linux-toradex.git/kernel/Makefile, branch v6.9-rc7

crash: split crash dumping code out from kexec_core.c

2024-02-24T01:48:22+00:00

Currently, KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE automatically because crash codes
need be built in to avoid compiling error when building kexec code even
though the crash dumping functionality is not enabled. E.g
--------------------
CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y
---------------------

After splitting out crashkernel reservation code and vmcoreinfo exporting
code, there's only crash related code left in kernel/crash_core.c. Now
move crash related codes from kexec_core.c to crash_core.c and only build it
in when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y.

And also wrap up crash codes inside CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP ifdeffery scope,
or replace inappropriate CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE ifdef with CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
ifdef in generic kernel files.

With these changes, crash_core codes are abstracted from kexec codes and
can be disabled at all if only kexec reboot feature is wanted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-5-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Hari Bathini 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Michael Kelley 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Yang Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

crash: remove dependency of FA_DUMP on CRASH_DUMP

2024-02-24T01:48:22+00:00

In kdump kernel, /proc/vmcore is an elf file mapping the crashed kernel's
old memory content. Its elf header is constructed in 1st kernel and passed
to kdump kernel via elfcorehdr_addr. Config CRASH_DUMP enables the code
of 1st kernel's old memory accessing in different architectures.

Currently, config FA_DUMP has dependency on CRASH_DUMP because fadump
needs access global variable 'elfcorehdr_addr' to judge if it's in
kdump kernel within function is_kdump_kernel(). In the current
kernel/crash_dump.c, variable 'elfcorehdr_addr' is defined, and function
setup_elfcorehdr() used to parse kernel parameter to fetch the passed
value of elfcorehdr_addr. Only for accessing elfcorehdr_addr, FA_DUMP
really doesn't have to depends on CRASH_DUMP.

To remove the dependency of FA_DUMP on CRASH_DUMP to avoid confusion,
rename kernel/crash_dump.c to kernel/elfcorehdr.c, and build it when
CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO is ebabled. With this, FA_DUMP doesn't need to depend
on CRASH_DUMP.

[bhe@redhat.com: power/fadump: make FA_DUMP select CRASH_DUMP]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Zb8D1ASrgX0qVm9z@MiWiFi-R3L-srv
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-4-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He 
Acked-by: Hari Bathini 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Michael Kelley 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Yang Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out from crash_core.c

2024-02-24T01:48:22+00:00

Now move the relevant codes into separate files:
kernel/crash_reserve.c, include/linux/crash_reserve.h.

And add config item CRASH_RESERVE to control its enabling.

And also update the old ifdeffery of CONFIG_CRASH_CORE, including of
 and config item dependency on CRASH_CORE
accordingly.

And also do renaming as follows:
 - arch/xxx/kernel/{crash_core.c => vmcore_info.c}
because they are only related to vmcoreinfo exporting on x86, arm64,
riscv.

And also Remove config item CRASH_CORE, and rely on CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE to
decide if build in crash_core.c.

[yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com: remove duplicated include in vmcore_info.c]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240126005744.16561-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-3-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He 
Signed-off-by: Yang Li 
Acked-by: Hari Bathini 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Michael Kelley 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Yang Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kexec: split crashkernel reservation code out from crash_core.c

2024-02-24T01:48:21+00:00

Patch series "Split crash out from kexec and clean up related config
items", v3.

Motivation:
=============
Previously, LKP reported a building error. When investigating, it can't
be resolved reasonablly with the present messy kdump config items.

 https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312182200.Ka7MzifQ-lkp@intel.com/

The kdump (crash dumping) related config items could causes confusions:

Firstly,

CRASH_CORE enables codes including
 - crashkernel reservation;
 - elfcorehdr updating;
 - vmcoreinfo exporting;
 - crash hotplug handling;

Now fadump of powerpc, kcore dynamic debugging and kdump all selects
CRASH_CORE, while fadump
 - fadump needs crashkernel parsing, vmcoreinfo exporting, and accessing
   global variable 'elfcorehdr_addr';
 - kcore only needs vmcoreinfo exporting;
 - kdump needs all of the current kernel/crash_core.c.

So only enabling PROC_CORE or FA_DUMP will enable CRASH_CORE, this
mislead people that we enable crash dumping, actual it's not.

Secondly,

It's not reasonable to allow KEXEC_CORE select CRASH_CORE.

Because KEXEC_CORE enables codes which allocate control pages, copy
kexec/kdump segments, and prepare for switching. These codes are
shared by both kexec reboot and kdump. We could want kexec reboot,
but disable kdump. In that case, CRASH_CORE should not be selected.

 --------------------
 CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
 CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
 CONFIG_KEXEC=y
 CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y
 ---------------------

Thirdly,

It's not reasonable to allow CRASH_DUMP select KEXEC_CORE.

That could make KEXEC_CORE, CRASH_DUMP are enabled independently from
KEXEC or KEXEC_FILE. However, w/o KEXEC or KEXEC_FILE, the KEXEC_CORE
code built in doesn't make any sense because no kernel loading or
switching will happen to utilize the KEXEC_CORE code.
 ---------------------
 CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
 CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
 CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
 ---------------------

In this case, what is worse, on arch sh and arm, KEXEC relies on MMU,
while CRASH_DUMP can still be enabled when !MMU, then compiling error is
seen as the lkp test robot reported in above link.

 ------arch/sh/Kconfig------
 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC
         def_bool MMU

 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP
         def_bool BROKEN_ON_SMP
 ---------------------------

Changes:
===========
1, split out crash_reserve.c from crash_core.c;
2, split out vmcore_infoc. from crash_core.c;
3, move crash related codes in kexec_core.c into crash_core.c;
4, remove dependency of FA_DUMP on CRASH_DUMP;
5, clean up kdump related config items;
6, wrap up crash codes in crash related ifdefs on all 8 arch-es
   which support crash dumping, except of ppc;

Achievement:
===========
With above changes, I can rearrange the config item logic as below (the right
item depends on or is selected by the left item):

    PROC_KCORE -----------> VMCORE_INFO

               |----------> VMCORE_INFO
    FA_DUMP----|
               |----------> CRASH_RESERVE

                                                    ---->VMCORE_INFO
                                                   /
                                                   |---->CRASH_RESERVE
    KEXEC      --|                                /|
                 |--> KEXEC_CORE--> CRASH_DUMP-->/-|---->PROC_VMCORE
    KEXEC_FILE --|                               \ |
                                                   \---->CRASH_HOTPLUG


    KEXEC      --|
                 |--> KEXEC_CORE (for kexec reboot only)
    KEXEC_FILE --|

Test
========
On all 8 architectures, including x86_64, arm64, s390x, sh, arm, mips,
riscv, loongarch, I did below three cases of config item setting and
building all passed. Take configs on x86_64 as exampmle here:

(1) Both CONFIG_KEXEC and KEXEC_FILE is unset, then all kexec/kdump
items are unset automatically:
# Kexec and crash features
# CONFIG_KEXEC is not set
# CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is not set
# end of Kexec and crash features

(2) set CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE and 'make olddefconfig':
---------------
# Kexec and crash features
CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE=y
CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_CRASH_MAX_MEMORY_RANGES=8192
# end of Kexec and crash features
---------------

(3) unset CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP in case 2 and execute 'make olddefconfig':
------------------------
# Kexec and crash features
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y
# end of Kexec and crash features
------------------------

Note:
For ppc, it needs investigation to make clear how to split out crash
code in arch folder. Hope Hari and Pingfan can help have a look, see if
it's doable. Now, I make it either have both kexec and crash enabled, or
disable both of them altogether.


This patch (of 14):

Both kdump and fa_dump of ppc rely on crashkernel reservation.  Move the
relevant codes into separate files: crash_reserve.c,
include/linux/crash_reserve.h.

And also add config item CRASH_RESERVE to control its enabling of the
codes.  And update config items which has relationship with crashkernel
reservation.

And also change ifdeffery from CONFIG_CRASH_CORE to CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE
when those scopes are only crashkernel reservation related.

And also rename arch/XXX/include/asm/{crash_core.h => crash_reserve.h} on
arm64, x86 and risc-v because those architectures' crash_core.h is only
related to crashkernel reservation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CRASH_RESEERVE/CRASH_RESERVE/, per Klara Modin]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-1-bhe@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124051254.67105-2-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He 
Acked-by: Hari Bathini 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Michael Kelley 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Yang Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kernel/numa.c: Move logging out of numa.h

2023-12-21T00:26:30+00:00

Moving these stub functions to a .c file means we can kill a sched.h
dependency on printk.h.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

Merge tag 'v6.5-rc1-modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2023-06-28T22:51:08+00:00

Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The changes queued up for modules are pretty tame, mostly code removal
  of moving of code.

  Only two minor functional changes are made, the only one which stands
  out is Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's simplification of module reference
  counting by removing preempt_disable() and that has been tested on
  linux-next for well over a month without no regressions.

  I'm now, I guess, also a kitchen sink for some kallsyms changes"

[ There was a mis-communication about the concurrent module load changes
  that I had expected to come through Luis despite me authoring the
  patch. So some of the module updates were left hanging in the email
  ether, and I just committed them separately.

  It's my bad - I should have made it more clear that I expected my
  own patches to come through the module tree too. Now they missed
  linux-next, but hopefully that won't cause any issues    - Linus ]

* tag 'v6.5-rc1-modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  kallsyms: make kallsyms_show_value() as generic function
  kallsyms: move kallsyms_show_value() out of kallsyms.c
  kallsyms: remove unsed API lookup_symbol_attrs
  kallsyms: remove unused arch_get_kallsym() helper
  module: Remove preempt_disable() from module reference counting.

watchdog/hardlockup: detect hard lockups using secondary (buddy) CPUs

2023-06-10T00:44:21+00:00

Implement a hardlockup detector that doesn't doesn't need any extra
arch-specific support code to detect lockups.  Instead of using something
arch-specific we will use the buddy system, where each CPU watches out for
another one.  Specifically, each CPU will use its softlockup hrtimer to
check that the next CPU is processing hrtimer interrupts by verifying that
a counter is increasing.

NOTE: unlike the other hard lockup detectors, the buddy one can't easily
show what's happening on the CPU that locked up just by doing a simple
backtrace.  It relies on some other mechanism in the system to get
information about the locked up CPUs.  This could be support for NMI
backtraces like [1], it could be a mechanism for printing the PC of locked
CPUs at panic time like [2] / [3], or it could be something else.  Even
though that means we still rely on arch-specific code, this arch-specific
code seems to often be implemented even on architectures that don't have a
hardlockup detector.

This style of hardlockup detector originated in some downstream Android
trees and has been rebased on / carried in ChromeOS trees for quite a long
time for use on arm and arm64 boards.  Historically on these boards we've
leveraged mechanism [2] / [3] to get information about hung CPUs, but we
could move to [1].

Although the original motivation for the buddy system was for use on
systems without an arch-specific hardlockup detector, it can still be
useful to use even on systems that _do_ have an arch-specific hardlockup
detector.  On x86, for instance, there is a 24-part patch series [4] in
progress switching the arch-specific hard lockup detector from a scarce
perf counter to a less-scarce hardware resource.  Potentially the buddy
system could be a simpler alternative to free up the perf counter but
still get hard lockup detection.

Overall, pros (+) and cons (-) of the buddy system compared to an
arch-specific hardlockup detector (which might be implemented using
perf):
+ The buddy system is usable on systems that don't have an
  arch-specific hardlockup detector, like arm32 and arm64 (though it's
  being worked on for arm64 [5]).
+ The buddy system may free up scarce hardware resources.
+ If a CPU totally goes out to lunch (can't process NMIs) the buddy
  system could still detect the problem (though it would be unlikely
  to be able to get a stack trace).
+ The buddy system uses the same timer function to pet the hardlockup
  detector on the running CPU as it uses to detect hardlockups on
  other CPUs. Compared to other hardlockup detectors, this means it
  generates fewer interrupts and thus is likely better able to let
  CPUs stay idle longer.
- If all CPUs are hard locked up at the same time the buddy system
  can't detect it.
- If we don't have SMP we can't use the buddy system.
- The buddy system needs an arch-specific mechanism (possibly NMI
  backtrace) to get info about the locked up CPU.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419225604.21204-1-dianders@chromium.org
[2] https://issuetracker.google.com/172213129
[3] https://docs.kernel.org/trace/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.html
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230301234753.28582-1-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220903093415.15850-1-lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519101840.v5.14.I6bf789d21d0c3d75d382e7e51a804a7a51315f2c@changeid
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross 
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke 
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih 
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Marc Zyngier 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" 
Cc: Ricardo Neri 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: Sumit Garg 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

watchdog/perf: rename watchdog_hld.c to watchdog_perf.c

2023-06-10T00:44:19+00:00

The code currently in "watchdog_hld.c" is for detecting hardlockups using
perf, as evidenced by the line in the Makefile that only compiles this
file if CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF is defined.  Rename the file to
prepare for the buddy hardlockup detector, which doesn't use perf.

It could be argued that the new name makes it less obvious that this is a
hardlockup detector.  While true, it's not hard to remember that the
"perf" detector is always a hardlockup detector and it's nice not to have
names that are too convoluted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519101840.v5.7.Ice803cb078d0e15fb2cbf49132f096ee2bd4199d@changeid
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson 
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Colin Cross 
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Lecopzer Chen 
Cc: Marc Zyngier 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma 
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" 
Cc: Ricardo Neri 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: Sumit Garg 
Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kallsyms: move kallsyms_show_value() out of kallsyms.c

2023-06-08T19:27:20+00:00

function kallsyms_show_value() is used by other parts
like modules_open(), kprobes_read() etc. which can work in case of
!KALLSYMS also.

e.g. as of now lsmod do not show module address if KALLSYMS is disabled.
since kallsyms_show_value() defination is not present, it returns false
in !KALLSYMS.

/ # lsmod
test 12288 0 - Live 0x0000000000000000 (O)

So kallsyms_show_value() can be made generic
without dependency on KALLSYMS.

Thus moving out function to a new file ksyms_common.c.

With this patch code is just moved to new file
and no functional change.

Co-developed-by: Onkarnath 
Signed-off-by: Onkarnath 
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh 
Reviewed-by: Zhen Lei 
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00

Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...