SCX_OPS_HAS_CGROUP_WEIGHT was only used to suppress the missing cgroup
weight support warnings. Now that the warnings are removed, the flag doesn't
do anything. Mark it for deprecation and remove its usage from scx_flatcg.
v2: Actually include the scx_flatcg update.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-and-reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
sched_ext generates warnings when cpu.weight / cpu.idle are set to
non-default values if the BPF scheduler doesn't implement weight support.
These warnings don't provide much value while adding constant annoyance. A
BPF scheduler may not implement any particular behavior and there's nothing
particularly special about missing cgroup weight support. Drop the warnings.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Replace kzalloc with kvzalloc for the exit_dump buffer allocation, which
can require large contiguous memory depending on the implementation.
This change prevents allocation failures by allowing the system to fall
back to vmalloc when contiguous memory allocation fails.
Since this buffer is only used for debugging purposes, physical memory
contiguity is not required, making vmalloc a suitable alternative.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 07814a9439 ("sched_ext: Print debug dump after an error exit")
Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Persistent buffer cleanups and simplifications.
It was mistaken that the physical memory returned from "reserve_mem"
had to be vmap()'d to get to it from a virtual address. But
reserve_mem already maps the memory to the virtual address of the
kernel so a simple phys_to_virt() can be used to get to the virtual
address from the physical memory returned by "reserve_mem". With this
new found knowledge, the code can be cleaned up and simplified.
- Enforce that the persistent memory is page aligned
As the buffers using the persistent memory are all going to be
mapped via pages, make sure that the memory given to the tracing
infrastructure is page aligned. If it is not, it will print a
warning and fail to map the buffer.
- Use phys_to_virt() to get the virtual address from reserve_mem
Instead of calling vmap() on the physical memory returned from
"reserve_mem", use phys_to_virt() instead.
As the memory returned by "memmap" or any other means where a
physical address is given to the tracing infrastructure, it still
needs to be vmap(). Since this memory can never be returned back to
the buddy allocator nor should it ever be memmory mapped to user
space, flag this buffer and up the ref count. The ref count will
keep it from ever being freed, and the flag will prevent it from
ever being memory mapped to user space.
- Use vmap_page_range() for memmap virtual address mapping
For the memmap buffer, instead of allocating an array of struct
pages, assigning them to the contiguous phsycial memory and then
passing that to vmap(), use vmap_page_range() instead
- Replace flush_dcache_folio() with flush_kernel_vmap_range()
Instead of calling virt_to_folio() and passing that to
flush_dcache_folio(), just call flush_kernel_vmap_range() directly.
This also fixes a bug where if a subbuffer was bigger than
PAGE_SIZE only the PAGE_SIZE portion would be flushed"
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Use flush_kernel_vmap_range() over flush_dcache_folio()
tracing: Use vmap_page_range() to map memmap ring buffer
tracing: Have reserve_mem use phys_to_virt() and separate from memmap buffer
tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "mm: fixes for fallouts from mem_init() cleanup" from Mike
Rapoport fixes a couple of issues with the just-merged "arch, mm:
reduce code duplication in mem_init()" series
- The series "MAINTAINERS: add my isub-entries to MM part." from Mike
Rapoport does some maintenance on MAINTAINERS
- The series "remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc()" from Qi Zheng does some
cleanup work to the page mapping code
- The series "mseal system mappings" from Jeff Xu permits sealing of
"system mappings", such as vdso, vvar, vvar_vclock, vectors (arm
compat-mode), sigpage (arm compat-mode)
- Plus the usual shower of singleton patches
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-04-02-22-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (31 commits)
mseal sysmap: add arch-support txt
mseal sysmap: enable s390
selftest: test system mappings are sealed
mseal sysmap: update mseal.rst
mseal sysmap: uprobe mapping
mseal sysmap: enable arm64
mseal sysmap: enable x86-64
mseal sysmap: generic vdso vvar mapping
selftests: x86: test_mremap_vdso: skip if vdso is msealed
mseal sysmap: kernel config and header change
mm: pgtable: remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc()
x86: pgtable: convert to use tlb_remove_ptdesc()
riscv: pgtable: unconditionally use tlb_remove_ptdesc()
mm: pgtable: convert some architectures to use tlb_remove_ptdesc()
mm: pgtable: change pt parameter of tlb_remove_ptdesc() to struct ptdesc*
mm: pgtable: make generic tlb_remove_table() use struct ptdesc
microblaze/mm: put mm_cmdline_setup() in .init.text section
mm/memory_hotplug: fix call folio_test_large with tail page in do_migrate_range
MAINTAINERS: mm: add entry for secretmem
MAINTAINERS: mm: add entry for numa memblocks and numa emulation
...
Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:
- Calling scx_bpf_create_dsq() with the same ID would succeed creating
duplicate DSQs. Fix it to return -EEXIST.
- scx_select_cpu_dfl() fixes and cleanups.
- Synchronize tool/sched_ext with external scheduler repo. While this
isn't a fix. There's no risk to the kernel and it's better if they
stay synced closer.
* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.15-rc0-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
tools/sched_ext: Sync with scx repo
sched_ext: initialize built-in idle state before ops.init()
sched_ext: create_dsq: Return -EEXIST on duplicate request
sched_ext: Remove a meaningless conditional goto in scx_select_cpu_dfl()
sched_ext: idle: Fix return code of scx_select_cpu_dfl()
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix build error when CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS is not enabled
The tracing of arguments in the function tracer depends on some
functions that are only defined when PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS is
enabled. In fact, PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS also depends on all the same
configs as the function argument tracing requires. Just have the
function argument tracing depend on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS.
- Free module_delta for persistent ring buffer instance
When an instance holds the persistent ring buffer, it allocates a
helper array to hold the deltas between where modules are loaded on
the last boot and the current boot. This array needs to be freed when
the instance is freed.
- Add cond_resched() to loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash()
The hash functions in ftrace loop over every function that can be
enabled by ftrace. This can be 50,000 functions or more. This loop is
known to trigger soft lockup warnings and requires a cond_resched().
The loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash() was missing it.
- Fix the event format verifier to include "%*p.." arguments
To prevent events from dereferencing stale pointers that can happen
if a trace event uses a dereferece pointer to something that was not
copied into the ring buffer and can be freed by the time the trace is
read, a verifier is called. At boot or module load, the verifier
scans the print format string for pointers that can be dereferenced
and it checks the arguments to make sure they do not contain
something that can be freed. The "%*p" was not handled, which would
add another argument and cause the verifier to not only not verify
this pointer, but it will look at the wrong argument for every
pointer after that.
- Fix mcount sorttable building for different endian type target
When modifying the ELF file to sort the mcount_loc table in the
sorttable.c code, the endianess of the file and the host is used to
determine if the bytes need to be swapped when calculations are done.
A change was made to the sorting of the mcount_loc that read the
values from the ELF file into an array and the swap happened on the
filling of the array. But one of the calculations of the array still
did the swap when it did not need to. This caused building on a
little endian machine for a big endian target to not find the mcount
function in the 'nm' table and it zeroed it out, causing there to be
no functions available to trace.
- Add goto out_unlock jump to rv_register_monitor() on error path
One of the error paths in rv_register_monitor() just returned the
error when it should have jumped to the out_unlock label to release
the mutex.
* tag 'trace-v6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
rv: Fix missing unlock on double nested monitors return path
scripts/sorttable: Fix endianness handling in build-time mcount sort
tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."
ftrace: Add cond_resched() to ftrace_graph_set_hash()
tracing: Free module_delta on freeing of persistent ring buffer
ftrace: Have tracing function args depend on PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of serial and tty driver updates for 6.15-rc1.
Include in here are the following:
- more great tty layer cleanups from Jiri. Someday this will be done,
but that's not going to be any year soon...
- kdb debug driver reverts to fix a reported issue
- lots of .dts binding updates for different devices with serial
devices
- lots of tiny updates and tweaks and a few bugfixes for different
serial drivers.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (79 commits)
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: Fix unused variable 'sport' build warning
serial: stm32: do not deassert RS485 RTS GPIO prematurely
serial: 8250: add driver for NI UARTs
dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: document RZ/N1 binding without DMA
serial: icom: fix code format problems
serial: sh-sci: Save and restore more registers
tty: serial: pl011: remove incorrect of_match_ptr annotation
dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: Add support for rk3562
tty: serial: lpuart: only disable CTS instead of overwriting the whole UARTMODIR register
tty: caif: removed unused function debugfs_tx()
serial: 8250_dma: terminate correct DMA in tx_dma_flush()
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: rename register variables more specifically
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: use port struct directly to simply code
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: Use u32 and u8 for register variables
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: disable transmitter before changing RS485 related registers
tty: serial: 8250: Add Brainboxes XC devices
dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: support i.MX94
tty: serial: 8250: Add some more device IDs
dt-bindings: serial: samsung: add exynos7870-uart compatible
serial: 8250_dw: Comment possible corner cases in serial_out() implementation
...
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
- Add a new maintainer for configfs
- Fix exportfs module description
- Place flexible array memeber at the end of an internal struct in the
mount code
- Add new maintainer for netfslib as Jeff Layton is stepping down as
current co-maintainer
- Fix error handling in cachefiles_get_directory()
- Cleanup do_notify_pidfd()
- Fix syscall number definitions in pidfd selftests
- Fix racy usage of fs_struct->in exec during multi-threaded exec
- Ensure correct exit code is reported when pidfs_exit() is called from
release_task() for a delayed thread-group leader exit
- Fix conflicting iomap flag definitions
* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
iomap: Fix conflicting values of iomap flags
fs: namespace: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
MAINTAINERS: configfs: add Andreas Hindborg as maintainer
exportfs: add module description
exit: fix the usage of delay_group_leader->exit_code in do_notify_parent() and pidfs_exit()
netfs: add Paulo as maintainer and remove myself as Reviewer
cachefiles: Fix oops in vfs_mkdir from cachefiles_get_directory
exec: fix the racy usage of fs_struct->in_exec
selftests/pidfd: fixes syscall number defines
pidfs: cleanup the usage of do_notify_pidfd()
Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"These are objtool fixes and updates by Josh Poimboeuf, centered around
the fallout from the new CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR=y feature, which,
despite its default-off nature, increased the profile/impact of
objtool warnings:
- Improve error handling and the presentation of warnings/errors
- Revert the new summary warning line that some test-bot tools
interpreted as new regressions
- Fix a number of objtool warnings in various drivers, core kernel
code and architecture code. About half of them are potential
problems related to out-of-bounds accesses or potential undefined
behavior, the other half are additional objtool annotations
- Update objtool to latest (known) compiler quirks and objtool bugs
triggered by compiler code generation
- Misc fixes"
* tag 'objtool-urgent-2025-04-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
objtool/loongarch: Add unwind hints in prepare_frametrace()
rcu-tasks: Always inline rcu_irq_work_resched()
context_tracking: Always inline ct_{nmi,irq}_{enter,exit}()
sched/smt: Always inline sched_smt_active()
objtool: Fix verbose disassembly if CROSS_COMPILE isn't set
objtool: Change "warning:" to "error: " for fatal errors
objtool: Always fail on fatal errors
Revert "objtool: Increase per-function WARN_FUNC() rate limit"
objtool: Append "()" to function name in "unexpected end of section" warning
objtool: Ignore end-of-section jumps for KCOV/GCOV
objtool: Silence more KCOV warnings, part 2
objtool, drm/vmwgfx: Don't ignore vmw_send_msg() for ORC
objtool: Fix STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD for cold subfunctions
objtool: Fix segfault in ignore_unreachable_insn()
objtool: Fix NULL printf() '%s' argument in builtin-check.c:save_argv()
objtool, lkdtm: Obfuscate the do_nothing() pointer
objtool, regulator: rk808: Remove potential undefined behavior in rk806_set_mode_dcdc()
objtool, ASoC: codecs: wcd934x: Remove potential undefined behavior in wcd934x_slim_irq_handler()
objtool, Input: cyapa - Remove undefined behavior in cyapa_update_fw_store()
objtool, panic: Disable SMAP in __stack_chk_fail()
...
Pull more printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Silence warnings about candidates for ‘gnu_print’ format attribute
* tag 'printk-for-6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
vsnprintf: Silence false positive GCC warning for va_format()
vsnprintf: Drop unused const char fmt * in va_format()
vsnprintf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
tracing: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
seq_file: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
seq_buf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
Pull RCU fix from Boqun Feng:
- srcu: Make FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE depend on RCU_EXPERT
* tag 'rcu-fixes-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux:
srcu: Make FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE depend on RCU_EXPERT
Pull kgdb updates from Daniel Thompson:
"Two cleanups this cycle. The larger of which is the removal of a
private allocator within kdb and replacing it with regular memory
allocation. The other adopts the simplified version of strscpy() in a
couple of places in kdb"
* tag 'kgdb-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
kdb: Remove optional size arguments from strscpy() calls
kdb: remove usage of static environment buffer
The reserve_mem kernel command line option may pass back a physical
address, but the memory is still part of the normal memory just like
using memblock_alloc() would be. This means that the physical memory
returned by the reserve_mem command line option can be converted directly
to virtual memory by simply using phys_to_virt().
When freeing the buffer there's no need to call vunmap() anymore as the
memory allocated by reserve_mem is freed by the call to
reserve_mem_release_by_name().
Because the persistent ring buffer can also be allocated via the memmap
option, which *is* different than normal memory as it cannot be added back
to the buddy system, it must be treated differently. It still needs to be
virtually mapped to have access to it. It also can not be freed nor can it
ever be memory mapped to user space.
Create a new trace_array flag called TRACE_ARRAY_FL_MEMMAP which gets set
if the buffer is created by the memmap option, and this will prevent the
buffer from being memory mapped by user space.
Also increment the ref count for memmap'ed buffers so that they can never
be freed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z-wFszhJ_9o4dc8O@kernel.org/
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250402144953.583750106@goodmis.org
Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace event verifier checks the formats of trace events to make sure
that they do not point at memory that is not in the trace event itself or
in data that will never be freed. If an event references data that was
allocated when the event triggered and that same data is freed before the
event is read, then the kernel can crash by reading freed memory.
The verifier runs at boot up (or module load) and scans the print formats
of the events and checks their arguments to make sure that dereferenced
pointers are safe. If the format uses "%*p.." the verifier will ignore it,
and that could be dangerous. Cover this case as well.
Also add to the sample code a use case of "%*pbl".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bcba4d76-2c3f-4d11-baf0-02905db953dd@oracle.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 5013f454a3 ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250327195311.2d89ec66@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the kernel contains a large number of functions that can be traced,
the loop in ftrace_graph_set_hash() may take a lot of time to execute.
This may trigger the softlockup watchdog.
Add cond_resched() within the loop to allow the kernel to remain
responsive even when processing a large number of functions.
This matches the cond_resched() that is used in other locations of the
code that iterates over all functions that can be traced.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b9b0c831be ("ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_3E06CE338692017B5809534B9C5C03DA7705@qq.com
Signed-off-by: zhoumin <teczm@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull driver core updatesk from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of driver core updates for 6.15-rc1. Lots of stuff
happened this development cycle, including:
- kernfs scaling changes to make it even faster thanks to rcu
- bin_attribute constify work in many subsystems
- faux bus minor tweaks for the rust bindings
- rust binding updates for driver core, pci, and platform busses,
making more functionaliy available to rust drivers. These are all
due to people actually trying to use the bindings that were in
6.14.
- make Rafael and Danilo full co-maintainers of the driver core
codebase
- other minor fixes and updates"
* tag 'driver-core-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (52 commits)
rust: platform: require Send for Driver trait implementers
rust: pci: require Send for Driver trait implementers
rust: platform: impl Send + Sync for platform::Device
rust: pci: impl Send + Sync for pci::Device
rust: platform: fix unrestricted &mut platform::Device
rust: pci: fix unrestricted &mut pci::Device
rust: device: implement device context marker
rust: pci: use to_result() in enable_device_mem()
MAINTAINERS: driver core: mark Rafael and Danilo as co-maintainers
rust/kernel/faux: mark Registration methods inline
driver core: faux: only create the device if probe() succeeds
rust/faux: Add missing parent argument to Registration::new()
rust/faux: Drop #[repr(transparent)] from faux::Registration
rust: io: fix devres test with new io accessor functions
rust: io: rename `io::Io` accessors
kernfs: Move dput() outside of the RCU section.
efi: rci2: mark bin_attribute as __ro_after_init
rapidio: constify 'struct bin_attribute'
firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: constify 'struct bin_attribute'
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Constify 'struct bin_attribute'
...
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from
Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic
layers.
- The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from
Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the
get_maintainer output.
- The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from
Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the
ucount code.
- The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency
hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a
driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot.
- The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar
Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to
secs_to_jiffies().
- The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from
Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds
some more tests and performs some cleanups.
- The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami
Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of
the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task.
- The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy
Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros.
- Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the
individual changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits)
mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin
fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()
relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting
resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES()
resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED()
resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC()
resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED()
samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample
hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex
kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses
watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination
lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap()
lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree
lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration
lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers
lib/rbtree: add random seed
lib/rbtree: split tests
lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure
checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length
scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390
...
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.
This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.
- The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.
- The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
succeed.
- The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
for half a year and nobody has complained.
- The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
effects are anticipated.
- The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.
- The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
noticed when working on the swap code.
- The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
user-visible output.
- The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
handling of large folios.
- The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.
- The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
work for the future removal of page structure fields.
- The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
huge page sizes.
- The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
file-backed mappings.
- The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
for pte-mapped large folios.
- The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
microbenchmark.
- The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
docs.
- The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
when using CMA on large machines.
- The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
page's mapped/unmapped status.
- The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
operations preemptibly.
- The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
encountered while runnimg our selftests.
- The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
determine whether a particular page is a guard page.
- The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
wasn't being effective.
- The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
code.
- The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
Kconfig logic.
- The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.
- The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
vmalloc.
- The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
code easier to follow.
- The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
we accidentally added late last year.
- The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
initialization.
- The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
balancing code.
- The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
is updated accordingly.
- The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.
- The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
it claims.
- The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
checks.
- The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.
- The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
exclusively into a single MM.
- The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.
- The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.
- The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
access to DAMON internal data.
- The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
cmdline options.
- The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
are generated.
- The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
an xarray split.
- The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.
- The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
page allocator code.
- The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.
- The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
has observed in the memory-failure implementation.
- The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
fragmentation.
- The series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from Matthew
Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.
- The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.
- The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
separately for file and anon pages.
- The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
statistics.
- The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
code.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages > 2M
docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
...
Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Restructure the persistent memory to have a "scratch" area
Instead of hard coding the KASLR offset in the persistent memory by
the ring buffer, push that work up to the callers of the persistent
memory as they are the ones that need this information. The offsets
and such is not important to the ring buffer logic and it should not
be part of that.
A scratch pad is now created when the caller allocates a ring buffer
from persistent memory by stating how much memory it needs to save.
- Allow where modules are loaded to be saved in the new scratch pad
Save the addresses of modules when they are loaded into the
persistent memory scratch pad.
- A new module_for_each_mod() helper function was created
With the acknowledgement of the module maintainers a new module
helper function was created to iterate over all the currently loaded
modules. This has a callback to be called for each module. This is
needed for when tracing is started in the persistent buffer and the
currently loaded modules need to be saved in the scratch area.
- Expose the last boot information where the kernel and modules were
loaded
The last_boot_info file is updated to print out the addresses of
where the kernel "_text" location was loaded from a previous boot, as
well as where the modules are loaded. If the buffer is recording the
current boot, it only prints "# Current" so that it does not expose
the KASLR offset of the currently running kernel.
- Allow the persistent ring buffer to be released (freed)
To have this in production environments, where the kernel command
line can not be changed easily, the ring buffer needs to be freed
when it is not going to be used. The memory for the buffer will
always be allocated at boot up, but if the system isn't going to
enable tracing, the memory needs to be freed. Allow it to be freed
and added back to the kernel memory pool.
- Allow stack traces to print the function names in the persistent
buffer
Now that the modules are saved in the persistent ring buffer, if the
same modules are loaded, the printing of the function names will
examine the saved modules. If the module is found in the scratch area
and is also loaded, then it will do the offset shift and use kallsyms
to display the function name. If the address is not found, it simply
displays the address from the previous boot in hex.
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Use _text and the kernel offset in last_boot_info
tracing: Show last module text symbols in the stacktrace
ring-buffer: Remove the unused variable bmeta
tracing: Skip update_last_data() if cleared and remove active check for save_mod()
tracing: Initialize scratch_size to zero to prevent UB
tracing: Fix a compilation error without CONFIG_MODULES
tracing: Freeable reserved ring buffer
mm/memblock: Add reserved memory release function
tracing: Update modules to persistent instances when loaded
tracing: Show module names and addresses of last boot
tracing: Have persistent trace instances save module addresses
module: Add module_for_each_mod() function
tracing: Have persistent trace instances save KASLR offset
ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_meta_scratch()
ring-buffer: Add buffer meta data for persistent ring buffer
ring-buffer: Use kaslr address instead of text delta
ring-buffer: Fix bytes_dropped calculation issue
Pull modules updates from Petr Pavlu:
- Use RCU instead of RCU-sched
The mix of rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_lock_sched() and
preempt_disable() in the module code and its users has
been replaced with just rcu_read_lock()
- The rest of changes are smaller fixes and updates
* tag 'modules-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (32 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Update the MODULE SUPPORT section
module: Remove unnecessary size argument when calling strscpy()
module: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()
params: Annotate struct module_param_attrs with __counted_by()
bug: Use RCU instead RCU-sched to protect module_bug_list.
static_call: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
kprobes: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
bpf: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
x86: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
cfi: Use RCU while invoking __module_address().
powerpc/ftrace: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
LoongArch: ftrace: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
LoongArch/orc: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
arm64: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
ARM: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
module: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
module: Use RCU in search_module_extables().
...
Pull misc x86 fixes and updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix a large number of x86 Kconfig dependency and help text accuracy
bugs/problems, by Mateusz Jończyk and David Heideberg
- Fix a VM_PAT interaction with fork() crash. This also touches core
kernel code
- Fix an ORC unwinder bug for interrupt entries
- Fixes and cleanups
- Fix an AMD microcode loader bug that can promote verification
failures into success
- Add early-printk support for MMIO based UARTs on an x86 board that
had no other serial debugging facility and also experienced early
boot crashes
* tag 'x86-urgent-2025-03-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/microcode/AMD: Fix __apply_microcode_amd()'s return value
x86/mm/pat: Fix VM_PAT handling when fork() fails in copy_page_range()
x86/fpu: Update the outdated comment above fpstate_init_user()
x86/early_printk: Add support for MMIO-based UARTs
x86/dumpstack: Fix inaccurate unwinding from exception stacks due to misplaced assignment
x86/entry: Fix ORC unwinder for PUSH_REGS with save_ret=1
x86/Kconfig: Fix lists in X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM help text
x86/Kconfig: Correct X86_X2APIC help text
x86/speculation: Remove the extra #ifdef around CALL_NOSPEC
x86/Kconfig: Document release year of glibc 2.3.3
x86/Kconfig: Make CONFIG_PCI_CNB20LE_QUIRK depend on X86_32
x86/Kconfig: Document CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG
x86/Kconfig: Update lists in X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM
x86/Kconfig: Move all X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM options together
x86/Kconfig: Always enable ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
x86/Kconfig: Enable X86_X2APIC by default and improve help text
Pull misc locking fixes and updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix a locking self-test FAIL on PREEMPT_RT kernels
- Fix nr_unused_locks accounting bug
- Simplify the split-lock debugging feature's fast-path
* tag 'locking-urgent-2025-03-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/lockdep: Decrease nr_unused_locks if lock unused in zap_class()
lockdep: Fix wait context check on softirq for PREEMPT_RT
x86/split_lock: Simplify reenabling
Pull bpf try_alloc_pages() support from Alexei Starovoitov:
"The pull includes work from Sebastian, Vlastimil and myself with a lot
of help from Michal and Shakeel.
This is a first step towards making kmalloc reentrant to get rid of
slab wrappers: bpf_mem_alloc, kretprobe's objpool, etc. These patches
make page allocator safe from any context.
Vlastimil kicked off this effort at LSFMM 2024:
https://lwn.net/Articles/974138/
and we continued at LSFMM 2025:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQKfkGxudNUkcPJgwe3nTZ=xohnRshx9kLZBTmR_E1DFEg@mail.gmail.com/
Why:
SLAB wrappers bind memory to a particular subsystem making it
unavailable to the rest of the kernel. Some BPF maps in production
consume Gbytes of preallocated memory. Top 5 in Meta: 1.5G, 1.2G,
1.1G, 300M, 200M. Once we have kmalloc that works in any context BPF
map preallocation won't be necessary.
How:
Synchronous kmalloc/page alloc stack has multiple stages going from
fast to slow: cmpxchg16 -> slab_alloc -> new_slab -> alloc_pages ->
rmqueue_pcplist -> __rmqueue, where rmqueue_pcplist was already
relying on trylock.
This set changes rmqueue_bulk/rmqueue_buddy to attempt a trylock and
return ENOMEM if alloc_flags & ALLOC_TRYLOCK. It then wraps this
functionality into try_alloc_pages() helper. We make sure that the
logic is sane in PREEMPT_RT.
End result: try_alloc_pages()/free_pages_nolock() are safe to call
from any context.
try_kmalloc() for any context with similar trylock approach will
follow. It will use try_alloc_pages() when slab needs a new page.
Though such try_kmalloc/page_alloc() is an opportunistic allocator,
this design ensures that the probability of successful allocation of
small objects (up to one page in size) is high.
Even before we have try_kmalloc(), we already use try_alloc_pages() in
BPF arena implementation and it's going to be used more extensively in
BPF"
* tag 'bpf_try_alloc_pages' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next:
mm: Fix the flipped condition in gfpflags_allow_spinning()
bpf: Use try_alloc_pages() to allocate pages for bpf needs.
mm, bpf: Use memcg in try_alloc_pages().
memcg: Use trylock to access memcg stock_lock.
mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock()
mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation
locking/local_lock: Introduce localtry_lock_t
Pull bpf relisient spinlock support from Alexei Starovoitov:
"This patch set introduces Resilient Queued Spin Lock (or rqspinlock
with res_spin_lock() and res_spin_unlock() APIs).
This is a qspinlock variant which recovers the kernel from a stalled
state when the lock acquisition path cannot make forward progress.
This can occur when a lock acquisition attempt enters a deadlock
situation (e.g. AA, or ABBA), or more generally, when the owner of the
lock (which we’re trying to acquire) isn’t making forward progress.
Deadlock detection is the main mechanism used to provide instant
recovery, with the timeout mechanism acting as a final line of
defense. Detection is triggered immediately when beginning the waiting
loop of a lock slow path.
Additionally, BPF programs attached to different parts of the kernel
can introduce new control flow into the kernel, which increases the
likelihood of deadlocks in code not written to handle reentrancy.
There have been multiple syzbot reports surfacing deadlocks in
internal kernel code due to the diverse ways in which BPF programs can
be attached to different parts of the kernel. By switching the BPF
subsystem’s lock usage to rqspinlock, all of these issues are
mitigated at runtime.
This spin lock implementation allows BPF maps to become safer and
remove mechanisms that have fallen short in assuring safety when
nesting programs in arbitrary ways in the same context or across
different contexts.
We run benchmarks that stress locking scalability and perform
comparison against the baseline (qspinlock). For the rqspinlock case,
we replace the default qspinlock with it in the kernel, such that all
spin locks in the kernel use the rqspinlock slow path. As such,
benchmarks that stress kernel spin locks end up exercising rqspinlock.
More details in the cover letter in commit 6ffb9017e9 ("Merge branch
'resilient-queued-spin-lock'")"
* tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (24 commits)
selftests/bpf: Add tests for rqspinlock
bpf: Maintain FIFO property for rqspinlock unlock
bpf: Implement verifier support for rqspinlock
bpf: Introduce rqspinlock kfuncs
bpf: Convert lpm_trie.c to rqspinlock
bpf: Convert percpu_freelist.c to rqspinlock
bpf: Convert hashtab.c to rqspinlock
rqspinlock: Add locktorture support
rqspinlock: Add entry to Makefile, MAINTAINERS
rqspinlock: Add macros for rqspinlock usage
rqspinlock: Add basic support for CONFIG_PARAVIRT
rqspinlock: Add a test-and-set fallback
rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery
rqspinlock: Protect waiters in trylock fallback from stalls
rqspinlock: Protect waiters in queue from stalls
rqspinlock: Protect pending bit owners from stalls
rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64
rqspinlock: Add support for timeouts
rqspinlock: Drop PV and virtualization support
rqspinlock: Add rqspinlock.h header
...
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
"For this merge window we're splitting BPF pull request into three for
higher visibility: main changes, res_spin_lock, try_alloc_pages.
These are the main BPF changes:
- Add DFA-based live registers analysis to improve verification of
programs with loops (Eduard Zingerman)
- Introduce load_acquire and store_release BPF instructions and add
x86, arm64 JIT support (Peilin Ye)
- Fix loop detection logic in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)
- Drop unnecesary lock in bpf_map_inc_not_zero() (Eric Dumazet)
- Add kfunc for populating cpumask bits (Emil Tsalapatis)
- Convert various shell based tests to selftests/bpf/test_progs
format (Bastien Curutchet)
- Allow passing referenced kptrs into struct_ops callbacks (Amery
Hung)
- Add a flag to LSM bpf hook to facilitate bpf program signing
(Blaise Boscaccy)
- Track arena arguments in kfuncs (Ihor Solodrai)
- Add copy_remote_vm_str() helper for reading strings from remote VM
and bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfunc (Jordan Rome)
- Add support for timed may_goto instruction (Kumar Kartikeya
Dwivedi)
- Allow bpf_get_netns_cookie() int cgroup_skb programs (Mahe Tardy)
- Reduce bpf_cgrp_storage_busy false positives when accessing cgroup
local storage (Martin KaFai Lau)
- Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy() kfunc (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Allow retrieving BTF data with BTF token (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Add BPF kfuncs to set and get xattrs with 'security.bpf.' prefix
(Song Liu)
- Reject attaching programs to noreturn functions (Yafang Shao)
- Introduce pre-order traversal of cgroup bpf programs (Yonghong
Song)"
* tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (186 commits)
selftests/bpf: Add selftests for load-acquire/store-release when register number is invalid
bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read in check_atomic_load/store()
libbpf: Add namespace for errstr making it libbpf_errstr
bpf: Add struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_aux
selftests/bpf: Sanitize pointer prior fclose()
selftests/bpf: Migrate test_xdp_vlan.sh into test_progs
selftests/bpf: test_xdp_vlan: Rename BPF sections
bpf: clarify a misleading verifier error message
selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching fexit to __noreturn functions
bpf: Reject attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions
bpf: Only fails the busy counter check in bpf_cgrp_storage_get if it creates storage
bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types.
bpftool: Using the right format specifiers
bpftool: Add -Wformat-signedness flag to detect format errors
selftests/bpf: Test freplace from user namespace
libbpf: Pass BPF token from find_prog_btf_id to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
bpf: Return prog btf_id without capable check
bpf: BPF token support for BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
bpf, x86: Fix objtool warning for timed may_goto
bpf: Check map->record at the beginning of check_and_free_fields()
...
Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:
- Add sorting of mcount locations at build time
- Rework uaccess functions with C exception handling to shorten inline
assembly size and enable full inlining. This yields near-optimal code
for small constant copies with a ~40kb kernel size increase
- Add support for a configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS which allows to
generate better code, but also allows to have type checking for debug
builds
- Optimize get_lowcore() for common callers with alternatives that
nearly revert to the pre-relocated lowcore code, while also slightly
reducing syscall entry and exit time
- Convert MACHINE_HAS_* checks for single facility tests into cpu_has_*
style macros that call test_facility(), and for features with
additional conditions, add a new ALT_TYPE_FEATURE alternative to
provide a static branch via alternative patching. Also, move machine
feature detection to the decompressor for early patching and add
debugging functionality to easily show which alternatives are patched
- Add exception table support to early boot / startup code to get rid
of the open coded exception handling
- Use asm_inline for all inline assemblies with EX_TABLE or ALTERNATIVE
to ensure correct inlining and unrolling decisions
- Remove 2k page table leftovers now that s390 has been switched to
always allocate 4k page tables
- Split kfence pool into 4k mappings in arch_kfence_init_pool() and
remove the architecture-specific kfence_split_mapping()
- Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() to silence
spurious KASAN warnings from opportunistic ftrace argument tracing
- Force __atomic_add_const() variants on s390 to always return void,
ensuring compile errors for improper usage
- Remove s390's ioremap_wt() and pgprot_writethrough() due to
mismatched semantics and lack of known users, relying on asm-generic
fallbacks
- Signal eventfd in vfio-ap to notify userspace when the guest AP
configuration changes, including during mdev removal
- Convert mdev_types from an array to a pointer in vfio-ccw and vfio-ap
drivers to avoid fake flex array confusion
- Cleanup trap code
- Remove references to the outdated linux390@de.ibm.com address
- Other various small fixes and improvements all over the code
* tag 's390-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (78 commits)
s390: Use inline qualifier for all EX_TABLE and ALTERNATIVE inline assemblies
s390/kfence: Split kfence pool into 4k mappings in arch_kfence_init_pool()
s390/ptrace: Avoid KASAN false positives in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth()
s390/boot: Ignore vmlinux.map
s390/sysctl: Remove "vm/allocate_pgste" sysctl
s390: Remove 2k vs 4k page table leftovers
s390/tlb: Use mm_has_pgste() instead of mm_alloc_pgste()
s390/lowcore: Use lghi instead llilh to clear register
s390/syscall: Merge __do_syscall() and do_syscall()
s390/spinlock: Implement SPINLOCK_LOCKVAL with inline assembly
s390/smp: Implement raw_smp_processor_id() with inline assembly
s390/current: Implement current with inline assembly
s390/lowcore: Use inline qualifier for get_lowcore() inline assembly
s390: Move s390 sysctls into their own file under arch/s390
s390/syscall: Simplify syscall_get_arguments()
s390/vfio-ap: Notify userspace that guest's AP config changed when mdev removed
s390: Remove ioremap_wt() and pgprot_writethrough()
s390/mm: Add configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
s390/mm: Convert pgste_val() into function
s390/mm: Convert pgprot_val() into function
...
Pull fwctl subsystem from Jason Gunthorpe:
"fwctl is a new subsystem intended to bring some common rules and order
to the growing pattern of exposing a secure FW interface directly to
userspace.
Unlike existing places like RDMA/DRM/VFIO/uacce that are exposing a
device for datapath operations fwctl is focused on debugging,
configuration and provisioning of the device. It will not have the
necessary features like interrupt delivery to support a datapath.
This concept is similar to the long standing practice in the "HW" RAID
space of having a device specific misc device to manage the RAID
controller FW. fwctl generalizes this notion of a companion debug and
management interface that goes along with a dataplane implemented in
an appropriate subsystem.
There have been three LWN articles written discussing various aspects
of this:
https://lwn.net/Articles/955001/
https://lwn.net/Articles/969383/
https://lwn.net/Articles/990802/
This includes three drivers to launch the subsystem:
- CXL provides a vendor scheme for executing commands and a way to
learn the 'command effects' (ie the security properties) of such
commands. The fwctl driver allows access to these mechanism within
the fwctl security model
- mlx5 is family of networking products, the driver supports all
current Mellanox HW still receiving FW feature updates. This
includes RDMA multiprotocol NICs like ConnectX and the Bluefield
family of Smart NICs.
- AMD/Pensando Distributed Services card is a multi protocol Smart
NIC with a multi PCI function design. fwctl works on the management
PCI function following a 'command effects' model similar to CXL"
* tag 'for-linus-fwctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (30 commits)
pds_fwctl: add Documentation entries
pds_fwctl: add rpc and query support
pds_fwctl: initial driver framework
pds_core: add new fwctl auxiliary_device
pds_core: specify auxiliary_device to be created
pds_core: make pdsc_auxbus_dev_del() void
cxl: Fixup kdoc issues for include/cxl/features.h
fwctl/cxl: Add documentation to FWCTL CXL
cxl/test: Add Set Feature support to cxl_test
cxl/test: Add Get Feature support to cxl_test
cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for set feature
cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for get feature
cxl: Add support for fwctl RPC command to enable CXL feature commands
cxl: Move cxl feature command structs to user header
cxl: Add FWCTL support to CXL
mlx5: Create an auxiliary device for fwctl_mlx5
fwctl/mlx5: Support for communicating with mlx5 fw
fwctl: Add documentation
fwctl: FWCTL_RPC to execute a Remote Procedure Call to device firmware
taint: Add TAINT_FWCTL
...
The FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE is useful only for those wishing to test
the SRCU code paths that accommodate architectures that do not have
NMI-safe per-CPU operations, that is, those architectures that do not
select the ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS Kconfig option. As such, this
is a specialized Kconfig option that is not intended for casual users.
This commit therefore hides it behind the RCU_EXPERT Kconfig option.
Given that this new FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig option has no effect
unless the ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS Kconfig option is also selected,
it also depends on this Kconfig option.
[ paulmck: Apply Geert Uytterhoeven feedback. ]
[ boqun: Add the "Fixes" tag. ]
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdX6dy9_tmpLkpcnGzxyRbe6qSWYukcPp=H1GzZdyd3qBQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 536e8b9b80 ("srcu: Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
If the destination buffer has a fixed length, strscpy() automatically
determines the size of the destination buffer using sizeof() if the
argument is omitted. This makes the explicit sizeof() unnecessary.
Furthermore, CMD_BUFLEN is equal to sizeof(kdb_prompt_str) and can also
be removed. Remove them to shorten and simplify the code.
No functional changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319163341.2123-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel@riscstar.com>
Problem: The set environment variable logic uses a static "heap" like
buffer to store the values of the variables, and they are never freed,
on top of that this is redundant since the kernel supplies allocation
facilities which are even used also in this file.
Solution: Remove the weird static buffer logic and use kmalloc instead,
call kfree when overriding an existing variable.
Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204054741.GB1219827@lichtman.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel@riscstar.com>
Pull capabilities update from Serge Hallyn:
"This contains just one patch that removes a helper function whose last
user (smack) stopped using it in 2018"
* tag 'caps-pr-20250327' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux:
capability: Remove unused has_capability
This reverts commit 36f5f026df, reversing
changes made to 43a7eec035.
Thomas says:
"I just noticed that for some incomprehensible reason, probably sheer
incompetemce when trying to utilize b4, I managed to merge an outdated
_and_ buggy version of that series.
Can you please revert that merge completely?"
Done.
Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In allocate_trace_buffer() the following code:
buf->buffer = ring_buffer_alloc_range(size, rb_flags, 0,
tr->range_addr_start,
tr->range_addr_size,
struct_size(tscratch, entries, 128));
tscratch = ring_buffer_meta_scratch(buf->buffer, &scratch_size);
setup_trace_scratch(tr, tscratch, scratch_size);
Has undefined behavior if ring_buffer_alloc_range() fails because
"scratch_size" is not initialize. If the allocation fails, then
buf->buffer will be NULL. The ring_buffer_meta_scratch() will return
NULL immediately if it is passed a NULL buffer and it will not update
scratch_size. Then setup_trace_scratch() will return immediately if
tscratch is NULL.
Although there's no real issue here, but it is considered undefined
behavior to pass an uninitialized variable to a function as input, and
UBSan may complain about it.
Just initialize scratch_size to zero to make the code defined behavior and
a little more robust.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44c5deaa-b094-4852-90f9-52f3fb10e67a@stanley.mountain/
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Make the ring buffer on reserved memory to be freeable. This allows us
to free the trace instance on the reserved memory without changing
cmdline and rebooting. Even if we can not change the kernel cmdline
for security reason, we can release the reserved memory for the ring
buffer as free (available) memory.
For example, boot kernel with reserved memory;
"reserve_mem=20M:2M:trace trace_instance=boot_mapped^traceoff@trace"
~ # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1995548 50544 1927568 14964 17436 1911480
Swap: 0 0 0
~ # rmdir /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_mapped/
[ 23.704023] Freeing reserve_mem:trace memory: 20476K
~ # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2016024 41844 1956740 14968 17440 1940572
Swap: 0 0 0
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173989134814.230693.18199312930337815629.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the last boot module's names and addresses to the last_boot_info file.
This only shows the module information from a previous boot. If the buffer
is started and is recording the current boot, this file still will only
show "current".
~# cat instances/boot_mapped/last_boot_info
10c00000 [kernel]
ffffffffc00ca000 usb_serial_simple
ffffffffc00ae000 usbserial
ffffffffc008b000 bfq
~# echo function > instances/boot_mapped/current_tracer
~# cat instances/boot_mapped/last_boot_info
# Current
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250305164609.299186021@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
