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2025-12-12x86/boot/Documentation: Fix whitespace noise in boot.rstIngo Molnar
There's a lot of unnecessary whitespace damage in this file: space before tabs, etc., that has no formatting or readability effect or advantages. Fix them. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/176535283007.498.16442167388418039352.tip-bot2@tip-bot2
2025-12-10x86/boot/Documentation: Fix htmldocs build warning due to malformed table in ↵Swaraj Gaikwad
boot.rst Sphinx reports htmldocs warnings: Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst:437: ERROR: Malformed table. Text in column margin in table line 2. The table header defined the first column width as 2 characters ("=="), which is too narrow for entries like "0x10" and "0x13". This caused the text to spill into the margin, triggering a docutils parsing failure. Fix it by extending the first column of assigned boot loader ID to 4 characters ("====") to fit the widest entries. Fixes: 1c3377bee212 ("x86/boot/Documentation: Prefix hexadecimal literals with 0x") Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Swaraj Gaikwad <swarajgaikwad1925@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210092814.9986-1-swarajgaikwad1925@gmail.com
2025-12-06Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2025-12-06' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Miscellaneous documentation fixes" * tag 'x86-urgent-2025-12-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/boot/Documentation: Prefix hexadecimal literals with 0x x86/boot/Documentation: Spell 'ID' consistently x86/platform: Fix and extend kernel-doc comments in <asm/x86_init.h>
2025-12-05Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.19-mw1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley: - Enable parallel hotplug for RISC-V - Optimize vector regset allocation for ptrace() - Add a kernel selftest for the vector ptrace interface - Enable the userspace RAID6 test to build and run using RISC-V vectors - Add initial support for the Zalasr RISC-V ratified ISA extension - For the Zicbop RISC-V ratified ISA extension to userspace, expose hardware and kernel support to userspace and add a kselftest for Zicbop - Convert open-coded instances of 'asm goto's that are controlled by runtime ALTERNATIVEs to use riscv_has_extension_{un,}likely(), following arm64's alternative_has_cap_{un,}likely() - Remove an unnecessary mask in the GFP flags used in some calls to pagetable_alloc() * tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.19-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: selftests/riscv: Add Zicbop prefetch test riscv: hwprobe: Expose Zicbop extension and its block size riscv: Introduce Zalasr instructions riscv: hwprobe: Export Zalasr extension dt-bindings: riscv: Add Zalasr ISA extension description riscv: Add ISA extension parsing for Zalasr selftests: riscv: Add test for the Vector ptrace interface riscv: ptrace: Optimize the allocation of vector regset raid6: test: Add support for RISC-V raid6: riscv: Allow code to be compiled in userspace raid6: riscv: Prevent compiler from breaking inline vector assembly code riscv: cmpxchg: Use riscv_has_extension_likely riscv: bitops: Use riscv_has_extension_likely riscv: hweight: Use riscv_has_extension_likely riscv: checksum: Use riscv_has_extension_likely riscv: pgtable: Use riscv_has_extension_unlikely riscv: Remove __GFP_HIGHMEM masking RISC-V: Enable HOTPLUG_PARALLEL for secondary CPUs
2025-12-03Merge tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This has been another busy cycle for documentation, with a lot of build-system thrashing. That work should slow down from here on out. - The various scripts and tools for documentation were spread out in several directories; now they are (almost) all coalesced under tools/docs/. The holdout is the kernel-doc script, which cannot be easily moved without some further thought. - As the amount of Python code increases, we are accumulating modules that are imported by multiple programs. These modules have been pulled together under tools/lib/python/ -- at least, for documentation-related programs. There is other Python code in the tree that might eventually want to move toward this organization. - The Perl kernel-doc.pl script has been removed. It is no longer used by default, and nobody has missed it, least of all anybody who actually had to look at it. - The docs build was controlled by a complex mess of makefilese that few dared to touch. Mauro has moved that logic into a new program (tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper) that, with any luck at all, will be far easier to understand and maintain. - The get_feat.pl program, used to access information under Documentation/features/, has been rewritten in Python, bringing an end to the use of Perl in the docs subsystem. - The top-level README file has been reorganized into a more reader-friendly presentation. - A lot of Chinese translation additions - Typo fixes and documentation updates as usual" * tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (164 commits) docs: makefile: move rustdoc check to the build wrapper README: restructure with role-based documentation and guidelines docs: kdoc: various fixes for grammar, spelling, punctuation docs: kdoc_parser: use '@' for Excess enum value docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that removal of Acks needs explanation too docs: kdoc_parser: add data/function attributes to ignore docs: MAINTAINERS: update Mauro's files/paths docs/zh_CN: Add wd719x.rst translation docs/zh_CN: Add libsas.rst translation get_feat.pl: remove it, as it got replaced by get_feat.py Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py: use class directly tools/docs/get_feat.py: convert get_feat.pl to Python Documentation/admin-guide: fix typo and comment in cscope example docs/zh_CN: Add data-integrity.rst translation docs/zh_CN: Add blk-mq.rst translation docs/zh_CN: Add block/index.rst translation docs/zh_CN: Update the Chinese translation of kbuild.rst docs: bring some order to our Python module hierarchy docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options ...
2025-12-03x86/boot/Documentation: Prefix hexadecimal literals with 0xIngo Molnar
The x86 bootloader ID specification text uses hexadecimal values without a 0x prefix: D kexec-tools E Extended (see ext_loader_type) F Special (0xFF = undefined) 10 Reserved 11 Minimal Linux Bootloader <http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de> 12 OVMF UEFI virtualization stack 13 barebox Which beyond the ambiguity of '13' in isolation, also made me fail a grep -wi '0xd' when I was looking for the kexec bootloader ID definition and caused quite a bit of head-scratching before I found out why it didn't show up. Furthermore, the actual explanatory text uses the 0x prefix: For boot loader IDs above T = 0xD, write T = 0xE to this field and write the extended ID minus 0x10 to the ext_loader_type field. Similarly, the ext_loader_ver field can be used to provide more than four bits for the bootloader version. So make it all both unambiguous, easy to grep and consistent across the entire documentation by prefixing the IDs with 0x. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
2025-12-03x86/boot/Documentation: Spell 'ID' consistentlyIngo Molnar
The bootloader ID specification text uses 2 capitalization variants for the same thing: 'id', 'ids', 'ID' and 'IDs'. Use 'ID/IDs' consistently. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
2025-12-02Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "These are the arm64 updates for 6.19. The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/. There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd (similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and several cleanups/typos. Summary: Core features: - Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring) driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API Perf and PMU: - Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs - Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support for NVIDIA implementations - Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect - Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs - Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver - Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver Memory managemennt: - Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault - Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid - Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros - Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping() - Propagate return value from __change_memory_common() ACPI and EFI: - Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption - Remove unused ACPI function Miscellaneous: - ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems - Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ - Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test - Remove some no longer used macros/functions - Various spelling corrections" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits) arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init() perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4 perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects) perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe() dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch() arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state ...
2025-11-28Merge branches 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/kselftest', ↵Catalin Marinas
'for-next/efi-preempt', 'for-next/assembler-macro', 'for-next/typos', 'for-next/sme-ptrace-disable', 'for-next/local-tlbi-page-reused', 'for-next/mpam', 'for-next/acpi' and 'for-next/documentation', remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core * arm64/for-next/perf: perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4 perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects) perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe() dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL arch_topology: Provide a stub topology_core_has_smt() for !CONFIG_GENERIC_ARCH_TOPOLOGY perf/arm-ni: Fix and optimise register offset calculation perf: arm_pmuv3: Add new Cortex and C1 CPU PMUs perf: arm_cspmu: fix error handling in arm_cspmu_impl_unregister() perf/arm-ni: Add NoC S3 support perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add pmevfiltr2 support perf/arm_cspmu: nvidia: Add revision id matching perf/arm_cspmu: Add pmpidr support perf/arm_cspmu: Add callback to reset filter config perf: arm_pmuv3: Don't use PMCCNTR_EL0 on SMT cores * for-next/misc: : Miscellaneous patches arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index arm64: mm: make linear mapping permission update more robust for patial range arm64/mm: Elide TLB flush in certain pte protection transitions arm64/mm: Rename try_pgd_pgtable_alloc_init_mm arm64/mm: Allow __create_pgd_mapping() to propagate pgtable_alloc() errors arm64: add unlikely hint to MTE async fault check in el0_svc_common arm64: acpi: add newline to deferred APEI warning arm64: entry: Clean out some indirection arm64/mm: Ensure PGD_SIZE is aligned to 64 bytes when PA_BITS = 52 arm64/mm: Drop cpu_set_[default|idmap]_tcr_t0sz() arm64: remove unused ARCH_PFN_OFFSET arm64: use SOFTIRQ_ON_OWN_STACK for enabling softirq stack arm64: Remove assertion on CONFIG_VMAP_STACK * for-next/kselftest: : arm64 kselftest patches kselftest/arm64: Align zt-test register dumps * for-next/efi-preempt: : arm64: Make EFI calls preemptible arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption arm64/efi: Move uaccess en/disable out of efi_set_pgd() arm64/efi: Drop efi_rt_lock spinlock from EFI arch wrapper arm64/fpsimd: Permit kernel mode NEON with IRQs off arm64/fpsimd: Don't warn when EFI execution context is preemptible efi/runtime-wrappers: Keep track of the efi_runtime_lock owner efi: Add missing static initializer for efi_mm::cpus_allowed_lock * for-next/assembler-macro: : arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in headers arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-uapi headers arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in uapi headers * for-next/typos: : Random typo/spelling fixes arm64: Fix double word in comments arm64: Fix typos and spelling errors in comments * for-next/sme-ptrace-disable: : Support disabling streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Cover disabling streaming mode without SVE in fp-ptrace kselftst/arm64: Test NT_ARM_SVE FPSIMD format writes on non-SVE systems arm64/sme: Support disabling streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems * for-next/local-tlbi-page-reused: : arm64, mm: avoid TLBI broadcast if page reused in write fault arm64, tlbflush: don't TLBI broadcast if page reused in write fault mm: add spurious fault fixing support for huge pmd * for-next/mpam: (34 commits) : Basic Arm MPAM driver (more to follow) MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch() arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state arm_mpam: Use long MBWU counters if supported arm_mpam: Probe for long/lwd mbwu counters arm_mpam: Consider overflow in bandwidth counter state arm_mpam: Track bandwidth counter state for power management arm_mpam: Add mpam_msmon_read() to read monitor value arm_mpam: Add helpers to allocate monitors arm_mpam: Probe and reset the rest of the features arm_mpam: Allow configuration to be applied and restored during cpu online arm_mpam: Use a static key to indicate when mpam is enabled arm_mpam: Register and enable IRQs arm_mpam: Extend reset logic to allow devices to be reset any time arm_mpam: Add a helper to touch an MSC from any CPU arm_mpam: Reset MSC controls from cpuhp callbacks arm_mpam: Merge supported features during mpam_enable() into mpam_class arm_mpam: Probe the hardware features resctrl supports arm_mpam: Add helpers for managing the locking around the mon_sel registers ... * for-next/acpi: : arm64 acpi updates ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init() * for-next/documentation: : arm64 Documentation updates Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names
2025-11-25Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register namesZenon Xiu
The register name 'HWFGWTR_EL2' and 'HWFGRTR_EL2' is wrong, should be 'HFGWTR_EL2' and 'HFGRTR_EL2'. Find the register description on arm website here, https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0601/2025-09/AArch64-Registers/HFGWTR-EL2--Hypervisor-Fine-Grained-Write-Trap-Register https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0601/2025-09/AArch64-Registers/HFGRTR-EL2--Hypervisor-Fine-Grained-Read-Trap-Register?lang=en Signed-off-by: Zenon Xiu <zenonxiu@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2025-11-19riscv: hwprobe: Expose Zicbop extension and its block sizeYao Zihong
- Add `RISCV_HWPROBE_EXT_ZICBOP` to report the presence of the Zicbop extension. - Add `RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_ZICBOP_BLOCK_SIZE` to expose the block size (in bytes) when Zicbop is supported. - Update hwprobe.rst to document the new extension bit and block size key, following the existing Zicbom/Zicboz style. Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> Signed-off-by: Yao Zihong <zihong.plct@isrc.iscas.ac.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118162436.15485-2-zihong.plct@isrc.iscas.ac.cn [pjw@kernel.org: updated to apply] Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
2025-11-19riscv: hwprobe: Export Zalasr extensionXu Lu
Export the Zalasr extension to userspace using hwprobe. Signed-off-by: Xu Lu <luxu.kernel@bytedance.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020042056.30283-4-luxu.kernel@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
2025-11-17arm64/sme: Support disabling streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systemsMark Brown
Currently it is not possible to disable streaming mode via ptrace on SME only systems, the interface for doing this is to write via NT_ARM_SVE but such writes will be rejected on a system without SVE support. Enable this functionality by allowing userspace to write SVE_PT_REGS_FPSIMD format data via NT_ARM_SVE with the vector length set to 0 on SME only systems. Such writes currently error since we require that a vector length is specified which should minimise the risk that existing software is relying on current behaviour. Reads are not supported since I am not aware of any use case for this and there is some risk that an existing userspace application may be confused if it reads NT_ARM_SVE on a system without SVE. Existing kernels will return FPSIMD formatted register state from NT_ARM_SVE if full SVE state is not stored, for example if the task has not used SVE. Returning a vector length of 0 would create a risk that software would try to do things like allocate space for register state with zero sizes, while returning a vector length of 128 bits would look like SVE is supported. It seems safer to just not make the changes to add read support. It remains possible for userspace to detect a SME only system via the ptrace interface only since reads of NT_ARM_SSVE and NT_ARM_ZA will succeed while reads of NT_ARM_SVE will fail. Read/write access to the FPSIMD registers in non-streaming mode is available via REGSET_FPR. sve_set_common() already avoids allocating SVE storage when doing a FPSIMD formatted write and allocating SME storage when doing a NT_ARM_SVE write so we change the function to validate the new case and skip setting a vector length for it. The aim is to make a minimally invasive change, no operation that would previously have succeeded will be affected, and we use a previously defined interface in new circumstances rather than define completely new ABI. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Spickett <david.spickett@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2025-11-17s390/debug: Update description of resize operationPeter Oberparleiter
With commit 1204777867e8 ("s390/debug: keep debug data on resize") the behavior of a debug area resize operation was changed. Update the associated documentation to reflect this change. Fixes: 1204777867e8 ("s390/debug: keep debug data on resize") Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
2025-10-14Documentation/x86: explain LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUIDHugo Osvaldo Barrera
Since the Handover Protocol was deprecated, the recommended approach is to provide an initrd using a UEFI boot service with the LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path. Documentation for the new approach has been no more than an admonition with a link to an existing implementation. Provide a short explanation of this functionality, to ease future implementations without having to reverse engineer existing ones. [Bagas: Don't use :ref: link to EFI stub documentation and refer to OVMF/edk2 implementation] Signed-off-by: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@whynothugo.nl> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250428131206.8656-2-hugo@whynothugo.nl Co-developed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251013085718.27085-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
2025-10-04Merge tag 'x86_tdx_for_6.18-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 TDX updates from Dave Hansen: "The biggest change here is making TDX and kexec play nicely together. Before this, the memory encryption hardware (which doesn't respect cache coherency) could write back old cachelines on top of data in the new kernel, so kexec and TDX were made mutually exclusive. This removes the limitation. There is also some work to tighten up a hardware bug workaround and some MAINTAINERS updates. - Make TDX and kexec work together - Skip TDX bug workaround when the bug is not present - Update maintainers entries" * tag 'x86_tdx_for_6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/virt/tdx: Use precalculated TDVPR page physical address KVM/TDX: Explicitly do WBINVD when no more TDX SEAMCALLs x86/virt/tdx: Update the kexec section in the TDX documentation x86/virt/tdx: Remove the !KEXEC_CORE dependency x86/kexec: Disable kexec/kdump on platforms with TDX partial write erratum x86/virt/tdx: Mark memory cache state incoherent when making SEAMCALL x86/sme: Use percpu boolean to control WBINVD during kexec x86/kexec: Consolidate relocate_kernel() function parameters x86/tdx: Skip clearing reclaimed pages unless X86_BUG_TDX_PW_MCE is present x86/tdx: Tidy reset_pamt functions x86/tdx: Eliminate duplicate code in tdx_clear_page() MAINTAINERS: Add KVM mail list to the TDX entry MAINTAINERS: Add Rick Edgecombe as a TDX reviewer MAINTAINERS: Update the file list in the TDX entry.
2025-10-03Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...
2025-09-30Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.18_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpuid updates from Borislav Petkov: - Make UMIP instruction detection more robust - Correct and cleanup AMD CPU topology detection; document the relevant CPUID leaves topology parsing precedence on AMD - Add support for running the kernel as guest on FreeBSD's Bhyve hypervisor - Cleanups and improvements * tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/umip: Fix decoding of register forms of 0F 01 (SGDT and SIDT aliases) x86/umip: Check that the instruction opcode is at least two bytes Documentation/x86/topology: Detail CPUID leaves used for topology enumeration x86/cpu/topology: Define AMD64_CPUID_EXT_FEAT MSR x86/cpu/topology: Check for X86_FEATURE_XTOPOLOGY instead of passing has_xtopology x86/cpu/cacheinfo: Simplify cacheinfo_amd_init_llc_id() using _cpuid4_info x86/cpu: Rename and move CPU model entry for Diamond Rapids x86/cpu: Detect FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor
2025-09-29Merge tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan: - powerpc support for BPF arena and arena atomics - Patches to switch to msi parent domain (per-device MSI domains) - Add a lock contention tracepoint in the queued spinlock slowpath - Fixes for underflow in pseries/powernv msi and pci paths - Switch from legacy-of-mm-gpiochip dependency to platform driver - Fixes for handling TLB misses - Introduce support for powerpc papr-hvpipe - Add vpa-dtl PMU driver for pseries platform - Misc fixes and cleanups Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Bodkhe, Andrew Donnellan, Athira Rajeev, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner, Gautam Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joe Lawrence, Kajol Jain, Kienan Stewart, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nam Cao, Nicolas Schier, Nysal Jan K.A., Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Ruben Wauters, Saket Kumar Bhaskar, Shashank MS, Shrikanth Hegde, Tejas Manhas, Thomas Gleixner, Thomas Huth, Thorsten Blum, Tyrel Datwyler, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote. * tag 'powerpc-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (49 commits) powerpc/pseries: Define __u{8,32} types in papr_hvpipe_hdr struct genirq/msi: Remove msi_post_free() powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add documentation for VPA dispatch trace log PMU powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Handle the writing of perf record when aux wake up is needed powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to capture DTL data in aux buffer powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add support to setup and free aux buffer for capturing DTL data docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-vpa-dtl: Document sysfs event format entries for vpa_dtl pmu powerpc/vpa_dtl: Add interface to expose vpa dtl counters via perf powerpc/time: Expose boot_tb via accessor powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure powerpc/fprobe: fix updated fprobe for function-graph tracer powerpc/ftrace: support CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL powerpc64/modules: replace stub allocation sentinel with an explicit counter powerpc64/modules: correctly iterate over stubs in setup_ftrace_ool_stubs powerpc/ftrace: ensure ftrace record ops are always set for NOPs powerpc/603: Really copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs powerpc/8xx: Remove left-over instruction and comments in DataStoreTLBMiss handler powerpc/pseries: HVPIPE changes to support migration powerpc/pseries: Enable hvpipe with ibm,set-system-parameter RTAS powerpc/pseries: Enable HVPIPE event message interrupt ...
2025-09-29Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley - Replacement of __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files (other architectures have already merged this type of cleanup) - The introduction of ioremap_wc() for RISC-V - Cleanup of the RISC-V kprobes code to use mostly-extant macros rather than open code - A RISC-V kprobes unit test - An architecture-specific endianness swap macro set implementation, leveraging some dedicated RISC-V instructions for this purpose if they are available - The ability to identity and communicate to userspace the presence of a MIPS P8700-specific ISA extension, and to leverage its MIPS-specific PAUSE implementation in cpu_relax() - Several other miscellaneous cleanups * tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.18-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (39 commits) riscv: errata: Fix the PAUSE Opcode for MIPS P8700 riscv: hwprobe: Document MIPS xmipsexectl vendor extension riscv: hwprobe: Add MIPS vendor extension probing riscv: Add xmipsexectl instructions riscv: Add xmipsexectl as a vendor extension dt-bindings: riscv: Add xmipsexectl ISA extension description riscv: cpufeature: add validation for zfa, zfh and zfhmin perf: riscv: skip empty batches in counter start selftests: riscv: Add README for RISC-V KSelfTest riscv: sbi: Switch to new sys-off handler API riscv: Move vendor errata definitions to new header RISC-V: ACPI: enable parsing the BGRT table riscv: Enable ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG riscv: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile riscv: introduce asm/swab.h riscv: mmap(): use unsigned offset type in riscv_sys_mmap drivers/perf: riscv: Remove redundant ternary operators riscv: mm: Use mmu-type from FDT to limit SATP mode riscv: mm: Return intended SATP mode for noXlvl options riscv: kprobes: Remove duplication of RV_EXTRACT_ITYPE_IMM ...
2025-09-24Merge branch 'for-next/perf' into for-next/coreWill Deacon
* for-next/perf: (29 commits) perf/dwc_pcie: Fix use of uninitialized variable Documentation: hisi-pmu: Add introduction to HiSilicon V3 PMU Documentation: hisi-pmu: Fix of minor format error drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for L3C PMU v3 drivers/perf: hisi: Refactor the event configuration of L3C PMU drivers/perf: hisi: Extend the field of tt_core drivers/perf: hisi: Extract the event filter check of L3C PMU drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process of each L3C PMU version drivers/perf: hisi: Export hisi_uncore_pmu_isr() drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event ID check in the framework perf: Fujitsu: Add the Uncore PMU driver perf/arm-cmn: Fix CMN S3 DTM offset perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() coresight: trbe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() MAINTAINERS: Remove myself from HiSilicon PMU maintainers drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon MN PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon NoC PMU perf: arm_pmuv3: Factor out PMCCNTR_EL0 use conditions arm64/boot: Enable EL2 requirements for SPE_FEAT_FDS arm64/boot: Factor out a macro to check SPE version ...
2025-09-24Merge branch 'for-next/docs' into for-next/coreWill Deacon
* for-next/docs: arm64/sme: Drop inaccurate documentation of streaming mode switches
2025-09-22arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AEMark Rutland
Neoverse-V3AE is also affected by erratum #3312417, as described in its Software Developer Errata Notice (SDEN) document: Neoverse V3AE (MP172) SDEN v9.0, erratum 3312417 https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN-2615521/9-0/ Enable the workaround for Neoverse-V3AE, and document this. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2025-09-22powerpc/perf/vpa-dtl: Add documentation for VPA dispatch trace log PMUAthira Rajeev
Documentation for vpa-dtl (Virtual Processor Area - Dispatch Trace Log) PMU interface. And how it can be used to collect the distrace trace log entries in perf data, how to process/report as part of perf report/perf script. Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Tejas Manhas <tejas05@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250915102947.26681-8-atrajeev@linux.ibm.com
2025-09-19riscv: hwprobe: Document MIPS xmipsexectl vendor extensionAleksa Paunovic
Document support for MIPS vendor extensions using the key "RISCV_HWPROBE_KEY_VENDOR_EXT_MIPS_0" and xmipsexectl vendor extension using the key "RISCV_HWPROBE_VENDOR_EXT_XMIPSEXECTL". Signed-off-by: Aleksa Paunovic <aleksa.paunovic@htecgroup.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724-p8700-pause-v5-5-a6cbbe1c3412@htecgroup.com Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
2025-09-18arm64/boot: Enable EL2 requirements for SPE_FEAT_FDSJames Clark
SPE data source filtering (optional from Armv8.8) requires that traps to the filter register PMSDSFR be disabled. Document the requirements and disable the traps if the feature is present. Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2025-09-17Documentation/x86/topology: Detail CPUID leaves used for topology enumerationK Prateek Nayak
Add a new section describing the different CPUID leaves and fields used to parse topology on x86 systems. [ bp: Cleanups and simplifications ontop. ] Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901170418.4314-1-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
2025-09-16arm64/hwcap: Add hwcap for FEAT_LSFEMark Brown
FEAT_LSFE (Large System Float Extension), providing atomic floating point memory operations, is optional from v9.5. This feature adds no new architectural stare and we have no immediate use for it in the kernel so simply provide a hwcap for it to support discovery by userspace. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2025-09-08arm64/sme: Drop inaccurate documentation of streaming mode switchesMark Brown
The SME ABI documentation contains an inaccurate description of the architectural streaming mode entry/exit behaviour, just remove it since this is better documented by the architecture or with the rest of the documentation for the specific software interfaces concerned. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2025-09-05x86/virt/tdx: Update the kexec section in the TDX documentationKai Huang
TDX host kernel now supports kexec/kdump. Update the documentation to reflect that. Opportunistically, remove the parentheses in "Kexec()" and move this section under the "Erratum" section because the updated "Kexec" section now refers to that erratum. Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Tested-by: Farrah Chen <farrah.chen@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250901160930.1785244-7-pbonzini%40redhat.com
2025-08-18docs: Remove remainders of reiserfsDavid Sterba
Reiserfs has been removed in 6.13, there are still some mentions in the documentation about it and the tools. Remove those that don't seem relevant anymore but keep references to reiserfs' r5 hash used by some code. There's one change in a script scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh but it does not seem to be relevant either. Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250813100053.1291961-1-dsterba@suse.com
2025-08-12docs: arm: stm32: fix typo "busses" -> "buses"Akshaykumar Gunari
Fix the spelling of "busses" to the preferred form "buses" in STM32 ARM architecture documentation. Signed-off-by: Akshaykumar Gunari <akshaygunari@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250807145119.2214-1-akshaygunari@gmail.com
2025-08-11Documentation: Fix minor typosRanganath V N
Corrected a few spelling errors and improved the phrasing changes since v1: --corrected as per review Signed-off-by: Ranganath V N <vnranganath.20@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250726063645.4156-1-vnranganath.20@gmail.com
2025-07-31Merge tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle for docs, especially the build system: - The Perl kernel-doc script was added to 2.3.52pre1 just after the turn of the millennium. Over the following 25 years, it accumulated a vast amount of cruft, all in a language few people want to deal with anymore. Mauro's Python replacement in 6.16 faithfully reproduced all of the cruft in the hope of avoiding regressions. Now that we have a more reasonable code base, though, we can work on cleaning it up; many of the changes this time around are toward that end. - A reorganization of the ext4 docs into the usual TOC format. - Various Chinese translations and updates. - A new script from Mauro to help with docs-build testing. - A new document for linked lists - A sweep through MAINTAINERS fixing broken GitHub git:// repository links. ...and lots of fixes and updates" * tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (147 commits) scripts: add origin commit identification based on specific patterns sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir> Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions docs: fault-injection: drop reference to md-faulty docs: document linked lists scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7 docs: kernel-doc: emit warnings for ancient versions of Python Documentation/rtla: Describe exit status Documentation/rtla: Add include common_appendix.rst docs: kernel: Clarify printk_ratelimit_burst reset behavior Documentation: ioctl-number: Don't repeat macro names Documentation: ioctl-number: Shorten macros table Documentation: ioctl-number: Correct full path to papr-physical-attestation.h Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width Documentation: ioctl-number: Fix linuxppc-dev mailto link overlayfs.rst: fix typos docs: kdoc: emit a warning for ancient versions of Python docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections() docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration() ...
2025-07-30Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt translation and wired interrupts - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on hardware that previously advertised it unconditionally - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on systems with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to perform cache maintenance on the address range - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the guest hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take traps of masked external aborts to the hypervisor - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven implementation - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3 system registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the ONE_REG vCPU ioctls - Various cleanups and minor fixes LoongArch: - Add stat information for in-kernel irqchip - Add tracepoints for CPUCFG and CSR emulation exits - Enhance in-kernel irqchip emulation - Various cleanups RISC-V: - Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking - Improve perf kvm stat to report interrupt events - Delegate illegal instruction trap to VS-mode - MMU improvements related to upcoming nested virtualization s390x - Fixes x86: - Add CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC for x86 to allow disabling support for I/O APIC, PIC, and PIT emulation at compile time - Share device posted IRQ code between SVM and VMX and harden it against bugs and runtime errors - Use vcpu_idx, not vcpu_id, for GA log tag/metadata, to make lookups O(1) instead of O(n) - For MMIO stale data mitigation, track whether or not a vCPU has access to (host) MMIO based on whether the page tables have MMIO pfns mapped; using VFIO is prone to false negatives - Rework the MSR interception code so that the SVM and VMX APIs are more or less identical - Recalculate all MSR intercepts from scratch on MSR filter changes, instead of maintaining shadow bitmaps - Advertise support for LKGS (Load Kernel GS base), a new instruction that's loosely related to FRED, but is supported and enumerated independently - Fix a user-triggerable WARN that syzkaller found by setting the vCPU in INIT_RECEIVED state (aka wait-for-SIPI), and then putting the vCPU into VMX Root Mode (post-VMXON). Trying to detect every possible path leading to architecturally forbidden states is hard and even risks breaking userspace (if it goes from valid to valid state but passes through invalid states), so just wait until KVM_RUN to detect that the vCPU state isn't allowed - Add KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF to allow disabling interception of APERF/MPERF reads, so that a "properly" configured VM can access APERF/MPERF. This has many caveats (APERF/MPERF cannot be zeroed on vCPU creation or saved/restored on suspend and resume, or preserved over thread migration let alone VM migration) but can be useful whenever you're interested in letting Linux guests see the effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo - Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ for vm file descriptors if vCPUs have been created, as there's no known use case for changing the default frequency for other VM types and it goes counter to the very reason why the ioctl was added to the vm file descriptor. And also, there would be no way to make it work for confidential VMs with a "secure" TSC, so kill two birds with one stone - Dynamically allocation the shadow MMU's hashed page list, and defer allocating the hashed list until it's actually needed (the TDP MMU doesn't use the list) - Extract many of KVM's helpers for accessing architectural local APIC state to common x86 so that they can be shared by guest-side code for Secure AVIC - Various cleanups and fixes x86 (Intel): - Preserve the host's DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_IN_SMM when running the guest. Failure to honor FREEZE_IN_SMM can leak host state into guests - Explicitly check vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL on nested VM-Enter to prevent L1 from running L2 with features that KVM doesn't support, e.g. BTF x86 (AMD): - WARN and reject loading kvm-amd.ko instead of panicking the kernel if the nested SVM MSRPM offsets tracker can't handle an MSR (which is pretty much a static condition and therefore should never happen, but still) - Fix a variety of flaws and bugs in the AVIC device posted IRQ code - Inhibit AVIC if a vCPU's ID is too big (relative to what hardware supports) instead of rejecting vCPU creation - Extend enable_ipiv module param support to SVM, by simply leaving IsRunning clear in the vCPU's physical ID table entry - Disable IPI virtualization, via enable_ipiv, if the CPU is affected by erratum #1235, to allow (safely) enabling AVIC on such CPUs - Request GA Log interrupts if and only if the target vCPU is blocking, i.e. only if KVM needs a notification in order to wake the vCPU - Intercept SPEC_CTRL on AMD if the MSR shouldn't exist according to the vCPU's CPUID model - Accept any SNP policy that is accepted by the firmware with respect to SMT and single-socket restrictions. An incompatible policy doesn't put the kernel at risk in any way, so there's no reason for KVM to care - Drop a superfluous WBINVD (on all CPUs!) when destroying a VM and use WBNOINVD instead of WBINVD when possible for SEV cache maintenance - When reclaiming memory from an SEV guest, only do cache flushes on CPUs that have ever run a vCPU for the guest, i.e. don't flush the caches for CPUs that can't possibly have cache lines with dirty, encrypted data Generic: - Rework irqbypass to track/match producers and consumers via an xarray instead of a linked list. Using a linked list leads to O(n^2) insertion times, which is hugely problematic for use cases that create large numbers of VMs. Such use cases typically don't actually use irqbypass, but eliminating the pointless registration is a future problem to solve as it likely requires new uAPI - Track irqbypass's "token" as "struct eventfd_ctx *" instead of a "void *", to avoid making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult to understand - Decouple device posted IRQs from VFIO device assignment, as binding a VM to a VFIO group is not a requirement for enabling device posted IRQs - Clean up and document/comment the irqfd assignment code - Disallow binding multiple irqfds to an eventfd with a priority waiter, i.e. ensure an eventfd is bound to at most one irqfd through the entire host, and add a selftest to verify eventfd:irqfd bindings are globally unique - Add a tracepoint for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES to help debug issues related to private <=> shared memory conversions - Drop guest_memfd's .getattr() implementation as the VFS layer will call generic_fillattr() if inode_operations.getattr is NULL - Fix issues with dirty ring harvesting where KVM doesn't bound the processing of entries in any way, which allows userspace to keep KVM in a tight loop indefinitely - Kill off kvm_arch_{start,end}_assignment() and x86's associated tracking, now that KVM no longer uses assigned_device_count as a heuristic for either irqbypass usage or MDS mitigation Selftests: - Fix a comment typo - Verify KVM is loaded when getting any KVM module param so that attempting to run a selftest without kvm.ko loaded results in a SKIP message about KVM not being loaded/enabled (versus some random parameter not existing) - Skip tests that hit EACCES when attempting to access a file, and print a "Root required?" help message. In most cases, the test just needs to be run with elevated permissions" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (340 commits) Documentation: KVM: Use unordered list for pre-init VGIC registers RISC-V: KVM: Avoid re-acquiring memslot in kvm_riscv_gstage_map() RISC-V: KVM: Use find_vma_intersection() to search for intersecting VMAs RISC-V: perf/kvm: Add reporting of interrupt events RISC-V: KVM: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking RISC-V: KVM: Fix inclusion of Smnpm in the guest ISA bitmap RISC-V: KVM: Delegate illegal instruction fault to VS mode RISC-V: KVM: Pass VMID as parameter to kvm_riscv_hfence_xyz() APIs RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out g-stage page table management RISC-V: KVM: Add vmid field to struct kvm_riscv_hfence RISC-V: KVM: Introduce struct kvm_gstage_mapping RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out MMU related declarations into separate headers RISC-V: KVM: Use ncsr_xyz() in kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect() RISC-V: KVM: Implement kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range() RISC-V: KVM: Don't flush TLB when PTE is unchanged RISC-V: KVM: Replace KVM_REQ_HFENCE_GVMA_VMID_ALL with KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH RISC-V: KVM: Rename and move kvm_riscv_local_tlb_sanitize() RISC-V: KVM: Drop the return value of kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_init() RISC-V: KVM: Check kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context() return value KVM: arm64: selftests: Add FEAT_RAS EL2 registers to get-reg-list ...
2025-07-30Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing - Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container) - Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX - Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK - Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP - Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface - Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB - Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap, improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users - Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque - Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly once - Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code - Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization - Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets - Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing - MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling - Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink - Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed - Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries - Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM - Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code refactoring. Add a number of selftests - Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol should be used for an inbound SA lookup - Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS - Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries. Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links - Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch - Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack - Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer - Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT Driver API: - Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink - Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing fields - Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE / Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc - Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs. Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL inputs - Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth management - Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration Device drivers: - Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge) - Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL - Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Broadcom (bnxt): - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations - idpf: add flow steering - add link_down_events statistic - clean up the TSPLL code - preparations for live VM migration - nVidia/Mellanox: - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring) - optimize context memory usage for matchers - expose serial numbers in devlink info - support PCIe congestion metrics - Meta (fbnic): - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink - support dumping FW logs - Marvell/Cavium: - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips - Amazon: - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access) - Ethernet virtual: - VirtIO net: - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets - Google (gve): - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization - Microsoft vNIC: - add handler for device-originated servicing events - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation - support Tx bandwidth clamping - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - AMD: - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp): - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation - Broadcom switches (b53): - support BCM5325 switches - add bcm63xx EPHY power control - Synopsys (stmmac): - lots of code refactoring and cleanups - TI: - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree - icssg: PRP offload support - Microchip: - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support - Intel: - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and time-sensitive networking (taprio) - support packet pre-emption in both - RealTek (r8169): - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126 - Airoha: - add PPPoE offload support - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583 - Ethernet PHYs: - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs: - add MDI/MDI-X control support - add RX error counters - add cable test support - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type) - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x - support WoL for QCA807x - CAN drivers: - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info - WiFi: - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz) - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO) - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support - add Radio Measurement action fields - support per-radio RTS threshold - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is used by TKIP, not only WEP) - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling - WiFi drivers: - RealTek (rtw88): - IBSS mode for SDIO devices - RealTek (rtw89): - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7 - concurrent station + P2P support - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU - Intel (iwlwifi): - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix compatibility issues - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN) - some FIPS interoperability - MediaTek (mt76): - firmware recovery improvements - more MLO work - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k): - fix scan on multi-radio devices - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features - encapsulation/decapsulation offload - Broadcom (brcm80211): - support SDIO 43751 device - Bluetooth: - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS - Bluetooth drivers: - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading" * tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits) dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options ipv6: annotate data-races around rt->fib6_nsiblings ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev() ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify() vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname() igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463 net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support ...
2025-07-29Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "A quick summary: perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extensions (BRBE), typical PMU hardware updates, small additions to MTE for store-only tag checking and exposing non-address bits to signal handlers, HAVE_LIVEPATCH enabled on arm64, VMAP_STACK forced on. There is also a TLBI optimisation on hardware that does not require break-before-make when changing the user PTEs between contiguous and non-contiguous. More details: Perf and PMU updates: - Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs - Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts between clock domains within a given instance - Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval - Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE) - Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes - Minor driver fixes and cleanups Hardware features: - Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY) - Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR) - Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on hardware with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB conflict aborts Software features: - Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable() and using the text-poke API for late module relocations - Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives ACPI: - Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR table Debug: - Simplify the debug exception entry path - Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros Kselftests: - Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests Miscellaneous: - Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get() - Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling - Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic - Remove redundant gcs_free() call" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits) arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at() kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3 arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling ...
2025-07-29Merge tag 'x86-platform-2025-07-29' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 platform updates from Ingo Molnar: "This adds support for the AMD hardware feedback interface (HFI), by Perry Yuan" * tag 'x86-platform-2025-07-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/itmt: Add debugfs file to show core priorities platform/x86/amd: hfi: Add debugfs support platform/x86/amd: hfi: Set ITMT priority from ranking data cpufreq/amd-pstate: Disable preferred cores on designs with workload classification x86/process: Clear hardware feedback history for AMD processors platform/x86: hfi: Add power management callback platform/x86: hfi: Add online and offline callback support platform/x86: hfi: Init per-cpu scores for each class platform/x86: hfi: Parse CPU core ranking data from shared memory platform/x86: hfi: Introduce AMD Hardware Feedback Interface Driver x86/msr-index: Add AMD workload classification MSRs MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer entry for AMD Hardware Feedback Driver Documentation/x86: Add AMD Hardware Feedback Interface documentation
2025-07-29Merge tag 'kvmarm-6.17' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm64 changes for 6.17, round #1 - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt translation and wired interrupts. - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface. - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on hardware that previously advertised it unconditionally. - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on systems with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to perform cache maintenance on the address range. - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the guest hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take traps of masked external aborts to the hypervisor. - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven implementation. - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3 system registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the ONE_REG vCPU ioctls. - Various cleanups and minor fixes.
2025-07-28Merge tag 'hardening-v6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook: - Introduce and start using TRAILING_OVERLAP() helper for fixing embedded flex array instances (Gustavo A. R. Silva) - mux: Convert mux_control_ops to a flex array member in mux_chip (Thorsten Blum) - string: Group str_has_prefix() and strstarts() (Andy Shevchenko) - Remove KCOV instrumentation from __init and __head (Ritesh Harjani, Kees Cook) - Refactor and rename stackleak feature to support Clang - Add KUnit test for seq_buf API - Fix KUnit fortify test under LTO * tag 'hardening-v6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (22 commits) sched/task_stack: Add missing const qualifier to end_of_stack() kstack_erase: Support Clang stack depth tracking kstack_erase: Add -mgeneral-regs-only to silence Clang warnings init.h: Disable sanitizer coverage for __init and __head kstack_erase: Disable kstack_erase for all of arm compressed boot code x86: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches arm64: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches s390: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches arm: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches mips: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatch powerpc/mm/book3s64: Move kfence and debug_pagealloc related calls to __init section configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS stackleak: Rename stackleak_track_stack to __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE seq_buf: Introduce KUnit tests string: Group str_has_prefix() and strstarts() kunit/fortify: Add back "volatile" for sizeof() constants acpi: nfit: intel: avoid multiple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings ...
2025-07-24Merge branch 'for-next/feat_mte_store_only' into for-next/coreCatalin Marinas
* for-next/feat_mte_store_only: : MTE feature to restrict tag checking to store only operations kselftest/arm64/mte: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY testcases kselftest/arm64/mte: Preparation for mte store only test kselftest/arm64/abi: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY feature hwcap test KVM: arm64: Expose MTE_STORE_ONLY feature to guest arm64/hwcaps: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY hwcaps arm64/kernel: Support store-only mte tag check prctl: Introduce PR_MTE_STORE_ONLY arm64/cpufeature: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY feature
2025-07-24Merge branches 'for-next/livepatch', 'for-next/user-contig-bbml2', ↵Catalin Marinas
'for-next/misc', 'for-next/acpi', 'for-next/debug-entry', 'for-next/feat_mte_tagged_far', 'for-next/kselftest', 'for-next/mdscr-cleanup' and 'for-next/vmap-stack', remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core * arm64/for-next/perf: (23 commits) drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling perf/cxlpmu: Fix typos in cxl_pmu.c comments and documentation perf/cxlpmu: Remove unintended newline from IRQ name format string perf/cxlpmu: Fix devm_kcalloc() argument order in cxl_pmu_probe() perf: arm_spe: Relax period restriction perf: arm_pmuv3: Add support for the Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE) KVM: arm64: nvhe: Disable branch generation in nVHE guests arm64: Handle BRBE booting requirements arm64/sysreg: Add BRBE registers and fields perf/arm: Add missing .suppress_bind_attrs perf/arm-cmn: Reduce stack usage during discovery perf: imx9_perf: make the read-only array mask static const perf/arm-cmn: Broaden module description for wider interconnect support ... * for-next/livepatch: : Support for HAVE_LIVEPATCH on arm64 arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered arm64: Implement HAVE_LIVEPATCH arm64: stacktrace: Implement arch_stack_walk_reliable() arm64: stacktrace: Check kretprobe_find_ret_addr() return value arm64/module: Use text-poke API for late relocations. * for-next/user-contig-bbml2: : Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contigous PTEs on hardware with BBML2 and no TLB conflict aborts arm64/mm: Elide tlbi in contpte_convert() under BBML2 iommu/arm: Add BBM Level 2 smmu feature arm64: Add BBM Level 2 cpu feature arm64: cpufeature: Introduce MATCH_ALL_EARLY_CPUS capability type * for-next/misc: : Miscellaneous arm64 patches arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at() arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct arm64: fix unnecessary rebuilding when CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI=y arm64/mm: Optimize loop to reduce redundant operations of contpte_ptep_get arm64: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile * for-next/acpi: : Various ACPI arm64 changes ACPI: Suppress misleading SPCR console message when SPCR table is absent ACPI: Return -ENODEV from acpi_parse_spcr() when SPCR support is disabled * for-next/debug-entry: : Simplify the debug exception entry path arm64: debug: remove debug exception registration infrastructure arm64: debug: split bkpt32 exception entry arm64: debug: split brk64 exception entry arm64: debug: split hardware watchpoint exception entry arm64: debug: split single stepping exception entry arm64: debug: refactor reinstall_suspended_bps() arm64: debug: split hardware breakpoint exception entry arm64: entry: Add entry and exit functions for debug exceptions arm64: debug: remove break/step handler registration infrastructure arm64: debug: call step handlers statically arm64: debug: call software breakpoint handlers statically arm64: refactor aarch32_break_handler() arm64: debug: clean up single_step_handler logic * for-next/feat_mte_tagged_far: : Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE tag check fault kselftest/arm64/mte: Add mtefar tests on check_mmap_options kselftest/arm64/mte: Refactor check_mmap_option test kselftest/arm64/mte: Add verification for address tag in signal handler kselftest/arm64/mte: Add address tag related macro and function kselftest/arm64/mte: Check MTE_FAR feature is supported kselftest/arm64/mte: Register mte signal handler with SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS kselftest/arm64: Add MTE_FAR hwcap test KVM: arm64: Expose FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR feature to guest arm64: Report address tag when FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR is supported arm64/cpufeature: Add FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR feature * for-next/kselftest: : Kselftest updates for arm64 kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3 kselftest/arm64: Specify SVE data when testing VL set in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Fix test for streaming FPSIMD write in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Fix check for setting new VLs in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Convert tpidr2 test to use kselftest.h * for-next/mdscr-cleanup: : Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros KVM: selftests: Change MDSCR_EL1 register holding variables as uint64_t arm64/debug: Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros * for-next/vmap-stack: : Force VMAP_STACK on arm64 arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from entry code arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from SDEI stack handling arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from stacktrace overflow logic arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from traps overflow stack arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from irq stack setup arm64: Remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from THREAD_SHIFT and THREAD_ALIGN arm64: efi: Remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK check arm64: Mandate VMAP_STACK arm64: efi: Fix KASAN false positive for EFI runtime stack arm64/ptrace: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() during flush_gcs() arm64: Restrict pagetable teardown to avoid false warning docs: arm64: Fix ICC_SRE_EL2 register typo in booting.rst
2025-07-21stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASEKees Cook
In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking that can support stack depth callbacks: - Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang stack depth callback support. - Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE, but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself. - Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn. While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS, since that's the only place it is referenced from. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2025-07-16s390/net: Remove NETIUCV device driverNagamani PV
The netiucv driver creates TCP/IP interfaces over IUCV between Linux guests on z/VM and other z/VM entities. Rationale for removal: - NETIUCV connections are only supported for compatibility with earlier versions and not to be used for new network setups, since at least Linux kernel 4.0. - No known active users, use cases, or product dependencies - The driver is no longer relevant for z/VM networking; preferred methods include: * Device pass-through (e.g., OSA, RoCE) * z/VM Virtual Switch (VSWITCH) The IUCV mechanism itself remains supported and is actively used via AF_IUCV, hvc_iucv, and smsg_iucv. Signed-off-by: Nagamani PV <nagamani@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250715074210.3999296-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-08docs: arm64: gic-v5: Document booting requirements for GICv5Lorenzo Pieralisi
Document the requirements for booting a kernel on a system implementing a GICv5 interrupt controller. Specifically, other than DT/ACPI providing the required firmware representation, define what traps must be disabled if the kernel is booted at EL1 on a system where EL2 is implemented. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703-gicv5-host-v7-30-12e71f1b3528@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2025-07-08arm64: Handle BRBE booting requirementsAnshuman Khandual
To use the Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE), some configuration is necessary at EL3 and EL2. This patch documents the requirements and adds the initial EL2 setup code, which largely consists of configuring the fine-grained traps and initializing a couple of BRBE control registers. Before this patch, __init_el2_fgt() would initialize HDFGRTR_EL2 and HDFGWTR_EL2 with the same value, relying on the read/write trap controls for a register occupying the same bit position in either register. The 'nBRBIDR' trap control only exists in bit 59 of HDFGRTR_EL2, while bit 59 of HDFGWTR_EL2 is RES0, and so this assumption no longer holds. To handle HDFGRTR_EL2 and HDFGWTR_EL2 having (slightly) different bit layouts, __init_el2_fgt() is changed to accumulate the HDFGRTR_EL2 and HDFGWTR_EL2 control bits separately. While making this change the open-coded value (1 << 62) is replaced with HDFG{R,W}TR_EL2_nPMSNEVFR_EL1_MASK. The BRBCR_EL1 and BRBCR_EL2 registers are unusual and require special initialisation: even though they are subject to E2H renaming, both have an effect regardless of HCR_EL2.TGE, even when running at EL2. So we must initialize BRBCR_EL2 in case we run in nVHE mode. This is handled in __init_el2_brbe() with a comment to explain the situation. Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> [Mark: rewrite commit message, fix typo in comment] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Co-developed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org> tested-by: Adam Young <admiyo@os.amperecomputing.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611-arm-brbe-v19-v23-2-e7775563036e@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2025-07-07Merge tag 'tsa_x86_bugs_for_6.16' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull CPU speculation fixes from Borislav Petkov: "Add the mitigation logic for Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) TSA are new aspeculative side channel attacks related to the execution timing of instructions under specific microarchitectural conditions. In some cases, an attacker may be able to use this timing information to infer data from other contexts, resulting in information leakage. Add the usual controls of the mitigation and integrate it into the existing speculation bugs infrastructure in the kernel" * tag 'tsa_x86_bugs_for_6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/process: Move the buffer clearing before MONITOR x86/microcode/AMD: Add TSA microcode SHAs KVM: SVM: Advertise TSA CPUID bits to guests x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation x86/bugs: Rename MDS machinery to something more generic
2025-07-07Documentation/x86: Add AMD Hardware Feedback Interface documentationPerry Yuan
Introduce a new documentation file, `amd_hfi.rst`, which delves into the implementation details of the AMD Hardware Feedback Interface and its associated driver, `amd_hfi`. This documentation describes how the driver provides hint to the OS scheduling which depends on the capability of core performance and efficiency ranking data. This documentation describes: * The design of the driver * How the driver provides hints to the OS scheduling * How the driver interfaces with the kernel for efficiency ranking data. Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250609200518.3616080-2-superm1@kernel.org
2025-07-02arm64/hwcaps: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY hwcapsYeoreum Yun
Since ARMv8.9, FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY can be used to restrict raise of tag check fault on store operation only. add MTE_STORE_ONLY hwcaps so that user can use this feature. Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618092957.2069907-5-yeoreum.yun@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2025-07-02arm64: Report address tag when FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR is supportedYeoreum Yun
If FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR (Armv8.9) is supported, bits 63:60 of the fault address are preserved in response to synchronous tag check faults (SEGV_MTESERR). This patch modifies below to support this feature: - Use the original FAR_EL1 value when an MTE tag check fault occurs, if ARM64_MTE_FAR is supported so that not only logical tag (bits 59:56) but also address tag (bits 63:60] being reported too. - Add HWCAP for mtefar to let user know bits 63:60 includes address tag information when when FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR is supported. Applications that require this information should install a signal handler with the SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS flag. While this introduces a minor ABI change, most applications do not set this flag and therefore will not be affected. Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618084513.1761345-3-yeoreum.yun@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>