

Since we no longer have a device name in the cdev path, pass the token
directly through VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD using an optional field
indicated by VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_FLAG_TOKEN.

Fixes: 5fcc26969a16 ("vfio: Add VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD")
Tested-by: Shameer Kolothum &lt;shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yi Liu &lt;yi.l.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0-v3-bdd8716e85fe+3978a-vfio_token_jgg@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
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This was missed during the initial implementation. The VFIO PCI encodes
the vf_token inside the device name when opening the device from the group
FD, something like:

  "0000:04:10.0 vf_token=bd8d9d2b-5a5f-4f5a-a211-f591514ba1f3"

This is used to control access to a VF unless there is co-ordination with
the owner of the PF.

Since we no longer have a device name in the cdev path, pass the token
directly through VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD using an optional field
indicated by VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_FLAG_TOKEN.

Fixes: 5fcc26969a16 ("vfio: Add VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD")
Tested-by: Shameer Kolothum &lt;shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yi Liu &lt;yi.l.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0-v3-bdd8716e85fe+3978a-vfio_token_jgg@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Input: add keycode for performance mode key</title>
<updated>2025-08-05T20:51:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Alano</name>
<email>marcoshalano@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-05T20:44:29+00:00</published>
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Alienware calls this key "Performance Boost". Dell calls it "G-Mode".

The goal is to have a specific keycode to detect when this key is
pressed, so userspace can act upon it and do what have to do, usually
starting the power profile for performance.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Alano &lt;marcoshalano@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250509193708.2190586-1-marcoshalano@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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Alienware calls this key "Performance Boost". Dell calls it "G-Mode".

The goal is to have a specific keycode to detect when this key is
pressed, so userspace can act upon it and do what have to do, usually
starting the power profile for performance.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Alano &lt;marcoshalano@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250509193708.2190586-1-marcoshalano@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ib-mfd-gpio-input-pwm-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd into next</title>
<updated>2025-08-04T06:28:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-04T06:28:48+00:00</published>
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Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve
conflicts for the merge window pull request.
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Merge an immutable branch between MFD, GPIO, Input and PWM to resolve
conflicts for the merge window pull request.
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-08-03T23:23:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-03T23:23:09+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Significant patch series in this pull request:

   - "squashfs: Remove page-&gt;mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets
     us closer to being able to remove page-&gt;mapping

   - "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and
     minor feature addition work in relayfs

   - "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches
     us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working
     memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori
     estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first
     kernel obtains extra memory

   - "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
     kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and
     rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel
     splats information at the operator

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits)
  tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version
  kho: add test for kexec handover
  delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description
  samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -&gt; "instances"
  fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add()
  scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt
  xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer"
  net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer"
  drm/xe: fix typo "notifer"
  cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer"
  KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer"
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop
  ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below()
  ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type
  kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation
  stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable
  lib/xxhash: remove unused functions
  init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
  lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage
  docs: update docs after introducing delaytop
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Significant patch series in this pull request:

   - "squashfs: Remove page-&gt;mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets
     us closer to being able to remove page-&gt;mapping

   - "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and
     minor feature addition work in relayfs

   - "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches
     us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working
     memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori
     estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first
     kernel obtains extra memory

   - "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
     kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and
     rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel
     splats information at the operator

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits)
  tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version
  kho: add test for kexec handover
  delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description
  samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -&gt; "instances"
  fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add()
  scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt
  xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer"
  net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer"
  drm/xe: fix typo "notifer"
  cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer"
  KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer"
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop
  ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below()
  ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type
  kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation
  stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable
  lib/xxhash: remove unused functions
  init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
  lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage
  docs: update docs after introducing delaytop
  ...
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<title>kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation</title>
<updated>2025-08-02T19:01:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Graf</name>
<email>graf@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-10T08:53:27+00:00</published>
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When booting a new kernel with kexec_file, the kernel picks a target
location that the kernel should live at, then allocates random pages,
checks whether any of those patches magically happens to coincide with a
target address range and if so, uses them for that range.

For every page allocated this way, it then creates a page list that the
relocation code - code that executes while all CPUs are off and we are
just about to jump into the new kernel - copies to their final memory
location.  We can not put them there before, because chances are pretty
good that at least some page in the target range is already in use by the
currently running Linux environment.  Copying is happening from a single
CPU at RAM rate, which takes around 4-50 ms per 100 MiB.

All of this is inefficient and error prone.

To successfully kexec, we need to quiesce all devices of the outgoing
kernel so they don't scribble over the new kernel's memory.  We have seen
cases where that does not happen properly (*cough* GIC *cough*) and hence
the new kernel was corrupted.  This started a month long journey to root
cause failing kexecs to eventually see memory corruption, because the new
kernel was corrupted severely enough that it could not emit output to tell
us about the fact that it was corrupted.  By allocating memory for the
next kernel from a memory range that is guaranteed scribbling free, we can
boot the next kernel up to a point where it is at least able to detect
corruption and maybe even stop it before it becomes severe.  This
increases the chance for successful kexecs.

Since kexec got introduced, Linux has gained the CMA framework which can
perform physically contiguous memory mappings, while keeping that memory
available for movable memory when it is not needed for contiguous
allocations.  The default CMA allocator is for DMA allocations.

This patch adds logic to the kexec file loader to attempt to place the
target payload at a location allocated from CMA.  If successful, it uses
that memory range directly instead of creating copy instructions during
the hot phase.  To ensure that there is a safety net in case anything goes
wrong with the CMA allocation, it also adds a flag for user space to force
disable CMA allocations.

Using CMA allocations has two advantages:

  1) Faster by 4-50 ms per 100 MiB. There is no more need to copy in the
     hot phase.
  2) More robust. Even if by accident some page is still in use for DMA,
     the new kernel image will be safe from that access because it resides
     in a memory region that is considered allocated in the old kernel and
     has a chance to reinitialize that component.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610085327.51817-1-graf@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;graf@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Zhongkun He &lt;hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When booting a new kernel with kexec_file, the kernel picks a target
location that the kernel should live at, then allocates random pages,
checks whether any of those patches magically happens to coincide with a
target address range and if so, uses them for that range.

For every page allocated this way, it then creates a page list that the
relocation code - code that executes while all CPUs are off and we are
just about to jump into the new kernel - copies to their final memory
location.  We can not put them there before, because chances are pretty
good that at least some page in the target range is already in use by the
currently running Linux environment.  Copying is happening from a single
CPU at RAM rate, which takes around 4-50 ms per 100 MiB.

All of this is inefficient and error prone.

To successfully kexec, we need to quiesce all devices of the outgoing
kernel so they don't scribble over the new kernel's memory.  We have seen
cases where that does not happen properly (*cough* GIC *cough*) and hence
the new kernel was corrupted.  This started a month long journey to root
cause failing kexecs to eventually see memory corruption, because the new
kernel was corrupted severely enough that it could not emit output to tell
us about the fact that it was corrupted.  By allocating memory for the
next kernel from a memory range that is guaranteed scribbling free, we can
boot the next kernel up to a point where it is at least able to detect
corruption and maybe even stop it before it becomes severe.  This
increases the chance for successful kexecs.

Since kexec got introduced, Linux has gained the CMA framework which can
perform physically contiguous memory mappings, while keeping that memory
available for movable memory when it is not needed for contiguous
allocations.  The default CMA allocator is for DMA allocations.

This patch adds logic to the kexec file loader to attempt to place the
target payload at a location allocated from CMA.  If successful, it uses
that memory range directly instead of creating copy instructions during
the hot phase.  To ensure that there is a safety net in case anything goes
wrong with the CMA allocation, it also adds a flag for user space to force
disable CMA allocations.

Using CMA allocations has two advantages:

  1) Faster by 4-50 ms per 100 MiB. There is no more need to copy in the
     hot phase.
  2) More robust. Even if by accident some page is still in use for DMA,
     the new kernel image will be safe from that access because it resides
     in a memory region that is considered allocated in the old kernel and
     has a chance to reinitialize that component.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250610085327.51817-1-graf@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;graf@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Zhongkun He &lt;hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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