In the past there were issues with KCOV triggering unreachable
instruction warnings, which is why unreachable warnings are now disabled
with CONFIG_KCOV.
Now some new KCOV warnings are showing up with GCC 14:
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: cpuset_write_resmask() falls through to next function cpuset_update_active_cpus.cold()
drivers/usb/core/driver.o: error: objtool: usb_deregister() falls through to next function usb_match_device()
sound/soc/codecs/snd-soc-wcd934x.o: warning: objtool: .text.wcd934x_slim_irq_handler: unexpected end of section
All are caused by GCC KCOV not finishing an optimization, leaving behind
a never-taken conditional branch to a basic block which falls through to
the next function (or end of section).
At a high level this is similar to the unreachable warnings mentioned
above, in that KCOV isn't fully removing dead code. Treat it the same
way by adding these to the list of warnings to ignore with CONFIG_KCOV.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/66a61a0b65d74e072d3dc02384e395edb2adc3c5.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/Z9iTsI09AEBlxlHC@gmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503180044.oH9gyPeg-lkp@intel.com/
If IBT is enabled and a module uses the deprecated init_module() magic
function name rather than module_init(fn), its ENDBR will get removed,
causing an IBT failure during module load.
Objtool does print an obscure warning, but then does nothing to either
correct it or return an error.
Improve the usefulness of the warning and return an error so it will at
least fail the build with CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/366bfdbe92736cde9fb01d5d3eb9b98e9070a1ec.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
For X86_FEATURE_SMAP alternatives which replace NOP with STAC or CLAC,
uaccess validation skips the NOP branch to avoid following impossible
code paths, e.g. where a STAC would be patched but a CLAC wouldn't.
However, it's not safe to assume an X86_FEATURE_SMAP alternative is
patching STAC/CLAC. There can be other alternatives, like
static_cpu_has(), where both branches need to be validated.
Fix that by repurposing ANNOTATE_IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE for skipping either
original instructions or new ones. This is a more generic approach
which enables the removal of the feature checking hacks and the
insn->ignore bit.
Fixes the following warnings:
arch/x86/mm/fault.o: warning: objtool: do_user_addr_fault+0x8ec: __stack_chk_fail() missing __noreturn in .c/.h or NORETURN() in noreturns.h
arch/x86/mm/fault.o: warning: objtool: do_user_addr_fault+0x8f1: unreachable instruction
[ mingo: Fix up conflicts with recent x86 changes. ]
Fixes: ea24213d80 ("objtool: Add UACCESS validation")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/de0621ca242130156a55d5d74fed86994dfa4c9c.1742852846.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503181736.zkZUBv4N-lkp@intel.com/
We've had this before: when we remove infrastructure to generate files,
the old stale build artifacts still remain in-tree. And when the
infrastructure to generate them is gone, so is the gitignore file for
those build artifacts.
End result: git will see the old generated files, and people will
mistakenly commit them. That's what happened with the 'genheaders' file
not that long ago (see commit 04a3389b35 "Remove stale generated
'genheaders' file").
This time it's commit 9c54baab44 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and
the build tool that generates it") that removed the 'build' file from
the arch/x86/boot/tools/ subdirectory, and removed the .gitignore file
too (because the whole subdirectory is gone).
And as a result, if you don't do a 'git clean -dqfx' or similar to clean
up your tree, 'git status' will say
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
arch/x86/boot/tools/
and some hapless sleep-deprived developer will inevitably decide that
that means that they need to 'git add' that directory. Which would
bring back some stale generated file that we most definitely do not want
in the tree.
So when removing directories that had special .gitignore patterns, make
sure to add a new gitignore entry in the parent directory for the no
longer existing subdirectory.
It will avoid mistakes.
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fixes: 9c54baab44 ("x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 platform updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Two small cleanups in the x86 platform support code"
* tag 'x86-platform-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/platform/olpc: Remove unused variable 'len' in olpc_dt_compatible_match()
x86/platform/olpc-xo1-sci: Don't include <linux/pm_wakeup.h> directly
Pull x86 SEV updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Improve sme_enable() PIC build robustness (Kevin Loughlin)
- Simplify vc_handle_msr() a bit (Peng Hao)
[ Just reminding myself and everybody else about the endless stream of
x86 TLAs: "SEV" is AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Linus ]
* tag 'x86-sev-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/sev: Simplify the code by removing unnecessary 'else' statement
x86/sev: Add missing RIP_REL_REF() invocations during sme_enable()
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"Miscellaneous x86 cleanups by Arnd Bergmann, Charles Han, Mirsad
Todorovac, Randy Dunlap, Thorsten Blum and Zhang Kunbo"
* tag 'x86-cleanups-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/coco: Replace 'static const cc_mask' with the newly introduced cc_get_mask() function
x86/delay: Fix inconsistent whitespace
selftests/x86/syscall: Fix coccinelle WARNING recommending the use of ARRAY_SIZE()
x86/platform: Fix missing declaration of 'x86_apple_machine'
x86/irq: Fix missing declaration of 'io_apic_irqs'
x86/usercopy: Fix kernel-doc func param name in clean_cache_range()'s description
x86/apic: Use str_disabled_enabled() helper in print_ipi_mode()
Pull x86/fpu updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Improve crypto performance by making kernel-mode FPU reliably usable
in softirqs ((Eric Biggers)
- Fully optimize out WARN_ON_FPU() (Eric Biggers)
- Initial steps to support Support Intel APX (Advanced Performance
Extensions) (Chang S. Bae)
- Fix KASAN for arch_dup_task_struct() (Benjamin Berg)
- Refine and simplify the FPU magic number check during signal return
(Chang S. Bae)
- Fix inconsistencies in guest FPU xfeatures (Chao Gao, Stanislav
Spassov)
- selftests/x86/xstate: Introduce common code for testing extended
states (Chang S. Bae)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Colin Ian King, Uros
Bizjak)
* tag 'x86-fpu-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu/xstate: Fix inconsistencies in guest FPU xfeatures
x86/fpu: Clarify the "xa" symbolic name used in the XSTATE* macros
x86/fpu: Use XSAVE{,OPT,C,S} and XRSTOR{,S} mnemonics in xstate.h
x86/fpu: Improve crypto performance by making kernel-mode FPU reliably usable in softirqs
x86/fpu/xstate: Simplify print_xstate_features()
x86/fpu: Refine and simplify the magic number check during signal return
selftests/x86/xstate: Fix spelling mistake "hader" -> "header"
x86/fpu: Avoid copying dynamic FP state from init_task in arch_dup_task_struct()
vmlinux.lds.h: Remove entry to place init_task onto init_stack
selftests/x86/avx: Add AVX tests
selftests/x86/xstate: Clarify supported xstates
selftests/x86/xstate: Consolidate test invocations into a single entry
selftests/x86/xstate: Introduce signal ABI test
selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor ptrace ABI test
selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor context switching test
selftests/x86/xstate: Enumerate and name xstate components
selftests/x86/xstate: Refactor XSAVE helpers for general use
selftests/x86: Consolidate redundant signal helper functions
x86/fpu: Fix guest FPU state buffer allocation size
x86/fpu: Fully optimize out WARN_ON_FPU()
Pull x86 boot code updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Memblock setup and other early boot code cleanups (Mike Rapoport)
- Export e820_table_kexec[] to sysfs (Dave Young)
- Baby steps of adding relocate_kernel() debugging support (David
Woodhouse)
- Replace open-coded parity calculation with parity8() (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
- Move the LA57 trampoline to separate source file (Ard Biesheuvel)
- Misc micro-optimizations (Uros Bizjak)
- Drop obsolete E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN and related code (Mike
Rapoport)
* tag 'x86-boot-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/kexec: Add relocate_kernel() debugging support: Load a GDT
x86/boot: Move the LA57 trampoline to separate source file
x86/boot: Do not test if AC and ID eflags are changeable on x86_64
x86/bootflag: Replace open-coded parity calculation with parity8()
x86/bootflag: Micro-optimize sbf_write()
x86/boot: Add missing has_cpuflag() prototype
x86/kexec: Export e820_table_kexec[] to sysfs
x86/boot: Change some static bootflag functions to bool
x86/e820: Drop obsolete E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN and related code
x86/boot: Split parsing of boot_params into the parse_boot_params() helper function
x86/boot: Split kernel resources setup into the setup_kernel_resources() helper function
x86/boot: Move setting of memblock parameters to e820__memblock_setup()
Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it (Ard
Biesheuvel)
- Fix broken copy command in genimage.sh when making isoimage (Nir
Lichtman)
* tag 'x86-build-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Add back some padding for the CRC-32 checksum
x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it
x86/build: Fix broken copy command in genimage.sh when making isoimage
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 performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core:
- Move perf_event sysctls into kernel/events/ (Joel Granados)
- Use POLLHUP for pinned events in error (Namhyung Kim)
- Avoid the read if the count is already updated (Peter Zijlstra)
- Allow the EPOLLRDNORM flag for poll (Tao Chen)
- locking/percpu-rwsem: Add guard support [ NOTE: this got
(mis-)merged into the perf tree due to related work ] (Peter
Zijlstra)
perf_pmu_unregister() related improvements: (Peter Zijlstra)
- Simplify the perf_event_alloc() error path
- Simplify the perf_pmu_register() error path
- Simplify perf_pmu_register()
- Simplify perf_init_event()
- Simplify perf_event_alloc()
- Merge struct pmu::pmu_disable_count into struct
perf_cpu_pmu_context::pmu_disable_count
- Add this_cpc() helper
- Introduce perf_free_addr_filters()
- Robustify perf_event_free_bpf_prog()
- Simplify the perf_mmap() control flow
- Further simplify perf_mmap()
- Remove retry loop from perf_mmap()
- Lift event->mmap_mutex in perf_mmap()
- Detach 'struct perf_cpu_pmu_context' and 'struct pmu' lifetimes
- Fix perf_mmap() failure path
Uprobes:
- Harden x86 uretprobe syscall trampoline check (Jiri Olsa)
- Remove redundant spinlock in uprobe_deny_signal() (Liao Chang)
- Remove the spinlock within handle_singlestep() (Liao Chang)
x86 Intel PMU enhancements:
- Support PEBS counters snapshotting (Kan Liang)
- Fix intel_pmu_read_event() (Kan Liang)
- Extend per event callchain limit to branch stack (Kan Liang)
- Fix system-wide LBR profiling (Kan Liang)
- Allocate bts_ctx only if necessary (Li RongQing)
- Apply static call for drain_pebs (Peter Zijlstra)
x86 AMD PMU enhancements: (Ravi Bangoria)
- Remove pointless sample period check
- Fix ->config to sample period calculation for OP PMU
- Fix perf_ibs_op.cnt_mask for CurCnt
- Don't allow freq mode event creation through ->config interface
- Add PMU specific minimum period
- Add ->check_period() callback
- Ceil sample_period to min_period
- Add support for OP Load Latency Filtering
- Update DTLB/PageSize decode logic
Hardware breakpoints:
- Return EOPNOTSUPP for unsupported breakpoint type (Saket Kumar
Bhaskar)
Hardlockup detector improvements: (Li Huafei)
- perf_event memory leak
- Warn if watchdog_ev is leaked
Fixes and cleanups:
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Andy Shevchenko, Kan Liang, Peter
Zijlstra, Ravi Bangoria, Thorsten Blum, XieLudan)"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
perf: Fix __percpu annotation
perf: Clean up pmu specific data
perf/x86: Remove swap_task_ctx()
perf/x86/lbr: Fix shorter LBRs call stacks for the system-wide mode
perf: Supply task information to sched_task()
perf: attach/detach PMU specific data
locking/percpu-rwsem: Add guard support
perf: Save PMU specific data in task_struct
perf: Extend per event callchain limit to branch stack
perf/ring_buffer: Allow the EPOLLRDNORM flag for poll
perf/core: Use POLLHUP for pinned events in error
perf/core: Use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf()
perf/core: Remove optional 'size' arguments from strscpy() calls
perf/x86/intel/bts: Check if bts_ctx is allocated when calling BTS functions
uprobes/x86: Harden uretprobe syscall trampoline check
watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Warn if watchdog_ev is leaked
watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Fix perf_event memory leak
perf/x86: Annotate struct bts_buffer::buf with __counted_by()
perf/core: Clean up perf_try_init_event()
perf/core: Fix perf_mmap() failure path
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core & fair scheduler changes:
- Cancel the slice protection of the idle entity (Zihan Zhou)
- Reduce the default slice to avoid tasks getting an extra tick
(Zihan Zhou)
- Force propagating min_slice of cfs_rq when {en,de}queue tasks
(Tianchen Ding)
- Refactor can_migrate_task() to elimate looping (I Hsin Cheng)
- Add unlikey branch hints to several system calls (Colin Ian King)
- Optimize current_clr_polling() on certain architectures (Yujun
Dong)
Deadline scheduler: (Juri Lelli)
- Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call
- Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h
Uclamp:
- Use the uclamp_is_used() helper instead of open-coding it (Xuewen
Yan)
- Optimize sched_uclamp_used static key enabling (Xuewen Yan)
Scheduler topology support: (Juri Lelli)
- Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains
- Add wrappers for sched_domains_mutex
- Generalize unique visiting of root domains
- Rebuild root domain accounting after every update
- Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains
- Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked
RSEQ: (Michael Jeanson)
- Update kernel fields in lockstep with CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y
- Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero
- selftests: Add rseq syscall errors test
- selftests: Ensure the rseq ABI TLS is actually 1024 bytes
Membarriers:
- Fix redundant load of membarrier_state (Nysal Jan K.A.)
Scheduler debugging:
- Introduce and use preempt_model_str() (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
- Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG unconditional (Ingo Molnar)
Fixes and cleanups:
- Always save/restore x86 TSC sched_clock() on suspend/resume
(Guilherme G. Piccoli)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Thorsten Blum, Juri Lelli, Sebastian
Andrzej Siewior)"
* tag 'sched-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
cpuidle, sched: Use smp_mb__after_atomic() in current_clr_polling()
sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG from self-test config files
sched/debug, Documentation: Remove (most) CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG references from documentation
sched/debug: Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG functionality unconditional
sched/debug: Make 'const_debug' tunables unconditional __read_mostly
sched/debug: Change SCHED_WARN_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE()
rseq/selftests: Fix namespace collision with rseq UAPI header
include/{topology,cpuset}: Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h
sched/topology: Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked
cgroup/cpuset: Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains
sched/topology: Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call
sched/deadline: Rebuild root domain accounting after every update
sched/deadline: Generalize unique visiting of root domains
sched/topology: Wrappers for sched_domains_mutex
sched/deadline: Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains
tracing: Use preempt_model_str()
xtensa: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
x86: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
s390: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
...
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
- The biggest change is the new option to automatically fail the build
on objtool warnings: CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR.
While there are no currently known unfixed false positives left, such
an expansion in the severity of objtool warnings inevitably creates a
risk of build failures, so it's disabled by default and depends on
!COMPILE_TEST, so it shouldn't be enabled on
allyesconfig/allmodconfig builds and won't be forced on people who
just accept build-time defaults in 'make oldconfig'.
While the option is strongly recommended, only people who enable it
explicitly should see it.
(Josh Poimboeuf)
- Disable branch profiling in noinstr code with a broad brush that
includes all of arch/x86/ and kernel/sched/. (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Create backup object files on objtool errors and print exact objtool
arguments to make failure analysis easier (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Improve noreturn handling (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Improve rodata handling (Tiezhu Yang)
- Support jump tables, switch tables and goto tables on LoongArch
(Tiezhu Yang)
- Misc cleanups and fixes (Josh Poimboeuf, David Engraf, Ingo Molnar)
* tag 'objtool-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
tracing: Disable branch profiling in noinstr code
objtool: Use O_CREAT with explicit mode mask
objtool: Add CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR
objtool: Create backup on error and print args
objtool: Change "warning:" to "error:" for --Werror
objtool: Add --Werror option
objtool: Add --output option
objtool: Upgrade "Linked object detected" warning to error
objtool: Consolidate option validation
objtool: Remove --unret dependency on --rethunk
objtool: Increase per-function WARN_FUNC() rate limit
objtool: Update documentation
objtool: Improve __noreturn annotation warning
objtool: Fix error handling inconsistencies in check()
x86/traps: Make exc_double_fault() consistently noreturn
LoongArch: Enable jump table for objtool
objtool/LoongArch: Add support for goto table
objtool/LoongArch: Add support for switch table
objtool: Handle PC relative relocation type
objtool: Handle different entry size of rodata
...
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 stop-machine update from Paul McKenney:
- Add a comment for the call to rcu_momentary_eqs() from
multi_cpu_stop() explaining that its purpose is to suppress
false-positive RCU CPU stall warnings
* tag 'stop-machine.2025.03.21a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
stop-machine: Add comment for rcu_momentary_eqs()
Pull kernel memory model updates from Paul McKenney:
"Add more atomic operations, rework tags, and update documentation:
- Add additional atomic operations (Puranjay Mohan)
- Make better use of herd7 tags (Jonas Oberhauser)
- Update documentation (Akira Yokosawa)
These changes require v7.58 of the herd7 and klitmus tools, up from
v7.52"
* tag 'lkmm.2025.03.21a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
tools/memory-model: glossary.txt: Fix indents
tools/memory-model/README: Fix typo
tools/memory-model: Distinguish between syntactic and semantic tags
tools/memory-model: Switch to softcoded herd7 tags
tools/memory-model: Define effect of Mb tags on RMWs in tools/...
tools/memory-model: Define applicable tags on operation in tools/...
tools/memory-model: Legitimize current use of tags in LKMM macros
tools/memory-model: Add atomic_andnot() with its variants
tools/memory-model: Add atomic_and()/or()/xor() and add_negative
Pull nolibc updates from Paul McKenney:
- 32bit s390 support
- opendir() and friends
- openat() support
- sscanf() support
- various cleanups
[ Paul has just forwarded the pull request from Thomas Weißschuh, so
the tag signature is from Thomas, not Paul - Linus ]
* tag 'nolibc-20250308-for-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (26 commits)
tools/nolibc: don't use asm/ UAPI headers
selftests/nolibc: stop testing constructor order
selftests/nolibc: use O_RDONLY flag instead of 0
tools/nolibc: drop outdated example from overview comment
tools/nolibc: process open() vararg as mode_t
tools/nolibc: always use openat(2) instead of open(2)
tools/nolibc: add support for openat(2)
selftests/nolibc: add armthumb configuration
selftests/nolibc: explicitly enable ARM mode
Revert "selftests: kselftest: Fix build failure with NOLIBC"
tools/nolibc: add support for [v]sscanf()
tools/nolibc: add support for 32-bit s390
selftests/nolibc: rename s390 to s390x
selftests/nolibc: only run constructor tests on nolibc
selftests/nolibc: split up architecture list in run-tests.sh
tools/nolibc: add support for directory access
tools/nolibc: add support for sys_llseek()
selftests/nolibc: always keep test kernel configuration up to date
selftests/nolibc: execute defconfig before other targets
selftests/nolibc: drop call to mrproper target
...
Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:
- Add mechanism to count and report internal events. This significantly
improves visibility on subtle corner conditions.
- The default idle CPU selection logic is revamped and improved in
multiple ways including being made topology aware.
- sched_ext was disabling ttwu_queue for simplicity, which can be
costly when hardware topology is more complex. Implement
SCX_OPS_ALLOWED_QUEUED_WAKEUP so that BPF schedulers can selectively
enable ttwu_queue.
- tools/sched_ext updates to improve compatibility among others.
- Other misc updates and fixes.
- sched_ext/for-6.14-fixes were pulled a few times to receive
prerequisite fixes and resolve conflicts.
* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (42 commits)
sched_ext: idle: Refactor scx_select_cpu_dfl()
sched_ext: idle: Honor idle flags in the built-in idle selection policy
sched_ext: Skip per-CPU tasks in scx_bpf_reenqueue_local()
sched_ext: Add trace point to track sched_ext core events
sched_ext: Change the event type from u64 to s64
sched_ext: Documentation: add task lifecycle summary
tools/sched_ext: Provide a compatible helper for scx_bpf_events()
selftests/sched_ext: Add NUMA-aware scheduler test
tools/sched_ext: Provide consistent access to scx flags
sched_ext: idle: Fix scx_bpf_pick_any_cpu_node() behavior
sched_ext: idle: Introduce scx_bpf_nr_node_ids()
sched_ext: idle: Introduce node-aware idle cpu kfunc helpers
sched_ext: idle: Per-node idle cpumasks
sched_ext: idle: Introduce SCX_OPS_BUILTIN_IDLE_PER_NODE
sched_ext: idle: Make idle static keys private
sched/topology: Introduce for_each_node_numadist() iterator
mm/numa: Introduce nearest_node_nodemask()
nodemask: numa: reorganize inclusion path
nodemask: add nodes_copy()
tools/sched_ext: Sync with scx repo
...
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 workqueue update from Tejun Heo:
"Just one commit to expose system BH workqueues to rust"
* tag 'wq-for-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
rust: workqueue: define built-in bh queues
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- Move the TINY_RCU kvfree_rcu() implementation from RCU to SLAB
subsystem and cleanup its integration (Vlastimil Babka)
Following the move of the TREE_RCU batching kvfree_rcu()
implementation in 6.14, move also the simpler TINY_RCU variant.
Refactor the #ifdef guards so that the simple implementation is also
used with SLUB_TINY.
Remove the need for RCU to recognize fake callback function pointers
(__is_kvfree_rcu_offset()) when handling call_rcu() by implementing a
callback that calculates the object's address from the embedded
rcu_head address without knowing its offset.
- Improve kmalloc cache randomization in kvmalloc (GONG Ruiqi)
Due to an extra layer of function call, all kvmalloc() allocations
used the same set of random caches. Thanks to moving the kvmalloc()
implementation to slub.c, this is improved and randomization now
works for kvmalloc.
- Various improvements to debugging, testing and other cleanups (Hyesoo
Yu, Lilith Gkini, Uladzislau Rezki, Matthew Wilcox, Kevin Brodsky, Ye
Bin)
* tag 'slab-for-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
slub: Handle freelist cycle in on_freelist()
mm/slab: call kmalloc_noprof() unconditionally in kmalloc_array_noprof()
slab: Mark large folios for debugging purposes
kunit, slub: Add test_kfree_rcu_wq_destroy use case
mm, slab: cleanup slab_bug() parameters
mm: slub: call WARN() when detecting a slab corruption
mm: slub: Print the broken data before restoring them
slab: Achieve better kmalloc caches randomization in kvmalloc
slab: Adjust placement of __kvmalloc_node_noprof
mm/slab: simplify SLAB_* flag handling
slab: don't batch kvfree_rcu() with SLUB_TINY
rcu, slab: use a regular callback function for kvfree_rcu
rcu: remove trace_rcu_kvfree_callback
slab, rcu: move TINY_RCU variant of kvfree_rcu() to SLAB
Pull seccomp updates from Kees Cook:
- avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case (Mateusz
Guzik)
- remove unused 'sd' argument through-out (Oleg Nesterov)
- selftests/seccomp: Add hard-coded __NR_uretprobe for x86_64
* tag 'seccomp-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
seccomp: avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case
seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __seccomp_filter()
seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __secure_computing()
seccomp: fix the __secure_computing() stub for !HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
seccomp/mips: change syscall_trace_enter() to use secure_computing()
selftests/seccomp: Add hard-coded __NR_uretprobe for x86_64
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
...
Pull lib kunit selftest move from Kees Cook:
"This is a one-off tree to coordinate the move of selftests out of lib/
and into lib/tests/. A separate tree was used for this to keep the
paths sane with all the work in the same place.
- move lib/ selftests into lib/tests/ (Kees Cook, Gabriela
Bittencourt, Luis Felipe Hernandez, Lukas Bulwahn, Tamir
Duberstein)
- lib/math: Add int_log test suite (Bruno Sobreira França)
- lib/math: Add Kunit test suite for gcd() (Yu-Chun Lin)
- lib/tests/kfifo_kunit.c: add tests for the kfifo structure (Diego
Vieira)
- unicode: refactor selftests into KUnit (Gabriela Bittencourt)
- lib/prime_numbers: convert self-test to KUnit (Tamir Duberstein)
- printf: convert self-test to KUnit (Tamir Duberstein)
- scanf: convert self-test to KUnit (Tamir Duberstein)"
* tag 'move-lib-kunit-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (21 commits)
scanf: break kunit into test cases
scanf: convert self-test to KUnit
scanf: remove redundant debug logs
scanf: implicate test line in failure messages
printf: implicate test line in failure messages
printf: break kunit into test cases
printf: convert self-test to KUnit
kunit/fortify: Replace "volatile" with OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR()
kunit/fortify: Expand testing of __compiletime_strlen()
kunit/stackinit: Use fill byte different from Clang i386 pattern
kunit/overflow: Fix DEFINE_FLEX tests for counted_by
selftests: remove reference to prime_numbers.sh
MAINTAINERS: adjust entries in FORTIFY_SOURCE and KERNEL HARDENING
lib/prime_numbers: convert self-test to KUnit
lib/math: Add Kunit test suite for gcd()
unicode: kunit: change tests filename and path
unicode: kunit: refactor selftest to kunit tests
lib/tests/kfifo_kunit.c: add tests for the kfifo structure
lib: Move KUnit tests into tests/ subdirectory
lib/math: Add int_log test suite
...
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
- elf: Define and use note name macros (Akihiko Odaki)
- elf: add remaining SHF_ flag macros (Timur Tabi)
- binfmt: Remove loader from linux_binprm struct (Yonatan Goldschmidt)
- binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix variable set but not used warning (sunliming)
* tag 'execve-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix variable set but not used warning
elf: add remaining SHF_ flag macros
binfmt: Remove loader from linux_binprm struct
crash: Remove KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME
s390/crash: Use note name macros
crash: Use note name macros
powerpc/crash: Use note name macros
binfmt_elf: Use note name macros
elf: Define note name macros
