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9 hoursMerge tag 'powerpc-7.0-1' of ↵HEADmasterLinus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates for 7.0 - Implement masked user access - Add bpf support for internal only per-CPU instructions and inline the bpf_get_smp_processor_id() and bpf_get_current_task() functions - Fix pSeries MSI-X allocation failure when quota is exceeded - Fix recursive pci_lock_rescan_remove locking in EEH event handling - Support tailcalls with subprogs & BPF exceptions on 64bit - Extend "trusted" keys to support the PowerVM Key Wrapping Module (PKWM) Thanks to Abhishek Dubey, Christophe Leroy, Gaurav Batra, Guangshuo Li, Jarkko Sakkinen, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mimi Zohar, Miquel Sabaté Solà, Nam Cao, Narayana Murty N, Nayna Jain, Nilay Shroff, Puranjay Mohan, Saket Kumar Bhaskar, Sourabh Jain, Srish Srinivasan, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote. * tag 'powerpc-7.0-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (27 commits) powerpc/pseries: plpks: export plpks_wrapping_is_supported docs: trusted-encryped: add PKWM as a new trust source keys/trusted_keys: establish PKWM as a trusted source pseries/plpks: add HCALLs for PowerVM Key Wrapping Module pseries/plpks: expose PowerVM wrapping features via the sysfs powerpc/pseries: move the PLPKS config inside its own sysfs directory pseries/plpks: fix kernel-doc comment inconsistencies powerpc/smp: Add check for kcalloc() failure in parse_thread_groups() powerpc: kgdb: Remove OUTBUFMAX constant powerpc64/bpf: Additional NVR handling for bpf_throw powerpc64/bpf: Support exceptions powerpc64/bpf: Add arch_bpf_stack_walk() for BPF JIT powerpc64/bpf: Avoid tailcall restore from trampoline powerpc64/bpf: Support tailcalls with subprogs powerpc64/bpf: Moving tail_call_cnt to bottom of frame powerpc/eeh: fix recursive pci_lock_rescan_remove locking in EEH event handling powerpc/pseries: Fix MSI-X allocation failure when quota is exceeded powerpc/iommu: bypass DMA APIs for coherent allocations for pre-mapped memory powerpc64/bpf: Inline bpf_get_smp_processor_id() and bpf_get_current_task/_btf() powerpc64/bpf: Support internal-only MOV instruction to resolve per-CPU addrs ...
12 hoursMerge tag 'x86_cache_for_v7.0_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 resource control updates from Borislav Petkov: - Extend the resctrl machinery to support telemetry monitoring on Intel (Tony Luck) The practical usage of this is being able to tell how much energy or how much work can be attributed to a group of tasks tracked under a single idenitifier. Prepend this work with proper refactoring of resctrl domains handling code. * tag 'x86_cache_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits) x86,fs/resctrl: Update documentation for telemetry events x86/resctrl: Enable RDT_RESOURCE_PERF_PKG fs/resctrl: Move RMID initialization to first mount x86,fs/resctrl: Compute number of RMIDs as minimum across resources fs/resctrl: Move allocation/free of closid_num_dirty_rmid[] x86/resctrl: Handle number of RMIDs supported by RDT_RESOURCE_PERF_PKG x86/resctrl: Add energy/perf choices to rdt boot option x86,fs/resctrl: Handle domain creation/deletion for RDT_RESOURCE_PERF_PKG fs/resctrl: Refactor rmdir_mondata_subdir_allrdtgrp() fs/resctrl: Refactor mkdir_mondata_subdir() x86/resctrl: Read telemetry events x86/resctrl: Find and enable usable telemetry events x86,fs/resctrl: Add architectural event pointer x86,fs/resctrl: Fill in details of events for performance and energy GUIDs x86/resctrl: Discover hardware telemetry events fs/resctrl: Emphasize that L3 monitoring resource is required for summing domains x86,fs/resctrl: Add and initialize a resource for package scope monitoring x86,fs/resctrl: Add an architectural hook called for first mount x86,fs/resctrl: Support binary fixed point event counters x86,fs/resctrl: Handle events that can be read from any CPU ...
17 hoursMerge tag 'x86-boot-2026-02-09' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86/boot updates from Ingo Molnar: - x86/acpi: Add acpi=spcr to use SPCR-provided default console (Shenghao Yang) - x86/acpi/boot: Correct the acpi_is_processor_usable() check again (Yazen Ghannam) - Refresh the x86 memory map (e820 table) handling code, and make the printouts a bit more informative (Ingo Molnar) * tag 'x86-boot-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits) x86/acpi: Add acpi=spcr to use SPCR-provided default console x86/boot/e820: Use <linux/sizes.h> symbols for literals x86/boot/e820: Make sure e820_search_gap() finds all gaps x86/boot/e820: Simplify the e820__range_remove() API x86/boot/e820: Remove e820__range_remove()'s unused return parameter x86/boot/e820: Simplify append_e820_table() and remove restriction on single-entry tables x86/boot/e820: Standardize __init/__initdata tag placement x86/boot/e820: Simplify & clarify __e820__range_add() a bit x86/boot/e820: Rename gap_start/gap_size to max_gap_start/max_gap_start in e820_search_gap() et al x86/boot/e820: Change e820_search_gap() to search for the highest-address PCI gap x86/boot/e820: Clean up e820__setup_pci_gap()/e820_search_gap() a bit x86/boot/e820: Change struct e820_table::nr_entries type from __u32 to u32 x86/boot/e820: Standardize e820 table index variable types under 'u32' x86/boot/e820: Standardize e820 table index variable names under 'idx' x86/boot/e820: Remove unnecessary header inclusions x86/boot/e820: Clean up __refdata use a bit x86/boot/e820: Clean up __e820__range_add() a bit x86/boot/e820: Improve e820_print_type() messages x86/boot/e820: Clean up confusing and self-contradictory verbiage around E820 related resource allocations x86/boot/e820: Remove pointless early_panic() indirection ...
18 hoursMerge tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Scheduler Kconfig space updates: - Further consolidate configurable preemption modes (Peter Zijlstra) Reduce the number of architectures that are allowed to offer PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number of preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy' on up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc, riscv, s390, x86). None and voluntary are only available as legacy features on platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet, or which don't even support preemption. The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and voluntary preemption altogether. RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support (Thomas Gleixner and Peter Zijlstra): This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it enters a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when the thread is scheduled out inside of the critical section. - Add fields and constants for time slice extension - Provide static branch for time slice extensions - Add statistics for time slice extensions - Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions - Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield() - Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions - Implement time slice extension enforcement timer - Reset slice extension when scheduled - Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension() - entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension - selftests: Implement time slice extension test - Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension - Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs - Lower default slice extension - selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script Scheduler performance/scalability improvements: - Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU, which improves the scalability of various workloads (Shubhang Kaushik) - Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching (Blake Jones) - Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups (Shrikanth Hegde): - Move checking for nohz cpus after time check - Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus - Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead - Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo) - Cleanups (Yury Norov): - Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu() - Simplify task_numa_find_cpu() - Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group() DL scheduler updates: - Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and Joel Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra) RT scheduler updates: - Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang) Entry code updates and performance improvements (Jinjie Ruan) This is part of the scheduler tree in this cycle due to inter- dependencies with the RSEQ based time slice extension work: - Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter() - Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse - Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit() - Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter() Scheduler core updates (Peter Zijlstra): - Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*() - Avoid rq->lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle() - Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() => rcu_dereference_sched_domain() - <linux/compiler_types.h>: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper Fair scheduler updates/refactoring (Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar): - Fold the sched_avg update - Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched - Switch to rcu_dereference_all() - Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock() - Limit hrtick work - Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks - Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq' - Separate se->vlag from se->vprot - Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight - Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime & helper functions - Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers for wrapped-signed aritmetics - Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise Scheduler debugging code updates: - Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco) - Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user() (Fushuai Wang) - Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra) - hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner) Misc fixes and cleanups: - Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups (Zicheng Qu) - Remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig) - Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng) - sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing (zenghongling)" * tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits) sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() sched/clock: Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime selftests/sched_ext: Add test for DL server total_bw consistency selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server sched/debug: Fix dl_server (re)start conditions sched/debug: Add support to change sched_ext server params sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks sched/debug: Stop and start server based on if it was active sched/debug: Fix updating of ppos on server write ops sched/deadline: Clear the defer params entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter() entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit() entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter() sched: remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping sched: Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script hrtimer: Fix trace oddity ...
21 hoursMerge tag 'keys-next-20260206' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs Pull keys update from David Howells: "This adds support for ML-DSA signatures in X.509 certificates and PKCS#7/CMS messages, thereby allowing this algorithm to be used for signing modules, kexec'able binaries, wifi regulatory data, etc.. This requires OpenSSL-3.5 at a minimum and preferably OpenSSL-4 (so that it can avoid the use of CMS signedAttrs - but that version is not cut yet). certs/Kconfig does a check to hide the signing options if OpenSSL does not list the algorithm as being available" * tag 'keys-next-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: pkcs7: Change a pr_warn() to pr_warn_once() pkcs7: Allow authenticatedAttributes for ML-DSA modsign: Enable ML-DSA module signing pkcs7, x509: Add ML-DSA support pkcs7: Allow the signing algo to do whatever digestion it wants itself pkcs7, x509: Rename ->digest to ->m x509: Separately calculate sha256 for blacklist crypto: Add ML-DSA crypto_sig support
33 hoursMerge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is still a fair amount going on, including: - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption by generative tools - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink behind to avoid breaking scripts - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of documentation in Python code, better support for documenting variables, and lots of improvements and fixes - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example -- to the online pages in the HTML build ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits) doc: development-process: add notice on testing tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree' docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent docs: add parse_features module documentation docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements docs: add jobserver module documentation docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8 docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation docs: add kabi modules documentation ...
34 hoursMerge tag 'for-linus-7.0-rc1-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross: - fix running as Xen PVH guest in 32-bit mode without PAE - fix PV device handling for suspend/resume when running as a Xen guest - clean up workqueue usage - fix the Xen balloon driver for PVH dom0 - introduce the possibility to use hypercalls for console messages in unprivileged guests - enable Xen dom0 use of virtio devices in nested virtualization setups - simplify the xen-mcelog driver * tag 'for-linus-7.0-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xenbus: Rename helpers to freeze/thaw/restore xenbus: Use .freeze/.thaw to handle xenbus devices xen/mcelog: simplify MCE_GETCLEAR_FLAGS using xchg() xen/balloon: improve accuracy of initial balloon target for dom0 Partial revert "x86/xen: fix balloon target initialization for PVH dom0" xen: introduce xen_console_io option xen/virtio: Don't use grant-dma-ops when running as Dom0 x86/xen/pvh: Enable PAE mode for 32-bit guest only when CONFIG_X86_PAE is set xen: privcmd: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users xen/events: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
35 hoursMerge tag 'pm-6.20-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "By the number of commits, cpufreq is the leading party (again) and the most visible change there is the removal of the omap-cpufreq driver that has not been used for a long time (good riddance). There are also quite a few changes in the cppc_cpufreq driver, mostly related to fixing its frequency invariance engine in the case when the CPPC registers used by it are not in PCC. In addition to that, support for AM62L3 is added to the ti-cpufreq driver and the cpufreq-dt-platdev list is updated for some platforms. The remaining cpufreq changes are assorted fixes and cleanups. Next up is cpuidle and the changes there are dominated by intel_idle driver updates, mostly related to the new command line facility allowing users to adjust the list of C-states used by the driver. There are also a few updates of cpuidle governors, including two menu governor fixes and some refinements of the teo governor, and a MAINTAINERS update adding Christian Loehle as a cpuidle reviewer. [Thanks for stepping up Christian!] The most significant update related to system suspend and hibernation is the one to stop freezing the PM runtime workqueue during system PM transitions which allows some deadlocks to be avoided. There is also a fix for possible concurrent bit field updates in the core device suspend code and a few other minor fixes. Apart from the above, several drivers are updated to discard the return value of pm_runtime_put() which is going to be converted to a void function as soon as everybody stops using its return value, PL4 support for Ice Lake is added to the Intel RAPL power capping driver, and there are assorted cleanups, documentation fixes, and some cpupower utility improvements. Specifics: - Remove the unused omap-cpufreq driver (Andreas Kemnade) - Optimize error handling code in cpufreq_boost_trigger_state() and make cpufreq_boost_trigger_state() return -EOPNOTSUPP if no policy supports boost (Lifeng Zheng) - Update cpufreq-dt-platdev list for tegra, qcom, TI (Aaron Kling, Dhruva Gole, and Konrad Dybcio) - Minor improvements to the cpufreq and cpumask rust implementation (Alexandre Courbot, Alice Ryhl, Tamir Duberstein, and Yilin Chen) - Add support for AM62L3 SoC to the ti-cpufreq driver (Dhruva Gole) - Update arch_freq_scale in the CPPC cpufreq driver's frequency invariance engine (FIE) in scheduler ticks if the related CPPC registers are not in PCC (Jie Zhan) - Assorted minor cleanups and improvements in ARM cpufreq drivers (Juan Martinez, Felix Gu, Luca Weiss, and Sergey Shtylyov) - Add generic helpers for sysfs show/store to cppc_cpufreq (Sumit Gupta) - Make the scaling_setspeed cpufreq sysfs attribute return the actual requested frequency to avoid confusion (Pengjie Zhang) - Simplify the idle CPU time granularity test in the ondemand cpufreq governor (Frederic Weisbecker) - Enable asym capacity in intel_pstate only when CPU SMT is not possible (Yaxiong Tian) - Update the description of rate_limit_us default value in cpufreq documentation (Yaxiong Tian) - Add a command line option to adjust the C-states table in the intel_idle driver, remove the 'preferred_cstates' module parameter from it, add C-states validation to it and clean it up (Artem Bityutskiy) - Make the menu cpuidle governor always check the time till the closest timer event when the scheduler tick has been stopped to prevent it from mistakenly selecting the deepest available idle state (Rafael Wysocki) - Update the teo cpuidle governor to avoid making suboptimal decisions in certain corner cases and generally improve idle state selection accuracy (Rafael Wysocki) - Remove an unlikely() annotation on the early-return condition in menu_select() that leads to branch misprediction 100% of the time on systems with only 1 idle state enabled, like ARM64 servers (Breno Leitao) - Add Christian Loehle to MAINTAINERS as a cpuidle reviewer (Christian Loehle) - Stop flagging the PM runtime workqueue as freezable to avoid system suspend and resume deadlocks in subsystems that assume asynchronous runtime PM to work during system-wide PM transitions (Rafael Wysocki) - Drop redundant NULL pointer checks before acomp_request_free() from the hibernation code handling image saving (Rafael Wysocki) - Update wakeup_sources_walk_start() to handle empty lists of wakeup sources as appropriate (Samuel Wu) - Make dev_pm_clear_wake_irq() check the power.wakeirq value under power.lock to avoid race conditions (Gui-Dong Han) - Avoid bit field races related to power.work_in_progress in the core device suspend code (Xuewen Yan) - Make several drivers discard pm_runtime_put() return value in preparation for converting that function to a void one (Rafael Wysocki) - Add PL4 support for Ice Lake to the Intel RAPL power capping driver (Daniel Tang) - Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit() in power capping sysfs show functions (Sumeet Pawnikar) - Make dev_pm_opp_get_level() return value match the documentation after a previous update of the latter (Aleks Todorov) - Use scoped for each OF child loop in the OPP code (Krzysztof Kozlowski) - Fix a bug in an example code snippet and correct typos in the energy model management documentation (Patrick Little) - Fix miscellaneous problems in cpupower (Kaushlendra Kumar): * idle_monitor: Fix incorrect value logged after stop * Fix inverted APERF capability check * Use strcspn() to strip trailing newline * Reset errno before strtoull() * Show C0 in idle-info dump - Improve cpupower installation procedure by making the systemd step optional and allowing users to disable the installation of systemd's unit file (João Marcos Costa)" * tag 'pm-6.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (65 commits) PM: sleep: core: Avoid bit field races related to work_in_progress PM: sleep: wakeirq: harden dev_pm_clear_wake_irq() against races cpufreq: Documentation: Update description of rate_limit_us default value cpufreq: intel_pstate: Enable asym capacity only when CPU SMT is not possible PM: wakeup: Handle empty list in wakeup_sources_walk_start() PM: EM: Documentation: Fix bug in example code snippet Documentation: Fix typos in energy model documentation cpuidle: governors: teo: Refine intercepts-based idle state lookup cpuidle: governors: teo: Adjust the classification of wakeup events cpufreq: ondemand: Simplify idle cputime granularity test cpufreq: userspace: make scaling_setspeed return the actual requested frequency PM: hibernate: Drop NULL pointer checks before acomp_request_free() cpufreq: CPPC: Add generic helpers for sysfs show/store cpufreq: scmi: Fix device_node reference leak in scmi_cpu_domain_id() cpufreq: ti-cpufreq: add support for AM62L3 SoC cpufreq: dt-platdev: Add ti,am62l3 to blocklist cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add comment explaining nominal_perf usage for performance policy cpufreq: scmi: correct SCMI explanation cpufreq: dt-platdev: Block the driver from probing on more QC platforms rust: cpumask: rename methods of Cpumask for clarity and consistency ...
38 hoursMerge tag 'xfs-merge-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull xfs updates from Carlos Maiolino: "This contains several improvements to zoned device support, performance improvements for the parent pointers, and a new health monitoring feature. There are some improvements in the journaling code too but no behavior change expected. Last but not least, some code refactoring and bug fixes are also included in this series" * tag 'xfs-merge-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (67 commits) xfs: add sysfs stats for zoned GC xfs: give the defer_relog stat a xs_ prefix xfs: add zone reset error injection xfs: refactor zone reset handling xfs: don't mark all discard issued by zoned GC as sync xfs: allow setting errortags at mount time xfs: use WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE for m_errortag xfs: move the guts of XFS_ERRORTAG_DELAY out of line xfs: don't validate error tags in the I/O path xfs: allocate m_errortag early xfs: fix the errno sign for the xfs_errortag_{add,clearall} stubs xfs: validate log record version against superblock log version xfs: fix spacing style issues in xfs_alloc.c xfs: remove xfs_zone_gc_space_available xfs: use a seprate member to track space availabe in the GC scatch buffer xfs: check for deleted cursors when revalidating two btrees xfs: fix UAF in xchk_btree_check_block_owner xfs: check return value of xchk_scrub_create_subord xfs: only call xf{array,blob}_destroy if we have a valid pointer xfs: get rid of the xchk_xfile_*_descr calls ...
43 hoursMerge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs initrd removal from Christian Brauner: "Remove the deprecated linuxrc-based initrd code path and related dead code. The linuxrc initrd path was deprecated in 2020 and this series completes its removal. If we see real-life regressions we'll revert. The core change removes handle_initrd() and init_linuxrc() — the entire flow that ran /linuxrc from an initrd, pivoted roots, and handed off to the real root filesystem. With that gone, initrd_load() becomes void (no longer short-circuits prepare_namespace()), rd_load_image() is simplified to always load /initrd.image instead of taking a path, and rd_load_disk() is deleted. The /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev sysctl and its backing variable are removed since they only existed for linuxrc to communicate the real root device back to the kernel. The no-op load_ramdisk= and prompt_ramdisk= parameters are dropped, and noinitrd and ramdisk_start= gain deprecation warnings. Initramfs is entirely unaffected. The non-linuxrc initrd path (root=/dev/ram0) is preserved but now carries a deprecation warning targeting January 2027 removal" * tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.initrd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc) init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt_ramdisk" command line parameters
45 hoursMerge tag 'rcu.release.v7.0' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux Pull RCU updates from Boqun Feng: - RCU Tasks Trace: Re-implement RCU tasks trace in term of SRCU-fast, not only more than 500 lines of code are saved because of the reimplementation, a new set of API, rcu_read_{,un}lock_tasks_trace(), becomes possible as well. Compared to the previous rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace(), the new API avoid the task_struct accesses thanks to the SRCU-fast semantics. As a result, the old rcu_read{,un}lock_trace() API is now deprecated. - RCU Torture Test: - Multiple improvements on kvm-series.sh (parallel run and progress showing metrics) - Add context checks to rcu_torture_timer() - Make config2csv.sh properly handle comments in .boot files - Include commit discription in testid.txt - Miscellaneous RCU changes: - Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency by reporting GP kthread's CPU QS early - Use suitable gfp_flags for the init_srcu_struct_nodes() - Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to softirq - Correctly compute probability to invoke ->exp_current() in rcutorture - Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings detect stall-end races - RCU nocb: - Remove unnecessary WakeOvfIsDeferred wake path and callback overload handling - Extract nocb_defer_wakeup_cancel() helper * tag 'rcu.release.v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (25 commits) rcu/nocb: Extract nocb_defer_wakeup_cancel() helper rcu/nocb: Remove dead callback overload handling rcu/nocb: Remove unnecessary WakeOvfIsDeferred wake path rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency by reporting GP kthread's CPU QS early srcu: Use suitable gfp_flags for the init_srcu_struct_nodes() rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to softirq rcutorture: Correctly compute probability to invoke ->exp_current() rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings detect stall-end races rcutorture: Add --kill-previous option to terminate previous kvm.sh runs rcutorture: Prevent concurrent kvm.sh runs on same source tree torture: Include commit discription in testid.txt torture: Make config2csv.sh properly handle comments in .boot files torture: Make kvm-series.sh give run numbers and totals torture: Make kvm-series.sh give build numbers and totals torture: Parallelize kvm-series.sh guest-OS execution rcutorture: Add context checks to rcu_torture_timer() rcutorture: Test rcu_tasks_trace_expedite_current() srcu: Create an rcu_tasks_trace_expedite_current() function checkpatch: Deprecate rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace() rcu: Update Requirements.rst for RCU Tasks Trace ...
7 daysMerge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-02-04-15-55' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "Five hotfixes. Two are cc:stable, two are for MM. All are singletons - please see the changelogs for details" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-02-04-15-55' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: Documentation: document liveupdate cmdline parameter mm, shmem: prevent infinite loop on truncate race mailmap: update Alexander Mikhalitsyn's emails liveupdate: luo_file: do not clear serialized_data on unfreeze x86/kfence: fix booting on 32bit non-PAE systems
8 dayscpufreq: Documentation: Update description of rate_limit_us default valueYaxiong Tian
Due to commit 37c6dccd6837 ("cpufreq: Remove LATENCY_MULTIPLIER") updating the acquisition logic of cpufreq_policy_transition_delay_us(), the original description of 2 ms has become inaccurate. Therefore, update the description of the default value for rate_limit_us from 2ms to 1ms. Signed-off-by: Yaxiong Tian <tianyaxiong@kylinos.cn> [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203093501.1138721-1-tianyaxiong@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
8 daysMerge branch 'v6.19-rc8'Peter Zijlstra
Update to avoid conflicts with /urgent patches. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
8 daysDocumentation: document liveupdate cmdline parameterLi Chen
liveupdate is used to enable Live Update Orchestrator (LUO) early during boot. Add it to kernel-parameters.txt so users can discover and use it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260130112036.359806-1-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
9 daysmodsign: Enable ML-DSA module signingDavid Howells
Allow ML-DSA module signing to be enabled. Note that OpenSSL's CMS_*() function suite does not, as of OpenSSL-3.6, support the use of CMS_NOATTR with ML-DSA, so the prohibition against using signedAttrs with module signing has to be removed. The selected digest then applies only to the algorithm used to calculate the digest stored in the messageDigest attribute. The OpenSSL development branch has patches applied that fix this[1], but it appears that that will only be available in OpenSSL-4. [1] https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/28923 sign-file won't set CMS_NOATTR if openssl is earlier than v4, resulting in the use of signed attributes. The ML-DSA algorithm takes the raw data to be signed without regard to what digest algorithm is specified in the CMS message. The CMS specified digest algorithm is ignored unless signedAttrs are used; in such a case, only SHA512 is permitted. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> cc: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com> cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
9 daysdocs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentationRhys Tumelty
Signed-off-by: Rhys Tumelty <rhys@tumelty.co.uk> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260128220233.179439-1-rhys@tumelty.co.uk>
12 daysxfs: allow setting errortags at mount timeChristoph Hellwig
Add an errortag mount option that enables an errortag with the default injection frequency. This allows injecting errors into the mount process instead of just on live file systems, and thus test mount error handling. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
12 daysdocs: trusted-encryped: add PKWM as a new trust sourceNayna Jain
Update Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst and Documentation/ admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt with PowerVM Key Wrapping Module (PKWM) as a new trust source Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Srish Srinivasan <ssrish@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127145228.48320-7-ssrish@linux.ibm.com
2026-01-26Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc8.fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: - Fix the the buggy conversion of fuse_reverse_inval_entry() introduced during the creation rework - Disallow nfs delegation requests for directories by setting simple_nosetlease() - Require an opt-in for getting readdir flag bits outside of S_DT_MASK set in d_type - Fix scheduling delayed writeback work by only scheduling when the dirty time expiry interval is non-zero and cancel the delayed work if the interval is set to zero - Use rounded_jiffies_interval for dirty time work - Check the return value of sb_set_blocksize() for romfs - Wait for batched folios to be stable in __iomap_get_folio() - Use private naming for fuse hash size - Fix the stale dentry cleanup to prevent a race that causes a UAF * tag 'vfs-6.19-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: vfs: document d_dispose_if_unused() fuse: shrink once after all buckets have been scanned fuse: clean up fuse_dentry_tree_work() fuse: add need_resched() before unlocking bucket fuse: make sure dentry is evicted if stale fuse: fix race when disposing stale dentries fuse: use private naming for fuse hash size writeback: use round_jiffies_relative for dirtytime_work iomap: wait for batched folios to be stable in __iomap_get_folio romfs: check sb_set_blocksize() return value docs: clarify that dirtytime_expire_seconds=0 disables writeback writeback: fix 100% CPU usage when dirtytime_expire_interval is 0 readdir: require opt-in for d_type flags vboxsf: don't allow delegations to be set on directories ceph: don't allow delegations to be set on directories gfs2: don't allow delegations to be set on directories 9p: don't allow delegations to be set on directories smb/client: properly disallow delegations on directories nfs: properly disallow delegation requests on directories fuse: fix conversion of fuse_reverse_inval_entry() to start_removing()
2026-01-23Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.19-3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86 Pull x86 platform driver fixes from Ilpo Järvinen: - acer-wmi: - Extend support for Acer Nitro AN515-58 - Fix missing capability check - amd/wbrf: Fix memory leak in wbrf_record() - asus-armoury: - Fix GA403U* matching - Fix FA608UM TDP data - Add many models - asus-wmi: Move OOBE presence check outside deprecation ifdef - hp-bioscfg: - Fix kernel panic in GET_INSTANCE_ID macro - Fix kobject warnings for empty attribute names - Correct GUID to uppercase (lowercase letter prevented autoloading the module) - mellanox: Fix SN5640/SN5610 LED platform data - docs: - alienware-wmi: Typo fix - amd_hsmp: Fix document link * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.19-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (21 commits) platform/x86: acer-wmi: Fix missing capability check platform/x86: acer-wmi: Extend support for Acer Nitro AN515-58 platform/x86: asus-armoury: add support for GA403WW platform/x86: asus-armoury: keep the list ordered alphabetically platform/x86: asus-armoury: add support for G835L platform/x86: asus-armoury: fix ppt data for FA608UM platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix automatic module loading platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kernel panic in GET_INSTANCE_ID macro platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kobject warnings for empty attribute names platform/x86: asus-wmi: fix sending OOBE at probe platform/x86: asus-armoury: add support for FA617XT platform/x86: asus-armoury: add support for FA401UV platform/x86: asus-armoury: add support for GV302XV platform/x86: asus-armoury: Add power limits for Asus G513QY platform/x86/amd: Fix memory leak in wbrf_record() platform/mellanox: Fix SN5640/SN5610 LED platform data docs: fix PPR for AMD EPYC broken link docs: alienware-wmi: fix typo platform/x86: asus-armoury: add support for GA403UV asus-armoury: fix ppt data for GA403U* renaming to GA403UI ...
2026-01-23Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplateJani Nikula
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't. For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst, but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a ".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html builds. This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the root document. Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py. For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> [jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>
2026-01-22rseq: Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfsPeter Zijlstra
Move changing the slice ext duration to debugfs, a sliglty less permanent interface. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121143207.923520192@infradead.org
2026-01-22rseq: Implement time slice extension enforcement timerThomas Gleixner
If a time slice extension is granted and the reschedule delayed, the kernel has to ensure that user space cannot abuse the extension and exceed the maximum granted time. It was suggested to implement this via the existing hrtick() timer in the scheduler, but that turned out to be problematic for several reasons: 1) It creates a dependency on CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK, which can be disabled independently of CONFIG_HIGHRES_TIMERS 2) HRTICK usage in the scheduler can be runtime disabled or is only used for certain aspects of scheduling. 3) The function is calling into the scheduler code and that might have unexpected consequences when this is invoked due to a time slice enforcement expiry. Especially when the task managed to clear the grant via sched_yield(0). It would be possible to address #2 and #3 by storing state in the scheduler, but that is extra complexity and fragility for no value. Implement a dedicated per CPU hrtimer instead, which is solely used for the purpose of time slice enforcement. The timer is armed when an extension was granted right before actually returning to user mode in rseq_exit_to_user_mode_restart(). It is disarmed, when the task relinquishes the CPU. This is expensive as the timer is probably the first expiring timer on the CPU, which means it has to reprogram the hardware. But that's less expensive than going through a full hrtimer interrupt cycle for nothing. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155709.068329497@linutronix.de
2026-01-22rseq: Provide static branch for time slice extensionsThomas Gleixner
Guard the time slice extension functionality with a static key, which can be disabled on the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155708.733429292@linutronix.de
2026-01-20Docs/mm/allocation-profiling: describe sysctrl limitations in debug modeSuren Baghdasaryan
When CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y, /proc/sys/vm/mem_profiling is read-only to avoid debug warnings in a scenario when an allocation is made while profiling is disabled (allocation does not get an allocation tag), then profiling gets enabled and allocation gets freed (warning due to the allocation missing allocation tag). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116184423.2708363-1-surenb@google.com Fixes: ebdf9ad4ca98 ("memprofiling: documentation") Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-17x86/acpi: Add acpi=spcr to use SPCR-provided default consoleShenghao Yang
The SPCR provided console on x86 is only available as a boot console when earlycon is provided on the kernel command line, and will not be present in /proc/consoles. While it's possible to retain the boot console with the keep_bootcon parameter, that leaves the console using the less efficient 8250_early driver. Users wanting to use the firmware suggested console (to avoid maintaining unique serial console parameters for different server models in large fleets) with the conventional driver have to parse the kernel log for the console parameters and reinsert them. [ 0.005091] ACPI: SPCR 0x000000007FFB5000 000059 (v04 ALASKA A M I 01072009 INTL 20250404) [ 0.073387] ACPI: SPCR: console: uart,io,0x3f8,115200 In commit 0231d00082f6 ("ACPI: SPCR: Make SPCR available to x86")¹ the SPCR console was only added as an option for earlycon but not as an ordinary console so users don't see console output changes. So users can opt in to an automatic SPCR console, make ACPI init add it if acpi=spcr is set. ¹https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180118150951.28964-1-prarit@redhat.com/ [ bp: Touchups. ] Signed-off-by: Shenghao Yang <me@shenghaoyang.info> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260117072827.355360-1-me@shenghaoyang.info
2026-01-16docs: make kptr_restrict and hash_pointers reference each otherMarc Herbert
vsprintf.c uses a mix of the `kernel.kptr_restrict` sysctl and the `hash_pointers` boot param to control pointer hashing. But that wasn't possible to tell without looking at the source code. They have a different focus and purpose. To avoid wasting the time of users trying to use one instead of the other, simply have them reference each other in the Documentation. Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260107-doc-hash-ptr-v2-1-cb4c161218d7@linux.intel.com>
2026-01-16Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errorsNauman Sabir
Fix various typos and grammatical errors across documentation files: - Fix missing preposition 'in' in process/changes.rst - Correct 'result by' to 'result from' in admin-guide/README.rst - Fix 'before hand' to 'beforehand' in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst - Correct 'allows to limit' to 'allows limiting' in hugetlb.rst, cgroup-v2.rst, and kconfig-language.rst - Fix 'needs precisely know' to 'needs to precisely know' - Correct 'overcommited' to 'overcommitted' in hugetlb.rst - Fix subject-verb agreement: 'never causes' to 'never cause' - Fix 'there is enough' to 'there are enough' in hugetlb.rst - Fix 'metadatas' to 'metadata' in filesystems/erofs.rst - Fix 'hardwares' to 'hardware' in scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx Signed-off-by: Nauman Sabir <officialnaumansabir@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Message-ID: <20260115230110.7734-1-officialnaumansabir@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2026-01-15Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-01-15-08-03' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton: - kerneldoc fixes from Bagas Sanjaya - DAMON fixes from SeongJae - mremap VMA-related fixes from Lorenzo - various singletons - please see the changelogs for details * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-01-15-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (30 commits) drivers/dax: add some missing kerneldoc comment fields for struct dev_dax mm: numa,memblock: include <asm/numa.h> for 'numa_nodes_parsed' mailmap: add entry for Daniel Thompson tools/testing/selftests: fix gup_longterm for unknown fs mm/page_alloc: prevent pcp corruption with SMP=n iommu/sva: include mmu_notifier.h header mm: kmsan: fix poisoning of high-order non-compound pages tools/testing/selftests: add forked (un)/faulted VMA merge tests mm/vma: enforce VMA fork limit on unfaulted,faulted mremap merge too tools/testing/selftests: add tests for !tgt, src mremap() merges mm/vma: fix anon_vma UAF on mremap() faulted, unfaulted merge mm/zswap: fix error pointer free in zswap_cpu_comp_prepare() mm/damon/sysfs-scheme: cleanup access_pattern subdirs on scheme dir setup failure mm/damon/sysfs-scheme: cleanup quotas subdirs on scheme dir setup failure mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup intervals subdirs on attrs dir setup failure mm/damon/core: remove call_control in inactive contexts powerpc/watchdog: add support for hardlockup_sys_info sysctl mips: fix HIGHMEM initialization mm/hugetlb: ignore hugepage kernel args if hugepages are unsupported ...
2026-01-14docs: kernel-parameters: add kfence parametersMarco Elver
Add a brief summary for KFENCE's kernel command-line parameters in admin-guide/kernel-parameters. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251222150018.1349672-1-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-14xen: introduce xen_console_io optionStefano Stabellini
Xen can support console_io hypercalls for any domains, not just dom0, depending on DEBUG and XSM policies. These hypercalls can be very useful for development and debugging. Introduce a kernel command line option xen_console_io to enable the usage of console_io hypercalls for any domain upon request. When xen_console_io is not specified, the current behavior is retained. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2601131522540.992863@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop>
2026-01-13net: add net.core.qdisc_max_burstEric Dumazet
In blamed commit, I added a check against the temporary queue built in __dev_xmit_skb(). Idea was to drop packets early, before any spinlock was acquired. if (unlikely(defer_count > READ_ONCE(q->limit))) { kfree_skb_reason(skb, SKB_DROP_REASON_QDISC_DROP); return NET_XMIT_DROP; } It turned out that HTB Qdisc has a zero q->limit. HTB limits packets on a per-class basis. Some of our tests became flaky. Add a new sysctl : net.core.qdisc_max_burst to control how many packets can be stored in the temporary lockless queue. Also add a new QDISC_BURST_DROP drop reason to better diagnose future issues. Thanks Neal ! Fixes: 100dfa74cad9 ("net: dev_queue_xmit() llist adoption") Reported-and-bisected-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107104159.3669285-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-01-12Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: Remove wrong 'file:' syntaxPetr Vorel
Link to another document does not require 'file:', therefore it was shown in generated html. Preformatted text requires just ``...``. Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260111223643.174812-1-pvorel@suse.cz>
2026-01-12init: remove /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-devAskar Safin
It is not used anymore. Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119222407.3333257-4-safinaskar@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-12initrd: remove deprecated code path (linuxrc)Askar Safin
Remove linuxrc initrd code path, which was deprecated in 2020. Initramfs and (non-initial) RAM disks (i. e. brd) still work. Both built-in and bootloader-supplied initramfs still work. Non-linuxrc initrd code path (i. e. using /dev/ram as final root filesystem) still works, but I put deprecation message into it. Also I deprecate command line parameters "noinitrd" and "ramdisk_start=". Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119222407.3333257-3-safinaskar@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-12docs: clarify that dirtytime_expire_seconds=0 disables writebackLaveesh Bansal
Document that setting vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds to zero disables periodic dirtytime writeback, matching the behavior of the related dirty_writeback_centisecs sysctl which already documents this. Signed-off-by: Laveesh Bansal <laveeshb@laveeshbansal.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106145059.543282-3-laveeshb@laveeshbansal.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-09x86/resctrl: Add energy/perf choices to rdt boot optionTony Luck
Legacy resctrl features are enumerated by X86_FEATURE_* flags. These may be overridden by quirks to disable features in the case of errata. Users can use kernel command line options to either disable a feature, or to force enable a feature that was disabled by a quirk. A different approach is needed for hardware features that do not have an X86_FEATURE_* flag. Update parsing of the "rdt=" boot parameter to call the telemetry driver directly to handle new "perf" and "energy" options that controls activation of telemetry monitoring of the named type. By itself a "perf" or "energy" option controls the forced enabling or disabling (with ! prefix) of all event groups of the named type. A ":guid" suffix allows for fine grained control per event group. [ bp: s/intel_aet_option/intel_handle_aet_option/g ] Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251217172121.12030-1-tony.luck@intel.com
2026-01-06Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add tsa under mitigations=offYu Liao
On X86 AMD systems, mitigations=off also disables the Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) mitigation. Add it to the list. Signed-off-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu.ly@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251225121438.38427-1-liaoyu.ly@bytedance.com>
2026-01-06docs: admin: devices: remove /dev/cdwriterMax Nikulin
Remove /dev/cdwriter from the local symlinks table and from the related note. Creation of the symlink was removed from udev in commit [1] that became a part of release 115 in 2007 [2]. The altered text was added in 1995 [3]. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/hotplug/udev.git/commit/?id=b1a2b83f2d 2007-08-11 14:06:03 +0200 Kay Sievers. rules: update Fedora rules [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/hotplug/udev.git/commit/?h=7e599863919 2007-08-24 01:29:54 +0200 Kay Sievers. release 115 [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/diff/Documentation/devices.txt?h=v2.5.45&id=6e995ea941a 1995-11-21 Linus Torvalds. Import 1.3.43 Signed-off-by: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <f5c3f6e9-cd92-47e3-89c3-06dbcfc98c17@gmail.com>
2026-01-05docs: alienware-wmi: fix typoAkiyoshi Kurita
Fix a typo in the manual fan control description ("aproximate" -> "approximate"). Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230213431.656106-1-weibu@redadmin.org Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
2026-01-01rcu: Clean up after the SRCU-fastification of RCU Tasks TracePaul E. McKenney
Now that RCU Tasks Trace has been re-implemented in terms of SRCU-fast, the ->trc_ipi_to_cpu, ->trc_blkd_cpu, ->trc_blkd_node, ->trc_holdout_list, and ->trc_reader_special task_struct fields are no longer used. In addition, the rcu_tasks_trace_qs(), rcu_tasks_trace_qs_blkd(), exit_tasks_rcu_finish_trace(), and rcu_spawn_tasks_trace_kthread(), show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread(), rcu_tasks_trace_get_gp_data(), rcu_tasks_trace_torture_stats_print(), and get_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread() functions and all the other functions that they invoke are no longer used. Also, the TRC_NEED_QS and TRC_NEED_QS_CHECKED CPP macros are no longer used. Neither are the rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms and rcu_task_ipi_delay rcupdate module parameters and the TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option. This commit therefore removes all of them. [ paulmck: Apply Alexei Starovoitov feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
2025-12-22docs: admin: devices: /dev/sr<N> for SCSI CD-ROMMax Nikulin
Don't claim that /dev/sr<N> device names for SCSI CD-ROM drives are deprecated and don't recommend /dev/scd<N> alternate names for them. /dev/scd<N> device names for SCSI CD-ROM drives are not in use for more than a decade, see commit [1] that was a part of udev release 174. Earlier, related rules were volatile, sometimes /dev/scd<N> were syminks to /dev/sr<N>, sometimes vice versa. Recognizing of root=/dev/scd<N> kernel command line argument was removed in kernel 2.5.45 [2]. In the docs /dev/scd<N> became recommended names in 2.6.9 [3]. Mention of these names appeared much earlier in 1.3.22 [4]. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/hotplug/udev.git/commit/?id=d132be4d58 2011-08-12 14:05:19 +0200 Kay Sievers. rules: remove legacy rules for cdrom and usb printer [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/init?h=v2.5.45&id=51924607bd 2002-10-29 00:47:58 -0800 Alexander Viro. [PATCH] removal of root_dev_names[] [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/diff/Documentation/devices.txt?h=v2.6.9-rc4&id=a74e11ffeda 2004-03-16 15:09:38 -0800 Andrew Morton: [PATCH] devices.txt: typos and removal of dead devices [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/tree/Documentation/devices.txt?h=v2.6.9-rc4&id=8f0ec1f9369 1995-09-01 Linus Torvalds: Import 1.3.22 Signed-off-by: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <f0a3e0aa-e4f9-41d3-8931-57837831d136@gmail.com>
2025-12-20Merge tag 'block-6.19-20251218' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: - ublk selftests for missing coverage - two fixes for the block integrity code - fix for the newly added newly added PR read keys ioctl, limiting the memory that can be allocated - work around for a deadlock that can occur with ublk, where partition scanning ends up recursing back into file closure, which needs the same mutex grabbed. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but an acceptable work-around until we can eliminate the reliance on disk->open_mutex for this - fix for a race between enabling writeback throttling and new IO submissions - move a bit of bio flag handling code. No changes, but needed for a patchset for a future kernel - fix for an init time id leak failure in rnbd - loop/zloop state check fix * tag 'block-6.19-20251218' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: block: validate interval_exp integrity limit block: validate pi_offset integrity limit block: rnbd-clt: Fix leaked ID in init_dev() ublk: fix deadlock when reading partition table block: add allocation size check in blkdev_pr_read_keys() Documentation: admin-guide: blockdev: replace zone_capacity with zone_capacity_mb when creating devices zloop: use READ_ONCE() to read lo->lo_state in queue_rq path loop: use READ_ONCE() to read lo->lo_state without locking block: fix race between wbt_enable_default and IO submission selftests: ublk: add user copy test cases selftests: ublk: add support for user copy to kublk selftests: ublk: forbid multiple data copy modes selftests: ublk: don't share backing files between ublk servers selftests: ublk: use auto_zc for PER_IO_DAEMON tests in stress_04 selftests: ublk: fix fio arguments in run_io_and_recover() selftests: ublk: remove unused ios map in seq_io.bt selftests: ublk: correct last_rw map type in seq_io.bt selftests: ublk: fix overflow in ublk_queue_auto_zc_fallback() block: move around bio flagging helpers
2025-12-15Documentation: admin-guide: blockdev: replace zone_capacity with ↵Yongpeng Yang
zone_capacity_mb when creating devices The "zone_capacity=%umb" option is no longer used. The effective option is now "zone_capacity_mb=%u", so update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2025-12-15init: remove deprecated "load_ramdisk" and "prompt_ramdisk" command line ↵Askar Safin
parameters ...which do nothing. They were deprecated (in documentation) in 6b99e6e6aa62 ("Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of "rdev"") in 2020 and in kernel messages in c8376994c86c ("initrd: remove support for multiple floppies") in 2020. Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119222407.3333257-2-safinaskar@gmail.com Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-12-11Merge tag 'for-6.19/dm-changes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm Pull device mapper updates from Mikulas Patocka: - convert crypto_shash users to direct crypto library use with simpler and faster code and reduced stack usage (Eric Biggers): - the dm-verity SHA-256 conversion also teaches it to do two-way interleaved hashing for added performance - dm-crypt MD5 conversion (used for Loop-AES compatibility) - added document for for takeover/reshape raid1 -> raid5 examples (Heinz Mauelshagen) - fix dm-vdo kerneldoc warnings (Matthew Sakai) - various random fixes and cleanups * tag 'for-6.19/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (29 commits) dm pcache: fix segment info indexing dm pcache: fix cache info indexing dm-pcache: advance slot index before writing slot dm raid: add documentation for takeover/reshape raid1 -> raid5 table line examples dm log-writes: Add missing set_freezable() for freezable kthread dm-raid: fix possible NULL dereference with undefined raid type dm-snapshot: fix 'scheduling while atomic' on real-time kernels dm: ignore discard return value MAINTAINERS: add Benjamin Marzinski as a device mapper maintainer dm-mpath: Simplify the setup_scsi_dh code dm vdo: fix kerneldoc warnings dm-bufio: align write boundary on physical block size dm-crypt: enable DM_TARGET_ATOMIC_WRITES dm: test for REQ_ATOMIC in dm_accept_partial_bio() dm-verity: remove useless mempool dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction dm-ebs: Mark full buffer dirty even on partial write dm mpath: enable DM_TARGET_ATOMIC_WRITES dm verity fec: Expose corrected block count via status dm: Don't warn if IMA_DISABLE_HTABLE is not enabled ...
2025-12-10dm raid: add documentation for takeover/reshape raid1 -> raid5 table line ↵Heinz Mauelshagen
examples Also enhance possible takeover/reshape information and do some reformatting. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
2025-12-10Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.19-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86 Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen: - acer-wmi: Add PH16-72, PHN16-72, and PT14-51 fan control support - acpi: platform_profile: Add max-power profile option (power draw limited by the cooling hardware, may exceed battery power draw limit when on AC power) - amd/hsmp: Allow more than one data-fabric per socket - asus-armoury: Add WMI attributes driver to expose miscellaneous WMI functions through fw_attributes (deprecates the custom BIOS features interface through asus-wmi) - asus-wmi: Use brightness_set_blocking() for kbd led - ayaneo-ec: Add Ayaneo Embedded Controller driver - fs/nls: - Fix utf16 to utf8 string conversion when output size restricted - Improve error code consistency for utf8 to utf32 conversions - ideapad-laptop: Fast (Rapid Charge) charge type support - intel/hid: Add Dell Pro Rugged 10/12 tablet to VGBS DMI quirks - intel/pmc: - Arrow Lake telemetry GUID improvements - Add support for Wildcat Lake PMC information - intel_pmc_ipc: Fix ACPI buffer memleak - intel/punit_ipc: Fix memory corruption - intel/vsec: Wildcat Lake PMT telemetry support - lenovo-wmi-gamezone: Map "Extreme" performance mode to max-power - lg-laptop: Add support for the HDAP opregion field - serial-multi-instantiate: Add IRQ_RESOURCE_OPT for IRQ missing projects - thinkpad-t14s-ec: Improve suspend/resume support (lid LEDs, keyboard backlight) - uniwill: Add Uniwill laptop driver - wmi: Move under drivers/platform/wmi as non-x86 WMI support is around the corner and other WMI features will require adding more C files as well - tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: v1.24 - Check feature status to check if the feature enablement was successful - Reset SST-TF bucket structure to display valid bucket info - Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (73 commits) tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: v1.24 release tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Reset isst_turbo_freq_info for invalid buckets tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Check feature status platform/x86: asus-wmi: use brightness_set_blocking() for kbd led fs/nls: Fix inconsistency between utf8_to_utf32() and utf32_to_utf8() platform/x86: asus-armoury: add support for GA503QR platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: fix ACPI buffer memory leak platform/x86: hp-wmi: Order DMI board name arrays platform/x86/intel/hid: Add Dell Pro Rugged 10/12 tablet to VGBS DMI quirks platform: surface: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq platform: x86: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq platform/surface: acpi-notify: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users platform/x86: wmi-gamezone: Add Legion Go 2 Quirks platform/x86: lenovo-wmi-gamezone Use max-power rather than balanced-performance acpi: platform_profile - Add max-power profile option platform/x86/amd/pmf: Use devm_mutex_init() for mutex initialization platform/x86/amd/pmf: Add BIOS_INPUTS_MAX macro to replace hardcoded array size platform/x86: serial-multi-instantiate: Add IRQ_RESOURCE_OPT for IRQ missing projects platform/x86/amd/pmf: Refactor repetitive BIOS output handling platform/x86/uniwill: Add TUXEDO devices ...
2025-12-07Merge tag 'memblock-6.19-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock Pull memblock update from Mike Rapoport: "Introduce a 'check_pages' boot parameter to decouple simple checks for page state on allocation and free from CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. This allows enabling page checking without building kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM or forcing init_on_{alloc, free} or other heavier mechanisms" * tag 'memblock-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock: mm/mm_init: Introduce a boot parameter for check_pages