Pull ata updates from Niklas Cassel:
- Add 'external' to the libata.force module parameter, in order to
allow a user to workaround broken firmware (me)
- Use the str_up_down() helper in the sata_via driver (Salah Triki)
- Convert the Freescale PowerQUICC SATA device tree binding to YAML
(J. Neuschäfer)
- Do not use ATAPI DMA for a device that only supports PIO (me)
- Add Marvell 88SE9215 PCI device ID to the ahci driver. Since the
controller has quirks, it cannot rely on the generic AHCI PCI class
code entry (Daniel Kral)
- Improve the return value of atapi_check_dma() (Huacai Chen)
- Fix the NCQ Non-Data log not supported print to actually reference
the correct log (me)
- Make Marvel 88SE9215 prefer DMA for ATAPI devices (Huacai Chen)
- Simplify the AHCI IRQ vector allocations by performing the IRQ vector
allocations in the same function, regardless of IRQ type (Tomas
Henzl)
* tag 'ata-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/libata/linux:
ata: ahci: simplify init function
ahci: Marvell 88SE9215 controllers prefer DMA for ATAPI
ata: libata: Fix NCQ Non-Data log not supported print
ata: libata: Improve return value of atapi_check_dma()
ahci: add PCI ID for Marvell 88SE9215 SATA Controller
ata: libata-eh: Do not use ATAPI DMA for a device limited to PIO mode
dt-bindings: ata: Convert fsl,pq-sata to YAML
ata: sata_via: Use str_up_down() helper in vt6420_prereset()
ata: libata-core: Add 'external' to the libata.force kernel parameter
Pull x86 platform drivers updates from Ilpo Järvinen:
- alienware-wmi:
- Refactor and split WMAX/legacy drivers
- dell-ddv:
- Correct +0.1 offset in temperature
- Use the power supply extension mechanism for battery temperatures
- intel/pmc:
- Refactor init to mostly use a common init function
- Add support for Arrow Lake U/H
- Add support for Panther Lake
- intel/sst:
- Improve multi die handling
- Prefix header search path with sysroot (fixes cross-compiling)
- lenovo-wmi-hotkey-utilities:
- Support for mic & audio mute LEDs
- samsung-galaxybook:
- Add driver for Samsung Galaxy Book series
- wmi:
- Rework WCxx/WExx ACPI method handling
- Enable data block collection when the data block is set
- platform/arm:
- Add Huawei Matebook E Go EC driver
- platform/mellanox:
- Relocate to drivers/platform/mellanox/
- mlxbf-bootctl:
- RTC battery status sysfs support
- Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (75 commits)
platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Add select POWER_SUPPLY to Kconfig
platform/x86/amd/pmf: convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: convert timeouts to secs_to_jiffies()
irqdomain: platform/x86: Switch to irq_domain_create_linear()
platform/x86/amd/pmc: fix leak in probe()
tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: v1.22 release
tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Prefix header search path with sysroot
tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Die ID for IO dies
tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Fix the condition to check multi die system
tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Prevent increasing MAX_DIE_PER_PACKAGE
platform/x86/amd/pmc: Use managed APIs for mutex
platform/x86/amd/pmc: Remove unnecessary line breaks
platform/x86/amd/pmc: Move macros and structures to the PMC header file
platform/x86/amd/pmc: Notify user when platform does not support s0ix transition
platform/x86: dell-ddv: Use the power supply extension mechanism
platform/x86: dell-ddv: Use devm_battery_hook_register
platform/x86: dell-ddv: Fix temperature calculation
platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: check the return value of devm_mutex_init()
platform/x86: samsung-galaxybook: Fix block_recording not supported logic
platform/x86: dell-uart-backlight: Make dell_uart_bl_serdev_driver static
...
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These are dominated by cpufreq updates which in turn are dominated by
updates related to boost support in the core and drivers and
amd-pstate driver optimizations.
Apart from the above, there are some cpuidle updates including a
rework of the most recent idle intervals handling in the venerable
menu governor that leads to significant improvements in some
performance benchmarks, as the governor is now more likely to predict
a shorter idle duration in some cases, and there are updates of the
core device power management code, mostly related to system suspend
and resume, that should help to avoid potential issues arising when
the drivers of devices depending on one another want to use different
optimizations.
There is also a usual collection of assorted fixes and cleanups,
including removal of some unused code.
Specifics:
- Manage sysfs attributes and boost frequencies efficiently from
cpufreq core to reduce boilerplate code in drivers (Viresh Kumar)
- Minor cleanups to cpufreq drivers (Aaron Kling, Benjamin Schneider,
Dhananjay Ugwekar, Imran Shaik, zuoqian)
- Migrate some cpufreq drivers to using for_each_present_cpu() (Jacky
Bai)
- cpufreq-qcom-hw DT binding fixes (Krzysztof Kozlowski)
- Use str_enable_disable() helper in cpufreq_online() (Lifeng Zheng)
- Optimize the amd-pstate driver to avoid cases where call paths end
up calling the same writes multiple times and needlessly caching
variables through code reorganization, locking overhaul and tracing
adjustments (Mario Limonciello, Dhananjay Ugwekar)
- Make it possible to avoid enabling capacity-aware scheduling (CAS)
in the intel_pstate driver and relocate a check for out-of-band
(OOB) platform handling in it to make it detect OOB before checking
HWP availability (Rafael Wysocki)
- Fix dbs_update() to avoid inadvertent conversions of negative
integer values to unsigned int which causes CPU frequency selection
to be inaccurate in some cases when the "conservative" cpufreq
governor is in use (Jie Zhan)
- Update the handling of the most recent idle intervals in the menu
cpuidle governor to prevent useful information from being discarded
by it in some cases and improve the prediction accuracy (Rafael
Wysocki)
- Make it possible to tell the intel_idle driver to ignore its
built-in table of idle states for the given processor, clean up the
handling of auto-demotion disabling on Baytrail and Cherrytrail
chips in it, and update its MAINTAINERS entry (David Arcari, Artem
Bityutskiy, Rafael Wysocki)
- Make some cpuidle drivers use for_each_present_cpu() instead of
for_each_possible_cpu() during initialization to avoid issues
occurring when nosmp or maxcpus=0 are used (Jacky Bai)
- Clean up the Energy Model handling code somewhat (Rafael Wysocki)
- Use kfree_rcu() to simplify the handling of runtime Energy Model
updates (Li RongQing)
- Add an entry for the Energy Model framework to MAINTAINERS as
properly maintained (Lukasz Luba)
- Address RCU-related sparse warnings in the Energy Model code
(Rafael Wysocki)
- Remove ENERGY_MODEL dependency on SMP and allow it to be selected
when DEVFREQ is set without CPUFREQ so it can be used on a wider
range of systems (Jeson Gao)
- Unify error handling during runtime suspend and runtime resume in
the core to help drivers to implement more consistent runtime PM
error handling (Rafael Wysocki)
- Drop a redundant check from pm_runtime_force_resume() and rearrange
documentation related to __pm_runtime_disable() (Rafael Wysocki)
- Rework the handling of the "smart suspend" driver flag in the PM
core to avoid issues hat may occur when drivers using it depend on
some other drivers and clean up the related PM core code (Rafael
Wysocki, Colin Ian King)
- Fix the handling of devices with the power.direct_complete flag set
if device_suspend() returns an error for at least one device to
avoid situations in which some of them may not be resumed (Rafael
Wysocki)
- Use mutex_trylock() in hibernate_compressor_param_set() to avoid a
possible deadlock that may occur if the "compressor" hibernation
module parameter is accessed during the registration of a new
ieee80211 device (Lizhi Xu)
- Suppress sleeping parent warning in device_pm_add() in the case
when new children are added under a device with the
power.direct_complete set after it has been processed by
device_resume() (Xu Yang)
- Remove needless return in three void functions related to system
wakeup (Zijun Hu)
- Replace deprecated kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page() in the
hibernation core code (David Reaver)
- Remove unused helper functions related to system sleep (David Alan
Gilbert)
- Clean up s2idle_enter() so it does not lock and unlock CPU offline
in vain and update comments in it (Ulf Hansson)
- Clean up broken white space in dpm_wait_for_children() (Geert
Uytterhoeven)
- Update the cpupower utility to fix lib version-ing in it and memory
leaks in error legs, remove hard-coded values, and implement CPU
physical core querying (Thomas Renninger, John B. Wyatt IV, Shuah
Khan, Yiwei Lin, Zhongqiu Han)"
* tag 'pm-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (139 commits)
PM: sleep: Fix bit masking operation
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Narrow properties on SDX75, SA8775p and SM8650
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Drop redundant minItems:1
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Add missing constraint for interrupt-names
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Add QCS8300 compatible
cpufreq: Init cpufreq only for present CPUs
PM: sleep: Fix handling devices with direct_complete set on errors
cpuidle: Init cpuidle only for present CPUs
PM: clk: Remove unused pm_clk_remove()
PM: sleep: core: Fix indentation in dpm_wait_for_children()
PM: s2idle: Extend comment in s2idle_enter()
PM: s2idle: Drop redundant locks when entering s2idle
PM: sleep: Remove unused pm_generic_ wrappers
cpufreq: tegra186: Share policy per cluster
cpupower: Make lib versioning scheme more obvious and fix version link
PM: EM: Rework the depends on for CONFIG_ENERGY_MODEL
PM: EM: Address RCU-related sparse warnings
cpupower: Implement CPU physical core querying
pm: cpupower: remove hard-coded topology depth values
pm: cpupower: Fix cmd_monitor() error legs to free cpu_topology
...
Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"From the functional perspective, the most significant changes here are
the ACPI fan driver update allowing it to handle fans with
fine-grained state checking supported, but without fine-grained
control, and the ACPI button driver update making it subscribe to
system event notifications (in addition to device notifications) which
on some systems is requisite for waking up the system from sleep.
The rest is fixes and cleanups including removal of some dead code.
Specifics:
- Use the str_on_off() helper function instead of hard-coded strings
in the ACPI power resources handling code (Thorsten Blum)
- Add fan speed reporting for ACPI fans that have _FST, but otherwise
do not support the entire ACPI 4 fan interface (Joshua Grisham)
- Fix a stale comment regarding trip points in acpi_thermal_add()
that diverged from the commented code after removing _CRT
evaluation from acpi_thermal_get_trip_points() (xueqin Luo)
- Make ACPI button driver also subscribe to system events (Mario
Limonciello)
- Use the str_yes_no() helper function instead of hard-coded strings
in the ACPI backlight (video) driver (Thorsten Blum)
- Add a missing header file include to the x86 arch CPPC code (Mario
Limonciello)
- Rework the sysfs attributes implementation in the ACPI
platform-profile driver and improve the unregistration code in it
(Nathan Chancellor, Kurt Borja)
- Prevent the ACPI HED driver from being built as a module and change
its initcall level to subsys_initcall to avoid initialization
ordering issues related to it (Xiaofei Tan)
- Update a maintainer email address in the ACPI PMIC entry in
MAINTAINERS (Mika Westerberg)
- Address a GCC 15's -Wunterminated-string-initialization warning in
the core PNP subsystem code and remove some dead code from it (Kees
Cook, David Alan Gilbert)"
* tag 'acpi-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
PNP: Expand length of fixup id string
PNP: Remove prehistoric deadcode
ACPI: button: Install notifier for system events as well
ACPI: fan: Add fan speed reporting for fans with only _FST
ACPI: HED: Always initialize before evged
x86/ACPI: CPPC: Add missing include
ACPI: video: Use str_yes_no() helper in acpi_video_bus_add()
ACPI: platform_profile: Improve platform_profile_unregister()
ACPI: platform-profile: Fix CFI violation when accessing sysfs files
ACPI: power: Use str_on_off() helper function
ACPI: thermal: Fix stale comment regarding trip points
MAINTAINERS: Use my kernel.org address for ACPI PMIC work
Pull x86 speculation mitigation updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Some preparatory work to convert the mitigations machinery to
mitigating attack vectors instead of single vulnerabilities
- Untangle and remove a now unneeded X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB flag
- Add support for a Zen5-specific SRSO mitigation
- Cleanups and minor improvements
* tag 'x86_bugs_for_v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2
x86/bugs: Use the cpu_smt_possible() helper instead of open-coded code
x86/bugs: Add AUTO mitigations for mds/taa/mmio/rfds
x86/bugs: Relocate mds/taa/mmio/rfds defines
x86/bugs: Add X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2_USER
x86/bugs: Remove X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB
KVM: nVMX: Always use IBPB to properly virtualize IBRS
x86/bugs: Use a static branch to guard IBPB on vCPU switch
x86/bugs: Remove the X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB check in ib_prctl_set()
x86/mm: Remove X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB checks in cond_mitigation()
x86/bugs: Move the X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB check into callers
x86/bugs: KVM: Add support for SRSO_MSR_FIX
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
"Nothing major this time around.
Apart from the usual perf/PMU updates, some page table cleanups, the
notable features are average CPU frequency based on the AMUv1
counters, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT and MOPS instructions (memcpy/memset) in
the uaccess routines.
Perf and PMUs:
- Support for the 'Rainier' CPU PMU from Arm
- Preparatory driver changes and cleanups that pave the way for BRBE
support
- Support for partial virtualisation of the Apple-M1 PMU
- Support for the second event filter in Arm CSPMU designs
- Minor fixes and cleanups (CMN and DWC PMUs)
- Enable EL2 requirements for FEAT_PMUv3p9
Power, CPU topology:
- Support for AMUv1-based average CPU frequency
- Run-time SMT control wired up for arm64 (CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT). It
adds a generic topology_is_primary_thread() function overridden by
x86 and powerpc
New(ish) features:
- MOPS (memcpy/memset) support for the uaccess routines
Security/confidential compute:
- Fix the DMA address for devices used in Realms with Arm CCA. The
CCA architecture uses the address bit to differentiate between
shared and private addresses
- Spectre-BHB: assume CPUs Linux doesn't know about vulnerable by
default
Memory management clean-ups:
- Drop the P*D_TABLE_BIT definition in preparation for 128-bit PTEs
- Some minor page table accessor clean-ups
- PIE/POE (permission indirection/overlay) helpers clean-up
Kselftests:
- MTE: skip hugetlb tests if MTE is not supported on such mappings
and user correct naming for sync/async tag checking modes
Miscellaneous:
- Add a PKEY_UNRESTRICTED definition as 0 to uapi (toolchain people
request)
- Sysreg updates for new register fields
- CPU type info for some Qualcomm Kryo cores"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (72 commits)
arm64: mm: Don't use %pK through printk
perf/arm_cspmu: Fix missing io.h include
arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists
arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE
arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe list
arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB
arm64: errata: Add QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD to the spectre_bhb_k24_list
arm64/sysreg: Enforce whole word match for open/close tokens
arm64/sysreg: Fix unbalanced closing block
arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT
arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system
arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system
cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
arm64/mm: Define PTDESC_ORDER
perf/arm_cspmu: Add PMEVFILT2R support
perf/arm_cspmu: Generalise event filtering
perf/arm_cspmu: Move register definitons to header
arm64/kernel: Always use level 2 or higher for early mappings
arm64/mm: Drop PXD_TABLE_BIT
arm64/mm: Check pmd_table() in pmd_trans_huge()
...
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"x86 CPU features support:
- Generate the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> header based on build config
(H. Peter Anvin, Xin Li)
- x86 CPUID parsing updates and fixes (Ahmed S. Darwish)
- Introduce the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter (Brendan Jackman)
- Enable modifying CPU bug flags with '{clear,set}puid=' (Brendan
Jackman)
- Utilize CPU-type for CPU matching (Pawan Gupta)
- Warn about unmet CPU feature dependencies (Sohil Mehta)
- Prepare for new Intel Family numbers (Sohil Mehta)
Percpu code:
- Standardize & reorganize the x86 percpu layout and related cleanups
(Brian Gerst)
- Convert the stackprotector canary to a regular percpu variable
(Brian Gerst)
- Add a percpu subsection for cache hot data (Brian Gerst)
- Unify __pcpu_op{1,2}_N() macros to __pcpu_op_N() (Uros Bizjak)
- Construct __percpu_seg_override from __percpu_seg (Uros Bizjak)
MM:
- Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB
instruction (Rik van Riel)
- Rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (Mike Rapoport)
- PAT: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation (Kirill A.
Shutemov, Mike Rapoport)
- Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default
(Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Robustify page table initialization (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (Jann Horn)
- Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
(Matthew Wilcox)
KASLR:
- x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems, to support PCI
BAR space beyond the 10TiB region (CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA=y) (Balbir
Singh)
CPU bugs:
- Implement FineIBT-BHI mitigation (Peter Zijlstra)
- speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent (Pawan Gupta)
- speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC (Pawan
Gupta)
- RFDS: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list (Pawan
Gupta)
System calls:
- Break up entry/common.c (Brian Gerst)
- Move sysctls into arch/x86 (Joel Granados)
Intel LAM support updates: (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
- selftests/lam: Move cpu_has_la57() to use cpuinfo flag
- selftests/lam: Skip test if LAM is disabled
- selftests/lam: Test get_user() LAM pointer handling
AMD SMN access updates:
- Add SMN offsets to exclusive region access (Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers (Mario Limonciello)
- Have HSMP use SMN through AMD_NODE (Yazen Ghannam)
Power management updates: (Patryk Wlazlyn)
- Allow calling mwait_play_dead with an arbitrary hint
- ACPI/processor_idle: Add FFH state handling
- intel_idle: Provide the default enter_dead() handler
- Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()
Build system:
- Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1 (Brian Gerst)
- Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0 (Nathan Chancellor)
Kconfig: (Arnd Bergmann)
- Add cmpxchg8b support back to Geode CPUs
- Drop 32-bit "bigsmp" machine support
- Rework CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU compiler flags
- Drop configuration options for early 64-bit CPUs
- Remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G support
- Drop CONFIG_SWIOTLB for PAE
- Drop support for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
- Document CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID as 64-bit-only
- Remove old STA2x11 support
- Only allow CONFIG_EISA for 32-bit
Headers:
- Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI and non-UAPI
headers (Thomas Huth)
Assembly code & machine code patching:
- x86/alternatives: Simplify alternative_call() interface (Josh
Poimboeuf)
- x86/alternatives: Simplify callthunk patching (Peter Zijlstra)
- KVM: VMX: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/hyperv: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/traps: Cleanup and robustify decode_bug() (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from
<asm/asm.h> (Uros Bizjak)
- Use named operands in inline asm (Uros Bizjak)
- Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking
instructions (Uros Bizjak)
Earlyprintk:
- Harden early_serial (Peter Zijlstra)
NMI handler:
- Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc & use it in
nmi_shootdown_cpus() (Waiman Long)
Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups:
- by Ahmed S. Darwish, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Artem
Bityutskiy, Borislav Petkov, Brendan Jackman, Brian Gerst, Dan
Carpenter, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, H. Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar,
Josh Poimboeuf, Kevin Brodsky, Mike Rapoport, Lukas Bulwahn, Maciej
Wieczor-Retman, Max Grobecker, Patryk Wlazlyn, Pawan Gupta, Peter
Zijlstra, Philip Redkin, Qasim Ijaz, Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner,
Thorsten Blum, Tom Lendacky, Tony Luck, Uros Bizjak, Vitaly
Kuznetsov, Xin Li, liuye"
* tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (211 commits)
zstd: Increase DYNAMIC_BMI2 GCC version cutoff from 4.8 to 11.0 to work around compiler segfault
x86/asm: Make asm export of __ref_stack_chk_guard unconditional
x86/mm: Only do broadcast flush from reclaim if pages were unmapped
perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Replace Pentium 4 model checks with VFM ones
perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Simplify Intel PMU initialization
x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-UAPI headers
x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI headers
x86/locking/atomic: Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions
x86/asm: Use asm_inline() instead of asm() in clwb()
x86/asm: Use CLFLUSHOPT and CLWB mnemonics in <asm/special_insns.h>
x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()
x86/hweight: Use ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT in inline asm()
x86/hweight: Use named operands in inline asm()
x86/stackprotector/64: Only export __ref_stack_chk_guard on CONFIG_SMP
x86/head/64: Avoid Clang < 17 stack protector in startup code
x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from <asm/asm.h>
x86/runtime-const: Add the RUNTIME_CONST_PTR assembly macro
x86/cpu/intel: Limit the non-architectural constant_tsc model checks
x86/mm/pat: Replace Intel x86_model checks with VFM ones
x86/cpu/intel: Fix fast string initialization for extended Families
...
Pull RCU updates from Boqun Feng:
"Documentation:
- Add broken-timing possibility to stallwarn.rst
- Improve discussion of this_cpu_ptr(), add raw_cpu_ptr()
- Document self-propagating callbacks
- Point call_srcu() to call_rcu() for detailed memory ordering
- Add CONFIG_RCU_LAZY delays to call_rcu() kernel-doc header
- Clarify RCU_LAZY and RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF help text
- Remove references to old grace-period-wait primitives
srcu:
- Introduce srcu_read_{un,}lock_fast(), which is similar to
srcu_read_{un,}lock_lite(): avoid smp_mb()s in lock and unlock
at the cost of calling synchronize_rcu() in synchronize_srcu()
Moreover, by returning the percpu offset of the counter at
srcu_read_lock_fast() time, srcu_read_unlock_fast() can avoid
extra pointer dereferencing, which makes it faster than
srcu_read_{un,}lock_lite()
srcu_read_{un,}lock_fast() are intended to replace
rcu_read_{un,}lock_trace() if possible
RCU torture:
- Add get_torture_init_jiffies() to return the start time of the test
- Add a test_boost_holdoff module parameter to allow delaying
boosting tests when building rcutorture as built-in
- Add grace period sequence number logging at the beginning and end
of failure/close-call results
- Switch to hexadecimal for the expedited grace period sequence
number in the rcu_exp_grace_period trace point
- Make cur_ops->format_gp_seqs take buffer length
- Move RCU_TORTURE_TEST_{CHK_RDR_STATE,LOG_CPU} to bool
- Complain when invalid SRCU reader_flavor is specified
- Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing, which forces SRCU
uses atomics even when percpu ops are NMI safe, and use the Kconfig
for SRCU lockdep testing
Misc:
- Split rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult() mask parameter and use for tracing
- Remove READ_ONCE() for rdp->gpwrap access in __note_gp_changes()
- Fix get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() GP-start detection
- Move RCU Tasks self-tests to core_initcall()
- Print segment lengths in show_rcu_nocb_gp_state()
- Make RCU watch ct_kernel_exit_state() warning
- Flush console log from kernel_power_off()
- rcutorture: Allow a negative value for nfakewriters
- rcu: Update TREE05.boot to test normal synchronize_rcu()
- rcu: Use _full() API to debug synchronize_rcu()
Make RCU handle PREEMPT_LAZY better:
- Fix header guard for rcu_all_qs()
- rcu: Rename PREEMPT_AUTO to PREEMPT_LAZY
- Update __cond_resched comment about RCU quiescent states
- Handle unstable rdp in rcu_read_unlock_strict()
- Handle quiescent states for PREEMPT_RCU=n, PREEMPT_COUNT=y
- osnoise: Provide quiescent states
- Adjust rcutorture with possible PREEMPT_RCU=n && PREEMPT_COUNT=y
combination
- Limit PREEMPT_RCU configurations
- Make rcutorture senario TREE07 and senario TREE10 use
PREEMPT_LAZY=y"
* tag 'rcu-next-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (59 commits)
rcutorture: Make scenario TREE07 build CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY=y
rcutorture: Make scenario TREE10 build CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY=y
rcu: limit PREEMPT_RCU configurations
rcutorture: Update ->extendables check for lazy preemption
rcutorture: Update rcutorture_one_extend_check() for lazy preemption
osnoise: provide quiescent states
rcu: Use _full() API to debug synchronize_rcu()
rcu: Update TREE05.boot to test normal synchronize_rcu()
rcutorture: Allow a negative value for nfakewriters
Flush console log from kernel_power_off()
context_tracking: Make RCU watch ct_kernel_exit_state() warning
rcu/nocb: Print segment lengths in show_rcu_nocb_gp_state()
rcu-tasks: Move RCU Tasks self-tests to core_initcall()
rcu: Fix get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() GP-start detection
torture: Make SRCU lockdep testing use srcu_read_lock_nmisafe()
srcu: Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing
rcutorture: Complain when invalid SRCU reader_flavor is specified
rcutorture: Move RCU_TORTURE_TEST_{CHK_RDR_STATE,LOG_CPU} to bool
rcutorture: Make cur_ops->format_gp_seqs take buffer length
rcutorture: Add ftrace-compatible timestamp to GP# failure/close-call output
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a reasonably busy cycle for docs...
- Significant changes throughout the tree to bring Python code up to
current standards and raise the minimum Python required to 3.9
Much of this is preparatory to replacing the ancient Perl
scripts/kernel-doc horror with a slightly less horrifying Python
implementation, expected for 6.16
- Update the minimum Sphinx required to 3.4.3, allowing us to remove
a bunch of older compatibility code
- Rework and improve the generation of the ABI documentation
(All of the above done by Mauro)
- Lots of translation updates. Alex Shi and Yanteng Si are taking on
responsibility for the Chinese translations going forward; that
work will still get to you via docs-next
- Try to standardize the format for indicating a developer's
affiliation in commit tags
- Clarify the TAB's role in CoC enforcement actions
- Try to spell out the rules for when a commit tag can name another
developer without their explicit permission
Plus lots of other typo fixes and updates"
* tag 'docs-6.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (98 commits)
docs/zh_CN: fix spelling mistake
docs/Chinese: change the disclaimer words
docs/zh_CN: Add snp-tdx-threat-model index Chinese translation
docs: driver-api: firmware: clarify userspace requirements
docs: clarify rules wrt tagging other people
docs: Remove outdated highuid.rst documentation
Documentation: dma-buf: heaps: Add heap name definitions
docs/.../submit-checklist: Use Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst for cross-ref of README
docs: Correct installation instruction
Documentation: kcsan: fix "Plain Accesses and Data Races" URL in kcsan.rst
Documentation/CoC: Spell out the TAB role in enforcement decisions
Documentation: ocxl.rst: Update consortium site
scripts: get_feat.pl: substitute s390x with s390
scripts/kernel-doc: drop dead code for Wcontents_before_sections
scripts/kernel-doc: don't add not needed new lines
docs: driver-api/infiniband.rst: fix Kerneldoc markup
drivers: firewire: firewire-cdev.h: fix identation on a kernel-doc markup
drivers: media: intel-ipu3.h: fix identation on a kernel-doc markup
include/asm-generic/io.h: fix kerneldoc markup
Docs/arch/arm64: Fix spelling in amu.rst
...
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Add deprecation info messages to cgroup1-only features
- rstat updates including a bug fix and breaking up a critical section
to reduce interrupt latency impact
- Other misc and doc updates
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: rstat: Cleanup flushing functions and locking
cgroup/rstat: avoid disabling irqs for O(num_cpu)
mm: Fix a build breakage in memcontrol-v1.c
blk-cgroup: Simplify policy files registration
cgroup: Update file naming comment
cgroup: Add deprecation message to legacy freezer controller
mm: Add transformation message for per-memcg swappiness
RFC cgroup/cpuset-v1: Add deprecation messages to sched_relax_domain_level
cgroup/cpuset-v1: Add deprecation messages to memory_migrate
cgroup/cpuset-v1: Add deprecation messages to mem_exclusive and mem_hardwall
cgroup: Print message when /proc/cgroups is read on v2-only system
cgroup/blkio: Add deprecation messages to reset_stats
cgroup/cpuset-v1: Add deprecation messages to memory_spread_page and memory_spread_slab
cgroup/cpuset-v1: Add deprecation messages to sched_load_balance and memory_pressure_enabled
cgroup, docs: Be explicit about independence of RT_GROUP_SCHED and non-cpu controllers
cgroup/rstat: Fix forceidle time in cpu.stat
cgroup/misc: Remove unused misc_cg_res_total_usage
cgroup/cpuset: Move procfs cpuset attribute under cgroup-v1.c
cgroup: update comment about dropping cgroup kn refs
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
"As usual, it's scattered changes all over. Patches touching things
outside of our traditional areas in the tree have been Acked by
maintainers or were trivial changes:
- loadpin: remove unsupported MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE (Arulpandiyan
Vadivel)
- samples/check-exec: Fix script name (Mickaël Salaün)
- yama: remove needless locking in yama_task_prctl() (Oleg Nesterov)
- lib/string_choices: Sort by function name (R Sundar)
- hardening: Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile
time (Mel Gorman)
- uaccess: Split out compile-time checks into ucopysize.h
- kbuild: clang: Support building UM with SUBARCH=i386
- x86: Enable i386 FORTIFY_SOURCE on Clang 16+
- ubsan/overflow: Rework integer overflow sanitizer option
- Add missing __nonstring annotations for callers of
memtostr*()/strtomem*()
- Add __must_be_noncstr() and have memtostr*()/strtomem*() check for
it
- Introduce __nonstring_array for silencing future GCC 15 warnings"
* tag 'hardening-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (26 commits)
compiler_types: Introduce __nonstring_array
hardening: Enable i386 FORTIFY_SOURCE on Clang 16+
x86/build: Remove -ffreestanding on i386 with GCC
ubsan/overflow: Enable ignorelist parsing and add type filter
ubsan/overflow: Enable pattern exclusions
ubsan/overflow: Rework integer overflow sanitizer option to turn on everything
samples/check-exec: Fix script name
yama: don't abuse rcu_read_lock/get_task_struct in yama_task_prctl()
kbuild: clang: Support building UM with SUBARCH=i386
loadpin: remove MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE as it is no longer supported
lib/string_choices: Rearrange functions in sorted order
string.h: Validate memtostr*()/strtomem*() arguments more carefully
compiler.h: Introduce __must_be_noncstr()
nilfs2: Mark on-disk strings as nonstring
uapi: stddef.h: Introduce __kernel_nonstring
x86/tdx: Mark message.bytes as nonstring
string: kunit: Mark nonstring test strings as __nonstring
scsi: qla2xxx: Mark device strings as nonstring
scsi: mpt3sas: Mark device strings as nonstring
scsi: mpi3mr: Mark device strings as nonstring
...
Merge cpuidle updates for 6.15-rc5, including a menu governor update
that is reported to improve some benchmark results quite significantly:
- Update the handling of the most recent idle intervals in the menu
cpuidle governor to prevent useful information from being discarded
by it in some cases and improve the prediction accuracy (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Make it possible to tell the intel_idle driver to ignore its built-in
table of idle states for the given processor, clean up the handling
of auto-demotion disabling on Baytrail and Cherrytrail chips in it,
and update its MAINTAINERS entry (David Arcari, Artem Bityutskiy,
Rafael Wysocki).
- Make some cpuidle drivers use for_each_present_cpu() instead of
for_each_possible_cpu() during initialization to avoid issues
occurring when nosmp or maxcpus=0 are used (Jacky Bai).
* pm-cpuidle:
cpuidle: Init cpuidle only for present CPUs
cpuidle: intel_idle: Update MAINTAINERS
intel_idle: introduce 'no_native' module parameter
cpuidle: menu: Update documentation after get_typical_interval() changes
cpuidle: menu: Avoid discarding useful information
cpuidle: menu: Eliminate outliers on both ends of the sample set
cpuidle: menu: Tweak threshold use in get_typical_interval()
cpuidle: menu: Use one loop for average and variance computations
cpuidle: menu: Drop a redundant local variable
intel_idle: clean up BYT/CHT auto demotion disable
Merge cpufreq updates for 6.15-rc1:
- Manage sysfs attributes and boost frequencies efficiently from
cpufreq core to reduce boilerplate code from drivers (Viresh Kumar).
- Minor cleanups to cpufreq drivers (Aaron Kling, Benjamin Schneider,
Dhananjay Ugwekar, Imran Shaik, and zuoqian).
- Migrate some cpufreq drivers to using for_each_present_cpu() (Jacky
Bai).
- cpufreq-qcom-hw DT binding fixes (Krzysztof Kozlowski).
- Use str_enable_disable() helper in cpufreq_online() (Lifeng Zheng).
- Optimize the amd-pstate driver to avoid cases where call paths end
up calling the same writes multiple times and needlessly caching
variables through code reorganization, locking overhaul and tracing
adjustments (Mario Limonciello, Dhananjay Ugwekar).
- Make it possible to avoid enabling capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) in
the intel_pstate driver and relocate a check for out-of-band (OOB)
platform handling in it to make it detect OOB before checking HWP
availability (Rafael Wysocki).
- Fix dbs_update() to avoid inadvertent conversions of negative integer
values to unsigned int which causes CPU frequency selection to be
inaccurate in some cases when the "conservative" cpufreq governor is
in use (Jie Zhan).
* pm-cpufreq: (91 commits)
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Narrow properties on SDX75, SA8775p and SM8650
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Drop redundant minItems:1
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Add missing constraint for interrupt-names
dt-bindings: cpufreq: cpufreq-qcom-hw: Add QCS8300 compatible
cpufreq: Init cpufreq only for present CPUs
cpufreq: tegra186: Share policy per cluster
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Drop actions in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_offline()
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Stop caching EPP
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Rework CPPC enabling
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Drop debug statements for policy setting
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Update cppc_req_cached for shared mem EPP writes
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Move all EPP tracing into *_update_perf and *_set_epp functions
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Cache CPPC request in shared mem case too
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Replace all AMD_CPPC_* macros with masks
cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Adjust variable scope
cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Run on all of the correct CPUs
cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Drop SUCCESS and FAIL enums
cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Allow lowest nonlinear and lowest to be the same
cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Use _free macro to free put policy
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Drop `cppc_cap1_cached`
...
The affected CPU table (cpu_vuln_blacklist) marks Alderlake and Raptorlake
P-only parts affected by RFDS. This is not true because only E-cores are
affected by RFDS. With the current family/model matching it is not possible
to differentiate the unaffected parts, as the affected and unaffected
hybrid variants have the same model number.
Add a cpu-type match as well for such parts so as to exclude P-only parts
being marked as affected.
Note, family/model and cpu-type enumeration could be inaccurate in
virtualized environments. In a guest affected status is decided by RFDS_NO
and RFDS_CLEAR bits exposed by VMMs.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311-add-cpu-type-v8-5-e8514dcaaff2@linux.intel.com
pnp_remove_card() is currently unused, it has been since it was
added in 2003's BKrev: 3e6d3f19XSmESWEZnNEReEJOJW5SOw
pnp_unregister_protocol() is currently unused, it has been since
it was added in 2002's BKrev: 3df0cf6d4FVUKndhbfxjL7pksw5PGA
Remove them, and pnp_remove_card_device() and __pnp_remove_device()
which are now no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307214936.74504-1-linux@treblig.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
As explained in the commit 76f969e894 ("cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer"),
the original freezer is imperfect, some users may unwittingly rely on it
when there exists the alternative of v2. Print a message when it happens
and explain that in the docs.
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The concept of per-memcg swappiness has never landed well in memcg for
cgroup v2. Add a message to users who use it on v1 hierarchy.
Decreased swappiness transforms to memory.swap.max=0 whereas
increased swappiness transforms into active memory.reclaim operation.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1577252208-32419-1-git-send-email-teawater@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada:
- Use the specified $(LD) when building userprogs with Clang
- Pass the correct target triple when compile-testing UAPI headers
with Clang
- Fix pacman-pkg build error with KBUILD_OUTPUT
* tag 'kbuild-fixes-v6.14-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: install-extmod-build: Fix build when specifying KBUILD_OUTPUT
docs: Kconfig: fix defconfig description
kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang
kbuild: userprogs: use correct lld when linking through clang
The cgroup v2 cpu controller has a limitation that if
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED is enabled, the cpu controller can be enabled only
if all the realtime processes are in the root cgroup. The other
controllers have no such restriction. They can be used for the resource
control of realtime processes irrespective of whether
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji <shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Commit 2a86f66121 ("kbuild: use KBUILD_DEFCONFIG as the fallback
for DEFCONFIG_LIST") removed arch/$ARCH/defconfig; however,
the document has not been updated to reflect this change yet.
Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Change the default value of spectre v2 in user mode to respect the
CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 config option.
Currently, user mode spectre v2 is set to auto
(SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO) by default, even if
CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 is disabled.
Set the spectre_v2 value to auto (SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO) if the
Spectre v2 config (CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) is enabled, otherwise
set the value to none (SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_NONE).
Important to say the command line argument "spectre_v2_user" overwrites
the default value in both cases.
When CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 is not set, users have the flexibility
to opt-in for specific mitigations independently. In this scenario,
setting spectre_v2= will not enable spectre_v2_user=, and command line
options spectre_v2_user and spectre_v2 are independent when
CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2=n.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241031-x86_bugs_last_v2-v2-2-b7ff1dab840e@debian.org
With the maximum amount of RAM now 4GB, there is very little point
to still have PTE pages in highmem. Drop this for simplification.
The only other architecture supporting HIGHPTE is 32-bit arm, and
once that feature is removed as well, the highpte logic can be
dropped from common code as well.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226213714.4040853-8-arnd@kernel.org
HIGHMEM64G support was added in linux-2.3.25 to support (then)
high-end Pentium Pro and Pentium III Xeon servers with more than 4GB of
addressing, NUMA and PCI-X slots started appearing.
I have found no evidence of this ever being used in regular dual-socket
servers or consumer devices, all the users seem obsolete these days,
even by i386 standards:
- Support for NUMA servers (NUMA-Q, IBM x440, unisys) was already
removed ten years ago.
- 4+ socket non-NUMA servers based on Intel 450GX/450NX, HP F8 and
ServerWorks ServerSet/GrandChampion could theoretically still work
with 8GB, but these were exceptionally rare even 20 years ago and
would have usually been equipped with than the maximum amount of
RAM.
- Some SKUs of the Celeron D from 2004 had 64-bit mode fused off but
could still work in a Socket 775 mainboard designed for the later
Core 2 Duo and 8GB. Apparently most BIOSes at the time only allowed
64-bit CPUs.
- The rare Xeon LV "Sossaman" came on a few motherboards with
registered DDR2 memory support up to 16GB.
- In the early days of x86-64 hardware, there was sometimes the need
to run a 32-bit kernel to work around bugs in the hardware drivers,
or in the syscall emulation for 32-bit userspace. This likely still
works but there should never be a need for this any more.
PAE mode is still required to get access to the 'NX' bit on Atom
'Pentium M' and 'Core Duo' CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226213714.4040853-6-arnd@kernel.org
The x86-32 kernel used to support multiple platforms with more than eight
logical CPUs, from the 1999-2003 timeframe: Sequent NUMA-Q, IBM Summit,
Unisys ES7000 and HP F8. Support for all except the latter was dropped
back in 2014, leaving only the F8 based DL740 and DL760 G2 machines in
this catery, with up to eight single-core Socket-603 Xeon-MP processors
with hyperthreading.
Like the already removed machines, the HP F8 servers at the time cost
upwards of $100k in typical configurations, but were quickly obsoleted
by their 64-bit Socket-604 cousins and the AMD Opteron.
Earlier servers with up to 8 Pentium Pro or Xeon processors remain
fully supported as they had no hyperthreading. Similarly, the more
common 4-socket Xeon-MP machines with hyperthreading using Intel
or ServerWorks chipsets continue to work without this, and all the
multi-core Xeon processors also run 64-bit kernels.
While the "bigsmp" support can also be used to run on later 64-bit
machines (including VM guests), it seems best to discourage that
and get any remaining users to update their kernels to 64-bit builds
on these. As a side-effect of this, there is also no more need to
support NUMA configurations on 32-bit x86, as all true 32-bit
NUMA platforms are already gone.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226213714.4040853-3-arnd@kernel.org
Add support for
CPUID Fn8000_0021_EAX[31] (SRSO_MSR_FIX). If this bit is 1, it
indicates that software may use MSR BP_CFG[BpSpecReduce] to mitigate
SRSO.
Enable BpSpecReduce to mitigate SRSO across guest/host boundaries.
Switch back to enabling the bit when virtualization is enabled and to
clear the bit when virtualization is disabled because using a MSR slot
would clear the bit when the guest is exited and any training the guest
has done, would potentially influence the host kernel when execution
enters the kernel and hasn't VMRUN the guest yet.
More detail on the public thread in Link below.
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202120416.6054-1-bp@kernel.org
This work had been triggered by a report that commit 0611a640e6
("eventpoll: prefer kfree_rcu() in __ep_remove()") had caused the
critical-jOPS metric of the SPECjbb 2015 benchmark [1] to drop by around
50% even though it generally reduced kernel overhead. Indeed, it was
found during further investigation that the total interrupt rate while
running the SPECjbb workload had fallen as a result of that commit by
55% and the local timer interrupt rate had fallen by almost 80%.
That turned out to cause the menu cpuidle governor to select the deepest
idle state supplied by the cpuidle driver (intel_idle) much more often
which added significantly more idle state latency to the workload and
that led to the decrease of the critical-jOPS score.
Interestingly enough, this problem was not visible when the teo cpuidle
governor was used instead of menu, so it appeared to be specific to the
latter. CPU wakeup event statistics collected while running the
workload indicated that the menu governor was effectively ignoring non-
timer wakeup information and all of its idle state selection decisions
appeared to be based on timer wakeups only. Thus, it appeared that the
reduction of the local timer interrupt rate caused the governor to
predict a idle duration much more often while running the workload and
the deepest idle state was selected significantly more often as a result
of that.
A subsequent inspection of the get_typical_interval() function in the
menu governor indicated that it might return UINT_MAX too often which
then caused the governor's decisions to be based entirely on information
related to timers.
Generally speaking, UINT_MAX is returned by get_typical_interval() if it
cannot make a prediction based on the most recent idle intervals data
with sufficiently high confidence, but at least in some cases this means
that useful information is not taken into account at all which may lead
to significant idle state selection mistakes. Moreover, this is not
really unlikely to happen.
One issue with get_typical_interval() is that, when it eliminates
outliers from the sample set in an attempt to reduce the standard
deviation (and so improve the prediction confidence), it does that by
dropping high-end samples only, while samples at the low end of the set
are retained. However, the samples at the low end very well may be the
outliers and they should be eliminated from the sample set instead of
the high-end samples. Accordingly, the likelihood of making a
meaningful idle duration prediction can be improved by making it also
eliminate low-end samples if they are farther from the average than
high-end samples.
Another issue is that get_typical_interval() gives up after eliminating
1/4 of the samples if the standard deviation is still not as low as
desired (within 1/6 of the average or within 20 us if the average is
close to 0), but the remaining samples in the set still represent useful
information at that point and discarding them altogether may lead to
suboptimal idle state selection.
For instance, the largest idle duration value in the get_typical_interval()
data set is the maximum idle duration observed recently and it is likely
that the upcoming idle duration will not exceed it. Therefore, in the
absence of a better choice, this value can be used as an upper bound on
the target residency of the idle state to select.
* cpuidle-menu:
cpuidle: menu: Update documentation after get_typical_interval() changes
cpuidle: menu: Avoid discarding useful information
cpuidle: menu: Eliminate outliers on both ends of the sample set
cpuidle: menu: Tweak threshold use in get_typical_interval()
cpuidle: menu: Use one loop for average and variance computations
cpuidle: menu: Drop a redundant local variable
Since commit 18734958e9 ("intel_idle: Use ACPI _CST for processor models
without C-state tables") the intel_idle driver has had the ability to use
the ACPI _CST to populate C-states when the processor model is not
recognized.
However, even when the processor model is recognized (native mode) there
are cases where it is useful to make the driver ignore the per-CPU idle
states in lieu of ACPI C-states (such as specific application performance).
Add a new 'no_native' module parameter to provide this functionality.
Signed-off-by: David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220151120.1131122-1-darcari@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
[ rjw: Spell CPU in capitals ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Correct the erroneous spelling of 'responsible' in
Documentation/admin-guide/media/cec.rst. This fixes all errors
pointed out by codespell in the file.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Capacity-aware scheduling (CAS) is enabled by default by intel_pstate on
hybrid systems without SMT, but in some usage scenarios it may be more
attractive to place tasks for maximum CPU performance regardless of the
extra cost in terms of energy, which is the case on such systems when
CAS is not enabled, so introduce a command line option to forbid
intel_pstate to enable CAS.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by:Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2781262.mvXUDI8C0e@rjwysocki.net
Currently the CPUFreq core exposes two sysfs attributes that can be used
to query current frequency of a given CPU(s): namely cpuinfo_cur_freq
and scaling_cur_freq. Both provide slightly different view on the
subject and they do come with their own drawbacks.
cpuinfo_cur_freq provides higher precision though at a cost of being
rather expensive. Moreover, the information retrieved via this attribute
is somewhat short lived as frequency can change at any point of time
making it difficult to reason from.
scaling_cur_freq, on the other hand, tends to be less accurate but then
the actual level of precision (and source of information) varies between
architectures making it a bit ambiguous.
The new attribute, cpuinfo_avg_freq, is intended to provide more stable,
distinct interface, exposing an average frequency of a given CPU(s), as
reported by the hardware, over a time frame spanning no more than a few
milliseconds. As it requires appropriate hardware support, this
interface is optional.
Note that under the hood, the new attribute relies on the information
provided by arch_freq_get_on_cpu, which, up to this point, has been
feeding data for scaling_cur_freq attribute, being the source of
ambiguity when it comes to interpretation. This has been amended by
restoring the intended behavior for scaling_cur_freq, with a new
dedicated config option to maintain status quo for those, who may need
it.
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
CC: x86@kernel.org
CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Beata Michalska <beata.michalska@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Prasanna Kumar T S M <ptsm@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Sumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250131162439.3843071-3-beata.michalska@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The ABI documentation looks a little bit better if it starts
with the contents of the README is placed at the beginning.
Move it to the beginning of the ABI chapter. While here, improve
the README text and change the title that will be shown at the
html/pdf output to be coherent with both ABI file contents and
with the generated documentation output.
Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250211055809.1898623-1-mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a new driver for Samsung Galaxy Book series notebook devices with the
following features:
- Keyboard backlight control
- Battery hook for installing power supply extension to add charge
control end threshold
- Controller for Samsung's performance modes using the platform profile
interface
- Adds firmware-attributes to control various system features
- Handles various hotkeys and notifications
Signed-off-by: Joshua Grisham <josh@joshuagrisham.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250201105450.193450-1-josh@joshuagrisham.com
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
This commit adds a test_boost_holdoff module parameter that tells the RCU
priority-boosting tests to wait for the specified number of seconds past
the start of the rcutorture test. This can be useful when rcutorture
is built into the kernel (as opposed to being modprobed), especially on
large systems where early start of RCU priority boosting can delay the
boot sequence, which adds a full CPU's worth of load onto the system.
This can in turn result in pointless stall warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
